The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

Keble College: The Record 2009
Dyfed (1979–2003) and was invested as a Knight Commander
of the Royal Victorian Order (1995). He was Honorary
President of Llandovery College (having served six years as
Chairman of the Trustees), President of the Commonwealth
Games Committee in Wales, President of the South Wales
Association of Male Voice Choirs, Regional Chairman of the
Sail Training Association and Director of the Tall Ships Trust
of Wales. He leaves a wife Mary (Chinky), children Patrick,
Catherine and Annabel and grandchildren Archie, Edward,
Robert, Benson and Johnny.
Deborah Elaine Marcum
(2003)
John Christopher
Marsden MBE (1957)
Roy Arthur Marshall
(1948)
died on 24 April 2009 aged 55. A graduate from Lelourneau,
USA she came up to Keble as a mature student for a M.St. in
English. She returned to the States for further study at Cornell
University. She died at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca,
NY after a courageous battle with cancer. She is survived by her
children Christopher Otis and Jennifer Raymond and her sister
Kathy Freiwaldt and brothers Dan and Tim Marcum.
died on 19 August 2008 aged 71. Educated at Bristol Grammar
School he was called up for National Service in the Royal
Signals. He came up to Keble to read Chemistry and stayed
on for a D.Phil. in Biological Science. After research on a
Theodore Heuss Travelling Fellowship at Marburg University
in Germany (1964) and later as a Royal Society Research Fellow
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he took an appointment
as a Lecturer in Biology at York. This was followed by
appointments as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Child
Health in the University of London and then Reader in Cell
Biology at the City of London Polytechnic. He moved (1972)
to the Polytechnic of Central London as Head of Life Sciences
also serving as Dean of Engineering and Science (1986–8). The
demands of managing a contracting faculty meant his making
redundancies; he was unhappy about this and decided to take
early retirement himself (1988). However the following year
he became Secretary of the Linnean Society of London. His
excellent work for the Society over 15years was recognized
by his election to an Honorary Fellowship and his services to
Biology by an MBE (2006). He was Honorary Secretary of the
Institute of Biology (1985–9), author of over 20 publications and
a Freeman of the Guild of Educators. He was an enthusiastic
book collector and cook. He is survived by his wife Hazel, their
sons Giles and Neil and grandchildren Jessany, Daniel, Ruth
and Luke.
died on 11 July 2008 aged 80. Educated at Portsmouth
Grammar School he came up to Keble to read Classics and
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