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Hi. Not really, though I have seen a couple of bits & an obit. for George Walford. I would be grateful for any links, if you have some. I will admit that some of the articles I have found quite heavy going, but interesting, none the less. Any pointers appreciated. Many thanks.
OK. Thanks for clarifying that before I wandered off on another tangent. Strangely, he/we were living near Swansea at that time.
Thank you for your posts, most interesting.Peter Rollings is/was my father and I am losely trying to trace his last known whereabouts and quite interested in his past. Here are 2 new aliases that I didn't know of – P R Collins & W Brain. I have no doubt that he was studying the organisation as that was his way.I was born in Ghana in 1957 where he was at the time of Ghanaian (Gold Coast) independence, lecturing sociology at the university in Accra. Apparently, he got himself fairly heavily involved in the local politics and was actively involved with the losing side during the government & subsequent presidential elections. He was apparently also writing a thesis for his Ph.D. about the psychology of the African negro, a submission which nobody was interested in academically at the time and which did not get him his Ph.D. I expect that it would be wildly politically incorrect today.We moved back to Britain in 1960, presumably when the climate for political opposition in Ghana heated up, somewhat. He left my mother (with us 3 kids) in 1963, when we were living in Wales near Swansea. I believe he was lecturing sociology in the university in Swansea. My mother said that he had "infiltrated" a somewhat dangerous group of Welsh nationalists who might have killed him if they knew that he was just there to write a thesi for a Ph.D. on them (which, again, nobody was interested in, academically). Maybe they sussed him as he suddenly upped sticks in 1963 and went to Ghana, subsequently remarried to a Ghanaian lady and later moved back to Reading university as "James Shepherd".I think it is fair to assume that an element of his membership of the Socialist Party was study towards his Ph.D. thesis, which I don't think he ever passed, but it was (is) also a great source of intellectuals for the stimulating debates & ideas. The few odd times that I met my father in later years, I always got the impression that he was studying me, my habitat & the people I associated with. Often he would turn up unannounced with a bizarre belated gift for some missed birthday, when he had missed the last six. Sometimes he would turn up with a minibus full of African scholars, presumably sociologists, who all appeared to want to study an Englishman in his natural habitat (tides turn!). I get the impression that all of life was a sociological study for him.I last heard from him living in South Africa as "Peter Shepherd" and married again to a semi-prominent Inkatha Freedom Party politician & academic, Harriet Ngubane (again the losing side). She died in 2007. I had a phone call from him around that time which seemed to be mainly to see if I could sub him some money for a trip to Ghana, which I was sadly unable to do. I haven't heard since. The last address I had for him was a PO box in Rondebosch, Cape Town but subsequent Christmas cards have never been reciprocated nor returned.If my father is alive, I guess he'll be about 89, now. If anyone has any further info, I would be grateful. Thanks again for the posts. Real good.
