David Ware obituary

My former colleague David Ware, who has died aged 80, was a university and college lecturer and biological sciences researcher.

Born in Brighton, East Sussex, to Henry, a chief petty officer in the Royal Navy, and Florence (nee May), a nurse, he attended Varndean grammar school. At the age of 18 David was called up for national service, training as a radar operator in Cyprus. There followed a three-year spell in the merchant navy before he married Rosemary Sullivan, an administrator at a drug rehabilitation centre, in 1963.