University College Oxford Record 2020

PROFESSOR HORACE
ROMANO “ROM” HARRÉ
(King’s College, Auckland, and
University of New Zealand, Auckland)
died on 17 October 2019 aged 91.
He read for a BPhil in Philosophy.
From 1957-60 he was a Lecturer in
Philosophy at the University of Leicester,
and then in 1960, he was appointed to a
University Lectureship in the Philosophy of
Science. In 1963 he became a Senior Member
of Linacre House, and then a Fellow of Linacre
College. In 2000 he was appointed a Professor
of Psychology at Georgetown University,
Washington DC.
1955:
DAVID HUME BAYLEY
(Denison University) died on 10 May 2020 aged
87. He read PPE at Univ. We are very grateful
to two of David’s former colleagues, Professor
Lorraine Mazerolle of Queensland University,
and Professor Lawrence Sherman of Cambridge
University, for providing this tribute:
David Hume Bayley died on May 10th
2020 at Kendal, a retirement village located
just outside of Granville, Ohio, the home of
Denison University, where he earned his BA
in philosophy in 1955. He went on to Oxford,
Princeton, Denver and SUNY-Albany to become
the world’s pre-eminent scholar of comparative
policing, for which he was elected a Fellow of the
ASC in 1999 and received the ASC Division of
Policing Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.
Starting with his 1969 masterpiece The Police and
Political Development in India, David went on to
write Forces of Order: Police Behavior in Japan &
the United States (1976), for which the Japanese
government awarded him in 2016 the great
honour of the Order of the Rising
Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.
His other sixteen books included
Minorities and the Police (with H.
Mendelsohn, 1969), Police and Society
(ed. 1977), Patterns of Policing (1985),
The New Blue Line (with J. Skolnick,
1986) and Police for the Future (1994).
David spent much of his career studying
police and policing across the globe: India, Japan,
Singapore, Australia, South Africa, Northern
Ireland, Bosnia, Latin America and New
Zealand. He contributed to significant reforms
of police agencies (he was a member of the
team supporting the Oversight Commissioner,
Northern Ireland, for the implementation of
the Patten Commission from 2000 to 2007).
He made friends with police constables and
commissioners, students and senior scholars.
Everyone was interesting to David, and
everyone was keen to know David’s view on
police in political context, in historical context
and where the transformations were heading
for police and policing.
David moved to the State University of
New York (SUNY) at Albany in 1985, where he
was the Dean of the School of Criminal Justice
(from 1995-1999) and retired as a Distinguished
Professor (Emeritus) in 2010. During his time
in SUNY, David and his wife Chris lived in a
wonderful 250-year-old farmhouse in Feura Bush,
close to their daughters Jennifer and Tracy and
granddaughter Sarah. They hosted many scholars,
police and students there, always keen to host
a barbecue in summer or roast in winter, talking
about life, sorts and his passion about police and
policing. After retirement, he lectured repeatedly
for the Cambridge University executive course
at the National Police Academy of India in
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