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

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OBITUARIES
In 1933 he joined the Levant Consular Service, a specialised service whose area
of responsibility extended from Morocco to Persia, including the Balkans and
Turkey. In 1936 he married Sarah Gamble. During the war Lancelot served in
Syria and in 1949 became Oriental Counsellor inTehran. Postings as Counsellor
in Rio de Janeiro and Rabat followed and then Consul General for Zagreb. In
1959 he was awarded a CMG. From 1960 to 1962 Lancelot served as
Ambassador to the Somali Republic in the early days of independence. His final
appointment was as Consul General in San Francisco, a post he held from 1963
to 1966, and he spent his retirement in County Wicklow.
JOHN FISK RANDALL (1949) was born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, on 25
September 1926. He attended Leighton Park School and during the war
served in the RAF. After obtaining a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from
London University he came to King’s to read Economics. John played rugby
and tennis for the College and was Tennis Secretary in 1951. He worked as a
sales engineer for the Cambridge Instrument Company and as a technical
assistant for Hobbies Ltd in Dereham before becoming a management
consultant. He then farmed for 20 years. John married his wife June in 1956.
He died in Dorset in January 1996.
MONTAGUE RAYNE (1944) was a colourful character during his time at
King’s. Monty was a medical student, but had a wide range of interests,
particularly music and art. He appeared to be very worldly and experienced
to his contemporaries, fresh from public school in the sexually repressed
days of the 1940s. Not only did he have a girlfriend, but he had expertly
drawn a large nude portrait of her in charcoal over his mantelpiece. He used
to pin a notice “Bedside Manor” to his oak and enjoyed Tchaikovsky’s Romeo
and Juliet Overture, explaining that it always put his girlfriend in the right mood
when they made love.
Monty seemed to know a lot about almost everything and discussions in his
rooms covered a wide range. On one occasion the Clerical Dean, Archie
Graham-Campbell, was part of a group taking tea in Monty’s room, and after