Looking for a date of death.

[BML]

I met someone at the organisation I worked at who I found attended the same college as I did although twenty years earlier. I did not learn of his death until a Christmas card I had sent him was returned and I could obtain no further information. I recently read that after a will goes to Probate it becomes public property but have no idea how to use such information. I know his DOB. I know where he was born and I have the last address he lived at.
Could anyone advise me if there is any way I could use that information to get a date of death.

[CaroleW]

Deaths up to 2020 are searchable here.  You can search 2 yrs either side of the year so use 2018 to search 2016 - 2020.  It will not give the actual date of death just birth year. You have to register but it’s free

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp 

To look for a will -    https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/  date of death will be shown & date of grant but no birthdate

[BML]

Many thanks for your advice. I will have a look at a more civilised time in the morning. Brian

[Girl Guide]

If you can't find a will then you could try the local newspapers to see if his death was reported in the obituaries section.  Quite often they give the date of death as well as funeral details.

[Milliepede]

Deaths up to 2020 are searchable here.

I hadn't realised they went up that far so that's useful information. 

[CaroleW]

It was beginning of this year

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=857751.18  - on page 3

[BML]

Many thanls all for the information. I think I know how to get there now.
Regards,
Brian