Personal Life
Openly gay, he was a patron of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Stephen Sondheim Society of Singapore up until 1995. Sherrin was awarded a CBE in the 1997 New Year’s honours list. He was diagnosed with unilateral vocal cord paralysis in January 2007 and died of complications of throat cancer on 1 October 2007, aged 76.
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