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

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OBITUARIES
possible. In his flying pigs, David competed in both national and
international gliding competitions. He also served as Vice Chairman to the
British Gliding Association from 1965 to 1970.
In 1967 he and Barbara moved to Hartley Wintney in Hampshire, as they had
ties to the area through his chairmanship of the Lasham Gliding Society in the
early 1960s. David was instrumental in establishing Lasham as an important
gliding club by negotiating the lease of the airfield with the government.
Today it is one of the largest gliding clubs in the world. David also involved
himself in local politics, serving on the Hart District Council as an
Independent from 1982 to 1990. His passion for gliding remained, and he
only gave up flying when he turned 70 in the early 1990s.
David was a big man, both in body and in spirit. He was known by his family
and friends for his kindness and instinctual regard for fairness. With a frame
and loud volume like David’s it was easy for him to become a dominant
figure, but his humour and raucous laughter combined with easy manners to
win him the heart and respect of those around him. His strength of spirit
became painfully clear towards the very end of his life when he managed to
recover emotionally after having lost both his wife and his daughter.When he
died a toy piglet was found tucked up in his hospital bed. His cleaner, Dawn,
had given him the last addition to his collection.
PETER JAMES CHAMBERLAIN (1948) dedicated his life to music. He was
born on 10 March 1927 and died peacefully in his home on 9 July 2005.
Countless individuals were taught music by Peter.Yet in the beginning it was
Botany that fascinated him, and it was this subject that he read at King’s after
attending the University College School in London. After Cambridge he was
appointed Lecturer in Botany at University College, London, where he also
started to prepare for a PhD.
In 1952 Peter suddenly changed careers and abandoned his mosses for the
violin, as a student of Max Rostal at the Guildhall School of Music. After two