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

English in what used to be called an Oxford accent, the like of which had
hardly been heard since the 1920s. An unworldly person, who probably
appeared to be almost as exotic in India as in Cambridge, he was once heard
to say during a conversation about aims in life: “What I would really like to
be is … a dilettante”– a highly characteristic utterance.
After undertaking graduate studies in Political Science at Princeton, Harsh
became a journalist, working for prominent papers in India and London. After
moving back to the USA, where he established his permanent residence, he
worked for various companies in NewYork writing on financial matters before
relocating to California where he worked as a business consultant. He was
married twice, firstly to Mantosh Singh and then for some years to Otome Klein,
although the couple had no children and the marriage was later dissolved.
Harsh had various interests including horseracing, history and music. He was
an avid reader and writer with a great sense of humour and very strongly held
views on political matters. He died at his home in Pismo Beach, California on
3 May 1991.
PETERWILLIAM ROBERT INGRAM (1947) died on 27 September 2005 in
Lisbon, where he had lived for almost five decades. He was a strong-willed
though quiet and modest man who had with diligence served as an insurance
broker and made a name for himself not only for being successful in his career
but also for being an honest man.
Peter was born in Wimbledon on 9 April 1925 and went to school at Harrow
before winning an Exhibition at King’s. Before coming to Cambridge Peter
joined the RAF in 1943, and he stayed in the force until 1947. It later
transpired that not only did Peter see service in Denmark and Iraq, but also he
was reading Nazi codes at the top-secret code-breaking base at Bletchley. He
was characteristically too self-effacing to mention this.
After reading Modern Languages and graduating in 1949, Peter took up a
position at Matthew Wrightson, a Lloyds and international insurance broker.
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