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N O .122 N OVEMBER 2016 The Headmaster replies:

Dr Timothy Hands speaks to the Editor, 3. Having left the madding crowd of 4. From Div to compulsory Latin, Tim Giddings: Oxford to come to the heart of Winchester is known for its Wessex, would you describe traditional curriculum. Can this 1. Three weeks into your first Short yourself as a Boldwood, a Troy or an ethos continue when Japanese and Half, what are your initial Oak? computer-programming might be impressions of the School? more useful in the global talent race? Well I’m no second Troy: the man That’s a simple question: it’s fantastic. was a philanderer, and Mrs H wouldn’t The school of which I was last Why? 1, the houses; 2, the beauty; 3, the approve. Boldwood and Oak, however, Headmaster had an even more traditional accumulated traditions. It’s unique and are both fixated on one woman; Mrs H curric ulum. Draw your own conclusions – I’m loving it. might be flattered. Hardy, on the other and perhaps see if Ladbrokes will offer 2. What first drew you to school- hand, could never make his mind up you odds. mastering? about what he felt about either gent: 5. How much do you think we should Boldwood is first to be executed and then My father was a headmaster. My be aiming at shaping the whole pardoned; and in the American serial mother was a teacher. My sister was a character of the men rather than version of the novel Oak becomes a teacher. There was even an ancestor who just the intellect? Will Happiness churchwarden. By contrast, I’m pretty was schoolmaster on HMS Victory in hours be appearing in the sure of my destiny: I’m in Winchester, and Napoleonic times. So the simple answer is curriculum? very happy about it. genes. The answer to your second question is ‘unlikely’. The answer to your first question can best be expressed in the words of the editors of The Wykehamist in 1910: ‘Some of us will hope that the incoming chairman of the Headmasters’ Conference and the incoming headmaster of Winchester will have no doubts whatsoever as to the value of boarding- school education in the formation of character. Some will remember the words with which Lord Selborne finished his reply Ad Portas in 1910: “Of the three – muscles, brain and character – the greatest is character”.’ 6. Which sport will see you pacing the side-lines on New Field most enthusiastically? I don’t pace the side-lines. I like to

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stand and watch and work out what might 8. Spencer Leeson once described be improved. I like rugby (sorry). I like Winchester as a school which cricket. I like Gaelic hurling – which I ‘should be a powerhouse radiating believe may have some similarities with energy into all the rest’. What role Winchester football. And that’s the sport do you think we should be playing to which I’m most looking forward. on the wider educational stage? 7. From the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ I guess that role should be one of movement to calls for trigger- substance, of integrity, not persiflage (as it warnings about potentially offensive perhaps can be elsewhere). Winchester views, free speech is under great does – and should – have a certain scrutiny in our universities. How humility, yet also a confidence sired out of should we balance the need for experience. Dr Townsend expressed it robust debate with the responsibility very eloquently last year: ‘The wonderful to protect young minds? thing about Winchester is that it really understands what tradition is – not a I feel rather strongly about this one. static hanging on to the past, but a So does the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, dynamic carrying the best of the past into Louise Richardson, in conversation with a new vitality.’ her gratuitously offensive interviewer on the Today programme recently. 9. What do you do in any spare time? Educational institutions are ‘places where project is a book about Shakespeare; I’m I like listening to music, and we should hear any legal speech, and we teaching VI Book 2 using the rough draft watching sport. I also like writing. That’s should teach our students how you of the first part of a book about English mostly been about Victorian literature, or confront any speech which you find poetry. At some stage I think I might like about educational issues. A long-term objectionable.’ to write something about Winchester. I

Adam Crick (E, 71-75 and Co Ro, 89-92, 93-98 & 00-01): ‘You were a rare coat cut from a very limited silk…’

Laurence Wolff (Co Ro, 82-) writes: a copy of the Book of Common Prayer in a Nutshell will be available that evening, (Oxford, 1683) with a fine Restoration but may also be ordered from Wells. To those reading this article, Adam binding by a craftsman known as Queens’ Crick might be remembered as a pupil, a An extract from the funeral address: Binder A. In Common Time 2017, most fellow Old Wykehamist, a don who taught of the Crick bequest will be on display in ‘In these last days and weeks, indeed them, or as a colleague. To his friends and the wonderful new Treasury; over these several months, all of us who acquaintances, he was a particularly simultaneously, there will be an exhibition knew Adam was dying have played and distinctive person. His character is of paintings in the Art School with the replayed in our minds the memories of our conveyed in the extract below from the title In Memoriam APSC by his friend and special times with him. Time with Adam address given by Richard Robinson (E, 71- contemporary Christopher Twigg (K, 71- was always special. He made it so. Indeed, 76) at his funeral. With his bequest of 75). On Saturday, 7th January, 2017 a CRICK, the very word, means special. For watercolours, he has become a significant poetry reading in Mob Lib from Bound in a his 21st birthday I gave him the complete benefactor to the College. There are works Nutshell , the volume of Adam’s poetry Oxford English Dictionary and I was by Francis Place, Francis Towne, John published after his death, will follow the delighted then to find, when I looked up White Abbott, Thomas Rowlandson and openings of both exhibitions. If you would his name, the reference, 1663, to “a merry Peter de Wint, among others, that amplify like to attend this event, which will begin Crick and boon companion…” And so the already comprehensive collection of at 6.30pm in Art School, please contact you have been, to us all, a ‘boon English watercolours held by the College. [email protected] . Copies of Bound companion.’ Adam also donated to the Fellows’ Library

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A week before he died, he was was a map that traced a walk he’d lying on his bed upstairs at Vine devised near to our house, along Cottage. I was sitting with him and which he had laid a treasure hunt. thought he was asleep. Weakly in a Our family jumped into the car and sort of hoarse whisper, he said to went off to walk the walk and look me, “If this is dying, it’s not too bad for treasure. I remember small piles I suppose…” of white stones hidden along the route with franc coins buried Anguish and self-doubt were underneath each. This was not very much at the heart of Adam. only great fun and a kind gesture The sheer number of his but a wonderful Galwsorthyesque friendships, and the intensity and piece of performance sculpture.” quality of these relationships bear witness to his ability to turn his That wholly decent New Zealander own self-doubt into an intelligent Jarrod who cuts his lawn put it best: empathy with everyone he loved. “You were a rare coat cut from a A lifelong diabetic, the ups and very limited silk…”’ downs of his endocrine system A fragment ‘discovered’ among the could lead to, let me say, some Aubrey MSS in the Bodleian by Rob volatility in his moods. There is no Wyke (Co Ro, 85-15) reads: coffee pot in Vine Cottage: it spurted out the freshly brewed coffee as he astonishing variety of metric forms and This Crick was a great Leaver of lowered the plunger just once too often. voices within to articulate his feelings. Schooles: the Acta of St Maries Coll of He was on his third computer keyboard: A handsome anthology of Adam’s Winton shew that he left that Schoole the previous two were knifed to death, poetry, Bound in a Nutshell , is being three or foure times. But in the literally, when they ceased sending published today. In a way that a short talk remarkable Passages of his life as a instructions to his Apple Mac in the way like this never could, this volume, complete Schoolemaster, he did cause the young he expected. The keyboard was, of course, with a unique set of photographs of Adam Impes of Fame (for so he calld those actually blameless. The problem lay in the and what I might call Adamobelia at the that were his Pupills) to love their computer itself, but understanding or back, will mean that his voice and his Literature, to lie down as if dead in the indeed tolerating technology was not his highly original personality will live on. And Court when it was the Royall Season of strong point. The Audi garage, he once I am particularly pleased to hear that it is to Recitation (as the phrase goes there) told me sheepishly, had retrieved from the be studied in divs at Winchester. and to don the tires and mantles of inside of the single CD player in his car, no Wommen in order to entertain cruell less than seven compact discs forced by Adam was an actor. In his many roles Pedants in the House-Playes of that him through its open but reluctant mouth with the Winchester College Players, he godless Place (so some did calle it). He as Adam vented his frustration at its lack of never found it hard to play a part; in a often stood astonied by the Follies of co-operation. way, he always played himself. He was his Fellow-ushers there and would for supremely generous, to friend and Adam wrote and taught with 6d flie to his retreat in Dorsetshire to stranger. I know, they know. He helped erudition and inspired pupils at recover his Wittes that he might come many people in so many ways. Tonbridge, Sherborne and Winchester. back againe to share his Sweet-temper For more than 20 years, he had been I want to end by reading a short and Good-nature (a dark eie and a keeping himself sane by writing poetry. extract written by OW Patrick Williams, cheerful Nostrill) with those ungratefull He had a lifelong love of literature, fed at who on hearing of his death wrote thus: Fooles. Mr Wood, in his Athenae, doth Winchester and Oxford, with a deep take to taske the Fellows of Winton for “When I was a small boy Adam knowledge of writers from Donne and giving this Crick license to lease his walked the pilgrimage route to Santiago Herbert through Thomas de Quincey to Talents all abroad: for, says he, this which took him past our family home in Hardy and Joyce. His poetry, sent Crick was a Rarity, a Wonder, and the France. He stayed with us en route and a individually and piecemeal by post to a Fellows but Crinkum-crankum, couple of weeks later a ‘thank you for few friends, was often poignant and magotie-headed, and sometimes little having me’ letter arrived, containing a frequently amusing. He used an better than crased… I separate postcard addressed to me. On it

3 N O .122 T HE T RUSTY S ERVANT Inspired by Win Coll music

David Wilson (I, 50-54) fondly remembers: But the greatest influence on my What has this musical background musical life was Chapel, in the days when done for me? It started me off listening to I did not realise it at the time but Win Henry Havergal was Master of Music. the great classical works; and it has given Coll started me on a musical journey How could one forget the singing of me an abiding love of Church choral which has still not ended. I am basically hymns and psalms under his direction? music, which was enhanced at New not a musician: I had a go at the piano Hymns such as ‘O quanta qualia’ and College. There I would go to choral under the eagle eye of Mrs Blake, but the ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’, from Hymnarium in evensong every evening and little did I dullness of my brain and my lack of manual Usum Wiccamicorum , are still fresh in my know that years later I would be singing dexterity meant that I advanced only as far memory. And the psalms: language and many of the works I heard there. as ‘Drink to me only’. While doing the chants still entrance me. The high National Service in Nigeria, a Nigerian Finally, I thank Win Coll for giving spot of the week’s music was Saturday bandsman tried to teach me the clarinet me a love of choral singing, which has evensong, then compulsory, which always but found it as hard as Mrs Blake had done. played a large part in my life. For over 25 began with Psalm 122 – ‘I was glad when years I sang with a good choral society But the love of music was there and they said unto me’ – sung to the same and for many years, as chairman, I took only needed to be released. This is what unvarying chant. Whenever I now hear the choir to sing in some of the great Winchester did. My tégé was Harry Bates that psalm sung to something other than cathedrals and churches of Europe. (I, 50-55), who introduced me to Glee the Winchester (Beethoven) chant, my Club: my first performance was of feeling is that it is the wrong one. I think Francis Gordon Clark Brahms’s German Requiem , a work which (G, 48-53) may share my musical views. Almost as impressive were the even now does something to me. I went To celebrate a noteworthy birthday he canticles, Stanford and Walmisley among on in Glee Club to sing many works in organised a service in Chapel with a good others. These were meticulously rehearsed the choral repertoire. choir and the Cathedral’s assistant by Henry Havergal and the end result was organist, where we sang so many of the I owe a lot to Harry: we had a the unforgettable sound of 500 boys hymns and psalms so well known to so gramophone in mugging hall and he singing the works lustily and to a many generations of Wykehamists. It was would play records which introduced me reasonably high standard. a memorable and nostalgic occasion. to many of the great orchestral works. If Then there were the termly services my memory serves me right, he was I owe a huge debt to Win Coll, and held in the Cathedral, and I remember particularly fond of baroque music and particularly to Chapel, for giving me one going there one evening to hear Isobel especially Handel. Whenever I hear the of the great passions of my life. I Baillie as one of the soloists in The overture to Samson, my mind goes back Messiah . I am still a frequent attendee at to Hopper’s. Sunday choral evensong in the Cathedral. OW Pilgrimage to the Somme

PA Davis (E, 55-60) records: rewarded with a wonderful, moving and were 420,000 British casualties (dead and informative few days. wounded) as well as 200,000 French and Way back in early 2014, The Trusty around 680,000 Germans. On Day 1 we Servant told us of a commemorative visit The Battle of the Somme lasted from had 57,000 casualties, including over to the Somme from Monday 9th to 1st July to mid-November 1916 and cost 19,000 dead. Small wonder then than the Thursday 12th May 2016 to be led by the greatest number of casualties in a Somme has attracted attention from Michael Wallis. Those of us who were single campaign in the British Army’s military historians, politicians, poets and lucky enough to read and act on this were history. In a little over four months, there the public ever since. Small wonder too,

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Mike Wallis demonstrates… …as does James Webster that French and English authorities were Who were we? The organising team ages ranging from early 20s to 80- preparing in May 2016 for an expected were Michael Wallis and James Webster, something, (13 Commoners, 6 OTH and invasion of visitors during the centenary whose background research and 2 College men, but a hot was not even of the battle – and we had the benefit of preparation ensured we had good advance contemplated), together with 17 most of those preparations without the instructions, homework reading list, and accompanying persons – assorted wives, crowds, thanks to our organisers’ ample information about the area, the friends, sons, a daughter, as well as forethought. battle, how it fitted into the overall war Michael and James. And a very happy and what we were going to see. In and friendly group it was, including some We met at St Pancras station to take particular, they had researched and with specialist interests such as sketching, the Eurostar to Lille (memories of the first included in our tour brochure details eight collecting metal war souvenirs (shell cases day of term – ‘Oh look, there’s old So and of the eighty-eight OWs who lost their etc) and WW1 poetry. So…what is his name?’). Then a coach to lives on the Somme, so that we could Arras and our hotel (the l’Univers) in the A few highlights of the many sites we follow the School connections during our centre of a peaceful market town, with visited: tour. The eight included sons of famous several large cobbled squares, plenty of families, such as Raymond Asquith and restaurants (we had to find our own Battlefields: Edward (‘Bim’) Tennant. Evening dinners on two nights). The hotel had a Mametz Wood, where the Welsh briefings about the following day’s plans cobbled courtyard too, on which every dragon statue, clasping a bunch of barbed and a cheerful willingness to answer wheeled suitcase played its own wakeful wire, marks the place where many brave questions about any aspect of the battle tune. But Arras is the centre of the gently men fell. WW1 poets (including Robert completed their perfection as guides and rolling countryside, criss-crossed with Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and David tour leaders. small rivers, making up the Somme valley. Jones) served there with the Royal Welch It was just like being back in Hampshire. There were 21 OWs on the tour, with Fusiliers. Unexploded shells can still be

Team at Thiepval Memorial

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seen in the wood. And the OW party had a picnic lunch in spring sunshine sprawled on the grass at the dragon’s feet. Newfoundland Park, where the statue of a Caribou points to where the Newfoundlanders dug trenches, now restored so that one can really visualise what a close-quarters war it was.

