2013 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

166 OBITUARIES I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
scholarship. At college, he met his future wife, Shirley Walker, who was studying
Natural Sciences at Newnham. He went straight to work at GCHQ following graduation
and remained there his entire working life. After retirement in 1993, he stayed in touch
with old colleagues as the Events Coordinator for GCHQ pensioners; was Secretary to
the Local Green Land Group; and enjoyed crosswords, snooker and rambling.
He and Shirley had one son, Alexander, who came up in 1983 and two daughters.
WINTER, Derek George (1952) died on 30 May 2012 aged 84.
Derek Winter was born on 29 December 1927 in London. After leaving University
College School, Hampstead, he was called up and served in the Royal Army Service
Corps. After a year as an assistant pastor he studied Theology at Spurgeons College.
He continued his Theological Studies at Jesus, matriculating in 1952. He graduated BA
1954; MA 1966; and became a Baptist minister. His ministry took him to Brazil for a
decade before he needed to return to the UK for family reasons. Thereafter he worked as
a lecturer at St Paul’s College of Education, Cheltenham, and later as an Education
Adviser for Christian Aid. After leaving Christian Aid, he lived full-time in Herefordshire
and worked for Age Concern as Organiser for Hereford. During his working life he
wrote Hope in Captivity: The Prophetic Church in Latin America (1977) and
Communities of Freedom (1989). In retirement, he was an active member of the
Hereford Oxfam Campaigns Group and wrote a monthly newsletter for over a decade.
He married Beryl Gravgaard in 1953 and they had two daughters and three sons,
including J. M. Winter (1973) and M. P. Winter (1975). Beryl died in 1968. He married,
his long-term partner, Helen Lee in 2004.
Erratum
PENNY, Thomas (Tom) Gillard (1954). In the obituary notice, we stated Mr Penny’s firm
Bevan Ashfords went on to become Bevan Brittan. This was incorrect. After graduation,
Tom joined his father’s Devon Law Practice, Penny & Harward, with its head office in
Tiverton. After several different names and expansions, Penny & Harward, including
Bevan Ashford (and not Bevan Brittain), it has now become Ashfords. Tom retired from
the Tiverton office in 1999, opening his own office as Notary Public and retired from this
in 2009. Motivated by a deep concern for social welfare, he developed a charity law
practice in the second half of his legal career and this included acting as Clerk and
Treasurer to the Tiverton Almshouse Charity (in the footsteps of his father Raymond
Penny) from 1968 to 2004. “What would you want for your own father or mother?” was
always his driving principle. Eager to embrace a significant housing project for local
residents, he spearheaded the development and construction of a new block of
almshouses on a brownfield site in the centre of Tiverton, which His Royal Highness
Prince Charles opened in 2004. He was still serving on the Devon and Somerset Law
Society Committee when he died.