Norman Bagshaw (1951) died in Feb. 2025, aged 92. He left King’s – where he played both 1st XI cricket and hockey - for Downing College, Cambridge, after two years national service in which he served in Military Intelligence. After his degree in Natural Sciences, in which he specialised in Metallurgy, Norman soon joined the Chloride Group, eventually becoming its technical director responsible for all submarine, aircraft and torpedo batteries. He, in passing, also won various awards – a Hoffman memorial prize in 1968, Frank Booth medal in 1988, and, by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences!, the Gaston Plante medal in 1999, as well as authoring ‘Batteries at Sea’(1982), as well as over 60 scientific papers in areas of his great expertise. On retirement from Chloride, he became a freelance consultant, and worked on many projects, including as an expert witness many times, for a whole range of companies and governments world-wide. He was also a Fellow at Nottingham University, on the council at UMIST, and Chair of the Standards Committee on Aircraft Batteries.

(NB His two sons also attended King’s. DAVE (1977) read Minerals Processing at Leeds University after King’s, and then worked in various senior positions in the minerals industry, eventually becoming MD of Midland Quarry Products. NIGEL (1984), after Downing College, Cambridge reading Economics and Management, qualified as a chartered accountant before spending most of his career in various senior finance roles in the Social Housing sector.)