2012 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

OBITUARIES I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 137
graduated BA 1952, MA 1956; and soon departed for a career in India. He spent his
entire working life in India, rising to become Vice Chairman and Managing Director of
Mather & Platt (India) Limited. His contributions to industry were recognised when he
was appointed O.B.E. in 1987. Following retirement in 1989 he returned to England
making his home in Macclesfield and later in Warrington.
He married Alexandra Edwards in 1955 and they had two daughters and a son.
HARTLEY, John Neil (1933) died on 17 October 2011 aged 96.
John Hartley was born on 28 March 1915 near Burnley in Lancashire. Educated at the
Leys School he came up in 1933 to read Natural Sciences. He served as a flight lieutenant
in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. Following
demobilisation he pursued a career as a pharmacist before moving into business.
HILL, Vyvyan Dudley (1928) died on 19 October 1993 aged 82.
Vyvyan Hill was born on 10 January 1911 in Hawk’s Bay New Zealand. Educated at
Christ’s College, New Zealand, he came up to Jesus in 1929 to read Engineering.
After fighting in North Africa during the Second World War he returned home to take
over the family farm. In the 1960s he converted the farm into an orchard.
He married Elizabeth Beatrice Harvey in 1944; they had two girls and a boy.
HONEY, Christopher Simon (1979) died on 23 May 2012 aged 52.
Chris Honey was born on 21 October 1959 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (then Malaya).
Educated at Eltham College, he came up to Jesus in 1979 to read Architecture,
graduating BA in 1982; MA 1985. He was a keen member of Jesus College Boat Club and
the Cambridge University Officers’ Training Corps (having completed a Short Service
Limited Commission in the Queen's Gurkha Engineers in Hong Kong prior to
matriculating). His sister, Alison, followed him to Jesus in 1982. In 1983, he spent a year
working in Malaysia with the leading Kuala Lumpur firm, BEP Akitek Sendirian before
attending the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London,
passing his Diploma in 1985.
After qualifying, Chris spent several years in London working in architectural firms
including Hamilton Associates with Paul Tanner (1966) and GMW. In the late 90s (now
married to Rebecca Williams) he moved back to Asia where he headed an in-house
design office for Michael Tan, a leading Malaysian property developer with whom he
developed a strong friendship. During this time he planned schemes, now executed, in
peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Australia as well as viewing sites in China. After some
years in Kuala Lumpur he and Rebecca returned to the UK to live in Hertfordshire and
their sons Sam and Nat were born. Chris continued to keep up his professional links
with Asia but also developed a busy local architectural practice.
Chris had a seemingly unbounded interest in everyone and everything. He was a
natural linguist and maintained an extensive network of friends from all over the world.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1986, loved travel, opera and
Scandinavian design, Arsenal, all things Asian, his family, his friends and his pugs.
Tragically in 2003, after developing septicaemia from a cat scratch, Chris developed