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Pickard, Giles Jonathan, son of Sir Cyril Stanley Pickard KCMG, British High Commissioner Nigeria, and his first wife Helen Elizabeth, d. of George Frederick Strawson JP, of Horley, Surrey; b. 25 Feb. 1948; adm. Sept. 1962 (W); left July 1967; Univ. of Sussex, BSc 1970; Johns Hopkins Univ. Bologna, MA 1972; Interplan Industrial Market Research 1970-4; CPC (UK) Ltd. 1974-6; engineering project man. Tate & Lyle Plc 1976-88; project man. water industry PWT Projects Ltd.; d. 1 Nov. 1998.

Quass, Michael Richard, son of Phineas Quass, of Westminster, barrister, and Eleanor Ruth, daughter of Julius Gray, of Brondesbury Park; b. 20 Jan. 1936; adm. 21 Sept. 1949 (W); left July 1953; d. 11 Oct. 1960.

Richter, Thomas Frederick, son of Karl Richter LDS, of Hampstead, and Hermine Josefine, d. of Franz Berka of Vienna, Australia; b. 6 Oct. 1937; adm. Sept. 1951 (W), HS Sept. 1952; left Dec. 1955; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1958, BA 1962, MA 1968; S. G. Warburg & Co. 1961-8; merchant banking; dir. Kethrid Investments Ltd., T. F. Richter & Co. Ltd; d. 12 Sept. 2014.

Service, Alastair Stanley Douglas, son of Douglas William Service (qv); b. 8 May 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (W); left July 1951; The Queen’s Coll. Oxf., matric. 1953 but did not graduate; trainee Lazard Bros 1956-8; import and export trader McKinlay Watson & Co., 1958-64; publisher Seeley Service & Co., 1965-79; national committee member Birth Control Campaign, Population Concern 1973-2004, chmn. 1971-7; and campaigner various causes, incl. Abortion Law Reform 1963-7, Divorce Law Reform Union 1967-9, The Children’s Act 1975, and Public Lending Rights for Authors Act 1979; national committee member Victorian Soc. 1975-95; vice-chmn. Health Education Council 1976-87, Health Education Authority 1987-9; gen. sec. Family Planning Assn. 1980-9; chmn. Wessex Regional Health Authority 1993-4, Wiltshire Health Authority 1992-2000; co-founder Action for the River Kennet, 1991-2007, Hon. Sec. 1991-2; CBE 1995; MVO 2007; author various publications on birth control and architecture; librettist Sky Speaker 1999, The Angel Cantata 2003, Brunel’s Kingdom 2005; m. 1st, 28 Feb 1959 Louisa Ann Hemming OBE, publisher and magistrate, d. of Col. Henry Harold Hemming OBE MC; m. 2nd, 21 Feb 1992 Zandria Madeleine, d. of John Ernest Pauncefort, of Kent; d. 20 Mar. 2013.

Sinclair, John William, brother of Edward Anthony Sinclair (qv); b. 23 July 1924; adm. Sept. 1938 (W); left July 1942; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1942; Roy. Lancers 1943-7; CA (Scotland); d. Dec. 2006.

Stansbury, Peter McKnight, son of Harold Eugene Stansbury and Florence Lilian, d. of Henry Robertson of Muswell Hill; b. 3 Mar. 1942; adm. Apr. 1955 (W); left Dec. 1959; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1960; an art book publisher and bookseller; d. 15 Oct 2015.

Summers, Geoffrey, son of Gerald Summers of Hendon and Rachel, d. of A. David Bernstein of Battersea; b. 10 Aug. 1937; adm. Sept. 1950 (W); left July 1954; adm. solicitor Apr. 1960; m. 2 Sept. 1961 Joan Caroline Martel, d. of Benjamin Levine of Birmingham; d. 21 Dec. 1970.

Topolski, Daniel, son of Feliks Topolski, artist, and his first wife Marion, d. of William Mason Everall of Wolverhampton; b. 4 June 1945; adm. Sept. 1959 (W); left July 1963; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1964, rowed against Cambridge 1967-8, BA 1967, Dip. Soc. Anthrop. 1968, MA 1972; a BBC producer 1969-73; writer for The Observer and broadcaster 1973-93; rowed in world championships 1975 (silver medal), 1977 (gold medal); in four winning crews; coach of the Univ. of Oxf. Boat Club for fifteen Boat Races (1973-87), winning twelve, incl. a ten-win streak (1976-85); coach to the Great Britain Rowing squad at two Olympic Games (1980 & 1984); Hon. Fellow New Coll. Oxf.; author The Oxford Revival 1985, co-author True-Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny 1989; winner Travel Radio Programme of the Year 1994; m. 1998 Susan Gilmore, actress, d. of James Gilbert; d. 21 Feb. 2015.

Townend, Peter Robert Gascoigne, son of Roy George Townend, regional man. War Damage Commn., and Millicent Edna Amy Amelia, d. of Peter Gascoigne, musician, of Oxford; b. 8 Mar. 1935; adm. Sept. 1947 (W); left July 1950; at St Paul’s Sch. 1950-4; Christ’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1962; ed. Lookout magazine Malaga, Spain 1962-6; Roy. Coll. of Music 1964-7; freelance concert organist and conductor; European correspondent Vision, New York, USA 1966-9; acted at Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy 1969-70; a writer and photographer; author of Out of Focus 1971, Zoom 1972, Fisheye 1974, Triple Exposure 1976; m. 17 Apr. 1973 Hon. Katharine Patricia Smith, formerly wife of Ivan Moffat, Beverley Hills, CA, USA, and d. of William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden, chmn. W. H. Smith & Son; d. 6 June 1999.

Turner, William Douglass Jamieson, son of William Bambrough Turner, barrister, of Wimbledon, and Susan Miller Somers; b. 17 Feb. 1937; adm. Sept. 1950 (W); left July 1955; Allied Suppliers Ltd.; d. 12 July 1991.