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President: Sir Richard Branson (Cobham/Lyttelton 68) Vice President: THE MAGAZINE FOR OLD STOICS Dr Anthony Wallersteiner (Headmaster) Chairman: Jonathon Hall (Bruce 79) Issue 6 Vice Chair: Hannah Durden (Nugent 01) Director: Anna Semler (Nugent 05) Treasurer: Peter Comber (Grenville 70) Members: Paul Burgess (Cobham 89) Tim Hart (Chandos 92) Jonathan Keating (Conham 73) Katie Lamb (Lyttelton 06) Ben Mercer (Development Director) Phoebe English (Nugent 04) is causing Nigel Milne (Chandos 68) waves with her de-constructed fashion. Simon Shneerson (Temple 72) Jules Walker (Lyttelton 82) ROAD TRIP OF A LIFETIME Mike Andrews (Chatham 57) relives an epic 43,500 mile journey.

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Issue 6 FEATURES 4 HIGH-CONCEPT FASHION 24 TREASURES OF A SPIRITUAL AGE Phoebe English (Nugent 04) is causing Richard Temple (Temple 55) built waves with her de-constructed fashion. a career around his love of icons.

12 ROAD TRIP OF A LIFETIME 65 THE VIEW FROM NEPAL Mike Andrews (Chatham 57) relives an Marcus Cotton (Chatham 82) epic 43,500 mile journey. writes about the aftermath of the earthquakes in Nepal. 18 BRUCE BROTHERS WIN START UP OF THE YEAR Charlie (Bruce 07) and Harry Thuillier (Bruce 04) win the Guardian’s start up of the Year for their healthy Ice Cream, Oppo. Page 4 REGULARS

2 EDITORIAL 41 BIRTHS 8 FROM THE HEADMASTER 41 OBITUARIES 26 NEWS 74 STOWE’S RICH HISTORY: 40 MARRIAGES ROYAL TREE PLANTING AT STOWE

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2 WELCOME FROM THE NEW OSS CHAIRMAN 67 WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: LANCELOT 3 NEWS FROM STOWE ‘CAPABILITY’ BROWN AT STOWE Page 12 14 GLASTOWEBURY STOWE POEM 16 SQUASH THE MOUNTAIN 69 OLD STOIC ENTREPRENEUR: RUBY LAING 21 A RETURN TO THE MUSIC ROOM – COFFEEHOUSING WITH A NEWSROOM BOOTCAMP OLD CHANDOSIANS GATHERING 22 OLD STOIC ENTREPRENEUR: EMILY FORBES 70 SUFFRAGAN BISHOP OF ISLINGTON: 23 CHAPEL – A PLACE TO BE THE RT REVD RIC THORPE 52 TOWARDS 2023: ARCHIVE COLLECTION – 71 WE'RE GAINING GREAT STOWEMENTUM All Old Stoics are warmly invited, along with their family and friends, SOME MEMORIES OF STOWE TOWARDS 2023: ARCHIVE COLLECTION – THE BIG BAD WORLD DR LESLIE HUGGINS 72 FAREWELL TO THREE PAST CHAIRMEN to return to Stowe for a day of tours and activities, along with a chance 53 THE CHURCHILL £20 COMMEMORATIVE COIN 2015 SHOOTING AT STOWE to catch up with friends from your time at Stowe. THE STUDIO OF ETIENNE MILLNER 73 COMEDY WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS “MARSDEN! MARSDEN!” 75 TOWARDS 2023: ARCHIVE COLLECTION – Page 18 54 MEET THE OLD STOIC SOCIETY COMMITTEE th th th th th ADMIRAL LORD MOUNTBATTEN Old Stoics celebrating the 20 , 25 , 30 , 40 and 50 Anniversary 56 STOWE X ROCK AND BLUES ARTS AT STOWE 58 COLIN DUDGEON'S DEPARTURE of their departure from Stowe have been invited to meet up for lunch 76 TOWARDS 2023: ARCHIVE COLLECTION – with their year group in the State Rooms. 59 GROUND BREAKING PROGRESS APPEARANCES WITH ONLINE NETWORKING OS SPORT 2016 60 THE ROXBURGH SOCIETY OS CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING OLD STOICS MASTER THE CRESTA RUN 77 OS GOLFING SOCIETY 61 0–60˚ IN 3 YEARS OS CROSS-COUNTRY CALLING BATTERSEA 78 OS FOOTBALL 62 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STOWE OS7s THE BEATLES 79 STOWE TEMPLARS The full itinerary for the day will be published on the Old Stoic website. 63 AMERICAN WORTHIES AWARD THE STOWE BEAGLES SPLIT PERSONALITY 80 2016 GIFT COLLECTION Please save the date and look out for your invitation later in the year. Page 24 64 STOWE LODGE INSIDE BACK COVER To join us, please email [email protected] or telephone 01280 818349 66 CAPABILITY CLARKE 2016 EVENTS EDITOR’S LETTER WELCOME FROM THE NEW Find Stowe School on twitter @stowemail and facebook.com/stoweschool Welcome to the OSS CHAIRMAN sixth edition of The Corinthian – I am incredibly proud to have taken over the role of Chairman from Simon Shneerson (Temple 72). Over the the magazine for last three years Simon has tirelessly reinvigorated the Old Stoics. OS Committee into a professional body of Old Stoics representing every generation. I would like to thank him We’ve had such a busy twelve months for all of his hard work, passion and, no doubt, late nights; his efforts have left the my feet have hardly touched the ground. Society in excellent shape. Simon has recruited some excellent new members for We’ve been buzzing around the country the Committee, so now amongst our ranks we have characters who can generate holding OS Events in the regions and awe inspiring ideas, make the impossible-possible and capture the interest of Old reinvigorating the way the Society is Stoics who have long forgotten Stowe. I am excited about the prospect of putting our well laid plans in motion. administered, making it even more accessible and useful for everyone. Many of my friends would coin my catchphrase as ‘sweat the assets’, I’ve said it hundreds of times at committee meetings over the last few years. With over ten Once again, filling the pages of this thousand Old Stoics across the globe, we certainly have strength in numbers: the magazine has been a breeze: Old Stoics potential that lurks within our network is mind blowing! Over the last twelve months certainly have the knack of getting we’ve been working on a brand new website, which finally delivers an unrivalled, involved in exciting things. I am useful tool to help you to network with Old Stoics around the world. It can help you particularly pleased to include a number find long lost friends or make new business contacts. If you’re moving abroad or of articles about young OSs running even going on holiday, it can produce a list of other OSs nearby! I’m looking forward start-ups, as well as adventure stories, to seeing it take off over the next few months. news and activities from the course of Stowe breeds individuality. It’s the Society’s job to make sure that spirit continues the year. Thank you to everyone who has to live on in all of us after the horrendous hangover from the Leavers’ Ball subsides. submitted an article and to all of you We hope that everything we do will inspire Old Stoics to have the courage to stand out who have sent in your news. from the crowd, think on their feet and to be creative, so they can make a real impact Last November, Jonathon Hall (Bruce 79) in life. This starts with our careers and mentoring programme which is offered to Stoics took over as OSS Chairman, bringing in the Sixth Form and can be used by recent leavers, too. I’ve been giving talks to with him some exciting ideas. Jonathon Stoics about advertising for over 10 years: I know first hand just how rewarding and NEWS FROM STOWE once said to me, “The only skill that is inspiring it can be to speak to young people and help them understand the Since my last piece in The Corinthian much visited Stowe to hold a masterclass with end of the academic year and the Stoics’ future proofed is creativity.” It is clear possibilities and opportunities waiting for them when they leave Stowe. has happened at Stowe and I continue to be our Music Scholars and to perform for a hard work was rewarded in the summer We’ve got some impressive entrepreneurs in our circle, including, of course, our from the pages of this magazine, amazed by the huge number of activities that delighted audience who were moved by his when the public examination results were especially the article about Phoebe President, Sir Richard Branson (Cobham/Lyttelton 68). You’ll find news of lots of Stoics are involved in, inside and outside the interaction with our pupils and his breath- released and our best ever GCSE results English’s (Nugent 04) high-concept young start-ups in the pages of this magazine that proves Stowe’s uncanny ability classroom. I spend almost every day wishing taking performance. An equally exciting followed some outstanding A Level results. to inspire creative thinking. We hope our services will help those just starting out fashion, that Old Stoics have creativity in that I had come to Stowe as a pupil! event was Stowe’s very own festival Our parents have been heavily involved in and, that those who are flying high will remember to pass on their knowledge to GlaStowebury, which took place the evening spades. Let’s do all we can to help the In the last year we have remembered David School life throughout the year, whether our younger members. We’re even doing some commercial thinking of our own by before Speech Day in a huge marquee on the younger generation of Stoics absorb as Wynne (Grenville 44), with a celebration of supporting their children on the touchline, looking at ways we can maximise the income for the OS Society via advertising and South Front. We were also treated to a visit much creativity at Stowe as those who his life and work at Stowe. Led by HRH Prince attending musical or drama performances from the Dominican Convent School Choir, sponsorship to enable us to plough more funds into the services we lay on for you. Michael of Kent, who was a close friend of or joining with other Stowe parents at events have gone before them. who send to us every year our South African The pages of this magazine are packed to the brim with success stories and news David’s, the service also included a musical put on by our Parents’ Association – it has Once again, thank you to the advertisers Scholars and who came to the UK on tour. from those whose lives are flourishing but we are all too aware that this is not the tribute by another friend, Chris de Burgh. been a busy year! It is also wonderful to see who have supported the magazine this Their uplifting music attracted full houses at how engaged Old Stoics are with the School case for everyone. We’ve been working hard on an important new initiative, the Stoics have been throwing themselves into all their performances. The School Musical and how willing they are to support our year. Thanks also to Caroline Whitlock all kinds of competitions from the National Old Stoic Benevolent Fund. It will provide a life line to those who fall on hard times was a production of Sondheim’s most initiatives from our fundraising for new for her consistent hard work and support Maths Feast in Warwick organised by the and need a support network or emergency funds to help them when the world goes ambitious and demanding show Company facilities and bursaries to advising current Further Mathematics Support Programme to throughout the year as well as her dark. I am inspired by it: it will make the Society a well rounded and useful body with fantastic performances from some of Stoics about career choices at the OS the National Robotics Competition that saw tireless efforts compiling this magazine. of which we can all be proud. our most talented actors. Our actors were Careers’ Fair. It is the whole Stowe our newly formed Robotics Society take team also seen on stage in performances of Finally, in the busy world we live in, it is I hope to meet as many of you as possible at our many events across the country community that really makes this School StoweBot all the way to the semi-finals − an Ruckus in the Garden and The Merchant a special place to be and I look forward to essential that we have your current email over the course of the year and I look forward to hearing your comments and ideas, outstanding achievement which they hope to of Venice. what promises to be another exciting year address so we can keep you up to date. which are extremely welcome and I hope will come flooding in. I hope you enjoy improve on this year! It is hard to single out individual sporting at Stowe. If you are in any doubt, please email reading this year’s magazine. Supporting charities is always something success over the year; we continue to As ever, I am always delighted to hear [email protected] that Stoics put a great deal of effort into and perform so well against other schools and from members of the Old Stoic community a number of worthy causes benefited from Stoics regularly represent their countries in whether with news for Stowemail (our their fundraising last year. A wonderful many sports. However, I’d be remiss not to e-newsletter) or the website, or with fashion show to support the work of mention our Junior and Senior Rugby Sevens enquiries about sending your children Kidscape raised some much needed funds – the teams gave some gritty performances or grandchildren to Stowe. Please email for this anti-bullying charity and Stoics also in the National Schools’ Championships at Anna Semler (Nugent 05) [email protected] if you would like to put their fundraising caps on for the David Rosslyn Park and the Senior team won the Old Stoic Society Director Jonathon Hall (Bruce 79) be added to the mailing list for either Old Stoic Society Chairman Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, the School Festival Title. Stowemail or The Stoic for more regular Charity of this year. Much of what happens outside the news from Stowe. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the Old Stoic Society and/or Stowe School. The publication of advertisements in this A highlight of the musical year was provided classroom helps Stoics in the classroom Tori Roddy, Director of Marketing & Admissions magazine does not constitute endorsement by the Old Stoic Society and/or Stowe School. 2 by Lang Lang, the world famous pianist, who progress towards excellent grades at the 3 COVER STORY

