The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

The College at Large
William Robert Carlow
(1960)
Graham Murray Charlton-
Jones (1950)
Paul Michael Alex Cox
(2004)
died on 28 October 2007 aged 65. He was educated at the Royal
Grammar School, Lancaster and came up to Keble to read
Geography. He was a member of the Oxford Theatre Group
and then Theatre Studies in London before joining the London
County Council in its dying months (1964–5). In the newly
formed Borough of Camden covering Hampstead, Holborn
and St Pancras he led a team responsible for Hampstead
Environmental Improvement and Development Control
(1965–72). He moved to the Department of the Environment
where he was responsible for Conservation Grants, vetting and
negotiating local authority proposals for environmental works
and building restoration in conservation areas throughout
England and reporting to the Historic Buildings Council. He
was invited by the Chief Planner at Bath (his old chief at the
DoE) to join him to run Development Control. After four years
in Bath he moved to the Borough of Swindon, a town with very
different challenges. He became a Senior Housing and Planning
Inspector with the Planning Inspectorate (1988). He ran several
large Local Plan Inquiries in the Yorkshire Dales National Park,
Swansea, the Gower and Newham. He took partial retirement
(2002) having been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. He
ran the Devizes Film Club and returned to piano lessons, which
gave him great pleasure, until the week before his death. He
was pre-deceased by his daughter Emily (2005) but leaves a wife
Una, son Francis and daughter Rosemary.
died on 21 August 2008 aged 77. Educated at Taunton School
he came up to Keble after National Service as a History Scholar,
played rugby (1950–3) and lawn tennis (1952) for the College.
He spent a year at Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge and then
joined the Colonial Service as a District Officer in Northern
Rhodesia (1954–60). He returned to the UK and worked for
Marks and Spencer (1961–2). He was General Manager of Tall
Girls Ltd and then became a Management Consultant (1966–
91). His son John writes that his father remembered his days at
Keble with great fondness. He is survived by his wife Julie, sons
Richard and John, daughter Anna and eight grandchildren.
died on 16 February 2009 aged 23. He was educated at
Devonport High School for Boys, Plymouth and came up
to Keble to read Engineering Science. His mother wrote the
following for The Record. ‘He was the son of an English teacher
and a GP. His younger sister Fiona, his grandmother, his aunt,
indeed the whole family are devastated by this incredible loss.
Paul hanged himself with a Laser mainsheet. He had been a
loving enthusiastic energetic and popular young man, with a
very enquiring sharp mind and a wonderful sense of humour.
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