Obituary

摘要

If you wanted something done you would go to David. If you wanted to know something you would ask David. If you wanted a sympathetic ear, David would listen. David was an academic but not the dry crusty sort, he was an engineer with a wide breadth of skills, he was a teacher who could make most things understandable, he was a traveller and an adventurer, he was a businessman, he was a loving family man. However, he was essentially just a nice man to spend time with. After completing his A levels at St Albans school David moved on to the National College of Agricultural Engineering in Silsoe, Bedfordshire. There in his third year David spent two months in Kenya on the college's overseas aid programme teaching the management of water resources. He loved Africa, it always remained a favourite place. In his free time there he went exploring - hitchhiking where he could. On one occasion he climbed a good way up Mt. Kenya. Seizing opportunities and exploring his surrounding where he could was to remain with him for the rest of his life. Whilst there he found time to visit the local railway station, met the local station master and made a beeline for the signal box, he was always interested in signalling. On the wall was a sign saying' Remember Abermule' (referring to a dreadful signalling accident in 1921) little knowing that he would live so close to Abermule forty-five years later.