John Roskill at Raymond Asquith’s grave Tom Ooi at Arthur Kilby VC’s grave highlighted OW casualties and searched erected by the family of OW Val out the graves of several VCs, of brothers Braithwaite outside the Serre Road who are both commemorated in the same Cemetery, we discovered it had been cemetery, and in some cases discovered the knocked down and damaged, graves of our own relations. It was truly probably by a farm tractor. We moving and memorable. couldn’t move it. Alex Roe has now Villages written to the CWGC and they have repaired it. Villages with charming names (such as Beaumont- Hamel, Ovilliers and La Boiselle) many of which were literally flattened during the Newfoundland Memorial battle but are now restored to their original sleepy, Delville Wood, where the memorial agricultural nature. Braithwaite Cross down… …and mended to South African troops is set amongst Poetry beautiful tree-lined avenues. The Battle of the Somme stimulated • When Mines, such as Hawthorn ridge and quantities of war poetry. We visited the we left Lochnagar, the latter with a walkway exact spot, researched and identified by the coach on our return to Lille and surrounding a crater 130ft across and 80ft Michael and James, from which Siegfried said goodbye to our excellent and deep, created by 45 tons of high explosive, Sassoon watched some of the fighting. We friendly driver, Bruno, he made a carried through underground tunnels to had a talk about Sassoon before dinner speech about what a marvellous explode beneath enemy positions. one evening and heard a fascinating group we were and what a pleasure it Cemeteries recording of Sassoon reading some of his had been to drive us. Nothing to do own poetry after the war. with the large tip we had collected for Cemeteries too numerous to mention, him, of course! ranging from Serre Road No 2 with over Others 7,000 graves to, for example, Railway • On the last morning, as our coach Thiepval Memorial (bearing the drew away from the hotel, en route to Hollow, Hunter’s Cemetery or Flatiron names of over 70,000 soldiers who have Copse, with comparatively few graves but Lille and the Eurostar home, we no known grave), where we laid another spotted Michael Wallis running up wonderfully tranquil settings, all beautifully wreath, and its excellent visitor centre. maintained by the Commonwealth War the street after the coach, having Graves Commission. (The name Somme is The maze of underground tunnels delivered someone’s hotel key back to derived from a Celtic word for tranquillity.) under the town of Arras, which served as Reception. We didn’t have the heart Visiting the British cemeteries, with their home to British troops awaiting their next to leave him behind! individual headstones, is a moving engagement. In conclusion, a wonderful, varied, experience, and in strong contrast to the Three memorable, but not necessarily informative, moving and emotional tour, more sombre German cemeteries with serious, incidents: well organised and in delightful company. their mass graves and dark crosses. We laid Michael and James are planning a trip to wreaths on the graves of some of our • When we visited the stone cross Ypres in 2017. I

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James Hodgins (Housedon, Chawker’s) I was lucky enough to be Master-in- where the side conceded no goals, an appreciates: Charge and to work with him on Bull’s ISFA cup semi-final, trips to the ISFA 6- Drove for a number of years. Lew made a-side tournament (where Alex Ferguson The 1995-96 Premier League season his living from the game of football and greeted him like a long lost friend) as well finished with Southampton avoiding knew it like no other member of staff. His as hosting it twice. Good players got relegation on goal difference. The Saints drills on shape and the pattern of play better under Lew’s watchful eye, players board brought in Graeme Souness as the were straight out of the professional game. who weren’t really even players were able new manager and, after over 30 years’ Ipswich Town came to use our facilities to be effective components of the team. involvement in professional football as a prior to playing Saints one season, the And it was all about the team. He was player and coach, Lew Chatterley was manager being an old acolyte of Lew. once asked in a practice if we should try once more out of a job. His career Their session was identical in structure to play more football. We don’t need to spanned numerous clubs and spawned any and content to what Soccer XI did each play more football, we just need to play number of anecdotes (ask him, if you can, day; it was just that their players were our football better came the reply. about starting out as a pro at Villa and not better (but only just). being allowed a ball during training, or Lew built the team around the boys the time he grew a beard He demanded high we had available: there was no point whilst up at Sunderland, or standards and playing a passing game if they couldn’t counting 50p pieces at Poole commitment and he pass! But when we had enough players Pirates, or his time at would let the players who could play then Lew could teach Grimsby Town, or when know at half time if them how to really play. If you have a George Best nutmegged him they weren’t pulling season where the goalkeeping looks and laughed, or when he their weight (he fragile, pray for a striker and teach him broke his nose scoring the would tell the referee how to play, then win games 5-4. And he winner at White Hart Lane, too if they weren’t was great with names too: get them wrong or when he got the sack from having as good a the first time and then use exactly the Reading on Christmas Eve, game as he hoped same wrong name for evermore. or playing in the England they would!). He Lew’s care and commitment to football team that won the European always reckoned that at Winchester College have been without Youth Final at Wembley in he had something the parallel. Generations of Wykehamists have 1963, and you might just boys wanted: a place heeded his advice, grown as players and scratch the surface). And here he was, at in Soccer XI. If they didn’t want that then gone on to enjoy football into adulthood a loose end after a lifetime in football. So, he didn’t need them. with the OWFC and many other sides. after a tip-off from a former colleague, He talked to them and walked them Football at the School has gone through an Lew drove for the first time into the car through set-play tricks and party pieces, era of great success and Lew’s tireless efforts park at the PE Centre in his Merc (I and then the boys would be surprised to and dry humour have been at the heart of it imagine) in Short Half 1997 to help Chris see the same routines being used on Match all. As he once said in his first term here as Good with the Yearlings. of the Day . Players were plucked from we limped back to the bus having lost to His first game ended in a 14-0 defeat obscurity on Gater to play a role in a side. Charterhouse by an aggregate of about 75 at Bradfield. He tried to cheer the We need a centre-back: go to Gater and goals to 6, ‘At least we won’t have to read goalkeeper up on the way back to the find a choir boy. The set up was clear: be about it in the paper tomorrow!’ For dressing rooms. ‘Where do you live, son?’ effective, be hard to beat, work harder Winchester College to have had on the ‘We’ve got a place in London, another in than your opposite number and if we all staff a man with his experience and skill in Monaco, an apartment in New York….’ play to the plan we can achieve great football was a tremendous blessing, and Lew’s sympathy was short-lived. Peter things. And success came: wins versus now, after 50 years of involvement in the Metcalfe quickly realised that Lew was Eton three years on the bounce, wins at game, he heads off into the sunset. Lew, wasted on the Yearlings and so a long Bradfield and Charterhouse, half terms thank you. I association with Soccer XI began.

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Rediscovering Thomas Ashby (F, 1887-93) in Malta

Dr SKF Stoddart (F, 71-76) writes: where permits could be freely granted. His although Ashby was himself struck with friendship with Themistocles Zammit, the dysentery, his team opened up a large area One of the distinctive, but not always father of Maltese archaeology, in the of the site, revealing floors and substantial remembered, features of a Wykehamical period prior to the First World War, is one megalithic structures, collecting a number education is its long-standing impact on the of the most important intellectual of distinctive sea-shell figurines in baked world of archaeology, particularly in the collaborations in the history of clay, as well as a wealth of fine pottery and Mediterranean. The influence started early archaeology. The practical science of Dr. stone artefacts. He also identified the and derived from the Classical Education of Zammit was combined with the presence of a later graveyard on the site pupils at the School. Francis Cranmer excavation experience and historical that gave the megalithic structure its Penrose (1817-1903), David George knowledge of Ashby, drawn from his Christianised name. Hogarth (1862-1927), Sir John Linton fellow Wykehamist and Oxford graduates Myres (1869-1954) and John Devitt At Santa Verna in 2015, we have John Myres and Francis Haverfield, to Stringfellow Pendlebury (1904-41) were recovered the location of his very produce an ideal partnership on the some of the leading figures in the study of trenches and confirmed the accuracy of Maltese islands. This partnership laid the Greek civilisation. An equally powerful his methods. In the same way as his foundations for our knowledge of Maltese genealogy leads from Francis Haverfield approach was a step ahead of all that archaeology, preserving a record that (1860-1919) through Thomas Ashby preceded, we like to think that our work might otherwise have been lost. (1874-1931) to John Ward-Perkins (1912- has also added new scientific insights. 81), investigating the world of early Italy. Ashby was not content with the Most notably we have shown that this site relatively unassuming classical is indeed another ‘temple’ monument, These last two figures were some of archaeology on the Maltese islands, at both by better definition of its plan and by the most important directors, in the last least compared with his base in Rome, discovery of more liturgical artefacts in century, of the British School at Rome, a even though he excavated one important the form of baked clay sea-shell figurines. research institution that still leads and Roman villa and provided a first synthesis Indeed, this ‘temple’ seems to have been coordinates British fine-art practice and of the then-available evidence. Guided by of the same scale and orientation as the humanities research in Italy. This pair of Zammit, Ashby was drawn to what is now more famous gantija monument on the scholars initiated a tradition of landscape known to be the earliest European same plateau, where we also undertook archaeology that has become a hallmark Architecture, dating to the fourth fieldwork, and where the newly opened of British Archaeology at an international millennium BC through calibrated visitor centre records our work on the level. In part, this was a pragmatic radiocarbon dating. His excavations of contemporary cemetery in the late 1980s response to the fact that British the ‘temples’ of aHagar Qim, Kordin and early 1990s. We have also archaeologists were not granted Italian (1908-9) and Santa Verna (1911) were demonstrated that this same site of Santa permits to excavate in the first half of the the first systematic stratigraphic Verna dates back to the very earliest 20th century. It may also be significant excavations of what are now recognised as occupation of the Maltese islands in the that walking fields in search of ancient UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It was sixth millennium BC, when fertile humic artefacts is substantially cheaper than this collaboration that led Zammit to soils and heavier vegetation cover were excavation. In addition, the trend was apply a developed excavation strategy to still in existence. Indeed these impressive drawn from a deeply embedded British the later excavations of Tarxien during monuments, as large as small modern tradition of appreciating landscape, the First World War, leading to the churches, seem to have emerged from enshrined in Morning Hills, which had recovery of some of the most perfectly prosperous settlements located been started in 1884 by Fearon, some preserved prehistoric ritual on the preferentially close to water and the three years before Ashby entered Maltese islands. better soils, within the arid landscape of Southgate House (the current the islands. Chawker’s). Walking remained Ashby’s Our current project, once again an main relaxation throughout his life. Anglo-Maltese collaboration with a The current project also draws on Wykehamist involvement, has followed Ashby’s contribution by examining the Thomas Ashby also followed another in Ashby’s footsteps, most notably at landscape. The detection of practical route by undertaking excavation Santa Verna and Kordin. At Santa Verna, environmental indicators, such as ancient in the nearest British colony, Malta,

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soils, land snails and pollen, as well as studies of the remains of humans who lived in the landscapes, are answering questions about the fragility, sustainability and ultimately the collapse of the society that created the impressive monuments. In fact, the challenges of the small island world of Malta in prehistory, a mere 318km 2 in size, can be compared to the challenges faced by our world today. On ancient Malta, we can recognise many of the salient issues of the modern earth in the deforestation and erosion, the physical toll on human bodies, the restricted resources and the tentative responses by the human populations of that distant time. However, whereas the prehistoric inhabitants of Malta had the maritime technology to escape their island home, the modern inhabitants of our world have yet to develop the space technology to leave our globe on a sufficient scale that would ensure long-term survival. A view down onto the Roman villa excavated by Ashby in Ramla Bay, Gozo (Malta), c. 1910. The current FRAGSUS project (PI Caroline Malone Queen’s Belfast), Council, can be explored on a number of www.arch.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/fragsus . supported by the European Research websites listed here: The photos are reproduced by kind permission of the British School at Rome and I would like to thank Alessandra Giovenco for the preparation of the images. I

General view of the Santa Verna excavation, 1911. The main trench excavated by Ashby, 1911, and Our work team adopted the same hats as the workers of the early 1900s. identified in the 2015 excavation.

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Goats, goatees and gestational improbabilities

Angus Robinson, Aulae Prae 2015-16, busts The College Archivist informs me presumably not be supported by the myths and wants his colon back: that there were five officers in College as School, while the accompanying tale that early as 1647, but the obligations have I once heard that he could have two The Prefect of Hall has a strange diminished from what they once were in a children with her seems mathematically position in contemporary Wykehamical manner in keeping with modern practice unlikely given the short length of consciousness. On the one hand he is the and law. The Prefect of Hall was once incumbency. And as for the famous myth subject of a diverse and extravagant actually responsible for the maintenance of the goat, to that I can only say that we mythology and, on the other, may not of the windows and furniture in College tried. Two years ago – in typical College even be known by hundreds of Hall, and for deciding when the fire fashion – the Writer (read ‘helpful Commoners over whom he has great should be lit there. A notions book also second-year’) of the then Aulae Prae notional seniority. Although the recent specifies the responsibility of preventing composed a five-page proposal on how convention has been to treat him at least ‘smoking and sherking out’. Naturally, as College would be able to keep a goat on nominally as one equal half of the pupil well as losing the higher burdens, he lost Meads, considering necessary taxes, leadership with the Sen licences, veterinary Co Prae, any real care and even who authority is limited to would feed it. The that over the document was signed population of Chamber by all but one of the Court – although Collegemen and perhaps this is as much submitted to the due to the Devo Max necessary powers. Vile under which the School tyranny and dark webs tends to operate as it is of conspiracy alone can to relative anonymity. explain why the idea There are six was never realised, but College Officers, who the one outcome was a are each responsible for stuffed goat, sporting at the welfare and order of various (different) their respective times a gas mask, a chambers and are bandana and a tie, together responsible for fated to live out his the greater community days in the chamber of of Collegemen. Of these the Aulae Prae. The the Coll Cap Prae (né, A previous incumbent enjoying a genuine privilege legend also inspired a in a better time, Sen chant for Xs, yet to be Cap Prae) is most inconvenienced by his the fees paid to him by scholars and performed, set to the tune of ‘Jerusalem’ specific duties, given the arduous task of commoners and there is no longer any and featuring ‘the countenance hircine’. standing outside a door seven times a need for the extra ration of bread and So the legend of the goat at least has week (on five of which occasions he must meat. its longevity assured. And if the close said door). The main individual task But for most of the mythic privileges significance of the Aulae Prae should of his direct senior is saying the Latin associated with the role there is disappear with the colonic abbreviation graces before and after lunch (20 and 27 unfortunately very little evidence. The (e.g., Aulae Prae:) that has gone even words respectively) each day of the school Aulae Prae may be carried up to books in from the pages of The Trusty Servant , at year bar the week of Election, during his bed by his peers. But, alas, he has least we can hope for more colourful which College Voice sings them to John never been allowed to grow a beard or run legends. Reading’s music. naked up College Street. A wife would With thanks to Suzanne Foster. I

