image: Timothy West at St Paul’s Covent Garden, June 2023, celebrating 75 years of the Society for Theatre Research

It is with great sadness that we have received the news of the death of Timothy West, our President. One of the greats of the English stage, he was the son of the actor Lockwood West, and had a career spanning the stage, television, and screen, both as an actor and as a director.

The BBC’s obituary can be found here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy9vw893xvo

Michael Burden, Chair