Obituaries
head of the planning and engineering team on the new Copenhagen Opera House in Denmark, which opened in 2004. He was recently appointed to a design study for the renovation of the Sydney Opera House in Australia, a project that continues for his consultancy company. He founded a series of quadrennial theatre engineering and architecture conferences in 2002 that exert enormous influence on his profession. The illustrated conference proceedings are published and are considered to be encyclopaedic source books on advanced theatre technology and architecture. Richard Brett married first Marion McMinn in 1976 and they produced a son and a daughter but divorced in 1991. He then married Jenny Straker in 1999 and is survived by her and his two children, after he succumbed to cancer. An obituary was published in The Guardian , on which this is based.
G K Chesterton Library of Aidan Mackey, which is now housed at the Oxford Oratory, and he was appointed the G K Chesterton Research Fellow at St Benet’s Hall in Oxford. In 2010, he and Leonie formed a limited company called Second Spring Oxford to run the Centre for Faith & Culture with their daughter Teresa as manager, freeing up more of their time to write and publish more books and booklets, and also organise more summer schools. Stratford also edited a number of online journals, especially in the US. In collaboration with the Tabeh Foundation, he began a series of interfaith colloquia for Christian and Islamic thinkers to discuss notions of society, the secular, and vocation. Stratford was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2011 but, even after that diagnosis, he continued to write profusely, publishing three further books. He received an honorary doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University Of America in 2013, and is to be awarded posthumously the 15th Paideia Prize ‘for lifetime contribution to classical education and the cultivation of wisdom and virtue’ by the CiRCE Institute in 2015. He is survived by his widow Leonie, and all three of their daughters. Obituaries were published on several websites, on which this obituary is based.
Stratford Stanley Caldecott (1965-72) 26.11.1953 – 17.07.2014
Stratford Stanley Francis Caldecott, MA (Oxon), STD, FRSA was born in London to parents Oliver and Moyra Caldicott, who had moved from South Africa to the UK shortly beforehand. His father worked in publishing and Stratford grew up alongside his
Arnold Cameron-Smith (1951-58) 11.05.1940 – 24.12.2012
Arnold Cameron-Smith’s father was a chartered civil engineer and surveyor. The family lived initially in Forest Hill, later moving to Beckenham. Arnie came to the College from Dulwich Hamlet School and was in Marlowe. While at the College
younger brother Julian and sister Rachel surrounded by artists and writers. The family lived in Dulwich Village and Stratford came to the College from nearby Rosendale School and was in Marlowe. He stayed on to do seventh term Oxbridge exams, leaving Dulwich in December 1972, with a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, to study Philosophy and Psychology which he commenced in autumn 1973. While at Oxford he met Leonie Richards, who later became his wife and collaborator. They married in July 1977, living in Oxford and then London. He became a Roman Catholic in 1980, with Leonie following suit in 1983. They moved to Boston, USA, where in 1985 their first child, Teresa, arrived. Two more daughters, Sophie and Rose-Marie, followed, but the family had moved back to England in 1987, and eventually returned to Oxford. Stratford worked for several years as a senior editor at publishers Routledge, Harper Collins and T&T Clark, but in the early 1990s he and Leonie founded the Centre for Faith & Culture in Oxford. They organised several influential conferences, research projects and summer schools and, in 2001, they first published the journal Second Spring, which remains to this day the flagship publication of the Centre. Stratford wrote and edited many books, mainly about Catholic theology and also biographies. He spoke frequently at conferences, taught at a number of colleges and universities, and was published widely on Christianity topics in newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. He was the guardian of the
he gained several Life-Saving Awards.
After leaving Dulwich, Arnie went to the City and Guilds College, now part of Imperial College, University of London, to study Civil Engineering. He graduated with an upper second class degree, and went on to take a post-graduate course obtaining a Diploma of Imperial College (D.I.C), which was equivalent to a MSc. He accepted a post with consulting Civil Engineers, G Maunsell and Partners, starting work in September 1962, initially working on a project to design the Batman Bridge in Tasmania. After that project he was involved in the construction of the Mancunian Way in Manchester, before returning to the design office in London. In 1969 Arnie was given three weeks’ notice that he was being transferred to the firm’s Australian office in Sydney. He spent three years there, enjoying the work and exploring the country. He then moved to Hong Kong where he worked on projects such as the new towns of Sha Tin and Tsuen Kwan O, the MTR Island line and, finally, the initial feasibility study for the new Hong Kong airport which finally opened in 1997. When he was based in Hong Kong, he spent some time in Oman and Indonesia working on other Maunsell projects.
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