11 N O .122 T HE T RUSTY S ERVANT Following in the Footsteps of George Steer

David Fellowes (I, 63-67) writes upon his Times correspondent in Ethiopia during the It would be impossible to do justice in return from leading this year’s Wykeham Abyssinian War, before transferring to these few allotted lines to Steer’s Patrons’ trip to the Basque Country in Spain to cover the Civil War in August extraordinary life, so tragically September: 1936. This led him to report so famously, in foreshortened by a motor accident in The Times and on the front page of The India on Christmas Day 1944, whilst on I sometimes shudder at the thought New York Times , on the bombing of active service, but it is to be hoped that a that, had it not been for my fairly random Guernica on 26th April 1937. It brought few extracts from Rankin’s biography challenge of ‘Can anyone think of to the world news of the massacre by might encourage you to read both it and another interesting Wykehamist for me to German pilots of more than 1,000 civilians also, of course, Steer’s own masterpiece of follow?’ issued to my colleagues on the in the Basque town. The outrage felt by history The Tree of Gernika (this being the School’s Senior Management Committee Pablo Picasso inspired his masterwork, Basque spelling of the town the Spanish about four years ago, I might never have Guernica , on which he started working in spell Guernica). heard of one George Lowther Steer. Paris just a few days later. Winchester has an extraordinary habit of ‘(Philip) Noel-Baker (a Labour MP throwing up the most fascinating subject In his review of Telegram from and a great friend of Steer’s) wrote: “He is matter and the catalyst for this year’s Guernica , Nick Rankin’s excellent a remarkable man: the most brilliant Patrons’ trip was certainly no exception. biography of Steer, Martin Bell wrote: scholar of his year at Oxford, and now a ‘George Steer achieved renown without a very keen student of war, who has been in George Steer was born in the Eastern byline; he showed us that to be a fair- the front-line throughout the whole of Cape of South Africa on 11th November minded war reporter was not to stand the Abyssinian conflict and throughout 1909. He was in College from 1923 to neutrally between good and evil: he was most of the fighting in Spain.”’ 1928 and gained a Double First in Classics the real – and unacknowledged – hero in at Christ Church, Oxford in 1932. After ‘With the rat-like cunning of the Waugh’s Scoop ; all who came after him just two years working as a journalist in scoop-minded reporter, Steer warned the stand forever in his debt.’ Cape Town and Yorkshire, he became The other journalists that the enemy was on

Wykeham Patrons group at George Steer’s bust in Guernica

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the brink of pouring through, and the On our final day, en route for the others all sped off in a powerful car. That airport in Bilbao, we diverted into the left Steer and The Times in sole possession mountains to Elgeta, south-east of of the story of the fall of Bilbao. It would Durango, to visit the scene of a test all his powers of endurance.’ particularly brave and successful defence on 20th – 23rd April 1937 by Pablo ‘At eight-thirty in the evening [on Beldarrain, the most competent and 15th June], Steer was at the Deusto bridge quietly inspirational of the Basque over the Nervion, a few hundred yards commanders, whom Steer had known. At west of where the Guggenheim Museum the monument, and looking down over now stands. Shrapnel was bursting the field of fire just below the remaining overhead and men were firing uphill at Basque trenches overlooking the valley, the enemy. Their commander ordered the Nick Rankin at George Steer’s bust Nick Rankin movingly read a brief Asturians back into line, but a man Most memorable of all was Nick’s extract from Cecil Day Lewis’s poem, stepped out of the ranks and shot him translating an interview with Luis Iriondo, ‘The Nabara’ : dead. Steer was among a company digging now 94 and a survivor of the bombing up cobblestones to make trenches and nearly 80 years before. This happened in They bore a charmed life. They went barricades when six Heinkel 51s came Guernica itself, where we duly visited the into battle foreseeing over the ridge and plunged down full bronze bust of George Steer in the centre Probable loss, and they lost. The tides throttle at them. …. Steer wrote: of the town, erected in his memory in of Biscay flow “Standing on the hard wide road, we 2006, the political climate having taken Over the obstinate bones of many, loosed off two hundred rifles and machine its time to settle sufficiently after Franco’s the winds are sighing guns at them. Ah, what a memory.”’ death in 1975 for any earlier memorial. Round prison walls where the rest are ‘In his introduction to The Tree of From San Sebastian (surely one of doomed like their ship to rust – Gernika Steer says he uses “we” and “our” the food capitals of the world), we strayed Men of the Basque country, the Mar because it was usual for journalists in over the border into France for part of the Cantabrico. Spain to refer to the side they were morning, spent in St Jean de Luz in the Simple men who asked of their life working on, adding: “It is not to be Pays basque , before returning to the no mythical splendour, inferred from my use of these terms that I Basque Country, driving up to Biriatou, participated in any way in the struggle.” where Steer saw the first battles from the They loved its familiar ways so well What we know about his character other side of the Bidasoa river from that they preferred suggests that this statement is Hendaye, where Hitler and Franco met at In the rudeness of their heart to die disingenuous. As the Heinkels swooped the railway station in October 1940. On rather than to surrender … by the Puente de Deusto, George Steer the return journey, we were treated to a Mortal these words and the deed they was utterly at one with the Basques, and top-quality exhibition match of jai-alai , remember, but cast a seed having the time of his life.’ the fastest of the many variations of the Shall flower for an age when freedom game of pelota . As for the trip itself, we started in is man’s creative word. Bilbao, staying in the Carlton Hotel in It would be very easy to visit the which the Basque cities of Bilbao and San Sebastian and Government had its enjoy them to the full, yet without quite HQ during the Civil appreciating what lies beneath the War. Nick Rankin, surface: the Basque pride in their heritage our inspirational tour and culture, and the history of their fight guide, gave us an for freedom in those turbulent times in excellent introduction which Steer became so embroiled. We to Basque culture and were all most fortunate to have had the the Civil War on the privilege of benefiting from the unique first evening and insight that our journey gave us. various talks ensued A pdf version of the tour booklet is throughout the available at remaining five days. 94 year old survivor, Luis Iriondo, with Nick Rankin in the air-raid shelter http://wincollsoc.org/news/publications I

13 N O .122 T HE T RUSTY S ERVANT Archie Campbell Murdoch (1911-2016)

Christopher Van der Noot (K, successfully auditioned for attitude of not wanting to cause a fuss are 53-57), our obituarist, writes: Glyndebourne in 1939, well known: when he was in hospital just although the war intervened. before his 100th birthday, the After more than ten years Because of poor eyesight, occupational therapy team were assessing as our Sen Man, Archie which prevented him joining him and wanted to know who his carers Campbell Murdoch died on the Royal Navy, he joined the were, who did his shopping, cleaning and 29th June 2016, aged 105. London Auxiliary Fire cooking. He had to ask them what a carer Having converted to Roman Service, working long hours of actually was, and they struggled to grasp Catholicism in 1941, he was a two days on and one off: he that Archie was completely self-sufficient. great lover of the called himself George to avoid As his 105th birthday approached he was Extraordinary Latin Mass and ribbing by his Cockney fellow asked if he would like to receive a card wished to have his own fire-fighters. from Her Majesty. ‘Oh no – I really do not Requiem Mass celebrated in want to bother her,’ came his reply. But Latin. Thus it was that, when After the War, he started his Her Majesty did bother and her card duly a congregation of 300 career as a teacher, ending up arrived. When his distinctive battle- attended St Osmund’s, as Headmaster of the Thomas scarred red Renault failed its MOT, he Salisbury, there were five More School, which catered gave up driving at age 102, much to the robed clergy conducting the for 54 disadvantaged children. relief of the citizens of Salisbury. Sheila, Mass and a further six in the He then retired to Malta, with his wife of 71 years, died in 2000: Archie congregation. Fortunately, its strong Catholic and was devastated for they had still giggled English was printed alongside musical roots and a pleasant together like young lovers. the Latin in the order of climate. Life was good for service! those expatriate ‘sixpenny And so Archie’s life was acknowledged settlers’ who paid tax at 6d in with dignity at that masterly Requiem Archie was born in the pound until Dom Mintoff raised the Mass at St Osmund’s Roman Catholic Casablanca in 1911 and remembered well rate, whereupon he returned to the UK in Church in Salisbury. I waving his father off at the railway station 1985. His stoicism and commendable on his way to the Somme, where he was killed. After attending preparatory school at Langley Place, St Leonard’s on Sea, he came to Winchester in 1924. He left a term early and travelled with his stepfather in the Middle East, through Palestine and on to Damascus. Whilst at Oxford he fell in love with Sheila Haigh and they married secretly in September 1932. However, they were spotted whilst on their honeymoon by members of the family, who were horrified, and so a public wedding took place at St Andrew’s Church, Pont Street, much to the delight of the Scottish and Irish Presbyterian members of the family. He studied singing at the Royal College of Music, was a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and

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Academic G Lo Coco (K, 13-14) is the founder and JP Dancy (Coll, 59-64) has music director of recently been elected Fellow ROSSINI 2016 and of the British Academy. conducted the festival orchestra and singers in Announcements their various MS Travis (K, 60-65) has performances. married Mrs Bobbie Richards. Gaetano is currently studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in David Thouless, centre front row, 1952 Appointments / Elections London. He was reading English at Oxford University until an irresistible passion for theoretical discoveries of topological In February, NHM Hitchens (A, 76-81) phase transitions and topological phases was elected vice chairman of the Broad opera made him realise that he wanted to dedicate himself completely to music. of matter. David was top of Election Roll Street Ward Club – the wards are the in 1947, winning the Duncan Maths small administrative units for the City of prizes in 1948 and 1950 and the London. FD Wake-Walker (G, 95-00), Artistic Director of Mahogany Opera Group, runs Richardson prize for Maths in 1951. He is our second Nobel laureate in Science: the Arts the Mica Mica project in Berlin and works regularly with the children’s opera first was Richard Synge (Coll, 28-33), On 13th October, 2016, SG Aldridge (H, company Jubilee Opera. This season who shared the Chemistry prize in 1952 88-92) attended a reception with the Freddie directs a new production of Le for partition chromatography and died in Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham nozze di Figaro for Teatro alla Scala, Milan 1994. Palace to celebrate 50 years of the and the future sees him direct new Kennedy Memorial Trust. Simon was a productions for the Opernhaus Zürich and Books Kennedy Scholar to Harvard in 1996-7, the Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg. PJ Casement (D, 49-53), one of seven British students chosen by a a well-established author committee led by Mervyn King, Kennedy Two Toyeites, CPK Edwards (B, 83-87) previously writing in a Scholar and then Governor of the Bank and JHSP Dunn (B, 86-91), both appeared quite different genre, of England. He is now an artist and in Downton Abbey , playing Michael that of psychoanalysis, architect living and working in New York. Gregson and Charlie Rogers respectively. psychotherapy and counselling, has Do you know of any other Wykehamist Awards produced Growing Up? Kennedy Scholars? Lord Saye and Sele (Fellow, 66-84) was A Journey with Laughter The Incentive is a bold short film about awarded the Legion d’Honneur for for an entirely different readership. This is climate change directed by RB Callender participating in the liberation of North a fascinating account of his strange (D, 04-09). After Winchester, Rob West Europe 1944-5. journey from a privileged background, trained at the Guildhall School of Music through schools and national service and & Drama. He has played roles in the West Professor DJ Thouless (Coll, 47-52), university, avoiding throughout the desire End and on film and TV, including BBC’s professor emeritus of his family for him to join the Royal Sherlock and Game of Thrones . CCH of Physics at the Navy. He continues on his unpredictable Macnamara (Coll, 08-13) is University of journey into becoming a psychotherapist producing Rob’s debut film, which takes a Washington, has and then a psychoanalyst, what his visceral, provocative and novel look shared, with two mother thought was ‘training to become a at how we might achieve meaningful other Britons, the psychotic’. This book is filled with action on global warming. See 2016 Nobel Prize laughter. The Karnac Library; ISBN: 978- www.incentivepictures.com. in Physics for 1782203155.

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In Search of Ernst of war. He escapes cello’, held across the chest, supported by uncovers the hidden and makes his way a ribbon and played like a violin. It is family history of the back to what was published by Fretwork Editions; Königsgarten family, one of Italy’s most www.fretwork.co.uk . which was uprooted famous country and decimated by the houses, to find it in WM Owton (I, 72-76) has witten a fast- Nazis during the ruins. Worse, his moving sword-and-sorcery adventure, Second World War. family has been Exile. A sequel will Only now, following killed. CreateSpace; appear later in the the discovery of ISBN: 978-1503187344. year. Martin has been family papers and research in archives in writing since the mid the Czech Republic and Austria, can the Making Waves is a history of the Royal 90s and has published fate of the author’s grandfather Ernst and Yacht Squadron by AG Martin (C, 67- over 20 short stories, the untold histories of the author’s parents 71) with a foreword by HRH the Duke of but this is his first be told. MHM Garton (C, 60-65) has Edinburgh. Founded in 1815, the novel publication. unearthed the full story of his family’s past Squadron is the world’s most prestigious Available from and his father’s battles with the Home yacht club, counting among its members Tickety Boo Press Office to obtain British nationality. So Prince Philip – to say nothing of its (www.ticketyboopress.co.uk ) or via thorough were the Nazi records and so patron, the Queen. Located at Cowes Amazon. ISBN: 978-0993598432. carefully have they been preserved that Castle on the Isle of Wight, it consists of even the inventories of Ernst’s confiscated an elite membership of 400 yacht owners A book entitled The possessions are still in existence today for and sailing Yorkshire Strangwayes all to read. A profoundly moving and enthusiasts, all has recently been well-written family memoir detailing the dedicated to privately published by fanaticism and multiple tragedies which promoting DR Strangwayes- afflicted Europe in the mid-20th century. yachting in its Booth (K, 51-55). It Horsgate; ISBN: 978-0992715243. many forms. covers the history of This beautifully that family from the October will see the launch of Stationery illustrated book 14th to the 20th Fever: From Paper Clips to Pencils and commemorates centuries. The book Everything in Between by JRJ Gray (H, 97- the bicentennial of the Squadron, tracing contains stories and links from the Wars 02), publishing as John Z. Komurki. its history from the founding to the of the Roses and the Pilgrimage of Grace Stationery Fever is a paean to the present and telling the stories of key to the decline of the English squirearchy seemingly mundane members, major races, and the many in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. objects that changes to yachting and the club over the [email protected] populate desks and decades. 288 pages, 50 colour plates, 50 cubicles the world halftones; Unicorn Press; ISBN: 978- Exploring Doubt by over, as well as an 1910065686. Alex Wright (E, 79- exploration of how 83) discusses the rich leading artists and CS Medlam (F, 62-66) has written a and varied ways in designers are handbook for the professional and which answers to ‘the increasingly amateur cellist called A pproaches to the big questions’ – about returning to analogue techniques. Prestel; Bach Cello Suites , which is designed to faith, belief, ISBN: 978-3791382722. provide all the authenticity and the necessary background existence of The Eagles by AJX de Guise (E, 46-51). A for an informed ‘something else’ – Young Italian aristocrat is requested by interpretation. His have always been most effectively Mussolini to liaise with the German conclusion is that articulated through the language not of Army in the Second World War. He finds Bach wrote the suites absolute conviction, but of the himself in Stalingrad, during possibly the for himself to play on marvelously improbable and ultimately most bitterly-fought battle in recent a violoncello da spalla , unknowable. Darton, Longman & Todd times. He survives, but becomes a prisoner or small ‘shoulder Ltd; ISBN: 978-0232530605.

