Nimrod Ping was a British architect and politician

Politician

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. After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe

Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe

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 from 1964-66 he studied architecture at Cardiff University

Cardiff University

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. He served as a councillor at the former Brighton Borough Council (now Brighton and Hove) for eight years from 1991 to 1999, until he became physically incapacitated through liver failure caused by Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C

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. He was one of the first openly gay councillors in Britain. Originally a Labour Party

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 supporter, he joined the Green Party

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 a few months before his death.

Thanks to his unusual name, he achieved national fame after the BBC Radio 2

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 presenter Terry Wogan

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 used his name as scale against which to compare other interesting names.

He was responsible for organising Brighton's "Gay Pride" for a number of years.

Ping was known locally as the face of southern England's Hepatitis C Campaign and was the face of Brighton and Hove's leading shopping centre for a while during which the shopping centre joined his appeal in return for having a leading politician's support.

Nimrod died of hepatitis-related liver

Liver

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failure in 2006.