### Clue: Chancellor follows report of borrowing total; his sort have been E for a year and a day (8,6)
### Answer: LONESOME GEORGE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: his sort have been E for a year and a day
 GEORGE(Osborne, British Chancellor of the Exchequer)**placed after**(follows, in an across clue) **homophone of**(report of) "loan"(a borrowing) "sum"(a total).
Answer:  Given name of a male Pinta Island tortoise, the last known individual of his sort who died on 24 June 2012 (a year and a day ago) of old age. Hence the "In Memoriam" tag to the puzzle, and E for "extinct", which word is along the rightmost column of the grid. RIP George, and unfortunately there'll be more species becoming E, perhaps homo sapiens too.
No mate for company, just a human caretaker.