David Hawgood, brother of the late John Hawgood (Day Boy, 1948), the late Alan Hawgood (Junior, 1946) and Christopher Hawgood (Junior, 1953), died 17 July 2026, aged 88. The following has been provided by David’s brother, Chris.

At Cheltenham College, David co-edited a comedic magazine – Lighter Sides – with the late Alan Haselhurst (Day Boy, 1956). 

David was awarded a BA by the University of Oxford, as an undergraduate at Christ Church. He subsequently worked for Smiths Industries Ltd at Bishop’s Cleeve, Cheltenham, and moved on to do research and development at International Computers Ltd (ICL), first based in Stevenage and later in Putney. He became a project manager of point-of-sale software for ICL. This project was later sold to Fujitsu and became the notorious ‘Horizon’ software package.

David took voluntary redundancy, retired early, and wrote books about the use of computers for genealogy research.

He was a keen photographer all his life, including submitting nearly 10,000 images to the geography-based website, Geograph. He travelled extensively; the slideshows and newsletters of his travels were popular.

David is survived by his wife, Barbara, a New Zealander, who was a researcher at King’s College, London, in the physiology of snake venom.