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2012 · issue 2

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2012 · issue 2 Dear ODs

It gives me great pleasure to commend to you this second annual edition of The OD magazine featuring OD careers and lives together with news of achievements over the past year.

Since the last issue the school has seen a busy year of activities, accomplishments and noteworthy scholarship results. There have been many sporting triumphs including one of the most outstanding rugby seasons on record. In the creative and performing arts the quality of work and performance have been excellent.

OD-wise there have been two very successful reunions; the invitation to the reunion for Pre-1950s Leavers prompted an enthusiastic response from ODs and 200 guests attended a happy occasion in November. March saw another enjoyable event when 163 ODs returned to the school for the reunion of 1970-75 Leavers. It is wonderful to see so many ODs coming back to the Dragon with such warm memories. The JOD Day takes places next spring, I hope we shall see many more of you then too.

As ever, it gives me great pleasure to hear from you and to welcome ODs of all generations back to the school. The OD Office can arrange a personal visit and tour of the School on weekdays; you might be surprised and encouraged to see what has changed and what remains very much intact. Contact details for the OD Office can be found at the back of the magazine.

With every good wish,

John Baugh Headmaster

THE OD Headline News Contents 1

A selection of highlights from the last year… OD Lives... More news of Dragon happenings can be found Sport 2 on the school website at www.dragonschool.org Performance 4 Polymath 6 Prep of the Year Sampling Science Achievements 8 The Dragon was awarded Prep The Dragon was the only prep school School of the Year 2011 at the at the Science Festival’s Bookshelf 10 launch of the Tatler Schools Guide opening fair in central in in September. March. Staff and pupils brought hands-on science (including bees In Time of War 12 and a gecko) to curious Saturday Betjeman Poetic Tradition shoppers. Three Dragons reached the final Dragon Development 16 forty in the annual Poetry Competition and were Scholarship Success Oxford Entrepreneur 18 awarded their prizes at St Pancras The number of scholarships and station next to the statue of John awards to their senior schools Betjeman (OD 1920). achieved by Dragon pupils in 2012 OD Events and was 43, a third of A Block. Figuring It Out Reunions 19 The Dragon was one of only ten ‘Try-umph’ schools cited as national examples Autumn 2011 was one of the OD News 21 of best practice in the teaching Dragon’s most successful rugby of Maths in an Ofsted report seasons on record. Nine teams were Announcements 22 published in November 2011. unbeaten in all their games and across all the age groups with 99 wins, the highest number achieved Obituaries 23 Olympic Values in the history of the school. The Dragon joined the 2012 Olympic ‘Get Set Network’ as Contact Us 24 a school which demonstrates IAPS Sailing commitment to the Olympic and A team of Dragon sailors took part Diary Dates 25 Paralympic values. In June, the in the annual national IAPS sailing Dragon hosted its own Olympics competition off Weymouth. Despite for neighbouring primary schools. strong winds the Dragon sailors The event was attended by two managed 4th place overall. Olympians, (OD 1987) and Justin Frishberg (OD 1985). Olympic Torch The captain of athletics volunteered to carry the Olympic Torch on part Tweet! of its journey around the country. To encourage more people to get Cheered on by thousands of to know the Dragon, the school spectators, he proudly carried the joined Twitter and now has a flame through Chippenham in May. growing flock of followers - see p.24. Carmina Burana The Choir sang Medal Record to a packed audience at the The girls’ Judo team had its most Sheldonian Theatre in June successful outing on record to when they performed with the Schools Judo Symphony Chorus the Competition and brought home powerful choral work by Carl Orff, four medals. Carmina Burana.

2012 · issueissue 2 2 Olympian achievements SPOrT For most Dragons, games and sport are only a part, albeit a very important part, of the myriad of activities that form the building blocks of school life. However for some sporting Old Dragons, skill, dedication and ambition to succeed have taken them on to great professional heights; for a few, these now include the extraordinary opportunity to compete in the Olympics being held in their home country.

At the time of writing, London is making performing at their best in front of our to build the Olympic Games three-day fi nal preparations for the 2012 Games. As home crowd in London. Wherever you eventing cross country course at anticipation rises, ODs are involved not are, please shout loud - it really does make Greenwich Park, which is the venue only as competitors but also in the essential a diff erence!” for the show jumping, cross country delivery of a huge international event. As a notable long distance runner, Hatti and dressage events. Dean (OD 1995) has been on track for In order to protect the park and ensure Reaching for Gold Olympic level competition in recent years. sustainability, the company was briefed Frances Houghton (OD 1993) has already She set three 3000m steeplechase national to use innovative non-evasive techniques made a name for herself as an outstanding records and was Britain’s top runner at to build the course and jumps. All of rising star of women’s sculling. She both the 2007 World Cross Country the structures installed, including the joined the Junior British Rowing Team Championships and 2008 European Cross arena and the cross-country jumps, are in 1995 and subsequently achieved Country Championships before going on temporary and will be removed aft er four gold medals in the World Rowing to win gold at the 2009 National Cross the Games. Championships. She won her fi rst silver Country competition. Hatti was unable to “It’s a fantastic venue, the water medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics her second at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing due to an ankle injury, but jump is already in situ – it’s the in the women’s quadruple events. Now she she has continued to work hard and her current boating lake!” knows she will be competing in 2012. running times have continued to improve. Th e company will build thirty-six “Our daily schedule comprises Top British runner in the 2010 European portable jumps in advance off -site and 5-5.5 hours of training each day, Cross-Country Championships, and are only allowed to construct the course 21st in the 2011 World Cross-Country with 36-44km on the rowing three weeks before the eventing starts. Championships, she hopes to qualify Competing to the very best of their machine and on the water, and for the London 2012 Olympics 3000m abilities, being part of an outstanding some weight lifting thrown in for Steeplechase event. team or contributing to a fantastic occasion good measure.“ A Very Dragon Event in an environmentally sympathetic way, come naturally to former Dragons. We “Th e spirit in the team is the highest I Andrew Hunt (OD 1974) is co-founder and wish them all a wonderful experience at have known it, and it’s a privilege to be a director of ‘London Eventing’. Andrew and this momentous event. part of what we’re building together,” says his three colleagues – all leading course Frances. “Everyone is looking forward to builders in their fi eld – won the contract

THE Od 1932 Los Angeles Hugh ‘Jumbo’ Edwards (OD 1919) 3 Coxless Pairs – Gold Medal

The Dragon at the Olympics Coxless Fours – Gold Medal t r 1952 Helsinki Paralympic Player David Callender (OD 1943) spo Coxless Pair Justin Frishberg (OD 1985), was part of Great Britain’s National Wheelchair Rugby 1956 Melbourne Team. He has competed at Olympic level John Strover (OD 1944) Hockey twice: in the 2004 Summer Paralympic Games in Athens and in Beijing in 2008; 1968 Mexico on both occasions the team finished in Peter Wilson (1966 - Current Staff) fourth place. He embodies his own advice Hockey to Dragon athletes to: “follow your dream 1972 Munich with a good heart and no fear, that way, Edward Hudson (1968-1994 Staff) whether you reach Olympic/Paralympic Fencing levels or not, your journey will always have been a success.” 1976 Montreal John Henry Clay (OD 1968) Rowing Eights and Pair Left: ‘Jumbo’ Edwards (second from right) 1980 Moscow and his crew John Henry Clay (OD 1968) Rowing Eights and Pair Below right: Tim Henman on a recent 1996 Atlanta visit to the Dragon Tim Henman (OD 1986) Tennis Doubles- Silver Medal Below left: Francis Houghton and her Stephen Ellis (OD 1981) crew in 2008 Rowing Matthew Juniper (OD 1986) Bottom: David Callender Paralympics, 100m and other events and his crew rowing on the Thames in London 1998 Nagano, Winter after competing in Sam Temple (OD 1985) Helsinki in 1952 Freestyle (Moguls) skiing

2000 Sydney Frances Houghton (OD 1993) Double Scull Tom Middleton (OD 1989) Lightweight Double Scull Tim Henman (OD 1986) Tennis (Singles)

2002 Salt Lake City, Winter Sam Temple (OD 1985) Freestyle (Moguls) skiing

2004 Athens Frances Houghton (OD 1993) Quad Scull- Silver Medal Tim Henman (OD 1986) Tennis (Singles)

2004 Athens Paralympics Justin Frishberg (OD 1985) Paralympics, Wheelchair Rugby

2008 Beijing Frances Houghton (OD 1993) Quad Scull- Silver Medal Hatti Dean (OD 1995) Steeplechase, injured shortly before and returned home

2008 Beijing Paralympics Justin Frishberg (OD 1985) We hope we have included all those involved in the Olympics past and present, but we apologise for any unintentional Paralympics, Wheelchair Rugby omissions and would be grateful for more information.

