Professor Christie Davies writes: Chris should also be remembered for his wonderful sense of humour.  I have kept 147 of his emailed jokes in a folder and I am sure I received  more.  Many were politically incorrect and a reminder that he was in the forefront of the battle against that insidious threat to individual liberty.

Stephen Clifford Wilson writes: I should just like to say that although I was not in touch with Chris Tame for about 35 years, I remember him well as a jolly friend when we were at university together and when we shared some battles and experiences in life.  As so often happens, our ways parted and reading of his recent death has jolted my memory.  Apart from many small acts of kindness to me, my abiding recollection is of his sense of fun in all that he set himself to doing.  He enjoyed a good intellectual scrap and even in those days his often po-faced opponents could not take offence when faced with  his infectious good humour.  I can well imagine how his current friends will miss him.

Dave Hammond writes: I was at school with Chris and we shared a love of rock'n'roll.  I lost touch with him for a few years while I was living in Hull.  I was skint and sold a lot of my record collection to a second-hand shop up there.  When we met up again eventually it turned out that he'd been at Hull Uni. and had bought all the records I sold without realising they were mine.  It's many years since we were last in contact.  Bye mate.

Caroline Chambers writes: I was so sorry to hear about Chris.  He and I worked together at Forest in the late 80s early 90s.  He was a faithful friend and a true fighter for what he believed was right.  I wish I had his eloquence to put into words how deeply he will be missed.

Dr. Sean Gabb writes: Thanks for the very kind tributes.

Tony Hollick writes: I can alas confirm that my friend of 25 years standing Chris R. Tame succumbed to bone cancer and post-operative complications on the 20th March.  My friend Gerald Hartup was with him at the Royal Marsden Hospital (the best cancer unit in Britain) the day before he died, and was greatly relieved to see that Chris was in good spirits, and not suffering serious pain.  He was very much his usual self.  He died the following day.  Sean Gabb and Tim Smith were with him, as were several other close friends.  I met Chris in 1978 as he was leaving the "Freedom Association" to set up the Alternative Bookshop.  We became amazingly close friends - we would both start whistling or singing the same song together - and each of us understood the other's most obscure references.  I was astonished at how our tastes in TV shows and music coincided, even though he was six years younger.  We both loved Gene Roddenberry's "Have Gun, Will Travel" and "StarTrek" as well as a vast range of serious science fiction.  I was a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Libertarian Alliance.  I was living in a small room at the back of the Bookshop, with my pet cat Beeper, and I would see Chris every day.  We would discuss the most arcane aspects of libertarianism.  There was a really good social scene around the Bookshop and the Libertarian Alliance - open, good-hearted and intelligent.  At that time, most of us wanted to move to North America in due course.  We had little reason to have confidence in the willingness of "The Powers That Be" to fight for a truly free country.  Chris was a "one-off", unique.  I shall miss him. There are very few people I've ever been willing to die for; and Chris was one of them . . .  "Hasta la vista!" Chris.

John Gouriet writes: I am very sad to learn of Chris Tame's death at such a young age.  He joined the then National Association for Freedom, now the Freedom Association, within a year of its founding in 1975 and helped develop our fledgling research department in which role he was of great assistance to me especially in those early years when we were locked in battle with over-mighty union barons and useless or malevolent politicians (What's new?).  I hope perhaps in his last days he was able to see the BBC tribute to NAFF on television in Part 2 of "Tory Tory Tory!"  Chris was bright, knowledgeable, well-read, hard-working and above all persistent.  He played an important part in our small team. He was also a libertarian in its purist form and had little time for trimmers and compromisers.  He left the Freedom Association to help Ralph Harris (Lord Harris of High Cross) form FOREST to campaign for the freedom to smoke and thence the Libertarian Alliance where with Drs. Sean Gabb and Tim Evans.  I am glad to hear they intend to carry on the good work started by Chris.  Please accept my deepest condolences.