The death of the greatest English mathematician of our time is no mere national loss, for Hardy was recognised throughout the mathematical world as a master of our science. Of his studies, Hardy himself said, in his Inaugural Lecture at Oxford: “What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence”. Few of us would dare to call Hardy’s contribution to mathematics small, while none of us can have any doubt about the lasting nature of his work. For a full account of the new pathways he opened up, the new territories he explored, reference must be made to the notices being prepared for the Royal Society and the London Mathematical Society. In the Gazette, it is fitting that we should record with special emphasis the debt which teachers of mathematics in this country owe to Hardy for the vast improvements in the teaching of analysis during the past forty years, from vagueness to precision, from obscurity to clarity, along lines mapped out and laid down for us by him.