2012 · issue 2 4 As Seen on TV…and Film, and Stage ce

an The last year saw an impressive array of ODs performing on stage, film and television. The OD caught m

r up with two of them, actor Oliver Milburn (OD 1986) and musician Julia Johnson (OD 1995), to find out

fo more about the performing life and their memories of the Dragon. r e P Oliver Milburn Oliver Milburn has a long list of television, theatre and film credits to his name. His TV career started with Families alongside Jude Law in the early 1990s, and continued with roles in many British TV institutions such as The Bill, Born and Bred, Green Wing, Mistresses and, last year, several episodes of Coronation Street. His film credits include The Kid, The Descent, Loaded and Andrea Arnold’s retelling of Wuthering Heights in which he played Edgar Linton. Oliver also regularly works in theatre, and is performing this summer in Michael Wynne’s new comedy Canvas at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

What are you working night with Paul Scofield, Eileen on at the moment? Atkins and Vanessa Redgrave was I’m about to do a Sally Potter a buzz. film called Bomb. I’m playing Has the school had any an early ’60s radical, a sort of influence on your career? Marxist aesthete. I’m basing him I hope that being an OD has helped. on Desmond Devitt, obviously. It’s certainly made it fun. And it was What has been your Tom Ward (OD 1984) playing the professional highlight so far? lead in The Yeoman of the Guard at The play John Gabriel Borkman the Dragon circa 1983 who made at the National Theatre. Having me realise drama was a good way a full-blooded family row every for titches like us to muck about. Class Act

Hugh Laurie (OD 1972) Jack Davenport (OD 1986) (OD 1994) Well known as a comedian Jack Davenport appeared as In a busy 2011 Tom Hiddleston played and actor, last year saw Hugh Bobby in the film The Key Loki in the film adaption of Thor, Laurie demonstrate his Man last year. Jack, a familiar portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight professional talent as a blues face from British television in Paris, and appeared as Captain Nicholls artist. He released his album comedy dramas This Life in the acclaimed film War Horse based The ODs included here Let Them Talk in April, which and Coupling, returns to on the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo. are just a few of the reached second place in the the small screen this year in Tom will reappear as Loki this year in many that we know are UK charts. In May Hugh Smash, an American musical the film Avengers and next year in Thor 2. involved in performance Laurie appeared in the ITV drama series produced by As The OD goes to press he is appearing on stage or screen or series Perspectives, explaining Steven Spielberg. The series as Henry V in BBC TV’s Shakespeare behind the scenes - we his love for the music of New premiered in the USA in Unlocked season. would be delighted to Orleans. This year he sees February and was one of In January he told London listing receive updates and concert tours in the Americas, eight nominations in the magazine Run Riot about his schooldays: further information at Russia and Europe, and an ‘Most Exciting New Series’ “I had a fantastic time at the Dragon. I don’t [email protected] appearance at the Cornbury category at the Critics’ Choice remember ‘learning’ anything, and yet I Festival in Oxfordshire. Television Awards. learned everything. It’s an amazing place.”

THE OD What memories do you have of the Dragon? Julia Johnson 5 I had a ball. Having chisels Julia Johnson wrote her first thrown at me by Mr musical at only 15 years old. ce Richardson in woodwork Today she is a professional singer, (Barsonary? What does that songwriter and piano player; she an mean?) was a particular m

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concussed, so the sick bay was P her music career with the release my second home. Hot Ribena of her debut solo album, I Am and kind nurses cured all Not The Night and appearances known ills. Being chosen as at Ronnie Scott’s and at Bestival. someone’s 11th best friend and Julia is a regular on the London getting to make all the toast at acoustic circuit and can often be their birthday party introduced seen at the legendary Troubadour me to the concept that waiting where she is known for her on people has its advantages. ‘candid, quirky, elegiac songs’. Are you still in touch What are your best with OD friends? professional moments so far? I’m good friends with many. beauty and importance. I started What memories do you have Supporting Peter Gabriel at the I’d say friendliness, as well as writing music when I was at the of the Dragon? Tabernacle in 2010, and the scruffiness, are two Dragon Dragon and vividly remember Mr moment I finished my album. Buying Highland Toffee at the tuck traits that will always endure. Andrew showing us the structure shop for 5p, reading Goodnight Where do you see yourself next? What advice would you for 12 bar blues. I think children Mister Tom with Ma Da, the give to current Dragons As long as I am singing and were encouraged to be creative engravings on the desks, balloon considering a career in writing music I will be happy! and ambitious. debates, ballroom dancing, acting? Has the Dragon had any Were you involved with the staff pantomime, Carmen Be prepared to play a lot influence on your teaching drama at school? Draconiensis, and all the staff, of golf. Develop a highly and/or singing careers? I was in Charley’s Aunt in my last especially Moocow (Mr Cowan). trained liver. Have no desire Very much and equally for both! year, but mostly I think I was far Also being one of the first girl for pecuniary stability. Make I teach Latin now because I was too shy to be on stage. I remember boarders, a pioneering group of 11. constant disappointment your so inspired by how it was taught auditioning for Ruddigore in B default setting. And then at the Dragon, and how we were Block and when I sang no-one For further information see: crack on! helped to appreciate both its could hear me. www.julia-johnson.com

Hugh Dancy (OD 1988) (OD 1980) Tom Ward (OD 1984) (OD 1996) spent part of 2011 Tom Hollander starred in Tom Ward is chiefly known As well as returning to Oxford on Broadway, as playwright one of 2011’s most successful for his leading role as the to study English Literature for Thomas in , and comedies on the BBC, Rev, forensic pathologist Dr Harry a year, Emma has continued to has been nominated for a 2012 which won a BAFTA for best Cunningham in the popular work as an actress and model Drama Desk Award for his work. sitcom. Last year Tom appeared and long-running BBC forensic after starring in the final Harry Hugh was seen on the big screen in the Joe Wright film, Hanna, drama series, Silent Witness. Potter film as Hermione Granger. last year in the highly acclaimed with Cate Blanchett and Tom has just completed his French cosmetics company Martha Marcy May Marlene and Saoirse Ronan and this year final series of the show which Lancôme unveiled Emma as the this year in Hysteria, a mix of will star in vampire thriller regularly draws 8 million latest face of the brand in May period drama, historical fiction film Byzantium. 2013 will see viewers in the UK. He has last year. She starred alongside and romcom humour, with him playing novelist Wilkie built up an impressive list of Michelle Williams and Eddie Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jonathan Collins in The Invisible Woman, other TV credits to his name Redmayne in 2011’s My Week Price. Completing the screen a film about Charles Dickens including Vanity Fair, Pride and with Marilyn, and also filmed trilogy, Hugh will also be playing affair with Nelly Ternan and in Prejudice and the film Quills. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. FBI agent in NBC’s Richard Curtis’ new romcom 2012 will see her starring in TV adaptation of . About Time. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring.

2012 · issue 2 6 th a ym l o P Photograph: Steve Uzzell, by kind permission of Green Templeton College, Oxford

THE OD “I was born at the Radcliffe Infirmary and I’m now at Green Templeton 7 College right next door – I haven’t really made much progress in my life” TH A YM L The Bourne Trilogy: PO Physician, Politician, Farmer

Meeting Dr Peter Bourne (OD 1953) today you could easily assume he had spent an entire career in academia. He has held a list of illustrious education posts and written numerous articles and books including noted biographies. But there is a great deal more to his professional life than that. Educated as a physician and anthropologist, Dr Bourne is credited with encouraging Jimmy Carter to run for presidential office and he worked closely with him in the White House. Peter led a major campaign to reduce water-borne disease in Third World countries and is still an advisor to government, businesses and non–profits. Now a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford, he continues his work on international health systems. He divides his time between Washington, a farm in Wales (where he raises llamas) and Oxford – where The OD magazine caught up with him.

