page_title: 2017 in the United Kingdom
section_title: November
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / November
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait photograph of John Gordon (author) taken by Alan Howard (photographer) to promote the re-issue of John Gordon's book - The Giant Under The Snow (Orion Children's, 2006. ISBN:9781842555552)
context_page_description: Events from the year 2017 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 November – Eifion Evans, 86, church historian.
  2 November
  Lady Ursula d'Abo, 100, socialite.
  Sir Michael Latham, 74, politician, MP for Melton (1974–1983) and Rutland and Melton (1983–1992).
  Sarah Maguire, 60, poet and translator.
  Paddy Russell, 89, television director (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, The Omega Factor).
  3 November – Trevor Bell, 87, artist.
  4 November – Derek Morgan, 88, cricketer (Derbyshire).
  5 November
  Robin Esser, 84, newspaper executive (Sunday Express, Daily Mail).
  Helen John, 80, anti-war activist.
  Sir Hugh Neill, 96, businessman and public servant.
  6 November – Roger Becker, 83, tennis player.
  7 November
  Paul Buckmaster, 71, arranger (Elton John, The Rolling Stones) and composer, Grammy winner (2002).
  Brian Perry, 74, cricketer (Shropshire).
  Carl Sargeant, 49, politician.
  8 November
  Tim Gudgin, 87, radio presenter.
  Pat Hutchins, 75, illustrator, author and actress (Rosie and Jim).
  10 November
  Duffy Ayers, 102, portrait painter.
  Geoff Fletcher, 74, rugby league player (Leigh Centurions).
  11 November – Henry Emeleus, 87, geologist.
  12 November
  Lady Cynthia Postan, 99, horticulturalist.
  Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford, 105, Army officer and peer, longest-lived peer on record.
  13 November
  Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington, 102, lawyer and life peer.
  Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert, 84, police officer, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1987–1992) and life peer.
  14 November – Bill Cashmore, 56, actor (Brass Eye, Fist of Fun).
  15 November
  Jill Barklem, 66, writer and illustrator (Brambly Hedge).
  Keith Barron, 83, actor (Duty Free, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Nigel Barton Plays).
  Joy Lofthouse, 94, World War II pilot.
  16 November
  Tommy Farrer, 94, footballer (Bishop Auckland).
  Jimmy Steele, 55, dentist.
  17 November
  Bill Pitt, 80, politician, MP for Croydon North West (1981–1983).
  Les Tonks, 75, rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 1970s.
  18 November
  John Murray, 93, Olympic ice hockey player (1948).
  Peter Spufford, 83, historian.
  20 November
  John Gordon, 92, author (The Giant Under The Snow).
  Alan Walker, 79, paleoanthropologist, discoverer of The Black Skull.
  21 November
  Derek Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, 99, life peer, Member of the House of Lords (1992–2016).
  Rodney Bewes, 79, actor (The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?) and writer (Dear Mother...Love Albert).
  Harry Blamires, 101, Anglican theologian, literary critic, and novelist.
  Milein Cosman, 96, German-born artist.
  Iola Gregory, 71, actress (Pobol y Cwm).
  22 November – Bobi Jones, 88, author and academic.
  23 November
  Allan Harris, 74, footballer (Queens Park Rangers, Chelsea).
  Anthony Harvey, 87, film director (The Lion in Winter) and film editor (Dr. Strangelove, Lolita).
  Manjit Wolstenholme, 53, businesswoman (Future Publishing, Unite Group, Provident Financial).
  26 November – Mick Martyn, 81, rugby league player (Leigh Centurions).
  27 November – Dermot Drummy, 56, football player (Blackpool, Arsenal) and coach (Chelsea Academy, Crawley Town).
  28 November
  Sir Peter Burt, 73, businessman, chief executive (1996–2001) and Governor (2001–2003) of the Bank of Scotland, and chairman of ITV plc (2004–2007).
  Jimmy McEwan, 88, footballer (Raith Rovers, Aston Villa).
  Sir Martin Nourse, 85, jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal (1985–2001).
  Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn, 85, South African-born jurist and life peer, Law Lord (1995–2005).
  29 November – Mary Lee Woods, 93, English mathematician and computer programmer.
  30 November
  Terence Beesley, 60, actor (EastEnders, The Phantom of the Opera, War & Peace).
  Russell Evans, 52, cricketer (Nottinghamshire).
caption: John Gordon
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