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Anyone who spent time in her company quickly became aware of her strong sense<br />
of her own identity, which ranged from her values to her name: new friends were<br />
soon expected to remember it was pronounced ‘Kiersty’, not ‘Kursty’. She wanted<br />
to believe the best of people. She had strong humanitarian beliefs and was appalled<br />
by prejudice. She had a caring instinct, and great empathy with those in need of<br />
support. At heart she was private, shy of the spotlight outside her work. Those<br />
lucky enough to count her as a friend cherished the person as well as enjoying<br />
her intellect. She was genuine, loyal and warm – not to mention wilful. She took<br />
an almost childish pleasure in simple things, and broke into a delighted smile<br />
whenever something appealed to her.<br />
In 2001 she married Hugh Shaw Stewart, a Scottish architect. They complemented<br />
each other and were relaxed and happy together. He survives her, together with her<br />
brothers, Ruairidh and Seumas. Her mother, Sheila, died in 1992 and her father in<br />
January <strong>2013</strong>.<br />
Sam Ghibaldan, The Herald Scotland for 20 July <strong>2013</strong><br />
The President writes:<br />
Our Research Fellow Kirsty Milne, whose Fellowship was renewed only this May,<br />
was a member of the English Faculty who had been working at Wolfson on turning<br />
her thesis (on the history of the ‘Vanity Fair’ trope) into a book, and then on a project<br />
on the diffusion of Greek texts and ideas in Elizabethan literature. Her monograph<br />
is about to be published by the Cambridge University Press, and she had just been<br />
awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship. She was a mature student<br />
who took her first degree at Oxford, and then had a career in journalism, working<br />
for the New Statesman and other publications. (See http://www.newstatesman.<br />
com/<strong>2013</strong>/07/memory-kirsty-milne.) She returned to academic life as a Fulbright<br />
Scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard, then as an MA student at<br />
Queen Mary, London, and then doing her DPhil at Magdalen. It was an unusual and<br />
outstanding research career, and she was a remarkable, impressive and exceptional<br />
person. She greatly valued her connection to Wolfson and will be deeply missed.<br />
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