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THE REVD DR JOHN HUW ANWYL (1951)

Huw Anwyl was born on 23 December 1929 in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, and was educated at Bala Grammar School, did war service in the RAF in South Africa, and completed his secondary school education with eighteen months at Coleg Clwd, Rhyl. He came to Fitzwilliam as a student of Cheshunt College in 1951 to read English and Theology; and passed the three Examinations in Christian Theology for the BA degree in 1955, proceeding to the MA degree in 1958. His first ministry was at Warminster Congregational Church, but in 1963 he moved to the United States to work under the auspices of Church World Service in New York. This led to ministries in Chicago, Hollywood and Riverside, during which he studied for a DMin at San Francisco Theological Seminary, before moving to the Shepherd of the Hills Church in Laguna Niguel in 1992, where he ended his ministry. Believing strongly in an inclusive Church, he travelled widely until his last years. He died on 8 January 2019.

PETER KENNETH CHARLES AUSTWICK (1948)

Peter Austwick was born on 29 December 1926 at Kew, Surrey, and was educated at Varndean Secondary School for Boys, Brighton, and Brighton Technical College. He came to Fitzwilliam to do a Postgraduate Training Course in Mycology not leading to a degree, which he completed in 1949. He subsequently emigrated to New Zealand, and died on 13 February 2019.

ROBERT ARTHUR BASSFORD (1978)

Robert Bassford was born on 26 November 1959 in Bradford, and was educated at Pudsey Crawshaw School in Leeds. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1978 to read Modern Languages, graduating in 1982. He had always wanted to teach English as a Foreign Language, and began in Finland. By the 1990s he had moved to Greece. He died on 2 September 2019.

OLIVER DUNSTAN BENNETT (1962)

Oliver Bennett was born on 12 June 1943 in Duffield, Derbyshire, and was educated at the City of London Freemen’s School, Ashstead Park, Surrey and Warwick School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1962 to read Geography, graduating in 1965. He was active in Fitz Theatre and was also Deputy Editor of Varsity. After doing an MA in Urban, Regional and Transport Planning at Liverpool and another in Economics at London, he eventually became Director of Tourism Services at Deloitte & Touche, running the department virtually single-handed. While there he acted as a consultant for many tourism projects, particularly in developing countries. This took him to many parts of the world for shorter or longer periods. He was always anxious that tourism should benefit the local people in constructive ways, and not simply be providing cheap markets for Western countries. He was largely responsible for opening up Nepal for Western tourism on a DFIDfunded project which introduced the word ‘ecotourism’ from academia to local government, such that it became a model for many other countries. As a consultant he never really retired, but on 11 March he told his friends that he was being tested for COVID-19, one of the first members of the College to do so. He died in St George’s Hospital, London on 26 March 2020, and was lovingly remembered by many friends as the ‘consummate consultant’.

PAUL HARTLEY BRIGGS (1962)

Paul Briggs was born on 23 September 1943 in Prestwich, Manchester, and was educated at Pocklington School, York. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1962 to read Law. He was Captain of the Fitzwilliam 1st XV and of the LX Club, and also loved golf. Although not a Blue, he was elected a member of the Hawks’ Club. After graduating he went into business and eventually became Managing Director of the carpet company, John Hugh McKay, travelling the world looking for new designs. He was even-handed, kind, and considerate, often laughing, full of fun, even slightly quirky. He had a never-ending fund of ideas, not all carried through to a conclusion, but he was not easily put off. He did not suffer fools gladly and had a tinge of obstinacy when he felt he was right, as he often was. His final years were something of a struggle, though he never complained and never forgot his family (wife, two children and four grandchildren) and friends. He died on 23 March 2020 of complications arising from motor neurone disease.

DAVID EUSTACE BROWN (1958)

David Brown was born on 19 February 1939, in Charlton, East London, and was educated at the Roan School, Greenwich, after turning down a place at Dulwich College because he did not think that the College’s boater would go down well on his workingclass housing estate. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1958 to read French and Spanish, followed by a PGCE. David was an inspirational teacher, working first at Brentwood School, then at Westminster School, where he made an immediate impression

- particularly in his Spanish lessons - and was appointed Housemaster of Liddell’s boarding house, skilfully managing the sometimes erratic behaviour of 80 or so privileged adolescents. From 1985 to 1992, he was Head of St John’s School, Leatherhead - modernizing by recruiting girls into the Sixth Form, setting up a boarding house for girls and hiring female teachers. He was well-known for wearing his authority with a smile.

In 1993 David became director of the Linbury Trust, a charitable trust of Lord and Lady Sainsbury, working on projects at the Royal Opera House and Ballet Rambert. As a humane and seasoned teacher, David was concerned about young people with few advantages. So his special contribution was to develop, through the Trust, ways of mentoring young people at risk and rehabilitating young offenders. He arranged pioneering schemes for the resettlement of offenders under 18, leaving custody at the young offenders’ institutions at Feltham and Portland. Literacy was another of David’s interests: he worked on the first substantial research into the incidence of dyslexia among homeless people and the way it affected their health; he also helped set up a remarkable parent and volunteer literacy scheme for children in their early years, Springboard for Children, now known as The Children’s Literacy Charity.

In retirement, David switched from distributing money to raising it - for many local charities. He fended off cancer gracefully for a decade, enjoying his three children and four grandchildren. He died on 16 July 2020 - at home with his wife Tess, whom he had met while studying for his PGCE.

DR DOUGLAS QUENTIN BUTLER (1958)

Douglas Butler was born on 1 August 1940 in Wokingham, Berkshire, and was educated at the Oratory School, Woodcote, Reading. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1958 to read Natural Sciences, but later changed to Agriculture, graduating in 1961. He subsequently taught at the Oratory School from 1962 to 1967, and then settled in the Republic of Ireland, teaching at Rockwell College, in Cashel, County Tipperary. He died on 25 September 2015.

LESLIE CONSTANTINE CHAPAS (1949)

Leslie Chapas was born on 2 December 1928 in Manchester, and was educated at St Gregory’s Central School and the Xaverian College, Manchester, and Manchester University, where he graduated with a BSc. A life member of the computer society, he was involved at the beginning of computers when studying at Manchester: although he did not know Alan Turing, he was there at the same time. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1949 to read for the Diploma in Mathematical Statistics, which he secured in 1951. He applied his knowledge to biometrics and worked in Nigeria on palm oil research Later he returned to the UK and worked in Grassland Research for some years before being head-hunted by the Centro International de Agricultura Tropical to work in Colombia. He installed computers there in 1980 into what were known as early desk top computers in those days. His life was long and interesting, and he was fortunate to have loved his life’s work thanks to his time at university and the opportunities it gave him. He died on 24 November 2019, and is survived by his wife and married daughter.

JOHN GRENVILLE DEAN (1953)

Grenville Dean was born on 19 August 1933 in Bradford, Yorkshire, and was educated at Mill Hill School. After doing National Service in the Middle East, he came to Fitzwilliam in 1953 to read Law, graduating in 1956. He enjoyed his supervisions, particularly with Dr Turner, and spent most of his time in the Squire Law Library reading the Law Reports, which were particularly useful since most of his Cambridge course was spent on Roman Law, which is largely irrelevant for the practising lawyer in England. Grenville was also the founder of the Mornie Onions in 1956, named after his first girlfriend, Maureen, whose baby sister could not pronounce her name and called her ‘Mornie Onion’, which Grenville loved! After qualifying as a solicitor, he went into business, joined Smiths Group, where he became Head of Legal Department and Company Secretary. He established Merivale Moore Ltd, a London property company in 1970 with large investment interests, and turned the company private in July 2003. His other business, West Norfolk Tomatoes Ltd, became the largest supplier of tomatoes in the country. He died on 29 October 2019.

