2012 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

OBITUARIES I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 139
He enjoyed working with wood, whether making jewellery or practical pieces for his
wife's farm. He loved to spend time in the nearby mountains skiing and climbing and
did the Haute Route (Chamonix-Zermatt) several times. When he retired, he bought
himself a chalet in a ski resort in Le Grand Bornand and settled there. It was in the chalet
he wrote a translation of Franco Fortini’s poems, entitled "Summer is not all", and
produced a translation of "Canti" by Giacomo Leopardi.
He married Catherine Lévy in 1954. Catherine already had a son and the couple went
on to have another boy.
LI, Fook Kow (1957) died on 27 October 2011 aged 89.
Fook Kow Li was born on 15 June 1922 in Hong Kong. He attended Wah Yan College,
Hong King, before studying Metallurgy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
graduating from M.I.T. BSc in 1944; MSc in 1945. After the war, he returned to Hong
Kong, working first as a teacher at St Paul’s Co-educational College. He joined the Hong
Kong Government Secretariat in 1954 and came to Jesus in 1957 to study the Overseas
Services Course. After again returning to Hong Kong he remained with the Secretariat
and served in various posts including as: Secretary for Social Services; Secretary for
Home Affairs; and Chairman of the Public Service Commission before retiring in 1987.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1975.
He married Edith Kwong in 1946; the couple had two daughters and two sons.
LUNN-ROCKLIFFE. David Craven (1947) died on 23 August 2011 aged 86.
David Lunn-Rockliffe was born on 28 December 1924 in Southampton. Educated at
Stowe School, he served in Burma during the Second World War. He came up in 1947,
the third generation of his family to do so. He read Economics and Agriculture,
graduating BA 1950; MA 1961. His time at college showed the breadth of his interests,
his considerable charm and his ability in practical affairs; for example he organised the
College May Ball in his final term. After graduation he continued to have wide interests
both in his hobbies and his business life. In business he, in some cases concurrently,
worked as a diary famer, served as development director of the Institute of Corn &
Agricultural Merchants, ran a specialist paint manufacturer, was chief executive of the
Amateur Rowing Association and was founder and chairman of the River & Rowing
Museum Foundation at Henley-on-Thames.
He married Elizabeth Victoria Capron in 1950; they had five daughters.
MALLETT, Hugh Michael Finer (1943) died on 25 February 2012 aged 86.
Michael Mallett was born on 31 March 1925 in Bradford. Educated at Bradford Grammar
School, he came up in 1943 on a RAF short course and caught the rowing bug. After
leaving Cambridge he was posted to Canada until VJ day and then to Egypt; where he
rowed on the Nile. He returned to college in 1947, and continued his rowing and this
time combined it with journalism as rowing correspondent of Varsity writing under the
nom-de-plume “Wash-out”. A photograph of him sat in bed taking his finals graced the
front page of the student rag after he was struck down with shingles. His taste for
writing led to a career as a freelance journalist.
He married Pamela Margaret Raby in 1961 and they had a son and daughter.