PHOEBE ENGLISH: HIGH-CONCEPT FASHION

After winning The L’Oreal Professional Creative Award in 2011, body of work dependent on whether those Phoebe English started an eponymous luxury womenswear label things are happening or not.” in the middle of a recession. Her drive paid off. The latest I look around the white studio. There’s not collection can be found in 18 international high-concept stores; even a mood-board here, “I’m not a she’s recently branched into cool menswear and is named in referential designer. I don’t have a wall of fashion from different periods. It’s not Forbes’ 30 under 30 2015 List. about looking back, it’s responding to the moment. That’s what fashion should be about, and why it moves so quickly Just before she arrived at Stowe, a creative every lesson, trying to absorb every because it’s constantly responding to epiphany happened to fifteen year old word he said.” the moment we are living in.” Phoebe Phoebe. The setting was The Radical After Stowe, Phoebe did the Fashion elaborates about the recent Paris and Fashion exhibition at the V&A. It was Design Womenswear with Knitwear BA London collections, where you can see an Alexander McQueen dress: “It was at Central Saint Martins. But disaster the sorrow of the refugee crises. like being punched in the face. The struck. “I got arthritis in my wrist. It was showmanship and the aesthetic was very difficult for me physically to do any I ask Phoebe what is her label’s version extraordinary; it was the first time I knitting. I then got a place on the MA. of glamour, but I am already missing the realised you could communicate I took it up knowing that I no longer had point: “I wouldn’t define my clothes as something with a material. The dress the ability to knit. I thought I was going to glamorous. The aesthetic is niche and was made with ostrich feathers and glass. be found out and lose my place.” subversive. It doesn’t work in every town. I remember staring at it for half an hour However, the calamity became a blessing. It’s an aesthetic for people who solidly. I was the last one in the Phoebe decided to look up the definition understand aesthetics. Creative people exhibition. It was that realisation that of knitwear – the construction of the knot respond to it best. Zaha Hadid and Alison the feathers were fragile and the glass and the twists and turns that the yarn Goldfrapp wear our clothes. We do have was fragile but they were both fragile in results in, is its decoration. “So if I can’t some unchallenging, easy to wear pieces a different way. And what made the dress knit, how can I still explore this same but we also have some very challenging look extraordinary was the communication ethos through other avenues?” The pieces. It’s for people who aren’t too afraid between those two surfaces.” answer was working with textiles where by their own personal style and already This is one of those magical, she could hand-knot, Macramé and have an established sense of style.” overwhelming moments where the artistic hand-thread. This ideology still informs Suddenly, a fantasy pops into my head. teenager wants nothing ever to be the her company today. Old Stoics everywhere are ditching same again. Phoebe now talks to me Phoebe has to create a collection for every the pashminas, tweed and pearls for about her Stowe years, “It was a time of London Fashion Week, twice a year. Phoebe English. actualisation for me. I really began to realise who I was as a person, where I’d come from. It just gave me a really deep SUDDENLY, A FANTASY POPS INTO MY HEAD. realisation of my own personal aesthetics. OLD STOICS EVERYWHERE ARE DITCHING THE PASHMINAS, For creative people, it’s one of the best types of learning because you are quite TWEED AND PEARLS FOR PHOEBE ENGLISH. literally surrounded by design.” However, Phoebe is acutely aware that Each collection is funded by the last. Phoebe ponders that famous fashion she wouldn’t have been able to attend “The collections are autobiographical. statement that you’re only as good as your Stowe without the scholarships she They’re not marketed as that but every latest collection, “That’s just the type of received. “It’s so important that people time I present a collection, it’s a reflection thing that makes working in fashion so continue to support those scholarships to what’s happening to me in my life, who awful sometimes because it’s really true. because they really do change people’s I know, where I’m working, where I’ve The press is constantly looking for the next been, what I’m feeling like, maybe new thing, especially because of social lives.” The teachers who most inspired someone I love is ill or I have fallen in love media. It puts the pressure on when you her were Brian Johnson and Crispin or maybe there is a massive disaster are trying to make new work. The industry Robinson about whom she rhapsodises, happening and you still have to make that will continue to go faster. That type of 4 “He opened my eyes and I remember 5 Best Golf and Country Club in the UK

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SPC_Great British Club AD_Corinthian_A4_Dec 2015.indd 1 21/12/2015 10:06 FROM THE escalated from marching troops into the Ausnit’s plight. He wrote to the secretary dictatorship led by Marshal Antonescu. Rhineland in 1936, to the Anschluss with of the Allied Schools about the case on At first Max’s situation improved and he Austria and the Sudetenland Crisis of 16 March 1940, showing his customary was held in a sanatorium and then under 1938, far-right Romanian political parties empathy towards those who found house arrest in Bucharest. However, the HEADMASTER vied with each other to solve the Jewish themselves in distressing circumstances deeply anti-Semitic Antonescu was just Question by spouting no less extreme through no fault of their own: as determined to continue with the Steve has also been recognised for his work versions of Hitler’s anti-Semitic rhetoric. expropriation of Ausnit’s wealth (Cabinet “This trial has been pending for a very with the Memorial Library in New York to It was in this climate of political minutes from 4 December 1941 record long time and I have been kept in touch promote a better understanding of the uncertainty and deepening anti-Semitism Antonescu’s disparaging remarks about with developments by Mr Ausnit’s brother. Holocaust through conferences in Romania: that Steve Ausnit was sent to the relative Max Ausnit: “once a kike, always a kike”). There is no doubt that the thing is in July 2015 he took part in The Holocaust safety of Britain where he spent two years More worrying still, the German political. The law under which Mr Ausnit in Romania: Between History and as a pupil at St Bede’s Prep School. ambassador to Bucharest, Manfred Perception which brought experts from An Old Stoic friend of the Ausnit family was condemned was passed after the Freiherr von Killinger had contacted one America and Europe to take part in a four thought that Steve would be ideally suited (perfectly legitimate at that time) of Hitler’s key henchmen in Berlin, Foreign day seminar held in Lugoj. to Stowe which had by then established transactions had been completed. My own Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, with So how did this spry, dryly humorous, itself as one of the leading schools in conviction is that Mr Ausnit is a good deal news that Antonescu might allow Ausnit quizzical, nonagenarian Romanian- England under JF Roxburgh’s benign, more honest than the Government which to leave Romania in return for ceding all American entrepreneur who still enjoys humane, tolerant and civilised leadership. has engineered his downfall. I don’t think his assets to the State. Von Ribbentrop skiing in Aspen every year, find his way The idea met with the full support of we need be in the least bit nervous about replied with the order that under no to Stowe in September 1938? Steve St Bede’s Headmaster and proprietor, our fees. The brother, Mr Edgar Ausnit, circumstances should Max Ausnit leave Ausnit was born on 21 March 1924 in Kenneth Harding. will see that they are paid. I don’t feel that Romania. the town of Galatzi in Romania, just ten I can write to him to ask for guarantees Steve’s Common Entrance results were Interestingly, recently discovered wartime months after JF Roxburgh welcomed the and so on just at the moment when the impressive for a boy who had only Romanian Cabinet minutes support first 99 newly enrolled Stoics on the whole family is in such distress.” recently arrived in England. He threw JF Roxburgh’s belief in Max Ausnit’s North Front steps. Steve’s story is unique himself into all aspects of Stowe life and A file note written by Roxburgh recorded innocence. They reveal that ministers in the annals of Stowe’s history and his thrived as a member of Cobham House. that Edgar Ausnit visited Stowe to discuss knew that Ausnit had been unjustly family’s saga tells us much about the School reports comment positively on the family’s predicament and Steve’s imprisoned by the State because he had vicissitudes and changing fortunes of Steve’s intelligence, determination, educational prospects. Once again, JF refused to re-assign assets to the King. people living through the maelstrom of commendable work ethic and good showed great prescience in his analysis Antonescu himself admitted, “We are Central and Eastern Europe in the first character. He passed the Oxford and and understanding of the political doing the same thing as [King] Carol, but half of the 20th Century. Cambridge Board School Certificate motivation behind Max Ausnit’s arrest: in the interests of the State.” His feeble Examinations with flying colours and Steve’s father was Max Ausnit, Romania’s and specious justification of state Roxburgh confidently predicted that Steve “It appears that Mr Max Ausnit’s principal industrialist in the inter-war sanctioned larceny was echoed by Mihai would secure a place at “a good Oxford or imprisonment is a purely political move, years, widely known as ‘Regele de Fier’, Antonescu (not related to the Prime Cambridge College”. However, disaster as he has been consistently anti-German King of Steel. Max Ausnit had built up a Minister and Conducator, Marshal struck in early 1940 when Steve’s father in sentiment. In order to secure it, a 1 Miss Leonora Brooke with fiancé Max Ausnit substantial steel works company, Titan Antonescu). Mihai Antonescu, a young became the victim of a conspiracy special decree was made retrospectively Nadrag-Calan (TNC), which employed professor of international law who had hatched by jealous business rivals who constituting some of his business about 10,000 workers. He was also risen to become Minister of Foreign falsely accused him of fraud and transactions as illegal. The moving spirit President of the Uzinele si Domenile de Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and acting infringement of Romania’s strict currency in the intrigue against him appears to Resita (UDR), a huge steel plant which President of the Council of Ministers, laws. These bogus allegations were have been his late partner, with whom he produced locomotives, bridges and gives further evidence of Max Ausnit’s supported by the corrupt, greedy and has quarrelled.” A TALE OF armaments, employing another 17,000 complete innocence: people. As Romania’s fragile democracy “It would appear that the reasons for was supplanted by a Fascist dictatorship, STEVE’S FATHER BECAME THE VICTIM OF A CONSPIRACY Ausnit was identified as the ‘enemy No.1’ which Ausnit was condemned do not TWO AUSNITS by the Iron Guard – an anti-Semitic, HATCHED BY JEALOUS BUSINESS RIVALS WHO FALSELY constitute fraud, that the transfers anti-capitalist, ultra-nationalist movement ACCUSED HIM OF FRAUD between Resita, Tiptan-Nadrag-Calan and Ausnit personally are not frauds which rose to prominence in the 1930s. AND INFRINGEMENT OF ROMANIA'S STRICT CURRENCY LAWS One of the perquisites of my job is that I get to meet a variety of As the political situation worsened, the committed either by Resita, nor by the unusual and interesting people. Steve Ausnit (Cobham 42), Ausnit family became the target for all company Titan-Nadrag-Calan, nor does it an Old Stoic living in New York, has a remarkable tale to tell. sorts of imagined grievances and violent cynical Romanian monarch, King Carol II. King Carol II did not get to enjoy the fruits breach the rule of the Commercial Code... attacks followed. In 1937, a bomb was After a deeply flawed trial in which Max of Max Ausnit’s show trial and forced but is a pretext in order to take the thrown at the family’s home in Bucharest, Ausnit refused to transfer ownership of appropriation of assets. The monarch’s majority of the shares from Ausnit which A Harvard engineering graduate, Ausnit Dow Chemical Company negotiated an an imposingly grand neo-classical palace his companies to the King’s personal dwindling credibility and popularity was he didn’t want to assign...as the matter is one of the Old Stoic Society’s most exclusive licence from Minigrip Inc. to on Alexander Avenue. holdings, Ausnit was sentenced to six further weakened when in June 1940 concerns an enrichment of the Romanian successful businessmen. In 1951 Steve, produce and supply bags to supermarkets years’ penal servitude in the notoriously Romania ceded Bessarabia and northern State...we are reimbursing the State, not Max Ausnit saw that Romania was working with his father and uncle, Max across America under the trademark of harsh Jilava prison and ordered to return Bukovina to the Soviet Union (these transferring the shares to our personal surrounded by enemies and would not be and Edgar Ausnit, developed the Ziplok. Steve currently holds 104 patents currency amounting to nearly £140,000 territories were given to Stalin by Hitler as property or our family or our party.” protected by its defensive treaty with to the Resita Steel Works. Miraculously, part of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop deceptively simple plastic zip fastener for re-closable fasteners and zipper bags; France. Hitler was keen to break up the While Max Ausnit languished under house Max Ausnit survived the ordeal of Pact of August 1939). After further which has become indispensable for he is co-inventor of 61 other patents and cordon sanitaire of French alliances in arrest, Antonescu’s Fascist government imprisonment and was given succour territorial losses to Bulgaria and Hungary, re-closable bags sealing everything from still invests in businesses around the world. Eastern Europe and courted Romania as was drawn further into the orbit of Axis by other prisoners who recognised the the corrupt and widely detested King sandwiches and snacks to essential He has recently been honoured in Romania he desperately needed oil supplies to powers. In June 1941, Romanian forces fraudulent nature of his trial and Carol was forced to abdicate in favour of toiletries which pass through airport where, last year, he was presented with the maintain the momentum of German took part in Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s imprisonment. his son, King Michael. Carol fled Romania scanners. Steve’s company, Minigrip Inc., keys to the town of Lugoj for supporting remilitarisation. Anglo-French reluctance ill-fated attack on the Soviet Union. While and eventually found sanctuary in has been working on variations of local businesses and schools while also to defend the key tenets of the Treaty of JF Roxburgh showed a remarkable insight Bessarabia and Bukovina were recovered Portugal where he died in April 1953. fasteners for many years, but his big sponsoring sporting events such as the Versailles made war in Europe more likely: and understanding of the situation in and Odessa was occupied, Romanian The new administration was a military 8 breakthrough came in 1964 when the Max Ausnit Cup for Cycling. as German aggressive nationalism Romania and, in particular, of Max troops suffered serious reversals at the 9 10pc-off-Stowe16.pdf 1 25/01/2016 13:22:09

