Univ Record 2018

1948
TERENCE WILLIAM ANDERSON (Christ’s Hospital) died on 16 March 2018 aged
90. He read Medicine at Univ, staying on here throughout his studies. This obituary
appeared on the website of the University of British Columbia, and is reproduced here
with the permission of the University and Terry’s family:
Terry Anderson was born in London, England in 1927. He graduated in medicine
from Oxford University in 1955. After a one year internship he and his family emigrated
to Canada. They lived in St Catharines Ontario until 1963 where Terry was a family
physician. During his last year in St Catharines he commuted to the University of
Toronto to study for a Diploma in Industrial Health. During this period, he discovered
the field of epidemiology, and decided to make this his career. He and his family then
moved to Toronto.
In 1967 Terry completed a PhD and was appointed Assistant Professor in what was
then the School of Hygiene at the University of Toronto. For the next few years he taught
and became involved in a variety of research projects. These ranged from the study of
historical and geographical patterns of heart disease and stroke, to the evaluation of
the value of Pap smears, and the effects of lead pollution on children living near battery
plants. He also became involved in the controversy over “megavitamin therapy” and
conducted large scale clinical trials of Vitamin C and Vitamin E.
Before moving out to UBC in 1980 to become Head of Health Care and Epidemiology,
he became involved in studies of the effects of atomic radiation. This led to him becoming
an advisor to the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada and subsequently to an
ongoing involvement in the health effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.
As head of the department, Terry was able to build a team of outstanding teachers
and researchers. He also had the satisfaction of seeing a major expansion in departmental
activities, both in degree programs and in interdisciplinary research groupings.
Terry retired in 1992 and went on to become a medico-legal expert witness,
completing the book Life Expectancy in Court: A Textbook for Doctors and Lawyers in 2002.
GEORGE DAVID BYAM SHAW (Radley) died on 18 November 2017 aged 87. Edward
Enfield (1948) has kindly written this tribute: “George came up from Radley to read
Mods and Greats. He had been awarded an exhibition, not for any great fluency in Greek
or Latin, but because his Essay paper made the examiners laugh. Such was George. He
treated the scholarship exam as an opportunity for jokes, and he viewed Oxford and
Univ with calm amusement, being more interested in the quirks and oddities of the
dons than in anything they had to teach. He was the only man in College who always
wore a bow tie, which somehow marked him out, not as a loner but as someone who was
selective in his acquaintance. Coming from a theatrical family, he performed with the
Univ Players (but less often than his daughter Ros, who followed him to Univ in 1979).
He took a third in Greats and disappeared into the world of commerce from which he
emerged having become, somehow, an accountant. With his second wife Maggie he
retired eventually to Blandford Forum. Maggie enjoys entertaining, and George could
enliven any company he chose to join, so that if you rang in the evening there was usually
a sound of clinking glasses and lively chatter in the background. This was so almost to
the end, until he succumbed to emphysema as a consequence of years of smoking. He is
also survived by Ros and James, the children of his first marriage, to Marjorie”.
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