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

ROBERTWILLIAM KENNAWAY (1927) nephew of F W K (1893), spent his
working life as an engineer. Born on 24 February 1908 in Bromley, Robert
attended Oundle School before coming up to King’s to read Mechanical
Sciences. After serving an apprenticeship with Metropolitan Vickers Electrical
he went on to work for Armstrong Whitworth, English Electric, British
Transport Commission and Crown Agents, amongst others. Robert also served
in the Royal Navy from 1940 to 1945 and in July 1945 he married Annie
Frampton (née Lawrence). He died on 1 March 1998.
HORAS TRISTRAM KENNEDY (1935) was born in Farnham on 29 May
1917, the grandson of the Glasgow School painter Thomas Millie Dow. His
childhood was spent between the family home in St Ives, Cornwall and their
farmhouse in Donegal. Horas came to King’s from Oundle and read History
and Modern Languages.While at Cambridge he earned an Athletics Half-Blue
for pole vaulting and in 1938 represented Oxford and Cambridge when they
took on Princeton and Cornell.
From King’s Horas joined the Diplomatic Service. His first posting was asVice
Consul in Valparaiso, Chile, where he learned to fly. Postings to Belgrade,
Buenos Aires and Berne followed before he was appointed as Counsellor in
Warsaw and then Consul General in Barcelona. In 1953 Horas married his
wife Maureen and in 1966 he was awarded an OBE.
When he retired Horas moved to Norfolk where he developed his hobby of
painting. After the deaths of his wife and son he moved back to Cornwall and
lived at Nancledra until his own death in March 1997. Many of the artworks
he produced, including still-life oils, seascapes, portraits and abstracts, have
been shown since his death, both in Cornwall and further afield.
ANCEL BENJAMIN KEYS (1932) was a major scientist who pioneered a new
approach to the study of human physiology. He died at the august age of 100
years on 20 November 2004. It was through Ancel’s work that saturated fat
was recognised as being one of the major causes of heart disease and that the
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