Terry and I had just got this book completed and into production, and he and his wife Margaret had left for a well-earned holiday in Morocco. Then on 28 January came news that Terry had fallen down a flight of stone steps and suffered a catastrophic head injury. He was flown back to England in an air ambulance and died on 9 February without regaining consciousness.

Terry worked for BASW as Assistant General Secretary and later served as Chair of the Association. He was a Director of Social Services in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and Executive Director of Housing and Social Services in Kensington and Chelsea throughout the 1990s. He chaired a Primary Care Trust for five years and was Director of the Social Perspectives Network for Modern Mental Health. He has written four books on social work. He was, until his untimely death, Chair of the Social Work History Network. He was also very active in the International Federation of Social Workers, serving inter alia as Secretary of its Human Rights Commission for ten years, taking up cases of social workers imprisoned or persecuted for their professional activities in different countries. As a Director of Social Services, he was probably unique in retaining a close involvement not only with social work practice, both in this country and internationally, but also with social work teaching and research.