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

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OBITUARIES
Churches Trust, he also took on the role of Seminars Secretary to the North
Norfolk National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Society. Albert died
on 23 January 2002.
PATRICK JOHN WILDE (1968) was born in Manchester and educated at
King Edward VII School, Lytham St Annes. He came up to King’s to read
History and was an ardent cricketer. From King’s, Patrick entered the civil
service and worked in the Department of the Environment, where he became
an Assistant Secretary in his early thirties. He then moved into management
consultancy, working for Deloitte Haskins and Sells.At this time he also played
cricket for Dulwich in the Surrey League.
Patrick married firstly Penelope Simpson in 1971 and later Imogen Luxton in
1978, but both marriages were dissolved.
The College has very little information about Patrick’s life after 1990. He lived
alone in South London and effectively became a recluse. He died in June
1999, aged 49, from unknown causes, survived by his two daughters from his
marriage to Imogen.
KATHLEEN VAUGHAN WILKES (1972) was a philosopher of courage and
intellectual passion. When she and her four brothers (two elder and two
younger) were born, their father, already ordained in the Church of
England, was Warden of Radley College. In later life, Kathy used sometimes
to talk as though she herself had been educated at Radley. In fact she had one
year at Leeds High School and then went as a day pupil at Wycombe Abbey.
Throughout her teens, her passion was for every kind of sport, and
especially riding. She had her own horse, which lived in a meadow by the
Thames but which accompanied the family on summer holidays in
Herefordshire where her aunt and uncle lived. It was here, at the end of her
first year as a scholar at St Hugh’s, that her horse tripped over an unseen
wire and rolled on her, breaking her pelvis and back and condemning her
to a life of almost constant pain.