Professor Oliver Rackham, OBE, M.A., Ph.D., FBA, Botanist, Honorary Professor of Historical Ecology in the Department of Plant Sciences, Master of Corpus Christi College 2007–08, Fellow of Corpus Christi College 1964–2007, Life Fellow 2008–15, and Junior Proctor 1996-97, died on 12 February 2015, aged 75 years.