JAMES MILNE ANDERSON, 1938–2015

Abstract James Milne Anderson grew up in Falkirk, Scotland, where he attended local schools before going on to graduate from Glasgow University with double honours. He did his PhD work on entire and subharmonic functions at Imperial College under the guidance of Jim Clunie. After several visiting appointments at universities in the USA, Switzerland and the Soviet Union, Milne was appointed initially as lecturer at University College London where he was successively promoted and remained for the rest of his life. Milne's research revolved around complex analysis and analytic function theory. He obtained important new results on the properties of entire functions, Bloch functions and quasiconformal maps, and made significant contributions towards resolving a conjecture of Noel Baker about the iteration of transcendental entire functions. Milne was a warm and loveable person with many interests, including sports, games, outdoor activities, music and languages. He is greatly missed.