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IGEM NEWS | Obituaries

GEOFF FRANCIS FRANCIS BENNETT
GRADE: Chartered GRADE: Management
Member Associate
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DAVID RAWSON ALEXANDER JACKSON
GRADE: Chartered GRADE: Fellow Journal of the Institution of
Member SECTION: South West
SECTION: London, AGE: 89 Gas Engineers and Managers
Southern & Eastern
AGE: 74 JOHN CRATHORNE
NEWS
GRADE: Companion on UK energy networks
Ofgem proposes to
slash investor returns
Drax completes
ALLAN SPENCE SECTION: South West purchase of Scottish
Power gas portfolio
British Gas owner
challenges energy
price cap
GRADE: Chartered AGE: 82 FEBRUARY 2019
Member
SECTION: London, MOHAMMED MOSDIQ
Southern & Eastern GRADE: Chartered Member FOUNDED 1863
AGE: 66 SECTION: Midlands WHAT LIES ROYAL CHARTER 1929
AGE: 62 BENEATH
SIMON MACDONALD Knowledge management
isn’t always smooth sailing
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5 JULY 1933 – 12 NOVEMBER 2018 Antony Green
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GEOFF WAS BORN in Liverpool and was evacuated during FCIWEM MIW
the war to Cumbria. He won a scholarship to Merchant © Published by IGEM
Taylors School, which was a great source of pride for his Vice-President T: +44(0)1509 678 159
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Duncan Wong
humble parents. After his schooldays Geoff attended CEng MIGEM
Woolwich Polytechnic. IGEM House,
Aged 24, he suffered a serious motorbike accident which Honorary Secretary 26 & 28 High Street,
meant he was ineligible for military service. However, he Gordon Davies Kegworth
had already learned how to fly a plane, gaining a private CEng FIGEM Derby
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pilot’s licence while with the Air Cadets at school. Chief Executive Officer
He worked as an industrial chemist for several years, Neil Atkinson Registered Charity No.
including many spent in the paint industry working for CEng FIChemE HonFSE 214011
Merck, Sharpe & Dohme, before moving to the Health &
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It was in his role at HSE that he became involved in gas BA Hons AIGEM It is believed that the
safety matters, being the first to recognise safety issues T: +44(0)1509 678 186 statements made in
around gas turbines used for power generation and gas E: sharon@igem.org.uk this publication are
compression installations. based on accurate and
Geoff became an active member of several organisations Advertising Enquiries reliable information. The
on his retirement, including U3A, Willaston Village Ian James views expressed are not
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deemed too sensitive to be a guide dog. They lived in Jane Murphy
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back to the Wirral in 1986 on his retirement.
IGEM Fellow Barrie Church said: “Geoff was a great Subscription rates
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He was generous; always supporting friends with donations Overseas: £169.99 ($266)
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to charities, lifts to and from hospital, and always happy to
help with bookkeeping or ready to tinker with someone’s
spreadsheets. He was happy to share his cooking and
eating skills too, using his scientific knowledge to become a Unless stated all images are credited to Shutterstock.com
very adept bread maker.” ■

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