The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

Keble College: The Record 2009
be Curate of Cookham (1985–6) and Curate of Hambleden
Valley (1987). He is survived by his wife Patricia, children and
grandchildren.
Wesley Robert Stephens
(1951)
Robert Stonehouse (1954)
died on 21 June 2009 aged 78. Educated at King William
College, Isle of Man and Hove Grammar School he came up
to Keble after two years National Service as a Sergeant in the
Army Education Corps. He read Modern Languages (French)
and ran for the College Cross-country Team (1951–2). With
friends he formed the Barchester Club to celebrate the Victorian
novelist Trollope. In subsequent years they met in Wales,
London and Oxford. Alastair Forsyth (Keble 1951) writes
that Wesley enormously enjoyed the Club with its madcap
formalities and discussions. For a short while after leaving
Keble he was a Management Trainee with Barclays Bank before
deciding to teach. He was appointed Assistant Master at King’s
College School, Wimbledon (1955–62) and then attended the
University of Lille where he graduated as a Licence ès Lettres
(1964). He was Assistant Master at King’s Manor School,
Sussex and at Clayton Hall Grammar School. He became Sixth
Form Tutor at Folkstone Grammar School and later was a
Private Tutor in French and Italian. He played the clarinet and
was Treasurer of the Sussex Musicians Club. We are told by
Alistair Forsyth that Wesley had three loves music, France and
Brighton. After several years of trying Wesley had managed to
re-purchase the family home in Ship Street Gardens, Brighton,
a stone’s throw from the sea in which he swam every day. He
visited France frequently and the French family, who made him
one of their own, were at his bedside in the hospice when he
died.
died on 25 September 2008 aged 72. Educated at Ashby-de-la-
Zouch Boy’s Grammar School he came up to Keble as a Classics
Exhibitioner and was awarded an Owen Travelling Scholarship
(1956). He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat
Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) in London and then
joined the Accounting Department of the Regent Oil Company
(later Texaco). There he became involved with computers
during the pioneering days of their commercial application, an
interest that lasted throughout his career and into the era of
personal computers. Ultimately he held the post of Computer
Services Manager. After leaving employment he continued
to work as a Consultant to Texaco and other companies
until a few months before his death. He maintained a wide
variety of interests including participation in Usenet groups on
Classics and on Shakespeare and membership of the Residents
Association for Kensington where he lived for the last 30 years.
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