No.128No.125 NovemberMay 2018 2019 Thou hast thy music too: Winchester and Birth of Romanticism

The school’s Chaplain and historian, the political and revolutionary; and Professor of Poetry, and also Poet Budge Firth, propounded the the aesthetic. Wikipedia suggests that Laureate. In term time, he resided notion that Romanticism began at Romanticism began around 1770, but in Trinity College, Oxford; in the Winchester College: ‘The group to a radically different view is possible. extensive vacations, he lived with his whom in some real sense the origins Romanticism is earlier, quieter, and brother and enjoyed the company of the Romantic revival are to be more local than is commonly realised; of Winchester’s pupils. Sociable and traced was devotedly and consciously the heritage of Winchester, not gregarious, Thomas was a member of Wykehamical’, he wrote in Winchester Philadelphia, Paris or Vienna. Doctor Johnson’s dining circle, The College (1948). The bicentenary of Any account of Winchester’s poetic Club. Keats’s ode ‘To Autumn’ has given tradition involves the Warton the opportunity to re-examine this Both brothers harboured reservations family. Thomas Warton the Elder claim. about the poetry of Pope, much (c1688–1745) was Professor of admired by Johnson and his Romanticism, we explain in Div, is a Poetry at Oxford. His oldest son, school. Their criticism, by contrast European cultural movement which Joseph (1722-1800), became Second with Pope’s admiration of ‘what explores the importance and rights of Master and then Headmaster. His oft was thought but ne’er so well the individual. It has three prominent second son, Thomas the Younger express’d’, stressed the importance characteristics: the philosophical; (1728-1790), became, like his father, of imagination: ‘It is a creative and glowing imagination, and that alone can stamp a writer’, argued Joseph. The Wartons were inspirational teachers. At least three Wykehamist pupils of Joseph (John Codrington Bamfylde, Francis Noel Clarke Mundy and Thomas Russell) became published poets, as did Henry Kett, William Benwell, Edward Gardner, Henry Headley and George Richards – all pupils of Thomas the Younger. The palm, however, goes to William Lisle Bowles, alumnus of both institutions, great nephew of a Fellow who tried to redesign Meads, and so loyal a Wykehamist that even when composing a sonnet about Ostend

1 No.128 The Trusty Servant he managed to mention Winchester river. ‘To Autumn’ lacks all specificity we are in a morning, in early autumn. College. Drawing on ‘To the River of location. The Wartons gave the In stanza two, we are in the afternoon Loddon’, a seminal poem by Thomas reader rivers; Bowles, Coleridge and mid-autumn. In stanza three, the Elder, Bowles devised a new style and Wordsworth gave them ruins – we are in dusk, with a heralding of of sonnet, characterised by riparian ‘Tintern Abbey’ was a poem Keats winter. Thus, there is progress, yet no settings, a poetic persona of youthful knew and greatly admired. Yet a poem progress. sensibility, a focus on personal conceived on a walk along a river, The uncertainties of ‘To Autumn’ development, and a tripartite towards an ecclesiastical edifice of reflect the uncertainties in Keats’s structural form involving scenes historic distinction, mentions neither. personal situation, as he decided which are left, revisited and then It is as though there is no irrigation, he must turn his back on poetry. recollected. only fruitfulness, a fruitfulness that Summer, with its nightingales and can only self-destruct. The effect of Bowles’s sonnets was Grecian urns, was behind him. River immediate: Southey, Coleridge and In Keats’s poem also, the narrator paths usually involve a progress, Wordsworth acknowledged their and his development remain especially in Bowles and Warton, yet profound force and impact. Only unmentioned. The contrast becomes this poem envisages none. Keats must Byron refused to be convinced, all the more obvious if one looks reconcile himself not only to leaving savaging Bowles as ‘the maudlin at Henry Headley’s ‘Address to a poetic career, but also leaving life prince of mournful sonneteers’. the River Isis’, where the narrator altogether. But he does it with none mourns his own impending death, of Bowles’s slightly self-indulgent and Keats, an ardent Wartonian in his linking it with the tidal progression affected melancholy. critical tastes, stayed in Winchester of the Thames. Keats introduces in 1819. He described the city as Few people now read Bowles. Hardly personification only in stanza two: ‘the pleasantest town I was ever in’, anyone reads the Wartons. But many that figure appears, only to disappear. ‘beautifully wooded’, and with air people worldwide read the poets There is no poetic persona in ‘To worth ‘sixpence a pint’. Keats cannot which these precursors inspired; and Autumn’, indeed there is almost not have failed to realise that he was Wykehamists may be proud not only even a poet. moving in the footsteps of Bowles – of their poetic alumni, but also their but no one has ever related the Keats The tripartite time structure in ‘To vindicated school historian. masterpiece to the riparian poetic Autumn’ derives from Warton and This is a shortened version of a talk given traditions in which, almost literally, Bowles, but is more sophisticated. by the Headmaster on 19th September the poet trod. Time becomes as teasing as place. It is 2019, the bicentenary of the composition of simultaneously fluid and static. Every Keats’s individual aesthetic broadly Keats’s poem. stanza is about autumn, but autumn involved the hiding of the obvious. is three seasons in one. In stanza one, His objections to poetry which had palpable designs upon its reader, his invention of the term ‘negative ‘To the River Itchin’ capability’ (‘when a man is capable by William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), OW. of being in uncertainties… without any irritable reaching out of fact’) and Itchin! when I behold thy banks again, his conviction that ‘the only means Thy crumbling margin, and thy silver breast, of strengthening one’s intellect is to On which the self-same tints still seem to rest, make up one’s mind about nothing’ Why feels my heart a shivering sense of pain! all demonstrate this tendency. A Is it, that many a summer’s day has past better understanding of Keats can Since, in life’s morn, I carolled on thy side! therefore often be obtained by Is it, that oft since then my heart has sighed, working out not what he has said, but As Youth, and Hope’s delusive gleams, flew fast! what he has hidden. Is it, that those who gathered on thy shore, Companions of my youth, now meet no more! ‘To Autumn’ carefully avoids the Whate’er the cause, upon thy banks I bend, Wartonian trilogy of topography, Sorrowing; yet feel such solace at my heart, poetic persona, and aesthetics. As at the meeting of some long-lost friend, Bowles’s sonnets were topographical From whom, in happier hours, we wept to part. about a particular place, a particular

2 No.128 The Trusty Servant English at Winchester, 1955-1990

Tommy Cookson (I, 55-60; Co Ro, 64-65, teaching Antony and Cleopatra (‘She’s former Head of English at Bradford 67-72, 74-90; Headmaster, 03-05) recalls not a sex kitten; she’s a sex cat’). Grammar School, had produced a the English Department of the ’50s, ’60s As an article in TS55 put it: ‘The widely-used edition of Hamlet. Jo Bain and ’70s: teaching of English should have its brought an encyclopaedic knowledge anarchic side. What matters as much of literature and the arts from Stowe. The English Department started life as anything is the enthusiasm of the Trevor Park’s knowledge of medieval in the early 1950s with two members, and classical literature could have HCA ‘Tom’ Gaunt and Michael teacher. If he enjoys certain works of overwhelmed but actually inspired Burchnall. Neither had an English literature, the odds are his boys will.’ his pupils to the point of discipleship. degree but both were accomplished If there were few English specialists, Lachlan Mackinnon produced writers —Tom as the author of hymns there was certainly plenty of English. frequent reviews for the TLS. The still sung today and Michael as the While the rest of the world relaxed, changes also affected the younger winner of the Oxford University Wykehamists spent Saturday evenings pupils. John Clark, imported from Prize for an English Poem on a writing essays of all kinds – some the Dragon School in Oxford and Sacred Subject, as well as the author requiring reasoned argument, others Michael Nevin, an Old Wykehamist of a body of secular poetry and the creative imagination – which were who succeeded me as Head of the Masque which opened New Hall. returned appreciatively read and Department, brought a range of new Their department was a bit like the carefully marked. Frequent Chapel teaching techniques to their divs as Habsburg Empire, enormous but services meant regular exposure to the well as encouragement both to read scarcely under their control. They language of the Authorised Version; out of class books suited to their age taught only a part of the A level and an enduring memory of evening group and to participate in the annual and none of the English Language Preces in Hopper’s is John Gammell’s junior play. or Literature syllabuses. These were reading of the poems of GM Hopkins. left to the div dons on the B ladder My house library was well-stocked And amongst these new specialists, or in what were then Senior and and well-used. still, was that original Renaissance Middle Part. In 1957, therefore, I was figure, Michael Burchnall, whose talks taught O-level English Literature by John Thorn’s arrival as Headmaster to the department on the teaching of a classicist and, in 1960, most of my in 1968 radically changed both grammar or the poetry of Thomas A-level books by a historian. the English Department and the Hardy live in the memory – as does a performing arts. The advent of picture of him sitting between lessons This odd arrangement had great graded exams in the early ‘60s led to in Common Room quietly reading virtues. Tom Gaunt drew up a list specialist dons teaching specialist sets. books on Mathematics – or Chinese. of authors and texts considered Numbers taking English at A level suitable for each level of the school and Oxbridge increased. Rigorous and few left Winchester without textual analysis, difficult to maintain having studied a selection of great in a div setting, became the norm. works, whether they were taking Tom Gaunt’s successor, Gordon Pirie, A-level English or not. In those could reveal Chaucer’s genius simply days, public exams weren’t graded by taking you through the opening in the way they are now and entry lines of the Prologue. But the two-year to Oxbridge was much easier: exam A-level course at Winchester also teaching was therefore less intense. devoted some time to reading around, Although div dons were not English as well as directly teaching, the specialists they were generally well- syllabus, thus establishing the wider read: the unspoken - and occasionally literary context. spoken - assumption was that ‘any educated person can teach English’. By the mid-1970s the department Part of the fun of being a div don was had increased from two to seven, its the privilege of teaching Hamlet or strength not just in numbers but in Michael Birchnall King Lear: John Gammell revelled in the calibre of its recruits. Ken Grose,

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Rob Wyke (Co Ro, 85-15) the world of the Restoration and then who might be called the re-discoverer takes up the tale for the late ’80s: of Pope; they might lose themselves in of Empson, the great OW poet and a big 19th-century novel; they could I was appointed by John Thorn from critic, gave the Society’s first talk (on learn the techniques of close-reading Campion School, Athens, to be Head Beckett and Death) in February 1986. – all this before they embarked on of English from Short Half 1985. I A series of distinguished speakers has the special work of A and S level (the succeeded Michael Nevin who had followed over the years. latter usually in tasktimes or special become Housedon of Beloe’s. Michael classes in the evening). In September 1985, the Department had succeeded Tommy Cookson was staffed by distinctive individuals when Tommy became Housedon of Every pupil took English Language such as Joe Bain, Barry Webb, Peter Hopper’s. The English Department O level. Arrangements for English Harrison, Christopher Tolley, seems always to have contained Literature developed during these Lachlan Mackinnon and those former Heads of it. years, but the most interesting aspect already mentioned (departmental In this period, numbers taking A-level of that side of English at Winchester was the plain-text O level we used: meetings happened regularly now English increased somewhat (there candidates took their texts into the and could be most entertaining – as were 36 candidates in the summer of exam, the introductions and notes could gatherings in the Wykeham 1985 and always more than that in having been made difficult of access Arms). In JP, MP and V Book, English the following years); larger numbers by means of elastic bands put round continued to be taught for the most of Collegemen were allowed to take them by a small army of div dons part in Div, but the Department the subject in both years of VI Book commanded by Simon Eliot and became more involved in this area as rather than just in VI Book 1; and a based in the changing rooms of the time unfolded. In the last two years of steady stream of Wykehamists went PE Centre. Trusting days! the decade the Headmaster managed on to read English at university. to recruit to the Department such Most of these O-level arrangements Preparation of set texts happened remarkable teachers as Adam Crick were swept away when GCSE came entirely in VI Book 1 and O levels (1990) and Geoffrey Day (1989): the in. Assessments in English came to be were largely taken early, so that latter had so relished the experience made for the most part at the end of pupils (and dons) in Common Time of talking to the William Empson Cloister Time in V Book (the freedom and Cloister Time of V Book (the of VI Book 2 continued), but we were Society about Sterne (and the dinner Transition Year) and in the whole able for a time to combine the two afterwards) that he decided that, of VI Book 2 were happily free of sides of English (Lang & Lit) in a opportunity arising, he would like the constraints of any syllabus but folder of coursework. Winchester had to join us. In Short Half 1990, I the one we devised. This meant always linked the various aspects of became Housedon of Hopper’s and that sets could read, for example, the subject – rightly. the Headmaster was able to appoint the whole of Paradise Lost or most Simon Taylor to succeed me as Head of The Canterbury Tales; they might One significant moment was the of English. encounter Michael Ondaatje before founding of the William Empson he became famous; they could explore Society in 1985. Christopher Ricks, God, Sport and Win Coll

The Reverend Justin White (Chaplain, deed.”’ From A History of Winchester deed.’ I wonder whether the boys 2006-14; 2018-) gave the following address College (1899) by Arthur F. Leach. remembered any more than that. at Winchester Match 2019: I am trying to imagine Chaplain ‘He was a tall silvery-haired ‘Twenty-two was played every year on Watkins, a Victorian predecessor of handsome man,’ a Wykehamist of the Fifth of November; made famous mine, climbing into the pulpit every the time records, ‘remarkably like in the early years of the century by year on Gunpowder Day, the day of recumbent Jesse in the east window of the chaplain who regularly preached 22s, and preaching the same sermon Chapel: he intoned the prayers with on that day: “Dark was the night, year after year: ‘Dark was the night, a celerity which I have never heard dark was the lantern, but darker the dark was the lantern, but darker the equalled.’

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By all accounts the Victorian era say something about sport and the Villa, QPR, Tottenham Hotspur, of the College produced some Christian faith. Liverpool and Everton – all with memorable sermons. Dr Moberly, the the intention of keeping lads off The church has had an interesting Headmaster, was unequalled in the the streets and out of the pubs, relationship with sport and leisure pulpit: graceful, brilliant, universally particularly on Sundays. over the centuries. The Synod of Ely accomplished, morbidly refined. in 1364 forbade its clergy from playing Pope Pius X declared, ‘Young people The Warden’s sermons, on the other games, and ordered them to banish should perform physical exercises. hand, were remembered for different games from their churchyards. Later Performed in moderation they will reasons. The same commentator in the 18th century, the Reverend not only promote the health of the from the pews remarked that the Samuel Ashe clearly saw the need body, but also the salvation of the Headmaster was, ‘as unlike the for interaction between church and soul.’ And Pope John Paul II once Warden as one good man can differ sport. He would spend his Sunday said, ‘Athletic activity can help from another’. Warden Barter pulled afternoons hiding in the trees by every man and woman to recall that out the same sermon on the Witch of the local sports field, biding his time moment when God the Creator gave Endor on so many occasions that the until a football strayed near him, origin to the human person, the boys could recite it verbatim. It is on whereupon he would pounce on masterpiece of his creative work.’ the ball and pierce it with a pin. He record that, once going hurriedly into Which brings us to the Warden’s could then go home rejoicing that he Chapel, and snatching the uppermost reading this morning: the Genesis of had stopped his parishioners from document from his drawer, Warden Man, God’s masterpiece. Barter possessed himself of a sermon sinning! Is God interested in our sport, our which he had preached in his father’s The Victorian bishop JC Ryle has a leisure, our rest? country parish, and found himself Who’s Who entry, which records his presently exhorting the bewildered interests as ‘cricket until ordained’. Rest, leisure, sport surely proceed boys to bring their wives to the The Bishop of Manchester, in from work. These are unproductive Communion as soon as possible after 1902, blamed the decline in Sunday activities we do after we have done they had been churched. observance on three things: ‘… our labour. And so it is for God, it Another of Warden Barter’s sermons carelessness, athleticism, and seems. For what does God do after his was on the text, ‘Son, remember’– particularly on the invention of the great work is complete? He rests. bicycle!’ with an appeal to the memories of ‘And God blessed the seventh day, home and parents as a ‘talisman On the other hand, many of today’s and sanctified it: because that in it he against temptation’. On one occasion Premier League Football Clubs began had rested from all his work which Moberly, whose preaching turn had as clubs started by churches: Aston God created and made.’ come, was ill, and sent to beg that the Warden would take his place. Barter went to him in some distress: ‘There is no time to write a sermon; I have one which would do, but I have delivered it several times – you have heard it, Headmaster. The text is: “Son, remember.”’ ‘It will do admirably,’ said Moberly, — ‘only change one word; instead of “Son, remember”, let it be “Son, forget!”’ Moberly himself once preached a stirring sermon entitled ‘Isthmian Games’. Given the proceedings that follow on this Winchester Match – namely much sport, and, this year, the Headmaster’s launching of a new chapter in the College’s sporting legacy – I thought I should try and

