Ronald Mobley

Ronald was born in Canal Street, where he was to spend most of his life. He went to St Barnabas School where he excelled both academically and on the sports field, playing football for Oxford Boys (his cousin, Vic Mobley, played for Sheffield Wednesday). In 1952 he started an apprenticeship making stereotype plates at OUP. After 35 years, however, modern technology displaced him and he was made redundant, following which he went to work as a driver for Oxonian Rewley Press until his retirement in 2001. Ronald was a bachelor and lived for most of his life with his mother in the same house in which he was born until she died aged 81. He took a great interest in his nephews and nieces and was always generous to them. Unfortunately, he did not enjoy good health in his retirement and, after he moved to Whitworth Place, died suddenly in November, aged 68.