John Mead obituary

In the early 1950s, my husband John Mead, who has died aged 89, was working in the registrar’s office at Durham University. Feeling emotionally and psychologically fragile, he sought help and was encouraged to see the bishop of Durham, Michael Ramsey (who later became archbishop of Canterbury). John thought that he might have a calling to be a priest; Ramsey, remarkably for the times, suggested that he should go into analysis. This, to quote John, “transformed my life”.John returned to Lon