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served in BAOR 1950. New College,
Oxford 1951, Jur BA 1954, MA 1958.
He was a member of London Stock
Exchange 1958-6; qualified as a solicitor
of the Supreme Court (admitted 1968;
a partner of Fox & Gibbon, London;
and then later as a legal consultant in
Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Rome
and Frankfurt. From 1975, he was with
Hatim S. Zu’bi & Partners, Attorneys
and Legal Consultants in Bahrain;
he was a member of the Bar at Her
Majesty’s Court for the Persian Gulf;
and was legal adviser to successive
British Ambassadors to Bahrain. He
was a freeman of the Haberdasher’s
Company and an Officier, Chaîne
des Rotisseurs. He was a lovely gentle
and amusing man with an individual
view of life. Married (1) 1956 Diana
Bowring (marriage dissolved) and (2)
Pramuan Phosaengda, who survives
him with his three daughters of his
first marriage.
Michael John Turner (E, 45-49): died
7.10.2018. Brother of CGT (Coll,
43-48). Member of Chapel Choir.
National Service, 7 th Hussars, with
whom he served in BAOR. His
interest in the Law was kindled when
he was prevailed upon to speak up
for the Officers’ Mess Sergeant in a
court martial, securing an unlikely
acquittal.
Magdalene
College,
Cambridge, Economics Part 1 and
Law Part 2. He was called to the Bar
(Inner Temple) in 1954; QC in 1973
and Head of Chambers 1981-85. He
became a Judge of the High Court
(Queen’s Bench Division) 1985-2002
and was knighted in 1985. He was
Co-Chairman of the Judicial Studies
Board 1988-93, during which time he
drove through the publication of the
Guidelines for the Assessment of General
Damages in Personal Injury Cases in
1992; now in its 14 th edition it replaced
a textbook of some 5,000 pages with
a slim volume of fewer than 100. He
was best known for his ruling for the
miners in the Coal Respiratory Disease
Litigation 1998 and also presided
over the manslaughter trial which
The Trusty Servant
followed the Herald of Free Enterprise
ferry disaster at Zeebrugge, in which
his ruling laid the groundwork for
the Corporate Manslaughter and
Corporate Homicide Act 2007. He
acted as an occasional judge in the
Supreme Court of Gibraltar 2007-11.
He had a brusque manner but his
brother recalled that ‘He had a hard
shell but a soft centre.’ Away from the
law, his love was country pursuits. He
was a dedicated point-to-point rider
and rode his last race in 1987 aged 55.
Converting to eventing, he bought
Chaka in 1986 which had victories
at Burghley 1994 and at Gatcombe
British Open Championships 1995.
At the age of 63 he took up skiing in
order to accompany his third wife to
the Alps – he skied until the age of
82. Married (1) 1956 Susan Money-
Coutts (marriage dissolved), (2) 1965
Deborah Croom-Johnson (marriage
dissolved) and (3) 1995 Ingrid Ortner,
who survives him with his three sons
and a daughter.
Douglas Stuart Latta (H, 46-51) died
23.7.2018. Brother of JPL (H, 52-
57) and father of WTL (H, 80-84).
National Service in Kenya with King’s
African Rifles. Magdalene College,
Cambridge, 3 Mechanical Sciences,
MA CEng. He started his career as
a chartered mechanical engineer
with Weir Group in Scotland and
France, and with Brown Boveri in
Switzerland. He founded Scotboard,
the UK’s first chipboard plant, and he
later took that expertise to Canada,
where he was Managing Director
of Airscrew-Weyroc Canada. His
multi-country industrial experience
included corporate turn-around roles
and export directorships with periods
as independent consultant to the oil
and gas industry, biotech and food
industries. He retired to Chilham,
where he was a long-standing
PCC member at Crundale and
Godmersham. He had a lifelong love
of gardening and enjoyed home design,
and both were in evidence at their
converted Normandy barn house near
28
Honfleur, which was a sanctuary and
source of great pleasure. He is survived
by Monika, his wife of 56 years, and
their two sons and a daughter.
Charles Anthony Rutter (K, 47-48):
died 2.5.2017. He remembered well
when aged five he was invited up on
the footplate of a steam engine and was
allowed to shovel coal into the fire. He
came to Winchester for just one year
but unfortunately did not get on with
his Housemaster, who told him to lock
away his tenor horn. He completed
his education at Monkton Coombe
where he played that tenor horn in the
school orchestra. He became president
of the school magic club and later
became a member of the Magic Circle.
He rowed for the 1 st VIII at Henley
and was Victor Ludorum. He gained
a place at Trinity College, Cambridge,
2 Economics part 1 and 2 Jur part 2.
He first worked for John Lewis but
then became an Inspector of Stamps
and Taxes at the Inland Revenue
where he remained until retirement.
In retirement, he was treasurer of St
Wulfram’s in Grantham. He became
a wine maker, making oak-leaf and
blackberry wine. He was a marriage
guidance councillor for over 20 years.
He is survived by Joyce, his wife of 60
years, and their son and daughter.
Paul de Neufville Lucas (Coll, 47-52):
died 28.11.2018. Son of EdeGL (G,
1891-95) and brother of JRL (Coll, 42-
47). He was always proud of the fact
that his father founded the School
Mission. Fell Exhibitioner Christ
Church, Oxford 1952-55, 3 History. He
first worked as a teacher at Peterhouse
School in Southern Rhodesia 1955-
57 and then went to Cuddesdon
College 1957-59. Holy Orders 1959.
He was first Curate, St Stephen with
St John, Westminster 1959-63, then
Chaplain, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1963-69. During his time there he
presided at the wedding of Stephen
and Jane Hawking and made a point
of spending a day a week roaming the
Cambridgeshire countryside. He was