Kenneth William Fieldhouse, landscape architect, editor and publisher: born Taunton, Somerset 28 March 1948; Editor, Landscape Design 1980-2000; married 1974 Buffy White (two sons); died Reigate, Surrey 10 May 2002. Ken Fieldhouse was a key figure in the Landscape Design Trust, an educational charity set up in 1984 to stimulate an informed concern for and understanding of landscape. A primary objective of the trust is to promote landscape quality and care for the environment: the way it is designed, used, managed and protected. The trust has close links with the Landscape Institute, the professional organisation for landscape architects, managers and scientists, and publishes the institute's official journal, Landscape Design. With his dedication, enthusiasm, professionalism and knowledge of landscape, planning and the environment, he took the journal forward, added significantly to its quality and widened its readership. He continued to be editor until 2000.With the journal in his safe hands, it was possible, in 1984, for a group of us, including the garden designer and writer Susan Jellicoe, to set up the Landscape Design Trust to cover a wide range of activities, in addition to the core publishing business.

Fieldhouse played a vital part over the next decades in expanding the role, reputation and influence of the LDT.Ken Fieldhouse was born in Taunton and educated at Wellington School in Somerset in 1948. Qualified in 1970 with a Diploma in Landscape Architecture from Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, he worked initially at Portsmouth City Council, and in 1974 gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Town Planning from Oxford Polytechnic. He worked as a landscape architect with the North York Moors National Park Department for three years and then at the Property Services Agency at the Department of the Environment until 1983.After a time lecturing in Landscape Architecture at Oxford Polytechnic, Fieldhouse returned to the Property Services Agency until 1987, dividing his time between that, and working as a consultant for Publishing Marketing Services Ltd in London as well as editing Landscape Design for the LDT. He brought his varied experience to bear on developing the journal, and organised the setting up of Garden Design Journal, the official journal of the Society of Garden Designers in 1998.

He had appointed staff at the trust's offices in Reigate to become the editors of these two journals while, from 2000, he became overall publisher of these and other LDT publications.Fieldhouse was a founding supporter of Designed Landscape Forum in the United States and lectured to the Studi Ricerche Benetton in Italy and the Portuguese Fundo de Turismo, Lisbon. For five years he published Landscape Architecture Europe on behalf of the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture, Brussels.He edited the book Landscape Design: an international survey (1992) with Sheila Harvey. One of his most recent achievements was to secure funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal, for the latest in the LDT monograph series, on the Portuguese landscape architect Francisco Caldeira Cabral, published last year. This title follows on the successful launches of the books Geoffrey Jellicoe (1998, edited by Sheila Harvey) and Sylvia Crowe (1999, edited by Geoffrey Collens and Wendy Powell). At the time of his death, he was arranging for the publication of a new monograph, on the late Sir Peter Shepheard.He was dedicated to promoting the message of the importance of the landscape, the need for innovative design and protection of the environment, via lectures and attendance at seminars, as well as by the written word. He served on several committees, including the Government's Urban Green Space Taskforce, as well as initiating a series of publications in conjunction with the educational charity Learning Through Landscapes which helps schools make the most of their grounds.Fieldhouse enjoyed sport, walking in the countryside and directing amateur dramatics.

He was a modest man, and those who did not know the extent of his work could underestimate his influence and his standing in the profession. His achievements in the landscape profession and specifically for the Landscape Design Trust were enormous.Geoffrey Collens. Frederick Basil Chubb, political scientist: born Branksome, Dorset 8 December 1921; Lecturer in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin 1948-52, Fellow 1952-55 (Emeritus), Reader 1955-60, Professor 1960-91; married 1946 Margaret Rafter (died 1984), 1985 Orla Sheehan (one daughter); died Dublin 8 May 2002. Twenty-five years ago, Basil Chubb was the personification of cool political science in Ireland, familiar on television, in the committee-rooms of state bodies, and in academic life.