Dermod Dmitri Owen-Flood, LLB, MA
This article was published in Trinity News on 15 January, 2008.
Dermod Dmitri Owen-Flood, LLB, MA
All those involved with Trinity News were saddened last term to hear the news that Dermod Owen-Flood had passed away. Owen-Flood was chairman of Trinity News in Hilary term, 1955, and had been involved with the newspaper since its inception in 1953.
During his time at Trinity, he worked as a professional actor with The Earl of Longford’s Theatre Company while also working with Trinity News and reading for his law degree. He was also Secretary of the Phil, having failed in an attempt to become Auditor of the Hist. Owen-Flood wrote for Trinity News under the pen names An Fear Cruaidh, Thersites and Colonel Tottering, and also wrote a religious column with the late Tony Jennings (Chairman in Michaelmas term, 1954) under the apt pen name Lucifer.
A profile of him in a 1955 issue of this newspaper called him an affable man who “stood forth as the most vigorous and ardent champion of Truth in the short but lively history of this journal.”
Owen-Flood took the LLB degree in 1955. Moving to Canada in 1956, he practised law in Victoria from 1964 until 1987, when he was appointed a judge. He was appointed a justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court in 1990 and remained on the bench until September of 2006, when he was forced to retire when he turned 75.
The Stonyhurst-educated Owen-Flood thanked his Jesuit education for outfitting him for his life in law. In his legal life, he was credited with a professional generosity: he was always willing to help those he worked with, and not one to hoard or guard knowledge or tricks he had learned during his time.
The well-respected Owen-Flood always tried to stay in touch with Trinity News. Last summer he wrote to say that Trinity News is now “more of a newspaper, which is as it should be”. In his time it was, he said, “more devoted to taking the mickey” – perhaps an underestimation of the achievements of the early Trinity News.
Remarking on his own time here, Owen-Flood said that “many in Trinity in my day were living in an imaginary past which, in some aspects, never existed. I felt, as did Provost Alton, that College had to move along and get with it. That is not to say that I thought Trinity should lose its identity – far from it.”
Trinity News, he said, “was of tremendous benefit to my law career”.
Dermod Dmitri Owen-Flood, LLB, MA. Born 1931. Died September 2007, aged 76.
Dermod Dmitri Owen-Flood, LLB, MAAll those involved with Trinity News were saddened last term to hear the news that Dermod Owen-Flood had passed away. Owen-Flood was chairman of Trinity News in Hilary term, 1955, and had been involved with the newspaper since its inception in 1953.
During his time at Trinity, he worked as a professional actor with The Earl of Longford’s Theatre Company while also working with Trinity News and reading for his law degree. He was also Secretary of the Phil, having failed in an attempt to become Auditor of the Hist. Owen-Flood wrote for Trinity News under the pen names An Fear Cruaidh, Thersites and Colonel Tottering, and also wrote a religious column with the late Tony Jennings (Chairman in Michaelmas term, 1954) under the apt pen name Lucifer.
A profile of him in a 1955 issue of this newspaper called him an affable man who “stood forth as the most vigorous and ardent champion of Truth in the short but lively history of this journal.”
Owen-Flood took the LLB degree in 1955. Moving to Canada in 1956, he practised law in Victoria from 1964 until 1987, when he was appointed a judge. He was appointed a justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court in 1990 and remained on the bench until September of 2006, when he was forced to retire when he turned 75.
The Stonyhurst-educated Owen-Flood thanked his Jesuit education for outfitting him for his life in law. In his legal life, he was credited with a professional generosity: he was always willing to help those he worked with, and not one to hoard or guard knowledge or tricks he had learned during his time.
The well-respected Owen-Flood always tried to stay in touch with Trinity News. Last summer he wrote to say that Trinity News is now “more of a newspaper, which is as it should be”. In his time it was, he said, “more devoted to taking the mickey” – perhaps an underestimation of the achievements of the early Trinity News.
Remarking on his own time here, Owen-Flood said that “many in Trinity in my day were living in an imaginary past which, in some aspects, never existed. I felt, as did Provost Alton, that College had to move along and get with it. That is not to say that I thought Trinity should lose its identity – far from it.”
Trinity News, he said, “was of tremendous benefit to my law career”.
Dermod Dmitri Owen-Flood, LLB, MA. Born 1931. Died September 2007, aged 76.
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