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

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OBITUARIES
GEORGE KENNETH MONRO of Fyrish (1948), son of K N M (1897), was
a Colonial Services officer who spent many years in Nigeria.
Born in Devon on 11 October 1920, George was educated at Canford School,
Wimborne. He worked initially at the Bank of England before serving with the
Royal Engineers during the war in Ceylon, India and Burma (as part of
Wingate’s Special Force). In 1945 George married Ann Hosking, and in 1946
he began his career with the Colonial Service as an administrative officer in
Nigeria. He followed the Colonial Service Course at King’s and then returned
to Nigeria where he ultimately became the Acting Permanent Secretary of the
Ministry of Agriculture & Natural Resources in Nigeria’s Western Region.
After retiring from the Colonial Service in 1960 he returned to the UK and
lived in Hampshire. Unfortunately the College then lost touch with George
and has no further information about his life, except that he died on 24
March 1998.
DOMINIC PAUL MORLAND (1955), son of O C M (1922), grandson of
H J M (1891), brother of M R M (1951) and C F H M (1960) and cousin
of J C M (1956), was the second of four sons of Sir Oscar and
Alice Morland, born in Peking (Beijing) in 1937 where his father worked in
the British Embassy.
He was educated at Ampleforth. Like his grandfather, father and brothers,
Dominic was accepted by King’s, where he read Mathematics for Part I and
then Law. The students at King’s had a reputation for being very bright, and
Dominic more than held his own among them. He joined the Trinity Foot
Beagles and hunted with them three times a week throughout the winter
months; as the name implies, the Foot Beagles ran after the hounds on foot,
and Dominic was a very fine runner indeed, as well as a talented “whipperin”
with a keen instinct for where the hare might have gone.
Dominic’s National Service was with the Grenadier Guards, in which he took
pride. He greatly enjoyed guarding Buckingham Palace and also the Bank of