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Obituaries
Christopher Logan Turner C78
Remembered by Nick Cooper C78
I became friends with Christopher Logan Turner, affectionately known to all as Logan, when we found a common mission for school life – doing as little as possible to get by, something which we both excelled at.
Logan, having become a day pupil part way through, remained at Court House with us but, turning seventeen, drove himself to school and back each day, secretly returning at the weekend to take me off for adventures in a car he positively hated, a Morris 1100 automatic. No wonder the cars he owned subsequently he skilfully took apart to make them better.
We remained friends after leaving Canford and he went off to the University of East Anglia to do a useless degree, putting all his efforts into repairing his car engines in his student house kitchen. At his 21st birthday party, we fumbled for the dips amongst the carburettor parts.
Logan then came to join us here in Bristol and after many fun years married my little sister’s best friend, Victoria. He regularly looked at his two children with astonishment. After a while they all took off to the furthest reaches of Cornwall (‘Go to Land’s End, turn around and drive back for 500m, then turn right’ were the directions).
Logan continued taking pride in succeeding in life without putting in much effort and enjoyed having little good to say about anyone in a senior position of public service. The arrival of Boris Johnson gave him much ammunition.
Victoria pre-deceased him, and with his boys safely impressing the girls with their surf dude talents, he and the lovely Debs got into a Transit campervan for a trip to Portugal eight years ago and never returned to the UK. I think he found a slow life there to suit what he wanted. He and Debs married in 2022.
Logan passed away in June, with cancer being the culprit. This is a photo I took of him at school, most likely experimenting to see whether a fire extinguisher can be set off by altitude. We will miss him.
