2013 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

OBITUARIES I Jesus College Annual Report 2013 151
life of the college and was a strong oarsman rowing at 7 in the 1938 boat which won the
Fairbairn Cup. He graduated BA 1940; MA 1944.
His “admirable” linguistic skills and great sense of responsibility made him a natural
choice for the Colonial Service and so in 1940 he was sent to serve in Tanganyika. In
1947, he moved to Basutoland where he remained until just before the soon to be
Kingdom of Lesotho gained its independence. He spent the next seven years as a teacher
before becoming the Company Secretary of the British Sugar Bureau.
He married Joan Williams in 1944; they had a son and a daughter.
DOBBS, Kildare Robert Eric (1946) died on 1 April 2013 aged 89.
Kildare Dobbs was born on 10 October 1923 in India. He was educated at the College of
St Columba, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, before enlisting in the Royal Navy. Following
demobilisation, he came up to read English in January 1946, graduating, after an
allowance of terms for war service, BA 1947; MA 1952. After a brief spell in education he
emigrated to Canada where he established himself as a leading essayist and poet and
was considered one of the forerunners of travel writing in the country. Richard Greene,
a fellow author and poet, said of him, he “was Canada’s most complete writer”.
Amongst his published works are: his autobiography, Running to Paradise (1962)
which won a Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award; Anatolian Suite (1989);
Casanova in Venice (2010); and The Kindly Fruits (2012). His contribution to Canadian life
was recognised when he was invested with the Order of Ontario and, shortly before his
death, the Order of Canada.
He married Patricia Marjorie Agnes Parsons in 1944; the couple had two sons prior to
their marriage being dissolved. He married Mary McAlpine in 1958 and he and his
second wife had two daughters. Following his second divorce, he married Linda Kia
Kooluris in 1981; after telling his new wife’s mother he “had to marry three times to get
the right mother-in-law”. This marriage lasted thirty-two years.
DRUMMOND, Alan Hastings (1972) died on 12 September aged 62.
Alan Drummond was born on 27 March 1950 in Glasgow. He attended Hillhead High
School before reading for a BSc at the University of Glasgow. He came up to Jesus in
1972 to study serotonin and blood platelets for his doctorate. Alan graduated with a PhD
in 1976 and took up a post-doctoral research position at the Friedrich Miescher-Institut
in Basel before returning to academic positions at the University of Glasgow and the
School of Pharmacy, University of London.
In 1988, he moved into industry working for British Biotechnology where he became
Research Director with responsibility for over 150 scientists. In 2001 he became
founding Chief Executive Officer of Chroma Therapeutics Ltd. After he had established
Chroma he changed board roles to become Chief Scientific Officer. He published over
50 scientific papers and was a named inventor on several key patents relating to the
targeting of drugs to specific cell types responsible for disease development.
He was married to Margaret and had three sons and a daughter.
EBISON, Maurice George (1952) died on 8 February 2013 aged 83.
Maurice Ebison was born on 3 February 1930 in Woking. Educated at the Royal
Grammar School, Guildford, following National Service in the RAF, he came up in 1952
to read Natural Sciences. Whilst at Cambridge he played football for the University and
was a regular member of the University Falcons. He graduated BA 1955; MA 1959.