Death
Walkinshaw died on Sunday 12 December, 2010, aged 64, from complications arising from cancer. He is survived by his first wife Elizabeth and their son Fergus, and his second wife Martine and their sons Ryan and Sean. Walkinshaw's memorial service was held at Gloucester Cathedral on 4 February 2011.
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“Now they heap the funeral pyre,
And the torch of death they light;
Ah! ‘tis hard to die by fire!”
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Oh, that such our death may be!—
Died in sleep, and felt no pain,
To live in happier form again:
From which, beneath Heaven’s fairest star,
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