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

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OBITUARIES
intercepted Japanese material. During October the following year he became
Head of Section at the War Office radio station at Forest Moor near Harrogate,
and remained there until his demobilisation as a Lieutenant in April 1946.
Two months later, Ray joined the Government Communications Headquarters
(GCHQ). Initially based at Eastcote in the London suburbs, he later relocated
with the organisation to Cheltenham. He attended one of the first UK/USA
signals intelligence conferences as Secretary in 1948, and through the 1950s
was involved at a progressively senior level in the Station Operations Division
and liaising with other Allied nations, travelling widely. In May 1954 he
married Patricia Shirley Richardson.
Ray later became Deputy to the Senior UK Liaison Officer in Washington and
then headed the Personnel Division and two production divisions.A colleague
described Ray as “an orator and word-spinner in the best tradition of Edmund
Burke coupled with a mathematical bent and a taste for the abstract and
symbolic”. On his retirement in 1977 he was credited with keeping the
organisation on its feet and for stimulating its thinking towards soundness and
clarity. At this time he was also offered a Research Professorship at the US
Naval Postgraduate School.
Ray died in September 1995, predeceased by his wife.
PHILIP ALEXANDER LION FREEMAN (1949), cousin of C Hassan (1942)
and father of P A F (1979), died in November 2004 after suffering a number
of strokes and finally cancer of the throat.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929, Philip was educated at Clifton before
coming up to King’s to read Engineering. After graduation he held several
posts in mechanical engineering before moving into marketing management
and later, life insurance. Philip married Helen, a member of Girton whom he
had met at Cambridge in 1953. The couple had three children before
separating in 1978. Helen died in 1980.