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

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OBITUARIES
Sciences. Between 1926 and 1934 he was an engineer with the Patent Agents
in Paris. From 1947 to 1973 Thomas was a Director at the British Rubber
Company (later Uniroyal) in Edinburgh. He was later a Director and
subsequently Chairman of the Rubber Regenerating Company in Manchester.
In 1971 and 1972 Thomas served as Chairman of the Oxford and Cambridge
University Club. He was married twice, firstly to Mary Gilroy and then to
Margaret Smyly.Thomas died on 15 March 1999.
FRANCIS PAUL CLIFT (1928) worked for Arthur Guinness, Son & Co Ltd for
over 40 years in various capacities, finally as a Company Director.
Born on 5 September 1909 in London, Francis attended Tonbridge School
before coming up to King’s to read Natural Sciences. He graduated in 1931
with a First, started to work at Guinness in 1933, and in June 1937 he married
Phyllis Clarke. The couple had three children, Barbara, Hugh and Charles.
From 1966 until his retirement in 1975, Francis was Managing Director of
Guinness Overseas, a subsidiary company set up to establish brewing and
marketing facilities abroad. He died on 28 March 1997.
DAVID GRAHAM COCKBURN (1953), son of R D C (1924), was born in St
Helens, Isle of Wight, on 20 August 1933. After Eton, David served with the
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Fleet Air Arm. At King’s he read
Geography and Archaeology and Anthropology.
In 1956 he joined the Society of British Aircraft Constructors as an export
officer before becoming a Manager at Vickers. After a spell at Robinson Frere
& Co Ltd he moved on to become a Director at RHP International. In 1979 he
joined Redland until 1984, when he became Managing Director of Getaway
Travel and Getaway Holidays.
David married Joy Bazett in 1957. He died on 25 March 1999.