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Buckler, Humphrey McCartie, son of Francis William Buckler, Prof. of Church History, Grad. Sch. of Theology, Oberlin, OH, USA, and Gertrude Mary, d. of Rt Rev. Horace McCartie Eyre Price DD, Bishop of Fukien, China, later Archdeacon of Ely; b. 7 Mar. 1929; adm. Sept. 1943 (B); left July 1947; Trin. Hall Camb., matric. 1948, BA 1951, MA 1961; AMIMechE; dir. Matthew Hall Engineering Ltd. 1967-72; in practice as consult. engineer 1972-; m. 1954 Jenifer E. C. Slater; d. 16 Aug. 2012.

Bunting, Christopher Evelyn, son of Sheldon Arthur Stewart Bunting MBE MICE, of Bombay, India, and Kathleen, d. of William Collett; b. 8 Aug. 1924; adm. Sept. 1938 (B); left July 1939; Univ. of Bristol; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. 1947, BA 1949, MA 1956; an internat. career as ’cellist, teacher, composer and conductor; Boise Trav. Schol. 1951; studied under Eisenberg in USA, under Casals at Prades; Prof. of Violoncello, RCM; MBE Jun 2000; d. 27 July 2005.

Bunyan, John, son of John Bunyan LDS, of Hampstead, and Helen Edith, d. of Capt. W. East Webber RM, of Deal; b. 18 July 1935; adm. Sept. 1949 (B); left July 1953; Guy’s Hosp. Dental Sch.; LDS 1959; a dental surgeon, practising Harley Street, London; m. 1958 Lavinia, d. of Sir Peter Seligman CBE, chmn. APV Holdings Ltd.; d. 10 Aug. 2000.

Busby’s was named after the Head Master Richard Busby (1606-1695). The house colours of blue and maroon were taken from the first housemaster’s dining room carpet. Busby’s is one of the two houses that still regularly produces a house magazine, the annual College Street Clarion.

Buss, Kenneth Robin Caron, son of Air Cdre. Kenneth Caron Buss OBE RAF, dep. dir. Foreign Office res. Dept., and his second wife Lilian May, d. of David John Powell of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan; b. 10 May 1939; adm. Sept. 1952 (B); left July 1957; Univ. of Paris 1959-62, Licence-ès-Lettres; FO res. 1967-75; lecturer Woolwich Coll. of Further Education 1975-92; a writer, translator and journalist 1976-; m. 1st, 1963 Patricia Ann Cams; 2nd, Natalia Buss; d. 16 Dec. 2006.

Calway, Frank Ferguson, son of Frank Hugh Ferguson Calway, silk throwster, of Duddlestone, Somerset, and Susan Dorothy, d. of Joseph B. Harcombe of Cape Town; b. 3 Feb. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (B); left July 1939; RN (Ord. Seaman); d. on active service 31 Aug. 1941.

Frank Ferguson Calway was born at Taunton, Somerset on the 3rd of February 1921 the only son of Frank Hugh Ferguson Calway, director of a silk mill, and Susie Dorothy (nee Harcombe) Calway of “Quoits Field”, Duddlestone in Somerset. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1934 to July 1939. He was a member of the 1st Cricket XI from 1937 to 1939 and was Captain in the latter year. He was a member of the 1st Football XI in 1938 and 1939, where he played as goalkeeper. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps, where he was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1937 and later rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was appointed as Head of House in 1938 and was amember of the Debating Society where he was elected as President in 1938.
On leaving school he travelled to Canada on the 5th of August 1939 where he played cricket for a public schools side but following the outbreak of war, he returned home on board the SS Duchess of Atholl, landing at Liverpool on the 6th of October 1939. On his return he joined his father’s firm for a period of nine months and was one of the first members of the Corfe Home Guard. He played for the Taunton Cricket Club in 1940 and for the Y.M.C.A Football XI in 1939. He enlisted in the Royal Navy and was posted to HMS Quebec, the naval training establishment at Inverary in Argyll. He contracted a pulmonary abscess and died from pneumonia at Drymen Hill Hospital near Loch Lomond.
His funeral took place on the 4th of September 1941 in a service conducted by the Reverend T.L.T. Fisher. A guard of honour was provided by the Corfe Home Guard.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Corfe.
He is buried at St Nicholas’ Church, Corfe Grave 369.

Cannon, George Anthony, son of Lieut. -Col. Douglas Rabbitts Cannon RE, of Alton, Hants, and Olivia Lumley, d. of George Henry Robinson of Atherstone, Warks; b. 9 Feb. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (B); left July 1943; Capt. RA Dec. 1945; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1949, MA 1954; chief exec. Fitch Lovell Ltd. 1972; chmn. Esk Frozen Foods Ltd. 1985-; m. 9 Sept. 1950 Jacqueline Helene Edmee Charlotte, d. of Dr Werner Hoedemakers of Brussels, Belgium; d. 24 Apr. 2009.

Carey, Cuthbert John, son of Norman Lewis Carey, actuary, of Harrow, and Edith Mildred, d. of John Oswald Jobson, solicitor; b. 6 Dec. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (B); left July 1937; Brit. Red Cross in WW2; a BBC studio manager; m. 20 June 1953 Daphne Joy, d. of F. H. Woodward of Stanmore, Middx; d. 27 Apr. 1954.

Carmichael, Ian Stuart Edward, son of Edward Arnold Carmichael CBE FRCP, dir. Neurological Res. Unit MRC, and Jeanette Marie, d. of Ronald Stuart Montgomerie of Dumfries; b. 29 Mar. 1930; adm. Sept. 1944 (B); left July 1946; Trin. Hall Camb., matric. 1951, BA 1954, MA 1958; Imp. Coll. Lond., PhD 1958; lecturer in geology, Imp. Coll. 1958-63; Prof. of Geology and Geophysics, Univ. of California (Berkeley), USA 1967-2004, then Emeritus; FRS 1999; m. 1st, 23 June 1955 Jane Penelope, d. of East Rochfort Grange of Toronto, Canada; 2nd, 12 Sept. 1970 Dione Gilmore, d. of Thomas Thatcher of Brisbane, Australia; d. 26 Aug. 2011.

Carnwath, Thomas Douglas, son of Thomas Carnwath DSO MB DPH, Dep. Chief Med. Officer Min. of Health, and Margaret Ethel, d. of Andrew McKee of Belfast; b. 19 Nov. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (B); left Mar. 1926 and went to Eton (KS); King's Coll. Camb., matric. 1930, BA 1933, MA 1937; a chartered accountant; Peat Marwick Mitchell 1933-9 and 1946-7 5, partner 1961-7 5; Roy. Signals 1940-5 (Maj.); m. 14 Mar. 1942 Winifred Margaret, d. of Percy Stewart, med. prac­titioner, of Rugby; d. 1998.