Passing of Prof. Neill Alford, Jr.

I have just learned that noted trusts and estates professor Neill Alford, Jr. died in Charlottesville, Virginia on October 20, 2007.
   

Here are some excerpts from his obituary:

He was a distinguished legal scholar and teacher, a loving husband, an imaginative father, a devoted grandfather, and a thoughtful son and son-in-law. He will be remembered for his integrity, unpretentious manner, keen mind, kindness and generosity, adventurous spirit, and good sense of humor. * * *
   

He joined the University of Virginia law faculty in the fall of 1947 and spent most of his career at Virginia, teaching there from 1947 to 1974 and from 1976 until his retirement in 1990. He was Doherty Foundation professor of law from 1966 to 1974 and Percy Brown Jr. professor of law from 1976 to 1990.

He was a gifted teacher whose lively law lectures were remembered vividly years later by former students. He taught courses including trusts and estates, international law, professional responsibility (ethics), legal history, tax law and insurance law. * * *

From 1974 to 1976, he was dean of the law school and Joseph Henry Lumpkin professor of law at the University of Georgia.