Obituaries
became a Member of the Dulwich College Committee of the Board of Governors, was the first Chairman of the Friends of Dulwich College and was on the Alleyn Club Committee for 18 years, serving as President in 1992-93. He also organised the annual OA lunch in Chichester for its first 11 years. Always at his happiest in a ‘team’ environment, Anne loyally supported him throughout their 56 years of married life. Right up until his death he never lost the mischievous twinkle in his eyes and the innate good manners that he maintained throughout his life. He is survived by Anne, Alastair (73-80) and Sue. Alastair contributed significantly to this obituary.
daughter, Kathryn, in 1964, and a son, David, in 1968. John and Doreen were happily married for more than 50 years and he is survived by Doreen, Kathryn and David, who contributed significantly to this obituary. Professor Malcolm Andrew Richmond Colledge (1951-58) 12.10.1939 – 22.06.2015 Malcolm Colledge was born just after the start of the Second World War and he and his two brothers, Chris and Richard, and one sister, Pat, were raised by their mother at her parents’ home in Warham Road, South Croydon, while their surveyor/ estate agent father served abroad in the Army. Malcolm came to Dulwich from Whitgift School and was in Marlowe. He fell in love with archaeology when he was only 12 years old after a lecture by Sir Mortimer Wheeler about his archaeological digs, and he also studied art while at Dulwich. He was a sergeant in the Army section of the CCF. When he left Dulwich, Malcolm went to St John’s College, Cambridge, with a minor scholarship to read Classics. He graduated in 1961 with a first class honours degree in Classics and a minor in Archaeology. He also won a Wolfson and a Downey studentship in 1961 and a Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Exhibition in 1961-62. He continued studying for a PhD on the art of ancient Palmyra, the PhD being conferred in 1965. His PhD thesis was published as The Art of Palmyra in 1976, and he wrote another four books on related subjects. He prepared the catalogue of the Palmyrene sculptures in the British Museum. In 1963 he was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in Ancient History at University College, Swansea, where he remained for four years before moving to London. He went initially to the Department of Classics at Westfield College, becoming head of department there before being transferred to Queen Mary College when Westfield College was closed. He visited Iran and Iraq several times, mainly to visit Parthian sites, and in 1973 was employed to assist with the recreation of a Parthian victory at the battle of Carrhae in 53BC for a film. In 1984 he made a six month lecture tour across North America, giving lectures on Roman and Parthian art at the invitation of the American Archaeological Association. He often ventured to areas off the beaten track without official permission. In 1985, he was arrested in Jordan after walking into a restricted area and spent several days in an underground prison before being released. In 1992 he finally achieved his ambition of reaching the site of the first Parthian capital at Nysa as part of a conference organised by the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan, where he delivered a paper on Palmyra sculptures. He was also arrested in Nysa but was
John Ennis Coleman CB (1946-49) 12.11.1930 – 10.11.2014
John Coleman came to Dulwich in January 1946 from Dean Close School. While at the College he was in Sidney, where he became Vice Captain, as well as being Head of the Classical Side and Secretary of the Dramatic Society. After leaving
Dulwich, John went to Worcester College, Oxford, to read Jurisprudence, graduating in 1954. At Oxford he became secretary of the Worcester College Dramatic Society and he retained a love of theatre throughout his life. He took his articles with a commercial law firm in London and was admitted as a solicitor in 1957. He joined the civil service in the Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 1958 and worked in the litigation, aviation, restrictive practices, transport and energy advisory divisions, before a number of years with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). During his time with the energy division, for example, he represented the UK on several international governmental groups of experts on liability for nuclear installations and on the then very new European Community treaties. In 1983 he moved to become Under Secretary at the Treasury Solicitor’s Department and legal adviser to the Department of Education and Science. There he led the team of solicitors advising ministers and other civil servants on all aspects of the department’s work, from the passage of new legislation through Parliament to litigation, including many cases in what is now the Supreme Court. In this department he worked for the enormously influential Sir Keith Joseph at a time when government education policy was rarely out of the news. Following his retirement in 1990, John was made Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath and he continued as a consultant with the Treasury Solicitor’s Department for a number of years, and co-edited a definitive three-volume work on the law of education. He married Doreen in 1958 and they had a
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