Class Notes

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Calling all 1976 graduates!

How are you celebrating your 50th graduation anniversary? Whether you’re hosting a party, revisiting your old haunts, or catching up with your classmates, we’d love to share your celebration plans in our next online edition.

Get in touch with us via email: alumni@soton.ac.uk

Chris Bound (Law, 1975):

Here is our friendship group, photo taken at a hotel in Corfe Castle, Dorset last October.

The core of the group is those of us that graduated from Southampton in 1975. We were good friends right from the start in October 1972. We have seen each other regularly ever since, and the group has grown to include partners and other friends. Since 2002 we have held regular 2/3-day residential reunions in Herm, Skye, Alderney and several times in Corfe Castle. We are meeting again this September at Goodwood Revival in Sussex. We have very happy memories of our time at Southampton.

Career-wise, of the Southampton law graduates Peter Leete became a social work clinician with the British Army in Germany and more latterly in Eastleigh. The rest of the law guys were solicitors. Kees also became a solicitor, and his wife Diana is too! John Kenrick was a management consultant. Pip Aitken (originally from Australia) was a property planning/development consultant.

Diana and Kees’ son Edmund (now aged 39ish) read engineering at Southampton.

Back row from left:

Graham Barnard (law), John Kenrick (engineering), Peter Barton (law), Philippa Barton, Peter Leete (law), Myself (law), Simon Smith, Lynda Sissons (nee Palmer) (law), Diana van der Klugt, Kees van der Klugt (economics)

Front row from left:

Joy, Sheila Leete, Pip Aitken (nee Moore) (Geography), Elaine Bound

David Newby (BSc Chemistry, 1973):

I graduated on July 13th, 1973, and drove back down to Cornwall through the night to get married the next day (to get married in church in Newquay in summer the date had to be set a year in advance).

Needing a job quick, I had written to all companies in the Chemicals section of the Southampton yellow pages. My first job offer (which I accepted immediately) was with a fledgeling hazardous waste management company (Rechem) at Botley and subsequently at Fawley initially as plant chemist. The career with that company progressed through chemical emergency response and hazardous installation decommissioning. The closest to the University campus was the emergency response to deal with the hydrogen cyanide emissions from the Cymag (rat poison) factory on the Millbrook Trading Estate, the incident led to the Factory Inspectorate closing the company.

Eventually, although I was ostensibly deputy manager of the Hampshire facility, most of my time seemed to be spent running teams undertaking hazardous installation decommissioning, generally undertaken at weekends to minimise collateral risk, or dealing with chemical emergencies on the roads, in the docks or at airports. While that work was challenging and exciting, I didn’t see it as a lifelong occupation and sought a career change in 1984.

As a Cornish boy missing the grandeur of the North Cornish coast, I applied for the job of waste disposal officer for Cornwall Council, but bizarrely became head of hazardous waste regulation and control in Greater London and, as “poacher turned gamekeeper”, given the task of turning around the Council’s lamentable prosecution record (it lost 80% of cases prosecuted). In the 4 years in post I achieved that.

A responsibility I inherited with that job was taking over the development of the Council’s first electronic document management system. A responsibility I was saddled with because, oddly, at school I had trained in Fortran programming, which had led to my University Tutor (Dr Baker) suggesting my third year Chemistry project should use a Fortran program to analyse the asymmetry of Electron Spin Resonance spectra of liquid crystal compounds.  The latter project endeared me to the Maths department when my program was scheduled to run during one night and managed to put the mainframe into an endless program loop.

Having turned around the enforcement record and along the way discovering that I wasn’t really compatible with a governmental or civil service role, and being a country boy at heart, I decided to resign my position and return to Cornwall. With no obvious chemistry related opportunities in Cornwall, my wife and I bought a small hotel. I had the thought that I might be able to do a little consulting work on the side.

By a strange quirk of fate, one of my last activities as head of hazardous waste regulation and control in London was to host a visit of an American looking at the environmental control sector in the UK. On the last Friday of each month I used to take my senior inspectors for a lunchtime chat at the Hole in the Wall pub in Waterloo; as this coincided with the American’s visit, he accompanied us. I mentioned my resignation and that I was returning to Cornwall and thought I might do a little consulting work. This resulted three months later in me heading to Hong Kong to lead a feasibility study for the development of the first national hazardous waste management facility in Asia, and me setting up my own consulting company David Newby Associates (DNA).

