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

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contracted polio whilst in service, and was returned to England where he was
discharged from hospital in 1947.
He then took his place at King’s. His friend and university flatmate for
academic year 1947/8, Frank Porter, recalls days of heavily rationed food and
al fresco lunches with Maurice dining on much-appreciated malt loaf and
sherry. Maurice and Frank both ended up moving to London and maintained
their friendship there. Both were active in the Inter-VarsityVacation Club (later
known simply as the Intervarsity Club), which had been founded by
Cambridge students two years earlier.The men often attended weekly dances
in Chelsea, which were apparently well attended by local nurses in order to
achieve a gender balance.
Whilst at Cambridge, Maurice met Inger Guldbransen, who was a student
at Homerton. The couple married in 1951 at the Norwegian Church at
Rotherhithe, and went on to have three children: Michael, Rosemary and
Helen. Maurice was an active father and a do-it-yourself handyman. With
his children, he constructed a tree house, a doll’s house and a train set as
well as a seaworthy Mirror Dinghy that he took to the waters with his son.
In 1975, Maurice and Inger separated. Maurice then moved to Oxton,
Wirral, and in May 1978 married Fay Maureen Kekewich, with whom he
travelled widely.
Professionally, Maurice served a long career with the Royal Insurance
Company, for whom he was appointed Fire Superintendent in 1963. He was
a regular speaker at the Chartered Insurance Institute, and finished his career
as Assistant Manager (Special Duties) in 1984 and Chairman of the Liverpool
Salvage Corps. He also published, in 1963, his book Special Perils Insurance.
Throughout his retirement he remained active in several charities, but
foremost with the local Abbeyfield Society home.
For many years, Maurice was an avid stamp collector and made many close
philatelist friends and acquaintances throughout the county. Fay also recalls
her late husband’s love of gardening and his well-cultivated vegetable plot in
which Maurice was particularly good at growing tomatoes.