Sad loss for the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and SA
Friday, 6 October 2006
The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide has lost one of its most distinguished graduates with the untimely death of South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s , Maurice de Rohan OBE, aged 70, who lost a battle with cancer yesterday.
"Agent General de Rohan was an outstanding and distinguished graduate of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ who has helped us enormously in recent years with building our alumni chapter in London," Vice-Chancellor Professor McWha said.
"His death is a sad loss for both the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and the State, and we pass on our deepest sympathies to his family."
Earlier this year Professor McWha presented Agent General de Rohan with a in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, the community and his field of work.
Maurice de Rohan graduated from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Technology in 1960 and embarked on a spectacular career.
He was founding partner of Kinnaird Hill de Rohan and Young, which became Kinhill Engineers, and later Brown & Root Asia. In 1976 he moved to the UK and was appointed Agent General in January 1998, a London-based position with a role of encouraging investment, trade and tourism to South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.
At the time of his death Agent General de Rohan was Patron of the and regularly provided tangible assistance in supporting chapter activities.
He was tipped to be South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s next after the retirement of Her Excellency Marjorie Jackson-Nelson in mid 2007.
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