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The Trusty Servant
Health Act . He was Director and actor in the Detling Players and he was an active participant in the Detling Singers . That Detling was known to punch above its weight was in large part due to him . In all that he did he was led by the axiom to try to leave the world a slightly better place than you found it . Married 1967 Susan Brown , who survives him with their son and daughter .
Peter Gordon Davey ( A , 48-53 ): died 5.9.2016 . Exhibitioner , Senior Science Prize . National Service , Royal Signals , Best Cadet Catterick School of Signals 1954 . Scholarship , Caius College , Cambridge , 1 Mechanical Science 1958 , MA 1962 . He led the group which put a van on the Senate House roof . He first went to Berkeley , California as guest researcher at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory , which was up a steep hill , so he developed California ’ s first electric bicycle , Pegasus . He then moved to University of Heidelberg as the first Gastarbeiter at Heinz Filthuth ’ s Institute . In 1967 he moved to Oxford University , where he took on the challenge of robotics . He founded and was Director of Electro – Pneumatic Equipment in 1968 . He developed the MetaTorch , a laser-camera-controlled arc-welding system , which won the BTG Academic Enterprise Award in 1985 . It is in production worldwide . He spent five years as co-ordinator of SERC ’ s Industrial Robotics Initiative , planning , implementing and directing a UK-wide robotics-research programme . He was appointed CBE in 1986 for this work . He co-founded Meat Machines and Oxford Intelligent Machines , enabling the UK to sell robots to Japan . In retirement , he was active in the National Coastwatch Institution and a key figure in the Mousehole Harbour Lights , overseeing the change of all the lights to low-energy LEDs . He is survived by Jane , his wife of 55 years , and their two sons and two daughters .
Richard Arthur Moss ( Coll , 48-53 ): died 26.12.2016 . After some home schooling he won a scholarship to Winchester . Ross Homer Prize and Junior Senior Kenneth Freeman Prizes . Exhibitioner , New College , Oxford 2 Lit Hum and 3 Honours Law Finals . After private practice as a solicitor he became a partner with Oppenheimer , Nathan & Vandyk 1971-75 . He later set up his own firm , Dooley Moss , specialising in company and commercial law . After retirement , he became a quiet philanthropist , befriending Age UK , regular at National Trust ’ s Sutton Manor House and Trustee for Alms Houses in Southwark . He spent time reading with disadvantaged children at Hungerford School , King ’ s Cross . When his health deteriorated , he worried less about his own condition than that the inevitable increasing expenditure would affect his legacy to the School . Married 1974 Patsy O ’ Mullane who died in 1986 .
John Cameron Deas ( Coll , 50-55 ): died 30.12.2016 . Member of winning Richardson Pot – House Gymna . National Service as a signals officer with the RAF . Scholarship , Trinity College , Cambridge , 2 Maths , BA 1960 . Whilst at Cambridge he was a member of the Cambridge Gliding Club – he built his own glider . He then embarked on a long career in computer systems , first with Ferranti , which successively became ICT , ICL and finally Fujitsu . During his time with ICL he spent five years in Australia and New Zealand . In the latter he won the prize for the ‘ Most Honest Golfer in New Zealand ’. In retirement , his main interest was in Wikipedia . As an administrator , he devoted energy to developing and enforcing the standards of verifiability required . Of the millions of contributors , he was the 264 th most active Wikipedian . He was made a life member of the Chartered Institute of IT . He was at the forefront of early British computing . He is survived by Elizabeth , his wife of 53 years , and their two sons .
Anthony Shayle Owen Houchen ( H , 51-55 ): died 11.8.2016 . Bisley 1954-55 . National Service , Royal Fusiliers 1955- 57 . He represented the Royal Fusiliers at Bisley in 1957 . Magdalene College , Cambridge , 2 ( 1 ) History BA 1960 . Cambridge University Rifle Shooting Team and was elected to the Hawks Club . He first worked with the Bank of England 1960-64 . He then joined Moneytype Corporation and began a long career in printing machinery . He worked in India , where he set up printing factories and modernising printing operations . He became Service Director on the main board . When Moneytype closed in 1981 he moved to McCorquodale PLC , a company specialising in security printing . He particularly enjoyed three business trips to the USA on Concorde . In 1987 , he joined Oxydry ( UK ), which was an American company in the Printing Machinery Industry . In 1996 he set up his own business focusing on international markets for printing machinery . He was also a very skilled photographer – he had taken a cine film of the Queen in her carriage in the Mall during the Coronation when he was still at school . In 2001 , he was diagnosed with Pick ’ s disease , a progressive form of dementia . Married 1976 Andra Morris , who survives him with their two daughters .
Nigel Warrack ( H , 51-56 ): died 17.11.2016 . Son of GDHW ( B , 13- 18 ), brother of AGW ( H , 58-63 ) and half-brother of JHW ( H , 41-46 ). Athlā Colours , winning both the high jump and the hurdles , pipping Peter Jay ( C , 50-55 ) at the post . National Service , 3 rd Hussars 1957-59 , serving in BAOR . He worked as a documentary director for various television companies including ITN , ATV , Central Television and the BBC . He directed numerous documentaries , notably The Malvern Enigma ( about Elgar ), and Where are the Lads from the Village Tonight ? about the World War
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