My brother Ian Gilchrist, who has died aged 69 after complications due to cancer, was a software salesman who served as a Liberal Democrat councillor in Bath for many years, and in 2017-18 as the city’s mayor.
He was born in Oxford to Dorothy (nee Hudson), a teacher, and Andrew Gilchrist, a chemical engineer. The family lived in Cheshire for his first few years and then moved to Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. The eldest of five children, he went to St Albans school and then Magdalen College, Oxford, taking a degree in philosophy and psychology.
