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

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OBITUARIES
where he remained close to his good friend Dorothy Turner, but travelled
widely. However, in 2002 he moved to Vancouver where his children were
able to take care of him at home until his death from cancer on 19 June 2003.
MICHAEL THOMAS HAMER (1964) was born in Welwyn Garden City in
December 1945 and educated at his local grammar school. A Scholar and
Prizeman, he read History at King’s and went on to take his PhD, which was
awarded in 1971. Michael then became a stockbroker in the City. In 1967 he
married Janet Eaglestone. Unfortunately King’s has no other record of his life
except that he died in June 2002.
CLIFFORD GERALD HANSFORD (1917) hailed from Somerset and was
educated at Lexey’s School in Bruton. At King’s he read Natural Sciences and
achieved a First. From 1922 to 1926 Clifford worked as a microbiologist in
the Department of Agriculture in Jamaica and in 1924 he married Lizzie May
Corbett. In 1926 Clifford moved to become a mycologist in the Department
of Agriculture in Uganda. King’s has very little other information about his
life, although he published widely and is recorded as having collected plants
in Africa for various museums and botanic collections around the world. We
have recently discovered that Clifford died in 1966.
GEORGE SEDDON HARRISON (1955) was a prominent chemical engineer
who followed a successful career in the chemical industry with a return to
academia, lecturing at two of South Africa’s top universities.
Seddon was born on 27 April 1929 in Pietermaritzberg, the eldest of four
children. His father was a railway engineer, which meant that the family moved
house frequently. Seddon attended several schools before Parktown Boys’ High
School where he obtained distinctions in Mathematics, Latin, Greek and
English. He went on to the University of the Witwatersrand where he studied
Chemical Engineering, obtaining a BSc (Eng), and then in 1952 his PhD, before
spending three years with the Union Corporation as a metallurgist.