John Robert Parr (1949-52) 25.09.1934 – Dec 2011 John Parr came to Dulwich from Bournemouth School after his parents moved from Bournemouth to Orpington. After leaving Dulwich as a house prefect in Grenville and a school prefect, he did National Service as an officer in the Royal Artillery. He then took up his Postmastership (Scholarship) at Merton College, Oxford, to read History. After graduating he had a long and successful career in governmental and trade bodies. He started at the British Iron and Steel Federation in 1959 and stayed for six years before moving to the Department of Economic Affairs under the leadership of George Brown. In 1968 he returned to the steel industry (now called the British Steel Corporation) to prepare for the UK’s entry into the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). From 1973 John spent three years as Director General of the British Footwear Manufacturers Federation, before joining the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Brussels, where he stayed for 13 years and was responsible for European legislation to liberalise the air transport market in Europe. In 1989 he returned to England as Director General of the Air Transport Users Council and from 1995 he was Chairman of IATA, based in Geneva, until his retirement in 1999. In 1993 John married Professor Delores O’Reilly and his active retirement was spent in Northern Ireland. He had always been keen on music and he was closely associated with the Ulster Orchestra and was Chairman of the Friends of the Orchestra. He also played a major part in the design of Derry Airport. His marriage brought him great happiness, especially seeing his young daughter, Maeve, grow up. He died after a long illness which he endured with great courage much helped by the devoted care of Delores. Another OA, Donald Amlot, contributed significantly to this obituary.
carry out long-term anthropological research in Cyprus since the 1960s, making four films and writing several books on the subject. After retiring from LSE, he taught film at the School of Oriental & African Studies and at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford until 2011. He also held a part- time professorship at Intercollege in Nicosia Peter Loizos married three times and is survived by his widow, Gill, three children and one grandchild. Kenneth Overton came to Dulwich from Deanswood Road School, Eltham. After leaving the College, he was articled to an accountancy firm, Cottman- Hooper, and became a chartered accountant. He also had a keen interest in music, following in the footsteps of his father, William, who was Principal Trumpet in the BBC Symphony Orchestra for many years, as well as being bandmaster of the Salvation Army band in Lewisham and Bromley. Kenneth was also an accomplished trumpet player who had played with the National Youth Orchestra. He met his future wife, Myra, who was singing at a Salvation Army Good Friday service in 1956, and they married in 1957. After qualifying as an accountant and working briefly in Nigeria, he returned to an accountancy practice in London. Later, he was based in Brussels, running a division of the Ladbrokes hotels, bookmakers and property group before he and Myra set up a chocolate importing business with a chain of 20 shops. In 1999 Ken and Myra went north to Yorkshire to sell Myra’s late mother’s bungalow, staying with friends in Welburn. While there, they fell in love with Ryedale, bought a house in nearby Slingsby, sold the chocolate business and retired to Yorkshire. They both threw themselves into local life, with Ken able to indulge his passions for organising and building things. He became a trustee of Arc Light, the centre for rough sleepers in York, where he and Myra regularly cooked supper for the residents. In retirement, Ken and Myra ran the University of the Third Age in Ryedale and organised many trips for members throughout Britain and overseas. He was a member of the York Music Society and also a chairman of the highly successful Ryedale Festival for several years. He died suddenly having been married to Myra for 54 years, and leaves behind Myra, two sons and four grandchildren. An obituary published in the Yorkshire Post and another one written by Martin van de Weyer, another previous chairman of the Ryedale Festival, form the basis of this obituary. Kenneth William Overton (1949-55) 09.05.1938 – 09.03.2012
Brian Victor Payne (1957-64) 03.12.1945 – 11.08.2012
Brian Payne came to Dulwich from Heber Road Junior School in East Dulwich as part of the Dulwich Experiment for local authority-funded pupils. He was in Spenser and by the Middle
School he was excelling at Science subjects, and had an established group of friends with whom he remained in touch for his entire life. After being awarded a Scholarship to Gonville and
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