Chris Lightfoot (1978–2007) was a leading and prolific online civic campaigner, a polymath and a scientist, and the first developer with Tom Steinberg at e-democracy charity mySociety.[1]
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He was born in Dulwich in 1978.[1] His mother Prue was a journalist and his father Robert was a patent agent.[1] His older sister Steph taught him how to program the family's BBC Micro.[1]He used this knowledge of programming to produce a crater investigation model in the physics department at Westminster which was of an extremely high standard. This was part of a physics project in which he was awarded a 15 Merit - an outstanding and very rare full mark.
He attended Westminster School, where he was part of the team representing the school in the British Informatics Olympiad.[1]He began his undergraduate studies at Clare College, Cambridge focusing on Physics while studying a Natural Science Tripos.[1] He graduated with a Master's degree in 2000.[1]
Chris was one of the founders of Mythic Beasts, an ISP.[1]
He had suffered from depression throughout his adult life.[1] He committed suicide on 11 February 2007.[1][2]
He played an important role in the development of: