Daniel Bird Robinson (FS 37-41). His son, David Robinson, writes:

" ‘Dan’, who died in November 2012, was a native of Loweswater and attended Seascale preparatory school before St Bees. On leaving school his university studies - Civil Engineering at Durham University - were interrupted by the second world war and pilot training in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm in the USA, which he completed with immaculate timing at the cessation of hostilities. Having resumed and completed his degree, he worked in a number of places, including what is now called Sellafield, before settling into a career in the Civil Service, specialising in airfield maintenance. This took him to Malta (twice) and Aden before he settled in the south of England. He retired to Ringwood where he had thirty happy years gardening and travelling. He never lost his love of the Lake District and was still walking on the fells in his late 70s with three generations of Robinsons. He leaves Sheila his wife and David his son". 

 

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