Founded 1980
Chair:        
Secretary: 
Treasurer: 

Graham Smith
Jan Thompson
Graham Mumby-Croft


JOHN DOVELL R.I.P.


We have recently received the sad news that John Dovell,one of the founding members of The Prison
Governors Association died on the 23rd September.He was 84 years old.


John joined the Merchant Navy at Training Ship Conway when he was 14,leaving the navy in his mid­ twenties to join the Prison Service as an officer at HMP Lewes in February 1966. He became an Assistant Governor in September 1968,and after training at PSC Wakefield,had a long and varied service,being posted to Wetherby,Long Kesh N.l.,Exeter,Lancaster,Head of South East Regional
Office Manpower Team,Send as governing Governor,Parkhurst as Deputy Governor,first full-time
General Secretary of the PGA (for which he subsequently received Distinguished Life Membership of the PGA),Lifer Management at Headquarters,Governor of Haslar Immigration Removal Centre and finally as governing Governor of HMP Kingston which specialised in life-sentenced prisoners at the time,from where he retired at the age of 57 in 1996.


Jenny Adams-Voung has written:-"1 had the privilege of working for John for a short period when he was working at S.E.R.O in the early 1980s.l found him to be a delightful,kind,caring,hard-working and decent man with a lovely sense of humour,and I am grieved he is no longer with us".


lt was John's express wish that he should have no funeral service. Our thoughts are of him,and his family at this time.
John Dovell R.I.P.