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DOWNING COLLEGE ASSOCIATION– innovative energy-efficient houses using passive solar heating designed withthe aid of computers for a group of families, including his.Other housing schemes followed, notably prestigious, low-density “LakesideDrive”, in Esher, Surrey, which won the RIBA Architecture Award in 1976 andthe DoE Medal and Diploma for Good Design in 1980.Roy then worked for a time for Lambeth Borough Council, designing 52storey tower blocks aimed at solving the horrendous housing problems in Brixton(an experience that formed the basis of “Benefactors”, the play written by hisfriend and North Several neighbour Michael Frayn). The flats were never built.He completed a number of projects for the London Borough of Lewisham,including the first-ever solar-heated council flats at Redfern Road, which wona CIBS commendation for energy use in 1982.Married in 1957 to Elizabeth Forster (Newnham 1952–55), Roy had fourchildren, who survive him. As long as he was able he pursued his passions ofmountaineering, walking, photography and gardening. After a long illness hedied peacefully on 30th May 2012 in Bristol.Alec Ian Taylor (1949) has died. He read Agricultural Sciences.John Tomlinson (1944) died on 4th October 2011, aged 85. He readEngineering. We were informed by his wife, Pat Tomlinson.After graduating he was commissioned into the Royal Electrical andMechanical Engineers. He subsequently spent some time in Research andDevelopment in Telecommunications, after which he became a ManagementConsultant. He reverted to Engineering for the second half of his career, firstlyat the West Midlands Engineering Employers’ Association and latterly headingup the Careers section of the Engineering Industry Training Board.We have recently learned that David Price Williams (1943) died on 28th May1976, aged 50. He read Medicine.Dr Martin Charlton Woodhouse (1951) died in July 2011, aged 78. He readNatural Sciences.Martin Woodhouse was born in Romford, Essex, the son of a local doctor.Educated at Oundle School he came up to Downing to read Natural Sciences,before attending Medical School at St Mary’s Hospital, in London. He didpostgraduate research at the Medical Research Council Applied PsychologyUnit, where he designed and built the Logical Truth Computer (LTC,nicknamed Lettuce) to investigate and compare the differences between humanand machine intelligence. He was called up for National Service with the RAF80