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Robert Dellar (16 December 1964 – 17 December 2016) was a British activist, musician and poet who founded Mad Pride with others. He died of a
The Wake of Robert Dellar 24th January 2017
Robert Dellar Inaugural lecture
A Fierce Intellect And Pioneer Activist
Morning Star obituary by Ruth Hunt 1964 births 2016 deaths Psychiatric survivor activists Deaths from pulmonary embolism British activists People from Watford Alumni of the University of Sussex {{UK-activist-stub
Robert Dellar (16 December 1964 – 17 December 2016) was a British activist, musician and poet who founded Mad Pride with others. He died of a pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage of an pulmonary artery, artery in the lungs by a substance that has moved from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream (embolism). Symptoms of a PE may include dyspnea, shortness of breath, chest pain ...
one day after his fifty-second birthday, with a post mortem revealing he also had pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of ...
. He wrote several books, and a biography was published posthumously.
Dellar was appointed as a development worker at Southwark Mind in 1997.
Publications
* Splitting in Two: Mad Pride and Punk Rock Oblivion Unkant Publishers (2014) * Seaton Point Robert Dellar and others, Spare Change Books (1998) * Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture by Robert Dellar with Ted Curtis and Esther Leslie (2003)References
External links
The Wake of Robert Dellar 24th January 2017
Robert Dellar Inaugural lecture
A Fierce Intellect And Pioneer Activist
Morning Star obituary by Ruth Hunt 1964 births 2016 deaths Psychiatric survivor activists Deaths from pulmonary embolism British activists People from Watford Alumni of the University of Sussex {{UK-activist-stub