Copy of a tribute compiled by Tom Dimitroff, July 2007, and read at the funeral of Derek Dowson (1932-2007, Senior Fellow, Bursar and Director of Studies in English at St Edmund's, 1980s). [Includes a reference to Iris Murdoch at a St Edmund's dinner in the 1980s.] Together with a related note from Paul Luzio, Master, to Tom Dimitroff, 31 January 2008, promising, inter alia, that an edited version of the tribute is to go into the St Edmund's Record in due course.