Professor Jack Scarisbrick MBE

1928-2026

Pictures of Jack

Jack receiving his MBE for services to vulnerable people, 2015.

Jack and Lady Daventry, the charity’s patron, showing the plans for Zoe’s Place Hospice, 2009.

Jack with (now Lord) David Alton MP, date unknown.

Professor John Joseph “Jack” Scarisbrick MBE FRHistS.

Jack at Ten Bridges Walk, a fundraiser for Life, 2016.

Jack being interviewed on Life’s 50th anniversary, 2020.

Jack being interviewed in a Life House.

Jack and Nuala meet the newly-elected Pope John Paul II, 1978. The Pope, hearing about Life a at a General Audience in Rome, says, “What you are doing is very important for the modern conscience.”

Jack and other Life representatives present a petition to the government, date unknown.

Nuala and her husbank Jack Scarisbrick, Life co-founders, 1977.

Jack on the occasion of his retirement as Chairman of Life, 2017.

Jack on the occasion of his retirement as Chairman of Life, 2017.

Jack on the occasion of his retirement as Chairman of Life, 2017.

Jack and Life help organise the biggest parliamentary petition since the Chartists – two million signatures in support of protections against human embryo abuse. Jack and Raymond Johnson (centre, then Director of CARE) present Norman St John Stevas MP with the petition, 1985.

Jack and Nuala on their wedding day, 1965.

Jack and Nuala with their granddaughters on the occasion of Jack’s receiving MBE for services to vulnerable people, 2015.

Jack and Nuala with their family and Cardinal Vincent Nichols (right) on the occasion of Jack’s receiving MBE for services to vulnerable people, 2015.

Jack and Nuala with family at Zoe’s Place Coventry.

Jack and Nuala together on the dance floor.

Jack and Nuala shortly before her death, 2021.

Nuala and Jack (right) with members of the Life Central Committee, 1977. They are joined by Cardinal Hume, who was speaking at the Life National Conference in Leamington Spa.

Nuala and Jack with Sue Ryder, who gave a memorable address at a Life National Conference in 1995. Her husband, Leonard Cheshire VC, had been a patron of Life from the early days, and the two had supported Life’s work.

Pope John Paul II, by then the author of the celebrated encyclical Evangelium Vitae, repeats his previous blessing on Life’s work at the end of an international conference organised by the Pontifical Council for the Family. The latter’s president, Cardinal Trujillo, looks on.

Jack talking to dear friends after his wife Nuala’s funeral, 2021.

Jack at the public reception after his wife Nuala’s funeral, 2021.

Jack and Nuala on their 50th wedding anniversary, 2015.

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