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Cambridge, 1 Nat Sci pt 1 1944, pt 2 Physiol 1945. MA, MB BChir 1948. Burney Yeo Scolarship, King’ s College Hospital 1945-48. Surgeon Lieutenant RNVR 1950-51. Medical Officer, Arctic Survival Experiments, HMS Truelove 1950. Medical Research Council, Department Expedition Medicine, Cambridge 1952-57. PhD. Lecturer, Sheffield University 1957-62 and Senior Lecturer Physiology, Aberdeen University 1962-67. Professor of Physiology, Leeds University 1967-89. Civilian Consultant in Physiology, RN Medical Service from 1970. Emeritus Professor Physiology Leeds University and Hon Research Fellow since 1989. He had a great love of walking and with the Leeds University Walking Club he walked Coast to Coast, the Offa’ s Dyke and the Pennine Way. He followed the opera with the U3A Opera Group, hosting his last opera on 7th January 2016. Married( 1) Elizabeth Bennett( died 1985) and( 2) 1989 Morag Macdonald( died 2015). He is survived by his two sons and two daughters.
Michael James Ryall( I, 39-44): died 2.9.2015. Soccer XI. Commissioned Somerset Light Infantry 1945, with whom he served in India, Singapore, BAOR, Cyprus and Gibraltar. He acted as ADC to GOC South West District 1950 and was on the staff of GHQ FARELF 1957. Retired Major 1968. He then worked for the Financial Information Management Systems for the NHS until he retired in 1986. He retired to West Bagborough where he was a member of the PCC and the Village Hall Committee, for which he was instrumental in organising The Highland Fling to raise money for the Village Hall. Married 1950 Ursula Mallalieu( died 2012). He is survived by one son and one daughter.
Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke( Coll, 40-45): died 27.12.2015. Father of FCB( F, 66-70), PDBB( F, 69-73) and PLHB( Coll, 72-76). French and German Speeches, Ross Homer Prize, Editor The Wykehamist and Bib Prae. Scholarship, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1948, History 1948, MA 1952. National Service, R Hampshire Regiment and later
RAEC as a Captain. He returned to Caius as a Fellow 1949-56 and then from 1977- 94. Professor of Medieval History, University of Liverpool 1956-67, where he was so young that he was mistaken by the head porter for an undergraduate. Professor of History, Westfield College, London. Dixie Professor, Ecclesiastical History, Cambridge University 1977-94. FBA 1970, FRHistS, LittD 1973. Hon D University of York 1984. President, Society of Antiquaries 1981-84. Appointed CBE 1995. Received Ad Portas in 2011 along with Fellows of the British Academy and Royal Society. Among his publications: From Alfred to Henry III, which examined England before and after 1066; London 800-1216 – the shaping of a city and the medieval idea of marriage. He loved to read Beatrix Potter and Winnie the Pooh to his grandchildren. He enjoyed Jane Austen, Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie and he was once caught sneakily reading one of the latter’ s novels tucked inside an academic paper. At his funeral at Caius his coffin made the journey to Chapel via the Great Gate and was carried on its final journey through the Gate of Honour. Endearingly modest, he said that‘ Historians need to be humble … or they’ ll get too big for their boots, because the world in a sense is at our feet.’ Married 1951 Rosalind Porter, who died after 62 years of marriage. He is survived by two sons. Obituaries The Times and The Daily Telegraph.
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon( E, 1940-45): died 9.10.2015. Brother of CTH( F, 42-47). Exhibitioner, Co Prae. Founder of Film Society at a time when there was only a silent projector, he much enjoyed selecting suitable musical accompaniment for the films. He ran the House National Savings campaign. Commissioned Royal Signals 1945, with whom he served in East Africa, during which time he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Scholarship, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1948, 2( 1) Law 1950, LLB 1951, MA 1956. Whilst at Cambridge he was both Chairman of CU Law Society and CU Conservative Association. He was co-founder of the Bow Group, becoming Chairman in 1955. Called to the Bar, Middle Temple 1952, QC 1965. Having contested Aberavon in 1955 and 1959 he became MP for Bebington 1964, which he lost in 1966. Whilst out of the Commons he became Deputy Chairman, Glamorgan Quarter Sessions 1966-70. During this time he was chairman of the inquiry into allegations of cruelty by staff to patients at Ely Hospital. He successfully insisted that his damning report be published in full. He was appointed Solicitor General in 1970- 72; Knighted 1972; Minister of State for Trade and Consumer Affairs 1972-74; PC 1972; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1979- 83. His first Budget in 1979 was over-ambitious but his Budget in 1981, in the heat of world recession, was crucial and proved to be the turning point in the Government’ s fortunes. He became Foreign Secretary 1983-89, the longest serving since Sir Edward Grey( C, 1876-83). Among his achievements was the agreement with China over the future of Hong Kong. Tension with Mrs Thatcher grew and in 1989 he was moved to become Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister. He will be remembered for his resignation speech, which brought about Mrs Thatcher’ s downfall, but without him Mrs Thatcher might never have achieved many of her aims. He was received Ad Portas 1990, appointed a Life Peer 1992 and CH in 1996. Publication: Conflict of Loyalty 1994. He became interested in democracy, aged 14, when his div don,‘ the Bin’, encouraged the boys to decide matters of significance regarding the work of the div. He credited his ability to work long hours with little sleep to training acquired at Winchester, where he was on Fire Watch for two hours a night. A don accompanying a group of boys to a dinner in Parliament, when Sir Geoffrey treated the group to the most penetrating analysis of constitutional issues, reported that the young Wykehamists adored him. Survived by Elspeth, his wife of 62 years, and their two daughters and one son. Obituaries in The Times and The Daily Telegraph.
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