My buddy Richard Stanwell, who has died aged 83, had a prodigious capability for considerate administration that was valued by all his employers.
From 1978 onwards, Richard labored for the Council for Schooling and Coaching of Well being Guests, then from 1983 as senior administrative officer and council providers supervisor on the Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Well being Visiting (now referred to as the Nursing and Midwifery Council).
Richard’s potential to handle institutional change and embed sturdy governance earned him an MBE on his retirement in 2002.
The son of Phyllis (nee Prepare dinner) and Hubert Stanwell, Richard was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, the place his household owned a butcher’s store. He was educated at Boston grammar college after which Leeds College, the place he learn German and French, spending a while on the College of Tübingen in Germany.
Richard’s working life began with administrative posts in universities and faculties of schooling within the UK earlier than he travelled to Australia to work as an administrative officer at Canberra Faculty of Superior Schooling. He returned residence 4 years later to take up his first publish with the Council for Schooling and Coaching of Well being Guests. He lived in Somers City, north London, from 1978 to 1996 earlier than shifting to St Albans in Hertfordshire, the place he remained till his demise.
Since his schooldays Richard had felt not totally accepted for who he was. From the early Nineteen Seventies he was concerned within the Marketing campaign for Gay Equality and Homosexual Liberation. Chairing a gathering on the Conway Corridor in London, he managed – he claimed uniquely – to get the loquacious Brian Sewell to close up.
Soccer performed a big half in Richard’s life, and over time he was a Leeds, QPR and Burnley supporter. Nevertheless, his best curiosity was reserved for non-league soccer, as he adopted first Boston United after which, as soon as he had moved to Hertfordshire, St Albans Metropolis.
A religious Anglo-Catholic, Richard railed on the failure of the Church of England to be inclusive and repeatedly wrote trenchant letters to senior clerics. He was unflinching in his liberalism and was overjoyed when St Albans elected a Liberal Democrat MP for the primary time in its historical past in 2019.
When infirmity finally restricted his potential to maneuver round, he used social media to be in contact with the problems of the day and, above all, to keep up a correspondence along with his large circle of buddies.
Richard is survived by his brother, Robert, two half-brothers, John and Gary, and three half-sisters, Margaret, Carol and Eliza.
