My friend Philip Cornwell, who has died aged 67 from multiple myeloma, had a successful career in transport planning before devoting his time to charity, helping to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for the award-winning Druk White Lotus school in Ladakh, in the Indian Himalayas.
Philip was born in Shortlands, near Bromley, Kent. His parents, Frederick and Betty Cornwell, ran a small shop in Old Bexley, where they also lived. His parents separated when Philip was eight and he and his mother moved briefly to Vancouver in Canada. They returned to the UK and settled in Dartford, where Philip lived from the age of nine until he went to university.
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