Spring Martlet 2017

In Memoriam
Below are notices of deaths that we have been informed of since the publication of the summer 2016 edition
of The Martlet up to 30 September. Full obituaries are included in the Record.
1930s
HANS MICHAEL
KARL NUSSBAUM
(LATER NOAM)
(1936) (Aldenham) died on 15 October
2013 aged 94. Michael Noam read Agriculture
at Univ, getting a First. Michael was born in
Germany, but his family had emigrated to
Palestine after 1933. He was still in Britain
when the Second World War broke out and
interned as an enemy alien, despite the efforts
of our Master, Sir William Beveridge, to get him
released. After the war Michael lived in Israel
where he worked for many years in the Israeli
Central Bureau of Statistics as an agricultural
economist. He was also a part-time lecturer at
the Hebrew University. He retired in 1981 to
become a tour guide, specialising in developing
tours for bird-watchers.
JOHN PLAISTOWE HORDER
(1938) (Lancing) died on 31 May 2012
aged 92. John Horder came up to
Univ to read Classics, but after a year
switched to Medicine. He qualifi ed
as a general practitioner, and became
a highly respected fi gure in that fi eld,
serving as the President of the Royal
College of General Practitioners in
1979–82. He helped write several
important textbooks on general
practice, including The Future General
Practitioner (1972). He also held the
unusual distinction of becoming a
member of the Royal Colleges of both
Physicians and Psychiatrists through examination while in general practice. He
was also elected a Fellow of Green College, Oxford, and of Queen Mary and
Westfi eld College, London. He was awarded an OBE in 1971 and a CBE in
1981. Even after he retired from clinical practice in the 1980s, John continued to
lecture and to teach, and in 1987 he founded the Centre for the Advancement
of Interprofessional Education. His son Timothy came up to Univ in 1962.
1940s
DR GLYN ARTHUR SIMPSON
LLOYD
(1940) (Warwick School) died on 10 March 2016, just
before his 94th birthday. He read Medicine at Univ, and
went on to become a leading radiologist. He co-authored
several textbooks on the subject, and worked at Moorfi elds
Eye Hospital and the Royal National Throat, Nose and
Ear Hospital. He was a founder member of the European
Society of Head and Neck Radiology, and in 1991 was awarded the George
Davey Howells Memorial Prize for the most distinguished published
contribution to the advancement of otolaryngology in the previous fi ve years.
Glyn also retained lifelong links to Univ, regularly attending reunions. He is
survived by his ex-wife Katharine, their two children, and four grandchildren.
ANTHONY JOHN
PHELPS
(1941) (City of Oxford High School) died on 9 November
2014 aged 92. He read Classics at Univ, both during his
cadet course during the war, and on his return in 1946. On
going down, he joined the Civil Service, working mainly for
the Treasury. He served as Junior Private Secretary and then
Principal Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Treasury’s representative in the Far East, Private Secretary
to the Prime Minister, and fi nally Deputy Chairman at the
Board of Customs and Excise. He also took a keen interest
in cricket, and was the co-author of A History of Civil Service
Cricket (1993). His brother Peter came up to Univ in 1943.
36 THE MARTLET | SPRING 2017