Stephen Ellis Medcalf was a reader in English in the School of European Studies, University of Sussex

University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....

, from its inception in 1963 to retirement in 2005. An academic and scholar of classics and European literature, he was also noted for rescuing an abandoned baby from a telephone box.http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,,863758,00.html Medcalf was a student of Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch

Dame Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about political and social questions of good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious...

, friend of Anthony Nuttall

Anthony Nuttall

Anthony David Nuttall was an English literary critic and academic.Nuttall was educated at Hereford Cathedral School, Watford Grammar School for Boys and Merton College, Oxford,where he studied both Classical Moderations and English Literature...

, colleague of Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel David Josipovici FBA, FRSL is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright.-Biography:...

 and teacher of novelist Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan CBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"....

. He was renowned as an outstanding and stimulating teacher. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/hums/documents/hums_bulletin_28th_september_2007.pdf

Obituaries

1. The Guardian
2. The Independent
3. The Telegraph
4. The Times
5. Church Times