and Communists, two of the most Fondul Proprietatea (Property Fund), to despotic regimes of the 20th Century. indemnify victims of asset expropriation with Property Fund shares representing While Max Ausnit was battling with false imprisonment and persecution at the the value of the property seized by the hands of the Antonescu regime, Steve Romanian Communist Government in Ausnit left Stowe in April 1941, shortly 1948. Steve and his brother, Robert, filed after his 17th birthday. He made his way to two sets of claims for restitution of shares America to join his uncle Edgar. Finding a owned by the Ausnit family in Titan-Nadrag berth on a freight vessel which sailed from Calan (TNC) and Uzinele si Domenile de Hull to Iceland and then on to Brazil, Steve Resita (UDR). Claims had to be approved finally arrived in New York, a few weeks by two government agencies, the Authority before the Japanese attack on Pearl for State Assets Recovery (AVAS) and the Harbor. He had been accepted by Harvard National Authority for Property Restitution where he studied Engineering and took (ANRP). Claimants were expected to part in university sports, captaining the provide proof of ownership of shares and Crimson Rugby team. There is a press a prior-to-confiscation balance sheet to report in his school file of a rugby match prove the value of these shares – an 1 Steve Ausnit (Cobham 42) between Harvard and a ‘greatly favoured’ almost impossible demand to fulfil given Royal Navy team: the circumstances of Max Ausnit’s flight from Romania. Even though no one battle of Stalingrad in 1942 and economic “With the exception of the scrum, the conditions deteriorated as Germany seriously doubted the validity of the Crimson fifteen outplayed and outran the Ausnit restitution claim, AVAS made it as defaulted on its payments for Romanian Britishers...Ausnit out-footed the British oil. Romania’s foreign policy became difficult as possible for the family to backfield to make the first try...the game reclaim what was rightfully theirs. Steve’s increasingly subservient to Germany and resumed with Ausnit again running away Antonescu was complicit in the Holocaust tenacity and dogged perseverance in from the British backfield players to score pursuing his claim through the Romanian as Romanian armed forces committed for the second time”. atrocities in Bessarabia, North Bukovina law courts have yielded dividends: 19 files and the Ukraine. In July 1944, soon after After an accelerated undergraduate course proving Max Ausnit’s ownership of TNC C Max Ausnit found out that the Nazis were which took two and a half years instead of shares and other companies had been planning to have him killed, he escaped M to Egypt in a bomber flown by a close STEVE HAS USED HIS COMPENSATION FROM THE Y friend, Matei Ghica, a Colonel and pilot in CM the Romanian Air Force. After his escape, ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT TO ENDOW BURSARIES Ausnit was put on trial again and this time AND SCHOLARSHIPS AT BOTH HIS ALMAE MATRES, MY he was condemned to death. HARVARD AND STOWE CY At the request of the Four Power CMY

Commission which briefly governed K four, Steve was conscripted into the US concealed by the government, but a family Romania after Germany’s surrender in Army and was assigned to the Engineering friend eventually discovered these May 1945, Max Ausnit returned to assist Corps, eventually becoming important documents in the Romanian in his country’s reconstruction. He was a very effective Drill Sergeant. Towards National Archives. AVAS then approved completely exonerated of all the false the end of the war, Steve was preparing the Ausnit claim, but ANRP deliberately accusations which had been levelled to transfer into the OSS, the wartime played for time, prevaricating for so long against him. However, Romania’s intelligence agency and precursor of the that the Property Fund eventually ran out liberation from despotism was short-lived CIA, but Hitler’s complete defeat and of shares which had been set aside for as the country found itself in the Russian Germany’s unconditional surrender on valid compensation claims. It took another sphere of influence after the great 7 May 1945, meant that Steve’s services two years of intense lobbying and pressure betrayal of Yalta. Within two years, were not needed. to persuade the Romanian government to Communists led by Petru Groza, had pass a new law to compensate the taken over key government posts, One of the final letters in Steve Ausnit’s dispossessed. Only a very small imposed collectivisation in agriculture, Stowe file is dated March 25 1948. Steve proportion of what is owed to the Ausnit Five Year Plans for industry, expropriated writes to JF Roxburgh from his new home, th family has been paid by the Romanian private wealth and forced King Michael 107 East 60 Street (a stone’s throw from st state and it remains to be seen whether to abdicate. Max Ausnit had been warned the elegant brownstone on East 61 Street full restitution will ever be made. by Air Vice- Marshal DF Stevenson and where he now lives), with news of his General CVR Schuyler, respectively the family, travels and business. The letter Steve’s keen appreciation of history, British and American representatives concludes on an upbeat note, “my father is interest in education and philanthropic of the Allied Control Commission in here and in good health as is my brother... instincts have long been part of his Romania, that his life was in danger. so at last all the family is together”. character: to honour and commemorate He left the country for good, travelling first The final coda to the Ausnit story began a his father’s legacy and to enable others to to Paris and then to New York where he decade ago when Romania became the benefit from the educational advantages took up American citizenship. A year later, first (and hitherto only) country behind he enjoyed, Steve has used his the Romanian Communist Government the former Iron Curtain to process the compensation from the Romanian confiscated Ausnit’s properties and restitution claims of people dispossessed Government to endow bursaries and 10% OFF: condemned him to death. Not guilty of of their property by the Communists. scholarships at both his almae matres, any crime, Max Ausnit therefore found In 2005, the Romanian government Harvard and Stowe. 10 himself condemned to death by the Nazis passed a law establishing a fund, Dr Anthony Wallersteiner STOWE2016 www.fairfaxandfavor.com FEATURE last one by teams of oxen. The Land Rover BP flatly refused permission for us to drive History Unit. It won me an invitation from had broken down so many times – the last dozen or so miles to Prudhoe Bay HM The Queen to lunch at Buckingham needing five gearbox overhauls, and and the Ocean. They claimed it was for Palace, where I was able to explain to her, dozens of other major repairs – that we security reasons, but we were told in “Ma’am, it was all thanks to your husband finally reached the Al-Can highway to Deadhorse that it was because, 15 years sending a cheque to a bunch of scruffy ROAD TRIP OF A LIFETIME Alaska in December, five months behind ago, the National Geographic had done a graduates who wanted to go on a trip in schedule. In temperatures that dropped to feature showing the pollution caused by 1960.” It was his generosity and that of so MIKE ANDREWS (CHATHAM 57) HEADS NORTH minus 30°C, we drove on snow and ice them. Luckily, a smaller oil company, many hundreds of people we met along 1500 miles to Fairbanks; on the way Hilcorp Energy Corporation, thought BP the way, including our new Alaskan rescuing a woman with children, who had were unsporting and came to our aid. friends who had also looked after us 5 Ushuaia Beagle Channel. spun off the road, by winching her car up Thus the ‘Blue Beast’ drove up the royally, that had made it all possible. causeway to the Beaufort Sea at Endicott a 45 degree snow slope. We had declared [email protected] our goal as the Arctic Circle at Fort Yukon Island. Its polar bears were away at Michael Andrews (Chatham 57) but the only tracks north of Fairbanks the time. were snowed in. We headed south for the In the intervening half century, Andy airfield at Anchorage where we sold our Bacon had run the dairy herd for the King A longer version of this article with car. It was time to fly home for Christmas. of Saudi Arabia, but had sadly recently many more photographs was published in Landrover Owner For half a century we had thought that that died. Martin Hugh-Jones had discovered International on 24 February 2016. was the end of the story, but in 2010, for how Foot and Mouth Disease was the fiftieth anniversary, I wrote an transmitted by aerosol and then became the expert on the anthrax spore letters illustrated article for the magazine Land Ben Mackworth-Praed and Mike and is still tailed by the FBI. Ben Rover Owner International – one of the Andrews are looking for a publisher to Mackworth-Praed gave up playing polo many off road magazines devoted to Land print an updated edition of their classic to build factories in Spain and run Rover enthusiasts. In Anchorage, Ted book of their expedition Year with engineering projects in the UK and Middle Pederson was sitting down to a cup of Three Summers, Cassell 1964. Mike is East. I built on my close encounters with coffee with the magazine when he also looking for a sponsor to complete the Andes to make the celebrated wildlife realised to his amazement that he had in a one hour film of the journey, for series The Flight of the Condor, about the his backyard the original vehicle. It still which all the footage exists. sported our expedition logo and British wildlife of the Andes for the BBC Natural number plate. Ted got the engine running © Mike Andrews © Mike again and made contact with us, but it was another four years before Martin, In August 2015, a battered 1960 Series II Land Rover crunched 100 mph winds and having tea and cakes Ben and I, the surviving members of the with the Welsh in Patagonia, crossing the original four, were contacted again. Ted onto the shingle beach of Endicott Island in the Beaufort Sea, had sold the vehicle to his friend Eddie Andrews © Mike Andrews © Mike Alaska. It was the first vehicle ever to drive there from Ushuaia Darwin Cordillera on horseback in Tierra del Fuego, and breaking through the crust Angel who owned an off road speciality in Tierra del Fuego at the southernmost tip of South America. on the salt-flats between Chile and Bolivia garage and who was busy getting what he It was also the fitting end to a journey of 43,500 miles that at 12,000 ft. We had to drive six miles called the Blue Beast into running order. had taken 54 years. along a railway line perched on an Eddie and his photojournalist pal Mike embankment five feet high without Rudd had come up with the idea of completing the original journey and Three companions climbed out of the farms in 17 countries of the Americas. knowing whether a train was coming. inviting the oldies to come too. Cambridge blue vehicle into pouring rain Somewhat recklessly, they also decided it In Bolivia, we ground through snow to an © Mike Andrews © Mike and a bitter freezing wind looking almost was a good reason to drive from Tierra del altitude of 17,000 feet on what was then In the meantime, the Dalton Highway had 8 Oncoming truck. as ravaged by time as the Land Rover was. Fuego to Alaska. Ben Mackworth-Praed the highest road in the world. In Peru, the been opened in 1975, to aid the 1 Equator monument. To Eddie Angel, the Rover’s current and I, two engineer graduates, were trailer broke free five times, and Ben got construction of the Trans-Alaskan pipeline 7 Mike driving. Alaskan owner, I presented a penguin, brought aboard to keep the vehicle going, stuck in the sand of a pre-Inca desert to bring petroleum from the Arctic North 5 CTAE Beaufort Sea group. depicted on an Argentine automobile but financial support proved difficult until, graveyard, with skulls glaring at him all Slope oilfields to Valdez on the Pacific. club badge, I had been given in Tierra to our astonishment, we were sent a night. In Ecuador, a giant Galapagos This is the 500 mile route made notorious del Fuego half a century before. personal cheque by the Duke of tortoise made an inconvenient camp by the TV series Ice Road Truckers and The We celebrated with a flat bottle of cider – Edinburgh. I fancied myself as a table. For a bit of light relief in Colombia, Most Dangerous Roads in the World. But for this was the middle of an oilfield photographer, blagged a box of film stock when we had crossed the Andes 15 times, in August, in comparison to our previous © Mike Andrews © Mike and booze was banned. from a young David Attenborough, and we put the untrusty Land Rover on a trip, I thought it was rather tame. The was given the worst piece of advice of my stern-wheeled steam paddleboat to steep gradients are still a challenge and This ‘road trip of a lifetime’ began in descend the Magdalena River to the life. “Don’t film the expedition” said there is still the ‘Oh Shit Corner’ and ‘Oil 1960, when Jeremy Clarkson was still in Caribbean – and smugly felt like Mark David. Fortunately, I did and recorded how Spill Hill’. The scenery was fantastically nappies and if you wanted to get to South Twain. And then we had to pass the grand, but the drive itself needed no more we almost destroyed the Land Rover and America you went by sea. Two recently notorious Darien Gap in the jungles of than skill and care. In a convoy of eight ourselves on the way. On my return at the graduated vets, Martin Hugh-Jones and Panama – where there was, and still is, Land Rovers, five of them from the 1960s age of 23, I sold two films to TV and they Andy Bacon, were wondering what to do no road – so Ben and Martin courageously bearing ‘Historic Vehicle’ number plates, opened a door to the BBC and a career. before settling down to a life of clipping struggled through on foot and by canoe, Eddie Angel and his friends escorted dogs’ claws. They schemed up a trip to Half a century ago, only about 2% of the while I took the vehicle by ship from Martin, Ben and me up the road, camping study farm animal disease throughout the Pan-American Highway was paved. The Barranquilla to Colon. In Costa Rica, we en route. The Dalton Highway ends at the Americas, recognising it as a splendid expedition survived axle-deep mud roads had to ford 43 rivers, up to 200 yards petroleum contractors’ Deadhorse Camp, 12 ruse to sponge off the biggest and best in Argentina, being sandblasted by across, and had to be pulled out of the and here we had a major setback. 13 GLASTOWEBURY

