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

conference hall by belting into a very loud song, forcing the meeting in the
next room to take a break and causing staff to come running, but he carried
on with his usual aplomb.
David was a keen squash player, and continued with the sport until he was in
his eighties. As he got older, he became more devious and began to choose
novice opponents whom he could beat. In old age he had to endure total hip
replacement surgery, and when he recovered, he showed off to his colleagues
in the Department of Astronomy by running the length of the corridor and
back. Most of all, he loved to sit at the head of the family table as patriarch,
entertaining all with his storytelling, wit and mischief.
David died on 14 November 2004.
JOHN ANDERSON FALK (1930), son of G A F (1895), nephew of H F
(1897), brother of M G E F (1935), father of S J F (1961) and cousin of P F
(1929) and M Dods (1936), was born on 10 June 1910 in Bristol. After
Gresham’s School he came up to King’s to read Natural Sciences. John went on
to University College Hospital, London, and in 1936 married Irene Hezlet.
From 1939 he worked in general medical practice in Warminster, Wiltshire,
although this was interrupted by war service with the Royal Army Medical
Corps. From 1942 to 1945 John was a prisoner of war in Japan. He died in
Wiltshire on 23 October 1997; his wife died a few days later.
ROBERT ALEXANDER FARQUHARSON (1943), brother of J J F (1939),
father of W R P F (1979), always known as Robin, was a gifted diplomat and
a devoted countryman whose life was divided between service in some of the
hotspots of the Cold War and country pursuits in the calmer surroundings of
his Wiltshire home.
Robin was born on 26 May 1925 and came to King’s College via Harrow, a
school to which he had won a scholarship in 1938. At King’s Robin read
History at a time when the contemporary political and military situation must
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