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However, we tend to forget that we what goes on here in Chapel. to grapple with life and death and are not God. We are Adam and Eve. mortality and, in the end, you’ll die Now, sermons are like Winkies games: For Adam and Eve, by contrast, their and see that your frenetic labours everything can be won or lost in first complete day of life was a day of mattered little.’ So, in reply, man the dying moments. In a bid for a rest, from which they then proceeded says to God, ‘Well then … within muscular Christianity, I had thought to work and live. We work from of getting you all to your feet to sing your universe we’re going to create a rest; not rest from work. I wonder my favourite sporting hymn: sub-universe called sports, one that whether that perspective might be a absolutely doesn’t matter, and we’ll welcome and vital corrective to our Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life follow everything that happens in it increasingly frenetic working lives. End over end, neither left nor the right as if it were a matter of life and death.’ Straight through the heart of them righteous The day of rest is essential in the uprights The last word should go to Dr Judeo-Christian tradition, for it leads Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life. Moberly and his ‘Isthmian Games’: us to worship, and, through that, reveals more about God. And the Make me, oh make me, Lord, more than I am ‘We have reached the end of another same must be said of sport. Make me a piece in your master game plan season of refreshment and leisure, Free from the earthly temptation below and are again girding ourselves up for I am reminded of the film Chariots I’ve got the will Lord if you’ve got the toe. a long course of industry and labour of Fire, the story of Eric Liddell, … God has also allowed us to reach Christian athlete and later But, we’re not a rugby school, so that a new beginning of our Christian missionary, who famously refused the won’t do. course, a time of new prayers, a time opportunity to win a gold medal in So, perhaps, Alan Bennett’s great of repeated communions, a time of the 100m race at the 1924 Olympic sermon from Beyond the Fringe: fresh duty, a time for pressing forward Games because his race was on a in all the holy activity of early piety Sunday. ‘God made me for a purpose’, When that One Great Scorer comes … Let us think of God’s unspeakable says Liddell in the film, ‘but he also To mark against your name, mercy, who still bears with us, gives us made me fast, and, when I run, I feel It matters not who won or lost, time and space for repentance, calls his pleasure.’ But how you played the game. us by every motive that can prevail Our sport, our leisure, our rest, played Actually, no jokes are required. For on man, not to despise the riches of with the right attitude, are things that sport is man’s joke on God. You His goodness and long-suffering, but can bring pleasure to God. They can see, God says to man, ‘I’ve created to repent of our childish and youthful be as much a part of the daily round a universe where it seems like sins, and yield ourselves up in soul of thanks and praise of this College as everything matters; where you’ll have and body to His service!’ Patrick Maclure (I, 52-57; Secretary of Wykehamist Society, 88-04; Aide to the Warden and Headmaster, 04 – 14) died on 28th September 2019

Charles Sinclair (B, 61-66; Warden, 14- I have included 19 years as Master corridor, it was enough to stop your 19) gave this address at a dinner to mark and Bursar at Horris Hill, on the heart.’ PSWKM’s retirement in June 2015: grounds that it was (and still is) one of the great feeder schools to Win You were known as Pesky after your It may surprise you to know, Patrick, Coll. In fact, you brought on so many many initials, and a ‘Pesky Rocket’ that you have spent 52 years of Wykehamists at Horris Hill that we for having annoyed you was to your life connected with this place. have a well-triangulated picture of be avoided at all costs. It wasn’t I have excluded your years before you from those days. ‘Terrifying’ and only the boys that suffered: legend Win Coll, your years of National ‘scary’ are words that occur often. has it that one of your booms was Service in the prestigious KRRC and ‘He had a loud, booming voice and launched so successfully on a clutch your Bursarship of Downe House. if he shouted out your name in the of swifts making too much noise

6 No.128 The Trusty Servant outside your classroom became the well-organised that they fell into silence, club it is today. But you as did your French class could clearly revert to the for the rest of the hour. scary persuader of Horris But there is balance in the Hill days when you needed triangulation. You were to. Colours were to be recognised as a legendary awarded to Win Coll and teacher of French, the CCF in 2010, but the a devoted (and thus Court of Heralds objected demanding) schoolmaster, as William of Wykeham’s forever encouraging the Coat of Arms was ‘not boys on the playing field. properly heraldic’. You told One of your coaching them that, as Win Coll was methods was unusual, of an older Foundation writing up first XI matches than the Court of Heralds, in a journal and then we would take precedent reading your report to the from ourselves - and we team the evening before did! The evidence is in the next match. ‘Very Armoury. motivating and effective,’ You have loved cricket, one said, ‘especially when you realised achievements by finding a superb successor in David Fellowes, who as a player, as a watcher and as Pesky had noticed the good things administrator. The OWCC I knew you had done.’ built on your earlier work and started the effective Winchester College well became noticeably better-run Of course, this view of you by your Society we know today, based on an when you became Treasurer in 1986, a task you undertook for 18 years young charges is hard to reconcile idea of Ralph’s. Your good work then and helped to keep that set of OWs with the apparently mild-mannered is, among other things, our funding firmly attached to the school. You and gentle person we adults know base today. haven’t stopped: your outstanding today at Win Coll. But young and incomparable knowledge of Wykehamists soon ‘got’ you: a San You became Aide to the Warden and Wykehamists has finally been Franciscan Trantite referred to you Headmaster in 2004, after handing committed to print in the Register as a ‘real cool dude’, the highest over WykSoc. But your title followed (probably the last of its kind). You compliment, which had, I’m sure, the reality: as Tommy Cookson too must have seen the enormity of nothing to do with the vibrant hues said of his challenging Headship, ‘I what lay ahead when you undertook of your corduroy trousers, perhaps couldn’t have done without Patrick this horrendous task, let alone in the only challenge to the sartorial in 2003-2005. He was the ideal advisor your seventies. But it is done, a truly adventure that is our Headmaster and a shrewd pair of eyes around the interesting and admirable piece of (RDT). More seriously, you have place: perceptive, amusing and tough when required.’ It seems you have work, and of lasting value to Win been a wonderful servant of Win Coll. Coll. Wykehamist Society was your always had the knack of influence. stage, starting with your becoming Whether as Trustee, Secretary, You are one of that very small group Secretary in 1988, and then for 16 Director, Aide, Treasurer, Editor or of characters (going back in our years. As your old friend Colin Bursar of innumerable bodies, others lifetimes to Budge Firth) who have Badcock said of you in 2004, when have been Chairman, but, time and devoted most of their lives to the you were retiring from WykSoc, time again, people say you were the benefit of others and this place, which ‘Patrick’s really major achievement is ‘go-to’ person, and you were the is better for your being a part of it. the arousing of alumni affection for reason things ran smoothly. It is said A Memorial Service for Patrick will be the Old Place by endlessly attending that you saved a President of the held in Chapel on Saturday 21st March to them and attending their dinners MCC, under pressure from unhappy at 3.30pm. All those wishing to attend are and funerals.’ You always had a sure members at its AGM, by puncturing asked please to email: touch with OWs and others of all a tense atmosphere with wit and an [email protected] ages, from Al Gordon at 105 down to adjournment. Inevitably, you were New Men. You consolidated all these elected to committees and the MCC

7 No.128 The Trusty Servant Peter Stormonth Darling (C, 40-45) died on 16th September, 2019

David Rosier (I, 64-69) remembers: After Law at New College, and, I was lucky enough to know Peter more importantly, captaining the Stormonth Darling, or Peter Darling as New College cricket team, where he he always introduced himself, or PSD often recalled that he had seen Roger as he was known to his many friends Bannister run the first sub-four-minute thought about the situation in South and colleagues, since 1978 when I joined mile at Iffley Road, Peter moved to Africa, where Nelson Mandela had SG Warburg & Co Ltd, of which he Canada. In 1957, he was introduced just been released from jail, to which was then Vice-Chairman. When I to Siegmund Warburg, who hired him the Ambassador replied that he had no became a director in 1984, there were no to work for Warburg’s Canadian joint particular knowledge of the country. less than six other OWs on the board venture. Thus began a relationship with Warburg that lasted for over 40 The next question about his wife, (PSD, George Jellicoe (E, 31-36), Andrew years and culminated in Peter becoming prompted by our briefing notes, seemed Smithers (D, 51-55), Roger Harrison- the Chairman of the investment- to be equally wide of the mark – the Topham (K, 53-58), John Sanders (F, management arm, which floated as Ambassador was apparently a bachelor 56-61) and Jock Birney (C, 57-62)). Mercury Asset Management in 1987. – and we hastily changed tack and Peter was quite clear about the influence As Chairman of MAM, Peter presided talked about our ambitions in Oman. his time at Win Coll had on his later over what became the largest and On leaving, we discovered that my PA life and hugely successful career in the most influential fund-management had sent us details on our Ambassador City. Like his father and two brothers, firm in the UK, with £100 billion to Amman (Jordan), rather than Oman! he was a Cookite: his cousins were under management. His leadership My sheepish admission of this was met also Wykehamists. In return, Peter was qualities were stretched again as he also by roars of laughter from Peter. hugely generous to Win Coll and, with presided over a group of opinionated, Peter was admired and respected for his friend the Wall Street entrepreneur occasionally difficult, yet talented fund his wisdom, adroit and pragmatic Al Gordon, he set up a significant managers. But, with his open and leadership and loved for his wonderful sports fund. He also served on many charming manner and infectious sense sense of humour, his eye for quirkiness Win Coll committees. of humour, he managed to ‘herd this and the absurdity of life. He was a great At Win Coll, Peter developed his group of cats’ into becoming the most raconteur and particularly enjoyed passion for cricket, playing for Lords successful fund-management business in telling stories against himself. One for two years. This passion was to last the UK. such tale, told with brilliant mimicry, throughout his life. He also developed Peter was self-deprecating to a fault and, was about Henry Grunfeld, one of the a love of writing – he was an inveterate in his memoir City Cinderella, the Life Warburg ‘Uncles’, who announced at a letter writer – and an attention to detail, and Times of Mercury Asset Management, meeting with other senior directors that all of which were to stand him in good declared that the success of the firm was he had asked for an updated graphology stead in his subsequent career. the work of others and that he became report (for which Warburg was After leaving school, National Service Chairman only because he happened notorious) on Peter’s handwriting which in his family regiment, the Black to be around at the right time and was apparently showed that ‘Stormonth Darling is deteriorating’. Peter was then Watch, beckoned and he volunteered older than most of the other potential at the height of his powers! to extend his required service period candidates. to go to Korea. In his own words, In the early 90s I persuaded Peter to join Above all, I will always remember ‘I knew instantly that if I said no I me on a trip to the Gulf. Our first stop Peter’s deep interest in people and what would regret it for the rest of my life was Oman and, on the first morning, made them tick. The joy of working for, and would chastise myself for being a we made a courtesy call on the British and becoming a friend of, Peter was that coward.’ Peter fought in the intensely Ambassador: we had received the he seemed genuinely interested in what gruelling second Battle of the Hook: the usual Foreign Office briefing about His one was doing, and it was this interest experience, he wrote, ‘stretched to the Excellency, who had previously been in people that engendered so much limit whatever qualities of leadership I Head of the Africa desk. All was going loyalty from his friends and colleagues may have possessed.’ well until Peter asked him what he and kept him young to the end.

8 No.128 The Trusty Servant Angus Watson (Master of Music, 70-83) died on 9th September, 2019

Nicholas Wilks his research into the historical and of student conductors in Brahms’s (Q, 70-73; Master of Music 04-15; biographical context of the work. First Symphony. Keith Pusey, David Second Master 15-) remembers: He once told me that he considered Thomas and I were fortunate indeed Singing as a Quirister under Angus an understanding of this context to inherit such a legacy. was always memorable. My first essential to an understanding of concert with him was a Messiah the music, and this was beautifully in the Cathedral, and the sheer reflected in his informative and witty rhythmic buoyancy he elicited was programme notes. Above all, he remarkable. Given the unwieldly had a wonderful instinct for musical size of the choir, and the early 1970s potential, a gift which enabled him fashion for elephantine tempi and to develop the school’s ensembles, sclerotic textures, in the Cathedral’s whether in the field of orchestras cavernous acoustic, this was or string quartets. I will never invigoratingly radical. Angus took forget an ardent Tchaikovsky Fifth enormous care over the preparation Symphony in New Hall, his own of his performances, not only in his playing in Chapel of Haydn’s Seven Angus with Robert Bottone mastery of the score itself, but in Last Words, or his patient coaching and Lisa Wilson

Captain William Miles Kington DSO Royal Welch Fusiliers (D, 1889-90)

Lt Col (ret’d) Michael Wallis Present were four great grandchildren. granddaughter Mrs Sophie Jones. To (Co Ro, 86-) reports on a Rededication I laid a wreath on behalf of the my knowledge this is the first occasion Service at Tyne Cot and a school; Dr James Webster also of an unknown, fallen Wykehamist commemoration in War Cloister. represented the Wykehamical community. On the 19th June, Captain Kington’s remains were rededicated in Tyne Cot On 20th October 2019, exactly 105 cemetery below the Passchendaele years to the date of Captain Kington’s ridge: he had remained unidentified death, a ceremony was held in War for nearly 105 years. A new headstone Cloister opposite the panel on which was erected over his grave, but this his name appears. He had been time with his name. A meticulous killed during the 1st Battle of Ypres, sleuthing process, by multiple agencies hit by a German shell in the area and individuals, had produced of Zonnebeke village. An honour enough evidence to convince the guard of senior cadets formed up MOD and the CWGC that these before his name and the Headmaster, were indeed the remains of Captain Contingent Commander Lt Col Sam Kington. The threads of his DSO Hart, College Chaplain Revd Justin ribbon, won in South Africa in 1902, White and guests were present. A were a clinching piece of the jigsaw. cross of poppies was laid by his great-

9 No.128 The Trusty Servant Donny Mackenzie- a hero in Italy

Shaun Hullis (Co Ro, 02-08) reports on a of his cousin, Brian Mackenzie (B, of gratitude for Donny’s contribution recent commemoration: 33-38) - and three generations of to the struggle for freedom; a packed an American family who owe their conference in the town hall of existence to Donny’s escape line, Pontedell’Olio was followed by the which fed 120 Allied evaders over ‘execution’ [sic] of national anthems the mountains and back to safety. We by an enthusiastic local brass band. were privileged, too, to meet several We then proceeded in convoy to people who had known Donny back Capitano Mack’s memorial at in 1943 and 1944: a 95-year-old lady Alberola, where we laid wreaths who recalled him clearly, and four of (including two on behalf of the his partisans, all in their nineties. One British Army). A steep drive led us stated that Donny demanded of them up to the spot where Donny and his only coraggio e competenza, both of companions had been ambushed and which he possessed in great measure; killed. another said that he was not just a good leader, but the perfect leader. The last year of Donny Mackenzie’s life was the culmination of everything The polymathic Dr Stefano Pronti which Winchester, Oxford and the of the Italian partisan association, Army had taught him; he made a together with local historian Claudio difference to tens of thousands of Donny Mackenzie Oltremonti, had put together a Italians in a bleak and harrowing It is not every weekend which begins busy programme which began at period of their history, and they with a private view of Messina’s the spectacular Collegio Alberoni cherish his memory – as we will Ecce l’Uomo (his best version) and in Piacenza, a former PoW hospital, cherish memories of their generosity ends on a street named after a before moving on to the Palazzo and hospitality that weekend. Wykehamist war hero. Such were Farnese, where the Deputy Mayor Challenge: I know of three streets named the powerful frames around two gave us a tour of the city’s historical after Wykehamist casualties of WW2, profoundly moving days in Piacenza, collections. Then we began our one each in Sofia, Heraklion, and commemorating the 75th anniversary contact with Donny, lunching at Pontedell’Olio. Can anyone add to the to the day of the death in action of the winery – La Stoppa – where he list? Captain Archibald Donald “Donny” and his comrade Tresham “Gunner” Mackenzie (B, 28-33). Donny was Gregg spent their first night of killed in a Fascist ambush on freedom after the Italian armistice. October 6th, 1944, alongside two of The wine is superb: see if you can his partisans. His death and wartime get hold of their 2017 Trebbiolo. By career are almost unknown in the way of the Villa Alberoni at Veano, world at large, even in Winchester, the former prison camp PG29, from but in the Val Nure south of which Donny helped to tunnel, we Piacenza, his name is famous. They all drove to Bettola to see where his are delighted that ‘Capitano Mack’s’ funeral and burial took place, as well part in their liberation story has been as the quarry where 20 partisans were made known to a wider audience murdered by the Germans in 1945. A because of my research. special dinner back at PG29 preceded an astonishing concert by the local Michael Wallis (Co Ro, 86-) and I Coro Montenero in the villa’s chapel. were privileged to be invited to the anniversary events alongside Donny’s Sunday’s anniversary was more nearest living relatives - daughters sombre but nevertheless a celebration Shaun Hullis

