page_title: 2007 in the United Kingdom
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2007 in the United Kingdom / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Bust of Colin St John Wilson on display in the foyer of the British Library (right hand side of main public entrance). Taken as part of the British Library editathon.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2007 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1 May – Winifred Pennington, limnologist (born 1915)
  5 May – John Zamet, periodontist (born 1932)
  6 May
  Lesley Blanch, writer and fashion editor (born 1904)
  Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (1983–1992) (born 1920)
  7 May – Isabella Blow, fashion journalist (suicide) (born 1958)
  10 May – Sir Oliver Millar, art historian, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection (1987–1988) (born 1923)
  14 May – Sir Colin St John Wilson, architect, designer of the British Library (born 1922)
  15 May – Angus McBride, illustrator (born 1931)
  16 May – Dame Mary Douglas, social anthropologist (born 1921)
  19 May – Derek Cooper, Army officer and campaigner for refugees (born 1912)
  24 May – David Renton, Baron Renton, politician and life peer (born 1908)
  26 May – Phyllis Sellick, pianist (born 1911)
  28 May – John Macquarrie, theologian and Anglican priest (born 1919)
  29 May – Michael John Seaton, astronomer (born 1923)
caption: Colin St John Wilson
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