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SOCIETY ISSUE 01 2022
OBITUARIES Peter D R Smith (SH44)
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ormerGreatBritainHockeyCaptain,PeterSmith, help run has his father’s accountancy practices in Honiton and diedagedHe 96. receivedhiscapfromGBHockey Exeter. President Sheila Morrow in March, when she spent time Most at home in the countryside, David built a house with him (pictured below) as he reminisced about his England in a small hamlet called Wiggaton, near Ottery St Mary, andGBcareer.Recentarchivework inand 1974, movedtherewithhiswifeJeanandchildren had discovered that Peter should Christine and Isobel from their previous home in Exeter. havebeenawardedfivecapsfor Heremainedtherefortherestofhislife.Anextreme matchesduringaGreatBritainand gregarious personality, having built an extension to his IrelandtourtoSouthAfricaand house, David installed a full-sized snooker table and loved to Kenyain195whichwerepreviously entertain friends there throughout the week. consideredunofficialbythenational Outside of work, David had a wide range of interests governing body. including keeping horses, sheep, geese and chickens. He also During his time at Canford, excelled at cabinet making and woodcarving and his house Peter excelled at sports and was wasfilledwithitemshehadcreated.Onhisdeath,al made captain of both hockey and these items have found new homes across his family. David cricketandalsoservedasHeadBoy. diedafterashortillnesson25thMarch201leavinghis On leaving school in 1944, he undertook Radar Warning daughters,fivegrandchildrenandsixgreat-grandchi Receiver (RWR) training at Oxford, where he also picked up aBlueforhockey,beforebeingcommissionedintotheNavy. Afterbeingdemobbed,heinitiallyworkedinthecitybutlater wentontofoundhisownsuccessfulengineeringcompany.At(F54) the same time, he developed an international hockey career andy followed his brother whichledtohiscaptaincyoftheAfricantourofHe 195. JockintoFranklinHouse.He also played cricket whenever soon settled in and established possible for local sides in the himselfasafinepiperandkeen Walton area and was a fisherman.WhocouldforgetMist lifelong member of the Covered Mountains, echoing from by MCC. the weir pool? Peter was survived by Sandy’s time at Canford was hiswifeJudy,livinginWells, short,aged16hewenttoacareers Somerset, and his son Mike interview saying he wished to be a and daughter Sally from his doctor.“MedicineJenkins,Idon’tthink firstmarriage. so!” Undeterred by this response, he went to a crammer, and not only went on to qualify as a doctor but published ground-breaking research papers, lectured in the United States and became what a colleague described as ‘a giant of (S50) vascular surgery’. ornon8thAprilDavid 1932, FromanearlyageSandywasagreatfisherman, spent his childhood in Devon pre-emptingmodernfishershespentasummerinIcelan and joined Canford when his inthefiftiesandfishedwidelyinScotland,Alaska,Can familyrelocatedtoBournemouthin Newfoundland,Russia,AfricaandNorway.Returningfrom thelate1940s.Followinghisschool onetrip,heflewinhiswaders,ashisbaggagewasoverwe days, David returned to Devon to
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