He entered Dulwich College from Burnt Ash Primary in Downham near Bromley on an 11+ scholarship, was a member of Drake and had an excellent school career working his way up the Geography Side. He was a remarkable athlete, becoming an established fixture in the 1st XV, 1st XI (cricket) and the hockey XI (which he captained). He was a prefect and a highly respected Captain of Ivyholme. On leaving school he went, with a Thouron Scholarship, to the University of Pennsylvania gaining an MA in English. He proceeded to the University of New England (Graduate Education studies) and then went to the University of New Brunswick where, with a ground-breaking interpretation of William Blake’s ‘Four Zoas’, he gained his PhD. Thereafter he studied and taught in Australia. Graduate Theology and Religion studies at St Andrews College, Sydney University, were followed by his appointment as a very charismatic Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. He re-settled in the UK in the mid-1980s where his career encompassed appointments as Head of Graduate Studies and Head of School, Liberal Arts and Sciences. His burgeoning teaching career in the UK was, however, ended by a serious breakdown in his health and crippling health issues underpinned the last 30 years of his life. Despite his debilitating health problems, he carved out a place in international academia as an authority on William Blake’s poetry (especially the ‘Four Zoas’) and the Shakespearean stage. He published challenging interpretations and insights on both subjects. David’s academic fields indicate the breadth of his erudition and interests – palaeography; the Dead Sea scrolls; phenomenology of religion and education; aesthetics and mythology; history of the stage; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and theatre; 19th and 20th Century English and European literature and drama.
and allowed him and Lorna to spend more time at their holiday cottage on the Isle of Wight and in France. In 1995 they moved to Reigate, where John lived for the remainder of his life. He is survived by his wife, Lorna, three children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Arthur Frank Whitewood (1935-39) 16.07.1923 – 29.07.2012
Arthur Whitewood came to Dulwich from Highfield School at Wandsworth Common. He was awarded his colours in 1939 for tennis, but left the College in December 1939, just after the
Second World War started, and was articled to a firm of chartered accountants. In 1942 he volunteered for the Royal Navy and served in combined operations on Auxiliary war vessels taking part in the landings in north Africa, where his ship HMS Karanja was sunk, and in Sicily and the south of France. When demobbed in 1946, he was a Sub Lieutenant. He returned to the UK and moved to the East Midlands, playing tennis for Nottinghamshire (1946-50) and he was awarded his County Colours. He decided not to remain as an accountant and joined Pretty Polly, the hosiery manufacturers, in 1951, remaining with them until he retired as Group Sales Director in 1984. He married Ruth in 1949 and together they had two sons. Arthur and Ruth celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary on 22 July 2012, and Arthur died peacefully one week later on 29 July aged 89, leaving behind Ruth, two sons and a grandchild. His son, John, contributed significantly to this obituary. David Edward Whitmarsh-Knight (1953-61) 03.10.1942 – 15.01.2013 The younger of two brothers educated at Dulwich, David was born in Cawnpore (now Kanpur), India. He came to England in 1947 when his father transferred from the Indian Army to the British Army.
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