Thomas Eardley Bromley its secession from the United Arab Republic, then ambassador to Algeria from 1964 until Algeria, along with other members of the OAU, broke off diplomatic relations in December 1965 over Rhodesia. Bromley's last ambassadorship was to Ethiopia 1966–69. In 1968, while addressing a gathering of 2,000 university students in Addis Ababa, he was stoned by demonstrators against the Smith regime in Rhodesia. In 1944 Bromley married Diana Pratt, daughter of Sir John Pratt, also a diplomat, and niece of the actor Boris Karloff whose real name was William Henry Pratt. In 1958 she killed their two sons and attempted suicide;
William Pratt Graham an electrical engineering professor in 1898, after spending the intervening period studying the subject at Technische Universität Darmstadt, and he was made dean of the College of Applied Science in 1912. Graham served as the vice-chancellor to Charles Wesley Flint before succeeding him as chancellor in 1937, a position Graham intended to hold only until a successor was found. Graham retired from the university in 1942 when William Pearson Tolley was elected chancellor. He died in Syracuse, New York in 1962. William Pratt Graham William Pratt Graham (November 24, 1871 – January 10, 1962) was an electrical engineering professor and