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

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OBITUARIES
born in Coventry on 27 February 1926 and attended Uppingham School. In
1949 he married his wife Diana and for many years he was a Director of
Fownes Gloves Ltd in Worcester. Michael and Diana lived in Malvern for over
40 years before his death on Christmas Day 2005.
THOMAS DOUGLAS CARNWATH (1930) was born on 19 November
1911. He came to King’s from Eton and read Maths and Economics. He was
then articled to the chartered accountants Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co in
London and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1938. In 1939 Thomas
joined the Honourable Artillery Company before being commissioned into
the Royal Signals in 1940, where he served in the UK and India and achieved
the rank of Major. In 1942 he married Winifred Stewart.
In 1945 Thomas returned to chartered accountancy and from 1961 to 1975
was a Partner at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.Winifred died in 1983, and in
1989 Thomas married Berit Stiernstedt. He died on 4 February 1998.
DAVID DUNBAR CARROW (1947), son of R B C (1911), died on 26
September 2004 from the after-effects of a fall. He is survived by his son
Richard Carrow. His beloved wife Barbara and daughter Julia Holroyd had
predeceased him.
David was born on 22 March 1922 in the Avon Valley. He was educated at
Harrow after which he joined the RAF at the height of the war in 1942. His
mathematical skills brought him to the top 5 per cent of his navigational
training course, and he was posted to the Coastal Command on
meteorological flights.
Flying the “Met Flight” brought him into close contact with an attacking
enemy fighter only once, but he was not to stay in this relatively safe posting.
At an RAF squadron flying Halifaxes out of Tarrant Rushton in Dorset, David
came much closer to the war. His job was to tow gliders to positions from
which they could be launched and to carry troops into enemy territory.