ANTHONY RICHMOND, FRSC PhD MA June 8, 1925 – March 28, 2017 Anthony Richmond, Professor Emeritus at York University and one of the founders of York’s Department of Sociology, died on March 28, 2017 at the age of 91. He was born in Ilford, England, in 1925 and attending Ilford Boys Grammar School. But it was his experience of being evacuated, at the age of 14, to Brecon in Mid Wales which widened his horizons and began to inform his view of the world. There he joined the Peace Pledge Union and later the Society of Friends (Quakers). At 18, he earned a scholarship to the London School of Economics (LSE), which he was forced to defer until the end of the war. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1943 and served in hospitals and citizens advice bureaux in London, as ill health prevented him from serving abroad. After earning his BA at the LSE, Anthony began a Masters degree at Liverpool University, studying the city’s community of West Indian workers. There he met his wife, Freda, whom he married in 1952. His first job was as a lecturer at Edinburgh University, where his daughter Catriona would be born in 1958. His first book, The Colour Problem, was published in 1955. But it was the second edition of this book, published in 1961, including a new chapter on apartheid in South Africa, that would bring him international recognition and stir considerable controversy. The book remained banned in South Africa until the country’s first free elections in 1994. After a short spell at the Bristol College of Advanced Technology, Anthony moved to York University, Toronto in 1965, as one of the founder members of the department of sociology. There he served for many years as Director of the Graduate Programme. In 1979, he was appointed as the Director of the Institute of Behavioural Research, a post he held until 1983. And in 1980, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. During this time, periods of sabbatical leave took him to University of Sussex, Australian National University, University College of North Wales and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Tony retired from active teaching in 1989, but continued to research and write. His final book Global Apartheid: Refugees, Racism and the New World Order was published in 1994. After the birth of his two grandchildren, Anthony travelled regularly back and forth between the UK and Canada until 2013, when his health prevented further travelling. He died at the age of 91, on the day before his 65th wedding anniversary. He is survived by his wife, Freda, their daughter, Catriona and their two grandchildren, Matthew and Melanie. His memorial service will be on Friday, April 7th, 1-3 p.m., at the Simple Alternative Funeral Centre, 275 Lesmill Road, North York M3B 2V1. A green cremation will already have taken place. The family would like to express their thanks for the care given to Anthony by the staff at Mackenzie Health Hospital in Richmond Hill, especially those on the Palliative Care Ward, where he died. They ask for any donations to be sent to the Canadian Lung Association.