That led to a seven year succession of projects with the Hong Kong Government Environmental Protection Department assisting them with the contract development, tendering, tender evaluation, appointment of contractor, construction supervision, and overseeing first year of operation. Projects proliferated through Asia, Africa and the Middle East, generally comprising development of national strategies, plans, and legislation, and occasionally development of facilities (Thailand, Malaysia and China).

IT raised its head again with Hong Kong EPD commissioning us to develop an environmental monitoring management system application (EMMS) for use by the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation. The application had to manage the data from environmental monitoring during the construction of the MTR line from Central to the new Hong Kong Airport (approximately 7 million samples including air emissions, noise and water samples) checking compliance and automatically reporting to HK EPD.

At this point a downturn in the tourism sector in Cornwall resulted in us running the consultancy from a 12 bed hotel with 2 bars and no guests!

The consultancy progressed through work in Russia, Former Soviet Union countries, and Eastern Europe. By now, projects were a mix of the strategy, planning, and regulatory interspersed with information system development projects, and projects for oil and gas multinationals developing plans and facilities for waste management.

At this point, in my 60s, I planned to semi-retire, with the consultancy undertaking the occasional projects, that I would find particularly interesting, for existing clients.

I failed at semi-retirement, taking on a 6 year EU funded project in Northern Cyprus, covering a wide range of waste management activities, including development of an internet based regulation and control system for the Environmental Protection Department, development of oil spill response capabilities in Famagusta, and planning animal carcass incineration. This progressed through the COVID years.

Recent activities have included development of internet based applications for municipal solid waste and plastic waste data collection and modelling; the UN Habitat Wastewise Cities Tool (WaCT), and the GIZ (German international development agency) Waste Flow Diagram (WFD) and the GUI for the World Bank PLAST Toolkit.

Now, at 75 years old, I am finally living nearly full time in Cornwall. DNA is however continuing to support the development and application of the WaCT Toolkit under a pro-bono contract with the UN, and continuing to support GIZ. For both UN habitat and GIZ, DNA is hosting and maintaining the web applications on our own hardware servers pro-bono.

Each year, I run a “freebie” afternoon session on environmental modelling methodologies for the local university environmental management course.

This unplanned career path has been truly rewarding, with some incredible experiences along the way (some hilarious, some truly scary), covering 35+ countries. So far, my work in Scandinavia has somehow missed Norway, however I have been asked to participate in a UNEP workshop on harmonisation of environmental modelling methodologies in OSLO later this month.

You really have no idea where your degree might take you!

James (Jim) Blum, BSc Civil Engineering, 1969; MSc Irrigation, 1974 

On graduating in 1969 I emigrated to New Zealand to work as a civil engineer with a consulting company. 
 
After three and a half years I returned to the UK and enrolled on MSc Irrigation. I applied for the course before leaving New Zealand, requested letters of support while in India, and received confirmation of acceptance in Istanbul.  

The different locations were the result of my mode of transport from New Zealand to the UK. A group of us rebuilt two Model A Fords, a 1928 model and a 1930 model, which we loaded onto a ship in Auckland and unloaded in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before driving the rest of the way, with a few ferry crossings included. There were eight of us on the trip, and six of us recently gathered in New Zealand for a reunion.  

We faced some interesting obstacles and formed a strongly knit group, as evidenced by the reunion. The route took us by ferry to India (see picture), across Pakistan and over the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan. From there, we travelled through Iran (the Shah was still on the throne), Turkey, Greece, the Yugoslav coast and several European countries.  

Fortunately, I have about 200 slides remaining from the trip. I still have the car, which is undergoing a second rebuild. Perhaps I should call it Lazarus! 

Peter Macdonald, BSc Biology, 1979 

My three years at Southampton were great, meeting many and varied people, from the dedicated medics to the uber-ecologist (Pete Howard, where are you now?) who’d get up at 4 in the morning on our field trip in Zahara des los Atunes, the enthusiastic parachuters (I managed one jump, when the weather finally cleared), the party-goers and the political activists.  

Aside from studying, including hours spent writing up laboratory reports, or spending time in the Students’ Union café or disco, the joint Chaplaincy was my crowd. A group of us bought a minibus together, and in summer 1978 we toured Ireland, as well as making many trips to the New Forest, Winchester and Bath. Members of this group, together with a wider circle of friends, meet every year. About 30 of us gathered last summer, and another reunion is due to take place in Germany this year. 