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Vintcent’s Break- a Kennyite notion revealed

John Vintcent (D, 51-55) a mug of cocoa and a explains: bun. Hall in Kenny’s is House-specific notions an L-shaped space with Some twenty or so years one arm longer than the ago, I was in a train ‘Vintcent’s Break’ is one of many house-specific other and the procedure heading for London notions. Break is called ‘swipes’ in Phil’s. The food was that three-year men, when a man came into eaten during it is ‘scrape’ in Cook’s, ‘sweat’ in College then small end, and the compartment and and ‘dock’ in Phil’s. The end of toytime in Chawker’s then large end would sat opposite me. He was is signalled by a cry of ‘Jackets and ties!’ and one of be called up to help wearing an Old Wok tie ‘Lawful time’ in Trant’s. The prefect’s job of putting themselves while the so I said I had one like it junior boys to bed is ‘being on course’ in Chawker’s, others continued with at home and we started to their work. As each chat. It turned out he was Furley’s and Trant’s, ‘docking’ in Hopper’s, ‘nursing’ in College, ‘flats’ in Phil’s and ‘put-to-bed’ in Toye’s, group would chatter also a Kennyite and, when and gossip and make I told him my name, he where juniors may put their ‘gimpos’ (side-lights) on to read before bed; Trantites complaining that this noise for about ten or asked if I was anything to fifteen minutes, the duty is causing them to do too much ‘torturing’ only do with Vintcent’s Break. result was that nobody mean mugging down to some late work. Waking-up is When he explained what it could concentrate on called ‘long hour’ in Hopper’s, ‘morning Ganges’ in was I said I rather thought their work for half an Phil’s and ‘Peal’s cad’ in Toye’s. The job of returning there was a link. hour or more of very the dirty crockery to the kitchens in College is called valuable time. Given When John (‘Fred’) ‘Venus’. And the houses are filled with rooms whose Manisty, our Housedon, the pressure we were all names have stuck while their uses have changed: told me I was to be Senior under that seemed to me the top years in Chawker’s sleep on a corridor called Prefect for my last term to be unnecessary. My ‘26A’; the ‘Paper Room’ in Hopper’s now contains a in the school, Short Half decision was to make television; ‘Pingers’ in College contains a piano and 1955, his brief was simple. one single break when some moribund computers rather than hosting table- I was to be responsible for everybody took their running the house on our tennis; the explanation for ‘Boot Boys’ and ‘Munery cocoa and bun together. side of his study door, as it Single/Double’ in Phil’s and ‘Clanger’s’ in Trant’s has Nobody complained were. I would be expected been lost. and the change worked to sort out any problems well. and make appropriate What has surprised me decisions, but if I needed is that this seemingly advice he would always be there. I had never been so relieved as when small innovation has been given a There were many petty little notions I became a two-year man and escaped name, but so far as I know, not until which seemed to exist solely to the indignities of being a junior and a year or two after I had left. Maybe a remind you of your lack of status, all that that entailed. I really felt man, junior at the time, liked the new but which added nothing to the free for the first time and I began to arrangement, and christened it when well-being of the house. Everybody enjoy my life in the school. As Senior he had become senior enough to be had, of course, gone through the Prefect I had the opportunity to do able to do so? something about it and so I discussed same experience as they progressed Perhaps relief at the abandonment of up the hierarchical ladder and had my ideas with Fred who immediately agreed with what I wanted to do. some of the other irritating notions, presumably accepted the situation on which accompanied this change, the basis that once they had matured, One particular irritation concerned a contributed to it. I don’t know. as it were, they would enjoy the break taken in the middle of toytime Whatever the reason, I am delighted privileges they had envied as juniors. in Hall, when we were provided with that it has become a notion!

11 No.128 The Trusty Servant Physics Partners Day at Win Coll

Tommy Cookson (I, 55-60; Co Ro, 64-65, fewer A-level entries than Chemistry have classes of 30 and little technical 67-72, 74-90; Headmaster, 03-05) reports: or Biology. One of the reasons for this help. We don’t charge fees and raise Anyone who watched science is that it appeals less to girls. Another our own funds from trusts, livery programmes in the 1970s will is the dire shortage of qualified companies and individuals, including remember Dr Magnus Pyke, who Physics teachers. In consequence, two generous Old Wykehamist developed a huge TV following: Physics is often taught to the younger sponsors, the Loveday Charitable a poll asking viewers to name the age group by biologists, many of Trust and Paul Tao in memory of his greatest-ever scientists put him whom understandably lack the depth father, CF Tao. We are associated with third after Newton and Einstein. of knowledge to inspire in their pupils the Institute of Physics, which lends His popularity was due partly to his a desire to take the subject further. us trainers in parts of the country we ability to get difficult ideas across to Winchester can help such teachers cannot reach such as York, Liverpool, the average TV audience and partly with days like this and by following Manchester and Birmingham. But to his enthusiasm and his habit of them up with twilight sessions during we also rely on outstanding teachers waving his arms about to emphasise the school term. from state schools and independent particular points. The session on 13th July was schools such as Winchester, including some from the Girls’ Schools Pyke died in 1992 but he has been supported by a charity called Physics Partners – which we founded 12 years Association with which we have reborn in Win Coll Science School been collaborating for two years with in the person of its Head of Physics, ago following an idea of Jonathan Shephard’s at the Independent the aim of attracting more girls into Dr Jeremy Douglas. Jeremy gets rave A-level Physics —currently only 23% reviews both from his young pupils at Schools’ Council – and was organised by our CEO, Bryan Berry. Physics of A-level Physics entries are from Win Coll and from his more mature girls. audiences at summer schools or Partners helps some 200 state schools single-day events for non-specialist across England with twice-termly At the end of each session we teachers of Physics, for instance at lessons on aspects of the GCSE distribute feedback forms based on the Harris Academy in Bermondsey. curriculum. We concentrate a lot those used by the Institute of Physics His trademarks are his intellectual on practical work as this is what and ask the teachers to comment, rate enthusiasm and his wonderfully non-specialists find difficult if they the lesson on its usefulness for their expressive body language, which teaching and, on an ascending make Physics lessons look like scale of 1-4, say how good it was. taekwondo. It isn’t always easy to teach It was only a matter of time teachers when you are used before he had the idea of a to teaching boys—not least Physics day at Win Coll for because, unlike a class of boys, local non-specialist Physics you haven’t a clear idea of what teachers. On 13th July this year, stage they have reached or what 20 teachers and technicians the ability range of their pupils from maintained schools across is. Readers will be glad to know Hampshire and West Sussex that the session at Win Coll assembled to study aspects of received a very large number the GCSE Physics curriculum. of top grades in each category Besides himself, Jeremy turned and the verbal feedback was out his top team to train them: excellent. Magnus Pyke himself Tony Ayres, John Cullerne, would have been proud. Jamie Barron and their three Any OW who would like to excellent technicians. discover more about the charity Nationally, Physics is making a Physics Partners is invited to get in touch with Tommy Cookson at comeback but still has 20,000 Jeremy Douglas [email protected].

12 No.128 The Trusty Servant Eric’s story: tragedy into triumph

Eric Billington (Co Ro, 85-) recounts: I was confident that, if I could hold centenary celebrations in 2005. Then the attention of drunken revellers in Mark Romans took over in 2010. In On the 16th June 2018 I had an a crowded bar by singing folk songs, I fact we swapped, as I took over the operation on my back. It left me shouldn’t have too much trouble with sailing from him, winning the BSDRA paralysed from the chest down and I Wykehamists. Nationals for the second time in 2017 am now a full-time wheelchair user. after several near misses. The editor has asked me to tell my I loved it immediately. I met with story. Martin Gregory once a week to plan By then, I knew that I was living with and to brush up my rusty Physics; we a problem, a small tumour, probably My childhood taught me two things: spent much of the time talking about benign, but unfortunately lodged right to support Liverpool FC (because his heat engines, sewing machines inside my spinal column. The MRI of being raised on the Wirral) and and industrial archaeology. Soon scan showed a small disc, reminiscent stoicism (because the cure for 60s of the eye of Mars, lodged in amongst rebellion at Sedbergh, where I had won opportunities for further terms the nerves. We decided to wait and a scholarship, was rugger interspersed materialised, with my time spread see, since removal of the tumour had with cross-country running). My between Physics and Maths (so I well only a 75% success rate. Cheerily the school experience was wildly unhappy. remember the ‘Algebra Wars’, as well surgeon revealed that failure would But my year group was bright and all as racing John Durran up the stairs only leave me paralysed from the chest 14 of us went on to Oxbridge, I to read of E block). I became a tutor in Toye’s down, and that I would still have full Engineering at Trinity Hall (1972-75). (first with James Miller, then with Andrew Wolters), which was great use of my arms. Waiting seemed a After the obligatory haircut, I had fun and included some lively theatre better option. little difficulty getting a job, designing productions. I was lured into running Truth to tell, I found it easy enough sewerage systems. After a year in the the squash by Simon Blake-Wilson, an to forget about the tumour. But in the UK, I did three years in Bahrain and enthusiastic pupil who just wouldn’t spring of 2018, things began to unravel then a long motorbike ride through take no for an answer (so typical of more significantly and something Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan Winchester). needed to be done. It was time to brought me to Nairobi, where the fresh gamble, and the date was set for 16th strawberries and cold beers convinced And of course I got involved with June. The good news was that the me to stay. I got a job writing a the sailing. Netley SC was a rather success rate had by then increased to proposal for repairing the water system unforgiving location, with its steep 90%, and my surgeon was yet to have a in Kampala, Uganda. Idi Amin’s years and long slipway, impossibly complex failure. As I walked into the hospital, of mismanagement had damaged it security, and proximity to a busy it felt a bit like the beginning of term severely – and had left my hotel room commercial shipping lane. Yet we had at Sedbergh. Except louder and more in the Kampala Intercontinental with brilliant times there. Easter training vivid. bullet holes in the door and no water camp initially included actual camping, to flush the toilet, so it was fortunate but happily we soon found parents My memories of regaining that the design team spent most of our willing to accommodate us. And in consciousness after a seven-hour time in the safe confines of Nairobi. 1989, by the narrowest of margins operation are confused, no doubt During this period I developed a over a surprised Sevenoaks, we won partly because of the anaesthetic passion for sailing, leading to the the inaugural BSDRA National and the morphine that followed it. Fireball World Championships in San Championships. For Pip it was much harder. Having Francisco Bay in 1984. removed the tumour, the surgeon On 16th September 1994 I was looked on helplessly as the neural Then in 1985, in response to an advert introduced by Simon Woolley to a connection between my head and toes in The Times, I came to Winchester girl called Pip in the Wykeham Arms. broke down. My life had dramatically College as a part-time Physics teacher, By July the following year we were changed for ever, as had hers. covering for Tony Ruth’s two-term married; by September 2000 we had post-Hopper’s sabbatical. It was a three children, a fourth on the way, After a week at Southampton perfect opportunity for me: a chance and were moving into Kingsgate General Hospital, I was transferred to see whether I would enjoy teaching House to succeed Michael Nevin as to the spinal injury unit at Salisbury. more than engineering, with no Housemaster. We had ten wonderful The Salisbury spinal unit serves the commitment beyond the two terms. years in Beloe’s, including the whole of the south of England. These

13 No.128 The Trusty Servant injuries happen very rarely: most of the time we get away with it; but not always. I spent four months there in all, gradually coming to terms with my situation and learning how to cope. I was surrounded by disaster stories much more tragic than my own: a climber whose rope had been cut by random rock fall (he’d also lost his legs above the knee); the cyclist who at almost 0 mph had fallen sideways and smashed his spine on the kerb; the Irish great-great-grandfather who had inexplicably collapsed while washing up and broken his neck; the girl parachute-jumping for charity whose landing had all gone wrong; the teacher on holiday whom a car crash left paralysed from the neck down; the grandfather pruning a garden With the WinColl sailing team at the RYA National Team Racing Championships, tree who fell on his head and was left quadriplegic. 12/13 Oct 2019, where we came second, a fantastic performance. I learnt so much from these guys on in a Catch-22 world, where it is never lessons. Amber Davenport (Senior the Tamar Ward, and I hope they also possible to speak directly with any Physics Technician) was ever attentive learned something from me. We had decision-makers. On the plus side our helping me get back and forth. And next to nothing in common other home at 23 Kingsgate Rd (where Alan Sue Jounet (Health and Safety Officer) than that we had all joined a very and Helen Conn used to live) had no did battle with Access to Work, and exclusive spinal injury club, from step up from the pavement nor a step won. I’m very grateful to them in which we would all have resigned down into the garden; it also had old- particular but also to the whole school immediately if we could. The nurses fashioned wide doors and corridors. community for all the support and were absolutely wonderful, dedicated With the stair-lift installed and wet encouragement I have received. room fabricated, it was ready to roll. in their approach, cheerful in the face There is not much that is positive I came home at the end of October, a of our disasters, and giving so freely of to come out of what has happened very emotional event. At the assembly, themselves. These were unforgettable to me. But if there is one thing, it people and it was an unforgettable Tim explained to the boys what had is certainly that we in Britain still time. Pip came every day, usually happened to me, and then invited me enjoy a proper sense of community, bringing lunch, which we ate in the onto the platform. I sang a song that I a desire to help others, and a feeling beautiful environment of Horatio’s had written, complete with the chorus of shared purpose and destiny (ideas garden (built by parents in memory from ‘Domum’. It went down very that have been almost buried without of their son who was killed by a polar well! And it introduced me back into trace during the Brexit fiasco). I feel bear). our school community. enormously rejuvenated by the many Towards the end of July, the So now as I write, it’s June: the acts of kindness from which I have Headmaster came to visit me. By this daffodils have come and gone, and the benefited: the family rallying around, time I had identified two major goals: grass is beginning to grow. In Common friends getting in contact after years first to return home and second to Time I taught three JP and MP sets in a of radio silence, people from my past return to work. Tim was immediately Biology lab converted for Physics (with spontaneously sending money. Finally, supportive, and added a strange transformers replacing microscopes). I would like to say a huge and public request: that I play my ukulele at the Kevin Hill (who some of you will thank you to my wife Pip: this episode end-of-term assembly. It gave me a remember taught Chemistry for has been tragic for her as well as for target. There followed three months several years, retiring about a decade me. She has been a rock. of doing battle with government ago) volunteered to come and be my And between us all we will turn it into agencies and hospital administrators lab assistant, reaching equipment from a triumph. to put in place all that I needed to the high shelves and doing his best to operate at home. I found myself living work his beloved Chemistry into my

14 No.128 The Trusty Servant Flint Court 150 years on

Suzanne Foster, Archivist, marks an Moberly Library had opened. buildings was improved to make them anniversary: look less like what had been described If you stand with your back to as a ‘mean block that resembled a It is easy to forget, in all the Lord’s Tree and look at Flint Court, cheap 19th-century workhouse’. celebrations to mark the 150th Commoner Mugging Hall was on the anniversary of the opening of our ground and first floors on the right boarding houses, that we should hand side, with the Grubbing Hall also remember that 2019 marks 150 opposite. There were dormitories years since the closure of the one on the second floors and studies for large boarding house known as prefects around the edge of the court Commoners, run by the headmaster yard. In Moberly Court, there were for his fee-paying pupils. more studies on the ground floor, plus offices and kitchens, and more From 1739 to 1869, Commoners dormitories above. The library, tutors’ lived first in old buildings west of rooms, sick rooms and matron’s room College known as Sustern Spital (Old were in the north range connecting Commoners) and then in Moberly’s the two courtyards, with more New Commoners, built between 1829 dormitories above. and 1842. Once the new boarding houses opened, the buildings known The architect Butterfield was as New Commoners in Flint Court commissioned to oversee the and Moberly Court were converted conversion. He divided the larger into classrooms. By February 1870, spaces into smaller classrooms, the Mugging Hall in 1860s most of the new classrooms were studies around the courtyards were ready and, by April 1870, the new removed and the external look of the Commoner Studies in Moberly Court

