211075 Downing Record 07 - Downing College - University of ...

Claire Louise Cutler, née Morgan, (1989)Claire was born on 20th March 1970. When she arrived at Downing in 1989 toread Law her elder brother, Mark, was in his final year of Medicine. Claire enjoyedher legal studies and obtained a 2.1 in all three years. She contributed to collegelife as a member of the JCR executive committee and co-editor of the Amigomagazine. She played goalkeeper in the Downing Ladies’ football team, rowedand made plenty of life-long friends. She also had an adventurous spirit andduring university holidays travelled widely in India, China, Africa and SouthEast Asia.She did her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in York and then trainedwith Holman Fenwick & Willan in London, specialising as a maritime lawyer. Shemoved to the firm’s Beijing office in 1996 and in 1998 to Hong Kong where shemet her future husband, Andrew Cutler, a fellow maritime lawyer in the samefirm. They were married in May 2001. Their daughter, Eleanor, was born in HongKong in 2003 and their son, Kit, was born in 2005. Also in that year, the familymoved back to the UK, to a beautiful 18th century house in Yalding, Kent.Claire was diagnosed with cancer whilst still pregnant with Kit and battledthe illness with remarkable bravery and strength of character. In her last months,she managed to travel to Venice and Sri Lanka, visited many friends and madeplans for her family’s future life without her. She died on 9 May 2007 and is buriedin the church cemetery at Yalding.Claire was a very loving and kind woman, an intelligent and successful lawyer.Her adventurous spirit took her far beyond the predictable career path of herpeers and her strength of character remains an inspiration to her friends.M. T. Parker (1931)Tom Parker died on 25 February 2006, aged 94. He came up to Downing fromPaston Grammar School in Norfolk as an Exhibitioner, reading Natural Scienceswith specialism in Pathology, gaining firsts in both parts of the Natural SciencesTripos. He then completed his medical studies at Charing Cross Hospital, London,qualifying MB, BChir (Cantab) in 1937, and continuing there as a House Physician.In 1938, he began a Studentship in Pathology at Charing Cross Hospital MedicalSchool and gained the Diploma of Bacteriology (London) with distinction in 1939from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine under the exactingstandards of W. W. C. Topley and G. S. Wilson. The Second World War interruptedhis academic studies. He enlisted in the armed forces at the outbreak of war in1939 and until 1945, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a specialistpathologist, initially in the UK and then in India and Burma with the rank of Major.52