My career was mainly in the environment, from the National Farmers Union to Wildlife & Countryside Link and latterly Croydon council in south London. A lifetime of trying to bring about a more eco-friendly way of doing business and of living. So much is now more readily achievable than in 1979. In retirement I am volunteering at two local parks: planting trees, maintaining natural beauty. And lots of singing! 

Best wishes to all fellow alumni, not least the 1976 biologists. 

1976 Medical School Reunion  

Around a third of Southampton Medical School’s first graduating class returned to the city in July to celebrate 50 years since graduating in 1976. Approximately 27 classmates were at the reunion, with alumni travelling from as far afield as California and New Zealand. The gathering brought together graduates who had gone on to pursue a wide range of medical specialties. 

Professor Diana Eccles welcomed the group to University Hospital Southampton on a baking-hot Saturday afternoon. After meeting at the hospital’s main entrance, they moved to the cooler surroundings of the Centre for Cancer Immunology to catch up and reflect on how medicine and the University had changed over the past five decades. During a tour of the hospital site, the group recognised some familiar landmarks, including the former nurses’ home, Victoria House and the Tenovus building. They also recalled attending lectures at Highfield Campus and anatomy teaching near the hospital mortuary, at a time when much of today’s South Academic Block had yet to be built. 

The visit gave the graduates an opportunity to hear about the close relationship between the Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Southampton, as well as the importance of working together to support education, research and patient care. Professor Eccles shared the story behind the Centre for Cancer Immunology and the philanthropic support that helped make it possible, before outlining plans to expand Southampton’s capacity for interdisciplinary medical research. The reunion was a chance to revisit old memories, renew friendships and see how dramatically Southampton’s medical facilities have developed since the class began their careers. 

Southampton Geology 1976 Reunion

Geology graduates from 1976 celebrated their 50th reunion from 22 to 25 June, after Jerry Chessell, Al Green and Micky Brown tracked down several classmates with whom the group had lost touch. 

Nine of the ten graduates attended the reunion in person, travelling from Australia, South Africa, Canada and across the UK. The final classmate, who lived in the Australian Capital Territory, completed the group by joining an hour-long online catch-up after breakfast on the final morning.  

The graduates stayed at the Beaulieu Road Hotel in the New Forest, which had been the local pub for six of them when they lived at Decoy Pond Farm during their second and third years. In another reminder of 1976, the reunion coincided with the longest June hot spell since that year.  

On Tuesday 23 June, the group visited the National Oceanography Centre, where Geology was based within the Oceanography and Earth Sciences department. Professors John Marshall and Damon Teagle led a fascinating and comprehensive tour of the facilities, describing a wide range of geological and oceanographic research and concluding with a visit to the legendary Boaty McBoatface submersible autonomous vehicle.  

That afternoon, Professor Marshall, Emily Vitoria from the Alumni Office and Mechanical Engineering student Jancis showed the group around Highfield Campus. A visit to Building 44, the former Geology department, brought back many memories of the lecture theatre and Petrology Laboratory, where the graduates had gained knowledge that supported their later careers as geologists. 

On Wednesday 25 June, the group marked the height of the heatwave with a geological field trip to the Isle of Wight. The trip was led by Jerry Chessell, who has longstanding family ties to the island and is an accomplished geological tour leader. They travelled by ferry from Lymington to Yarmouth before making their way to Freshwater Bay, where they viewed the near-vertical chalk and underlying Cretaceous units down to the Lower Greensand. They then visited the beach exposures at Hanover Point and Brook Bay, where they saw Lower Cretaceous dinosaur footprints. 

After stopping for lunch at the Blacksmith’s Arms on Calbourne Road outside Newport, the group made its way to Alum Bay and the Needles at the western tip of the island. The old chairlift was closed “because of the heat”, so they took the steps down to, and back up from, the beach at Alum Bay. Once on the beach, they walked towards the top of the chalk before inspecting the near-vertical Tertiary sedimentary rocks on the return journey. In the sweltering heat, it was quite an activity for a group of people aged over 70! On Thursday 26 June, after breakfast, they gathered in the old bar of the Beaulieu Road Hotel, the setting for many beer-and-darts evenings for some of them in the 1970s, for an online meeting with Bryan Kilgallin, the only 1976 Geology graduate unable to join them in the New Forest. 

