Chris passed away after a short illness.

Richard Kenyon (Hanbury 1950 to 1956) remembers him:

Chris came to Trent with a Staveley Iron and Steel Scholarship in October 1950. He was a very popular member of Shuker House and rose to be a school prefect. He played for the First XV and was particularly successful academically, achieving a place at Hertford College, Oxford where he gained a BA and BSc in Chemistry.

With a common interest in hill walking, Chris and Richard had several Trent and OT youth hostelling trips to the Dales and Lakes and in 1957, most notably to Norway.

On leaving Oxford Chris chose to do National Service. On the recommendation of a contemporary, Julian Webster (Hanbury 1950 to 1954), he applied for and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers serving most of his time building bridges in Germany.

Chris started his career as a trainee manager in the Rolling Mills of the Samuel Fox Steelworks at Stocksbridge, near Sheffield. He worked there until 1969, when he moved to Cumbria to become Manager of the Rolling Mills at Workington Iron & Steel Works, later to be absorbed into British Steel Corporation. Chris, being Chris, saw the writing on the wall as to the demise of the steel industry in this country some time before it happened and opted in 1975 for a career change.

He went for a year’s Teacher Training course at St. Catherine’s College in Liverpool after which he secured a post teaching in a Secondary School in Derbyshire, as at that time, jobs were not readily available in Cumberland. He had married Anne at Roby on Merseyside in 1966 and they had four daughters. After Rachel was born in 1977, Chris made a stand and they moved back to Cockermouth, where he secured a post in a primary school in the area until he moved to Ewanrigg School in Maryport, where he spent the rest of his working life.

Chris spent his fairly lengthy retirement enjoying working in his beloved garden, fell walking, another of his great passions, and of course dancing attendance on Lizzie the tortoise and the family.

Chris is sadly missed and remembered dearly by his wife Anne and their daughters Louise, Lora, Helen and Rachel.