QUEENS’ COLLEGE THE RECORD 2020
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A. Michael Sparrow (1964) David Welch (1964) Professor Gour K. Das, PhD (1966) Gerard Duffy (1966) John M. Hatherly (1967) Martin J. Roche, DVM (1967) Dr J. Paul K. Tillett, PhD (1967) Dr Stephen E. Eldridge, PhD (1968) Dr Osvaldo E. Baccino (1969) Martin R. Bandy, MEng, CEng, MIChemE (1970) David J.D. Charlton (1970) in 2014 The Revd Dr David L. Harper, PhD (1970) Michael K. Sheppard (1970) in 1998 Andrew L. James (1972) Dr Douglas Ferguson, MB, ChB, MD (1974) Professor Ian W. Townsend-Gault, PhD (1976) in 2016 Andrew M Winstanley (1976) Bryan A. Young (1979) Dr Daniel R.D. Scott, PhD (1988) Saskia R. Jones (2017) Nourhan Nassar (2019)
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OBITUARIES D. G. Widdicombe, QC (1942) aged 95. David Widdicombe was born in St Albans and attended St Albans School. He was the first member of the family to go to university. After a year, as was usual during the War, he was called up to join the Army. Whilst still serving as a Lieutenant, he was asked by the Fabian Society to stand for Parliament in the Hythe constituency for the 1945 General Election. He was 21 and his agent only 20, yet, in a previously staunchly Conservative area, he almost won the seat for Labour. He was demobbed a year later and returned to Queens’, opting to read Law. All student publications had ceased during the War and he was part of the group that decided in 1947 to found a weekly University newspaper and they launched Varsity. In January 1948 he was appointed the second editor of the publication. Whilst at Queens’, David was an active member of Bats. He was also President of the University Labour Club and was asked by the Party’s National Executive to stand again for Parliament at the 1950 Election, this time in Totnes, Devon. A Singaporean Chinese friend from Cambridge, ‘Harry’ Lee came to support him and act as his assistant and driver. Harry is better known as Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singaporean independence, and he wrote in his autobiography that he found the experience of the campaign most useful. On this occasion, David was heavily defeated. On graduation, David moved to the London area and took his exams for the Bar as a member of the Inner Temple. He became a specialist in government administration. Later he became a QC and was a Recorder and Deputy High Court Judge. His practice included cases in places such as Hong Kong and the Caribbean, which were still subject to British law. He edited the standard reference work on council rates. He also chaired the inquiry into the conduct of local authority business after the outcry over Dame Shirley Porter’s conduct of affairs in the City of Westminster. David lived for more than 50 years in the Primrose Hill area. Dr B. A. Fry, PhD (1944) aged 92. Bernard Fry came to Queens’ in 1944 from Portsmouth Grammar School and read Natural Sciences. He obtained a double First and specialised for Part II in Biochemistry. In 1950 he moved, along with his PhD supervisor, to the University of Sheffield and became an Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine. Within two years Professor Hans Krebs (the Nobel Laureate) had obtained funds to create a new Department