page_title: 2018 in the United Kingdom
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Scott Hutchison performing with Frightened Rabbit at SXSW in 2013
context_page_description: Events from the year 2018 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 May
  Reg Gadney, 77, British author.
  Charlie Stone (rugby league), 67–68, English rugby league footballer (Hull FC, Featherstone Rovers)
  Peter Temple-Morris, 80, British politician and life peer, MP for Leominster (1974–2001).
  2 May
  Cliff Watson, 78, English rugby league footballer (St Helens, Cronulla-Sutherland, national team), cancer.
  4 May
  Steve Coy, 56, British musician (Dead or Alive).
  Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood, 91, Australian-British violinist and fashion model.
  5 May
  Robbie Little, 73, British film producer (The Prophecy II, Tsotsi, An American Haunting).
  8 May
  Anne V. Coates, 92, British film editor (Lawrence of Arabia, The Elephant Man, Fifty Shades of Grey), Oscar winner (1963).
  10 May
  David Goodall, 104, English-born botanist and ecologist
  Ken Hodgkisson, 85, English footballer (Walsall, West Bromwich Albion).
  Scott Hutchison, 36, Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist (Frightened Rabbit, Mastersystem, The Fruit Tree Foundation), drowned in Firth of Forth.
  Graham Lovett, 70, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion).
  12 May
  Will Alsop, 70, British architect, Stirling Prize winner (2000).
  Dame Tessa Jowell, 70, English politician, brain cancer.
  Dennis Nilsen, 72, Scottish serial killer.
  13 May
  Beth Chatto, 94, British gardener and writer.
  Gareth Powell Williams, 63, British rugby union player.
  14 May
  Peter Byrne, 90, English actor (Dixon of Dock Green) and director.
  15 May
  Jlloyd Samuel, 37, Trinidadian footballer (Aston Villa, Bolton Wanderers), traffic collision.
  Ray Wilson, 83, English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Everton, national team), world champion (1966).
  17 May
  Bill Longmore, 79, British civil servant, West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner (2012–2016), cancer.
  20 May
  Colin Morris, 89, British Methodist minister.
  21 May
  Thomas McGhee, 89, English footballer (Portsmouth, Reading). (death announced on this date)
  22 May
  Michael Banton, 91, British social scientist.
  23 May
  Sir Miles Hunt-Davis, 79, British army officer and courtier, Private Secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh (1993–2010).
  24 May
  Cliff Jackson, 76, English footballer (Crystal Palace). (death announced on this date)
  TotalBiscuit, 33, English gaming commentator and game critic, bowel cancer
  25 May
  Dean Francis, 44, British boxer, cancer.
  28 May
  Neale Cooper, 54, Scottish football player (Aberdeen) and manager.
  30 May
  Barry Dodd, 70, English businessman, Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire (since 2014), helicopter accident.
caption: Scott Hutchison in 2013
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