Univ Record 2018

MALCOLM REX WINSBURY (St Paul’s) died on 8 July 2015 aged 80. Rex Winsbury
read Classics at Univ, before becoming a journalist. He worked variously for the Financial
Times and the Daily Telegraph, for the BBC’s current affairs department, and the monthly
journal Management Today. In 1975-6 he was Thomson Fellow in Mass Media Studies at
the University of Strathclyde. He was also the Labour candidate for Southend West in
the 1964 General Election, and in 1963 co-authored An Incomes Policy for Labour.
In the 1970s and 1980s Winsbury was involved in the changes in Fleet Street which
led to papers being produced not with old hot-metal technology, but on computer-based
systems. He submitted a report to the Royal Commission on the Press on this subject in
1975, and in 1976 wrote a book, New Technology and the Journalist.
In 1982 Winsbury became a founder-director of Cable London, an early UK cable
television company, and from 1991-2007 was editor of Intermedia, the magazine of the
International Institute of Communications. He also lectured on media topics at City
University, London.
Winsbury survived an attack of cancer, and published articles about his experiences
which appeared on several websites. He worked in Africa for a while, and took an interest
in Aids analysis, editing Safe Blood in Developing Countries: the Lessons from Uganda
(1995). Other books of his included Government and the Press (1968), Communism (1978),
The Electronic Bookstall (1979), and Trades Unionism (1980).
In his later years, Winsbury returned to his undergraduate subject, and between 2009
and 2013 wrote three books on ancient history, respectively on the Roman book trade,
Zenobia, the legendary third-century queen of Palmyra, and Pliny the Younger. He also
lectured on Roman history at Imperial College and Birkbeck College, London.
JOHAN VAN ZYL STEYN, LORD STEYN OF SWAFIELD (Stellenbosch University):
See under Honorary Fellows.
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ANTHONY ROBERT “BOB” COOPER (Manchester Grammar School) died in 2018
aged 80. He read Law at Univ. News of Bob’s death came as the Record was going to
press, and we hope to include a fuller tribute in next year’s issue.
SAKI SCHECK (Mfantsipim School Cape Coast, Ghana) died on 8 September 2001
aged 74. He came up to Univ to read for a Diploma in Social Anthropology, but did not
complete his degree. He returned to his native Ghana, where he played a prominent role
in his country’s politics. He supported his country’s first President, Kwame Nkrumah,
acting for a while as his secretary, but later went into opposition against him.
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ANDREW DAVID DERRY HILL (Radley) died on 7 May 2018 aged 81. He read PPE
at Univ. News of Andrew’s death came as the Record was going to press, and we hope to
include a fuller tribute in next year’s issue.
NEIL SHANASSY (King’s School, Macclesfield) died on 3 September 2017 aged 80. He
read Geography at Univ. The following tribute by Mrs Sue Freestone, the Principal of
King’s Ely appeared on the school’s website, and is reproduced by permission:
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