Nimrod Ping
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Biography
Early life
After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1964 to 1966 he studied architecture at Cardiff University.[1]
Career
As an architect, he designed a Sainsbury's supermarket in Lewes Road, Brighton.[2]
Politics
Ping served as a councillor at Brighton Borough Council (now Brighton and Hove City Council) for eight years from 1991 to 1999.[3] He became chairman of the council's planning committee and of its licensing committee.[2] Thanks to his unusual name, he achieved national fame after the BBC Radio 2 presenter Terry Wogan used his name as scale against which to compare other interesting names.[2]
He was one of the first openly gay councillors in Britain.[3] He took part in Brighton's Pride events for a number of years.[2] He convinced other councillors to allow gay clubs in Brighton to stay open after midnight.[4]
He was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late 1990s.[3] He became known locally as the face of southern England's hepatitis C campaign.[5]
Originally a Labour Party supporter, he joined the Green Party a few months before his death.[6]
Death
Ping died of hepatitis-related liver failure in 2006.[2] His funeral took place at St Margaret's Church in Rottingdean on 20 July 2006,[7] where his gravestone reads "'Architect, Musician and Troublemaker' Arrived late, left too early, d. 3 July 2006".
References
- ↑ Royal Grammar School High Wycombe: School List for Autumn Term 1965
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- ↑ Janet Cameron, LGBT Brighton & Hove, Amberley Publishing Limited, 2013 [1]
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- ↑ Rose Collis, Death and the City: The nation's experience, told through Brighton's history, Hanover Press, 2013, p. 29 [2]
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- Alumni of the Welsh School of Architecture
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- English gay politicians
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- 1947 births
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