DR JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR DICKERSON (1955)

John Dickerson was born on 2 August 1925 in Lincoln, and was educated at the City School, Lincoln, the County Technical College, Guildford, and Regent Street Polytechnic, where he obtained a London BSc. He joined the Medical Research Council (University of Cambridge) Unit for Experimental Medicine in 1952, where he worked with Professor Robert McCance and Dr Elsie Widdowson, Founder Members of the Nutrition Society. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1955 as a research student for a PhD in Experimental 73

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Medicine, was approved for the PhD degree in 1959, and graduated in January 1960. He moved to the Institute of Child Heath in London in 1965. In 1967, John became a Reader in Human Nutrition at the University of Surrey and subsequently Professor of Human Nutrition. The Chair in Nutrition was a joint appointment with the then South West Thames Regional Health Authority, and this gave opportunity for involvement with clinical nutrition. Following his retirement from the University of Surrey in 1988, he was appointed an Emeritus Professor.

John’s research interests included body composition, growth and development; drug-nutrient interactions; and nutrition in the clinical management of disease with special reference to the elderly and patients with cancer. He was seen as a highly significant member of the nutritional science community, and was an Honorary Fellow of the Nutrition Society. In 2002 the University of Westminster awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in recognition of his services to nutrition. He died on 14 April 2020, his wife having died in 2000.

DR PETER ARTHUR ECKSTEIN (1948)

Peter Eckstein was born on 11 January 1928 in Düsseldorf and was educated privately in Ankara, Turkey, then at the American College in Istanbul and the Leys School, Cambridge. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1948 to read Medicine, passed his BA, MB and BChir (Clinical Medicine) in 1951, and undertook his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital. While at college he was a member of the Boat Club and the Music Society. Having qualified he returned to Cambridge and practised as a GP until retirement. In 2017 he had a severe stroke, and died on 10 November 2019.

THE REVD PREBENDARY PETER DAVID ELVY (1962)

Peter Elvy was born on 9 November 1938 in Whitstable, and was educated at King’s School, Canterbury and Queen Mary College, London. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1962 as an ordinand at Ridley Hall to read Theology, graduating in 1964. After ordination he was a curate in Croydon, including the large new housing estate at New Addington (1966-68), during which time he also acted as a Butlin’s chaplain at Skegness and Clacton. This was followed by appointment as Youth Chaplain of Chelmsford diocese (1971-80). He became vicar of Great Burstead and canon of Chelmsford Cathedral in 1980. Throughout this time he was also building a reputation as a creative journalist in radio and television, and was active in commercial radio and television from its early days. He wrote several articles and books on religious broadcasting, and was awarded a PhD as a result of a project funded by the Jerusalem Trust for research into aspects of religious broadcasting in Eastern Europe by the University of Edinburgh, and published by their Centre for Theology and Public Issues. In the 1980s he was religious programmes producer for Essex Radio, as well as being media consultant to the Jerusalem Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, and a director of Jerusalem Productions Ltd. As the trust’s representative he was involved in more than twenty major television co-productions including ‘Son of God’, ‘Moses’, ‘St Paul’ and ‘The Virgin Mary’ for BBC1. For seventeen years he was chairman of the Jerusalem Radio Awards, which attracts some 200 BBC and internet entries each year. In 1992 he moved to Chelsea Old Church, where his immediate task was to rebuild Petyt Hall at a cost of £6 million. He spent fourteen years at Chelsea before retiring in 2006, to a rousing send-off from the parish. Although retired from parish work, Peter remained (by decision of the Bishop of London) a full Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral and also continued to be a canon of the Diocese of Ughelli, Nigeria. He died on 25 August 2019.

MAHMOUD IHSAN ESSAID (1957)

Mahmoud Essaid was born on 25 December 1933 in Jaffa, Palestine, and was educated at St George’s School, Jerusalem and Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1957 to read Economics, but changed to Law after Part I. Although he worked hard, and showed great determination, in the end he had to leave Cambridge without a degree. He always had very happy memories of his time at Fitzwilliam. Undoubtedly his result was affected by his disturbed childhood resulting from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. He went to the United States seeking a better life for his family (wife Rana, and four sons) and found it, finally settling in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, where he became a successful businessman; and most of his wider family followed. In his middle age he was a member of the Columbia University Seminar on the Middle East, where he was remembered for his kind intelligence. Over the last twenty years or so Mahmoud could be found almost every day riding his bicycle around Tod’s Point, and he was an enthusiastic supporter of the Greenwich Point Conservancy. He died at home on 7 April 2020.

DR SIMON HOWARD FELL (1978)

(With grateful thanks to Jo Fell)

Simon Fell was born on 13 January

1959 in Batley, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Batley Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1978 to read English, graduating in 1981. Simon had learned double bass at Batley, and Huddersfield Polytechnic before coming to Fitzwilliam, and naturally his interests in jazz and improvised music continued while he was an undergraduate. In 1982 he married Jo, and for several years he juggled a busy career in commercial music with teaching double bass in schools and colleges around East Anglia. At the same time he was both composing and playing improvised and experimental music around the UK and at festivals overseas. He quickly formed his own record label, Bruce’s Fingers (1983), in order to promote the music about which he was so passionate, and to have full control over the whole creative process, from recording to artwork. He quickly gained a reputation for mentoring talented young musicians, and for bringing together unlikely groupings from many genres in a series of large-scale works which were commissioned by, among others, the BBC and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

After moving to France for a quieter life in 2005, Simon continued to play with musicians in the UK that he had known for many years, but with the financial crash of 2008, the rise in fuel prices and the drop in corporate entertainment and private live music events, it became less viable. Instead he turned his attention to finding like-minded musicians locally, and introduced several new collaborators to his established network of players.

In 2014 Simon had the opportunity to return to academia, with a post to write a PhD at Huddersfield University, where he subjected improvised music to the scrutiny of his rigorous research. The result was a highly acclaimed thesis, ‘A more attractive way of “getting things done” – freedom, collaboration and compositional paradox in British improvised and experimental music, 1965-75’. This work left many unanswered questions, and sadly he died before being able to take up the planned postdoctoral research post at Huddersfield. He died after a short illness on 28 June 2020.

THE REVD JOHN SIMS FRANCIS (1952)

John Francis was born on 16 February 1925 in Swansea, and was educated at Gowerton County Grammar School, Swansea and St David’s College, Lampeter (with an interlude for war service in the RAF, 1943-46). He came to Fitzwilliam in 1952 to read Theology, graduating in 1954. As he had been ordained before coming to Fitzwilliam and had served an initial curacy in Swansea, his next post was at St Andrew’s, Chesterton, while he was reading for his BA, followed by two longer ones in Wales: in Swansea 1954-58, and then as Vicar of Newbridge-on-Wye and Llanfihangel Brynpabuan, 1958-65. He returned to Cambridgeshire as Rector of Willingham, 1965-82, for the last four years of which he was Rural Dean of North Stowe. From 1982 he was Vicar of Buckden, retiring to live at Bourne in 1990. He died in November 2019.

