2012 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

128 OBITUARIES I Jesus College Annual Report 2012
Electric Company, which later became part of the General Electric Company. Lory
worked on the design staff of the diesel engine departments in Rugby, Preston and
Newton-le-Willows. His work sometimes took him abroad, to Malta, Canada, Argentina
and Australia. Lory met Bessie Jonathan at an adult education centre in Rugby. They
married in 1938 and had a daughter, Enid, and a son, Paul. Lory and Bessie lived in
Rugby, Southport, Eccles, Culcheth, Alderley Edge and Sale. He retired in 1974, and
became an active member of his local Probus club and local branch of the University of
the Third Age. Throughout his adult life, Lory attended evening classes in various crafts,
including woodwork, metalwork, pottery and silversmithing, and became a registered
silversmith. He produced some fine work, particularly a silver tea service. Both Lory and
Bessie traveled extensively in their long retirement, visiting friends and relatives
overseas, as well as cruising to many varied locations and caravanning in the UK.
BODLEY, Richard Douglas (1949) died in February 2012 aged 83.
Richard Bodley was born on 13 June 1928 in Cheltenham. Educated at Felsted School he
came up to Jesus in 1949, a year after his cousin Patrick Winterson (1948). He read
History, graduating BA 1952; MA 1962. Soon after graduation he studied Theology at
Westcott House before going on to pursue a career in business. After a brief spell with
the Bank of England he joined the National Coal Board where he remained for nearly
thirty years rising to be Deputy Director of Industrial Relations. After leaving British
Coal, as the National Coal Board had become, he became Senior Partner of the Belgrave
Consultants before semi-retiring in 1991. For the next seven years he continued to serve
on Industrial Tribunals before completely retiring in 1998.
He married Hedvig Kirsten Johannesen in 1958; they had two daughters.
BOOKER-MILBURN, Donald (1962) died on 29 May 2012 aged 72.
Donald Booker-Milburn was born on 20 May 1940 in Dornoch. He attended Trinity
College, Glenalmond, and then read French at Grenoble University before coming up to
Jesus, his father's college, in 1962 to read Modern Languages. The following year he
married Marjorie Burns. After graduation he was a master at Fettes College for three
years. His legal career began with reading law at Edinburgh University followed by
training at Shepherd & Wedderburn and in 1968 he was admitted to the Faculty of
Advocates. By 1980 he had become a sherriff, first of Lothian and the Borders and then
of Grampian and latterly at Inverness and Tain. A keen golfer with a low handicap, he
had been captain of Royal Dornoch Golf Club. He was also a great music lover with a
particular passion for Sibelius. His good friend, Sir Menzies Campbell recalls: "Donald
was a bluff man and a generous host. He was strong minded and he could hit a golf ball
for miles. He loved the North of Scotland and took his duty as a Sheriff seriously but not
so seriously that he could not relax among his friends." Donald had two children, Simon
and Lisa, who report their father's love of his Irish setters and three grandchildren.
BOYES, Simon (1968) died on 25 January 2012 aged 61.
Simon Boyes was born on 11 February 1950 in Wakefield. Educated at Altrincham
Grammar School he came up in 1968 to read Natural Sciences. He graduated BA 1971;