Dick Prior

Dick was another of my parents’ generation who died recently, aged 91. He was my father’s cousin, a fine dedicated Christian (doubtless yet another beneficiary of Pamela Ann’s prayer: see my blog entry on 14th June). He was a maths teacher and housemaster at Kings School, Canterbury. Subsequently he was a headmaster in Nigeria and then at Oxford, with an interlude in between when he taught at Bradford Grammar School. I met him for the first time whilst he was in Yorkshire, but did not properly renew acquaintance until nearly 40 years later when he and Joan moved to Shaftesbury.

Dick in the RAF in 1944

With Dick and Joan in 2005

Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, immediately below St Peter's Church where the thanksgiving service for Dick was held on 15th June 2007