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

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OBITUARIES
LAMBERT ANTHONY CHARLES DOPPING-HEPENSTAL (1939) was born
in Dublin in 1921 and educated at Harrow. At King’s he studied Mechanical
Sciences. From 1941 to 1947 he served with the Royal Electrical and
Mechanical Engineers as a radar maintenance officer, achieving the rank of
Captain. Between 1944 and 1946 he was attached to the Royal Norwegian
Coast Artillery as a technical instructor in radar and was awarded the King
Haakon VII Liberty Cross. In 1947 he married his wife Beatrice. Lambert
subsequently worked as an engineer for the Mullard Electrical Research
Laboratory, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva and the
Cambridge Instrument Company. He died on 3 March 2001.
LAURENCE THOMAS DOYLE (1944), brother of M J D (1951), was a star
sportsman and a chemist. Laurence read Natural Sciences when he came up
to King’s from Alderman Newton’s School at the tail end of the war. After
completing his BA, two years on National Service in the Army Educational
Corps proved to Laurence that he was meant for a career in industry and not
teaching, as he had planned, and on his return to civilian life he joined
British Xylonite in Leicester in the department for research and
development in plastics.
Although Laurence swiftly moved on to a job as Works Manager at the
ceramics plant Lodge Plugs in Rugby, he did have one lasting reminder of his
time in Leicester, which was his marriage to Patricia Shorrock, who had
worked alongside him in the design division. They were married in 1952,
going on to have three children and 53 years of marriage together.
The move south seemed to be a question of trading one “Rugby” in for the
other at first, as the downside to promotion was that it meant Laurence’s
career as a county sportsman was rudely curtailed. Unlike in Leicester, where
he had got his first cap against an Oxford University team, his superior at his
new job did not sympathise with his passion for the playing field and would
not allow him to take time off work for county matches. But Laurence did
manage to compete at a club level – at which he excelled. In Leicester, he had
been selected to play for the Tigers, but later he joined and eventually