Ron (The Mindless Ones)
{{Infobox Individual |species = Human |job = Dean |affiliation = Sheffield Hallam University |origin = Earth |spouse = Patricia McBride |spouse2 = Elise Kaplan |first cs = The Mindless Ones (audio story) |appearances = {{il|AUDIO: Chronomancer [+]Loading...["Chronomancer (audio story)"]|AUDIO: Time-Burst [+]Loading...["Time-Burst (audio story)"]|AUDIO: Girl in a Bubble [+]Loading...["Girl in a Bubble (audio story)"]|[[AUDIO]: The Wrong Side of History [+]Loading...["The Wrong Side of History (audio story)"]}} |voice actor = Toby Hadoke }} Ron was the dean of Sheffield Hallam University.
Biography
Ron was in a relationship with Patricia McBride, whom he worked with at Sheffield Hallam University, for five years. Their marriage ended in divorce, (AUDIO: The Mindless Ones [+]Loading...["The Mindless Ones (audio story)","The Mindless Ones"]) which the Sixth Doctor believed might have been because he was on some level aware of her prejudices. (AUDIO: Girl in a Bubble [+]Loading...["Girl in a Bubble (audio story)","Girl in a Bubble"]) He went on to marry Elise Kaplan.
After receiving a number of complaints from undergraduate students about Patricia, Ron offered to exempt her from teaching them so long as she took a retraining course at the Mindless Facility. He and Mr Betterment intended to have the Home Secretary be subjected to the Betterment Machine, but he came to have second thoughts and the machine was destroyed thanks to the Doctor and Patricia. (AUDIO: The Mindless Ones [+]Loading...["The Mindless Ones (audio story)","The Mindless Ones"])
Ron helped organise an exhibition at the Botanical Gardens. When the Doctor, Melanie Bush, Hebe Harrison and Patricia arrived at the house with Tannus Vallon, Ron went to stay at Bernard's. (AUDIO: Chronomancer [+]Loading...["Chronomancer (audio story)","Chronomancer"])
The stopped Silkreth from killing the Sixth Doctor by short circuiting her time suit using information from Evelyn Smythe. (AUDIO: The Wrong Side of History [+]Loading...["The Wrong Side of History (audio story)","The Wrong Side of History"])
Alternative timelines
In Purity's World, Ron served as Hebe's bodyguard/butler. He had looked after her as a child as well as posing as her uncle. In this guise, he read her stories of the creation myth. He chastised the Doctor for knowing forbidden texts. The Doctor gave him an SOS button, which he used when Hebe started remembering things. He was disgusted at the eugenics that Purity was doing. He sacrificed himself to stop Elise being killed. (AUDIO: Girl in a Bubble [+]Loading...["Girl in a Bubble (audio story)"])
Personality
Ron liked curry. (AUDIO: Chronomancer [+]Loading...["Chronomancer (audio story)","Chronomancer"])
