Obituaries
He and Jennifer celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary in March 2014, but his illness, which he bore with much stoicism, cut short his life when he still had much more that he was going to do for his family and for the community. He was devoted to his family, adoring them all and being very supportive of their ambitions. He relished time with the five grandchildren, and was quite happy to stand on windy sports pitch touchlines to cheer them on, or just be available to share his commonsense and endless good advice. This obituary is based on a tribute to Brian written and read by Nicky Evans at his funeral service. Brian and Nicky were life-long friends after meeting at Crofton Primary School in Orpington in WW2, more than 70 years previously.
an exhaustive index of music hall songs, which still remains uncomputerised on paper. Ed was a witty and sparkling conversationalist who managed to lead a very full life despite increasing problems with diabetes, heart disease, deteriorating vision and finally Parkinson’s disease. He owed much to his wife, Carol, whom he had married in 1967, and who looked after him devotedly in his last years. His death occurred peacefully but suddenly; he had just been assessed for a cataract operation and was looking forward to being able to read again, but failed to wake up from his regular afternoon nap. Ed’s widow and John Sutcliff contributed significantly to this obituary.
John Shane Healey (1937-40) 17.08.1923 – 11.10.2009
Edward Frederick Hayward (1953-60) 27.01.1942 – 05.12.2013
John Healey was the son of a journalist and came to the College, where he was in Marlowe, from the Prep. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the Home Front in Carshalton where the family lived. On leaving Dulwich the
Ed Hayward came to Dulwich from Stillness Primary School in Honor Oak. His mother was a teacher whose family came from London and his father, who died when Ed was still at school, was a carpenter and shop fitter who had fought in the First World
following summer, still aged only 16, he joined Lloyds Bank as a clerk. As soon as he was 18, he joined the Royal Navy and then volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm as a radio operator, bomb aimer, navigator and rear gunner in the famous Fairey Swordfish. He was posted to the aircraft carrier, HMS Victorious, where the squadron was flying Fairey Barracudas, which he always maintained were more dangerous to the aircrew than to the enemy. He was involved in one of the unsuccessful raids on the Tirpitz while based on that ship. In due course, HMS Victorious was ordered to the Far East to join the fight against the Japanese, but on the way to the theatre of war after leaving Australia, the Japanese surrendered. Following the end of the war and demobilisation, John returned to a job with a bank, but soon found the work tedious. He moved on to Southern Railways, starting work as a porter at Dorking Town railway station (now Dorking West station), just before the nationalisation of the rail industry and network in 1948. He moved stations as he was promoted and by 1954, he was the Port Manager in Calais, France. In 1960, he returned to the UK as the Port Manager at Southampton, remaining there for four years. From there, he moved back to continental Europe in 1964, where his heart now lay with a growing liking for good food and fine wines. He started in Paris as the deputy manager, then shortly afterwards moved to Brussels as the manager of that office. In 1970, he returned to France as Continental Manager in Paris. He subsequently refused all opportunities for promotion from Paris and returning to a railway job in the UK, because he was determined to stay in France and retire to a house in the countryside, achieving this in 1983 at the age of 60.
War and whose family came from Gloucestershire, a county for which Ed always had a great affection. While at Dulwich, he was in Grenville, but his interests were more intellectual than athletic, remaining so throughout his life. He had a beautiful singing voice so was an early member of the Madrigal Group at the College, first as a treble and then as a tenor. Another interest was the navy, so he joined the CCF, initially in the Basic section where he recalled hilarious days blundering about while hopelessly lost on Banstead Heath, before moving on to the Royal Navy section. He concentrated on History and Classics at Dulwich, and won an Exhibition to Jesus College, Oxford, to study history, with a particular interest in the Italian Renaissance. He was very much involved in drama and cabaret while in Oxford and worked with Esther Rantzen and Terry Jones, amongst others. After Oxford, he moved on to the University of Sussex to gain a PGCE teaching qualification, while working part-time doing research for Groucho Marx. He then became a researcher for Rediffusion and Thames television companies before joining the BBC training scheme in 1969. He worked for the Open University and its Arts faculty for the first ten years of its existence until 1979. In that year, he moved to schools television and then to further education television, producing a wide variety of programmes. He wrote a number of books, including a history of Gloucester, Stroud and Berkeley, and travelled the world widely. Closer to home, his passions were good food, wine, Garibaldi (so the family home was full of pictures, jugs and other Garibaldi memorabilia), naval history and the Victorian music hall. He built
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