So, instead of a concert with After the first number the stage cleared reliable crowd pleaser Summertime – and visiting artists as in previous leaving the way for Henry Gauvain, Max boy, oh boy was ‘the livin’ easy’! Campbell-Preston, Dan Biss and Daniel Suddenly, the stage was crowded with the years, last year we were all Jolker who went straight into The Man Who full ensemble as Miles Clark, like a latter invited to GLASTOWEBURY! Can’t Be Moved by Irish band The Script. Henry did his best Danny O’Donoghue and day Geno Washington, whipped up his Hmmm, I thought, a festival with al fresco sang with clarity and confidence in a James band and the audience into a gyrating, eating, music and drinking, eh? Now, Bluntish sort of way. I would say that he air punching amorphous beast with Dollar being a child of the sixties and the has got a great future ahead of him as, not and Hey Y’all. ‘Summer of Love’, this conjured up all only has he got an enviable voice and great manner of visions. Pretty girls dressed in Our two hosts, Guy and Henry, slickly put musicality, he writes good songs and looks cheese cloth, guys with droopy the show to bed by offering us a brilliant and performs like a teen idol already! moustaches and seriously questionable night-cap of four of George Huxtable’s hair styles, free love and recreational Max took over the vocal duties next and finest. WOW! That boy is one to watch. pharmaceuticals abounding. ripped into the Kings of Leon’s Use A great voice, luminous stage presence and Somebody aided by Henry and Mali However, pulling myself out of this he certainly knows his way around a six Aitchison, after which the latter two gave sybaritic reverie, I remembered that this string and a drum kit; I don’t suppose that us a beautiful rendition of their self-penned was to be held at a school and in term he stops just there either! For these last composition Moving On. time. So, rather than a fest of sex, drugs songs and a rousing finale, George was and rock ‘n’ roll it was bound to be more Guy and Henry re-materialised and filled us joined by Patrick, Oscar Marment, Angus like texts, mugs and sausage rolls – albeit in on what we had been listening to, before and Honor. He writes good songs with with copious amounts of Prosecco in announcing a solo keyboard performance several of them having the sort of staccato evidence too. by Arabella Coldstream who gave a soulful vocal delivery of Jack Johnson (sans surf and moving performance of one of her own Since the early Eighteenth Century, Stowe board), atmospheric and eminently compositions Craving. The anticipation, in has always been a hotbed of creativity and 8 Shannon Devlin. listenable and I was glad to discover, that this was a new and unheard song, was cultural liberty and tonight would be just 7 George Huxtable. available on CD and download. palpable and we were all well rewarded the latest example of what the “genius of 1 Stoics performing The Man Who Can’t with Arabella’s yearning and emotive Well, those last numbers brought what the Place” can produce. “And did it?” Be Moved delivery. 1 had been a wonderfully accomplished, I hear you ask. Yes, gentle reader – in Guy Gibson and Henry Sylvester 3 varied and exhilarating concert to an end spades! Mali then reappeared joined by Eloise Right from the start of the concert a mosh Honor Brady. Dobson who gave an astonishingly brilliant pit was in evidence. This was hardly all too quickly. First onto the stage, incongruously attired a capella rendition of Some Nights from the surprising, it’s virtually impossible to get in black tie, came Guy Gibson and Henry starlings rose amorphously from their which he was joined by Mina Haas and On my way out of the marquee I stopped to eponymous album by Fun. Now this is not the most out of a gig like this with one’s Sylvester who were to be our hosts for the seats and settled in the mosh pit as Lucy Sutherland in perfect close harmony thank and congratulate the Headmaster on an easy song to sing but Blimey! They butt firmly planted. However, the artists evening in an Armstrong and Miller sort of Nonhlanhla Maclare, accompanied by doing serious justice to Sam Smith in their the fostering of so much talent, after which nailed it. Not a hint of autotune anywhere! were under strict instructions to control way. With great ceremony they announced Miles, ripped the place apart with a rendition of Lay Me Down. This was I bade him good night. As I walked away, For this number, George slipped in behind the behaviour of the moshies and unless the arrival on stage of an 11 piece band spectacular rendition of Kanye West’s followed by George, Shannon and Miles was it my imagination or did I actually hear the drum kit to showcase another of his they did so the Headmaster had consisting of George Huxtable, Patrick Gold Digger – terrific stuff – and if the Nottage cruising through the elegiac that familiar and slightly stentorian tone inestimable talents. threatened to give full throat to a couple of Keating, William Pepera, Molly Suthers, moshies were in need of a rap over the I Never Told You. Mali, Ben ter Haar, Patrick doing gentle justice to “…her hair upon the Leonard Cohen songs. The threat of a few Honor Brady, Edwina Longe, Anastasia Now please all stand (most of us were and George then eased into See you Again, verses of Sister of Mercy followed by The knuckles then this was the rap for them! pillow like a sleepy golden storm... ” as Howard-Jenkins, Arthur Marriott, Angus already) for the Head Girl, Shannon Devlin, a version of which Carrie Underwood would Tower of Song was more than enough to Leonard Cohen’s gorgeous simile from McCrorie-Shand (Bruce 16) and Miles accompanied by Molly and George in their The audience, by now maddened by soft have been seriously impressed. Then, in a keep the artistes focused on their duty! Suzanne seemingly followed me out into Nottage who blasted off with a spirited roles of Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul drinks, hi-NRG and ok, maybe the odd sudden change of mood, style and tempo, the night? Could it be…? No, come on, rendition of Bruno Mars’s Treasure with McCartney for a rendition of Four, Five At the mere mention of the name Maclare, glass of Prosecco, were calmed by Henry Molly, Honor and Miles Nottage literally Nigel, get a grip! some seriously charismatic vocals from Seconds together with great harmonies the majority of the audience, with the who treated us to one of his own blew us away with a heat shimmering 14 Miles Clark. and slick guitar work. awesome agility of a murmuration of compositions Into My Daydream, after version of George Gershwin’s classic and Nigel Milne (Chandos 68) 15 1 Squash in the Ugland Auditorium with Stoics.

INSPIRATION FOR STOICS:

Stoics wide awake first thing on a Wednesday morning is quite a rare occurrence but when mountaineer and adventurer Squash Falconer arrived on a motorbike to give a talk they were bright eyed and bushy tailed, eager to hear about her life.

