Category: People
5 April 2026
Copywrong & Honourmastics 9th May- 23rd Aug 2026
We are delighted to be exhibiting work this season by A T Kabe Wilson, artist, experimental poet and archival scholar, and artist-in-residence at Jesus College Cambridge, the former college of Laurence Sterne. The Exhibition Copywrong & Honourmastics will run from 9th May – 23rd August. Kabe is perhaps best known for his work on Virginia […]
7 February 2026
Robert Wyke (24. 6.1954 – 23.1.2026)
It is with great sadness that the Trustees of the Laurence Sterne Trust record the death of its Chairman, Rob Wyke, aged 71. Rob was a lifelong enthusiast for Laurence Sterne and succeded Nicholas Barker as Chair on 31st May 2010, having been a supporter of the Laurence Sterne Trust for many years before that. […]
30 November 2022
Tom Phillips 24th May 1937 – 28th November 2022
TOM PHILLIPS 24th May 1937 – 28th November 2022 Deeply missed friend and patron of The Laurence Sterne Trust. Obituary, The Guardian 29 November 2022
29 September 2020
Death of ‘tristram shandy’, pauper 19 September 1786
19 Sept 1786 On this day died “tristram shandy”, a tiny baby taken into St Martin’s Workhouse, London on 11 Sept 1786 St Martin’s Workhouse registers St. Martin’s Pauper Biographies Project
3 January 2016
Arthur Cash 1922-2016
Arthur H. Cash, who wrote a definitive two-volume biography of the English novelist Laurence Sterne and became a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007 for his biography of the 18th-century English radical John Wilkes, died 29th December 2016 in Watch Hill, R.I. He was 94. The death was confirmed by his wife, the novelist Mary Gordon. […]
1 April 2015
Julia Monkman 1931-2015
Julia Monkman was in at the start of the Laurence Sterne Trust. With her husband she came to visit Shandy Hall. That visit stirred their shared vision for the house. It was then not only unkempt but perilous, its ‘shandy’ chimney ready to topple at the next gale. Together they launched the campaign that saw […]
1 August 2014
Jan Starink 12 June 1927-18 June 2014
The Laurence Sterne Trust records with great regret the death of Jan Starink who, with his wife Gertrude, translated The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman into Dutch. This is an edited version of the address given by W.G. Day at the funeral. In the summer of 1977 I got an anxious phone call from Kenneth […]
