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Obituary: Dr Robert Holmes-Henderson


Trading Standards has lost a passionate and beloved colleague and friend

Richard Young

Posted 15 August 2023 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National


UPDATES: Colleagues pay tribute to Dr Robert Holmes-Henderson, whose five decades of service as an inspector, manager, lecturer, examiner and author left a lasting mark on Trading Standards, professional education and quality assurance.

On Tuesday 24 July, Trading Standards and consumer protection lost one of its most knowledgeable and dedicated professionals, as well as one of its most ebullient and irreverent characters. After a 50-year career serving variously as an Inspector, Service Manager, Chief Inspector, Lecturer, Tutor, and Examiner, Robert Holmes-Henderson died suddenly, aged 71. Robert was also a published author i...

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