What do you recall of your a good track, and I did various things – I was that if he got involved it could be eliminated childhood in Oxford? in the military in Vietnam, I was a hospital in his lifetime. He got behind it. There were intern in Seattle, then I was at Stanford. 400,000 cases a year, now we’re down to 400 I have extraordinary memories of and it should be gone within five years. Oxford during wartime. A church on the How did you get involved Woodstock Road was a government feeding in politics? Why llamas? centre; food was very scarce but people I spent some time in the Sudan and became could get hot meals there. Green Templeton I wanted to return to Atlanta because of the very enamoured with camel culture, but is just opposite it – I walk up the street Civil Rights Movement – California wasn’t I knew I could not have camels in Wales. and remember being a child going to that where the action was. I saw that the South However, llamas are their close relatives feeding centre. was going to have to be reincorporated and I had seen them on farms in the US. I also remember the unbelievably cold politically with the rest of America. I went I was one of the first people to keep llamas winter of 1947; I learned to skate on the back with the desire to get involved. I can’t in Britain outside a zoo and today, with 80 Dragon ‘ice rink’. Then there were incredible say that I deliberately sought out somebody animals, I have one of the largest herds in floods and I remember looking from the I thought could be president, but that’s what the country. war memorial at school over the Cherwell happened. I met Carter after he had run for and as far as I could see was water. A master Governor (of the State of Georgia) and lost; I urged him to stand again. Even had he not What inspires you to stay said we would never see floods like it again in touch with the Dragon? in our lives. That made a big impression – gone on to the success he did, we would still and was true. be good friends. I worked for him in the I was so shaped by the Dragon, I even have Governor’s Office, was the deputy campaign difficulty explaining it to my wife. Boarding What was the major influence manager of his presidential campaign in was so central and the bulk of my life from of your Dragon days? 1976, then went to the White House with 8 to 14 was here. It was an all–encompassing him and we have just stayed close ever since. environment: Bruno Brown who produced The First World War. The older masters had all the plays was big in the Communist Party all fought in or been connected to it – that What is your greatest in Oxford, then there was a man called Dodd was their era, their war. They experienced professional achievement? who taught French who was head of the the loss of a generation of young men and League of Empire Loyalists and was about as felt an obligation to teach and contribute to Starting the eradication of Guinea worm – right wing as you could possibly be. Different the youth of the country. a parasitic disease that has afflicted millions of people through their drinking water. At backgrounds, political and cultural ones, were What took you to America? the UN, I launched a global campaign and accepted in a wonderfully tolerant way, which My father’s job in Atlanta. I wanted to stay steady progress was made but it wasn’t a big I do not think you would get at many schools. but didn’t get a scholarship to Oxford. The priority with poor countries. Then President move to America shaped my life; I graduated Carter came to stay with me in Wales and I For further information see: from medical school at 22, which put me on told him it was my most important work and www.petergbourne.co.uk

2012 · issue 2 8 Od achievements

aCHIEVEMEnTS Sixty Years On

Robin Preston (OD 1951) achieved a lifetime ambition last summer when he appeared as Prospero in the 2011 St Magnus International Festival. Th e lavish community production of Th e Tempest was the opening event of the highly regarded annual cultural festival centred on the ancient cathedral of St Magnus in Kirkwall, Orkney. Deemed “a storming success” by Th e Glasgow Herald, the performance also saw Robin acting alongside his daughter and granddaughter. Th e signifi cance of this event will be clear to ODs of a certain age as it laid to rest the aft er-eff ect of a bitter blow suff ered in the summer term of 1951. Having been cast by Bruno (JBB) as Henry V, Robin for the memorable performance by his a lifelong interest in amateur dramatics, unfortunately succumbed to mumps on the understudy, Francis Hope (OD 1952). Despite sparked by Bruno at the Dragon, Robin day of the dress rehearsal. As he lay in the his disappointment, he held fast to his dream was delighted to achieve his ambition sick room he heard the rapturous applause to play a major Shakespearian role. Aft er exactly sixty years later.

THE Od a dragon Triptych: Hedley-Whyte 9 Childhood Worlds after the War Professorship Jamie Bruce lockhart (OD 1954) and alan Macfarlane (OD 1955) Th e President and Fellows In this trilogy Jamie Bruce Lockhart and Dragon Days, Diff erent Days and of Harvard College have Alan Macfarlane have reconstructed the Days (the three books of the established a new Professorship aCHIEVEMEnTS experience of growing up through the later triptych) can be ordered online through in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and 1940s and early 1950s. Using over 300 Amazon, Blackwells or Waterstones. Pain Medicine in the name of letters written by and to them when they Th e authors have kindly agreed that John Hedley-Whyte (OD 1947). were boarders together at the Dragon, they £2.50 of the royalties from each book Created at the request of have analysed their experiences at school will be donated to the Dragon. his trainees, who now hold fi ft een full and at home. Th e contemporary sources professorships in research universities, the utilised include numerous photographs, post is a tribute to John’s career and long drawings and paintings. “Th is is an association with Harvard. John and his wife, anthropological and historical evocation E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte, M.D., have both of British life,” says Alan. taught at the College since July 1960. In 1976, John was appointed as the fi rst David S. Sheridan Professor of Anaesthesia and Respiratory Th erapy at Harvard University, a position which he continues to hold. He serves as a Director of the government-funded Harvard University Basic Science Research Training Program for Anaesthetists.

Cambridge research Centre A £6 million Government-funded learning had returned home aft er a professional the challenge of a public service role and gave centre opened in January named in memory life spent predominantly in South Africa many years of expertise to Addenbrooke’s of Tony Deakin CBE (OD 1950). Th e Deakin working for BP. In the mid-90s he led the before his death in 2003. Always a keen OD, Centre is a teaching facility for company’s transition under the new Mandela his son Ashley (OD 1977) wrote of him that: social care, health and childcare studies Government; he travelled extensively, “His commitment, enthusiasm and dare I and a centre for community activity. learning Afrikaans and developing an say adoration for the Dragon were always Appointed Chairman of Addenbrooke’s understanding of multiracial Africa. apparent and he was behind my desire to NHS Trust when he retired in 1995, Tony O nce back in Cambridge, Tony relished educate my three children there.”

2012 · ISSuE 2 10 The Dragon is keen to keep abreast of published OD writing and books about ODs. Here are publishers’ descriptions of books received by the OD Office in the last year. f l she k boo Book Shelf

Places in Syria Inheritance Religion for Atheists Can Intervention Work? Francis Russell (OD 1962) (OD 1970) Alain de Botton (OD 1982) (OD 1986) Frances Lincoln, 2011 Vintage, 2010 Hamish Hamilton, 2012 and Gerald Knaus “In this compact guide, the erudite “What would you do if you “The boring debate between W. W. Norton & Co., 2011 and highly readable Francis suddenly inherited £17,000,000? fundamentalist believers and “Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus Russell describes fifty-seven This is what happens to non-believers is finally moved distil their remarkable first places in Syria, a country that Andy Larkham, recently jilted on by Alain de Botton’s inspiring hand experiences of political for millennia has been close lover, and resentfully underpaid new book, which boldly argues and military interventions to the very pulse of what we publishing minion. Arriving late that the supernatural claims of into a potent examination term civilization. Following to the funeral of his favourite religion are of course entirely of what we can and cannot an itinerary that allows the schoolteacher, he ends up in the false - and yet that religions still achieve in a new era of “nation independent sightseer to see as wrong chapel with one other have important things to teach building”. As they delve into many major monuments in their mourner, too embarrassed to the secular world. the massive, military-driven proper contexts as is practical in leave. Pressured to sign the Rather than mocking efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan a limited time, he travels from the register, little does he realise what religions, agnostics and atheists and the Balkans, the expansion walled city of Damascus with its effect that signature will have should instead steal from them - of the EU, and the bloodless mosques and museums to Krak upon his life. because they’re packed with good “colour” revolutions in the des Chevaliers, the ne plus ultra The extraordinary story ideas on how we live and arrange former Soviet states, the authors of the medieval castle. On the way that follows tells of one man’s our societies. Blending deep reveal each effort’s enormous he visits cities, towns and desert failed love, the temptations of respect with total impiety, de consequences for international villages, including Palmyra, one unanticipated wealth, the secrets Botton (a non-believer) proposes relations, human rights and our of the great classical sites of the of damaged families and the that we should look to religions understanding of state-building. Near East; the great monastery price of being true to oneself. for insights into how to build a Stewart and Knaus carefully of St Simeon, at the heart of the It is a romance for our times.” sense of community, make our parse the philosophies that have series of ‘dead cities’ of Byzantine relationships last, get more out informed interventionism – times; Hama and its famous of art, overcome feelings of envy from neoconservative to liberal nourias, the great wooden wheels and inadequacy, and much more. imperialist – and draw on used to raise water from the For too long non-believers their diverse experiences in the river; and many other wonders have faced a stark choice between military, non-governmental besides. Russell’s easy and elegant either swallowing peculiar organisations and the Iraqi ability to share with the reader doctrines or doing away with provincial government to reveal his knowledge of Syria’s history, consoling and beautiful rituals what we can ultimately expect geography and culture makes and ideas. At last Alain de from large-scale interventions the book, like his earlier one on Botton has fashioned a far more and how they might best realise Italy, ‘like a conversation with a interesting and truly helpful positive change in the world.” well-informed friend. He tells you alternative”. exactly what you want to know, in the most succinct terms’ (Country Life) .”

