page_title: 2008 in the United Kingdom
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Foto van Frank William Walbank (1909-2008). Foto afkomstig uit Levensberichten en herdenkingen 2010 van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam, 2010).
context_page_description: Events from the year 2008 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 3 October – George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, journalist and politician (born 1921)
  4 October
  Ted Briggs, World War II sailor, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood (born 1923)
  Peter Vansittart, writer (born 1920)
  6 October – Peter Avery, scholar (born 1923)
  7 October – Peter Copley, actor (born 1915)
  8 October – Bob Friend, newscaster (born 1938)
  11 October – Russ Hamilton, singer (born 1932)
  13 October – Christopher Wicking, screenwriter (born 1943)
  14 October
  Barrington J. Bayley, science fiction writer (born 1937)
  Ray Lowry, cartoonist (born 1944)
  Pat Moss, racing driver, daughter of Alfred Moss (born 1934)
  20 October
  Pat Kavanagh, literary agent (born 1940, South Africa)
  John Ringham, actor and playwright (born 1928)
  23 October
  Derek Brewer, mediaevalist (born 1923)
  Kevin Finnegan, boxer (born 1948)
  F. W. Walbank, scholar of Greek history (born 1909)
  25 October
  Ian McColl, footballer and football manager (born 1927)
  Maurice Stonefrost, civil servant (born 1927)
  27 October
  Chris Bryant, screenwriter and actor (born 1936)
  Roy Stewart, actor (born 1925, Jamaica)
  31 October – John Pearse, guitarist (born 1939)
caption: F. W. Walbank
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