LIVES REMEMBERED

The Duke of Westminster

The 6th Duke of Westminster, who has died aged 64, was Britain’s richest aristocrat, with a fortune estimated at more than £8 billion, based on an inheritance of 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia.

The Duke owned the freehold of much of London’s most expensive real estate, including Grosvenor, Belgrave and Eaton Squares and such landmarks as the Connaught and Lanesborough hotels and the American embassy – which paid him a rent of one peppercorn a year. Besides its London holdings, the Grosvenor empire included shopping centres throughout Britain – in recent years he transformed the centre of Liverpool (and the city’s fortunes) by pouring millions into developing the shopping complex Liverpool One.

His most satisfying escape from ducal responsibilities came as a long-serving Territorial Army officer. Born December 22 1951, died August 9 2016

The Most Rev Edward Daly

The Most Reverend Edward Daly, who has died aged 82, was for 19 years as the Catholic Bishop of Derry an implacable critic of the IRA, condemning its gunmen from the pulpit as “followers of the gospel of Satan”; but he is best remembered as the priest holding up a bloody handkerchief who brought a dying teenager through Army gunfire in search of medical help on Bloody Sunday, January 30 1972.

The carnage Daly saw in Londonderry that day, as a march against internment ended in 13 deaths, put his faith to the severest of tests, and convinced him that violence in pursuit of political goals could never be justified. The moral weight of his insistence that the dead had been unarmed and were shot in cold blood fuelled persistent demands for an impartial inquiry.

His involvement with the most controversial event of the “Troubles” was regrettably, in Daly’s view, the main reason why he was made the city’s bishop two years later. News film of his attempt to save Jackie Duddy made an impression worldwide. For Daly, however, it “changed my life completely; I lost my anonymity. I was the priest with the handkerchief, and that was it. It was dreadful, dreadful.”

He received threats over the years from Loyalists and Republicans alike, and became constantly afraid of meeting people who would be angry with him. His stooped figure, handkerchief in hand, was immortalised in a mural on the side of a house, painted by the Bogside Artists in 1997. Born December 5 1933, died August 8 2016

Bob Kiley

Bob Kiley, who has died aged 80, was a former CIA agent who was hailed as the saviour of the New York and Boston public transport systems when in 2001 he was lured to London by the then Mayor, Ken Livingstone, to redeem the capital’s archaic transport system.

Kiley moved across the Atlantic to become the capital’s first Commissioner of Transport for London (TfL), the public body which reports to the Mayor. His £2 million salary package (together with a rent-free house in Belgravia) made him the world’s best paid public servant.

Over the next five years Kiley was instrumental in transforming the capital’s transport system, securing the investment to modernise London Underground and expand the bus network. He also introduced the congestion charge and oversaw the introduction of the Oyster Card. Along the way, however, he became a pawn in the internecine squabbles of the Labour Party and fought his own private battle with alcoholism. In early 2006 he quit his job four years before the end of his (renewed) contract.

Kiley and “Red” Ken described their working relationship as “a CIA activist working for an unreconstructed Trotskyite”. Born September 16 1935, died August 9 2016