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‘Family is the basic building block of society’

‘The family is the basic building block of our society; marriage is the corner stone of family life’. Rex Chester MBE (F, 48-53) Founder & Hon. President Explore (Students Exploring Marriage Trust): During my time at Win Coll in the 1950s, there was no notion of learning emotional intelligence. We were taught to show sang-froid on the outside and to hide the turmoil within. But nowadays an all-round education would be incomplete without a strong element of relationship-learning. In my a society we think that family life The bee refused to go away and organisation, we have seen, year after is important, and that marriage is insisted that something needed to be year, the increasing appetite young the cornerstone of family life, what done about this deplorable state of people have for direct talk about their are we actually doing to help our affairs. Further reflection led me to fears and hopes for making lasting young people prepare for this critical conclude that the idea that you might relationships in their adult lives. The decision - whether or not to get be able somehow to teach marriage challenge is for their teachers to take married, and to whom, and how to was a non-starter: 0900 Latin, 0930 this demand seriously, and to address make it last?’ I met and talked to a History, 1015 Marriage? No way! it. wide variety of people in education, However, I had one big idea - perhaps The organisation I founded, Explore, in the Church, in social services and there might be married couples out goes back more than 20 years. In came to the sad conclusion that the there who would be willing to share the summer of 1996, I was working answer to the question was, ‘Little their actual experience in a way that for a public company which was or nothing.’ The main assumption young people would find helpful. engaged in the paint and chemical- seemed to be that you would The Director of the Grubb Institute coatings industry. At the same time, somehow or other just pick it up from with whom I discussed this idea said I was much involved with a social your parents and muddle through. that as far as he was aware nothing science research organisation called like this had ever been attempted However in this period of the Grubb Institute of Behavioural before and encouraged me to write exploration, I uncovered what Studies (after the late Sir Kenneth a concept note, which I duly did. He seemed to me some unpalatable facts Grubb, then Chairman of the House then suggested that I would need to - that the UK had the worst divorce of Laity of the Church’s General talk to some schools to see if they rate and the worst rate of teenage Synod). The Institute’s business was might be prepared to give the idea a pregnancy of any country in Europe; in the field of interpersonal and trial run. To my surprise and delight that the chances of a young person intergroup relations - how people both Banbury Comprehensive and still living with their birth parents work together in organisations. It Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School at the age of 16 were no better than had also pioneered over many years at Faversham in Kent agreed to act as 50/50; and, most staggering of all, a process of learning by experience guinea pigs. that the estimated cost of family - as opposed to the more traditional breakdown was over £30 billion The Institute then set about method of learning from didactic (currently £52 billion) per annum. All designing a methodology that would teaching. of this data was openly available in enable students to talk to married At around that time, I got a bee in the public domain but no one seemed couples who had expressed their my bonnet and the bee said, ‘If as particularly concerned. willingness to share their experience.

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A product was launched – the 12- taken part in over 1000 workshops. face. Perhaps the most surprising fact Week Workshop, in which a group In the very early days students that Explore has uncovered over the of students would meet with three had told us that they learnt about past 18 years is that 9 out of 10 of the different couples for three sessions reproduction in biology - they knew young people have told us that they with each: three different couples to how to put a condom on a carrot. But expect to have a family of their own demonstrate that no two marriages where could they go to learn about one day (this despite all the negativity were the same; and three sessions respect, trust, patience, forgiveness about family breakdown in the media because the process was so radically and above all, love - the elements week in and week out). Herein we different to what normally took place that are so vital in forging a lasting believe lies genuine hope for the in the classroom. relationship? Personal, Social and future. Health Education was part of the These early trial workshops were Explore does not teach and does not National Curriculum and included voted a great success by the students give lectures on how to succeed in sex and relationship education, and, with the help of some willing marriage. Our conviction, however, but, whereas any half-competent volunteers, the product was launched is that as a result of the dialogues the nurse could talk about sex, most on the market. Over the next four students have had with our couples schools found relationships a bridge years, the number of client schools they will take away with them a too far. This is the niche that SEM slowly increased. But in 2000 came degree of hope that they in turn will (now renamed Explore) seeks to fill: a major blow when Government be able to have a family of their own the students in their reactions to introduced Curriculum 2000. Both one day in the context of a lasting Explore’s workshops invariably give schools and students said it would be relationship. Sadly, as many in this them an approval rating in the order impossible to afford the time that the country will be aware, our basic of 90-95%. What they value above all 12-week workshop required. building block is under enormous else is the couples’ honesty! In these pressure. As one of Explore’s patrons, The year 2000 was a momentous year, past 18 years, we have been hugely the Rt Revd Paul Butler Bishop of for not only did Students Exploring grateful to over 200 volunteer couples, Durham, put it at Explore’s 18th Marriage, as it was then called, have who have been willing to share the birthday celebration at the House to devise an entirely new product but stories of their married lives. of Lords recently: ‘The family as we the trustees decided that it should In addition to our couples, Explore have known it is in the midst of great become a registered charity. A new has employed over 100 volunteer change. The course we as a society are product that was devised, the Half- facilitators, who have helped students now on threatens not only to change Day Conference: the methodology get the most out of their dialogues. the structure of the family unit but was the same, but the whole process to move away from the stability and was compressed into half a day. Of the numerous organisations security we have traditionally valued.’ that are engaged in the business of So now, 18 years on, what relationship education, Explore is If you would like to learn more, please conclusions can be drawn? unique in being the only one that contact [email protected] Over 100,000 young people have interacts with the students face to Vox Senum

‘Algebra Wars’ (TS127) by Winchester, Marlborough and, trains somewhere at 5.30 in the Snippets from voluminous correspondence: I think, Charterhouse – a lot of the morning. ‘It’s not a scheduled stop,’ Robin Brodhurst: equations used distances between John told me, ‘but it will stop as the Godalming, Guildford and other drivers change there!’ Sure enough it I enormously enjoyed the article by towns around Charterhouse! John did stop. Nick MacKinnon. I was lucky enough Manisty was legendary for his railway to be at Marlborough when SMP knowledge: I recall him organising a Why was Harry Altham in Berlin in was being written and I suspect that, journey for me from a school climbing 1936 at the Olympic Games? He was although the impetus came from trip in the Austrian Alps to meet my determined to see Sydney Wooderson Win Coll, it was jointly developed family on the Loire. I had to change run there, but he injured his ankle

17 No.128 The Trusty Servant and did not qualify for the 1500 able to show written proof to my wife up an athletics match in my final final. Was it also part of the wider and children! summer term. (In the Winchester education for pupils which he so Steeplechase I had a cramp, and thoroughly espoused? John Woolmer (Co Ro, 63-75): The misjudged the gap I had to catch highly entertaining ‘Algebra Wars’ up, and so only came third.) But I Hew Bruce-Gardyne (K, 84-89): I had rather fails to do justice to the serious did also run cross-country, and kept cause to recruit a handful of PhD success of the School Mathematics running until about ten years ago astrophysicists a couple of years ago. Project. Its real heroes (from a Win when a knee had to be replaced. (I’m I gave them them Q8, complete with Coll standpoint) were Sir Desmond now recovering from the operation instructions that it be solved quickly Lee (Informator) and Tom Jones on my second knee.) I carried on and without calculator, and they were (long-time head of Mathmā) who, running at Oxford with the Tortoises, flummoxed. circa 1961, with seven other schools, and basking in Bannister glory in took the enormous risk of helping to I strongly believe that the truly the summer of 1957 we challenged launch SMP. Win Coll was producing Cambridge to a road race. They great thing about Win Coll was that many top-class mathematicians it could set such apparently – to refused, so we decided to run the and any change of emphasis in its 880 miles from Land’s End to John the outside world – absurdly high teaching was fraught with dangers. standards. Cocooned within the O’Groats instead. We did it in 105 SMP was a bold undertaking, seeking hours, thereby setting a world record. bubble, we were unaware that said to change the way that Mathmā was standards were absurdly high, so Last year I attended the Oxford- taught and understood. The Times Cambridge athletics match, and was just set about trying to attain them. th (Nov 20 , 2014) extolled the virtue of hosted by the Oxford second string I was blissfully unaware that any SMP while lamenting the decline in such war was raging through the for the 800. We discovered that our the standards of current British text personal bests were only two seconds Mathmā Department, but we were books. I rest my case. undoubtedly the better for it. apart. Not bad when I was running ‘Bogling for Ekker’ (TS127) half miles, 8 yards further than 800 Luke Dolman (C, 85-88): I have, for Hubert Montagu-Pollock (Coll, 48-53): metres, and of course, on cinder years, attempted to describe Funky’s On reading Ian Alexander’s article, with those hideous long spikes! The mannerisms, general appearance it occurred to me that the correct 2018 first string was quite a lot faster. and eccentricities to friends and spelling of the word that is indeed I was only mediocre at Oxford. But, family, mostly, it must be said, to pronounced as ‘Bogle’ is in fact apart from Bannister, Oxford middle polite indulgence. However, this ‘Bogwheel’. I enjoyed his evocation distance then was very strong, and we indulgence has verged on outright of cycling freedom up in the chalk did have the world-record holder for scepticism whenever I have described downs, which brought back memories the half mile at the time. the occasion on which he fell out of a of trips to chat to itinerant charcoal- window. I cannot remember for sure Leo’s account of his world-record run, burners near Farley Mount and of written for the Oxford Alumni online why it was open, or who opened it, long rides to small dusty hot churches but I have a hazy recollection that it magazine, can be found at www. in remote parts of Hampshire, the wincollsoc.org. was a prank. Funky used to sit folded purpose of these being the ringing completely inside the window frame of bells, once my friend Maurice Monty Rendall with his back against one side and his Keen had managed to get in touch Max Rendall (I, 47-52): I was amused to feet up on the sill pressed against the with the various vicars and get their see Monty Rendall’s radio at Butley other. On this occasion, he leaned permission. Fortunately for bogling, Priory (TS126). In the late 1940s my back against empty space and fell the amount of motor traffic was family went to live at Butley with my – my memory is he fell incredibly minuscule even if we had to use the great uncle, who was in failing health. slowly – backwards with hardly a hint odd stretch of A road, as this was a I may be able to shed some light on of flailing before hitting the ground couple of decades before Ian’s time. the meaning of the Greek inscription, outside. This would have been How much long-distance bogling at as I am virtually certain that it said enough to create the legend but it Win Coll is there now? ‘The voice of the ether’. He was was cemented when he simply got up, much given to quotations – usually in walked back through the passageway ‘Tolling: the Golden Years’ (TS127) Greek. and carried on with the lesson, as if Leo Aylen (Coll, 47-53): I was Prefect nothing had happened. You can only of Hall and Captain of Athletics at imagine my delight at finally being Winchester, and I did manage to set

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Do Co Ro: Ave atque Vale Canterbury), Tom Quayle (English, Achievements: Sporting In addition to those mentioned in from Magdalen College School), Lords achieved their best season in May’s edition, Adrian Adlam (A, Catherine McNally (Gordon Fellow, the last decade, with 13 wins and a 79-81; Music, since 1999) left at the JP Div and Classics, from studying at draw from their 20 fixtures, including end of Cloister Time to focus on his University of Pennsylvania), Adam a very satisfying win against Eton. musical career, particulary as artistic Rattray (Head of Art History, from Yearlings A also had a fine summer, director of the International Freden Wellington), Nick Thorpe (Head of winning 11 of their 13 games, with Music Festival. We also said goodbye Mathematics, from Bradfield), James star batsman Wilf La Fontaine to Eva Ridout (German, since 2003, Toll (Head of Strings, from Royal Jackson (B) averaging 198. Northern College of Music) and James retired) and Martina Fitzgerald Joseph Oluwabusola (C) is at the time (Moberly Librarian since 2005). Westwell (Junior Fellow, Music, from studying at the Guildhall School of of writing representing Nigeria in the During Short Half, Revd Dr Simon Music and Drama). Dr Sarah Griffin Under-17 FIFA World Cup. Thorn (D, 79-84; Chaplain since 2015) has also joined as Junior Curator. In left to take up a post at the University January Mark Burley will join us from Pavilioned in splendour Church in Oxford. Sarah Harden Canford as Director of Sport. (Classics, since 2013) also departed for Elaborate Meccano sets have been Oxford University to become Senior Achievements: Academic springing up around the campus over the last few months. Instructor in Latin and Ancient Richard Danylyuk (Coll) was part Greek. Stephen Anderson wrote her of the gold-medal-winning UK College Hall (below left) had its the following verses: Chemistry Olympiad team. Max century-old 40-tonne lead roof Wiccamicos olim pueros summa arte Wong (F) won a silver medal as part removed, transported to Leicester for docebas of the UK’s Astrophysics Olympiad recasting, and restored to its position. iam grates nostras, docta puella, cape. team. Carson White (Coll) achieved The firm concerned were very pleased that only 15% of the weight needed to (Wykeham’s boys you’ve taught with the highest mark out of 10,000 be replaced with new metal. Best not highest art; competitors in the Cambridge to wonder where those 6 tonnes can Now with our thanks, o learned girl, Chemistry Challenge, despite being a have gone after washing off the roof. depart.) year young for the competition. The middle section of the Michlā We offer a warm welcome to this half’s Dr Galliver (History) has written roof is also been replaced as the new dons: Hannes Buckow (MFL, a history of his former employer, renovation project there continues from studying at Bristol University), Ampleforth College (Gracewing). apace. And the temporary sports hall Dr William Guast (Classics, from Dr Cullerne, Dr French (both Physics) is rising on KP prior to the demolition teaching at Bristol University), and Om Kanchanasakdichai of the old PE Centre. Interested Dr Andrew Guerriero (Biology, from (H, 13-18) have published two articles readers can find out more about that Farnborough Sixth Form College), in Physics Education: ‘Iterative calculus project at www.winchestercollege.org/ Ben Gould (Economics, from studying methods and the epidemiology of southern-campus-development. at Durham University), Dr Alex Eyam’ and ‘Numerical methods as an Latter (Head of English, from King’s introduction to calculus’.

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Outdoor classroom rabbits, a parrot named Hippolyta at people he disliked, which included The school has a wonderful new and a python), the latest edition dubs butcher’s boys and most of the men in outdoor classroom between the walls the page ‘bestiarium Wiccamicum’. College, who reciprocated his feelings. of Meads and Logie. It is named in He used also to howl at Chapel College animals have a long tradition honour of Cameron Bespolka (C, bells from some lair in the Warden’s at Winchester. The Wykehamist 11-13). Lodgings. He passed on, to the relief 610 (1921) mourns the death of the of all, c1920.’ His successor, another ‘Shake off dull sloth’ College dog, known officially as black Aberdeen terrier also called Mid-week Chapel services have been Roger but popularly as William of Roger and William of Wykeham, reformed. Rather than taking place Wykeham. He belonged to Miss Lucy was ‘young and disobedient’, and just before afternoon hours and Easton, College cook 1914-33. Stevens dead by c1923. Miss Easton’s third only being for JP and MP, they have in his Notions describes William of terrier, Donald, is immortalised in returned to their traditional early- Wykeham as ‘a gross, elongated, the Thule Chamber frieze, together morning slot and welcome pupils mangy and sulky Aberdeen... He used with his impressively stout owner. from each year group once a week. It to sit outside Trusty Sweater’s Hole in The position of College dog has been is hoped that rousing hymn choices indolence all day, stirring only to bark vacant since 2003. and pithy homilies will win over any recalcitrant congregants to the new arrangements. Bestiarium Wiccamicum In recent years Pictorial Roll has begun with a page entitled ‘cave canem’, taking primacy even over the grandees of Go Bo. To reflect the more eclectic menagerie more accurately (44 dogs, three cats, two

Old Wykehamist News

Academic Medical School from July 2020 Independent Governor. Prof AM Gazzard (A, 82-87) has onwards. He founded AlphaZodiac, a Dr KK Yu (B, 94-99) has been taken up a Chair as UCL Professor of medical advisory company, 2016 for appointed neurosurgical oncology Ophthalmology (Glaucoma Studies), which he was recently nominated for fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering awarded in part for his recent six- the Sydney Entrepreneur of the year Hospital in New York City. award 2019. year study that, after publication in Viscount Younger of Leckie (F, The Lancet, he hopes will change how Appointments 69-74) has been appointed Under glaucoma is treated across the world. Hon JW Roskill (E, 63-69) has Secretary of State at the Department RMP Hughes (K, 70-74) was recently been an Independent Governor of Housing, Communities and Local awarded an Hon LLD (Doctor of of the Conservatoire for Dance Government. Laws Honoris Causa) by Exeter and Drama since July 2013. The University after serving nine years Conservatoire is one of a number of Business as a Pro-Chancellor within a total world-leading conservatoires and is GH Howard (D, 70-75) featured in of 12 years on Exeter University’s a charitable body of six schools in a weekend Financial Times article in Governing Body as an independent the United Kingdom which provides August ‘So you think you could run member. specialist vocational training in a vineyard’, describing the ups and Dr D Tin (B, 94-99) will be assuming dance, drama and circus arts within downs of wine-making at his Giffords the position of a Fellow in Disaster higher education. He has now been Hall Estate in Suffolk. Medicine at BIDMC/ Harvard appointed to the new role of Senior www.giffordshall.co.uk.

