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Singapore, and worked in the Teacher Training College,
becoming Head of Geography. In 1960 he returned
to Cambridge to do research and was appointed a
University Demonstrator in Physical Anthropology
on 1961. He was approved for the Ph.D. degree in
1965, by which time he had already taken a post in the
National Museum of Canada in Ottawa. Hughes was
then appointed to the Department of Anthropology at
the University of Toronto, becoming Professor and
Head of Department. He died on 30 August 2008.
HUGH HAVILAND HUMPHREY (1933)
Hugh Humphrey was born on 3 June 1910 in Walberton,
Sussex, and was educated at Worthing High School and
St Mark and St John’s College in London, where he was
awarded a Teaching Certificate, and a B.Sc. in Geography
and Mathematics from London University in 1932.
While teaching at St Philips’s School, Cambridge, he
joined Fitzwilliam in 1933 to read Geography and Law,
graduating in 1935. He subsequently took an LLB in
1938. He was appointed Lecturer in Geography and
Mathematics at Crewe Teacher Training College in
1938 where he remained until joining the navy in 1941.
During the war he served as a meteorological officer on
the aircraft carrier HMS Ruler in the Pacific and Atlantic
until his demobilisation in December 1945. He secured
a post as Lecturer in Mathematics at Worcester Teacher
Training College in 1946, one of the emergency postwar
teacher training colleges established to meet the
needs of schools. In 1952 he was appointed Vice
Principal of King Alfred’s College in Winchester and
then Principal of Bedford College of Education in 1965.
At both Winchester and Bedford he oversaw the rapid
expansion of student numbers and was always keenly
supportive of student sporting and cultural activities.
He retired in 1972 to rural Berkshire where he played an
active role in village and family life enjoying a long and
healthy retirement. After the death of his wife, Barbara,
Humphrey endowed Fitzwilliam with a student prize in
her name, and provided and named one of the two new
Millennium Bells at Inkpen parish church after her. He
died on 17 August 2008 after a short illness.
CHARLES WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, MBE (1946)
Bill Hutchinson was born on 15 November 1919 in
Barnsley and was educated at Doncaster Grammar
School. On leaving school he began to work for the
National and Provincial Bank, but he also joined his
local Yeomanry regiment, the Queen’s Own Yorkshire
Dragoons. When war broke out he went to Palestine,
from where he was employed on cipher work at GHQ
in Cairo. This involved training at Bletchley Park and
induction into the mysteries of Ultra. From Cairo he
moved to Malta and then to Italy, where he received the
MBE for his work. He then joined Patton’s US 3rd Army
for the Normandy invasion. After demobilization he
came up to Fitzwilliam to read Estate Management,
graduating in 1948 and completing the course in
1948–49. Hutchinson then joined Gerald Eve and
Company of Mayfair, where ultimately he became
senior partner. He died on 6 March 2008.
WILLIAM LEONARD LIVERMORE (1951)
Bill Livermore was born on 24 February 1913 in
Cambridge and was educated at the Cambridgeshire
High School for Boys. He left school at 16 and worked
for the University of Cambridge Local Examinations
Syndicate, before moving to work in the Education
Department of Cambridgeshire County Council as the
first village colleges were established. Having become
an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries
he came up to Fitzwilliam in 1951 to read Economics,
whilst teaching part-time at the Cambridgeshire
Technical College and School of Art. He changed
to Law after Part I and graduated in 1954. He was
appointed as a lecturer at Isleworth Polytechnic in
the Department of Commercial and Social Studies
before moving to Farnborough Technical College in
Hampshire, where he lectured in the Department of
Business Studies until his retirement in the late 1970s,
leaving as Head of Department. He remained a regular
visitor to Cambridge, and followed the College’s
development and success with great interest. He died
on 9 November 2007.
THE REVD BENJAMIN TUDOR LLOYD (1954)
Benjamin Tudor Lloyd was born on 28 April 1929
in Pontardawe, Glamorgan and was educated at
Whitchurch High School, University College, Cardiff,
and the United Theological College, Aberystwyth. He
came up to Fitzwilliam as a member of Westminster
College to read for Part III of the Theological Tripos
in 1954, graduating in 1956. He was ordained to the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Wales and had
served as minister in the Gower Pastorate for 38 years
when he retired, although he continued as Minister
Emeritus. In 1998 he was elected as Moderator of the
Association in the East, and later served as Minute
Secretary of the General Assembly 2002–04. He was
the recognised authority on one of his important
predecessors, Revd William Griffiths (the apostle of
Gower 1788–1861), whose diaries he translated from
Welsh, and upon whom he delivered the triennial
Revival Memorial Lecture of the Presbyterian Church
of Wales in 1997, later published in Pleasant Places
(ed Dr Eifion Evans). He died on 26 May 2008.
THE REVD DR THOMAS HOYTE LYLE (1946)
Tom Lyle was born on 7 March 1921 in the Irish
Presbyterian Mission Hospital, Bharuch, Gujarat, and
was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, and Trinity
College, Dublin, graduating in 1943 with first-class
honours in Mental and Moral Science, and a gold medal
for his studies in Philosophy. From 1943–45 he served
in the YMCA, entertaining British troops in Italy.
He came up to Fitzwilliam in 1946 as a member of
Westminster College, to read Theology, graduating in
1948. After further study in New College, Edinburgh
and at the Presbyterian Theological College, Belfast, he
was ordained to the ministry in 1949. He and his new
wife, Sheila, went to Gujarat as missionaries, where
they served in Ahmadabad from 1950 to 1972. Tom was
warden of a Christian hostel for teenagers, preached in
Gujarati, worked in Bible translation, lectured in the