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Bob Duncan 18/07/1940 - 02/02/2025
Editor’s Note:
You will have read the Order of Service, the Eulogy, and the words of his partner, Enid, for Bob Duncan who died on 2 February this year, aged 84. Another gubernatorial legend has gone to the great gate lodge in the sky. Bob was also one of the founding fathers of the PGA, and a stalwart of the RPGA. He died peacefully with his partner Enid by his bedside.
Bob was not well enough to produce his ‘Your Letters’ column in the last issue of the Newsletter. So Issue No 90 marked the his 46th consecutive, and final column, which now sadly dies with him. Bob was the heartbeat of the Newsletter. However, Bob will live on in the Newsletter through the extracts from his voluminous memoirs that are in the safe hands of Roger Outram, and will be winging their way to the editor biannually for some time yet. I am advised that the memoirs are 392 pages long so even with judicious editing by Roger, they should comfortably last the decade. A fitting tribute.
If any member is able to provide a more succinct obituary for Bob I would be very much obliged. It would feel a significant omission if his long life of service was not marked in this way. I realise it will be a difficult task to draw everything together as Bob served at so many establishments. The upside of that is that so many of us had the privilege of working under him at some point in our careers.
My own favourite story is of Bob commandeering a bus to get to work at HMP Wakefield after he had been forced to set out to walk on a snowy winter’s day. They don’t make them like that any more.
PAUL LAXTON