MICHAEL ABBOTT GAUNT (1968)

Michael Gaunt was born on 12 December 1948 in Darlington and was educated at Kingswood School, Bath. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1968 to read Law, graduating in 1971. He was a member of the Music Society and sang in the Fitzwilliam Choir. After becoming an articled clerk in Leeds, he moved to Morpeth where he became a Partner in Brumell & Sample of Morpeth. He was married with three daughters; and died on 23 July 2020.

ANTHONY DILWYN GICK (1964)

Tony Gick was born on 22 July 1945 in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, and was educated at St Dunstan’s College, Catford. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1964 to read Law, graduating in 1967. He was Secretary of the College Law Society and had interests in the Union, the Film Society and vintage cars. He found recreation in sailing and concert music. On graduating he took a job as Administrative Assistant at a hospital in York, progressing in due course to become Chief Executive of Tameside & Glossop Health Authority (1985-93), then of South Lancashire (1993-2000). He was appointed as a NonExecutive Director to the NHS Pensions Agency Special Health Authority UK in 2004. During the reorganisation of the NHS, Shifting the Balance of Power, he worked on the development of the Strategic Health Authority for Cumbria and Lancashire and carried out consultancy work in the NHS. He was latterly Vice-Chair of the Chorley & South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group. He died in June 2020, and a private funeral was held on 23 June.

GEORGE BERIC GRAHAMSMITH (1949)

Beric Graham-Smith was born on 7 July1949 in Lincoln, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton. He did National Service with the Royal Engineers, 1947-49. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1949 to read Architecture, graduating in 1955. While at Fitzwilliam he was a member of the Boat Club. Soon after graduation he married Elizabeth, who survives him. They were drawn together by their love of music: he sang in many choirs from schooldays to the Ottawa Choral Society. After initially working 75

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for London County Council, they emigrated to Canada, where he became an architect and planner, co-ordinating projects all over Canada in a 45 year-career. He was also active in the Cambridge Society of Ottawa. He died on 15 October 2019.

DR PATRICK EDWARD GRATTAN-BELLEW (1965)

(with assistance from Dr Chris Rogers)

Paddy Grattan-Bellew was born on 26 September 1934 in Goresbridge, County Kilkenny, Ireland, and was educated at University College, Dublin and McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1965 to do research in the atomic structure of minerals, and in particular to learn the techniques of x-ray crystallography, which was not available in Ireland at that time. After securing his PhD in 1969, he emigrated to Canada to work at the University of Toronto. He spent some time in diamond exploration in Africa, which led eventually to work in northern Ontario, which in turn led indirectly to the discovery of a diamond mine in the James Bay lowlands in 2005 further north than he had investigated in 1970. He joined the National Research Council of Canada’s Minerals Research Laboratory in 1971. A chance conversation in 1973 led to his interest in alkali-aggregate reactions, and he and Chris Rogers from the Ontario Highways Department struck up a friendship, Paddy more scientific and Chris more practical.

When the Canadian Standards Association set up a new committee on alkali reactions, as part of the cement committee in 1981, both men were included, and were initially viewed with suspicion by the cement companies, who feared anything detrimental said about concrete, especially harmful reactions caused by a component of cement. As it was realised that their expertise was needed, gradually they were accepted. For 25 years they worked together on developing new test methods on alkaliaggregate reaction in concrete. Paddy organised an international conference in 1986 on the subject, and edited the proceedings in the pre-digital age. The last conference he attended was in Austin, Texas in 2012, by which time he had become an acknowledged international expert on problems of concrete durability, and represented Canada on the conference committee for many years.

As a scientist he was exemplary in the keeping of records and notebooks, and a dependable guide for other researchers. He could always be relied on to do the right thing. The essential quality for any scientist – curiosity – was not something easily communicated; but for those with eyes to see, Paddy was a superb guide, and a good innovator in new techniques, often very simple ones. He was an example to all in his willingness to share new ideas, and treated new researchers with respect and sound advice.

Although a non-smoker he developed lung cancer in 2013, but with the aid of chemotherapy he survived until 8 March 2020, leaving a widow.

GREGORY MARCAR WILLIAM GREGORY (1947)

(with assistance from Richard Gregory)

Greg was born on 29 May 1923 in Karachi, and educated at a prep school in Eastbourne, from which he won a scholarship to Malvern College, Worcestershire. He completed school in 1941 and, having seen the bombed remains of Coventry, immediately signed up to the Army. After Officer Training in the Royal Engineers, he was sent to Cambridge for grounding in First Year Engineering, which required him to matriculate from Selwyn in 1941. In November 1942 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and attached to the Indian Army Bombay Sappers & Miners, Kirkee, near Poona. In September 1943, he was posted to 411 Royal Bombay Sappers & Miners Parachute Squadron at Campbellpur in the North West Frontier territory, and then to Diniapur in Burma. In Litan he blew up trees to impede the Japanese advance and destroyed the British Brigade HQ to prevent the capture of documents and useful equipment. When Japanese soldiers infiltrated his camp at night and bayoneted sleeping soldiers, Greg only escaped because he was out of sight under a bush.

In December 1944, Greg joined the counterattack in the advance towards Kohima behind 9th East African Brigade. The work of Greg and his men enabled a Dakota air-bridge of vital supplies, pushing the Japanese army all the way through Irrawaddy to Rangoon. Greg returned to the UK in February 1946 and married Ursula Bromley during his Christmas leave. In May 1947, he was awarded a Regular Commission and came to Fitzwilliam to finish his degree, graduating in summer 1949.

Afterwards, he was posted to Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, during the Malaysian emergency, before returning to the UK in 1952. During 1952 to 1955, he was Adjutant of 108 Welsh Field Engineer Regiment and from 1955 to 1957, he was on the Technical Staff Officer Course at Shrivenham. His final posting in the regular army was as a Major Instructor at the Royal Armoured School of Tank Technology, Bovingdon, Dorset. He wrote technical manuals specializing in engineering drawing, metallurgy, armour plate and nuclear warfare. He retired from

the army in July 1959 but remained in the Civil Defence where he was involved in the building of nuclear bunkers.

Greg became a lecturer at Rugby College of Engineering Technology where he taught thermodynamics and stress analysis. His extracurricular work included writing a stress analysis design program for an Elliot 803B computer, to improve mining equipment and design input for English Electric on diesel engines and steam turbines for power stations, the railways and the Navy. Through Civil Defence, he also held a provisional wartime job at the underground regional seat of government at Kinver Edge.

On the amalgamation of Rugby College and others to form Coventry Polytechnic, Greg became a Principal Lecturer and administered timetabling. He kept his hand in by teaching Jaguar trainees in the evenings. When he retired at the end of August 1988, he was offered an honorary doctorate of Coventry University but declined, disillusioned by what he regarded as dwindling standards.

Greg spent the first years of his retirement at Frinton-on-Sea, refurbishing a dilapidated house and becoming a keen vegetable gardener. His three children and six grandchildren became regular holiday visitors. He remained physically active, played bridge and enjoyed beer well into his nineties. When his health deteriorated, he and Ursula, his wife, moved to a bungalow in Dedham, Essex. At the age of 94, he went blind and entered a local care home, Mistley Manor, where he died on Wednesday 26 August 2020 aged 97.

