page_title: 2014 in the United Kingdom
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2014 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Colin Pillinger at Jodrell Bank
context_page_description: Events from the year 2014 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 May
  Clive Clark, 73, footballer.
  Mark Elvins, 74, priest and author, Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford (2007–2008).
  Richard Percival Lister, 99, author, poet, artist and metallurgist.
  Paul Whetnall, 67, badminton player and coach.
  Eli Woods, 91, comedian and character actor.
  2 May
  Sir William Benyon, 84, politician, MP for Buckingham (1970–1983) and Milton Keynes (1983–1992).
  Martin Dent, 88, academic, co-founder Jubilee 2000.
  Nigel Stepney, 55, Formula One mechanic (Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher), involved in 2007 Formula One espionage controversy.
  Nigel Vaulkhard, 66, auto racing team owner (Bamboo Engineering, World Touring Car Championship).
  4 May
  Elena Baltacha, 30, tennis player.
  Mike Hawker, 77, songwriter.
  Al Pease, 92, racing driver (Formula One).
  John Hartley Williams, 72, poet.
  5 May – Timothy John Byford, 72, television director.
  6 May
  Roger Dimmock, 78, Royal Navy admiral, Naval Secretary (1985–1987).
  Antony Hopkins, 93, composer, conductor and pianist.
  Leslie Thomas, 83, author (The Virgin Soldiers).
  Cedric Thornberry, 77, lawyer, Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
  7 May
  Sir George Christie, 79, opera manager (Glyndebourne Festival Opera).
  Colin Pillinger, 70, planetary scientist.
  David Prentice, 77, artist.
  9 May
  Terry Farmer, 82, footballer (Rotherham United).
  Mary Stewart, 97, novelist (Merlin series).
  10 May – Patrick Woodroffe, 74, fantasy and surrealist artist.
  11 May
  Billie Fleming, 100, long distance cyclist.
  David Rowlands, 66, civil servant.
  Harry Stopes-Roe, 90, philosopher and humanist, Vice President of the British Humanist Association.
  Alan Wills, 52, record executive, founder of Deltasonic.
  12 May
  Ernie Chataway, 62, heavy metal guitarist (Judas Priest).
  Hugh McLeod, 81, rugby union player.
  Joe Mence, 93, cricket player (Berkshire).
  Hugh Smyth, 73, politician, Leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (1979–2002), Lord Mayor of Belfast (1994–1995).
  James Walston, 65, political scientist.
  13 May
  Bill Bainbridge, 63, brewer (Three Tuns Brewery).
  Dick Douglas, 82, politician, MP for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (1970–1974), Dunfermline (1979–1983) and Dunfermline West (1983–1992).
  Derek Harris, 71, business and land developer, founder and CEO of Aston Science Park.
  Tessa Watts, 68, music video producer.
  14 May
  Anthony Christopher, 67, politician, leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council (since 2012).
  Douglas Cummings, 67, cellist (London Symphony Orchestra).
  John M. Fitzpatrick, 65, urologist.
  Jeffrey Kruger, 83, music business executive (Flamingo Club, Ember Records).
  Alexander Murray MacBeath, 90, mathematician.
  Stephen Sutton, 19, charity fundraiser.
  Terry Wire, 73, politician, Mayor of Northampton.
  15 May
  Peter Ayerst, 93, World War II RAF fighter and test pilot (Supermarine Spitfire).
  Michael Mence, 70, cricketer (Berkshire).
  Geoff Richards, 85, footballer (West Brom).
  16 May
  Mike Wiand, 70, spy and rock nightclub founder.
  Louise Wilson, 52, fashion academic (Central Saint Martins).
  17 May – David Abbott, 76, advertising executive and copywriter.
  19 May
  Michael Aldrich, 72, inventor.
  Simon Andrews, 29, motorcycle racer.
  Sir Jack Brabham, 88, racing driver, triple Formula One world champion (1959, 1960, 1966).
  Count Suckle, 80, sound system operator and club owner.
  Phil Sharpe, 77, cricketer (Yorkshire, national team).
  20 May
  Terry Bell, 69, footballer (Reading). (death announced on this date)
  Fran Broady, 75, Trotskyist and social activist (Alliance for Workers' Liberty).
  Robyn Denny, 83, artist.
  Prince Rupert Loewenstein, 80, financial adviser (The Rolling Stones), Bavarian aristocrat.
  Barbara Murray, 84, actress (Passport to Pimlico, The Plane Makers).
  21 May – Duncan Cole, 55, footballer (New Zealand national football team).
  22 May – Edward Howel Francis, 89, geologist.
  23 May – John Satterthwaite, 88, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Gibraltar (1970–1993).
  24 May
  David Allen, 78, cricketer (Gloucestershire, national team).
  John McCormack, 79, light middleweight boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
  25 May – Malcolm Simmons, 68, motorcycle speedway racer (Po
caption: Colin Pillinger in 2009
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