Obituaries

litigation department. Derek was a founder-member of the Oxford and District Solicitors
Association, which has instituted an annual prize for trainee solicitors, as a memorial to him.
For some years, in the 1970's, Derek was on the committee of the Oxfordshire Squash
Racquets Association and organised the county's Open Squash Championship on a number
of occasions. He was Chairman of the Governors of the Clifton Hampton Primary School and
a member of the Parochial Church Council, organising fund-raising events for the school, the
village hall and, in particular, an annual open air concert in aid of the Parish Church. On 28th
November 1988, there was a performance of Mozart's Requiem in St Paul's Church,
Culham, in his memory.
He leaves a widow, Jean, and their children, Charlotte, Katherine and Thomas.
1958
Keith Ernest George Coggins
24 May 1940 – 26 April 2015
Obituary provided by David Coggins.
Keith died suddenly on 26 April. He was born at the beginning of the Second World War in
Bristol. The family moved to London in 1942 and he later followed John and I at the school
in Westbere Road, leaving in 1958.
On leaving school he joined the National Coal Board as a management trainee and as was
the custom in those days we all played rugby with the Old Boys at Boreham Wood. In 1964
he married Vivian and worked for several companies until he took up an appointment in
Saudi Arabia in 1978. On his return from Saudi Arabia he continued his varied career
running a number of businesses including The Downing Arms near Cambridge.
In 1990 a business took him to Johannesburg in South Africa where he was later joined by
Vivian and they both continued to operate the business to the present day. My wife and I
visited them a couple of times in South Africa when we enjoyed the company of their social
group of all races and met a young ethnic South African girl who he has been sponsoring
through school and who is now in her final year.
Keith leaves a son and daughter and three grandchildren.
1957
Michael D Kustow (1950 - 57) - died 29 August 2014