Personal life His parents were Jewish, but he never "felt the need for religion" and was a lifelong humanist. He was president of the British Humanist Association from 1982 to 1999, and president of the Rationalist Press Association from 1982. He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. He married Christine Stockman, also a mathematician and astronomer, in 1947; she had been one of Hoyle's research students and like him she went on to be active in the humanist movement. Together, they had two sons and three daughters, one of whom is Professor Liz Bondi, feminist geographer at the University of Edinburgh. He died in Cambridge in 2005, aged 85 and his ashes were scattered at Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge. Christine died in 2015. References and notes Further reading External links Oral history interview transcript with Hermann Bondi on 20 March 1978, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives The Papers of Sir Hermann Bondi, held at Churchill Archives Centre 1919 births 2005 deaths 20th-century British mathematicians Academics of King's College London Albert Einstein Medal recipients Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Austrian atheists Austrian emigrants to the United Kingdom Austrian people of Jewish descent Jewish atheists British atheists Jewish humanists British humanists Chief Scientific Advisers to the Ministry of Defence Civil servants in the Department of Energy (United Kingdom) British cosmologists 20th-century British astronomers Fellows of King's College London Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Jewish scientists Jews who immigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Masters of Churchill College, Cambridge Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Mathematicians from Vienna People interned in the Isle of Man during World War II Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society British relativity theorists Jewish astronomers