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New Light for the Why We Run Crops and Carbon: The Man Within Old Dark Robin Harvie (OD 1990) Paying Farmers to My Head Sam Willetts (OD 1975) John Murray, 2011 Combat Climate Change Pico Iyer (OD 1970) Mike Robbins (OD 1970) Random House, 2012 “Everyone can run. Whether it Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, “The poems in this remarkable is a jog around the park on a Earthscan, 2011 2012 first collection have been hard Sunday morning, or lining up “Rich countries are paying “We all carry other people inside won: ‘Fruits of much grief they with 40,000 other people at the poor countries to fight climate our heads - actors, leaders, are,’ as Donne said, ‘emblems of start of the London Marathon, change on their behalf - and writers, people from history more.’ Having lost ten years to all it requires is a pair of trainers one way they are doing it is or fiction, met or unmet, who heroin addiction and recovery, and the open road. But where through carbon sinks. These sometimes seem closer to us Sam Willetts emerges now – does that road lead and why do are reservoirs of organic carbon than people we know. suddenly, and apparently from we run at all? Robin Harvie ran tied up in plants and in the In The Man Within My Head, nowhere – as a fully-fledged and his first marathon after a bet, but earth, rather than being in the Pico Iyer sets out to unravel significant English poet. it wasn’t until he had ventured atmosphere as greenhouse the mysterious closeness he In a book deeply conscious 6,000 miles into the extreme gases. This book looks critically has always felt with the writer of history, one series of poems world of ultra-distance running at this mode of climate change Graham Greene: he examines tracks his mother’s escape, as a to the start line of the oldest and mitigation. Can it work? Is Greene’s obsessions, his life young girl, from the Nazis, in toughest footrace on earth, that it just? Will poorer countries on the road, his penchant for a narrative that moves from a he found an answer. benefit? The book considers the mystery. Iyer follows Greene’s Stuka attack on the Smolensk As a hobby turned into a scientific, economic and ethical trail from his first novel, The Road to the Krakow ghetto, 120-mile-a-week obsession, so basis for this type of mitigation. Man Within, to such later classics the destruction of Warsaw, to a way out of his daily routine Previous attention has been as The Quiet American and Nuremberg and Nagasaki evolved into a journey to focused mainly on reducing begins to unpack all they have and, finally, his mother’s discover who he was and what emissions from deforestation in common: a typical old-school grave. Other poems address he was really made of. Through and land degradation (REDD), education, a lifelong restlessness Englishness, secular Jewishness, the scorching heat of the desert but this book is one of the and refusal to make a home and the childhood pleasures of and into the darkest hours of the first attempts to examine the anywhere, a fascination with Oxfordshire – an increasingly morning, Why We Run reveals potential for carbon sinks in the complications of faith. The deceptive pastoral, stalked the beating heart of the brutal agriculture in crop plants and the deeper Iyer plunges into their and eventually shattered by and profoundly intoxicating soil. In assessing this, the author haunted kinship, however, the heroin, which brings a grim new experience of running. examines exactly how north- more he begins to wonder existence among dealers and If you have ever wondered south climate mitigation trading whether the man within his head users. The redemption the poet what makes you lace up your works, or does not, and what is not Greene but his own father, finds, through detox and rehab, trainers, and why you keep the pitfalls are. It highlights the or perhaps some more shadowy love and writing, is full of regret coming back for more, this is complex relationship between aspect of himself. for the years and lives wasted, your story too.” agriculture, particularly different Drawing upon experiences but also offers a lyrical rebirth forms of farming systems, and across the globe, from Cuba of the senses: ‘In a new light, a the mitigation of climate change. to Bhutan, and moving, as new moon/ that isn’t made of The arguments are backed up by Greene would, from Sri Lanka scorched tinfoil/will turn your original research with farmers at war to intimate moments tide again’. in Brazil to demonstrate the of introspection; trying to Deft, economical and challenges and prospects which make sense of his own past, wonderfully original, this is these proposals offer in terms commuting between the work that celebrates the peaks of payments for environmental cloisters of a fifteenth-century and troughs of a lived life, the services from agriculture boarding school and California poems’ vivid clarity feeling both through carbon trading.” in the 1960s, one of our most fresh and fully earned. It is rare resourceful cultural explorers to find an unknown poet of such gives us his most personal and mature quality, and New Light revelatory book yet, and one for the Old Dark represents a of the best new portraits of brilliant dawning.” Greene himself.”

2012 · issue 2 12 In Time of War WarTIME Oxford escaped the bombing of the Second World War that devastated so many British cities but it felt all the effects of life in wartime. Those at school were not exempt; Oxford was listed as a ‘receiving’ area which required private schools not to make independent plans for evacuation and to set a good example to others by remaining in situ. Memories of this extraordinary time were prompted by the Reunion last November for those who left the Dragon before 1950; these recollections encouraged The OD to look in to Dragon life from 1939 to 1945.

War came to the Dragon before it was would not protect all the boys,” he recalls. into them at the fi rst alarm, usually offi cially declared. In September 1938, Following the Munich Agreement however sounded at dusk or at night. Th ere was a following staff deliberations about what the trenches were fi lled in. Not knowing degree of confusion and Dragons could not preparations to make, an excavator arrived of course what lay ahead, the Headmaster always distinguish between the warning to dig trenches for shelter. As ‘Mechanical ‘Hum’ Lynam hailed this moment as the siren and the all-clear; one morning having Mack’ made zigzag gouges in the sports “Great Deliverance”. taken cover erroneously, they took the fi eld it dawned on children and staff that genuine warning as the signal for release war was no longer a mere possibility but a Air Raids and surged out cheerfully for a bathe frightening reality. Outwardly the Dragon Preparations for war did not cease however as the rest of the neighbourhood went spirit prevailed as C.H. Jacques recorded and by September 1939 two air raid underground. in his 1977 history of the school, A Dragon shelters, dug by the staff , were complete. 1940 brought an end to the ‘phoney Century: “Junior Dragons, peering in, hoped One for Gunga and day boys was installed war’ with heavy night bombing raids. there would not be room for desks.” Some near the river bank and the second for November saw attacks on industrial like John Walters (OD 1943) were more School House, Stradlings and Charlbury centres in the Midlands and Oxford was fearful. “Th e shelter soon fi lled with water was sited in the garden of School House; frequently on the raiders’ fl ight path. As and I supposed that if a German bomber was both had toilets, lighting and tubular the evening sirens sounded, children shooting at us then some of the zigs or zags electric heating. At fi rst everyone trooped were led from their dorms, classrooms

THE Od Pictured here and overleaf: the Dragon School Science Club in the 1940s. Photos courtesy of David M. Evans (OD 1948) 13 WarTIME

or supper to their allotted shelters. “Night aft er night we heard the German bombers with their characteristic throbbing drone fl ying overhead to places like Coventry and Birmingham,” remembers Colonel Tim May (OD 1944). In the heaviest bombing of London and Coventry the glow of fi res from bombed buildings was easily visible from houses in Oxford at night. Despite the disrupted nights, school life continued. “Many of the staff must have believed the war was lost and that invasion was imminent. Yet no hint of apprehension was conveyed by any of them,” noted Peter Newsam (OD 1942). “Th ey were determined not to allow events outside the school to infl uence their day-to-day work.” Early air raid precautions at the Dragon

2012 · ISSuE 2 Hall had diagonal strips of brown tape stuck 14 across as protection in the event of bombing nearby. Glass was expensive and the loss of some daylight in the daytime was accepted. Other necessary wartime precautions did provide new sources of fun in troubling times. John Walters (OD 1943) remembers that:

