After that, he started his working life which, for most of his career was in the building trade. Bob married Enid in 1958 and three children followed (one daughter and two sons). He remained active and healthy throughout his life and even became a toast master in his latter years, which along with the OA reunions he particularly relished. Keith Burnet Bignold [1946-53] 06.05.1934 – 23.05.2017 Born in Dulwich to a local family Keith Bignold’s father Stanley 1919 - 1922 and uncles, Kenneth 1924 - 1928 and Leslie Burnet 1933 - 1937 had all also attended the College. By the time he came to the College from the Prep, Keith’s father and Uncle Kenneth had both been killed during WW2. At the College, he was in Spenser and a boarder in Blew House until a routine x-ray found that he had TB. He had been in Mr. Grange’s form before the TB diagnosis and, after a year away from the school recovering, he returned to the same class again, where Mr Grange kept a friendly eye on him. Keith took three A levels after only one year’s study, before leaving Dulwich to study at the College of Estate Management in Kensington, graduating with a BSc degree in Estate Management. After working for a few surveying practices, Keith joined Ware in Old Bond Street, which then merged with his grandfather’s business in South- East London. After another merger, the firm became the well-known, Burnet Ware & Graves, which had five offices at one time. Keith really enjoyed the variety of his work there, and the different types of people that he met. Enid contributed significantly to this obituray.
never happened on television. More than thirty years later, Big Finish Productions, who produce CDs, books and downloads, started producing an audio drama series called Jago and Litefoot with Trevor as Litefoot and Christopher Benjamin as Jago, reprising their original roles in the Doctor Who series. Thirteen series in eight years is testament to the popularity of the venture. Trevor was also a playwright with many of his plays being staged, including Lies (Albery Theatre, 1975) and the Undertaking (Fortune Theatre, 1979), as well as adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s the Picture of Dorian Gray (2003) and Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (2005). The Last Evensong (1985) was broadcast on BBC1. A born raconteur and well-read intellectual, he fitted his Jago and Litefoot recordings in between hospital visits and retained his twinkling sense of humour, zest for life and love of reading (filling his Kindle in preparation for dialysis sessions) until the end. Robert John (Bob) Bayliss [1944-48] 03.05.1931 – 03.02.2017 Bob Bayliss was the to St David’s primary school in Beckenham, but actually came to the College from the Prep during WW2 at the age of thirteen. At Dulwich, Bob enjoyed sport, particularly rugby, which led to his playing for Beckenham after leaving school and then moving into refereeing, which he continued for many years. Bob did National Service for two years straight after leaving Dulwich and served in Egypt as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. son of a surveyor who worked in the City and the family lived in Beckenham. He originally went
now departed but, as a former pilot, he is going onwards and upwards towards the great departure lounge in the sky.
His son Philippe contributed significantly to this obituary.
Trevor Walter Baxter [1944-49] 18.11.1932 – 16.07.2017 Trevor Baxter was the son of a civil servant who worked
for the Post Office and was brought up in Hither Green,
Lewisham. He came to Dulwich from Brownhill Road (LCC) primary school at Easter 1944 during WW2. At the College he was in Sidney. Trevor fell in love with acting at a very young age, enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), aged just sixteen, straight after leaving Dulwich. He graduated from RADA in 1951, alongside names such as Joan Collins and Gerald Harper. His first job was at the County Theatre in Aylesbury, the beginning of a long theatrical career that took him to the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and appearing in productions in a large number of London and regional theatres, as well as several touring productions. He also appeared on television in series such as Z-Cars (1968), The New Avengers (1976), The Barchester Chronicles (1982) and The Politician’s Wife (1995), but he is best known and gained cult immortality from his appearance alongside Tom Baker’s Doctor Who. In 1977, he was cast as one-off character Professor George Litefoot in The Talons of Weng- Chiang, one of the long-running series’ most enduringly popular which is set in Victorian London. There was talk of a spin-off but it
As a batchelor in the early 1960s, Keith shared a flat in London with Mike
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