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Books published; ISBN: 978-1094660547. Peter Stevens OWs are encouraged to inform us [email protected] (D, 53-58) has of all their publications. We are of produced Christianity course particularly interested in those CFS Seaford (Coll, and Religion for of a biographical nature which include 71-74) has written the Layman. This reminiscences of the Why Capitalists Need little book has four school and life at Win Communists: the general aims. The Coll. Politics of Flourishing, first is to show the an account of how thinking agnostic J Berry (F, 59-63) has capitalism can be that there is a God and there is a written Reverting to reformed to create life after this one. The second is Type, Recollections a sustainable and to demonstrate to regular church- of the Compton Press less unequal society, and which has goers who have a belief in God that 1968-1980. The attracted praise from both left and scientific progress means that the Compton Press was, right. Palgrave Macmillan; world may not always be exactly like much of the 1960s, a happening. ISBN: 978-33199875. as the Bible describes. The third is It began, not with a grand design, but to show that religion and science with a passion for letterpress printing. KD Simpson-Giles need not be that far apart, and that This passion was very infectious, (K, 86-91) has written it is possible to bring the two sides and people were drawn to the mix of a book on Russia, closer together. The fourth aim is to compositors, machine-minders, proof- entitled Moscow readers, editors, and typographers Rules: What Drives encourage people to listen to other initially based in a converted cowshed Russia to Confront opinions that may be markedly and coach house in Compton the West. He draws different from their own. Privately published; ISBN: 978-1095351680. Chamberlayne, Wiltshire. on historical and [email protected]. Lulu publishers; current sources to ISBN: 978-0244143213. argue for a new approach to dealing with the country in order to avoid Sport PGTW Fiennes ever-deeper crises. The cover price (D, 76-81) has written Golf of £27.95 can be offset slightly by a Footnotes: A Journey Five Kennyites, vintage 1955-57, discount available to OWs; contact Round Britain in the met at the NZ Golf Club on 8th July [email protected]. Company of Great for their fourth annual meeting, Chatham House; Writers following hosted and organised by David in the footsteps of ISBN: 978-0815735748. Durnford-Slater. Others present were John Vintcent, Ray Freshfield, writers, spiritualists, Like many people, Rob Ballantyne & Noel Dobbs. economists, farmers, ARW Smithers (D, In addition, the annual reunion churchmen and artists from the 11th 51-55) is concerned Kennyite lunch took place on century to the 20th. Traversing past about the decline and present, he searches for signs Tuesday 15th October at Brooks’, in the reputation of hosted by Andrew Smithers: there of what his absent guides once saw liberal democracy and, through their words, opens were 13 of us with a further two in the developed a new way of seeing what is there having had to cancel because of the world. The cause has today. It is a mesmerising quest to protests. Numbers were made up by been poor economic picture these isles anew. Oneworld Andrew’s teddy! management, resulting in the financial Publications; ISBN: crisis and subsequent weak growth. 978-1786076298. Rackets In Productivity and the Bonus Culture Will Morse (K, 01-06) reports: From Paul Robertshaw he shows that poor productivity is Stokes’s heroics to Pettersen’s putt has written a wide- due to weak investment, caused by there have been numerous moments ranging collection of the perverse incentives of modern of sporting magic sprinkled upon us short stories, A dish management remuneration, and this this year, but (perhaps) one of the best served cold and dates from well before the financial most remarkable was delivered in the other stories. Privately crisis. OUP; ISBN: 978-0198836117. dying embers of summer.

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The Noel Bruce – one of the world’s opportunity, to end nearly 85 years of was won on both days by the Darley premier rackets competitions – was breaking strings and frames in vain. brothers. 30 sat round the table for co-founded by EB Noel (E, 1892-98), dinner at RYS, including Brigadier 1907 Amateur Rackets Champion, Many congratulations to Christian Nick Nottingham and his wife Sue, and more uniquely 1908 Olympic & Mike and thanks to all those who John and Jenny Woodman and Tara gold medallist for rackets. Despite have supported and continue to Onslow, all parents of Wykehamists. the Wykehamical connection to the support the wonderful game. Play! There are two events in quick coveted trophy, Winchester has only WSC won the Noel Bruce on one previous succession in the autumn, the Sir David Anderson (Coll, 69-74) reports: Reggie Bennett event at Seaview occasion in 1935, courtesy of Messrs OW sailing started with victory in the N McCaskie (C, 25-29) and JT Faber and the Arrow trophy. The Seaview Belvidere trophy in early April. The th th (H, 30-35). weekend on 14 /15 September was OW team of Alastair Hall (D, 95-00), a very happy event. OWs beat the This year the OWs provided four Charlie Somerset (G, 94-99), Tom school, OWs beat Old Radleians and robust pairs, among them the dazzling Clementi (K, 92-97) and Ed Knight (G, Winchester beat Radley. duo of Mike Bailey (A, 00-05) and 98-03) mounted a successful defence Christian Portz (H, 05-10), attempting of the Belvidere Cup on Saturday A month later 11 OWs were in Cowes th to defy the history books. The self- 6 April in the RTYC J80s at Queen for the Arrow trophy to sail against styled ‘doubles specialists’ had plenty Mary reservoir. Our victory marks 25 other schools in Sunsail boats. th of pedigree with Christian (World the fifth from six attempts in 2014-19 The crossing to Cowes on Friday 11 Doubles Champion 2015, British (with a blip in 2015 when we were October was very breezy. Saturday’s Open Doubles & four consecutive DNC) for this squad. Alastair Hall fleet racing was in very light airs and US Amateur Doubles titles) and Mike is looking to pass on the baton for our boat won the day. We also won (British Amateur Doubles Champion, 2020 to a new skipper. Any volunteers the match racing on Sunday in strong British Open Finalist three times should please get in touch with winds and won the trophy which we & Clifton Cup) both familiar with Alastair or David Anderson. last won in 2015. Amusingly, the first race on the Saturday had Winchester competing at the business end of Our regular Cowes weekend in May proceedings. in first place and St Swithun’s, for boys in the school and OWs with entering the event for the first time, in yachts was enjoyed by all and light second. winds did not spoil some surprisingly close racing. Some entertaining racing

Christian Portz and Michael Bailey

They chiselled their way through the draw like a carefree first year in Mill - chopping up anyone and anything that lay before them; a formidable Cheltenham pair stood between them and glory and I’m delighted Seaview weekend: Jim Eynon, young Garton, Tom Clementi, Adam Jay with young Jay, to report that Winchester seized the David Anderson, Peter Hunter, Noel Dobbs. Robin Garton, Gordon Baker in front row

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the Arrow crew AGM and dinner will take place at for me! My son Jack is a professional 500 miles. I am carrying everything I the Royal Thames on Tuesday 26th film-maker. We have now finished need with me and camping wherever November. All WSC members are the film – it is light-hearted, seasoned possible. www.justgiving.com/ encouraged to come. We are always with some of the UK’s and indeed the fundraising/backontrack3peaks looking for others to join WSC. world’s top specialists in the field. Its Please contact the Commodore, main message is to encourage men David Anderson, david.anderson@ and their partners to talk about it epladvisory.co.uk or our secretary and to live as well as possible while Claire Webster [email protected] recovering from such a diagnosis. Early diagnosis equals best chance Tolling of full recovery. Any worrying signs, Henry Morris (Coll, 85-90) reports: your GP is the first port of call. To Despite never previously running a view the film please email chalonerc@ marathon, I was persuaded to enter gmail.com. the 115km ultra-marathon ‘The Wall’, approximately parallel to Hadrian’s th th Wall. Over 15 /16 June 2019, Alasdair Robertson (F, 07-12) describes a much to my surprise, I completed the challenge he is about to undertake: Three ‘Expert’ event in 23 hours 31 mins 46 years ago, a miscommunication with secs, beating over a third of the field my climbing partner resulted in me of 734. I wish I had done more tolling falling 40 feet down the Avon Gorge On 26th June a plaque was unveiled at school! ratracethewall.co.uk and breaking my back and both feet. by English Heritage at 21 Portland Obiter dicta Despite shards of bone poking into Place, Marylebone in memory of Sir my spinal column, my central nervous Arthur Pearson (D, 1880-84), founder Chaloner Chute (E, 62-67) reports: A system was undamaged. I had to of The Daily Express and The Blinded heads up to all OWs. Following a spend a couple of months consigned Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee, career in education and managing to a bed or a wheelchair, during which later renamed St Dunstan’s and now community projects here and I gained a little bit of perspective known as Blind Veterans UK). overseas, I was diagnosed in 2015 with on how hard life is for sufferers of prostate cancer – one in eight men spinal damage. Having had time to get it, and 11,000 die each year – and recover, I was keen to raise money I resolved to make a documentary for Spinal Research so that in future film about it: the first ever by a more people are able to be healed. To patient on the journey; perhaps my that end, I am hiking from Snowdon, last community project and a first via Scafell Pike, to Ben Nevis - nearly

23 No.128 The Trusty Servant Obituary

We write obituaries for all Old Wykehamists University, where his love of History Served on Council of the National and it would be invaluable to us if OWs took root. He came to Winchester in Youth Orchestra and was Foundation were to send us some notes about their life, 1965, acting as the College Archivist President, Music Masters and Mistresses covering a little bit more than appears in the and teaching History: his tutorials are Association. Published Beethoven’s Winchester College Register. These should remembered by many. He started Bridge Chamber Music in Context 2010. Married be addressed to: The Obituarist, Winchester Society and presided over the players 1955 Alison Maude, who survives him College Society, 73 Kingsgate Street, with Tarpa his long-haired retriever, together with 3 sons and a daughter. See Winchester, SO23 9PE. tea and jaffa cakes in Meadow House. Nick Wilks’ appreciation above. House Tutor of Chawker’s. Founded Sen Patrick Stanley Winton King Maclure Matthew Gavin Armstrong (I, 52-57; Secretary of Wykehamist Club, which played against local villages. (Co Ro, 98-03): died 11.8.2019. Hutton Society, 88-04; Aide to the Warden and He resigned as Archivist because he GS, New Coll, MA Medieval and Headmaster, 04-14): died 28.9.2019. deplored the decision to sell the Malory Modern languages, PGCE; Birkbeck Brother of JRSM (I, 47-52), uncle of JMM Manuscript: he objected to the way the College London, MA in Renaissance (K, 79-83), TSM (K, 81-86), GSM (K, decision had been made, the reasoning Studies and BA in English Literature. 83-88) and SPIM (K, 88-91). Co Prae, VI; behind the decision, and the price. Teacher at Lancing 1994-97. Business KRRC (later 2nd Green Jackets) 1958-60, He moved to Oxford and was Bowra Analyst McKinsey & Co 1997-98. Then 2 Lt N Ireland; assistant master, Horris Fellow at Wadham College 1981-82. He French, German and B-ladder div don Hill School 1960-78, also Bursar from took up the invitation to write about at Win Coll, tutor in Chawker’s, and 1965-78; Bursar, Downe House School Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, published MiC hockey, for whom Stretch Pot 1979-88; director, Astron Appointments as The King’s Cardinal, described as was named. After Win Coll, he was 1988-89; Secretary, Wykehamist the most important book on Tudor Head of English, Director of Studies Society 1988-2004; director, Friends of history. He spent the last 30 years of and Assistant Headmaster External Winchester College 1989-2004, Aide his life in south-west France, where he Relations at Charterhouse 2003-13 to Warden and Headmaster 2004-14. enjoyed gardening. He was an historian, and then Headmaster, The King’s Founding member Albert Gordon gardener, teacher and a canny cricketer, School Worcester from 2013. Matthew’s Sports Fund Committee 2008, member a friend to young and old alike. A tribute vision was to ensure that pupils left Win Coll Lands Committee 2009-17, to his time as Archivist appeared in The King’s curious about the world, excited treasurer, OWCC 1986-2004; member Wykehamist 1250 in 1976. to learn and able to adapt to future MCC Finance Committee 1989-99 and Angus James Watson (Master of Music, changes. Member of the Worcester Estates Committee 1992-99; Griffiths 70-83): died 9.09.2019. Father of NJW Cathedral Council and a supporter of Working Party on structure of cricket (A, 72-76) and AJW (K, 74-78). Born in the clergy and choir. Died tragically 1993-94; and Appeals Committee, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. His after a climbing accident in Chamonix. Enham Trust, Andover 1995-2001; parents had been sent by the Church Uncompromising about education yet trustee, Altham Cricket Trust 1991- Missionary Society to work in hospitals easy-going, generous and loyal to his 2000, Crown & Manor Club 1992-2010, in Behai and Kunming, before finally friends, of which he made many. He will Brendoncare Foundation 1995-2013, returning to England in 1939. Studied be sorely missed by all who knew him. Ernest Cook Trust 2000-14, Royal Green at RCM 1950-1, under violinist Albert Married Catherine (Kate) Shuttleworth Jackets Museum 2004-14, St John’s Sammons, and also conducting with in March 2007, who survives him. Winchester Educational Charity 2006- Sir Adrian Boult. Music scholarship to Elaine Robinson, née Outhwaite 09, Christ’s Hospital School Foundation Magdalene College, 1951-54. MA, MusB, (Co Ro, 00-07): died 3.9.2019. Educated (Peter Symonds) since 2006; governor, President CU Music Club. Director of West Kirby Girls’ Grammar School. Horris Hill School 2002-14; joint editor, Music at Stowe School 1960-70. Master Bangor University College of North Win Coll Register (7th edition). A loyal of Music and Director Winchester Music Wales (1964-67) BA Psychology. Worked servant of the school and a good friend Club 1970-83. First Dean of the School as Clinical Psychologist 1967-70 in and mentor to all at Win Coll Soc. See of Music, Hong Kong Academy for hospitals and for the Dyslexia Institute Charles Sinclair’s appreciation above. Performing Arts 1984-89. Director of including teaching in HM Prison in Peter John Gwyn (Co Ro, 65-76): died Music at Wells Cathedral School 1990- Winchester and Sparsholt College. In 27.3.2019. Born in India where his father 94. Since retirement, an examiner for the the early 1990s she was asked by James was Headmaster of Aitchison College; Associated Board of the Royal Schools Sabben-Clare to assess and teach boys educated at Peter Symonds and Bristol of Music, with extensive tours abroad. with specific learning difficulties. This

