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

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88 OBITUARIES WILLIAM DELBERT (DEL) BLACKBURN (1933) was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on 14 April 1914 and educated at Aldenham before coming up to King’s to read Natural Sciences. After graduating he joined Shell, marketing petroleum by-products. With the outbreak of war he became Production Manager for PB Cow & Co Ltd in a factory manufacturing barrage balloons and rubber dinghies. Del joined the Royal Army Ordinance Corps, from which he was recalled from time to time to manage the balloon factory, and saw a final posting in Singapore after its repossession in 1945. After the war, Del and his wife Norma, whom he had married in July 1947, established a company, Hartsbourne Fashions, manufacturing women’s and children’s clothing in Mayfair. This they sold in 1960 to move to the more agreeable surroundings of Bexhill-on-Sea, where they had a ladies outfitters shop. On retirement to Hope Cove, Devon, in 1975, Del could at last indulge his enduring passion for gardening, in particular the raising of camellias and fuchsias. In old age the couple moved to Egham and then Sunningdale to live with their only daughter Lynn and granddaughter Alexandra. Del died on 5 August 2005, survived by Norma. MARTIN BUTLER BOOTH (1957) son of E B (1925), grandson of Sir A A B (1891), nephew of P B (1925), brother of A E B (1953), P A B (1964) and E D B (1966), was born in Liverpool on 18 December 1936 into a family with many connections with King’s. His grandfather, father and eldest brother had preceded him, and both his younger brothers followed. After education at Gordonstoun, Martin went into National Service in the Navy, and his love of the sea remained one of the most important factors in his life. He liked nothing better than being in charge of a small boat heading out on one of his many adventurous cruises. Then came King’s, where Martin read History. The two-year break between school and university he considered to have been a definite advantage; his comparative maturity and experience when he started at King’s allowed him to enjoy the life it offered to the full, and his three years were happy ones. When he left King’s, he studied a further year to gain a Certificate of Education
from London University (a much less stimulating university, he found, than Cambridge). As a born educator and communicator, Martin found teaching was a natural choice of career. In 1961 he was appointed as Assistant Master at Bury Grammar School in Lancashire, where he soon acquired a reputation for passion and imagination in his teaching. It was at Bury that he met his future wife Meg, whom he married in 1968; their lifelong and productive partnership and their two daughters became and remained at the centre of Martin’s subsequent life. Martin left Bury two years before his marriage to develop his ideas about the teaching of History by taking a Master of Education degree at Southampton, which he later developed into a PhD at Reading.The research formed the basis of his book History Betrayed?, which had an enormous influence on the teaching and examination of history in schools, stimulated the Schools History Project and helped to shape what would become the GCSE in History. The research was also a factor in Martin’s appointment at the age of 30 as Head of History at Burnt Mill Comprehensive School in Harlow. It was there between 1967 and 1972 that Martin’s stature as a teacher became firmly established. Students and teachers were encouraged to think for themselves, and innovation was pursued for the sake of real improvement, not just for fashion. Not only was he an inspiring and popular teacher, remembered with real affection, but (assisted perhaps by his earlier training in the Navy) an excellent Department Head. In 1972, Martin moved into teacher training, taking the post of Senior Lecturer in Education at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, and in 1981 that of University Lecturer in History and Education at Cambridge, where he remained until his retirement. In 1995 he was appointed Head of the Department of Education at Cambridge, and in 1996 became a Fellow of Hughes Hall, where his links became in many ways stronger than those with King’s. He edited the College’s Annual Report, organised its series of weekly interdisciplinary seminars and was a stimulating and loving supervisor, colleague and mentor to many generations of students and Fellows. From 89 OBITUARIES
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