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Business and Commercial Music Politics In March this year a team of three OWs JC Fayers (D, 90-95) croons : ‘Win Coll JGH Schneider (F, 00-05), the National all worked on the same project at rock band The Beards recently reunited for Organiser of Momentum, is joining the McKinsey & Company, the management their first live performance since 1996, Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s consulting firm. It is completely unheard following a successful recording session in office in a strategic communications role, of for all team members to be from a Harlow in 2014. The band, consisting of where he will be working alongside SPC single school (it is very rare for them even Robin Cooch (F, 89-94), Gerard Milne (Coll, 71-74). to be from a single university). McLachlan (F, 89-94), Hamish Phillips (H, 90-95), Christopher Thomson (B, 89-94) Sport and myself, and managed by Roderick Clay Pigeon Shooting Black (F, 89-94), performed at the Fiddler’s Elbow in Camden, London, on 22nd May. Varsity Match for The Field Cup 23rd In attendance were many OWs, including April 2016: Freddie Lawlor (E, 10-15), Julian Ebel (F, 90-95), Luis Dos Santos (D, Cambridge, shooting against Jamie Shaw 90-95), James Davies (F, 89-94), Thomas (H, 08-13) and Ed Roe (Coll, 07-12), McLachlan (D, 97-02), Nadim Dimechkie Oxford. Cambridge won. (H, 90-95), Thomas Tibbits (F, 92-94), David Luyombya (B, 89-94), Hughie Cricket L to R – Kitson Symes (Coll, 04-06), Dara Olufon Phillips (H, 93-98) and Andrew Beejay (D, Dan Escott’s (Coll, 10-15) debut in the (E, 00-05) and Jonty Olliff-Cooper (A, 96-01). 89-94), as well as guests from St. Swithun’s Varsity Match saw him score 36 and 125, and Peter Symonds among others. The making him one of a rare band of HR Percy (A, 70-74) has joined the possibility of an OTH-Commoner hot was cricketers to score a century on his first- Board of KEH Group, which is owned by discussed outside The Grafton pub in class debut. OWs of a light blue hue might the Al Humaidi family, one of the oldest Camden but was prevented from occurring be less impressed that he subsequently and most respected merchant names in by members of the band’s brass section. bowled 31 overs, taking 6 for 68 in the 4th Kuwait. The Beards would like to thank all OWs in innings, thus spinning Oxford to victory attendance and are sincerely hoping that it with just minutes to spare! Media is not another 20 years until they perform together again.’ WRC Markham (K, 86-91) reports : ‘I was Rowing one of the Live Producers on the OWs who were unable to attend but George Nash (K, 02-07) has won a gold BBC1/PBS series Big Blue Live which told would like to keep in touch with the band medal in the Men’s Coxless IV at the Rio the story of the rebirth of Monterey Bay, can reach them Olympics, improving on the bronze he California. In the three programmes we at www.facebook.com/beardsrool . won in London. He is the first managed to show live sea otters, humpback whales and great white sharks (and a lot more besides) but the crowning moment came towards the end of our final programme when a blue whale surfaced. It was the first time one had been filmed live, and was symptomatic of Monterey’s recovery from overhunting and fishing in the 20th century. It was watched by around 10 million people across the three BBC shows, and has just won a BAFTA for Best Live Event. Incidentally, this was done during a break in my work on Springwatch (and Autumnwatch/Winterwatch ) where I have been working for the last three years with your very own Nick Baker (currently Natural History Fellow at Win Coll)!’ Robin Cooch, Hamish Phillips, Gerard McLachlan, Jonathan Fayers, Christopher Thomson

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Wykehamist Old Wykehamist Sporting In the final, the OWFC bowled first and, Olympic Societies after an initial salvo from IZ, were able to Champion for peg them back with some tight bowling 96 years and OWCC from Tom Guest (C, 97-02), Will Morse the first to win Rupert Morton (B, 96-01) reports: On a (K, 01-06) and Will Rowley (C, 07-12). a medal at two glorious July day, 37 OWs competed in the Phil Nevin’s (I, 95-00) leg spin (not seen separate inaugural T20 competition: a slightly since the 90s) made a surprise return for a Olympics. His more vintage OWCC team took on IZ, tidy return of 4 overs, 4 wickets for 14 crew was with a more youthful OWCC side playing and, with the OWFC keenly scampering described by the OW Football Club. The former match around in the field, the target was no less than was a see-saw affair, with Al Maclay (Coll, restricted to 131. IZ started well in the Sir Steve 86-91) and Caspar Ridley (K, 80-85) field, pinning the OWFC batsmen down. Redgrave as exerting great control in the opening overs Even with excellent knocks from Tim the ‘best IV and restricting IZ to a slow run rate; in the Lewis and Pete Fuller (Coll, 04-09) down we’ve (GB) middle overs IZ staged a comeback with the order, the OWFC eventually ended produced’. some attacking stroke play, before Tim up short on 114 all out. George has now won gold for GB at U16, Moore (Coll, 93-98) came on to peg them U18, U23, World Championships and back. A late rally got IZ to 133 for 8. Of It was a great day and ended on a Olympics and has won a world or special note was a brilliant one-handed delightful note with all the players Olympic title every year since 2013. pick up and run out by Bill Holland (F, 79- repairing to the Queen, where Stuart 83). In reply, Tim Moore and Charlie Churchill arrived to receive a lovely Toby Backhouse (B, 82-87) reports: ‘I Mccall (F, 91-96) led the charge, but the photo book of all Soccer and Lords XIs shared my part in Wykehamical sporting OWCC were always up against it in the from 1974 onwards with letters of glory by rowing in the Veterans’ Boat face of some accurate bowling. With 17 appreciation from OWs of all societies. Race at the end of April 2016, fortunately needed off the last over, OWCC were Many thanks must go to Tim Moore, rowed over only half the normal course, knocked out, 14 runs short. George Close-Brooks (F, 90-95) and his wife Sarah for organising and producing On Meads an aggressive 66 by John the book (which required hours of Wilson (E, 01-06) set the OWFC off to a labour). All in all, it was a fantastic day great start and they finished on 162. The and one that the OWCC will be looking OWCC were always up against it, and to repeat in the future. even Jonny Pringle’s (C, 98-03) towering sixes - one easily clearing the straight OW Fives Meads wall off Tim Lewis (F, 03-08) – to reduce the need for on board On Friday 3rd June and under the aegis of defibrillators. I had lost in my freshman couldn’t keep up with the rate, with the OWCC finishing on 156. dons Jamie McManus, James Hodgins and year at Cambridge in 1989 and after 27 Giles Munn, 20 OWs and current pupils years I was talked into a comeback, and our victory was sweet, even if it was a side show to the main event. Oxford veterans had stacked their boat with a slew of ex- Olympians and American fitness freaks. An exception to this dark-blue trickery was the inclusion of young Richard Manners (Coll, 86-91): it’s a shame to have to beat a fellow Icenae, but it was worth it in pursuit of a light-blue win. Average age for each crew was above 42, and minimum age above 35: young George Nash will simply have to wait his turn. Essential viewing of our epic race at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncc- zw02thc&feature=youtu.be ’

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gathered together for dinner in College Hall to celebrate the recent significant successes in School and OW Fives: Win Coll is the 2016 West of England Schools and also under-16 Rugby Fives champion for both singles and doubles; and Will Ellison (C, 00-05) is ranked first nationally. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed a tremendous evening. The OW contingent: David Barnes (A, 54-60), James Bristow (D, 96-01), Andrew Horsewood (D, 01-06), Ben Hale (F, 02- 07), Nick Baines (F, 06-11), Matt Hale (F, 08-13), Ben Chua (E, 09-14), James Smith (E, 09-14) Bertie Robertson (F, 10- 15) and Tom Watkinson (I, 10-15). Top row (l-r): Peter Fuller, Alex Portz, James Gray, Tom Bouch, Rupert Mercer, James Rann, Thomas MacThomas. Bottom row (l-r): Pietro Emo Capodilista, Charlie Court, Taro Kiley, Tom Guest, Billy Thurston, Billy Fitton. OW Football Club JS Gray (I, 04-09) records : The first-ever Rann (Coll, 97-02) leading a particularly OW II then faced Wellington I and OW football tour proved to be successful as enlightening tour of Prague’s Old Town. produced a scintillating display in the first we returned unbeaten from the Czech 3/5ths of the match to lead by 2-0 against Republic with our heads held high. Destinations are already being explored a pair that included an ex-doubles world A group of 13 men, spanning almost a for next year and any OWs wishing to be champion, but in the event failed to make decade of school years, had been selected a part of the trip or the Club on a regular it through. and, after a Friday evening exploring basis should email Pete Fuller via Prague, we faced our opening fixture [email protected] . The OW I pairing of Jun Portz (current against Stodulky FC. If any men were world doubles champion) & Jun Bailey struggling for energy, tour organiser Tom OW Golf saw off Malvern and a strong Haileybury Guest (C, 97-02) – to whom much of the The annual competition for the Sinister side. They then dealt with Harrow, credit must go – soon shook us well awake. Pot was held at Sandford Springs Golf winners of the NB on numerous He seized the ball on the halfway line, cut Club on 11th October, somewhat later in occasions, with Bailey making a mockery inside from left and produced a 35-yard the year than usual because of some of the of his time away from the game with a curling effort that nestled in the top corner participants requiring replacement parts. to leave the opposition stunned. Some Captain of the Sinisters was CD Brims (K, penalty area pinball allowed an equaliser 63-68). Captain of the Dexters was GC but in the second half, encouraged by Scott-Malden (D, 62-67). Also playing skipper Pete Fuller (Coll, 04-09), the were JN Scott-Malden (Coll, 63-68) and OWs began to play the ball around and AJC Normand (F, 76-81). The match Taro Kiley (H, 98-03), Billy Fitton (C, ended in a win for the (left-handed) 05-10) and Tom Bouch (C, 06-08) all Sinisters for the third successive year and ensured that the European debut was a a discussion was held as to whether this victorious one. entitled them to keep the Pot in Christian Portz perpetuity. A hot was not held due to the On Sunday against Jinocany, the OWs fragility of certain players’ hips and knees. created an inordinate number of chances but in the end could only manage a 1-1 OW Rackets draw, Pietro Emo Capodilista (F, 03-08) Will Morse (K, 01-06) records: Three claiming the honours for the away team. Winchester pairs entered the 2016 Noel Bruce, with OW I and OW II making it to Football aside, the trip was punctuated by the 1/4 finals for the first time since men doing their very best to fill up their digital records began. custom-made ekker rolls, with Dr James Mike Bailey

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trademark display of quick hands and speed around the court, along with some fine hitting and serving from Portz.

Despite a strong start in the finals against Cheltenham, OW I failed to prevent the trophy returning to Gloucestershire for a second consecutive year. See www.tennisandrackets.com/NewsItem.aspx? id=1540.

OWI Mike Bailey (A, 00-05) Christian Portz (H, 05-10) OWII James Bailey (A, 96-01) Patrick Maxwell (H, 78-82) OWIII Tom Meek (H, 06-11) Richard Apperly (I, 06-11)

OW Sailing Club We have had an eventful year, starting successfully with victory (7 -1) in the Belvidere trophy in early April. Our boat, helmed by Alastair Hall (D, 95-00), was crewed by Alastair Morley (B, 93-98), James Markby (C, 93-98) and Ed Knight (G, 98-03).

Our regular Cowes weekend in May for boys and OWs with yachts was a great success and we were joined by both Claire Webster, WSC secretary, and Tamara A strong crew met in Cowes on 1st OW Tolling Club Templer of Win Coll Soc. 32 sat down for October, to defend the Arrow trophy: we Anthony Doolittle (Coll, 98-03) requests : dinner, a hot was held and a flower bed were joined by Duncan Byatt’s (D, 75-80) Please put Saturday, 17th December in may have lost. son, Harry, who made us up to the full your diary for the annual Alumni race in complement of 12. The first of four races Wimbledon. No need to commit or There are two events in quick succession on the Saturday went well and we decline quite yet. in the autumn: the Sir Reggie Bennett finished 3rd out of 24. Gybing for the line Cup at Seaview and the Arrow Trophy. and again in 3rd place at the end of the Please also provisionally pencil in second race, the Sunsail boat broached The Seaview weekend was great fun, Saturday, 4th March, 2017 for a match and the mast snapped. And that was the although with only five OWs - David against the School in Winchester. The end of our Arrow defence. Anderson (Coll, 69-74) Calum Sillars (A, date has not been confirmed yet, but we 72-76), Michael Toogood (H, 78-82), and the School are trying to get a There is a dinner at the Royal Ocean Jamie Roe (G, 10-13) and Fergus Bentley regular fixture in the diary. I’m sure I am Racing Club in London on 6th (G, 10-15); Eric Billington brought nine not the only OW who fancies a canter December. OW sailing is enjoyed by OWs men from the School. An enjoyable along familiar paths up, down and around of all ages and we are always looking for dinner on Saturday night was followed by the South Downs. If that weren’t enough, others to join us. Please contact the racing in light airs on Sunday. The OW there is also a rather smart trophy that Commodore, David Anderson, team was joined by Claire Antoniazzi as will be polished up for the occasion. More [email protected] or our an honorary OW. Win Coll demonstrated to follow. its high level of sailing skill by secretary, Claire Webster, comprehensively beating the OWs, who [email protected] . also lost to Old Radleians.

