the start of the influence of the Internet on access to archives. In addition to his day job with the County Council, he was also involved with the Cambridgeshire Association including Chairman, Treasurer and Programme organiser. He had a particular interest in genealogy and was a founder member in 1976 of the Cambridgeshire Family History Society, serving as its Chairman for some time. He was general editor for the Cambridgeshire Records Society from 1972 to 1981, seeing the publication of the society’s first four volumes, staying on as society treasurer for another 24 years. While studying for his post-graduate diploma at UCL in the 1950s, Michael met Margaret Bone, from Cornwall, who was studying on the same course. They were married in 1955 and together had six children, but the marriage ended in divorce, and he married Gillian in the 1980s. Michael lived in Cambridge from 1961 to 1978, but then embarked on a tour of the villages to the south of Cambridge, living in Sawston, Great Shelford and finally Stapleford with Gill. Even after retirement from work, he was a county councillor for Shelford from 1997 to 2005 and also a parish councillor and a governor of Shelford School, then becoming parish councillor for the neighbouring parish of Stapleford after moving there. After all his achievements for the archives and local history in Cambridgeshire, it is unfortunate that Michael did not live to see the new Cambridgeshire Archives building, which is due to open in Ely in 2018. He died peacefully at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, after a long illness. Michael’s first wife, Margaret, died in for Local History for over fifty years, in a wide variety of roles,
2015, but he is survived by his widow, Gill, by all six of his children and by six grandchildren. Several obituaries for Michael were published in Cambridgeshire, particularly one by his friend and former colleague, Philip Saunders, and this obituary is based on these obituaries. John Faulkner [1948-56] 19.07.1937 – 17.04.2016 John Faulkner, in Sidney. He was a Sidney house monitor, a school prefect for all of his last three years at the school, and Captain of the Classical Side. He became a Queen’s Scout and subsequently Assistant Scoutmaster, and was in several other school societies. After leaving Dulwich, John did National Service in the Royal Navy. He was commissioned as a Midshipman and spent much of his time on patrol in the Mediterranean Sea. He was promoted to Acting Sub Lieutenant RNVR before leaving the Navy. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge, with an Eric Evan Spicer Scholarship, graduating with a BA in Classics in 1961. John was immediately appointed to teach Classics at Eton College and spent his entire teaching career there. Apart from teaching Latin to generations of boys, he was also Company Commander and Quartermaster of the Eton CCF, and gave up many holidays to go on camps, where he often ran naval activities with brilliant efficiency. His greatest gift to Eton College was in stage lighting. He designed and who lived in nearby Herne Hill came to the College after three years at the Prep, and was
built the lighting set for numerous drama productions over the years, in a variety of awkward venues until the purpose-built theatre was opened. All the lighting was controlled by hand in the days before computers, but with John’s flair and persistence, miraculous results were often produced. Thanks to his efforts, drama now has a much higher standing at Eton. He became a house master in 1977, which took up even more of his time, but he also took on organising the annual Scholarship Examination. John had married Jill Pettifer (daughter of Jim Pettifer OA) in 1962 and the newly married couple moved straight to Eton. Daughters Sally and Lucy followed, and Jill taught speech and drama at local schools in the area, as well as working as Domestic Secretary at Eton College. John also found time to be chairman of the Eton town scouts for nine years and later he made use of his love of choral music by being Chairman of the Eton and District Choral Society. After 38 years at Eton, John finally retired in 1999 and he and Jill retired to Dorset to a house with a new garden to maintain and choir to join. They then moved in 2012 to Sussex to be closer to their daughters. John died in April 2016 and Jill has since moved to a care home with Parkinson’s Disease and dementia. John’s ashes were scattered at Broadstone Warren Scout camp in Sussex, which was somewhere he loved. Daughters Sally and Lucy contributed significantly to this obituary. Roger James Foott [1953-61] 28.08.1942 – 27.05.2017 Roger Foott was
born during a WW2 air raid the son of Frederick, a civil servant, and lived
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