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Foundation in Toronto and from 1965 to 1976 as Professor of Physics at the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. He held Visiting Professorships at the American University in Beirut and also in Nairobi University. In his retirement he remained active both as a scientific adviser and in the Estonian exile community. After Estonia regained its political independence in 1990 he visited his homeland three times – the first time to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tartu – and organised the transfer of 7000 boxes of books to Estonian libraries. In Canada he also helped to establish the Tartu Institute Archives and Library, which is one of the most extensive cultural treasures of Estonians abroad. He was awarded the Republic of Estonia White Star V medal in 1998. His memory and sense of humour will be recalled by those who read his article for the Journal in 2001. He died on 4 February 2008. HARRY WARDLAW BITTON (1932) Harry Bitton was born on 13 May 1914 in London and was educated at Eltham College. He came up to Fitzwilliam in 1932 to read Natural Sciences, changing to Mathematics in his third year. He graduated in 1935 and became a schoolmaster at Blackpool Grammar School. During the war he was a Scientific Civil Servant in the Meteorological Office and later a member of the RAF Volunteer Reserve. In 1950 he joined the staff of Bedford Modern School, where he remained until retirement. He was President of Bedford RUFC from 1978 to 1980. In 2003 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. He died on 23 December 2007. HELEN MARGARET BLACKWELL (1980) Helen Blackwell was born on 20 December 1960 in Salford and was educated at Manchester High School for Girls. She came up to Fitzwilliam in 1980 to read Law, and had an outstanding career, gaining firsts in Part IA and II; she was awarded the Whitlock Prize and a Clothworkers’ Scholarship by the College, and a University Squire Law Scholarship. She was already a Queen’s Guide and held the gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, as well as being a keen pianist, gymnast and swimmer. After graduating she spent a year teaching in Zimbabwe under the auspices of the Methodist Church Overseas Division. After her return in 1984 the headmaster of the school and his wife were assassinated in the guerrilla war and the school was ransacked, which had a profound emotional effect upon her. She worked with social services in London and Cambridge, and in 1992 was employed briefly in the university careers department at Oxford. For the remainder of her life she suffered from bouts of depression and underwent regular treatment, which required frequent admission to hospital, thus limiting her availability for employment. In the periods when she was employed she worked at a mental health unit run by Mind, and some time later she was instrumental in creating a similar agency called ‘Loud and Clear’ in north London. Later she became a researcher, consultant and trainer in mental health, doing work for Mind, The Mental Health Foundation and The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Helen combined high intelligence and capability with generosity and compassion, especially for those marginalised in society. She died on 14 October 2007. PROFESSOR MICHAEL GREGORY BUTLER (1954) Michael Butler was born on 1 November 1935 in Nottingham and was educated at Nottingham High Pavement School. He came up to Fitzwilliam in 1954 to read Modern Languages, playing for the first Hockey team and graduating in 1957. After doing a PGCE at Oxford he taught at the King’s School, Worcester, the Reuchlin Gymnasium, Pforzhei, and Ipswich School from 1958–70. In 1970 he was appointed to a Lectureship at Birmingham University, becoming subsequently Senior Lecturer, Professor and Head of the Department of German from 1984 to 2001 and Public Orator of the University (1997–2005). In 1979 he was a Visiting Fellow of the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University. He was President of the Conference of University Teachers of German of Great Britain and Ireland 1996–99. He published widely in the field of modern German literature, especially German-Swiss studies, and reviewed regularly in these areas for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1999 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contributions to UK German studies and British–German relations. In the same year the University of Cambridge conferred upon him the degree of Litt.D. He was co-General Editor (with William E Paterson) of the series, New Perspectives in German. Butler distrusted much contemporary literary theory as distracting attention from the text, which one commentator said he regarded ‘as a kind of successor to the ancient mythical epic’; thus literature, rather than political, economic and cultural history disclosed the deeper history of people and nations. He was a witty raconteur, ideally suited for the role of Public Orator; the publication of a collection of his speeches sadly coincided with his death on 25 November 2007. KENNETH GEORGE DARKE (1937) Kenneth Darke was born on 5 June 1911 at Winchmore Hill, Middlesex and was educated at Southend High School and the Royal College of Music. He came up to Fitzwilliam in 1937 as a member of Cheshunt College to read History and Theology, graduating in 1940. However, after the war he decided to become an Anglican, and so he joined the family accountancy firm, where he spent most of his career. Latterly he was also a Director of Sheed and Ward Ltd, the Catholic publishers. He died on 26 June 2008. KEITH ALFRED THOMAS DAVEY, CB (1939) Keith Davey was born on 23 September 1920 in Cambridge and was educated at the Cambridge and County High School for Boys. He came up to Fitzwilliam in 1939 to read Law, but was allowed a year in respect of war service, graduating in 1942. He served in the Middle East, reaching the rank of Captain. After the war he was called to the Middle Temple in 1947, and subsequently became Principal Assistant Solicitor to the Department of Health and 71
