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

Bill went on to become a farmer in Suffolk. He was the founder Chairman of
the Pollastra Holdings Ltd group of companies and Vice-Chairman of
Framlingham Farmers Ltd. He was also a director of various agricultural
cooperatives. Bill maintained his interest in boats, and owned a variety of
them over the years.
In 1959 he married Anne Christine Thompson. They had four children,
Michael, Annabel, Caroline and Sarah and, at the time of Bill’s death on 24
March 1996, three grandchildren.
COLIN FRANK GREENLAW (1951) was a financial journalist with a love of
the works of Samuel Beckett.
Born in September 1932, Colin grew up in Bristol,Yelverton and Ferndown
with his parents Harold and Millie and sister Mary. He was educated at Stowe
and then came to King’s where he read English and Moral Sciences. He went
on to study law in London and in 1961 was called to the Bar in the Inner
Temple, but then became a financial journalist working for the Investor’s
Chronicle for many years. In 1964 he married Gundy Baumann and the couple
had four children: Christopher, Duncan, Julia and Camilla. Colin was devoted
to his children throughout his life and after their move to Canada following
the break-up of his marriage he remained close to them.
Colin was passionate, wise, gentle and thoughtful and uniquely unprejudiced
and caring about others. His sense of humour was always intact, selfconscious
and irreverent and was combined with a serious but never
overbearing intellectual curiosity. Others were drawn to him for his
unassuming honesty, openness and emotional warmth.
Colin had a great interest in the writings of Samuel Beckett, whom he met
twice in Paris in June and July 1960, and he continued to read and share them
with others until the last weeks of his life.As well as writing fiction, Colin also
wrote journals and letters and was both intensely interested and emotionally
involved in everything he read. For most of his life he was based in London,
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