Don Egginton obituary

My father, Don Egginton, who has died aged 92, was a professor of accounting at Bristol University and head of the university’s economics department. An outstanding teacher and respected academic, he was also an accomplished artist, creating works in different media over a period of 50 years. His portrait of the economist Alfred Marshall, after Sir William Rothstein’s 1908 painting, hangs in the university. Don was born in the East End of London to Eileen (nee Burnett) and Albert Egginton. Ellen and Al, as they were known, worked as a cook and driver for the British Army respectively. Don surv

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