On 12 May 2011 at 8.30am, after eleven the World’s highest ever bum boarder! and a half hours of climbing, Squash Achieving that climb made her realise reached the summit of Everest. During an Everest wasn’t out of the question… enthralling hour long talk in the Ugland 1 Squash climbing Everest. With her highly optimistic challenge in 1 Everest Knickers! Auditorium she led the Stoics through her mind, she prepared with yet another Looking for a Summer Holiday adventure and why on earth she took on adventure. In September 2009, Squash the challenge. rode a motorbike from England to the foot Rosa and cycled 3,074 miles around Through sharing her experiences, work and of the Mont Blanc, climbed it and flew a Western Europe on an ElliptiGo bicyle. with a difference? travels Squash explained to the Stoics how paraglider from the summit to become the She left the Stoics with inspiration that My passion for sports and fi tness during my years at Stowe inspired me to develop a world class holiday of she developed the confidence to say ‘yes’ First British woman to fly from the top they can achieve great things in their lives, to opportunities and think ‘why not’ when (officially recognised and recorded by the all they need to do is give it their all and health and wellbeing on the beautiful island of St Lucia. Abseiling adventures down waterfalls, mountain biking others might think ‘definitely not’! She Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom). amazing experiences will follow. tropical trails, running through Pigeon Islands’ historic ruins then kayaking to the BodyHoliday beach – it’s all didn’t break any world records and it When you’ve done something once, it’s Unsurprisingly, Squash struck a chord with part of the BodyHoliday Quadrathlon, just one of the challenges you and your family can enjoy together next sounded like a very tough journey but she always easier the second time around. the Stoics and fielded 30 minutes of proved that everyone can achieve what Squash embarked on the feat to conquer questions after her talk perhaps indicating summer. Join us on the beautiful island of Saint Lucia at the Caribbean’s number one award winning holiday of they want to do if they give it their all, no Mt Everest with hopes of flying her that she had inspired one or two Stoic wellbeing and choose from a wealth of activities that have been put together for your WellFit® Families experience. matter how tough it gets. paraglider off the summit: she even carried adventures and to dream big. After leaving school, Squash found herself it during the climb. Extremely challenging Squash said, “My aim isn’t to encourage CRAIG BARNARD, O.B.E. deep in the heart of the French Alps doing conditions meant that she was lucky even people to do what I do unless of course BRUCE, ‘64 a ski season. It was meeting friends there to reach the summit, with the climb on the they want to. Whatever your dream or goal that led her to discover her passion for way down proving very arduous and is, whether ridiculously big or so small it To find out more about this exceptional family holiday please call 0203 096 1630 or visit climbing mountains. She started out with demanding: she was fortunate to make it seems insignificant, it really is worth going www.thebodyholiday.com/events/wellfit-families a mere 6,975m climb up Aconcagua in down alive (tragically, a fellow climber lost for it. The journey there might lead to Argentina in 2004, with zero experience his life that day). It was impossible for her something quite different and the end but the right team, good fitness and a to fly off but she was extremely proud to result may not be what you envisaged BUT summit the highest mountain of the world. massive dose of positive mental attitude. there’s really nothing quite like that feeling 2013 That mountain led to more mountains and She didn’t stop there. Since then she has of energy, spirit and life that runs through Winner in 2008, she climbed Cho Oyu, which is cycled from Land’s End to John o’ Groats in every part in your body when you make it just 600m lower than Everest. She even just nine days; climbed Mt Kilimanjaro happen.” 16 took a bum board with her and became twice; summited Gran Paradiso and Monte Anna Semler (Nugent 05) GIVE US YOUR BODY FOR A WEEK AND WE’LL GIVE YOU BACK YOUR MIND. FEATURE and, it felt like a greater risk to stay in a job freelancer – with hindsight I would have I didn’t enjoy. done that from the start. Harry: In 2014 I was working as Head of Charlie: We hired a very experienced sales BRUCE BROTHERS WIN START UP OF Marketing in a joint venture with Google and person who ended up not being a good decided I didn’t want to risk working with cultural fit for Oppo and didn’t stay long. (and potentially falling out with) my brother. Now I now know to hire for attitude and THE YEAR WITH HEALTHY ICE CREAM But during that summer I had an accident personality as well as skillset. kite surfing. With concussion, I couldn’t look What are your hopes and dreams for Oppo? What on earth is Oppo? at a screen for a week – that was Charlie’s Brothers Charlie Thuillier (Bruce 07) and Harry Thuillier Charlie: We believe indulgent food can and Charlie: Oppo is the world’s healthiest dairy ice cream. It’s for chance to convince me to quit my job and (Bruce 04) were recently awarded the Guardian’s Start should be good for you and, that we people who love ice cream and like to indulge but not at the join him on Oppo! shouldn’t have to choose between health up of the Year for their healthy ice cream company expense of their health. It’s made with fresh milk, cold- Do you have any advice for other OSs with and taste. We want to make Oppo Oppo. A year after its launch, Oppo is now stocked in pressed virgin coconut oil, stevia leaf and super foods. Two a great start up idea? synonymous with healthy indulgence. Waitrose, Ocado, Wholefoods Market, Holland and scoops contains fewer calories and less sugar than an apple. Harry: Make sure there’s a market for it by What invaluable lessons have you learnt creating an early version of the product and What is the secret of your success? Barrett, Budgens and Co-Op. Anna Semler (Nugent 05) How did you dream up the idea? that could help other OSs? then find out if your intended customers Harry: Our focus on the ‘why’ rather than found out about their journey so far… Harry: In 2011 we went to North East Brazil to break an Charlie: Always listen to your ‘gut feel’ when want to buy it. Don’t worry about sharing the ‘what’. Our purpose runs through unofficial record for the longest distance travelled using wind making decisions. power on land. During the 1,000km trip we found ourselves your idea – most of the value of a business everything we do, and this makes Oppo sometimes running 30 miles a day while dragging our 75kg is in the execution. more than ice cream. How does it feel to have won The Guardian’s buggies in 40 degree heat. We ran out of food and Charlie lost Charlie: Go for it but be prepared for the How does running your own company Start Up of the Year in the first year of your about 8kg (although I lost no weight at all), so started eating world to say it’s a bad idea at first. You have compare to being employed in a large company? coconuts and wild fruits. These were delicious and good for to have a lot of comfort with your own company? Harry: It was a fantastic feeling of validation you. This sparked an idea: why can’t the most indulgent foods conviction. Charlie: You think about it 24/7 – you can’t for everyone who has helped launch Oppo. be healthy too? But a start-up award is just that – Is there anything you would have done ever switch off in the same way you can as recognition that your new company has How did you get started? differently over the last 12 months? an employee. potential. It spurred us on even more to Charlie: On our return, I left my job to create what many Harry: In our recent rebrand we wasted Harry: No-one will ever care about it as achieve that potential! (including several industry professionals) said was some money working with a respected much as you do. While the company is impossible – a guilt-free ice cream that uses natural agency to create new packaging designs small, you will often find yourself having to Look out for Oppo in a supermarket near ingredients but matches the flavour and indulgence of that ultimately weren’t very good. We ended do things you have no experience in and you. I expect we’ll be hearing much more traditional ice cream. It took two years of trials, errors and up doing them ourselves with the help of a having to learn fast. from the Thuillier boys in years to come. broken freezers, but Waitrose finally agreed to give us a trial in 118 stores. Soon after, Ocado, Holland & Barrett, Budgens, Wholefoods Market and Co-Op listed Oppo. Did you apply for start up funding? Charlie: To develop the product I got four grants from Santander, York University and the British Government, in addition to family support. Then in January 2015 we listed Oppo on the equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, and became the fastest ever food start-up to reach target through crowdfunding, reaching £100,000 minutes after the campaign launched! Crowdfunding is a great way of raising brand awareness and giving shoppers a chance to own shares in the company. What experiences from Stowe have most helped you in setting up the company? Harry: English with Mr Thompson – hopefully he won’t spot any grammar errors here! Stowe champions the uniqueness of each individual more than anywhere else. It encouraged us to concentrate on what we were good at. Charlie: Stowe fosters entrepreneurial spirit. Whether that’s pitching for a gap year scholarship (which kickstarted our love of adventure), working as a team in the Coldstream Cup or offering public speaking opportunities. % What’s it like working with your brother? 10DISCOUNT

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On Monday 22 June, the Fourth Form attended a media and news workshop with John Young (Lyttelton 84). We assembled in the Music Room and John explained the plan, everyone was very excited to see how the day would unfold and, from my point of view, it was a very beneficial and well organised day. John’s target was to teach us what it is really like to be a BBC news reporter but, if we were not interested in journalism, he wanted to teach us basic skills required when being interviewed that we would find helpful in later life when looking for a job. We were split into small groups and John started his Bootcamp. He went through what it is like being a part of a newsroom. He taught us all about headlines, which are a key aspect of reporting. At only eight seconds long, we learnt that in journalism, less is more. This part of the day was like gold dust to anyone who was interested in journalism. We did lots of audience participation exercises and this brought people out of their comfort zones. John taught us that this was excellent practice for job The Music Room – it was a place that held many memories for me. Fidgeting as I sat interviews, which we will all have to through some concert I thought I might have enjoyed as a Fourth Former back in the face. We were then asked to THE GIFT OF LUXURY early eighties. Gazing out across the South Front as I sat my very final exam paper role-play working in a newsroom, back in 1984. Giving a nervy speech at my 21st birthday party three years later. picking out the most important headlines. It was a really fun activity. Today was very different. My mission: to deliver a workshop that shared the skills I’ve acquired as a TV journalist with a group of open minded Fourth Formers. I had gone I came away thinking the whole day The House of ELEMIS Gift Card provides a couture beauty part time from the BBC two years earlier to set up a small company that distilled was very beneficial, everyone experience for your family, friends and colleagues. those skills into my ‘Newsroom Bootcamp’ – coping with a sudden change, writing enjoyed it and learnt some new something quickly and accurately, meeting a deadline. They’re all skills, it had skills. occurred to me, that would come in handy for pupils preparing for exams, and so it Clara Haggy (Nugent, Fifth Form) Beautifully presented in a luxury gift box and accompanied by a complimentary has proven! I now have more than fifty schools on my books, private and state, and travel-size product, the Gift Card is available for you to choose a specific experience was delighted to include Stowe on that list. or value for the recipient to spend as they wish. The Stoics I met didn’t disappoint. Some brave volunteers took the Autocue Challenge and stepped out of their comfort zones by reading, unrehearsed, headlines off my portable teleprompter. News stories were discussed as the clock counted down, ‘phones rang with problems that had to be dealt with immediately, timers sounded loud and clear when the deadline for writing news headlines was up. The acoustics might have been better – though to be fair, I’m not sure the Walpole or SPECIAL TREATMENT COURSE OFFER Chandos families ever anticipated a news programme being thrown together in the room they designed back in the 18th Century. It was a loud morning, and an ebullient When booking a course of four treatments, one. A great memory for me to add to my Music Room list. And, I hope, something to remember for an engaging group of pupils, too. you will receive two complimentary treatments. John Young (Lyttelton 84) can be contacted via his website, johnyoungmedia.co.uk or on 01273 606246. His workshops are aimed at Secondary School age pupils and Sixth Formers, though they are also increasingly appreciated for employability skills training in the workplace. 21

Jan HOE gift card_A4.indd 1 21/12/2015 16:54 Seenit – Turning crowds into film crews Sometimes, a great idea can pull you in a completely new direction. That’s certainly true for Emily Forbes (Nugent 05), whose video collaboration app Seenit is causing huge waves in the tech industry and winning lots of awards!

