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

GEOFFREY WINDSOR PEARSON (1943) was born in Llandaff, Cardiff, on
12 February 1926 and attended Luton Grammar School before coming to
King’s to read History and Economics. His studies were interrupted by the war
when he served with the 2nd Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment,
achieving the rank of Sergeant.
After graduation Geoffrey worked initially as an export executive, before
deciding to go into teaching. He obtained an MEd at Bristol and finished his
career as Head of the Education Department at the Luton College of Higher
Education. After retirement he worked as a dealer of second-hand and
antiquarian books. Geoffrey died on 31 May 2006, survived by his wife
Marion, whom he had married in 1967.
WILLIAM THEODORE PIKE (1957) was born on 10 September 1935 in
Dar-es-Salaam. Having gained a BA and LLB from Dublin, he came to King’s
to follow the Overseas Service Course. He then spent several years in
provincial administration. From 1964 to 1975William was Assistant Registrar
on the General Board of the Faculties and Board of Graduate Studies at
Cambridge University, and he was also a Fellow at St Edmund’s House from
1968 to1975. From 1980 he worked as a solicitor.
William was a founding member of the Book of Common Prayer Action
Group, now known as the Prayer Book Society, which seeks to ensure that the
Book of Common Prayer continues to be used and that it becomes more
widely known and understood. He died in November 1996, survived by his
wife Jean Marie, whom he married in 1968, and their children Theodore
and Charlotte.
GEORGE AMES PLIMPTON (1950) was born on 18 March 1927. His father
was a founding partner of Debevoise and Plimpton, the distinguished New
York law firm, and later Ambassador to the United Nations, while his mother
was an Ames, whose forebears arrived in the Mayflower. As a soldier George
reached Italy “two weeks after the cessation of hostilities” and so was able,
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