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

town was unrivalled, as was his keenness to share it. He served as Chairman
of the Epping Forest Conservative Association for 10 years and was a
supporter of the Army Benevolent Fund as well as countless local charities.
John died on 9 September 2005 and is remembered as a very kind and
charming gentleman.
ALAN SIMKINS (1944) was an engineer, based in the Midlands. Born in
Shenstone on 24 November 1926, Alan was educated at the Royal
Wolverhampton School before coming up to King’s where he read Mechanical
Sciences. After National Service with the Royal Engineers Alan went to work
for the City of Birmingham Water Department as an Assistant Engineer. He
later moved on to the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company and from
1960 worked as a construction engineer. In July 1957 he married June. Alan
died on 6 September 1996.
CHRISTOPHER GORDON HORSFALL SIMON (1934), son of H S (1899)
and brother of A F H S (1928), was born in Knutsford, Cheshire in 1914. He
came to King’s from Gresham’s School to study Economics under Keynes, and
told of helping to test the gallery at the Arts Theatre in advance of a
performance by Keynes’ wife, the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova. It passed
the test.
After Cambridge, Christopher went to the British Council, although this was
interrupted by war service in the Intelligence Corps where he rose to the rank
of Major. In 1948 he returned to the north west to join the family business,
Simon Engineering Ltd. He married Marjorie Roberts in 1952.
For many years a magistrate on the Manchester City bench, Christopher also
took on a variety of other roles, including member of both the Court and
Council of the University of Manchester, member of Manchester City Cultural
Committee and member of the North West Regional Hospital Board. He died
on 20 February 2002.
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