Emily was filming a large-scale protest in South Africa in 2012 company grow. So, how has Stowe helped? “Stowe always when her big idea hit, “I realised everyone in the crowd was supported the arts and taught me to focus on my strengths to already filming on their ’phones and GoPros, their footage was so accelerate forward. This has been a real advantage when building much more authentic, personal and opinionated than mine could a team. I’ve been able to recruit specialist staff with the skills I ever be. I put my camera away and ran around asking everyone to need to make Seenit a success.” send me their footage. I started to be introduced to a wider network and within days and no budget, camera equipment or The Seenit team is currently nine strong and set to grow even original network, I was pulling video from a whole country.” bigger over the next 12 months. Emily hopes to roll the app out to small enterprises and take the first step forward to expand into the She saw the potential to create a central online hub to enable US in 2016. A lot of lessons have been learnt along the way but businesses to collect crowd-sourced film to be produced into Emily wouldn’t have done anything differently. She said, “I think video content. Emily got so excited by the idea that she quit her it’s important to be yourself. I make plenty of mistakes and I’m CHAPEL – A PLACE TO BE job and came back to London to make it happen. trying to learn from them.” “Having worked in film, I understood how expensive it can be. What’s her proudest moment so far? Emily said one of the Chapel simply ‘is’. The building is immense What of Worship? A Chaplain and an Assistant Chaplain (Priest Everyone is filming on their ’phones and the quality of the proudest moments was working with this year’s Pride in London. and it is the place (in recent years) where the in Charge, Stowe Church), Preachers of various wisdoms and cameras is getting better and better. These days, a smartphone The volunteers and crowd were capturing the day on their ’phones whole School can gather together, both for experiences, both from within and from without the School, turns everyone into a videographer and a journalist.” with editors turning round videos whilst the event was happening. including Houses’ offerings; Commemorations and weekly Headmaster’s Assembly and for Emily was accepted on the Collider Accelerator where she received These videos were pushed to the screens in Trafalgar Square but Confirmations; and Organ and Brass…As well as the still small funding and mentors from companies such as Unilever and also to the London Underground. “It was a huge moment for the Midweek and Sunday Chapel Services. voice of intimacy in the weekly Communion (Eucharist), where Haymarket, to help her build her idea into a product that clients whole team to see our videos on the tube screens on the way the magnificence of the setting draws in closer to hold the wanted. Over the course of a three month period, she had built a home!” Whatever the wishes or emotions or even devotions that sacred moment around the Table. prototype and the mentoring and business contacts she met It’s been hard work, but Emily is seeing excellent results. Over the accompany the Stoic’s entrance and finding of a seat, he or And to worship…to sing! With Cantata Stoica! With the newly through Collider have been instrumental in her success. last year, Seenit has won start up of the Year at The Bima Awards, she joins the company of those present and past and lays enhanced and re-published, red covered, contents developed Emily’s fantastic concept won her backing from the BBC The Next Big Thing at AdTech London and been profiled by the foundations for those yet to come. As both Assembly-Hall and all inclusive Cantata Stoica 2015 Edition! Last revised in Worldwide Labs programme, which gave her company a real ‘leg Evening Standard as London’s hottest Start up. In October, Emily and House of Prayer, the sanctity of its primary vision can be 1998 and stock having run out, herewith an opportunity to up’ by supplying desk space, mentoring and coaching. The BBC was listed in The Drum’s 50 under 30 in digital, with the judges diluted, so it is good to be able to refresh and remind, from signed her as their first subscription client which was a big stamp describing the start up’s platform as “something extraordinary”. time to time. refresh and exclude and include hymns, chants, songs of She is excited for what is to come in 2016. affirmation, familiarity and also established (but new to of approval enabling her to win business from other top brands. So – come inside! Since then, Seenit has worked with the O2, Puma, The Body Seenit is certainly one to watch, so look out for Emily and her Stowe) and dedicated to ‘All Stoics – past, present and future’. Shop, Unilever and Bacardi. hugely successful concept: this Old Stoic has the creativity and Courtesy of both need and creativity, the Altar Frontals are The Director of Music, now moved on, and the present Chaplain now vibrant, colourful, seasonal and inspirational, referencing sought to encourage both integrity and openness, faith and Since founding the company in January 2014, Emily has single- business sense to make big things happen. both the dove of the Holy Spirit in the tiny high-up stained- handedly raised the start up funding she needed to make her Anna Semler (Nugent 05) journeying. And, yes, it is gloriously red! glass window and, also, the Cross as a dynamic encounter, So – prayer, presence and passing moments – a building, with the grain and grape of the great thanksgiving for the love of Christ in the Last Supper. Juliet Hemingray (Church Textiles) its contents and its people; above all, a familiar and slightly Hate your DENTURES? weaved her artistry and prayerful endeavour to much acclaim. austere old place, but do enter again and Come, Hear, Ask, The replacement of the by then faded and torn stall drapes with Pray, Encounter, Love. Worried about loose teeth? stone-coloured backdrops have only enhanced the look and The Revd Christopher Huxtable, Chaplain feel of this open space. - Dental implants will change your life. And the little Prayer Room? Specifically chosen pictures, - Restore self-esteem and Con dence. artworks and books add to the provision of this small sanctuary, a small corner of peace. Visit our caring and attentive practice dedicated exclusively to periodontics and implant surgery. The ‘Risen Christ’ maquette is now clearly sited over the Memorial Board to the right as we enter: the late David Wynne Dr. Alan Sidi (Grenville 44) was as deeply moved as most of us present PhD BDS MSc (Grafton 1973) when he came to see it blessed, in the latter months of his life. 57 Portland Place, London, W1B 1QN What a generous soul, to have gifted so much of his work to Quote ‘Old Stoic’ for your FREE consultation. Telephone: 020 7636 1711 Stowe. His plaster model for the ‘Ely Mary’ stands safely and www.dralansidi.co.uk 22 compellingly in the Vestry too. 23 from stacks of Icons of varying quality in return for a lump sum The latter began to exert intense pressure on Temple to sell to him. FEATURE payment. Temple’s knowledge and expertise resulted in many When told the British Museum had first refusal and was trying to TREASURES OF A valuable works being rescued – pictures exist of tall piles of raise the funds, he promptly proposed a compromise. He would Icons being torched or otherwise discarded. buy the Icon and give it to the Museum on an extended loan. After mutual discussions the collector duly paid £1 million. SPIRITUAL AGE Temple was, by now, busy supplying fine Icons to Museums, Galleries and private collections all over the world. To his The British Museum was delighted but the French authorities had Richard Temple (Temple 55), the son of an surprise he noticed that his original St Gregory Icon was on finally realised their monumental error and attempted to redress the situation in a most inelegant manner. They informed Temple Old Stoic, also Richard (Temple 31), bought his offer at Sotheby’s. He managed to secure it for the gallery at a cost of £4,000. that the Icon was not a painting but an ‘archaeological object’ first Icon while still a schoolboy at Stowe. which required an export licence. It should be returned to France In 2003, Temple made one of the most important sale room while he applied for one. discoveries of modern times – a 6th Century Egyptian Icon offered In a dark old shop off St Martins Lane during a at £3,000, now thought to be worth millions. Astounded by this subterfuge, Temple wrote back that “According visit to London in 1954, his eye fell upon a to the notice explicative the French Museums Department gives to small dusty panel with a faded image. It was A picture was to be sold in the small Jacques Desamais auction exporters, an archaeological object is something discovered under eventually identified as a 17th Century Russian house in quiet Avignon, France on 29 July 2003. It was described the ground or under the sea, or which comes from an Icon of St Gregory the Theologian, the 4th as “Egyptian, Coptic Art, sixth century”, the estimate was 4,500 to archaeological site or collection.” The painting did not match any Century Byzantine Patriarch of Constantinople. 6,000 Euros. From the small black and white photograph Temple of these criteria. recognised it as a portrait of the Virgin and Child. Unable to attend The picture so appealed to him that he spent Today, over fifty years from its inception, the Temple Gallery is himself, Temple asked Laurence Morrocco, one of his regular all the money he had, £11.00 (equivalent to £260 today) to take it regarded as one of the leading institutions in the world for the restorers, to bid on his behalf. away with him. study, restoration, exhibition and source of Icons and Religious Little did he recognise at the time – but it was an encounter that Only one other London dealer showed any interest. The bidding art. Temple himself is regarded as the foremost dealer in his field. profoundly influenced his view of art, of history and of himself. quickly went up to fifteen times the estimate till he dropped out He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Art Collections Fund It would shape the rest of his life. at 85,000 Euros. Temple now owned the Icon. Excited by his and has been active in the acquisition of Icons for several major purchase, he proceeded to arrange for the export in strict museums among them The British Museum, the Musée du Louvre After Stowe, and a short stint at Mons, the young Temple served compliance with French law. for three years as an Officer in ‘The Blues’. The Regiment provided in Paris, The Timken Art Gallery in San Diego California and the garrison duties in Cyprus during the Grivas/Makarios era, and he His first step was to offer the picture to The Louvre, because he Museum of the Church of the Holy Redeemer in Moscow. found himself in one of the few places that had escaped the knew that the head of the relevant department, Marie-Helene He also played a major role in many highly important private ‘Byzantine Iconoclasm’ – the wholesale destruction of religious Rutschowscaya, had the power to veto an overseas sale. To his collections such as that of Mr Eric Bradley now passed into the icons and images carried out in the 8th and 9th Centuries. astonishment he discovered that a member of her department had Museum of the Menil Foundation in Houston, Texas, The collection Cypriot churches still displayed many fine icons and provided been present at the auction but had inexplicably failed to bid for of the late Mrs John D Rockerfeller lll, and the collection of the an opportunity to rekindle his growing interest. the Icon. They had also compounded their mistake by not Bank Intesa, now housed in Vicenza, Italy. exercising The Louvre’s ‘droit de preemption’ the right under Returning to London, he resolved to open a cultural institution Over the years he has published many catalogues and scholarly French Law to buy any object from a successful bidder for the devoted to the study and restoration of Icons and Sacred art, articles. His book, Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity, sum he or she had just paid for it. also to encourage collectors and museums to save these ancient was published by Element Books in 1990 and reprinted in 1992. works for posterity. Sadly, Icons were not regarded as Art by the After a long and frustrating wait, and despite the enthusiastic A new revised edition was republished by Luzac in 2001. Another cognoscenti, mainly because they are not signed by the painter encouragement of Mme Rutschowscaya, The Louvre finally book, Icons Divine Beauty, was published by Saqi books in 2004. who re-creates from traditional forms in accordance with strict declined to purchase it at the now enormously higher price. Today, Sir Richard Temple Bt. PhD (he inherited the Baronetcy on stylistic conventions and parameters. Often deteriorated due to the death of his father and was awarded a Doctorate from the their age and constant exposure in crowded churches, they were THE BRITISH MUSEUM WAS DELIGHTED BUT THE University of Wales for his thesis on Pieter Bruegel and the Esoteric regularly re-painted by a different hand over the generations. Tradition) is still a tireless enthusiast of his genre, in constant FRENCH AUTHORITIES HAD FINALLY REALISED contact with academics, museums, students, Orthodox dignitaries 8 Virgin and Child Early Icons were painted in encaustic, a mixture of heated bees’ wax with pigments; later in egg tempura, egg yolk mixed with THEIR MONUMENTAL ERROR and collectors, including a handful of Russian oligarchs. Still powdered colours and water. They are very fragile and AND ATTEMPTED TO REDRESS THE SITUATION IN A advocating the recognition of his beloved Icons as an art form to the art-historical establishment. considerable expertise is required to clean, restore