FRANK HALL (1953)

Frank Hall was born on 8 November 1936 in Chesterfield, and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1953 to read Modern Languages, graduating in 1956. While at Fitzwilliam he rowed for the first Boat, and subsequently became a member of the Billygoats. Frank went into teaching and, after completing a PGCE, obtained a post at Barnsley & District Holgate Grammar School. His final post was at Farmor’s School, Fairford, Gloucestershire. He died suddenly on 28 December 2019, leaving his wife, three children and three grandchildren.

DR MICHAEL HAROLD HANDFORD (1963)

Mike Handford was born on 20 May 1945 in Sevenoaks, Kent, and was educated at Tonbridge School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1963 to read Medicine. He graduated in 1966, and gained his Final MB and BChir in 1970 after clinical training at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. While at Fitzwilliam he was a member of the Boat Club, and became a Billygoat. His wider interests were in theatre and arts, as well as travel and outdoor pursuits generally. Mike went into General Practice in Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, and was a much-loved doctor for many years. He was described as a ‘community man’, for example, he chaired the Committee to restore the Lychgate of Ramsbury Parish Church, completed by July 2015. He retired in 2004, and died on 29 May 2020.

MICHAEL ION HASTY (1968)

Mike Hasty was born on 2 October 1949 in Blackpool, and was educated at Arnold School, Blackpool. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1968 to read Geography, graduating in 1971. He played football for the College 1st XI and was also a member of the 1st Badminton team. He took a regular part in college affairs. After graduation and a PGCE he became a schoolmaster: he taught Geography at Bradfield School, West Riding, and then at Eckington School, Derbyshire from its founding to his retirement as Deputy Headteacher in 2004.

He also worked as a volunteer counsellor for ChildLine for over 20 years, was presented with the Patron’s Award at Buckingham Palace in 2011; and went into schools for the NSPCC Schools Service to talk to children about speaking out and staying safe. A keen gardener, Mike regularly opened his garden for charity, raising funds for the NSPCC and subsequently for the National Garden Scheme. Mike was also a keen sportsman, running several London marathons and Karrimor fell races, and playing for cricket teams in the Yorkshire League. He was a member of Renishaw Golf Club and loved walking in Derbyshire and the Lake District. He travelled widely internationally.

Michael Hasty died suddenly at his home in Derbyshire on 15 April 2020 aged 70. His funeral took place on 5 May, but, due to Coronavirus restrictions, attendance was by invitation only.

THE REVD THOMAS BERNARD FELIX HINEY, MC, CF (1968)

Tom Hiney was born on 12 December 1935, and was educated at Ratcliffe College and Sandhurst. He became an officer in the regular army, and in 1968 was admitted to Fitzwilliam as a member of Ridley Hall to read for the Certificate in Theology. After serving a curacy at St Augustine’s, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1969-71, he returned to the Army as a Chaplain to the Forces, serving in various parts of Europe, before retiring in 2000. He died in January 2020. 77

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THE REVD MICHAEL BEDO HOBBS (1955)

Michael was born on 9 March 1930 at Farnham, Surrey. He was educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire and did National Service in the Intelligence Corps in Austria before working in Spain and London. He found his purpose when he gave his life to Christ at the Billy Graham Crusade at Harringay in 1954. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1955 to read for the Certificate in Theology, and was one of the ‘Cambridge Seventy’ who committed themselves to serve overseas. He then went to Clifton Theological College, Bristol, to train for ordination in the Church of England (1958-60).

He married Elly, who was Danish, in 1960, having met the previous summer at the Criccieth beach mission. After a curacy at St Jude’s, Southsea (1960-63), they went to work with the South American Missionary Society in Paraguay (1963-65), and then Argentina (1965-67), returning to the UK for their children’s health. He became Vicar of Potters Green, Coventry (1968-75), District Secretary for the British and Foreign Bible Society (1975-82), and finally Rector of Plaxtol, near Sevenoaks (1982-96).

When Michael retired, he and Elly moved to Semley, near Shaftesbury. His commitment to telling people about Jesus through explaining the Bible never waned, and he sought to be a witness to God’s love till the end. He did chaplaincies in the Netherlands, Spain and Israel, and helped in his local church until he turned 81. He died after two years’ deteriorating health at Henford House, Warminster on 18 March 2020, and was buried in Plaxtol on 1 April at a small family funeral. He leaves behind Elly, three of his five children and seven grandchildren.

ADAM RONALD HOGG (1998)

Ron Hogg was born on 1 October 1951, and came to Fitzwilliam in 1998 to read for the Diploma in Applied Criminology and Police Management, which he secured in March 1999. He joined Northumbria Police in 1978 before transferring to Northamptonshire as a constable in 1981. In August 1992 he returned to Northumbria as a Superintendent, and in February 1996 he was promoted to Chief Superintendent. He was appointed to Assistant Chief Constable with Durham Police in 1998, and assumed the national role for policing football and targeting soccer hooligans. This included policing the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. In 2003 he became Deputy Chief Constable of Cleveland Police; and he retired in May 2008. In retirement he became Police, Crime and Victims’ Commissioner. He was awarded the CBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List for charitable and political services, but died before the announcement was made. After a short battle with motor neurone disease he died peacefully on 17 December 2019. The chief executive of the Commission, Steve White, said that in his 30 years of policing, he had never known someone so universally liked and respected as Ron was, by officers, staff, politicians and officials. ‘He will be greatly missed.’ Chief Constable Jo Farrell, said, ‘Durham Constabulary and the people of County Durham have lost a great colleague and friend. Ron was a radical thinker, an inspiring leader and a lifelong public servant who was not afraid to tackle head-on some of the most difficult issues facing society.’

DR JONATHAN GORDON HOOKER (1968)

Jonathan Hooker was born on 7 February 1949 in Ludlow, Shropshire, and was educated at Marlborough College. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1968 to read Medical Sciences, graduating BA in 1971, BChir in 1974 and MB in 1975. His clinical studies were at the Middlesex Hospital, London. While at Cambridge he was a member of the Boat Club and the Choir. He became a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with St Richard’s Hospital Trust, Chichester in 1988 and then with University College Hospital, retiring to Chichester ten years later. He died on 3 November 2019, leaving a wife, Gillian.

PROFESSOR RICHARD FRANK HOSKING (1957)

Richard Hosking was born on 31 March 1933 in Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia, and was educated at the Universities of Sydney (BA) and Melbourne (MA). He came to Fitzwilliam in 1957 to read Oriental Studies as an Affiliated Student. In his third year he was awarded a Goodenday Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After graduating he successfully applied in 1961 for an Assistant Keepership of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books at the British Museum. In 1973 he was appointed Professor of English at Hiroshima Shudo University in Japan, where he published a Dictionary of Japanese Food, as well as other books and articles. On retirement in 1998 he was made Emeritus Professor and returned to England, living in Chelsea. He began to develop health problems, but continued to enjoy reading and baroque music. Sadly he was unable to attend the Golden Matriculation because of a heart attack. He died on 19 October 2019.

