Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge

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OBITUARIES
to the needs of his audience, taking the time to explain seminal texts to the
undergraduates and presenting his points in several different ways. He is
remembered as having a pugnacious although humorous style, curling his lip
disdainfully at the mention of other philosophers. He had a disarmingly open
immodesty, a love of showing off and a sense of his own importance,
reflecting the importance he attached to the views he held.
Wolfe was greatly in demand as a writer of references; he was a highly
effective supervisor of his graduate students, encouraging them to develop
their own arguments and to think independently.
Once Wolfe retired from the University of Manchester, he moved a short
distance to join the Department of Politics and Philosophy at the Manchester
Metropolitan University as Emeritus Leverhulme Fellow, before being
appointed Visiting Professor in 1996. A revival of interest in the thinking of
A N Whitehead in the 1990s delighted him and brought him back into
demand as a speaker. Although by then he was too frail to travel, he enjoyed
giving information and advice by telephone and email.
His wife, Claire Oxburgh, predeceased him; he is survived by his son Lawrence.
DAVID MCANALLY (1935), uncle of TJ Dashwood (1967), was a tall and
very fair man, who was gentle, kind, shy and good at sports. He was born in
Edgbaston, Birmingham, where his father was a curate. The family moved
around, as clergy families tend to do, and David went to school near Brighton
and then to Gresham’s in Norfolk, as by that time the family were living at the
rectory in Hethersett, near Norwich. He came to King’s to read Medicine, and
moved on to the Middlesex Hospital. He became a house surgeon at the East
Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital, and was a Lieutenant in the RAMC.
David enjoyed his time at King’s, but at some point he realised that he had
made a wrong choice in opting for Medicine. He felt that the enormous
workload the subject necessitated had prevented him from making the most
of friendships and clubs; he should have specialised in the Natural Sciences