Jerome B. Kingdied on 13 October, 2012 at his home at Kendal in Hanover, NH, in the presence and care of his immediate family. Jerry was born in New York City on 1 May, 1927, to Dorothy Babcock and Robert W. King. He grew up in Short Hills, New Jersey; London, England; and Scarsdale, New York.

Jerry received a BA from Dartmouth in 1948 after having interrupted his studies to enlist in the Navy the day he turned 18. He received an MA and a PhD from Stanford University, where he met his future wife, then a Fulbright Scholar from Aix-en-Provence, France. Jerry then began a long and gratifying career teaching Political Philosophy at Middlebury College, Williams College, l'Universite d'Aix-Marseille, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jerry was an ardent activist for social justice and peace. He was an active member of Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst where he served on the vestry. He shared a love of landscape painting with his father and a love of classical music with his mother, and enjoyed music making - initially as pianist and later in life as a violist - with family and friends until the end of his life.

From the age of thirteen until his death, Jerry spent part of every year at his beloved summer home at Caspian Lake in Vermont where he relished activities ranging from racing his sailboat with his children as crew, to tree cutting, brush-burning and making endless repairs to the family cottage.

He is survived by Muriel Driard King, his wife of fifty-nine years, and by his children Nathalia and her husband Christopher Zinn, Christianne and her husband Sean Craig, Daniel and David King and his grandchildren, Francis, Peter and Helena Craig, and Gabriel and Sebastian Zinn.

While Jerry was appreciated for his many talents, his memory will be cherished especially by those who admired him for his love of good conversation, his moral courage, and the tireless devotion with which he cared for Muriel in her decades-long struggle with Rheumatoid Arthritis, up until the final weeks of his own struggle with Parkinson's.

A memorial service will be held at Kendal at Hanover in Hanover, NH on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 11am.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the International Rescue Committee. (www.rescue.org)

Arrangements are under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover, NH.