THE REVD DAVID JOHN HUDSON (1964)

(with assistance from the Methodist Conference Office)

David Hudson was born on 17 March 1943 in Derby, and was

educated at Derby School and the University of Leeds. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1964 as a member of Wesley House to read for the Methodist ministry, graduating in Theology in 1966. He served his probation in the Bradford Trinity circuit, and then spent four months in the Selly Oak Colleges before going to serve as Chaplain to Schools and Colleges in Cape Coast under the Ghana Conference, during which time he was also Candidates Secretary. After his first furlough he served in Stoke-on-Trent South, Whitchurch, Shropshire, Reading and Silchester, Gordano Valley, and Crewe circuits. He cared about the World Church and the Ecumenical Movement, encouraging people to see that they could live and be connected on a ‘wide map’. David retired in 2008, and as a supernumerary he continued to conduct worship, enjoying reading and preparing for preaching; and also found time for U3A, and more reading – The Guardian, biography, poetry, travel and sport. David shared an interest in birdwatching with his wife, Jean, and they began coach trips around the UK. He was a lifelong supporter of Derby County FC, and followed Derbyshire Cricket Club. He enjoyed his retirement in Oswestry, staying very active and engaged with the church, the local community, and friends and family in the UK and the wider world. David died on 8 December 2019, leaving a wife, two sons and a grand-daughter.

PATRICK DENNIS JOHN JOHNSON (1953)

Patrick Johnson was born on 9 May 1935 in Coventry, and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1953 to read Geography, graduating in 1956. He regularly played in the Fitzwilliam 1st XI soccer team; was a member of the Boat Club, and played cricket and tennis for Fitzwilliam. After doing a PGCE he did National Service in the RAF, spending the latter part of that time on Christmas Island. His first teaching post was at Wellingborough Grammar School, and then he went into educational administration, eventually becoming Senior Deputy Director of Education for Nottinghamshire He died in early 2020.

JOHN JULIAN DANIEL LITCHFIELD (1966)

Julian Litchfield was born on 26 December 1946 in Ashcott, Bridgwater, Somerset, and was educated at Elmhurst Grammar School, Street, Somerset and the Oxford College of Technology. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1966 to read Economics, graduating in 1969. He rowed for the Boat Club during his time in college, and went into the Somerset County Council Social Services Department. The Department subsequently nominated him for a place at Bristol Polytechnic to take a Diploma in Applied Social Studies in 1977-78. He visited the college several times for Reunion Dinners, and always retained happy memories of his time at Fitzwilliam. He retired in 2011 and died in April 2020, leaving a wife, Judy, and four children.

THE REVD PROFESSOR JOHN SAMUEL MBITI (1960)

John Mbiti was born on 30 November 1931 in Kitui, Kenya, and was educated at Makerere College, Kampala, and Barrington College, RI, USA. After a year as William Paton Lecturer at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, 1959-60, he came to Fitzwilliam in 1960 as a member of Westminster College on an International Missionary Council Scholarship to do research in Theology, and successfully completed his PhD in 1963, was ordained in the Church of England and spent a year as a curate in the diocese of St Albans. He returned to Uganda in 1964 to teach at Makerere College, where he remained until 1974. In a revised version of his PhD thesis, African Religions and Philosophy (1969) Mbiti challenged the then standard view that African religion was essentially demonic, and argued that it had a discernible philosophical basis that was not unlike that of Western religion. He said that he had been pressed to write it, because when his students asked where they could read anything about African religion along the lines he described, the answer was ‘Nowhere’. The book was groundbreaking and transformed the study of the subject, even though it was criticised later for suggesting the parallels were too close. But his book was based on massive field-work; and the study of religion in Africa, and particularly Christianity in Africa, would never be the same again. In 1974 he was appointed Principal of the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland. Mbiti left Bossey in 1980, and became Professor of Theology at the University of Bern (1983-2003). In retirement he was parish minister in Bergdorf for 15 years. During this time he translated the Bible into Kikamba, his native Kenyan dialect, which was published in 2014. He was given the Archbishop’s Award for Peace and Justice by the Anglican Church of Southern Africa in 2016. He died on 5 October 2019, receiving tributes from the President of Kenya and the Archbishop of Canterbury. John Mbiti was without doubt one of the most distinguished theologians to be a member of Fitzwilliam.

DOUGLAS ALEXANDER MCMURTRIE (1954)

Douglas MacMurtrie was born on 5 June 1933 in Highgate, London, and he was educated at William Ellis School. He came to Fitzwilliam, after doing military service in the 79

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Army, 1952-54 to read Geography in 1954. While at Fitzwilliam he rowed in the Second Boat, and graduated in 1956. He went into teaching and secured a post as Assistant Geography Master at Borehamwood Grammar School, Hertfordshire. He changed his name to ‘McMurtrie’ in 2002, and died in September 2020.

STEWART OSWALD MITCHELL (1954)

Stewart Mitchell was born on 23 March 1925 at Foxholes, St Austell, Cornwall, and was educated at Camden High School and the Cambridgeshire Technical College and School of Art. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1954 to read English as a supernumerary student (i.e. in his spare time while continuing his day job). Stewart nevertheless found time to become involved in FitzTheatre and the Marlowe Society, having produced plays for the Technical College for several years. He graduated in 1957, and secured a post at the Residential Staff College of the North Western Gas Board in Manchester. In 1960 he moved to London as Manager of Staff Sales Training and Services at the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) Company. He moved to Bull Holmes (Management) Ltd in 1984. Moving to the south coast after retiring in 1990, he died in Eastbourne in May 2020.

TIMOTHY ALEXANDER MORGAN (1990)

Tim Morgan was born on 15 September 1971 in London and was educated at Winchester College. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1990 to read Social & Political Sciences, though he quickly changed to Modern & Medieval Languages (Spanish and Portuguese). After spending his year abroad in Brazil and graduating in 1994 with a double first, he joined Barings Bank, which posted him to São Paulo where he survived the bank’s collapse and acquisition by ING Bank in 1995. A decade at Goldman Sachs followed, fuelled by Tim’s knowledge and understanding of Brazil. He left in 2008 to found Buick Capital Partners, which became Northern Lights Alternative Advisors in 2014.

However, his diagnosis with a terminal illness at the age of 43 gave him a reason to shunt all these achievements to one side and immerse himself fully in what really mattered to him: his family and his friendships. Tim was a devoted son and an adoring brother to Nini who also studied at Fitzwilliam (1992). He met his wife Hilary on election night in 1997. They shared a great deal but particularly a love of music, which later had a magical influence on life with their children Molly and William. Tim managed to perform with his band Crisis well after illness had taken its toll. He also loved sailing and, to the surprise of all who knew him, became a passionate and proficient footballer, thanks in no small part to William’s love of the game. The truth is that Tim’s intelligence and innate talents enabled him to succeed at anything to which he turned his mind. He also had a deep fascination for people. His friends remember him as warm, kind, energetic, loyal and an astonishingly good listener. He died on 7 November 2019 aged 48.

THE REVD DR NORMAN EDGAR NAGEL (1957)

Norman Nagel was born on 30 September 1925 in Kuling, Kiangsi, China where his parents were Lutheran missionaries, He was educated at Concordia College, Adelaide, the University of Adelaide, and Concordia Seminary, Adelaide, from which he transferred to Concordia Seminary, St Louis, USA, followed in succession by Kings College, London, and the University of Erlangen. He came to Cambridge in 1957 to undertake research on the relationship between Christology and the doctrine of the Lord’s Supper in Luther. He graduated in 1962. He was principally responsible for the establishment of Westfield House as a Lutheran House of Study in Cambridge, while he was pastor of Resurrection Lutheran Church, and became its first Preceptor. From Cambridge he went to be Professor of Theology and Dean of Chapel at Valparaiso University, Indiana; and in 1983 he moved to St Louis, Kentucky, as Professor of Systematic Theology, from which post he retired in 2006. He published an English translation of Werner Elert’s Eucharist and Church Fellowship in 1966, and later translated a collection of essays by Herman Sasse; he also published two volumes of sermons and numerous articles. Two Festschriften were published in his honour, in 1990 and 2015. He died on 8 October 2019, leaving a wife, three sons and their families.

