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

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172 OBITUARIES IAN LESLIE NICOL (1944) was born in August 1926 and educated at the Royal Liberty School in Romford. After reading Economics and Geography at King’s he worked as a mercantile assistant in a rubber-producing company. He spent 10 years in Nigeria and was later Assistant Principal at the Isle College in Wisbech when he retired. He was married and had a son and daughter, although his son predeceased him. Ian was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia three months before his death on 11 December 1999. He had fond memories of his time in Cambridge. SUSAN JEAN NIGHTINGALE (1978) was born in Virginia Water on 30 March 1957. After attending Slough High School for Girls she went on to Exeter University where she gained a First in Maths. Sue came up to King’s to read for Maths Part III, and then worked for the Meteorological Office in Bracknell as a support scientist. Sue died from liver cancer on 20 August 2000. RALPH HENRY JOHN NOBLE (1942), son of R A N (1951), was born in June 1924, at Fivedock, New South Wales, Australia, to Bonnie May, who died soon after childbirth, and Ralph Athelstane Noble. He was raised by his father and stepmother, Millicent Miller; she was the only mother he could remember. His father’s study of medicine took the young John, as he preferred to be known, around the world to the USA, England and back to Australia before the family settled in Cambridge in 1935. John was enrolled in the King’s College Choir School. Though he was a boarder and not a chorister, he developed an appreciation of the fine music that was to remain with him for the rest of his life. After preparatory school, he moved to Gresham’s where he played rugby for the school’s 1st XV and held the rank of Sergeant in the Cadet Corps. Having spent his school holidays enjoying work on farms owned by friends, John decided to study for a degree in Agricultural Science when, in 1943, he was offered a place at King’s. During his first year at Cambridge, John attended every lecture – often three in a morning – and every practical in the afternoon, either stuck in the
laboratories or out in the fields. In spite of his parents’ disapproval, at the end of his first year John took the opportunity to sign up to the Armoured Wing of the Officer Training Corps. He wanted to be in tanks, but before moving into a specialised regiment John had to undertake preliminary training. This meant sharing a barrack room with another 30-odd recruits at Fulford, near York, amongst whom he met two men from King’s, Barry Gibson and Ian Wylie – the latter a fellow Agriculture student and John’s close friend. All of them elected to join the Royal Armoured Corps and were a crack platoon of keen and quick learners. John was posted to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Within two months of graduating he was with the First Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment. He became Officer in Command of No 5 troop and was involved in the battles at Arnhem and in the Ardennes, as part of the Allied push. One dawn in 1945, two weeks before the German surrender, Lieutenant Noble was shot in the head by a sniper, eight miles from the objective of Hamburg. Standing in the turret of his tank answering a radio signal call, the bullet passed through his cheek and neck. John returned to Cambridge after two further years in the Army. He remained the committed student he had been, but cut the distraction of college rugby from his life in order to complete his two remaining years of Agricultural Science in a single year. Leaving Cambridge, John moved back to Australia to try to make a life for himself there. It was there he met Gwen, who became his wife. In 1954, John made enquiries about the new field of farm broadcasting for the Australia Broadcasting Company, and soon enough, after work in radio, he was one of the very early weathermen on ABC TV. During his years at the ABC, John visited Africa and Asia to impart his knowledge of broadcasting as part of some courses sponsored by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation. This fuelled John’s interest in travel, that he was able to engage in much more fully after transferring to the newly created position of Director of Publicity Services on the Australian Meat Board. The 12 years John spent travelling around the world educating 173 OBITUARIES
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120 OBITUARIES LAMBERT ANTHONY CHAR
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