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David Parker, BSc Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1984; PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics,1989 

After a career in the space industry full of amazing opportunities and good fortune – not least enabling Tim Peake’s mission to the space station and leading Europe’s involvement in Artemis – over the past two years I have hugely enjoyed returning to Southampton as a part-time Visiting Professor to contribute to the creation of the new Southampton Space Institute.  
 
Thinking back to the incredible set of academics at Southampton in the eighties, such as Geoffrey Lilley, Alan Jefferson, Robin East and Ken Burgin, I realise how lucky I was to have been taught by so many personalities who had worked in the heyday of the British aircraft industry. Special memories are reserved for my PhD supervisor, the late Mike Goodyer, who disappeared each summer to NASA Langley and brought back the funding for my research and that of many others. The top floor coffee room in Tizard was a happy place of friendly rivalry as we toiled to finish our theses.  
 
Although the engineering school has now largely moved to the shiny new palace of Boldrewood, returning in 2024, I was amazed to find my lab on the ground floor largely unchanged in 35 years, although the PDP 11/84 computer I wrote pages of assembler for the wind tunnel magnetic suspension and balance system is long gone! 

Claire Fuller (Sculpture, 1989):

My sixth novel, Hunger and Thirst was published by Fig Tree/Penguin in May and is my first to be set in Winchester.

The main character, Ursula, works in the post room of the art school in 1987 and eventually becomes a famous and reclusive sculptor. She meets magnetic and unpredictable Sue, who dares her to kill someone and when she actually does, Ursula is haunted for the rest of her life. 

Hunger and Thirst was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime – listen back via BBC Sounds

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The following entries were submitted as part of our Memories of Hartley Library exhibition, held in the autumn:

“Thank you for being my second home, my caffeine-fueled refuge, and the one place where procrastination felt slightly productive. From whispering group debates in ‘quiet zones’ to marathon sessions of ‘just one more reference’.

“You didn’t just store books, you stored memories. You taught me how to find knowledge, lose track of time, and master the art of pretending to read while people-watching.

“Forever grateful, Hartley – you made the stress of deadlines oddly bearable and the victory of finishing a dissertation feel like conquering Mount Everest… indoors.

“With love and a fond nod to your comfy chairs, a proud and slightly sleep-deprived alumnus.”

Wachira Boonyanet (PhD Business, 2002)

“Racing to get to the short-term loan section after a lecture. Some people dropping books out of a window on a Sunday (was not me!)”

Lucy Rawe (BSc Geography, 2000)

“I remember stumbling upon a hidden room in the library, a quiet archive where old books were kept. It was very dusty, tucked away, and incredibly peaceful. I preferred studying there because it was completely free of the usual distractions: no one walking past, no half-whispered conversations. Only a handful of people even knew it existed. The route to get there was so winding and obscure that I couldn’t retrace it today if I tried. I wonder if it’s still there.”

Oluwagbemileke Afariogun (MEng Electronics and Computer Science, 2004)

“Hartley library is the only reason I graduated with a 2:1. I could only study in total silence with no distractions. I started doing 9 to 5 days in the library to make sure I revised for finals. I inspired a group of my friends from Southampton Stags American football team to join me, and we all got through it together! I can’t believe that was 20 years ago! Feels like yesterday.”

Tamsin McKenzie (BSc Psychology, 2005)

Joy Igiebor (PGCE in Primary Education, 2005) has written her debut educational book (ISBN: 9781032991726) titled, ‘Doing Learning Development in Higher Education: A Practical Guide for New and Early Career Learning Developers’ , due to be published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. on 7 April 2026. The synopsis for the book is below:

Doing Learning Development in Higher Education is an essential introductory companion for those new to working in this emerging and exciting field. Filled with actionable tips, real-world advice and illuminating anecdotes, this book will help readers navigate the challenges and opportunities of helping students unlock their full academic potential, whilst highlighting the important role that Learning Developers have.

Covering the fundamental aspects of Learning Development practice, it explores everything from conducting effective workshops, collaborating with colleagues and students, leading tutorials, creating impactful learning resources and much more. Readers will gain valuable insights into building productive relationships with students and colleagues, understanding the wider institutional context, and charting their own professional development journey. Each chapter blends theoretical foundations with practical applications, providing the tools to make an immediate impact.

This practical guide will be helpful for new and early career Learning Developers working with undergraduate and postgraduate students across higher education institutions. It is equally valuable for early career academics and university staff in student-facing roles who wish to enhance their practice.

