Abstract
Godfrey Harry Stafford's career as a physicist began with research in cosmic rays in the 1940s and he lived to see the discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. He made major contributions to the construction and exploitation of accelerators at the Rutherford Laboratory in the UK and was its director from 1969 to 1981. During this period he oversaw the diversification of the laboratory into the multi-disciplinary centre it is today. He was master of St Cross College, Oxford, from 1979 to 1987 and president of the Institute of Physics from 1986 to 1988. He was a major supporter of physics as an international activity: he was a founder member of the European Physical Society in 1968 and its president 1984–86, and he had significant links with CERN that spanned 25 years.
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