WarTIME “…an exciting consolation was our favourite air raid precaution practise, sliding down the escape chutes from the School House second fl oor. I was encouraged to be brave.” Radio Th e radio became the essential means of obtaining news during the war and it replaced the newly started pre-war television service. Listening daily to the six o’clock news on the radio in the Lodge Common Room was an important ritual for staff . John Walters (OD 1943) recalls that in his science club he and his classmates “formed a radio team and built a simple crystal set radio with ear headsets, and later a one-valver.” Th eir news scoop of the sinking of the Bismarck by the Royal Navy spread across the playground; however it was Staff Precautions and Practices only aft erwards that further news brought Some of the staff were of course Th e Blackout was a universal constraint the understanding of how this German involved in events outside the school. and a constant worry for all . Th e rule was battleship had sunk HMS Hood shortly In 1940 some joined the Local Defence that not a chink of light was to show from beforehand. All news was carefully noted. Volunteers whose jobs included a house: the air raid wardens patrolled the “In class Middle Th ree, patrolling the University Parks at streets looking for any light which might wall map of Europe and North Africa was sunrise to watch for any descending reveal the presence of a house to the enemy. set up to follow the campaigns and battle paratroopers and to be on sentry duty at Th e maintenance team made blackout fronts,” says John who remembers how, week the University’s science buildings at night. screens individually fi tted to the windows by week, pins with fl ags were inserted at the As Jacques wrote: “Th ese nights may have and light enough for the children to front lines. blunted the edge of the next morning’s manipulate. Blackout linings were provided teaching; but if one could land the 4am for all the curtains in the boarding houses spell on a summer morning one could which had to be checked regularly for any get a lot of corrections done by the dawn’s inadvertent rips resulting from games. So early light, with scripts resting on the robust were these that as late as 1980 several back of a service respirator and question were still doing duty around the school. paper impaled on nearby bayonet.” Any large windows such as those in the Old

Daily life continues, 1939 Rugger Team

THE Od Food and Clothes took hold it became diffi cult for Dragons All the ground behind School House was to present anything approaching a uniform 15 put to good use for growing vegetables. appearance. Th is led to the distinctive sartorial Cherwell House and the Music School innovation of the boiler suit: a long-trousered, were not yet built and this land, which had dark blue overall. Smart at fi rst, these too previously belonged to St John’s College, eventually became faded and patched so that still remained as fruit orchards. Apples over the war years they presented “a somewhat and pears from the trees were baked or variegated appearance” according to historian WarTIME bottled. Eggs were a highly prized bonus C. H. Jaques. to the weekly rations and the Lynams’ Plane Crash neighbours in Frilford donated them to For most Dragons the most alarming the school. By 1943 there were accounts incident of the War came on a Sunday of eggs coming up on the train to Oxford aft ernoon in May 1941. A Whitley bomber sent from a neighbour of the Lynams at got into diffi culties over Oxford and fl ew Trebetherick in Cornwall. very low over the playing fi elds where boys Every child’s ration allowance included were playing cricket, before crashing on a a ⅓ pint of milk and a bun each Bun house in , injuring fi ve people. Break, delivered from Boffi n’s Bakery in Th e sound of the crash was heard by many the centre of Oxford. Th e milk was given all over Oxford. Th e plane was burnt out and in addition to the household supply of did considerable damage to the house and an rationed milk and therefore considered adjacent cottage. to be a great concession for the children. Under 7s were also given a bottle of orange End of War juice a week. Th e long years of the war fi nally began to Th e introduction of clothing coupons draw to a close. Dragons were at school on served to ensure that all clothes were 8th May 1945, in the middle of scholarship recycled and frequently mended. Older preparations, when VE Day was announced. Wartime uniforms siblings passed onto younger ones their Work was abandoned at 10am for a service patched and darned uniforms. As rationing of thanksgiving and all listened to Churchill over to suitably Dragon ‘mucking about’ broadcast in the aft ernoon and the King in the before a four-hour party in New Hall with evening. Most of the day, though, was given games and dancing. Finally a celebratory bonfi re in the middle of the playground (an unprecedented location necessitating the damping down of surrounding buildings) provided a fi tting end to a tumultuous period and culminated in the symbolic burning of a gasmask.

Excerpts from A Dragon Century can be read via the OD website at: www.dragonschool.org/old-dragons/ news/our-history

Skating on the , 1940. (OD 1940) and Kim Bellamy (OD 1941)

2012 · ISSuE 2 16 The Dragon is a highly successful school, but not a wealthy one and has no large endowment to support its t

n Supporting development. Almost from the outset, funds to create new buildings and to extend financial help to pupils in opme

l need have relied on the generosity of parents, ODs and the wider Dragon community. eve

d the Dragon A History of Philanthropy Fundraising Today In the early years of the last century, Headmaster Since the 1990s there has been a Development Office ‘Skipper’ Lynam, the progressive educator who did so at the school which seeks support for projects which much to establish the distinctive ethos of the Dragon, are beyond the scope of income from fees. These fall declared that support should be given to those “…of in to two principal areas: bursary assistance and the moderate means who make great sacrifices to ensure extension or replacement of buildings and facilities. their children’s good education.” It was in this spirit There are four main ways in which the Dragon that one of the first significant fundraising appeals community contributes toward the school’s was launched in the 1930s when ODs wanted to do fundraising goals: something to mark their affection for The Skipper after he retired. He suggested to them a scheme close to his Individual Gifts heart: a fund to help ODs send their children to the The school is delighted to have received generous school. The appeal to the OD community resulted in individual gifts towards its development aims. These donations and subscriptions which created The Skipper make a significant impact on the Dragon’s ability to Memorial Fund. This continued making grants to ODs realise its plans and benefit children. for its original purpose for nearly 75 years. Joint Leavers’ Giving In 1956 there were further fundraising efforts when the Founders’ Memorial Fund was created to pay a Every year, the parents of the children leaving the lasting tribute to the memory of ‘Hum’ Lynam who Dragon are invited to join together to help support succeeded his brother as Headmaster. The objectives the Bursary Programme. They have done so with great of the appeal were to improve buildings and teaching generosity over the years; their regular donations, facilities. The appeal was well supported and resulted donated deposits and larger gifts have made a very in a new music school, science buildings and a great difference to the lives of bright children from less gymnasium, all of which are still in use today. advantaged backgrounds.

The Bursary Programme Bursaries provide financial assistance to children who could not otherwise benefit from a Dragon education. To remain the inclusive school that the Dragon has always been, a formal programme of support was created in 2002. Entirely through donations there are now 25 bursary places at the school which are both for boarding and day children; bursaries can cover up to 100% of the fees. A broad social mix in the school is to the advantage of all and is true to its long held beliefs.

THE OD Legacies Capital Projects 17 Knowing that funds may be available in So much has been achieved through There is a continual need to adapt the future is of great value to the Dragon in the generosity of the Dragon community and extend the Dragon’s buildings planning ahead. Gift s in Wills allow people without which the School could not have to respond to contemporary to make charitable contributions that may managed to ‘change in order to stay the not be possible in their lifetimes. A Legacy same’. It is hoped that future generations of teaching and living requirements. is an extraordinary gesture of support that ODs will continue to support the Dragon in The school has never been the school values highly. To recognise those this way and watch it fl ourish to the benefi t ostentatious or smart, but it does dEVElOPMEnT who make this pledge, the school off ers of new generations. pride itself on practical and membership of the Skipper Society. For further information about fundraising imaginative facilities to enhance Regular Giving priorities or ways to give please visit: learning. At present there are A new society has been launched recently http://www.dragonschool.org/ hopes to create a new music with younger working ODs particularly in old-dragons/support-us.html school as the current building mind. Th e Dragon hopes that in return for or contact the Development Office from the 1950s does not provide a small monthly pledge to the Bursary directly on 01854 315415 Programme, ODs will join, and encourage the teaching, rehearsal or their friends to join, performance space that today’s Th e Bun Break Club. As numbers grow it is very energetic music programme hoped this will provide useful career demands. networking opportunities and relaxed social events for ODs. Together, a large group of ODs giving just a few pounds a month could support an entire bursary place.

2012 · ISSuE 2 The entrepreneurial career of Lucius Cary (OD 1960) began with a struggle to fund his own new 18 restaurant in the 1970s. Today, as a venture capitalist for technology businesses, he has helped a host of start-ups to get off the ground. Lucius was awarded an OBE for Services to Business in 2003. He spoke to The OD about his enterprising career trajectory.

