Obituaries

Basil Almond (d. 2001)

 Basil Almond died in October 2001. From the New College Record:

He was born in 1926, the eldest son of Sir James and Lady Almond (Indian Civil Service). He was educated at Westminster, but WWII meant the actual location was first Lancing then Simla. Returning to England in November 1942, he was torpedoed in the south Atlantic and spent  fourteen days in an open boat. He was called up in 1944, joining the RAF as a navigator. Before entering New College in 1948 he did a course in Russian at Cambridge. He read French and Russian, and then taught languages at Aldenham before becoming an NHS administrator at St Mary's Paddington. He then taught Russian at Guildford University (sic) before moving to Blair Atholl. He finally ran the renal unit at Dundee Royal Infirmary.