Mark Bytheway [SEP] cause of death
several times appeared as an aspiring contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" but never qualified for the hot seat.
Mark Bytheway died on 9 July 2010 after a battle with esophageal cancer. As Mark was the reigning British Quiz Champion at the time of his death, the British Quizzing Championship trophy has been named in his honour, and will now be called the Mark Bytheway Trophy - aka the 'M*BY'.
2008 Interview.
A 2008 interview, after winning the World title, is available
events as of June 2012, made the Top 10 of the World Quizzing Championships three times straight 2007 to 2009 and in 2010 won a British Quizzing Championships Bronze medal in the individuals and a Silver with partner Sean Carey at pairs. For a long time he stood in the shadows of England's four world champions Kevin Ashman, who holds the overall Mastermind record with 41 points, the aforementioned Gibson, Olav Bjortomt and Mark Bytheway and thus only made the national squad after Bytheway's premature death in 2010. 
In the Quiz