Roy Webster died peacefully on the 2nd April 2017. A Senior Lecturer, in the Department of Pharmacology at UCL, he was a gifted experimentalist. His early research focussed on confirming the identity and physiological roles of the newly discovered amino-acid neurotransmitters in the spinal cord. Later he went on to study drugs, notably the benzodiazepines, which interact with the receptors for these amino acid transmitters in specific regions of the central nervous system. He joined The Society in 1967.