page_title: 2008 in the United Kingdom
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter Rolfe Vaughan fly fishing at Tarr Steps in Exmoor. This was an annual expedition for colleagues, close friends and family during the late May Bank holiday weekend.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2008 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 May
  Bernard Archard, actor (born 1916)
  Mary Berry, musicologist and nun (born 1917)
  10 May – John Barraclough, air marshal (born 1918)
  13 May – Jill Adams, actress (born 1930)
  14 May
  Frith Banbury, actor and theatre director (born 1912)
  Derek Goodwin, ornithologist (born 1920)
  John Forbes-Robertson, actor (born 1928)
  15 May – Robert Dunlop, motorcycle racer (accident during practice) (born 1960)
  16 May
  David Mitton, producer and director (born 1939)
  Peter Rolfe Vaughan, engineer (born 1935)
  17 May
  Jolyon Brettingham Smith, composer and radio presenter (born 1949)
  Wilfrid Mellers, composer and music critic (born 1914)
  18 May – Tom Burlison, Baron Burlison, footballer and trade unionist (born 1936)
  22 May – Paul Patrick, gay rights campaigner (born 1950)
  23 May – Nigel Anderson, soldier, landowner and politician (born 1920, Australia)
  24 May – Rob Knox, actor (born 1989)
  27 May – David Butler, screenwriter (born 1927)
  28 May
  Beryl Cook, artist (born 1926)
  Elinor Lyon, children's writer (born 1921)
  30 May
  Rodney Gordon, architect (born 1933)
  Nat Temple, bandleader (born 1913)
caption: Peter Rolfe Vaughan
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