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Percival was appointed MBE in 2002 for
services to dance and also served as President
of the Critics Circle (1984-88). He married
twice, to Betty, and secondly, to the
journalist Judith Cruickshank in 1971.
Judith Cruickshank
After spending his early years in Australia,
PAUL REDGRAVE (1949, English) returned
with his family to Yorkshire and to his
schooldays in Bradford. On the outbreak of
war in 1939, he volunteered for the Navy and
spent his war service in DEMS (Defensively
Equipped Merchant Navy Ships), years which
gave him an extensive acquaintance with the
United States and Canada.
After the war, he trained as a teacher and had
a brief career in schools in Oxford and Devon
until coming up to St Catherine’s to take his
degree. During these years, he maintained
his keen interest in athletics, especially in
weightlifting for which he won many awards.
A first novel, Full Fathom Six records his life
in DEMS, and was followed by The Master
Herbalist, a novel, and by Self Defence for
Women. He maintained an active interest
in journalism in many fields. He settled
in Plymouth and played an active part in
Plymouth Arts Centre for many years.
Olwen Redgrave
WILLIAM RHYS BRUNEL ROBINSON
(1949, History) was educated at Chepstow
Secondary School where his father was the
wartime Headmaster. After completing military
service, he came up to St Catherine’s Society.
Although he played rugby at school, he
avoided sport at Oxford, his participation in
St Catherine’s life being limited to personal
friendships and membership of the Dean
Kitchin Society.
On going down, he entered the then
Administrative Class of the Civil Service, and
was posted to the Ministry of Labour, later
redesigned the Department of Employment.
Prior to this retirement, he had risen to the
level of Under-Secretary, and represented
Britain at the International Labour
Organisation in Geneva.
Rhys retained a lifelong interest in history,
particularly that of Wales, and Monmouthshire
in the Tudor period. He published at least
one book, and contributed numerous articles
and monographs to the journals of learned
societies. He married late in life, and his wife
predeceased him by some years; he died a
few days before Christmas 2011 after several
years of deteriorating health in a nursing
home.
Don Barton (1948, Geography)
LORD MORRIS
OF MANCHESTER
(1950, History)
did more for the
disabled than
any other British
politician; his
campaigning
earned him
worldwide
appreciation, not least
because he was the most genial and decent
of men.
Born in Manchester in March 1928, Alfred
Morris witnessed the pain of disability at first
hand: his father, George, had been gassed in
the trenches and died when Alf was six; his
mother was crippled with arthritis. Leaving
school at 14 for the offices of a brewery, Alf did
National Service with the Army in Egypt, and
then went to night school. He studied at Ruskin
College while working as a garment workers’
union organiser, won a scholarship to Catz,
and then gained a postgraduate Certificate of
Education at Manchester University.
After his 1964 election to represent the
Manchester Wythenshawe constituency, Morris
the legislator surfaced in 1969 with a Bill
to outlaw ticket touting. But when he drew
first place in the private members’ ballot that
autumn, he opted to help the chronic sick and
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