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

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190 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
a while the conversation began to languish. “Gramble” was a charming but immensely shy man and in a desperate bid to revive things he raised his eyes from the floor and said: “I suppose that is something very anatomical over the mantelpiece”. His eyes had got as far as a long trace entitled ”Perfusions of a Rabbit’s Heart” stuck on the wall, but all other eyes were looking at the large nude drawing. In 1956 Monty qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and he also married Alison. Unfortunately the College has no further record of his life. He died in 1997 in Somerset. BASIL NORMAN RECKITT (1923), nephew of P R (1892), lived to celebrate a full 100 years before he passed away after a short illness. He was a philanthropist and writer who became a respected public figure in East Yorkshire as well as being a much loved father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Though Basil was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, on 12 August 1905, it was in Hull that the Reckitt family had made a name for themselves.After attending Uppingham School and reading History and English at King’s, Basil too moved to Hull to begin his professional life. In 1840 Basil’s great-grandfather had rented a starch mill in the city. The mill was soon bought and around it an enterprise developed that diversified into making household products. In 1927, when Basil entered the accounts department of the firm, it was called Reckitt & Sons. Basil hated the job.Accounting was not for a man who thrived in human company as he did. He was much more satisfied when moved into the firm’s advertising department, where his social skills could be put to real use. Later on he was to reach the very top of the corporation’s hierarchy, serving as Director, Vice-Chairman, and then Chairman, for which his social talent was even better suited. He retired from active business in 1970. In 1938 Basil joined the Territorial Army in which he was to serve during the Second World War. Towards the end of the war, in 1944, Basil was 191 OBITUARIES
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88 OBITUARIES WILLIAM DELBERT (DEL)
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110 OBITUARIES Edwin was well liked
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120 OBITUARIES LAMBERT ANTHONY CHAR
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130 OBITUARIES ALASTAIR CAMERON FOR
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