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Stonehouse in 2001, who survives him together with 4 sons from the first marriage. Obituary in the Telegraph.
Commander John Lawrence Galpin( E, 42-46); died 20.10.2025. RN 1946-8; RNVR 1949-58, RNR from 1958, Sub-Lt 1950, Lt 1953, Lt- Cdr 1960, Cdr 1968. Commanding officer HMS Calliope- Tyne Div RNR 1986-90; Establishment Development Officer RN 1988. VRD 1963, 1st clasp 1973, 2nd clasp 1983. Shipping clerk 1948-50, assistant stores and personnel superintendent 1951-67; Senior Administrative officer to Area Administrator, National Health Service 1967-82; FCIS; Administration Secretary Newcastle-upon-Tyne Law Society 1985-8. Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators 1989. President, South Northumberland Pony Club. He loved upholstering and china restoration. He married Anne Ridley in 1958, who died in 2009, and is survived by their 2 sons.
Charles Francis Foster( C, 45-50); died 27.5.2025. Father of RRF. V Herbert Smith Prize; Lords XI 1950, VIII( cox) 1946. Exhibitioner New College Oxford 1952, 2 PPE 1954; 2 Lt R Sussex Regt 1951. J Henry Schroder 1954; Foundation Company of Canada 1955; Richard Costain Ltd 1957; Managing Director Anderson Manson Ltd 1958; Charter Consolidated Ltd 1965; Managing Director Kinaut Instruments Ltd 1970-87. Historian; FRHS; author of Building with Men 1969; Four Cheshire Townships 1992; Cheshire Cheese & Farming 1998; Seven Households 2002; Capital and Innovation 2004. He married Hon Jane Flower in 1967, who survives him together with 2 daughters and a son.
James Neil Crichton-Miller( H, 46-51); died 15.5.2025. English Speaking Prize 1951. Royal Scots 1951-3, 2 Lt; TA, Capt. Pembroke College Cambridge, 2( ii) Law Pt 1, 1 Pt 2, President of Cambridge Union 1955. Foundation Scholar 1956. Harmsworth Scholar
Middle Temple 1957; barrister-at-law 1957. Mobil Oil Company 1958; Manbré & Garton 1960; BBC( Sound) Talks Producer 1962; director of Graduate Appointments Register 1966; Haymarket Publishing Group 1971, director; James Morrell & Associates 1972; Investors in Industry 1974-86. He married Lucia van der Post in 1958, who survives him together with their daughter and son.
Michael Woods Haslett( Coll, 46-51); died 20.5.2025. Scholar King’ s College Cambridge 1951, Medicine, 2( i) Nat Sci pt 1 1954. Middlesex Hospital Medical School 1954-7, MB, BCh( Cantab) 1957; DObst RCOG 1958. House physician and obstetric house surgeon; obstetrics & gynaecology house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary; GP at Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire 1960-94. He loved hill walking in the Lake District and in the Alps and the Dolomites. He enjoyed playing bridge and was a member of the Arthur Ransome and John Buchan Societies. He married( 1) Isobel Sargeant in 1959, who died in 2007, and( 2) Sonia Whitaker in 2012, who survives him together with his son and daughter from the first marriage; another son predeceased.
Frederic Antony Mallett( D, 47-50); died 14.8.2025. Brother of CMM, father of FDCM. RAF College Cranwell 1951-4, S / Ldr 1964, W / Cdr 1970; night fighters, flying instructor and examiner, UK and Germany; Canadian Armed Forces Staff College Toronto 1966-7; commanding Tactical Transport Squadron at Thorney Island, Hants; MoD London 1967-70; retired 1976. Dan-Air BAC 1-11 Captain at Gatwick 1976-92. He married Fiona Crane in 1959.
Sir John Christopher Sainty( B, 48-53); died 8.6.2025. Co Prae. New College Oxford, 2 Hist 1956, MA 1960. Clerk, House of Lords 1959; private secretary to successive Leaders of House of Lords 1963-5; Clerk of the Journals
1965; Research Assistant and Editor, Institute of Historical Research 1970; Reading Clerk, 1974; Clerk of the Parliaments 1983-90. He successfully introduced a number of reforms to Parliamentary procedures. FRHS 1971; FSA 1975. KCB 1986. He served as member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts 1997-8 and a senior research fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. He was one of the most productive scholars of the British government: author of Treasury Officials 1660-1870 1972, Officials of the Secretaries of State 1660-1782 1973, Officials of the Boards of Trade 1660- 1870 1974, Admiralty Officials 1660- 1870 1975, Home Office Officials 1782- 1870 1975, Colonial Office Officials 1794-1870 1976, Divisions in the House of Lords: an analytical list, 1685- 1857 1976, Officers of the Exchequer 1983, A List of English Law Officers, King’ s Counsel and Holders of Patents of Precedence 1987, The Judges of England 1272-1990 1993, Officials of the Royal Household 1660-1837, 2 vols, 1997-8. He married Frances Sherlock in 1965, who survives him together with their 3 sons. Obituary in The Times.
Donald Bailey Hamilton-Smith( B, 50-56); died 8.8.2024. Son of NLH-S. Running team 1954-6( capt), Sen Steeplecha 1953. RA 1956-8, L / Bdr. Lincoln College Oxford 1958-61, 3 Jur, MA 1967. Assistant to Registrar, Jackson Taylor Abernethy & Co( chartered accountants), London 1962. Staff course for Assistant Governors of Prisons, Wakefield, and Housemaster, Wetherby Borstal 1964; Secretary, The New Bridge( Prisoners’ Aid Society London) 1966. Office supervisor, Public Affairs Department, AA, London 1969. Certificate of Qualification in Social Work 1977-9. Probation officer, retired 1995. Emigrated to Australia in 1992, where he continued his love of ballroom dancing and stamp collecting. He married( 1) Sarah Leinster in 1965, who died in 1985, and( 2) Pauline Stockton, who died in 2008, and is survived
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