The book is currently available for pre-order in Waterstones and Foyles, as well as international retailers.

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Zhiao Lin, TESOL, 2021 

I still recall the very first time I stepped into Southampton Airport — the tang of sea breeze swept over me the moment I arrived. Right then, I told myself: to study and live in a city by the sea could only be a beautiful thing. It was just a little over a year, yet those days have etched themselves into my memory forever. I can still see it all so clearly: the hours spent writing papers alongside my classmates, and the joy of those welcome parties at the start of term. Now, I have made my home in Paris, France, and I am a happy, fulfilled mother. 

Bai Liu, BA Fashion Design, 2023 

Since graduating from the Winchester School of Art in 2023 with a degree in Fashion Design, my creative journey has continuously evolved across the fields of fashion, visual communication, immersive media, and design research. What began as an exploration of materiality, silhouette and narrative within fashion gradually transformed into a broader investigation of how technology can shape emotional experience, cultural memory, and human perception. Rather than viewing these disciplines as isolated territories, I have always approached them as interconnected systems capable of generating new forms of storytelling through what I describe as “techno-poetics.”  

During my undergraduate studies, I became increasingly interested in the relationship between visual aesthetics, speculative futures and digital culture. My graduation collection from the BA Fashion Design programme at Winchester School of Art was featured in issue 12 of MOEVIR in April 2024. Although this was not the first time my work had appeared in international art and design media during my studies at Southampton, I still felt deeply honoured that my final project was published in an internationally recognised contemporary fashion and design magazine. 

Following graduation, I moved to the University of Edinburgh to pursue a master’s degree in Graphic Design while simultaneously working at the UK National COSTAR Realtime Lab as a Senior Research Assistant and Program Leader. This period became one of the most transformative stages of my career, allowing me to move fluidly between academic research, commercial collaborations, and experimental artistic practice. 

During this time, I collaborated with internationally recognised brands and cultural institutions including McDonald’s, Starbucks and Dalkey Archive Press on visual communication and commercial art projects. These collaborations strengthened my understanding of how visual systems can simultaneously function across branding, storytelling, and cultural communication while helping me refine a multidisciplinary design language spanning editorial graphics, motion design, immersive media, and digital aesthetics. 

At the same time, my independent projects and exhibitions gradually began gaining international visibility through publications and cultural events across Europe and Asia, including features in The Art Insider and FAD, as well as exhibitions presented through cultural institutions and festivals in the United Kingdom, Italy, China and Spain. These experiences further reinforced my belief that design should not only serve aesthetic or commercial purposes, but also function as a cultural and philosophical medium capable of responding to rapid technological change. This evolving curiosity eventually led me to the United States, where I am currently pursuing a PhD in Design Research at Virginia Tech.  

Alongside my doctoral research, I work as an Adjunct Lecturer and supervise undergraduate and master’s students while continuing to investigate the ethical and emotional dimensions of Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, immersive environments, and digital aesthetics. My academic research focuses on topics ranging from the creative motivations behind AI-generated art to interface and chromatic design for aging populations. I have also presented my work at many top international conferences & journals, where I continue exploring the relationship between speculative design, computational systems, and human-centred technology. In April 2026, I founded Sors Design Lab (源契设计实验室), an interdisciplinary experimental platform exploring the intersection of technology, visual culture, urban media, and the humanities.  

Looking back, my journey has never followed a linear path. Fashion led me to graphic design; graphic design led me to immersive technology; immersive technology eventually led me toward broader philosophical questions surrounding humanity, ethics, perception, and the future of digital culture. Across every transition, I have remained driven by the same belief: that art, technology, and human emotion should never exist in isolation. For me, interdisciplinary practice is not simply a method of working – it is a way of understanding the world itself. 

Mike Waterston, Aero Engineering BSc 1966-69; MSc 1969-71; PhD 1971-74  

My husband of 56 years, Mike, died peacefully at home on 18 February 2026, surrounded by me and our sons. He had been ill for several years, particularly during the final two years of his life, but he never lost his sense of humour or his generous spirit. Around 300 people came to celebrate his life. 

Mike always said that he chose the University of Southampton because it was the furthest university from his home in Morpeth, where he could study aeronautics. In fact, with an irony which he appreciated, we have been in Durham since 1984- not quite as far north as Morpeth, but definitely in the North East. After his PhD Mike worked for a chemical company called Tioxide in Teesside, London, Grimsby then Teesside again.  

