Nimrod Ping

Nimrod Ping (19 September 1947 - 3 July 2006) was a British architect, politician and gay activist in Brighton, East Sussex, England.

Biography

Early life After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1964 to 1966 he studied architecture at Cardiff University.

Career As an architect, he designed a Sainsbury's supermarket in Lewes Road, Brighton.

Politics Ping served as a councillor at Brighton Borough Council (now Brighton and Hove City Council) for eight years from 1991 to 1999. He became chairman of the council's planning committee and of its licensing committee.

He was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late 1990s.

Originally a Labour Party supporter, he joined the Green Party a few months before his death.

Death Ping died of hepatitis-related liver failure in 2006. where his gravestone reads "'Architect, Musician and Troublemaker' Arrived late, left too early, d. 3 July 2006".