A service for Trevor West, a former Independent Trinity college senator and academic, will take place at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, tomorrow at 1pm.
Mr West was elected to the Seanad in 1970 and served for more than a decade, where he supported the efforts of his fellow Trinity senator Mary Robinson to introduce liberal legislation on issues such as contraception.
A member of the Church of Ireland, Mr West was born in Cork in May 1938 and educated at Midleton College and later at the High School in Dublin. He went on to Trinity College Dublin, where he studied mathematics.
He was appointed as a lecturer in Trinity in 1966 and associate professor of mathematics in 1977.
In 1970, he was elected to the Seanad at a byelection for the Trinity constituency caused by the death of Owen Sheehy-Skeffington. He was re-elected as an Independent in 1973 and 1977 but lost his seat in 1981. He regained it in the first election of 1982 but lost it again in 1983.
A keen sportsman he was the author of The Bold Collegians, a history of sport in Trinity College.