THE REVD PETER HENRY NEWELL (1952)

Peter Newell was born on 11 July 1927 at Epping, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet. He came to Fitzwilliam as a member of Cheshunt College in 1952 to read Theology. He graduated in 1955, having been a member of the Boat Club while an undergraduate. After completing ordination training, he became minister of Stockwell Green Congregational Church in London. In 1961 he became Chaplain to the British Sailors’ Society and in 1977 he moved to Upminster United Reformed Church, where he remained until retirement in 1992. In retirement he moved to Bristol, where he died on 5 July 2020.

THOMAS PHILIP NICHOLAS (1960)

(with appreciation to Mary Nicholas)

Phil Nicholas was born on 28 January 1942 in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, and was educated at Amman Valley Grammar School. In 1960 he won a state scholarship to Fitzwilliam and read Mathematics in his first year, before changing to Civil Engineering. Because of his prowess in tennis at college level and table tennis at university level he was given a room in Fitzwilliam Street, where Charles Darwin had lodged. Tourists often took photographs of him through his window, which greatly amused him. As well as singing in the choir at Fitzwilliam, he sang in the choir of the local parish church. Choral Evensong at King’s was a highlight when his fiancée, Mary, visited him. Throughout his life music was very dear to him whether playing the guitar, singing in operas, or listening to male voice choirs at rousing internationals. Rugby was a passion with him, especially if Wales won!

In 1963 Philip graduated and then worked for three years at an engineering firm in Cardiff. He designed a reservoir amongst other things. During that time he felt increasingly drawn to social work, and that led to two further academic courses at Swansea and Cardiff Universities. After a year at a rehabilitation school for juvenile offenders, Philip entered the Probation Service, a career he enjoyed immensely for most of his working life. An eminent colleague of the time was Mark Drakeford, currently First Minister of the Welsh Assembly.

In 1972 he was elected Chair of the National Association of Probation Officers for Wales and was the youngest senior probation officer in Wales at that time. The role of Probation Officer carried a degree of kudos in the community at large, as they worked in close collaboration with the criminal court and family court services, involving as these did close contact with judges and magistrates on a regular basis. Philip loved the close contact with clients the job then entailed. Later the switch to computer-based emphasis was one he regretted, and he retired from the service in 1997.

Immediately he left Probation he was asked to lead the Family Mediation Service in Cardiff, and this he did until he retired aged 73. A highlight of this time was when as Chairman of the Committee he welcomed Baroness Brenda Hale to an evening celebrating the service’s contribution. He found her a charming and unassuming guest. For a further three years he was a counsellor at a counselling service conducted on Christian lines called Cardiff Concern. It is currently known as Concern Cymru, a name Philip suggested. It offers advice on all kinds of issues, to both adults and children, on a voluntary basis, as and when clients can afford to pay. Many GPs referred their patients to the Service. Despite a legacy left by a founder member, greater funding is now needed to keep it effective as the demands made upon it have increased recently. Philip’s skills lay often in helping people to reconcile. One colleague writes: ‘he almost demanded – in the loveliest way – to reconcile’.

Throughout his life, Philip was a committed church member and also treasurer at two churches. He was the father of four, grandfather of eight, and great-grandfather of two. He and his wife Mary travelled the world extensively and only omitted Antarctica in their travels. They were schoolchildren together and were married for fifty-four years. He died on 6 April 2020.

JEREMY KEVIN GARETH LANE NICHOLS (1962)

Jeremy Nichols was born on 20 May 1943 at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, and was educated at Lancing College. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1962 to read English (having turned down offers from five London Medical Schools to read Medicine, after deciding that he was not good enough at Biology A-level to continue). He was an active member of Fitzwilliam as a soccer player, a member of the Dramatic Society and as an athlete for which he gained a half-Blue in his second year. He also played cricket. He spent a profitable year at the University of Perugia between Parts I and II of the Tripos, and graduated in 1966. He obtained a temporary post at Rugby School, before moving to Eton in 1967. As a strong Christian he ran Eton’s branch of Amnesty International, and was known as a stickler for form and accurate pronunciation, whilst following the pattern laid down in F.R. Leavis’s Great Tradition. In 1981 he took over a House that needed attention and surprised everyone by the speed with which he turned it round by his combination of verve, wit, clear sense of right and wrong and a belief that the boys mattered more than the rules. These qualities were clearly needed when he arrived at Stowe as headmaster in 1989. The family atmosphere cultivated by himself and his wife dealt with one aspect of school life, whilst his 1924 green racing Bentley, which he had had since an undergraduate, conveyed the other side of his personality. He certainly spent himself while at Stowe, perhaps illustrated by development of cardiac problems in his later years, culminating in a heart attack on the day the family were due to move out from the Headmaster’s House. They retired to Cornwall, where they immediately busied themselves in the local community. His wife, Annie, died of cancer in 2009, 81

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bringing on a ‘deep gloom’, relieved by meeting Katherine, whom he married in 2013. He had another heart attack in 2019, and died of heart failure on 8 August 2020.

PROFESSOR THOMAS GORDON NORTHCOTE (1955)

Thomas Northcote was born on 16 December 1928 in Mission City, British Columbia, Canada, and was educated at the University of British Columbia (BA and MA). After his BA in British Columbia, he worked on the BC lake survey, which confirmed his interest in fisheries and fresh water ecology. He completed his MA in 1952, and joined the research section of the BC Fish and Wildlife Branch, situated on the UBC campus. After meeting and marrying his wife, Heather, in the Zoology Department, he enrolled on the PhD programme, and in 1955 he took a year’s leave of absence on a UBC scholarship to attend Cambridge for a year’s study on fish behaviour with Sir James Gray. He came to Fitzwilliam for this time, and afterwards returned to complete his PhD in 1958 in the Fish and Wildlife Branch and the Zoology Department, where he was a faculty member, introducing a 4th year course in limnology (fresh water ecology), which he taught annually until retiring in 1992.

In the 1960s he developed an interest in inland waters, attending symposia in the Americas, Europe and Japan: in 1972 he ceased to be a director in the Fish and Wildlife Research division, and became a full-time faculty member at UBC, dividing his time between Zoology, the newly established Westwater Research Institute and the Faculty of Forestry. With various colleagues he completed a multi-disciplinary study of the Lower Fraser River Valley and estuary, noting the impact of human development on the Salmonid fishery. This led to another lifetime commitment – teaching a course on forestry/ fisheries interaction. After his retirement he and his wife moved to Summerland, BC, where he continued to study the ecology of several lakes in the Okanagan Valley, including Mahoney Lake, whose preservation as an ecological reserve he had secured in 1972. He published more research articles (more than 275 in all) and received many national and international awards, culminating in the Habitat Conservation Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lt Governor of BC in 2004. Tom died peacefully in the presence of his wife and three sons on 24 April 2017.

