Your starter for ten

I mentioned in my blog entry for the late Rex Walford (President in 1984) that he had appeared on 'Mastermind'.

Thanks to the BBC's Genome site, I have tracked down one of his appearances - he was a high scoring loser and was therefore invited back to a 'semi-final' held in Swansea.

His specialist subject was 'The Life and Works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh'.

From 'The Gower', the magazine of the University College London school, I also discovered this information on his first round appearance:

Rex A. Walford (1945-52) appeared on 'Mastermind' on BBC1, his 20 chosen subject being "The Life and Travels of Amy Johnson". 

In the second part, general knowledge questions, had he known the name of the famous soldier who had recently died, (General Horrocks), and the correct location of the Gobi Desert, he would have won in a very high scoring contest.

Source:  https://www.ucs-digitalarchives.org.uk/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_gower&columnName=filename&recordId=120

All together now: