We were shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the death on 11 June of our friend and colleague Simon James. He was a member of the Edinburgh Conan Doyle Edition team, and many of us also knew him from other contexts. Simon was a great scholar and critic, and a genial, very funny and empathetic friend. He was wonderfully curious about everything and everybody, and must have been a fabulous teacher.
Messages from colleagues speak of ‘such a loss of a great scholar and truly wonderful, generous and talented man’, ‘a warm, kind, generous person’, ‘a wonderful scholar and a valued colleague’, ‘a vibrant and generous personality’, ‘very good at making one feel supported in one’s endeavours’, ‘the model of a true scholar and gent’; and on and on.
It is a great loss and we send our condolences to Kate and his family.
Douglas Kerr
The Edinburgh Conan Doyle Project 