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212 OBITUARIES which was to avoid washing up by wiping his plate with a sheet of toilet paper after each meal. Rarely wearing socks may have been another. Tommy retired in 1979 and the College knows very little about his later life. He died in October 2003 in North Devon and is remembered as a valued, gentle and sensitive colleague. CHARLES GRAHAMTHORLEY (1932) was born in 1914 and died just short of his 91st birthday. He had a career in the upper echelons of the civil service that took him all around the world, engaging him in some of the more exciting British economic endeavours of the 20th century. In his work in various roles on behalf of theTreasury and other government offices and as an adviser to the British government, he met and worked with many great figures, from Haile Selassie to de Gaulle and Tony Benn. Charles, as he was called by his friends, or Graham, as he was known to the loving family he adopted in his 40s, came to King’s with a scholarship from Manchester Grammar School in 1932. Initially he studied Modern Languages from which he emerged with a First, but changed to do Economics for Part II, which he studied under the tutelage of John Maynard Keynes. Charles applied the fruits of his King’s education immediately after graduation when he joined the civil service as an economist. At first he worked with the Board of Trade, but he was soon seconded to work at the British Embassy in China for three years, followed by a stint with the British Economic Mission to what was then the Belgian Congo. Charles remained in Africa during the war years, serving as a Lieutenant- Colonel in Eritrea and North Africa organising the Italian forces following the surrender. Soon afterwards, his mastery of foreign languages combined with his skill as an economist led to work for HM Treasury as a delegate on UK financial missions to Japan, USA, Egypt, Germany, France and Switzerland. In the mid 1950s he moved to the Ministry of Power, as it was called before its amalgamation into the Department of Trade and Industry. Charles served as Under-Secretary there, first for coal, then for oil and finally
as the Accountant General. In the last role he was responsible for the development of legislation that enabled the exploitation of North Sea oil and gas and was Chairman of the NATO Petroleum Planning Committee. Before Charles’ partial retirement in 1974, he spent many years at the DTI where he headed up the small firms division. However even after this, he continued to act in an advisory role at the House of Lords. The high standards that Charles expected of himself and others did not just predominate in pursuit of his remarkable career, but in the intellectual ferocity that characterised his face on the outside world. Charles was never a trivial man. But close friends knew him without his briefcase, umbrella and bowler hat, and in these moments he allowed his tremendous sense of humour to come to the fore. Charles had a practical side, not glimpsed by most, and was never happier than when tinkering away in his workshop. He could and did rewire a house – once when performing this favour for friends he confused wires for the upstairs lights and the downstairs switches, and of all those present, he laughed the loudest. RANDALL STEWART THORNTON (1937) was a man of great ability with an outstanding capacity for hard mental work. Randall was born in Swanage on 8 December 1918. He was educated at Highgate School, before being awarded a Scholarship to King’s where he read Modern Languages (French and German), obtaining a First just before the outbreak of war. Randall served his country for the full six years, mostly in East Africa, where as an officer in the King’s African Rifles he took part in the Somaliland and Abyssinian campaigns. After the war he returned to King’s to study Archaeology and Anthropology in which he was also awarded a First.These studies, together with his military experience in Africa, suggested a career in the Colonial Service, which Randall duly joined, serving for the next 10 years as a District Officer and then District Commissioner in Tanganyika. During this time he also qualified as a barrister, achieving a First in the Bar Finals. In 1956 he resigned to practise law in East Africa, with much distinction and success. 213 OBITUARIES
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