and MOST INELEGANT MANNER. maintain them. The Prince of Wales, also an Icon enthusiast, keeps an Icon of Temple founded his gallery in 1959 in modest premises on Sloane the Virgin Mary in his Chapel at Highgrove. Recently, on one of Finally in February 2005, Temple asked France’s oldest- Street. One of the earliest sales was of the St Gregory Icon to a his regular visits to the Byzantine Monasteries in Greece he Greek shipping magnate for £300: a handsome sum at that time, established art shippers, Andre Chenue, to handle all the encountered Temple at Mount Athos. On his return, Prince Charles wrote a five page letter to Neil MacGregor, Director of the British for a struggling new enterprise. necessary paperwork and transport the Icon to England. He was advised that as the item was painted on canvas or cloth and Museum, lending support to Temple’s pet project: to persuade Gradually the gallery prospered and Temple developed his had been purchased for less than 150,000 Euros, no export the Museum to give a special space to its 100 plus Icon collection expertise in his field. He travelled frequently to Russia, sometimes licence was needed. He asked them to double check and got now mainly languishing in the basement. The matter is still with a party of students and art collectors. Good Icons were hard the same reply. under review. to come by and, as his reputation grew, more and more works What of the very first Icon of St Gregory? were presented to him for evaluation or acquisition. The Icon, now safely in London, was ready for cleaning. Temple handed it to his most trusted restorer, the same Laurence Boris Yeltzin gave the Patriarch of Moscow $12 million to On one occasion, Temple recognised and purchased an Icon from repurchase Russian Treasures sold during the Stalinist era. a visiting Russian expressly to return it through the Russian Morrocco. To his great relief “it cleaned like a dream.” Forty years after he first encountered it, Temple was unwillingly Embassy to a Museum 300 miles north of Moscow from where it Reassured by this, he again offered it to The Louvre only to be persuaded to part with it with a heavy heart for £24,000. had been stolen. refused once more. In the meantime, the British Museum declared It can now be found on display in the Museum of Church of the During the Stalinist era, Icons were sporadically smuggled out of an interest. They offered him £1 million and set about raising the Holy Redeemer in Moscow where it is regarded as a priceless piece money. Temple agreed to reserve the Icon to give them some time. Russia as the regime promoted the closure of religious of ecclesiastical heritage by the Russian Orthodox Church. 8 The Miracle of Saint George establishments. Eventually a state owned company called Novo Two other potential buyers had also emerged. The Cleveland Peter Temple (Temple 59) and the Dragon Export, based in a former Moscow Church, offered an official Museum in the USA and a gentleman who Temple will only identify 24 source of Icons. Interested parties were invited to take their pick as “One of the greatest private collectors in the world.” 25 a piece for piano, strings and clarinet storm Erika. The BBC mentioned society. I volunteer at two country and the wind howled – was to country and wants advice or from the Swiss composer, Helena it once and that was it. George and houses. I make things out of silver recreate part of a 1959 Historians’ suggestions I am very willing to assist. Winkleman, who will take part in the his amazing wife Angela, mounted and have had a London Mark since production of Shakespeare’s Please contact me through the Old NEWS first performance. Our audience in the their own appeal and with church 1966. I was 80 in May 2015!” Coriolanus. I played the bad- Stoic office.” ‘Grenier’ is limited by the space to friends sent over 4 tons of gifts. tempered Roman back then, and it Many thanks to all those Old Stoics who submitted news items for this edition. Please accept about seventy and concerts are The island cannot recover without was doing so that really woke me up usually sold out several weeks in visitors. Have a look at: Adam Blandy to the power of words – Jim Sherjan the editor’s apologies that some entries have had to be abridged and that some photographs advance. Our website contains lots of www.lifelinedominica.org (Temple 54) Shakespeare’s in particular, but the (Temple 56) pictures and details of past festivals have been omitted due to their print quality. The Caribbean is rather hot in the dramatic use of language in general. and closer to the time, there will be Adam held a Pig Roast at Palheiro to Jim writes, “I left Stowe Please keep sending in your entries for the next issue of The Corinthian to details of this year’s programme.” summer but not in the rainforest. So, we returned to the Queen’s celebrate his 80th on 14 December in 1956 and spent the www.musique-a-marsac.com Temple where the Historians (under [email protected] or post them to Old Stoic Office, Stowe School, Buckingham MK18 5EH. 2015. His 12 grandchildren did a their remarkable tutor, Bill McElwee) next two years in the James Humes performance as part of the always staged their summer Parachute Regiment Oliver Warman (Chandos 53) entertainment. Pity that neither the productions, and acted out the which included active (Chandos 50) Ferriers nor Corbetts could make it. closing scene. Wind and rain aside, service in Cyprus and 1940s in the military over ‘PTSD’, even the Burning Fiery Furnace: a symbol James writes, “My wife and I attended Hopes to meet up with more Old we could not have been made more Jordan, chasing terrorists. After this, sufferers from the Vietnam war. of the firings in the wood-fuelled After 21 years of taking the rich and our grandson James’ confirmation last Stoics in Madeira – especially golfers. welcome. Nick Bayley had organised I joined a 1959 mountaineering He has taken his programme to kiln. Last year he was popularly year at Eton Chapel. There we met some brilliant young present day actor expedition to the Himalayas which Edward Guinness the well educated on tours of the the Pentagon and many of the chosen for the Lifetime Achievement conflicts of Europe – in between Prime Minister, David Cameron whose Stoics to meet us, in particular took nearly a year. By contrast and (Cobham 42) States in America through the Award presented at the International godson was in James’ class of David Stevens William Dinsdale (Temple 15) who back in London, I spent a number of Tunisia, Berlin, The Ardennes, (Walpole 54) Episcopal Church.” Ceramics Festival at Aberystwyth. Salzburg, Italy and of course confirmants. I later presented him with acted out the Coriolanus bit with me; dreary years in different advertising Edward writes, “My autobiography He has bequeathed his Study Normandy (and I have written three my recent book, Churchill: The Arthur Marriott (Fifth Form, Chandos) agencies. For more than 15 years, my A Brewers Tale which you kindly David became Deputy Chairman of Collection of 327 pieces to the Great books on the area) I am amazed how Prophetic Statesman. I have been and Finlay Sutherland (Fifth Form, links with Stowe continued through mentioned in the last issue of The Richard Plincke Express Newspapers at the age of Dixter Charitable Trust in East Sussex the interest grows – particularly in the invited to present my newest book in Grafton) providing the trumpet the Templars Cricket; this included Corinthian is now sold out!” (Temple 47) 79, having retired in 1999 as in memory of Christopher Lloyd. This Holocaust. Many a Stoic has tramped 2016, Presidents And Their Pens: fanfares. And then we were treated to playing in our sole appearance so far Chairman after 18 years building event was celebrated in the January/ the mud. If anybody can get a copy of Presidential Speechwriters from a splendid lunch with the other in the final of the Cricketer Cup in Richard writes, “We still live in the the Company from £21 million to February issue of Ceramic Review: The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal Washington to Obama, at a thespians: Alex Orton (Fifth Form, 1969 (we seem to be getting close John Kessler sociable and attractive village we £3.6 billion in size. “There was a marked similarity in he or she will be in for a fascinating convocation of descendants of US Lyttelton), John Balcon Perez, (Fifth again). After a period running my own (Bruce 44) first came to in 1971, with its clubs, spirit between how we worked but quiet read. Simon collected Presidents in Marshfield, Missouri, Form, Walpole), Helena Vince (Fourth businesses and at the same time writers’ group, bell ringers, book collaboratively in the Pottery at thirteen learned men to write an essay where I will be introduced by Mary Form, Queen’s), Tom Fras (Fourth working for the Security Services, I John writes, “My family continues to club and music. Now fully retired, Howard Judd Aldermaston and how Christo and they get better as the book Eisenhower, granddaughter of the Form, Walpole) and Ayesha Shaheen started, as James Jan, to write fictional grow. I now have three great we are both nonetheless busy, (Walpole 55) collaborated with his gardeners unfolds. On the subject of books, do late President Eisenhower.” (Nugent 15). Not only did we record novels. So far, I have written 9 books, grandchildren and a fourth is on its Rosemary with St John Ambulance, at Great Dixter. Neither of us asked try to get what will be the thinnest excellent interviews with all of these three of which (The Hydra Trilogy), way. On December 26 my grand- Chairmanship of a Winchester Howard writes, “We, Howard ‘Skip’ people to do anything that we book on the shelf, The Snow Goose by but we also got Shakespeare are now available on Amazon in daughter Naomi Sasso (youngest Fellowship, and the PCC. For my Peter McMullan Judd and Ingrid Judd have moved to wouldn’t do ourselves.” A changing Paul Gallico, perhaps the most moving speeches in German, Spanish, Arabic, paperback and also on Kindle (See daughter of my youngest daughter) part, painting is my main (Temple 53) Kalama Heights in Kihei, Hawaii on selection of pieces from the book on Dunkirk written, sales are and Croatian. The Old Bard, so my ad on page 73 for details). My was married to a Costa Rican, Jorge occupation, helped by membership the island of Maui. We welcome Collection is on view and the 1.4 million. It is not good but almost beautifully celebrated at The Temple remaining books will be published Sasso, and I officiated at the of the RI, I continue running courses British Columbian fishing author Old Stoics who wander our way.” main body of work can be seen magic. The White Cliffs by Katherine of British Worthies, would have been during 2016. Apart from playing a ceremony. In 2015, I attended to in experimental modern painting Peter wrote about his still vivid Tel: 650 328 0692 on request. Duer Miller will entrance you but in a delighted. I certainly was.” weekly nine holes of golf, I am an four new publications, two of which each spring and autumn in memories of fishing at Stowe in the Email: [email protected] different way. Her husband, a enthusiastic armchair supporter of were partly written by myself. I am Winchester, and am working on a 2014 Corinthian. Now that story is Grenadier, was killed near Ypres 1915 English cricket and rugby, and an now working on a defence of the commission for a 90 x 120cms to be included in his new book, Michael Ridley after three years of marriage and her incredulous but pessimistic follower Christian faith which will be the last abstract in Switzerland. I have 1950s Casting Back: Sixty Years of Fishing James Diack (Cobham 56) two sons, Old Stoics and also of national politics.” of this series so I have much for always been grateful to Dodie and and Writing to be published by (Temple 56) Grenadiers, were lost to enemy fire on which to be deeply grateful to God.” Robin Watt, of the 1940s Stowe Art Michael Deeley Rocky Mountain Books, Victoria, Michael writes, “In October, Diana the long trek from Lille to Dunkirk in School. Their guidance at a critical (Bruce 50) B.C., in November 2016. The two After an exciting career playing the and I went to Cali in Colombia to Lorne Williamson 1940. No, I am not a book seller but moment in my last term at Stowe led Peters, McMullan and Houghton French Horn with many orchestras stay with my brother David Ridley (Temple 56) an ordinary historian and painter of Jock Asbury-Bailey to an architectural career, a decision The British Film Institute has begun Brown (Temple 54) forged a lifetime and groups, teaching at the Royal (Cobham 59) and his wife Lida, who people, mostly women, a good third (Walpole 47) I have never regretted.” the production of a series of friendship in their quest for pike, Academy of Music for 30 years and is Colombian. This is the third Lorne is still busy and enjoying living class degree man my Tutor said, and archives about British film makers. perch, rudd and tench on the publishing music, James is now largest city in Colombia with a in Cambridge. He was recently now I help teach the failed PhD Jock has finally finished his brief First of this series, A Life In Films Octagon and Eleven Acre lakes in concentrating on his ‘other’ artistic population of about 2.3 million. It is elected Deputy Lead Governor at students on the 1939 war onwards! family history, My Family and Other Michael Reynolds features Oscar winning producer the early 1950s and are still side – graphics, painting, making not on the tourist route but, with a troubled Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Too many Old Stoics were lost in Anecdotes, about his parents’ (Walpole 47) Michael Deeley (Bruce 50). exchanging fishing notes more furniture and ‘fantasy’ constructions. knowledgeable guide, has plenty to building flats in central Cambridge WW2: we tend to forget that and these families and his own