march 2009 72 Social Security, 1968–70, and then Solicitor and Legal Adviser to the Department of the Environment from 1970 to 1982. He was made a CB in 1973. He died on 16 November 2007. PROFESSOR GOODWIN IQBAL DAVID (1959) Goodwin David was born on 4 August 1923 in Ajmer, India, and was educated at the Government College, Ajmer and Lucknow University, becoming a Lecturer in English at St John’s College, Agra for twelve years. He came up to Fitzwilliam in 1959 to do research on Wordsworth for a year on a scholarship from the Asia Christian Colleges Association. He subsequently wrote a thesis which was approved by Trinity College, Dublin for an M.Litt. On his return to India Professor David resumed his post at St John’s College, Agra, India and was Head of the Department of English and, for a long time, also Vice Principal and Officiating Principal. He was revered and loved by both his students and faculty at St John’s College. He retired in the mid 1980s to his ancestral home at Ajmer, India. He died in June 2008. ALAN JOSEPH DAVISON (1949) Alan Joseph Davison was born on 15 January 1930 in Norwich and was educated at Thetford Grammar School. He came up to Fitzwilliam after national service in 1949 to read geography, specialising in historical geography in his final year. He was involved in FitzTheatre and also took part in athletics. After graduating in 1952 he taught at Bexhill before returning to Norfolk to teach geography at Thorpe Grammar School, Norwich, and later became Head of the Sixth Form. In 1985 he took early retirement, and put his background in historical geography to good use in a second career as a landscape historian and archaeologist, researching the origins of settlement in Norfolk. He published numerous articles in the county journal Norfolk Archaeology, which he latterly co-edited, and in the series East Anglian Archaeology. Davison died following a car crash on 29 August 2006. THE REVD CANON JAN HENDRIK LEONARD DIJKMAN (1961) Jan Dijkman was born on 4 December 1937 in Johannesburg and was educated at Benoni High School and Rhodes University, Grahamstown. He came up to Fitzwilliam as a member of Westcott House in 1961 to read for Part III of the Theological Tripos, graduating in 1962. A keen musician and organist, he described his time at Cambridge as ‘rushing from chapel to chapel to fit in as many sung evensongs as possible’. He was ordained in 1963 and worked in several Anglican parishes in South Africa, and also as Archbishop Tutu’s education officer. But he moved to Canada in 1987, because of the increasing violence provoked by the apartheid regime. He became Vicar of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral in Montreal, and then vicar of St James the Apostle church from 1995, retiring in 2003. Dijkman was clearly deeply loved by his parishioners, as was indicated by the crowds at his funeral following his death from leukaemia on 20 January 2008. THE REVD BENJAMIN DREWERY (1946) Ben Drewery was born on 19 May 1918 in Louth, Lincolnshire, and he was educated at both Leeds and Manchester Grammar schools. His father was a Primitive Methodist minister and his mother’s roots were Wesleyan. He went to read Greats at Corpus Christi, Oxford, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. At one point he was called upon to guard Rudolf Hess in Scotland. Later he was taken captive by the Japanese and served over three years as a POW, escaping death on many occasions. After completing his degree at Oxford, he came up to Fitzwilliam as a member of Wesley House, in 1946. Ben was ordained in 1949 and served in the Middlesbrough, Croydon, Oxford, and Worthing circuits. In 1965 Ben was appointed Bishop Fraser lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at Manchester University, subsequently being promoted to senior lecturer, and remaining at the University until he retired in 1985. He was an inspiring teacher and communicator, with the people’s touch, and also a gifted writer, translator, linguist and editor. Ben is perhaps best known for his work as a Reformation scholar, writing on Luther, but also on Origen. He served Methodism on the Faith and Order and General Purposes Committees as well as with ministerial candidates and probationers. Ben was a natural story-teller, with a wonderful sense of humour. His life was rooted in Methodism but he was an advocate for Christian unity and spoke in favour of the ordination of women. He loved his family dearly – his four daughters, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He died on 21 May 2008, shortly after moving to a Nursing Home in Scarborough. DR PETER GABRIEL ELKAN (1957) Peter Elkan was born on 23 December 1922 in Budapest, and was educated at the Reformed Gimnazium in Sarospatak, Hungary and the Economic Faculty of Budapest Technical University. He came up to Fitzwilliam in 1957 to read Economics as a refugee following the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and he graduated in 1959. After a period working at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, he moved to Wellington in 1960 to join the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. He returned to Cambridge to do research in 1966 and after spending time in Geneva with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, he was approved for the PhD degree in 1973. Elkan retired to Cambridge in 1985 and died on 23 March 2008. WING COMMANDER CLIFFORD LINDSEY FARRELL (1957) Clifford Farrell was born on 14 April 1938 at Cranwell and was educated at Harrow Weald County Grammar School and the RAF Technical College at Henlow. He came up to Fitzwilliam in 1957 to read Engineering, graduating in 1960. Farrell returned to the RAF for a career in the service reaching the rank of Wing Commander before his retirement. He died on 1 September 2008.
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