The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

Keble College: The Record 2009
up refereeing, was very involved with their sports committee
and at the time of his death he still possessed his ‘Acme
Thunderer’ whistle as a momento. He died peacefully at home
(as he had wished) after a long and onerous illness. He leaves
a wife Shirley, children Alison, Jonathan and Richard and
grandchildren Katie, Max, Sam and Tom.
Neal William Billows
(1988)
George Christian Bolster
(HT 1946)
Michael Terence Briggs
(1955)
died on 14 February 2009 aged 38. Educated at Formby High
School he came up to Keble to read PPE. He joined J P Morgan
as a Trader and worked for them in London and in Tokyo. He
then became a Director of KBC Securities in Japan. For the
last few years he had been running a hotel business in Bali. He
requested that some of his ashes be scattered in one of the Keble
quadrangles. He is survived by his first wife Joan and their
three children Jack, Nina and Suzanne and by his second wife
Kaoru.
died on 8 October 2008 aged 87. He was educated at Midleton
College, County Cork and after war service came up to Keble
to read Forestry and then changed to Zoology. He enjoyed
rowing, the Debating Society and attended drawing classes.
After Keble he spent some time at the Tory Research Station in
Aberdeen before joining the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and
Fisheries at their Sea Fisheries Experimental Station at Conway
in North Wales. He studied the parasite of mussels which were
found on the bottom of tugs in Fleetwood. He was invited
(1952) to join the main MAFF Research Station at Lowestoft as
a Principal Scientific Officer to investigate the thriving herring
fishery, working on research vessels and commercial fishing
boats. When the herring declined he began work on mackerel
until he retired (1962–75). He published 19 scientific papers and
contributed to a book on English Porcelain. George and his
wife Betty made a study of 18 th Century Lowestoft Porcelain
and their collection is displayed in ‘The Bolster Room’ of the
Lowestoft Museum. It is the third largest public collection in
the world after Norwich Castle and the V & A. They returned
to Ireland and lived for 26 years in Schull, the seaside village in
County Cork where George was brought up. He is survived by
his wife Betty, his sons Michael and John, their wives and four
grandchildren.
died on 20 December 2008 aged 73. Educated at Barnsley and
District Holgate Grammar School he came up to Keble to read
Engineering Science. He worked for five years in industry
(1958–63) and then became a teacher in further education
(1963–72). He transferred from teaching to administration but
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