The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

Keble College: The Record 2009
of Social Institutions (1987). He successfully pioneered and
tested arrangements for the local management of schools in
Cambridgeshire, Richmond and Croydon which became the
basis for the bipartisan policy of devolving powers to individual
schools. Also in 1970 he had the opportunity to extend his
influence on educational policies when he was made an
additional member of the Inner London Education Authority’s
Education Committee. He was influential in developing a fairer
system of transfer from primary to secondary schools and
in introducing ‘certificates of achievement’ for pupils leaving
primary schools. He published 53 books and academic articles
on education. Apart from education his interests lay in classical
music, art and 19 th century history. As Chairman of Spitalfields
Market Opera he helped to create the first custom-built Opera
House in London for 200 years. He is survived by his wife
Joan, son Marc and daughters Tanya and Radha, a second son
Russell having predeceased him (2004).
David Cecil Candler (1948)
died on 17 April 2008 aged 83. Educated at Bulawayo Technical
High School, Rhodesia he gained a B.Sc.at Cape Town
University and played cricket for Rhodesia (1945). He won a
Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford and came up to Keble to read
Mathematics. He played cricket for the College (1948–51)
(Captain 1950) and for the University Authentics (1949). He
also played football for the College (1948–51) (Captain 1948–9)
and for the University Centaurs (1949–50). He returned to
Rhodesia as Senior Mathematics Lecturer at the Bulawayo
Technical College (1952–). He attended St Paul’s Theological
College, Grahamstown and was ordained Deacon (1956) and
Priest (1957). He was Chaplain to Falcon College, Essexvale,
Southern Rhodesia (1956–7) and Curate of Essexvale
(1957–8). He helped to found St Stephen’s College, Balla Balla,
S.Rhodesia and became its Headmaster (1958–9). He then
moved to Plumtree School, Rhodesia as Assistant Master (later
Housemaster) and Chaplain and Priest-in-charge of Plumtree
with Marula (1960–85). His wife Shirley writes that this was a
particularly demanding time for him especially during the late
1970s when the School was under threat, a number of old boys
were killed and several local farmers lost their lives. He came
to the UK as Rector of the Barningham Group of Parishes in
Norfolk until his retirement (1985–94). He continued to take
services in the surrounding parishes until a few weeks before
his death. He is survived by his children Paul and Jane (his first
wife Margaret died in 1972) and by his second wife Shirley and
their son Mark.
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