Alumni & Friends

Life Stories

We are sorry to have been notified of the deaths of the following College Members and Alumni, and are most grateful to relatives and friends who have supplied an appreciation or biographical details. For a complete list of deceased members, please see the annual Keble Record. More material will be added to this page as it becomes available.

1940s

Reginald Edwin Price (1947 BA English Language and Literature)
died on 31 August 2022 aged 96

1950s

Kenneth Norman Miles (1950 BA French and German)
died on 11 May 2023 aged 93

Owen Christopher Pegg (1951 BA Physics)
died on 4 May 2023 aged 90

Peter Rutter (1951 BA Modern History)
died on 10 May 2023 aged 91

Ian Frederick Middleton Ferguson (1956 BA Geography)
died on 1 February 2023 aged 86

David Pratt (1958 BA History)
died on 9 April 2024 aged 84

Derek G Springham (1958 DPhil Botany)
died on 6 December 2023 aged 85

Graham Vaughan Cooper (1959 BA Jurisprudence)
died on 8 May 2024 aged 83

1960s

Sir Nicholas Bonsor (1962 BA Jurisprudence)
died on 21 March 2023 aged 80

John Richard Rice-Oxley (1962 BA Literae Humaniores)
died on 19 June 2023 aged 79

Philip Ashley Kendall (1965 BA English Language and Literature)
died on 24 September 2022 aged 75

Chuck Lyons (1965 BA Literae Humaniores)
died on 17 July 2023 aged 77

Andrew Wood (1966 BA Modern History)
died on 15 November 2023 aged 76

1970s

Colin Touchin (1971 BA Music)
died on 30 September 2022 aged 69

Andrew Kevin Foster (1973 BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics)
died on 20 March 2023 aged 68

Timothy Axson Charlesworth (1973 BA Geography)
died on 30 July 2023 aged 69

Russell Gordon Smith (1978 BA Theology)
died on 25 September 2022 aged 63

1980s

Fiona Deborah Clapton (1986 BA Jurisprudence)
died on 20 June 2022 aged 54