EnTrEPrEnEur Oxford Entrepreneur In 1972 not only were hamburgers a “When a technology start-up Lucius modestly declares that he has rarity in the UK, so were those who were ‘probably made more bad investments prepared to invest in them. When Lucius is successful, the returns than anyone else in ’. Failure brings Cary opened an American Hamburger can be 20 or 30 times the loss but when investments are successful restaurant, ‘Carys’ in Bristol, he could the returns can be high and the rewards not raise the £27,000 capital to fund the original investment.” signifi cant. He has become good friends business from conventional sources. with many in whom he has invested; about Eventually, aft er placing an advertisement Investment Science 10 have become millionaires - and turned in the Financial Times, he found four Lucius ran the VCR for 17 years, then sold into investors themselves. individuals who today would be called his shares though remained as chairman Lucius lives in Oxfordshire with his wife ‘business angels’, although the term was until 2003. In the 1980s he saw that while Joanna and his four JOD children. unknown 40 years ago. Th e investors’ faith the magazine was good at raising capital for was soon repaid: “At the fi rst restaurant I ‘ordinary’ commercial businesses, it was did everything myself, cooking, waiting much less good at raising funds for at table,” says Lucius. “By 1974 there was engineers and scientists. Investors suffi cient profi t to open a second restaurant did not understand the science and by 1978 there were three - and fi ft y and perceived the risks to be people employed.” too high. So Lucius sold his “In 1972 no one knew restaurants and started a third what a hamburger was. enterprise, Oxford Technology Management Ltd. (OTM) in I had to give away 10,000 1983. Now his main business, so they could find out.” OTM provides capital, typically around £100,000, to start-up and early stage Refl ecting on his own diffi culty in technology businesses within 60 acquiring that initial capital sum, Lucius miles of Oxford. More than 100 realised that what was needed was a such investments have been made mechanism for getting ideas directly onto through ten separate funds, the the desks of individual investors. Th is was latest of which is the £30m Oxford his second business: the Venture Capital Technology Enterprise Capital Fund. Report (VCR), founded in 1978. Sold on Th e reason for the geographical subscription to the newly-recognised constraint is that OTM seeks to help community of business angels, the businesses through the earliest stages magazine highlighted entrepreneurs of their development. Many such are and the enterprises for which they were located in and around Oxford and Lucius seeking funding. likes to be closely involved with them. Th e end of the 70s saw Margaret Th atcher rise to power and with her came a change of climate for entrepreneurism “Brilliant scientists the UK. “She used to invite me to meet have often never filled her Chancellors,” Lucius remembers. “I provided input to the various schemes in a VAT return, or to encourage new businesses: Th e Business negotiated with an Start-Up Scheme, Th e Loan Guarantee Scheme, Th e Business Expansion Scheme American distributor.” and so on.”

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Pre 1950s leavers’ reunion In November more than 200 ODs and their guests met at the Dragon for a Pre-1950 Leavers’ Reunion. Th e youngest of the visitors was 75 and several were well into their nineties; some had travelled great distances to be EVEnTS & rEunIOnS there. It was a tremendous occasion: the sound of laughter and animated conversation fi lled the air and left no one in any doubt that friendships made during schooldays at the Dragon had endured through many years. Headmaster John Baugh welcomed everyone to the very full Dining Room and Lady , née Pakenham, (OD 1944) spoke warmly of her Dragon years and her contemporaries. Canon Christopher Hall (OD 1949) gave a very moving Grace. Aft er an excellent lunch, and the presentation of a souvenir booklet to every guest, the ODs watched the Rugby 1st X1s outshine the opposition and enjoyed a visit to their Old School Hall which is now the Library. A large number of amusing and heartfelt letters of thanks have been received and much appreciated by the staff .

golf 2011 Th ere were two golf days organised by new York drinks ODs: the fi rst at Frilford in May, organised In October, Dragon staff Desmond by the OD Golf Society founder Nick Devitt, Ed Phelps, Mary Kinnear and Kane (OD 1958), and the second at Th e Laura Watson were in Manhattan Addington in October, hosted by George escorting A Block children on the New Marsh (OD 1956). Both events saw a York Exchange Programme, now in spirited crowd of ODs pull their nine its 10th year. While there, they were irons out of retirement and play their way delighted to catch up with a group of around the greens, with varying degrees ODs now living in New York at a drinks of skill and professionalism. Th e weather party at the atmospheric M Bar of encouraged OD golfers to play to their the Mansfi eld Hotel. ODs based in or best, fuelled by bacon sandwiches as around New York, and elsewhere in the well as the underlying current of keen USA, are encouraged to contact the OD competition. Special mention to Simon Offi ce to help us plan future events for Smith (OD 1977) who claimed victory, the American Friends of the Dragon. and the silverware, at Frilford.

2012 · ISSuE 2 20 JOD Day 2011 Almost 100 Junior Old Dragons (JODs),

s aged 13 to 18, and their parents, returned to n the Dragon in 2011. Drinks, a buffet lunch io and the opportunity to catch up with old un friends were hugely enjoyed. Dragon staff Re were delighted to see so many familiar, if

& somewhat taller, figures and chatted with

ts the JODs, eager to hear what they had been n up to since they left the Dragon. eve

Oxford Lecture 2011 In October the Dragon was delighted to welcome back (OD 1974) as the guest speaker at the annual Oxford Dragon Lecture. Cressida, now Assistant Commissioner of the and acting Head of Counter Terrorism, spoke to a packed audience in the Lynam Hall. She greatly amused everyone with her memories of the Dragon and in particular her experiences as one of only a handful of girls at the school. Cressida Dick joined the police force as a Constable in 1983 after graduating from the University of Oxford. She worked in the Metropolitan and Thames Valley Police Force in increasingly senior roles. In 2000, Cressida gained an M.Phil in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. She was promoted to Assistant Commissioner in July 2009, and was the first woman to be an Assistant Commissioner in the Met’s 182-year history. Despite her truly impressive career, Cressida admitted that it was a surprise to everyone, including herself, that she became a police officer. She took questions from current Dragons, which included topics such as the London riots, bribery and the dangers of police work. Despite half of B Block raising their hands in response to the challenge of who within the audience had ever been arrested, Cressida expressed her hopes that the police force would 1970-75 Leavers’ Reunion continue to attract young people with the distinctive qualities and March saw 180 enthusiastic ODs and former staff return to the characteristics associated with a Dragon education. Dragon for the 1970-75 Leavers’ Reunion. This popular and immensely enjoyable evening began with drinks in the Forum – a building new to most. ODs came from all over the world to reunite with old friends and to see the school again, some returning for the first time in 40 years. Before a very convivial dinner, Grace was said by Canon Ron Lloyd (former Chaplain 1969-82). Headmaster John Baugh then gave a warm welcome and remarked on how much the ethos of the school remains intact. Afterwards Arthur Somerset (OD 1973) entertained with an amusing speech featuring a wealth of memories, staff nicknames and school vocabulary known only to Dragons. Guests were given a special souvenir booklet recalling their time at the school and including many of them in photographs from the 1970s. Later, Deputy Head Ed Phelps (OD 1978) and Lynams Senior Mistress Mary Kinnear led many of the crowd to continue their celebrations into the early hours at the Rose and Crown pub on North Parade.

