The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

Obituaries
The College at Large
We record with regret the deaths of the following Old Members. We are
most grateful to relatives and friends who have supplied an appreciation or
biographical details to supplement our own records.
David Hemsley Adams
(1946)
Lionel Bell (1950)
died in 2009 aged 85. He was educated at the City of Oxford
High School and carried out research for the Admiralty
(1941–5) during which he gained a BSc from London University
(1943). He worked for Crookes Laboratories (1945–6) and
then came up to Keble for a D.Phil. in Biochemistry (1949). He
joined the Cancer Research Department of the London Hospital
Medical College (1948–61). While there he was British Empire
Cancer Campaign Exchange Fellow in Canada (1954–5). He
was a Senior Visiting Scientist at the Stanford Research Institute
in California (1962–3) and became Lecturer in Biochemistry in
the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London
(1963–70). In 1965 he was awarded a D.Sc. (London) based
on his publications. He joined the Medical Research Council’s
Demyelinating Diseases Unit at Newcastle University with
Professorial status (1970–9). He established an international
reputation in the field of slow viruses mainly in relation to the
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. After his retirement
(1979) he continued this research for several years as a Visiting
Senior Research Fellow in the Life Sciences Division of King’s
College, London. For many years he was on the editorial board
of the Journal of Biochemistry. He is survived by his wife
Agatha, son John and daughter Catherine.
died in October 2008 aged 77. Educated at the City of London
School he came up to Keble as a Classics Scholar and was the
Owen Travelling Scholar (1952). After Finals in Lit Hum (1954)
he joined the Public Record Office as an Assistant Keeper
later becoming Principal Assistant Keeper. His son Jonathan
recalls that one of Lionel’s proudest moments was being asked
to arrange and list Winston Churchill’s papers. He played a
key role in devising the plans for the removal of the Public
Records to the National Archive at Kew. While at the Public
Record Office he was a Lecturer at University College, London
in the School of Librarianship and Archives. He also went to
Sierra Leone to advise their Government and University on
the management of archives and to Tehran where he advised
them on the archiving at the proposed Pahlavi National
Library. He moved to the British Library (1978) as Director
of Central Administration until his retirement (1990). Lionel
enjoyed playing rugby at School, Keble and subsequently for
the Old Citizens. When his playing days were over he took
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