Univ Record 2017

successful working life. Terry began work in Bourneville but within a year had been
posted to the Fry’s factory in Keynsham, North Somerset. Here he was able to reconnect
with all the friends and relatives in Bristol whom he had left behind with his move to
Lincolnshire in the mid-thirties. Here also began a sixty year spell living in the village of
Saltford. His son Richard (1952) and daughter Ruth (1954) were born nearby.
By the mid-1970s Terry had joined the board of Cadbury Schweppes responsible for
all their confectionery activity in the UK and by the mid-1980s he had become Managing
Director for confectionery globally. Throughout his career he was very much associated
with the modernisation of both production techniques but also industrial relations. He
retired in 1986 having served Cadbury for 37 years.
Work carried on though, with ten years’ service as Chairman of Swallowfield Plc, a
cosmetics and toiletries business hived out of Cadbury. He served with great vigour on
the Council of Bristol University and supported a number of other good causes, notably
the Lifeboats. He played plenty of golf, but will most be remembered as a lifelong devotee
of Bristol Rugby Club. He was never happier than chewing the fat with his old friends in
the enclosure at the Memorial Ground.
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JOLYON DROMGOOLE (Dulwich College) died on
13 December 2016 aged 90. He had been suffering from
Alzheimer’s disease. Jolyon had first gone to Christ’s Hospital
at the age of eight, before going to Dulwich to complete his
education. Having come up to Univ as an army cadet student,
he went on to serve as a Lieutenant in the King’s Hussars.
He then returned to Univ to read History. While at Univ., he
was also President of the Shakespeare Club, and Secretary of
the Committee organising the College’s 700th anniversary
Ball in 1949. He then joined the civil service, working
mainly in the Ministry of Defence, rising to become Deputy
Under-Secretary of State there before he retired in 1984.
During this time he was Command Secretary of FARELF (Far Eastern Land Forces) to
oversee the withdrawal of UK troops from Singapore during the Singaporean transition
to independence in 1968-71. Jolyon also did a stint at the Home Office where he was
Chief of Broadcasting, negotiating an extensive reallocation of broadcast licences with our
European colleagues, many of which are still in play today. He later became Director of the
Council Secretariat of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Jolyon’s family remember his deep sense of duty, and self-reliance, perhaps founded
on his education, which helped him make a success of his career in the Civil Service, but
they also remember his great charm and wit. He enjoyed theatre, literature and poetry
but also rugby and polo. From the 1970s onwards he himself played polo as often as he
could at Tidworth, until he himself turned 70 and had to have a major knee operation.
Jolyon was also a member of the Committee of the Pepys Club, and was involved in the
design and award of a medal given by the Club to Claire Tomalin. He took great pleasure
in his family (he had five daughters, three of whom are triplets) and a happy home life.
His brother Patrick came up to Univ in 1951. [We are very grateful to Jolyon’s widow
Anthea for her help in the writing of this tribute.]
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1945
FRANCIS ROLAND PETER GARROD (Bradfield)
died on 23 June 2016 aged 95. Peter Garrod had
been accepted for matriculation in 1939, but chose
to join up instead. His father, Sir Guy Garrod, who
had come up to Univ in 1910 (and later became an
Honorary Fellow), became a pilot during the First
World War and risen to the rank of Air Chief
Marshall, and so Peter wished also to join the RAF.
Unfortunately Peter was turned down due to
his eyesight, and instead joined the Air Transport
Auxiliary (ATA), the unit which flew aircraft
between factories and airfields, performing a
crucial behind-the-scenes service during the war.
Peter himself flew 68 different types of aircraft,
taking especial pride in the fact that he had flown
almost every type operated by the Fleet Air Arm.
During his ATA service, Peter flew aircraft not
only around the UK, but also, towards the end of the war, in liberated Europe. On one
occasion he delivered several Spitfires to the French Air Force at Luxeuil.
After the war, he came up to Univ, where he read Geography. Peter then worked for
Unilever, where he was a Marketing Director. Outside work, he combined his love of
flying with a new love of sailing, continuing to crew his own yacht well into his nineties.
In later years, Peter became Commodore of the ATA Association, and was regularly
chosen to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday on behalf of the civil
air services. He was also a regular speaker about his ATA experiences. He retained his
love of flying to the end, flying in a Spitfire for one last time in October 2015, when
he was still able to wear his wartime leather flying jacket and helmet, as seen on this
photo of him. [We are very grateful to Peter’s son Christopher, who has followed family
tradition by himself becoming a commercial pilot, for supplying both the information for
this tribute and the photograph.]
ANTHONY RYLE (Gresham’s Holt) died the autumn of 2016 aged 89. He had read
Medicine at Univ. He was the Chief Medical officer for the University of Sussex, a
Consultant Psychotherapist at St. Thomas’s Hospital, and a Senior Research Fellow for
UMDS and Guy’s.
1946
ALAN ROBERT FLEMING (Merchant Taylors’) died on 12 July 2016 aged 87. Having
elected to a scholarship at Univ, Alan read Classics, and was one of George Cawkwell’s
first pupils. He was also a founder member of the Univ Players under Peter Bayley, and
was a member of the College Boat Club.
Alan’s widow Margaret writes: “After leaving Univ Alan spent his two years of
National Service in the Royal Air Force where he qualified as a pilot officer in Canada
and the UK and was commissioned as a Pilot Officer. On completing military service
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