JOHN NOEL PILLING (1954)

Noel Pilling was born on 18 April 1936 in Reedley, Burnley, Lancashire, and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1954 to read Mechanical Sciences, but transferred to the Engineering Studies Course after his first year. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Boat Club and the Billygoats – he took part in the Over-60s row at the 2014 Reunion Weekend. He graduated in 1957. We have no information as to his subsequent career, but he married and had two daughters, the elder of whom was a student at Fitzwilliam, His wife died suddenly in 2015, and he moved to live with his younger daughter on the Isle of Skye, where he died on 3 May 2020.

PROFESSOR ALEXANDER POULOVASSILIS (1959)

Alexander Poulovassilis was born on 15 December 1928 in Tripolis, Greece, and was educated at the Agricultural University of Athens. Poulovassilis was a distinguished Soil Physicist who did his undergraduate degree at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA). He came to Fitzwilliam in 1959 to do research on soil physics in the Department of Agriculture under Dr Ernest Childs, His PhD research was on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics in porous media and he was awarded it in 1962. After five years in Greece as a research scientist and Lecturer at AUA, he returned to the Soil Physics Unit in 1967 to collaborate again with Dr Childs and other colleagues, gaining promotion to the grade of Principal Scientific Officer. He continued to research the statics and dynamics of water in porous media and his duties included the supervision of several PhD students of the University. During 1972-73 he also served as Advisor of the International Atomic Energy Agency at the Agricultural Research Institute of Cyprus.

In 1977 he was appointed Professor of Agricultural Hydraulics at the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), and during 1982-91 he served three successive terms as Principal of the AUA. In 1985 he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the International Center of Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA). He was a Fellow of the Agricultural Academy of Greece, and its President during 2010-12. He remained an active Emeritus Professor at the AUA into his 90s, continuing to conduct original research and to publish scientific articles. Professor Poulovassilis’ work is reported in over 80 articles many of which have been cited extensively by other researchers. He supervised 12 PhD theses and led 15 research projects funded by the EU and Greek government addressing agricultural and environmental issues, including in the municipality of Asini where he was made an Honorary Citizen in 2003 and which is his final resting place. He died on 28 January 2020 and is survived by his wife Spyridoula, and his children Alexandra and Apostolos.

GERARD BENJAMIN RAWLINGS (1960)

Ben Rawlings was born on 17 May 1940 in Tokyo, Japan, and was educated at Oundle School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1960 to read Mechanical Sciences. While in Cambridge he was a member of the Boat Club. Unfortunately he failed the Preliminary Examination at the end of his first year, and went down without a degree. Nevertheless he was able to develop a career as a computer programmer and management consultant. He died on 11 May 2020, leaving a wife and married daughter.

PROFESSOR BARRIE GORDON ROBERT REYNOLDS (1951)

Barrie Reynolds was born on 8 July 1932 in Lewisham, London, and was educated at Archbishop Tenison’s Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1951 to read Anthropology and Archaeology, graduating in 1954. Initially his professional career was in museums. Beginning with a post as Keeper of Ethnography at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia, he undertook an MSc at Cambridge while on leave, focusing on anthropology in Zambia, and gained the MSc in 1962. He returned to Zambia as Director of the Livingstone Museum, and did further work in order to gain a DPhil at Linacre College, Oxford (1967). He then spent a year in Canada with the Vancouver Museum as Chief Curator, followed by a year with the National Museums of Canada as Chief Ethnologist. In 1975 he moved to the James Cook University, Queensland, Australia as the Foundation Professor of Material Culture. He retired to the Blue Mountains, 100 km west of Sydney, in 1997 where he began to write up his backlog of research material, including a biography of an early anthropologist, Walter Edmund Roth. He died on 3 November 2019, leaving a wife and married daughter.

DR GEOFFREY ROBSON (1956)

Geoff Robson was born on 23 November 1932 in Gatesheadon-Tyne, and was educated at Gateshead Grammar School, Darlington Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth, and University College, Durham. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1956 as a member of Wesley House to read Theology, graduating in 1958 with first class honours. He went into the Newbury circuit on probation and was ordained in 1960. Whilst serving in West Hartlepool he was a member of the Education Committee (he had been an Education Officer in the RAF on National Service) and did some unpaid teaching in a primary school in Throckley, just outside Newcastle. He was asked to join the staff of a Teacher Training College for mature students and was given a full-time post in History and Religious Studies, resigning from the Methodist ministry in 1984. It was a lively and innovative college, which was closed to merge with the local Polytechnic. He and one or two colleagues resigned and went to Westhill College, Birmingham, where he also did a PhD with Professor Hugh McLeod (later published as Dark Satanic Mills? in 2002). At Westhill he became deputy director of a resource and in-service training centre for teachers covering much of the Midlands. In 1979 he was invited to join HM Inspectorate of Schools, in which he served with some splendid colleagues. When the Inspectorate was abolished in 1992, he was Staff Inspector for Religious Education and Ethnic Diversity. He secured an initial contract with the National Curriculum Council, and after that was also abolished he did various jobs including publishing books for school pupils based on ethnographic research into the upbringing of children in different faith communities. He then worked with the Education Team at Derby Cathedral, trying out bright ideas with school pupils. He was asked to be Exhibitions Officer and ran a small art gallery in the basement of the Cathedral Centre, and remained on the team into his 80s. He had a heart operation in 2016, and died on 29 March 2020.

DR LILI SARNYAI (2007)

Lili Sarnyai was born on 16 December 1989 in Hungary, and was educated at Bootham School, York, the United Nations International School, New York, and the Perse School, Cambridge. She came to Fitzwilliam in 2007 to read English. Unfortunately her first year in college was dogged by illness, but she recovered in time for the second year, and gained a First in her third year. She obtained an MPhil at King’s College in 2012. Undaunted, she set about finding a place where she could do a PhD, and eventually secured both a place and the degree through Birkbeck College, London on 31 October 2016.

Lili loved the Alps, and she became a trail runner in her spare time. On 10 August 2020 she fell from a high cliff in the Alps to her death. Her parents, Monika and Zoltan, were understandably distraught, and set up a Facebook page (address obtainable from the College Development Office) to pay for the costs of her funeral and to establish a foundation in her memory.

DR JOHN RAYMOND SHAW (1964)

Ray Shaw was born in Chester on 15 April 1942, and was educated at the Helsby County Grammar School for boys and University College of Swansea. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1964 to read for the Diploma in Agricultural 83

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Economics, which he obtained in 1965. He stayed on to do research, for which he was awarded an MSc in 1969. During his time at Fitzwilliam he played regularly for the college soccer team. He took a post in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nottingham, but most of the rest of his career was spent travelling and working abroad, making it difficult to stay in touch. After retirement in 2007 contact was resumed. He died in September 2019.

KEITH JOHN PENISTONE SLATER (1964)

Keith Slater was born on 4 December 1944 in Leeds, and was educated at Roundhay School, Leeds, and Hymers College, Hull. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1964 to read Mathematics, but changed to Economics after Part I. He was a regular player for the College at Rugby in his first year, and gained a Blue for Rugby League in 1964. After graduating in 1967 he became a Management Trainee with Yorkshire Imperial Metals, where he worked until 1974, moving subsequently to Burton Group until 1986. He went to Lonrho Textiles in 1988, before becoming Director and owner of Caprese Ltd (19992020), and a non-executive director of Ngage Business Solutions (200007), the Thames Valley Chamber (2000-03) and Oxfordshire Economic Partnerships (2006-07). He never really retired, but set up an annual gift to cover the cost of the Sports Personality of the Year award, and also presented a new cup for the best Fitz sports team of the year in 2016. He died on 30 July 2020, leaving a wife, two sons and four grandchildren.

