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which he proudly displayed at rallies, with their leather polished, their chrome gleaming and their engines purring. He loved sailing and in Melbourne he built a Minnow (No 86) and then a Sabre (No 360), which all the family learned to sail in. He sailed whenever he could. When he was younger he raced in the Solent, the Bay of Biscay and off Milford Haven. He was a member of the South of Perth Yacht Club, where he kept his yacht, and more recently also a member at Fremantle. He sailed well into his seventies, sailing as a foredeck hand out of Freshwater Bay every Saturday. He had a great love of Poetry, especially ballads, such as that of Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Noyes and Adam Lindsay Gordon. One of his great personal strengths was he was always more interested in listening to you, than having you listen to him. He also always believed that service to others was a guarantee of happiness, and that is why he was always so happy. He had standards that he lived by, but he didn’t expect the same standards in others; in fact he never judged others, and that kindness made him many good friends. Frederick is survived by Ruth, his wife of 56 years, their sons Stephen, Philip, William and daughter Annie. Oliver Piercy Snow (L & BH, 1944) Oliver Snow died on the 14th November 2014, aged 89. On leaving College he went up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, to read Law. After graduating, he qualified as a solicitor and practiced in a firm in Hereford for over thirty years, ending up as a Senior Partner. He was renowned for his integrity, discretion and meticulous attention to detail. He was dedicated to his family. An only child, he was devoted to his mother and father; he was lucky enough to have many cousins. He cherished them as if they were his brothers and sisters. Oliver always looked on his godchildren very fondly, having had eight in total, which shows how trusted he was. He also cared enormously for the Hereford community: he chaired the committee for the Hereford Society for Aiding the Industrious and was a long term member of the Cathedral congregation. A keen gardener, the family never went short of fruit or vegetables and his flower garden was his pride and joy. He loved colour: Sweet Peas, Winter Pansies, and Michaelmas Daisies. He loved the natural world, especially the Black Mountains which exhilarated him, especially when haring around the single track roads in his Alfa Romeo. This took him back to his motorbike days as a youth or skiing down the slopes, where of course Mr & Mrs Snow met! He also was a great tennis fan and enjoyed playing the game. He became the President and then Honorary VicePresident of the Hereford Lawn Tennis Association. Probably his most impressive quality was his remarkable resilience - a resilience he learnt from his youth. When he was 18, he suffered a ruptured mastoid in his ear; and because this was before penicillin, he spent a whole year in bed. As a result, he had hearing problems throughout his life, becoming almost totally deaf. On top of that, he had serious operations, four new knees, one new tongue....you name it, and nothing could defeat him. He battled through, with little complaint, often seeing the absurdity in the situation. Oliver was predeceased by his wife Cor and is survived by his sons Julian, Charlie and daughter Clara.
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Dr Nicholas Charles Theodore Tapp MA, PhD FRAI FRAS (Ch, 1969) Nicholas (Nick) Tapp, son of John William Theodore Tapp (Ch, 1942) died in Shanghai on the 10th October 2015, aged 62. He won a place at Gonville and Cais College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature. After graduating, he went to Thailand with the UK’s Voluntary Service Overseas and was fascinated by a Hmong (an ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand) village he visited in 1976. He then studied at the School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London where he obtained a Master’s in South East Asian Studies in 1979, followed by a PhD in Social Anthropology in 1985. Nick developed his interest in the Hmong in the course of his graduate studies at SOAS, during which time he elected to conduct his doctoral field research in a Hmong village just northwest of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. For over three decades, Nick has been the face of Hmong studies, a prolific intellectual standing at the forefront of the field. This is recognised by most scholars and graduate students alike, and also amongst the Hmong of the diaspora (a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale) and the growing number of Asian Hmong accessing higher education in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and indeed in the global West. Nick was Lecturer in Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1985-1992), Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (1992-2000), Senior Fellow in Anthropology at the Australian National University (2000-2010) and joined the East China Normal University in 2010, acting as Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department. A serious scholar and a devoted teacher, his arrival was instrumental in the founding of the University’s Research Institute of Anthropology of which he became Director. Nick had a special love for China, not only because of his academic interests and scholarly pursuits, but also because he had married a Chinese woman whom he met in Kunming. Nick was also known by his Chinese name Wang Fuwen. He is survived by his wife and their two children. Richard Michael Norwood Trye (Ch, 1957) Richard Trye, brother of Christopher Trye (Ch, 1960), died on the 5th June 2015, aged 75. Michael Arthur Howard Walford MA, FI Mech E, FI Marine E (H, 1942) Michael Walford, son of H.H. Walford (Corinth, 1900), father of Julian Walford (H, 1974), and brother of J.H. Walford (H, 1944) died on the 1st July 2015, aged 90. Reverend Piers Eliot de Hutton Warburton (JS & H, 1948) Piers Warburton, son of Capt. Eliot Warburton MC & Bar (OJ & H, 1909), brother of John Richard Eliot Warburton (OJ & H, 1952) and uncle of Kate Warburton (Cha, 1994) died on the 1st July 2015, aged 84. He gained his boxing colours, boxing in the College team and won the light heavy weight event in the Inter-House Boxing Competition in 1947. He was also captain of swimming and was a very active member of the debating society and was appointed secretary in his last year. At a meeting in 1948 it is reported in the Cheltonian that: “P. Warburton proposed the motion that: ‘This House deplores Professionalism in Sport.’ He protested about profit in Sport, and deplored the inevitable presence of gambling. J.H. Walford (H, 1944) thought amateurs as good as professionals.”