Oral history of British science
Hoare, Tony (Part 2 of 15). An Oral History of British Science.
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Type
sound
Duration
00:30:26
Shelf mark
C1379/52
Subjects
Computer Software
Recording date
2011-05-11
Recording locations
Interviewee’s home, Cambridge
Interviewees
Hoare, Charles Antony Richard, 1934- (speaker, male)
Interviewers
Lean, Thomas (speaker, male)
Abstract
Part 2: Remarks on life in Colombo: revisiting for 70th birthday; description of former home, servants, cook Alvis; limited interaction with neighbourhood; anecdotes about encounters with wildlife during Bandarawela school visit to resort of Yala [pause 05:35] shooting of a leopard, rogue elephant. [07:00] Remarks on: school in Bandarawela, failing to find school on recent visit, progressive nature of school; European friends at school, native children at school in Colombo; TH disruptive nature at school; siblings, TH eldest; TH father's position in civil service, taking early retirement at independence of Ceylon and returning to England to work at Board of Trade. [12:20] Remarks on: buying a house in Headington to be close to school, before becoming boarder; listening to radio as family; remote nature of father,TH raised by ayah and nanny. [14:25] Remarks on mother: guide leader in both Ceylon and UK; memory of losing her; took a secretarial course and taught TH typing; playing Mah Jong and bridge; playing bridge during evacuation, submarine scare, small makeup case prepared for abandoning ship; determined personality; anecdote about her not liking babies. [20:15] Remarks on: being looked after by an Ayah; move from Ceylon to Africa due to war; life in Africa without servants, living in a boarding house, TH attending boarding school due to poor behaviour; TH being intellectually pushy as a child; friends; bullying; [25:30] childhood hobbies, reading, model aeroplanes, writing short stories; TH working hard at school, enjoying mastering subject; TH competitive nature as child; reading, Russell, Aldus Huxley's 'Point And Counter Point', Antic Hay, and 'Eyeless in Gaza', Julian Huxley popular science, Arthur Mee's 'The Children's Encyclopedia.'
Description
Interview with computer scientist Sir Tony Hoare.
Related transcripts
Professor Sir Tony Hoare interviewed by Dr Thomas Lean: full transcript of the interview
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Visit this interviewee's page on the 'Voices of Science' web resource
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