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210 OBITUARIES their full potential and to take responsibility for themselves. He also went to great lengths to care for and help boys in trouble.Throughout his period at the Skinner’s School he steered it effectively through the introduction of the National Curriculum as well as thwarting challenges to its grammar school status. In retirement Gerald continued a number of engagements with local organisations and charities in Tunbridge Wells begun during his time as Headmaster. He taught numeracy at the Adult Education Centre and participated in the local Rotary Club of which he served as President for one year. Gerald’s work in the Mental Health Resource Centre, a Tunbridge Wells charity, as Chairman for the Operational Management Committee also won him respect and affection from the local community. He remained active towards the end of his life despite having been diagnosed with cancer; he continued to play piano and to sail. His health deteriorated at the beginning of 2004 and he was cared for at home by his wife Jo. Gerald died on 30 March 2004 at the Kent and Sussex Hospital. He is survived by his wife and their three children Sonya, Martyn and Robert. DEREK ANTHONY TEAGUE THAIN (1947) was born in Cardiff on 22 September 1921. He was educated at Nether Edge Grammar School in Sheffield and then Latymer Upper. During the war he served in the Intelligence Corps, and as a Field Security Officer in the Indian Airborne Division. In 1947 he came to King’s to follow the Colonial Service Course and then worked for the Colonial Administrative Service in Northern Nigeria, becoming Senior District Officer for Kano. In 1963 he was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) and from 1963 to 1973 was with the Home Civil Service, rising to Assistant Secretary. He was awarded an MBE in 1973. Between 1973 and 1982 Derek was Secretary of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Working Party of the Council of the EU. He worked on negotiating and implementing the Convention of Lomé, which guaranteed the access of sugar to the EU market at preferential prices. Derek’s last job before retirement was Honorary Director of the Secretariat General at the EU Council in Brussels.
Derek married his wife Odette in 1950 and they had two children. He died in September 2000. OSCAR MARK THOMSON (1946), brother of G D T (1922), deplored modernity in general and falling standards in grammar in particular. He always signed himself “O M Thomson”, but was known asTommy, colleagues being unaware of what his initials stood for. Tommy was born on 25 May 1919 in London and attended Bradfield College. He came to King’s to read English and was quietly proud of having been in the Choir. Many years later he frequently wore a well-worn navy blazer with the King’s crest, together with his customary cravat. After several years of lecturing at teacher training colleges and for London Extramural, he became a Lecturer in English at the Brooklands Technical College in Weybridge in 1954.Tommy was first married in 1940 and in August 1958 he was married again, to Amy Bowden. Grammar was a subject close to Tommy’s heart and he deplored the lack of attention it was accorded in the modern world. Split infinitives, the modern use of “hopefully” and the sloppiness and illogicality of “different to” were all despised. The irrational request by a student at the staffroom door “Is Mr Taylor there at all?” drew the response “No, not even a little bit of him.” In an attempt to address such failings Tommy authored Essential Grammar (although he preferred the title GrammarYou Need), published in 1978. Tommy’s disgust for modernity went beyond grammar, however. Bypasses, motorways and other road improvements were a particular source of indignation, despite the much-reduced time for his drive to work from his home in Guildford that they enabled. In spite of being a jovial member of staff at Brooklands, Tommy did not socialise with colleagues, and although he was always willing to help out if asked, he never offered assistance spontaneously. He confided to a colleague that after his divorce he had discovered ways to reduce housework, one of 211 OBITUARIES
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