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Obiter Dicta was the first person to ring 1000 peals – Old notions reported in The Field , also there seem to be no record as to what spotted by PSD: CJPAmbler (D, 50-55) recalls : Following people thought of his pastoral on from Breon Rawlings’s interesting Muttoner (1831): a blow from a cricket activity! Incidentally, some of his account of austerity Winchester, I have ball on the knuckles, the bat at the time descendants were there and, as he penned out an incident which can’t have being clasped by them; apparently had sons, I asked if any of happened to that many people in their Slobber (1851): to fail to grasp the cricket them went to Win Coll. They said – and I Winchester days. It concerns Freddie ball cleanly in fielding. quote – ‘No, because he was Founder’s kin Goddard, who was my Housedon for three and, before his sons could go, the School of my five years in Kenny’s. changed its policies and Founder’s kin were no long admitted.’ I suspect that It was a gloomy late November morning there are some half- truths there, but in 1952 and I was having breakfast seated there was no interest from them in at one of the long rectangular tables reporting the occasion to Win Coll, even designated for 2-year men. Freddie though they live in Hampshire. An Goddard used to hand out mail at amusing further point is that the breakfast; yes, the post came early then. I unveiling was accompanied by two didn’t get a letter, but instead a tap on my speeches, but the person who introduced shoulder and ‘See me in my study the speakers went on for 20 minutes afterwards.’ I naturally speculated on himself before they could even get possible misdemeanours, but duly started! knocked on his study door. P Stormonth Darling (C, 45-50) spotted Freddie had a grave look on his face, and that Old Wykehamists of 100 years ago he invited me to sit by his desk. ‘Son,’ he had an official postage stamp. said, ‘some terrible news. Your father died last night. Let it go boy, let it go.’ I am not sure what I did, as it was DR Woolley QC (Coll, 53-57) 64 years ago. But when I looked wrote thus to the Chairman of up from floor level, he was Goddard Legacy Society: ‘As we weeping. For me, a moment ever welcome the new Headmaster, frozen in time. This must surely you and he may wish to reflect be a nightmare thing for a that there have been in history Housedon to do. He was quite only two people who were well acquainted with my father, Quiristers and later Prefects of who had been a Japanese POW Hall. William Stanley Goddard and had finally succumbed. was one and I was the other. As Freddie was a very decent man, you know, WSG went on to and I wish he had been my become Headmaster as well. Housedon for the full five years Therefore, while I am still of my time in Kenny’s. He retired around, you might think it wise a year later. to advise Dr Hands to keep a vigilant watch on his back!’ I Professor DN King (Co Ro, 72-78) reports : In the village next to ours, Drayton, Oxfordshire, there was a service on 22nd May related to the unveiling of a blue plaque to the Revd Francis Edward Robinson, a former rector. He was born in 1833 and went to Win Coll 1846-49. The blue plaque celebrates chiefly the fact that he

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Do Co Ro: Ave atque Vale British Library’s Discovering Shakespeare You’d dine well with me, my Fabullus, digital project ( www.bl.uk/shakespeare ), he In a few day’s time. If the gods favour The new Headmaster, Dr Timothy Hands, has also published on the sonnet, Keats, you that is, began his reign on 1st September. We Brexit (in Catalan), the migration crisis, And only if you bring along a proper wish him every success. We also offer a and the depiction of mental illness in meal, warm welcome to this half’s new cohort of television crime dramas. And wine, and wit too, and laughter dons: Sam Baddeley (Classics); Irina for all – Nekhlyudova (Russian Assistant); Lucia Quinault (English) addressed the Not forgetting to bring a beautiful Matthew Pawlowski (Gordon Junior British Society for Eighteenth-Century date. Fellow, Classics and Sport); Dominic Studies conference in Oxford on the I dare say, you charmer, if you bring Rowland (Mathematics); Edward Steer subject of Thomas Le Mesurier (Coll, all these, (Junior Fellow, Chemistry); Cheryl Syrett 1769-73), a clergyman whose eminent You will dine well. Trouble is, my (Art); Nicholas Townson (Junior Fellow, public career (including published small wallet History); Matthew Weaver (Gordon sermons and relentless contributions to Is only filled with cobwebs. Junior Fellow, Sport); Claire Webster ecclesiastical debate) was undergirded by (Classics); John Wright (Geography, the composition of personal verse, a habit But in return, you’d receive pure love, HoD); Nicola von Bossel-Hill (part-time begun at Winchester. Or maybe something more elegant, German). We hope that their time with more delightful: us will be happy. Quid Suavius Elegantiusve I’ll give you the perfume, Which the Venuses and Cupids gave At the end of Short Half, we shall bid a Not to be outdone by his scholarly dons, to my girl. fond farewell to Hugh Hill (Mathematics, George Jones (A, 12-) deserves plaudits And once you’ve smelled it, Fabullus, since September 1983). for coming second in the Stephen You’ll beg the gods to make you all Spender translation prize, a national nose. Co Ro Beyond the Gates competition for translation from any language into English. His version of Several industrious members of Co Ro Catullus 13 will be published in The Monique Fuchs have clearly found that a week crammed Guardian in November and in a booklet Monique Fuchs, the last member of the with lesson preparation, marking, later in the year. Those who cannot wait Wells family to run the eponymous coaching soccer on Gater Field and can read it here: bookshop and niece of the redoubtable putting Jun Men to bed left them with Margaret Wells, has died enough spare time to contribute to the aged 94. After 35 years’ wider academic world. service, she retired in 1983, at which stage the Henry Cullen (Classics) co-authored freehold was purchased Latin to GCSE (Bloomsbury), a new by the School. course in two volumes for the reformed Monique’s death brings GCSE specification. to an end a remarkable era and a full Sarah Harden and Claire Webster appreciation of her and (Classics) contributed to the OCR her family’s Anthology for Classical Greek (Bloomsbury), management of the a textbook for AS and A Level pupils. bookshop can be found in TS55 & TS73 , copies Malcolm Hebron (English) has been of which are available especially – and eclectically – prolific. As from Alex Roe at Win well as contributing articles on Richard III , Coll Soc. I The Tempest and Julius Caesar to the Illustration courtesy of Dennis Page

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If you would like a copy of any press obituary referred to, please contact the Winchester College Society office. You can request either by email to [email protected], telephone +44 (0)1962 621217 or by sending a stamped addressed envelope to the Director, 73 Kingsgate Street, Winchester SO23 9PE. ‘Obit’ indicates that a copy of some other tribute is also available.

Archibald George Charles Forde Campbell awarded the US Legion of Merit. appointed OBE in 1972. Retired 1978. He Murdoch (C, 24-29): died 29.6.2016 aged Demobbed as Wing Commander 1946. devoted his retirement to York, firstly as 105 as Sen Man. Trinity College, Oxford After the war he joined the newly Chairman, York Diocesan Care of (MA 1950), after which he attended Royal established International Bank for Churches Advisory Committee 1980-86, College of Music 1933-35, sang for BBC Reconstruction and Development (the then Trustee York Minster Fund 1989-93, Radio and successfully auditioned for World Bank) in 1947. He spent 34 years Chairman, York Minster Fabric Advisory Glyndebourne. He studied with Willi there, during which time he participated Committee 1991-93. Founder Trustee, Domgraf-Fassbaender in Berlin 1937. in economic missions to Iraq and Spain Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust 1998- Because of poor eyesight he joined the and was a member of the Bell Mission 2000. He knew every Archbishop of York London Auxiliary Fire Service 1939-45; he studying India’s economy. He was the from William Temple to John Sentamu. converted to Roman Catholicism 1941. World Bank’s Chief Economist 1968-69 He was appointed Knight of Papal Order He started a teaching career, becoming and Director of the Development of Saint Sylvester 1982 and Deputy assistant master at Cumnor House School Economics Department 1978-81: an Lieutenant of North Yorkshire 1991. In 1945, then assistant master and extremely influential Briton at the World everything that he did there was great headmaster of the Thomas More School Bank HQ. Married (1) 1945 Dorothy precision, but despite this focus on 1946-55, followed by All Hallows School, Walbridge; (2) 1968 Georgia accuracy he was capable of sustaining all Lyme Regis 1958, St Luke’s College, Exeter Konstantinopoulos, who survives him his friendships. Survived by his brother 1959, St Joseph’s School, Devizes 1960-62 with their son and two sons from his first and nephews and niece. and finally Carterton County Primary marriage. School 1962-71. Music and singing were Arthur Ivens Spriggs (D, 33-38): died his passion. He moved to Malta on James Irvine Watson (F, 31-37): died 12.12.2015 aged 96 as 8th Sen Man. retirement, returning to the United 27.4.2016 aged 97 as 4th Sen Man. Brother of EAS (D, 31-36). New College, Kingdom in 1985. Married 1932 Sheila Brother of HSRW (F, 36-41). His Oxford, MRCP 1944, DM 1952. Haigh, who died in 2003 aged 100 after 71 grandfather had been born before the Commissioned RAMC 1944. One of the years of marriage. See appreciation above. Battle of Waterloo. Exhibitioner. In 1935 first doctors to enter Bergen-Belsen in he featured in The Hampshire Chronicle for April 1945. Demobbed as Captain. He Benjamin Burford King (Coll, 30-35): his admired performance in the then embarked on a career in pathology died 27.2.2016 a few months short of his Chawkerite play Outward Bound . Christ at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; eventually 100th birthday as 3rd Sen Man. Bib Prae, Church, Oxford 1937, 2 Modern Classics he became Consultant Cytologist for the Maths Prize 1934. Scholarship, Trinity 1939; MA 1944. Commissioned into the United Oxford Hospitals 1960, where he College, Cambridge 1935. Maths 1 Pt 1, 2 Royal Artillery 1939 with whom he set up one of the first regional cervical- Pt 2, BA 1938. On the outbreak of war he served at the Combined Operations cancer screening services. He always joined the RAFVR, with whom he served Training Centre, Dunoon, before joining instilled in his department a sense of fun with Coastal Command in Wick and later 18th Division bound for Singapore. The and friendliness and the willingness to in Gibraltar, where he listened to Division arrived in time to be captured. share knowledge with visiting students Luftwaffe radio communications to track But the ship in which the anti-tank and researchers. Publications included the movements of German and Italian regiment travelled broke down and History of Clinical Cytology 1980 and Atlas aircraft. He was later assigned to Bletchley returned to port. After attending Staff of Serious Fluid Cytopathology 1989. Park where he was privy to ‘Ultra’, whose College he served on the staff in India. Elected FRCP 1963 and FRCPath 1973. secret he closely guarded for 30 years. He After the war he first worked for the LMS President, the European Federation of was then moved to the British Military Railway 1946-47. He then embarked on a Cytology Societies 1979-81. He retired in Mission, Washington, where he was highly successful career with the British 1984, after which he studied and responsible for liaison between the US Council: for 22 of the 31 years he was the collected oriental porcelain and antique Navy and the US Army, for which he was Secretary (chief executive). He was lace. Married 1943 Gereth Watson, who

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died after 64 years of marriage in 2007. He Prize 1951. PhD Geophysics 1951. St Albans inducted him as Rector of is survived by their son. Commonwealth Fund Fellowship 1951, Barton-le-Clay. He had humour, he was first at the Woods Hole Oceanographic non-judgemental, he persevered and he Montague James (Jimmy) Lindsay Stow Institute at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was gracious. He inspired his nephew to (D, 34-39): died 30.4.2016 aged 95. Son then joined National Institute of set up the mentoring programme of JLS (Coll, 1893-98) and brother of Oceanography at Witley 1954, where he COACH, which supports 750 mentors in ADS (D, 35-41) and JGS (Coll, 37-42 studied ocean waves and storm surges. He the UK and Australia. He is survived by and Co Ro, 53-86). Co Prae, French was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society his sister. Prize, VI. Commissioned KRRC 1941, 1963 and was one of the honorands when with whom he served in North Africa, the Fellows of the Royal Society and Gerald Courage Johnson (G, 40-44): died Italy and North West Europe. Mentioned British Academy were received Ad Portas 24.5.2016. Son of ILJ (F, 1887-92), half- in Despatches. He accepted the surrender in 2011. From 1969-89 he served as Royal brother of WHLJ (G, 30-35), brother of of Denmark on 2nd May 1945: although Society Research Professor at Cambridge. DMJ (G, 41-46) and father of DALJ (G, just a Lieutenant, he was the only After his ‘retirement’ from Cambridge he 74). National Service, KRRC, with available officer who spoke German. He moved to California and worked at La whom he served in Tripoli and Palestine. was awarded, but sadly never received, the Jolla Institute at San Diego. In 1991 he Merton College, Oxford 1948, Forestry, Legion d’Honneur for his part in the was appointed to the Institute for BA. Following his marriage in London to Normandy Landings. Trinity College, Nonlinear Science as a Senior Research an American Fulbright scholar, the Oxford 1946-48, 3 History 1948, MA Physicist (known as ‘The Admiral’) until couple relocated to Eugene, USA. He 1953. In 1948 he began his successful his second ‘retirement’ in 2001. He joined the Bureau of Land Management, career at Horris Hill, first as an assistant introduced the theory of the origins of an agency of US Department of Interior. master, then assistant headmaster and microcosms, discovered the Longuet- He was a dedicated forester for over 50 finally following his father as headmaster. Higgins point and circle and was the years, balancing the needs of He retired in 1989. He encouraged inventor of Rhombo blocks. He conservation, industry and recreation. He German and Italian pupils to come to the constructed the first ever complete set of was passionate for shooting and rarely school to help foster mutual edge models of the uniform polyhedra, missed an opening day. He supported understanding and respect. A keen continuing in the tradition of Plato, Ducks Unlimited, trained dogs, surveyed footballer, cricketer, golfer and cross Archimedes and Kepler, and donated the endangered spotted owls and sailed. He country runner, he cemented Horris Hill’s collection to Win Coll in 2012. He attended the theatre with his formidable sporting and academic married Joan Redmayne-Tattersall, who Shakespearian English professor wife of 60 reputation among prep schools. It is died in 2010 after 51 years of marriage. He years. Married 1954 Gloria Mandeville, generally recognised that in Jimmy Horris is survived by their two sons and two who died having celebrated their Hill had one of the best football coaches daughters. diamond wedding anniversary. He is for that age group in the country. He survived by a son and two daughters. One wrote a history of the school in 1992. In Ian Henry Gaunt Graham-Orlebar (A, son predeceased him. his memoirs he wrote, ‘I knew then, and 39-44): died 18.7.2016 whilst preparing have felt it increasingly since, that I will for his 90th birthday. National Service, Anthony Charles Thomas (H, 41-44): never repay the debt I owe to RNVR. He passed the Navy eye test by died 7.4.2016. Father of CRVT (B, 75-79) Winchester.’ Married 1957 Colina learning the letters by heart and then and MNCT (B, 76-81). Gillespie Prize Mackintosh (died 2008). He is survived hiding his glasses and ‘reading’ by 1944. He served with the RAOC in Egypt by their daughter. memory. Passed out 1st at HMS King 1945-48. Corpus Christi, Oxford 1948, 3 Alfred. Sub-Lieutenant, Staff of C-in-C Jurisprudence, BA 1951. Forsaking the Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins (Coll, Pacific 1946. During this time he climbed law he read for a diploma in Archaeology 39-43): died 26.2.2016 aged 90. Brother Sydney Harbour Bridge, taking a disabled at London University 1952. He then of HCL-H (Coll, 35-39). Major friend with him. New College, Oxford acted as a tutor with the Workers’ Scholarship Trinity College, Cambridge 1947. 2 Jur 1949, MA 1956. Admitted a Education Association in Cornwall. He 1943. 1 Maths 1945. He first worked as a solicitor with Walton, Luton Solicitors. was Lecturer in Archaeology at Edinburgh scientific officer at the Admiralty Legal Secretary, Boy Scouts Association University 1958-67, during which time he Research Laboratory with Group W 1956-60. Attended Cuddesden College of was the first Professor of Archaeology at (Waves), where he helped predict wave Theology 1960 when Robert Runcie was Leicester University and the Hunter and current conditions in preparation for Principal. Curate Hemel Hempstead Marshall Lecturer at Glasgow University. the Pacific landings. He won the Rayleigh 1962-70. Robert Runcie, then Bishop of President, Council for British

