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A friend of King’s Fellow of King’s College. Lord Wolfson, who died on 20 May aged 82, was chairman of both Great Universal Stores and the Wolfson Foundation, one of Britain’s biggest charitable trusts, which has contributed generously to King’s and its constituent institutions over the past half-century. Born in 1927 and educated at King’s School, Worcester, Leonard Wolfson was a founder trustee, along with his parents, of the Wolfson Foundation in 1955. Focused on the advancement of health, education, science, the arts and humanities, the trust has given away more than £1 billion (at current values) to date, and its current funds stand at £750 million. King’s own relationship with Lord Wolfson began when the
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Francis Hanrott CBE English, 1947 Derek Fletcher
Foundation kindly supported the building of the Institute of Psychiatry, the centre of psychiatry in the UK. Under Lord Wolfson’s guidance, the Foundation’s remarkable philanthropic generosity has enabled a number of recent research and capital projects at King’s, including the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care and the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute. Described as ‘fundamentally shy’ by the Daily Telegraph, Lord Wolfson’s ‘public style was low-key and punctilious, in contrast to that of his Glaswegian father, Sir Isaac Wolfson, who was one of the most rumbustious, charismatic and hard-driving entrepreneurs of the postwar era.’ It was Isaac, the son of a
Russian-Jewish immigrant, who built GUS into a potent retail empire. Leonard joined him in the business, ultimately becoming managing director in 1982, and joint chairman with his father in 1981, but took over the chairmanship after his father retired. Lord Wolfson retired in 1996. Lord Wolfson was President of the Jewish Welfare Board from 1972-1982, a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum and a patron of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a Fellow of King’s College, and held numerous other honours from institutions in Britain and Israel. He was knighted in 1977 and created a life peer in 1985. He married first, in 1949, Ruth Sterling, with whom he had four daughters, and secondly, in 1991, Estelle Jackson (née Feldman).
Patricia Dee (latterly Lisle)
Normanby College
Chemical Engineering, 1948 The Hon Peter Kershaw Civil Engineering, 1948
Physiotherapy, 1962 Anthony Hicks AKC Mathematics, 1965 Canon Andrew Couch Theology, 1971 J Catherine Dolan French, 1972
Linda Stride (latterly Howle)
Jean Drayton (latterly De Comyn)
Elizabeth Oman (latterly Allison)
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Geography, 1948
Theology & Religious Studies, 1973
The Revd Canon Wilfred Wilkinson AKC
Neila Millard (latterly Warner) AKC
Theology, 1950
English, 1974
Household & Social Sciences, 1953 Wendy Johnson (latterly Adair) Household & Social Sciences, 1954
Harold Griffith Dentistry, 1938 Peter Mayo Dentistry, 1945 Dr Basil Pickles Medicine, 1947 Dr Sidney Rowell Medicine, 1949 Dr R Petrie Medicine, 1952 Dr Travers Sayer AKC Medicine, 1957 Dr Michael Ayres Medicine, 1963 Dr Charles Gray Medicine, 1963 Professor David Smith Dentistry, 1963 Robin Wakeley Dentistry, 1963 Dr William Nobbs Medicine, 1965
The Revd Canon Thomas Evans AKC
Thomas Barrett Biophysics, 1975 James Greaves 1982 Guy Shanks 1986 Catherine Wilson Gerontology, 1988 Boguslaw Maziak Immunology, 1989 Adrian Springsguth Education, 1992 Lee Frisby Nursing Studies, 1993 Dr John Moores Theology & Religious
Frances Agate (latterly Agate-Smith)
Studies, 1993 Justin Olden Music, 1994 Kahlil Hazri Law, 1995 Dr George Bishop Advanced Computing, 1996 Alastair Foy Law, 1997 Sarah Lamping Biomedical Science, 1998 Dr Gordon Bird Medicine, 1999 John Barker European Community Competition Law, 2000 Olubukunola Olorunshola Law, 2001 Christopher Lockyer Palliative Care, 2002 Ravi Ramdas Biomedical Science, 2003 Captain Allan Ooi Aviation Medicine, 2008 David Gerszewski Philosophy, 2009 Muhammad Ahmed Medical Sciences, 2010
Margaret Barnes Nursing Studies, 1972 Samuel Osili Food Science, 1981
Joan Appleton (latterly Moore) Household
& Social Sciences, 1938
King’s Dr Charles Salkeld Chemistry, 1932 Dr John Jones Medicine & Surgery, 1934 J Kensley 1934 Michael Keelan Civil Engineering, 1935 Harold Allaway Civil Engineering, 1938 Muriel Bradforth (latterly Dean)
Geography, 1941 Dr Philip Holman Anatomy, Physiology,
Pharmacology & Biochemistry, 1942 Eileen Barrett (latterly Dalton)
French, 1943 Eileen-Marie Belderson (latterly Duell) AKC
French, 1944 Margaret Cumner (latterly Elliott) AKC
History, 1945 Clarice Dawson AKC Geography, 1944 Clive Mills AKC Electrical Engineering, 1945
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French, 1951 Dr William Hopkins Medicine, 1952 Kynvin Nixon Mechanical
Engineering, 1952 The Revd Herbert Haitley Theology, 1952 The Revd Peter Duncan Theology, 1952 The Rt Hon Dame Angela Rumbold DBE
Law, 1953 M Scott 1953 Albert Sadler Physics, 1953 Ian Adams French, 1953 John Kelly Theology, 1954 Ann Munkman (latterly Barker) General,
1954 Dr Philip Sherrard Modern Greek
Literature, 1955 Ronald Andrews Chemistry, 1955 Bernard Anderson Mathematics, 1956 Patricia Wood (latterly D’Arcy) Education, 1957 Terence Veal AKC Mathematics & Physics, 1957 Richard Hill Classics, 1957 Malcolm Thomas Engineering, 1958 James Wadley Spanish & French, 1959 Dr Ann Paxton Preclinical Medicine, 1959 Ian Bolt History, 1960 Nellie Seal French, 1960 John Carruthers Mathematics, 1961 Michel Willems FCA Engineering, 1962
Dr Basil Appleby Rosalind Bangham Medicine The Honourable Sir Harold Bollers Revd Alfred Willetts
Physiotherapy, 1985
Queen Elizabeth College St Thomas’ Dr Andrew Read Medicine, 1942 Dr William Cavenagh Medicine, 1943 Dr Thomas Ellis Medicine, 1945 Professor David Morley CBE
Medicine, 1947 Dr James Frew Medicine, 1948 Rolf Shepherd Medicine, 1949 David Perrins Medicine, 1950 Dr Ivone Kinross Medicine, 1951 Dr John Roberts Medicine, 1951 Dr Kenneth Thomson Medicine, 1951 Professor Eric Wilkes OBE Medicine, 1952 Dr John Humphreys Medicine, 1955 Dr David Sandilands Medicine, 1955 Dr Ian Wallace Medicine, 1959 Dr Andrew Hobbs Medicine, 1991 Dr Robert Pledger Medicine Dr Peter Smith Medicine