Francis Andrew Boddy

I have known Andrew since the 1960 or so. We met in the wonderful Edinburgh staff club (now gone) while I was doing my PhD in Teviot Place (1960 -64).
He, Peter Higgs and others spent many happy hours talking about New Left politics and sampling malt whisky..

He was best man at our wedding in 1976. Since then we have kept in touch, thought the distance made this more intermittent that we'd have wished.

Andrew was a lovely person in every way. We'll miss him enormously.

Here is a picture of him, showing characteristically enormous kindness to my wife Margaret, a week or so after she'd had 5 hours of surgery to repair an aneurysm that caused her to collapse while 6 months pregnant with our son, whom we named Andrew, after him. This was in January 1985.

From Neil McKeganey.
Andrew was without doubt one of the loveliest men I have ever worked with. My debt to Andrew goes well beyond the fact that he offered me my first job in Glasgow to undertake research on a burgeoning drug problem amongst young people in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. It is a testament to Andrew's humanity and his commitment to the communities that have the least and which have lost the most that when he was questioned by civil servants as to why he was allowing research on teenage drug use to be undertaken in a research centre focussed on paediatric and obstetric health he simply responded that the research was needed.Andrew had seen, even if others had not, that in due course a burgeoning drug problem in Scotland would impact massively on maternal and child health.

Andrew was an academic devoid of ego and pomposity. I fished with him (badly) I attended colleagues funeral with him (me scruffily) I drank with him, talked at length for hours with him, an ate in the kitchen of his and Ada's lovely Glasgow home. Andrew had a sparkle in his eye that told of a love of friendship and conversation. That sparkle has gone out but the memories of those working days and evenings remain. Bye Bye Andrew.

A friend has just drawn my attention to this notice. I am very sad to hear of Andrew's death. I worked at the Public Health Research Unit in the mid 1980s as a graduate researcher. During that time I contracted a serious bacterial infection and was in hospital for a month. Andrew played an important role in ensuring that I got proper after-care and I will always remember his care and kindness. My condolences to his family.

A great guy and a sad loss. Thank you Andrew and rest in peace. My deepest sympathies.

I am sorry to hear of Andrew's death. He was an excellent source of advice and encouragement when I was a young lecturer in Statistics in the Dept of Community Medicine. Sincere condolences to all the family.
Harper Gilmour