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DOWNING COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONin 1958, serving initially as a Pilot Officer before moving to the Institute ofAviation Medicine at Farnborough.Following his service with the RAF he became a television screenwriter,writing, with his brother Hugh, episodes of the ATV puppet series Supercar andthen a member of the writing team for The Avengers.In 1966 he wrote his first novel, Tree Frog, which became the first in a series offive books, written over the next ten years, built around the central character‘Giles Yeoman’. Yeoman is an aeronautical engineer who is a reluctant participantin a variety of cloak-and-dagger exploits conducted by the British intelligencecommunity – a character that built upon his experience with the RAF. Duringthis period he moved, first to Los Angeles and then to the West Indies.In Montserrat, Woodhouse met Robert Ross, an expert on Leonardo daVinci and the pair wrote three novels. They focus on Leonardo’s work as amilitary engineer in the service of the Duke of Milan. Leonardo is depicted asa clever, sarcastic Italian Renaissance engineer who doubts the supremacy ofthe Catholic Church. Many details in these books are historically based, butlarge portions of the stories depend upon ideas from Leonardo’s sketch booksbeing developed into functional machines.He wrote his final novel Traders (about an Afghan prince who profits as anarms’ trader) in 1980 In the 1980s, he changed direction again, working as afreelance programmer and system designer, developing programs for e-commerce companies and stock market trading simulators.Woodhouse was a keen skier and mountaineer.Glynn Jones Scholarships for Business and Management EducationMembers of the Downing Association are reminded that they are eligibleto apply for Glynn Jones Scholarships. These valuable scholarships are forthose wishing to further their education for careers in the business andmanagement fields. Any who have already embarked on such careers arewelcome to apply if they consider that further education and training arelikely to improve their career prospects. Typically, scholarships have beenawarded to help fund M.B.A. or equivalent courses in this country orabroad, but the awards are not restricted to such courses. Scholarships ofup to £10,000 per annum, for courses of up to two years’ duration, havebeen made in the recent past. For further information about the awardsand application process please contact the Tutorial and Admissions Officevia studentships@dow.cam.ac.uk.81