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Archaeology 1970-73. He was the first consulting engineers 1950-55, then for served in Korea 1951-53 and later in Professor of Cornish Studies, Exeter British Railways 1955-61. MICE 1957. BAOR. Retired as Captain 1966. He then University 1971-91 (Professor Emeritus He then returned to Cambridge helped set up Charles Stapleton, a 1993) and founder and Director, Institute University Engineering Department financial-services company, with whom of Cornish Studies 1971-91. Chairman, 1961-88. ICE James Watt Gold Medal he worked from 1966 until his retirement. BBC South West Advisory Council 1975- 1973. Whilst at Winchester he took up He became a JP in 1970. He followed his 80. D Litt Oxford 1983. Member of the what was to become his lifelong hobby – grandfather and father as President of Royal Commission on Historical church bell ringing. He learnt at Chessington Cricket Club, for which he Monuments 1983-97 (Chairman 1988- Winchester Cathedral and was Master of raised sufficient money to build a 89). Deputy Lieutenant, Cornwall 1988. the Cambridge University Society of pavilion. Real tennis played a big part in FBA 1989 – he was received Ad Portas Change Ringers. He retained his interest his life: he helped build Hampton Court with Fellows of the Royal Society and in London and was a member of the Real Tennis Club from a rarely used, cold British Academy 2011. CBE 1991. In Sunday Service band of ringers at St and dark club to become one of the 1999 he bought and restored the thatched Paul’s Cathedral. In 1953 he persuaded famous clubs of today. He was a Past Gwithian chapel, which has a banner the School that the bells in Chapel could Master of the Old Wykehamist Lodge and reading, ‘God within the heart is always be rung full circle without harming the a Past Grand Officer of the United Grand necessary .’ Amongst his publications was tower, despite the cracks. He served for 26 Lodge of England. An honourable man, a Christianity in Roman Britain to AD 500 years on the Towers and Belfries true Englishman with impeccable 1981, in which he argued that Roman Committee of the Church Bell Ringers manners who loved his school. Married Britain had seen a widespread Central Council. He celebrated his 80th (1) 1962 Angela Wood (marriage evangelisation. An outstanding scholar of birthday by hiring a train for the day on dissolved). (2) 1980 Jennifer Nott, who early Britain. When presented with the the Gloucestershire Worcestershire survives him with his son. Royal Institution of Cornwall’s Henry Railway. He was a good teacher, both of Jenner silver medal, the Lord Lieutenant engineering and bell ringing – he fired the John Stuart Landless (C, 43-46): died of Cornwall described his contribution to enthusiasm of hundreds of students. 4.7.2016. Exhibitioner. Burnley Cornish life as ‘unparalleled’ and went on Married (1) 1953 Frances Edgar (marriage Municipal College 1947-49. City & to say, ‘He truly is a Cornish polymath’ . dissolved), (2) 1972 Margaret Jackson Guilds Certificate in Textile Manufacture. He is survived by Jessica, his wife of 56 (marriage dissolved), (3) 2000 Mary He joined his family business at years, and their two sons and two Hawker, who survives him with his son Clowbridge as a director 1949-58. When daughters. Obituaries, The Daily Telegraph and three daughters. the cotton business went into decline he and The Guardian. chose a new career in journalism and John Garner King (Coll, 42-47): died became managing director, Newspaper Philip Michael Foot (G, 42-47): died in 17.5.2012. Aulae Prae, VI. National Printing and Publishing 1958-78. He then South Africa 17.12.2011. Brother of CRF Service with Royal Signals 1947-49. became a brewer, setting up Moorhouses (G, 36-41). National Service, Middlesex Scholarship New College 1949. I Modern Brewery and today its beer is sold all over Regiment 1947-9. He then joined Classics 1951, 2 Lit Hum 1953. He first the country. Finally, he was director Barclays (DC & O) in 1949. In The worked as a trainee with Furness Withy & Holiday Park 1979-89. He was a keen Wykehamist of 23 June 1966, at the time Co 1954 and with Reuters Ltd 1956. amateur actor and became President of of UDI, he answered questions put to him Educational publisher with Longman the Rossendale Operatic Society. He by the Editor, including, ‘Do you expect Green & Co 1956. Information Officer retained an interest in old cars, including to see black majority rule in your with the COI 1960. Administrator, Austin Sevens, an 8-litre Bentley and his lifetime?’ To which he replied: ‘No, if it is University of Edinburgh 1966. He then Prince Henry Vauxhall. The Veteran Car the sort of majority rule practised by ran his own business 1976-89, before Club gave him great pleasure and he African Nationalists in states to the finally working for RSA Cert (TEFL) organised many long distance touring North .’ A long lost brother. Married 1957 1990. Married 1959 Gillian Knight events; he won the most prestigious Joyce Elliott . (marriage dissolved). He is survived by his award, the Lord Trophy, on at least two partner Josephine Burns. occasions and was made President in Brian David Threlfall (Coll, 42-47): died 1983. He was courteous, easy of address, 3.6.2016. Father of DMWT (F, 75-79). Francis Patrick Vere Barker (G, 43-47): firm in principle and kind and Trinity College, Cambridge 1947, 2:2 died 14.7.2016. Son of ARVB (K, 17-22). thoughtful. Married 1954 Mildred Lord Mechanical Science 1950. MA 1954. He RMA Sandhurst 1948. Commissioned who predeceased him. He is survived by first worked for Sir A Gibb & Ptnrs, into the Royal Artillery, with whom he his son.

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George Henry Hayhurst-France (I, 43- piano with mathematical precision. He is in BAOR. Magdalene College, 47): died 20.3.2016. He was a farmer, first survived by Penny, his wife of 59 years, Cambridge 1953, 3 Law 1956. OUBC of all in Sussex 1948-53. Then on doctor’s and their two sons and two daughters. 1956. British VIII European Rowing advice he emigrated to Canada in 1953, Games 1956. Qualified as a Barrister initially working on a farm at Peace River, Gilbert Alexander (Alick) Barratt (I, 44- 1959. He then became a merchant when he often walked to and from work, a 45): died 21.7.2016. Son of AWB (I, banker, first with William Brandt’s Sons distance of 7 miles. He bought a farm in 01-05) and brother of DECB (I, 40-44). & Co and later with National & Wesley Creek and his first livestock was a He contracted polio on VJ Day 1945 and Grindlays Bank, with whom he was dairy calf won by his brother in a raffle. left the School after only four halves. He managing director for Africa and the He built a herd of 100 with some of the spent two years in hospital in Middle East. He retired 1984. He was first exotic breeds in North Alberta: he Birmingham where the horrors of his seen as the embodiment of a certain was a leader in farming technology and treatment were indescribable. He wrote in Britishness of his generation. His word was the first AI technician in the North. his memoirs, ‘My disability from polio was his bond and when times were He rode horses until his arthritis stopped may well have proved an unexpected difficult he had a stiff upper lip. Courtesy him and he then switched to carriage advantage. Having received reports of the was his watchword and when gravely ill driving. He competed for Canada in the “must try harder” variety but faced with on the penultimate day of his life he was World Carriage Driving for the Disabled real handicap, I set about my future full of apology to his GP for putting him in Hartpury, England 1994, Wolfsburg, education and career with new to the trouble of a home visit. The Germany 1998 and Greven, Germany determination .’ He educated himself from ‘Triumphal March’ from Aida was played 2002. His hobby was trains and model the hospital library trolley and with at his funeral. Married Olivia railroading. He had a very large HO scale tuition from a retired vicar. Despite his Worthington, who died 2015 after 56 model railroad in the basement. His life unusual educational background he years of marriage. He is survived by their was blighted by arthritis from early persuaded the Warden of New College to two sons. childhood but the disease never offer him a place to study Modern History. dominated him. Married 1960 Gerarda 2 History BA 1952. He qualified as a David Richard Fraser Roseveare (Coll, De Meyer (marriage dissolved). He is solicitor 1957. He was a partner with Lee 45-50): died 13.6.2016. Son of RVHR survived by their son and two daughters. Bolton & Lee, Westminster 1967-78 and (Coll, 10-15, Co Ro 22-32 and 44-57) with Winkworth & Pemberton 1978-80. and brother of ASR (Coll, 49-52). Schol Keith Graham Frederick Spence (Coll, He became Master of the Supreme Court, Prae. Registered as a conscientious 43-48): died 19.6.2016. Son of DGCS Chancery Division in 1980 until his objector, he completed National Service (Coll, 17-23) and brother of JDS (E, 49- retirement in 1997. As a young man he in Horticulture. Exhibitioner, Trinity 54). Greek Prose Prize. Scholarship, was determined to achieve the impossible: College, Cambridge 1953, 2 Maths Pt 1 Balliol College, Oxford 1950, 1 Classics on crutches, paralysed from the waist and 2 Music Pt 2. MA 1960. He first Mods 1952, 2 Lit Hum 1954. He first down and before society provided any worked as assistant master at Rugby 1956 worked on the editorial staff of Country special disability aid, he travelled through and at Aldenham 1957-60. He then Life 1954, where he returned as deputy remote parts of Europe, the Soviet Union secured a job as a producer with the BBC’s editor in the mid 70s. He became associate and the Middle East. Finally, by now newly established Schools Television editor of Reader’s Digest special books 1966 wheelchair-bound, he looked after his Service, where he was a pioneer of maths and editor of Science in Action 1968, which wife, who had motor neurone disease. programmes for the classroom, with a did not last. He spent the golden With his wife he wrote Clungunford - 950 concern for the ‘low-attainer’. He was handshake buying a camper van and took years of a Rural Community. Married 1964 determined to find ways of enthusing his wife and four young children on a Fiona MacDermott, who died after 51 children and he provided a stimulating grand tour of Europe. Thereafter he was a years of marriage in 2015. He is survived yet manageable resource for teachers. One freelance writer and editor, which by their son and daughter. of his most innovative programmes, included some extraordinary trips to Mathshow , was nominated for a BAFTA. Madagascar, Kenya and Syria. His most Alastair Charles Franklin Thomson He was the chief organiser of the loved and respected book was The (C, 45-50): died 15.3.2016. Son of AFT Technology Group in 1984. He was the Companion Guide to Kent and Sussex 1973. (C, 18-23) and father of JCT (C, 74-79) conductor of the Jordans Singers and the He and his wife lived in France 2003- and RHT (C, 76-81). VIII 1948-50 Jordans Baroque Orchestra and regularly 2013. JS Bach’s ‘Fugue à la Gigue in G President 1950. Won Princess Elizabeth took part in the St Endellion music major’ was played at his funeral: he used to Cup, Henley Royal Regatta 1949. festival in Cornwall. On retirement he play all Bach’s preludes and fugues on the National Service, Royal Horse Artillery formed the Ealing Trio, set up the Ealing