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she did privately at first before becoming the first time in decades the procurement UCL 1987. KCVO 1990. He was a a key staff member of the new Learning budget was underspent, thanks to member of the Surgical 60 Travelling Support Department until she retired. his diligent management. Appointed Club, whose visits included Jordan, Her interests were walking, painting and KCB in 1977 and GBE in 1980. On Dublin, India and Nepal. He gave the singing. She was calm, kind, patient, retirement he was quickly recruited as Vicary Lecture – ‘Sergeant Surgeon and a very good listener: qualities Warden by St George’s House, Windsor, to the Crown’. He joined the Barbers’ which made her a first-class teacher a conference centre bringing together Company in 1984, Master 1991. He and and which helped students to believe in leadership from all walks of life. 1982, his wife set up a farming partnership in themselves and their potential. Married member of the Security Commission; the late 80s and had a passion for opera, Geoffrey Robinson (Co Ro, 76-07), who 1986 director of the Council for Arms growing vegetables and playing croquet. survives her, along with their son and 2 Control; Chief Royal Engineer 1983- Married 1951 Joan Wheelbright who daughters. 86; Vice Lord Lieutenant of Greater died in 2015 after 64 years of marriage. London 1981-87. Having learnt to He is survived by their two sons and two William Gerald Hugh Beach sail, he did so in challenging seas. His (G, 36-41): died 4.9.2019. Father of DHB daughters. Gay Gallant V Hustler 35 survived the (G, 67-71). 2nd in Special Army Exam. disastrous Fastnet race of 1979 when John Alastair Mackenzie Pitcairn Commissioned into the Royal Engineers 23 of the 303 yachts were lost and 15 (F, 39-43): died 9.5.2019. Brother of 1942, landing in Normandy on D+6. people drowned. A soldier known for ACPP (F, 42-46) and father of AGMP (F, He was ordered to clear a road of mines his brilliant intellect, who was a radical 65-70), AJP (F, 68-72) and DJP (F, 73-78). and after he had reported that all was reformer of the reserve forces and a He joined the RNVR and found himself clear, the leading transport struck a longstanding opponent of Trident. commanding an MTB in the English mine. He climbed on board the next Married 1951 Estelle Henry (died 1989). Channel aged just 18. He later served vehicle and sat on the mudguard. Later He is survived by their three sons and off the Normandy coast, Singapore and in Belgium whilst on a reconnaissance a daughter. Obituaries in The Times and Sumatra. Mentioned in Despatches. He of a bridge he was severely wounded, Daily Telegraph. was demobbed in 1946 and first worked but he insisted on sending a full report, with Orient Steam Navigation Company which enabled the bridge to be captured. William Willatt Slack (D, 38-43): 1948-51 and later joined Trinder He was awarded an immediate MC. died 28.3.2019. Brother of TWS Anderson & Co, shipbrokers 1951-63. On his way to the field medical station (D, 41-46) and father of RWTS A family trust allowed him to set up the he met his contemporary in Phil’s, (A, 66-71). Co Prae, VI and Soccer Potter-Pitcairn Partnership and he set up Michael Barstow (G, 34-39) who said, XI. After a short time with the Rifle a farming project with farms at Teffont, ‘Keep your pecker up!’ He was told by Brigade he went to study Medicine at Snoddington Manor near Andover the doctors that he would never have New College, Oxford; OU Soccer XI and Eddington near Hungerford. children – as it happens his son and 1945, MA 1950. He was a member of He created a very early model of the Michael’s son were exact contemporaries the winning Arthur Dunn Cup sides in efficient farming community seen today. in Phil’s! Scholarship to Peterhouse 1948 and 1950 along with his brother He became involved with Afghan 1947, 1 Mechanical Science 1949, MA and Brian Trubshaw. He continued his Aid, of which he became Chairman. 1960. CO 4 Field Squadron, in BAOR; medical training at Middlesex Hospital, He was proud of the work they did in DAA&QMG 24 Brigade in Kenya; and BM 1950, FRCS 1955. Fulbright rebuilding agricultural infrastructure Commandant, Cambridge University Fellowship 1960. He continued his in Afghanistan after the Russians had OTC, where under his stewardship successful career as a surgeon with the left. He suffered a stroke which left him some of the brightest young men of their Middlesex Hospital 1962-90. Consultant with severe dysphasia and Universal generation joined the Army. While in Surgeon, King Edward VII Hospital Aunts provided a series of wonderful the Army Staff Duties department he for Officers 1974-90. He was appointed carers. Married 1949 Jane Potter, who was responsible for the controversial Surgeon to HM The Queen in 1974 died in 2004 after 55 years of marriage. reform and reduction of the TA. OBE whereupon his students changed their He is survived by their two sons and a th 1966. Commanded 12 Infantry Brigade, name badges to read ‘Medical Students daughter. followed by a Defence Fellowship at to HM The Queen’. Sergeant Surgeon Edinburgh University. His lectures while to HM The Queen 1982-90. He was Peter Joscelyn Everett (Coll, 39-43): died he was Commandant of the Staff College Dean, Middlesex Hospital Medical 24.03.2019. He was a member of the are still remembered for their wit and School 1983-87 and subsequently Dean school’s Home Guard and he worked erudition. Commander UKLF and then of the combined University College on summer harvest camps for three promoted General in 1977 to be the and Middlesex Medical School of years. Sen Cap Prae. He suffered poor Master General of the Ordnance, where Medicine 1987-90, which became one of eyesight and to pass entry to the Navy he made his most valuable contribution the most prestigious Medical Academic he learnt the eye chart and recited it to Army policy on the Army Board: for Institutions in the UK. Honorary Fellow perfectly. Special Entry, Royal Navy

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1943. He served in the British Channel Cambridge University Relay Team creamware and a wonderful collection and the East Indies during the war. 1949-51, Half Blue for Athletics 1951. of silver. Generous supporter of First prize for Navigation 1947; Ronald Westcott House 1955. Ordained 1957. educational and arts charities. Married Megar Sword for the highest aggregate He first became Curate, St Michael’s (1) Rosemary 1955; (2) 1997 Ninette score on the Sub Lieutenant’s Course; Flixton followed by Chaplain, St Hewitt, who survives him with his son, Long Gunnery Course, HMS Excellent Mary’s Woolwich and Vicar of St John, daughter, stepson and stepdaughter. 1951. Acting Captain of HMS Triumph, Hurst. He then took a break from John James Hiam Wilson (A, 44-48): the last aircraft carrier to serve in the the priesthood and became Head of died 30.5.2019. Brother of PGHW (A, Far East. He was training commander, Cambridge House, Camberwell 1969- 47-52) and grandfather of HAHW Sea Cadets, from 1973. OBE 1976. On 76 where he oversaw the expansion of who came to Winchester in 2016. Co retirement he was General Secretary, the Legal Aid, set up youth clubs and led Prae; Natural History Prize. National Sea Cadets Association 1979-91 and first a very hard-working team to improve Service with 4/7 Royal Dragoon Deputy Chief Scout. He became heavily social justice in inner London. He then Guards, with whom he served in Tripoli, involved in local activities including became Rector of St Peter and St Paul, Libya. St John’s College, Cambridge, running the Long Crendon Royal Shepton Mallet, where he took open 3 Agriculture. Cambridge University British Poppy Appeal. He had retired air services from a double decker bus at Squash team. He pursued a career in to Buckinghamshire, as far from the sea a small festival called Glastonbury! He farming, starting in Pembrokshire to as one can get, so he pursued a new life was then Conduct and Senior Chaplain gain practical experience before joining boating on Britain’s canals. He bought a at Eton College 1982-87, where his legacy the family farming business, Frederick narrow-boat hull and fitted it up entirely of pastoral care remains. And finally in Hiam Ltd. He continued his interest himself. He retired from boating life aged 1987 he was Rector of the Hambledon in ornithology and was on the RSPB 90 as President, Aylesbury Vale Canal Valley of churches where he fought National Reserves Committee. Served Society. He introduced marmalade- tooth and nail for the development of on Middle Fen and Burnt Fen drainage making to Poland, Romania and Greece. a holiday centre for inner-city children. boards in the Ely group; on the Great He had strength of purpose, eternal From there he retired to north Norfolk, Ouse Flood Defence Committee; the optimism and immense loyalty. In 1951 where he spent many happy hours on cereals and game birds project of the he married Penelope Stapleton, who died the golf course. He is survived by Janette, Game Conservancy Trust; and Suffolk after 62 years of marriage. He is survived his wife of 58 years, and their three Farming and Wildlife Group. Appointed by their two daughters. daughters and a son. OBE in 1988 for his work in wildlife Nigel Bingham Egerton Helme (F, 39-43): George Derek Lawrence Moulds conservation. Survived by Jane, his wife died 13.9.2017. Brother of DCEH (F, (K, 42-42): died in 3.2.2019. He was a day of 55 years, and their son. 34-39). He went to South Africa in 1940 boy and he left early. He later studied Robin Miller Mangles (G, 44-49): but returned to Winchester in 1942. He science at Southampton and London. died 18.6.2019. Son of CGM (G, 1899- won Senior Plunge and Senior Sprint John David Frederick Michael Thornton 1904), brother of JSM (G, 41-45) and in 1942; captain of Boxing in 1943; Co (D, 43-48): died 27.6.2019. Father of father of CLM (G, 74-79) and RMLM Prae. He read a paper on the wildlife RMT (H, 71-76). Co Prae, Paget Bat 1945, (G, 78-83). VI and Bisley. RMAS 1949. of South Africa to the Natural History Lords 1946-47, VI 1946-47, Soccer XI He was commissioned into the Royal En- Society in 1943. He served with the 1948, Captain of of Princes and Fives gineers 1950. He went to St John’s Col- Coldstream Guards 1944-47, retiring as a 1947. Winner of Public Schools Rackets lege, Cambridge to study Engineering. captain. Christ Church, Oxford 1947, 2 Pairs at Queen’s 1947. Duberley Prize He served with the Royal Engineers in Modern Languages (Russian), BA 1950. 1948. National Service with Coldstream Kenya, Malaya, Hong Kong, Borneo and He first worked as a Civil Assistant in Guards serving in Malaya 1948-50. Singapore. He joined the Ordnance Sur- the War Office 1950-59. He then returned When on patrol he shot a local village’s vey 1962 and was an instructor at Royal to South Africa and worked for Rand prize pig, mistaking it for an insurgent; School of Military Survey at Hermitage, Mines from 1959, and was New Projects unsurprisingly there was a hostile Newbury. He retired as a Major 1966. Analyst, South Africa Mining House. reaction. Mentioned in Despatches. He bought a farm in Somerset, farming He is survived by Evelyn, his wife of 56 He then worked with Tanks & Drums beef cattle and pigs. Following a fire, he years. Industries Ltd, Bradford 1959-96, for switched to cider apples. He retired 1995. Paul Benington Bibby (A, 40-45): died whom he became Chairman and An artist from boyhood, painting in oils 25.2.2019. Brother of JAB (A, 37-42). Managing Director. OBE. Played cricket and watercolours. He learnt to sail as a Co Prae, Princes and Athlā Colours. for Yorkshire Gentlemen; supporter of boy and continued throughout his life. National Service with the Merchant Leeds United; travelled widely and had Married 1959 Mary Hodgson who died Navy 1945-47. Magdalene College, a propensity to collect objects: caddy 2013 after 54 years of marriage. He is Cambridge, 2 History BA 1951. spoons, grouse-butt markers, Leeds survived by their four sons.

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Ian Dudley Teesdale (A, 44-49): of Canada: throughout his life he Chairman of Howard de Walden died 26.2.2019. Father of CJLT (A, 75- was a major supporter of Canadian Estates, director of Soditic Limited, 79). Special Entry, BRNC Dartmouth entrepreneurs. In 2012 he was awarded Advent Capital, Deltec and many other 1949. He first served on HMS Devonshire the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond companies; member of the International (Training Cruiser) 1950. He ran and Jubilee Medal for his contribution to Investments Committee of the United played squash for the Royal Navy. He the Financial Industry in Canada. He Nations Pension Fund, the Executive subsequently served with submarines continued to operate even though he Committee of the International during which time as navigating officer was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease Institute for Strategic Studies; trustee he steered his submarine into Soviet in his 70s. Later in life he was President, of the World Monuments Fund and waters by mistake, nearly causing an the Ticker Club of Canada. He loved The Sackler Trust; founder member of international incident. He then served fishing, canoeing, skiing and shooting. Win Coll’s Al Gordon Sports Fund; with the Fishery Protection Fleet. He He is survived by Susanna, his wife of and supporter of many other charities. was Assistant Defence Advisor, British 61 years, and their two sons and three Sir David Scholey, ex- Chairman of High Commission Kuala Lumpur 1964. daughters. Warburgs, was quoted in the FT saying, He then served in HMS Maidstone and ‘He never stopped giving money away HMS Terror, RN Barracks Singapore. John Richard Seymour Besly to charity, but very quietly.’ Author of He retired from the Royal Navy as Lt- (H, 45-49): died 25.09.19. Son of EFWB City Cinderella, The Life and Times of Commander 1976. He then trained as a (Coll, 1905-10) and father of ATB (H, probation officer and was a member of 76-81). 2 Lt Gren Gds 1950, regular Mercury Asset Management, 1999 and the Berkshire Probation Service 1979-96. commission 1952. Served in Egypt 1950- Forgotten War–Remembering Korea, 2008. In 1985 he organised the Babcary Road 7; Capt; Staff, London,1958; Strategic He was a huge benefactor to Win Coll Race including the whole village, which Command 1961; Staff College 1963; Staff and a source of wisdom over many is still run to this day. He retired to HQ, AFCENT, 1964, Maj; BAOR 1967; years. Married (1) 1958, Candis Hitzig, Campbeltown where he was a passionate Liaison Officer, St Cyr, 1968; Second in New York; (2) 1970, Maureen O’Leary, gardener and kept a beautifully detailed Command 1 Grenadier Guards 1970; who died in 2015. Survived by his three garden diary. He was involved in the Commanded 2nd Battalion in Northern daughters. Obituaries in Daily Telegraph University of the Third Age, the Rotary Ireland 1974. After he left the Army he and Financial Times. See David Rosier’s and was treasurer of a community worked at British Heart Foundation as appreciation above. centre. A lifelong runner and walker. Director of Fundraising, and then at Married Jean Lindsay, who died 2016 Conservative Party HQ in Smith Square Timothy Boulton (B, 46-51): died after 56 years of marriage. He is survived until he retired to Aldeburgh in Suffolk 10.3.2019. VIII 1950-51, rowing in a by their son and two daughters. where his mother had lived for many dead heat with St Paul’s in the Princess years. He loved military history and Elizabeth Cup at Henley. National Charles (Chuck) Barnard Loewen opera as well as being able to recite vast Service, during which he served in (B, 45-50): died 16.3.2019. Captain of chunks of Stanley Holloway, Flanders the Malayan Emergency. Trinity Hall, fencing. University of British Columbia and Swan and old music-hall classics. Cambridge, 2.2 Law 1956. MA. LLM. He 1950-54, 1 Economics, BA; captain of Married (1) 1958 Dinah Priscilla Gore, qualified as a solicitor in 1960, working fencing; foil champion of the North who died 1987; (2) Virginia Walford. first for his family law firm and then for East. Harvard Business School, Business Survived by two sons and three Herbert Smith, for whom he was the Administration MBA. He first worked daughters from first marriage. conferencing expert. He later set up his as an investment dealer with SC own business, which he ran from his Pitfield, Mackay, Ross & Co Ltd, first Peter Michael Stormonth Darling flat in Lennox Gardens and became one in Montreal and then in New York and (C, 45-50): died 16.09.2019. Son of PSD of two Labour councillors in Chelsea Toronto, becoming Vice-President and (C, 1899-1904); brother of RASD (C, Director of Research. In 1970 he set up 40-44); half-brother of ASD (C, 29-30). and Kensington. His greatest legacy Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon & Co Lords 1949-50. 2 Lt Black Watch 1950; was the founding of the World’s End Ltd, the first independent research-based Korea 1952 where he commanded a Neighbourhood Advice Centre in 1982. institutional equity firm in Canada and platoon in the vicious second Battle of He retired in 1996. He was a member of the leading institutional brokerage firm the Hook. New College Oxford 1953, the Armourers and Brasiers Company; selling Canadian securities in Europe. Law, BA 1956, MA 1970; merchant the Middlesex Lodge; and was church He was President 1970-87 and Chairman banker in Toronto 1957-63, where he warden for St Simon Zelotes. His great 1987-92. Finally, he was Chairman, was picked up by Sir Siegmund Warburg; loves were Chopin, Morris Minors and Loewen & Partners 1992-2005. He in 1964 moved to SG Warburg; Vice- port – he prepared for a race by drinking was Governor of Vancouver and Chairman, SG Warburg Group PLC half a bottle of port the evening before. Toronto Stock Exchanges and Director, 1977-87; Chairman, Mercury Asset He was unfailingly kind, sensitive, gentle Investment Dealers Association Management Group PLC 1985-92; and generous. Survived by his sister.

