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DOWNING COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONFor the last 10 years, John was TIACA’s (Trans International Airways andCargo Association) representative in Brussels providing industry input andsupport for the development of the post 9/11 WCO SAFE Framework ofStandards to Secure and Facilitate Trade, the Data Model Unique ConsignmentReference and capacity building for developing countries’ customs operations.This work was recognised when his daughters Caroline and Tigga travelledto Moscow in May of this year to receive an award from TIACA as John wasinducted posthumously into their Hall of Fame 2012.John had a proactive interest in politics although it was never his wish torun for parliament. He frequently wrote to Members of Parliament during theThatcher years offering his thoughts and expertise on matters within his vastexperience. For many years he wrote, outlining his views and opinions, for theDaily Telegraph under the pseudonym ‘John Bosworth’.Away from the work place, John married Megan Humphreys in 1945 andhad a son and daughter; John and Caroline. After Megan’s death in 1963, Johnmarried Joy Wynyard in 1965 with a daughter from a previous marriage, Tigga.Joy died in the 1970s and in July 2011, after many happy years together already,John married Lucienne Sabatier in Brussels Town Hall.John had very fond memories of his life and chums at Cambridge and afterhis death his daughter Caroline found much warm and friendly correspondencefrom College friends including Eugene Vincent De Souza (1937), John DacreRigg (1938) (who John named his son after), Fredric Sison Hamm and J L Jolley(1939). John had been active in the rowing teams and photos of the teams hungin his study until his death along with the remains of his boating blazer.John enjoyed reading and poetry all his life, sharing a love of Dylan Thomas’works with his daughter. He was always interested in acquiring fresh knowledgeand had a wide range of interests – he was a connoisseur of wines, a coincollector, a keen gardener when younger, had a passion for music, modern artand architecture, was hugely interested in WW1 history and enjoyed walkingand fishing whilst still living in Britain. John had developed a love for Europein the early 50s when he had travelled on business and lived in both Franceand Belgium in later years, ending his days in the UCCLE district of Brussels.Brian Collins Redwood (1946) As announced in the 2011 Newsletter, BrianRedwood died on 22nd November 2010 aged 85. Since that announcementthe College Archivist, Kate Thompson, has contributed to an Obituary in theJournal of the Society of Archivists, vol 33, issue 1, April 2012, pp 109–11, whichis summarised here.Brian Redwood was one of the last surviving county archivists appointed inthe early post-war surge in founding a network of County Record Offices.73