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

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OBITUARIES
GERALD CHARLES BAYFIELD (1930) was born in Dereham, Norfolk,
on 15 January 1911. He attended Hamond’s Grammar School in Swaffham
and then came up to King’s to read Natural Sciences, before going into
teaching. Before the war he taught at Maidstone Grammar School and King
Edward VII School in Lytham. In 1940 Gerald became an export officer for
the Ministry of Supply. He returned to teaching in 1945 at Sir Joseph
Williamson’s Mathematical School in Rochester, where he was the Senior
Science Master and Head of the Chemistry Department for a number
of years. After retiring Gerald returned to live in Dereham and wrote a
book, Dereham’s Forgotten Scientist: William Hyde Wollaston. He died on 10
September 2001.
DERICK JACOB BEHRENS (1935), nephew of R Geikie (1893), was born
on 9 February 1917 in Haslemere. He was educated at Rugby before coming
up to King’s as a Scholar to read Maths. After graduating he went on to take
a BSc in Physics at the University of Manchester, which he represented
at chess.
In 1941 Derick joined the Air Ministry as a weather forecaster, before moving
on two years later to the Metro-Vickers Gas Turbine Department where he
worked on the design of jet-propulsion engines. He then became a member
of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Atomic Energy Research
Establishment in 1946, where he was to stay for the next eight years. At this
time Derick served as a councillor for Wantage Urban District, and in July
1949 he married Jean Cochrane.
Derick embarked on a change of career in 1956 when he became a
schoolmaster. After brief spells at St Peter’s School and the Downs School,
Seaford, he joined the staff at Roedean in 1959, where he was to stay until his
retirement in 1982. In addition to serving on the International General
Committee of Mensa, for many years Derick edited various, often churchbased,
magazines. Whilst living in Moseley, Birmingham, he also edited
booklets published by his local history society. Derick and Jean later moved to
the Milton Keynes area, where Derick died in March 2004.