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Clarinet Choir and sang with the London strong sense of what things were worth – Orthodox, Pentecostal, Evangelical and Concert Choir. In 1976 he reclaimed his and of the merits of hard work. He is Catholic. He is survived by Judith, his crown as the Jordans Village Fete Fastest survived by Annabelle, his wife of 57 wife of 54 years, and their two daughters. Lawn Mower. Married 1957 Elizabeth years, and their son and three daughters. Denham (separated). He is survived by Charles Maurice Churchill Dewar (F, 49- his two sons and two daughters. Anthony (Tony) Owen Langlois 54): died 10.7.2016. Son of MPDD (K, Hodgson (I, 48-53): died 11.7.2016. 20-24). Lords 1953, VI 1953, Soccer XI Richard Francis Hanbury Park (B, 46- Exhibitioner. Tancred Studentship and 1953-54 (Captain). RMAS 1954-55. 51): died 8.4.2016. Brother of CJHP Exhibition, Christ’s College, Cambridge, Commissioned into The Buffs, with whom (42-47). Boxing 1951. National Service, 2 English Literature and Theology. he served in BAOR, Aden, Kenya and the 1st Royal Dragoons (now Blues and National Service, Royal Navy, where he Far East. On the staff in BAOR and with 2 Royals) 1951-53. Trinity College, eschewed officer rank and served as an Queen’s Regiment in Belfast 1970 and Cambridge 1953 2:2 Law 1956. MA LLB Acting Leading Coder on HMS Crane in BAOR. Retired as Major 1974. Admitted 1957. He then embarked on a successful the Far East. World Council of Churches as a solicitor 1977 with Charles Russell & career as a solicitor. He was President, Scholarship to Greece to study pastoral Co, Lincoln’s Inn 1978-82, and with Notaries Society 1987-89 and chairman, life of the Greek Orthodox Church 1959- Thomson Snell & Passmore from 1982. He Social Security Tribunals for several years. 60. Ordained 1962. He then served in was first and foremost a soldier: forthright He was Treasurer of his PCC for ten years. the Norwich Diocese and thereafter at and tenacious and regarded as a demon of He built a ‘Mirror’ dinghy for one Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London. an adjutant – impatient with cant and daughter and spent days driving to Pony He worked for Christian Aid 1970-74 pretension. He was a sportsman, being Club camps for the other daughter. He and was the founder Warden of Little Tennis Champion HQ BAOR 1969. He was an avid gardener who achieved a Gidding Community 1973-76 before retained his interest in sport both as a beautiful garden – much admired. He is becoming Vicar of the Giddings 1977-81. player and as a spectator. He maintained survived by Patricia, his wife of 56 years, He was Warden of Dovedale House his connection with his regiment, and their two daughters. Youth Training Centre 1981-89. He was organising the Dragons Club dinners for founder of Rural Theological Association former Buffs officers until he died. Hon Alexander James Younger ( F, 46- and Christian Rural Concern and with 51): died 21.7.2016. Son of EGY (F, his wife the Anglican Expression of Peter Russell Gordon-Smith (K, 51-56): 20-25), brother of GKHY (F, 45-49, Marriage Encounter. He with his wife died in his favourite pub on 17.1.2016. Warden 97-03) and REGY (F, 53-58) and became pioneers of small lay VIII. Dartmouth 1956, 3rd generation father of REAY (F, 79-84). 3rd generation communities that proliferated to the father to son in the Royal Navy. Having of Wykehamists, father to son. Worcester extent that 135 were listed in the trained as a navigator, he initially served College, Oxford 1953-56, 3 Modern National Association of Christian in Singapore and the Far East in HMS History. National Service with A & S Communities and Networks in 2000. Caprice, HMS Russell and HMS Parapet Highlanders 1951-53 and with the Black Chairman, Life Style Movement 2010-15 and later served in the Persian Gulf. He Watch in Korea 1952-53. He then and Warden of the Ferrar House, Little left the Royal Navy in 1976 as Lieutenant- embarked on a career in printing, first Gidding Community 2005-08. He coxed Commander. He took up farming in the with Sir Joseph Causton & Sons 1956-68. his College boat whilst at Cambridge and South Downs, making a lasting and He then moved to become Managing returned to rowing in retirement. During successful business. Diagnosed with Director, Robert Maclehose & Co, the a weekend campaigning with his Parkinson’s in 1998, he retired from Glasgow University printers 1968-77 daughter in Genoa during a G8 Summit farming and returned to Emsworth, where before finally becoming Director Simpson they were featured in a Times article he enjoyed classic-car driving, model-train Labu Co Ltd from 1980. He supported his challenging the stereotypes of the building and a special wine cellar. Married daughter through Pony Club, becoming anarchist protestor that the media were 1963 Marion Else, who died in 2010. He is the local Branch District Commissioner mainly portraying. His ministry was one survived by their son and daughter. and he was instrumental in setting up the of hospitality and pastoral concern. It was Riding for the Disabled Centre in not what he achieved but how he was Nicholas Adam Tatton-Brown (E, 52- Scotland. His great success with DIY was with people. To mark his 80th birthday 56): died 7.3.2016 suddenly in his garden to build a hi-fi cabinet – a masterpiece of he walked 80 miles along the Nene Way, just a couple of months short of his golden craftsmanship. He played the piano well raising £17,500 for Freedom from wedding anniversary. Father of DNT-B and enjoyed the opera. His lifetime Torture. When asked to define his church (K, 82-87) and SWT-B (F, 85-89). 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Watch, a member of the inter-unit Somerset, which he built up to 2,000 Cash Register. He then undertook teacher athletics team which won the Army acres. He was very involved with the training. He was very good with his hands Championships. King’s College, local community, being Chairman, West and could make furniture. He moved to Cambridge 1958-61, 2:2 Economics pt 1 Somerset Rural Housing Association and Kingston House in Devon, from where for and 2:1 History pt 2. MA 1964. He then Treasurer of the PCC. There was always a while he ran a dairy. He is remembered began a successful career as an insurance something going on in his life from flying as a loving kindly grandfather. Married broker, first with AW Bain & Sons Ltd, his own aeroplane to sailing the 1969 Sarah Gordon, daughter of 4th director UK Division Bain Dawes Ltd Atlantic. Married (1) 1967 Elaine Marquess of Aberdeen (marriage 1973 and director Friend Croager Ltd Thompson, who died in 1984; (2) 1984 dissolved). He is survived by their five 1989. He was an accomplished gardener Dinah Barry, who survives him with two sons and a daughter. and for 43 years he tended his garden sons and a daughter. unaided; he was a keen fisherman and an Hon Nigel Paul Greenway (A, 58-61): irascible bridge player. He loved building Robin Godfrey Booth (C, 56-60): died died 25.7.2016. Son of CPG (K, 30-35) sandcastles, playing backgammon and 18.3.2016. Vere Herbert Smith Prize and brother of ACDG (H, 54-59) and being a freeman of Berwick upon Tweed. 1960. King’s College Cambridge, 2:1 MSKG (A, 56-61). Soccer XI and 3rd But above all he loved Longstock and in Architecture and Fine Arts, MA 1966. Sen Steeplechase. After leaving school he an email just before he died he wrote ‘We Edward S Prior Prize 1964. Diploma in went on a Norwegian cargo ship to continue to live at the Old Vicarage. We Architecture 1967. Edinburgh University Canada, where he worked for a few rattle around a bit and the garden gets MSc 1971, postgraduate course in Urban months at Royal York Hotel in Toronto slowly more unkempt but I love it here in Design. ARIBA 1970. Having qualified before returning on RMS Queen Longstock so, God willing, I will be he embarked on a career as an architect, Elizabeth. He then worked for Union carried out feet first .’ Married 1966 first working in the GLC’s Architect’s Castle Line in the passenger department. Joanna Roopeway-Reeve, who survives Department 1968-72. He then He studied at Barcelona University and in him with their two sons and a daughter. successively worked for Robert Matthew, 1974 he went to Australia and worked for Johnson-Marshall & Partners 1972-76, Shay Gap iron-ore mine before returning Michael Godfrey Wenman Wykeham during which time he was Project in 1975. He was a bon viveur. He (A, 53-57): died 20.3.2016. VIII (Cox). Architect for the then Hereford and especially loved the sea and sailing, which Dartmouth 1957-58. Royal Navy 1958- Worcester Council Headquarters; he then translated in later life to making fine 79. Retired as Lieutenant Commander. worked for John S Bonnington model ships and becoming an He then farmed at West Grimstead. He Partnership 1976-80 before becoming a accomplished water colourist. He spoke had a great love of the sea and ten years partner in The Fitzroy Robinson several languages, which helped his main ago he bought a beautiful 50ft Ketch, Partnership 1980-2001. During this time occupation as a European tour guide. which he sailed to the Mediterranean and he was Project Architect for Standard Married 1979 Gabrielle Duchardt, who then east to Turkey over six years. He had Chartered Bank Headquarters London, survives him with their two sons. an enduring love of politics and will be the partner in charge of projects for remembered as one of the founding Scottish Widows, Kumagai Gumi and the Malcolm William (Bill) Duperier fathers of UKIP. He loved music, Union Bank of Switzerland. He was a Maclagan (F, 58-63): died 5.4.2016. Lords especially opera, and Wagner. Married modest English gentleman who was a 1963, VI and Soccer XI 1962-63, Tennis 1969 Judith Schofield who survives him most successful architect, winning VI (Captain), Squash V. Southampton with their son and two daughters. numerous awards and being in charge of University BA Social Science 1967. £200 million of construction work. He Squash V and Tennis VI (Captain) 1967. Adrian Neil Little (C, 55-60): died was a great lover of opera and the arts. He first worked for Weatherbys 1968-72 2.3.2016. VIII 1958-60, President, Boat Married 1971 Katherine Middleton, who and then Kemp-Gee & Co 1973-75. He Club 1960. Member of the winning crew, survives him with their son and daughter. then became a Director, Internal Racing Schools’ Head of the River, Putney 1958. Bureau 1976-97. He represented Somerset New College, Oxford 1960-63, 3 Mod Patrick John Raleigh Scott (K, 58-63): and Northamptonshire at both squash History. He first worked for British died 22.2.2016. Son of RSGS (D, 22-28). and tennis; he was a member of Mensa Oxygen 1963-69, with whom he was Followed his father both as Captain of and particularly loved classical music. He deputy managing director of a local Lords 1963 and as Sen Co Prae. Brasenose was a golfer with a handicap of 5 and subsidiary in Pakistan. After a course at College, Oxford. He first worked for the annually went on golf tours in Portugal Royal Agriculture College, Cirencester, Bank of London and South America, and Turkey. 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of both the All England Lawn Tennis and excavation of the Roman colony at Luni, Winchester Players both in the Warden’s Croquet Club and the Royal Wimbledon Liguria 1974. Called to the Bar, Middle Garden and at the Minack Theatre in Golf Club. He did not marry. Temple 1977. Cornwall. He was a speaker at Aldeburgh Literary Festival 2005-07. He taught David Victor Fortune (I, 60-64): died Simon Alford (F, 67-72): died 24.5.2016. English, he was humble and he listened. 27.6.2016. Grandson of Major General Son of VA (Coll, 13-17). Lords 1972. St He was a poet and a handsome anthology Sir Victor Fortune (D, 1897-02) of St Andrews University 1973-77. MA Hon of his work Bound in a Nutshell , dedicated Valery fame; son of JBF (I, 34-40) and 1st Class Medieval History. He sang tenor to his partner, Belinda Barrie, was brother of JPF (I, 68-73). 3rd generation in the University Madrigal Group in the published in May 2016. See appreciation of Wykehamists, father to son. Bisley beautiful chapel of St Salvator’s, St above. I 1961-63. Mons 1965. Commissioned into Andrews and at St Giles Cathedral, The Black Watch, with whom he served Edinburgh. Miller-Lyell Scholarship, We are aware of the following deaths and in BAOR, Libya and Cyprus. He then Courtauld Institute, London University, will be including further information in trained as an Army Air Corps pilot and MA History of Art 1981. Assistant at the the next issue: gained his Army wings in 1969. He then Courtauld Institute Galleries 1981-82, a served with the air flights of the Scots time memorable for the theft of Breughel’s Peter Michell Luttman-Johnson Greys 70-71, in Northern Ireland, Woman Taken in Adultery, which he (C, 33-38) Sharjah and Oman, and the 14th/20th blamed on himself, but thankfully the died 1.10.2016 King’s Hussars. He retired from the Army painting was recovered later. He then Colin George Champion Rae (B, 34-39) in 1972 as a Captain and worked for became Assistant Inspector of Historic died 11.10.2016 Jardine Matheson & Co in Hong Kong Buildings, West Dorset 1982-86. In three John Pritchard Bassett (C, 35-40) 1972-75, flying with the Hong Kong years he surveyed 100 parishes and listed died 15.9.2014 Auxiliary Air Force. He then worked for 2,500 buildings. 12 publications resulted BBC TV Outside Broadcasts 1975-77 from this work. Never strong enough to Stephen Arthur de Mowbray (A, 38-43) (acting as floor manager at Montreal go back to full-time employment he died 4.10.16 Olympics) and for Dale Keller Associates returned to Twickenham, where he will Richard Charles Harrison Harrison- he was Project Manager, Royal Pavilion, be remembered as a member of the choir Topham (K, 46-50) Jeddah Airport, Saudi Arabia. He then at St Mary’s. He read every week to a local died 6.10.2016 set up his own business, Bengairn Joinery, lady whose eyesight was failing. Plagued Andrew Francis Burnett Crawshaw in 1984. He served in the TA Air Corps by mental illness throughout his life, a (C, 47-51) 1990-2000. He took two things from donation to MIND was collected at his died 28.8.2016 Winchester: the Spanish guitar and funeral. Survived by his sister. Terence Eyre Coote (K, 47-51) drawing and working with his hands. He died 6.9.2016 learned tunes from Andrés Segovia and Adam Philip Shand Crick (E, 71-75; Co he brought back songs from the Perth Ro, 89-92, 93-98, 00-01): died 2.3.2016. James Gavin McLaggan (G, 48-52) Folk Club and The Black Watch. His skill Son of PMDC (E, 35-39). 3rd generation died 28.9.2016 with his hands and a good eye were of use of Wykehamists, father to son. Bisley Peter Gordon Davey (A, 48-53) in the world of bespoke kitchens (he built 1974-75. Editor of satirical magazine died 5.9.2016 one for Margaret Thatcher), cabinet Heap . Worcester College, Oxford 2 Anthony Shayle Owen Houchen making and the installation of libraries in English 1979, MA 1984. He first worked (H, 51-55) houses of quality. When flying for the for W & FC Bonham (auctioneers) 1979- died 11.8.2016 Scots Greys, wearing the Bonnet and Red 83. He was then assistant master at David Clifford Royle (Coll, 58-63) Hackle, he was known as the ‘Whirly Tonbridge 1984-87 and Sherborne 88-89. died 24.8.2016 Jock’. Married 1982 Claire (Wombat) He joined the Co Ro at Win Coll in 1989 Stratton, who survives him with their son but later returned several times as part- Samuel Gerald Wynn Kenrick (F, 65-70) and daughter. time don. House Tutor (G and H). His died 13.8.2016 main departure from Winchester was Rupert James David Mozley (F, 72-76) Patrick Willoughby Ward-Perkins (B, 66- recorded in The Wykehamist 1998. He died 31.8.2016 70): died 1.3.2016. Son of CNW-P (B, walked the Camino Way to Santiago de 30-36). A member of Debating Society. Compostela in 1992 which he described Oxford University, History. He received a as one of the most significant events of his grant from the British Academy for the life. He played many roles with the

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Office 73 Kingsgate Street From the Director Winchester OW Glory in 2016 Fallon. After an amazing forty-six SO23 9PE editions, Bernard has decided to bow out Telephone: 01962 621217 All OWs will have been delighted by and all at Win Coll Soc, past and present, E-mail: [email protected] George Nash’s gold medal for rowing in the would like to thank him for his artistic Web site: www.wincollsoc.org Rio Olympics and David Thouless’s Nobel advice and good judgement, enabling us Directors: Lorna Stoddart Prize for Physics. See OW News above. Alex Roe (G, 72-75) to avoid nearly all the pitfalls that Dep. Director: Tamara Templer New Member of Win Coll Soc magazine publishing can entail. I am sure Don Assoc: Michael Wallis these sentiments will be echoed by the (also Director of The Friends ) Team loyal readership! We wish Bernard and The Council Fiona all the best for the future. Simon Toynbee (D, 57-62) Nat Hone (F, 68-72) The Treasury Alex Roe (G, 72-75) – Director of Win (aka College Bogle Store) Coll Soc With this edition of The Trusty Servant Winston Ginsberg (I, 81-85) you will find a leaflet describing the new Paul Cleaver (H, 85-90) Treasury. This is a fantastic example of a Alasdair Maclay (Coll, 86-91) – Chairman project that has worked really well: Michael Humbert (B, 90-95) generous donors, kicked off by Anthony Mark Toone (E, 90-95) du Boulay 10 years ago and also including Ed Matthews (K, 91-96) many others; working with Lorna and Freddie Bjorn ((H, 95-00) Tamara who made the business case to Conrad Griffin (I, 04-09) convince GoBo to turn a vision into Dr Timothy Hands – Headmaster today’s reality. Rachel Wragg (Curator), Lorna Stoddart – Director of Development Richard Foster (Keeper of Collections) Tamara Templer – Deputy Director of and John Wells (Works Bursar) can all Development feel really proud about the outcome. Now, Michael Wallis – Don Associate and Director where’s the next project…! of The Friends Patrick Walker (I, 65-70), father of Matt TEN SEN MEN (G, 02-07) and son of the late Peter Lt. Col. The Lord [GNC] Wigram (I, 37-42), joined Win Coll Soc in MC (H, 28-34) September to help develop our legacy TA Bird DSO MC (E, 32-36) programme. Patrick has spent the last 37 MJP Martin DFC AFC (F, 32-38) years in the City in Institutional Fund CJD Haswell (K, 32-37) Management, firstly at Morgan Grenfell/ PNB Howell (D, 32-38) Deutsche Bank and more recently at RB Moberley (Coll, 32-38) Aberdeen Asset Management. DV Bendall CMG MBE (D, 33-38) Col AM Thorburn (A, 33-38) Bernard Fallon Prof JC Dancy (Coll, 33-39) Rev’d CG Pilkington (E, 34-39) Compiling The Trusty Servant twice yearly is the most satisfying part of my job, which has been made considerably less nerve-racking by the knowledge that all the design and production is in the exceedingly skilled hands of Bernard

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A chance to earn money for Putting our house in (even will give the public the opportunity to opt undergrads and leavers! better) order out of communications from all charities, including post, email and telephone calls. Monday 10th July – Monday 24th July The Wykehamical community has As we are a charity, we will be covered by 2017 inclusive: spend two weeks with 13 generously supported the School since its any new rules. young OWs as a telephone fundraiser for foundation: donations from OWs, OQs, bursaries. parents, dons and Friends have helped us In addition to this, the new General Data to increase bursary provision, maintain Why you should apply Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come our historic buildings and improve into force in 2018 and will replace the ț Two days training facilities. A wonderful legacy has been 1998 Data Protection Act. To comply Earn a minimum of £8 an hour and ț built up for future generations of with the new law, the School will need bonuses Wykehamists and we would like to make your consent to contact you. You will ț Evening and weekend calling sure that we can carry on this tradition of have to opt in, rather than opting out, ț Free accommodation philanthropy. and will have to let us know how you ț Invaluable networking with OWs and would like us to communicate with you. current parents In 2015 there was a great deal of news So that we comply with the GDPR by coverage about the unfortunate Olive ț Improve your communication skills 2018, we will, within the next 12 months, Cook and charity fundraising practices in send you a form to complete or may call ț Learn about the art of negotiation general: in response, the Government you to confirm that you are happy for us Looks good on your CV ț commissioned Sir Stuart Etherington to to carry on keeping in contact with you: If you would like further information, or review fundraising regulation. One of his inviting you to events, updating you would like to apply for the role, please main recommendations, the creation of about our fundraising priorities for the contact Tamara Templer, Deputy Director the Fundraising Preference Service, would future, and even sending you your copy of Development, [email protected] , work in a similar way to the Telephone of The Trusty Servant ! 01962 621 407 and Mail Preference Services. The FPS OW Civil Service Guild Andy Ryan (A, 01-06) and Piers Fotiadis (A, 99-04) are exploring whether there is an appetite for an OW Civil Service Guild. The plan would be to run events for both current and former OW civil servants to share experience and expertise. There may also be opportunities to provide advice to current Wykehamists who are interested in careers in government. If there is a sufficient level of interest, Andy and Piers will aim to organise the Guild’s opening event for late 2016/early 2017. Please get in touch at [email protected]

LGBT OWs Eager to avoid being seen as less socially progressive than Eton and Harrow, a small band of OWs have established an alumni association for gay and bisexual OWs: the OW Cornflowers. A website is being constructed, where interested OWs can sign up – www.owcornflowers.com – and a launch event is being planned for the Treasury donors: Gough, Loveday, Du Boulay; Nightingale looks on spring, as are potential joint events with the OE Dragonflies and the OH Byronics.