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Simon Alexander Gourlay (K, 1947-52): moved to the Department of Agriculture appreciated when one of the witnesses, died 31.07.2019. Brother of TDG (K, and Fisheries at the Scottish Office, a member of the IRA, was later killed. 1942-46) and uncle of ADG (K, 1966- where he advised on harbour extensions In 1997 he was appointed OBE for 70) and NTG (K, 1968-72). 2Lt 16/5 on the Scottish coast and liaised with services to newspapers. Published 2006 Lancers 1954-5; Royal Agricultural fishermen on the preservation of stocks The Regicide’s widow about Lady Alice College but left after six weeks. In 1958 and the size of trawlers. On retirement, Lisle, the last woman to be beheaded started farming at Hill House Farm he became a director of MORI Research in 1685. He was a member of The on the English/Welsh border, first Ltd – concerned with economic strategies Garrick and church warden of St Giles rearing beef before turning his hand for sea-water fisheries. As a farmer he in the Fields. A legal manager who won to dairying and later free-range egg regularly produced high-quality malting several notable battles for press freedom. production. Vice President NFU 1982, barley. He was especially proud of Married (1) 1962 Agnes Rambaut (died Deputy President 1984, President 1986- his three daughters, who were highly 1986) and (2) 1993 Pat Thompson Blair, 91. Among the issues he was called to successful in their fields of journalism, who survives him with his three sons deal with during his time at the helm political campaigning and fine art and and two daughters. was the 1988 poultry-industry crisis, photography. Married 1973 Charlotte David James (Coll, 47-52): sparked by comments by health minister Eastwood who survives him with their Thouless died 6.4.2019. He taught himself to read Edwina Currie about potential risks of three daughters. salmonella associated with eating eggs. and write and counted to 1,000 to see st A passionate moderniser whose reforms Andrew Walter Loraine Paterson how far counting went, aged four. 1 changed the NFU for the better and (A, 47-52): 10.2.2019. Father of HALP on 1947 Roll. Duncan and Richardson who displayed unwavering commitment (A, 82-86). He played golf at school and Prizes. His termly reports enthused to farmers. Director, Agricultural later for OWGS. Trinity College, Oxford over his progress in Mathematics, but Mortgage Corporation from 1991; 1953-56 2 PPE. After a brief spell as a were less complimentary about his Governor, Harper Adams Agricultural teacher he worked for Express Dairies, untidy presentation and handwriting. College 1992-99. Knighted 1990. An rising to become Managing Director Scholarship, Trinity Hall, College environmentalist, he passionately of the South East Division. In 1977 he Cambridge, 1 Natural Science pt 1, 1 wanted the UK to remain in the EU. He decided on a complete change of lifestyle, Physics pt 2. BA 1955. PhD Theoretical was an internationalist, antiwar and an setting up his own estate-agency business Physics at Cornel University. Physicist advocate for alternative energy. Married in Oxfordshire. He is survived by Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, (1) Sally Garman (dissolved); (2) Caroline Victoria, his wife of 54 years, and their Berkeley 1958-59. ICI Research Fellow Mary Clegg, who survives him together two sons and two daughters. Birmingham University 1959-61; with his four sons. Obituaries in Farmers founding Fellow, Churchill College, Antony Cowburn Whitaker (H, 47-52): Weekly and Guardian Cambridge 1960-65; Professor of died 26.3.2019. Son of ACW (Co Ro, 42- Mathematical Physics, Birmingham Walter Evelyn Fraser Oakeshott 69) and father of HWW (K, 76-81) and University 1965-77. He then went to the (F, 47-52): died 16.10.2018. Son of WFO SAW (K, 81-86). National Service with USA and was Professor of Physics at the (Co Ro, 31-38; HM, 46-54). Soccer XI 3rd Carabiniers, with whom he served University of Washington 1980-2003. and VI. National Service with the in BAOR 1952-54. Magdalen College, He won the Maxwell Prize in 1973; 13/18 Hussars, with whom he served in Oxford, 2 Law 1957. He was called to FRS in 1979; Wolf Prize for Physics in the Malayan Emergency. Scholarship, the Bar by Gray’s Inn 1958, serving as 1990; and the London Prize for Low Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 2 a barrister 1958-68. He was then legal Temperature Physics 1994. He was Lit Hum. He first worked as a trainee adviser, Daily Mirror Newspapers received Ad Portas in absentia in 2011 apprentice with Steele Peech and Tozer, 1968-72 and then for Times Newspapers when Fellows of the Royal Society and during which time he witnessed the 1972-2006. When The Sunday Times British Academy were honoured. He stoking of blast furnaces at close range wrote about a man who survived being won half of the Nobel Prize for Physics and he handled export contracts for steel swallowed by a python he took the case in 2016, for work resulting in an entirely strip for rail and railways. He then went and wrote, ‘I cannot accept that our new understanding of phase transitions, back to study at the University of East published summary was within miles regarded as one of the 20th century’s most Anglia, Economics MA 1968. He then of being defamatory with the possible important discoveries in the theory of joined the Civil Service as Economics exception of the python for its unbridled condensed-matter physics. Although Adviser, the Department of Trade and appetite and greed.’ He successfully suffering from dementia he was well Industry. With the discovery of North opposed the Cabinet Secretary’s attempt enough to enjoy every moment of the Sea Oil, he was closely involved with the to prevent The Sunday Times revealing Nobel week in Stockholm. Publications economics of gas-gathering pipe lines and Richard Crossman’s Diaries. During include Topological Quantum Numbers the calculation of what speed oil should a libel trial in Dublin he was supplied in Nonrelativistic Physics 1998. A Nobel or should not be extracted. He then with an armed bodyguard, which he laureate whose advances in physics were

28 No.128 The Trusty Servant compared to the discovery that the Earth Later he had advisory roles with the first marriage. Obituaries in The Times is round. He is survived by Margaret, his Prince’s Trust, helping young people and Daily Telegraph. wife of 60 years, and their two sons and into work, and Independent Age. He Richard Hugh Nicholson (G, 50- daughter. Obituaries in The Times, Daily hunted with the Fernie, of which he 54): died 23.5.2019. Son of Brigadier Telegraph and The Science Magazine. was chairman for 24 years. He won the Claude Nicholson (G, 1912-16), who last Ayrshire Yeomanry Point-to-Point commanded 30 Brigade at Calais in Peter Nicholas Breyfogle (C, 49-54): Cup in 1971. A collaborative man 1940 and who died as a POW. He was died 22.11.2018. Co Prae, Spanish who enjoyed bringing people together, commissioned in 1955 into the 16/5 Prize, VIII 1953-54 (President 1954). pouring oil on troubled waters and Queen’s Royal Lancers and retired as He was stroke of the VIII which won offering a calmer route. Married 1978 a Captain in 1960. He then worked as the Princess Elizabeth Cup at Henley Wendy Macmillan, who survives him Managing Director of J & W Nicholson in 1954. Trinity College, Cambridge, 3 with their son and three daughters. Mechanical Science BA 1957. Harvard & Co (distillers) 1970-82; Vice Chairman Business School MBA 1959. He first Hugh Edward Norton (F, 49-54): died and Managing Director Laurent Perrier worked as an accountant with Massey 11.8.2019. His father led the 1924 Everest Champagne 1983-97; Chairman, Green’s Ferguson Ltd 1959-78, for whom he Expedition on which Mallory and Irvine Restaurant 1985-99. Master, the Distillers was Executive Vice President Europe died. Brother of RPN (G, 39-40) and Company 2000. He loved all field sports, 1975-78, and then for Dome Petroleum WJEN (H, 46-51). Exhibitioner – 1st on especially grouse shooting, and collected 1979-82. He was then Senior Vice Roll. Latin Verse. National Service with porcelain and English watercolours. President, Finance and Administration, the Royal Horse Artillery, which he said Married Margaret Stockdale, who died Investcan Financial Corporation from was the most formative influence on his in 2008. He is survived by their son. life because he met such a wide variety 1982. He then became Chairman, Andrew Campbell (K, 51-56): of people. Scholarship, Trinity College, Gulland Corves, in China 1995-97 and finally died 9.3.2019. Winner Sen House IV. Oxford, 1 Lit Hum, BA 1959. In his final he was President, Aquaniele in Egypt National Service with 6 Royal Tank year as President, Trinity Players, he in 1998 before retiring in 2003. He Regiment 1956-58, with whom he had to draft in a Hamlet from another lived in Canada but returned to the served in Libya, where he looked after College when Trinity’s leading actor United Kingdom to celebrate the 60th hounds and became sea-sick in tanks. had been sent down on the eve of the anniversary of winning of the Princess He worked as a flour-milling engineer summer production. He joined BP in Elizabeth Cup. He is survived by Jo, his 1961-66, opening mills around the 1959 and enjoyed a long and successful wife of 52 years, and their son. world, and bringing them to success. career until 1995. He attended MECAS He then became a bookseller with David Charles Stewart (C, 49-55): in Beirut, Diploma 1965. In 1980 he William Collins and Classic Little died 28.5.2019. Son of AGS (C, 15-20) became director of BP International and Books, Canada. In 1990 he returned to and brother of JGS (C, 44-49) and ANS head-office policy adviser, concerned Spillers Milling Ltd, of which he became (C, 47-52) and father of JGS (I, 93-98). with the North Sea, North America and a director. He was Secretary, Bristol Exhibitioner, Duberley Prize and Sen the Arab world; in 1986 Chief Executive Corn & Feed Trade Association and a Co Prae. National Service, Royal Scots of BP Exploration; and in 1989 he Group member of the Employment Tribunal. Greys 1956-57 and continued to serve Managing Director until he retired from The great love of his life was fly fishing with the Ayrshire Yeomanry 1957-70. BP in 1995. He earned the reputation and he wrote a poem ‘The Evening Rise’ Scholarship, Trinity College, Cambridge, as ‘the consensual engineer’ because he in memory of his annual visits to fish at 2 Economics and 2.2 Law 1960. Whilst at was adept at bringing together people of Winchester. He also played the classic Cambridge he took part in an expedition different views and was responsible for guitar and composed music. Publication: to Kelat Y Nadiri, Iran in a Commer the ‘BP - Beyond Petroleum’ campaign. A Short History of the Bristol Corn and delivery van with sliding doors which After retiring from BP he joined the Trade Association 2002-2008. Married (1) aided air-conditioning as they drove boards of Standard Chartered Bank, June Whitehead (died 2014) and (2) 2015 through Yugoslavia, Turkey and Iran, Inchcape, Children’s Aid Direct and Pauline Luckwell, who survives him. and space for a hanging rail for dinner was a trustee of Shelter. Published jackets. He first worked for the family 2017 Norton of Everest, a biography of Martin Shaun Laing (D, 52-57). firm, Stewarts and Lloyds, which was his father. An all-round naturalist, he A determined Remainer, he died on nationalised in 1967. As Managing kept sheep and belonged to the village ‘Brexit Day’ 29.3.2019. Son of JAL (D, Director he led the employee-led buy-out choir. An oil-company executive who 26-30), brother of ABL (D, 53-58) and from British Steel in 1983. As Chief persuaded BP to adopt greener policies SPL (D, 60-65) and father of JAL (D, Executive of Victaulic he oversaw the in the face of climate change. Married 86-91). Following National Service with transition to a company with interests (1) 1965 Janet Johnson (died 1995) and (2) the Suffolk Regiment, with whom he around the world. In 1995 he oversaw 1998 Joy Harcup, who survives him with served in Cyprus, and an agricultural the take-over by Glynwed International. their son and daughter and a son of his studentship, he worked on the family

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farm, JA Laing and Son of Sporle, Alexander (Sandy) William Dawson (Hons) 1969, MSc Econometrics 1970. Norfolk. The farm mixed blackcurrants (Coll, 58-63): died 24.5.2019. VI 1961-63 He first worked for the Irish Tourist with traditional cereal and sugar beet (Captain), Soccer XI 1963, Fives Pair Board, Dublin 1970-79 and then for crops but it also cultivated daffodils and 1963. He published Caliban (later called Coopers & Lybrand, Dublin 1979-84. tulips; it was remarkable for exporting Ariel), a school summer magazine printed He then undertook various jobs within daffodil bulbs to Holland. Initially he on a treadle-operated printing press. academia, first as Senior Consultant, worked alongside his father, who died Exhibitioner, New College, Oxford. 2 University of Limerick 1984-93, then in 1983. He then managed the farm Jurisprudence 1967. Called to the Bar Chief Executive and Editor, Breaking single-handedly until retiring in 2012. He 1969; Barrister-at-Law 1971; Assistant the Mould, 1994-96. From 1996 to 2003 was noted for his long hours of physical Recorder of the Crown Court 1985; and he was an economic and management labour and he regularly lost more than Recorder from 1989. He practised on consultant and then economic a stone in weight during the harvest. He the Midland and Oxford circuit mainly consultant in Moscow, Kaliningrad in civil cases and built up an impressive was quiet, kind, thoughtful and generous and Belarus 2004. International High Court practice. He decided to stay with his time. 12 Kennyites attended Project Manager, UN Development with his friends at the Bar rather than Programme 2006. Economic business his funeral. Married 1971 Sue Kirkby, becoming a full-time judge. He bravely reporter and strategy advisor, Russia who survives him with their son and endured a lengthy rare debilitating Today Television 2007-11. Adviser to daughter. illness. Married 1978 Judith Rail, who Kaliningrad Regional Government Christopher Philip William Willcox survives him with their two daughters. from 2011. Married (1) Marie O’Neill (K, 53-59): died 9.6.2019. His grandfather, (marriage dissolved) and (2) 2003 Irina Alister Jason Borthwick (A, 59-64): Sir William Willcox was a poisons expert Rapanovich, who survives him died 11.9.2019. Son of J B (A, 23-28). whose evidence convicted Dr Crippen. He won the Public Schools Sailing George Anthony Ellis (F, 60-64): died Co Prae. After school he spent three trophy. Edinburgh University BSc Hons 28.5.2019. Son of JCHE (F, 27-32). 3rd months at the Sorbonne. Emmanuel Agriculture 1969 and was involved generation of Wykehamists, father to College, Cambridge, 2.2 Natural in student politics and the university son. Trinity College, Cambridge 1965- Sciences, followed by medical training rector elections, campaigning for 68. 2.2 Mechanical Science. He served at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington 62-65 Malcolm Muggeridge. Spent 10 years in the Royal Air Force 1968-80 and BChir, MB MA 1966. He first worked with RHM Agriculture supplying feed then became a test pilot for British as House Physician at King Edward and seed to farmers. In 1974 joined Aerospace 1980-94. Awarded Queen’s Hospital, Ealing; and then abroad for board of Whitburgh Investments, a Commendation for Valuable Service the government of Sabah, Malaysia, family investment company. Returned in the Air 1981. For some time he flew where he was the sole doctor in a 500 to Norfolk in 1979 to take on the family teenage school children who aspired to mile radius, treating crocodile bites and farm and soon realised he needed a join the RAF. He then moved to the delivering triplets. He returned to the proper job so he purchased the local USA and worked for Raytheon Aircraft UK and took up his life’s work as a GP pub, The Jolly Sailors, which in 1994 Company, Wichita 1995-97; then for at Selsey, West Sussex. He was highly was the county’s sole recipient of the Les TransAer, Ireland 1998-2000; and finally diligent, on call one night in three, and Routiers Wine Award. He ran the pub for for EasyJet 2000-07. He acted as ‘pilot he visited his elderly patients. Early 18 years as well as diversifying his arable consultant’ for a group of volunteers in life he had learnt the clarinet. He farm into the tourism industry, with a who restored an old plane. One of his organised a trip in two Minis across back-packers hostel, campsite, cafe and grandchildren stood up and said at his Northern Europe, including Leningrad a range of retails shops. Chairman of funeral, ‘Grandpa George was not my and Moscow: they were the first Britons Kings Lynn and Swaffham branch NFU biological grandfather but I loved him. to visit Jaroslav since 1917. He was 1980-86; Chairman of the UK Coeliac I hate that he has died.’ Married 1987 generous and when his son won a Society; Lifelong member of Brancaster Doris Johnson, who survives him with scholarship to Lancing he accepted Staithe Sailing Club and RYA. He three step children. the honour but not the money. He represented so much to the local community and so generously gave his Edward James Francis Hill (H, 61-66): was a wise, steady, devoted, kindly and time to support everything that went on died 26.8.2018. Son of FEH (H, 32- loyal doctor with an inner boldness. A in the village. Married 1970 Verily East, 36) and brother of LDFH (H, 57-62) scholarship in his name has been set up rd who survives him, together with a son and MOFH (H, 66-71). 3 generation to support schooling in poor countries. and two daughters. of Wykehamists, father to son. He is survived by Marie-Christine, Mathematics Prize, VIII and Co Prae. his wife of 53 years, and their son. Stephan Dewar (I, 60-65): died in 2019. He first studied at McGill University in Obituaries in The Times and Chichester Co Prae; fives. Trinity College, Dublin Canada before going up to Magdalene Observer. 2.1 Economics and Political Science, BA College, Cambridge, 3 Archeology and