THE OD OD News 21 1942 Andrew Hunter, co-founder and 1994 2003 Richard Wilding has completed a Director of London Eventing After spending time as the In 2011 Olivia Quinton was EWS N

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1944 Olympic Games Three Day Australia’s leading wealth Lieutenant in the Territorial O David Arrowsmith had a Eventing Cross Country course management company, AMP, Army, sponsored by the Royal collection of his fine bindings in Greenwich Park, London. For Andrew Thomson recently Engineers. She was awarded an exhibited at the Designer more information see page 2. returned to the property sector Eliahou Dangoor Scholarship Bookbinders DBUK Touring 1976 where he is Marketing Director for her contributions to the Exhibition in the Bodleian Reverend William Lane for Ausbuild, a small boutique University of Birmingham Library throughout April became Vicar of Holy Trinity, development company in where she is currently studying and May 2012. www. Bridgewater with St. Hugh’s, Queensland, Australia. Mechanical Engineering. She designerbookbinders.org.uk Durleigh in Somerset. 1995 intends to pursue a career with 1948 1978 Timothy Conibear has the Army Air Corps. Jeremy Gibson compiled and Jon Briggs, best known as ‘the co-founded the Isiqalo 2004 edited his book Politics and voice’ on the TV quiz show Foundation, a charity based Ludo Bennett-Jones broke Loyalty in Post-Revolution The Weakest Link and as an in Masiphumelele, South two world records when he Oxfordshire which was published announcer on BBC Radio 2, has Africa which provides essential circumnavigated Great Britain in in 2011 by the Oxfordshire become the voice of Siri – the curriculum-based education, spring 2012. His aim is to raise Family History Society in voice-activated assistant on the health awareness and skills- £100,000 for Sports Relief and association with The Family new iPhone 4S. training, through sports the Ellen MacArthur Cancer History Partnership. 1982 programmes to ‘at risk’ young Trust. In 2011 he completed the 1952 Lastminute.com’s Brent people from disadvantaged Mongol Rally. backgrounds. We would like to apologise to Hoberman has teamed up with Max Gill directed the Thelma Dr Ronald Henry Disney as, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder 1998 Holt Tour 2012 - an Oxford in the last edition of The OD, of easyJet, in a new enterprise John-James Bulstrode University Drama Society we wrongly attributed his which allows motorists to rent is currently working for production of a gangster version book of poetry to his cousin, out their cars when they are International Service, on of Much Ado About Nothing. Hugh Disney. not in use. The scheme will be a UK government-funded The play will be performed in 1953 launched in London in 2012. development project in Mali, London, Guildford and Tokyo Robert Hawes has retired as a 1986 West Africa. The project involves during summer 2012. part-time Tribunal Justice after Rory Stewart mp obe has been young volunteers from the UK 2006 working with disabled people’s 26 years on the Bench. an extremely active Member of Oarsman Cameron MacRitchie organisations. 1957 Parliament, speaking in national won silver in the World Junior Anthony Koppel retired in and international debates and 1999 Championships at Eton Dorney December to his farm outside promoting the needs of his Alistair McClelland ran the 2012 Lake in August 2011, rowing in Houston after a successful 20 constituents in Cumbria on London Marathon in under three an Eight for Great Britain. year career with Burnett and many issues. He was also named hours. His time was 02:56:07 and 2007 he was placed 846th. Company, Inc. as one of the New Statesman’s Anna Alcock completed the 1972 ‘20 Under 40’ in September 2011. 2000 Bristol Half Marathon in Assistant Commissioner 1988 Alexander Budge flew to September 2011 and raised over Cressida Dick qpm became acting Francis Bickmore was promoted Afghanistan in March with the £1,500 for the charity Greatwood Head of Counter Terrorism for to Editorial Director of Welsh Guards for a six-month which cares for retired racehorses the Metropolitan Police in July Canongate Books, Edinburgh tour. He left The Royal Military and children with special needs. 2011. in October 2011. Academy Sandhurst last Zander Cornish-Moore came in 1992 summer. obe is going to the top five of the U18s category Nicholas Lloyd Webber co-wrote 2001 be made an honorary fellow of a national 20km Time Trial a musical version of The Little Andrew Holt-Kentwell has been of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Cycle Race in 2011. He hopes to Prince which opened at the working for Razer in Singapore in 2012. enter the after he Lyric Theatre in Belfast, as an e-sports team manager 1973 finishes school. December 2011. since July 2011. John Cloake was awarded an OBE 1993 2002 Gus Jones captained the in the 2012 New Year’s Honours Hatti Archer (née Dean) Self-published Horror novelist, England U18s to an 18-16 for services to the Foreign and Thomas James Brown released victory over France at Fylde Commonwealth Office. came first in the 2011-12 his second novel Revive in in February 2012. He went on 1974 Senior Women’s McCain Liverpool Cross Challenge December 2011. He is also to lead the team to wins over The Right Honourable Sir and European trials. currently studying for his MA Georgia, Wales and Ireland Christopher Geidt kcvo obe was in Creative Writing at in the FIRA/AER European awarded a Royal Victorian Order Southampton University. Championship in Madrid in for services as Private Secretary March and April 2012. to the Queen in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2011.

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2008 Births Peter Beer (OD 1991) Vivian Norman Francis Ian Starforth Hill (OD ceme Paul Baker (former staff To Susannah and Andrew and Helen Bonny Morris (Jimmy) Jones (OD 1943) 1935) on 8th July 2011 th un 1992-2008) has been Beejay (OD 1989) a Lincoln Bolsover (OD on 16 February 2012 Rachel Schiele (OD 1927 o appointed a fellow of the daughter, Maia Nur Annie 1991) and Scarlett Rogers Anthony John Wing and former staff member) th th Royal Geographic Society, To Alanna and Michael Richard Conway (OD (OD 1946) on 13 on 26 June 2011 ann Independent Schools’ Group. Clear (OD 1992) a son, 1994) and Louisa Greig January 2012 Michael Evans (OD th Charlie Clive Andrew Gough Peggy (Margaret Olive) 1962) on 29 May 2011 Samuel Baring rowed in the (OD To Philippa and Charlie 1989) and Nicola Bullard Broad (OD 1930) on Hilary Bickford-Smith GB vs. France J16 match which th Goldsmith (OD 1990), 6 January 2012 (OD 1931) on 16th May took place at the London Oliver Hextall (OD 1997) a son, Frederick David and Charlotte Hungerford Stephanie Gosling 2011 Docklands in July 2011. John (former staff member) Pauline Elliot (OD 1930) Marcus Hill (OD 1990) st 2009 To Letitia and Tom Grand on 31 December 2011 th and Anna Stewart on 16 May 2011 Freddie Illingworth has been (OD 1988), a son, David Byrt (former Raphael Loewe (OD James MacInnes (OD th selected to play bridge for Arthur Mark staff member) on 20 th 1993) and Etab Azzam 1931) on 27 April 2011 the England Under 20 World To Jessica and Jason December 2011 Edward Martin-Sperry Terry Jones (OD 1945 Youth Team Championships Green (OD 1989) a Zaidie Godfree (OD 1996) and Katie and former school in Tai Cang City, China in July daughter, Isadora (former staff member) governor and trustee of Boulton-Lee th and August 2012. Alice Arabella on 16 December 2011 Lynam Educational Trust) Richard Meunier 2010 To Alexander Karmel William Richards on 19th April 2011 (OD 1997) and Samantha Sam Hamilton-Peach (OD 1977) a daughter, (OD 1960) on 16th was part Velumyl John Anson (OD 1940) of the victorious St Edward’s Poppy Eugenie Adriaantje November 2011 on 18th April 2011 Karmel Dominic Millard (OD J15 coxed four rowing crew John Hart (OD 1949) Alan Geidt (OD 1941) 1997) and Alexandra th which won their class by To Rebekah and Caspar on 15 November 2011 on 10th April 2011 Mason (OD 1988) a son, Kharibian 16 seconds at the Junior Jolyon Copley-Smith James Fulton Thomas David York Philippa Minty (OD 1994) th Inter-Regional Regatta in (OD 1943) on 11 Harrison(OD 1933) To Catherine and James and James Straker-Nesbitt Nottingham in May 2012. November 2011 on 3rd April 2011 Penny (OD 1985) a son, Andrew Raisman 2011 Andrew Hurst (OD 1944) Tommy Jago George (OD 1982) and Emma rd (OD 1943) on 3 st Arthur Bowen played Harry Haywood on 21 March 2011 To Andrena and Mark November 2011 John Mitchison Potter’s son, Albus, in the final Sennett (OD 1997) Ben Smiley (OD 1999) (OD (OD th Harry Potter film The Deathly and Camilla Burdett 1935) on 17 March 2011 twins, Cody William 1952) on 22nd September Hallows Part II. Eric Rogers (1938) on and Grace Elizabeth Henry Swanzy (OD 1987) 2011 1st March 2011 Patrick Caffrey fenced for the To Dominic Spencer- and Zinnia Mulford William Hawthorne Nicholas Owen (OD England U15 Sabre team vs. Churchill (OD 1993) a Richard Symington (OD 1926) on 19th 1953) on 1st March 2011 France in Monéteau in 2012. daughter, Martha Melissa (OD 1993) and Midori September 2011 Courtice John Leslie (OD 1931) To Alexander Stutely Frank Brown (Former Marcus Payne qualified on 1st March 2011 (OD 1995) a daughter, Bertie Murray Threipland Bursar) on 13th September to join the Royal Yachting Holly Alexandra (OD 1991) and Martina 2011 Matthew Carr (OD 1966) Association (RYA) National rd To Lauren and Andrew Cortesi Nona Anne White on 23 February 2011 Junior Squad, sailing in the RS Thomson (OD 1994) Deaths (OD 1951) on 10th Anthony Kamm (OD Feva class. He competed in the th a daughter, Georgie Alistair (Bill) Freeman September 2011 1944) on 11 February National, Inland and World Elizabeth th (OD 1934) on 30 June Anthony Paul Wilkinson 2011 Championships in 2012. To Katherine and 2012 (OD 1949) on 8th Gerard Defries (OD 1930) Benjamin Thomson st (Francis) John Pigott (OD September 2011 on 31 January 2011 (OD 1993) a daughter, 1949) on 21st June 2012 William Hawthorne Nancy Lloyd (OD 1931) Ophelia Kitty st Andrew Pain (OD 1994) (OD 1926) on 16th on 1 February 2011 To Carly and Alexander on 4th June 2012 September 2011 Brian Jones (OD 1937) Willson-Pemberton Robin Osborn on 29th January 2011 (OD 1997) a son, Roger Wilding (OD 1948) (OD 1950) th th Archie Ben on 20 May 2012 on 14 August 2011 Gavin Oram (OD 1961) on 19th January 2011 To Charles Winter Thomas Morley (OD Godfrey Gallia (OD 1945) th th (OD 1982) a son, 1934) on 29 April 2012 on 27 July 2011 Thomas Christopher John Marshall (Former Thomas Grotrian (OD Charles Winter staff) on 26th April 2012 1986) on 24th July 2011 Engagements James Ball (Former staff) William Barnes (OD and Marriages on 14th April 2012 1932) on 17th July 2011 Bella Alden (OD 2000) Mary Thomson (Former Timothy Walsham (OD and John Trofemuk staff) on 13th April 2012 1952) 14th July 2011 Frederick Andrewes (OD David Clutterbuck (OD Patrick Weaver (OD 1995) and Holly Branson 1926) on 6th March 2012 1941) on 12th July 2011

