Gary Lightbody an interview to have grown up as an "Indie rock kid" inspired to become a musician through influences of artists and acts such as Kurt Cobain, Super Furry Animals, and Sebadoh. Lightbody has worked with the aid organisation Save the Children in Uganda, an experience on which he has written in "New Statesman". He has also been involved in raising awareness of depression, a condition that he himself has struggled with. In July 2012, Lightbody received an Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Ulster at a ceremony in the Millennium Forum, Derry. See also Snow Patrol Awards. Lightbody
Robert Lightbody ludensis". He is also credited by Murchison for the detection of the remains of fishes and crustaceans in beds at a higher level than the original Ludlow bone-bed in the railroad cutting to the north-east of Ludlow. Lightbody published several articles based upon his geological research, including "The Geology of Ludlow", "Remarks on Mr Roberts' Paper on Cephalaspis", "Notice of a Section at Mocktree", "Passage Beds at Downton", and "A Sketch of Geological Time", Lightbody was involved in a legal dispute with one of his neighbours in 1868,<ref name="C16/357">Chancery Suit, 'Lightbody vs Hodges', held by The National Archives, "C16/357"</ref> in