Obituaries
He was a long-serving chairman of the London Marathon Charitable Trust and Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London. He was appointed CBE in 1971 and knighted in 1976. He married Elizabeth Maunder in 1950 and they had two sons, who are both Old Alleynians [David (62-69) and Stephen (74-81)], and two daughters. Stephen was School Captain in 1980/81. An obituary appeared in The Telegraph, on which this obituary is based, with additional information from Terry Walsh (Staff 1954-89; Senior Fellow).
Les was a selfless individual who based his life on his relationship with God and his role as a Baptist minister was where he shone the most. He positively impacted many lives and his pastoral attributes have left a legacy to many who knew him. He is survived by Mary, after 57 years of happy marriage, and their five children. His youngest daughter, Angela, contributed significantly to this obituary.
Dr Dan Silvester Tunstall Pedoe (1953-58) 30.12.1939 – 13.02.2015
Dan Tunstall Pedoe and his identical twin brother, Hugh, were born in Southampton just after the start of the Second World War to Mary Tunstall, a geography lecturer, and Daniel Pedoe, a mathematician and geometer. Dan and Hugh came
Alan Dudley Taylor (1942-50) 21.09.1931 – 28.03.2015
Alan Taylor was the son of the clerk at the Port of London Authority and the family lived in Blackheath. Alan came to Dulwich from Royal Victoria School in Tunbridge Wells and was in Sidney. He played 1st XV rugby in his final year.
to Dulwich from Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, which was then in Hampstead. Because their parents moved abroad, they boarded for three years together at the College, initially in The Orchard and then Blew House. They were both in Drake, and became sergeants in the RAF section of the CCF. Dan took up athletics, important in his later life, and ran for Dulwich in his final year. After leaving Dulwich both Dan and Hugh went to King’s College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences for Medicine, both graduating with first class degrees in 1961. The twins then separated with Dan moving to St Bart’s in London for his clinical training, during which he had a 3 month spell in India on a Nuffield Travelling Scholarship. He became a junior medical lecturer at St Bart’s in 1966 followed by becoming Senior Registrar at Oxford, completing a DPhil at Wolfson College, Oxford, studying the measurement of blood velocity in the heart and great vessels. He was awarded a Fulbright travel fellowship to spend a year as Assistant Research Physiologist in San Francisco, teaching cardiac techniques. In 1973, Dan was appointed to a joint NHS/ academic role of consultant cardiologist plus general physician at Hackney Hospital and senior lecturer at Bart’s Hospital. As the sole cardiologist, he expanded the cardiology unit at Hackney into a thriving department, while at Bart’s he developed novel techniques for using ultrasound to measure blood velocity, thereby making diagnosis safer and less invasive. He headed the commissioning team for the new Homerton University Hospital and later chaired the art committee there, bringing modern works to the hospital’s walls. Dan was an avid runner, competing for Cambridge University, Bart’s Hospital and London University. His best mile time of 4 minutes 14 seconds put him into the top 100 British milers. This running experience, coupled with his experience as a cardiologist, made him a natural choice as Chief Medical Officer of the first London Marathon in 1981. He and race founder, Chris Brasher, shared a vision of the event becoming a people’s marathon, rather than being restricted to highly
He did National Service in the RAF, after which he worked in the laboratories at Beckton Gas Works. In 1955 he joined the Bahrain Petroleum Company and worked for 12 years on various plants in the refinery. After leaving Bahrain, he worked for various companies in different refineries around the world, working in 14 different countries during the remainder of his working life. In 1958 Alan married Jennifer and they had four children. He retained a non-playing interest in rugby and cricket, and had a love of reading, playing the piano and doing The Telegraph crossword. He is survived by Jennifer, their four children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Jennifer contributed significantly to this obituary.
Reverend Leslie Arthur Tripp (1943-48) 20.11.1931 – 15.05.2013
Leslie Tripp, known as Les, was the son of a coal merchant from Sydenham. He came to Dulwich from Kelvin Grove School in Sydenham and was in Sidney. After leaving the College, Les completed two years of National Service and then embarked on a
diverse but occupied and fulfilled life. His jobs included bank clerk, printer, school teacher, carpenter, hotelier, and Baptist minister, sometimes all of them at the same time. He married Mary in 1956 and together they had two sons and three daughters. He always had time for his family and was a role model to his children. In his leisure time he enjoyed walking and, in later years, watercolour painting. Apart from Mary, his greatest, life-long love was steam engines, and he had the joy of driving a steam engine on his 60th birthday.
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