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DOWNING COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONRaymond Day (1952) died on 15 April 2010.John William Dunn (1953) has died.Richard Ronald Humphrey Ellison (1940) died on 12th April 2010.Rex Gooch (1958) died on March 13th 2007 after a long illness. We reportedthis briefly in the 2007 issue of the Newsletter since when his widow, Mrs AnnGooch, has sent us the following.Rex joined IBM in 1961 and retired from that company in 1993 as a ConsultSystems Engineer. He travelled the world and was particularly interested in theSilk Route. He set numerous brain-teasers which were published in the DailyTelegraph, Sunday Times and New Scientist and published a book on them incollaboration with others. He solved the Great Ten Square Teaser.He left a daughter, a son and five grandchildren.David Gosden (1949) died on 19th June 2009. We were advised by his widow,Mrs Jennifer Gosden.Frederic Sison Ham (1939). His daughter Angela Broadberry tells us that hedied on 3rd November 2009. He read Mechanical Sciences.David Harding (1938) died on 4th September 2008.Anthony Crawford Hepburn (1959) died on 25th April 2008. We publisheda brief obituary in the 2008 issue of the Newsletter. His widow Mrs FelicityHepburn has since sent us the following:Tony came up to Downing from Dulwich College to read history. Aftergraduating he returned to Cambridge to study for the newly-establishedCertificate in Historical Studies. In 1965 he followed his growing interest inIrish history to research a PhD under the supervision of Leland Lyons, at theUniversity of Kent at Canterbury. Two years as visiting Woodrow WilsonProfessor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA followed. Then twoyears as a research fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies in The QueensUniversity of Belfast. In 1972, he was appointed to a lectureship in Urban andIrish History at what was then the New University of Ulster at Coleraine. Hisedited and updated version of Erhard Rumpf’s Nationalism and Socialism inTwentieth Century Ireland was published in 1977. Tony developed Irish Historyas a special subject at Ulster playing a central role in the redevelopment ofteaching at Magee College in Londonderry, with the establishment of an33