Derek Stansfield (1942-a1969)

Dates

Birth: April-June 1942 Doncaster, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Charles Stansfield 1908-1962
Mother: Doris Loveday 1917-1980

Marriage: July-September 1963 Doncaster, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Theresa J Punter 1943-a1969

Death: After 1969

Children

Jacqueline Elizabeth Stansfield 1969-a2005
David Charles Stansfield 1969-a2005

Notes

Birth of Derek Stansfield, mother's maiden name Loveday, in FreeBMD in April-June 1942 in Doncaster (9c 1281).

His two brothers were born in Doncaster in 1946 and 1948.

Marriage of Derek Stansfield and Theresa J Punter in FreeBMD in July-September 1963 in Doncaster (2b 777).

His daughter was born in Doncaster in 1967 and son in SW Surrey in 1969.

Entry in Ancestry UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 for Mr Derek Stansfield born 1942-1944, address 39 The Avenue, Overdale Park BD23 6XG, Skipton, North Yorkshire from 2003 to 2008.

Entry in 192.com for Derek Stansfield in the Electoral Roll 2002-08, 2014-20 living in Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23, other occupant Theresa J Stansfield (wife?).

Entry in FaceBook "The Three Links Club -Skipton Oddfellows 19 April 2015 It has been a hectic weekend at the Oddfellows this weekend. Look out for several posts on the activities. It all started with the Annual summoned Meeting of the Skipton District Lodge. At the meeting retiring Provincial Grand Master (PGM) handed over the chains to Derek Stansfield with Tim Wright being elected as Deputy PGM. [...] Committee of Management members elected were: [...] Theresa Stansfield".

Entry in LinkedIn for Derek Stansfield Freelance Inspector at Adventure Activities Licensing Service Full time Senior Inspector from 1996 to 2007 and since then a Freelance Inspector, St John's College, York, Bachelor's Degree·Physical Education 1961 - 1964.

Entry in Telegraph & Angus

A Former teacher from Skipton joined Prince Philip and the Earl of Wessex to help launch the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme. Derek Stansfield, of Overdale Park, represented the year 1958 - two years after the Duke started his award programme to encourage young people to undertake exciting, constructive, challenging and enjoyable activities in their free time. Mr Stansfield flew back from America to attend the celebrations at Buckingham Palace. "It was a bit of a surprise to find out I had been invited and I was in America at the time so I have come back just for this and then I will be going back out to the States for another two months," he said. Mr Stansfield's Silver Award was the first to be awarded in Doncaster and he did everything for his Gold Award apart from the expedition as he was unable to find a group to travel with. "It was this that spurred me on really. I knew I wanted to be a teacher and doing the Duke of Edinburgh's Award meant I decided to concentrate on outdoor activities. I did this by becoming a PE teacher," said Mr Stansfield. "Since first doing the award I have had a pretty much unbroken connection with it. "I encouraged pupils that I taught to take part in the scheme, I have been an awards officer for Leicester and I am now chairman of the Cumbrian Panel and on the board of the Yorkshire Dales Panel. "I have also been on the National Expeditionary Advisory Panel since 1985 and I am now a tutor for the assessors who look at the expeditionary section of the award," he added. "I did get to speak to the Duke and he was very knowledgeable about the award, as he would be given that he started it," said Mr Stansfield. "It was a great day." Fifty people representing every year of the award - which celebrates its Golden Anniversary in 2006 - were invited to the Palace. There will be a series of anniversary events throughout 2006 culminating in an Awards Week in July. The highlight will be a two-day concert at Windsor Great Park featuring some of the best names in British music.

Entry in Derek Stansfield

Describing himself as a very late starter Derek took up painting in 2003 whilst awaiting a life saving heart by-pass operation. Taking to the activity he used it as a therapeutic tool in aiding his recovery and his interest has gained momentum since that time. He has developed his own style following workshops and courses with several professional artist including amongst others David Bellamy and Geoff Kersey. His preferred medium is watercolour and preferred topic is landscapes. More recently he has produced several paintings using coffee as an unusual medium and has exhibited and demonstrated at the first ever UK Coffee Festival. After dividing his time between his home in Skipton, North Yorkshire, where he is a past Chairman of the Cononley Art Group, and the Nature Coast of Florida, where he was a member of the Beverly Hills Art Group, the Citrus County Art Center and the Citrus Watercolor Club he now resides totally in Skipton. He has exhibited and sold paintings in both countries and achieved first prize in the Beverly Hills Art Group Annual Exhibition. Derek along with his wife Terry were featured artists at the Chronicle Gallery in Inverness during 2008 and the Citrus County Art Center in 2009. He has demonstrated in both countries and is particularly in demand for his demonstrations using coffee. He is available for demonstrations and lessons. Formerly an outdoors activity instructor Derek has been used to breaking down activities into easily understandable and achievable elements in order for students to progress, whilst at the same time making them enjoyable. This he feels is an essential ingredient to any course of lessons. He brings this ability to his classes in watercolour and coffee painting. Derek's wife Terry (Theresa) also took up painting around the same time and she has a page of her paintings on this site as well.

Entry in SAA Community adds the following to the above:

Derek was born in Yorkshire in the 1940s and attended Danum Grammar School and St John's College, York where he trained as a teacher. Most of his professional life has been spent teaching in the outdoors at outdoor education centres firstly as an instructor and then as Head of Centre. More recently he was one of eight Senior Inspectors throughout Britain with the Adventure Activities Licensing Service from which he retired in 2007, although still does some consultancy work for them.

There are numerous other entries advertising talks etc upto 22 January 2020.

Relationship

Derek Stansfield was the husband of Theresa J Punter, second great granddaughter of James Aldred, husband of Ann Shrubb, my first cousin three times removed.

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