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Dr Graham Robert Allan 1936-2007

The College is saddened to report the death of Dr Graham Allan on Thursday 9 August 2007.

Graham first came to the College in 1964 when he was appointed Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Pure Mathematics. He left in 1967 to take up a post as Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of Newcastle. He returned to Churchill briefly in 1969-1970, before taking up the post of Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds. He became Head of Department there in 1975.

Graham returned to Cambridge permanently in 1978 in order to take up a College Lectureship and Title A Fellowship in Mathematics in conjunction with a University Lectureship. He was Vice-Master from 1990 - 1993. He retired in 2003.

Graham's work was focused on Banach algebra theory.