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Anthropology 1970. He trained as a as one of the leading sportswriters of his then run the theatrical shoe company K glassblower at the Venini factory on generation. Married 1976 Jane Morgan, & D where he learned the business of Murano (Venice) and subsequently who survives him with their two specialist shoemaking for the film and set up his own glassblowing studio daughters and a son. Obituaries in The entertainment industries. His client list at Greenwich. As his art evolved he Times and The Sunday Times. included the Game of Thrones and Harry became a landscape photographer and Benjamin (Ben) Robert Potter films, from which he had a prized transformed his studio with a space Hamilton-Baillie (C, 68-73): died 3.3.2019. Brother of souvenir of a pair of huge wooden lasts for local art with his wife. He loved TRH-B (C, 62-67). Born in Iserlohn, made for Hagrid. He was concerned trees and was given a natural burial at Germany. Sydney Sussex College, about the impact of air transport – he Edenbridge, Kent. Married 1974 Irene Cambridge 1974-77, Architecture MA enjoyed touring the UK and Europe Morway, who survives him with their in a bright yellow VW camper van son and daughter. (Hons) 1977. He spent time in Hamburg and London before settling into a accompanied by his dog, Inca. He was Andrew Nigel Murray Longmore career in social housing in Bristol. In unmarried and is survived by his sister (A, 67-71): died unexpectedly from an 1995 he joined pedestrian and cyclist Daphne. arrhythmia 11.4.2019. Grandson of charity Sustrans to help it deliver a Rupert George Syndercombe Bower Field Marshal Lord Wavell (Coll, 1896- national cycle network with National (H, 81-85): died 13.5.2019, tragically 1900) and brother of RMWL (A, 61-66). Lottery funding. His work became drowned in the Falmouth Estuary. Son History Prize. Lords 1969-71 (Captain truly international as he travelled to of JTSB (G, 48-53). Girton College, 1971 and Soccer XI 1971. Travelled to Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark Cambridge, Theology and Philosophy. India with the England under-19 side. and Germany on a Winston Churchill 1971. Exhibition, Worcester College, Travelling Fellowship and he then in He did not have a career as such but Oxford, 2 History (Modern), BA and 2000 became the first Briton to win a considered himself an inventor and a he played cricket for OUCC 1974-75. Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University. poet. He is remembered for his times in Loughborough University 1979-80, MSc Studies led him to the conclusion that New York, the British Virgin Islands, Recreation Management and captained removing traffic-control measures would Ireland, Paris and his beloved Cornwall the winning OW XI in the 1982 encourage drivers to take responsibility and also for his laugh, his twinkle in Cricketer Cup. He began his long career for avoiding more vulnerable road his eyes, and an enviable sense of the as a journalist in 1981, during which it users. In 2003 he set up Hamilton- absurd. He was unique – an original. was calculated that he wrote 25 million Baillie Associates which went on to He is survived by Sarah Nicholson, the words. He started with Bracknell News redesign several busy junctions using mother of his son. and the Cricketer Magazine 1981-86; then his principles of equal priority for road as a freelance sportswriter mainly for users. The practice’s regeneration of We are aware of the following deaths which The Times from 1989; Chief Sportswriter Park Lane, Poynton, Cheshire won the will be covered in the next issue of the Trusty for The Independent on Sunday 1996-2002; 2013 Highways Magazine award for Servant: and Senior Sportswriter for The Sunday congestion reduction. He became the Charles Evan Bruce-Gardyne (H, 40-45) Times from 2002, during which time he United Kingdom’s most influential and died 22.10.2019 covered four Olympic Games, until he innovative voice promoting the idea of Giles Hepburn John Myrtle (D, 41-45) retired in 2018. He was named the Sports ‘shared space’. He is fondly remembered died 25.9.2019 Feature Writer of the Year by the Sports for his infectious passion, humour and Journalists’ Association in 2003. After expertise. Married 1988 Jennifer Hill, Richard Alan Pinsent (D, 45-50) watching Great Britain defeat Romania who survives him with their son and died 2.8.2019 3-1 in the Davis Cup in Romania he daughter. Obituaries in The Architect’s Robert Hugh Hardy (Coll, 46-51) was so moved by the 100,000 Romanian Journal and The Guardian. died 12.10.2019 orphans that he embarked on a project to raise funds for the Romanian Alasdair Michael Gore Burroughs Hon Stephen Anthony Hurd (I, 46-51) Orphanage Trust. He also supported (G, 69-73): died 26.7.2019. Headmaster’s died 6.9.2019 Portsmouth FC financially when the Medals for Gymnā 1970 and 1971. Edward Oliver John Beck (H, 51-56) club was in dire straits. Publications Initially he qualified as a Chartered died 3.10.2019 Accountant with Dearden, Lord, Annan included Fallon – The Biography 2009. William Marsden (F, 54-58) and Morrish, followed by financial Dame Jess Ennis-Hill tweeted after his died 12.10.2019 death, ‘He was always such a lovely positions in a succession of companies, man, it was a joy to be interviewed by finally Financial Director of Majestic Richard David Chandler (A, 55-60) him’. He was a superb journalist with Wines Warehouses Ltd 1989-90. But he died 19.09.2019 integrity, a sense of justice and a limitless was more interested in the practical side Humfrey Charles Butters (K, 60-65) capacity for kindness and was regarded of business and helped to set up and died 6.9.2019

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Winchester College Society

From the Director

PSWKM and old and whether we should Office aim to broaden its appeal. Answers Win Coll was left a much poorer Donovan’s on a postcard or even by email to place when Patrick Maclure died on 73 Kingsgate Street [email protected] would be greatly 28th September, aged 80. All of us at Winchester SO23 9PE welcomed. Please also let us know if Win Coll Soc will miss him terribly Telephone 01962 621217 you would rather receive The Trusty - for his charm, friendliness, advice E-mail: [email protected] Servant by electronic means. Web site: wincollsoc.org (frequently proffered) and yellow Directors: Lorna Stoddart corduroys. Above all, he was, in Alex Roe (G, 72-75) Ralph Townsend’s words, the fount of Deputy Director: Tamara Templer all knowledge. Already, I have heard Directors needed it said, ‘Patrick would have known Don Associate: Michael Wallis (also The College has a number of trading the answer to that.’ RIP. Director of The Friends) subsidiaries. The most important of these is the Winchester College The Council Trading Company, through which Nat Hone (F, 68-72) The Obituarist we place most of the Winchester College Enterprises business. It Alex Roe (G, 72-75) – For the last eight years Col is a requirement of the Charity Director of Win Coll Soc Christopher Van der Noot has acted Commission that we have some Winston Ginsberg (I, 81-85) as Obituarist for The Trusty Servant, independent directors on the board Henry Knapman (B, 86-91 – Chairman diligently recording the passing of and we are looking for successors Caspar Uniacke (H, 86-91) many hundreds of OWs to a Better to the current incumbents. Anyone Guy Pascoe (I, 86-91) Place. It is a source of pride that all interested in taking on this not David Hogan-Hern (Coll, 94-99) OWs receive an obituary: sometimes particularly time-consuming position Freddie Bjorn (H, 95-00) this has required a considerable should please contact Steven Little Conrad Griffin (I, 04-09) degree of detective work and patience the Bursar for further details. spl@ Dr Tim Hands – Headmaster on Christopher’s part. On behalf of wincoll.ac.uk Lorna Stoddart – Director of Development Win Coll Soc and OWs in general I Tamara Templer – would like to record our thanks for Deputy Director of Development his generosity in devoting so much Michael Wallis – Don Associate time and expertise to this task. OW Drinks Reception and Director of The Friends We are holding a reception for OWs of all ages at Merchant Taylors’ Decemviri The Trusty Servant Hall on Wednesday 26th February MJP Martin DFC AFC (F, 32-38) 2020. These drinks events were Every few years we conduct a survey PNB Howell (D, 32-38) discontinued four years ago because of our readership. This magazine Prof JC Dancy (Coll, 33-39) of a lack of support, in part caused is just part of the overall school Revd CG Pilkington (E, 34-39) by the alternative attractions of the communications programme, which The Hon NHC Bruce (D, 34-39) ‘Years-on’ reunions and the six house also includes our annual report the Professor HB Barlow FRS (I, 35-39) 150th-anniversary celebration dinners. Wykeham Journal (a rather different Dr DH Malan (Coll, 35-40) It would be very good if we were able beast, to excuse the pun) and our Sir Roger Du Boulay KCVO CMG to revert to a huge turnout. newly-redesigned websites. At present, (Coll, 35-40) it is primarily directed towards OWs. Major General HSR Watson CBE We would very much welcome any (F, 36-41) thoughts about its content, relevance, A Hanbury (K, 36-40) style and design from readers young

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Recent Win Coll Soc Events

Beloe’s 50 years-on reunion: on 22nd May the Beloe’s Class of ‘69 gathered at the Wolseley Hotel on Piccadilly. The attendees, from the left, in order in which the heads appear, are Tom Ashmore, Michael Parker, Harry Scott, David Baldry, Stephen Dunstone, Kim Wilkie, James Lawden, Judy Shedden, Tom Busher and Alex Martin.

Patrons’ trip to Dresden and Leipzig via Colditz. The Director OW Hong Kong Guild: Alex Kaung (A, 86-91) reports: reports: from 21st-26th May, 20 Wykeham Patrons visited For our most recent dinner at the Sports Club on 14th June, Saxony, guided by the wonderful Cosima. In Dresden, we had apart from myself 16 other attendees, flattened by the RAF in February 1945 but now almost who were: Terence Mok (E, 99-04), Kayen Hung (D, 95-00), completely restored to its former glory, we visited the New Dan Cotton (Coll, 87-92), Donald Man (E, 90-95), and Historic Green Vaults, the Frauenkirche, Hofkirche Dorian Cheng (I, 04-09), Fergus Fung (E, 89-94), and the extraordinary porcelain collection at the Zwinger Harold Ma (E, 68-91), Jeremy Lightfoot (H, 00-02), Palace. In Leipzig, Bach was the subject of our attention, Matt Moore Bick (B, 96-01), Christian Oei (C, 03-08), with the Headmaster showing his expertise as we visited Justin Cheung (A, 03-08), Tavis Liu (E, 03-08) the Bachhaus and Thomas Kirche, where we listened Mark Cheng (Coll, 87-92), Gregory Wong (E, 03-08) to the wonderful choir and a rather lengthy sermon in Adrian Yam (F, 13-18) and Justin Wong (E, 99-04). German from the lady pastor. We had another dinner gathering on 18th October at the Other highlights were an expensive visit to the Meissen famous Yung Kee restaurant in Central. Given the recent factory, a night at the Semperoper, where we watched an turmoil in Hong Kong the turnout was modest, but we still excellent Swan Lake, and a day trip to Colditz castle, home had a lively gathering, with a few spouses present. to four OW POWs, including Mike Sinclair, who was shot while trying to escape and won a posthumous DSO.

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Winchester Match: on Saturday 15th repaired to the shelter and warmth College 20-years-on reunion. Nick June 2019 a damp and windy morning of the Win Coll Soc marquee. There Walter (Coll, 94-99) reports: On Sunday, failed to stem the enthusiasm with they were welcomed by Charles 21st July, ten of the 14 members of which guests, following a magnificent Sinclair, outgoing Warden, and had the College Roll of ‘94 gathered for service in Chapel, listened to an opportunity to meet his successor a 20-year school-leaving reunion at the Headmaster announcing the Sir Richard Stagg. Some cricket was the house of Christopher and Emily commencement of the Kingsgate Park played as drier conditions prevailed Reeve in Hampshire. Guests came project, the redevelopment of the PE after lunch – Lords beat OWCC by 9 from around England, New York and Centre. Many, including members wickets; 2nd XI tied, 183 per side. California. Grace was not said and of Don Soc for the first time, then a hot was not held, but a wonderful time was had by all. Special thanks to James Thomas for organising and Chris Reeve for hosting. Attendees were Piers Cox, Josie Grounds, Kenneth Morton, David O’Malley, Matthew Parfitt, David Proudman, Christopher Reeve, James Thomas, Nicholas Walter and Adam Walton.

Goddard Day: on Saturday 14th Outgoing Warden and Andrew Joy Richard and Jane Pepys September, with the sun as ever shining down on the assembled company, 120 members of the Goddard Legacy Society listened to the Headmaster’s address in Chapel on HAL Fisher, followed by an excellent lunch in New Hall. Warden Sir Richard Stagg spoke for the first time to this gathering, with a reply by Commander John Galpin. Incoming Warden Vicky and David Rutherford

Roger and Carol Allan Tamara Templer and John Galpin HM with Peter and Vanessa Davis David Anderson and Arabella Stagg David Hunter Catering Team

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Trant’s 150th Anniversary Dinner: on Tuesday 8th October 215 Trantites gathered at Merchant Taylors’ Hall to celebrate an important milestone. Housemaster Stephen Rich spoke on behalf of current Trantites and General Sir Nick Carter (H, 72-76), Chief of the Defence Staff, replied on behalf of the guests, giving an enthralling briefing on world affairs. An excellent evening was had by all, embellished by the presence of Sue Doggart and Jane Massen, past housemasters’ wives. Trant’s top years and House Staff

Above: David Brown, Patrick Walker, CDS Above: Theo Wyld and Richard Landers Beolw: Christopher Elsby and John Cullerne Below: Henry and Richard Fuller

OW Hurlingham Club Dinner: on Monday 14th October, 28 OW members of the Hurlingham Club assembled for dinner, beautifully arranged by Peter Davis (E, 55-60) and under the chairmanship of Julian Holloway (B, 67-72). All agreed that it had been an excellent occasion, to be repeated.

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Dates for your Diary Visiting Win Coll - security arrangements OWs and Don Soc members are most welcome, but we 2020 have been asked by the Security Committee to remind those who wish to visit the school (other than for an 17th January event, when the instructions issued may be different, Under-25s Dinner: at the Army & Navy Club, or when visiting as a spectator at matches) that they London. must contact the Porters’ Lodge to check whether the school is open for visitors. This should be done at least 26th February 24 hours in advance of the planned visit, or by Friday OW Drinks Reception: at the Merchant Taylors’ midday for weekends: 01962 621227 or porters@wincoll. Hall, London. ac.uk. They should arrive at the Porters’ Lodge and not enter by any other gate. They will be asked to produce 12th March identification and sign the OW or Don Soc visitors’ Concert for OWs and partners: at the Merchant books; they will be issued with a visitor’s badge and Taylors’ Hall, London. lanyard, to be worn conspicuously during their visit, please, and returned as they leave through the same gate. They will also be given a map showing the areas 30th April of the school that may be visited. Safeguarding and 60+ Years-on Lunch: at the Cavalry & Guards child-protection regulations become ever tighter and Club, London. OWs and ex-staff are no longer allowed to come and go at will. 12th -15th May OW Battlefield Tour Arnhem. If you wish to visit a boarding house, please contact the housemaster well in advance to see if this 21st May is possible and please do not turn up on the doorstep OW Edinburgh Dinner: at the New Club. unannounced.

2nd-7th June Wykeham Patrons’ trip to Florence. PRIVACY STATEMENT 19th June The personal details you supply will be used only by Parents’ Summer Drinks Party: Winchester Winchester College and Winchester College Society and, upon appropriate application from its membership, in Guildhall order to send you information on activities, events and fundraising appeals, that we think will be of interest to you. Winchester will not share your data with third parties except 20th June – Winchester Match: where required to do so by law. The school may engage third parties to undertake fundraising or research on our behalf. ticketed lunch on New Field. Any such companies are acting as agents of Winchester and as such the school retains full responsibility for your personal data. 4th July Old Wykehamists can update their contact details using the Domum Dinner for parents. profile form available at https://wincollsoc.org. To access the site use the login/register button at the top of the homepage. 12th September Alternatively email [email protected]. Goddard Day: in Winchester We would like to ensure that we keep you updated with relevant information. If you do not wish to receive specific You can register and pay online for events. All payments information from us, please email [email protected] or are processed through Blackbaud Merchant Services, call +44 (0)1962 621217 and we will update your preferences. which ensures that the highest levels of security are If you change your mind in the future please either send an applied. You need to be a registered user of the website to email or call +44 (0)1962 621217. book online for events. New user registrations can take To read the extended Privacy Statement please go to the up to two days to be processed if registration is completed ‘QUICK LINKS’ section of the website, over a weekend. Register at https://wincollsoc.org. https://wincollsoc.org.

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