Lord Renton of Mount Harry obituary

Conservative MP and chief whip who played a key role in the downfall of Margaret Thatcher

Alan Jacobs obituary

Other Lives: Authority on mysticism and an ardent follower of Ramana Maharshi

Scholar of Jane Austen who edited the author’s family record, chronology and letters with minimal recourse to interpretation

Other lives: Elaine Moss both wrote children’s books and advised publishers on other writers’ work

International campaigner who helped transform attitudes to people with facial disfigurements

Educationist who argued that children’s creativity is stifled by school systems that prioritise academic achievement

Economist who argued against neoliberalism and was one of those advising the Labour leadership on the development of policy

Novelist whose psychological thrillers were turned into gripping TV dramas

Author of Plain Tales from the Raj, and historian concerned with ’relearning’ the role of orientalists in south Asia

American journalist and author who wrote with hard-edged sentimentality about his native city of New York

Other lives: Time Out theatre critic who interviewed Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett

Film scholar, author and obituary writer who addressed some of cinema’s big themes in his work

Other Lives: Illustrator for Radio Times and Penguin Books who moved into writing plays

British author who wrote about the culinary life of the remote French village in which he lived for more than four decades