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The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> at Large<br />

having learnt initially at <strong>Keble</strong> from the unconventional game<br />

played after Hall on the sunken lawn <strong>of</strong> the Fellows’ garden. He<br />

died after a long fight against cancer and is survived by his wife<br />

Anne whom he met while at <strong>Keble</strong>.<br />

Maurice Stanbury<br />

Rowdon (1941)<br />

John Scaman (TT 1944)<br />

Anthony Cecil Addison<br />

Smith (HT 1946)<br />

died in February <strong>2009</strong> aged 86. He was educated at Emmanuel<br />

School, Wandsworth and came up to <strong>Keble</strong> for one year taking<br />

part 1 History before being called up for military service. He<br />

was commissioned into the Royal Artillery (1943) and served<br />

as a Forward Observation Officer in the Italian campaign.<br />

He returned to <strong>Keble</strong> and gained a degree in PPE (1948). He<br />

had married (1947) the writer Joan Wynham and they had<br />

a daughter Clare and were divorced (1958). He went to live<br />

in Rome, appeared as an extra in several Fellini films and<br />

wrote a series <strong>of</strong> travel and history books including A Roman<br />

Street (1964), <strong>The</strong> Fall <strong>of</strong> Venice (1970) and Lorenzo the Magnificent<br />

(1974). After his second marriage to the sculptress Annette<br />

Fischer collapsed he went to California where he pioneered<br />

the breathing therapy Oxygenesis and continued his research<br />

into the relationship between human and animal intelligence.<br />

He spent the last 15 years <strong>of</strong> his life refining his philosophical<br />

theory in <strong>The</strong> Ape <strong>of</strong> Sorrow and delivered the manuscript shortly<br />

before his death. He is survived by his daughter Clare and his<br />

third wife Dachiell whom he married in the US (1993).<br />

died on 9 March <strong>2009</strong> aged 82. He was educated at Boston<br />

Grammar School and came up to <strong>Keble</strong> as an RAF Probationer.<br />

As <strong>Keble</strong> was being used to house personnel involved in war<br />

work he was accommodated in Wadham. He was called up<br />

after one year and did not return after the war to complete his<br />

degree.<br />

died on 6 October 2008 aged 90. Educated at Mill Hill School<br />

he was called up and commissioned into the Royal Artillery<br />

(1940). He served with the 8 th Army, the Desert Air Force and<br />

the Allied Forces Mediterranean HQ and rose to the rank<br />

<strong>of</strong> Major. After demobilization he came up to <strong>Keble</strong> to read<br />

English. He went on to Lincoln <strong>The</strong>ological <strong>College</strong> and was<br />

ordained Deacon (1949) and Priest (1950). He was Curate at<br />

Holy Trinity, Berwick (1949–52) and appointed Vicar <strong>of</strong> St<br />

Chad, Middlesborough (1952–8). He moved to Saltburn-bythe-Sea<br />

(1958–64) and became Rector <strong>of</strong> Long Marston, York<br />

(1964–6). He was Vicar <strong>of</strong> Easingwold with Raskelfe (1966–78)<br />

being Rural Dean <strong>of</strong> Easingwold (1970–7). He was appointed a<br />

Canon <strong>of</strong> York Minster (1976–83) being Vicar <strong>of</strong> Selby Abbey<br />

(1978–83). He retired (1983) and was given Permission to<br />

Officiate in the <strong>Oxford</strong> Diocese. He came out <strong>of</strong> retirement to<br />

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