Obituaries
Peter was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and he died at home on 12 April 2012. He is sorely missed by his wife, Angela, his two children and his four grandchildren. Peter and Angela’s son Nigel (72-80) contributed this obituary.
After three years at the Brighton branch, he decided on a change of profession and became the director of Help the Homeless, a charity that grew from the work of staff at the church of St Martin in the Fields. In 1973 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship and spent three months travelling across America and Canada studying their systems for helping and housing homeless single people. He subsequently wrote a book called Establishing a Hostel which filled a significant gap of information in the area of social provision for the severely disadvantaged. After some ten years at Help the Homeless, he changed profession again and became a company secretary with Whinney Murray (now Ernst & Young), where he remained until his retirement from full-time work. Even then, he remained as a part-time company secretary for several companies. Outside work, Kenneth gave a lifetime of service to the community. In 1944, he became a liveryman with the Worshipful Company of Bakers, one of the oldest livery companies in the City of London. In 1975, he rose to the position of Master of the Company, and during his term as Master, he forged strong links between the Company of Bakers and South Bank University, for which he was granted an honorary master’s degree. While working at the bank in London, he began an association with the English justice system which spanned most of his working life, by becoming a Special Constable. He was on duty during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953 and was one of the few chosen to test the first ‘walkie talkie’ tool used by the police force. In 1959, he became a magistrate (JP) for the Epsom bench in the county of Surrey, and then had to give up his duties as a special constable. As a JP, he served on the Probation and After Care committees and eventually became ‘Father of the Bench’. In 1949, he became a member of Carshalton Urban District Council (UDC) in Surrey, serving for ten years and becoming Chairman in 1956. For many years and well into retirement, he served on the Board of Trustees for the Woodroffe Benton Foundation, a grant making charity based in Essex. Kenneth was physically very active throughout his long life, sustaining life-long passions for cricket, bowls, and garden lawns, as well as singing as a tenor for a number of choirs. Moving to Burwell, Cambridgeshire, in 2004, he continued to play an active part in the church and local village institutions, despite increasing frailty. He died at home in his 91st year after a short illness. Kenneth outlived an older sister, and their younger brother, Raymond, who also attended the College but died in 1979. He is survived by his wife, Mary (after 62 years of marriage), their daughter, Elizabeth, son, Peter and grand-daughter, Naomi. Elizabeth contributed this obituary.
I an Richard Spence (1949-56) 15.10.1938 – 02.08.2012
Ian Spence was born in Forest Hill and came to Dulwich from Bromley Road Primary School in Beckenham. While at the College, he was in Raleigh and was a Sergeant in the CCF. After leaving Dulwich, he did National Service immediately before taking up his scholarship to read History at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1959. While at Cambridge he was Secretary of the Jesus College Boys’ Club at Cambridge House in Camberwell. He graduated with a first class BA degree in 1962 and then joined the Civil Service, holding a number of senior positions within the Inland Revenue for his entire working career until he retired in 1998. Ian married Anne Kiggell in 1971 and they produced two daughters together. In retirement, he lived in Dulwich for the summer months and spent winters on the island of Grenada in the Caribbean. He is survived by his wife, Anne, daughters, Jackie and Fiona, and four grandchildren. An obituary appeared in the Jesus College Annual Report 2013 on which this obituary is based. Kenneth Powell Warren Stoneley (1932-39) 08.02.1921 – 05.02.2012 Kenneth Stoneley was born in Carshalton, Surrey, and came to Dulwich from St Norbert’s Preparatory School in Sutton. He was in Marlowe and enjoyed playing cricket, drama and singing in the College choir. With considerable foresight as the Second World War loomed, his father removed him from the College midway through his final year in February 1939, so Kenneth could establish a foothold in a profession before the opening of hostilities. He joined the Spitalfields branch of Barclays Bank but when war did start later that year, he volunteered for the Royal Air Force. A hearing defect and a stutter precluded him from flying so he spent the war years in Air Traffic Control for Coastal Command, mostly in Silloth and Lossiemouth. After the war he returned to Barclays Bank and specialised in client income tax services at the Pall Mall East branch, near Trafalgar Square in London, remaining there until moving to the Brighton branch in 1963. Throughout his time with the bank, he was a keen member of the Barclays Bank Male Voice Choir.
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