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

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OBITUARIES
Valiant. He was awarded theVolunteer Reserve Decoration for long service and
when he stood down he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.
Peter spent the remainder of his working life with the family business, Peter
Dixon & Son, paper importers, starting in sales and eventually becoming
Managing Director. In 1946 he married Margaret Hope Cooper and the
couple lived at Clothall House near Baldock, which Peter filled largely with
objects from the 18th and 19th centuries that he had found in antique shops
and at auctions. During 1967 he served as President of the British Paper
and Boardmakers Association. Peter died on 9 July 2007, predeceased
by Margaret.
PHILIP DOD (1943) was born on 4 April 1925. He attended Uppingham
School before coming to King’s on a short residence.Very little is known about
his life, although after his time in Cambridge he studied at the Liverpool School
of Architecture and is reported to have become a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal
Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was the architect for Kingston House on James
Street, Liverpool, a 10-storey hotel built by the Mersey Mission to Seamen. Sadly
Philip died whilst the building was still under construction in May 1964.
LEWIS RALPH DODD (1942), nephew of L J C Goodbody (1923), cousin of
S P Richardson (1908), was born in Dublin on 3 June 1923 and educated at
Bilton Grange School, Rugby and Malvern College. In all three schools he served
his final year as the Head Boy. Both Lewis’ uncle and cousin were members of
King’s and in 1942 he followed in their footsteps after winning an Exhibition to
read Classics.The war was raging in Europe; after only a year at Cambridge Lewis
enlisted in the Irish Guards. He was commissioned in 1944 and served as an
instructor in an InfantryTraining Battalion.An accident on a field-firing exercise
left Lewis with a seriously injured leg and he was discharged early from the
army in September 1945. He returned to Cambridge and resumed his studies.
Lewis played the part of Xanthias in the1947 The Frogs put on by the Greek Play
Committee, served as Secretary of the Amalgamation Club and was on the
Committee of King’s first May Ball after the war.