The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

The College at Large
Cricket Club and Chairman of Biggleswade History Society.
He loved classical music and was a frequent concert goer at the
Wigmore Hall in London. He leaves a wife Joan, son Richard
and daughters Susan and Helen.
Michael John Reynolds
Townsend (1945)
Robert William Hilary
Warren (HT 1940)
Roger Norman Whybray
(1941)
died on 8 July 2008 aged 81. He was educated at Cheltenham
and came up to Keble to read Mathematics and Physics on a
one year Army sponsored course. He was called up for military
service and was commissioned into the Royal Army Service
Corps. He did not return to Keble but became a Chartered
Accountant (1953). He was Chief Accountant for Hobourn
Aero Components (1955–6) and then for Dowty Fuel Systems
(1956–9). He was appointed Group Financial Controller for
Bond Worth Holdings Ltd (1959–70) and became Group
Financial Director of Stoddard Holdings PLC (1970–83). He
was then an Independent Financial Consultant until he retired
(1983–97). He is survived by his wife Catherine and sons Guy
and Paul.
died on 6 June 2008 aged 87. Educated at Christ’s Hospital he
came up to Keble as a Classics Scholar and after taking Mods
(1941) was called up for military service. He joined the Royal
Artillery and rose to the rank of Sergeant (1941–5). He returned
to Keble to complete his degree and was Chairman of the
University Aquinas Society (1946). He became a Choir Novice
at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight (1948–50). He came back
to live in Oxford and died in a nursing home at Chipping
Norton.
died on 15 April 1998 aged 74. He was educated at Queen
Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Kingston-on-Thames and came up
to Keble to read Theology. He went on to Lincoln Theological
College (1944), was the Liddon Student (1945–6), and was
ordained Deacon (1946) and Priest (1947). He was Curate of
St Michael, Basingstoke (1946–8) and then Fellow and Tutor
in Old Testament at the General Theological Seminary, New
York. He returned to the UK as a Lecturer at Queen’s College,
Birmingham (1950–2) and was Curate of St Peter, Harborne
(1951–2). He became a Missionary for the SPG and Professor
of the Old Testament and Hebrew at the Central Theological
College in Tokyo (1952–65). For two years during this
appointment he was the Kennicott Hebrew Fellow at Oxford
University (1960–2) and gained a D.Phil. He was appointed
Lecturer (1965–9) then Reader in Theology (1969–78) and
finally Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at Hull
University (1978–86). He was awarded a BD and a DD (1981).
He was Licensed to Officiate in the Diocese of York and retired
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