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UK’s first named person to die from AIDS-related illness honoured with memorial quilt

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Terry Higgins, the UK’s first named person to die from AIDS-related illnesses, has been honoured with a memorial quilt four decades on from his death.

He passed away at the age of 37 on 4 July 1982, sparking the creation of Terrence Higgins Trust which is now the country’s leading sexual health and HIV charity.

Now, on 3 August, a memorial quilt paying tribute to him is to be revealed for the first time at The Festival of Quilts in Birmingham’s NEC.

Making quilts to honour those lost to the AIDS epidemic first became popular in the 1980s and ‘90s to help people grieve those they lost and ensure they are never forgotten.

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