JOHN CHARLES SMALL (1969)

John Small was born on 25 September 1949 in Nairobi, Kenya, and was educated as a boarder at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1969 to read Geography, graduating in 1972. He joined Ford as a trainee in their financial analysis section, and qualified as a Management Accountant. In 1977 he went to Papua New Guinea on a Commonwealth Development Corporation oil-palm project before returning to the UK for the birth of his first son. In 1982 he joined another CDC project, a sugar company in Western Kenya, and then relocated to Nairobi because of lack of suitable schooling. He worked for an international company for fifteen years, the last seven of which were as CEO. This led him to the local board of the Eastern Africa Association, established in 1964 to represent the interests of foreign investors in the region. Returning to the UK in 1999 he was offered the position of CEO of the EAA, which he occupied for 20 years. He made it into an effective bridge between investors, local officials, UK diplomatic missions and international bodies such as the World Bank and the IMF. Effectively he filled the gap left by the cuts in government funding for export promotion trips: he gathered groups of British businesspeople on tours inland, with gruelling itineraries, always conducted with unfailing courtesy, attention to logistics and an evident love and respect for the people of Africa, whether government ministers or waiters and doormen. His last investment mission in February 2020 was to Djibouti on the Red Sea, a gateway port for Ethiopia and other landlocked territories. He always believed that private sector investment, rather than Aid, was the most sustainable route out of poverty for African countries. He was a Brexit campaigner, a low handicap golfer and former captain of the Karen Country Club in Nairobi, and Secretary of the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Kenya. He died on 14 July 2020, leaving a wife and three sons.

ALAN MARVYN STARLING (1955)

Alan Starling was born on 3 July 1936 in Cromer, and was educated at the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1955 to read Natural Sciences, graduating in 1958. As an undergraduate he played badminton for Fitzwilliam, but was taken ill with rheumatic fever at the end of his second year. He recovered to take a PGCE in 1960, and spent the remainder of his career in teaching, eventually becoming Deputy Head of Seaford Head School in East Sussex. He retired to the Cambridge area and died on 25 April 2020, leaving a wife and one married son.

JOHN STIRLING (1952)

John Stirling was born on 4 February 1934 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and was educated at Scarborough Boys’ High School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1952 to read Natural Sciences. At Fitzwilliam John played hockey and rugby and was a member of MethSoc, where he conducted the choir. He graduated in 1955, and taught science at Shuttleworth Agricultural College for a short while, before returning to Yorkshire and teaching at Northallerton Grammar School. He was appointed Head of Mathematics at Yorebridge Grammar School, Askrigg and later at The Wensleydale School, Leyburn. He settled in the Yorkshire Dales with his wife and family and took early retirement from teaching in 1987 to start a small woodturning business. He enjoyed a long and active retirement, continuing his involvement in village life and pursuing his many interests and hobbies. He died on 1 June 2020, leaving a wife and three married children, with grandchildren and

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JOHN WILLIAM SYMONDS (1951)

John Symonds was born on 15 August 1930 in Over, Cambridgeshire and was educated at Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1951 to read History, graduating in 1954. After securing a PGCE he went into teaching initially in Haywards Heath, and then for eight years in Malaya and Ghana. In 1965 he became a Lecturer in War Studies at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and six years later was appointed Head of History at Churchers College, Petersfield, where he remained until retiring in 1991. He remained active in the Historical Association, the Western Front Society (Portsmouth branch) and the Winchester Militaria Society. He also wrote an autobiography and an unpublished account of the Fitzwilliam war dead in the First and Second World Wars as well as other local histories. He died on 16 February 2020, leaving a wife and two married children.

MICHAEL DAVID THOMAS (1971)

Mike Thomas was born on 20 March 1953 at Point-a-Pierre, Trinidad, where his father was an oilfield engineer, and after the family moved to Wales he was educated at Pembroke Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1971 to read Natural Sciences, graduating in 1974 in geology. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Boat Club.

He then worked in petroleum exploration and development until he retired. Initially he worked for Texaco in Tulsa and Houston, USA. Returning to London in 1976, he went on North Sea exploration rigs. On leaving Texaco in 1977, and following a year with AGIP UK, he joined Clyde Petroleum, moving to Ledbury, Herefordshire in 1978 – the home base for his subsequent career. Working initially as an exploration/development geologist, he became Chief Geologist, introducing up-to-date computer technology. Five years in the Netherlands followed where he worked in development geology, and later as an Asset Manager in joint ventures. During this period he obtained a Certificate in Management with the UK Open University. When Clyde Petroleum was taken over by Gulf Petroleum he returned to the UK as Business Co-ordinator, and was involved in successful exploration in Yemen.

Following the sale of Clyde Petroleum’s UK assets in 1998, he briefly consulted, and then joined Paladin Resources in London as Asset Manager for Romania and Tanzania. He was also involved in UK exploration and was Technical Manager for Paladin’s takeover of BP’s Montrose and Arbroath Fields in 2002. After Paladin’s takeover by Talisman in late 2005 he worked for Dominion Petroleum as Chief Operating Officer, mainly in London. He managed exploration programmes in Tanzania and Uganda, including drilling the first exploration well in the Lake Edward basin of Uganda. In early 2011 he joined Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd in London as operations manager for their Falklands exploration programme, drilling the first two wells in the East Falklands basin in 2012. Falklands’ exploration expanded with the acquisition of Desire Petroleum’s North Falklands’ interests. He left to consult parttime for Wyvern Energy Ltd until late 2017. He fully retired in March 2018 following a diagnosis of motor neurone disease.

Mike was a Fellow of the Geological Society and a Chartered Geologist. Whilst on the Petroleum Group Committee he was a co-editor for the UK Oil and Gas Fields 25 Years Commemorative Volume, and convened a follow-up conference. He co-authored a number of papers on exploration in Tanzania and Uganda while with Dominion Petroleum. He was chairman of Ledbury Round Table in 1991-92.

He married Margaret in 1975, and they had two married children. His interests included Roman archaeology, travel, hill-walking, kayaking and rowing. Following the 2011 College Reunion he became interested in Reunion rowing, and was co-organiser with Brian Smith for 2016 to 2018. He died on 17 August 2020 of motor neurone disease.

DAVID PETER WALKER (1970)

David Walker was born on 3 August 1952 at Weedon, Aylesbury, and was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1970 to read Economics and Political Science, graduating in 1973. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Marshall Society and the Political Economy Club. Subsequently he did a PhD in Management at Bradford University, and ended his career as Managing Director of the Credit Suisse group in London. He died on 5 August 2020.

KENNETH JOHN WALKER (1950)

Ken Walker was born on 14 April 1930 in Guildford, Surrey, and was educated at Erith County Grammar School, Bexley. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1950 to read Geography, graduating in 1953. While at Fitzwilliam he was a member of the Bridge club and also the Rugby club. He became an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, and spent most of his career in Belgium, where in 1976 he became Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne. He was a part-time Company Director/ 85