With his long blond hair and eyepatch, Uwe Kitzinger was not easy to miss around Oxford. He had made his name in the 1950s with his involvement in the formative stages of the European Economic Community (EEC). Then, in the 1980s, he became a key figure in Oxford University’s development of management studies and boldly took on many university heavyweights who opposed the idea.
His influence on public affairs was matched by that of his wife, Sheila, a campaigning author and pioneer of natural childbirth. They were something of an academic power couple who travelled widely to lecture and regularly had to co-ordinate their diaries. They had five daughters, all delivered at home. Dinner guests were occasionally treated to a video of Sheila giving birth