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

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206 OBITUARIES WILLIAM RATTRAY SIMPSON (1936) was born in London on 14 December 1916. He was educated at Ardingly College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich before coming up to King’s to read Mechanical Sciences. Bill played football and hockey for the College. In 1936 Bill received a regular commission in the Royal Engineers and from 1938 served as a military engineer in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sudan. In 1948 he handed over command of the Engineer Troops, Sudan, to the first Sudanese Regimental Commander. Bill retired from the Army in 1949 as a Lieutenant-Colonel and settled in South Africa, initially as a contracting engineer and later as a consulting civil engineer. In 1961 he joined Stewart, Sviridov and Oliver as a Partner and was President of the South African Association of Consulting Engineers for 1973/4. In 1979 he was involved in founding a new joint practice, Stewart, Scott & Partners (with Scott & De Waal). In 1982 Bill retired from active practice but continued to work as a consultant until 1994. He had married Barbara Brathwaite in January 1943, but she predeceased him in 1986. Bill died in South Africa in 1998 or 1999. YORICK SMYTHIES (1935) was a philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s star pupil and a friend of Iris Murdoch. Yorick was born at Shanklin, on the Isle of Wight, on 21 February 1917. At the age of five he put a sign on his door: “Do not disturb: reading Plotinus.“ After attending Harrow he came up to King’s to read for the Moral Sciences Tripos and moved solely among philosophers. He became known as a friend and disciple of Wittgenstein and was often the only person allowed to take notes during his lectures. After reading Kierkegaard, on Wittgenstein’s recommendation, whilst still a student, he decided to convert to Roman Catholicism.Yorick was passionate about religion, being particularly concerned with sin and saintliness. He strove for clarity and honesty, often through rigorous self-examination, in an attempt to become
the kind of person prescribed in Christianity. This required constant vigilance against self-deception. After King’sYorick became a librarian at the Barnett Library in Oxford, a post he obtained with the help of a warm testimonial from Wittgenstein. He continued to study philosophy during evenings and weekends, putting aside regular times for this purpose. In 1944 he married Diana Pollard (known as Polly).The couple had a son, Danny. Yorick’s friendship with Iris Murdoch prospered after her return to teach at StAnne’s College, Oxford in 1948. She described him as a cross between Hamlet and the grave-digger – thin, stooped, myopic, tall and pure of heart. Close friends claimed that he was totally truthful to the point of wild eccentricity. From her journals it is clear that the character Hugo Belfounder in her first novel Under the Net is a portrait of Yorick, although she commented: “What a poor image of Yorick Hugo Belfounder is! … The fault is mine.” She found Yorick a wise counsellor and excellent listener and in 1977 tried to persuade her publisher Chatto & Windus to give serious consideration to a philosophical work by him, without success. Yorick did publish a review of Russell’s History ofWestern Philosophy, in which he outlined his fear that the book would encourage “slipshod thinking”. Yorick was a pacifist who held original views and was widely cultured. However, his attempt at learning to drive was not a success and an early wish to become a bus conductor was thwarted by his failing the theory test, probably the only person in the bus company’s history to have done so.Yorick died in 1980. Iris Murdoch wrote his death into the novel she was working on at the time, The Philosopher’s Pupil. OLIVER EDWARD SYMES (1929) enjoyed a long and eventful life before passing away at the age of 95. He came from humble beginnings, born in London to a mechanic and a ladies’ maid. Oliver was gifted enough to gain a place at the newly opened Christ’s Hospital School at Horsham. At Christ’s 207 OBITUARIES
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