Obituary: Justin Champion

Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Ideas at Royal Holloway University of London, died peacefully on 10 June, aged 59. At Cambridge in the 1980s he cut a distinctive figure – the vigorous stride, the mane of golden blond hair, a frank and direct manner. He seemed rather different from and more engaging than the rest of the 17th-century research crowd. It was typical of his broad intellectual sympathies that he recognised our shared interest in power and many people admired him for that ability to make intellectual connections.