I worked in the same Geography Departments as Tony (SOAS and KCL) for nearly 40 years. The photo is of the department in 1982, with Tony sitting right at the front on the ground in the middle. He was a wonderful colleague and a man of great integrity. He was always supportive, even when one was working in fields outside of his research expertise (in my case urban and migration studies). As an example, after his 2019 'retirement' reception at KCL (he never retired really of course) he sent me an email reminding me to keep him informed about a book I was writing and after it was published he wrote again (in February this year). He was very thoughtful, as ever, in his comments, and drew parallels between our work top saying, 'I find it interesting that we have both been drawn down the path of having to take into account the prevalence of poverty and its many impacts....I have ... been pointing out for some time that part of the food system, food production by farmers is a failed market in which farmers cannot enjoy a secure livelihood. I sense the housing 'market' is also a failed system'. He went on to make various trenchant comments about the failures of our political system, reflecting his longstanding engagement with leftwing politics and the Labour Party (which he evidently found frustrating). He is a great loss to water studies although his many former PhD students are well placed across the world to continue to take his work forward and, as evident from these remembrances, remember him for both his intellectual support and with great fondness. I will miss him.
I worked in the same Geography Departments as Tony (SOAS and KCL) for nearly 40 years. The photo is of the department in 1982, with Tony sitting right at the front on the ground in the middle. He was a wonderful colleague and a man of great integrity. He was always supportive, even when one was working in fields outside of his research expertise (in my case urban and migration studies). As an example, after his 2019 'retirement' reception at KCL (he never retired really of course) he sent me an email reminding me to keep him informed about a book I was writing and after it was published he wrote again (in February this year). He was very thoughtful, as ever, in his comments, and drew parallels between our work top saying, 'I find it interesting that we have both been drawn down the path of having to take into account the prevalence of poverty and its many impacts....I have ... been pointing out for some time that part of the food system, food production by farmers is a failed market in which farmers cannot enjoy a secure livelihood. I sense the housing 'market' is also a failed system'. He went on to make various trenchant comments about the failures of our political system, reflecting his longstanding engagement with leftwing politics and the Labour Party (which he evidently found frustrating). He is a great loss to water studies although his many former PhD students are well placed across the world to continue to take his work forward and, as evident from these remembrances, remember him for both his intellectual support and with great fondness. I will miss him.