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Lines on the Abolition of College Beer (1915) Yes, all is o’er. We must drink water now, Or sip the anaemic juices of the cow. Swipes are for ever gone; the doctors say Beer hinders work, and saps the strength for play. Besides, of course, the present sitauation Makes it the gravest danger to the nation. If College were to go on drinking beer, What could prevent the Germans landing here? What were the worth of our all- shattering guns If College traitors drank – and helped the Huns? Yet, Swipes, methinks the spectres of the past Rise from their graves to watch thee breathe thy last. And Bacchus drapes his portly paunch in black, To signify, O Swipes, we wish thee back.

WRG Mills (Coll, 1911-15, died 1917)

Win Coll Soc Events May 2016 to mid-October 2016 Western Australian Old Wykehamist Lunch 2016: Chris Oakeley reports – Five Old Wykehamists in Western Australia – John Prince (Coll, 37-41), Michael Harford (E, 39-44), Andrew Byk (F, 82- 87), Christopher Oakeley (H, 54-59) and Mac McArthur (Q, 50-52) – and their wives met for an excellent lunch and brown bread ice cream on 7th May 2016 in Perth. Contact: +61 (0)8 9386 4357 John Sanders and David Fellowes

Winchester Match: on Saturday 19th HM and Ginny Lovell June 2016 and following the annual Service of Dedication in Chapel, 210 guests made their leisurely way to Win lunch which was enjoyed by all in a Coll Soc’s marquee beside Hunter Tent. relaxed atmosphere. Those that had room There they were addressed by the remained for tea, where they were joined Warden, who thanked Dr Ralph by a number of parents. Winchester Townsend for all his hard work over the Match seems to have evolved into a last 11 years, also drawing great attention successful formula that is enjoyed by all. to Cathy’s huge contribution. Joyce the Jean Ritchie, Andrew Longmore, Guy Boney and College Chef then produced a spectacular Patrick Maclure

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Hong Kong OW Guild; Paul Tao (I, 80-85), Chairman, reports: we had an excellent turnout for an OW soccer match at the Hong Kong Football Club on 26th June 2016 with a 6-a-side match turning into 8-a-side with the arrival of some children of members. The scorching heat failed to dampen spirits and with the presence of some former 1st XI and 4th XI players (and some who hadn’t played for over 20 years) the game was tough, competitive, high scoring and a genuine crowd pleaser. Brilliantly organised by Terris Tang (E, 96-01), this could turn into a regular calendar event in Hong Kong.

We also had a dinner talk on 7 July 2016 by Mark Cheng (Coll, 87-92) who is Managing Director of Ashoka Europe on Social Entrepreneurs and his own life journey into the organisation. It was well OW soccer match at the Hong Kong Football Club attended by 15 OWs and spouses, a slightly different crowd from the soccer match.

HM, Warden and Cathy Townsend Mark Cheng’s dinner talk Goddard Day 2016: on Saturday 10th September, 120 members of the Goddard Legacy Society gathered together on a rather damp Saturday. Following a service in Chapel, conducted by Goddard member Simon Thorn (D, 79-84), who is also Dean of Chapel, guests were given the opportunity of a guided tour and preview of the new Treasury, which was greatly admired.

Bryan Thwaites and Peter Steven Richard Foster and new HM

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OW Guilds Dinner: on Thursday 22nd September, 55 OW Guild members attended dinner at the Cavalry & Guards Club and to listen to Edmund Truell, father of four Trantites although a Wellingtonian himself. Edi, who has a background in banking and private equity and is now chairman of Disruptive Capital, spoke about the way in which he ran businesses and what had gone right and what went wrong. Altogether it was a most enjoyable evening, with the two Sen Men, Alan Lovell (B, 67-72) and John Hornby (I, 67-72), happily dispensing free advice from their own vast experience.

Admiring the stained glass Stuart Watson and Rachel Wragg Following drinks and lunch, the new Watson replied on behalf of the guests. Headmaster, Tim Hands, introduced Despite the rain, it was generally agreed to himself to the assembled company and have been a most enjoyable occasion. the Sen Man Major General Stuart

1946 Electoral Roll Lunch: on 14th September 2016, John Briscoe (Coll, 46-51) organised a reunion lunch at Skinners’ Hall to celebrate 70 years since members of the Roll entered Win Coll. This was the fifth five-yearly reunion and was attended by 16 of the 17 survivors of the original 22 on the Roll and for the first time wives or a guest were invited. A preprandial and postprandial Grace was said by Robert Hardy (Aulae Prae), the Loyal Toast was proposed by Christopher Everett (past Master Skinner) and ‘Winchester College’ by John Briscoe. After lunch there was a tour of Skinners’ Hall.

Edmund Truell

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Rauf Islam and Jamish Vekeria Tom Davenport, James Irvine-Fortescue and Sam Witherow

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Michael Humbert, Sam McArthur, James Walters

John Hornby, Elliot Stevens and Alan Lovell

Cameron Foote and Frederick Thiede

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65+ Years-on Lunch: there was a record turn–out of 48 from the Class of ’51 and earlier on Tuesday 11th October, despite the best attempts of the Southern Region RMT to prevent attendance. Stuart Watson was hailed as Sen Man, Mike Wallis from the home team discussed the merits and otherwise of Spencer Leeson and Walter Oakeshott, and Fane Vernon (H, 37-42) replied on behalf of the guests. Robin Peppiatt Michael Hill and Peter Stormonth Darling Altogether great fun.

Nigel Agar, John Raison and Andrew Myrtle Francois Edwards and Peter Trustram Eve

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25s-45s Dinner: on 18th October and in an atmosphere of bonhomie across the generations, the 25-45 OWs settled down to dinner in the Waterloo Room of the Cavalry and Guards Club. Daniel Hilken (I, 84-89) was Sen Man, joining in the now traditional singing of Happy Birthday to Nikhil Venkateswaran (I, 84-89). James Menhinick (D, 00-05) gave the speech on behalf of the OWs and Mr Nick Wilks, Second Master, gave the ‘state of the nation’ speech on behalf of the School. The Director of Winchester College Society had a much lighter purse by midnight down in the members’ bar! Nikhil Venkateswaran, Anthony Morris, Robert Simpson, Joshua Rosenberg

James Menhinick, 2M, Mike Wallis W8 Andrew Ryan, William Gregory, William Hayward

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Kenny’s Reunion Lunch: on Tuesday Choral services: Evensong in Chapel at ț Another recording has been made 25th October, 12 Kennyites of the Classes 5.30 pm on Tuesdays; Eucharist at 5.30 through the generosity of an OW of ’54, ’55 & ’56 sat down for for their pm on Thursdays; and Compline in donor. Love Songs in Close Harmony was second reunion lunch at Skinners’ Hall, Chantry at 7.15 pm on Saturdays. All are recorded in September 2016 and hopes hosted by Noel Dobbs. It was a happy welcome at these services. to be released in time for Valentine’s occasion and there was no Hot – all Day 2017. Commoners! It is planned to continue Chapel Choir Recordings ț It is great to have OW David Hurley, with this tradition that started following Winchester College Chapel Choir former member of the King’s Singers, as the 60 Years-on Reunion Lunch at the regularly records CDs most of which are a member of the Music department and Cavalry & Guards Club in October 2014. available at Cornflowers, 17 College assisting vocal ensemble singing at Please could others take a leaf out of the D Street, Winchester, Telephone +44 Winchester College. House book! (0)1962 621234. ț Cantores will be doing an ‘away’ Football concert on 12th November at St. Three Wings 1 by David Lol Perry (Neon Hubert’s Church, Idsworth, a concert of Winchester 6 Westminster 1 Records) available from davidlolperry.com close harmony featuring folksongs, February 1965 Traditional Plainsong in collaboration spirituals and seasonal music. with composer David Perry. Pink shirts ț Cantores will be joining the Music Black shorts Deep River (Regent); Music for Lent, School trip to Colombia once again in Defiant thoughts: Passiontide and Holy Week: Tippett, July 2017. “So what” was what Lotti, Byrd, Greene, Purcell, Bruckner. They seemed to say, Stanford: Choral Music (Convivium), Winchester College Register – or “We play the game including some previously unrecorded Wykehamist Who’sWho Westminster way, works. Both hot and cool If you have not already bought a copy of Westminster School.” the seventh edition of this hard-back At Vincent Square Coming Soon: volume, which contains career details, if They had an air Mozart Requiem (Convivium), with the provided, of all living OWs and dons, Of devil-may-care London Mozart Players. excluding the most recent arrivals, now is Being able to sport the time to put this right and discover An innate flair Cantores Episcopi news what your contemporaries got up to! Which can’t be taught, To order a copy please send a cheque for Therefore rare. ț A successful Winchester Match the reduced price of £25, payable to performance in July 2016. Winchester College, to Kate Ross at the Warren Hibbert (B, 60-65), Win Coll Soc office. Captain Soccer XI

Chapel Choir Events 2016-2017 2016 Classic FM Carol Service: Transmission dates TBC 10th – 12th December 2016: Quiristers tour to Belfast: Carols in the City and Mass at St Peter’s Cathedral 15th December 2016: Alice Martineau Charity Carol Service: St Luke’s Church, Chelsea https://www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/carolsbycan dlelight 31st March – 6th April 2017: Chapel Choir tour to Germany Amicabilis Concordia: Evensong with Eton Chapel Choir

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All from the Same Place slip-case are available for £10 online business dealing in antiques and each to those wishing to collectibles relating to Winchester College. We have full sets of the superb complete their set. Should you From antiquarian books and rare trilogy of books by Malcolm wish to purchase the full set of manuscripts to collectable silver and Burr (C, 46-51), All from the books and the slip-case, this porcelain, Trusty Servant Antiques has the Same Place, More from the Same will cost only £35. The cost of ideal gift to remind the Old Wykehamist of Place and Yet More from the postage will be assessed with his time at the School. Oliver has kindly Same Place , bound respectively each order. Please contact Kate agreed to make a donation to the Bursary in blue, red and brown – and Ross should you wish to place Fund of a percentage of the gross profit also a useful and appealing slip- an order ( [email protected] ). made on sales to OWs or others connected case to hold all three editions. with the School, so please be sure to We are finding that these make mention your connection to him! excellent presents for Trusty Servant Antiques www.trustyservantantiques.com . I Wykehamists of all ages, including A reminder that ODN White (G, 97–02) leavers. The books themselves and the manages Trusty Servant Antiques, an

Dates for your Diary

Please note there have been some 11th March – VIs: Commoners vs 1st July – Domum. changes to previously advertised dates. OTH: kick off at 2.30pm on College 8th September – Wykeham Patrons’ 2017: Canvas. Annual Dinner: in Winchester. 11th March – 60 Years-on Reunion 11th-14th September – OW Great War 7th January – In memoriam Adam Lunch for the Classes of ’55, ’56, ’57 & Commemorative visit to the Ypres Crick: art exhibition, poetry ’58: in Winchester after a div hour in Salient. reading,Treasury viewing; 6.30pm in Chantry; drinks and lunch before VIs, TBC – Goddard Day: in Winchester. Winchester followed by tea. 27th September – OW Guilds Dinner: 20th January – Under-25s Dinner: at 16th March – 50 Years-on Reunion at the Cavalry and Guards Club in the Army & Navy Club in London. Lunch for the Classes of ’66, ’67 & ’68: London. 9th February – 40 Years-on Reunion at the Cavalry and Guards Club in Dinner for the Classes of ’76, ’77 & London. 10th October – 65+ Years-on Reunion Lunch for the Classes of 1952 and ’78: at the Cavalry and Guards Club in 19th March – OW Win Co Fo before: at the Cavalry and Guards Club London. Tournament: in Winchester. in London. 11th February – XVs: Commoners vs 22nd April – Don Soc Lunch: in 23rd November – OW Parliamentarians OTH: kick off at 2.30pm on College Winchester. Dinner, House of Lords. Canvas. 27th April – 20 Years-on Reunion 11th February – 30 Years-on Reunion Dinner for the Classes of ’96, ’97 and Dinner for the Classes of ’85, ’86, ’87 ’98: at the Cavalry and Guards Club in You can register and pay online & ’88: in Winchester after XVs; tea, div London. for events hour in Chantry, drinks, Chapel, etc. 22nd – 28th May – Wykeham Patrons You can register and pay online for 22nd February – OW Garrick Club trip to Italy. events. All payments are processed members dinner. 16th June – Parents Summer Party: in through Blackbaud Merchant Services 25th February – ICENA Reunion the Great Hall, Winchester. which ensures the highest levels of Dinner: in Winchester. security are applied. You should be a registered user of the website to book 17th June online for events. New user Future House 150th Winchester Match: registrations can take up to two days to Anniversaries: Ticketed lunch on New Field; be processed if registration is In 2018: Kenny’s and Freddie’s, completed over a weekend. Register at In 2019: Chawker’s, Phil’s, Trant’s and Hopper’s OWCC v. Lords and 2nd XI. www.wincollsoc.org

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