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Obituaries ies uar Sir William Hawthorne Brian Jones His Honour Judge

(OD 1926) (OD 1937) Ian Starforth Hill QC obit (OD 1935)

For many who knew him as the Master Brian Jones was born in in Ian Hill started at the Dragon, at the of Churchill College, Cambridge, Sir 1924. His whole life was rooted firmly in ‘Baby School’, in 1928 and by the time William Hawthorne was “the man Oxford and its surrounding country. The he left in 1935 was Head of House and who made cheese rolls come out from fourth of six boys, and the last surviving Captain of Cricket. At Shrewsbury, behind his ears”, a reference to his child amongst seven children, he and all where he went as a scholar, he also sleight of hand conjuring. To his fellow his brothers attended the Dragon, his distinguished himself as head of his engineers, however, William Hawthorne father’s old school. During his time at House and as a praeposter. Ian then was a pioneer both in the study and the Dragon he excelled particularly in went up to Oxford as an Exhibitioner application of thermodynamics. sports; it is believed that one or two of his to Brasenose College but his university After the Dragon, William sporting records still stand, unbroken until career was interrupted by World War Hawthorne was educated at the point when the conversion to metric II. Having joined his father’s regiment, Westminster School, before winning distances froze them in time. the 4/11 Sikhs in Bangalore, he served an exhibition to Trinity College, Brian went on to St. Edward’s School, in campaigns in the Middle East, North Cambridge, where he read Mechanical Oxford, and afterwards joined the Africa and Italy, and was Mentioned Sciences. From 1935 he studied Royal Navy and went straight to war. in Despatches. After a brief spell in the chemical engineering at Massachusetts Midshipman Brian Jones served on Colonial Service in Nigeria he returned Institute of Technology (MIT). His work battleships in the Home Fleet and then to complete his law degree and was in America was integral to his wartime trained to command tank landing craft. called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn. He experiences building jet engines, which It was one of these that he brought into joined the Western Circuit and was culminated in an aircraft powered by Gold Beach at dawn on June 6th 1944. appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1969; his design being demonstrated before He remained in the navy until 1947 then his long career in the law included Winston Churchill in 1943. His design made an excursion to Cambridge to positions as Crown Court Recorder, as was then used to destroy V1s. read Estate Management and further his a Circuit judge and finally as resident After the war, Hawthorne returned to sporting achievements which included judge at . In retirement he MIT as an Associate Professor and later playing in the 1949 Varsity rugby match. was Chairman of Trustees of Hampshire became the first George Westinghouse His professional life was spent in the Victim Support and was an active Professor of Mechanical Engineering, family firm as a Land Agent and Surveyor, supporter of the local Cheshire Home. at the age of only 35. In 1951 he was working in the countryside which he loved Ian died just short of his ninetieth appointed Cambridge University’s first as much as the sea. birthday on 8th July 2011 and is Hopkinson and ICI Chair in Applied Brian married Madeleine in 1949. survived by his wife Wendy, his son, and Thermodynamics and developed new They built their home in Oxford and lived two daughters. Both his brothers, his teaching methods while working on there for 50 years. They celebrated their son, two grandsons and a nephew were the efficiency and performance of Diamond Wedding in 2009. also Dragons. turbomachinery. His later years were profoundly affected With thanks to Ian’s brother Graham The oil crisis of 1956 led Hawthorne by a major stroke in 1994 which left him Hill (OD 1940). to develop an idea for flexible tubes with the inability to speak. The unfailing to be used as oil barges. These vessels, support of his wife Madeleine was a huge christened Dracones, although never help to him and, in spite of his condition, used as bulk oil carriers, were later he was fully involved in family life, and developed to clean up oil spills. watched his grandson’s all-conquering He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Dragon rugby team from the same Society in 1955 and knighted in 1970. touchline from which his own father He married his wife Barbara Runkle had watched him. His wife Madeleine, in 1939. She died in 1992, and he is daughter Penny and his son, Dragon survived by their son and two daughters. School Chairman of Governors Chris Jones, survive him.

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uar Sir Timothy Raison Terrence Victor Jones The OD Office (OD 1943) (OD 1945) Tel: +44(0)1865 315414 obit Email: [email protected] At Prize Giving in 1943, Timothy Terrence Jones, known as Terry, was , Oxford, OX2 6SS Raison, Eton scholar and winner of CRL Oxford born and bred and started at The Development office Fletcher’s Prize for History, and his fellow the Dragon in September 1938 at the Tel: +44(0)1865 315415 pupils were told they had a chance at the age of 7. Email: [email protected] Dragon of learning “what real democracy After St. Edward’s and the army, Bardwell Road, Oxford, OX2 6SS can be like”. They were exhorted to use Terry joined Vauxhall Motors before

the weapons of kindness honed in the coming back to Oxford to join the Join us on our Facebook page: family motor business at the top of the essential democracy of their particular Dragon School school life in their subsequent careers. Woodstock Road. His links with the With a strong personal sense of what school remained strong and his affection Join us on our LinkedIn page: was right and the courage to stick to for it was without question; he was rarely Dragon School Oxford his view, Tim did just that. As founding without his OD tie. editor of New Society, and later as a In 1967 he was appointed as a Follow us on Twitter: politician, he notably judged ideas on Governor of the Dragon and served @thedragonschool their outcomes rather than their source. in this capacity for 29 years. He was MP for Aylesbury for over 20 years, he also Chairman of the General Purpose If you know of any ODs who have not was enthralled by debates on obscure Committee and sat on the board of the received this magazine but you think they bills, remaining at the House late in Lynam Educational Fund up until his would like to do so, please forward their to the night. His own contributions death. His active association with the details to us. on education, immigration and social school therefore as pupil, parent and Contact the Editor at victoria.humble- benefits were highly valued and ahead Governor is one of the longest on record. [email protected] of their time. Terry died peacefully in his sleep at Timothy Raison’s independent home after a short illness on 19th April www.dragonschool.org thought made him hard to classify. One 2011. He is survived by his wife Valerie reviewer of his book Why Conservative? and son Ashley. commented that his ‘engagingly fair- With thanks to Ashley Jones minded’ discussions could lead to (OD 1974) unpredictable conclusions; in the tribal world of party politics these personal and idealistic opinions did not always find favour. However, his rational calm, and insistence upon evaluating ideas on their merits, whether as editor or minister, endeared him to those working around him, and represent a substantial legacy to which subsequent generations may aspire.

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