In 1994 he left Tioxide and joined me in what was then a very small IT company which I had set up at home in Durham. He was very ambitious for its success and growth and the company now has 250 people spread over offices in Durham, Glasgow, London and Sydney.  

He will be greatly missed.   

Obituary submitted by Mike’s wife, Sally

Richard Poole, BA French and Spanish, 1968 

Our mutual friend Richard Poole died in late May after a period of declining health. We were all able to keep in touch during this time, albeit at a distance because we lived in different places. 

Born in Bristol on 27 November 1944 and educated at Fairfield Grammar School in the city, he entered the University of Southampton in September 1964. We became lifelong friends through our language courses in Spanish and French and our shared devotion to sport. 

While the 1960s offered young people many opportunities to ‘find themselves’, Richard was always interested in existential matters. His talent for football blossomed after his return from a year in Bordeaux in 1966–67, when he starred as a midfielder in the title-winning University first XI in 1967–68. His broad and deep commitment to more serious issues resurfaced soon after graduation, when he applied to Voluntary Service Overseas to work in the developing world. In late 1968, he was appointed to the Escuelas Radiofónicas de Ecuador, planning subsistence farming in the altiplano, while most of his contemporaries pursued typical graduate careers in business, education, social services and public administration in more familiar circumstances. The work in Ecuador also allowed him to return to sport, and he was signed as a part-time professional footballer by LDU Quito. This brought him into contact with England’s FIFA World Cup-winning team as they travelled to Mexico to defend the trophy in 1970. 

Throughout his working life he interspersed living for short periods in Britain and the United States as he pursued a career abroad in humanitarian relief and development, representing VSO, IVS, ARC and Trocaire among others in areas of the world beset by problems ranging from war, poverty, neglect and exploitation to climate change and underdevelopment generally. His lived and intellectual experiences challenged him to seek country and regional director posts, which he frequently achieved as he sought to contribute to solutions in what was termed The Third World for some fifty years until today. 

During one of his brief stays in Britain as he studied for a Masters in Latin American history and culture he discovered a faith which came to explain and subsequently underpin his constant search for an answer to why injustice and inequality were so obviously present in the world. This is not the context for an analysis of the Baha’i faith that he espoused with millions of others globally, but suffice to say that its universalism and spiritual dimensions became a guiding light to Richard’s personal and professional life thereafter. 

He published five books (see bibliography below), ranging from anecdotal reflections on his experiences in Ecuador and later observations of life and culture in Sudan, to three works published after the millennium. In these later books, he investigated global issues and offered thought-provoking, sometimes controversial ideas about healing a fractured world through spirituality. These works should be required reading for anyone concerned about the future of our planet, especially in view of the angst caused by current political, moral and existential events. 

And so to Africa, the continent where he seems to have felt most needed and most comfortable, where he met the love of his life and married her, where he spent almost a half of his adult life in sub-Saharan countries from west to east, adding to his time in Latin America, the Caribbean and, more briefly, the so-called First World nations noted above. 

Before returning to Britain, partly for health reasons and partly to explore their Baha’i faith further, Richard and his wife had been living in an increasingly troubled Zimbabwe, where Alice ran a health facility. Even there, when he was not engaged in an official role, he participated in social projects such as library administration and refereeing football matches for young people. Among his most endearing and enduring qualities was his ability to mix with people of all ages and backgrounds. 

Perhaps unsurprisingly given his semi-nomadic lifestyle, Richard had no children, but he is survived by his wife Alice and her daughter Patricia, by his elder brother Steve and two nieces, Natalie and Lydia, by at least two godchildren amongst our various offspring, by myriad colleagues around the world from the Development fraternity, and by the close Baha’i community in Colchester, where he is now buried, as well as in Nairobi, Alice’s family home. In short, he was a man of integrity, modesty, humility and good-humoured intelligence: a life well-lived, with a strong vocation. Descansa en paz, amigo nuestro. Died 22nd May 2026.  

 Obituary by Timothy Baker, John Gallienne and Michael Gorman  

 Bibliography  

The Inca Smiled – 1993- One World Publications ─  
The Camel Strayed – 1999 – The Pentland Press  
The Day of the Dragon – 2001 - Bloozoo Publishing  
A Return to Sanity -  2012 - Green Square Books  
Mankind’s Last Chance – 2013 – CPI Group Croydon