My friend Mark Tame, who has died of lung cancer aged 61, spent his life caring for others. He worked for various charities (including Mind) in Bristol and London that advocated for mental health patients, and spent the past five years at Homerton healthcare NHS foundation trust in London as a care coordinator after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mark was born in Wivenhoe, Essex, the son of Anne Tame, a telephonist, and John Matthews, a telephone engineer, who met in the postwar period at Bletchley Park, the codebreaking centre in Buckinghamshire. He went to several different schools, then Bristol University, where he studied social politics, which became an anchor of not only his career, but of his personal ethics.
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