life. It has Michael’s films include Blade than half a century later. For over 25 years he has also been offer and quite excellent and has been honoured to become books are gentle reminders. My father, been privately published and is Michael writes to say, “In spite of Runner, Deer Hunter, The Man Who producing a very successful series of unpretentious restaurants. A main President of the Old Stoic Golfing also a Guardsman, sent me to Stowe only available from Jock. If you retirement I am still involved with Fell to Earth, The Italian Job with greetings cards for musicians which course (very good steak or fish) Society. He writes, “I am fortunate because he liked JF so much and would like to purchase a copy, my company: Wyastone Estate Ltd.” Michael Caine and many others. Richard Nicholson have sold in many thousands in costs about £4.50. As in other to be still playing golf (although the when he came out of the delightful please email [email protected] (Cobham 53) Concert Halls and Music shops in the places we visited (Popayan, courses keep getting longer) and an interview, in spite of discussing so UK and Europe. He would be very Cartagena, and Bogota), there are occasional game of Real Tennis. much sadness, he recounted to me, Brian Temperley David Finch Richard writes, “In 1972 at, we think, interested in finding other outlets in third world elements which side Other activities include getting a 10 year old, how he and JF had cried David Mumford (Temple 47) (Cobham 50) my 18th attempt, I passed the final other English speaking parts of the with those that are modern and annoyed at lawyers, bankers and their eyes out discussing the war. (Grenville 47) exam for the Fellowship of Surgery of world and would be delighted if any elegant. The country’s strength lies planners! Sadly, no more skiing or That interview opened my eyes and, Brian writes to say that he is David writes, “This year is the fifth the Glasgow College of Surgeons. The Old Stoics could suggest any musical in the fact that the middle class mountaineering but visiting 15 yes, those days were really very hard David writes, learning to play the flute! anniversary of the Music Festival my reason for this only became apparent centres that incorporate shops. You forms a growing proportion of the grandchildren and their parents in and we tend to forget it. “I wondered if wife Fiona and I started in 2012, when both my sons were found to be can contact him and view his designs population. There are places where Canada, USA and Australia keeps readers might be which takes place in ‘La France dyslexic. I was appointed as a at: www.diackmusicards.co.uk tourists are advised not to go, and Sharon and me happy.” Alan Caiger-Smith interested in my Profonde’, Marsac, a small but very George Kent Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma the country’s violent past is only hobby as a retired (Temple 48) beautiful village in Tarn et Garonne, (Cobham 52) surgeon in 1974. Having been the recently behind it. However, for the priest who hung south-west France. The week long town’s Medical Director, I retired from Piers Plowright traveller with some rudimentary Derek McConnell up his robes at Alan’s final exhibition festival is devoted to chamber music. the Health Service on 14 May 1995. (Temple 56) knowledge of Spanish and a spirit of (Temple 57) Young performers come from all over the age of 85! In 1998, I had a TIA, took place by Since then, I have remained very adventure, Colombia should be on the world to take part. Our main followed by another soon after. I was invitation of Italian busy. I am a member of two U3A Piers writes, “The highlight of my your list. The internal airline service Derek writes, “Since moving to attraction is our Music Director, frustrated by the physio exercises I ceramicists in the walking groups and an antique group. year was definitely a visit to Stowe is excellent.” Australia 12 years ago, I have met just was given and suddenly found myself Palazzo del Comune Alasdair Beatson, a pianist with BBC radio sound team, Alan and as many Old Stoics as when I lived in specialising in chamber music and I pick up out shooting (though I have making model ships (I made several in Gubbio, Umbria in 2008, featuring not shot for 10 years). I hunted until Pez, to record an episode for my R4 the UK. We live a few hundred metres extremely well known in that milieu. George has stopped going to India in the Art Room at Stowe all those lustre ceramics from his last firing at two years ago, still ride and enjoy series, Stepping-Stones. This was a Simon Ruscoe from the site of the Commonwealth Another attraction is the two fine to support destitute children but is years ago). I have now made 224 Aldermaston and, at his suggestion, riding holidays abroad. In May 2015, series of five programmes tracking (Bruce 56) Games in 2018, when I shall Steinways, a concert grand in the still going to Dominica in the West models of which many have been representing work by nine I went on a coastal sailing holiday in five moments in my life (so far!) that celebrate my 80th birthday. 2016 is ‘Grenier’ where most concerts are Indies where his daughter, Tina, is commissions. Battling with health contemporary Italian makers. Turkey with my youngest son. I enjoy depended on ‘sound’ and which still Simon writes, “Although now aged 77, our 50th wedding anniversary and we held, and a semi-concert grand in the Hon British Consul and has two problems, I find this hobby very He donated to the town of Gubbio cooking, wine, eating out, the theatre resonate with me. The Stowe visit, I am still consulting and mentoring in will be taking our extended family on our house where rehearsals are also cottages in the rainforest. Recently, relaxing! Our eldest son (61) is a a large dish based on the story of conducted. As it is our fifth and music and sing for a local choral on what should have been a brilliant the tourism industry in South Africa. If a special holiday. My time has been the island was wrecked by tropical 26 priest in the USA, and is very involved Shadrach, Meshak and Abednego in anniversary, we have commissioned early June day – it actually poured any OS is contemplating a visit to this taken up with combating cancer. 27 Cap d’Ail where one looks across the Sladen (Bruce 31) was killed in meet all the various production costs meeting up at an OS function. Dick Clegg Tristan und Isolde followed in June NEWS bay to Monte Carlo. It was scorching Burma with the East African Scouts at The Old Red Lion for that month. E: [email protected] (Walpole 63) 2015, receiving a glowing reception hot; it was a week later when the who were a ‘commando’ Special If anyone can contribute, I would be PS Congratulations to Don Carslaw and critical acclaim. In October last terrifying rains descended paralysing Forces/behind enemy lines unit on very grateful for your help in getting (Grenville 61) for his 40 years of Dick and his wife have year, he conducted Richard Wagner’s Cannes. Paddy had a terrible chill 20 February 1944. He was also a my play started.” If you would like to hang gliding keep at it Don!” second opera Das Liebesverbot (Ban I had a radical prostatectomy in been on a fabulous Robin Hunter-Coddington caused by inhuman air conditioning member of the Kenya Regiment. help, please email Simon to discuss on Love) for Chelsea Opera Group, March 2003, followed by 6.5 weeks cruise to Dubai, India, (Chandos 59) hence he is wrapped up but still On the 70th anniversary of Edward’s this further, [email protected] again to enthusiastic audience and of radiotherapy. Since then, I have the Maldives, stands with an elegance eclipsed death, his son Simon Sladen (Grafton Michael Chapman critical acclaim. His forthcoming been on various courses of drugs. Seychelles, Madagascar only by Hugo and making me look a 62), with another nephew and myself (Chatham 62) conducting engagements include In December 2014, my PSA had shot and to mainland Africa arriving in complete disgrace with my hands in travelled to the Arakan in western Don Carslaw Orchestra of The Swan in April and up to well over 100 so I faced a full Cape Town before Christmas. They my pockets. In October, my brother, Burma to track his footsteps. A (Grenville 61) Michael writes, Tannhauser in June. He has also course of chemotherapy. At the end are now back in Ottawa. Michael, and sister-in-law Diana fascinating experience and very “Regarding the last become Music Director of Opra Cyru, of the treatment my PSA had gone came to stay with Lida and me in successful. We spent a week there Don writes, “I am still year, not much has a company that is committed to down to 29 and then back up to 50! th Robin writes, “For the 10 time, a Cali, Colombia where past problems and found the place he was killed by employed in IT here changed. I am still in Anthony Genth bringing opera in Welsh to the My oncology consultant put me onto group of Chandosians from the mid are nearly forgotten and the country the Japanese, together with six in the South of Palau as TL for Koror- (Chatham 63) people of Wales. a relatively new cancer blocker, with 50s got together for a truly seems to be a safer place than most Kenyan troops near the Kaladan river France but I am Airai Sanitation the result that my PSA is now 4.5 after memorable get-together (at Bucks of Europe.” 100 kms inland from Sittwe (Akyab). planning to retire Project. Palau is a small group of 3 months. I write this in the hope that Anthony writes to say, “After working Club in London) considering that we We stayed in Burmese villages and next year, 54 years islands in relatively pristine condition Bill Evans it will give increased knowledge and in China from 2004 through 2008 have all known each other for more walked to various remote wartime after leaving. It’s a pleasure to with great diving, not threatened by (Grafton 65) support to others who are diagnosed and then moving to Kuala Lumpur for than 60 years. This time, as usual, Alastair Stone sites. Recently, Simon Sladen, who suddenly become a regular visitor to global warming. However, we have with cancer. I was told in Bristol in a further five years, I returned to the there was much giggling about some (Temple 59) was born in Kenya in 1943, revisited Stowe, as my son Sean has just increasing numbers of tourists, mostly 2002, that I had only a few months USA in 2013 and am now working of the things that we had got up to; Kenya and we went to our started in Grenville. My boyhood from China, so this is putting a heavy to live.” with a Chicago based company whether swimming in the Eleven Acre grandparents’ old farm in the Rift memories of the place are all in black strain on accommodation and called VacayStay Connect. I work Lake, long before an indoor swimming valley. Edward Sladen was the first and white, so it’s great to now see it infrastructure. Highlights of the year from Denver and we aggregate Robert Whitaker pool. Chandos won most of the man to, twice, climb to the summit all in glorious colour! I am still living were when my wife and son, now 16 vacation home inventory to our (Cobham 57) swimming cups under the captainship (Batian) of Mt Kenya in 1936 and near Grasse and happy to see any and attending The British School in online booking platform for of Donough O’Brien (Chandos 57); 1938, so we visited Mt Kenya, too. Old Stoics who are passing through. Manila, visited from the Philippines distribution through channels like In October 2014, Bill met up with a cooking spam on meths stoves in My mother, Geraldine Macoun, his Contact: [email protected] and at least one trip to the islands. group of friends from Stowe, in a Robert writes, “At the Home Away/VRBO. Asia was exciting Plug Street (rationing was still in place Alastair writes, “We have now lived sister, who is still living in Kenya aged The picture is taken with my elder In Manila, we added a second floor Wimbledon pub, for the first time in advanced age of 76 and stimulating and if not for wishing for some of us) or remembering some in southern Arizona for over three 99, the first woman to climb to the brother Kay Carslaw (Grenville 58).” to our house to combat the flooding, 50 years, since leaving Stowe. years, I am still to spend some time with my of the masters who tried to teach us: years, and it’s still a life of singing, summit of Mt Kenya in 1938 was caused by uncontrolled urbanisation Photograph, from left to right, teaching anatomy to grandchildren, I would return in a ‘Slug’ Gibson; ‘Paddy’ Pinchbeck; tennis, and pickle-ball (where my married to Michael J Macoun (Grafton and a bit more rain than usual. shows: Patrick Frean (Cobham 65), medical students at moment. Everything is happening ‘Windy’ Dick; not forgetting Bertie game is raised by the ferocious play 33), so a lot of early Kenyan Stowe Timothy Garratt Another event that I like to attend in Roger Watson (Grafton 64), Robert Cambridge University, there and happening quickly. Stephan, our Housemaster. Memories of Helga, who plays twice as often history. I chose to speak about (Cobham 61) March is the annual Manila 10s rugby Salamon (Grafton 65), Bill Evans nearly full time. I still Imagine that e-commerce in China is of defaulters for activities such as: as I do!). We visited Dubai last Edward Sladen and Burma when I at Nomads Sports Club, about 200 (Grafton 65) and Robin McDonagh enjoy the interaction with students projected to reach $2.8 trillion by untidy hair, insolence, disobedience February, to stay with our son spoke at the Dinner. I regularly see Timothy has now fully retired from metres from our house.” (Grafton 65). and retired surgeons are probably as 2018, whereas in the USA it will and listening to the radio were fondly Daniel, his wife Erica, and grandson several young OSs including Milo all practice and consultancy as a good as anyone for teaching as they reach only $800 billion. Add to this We met for lunch this incongruous discussed and thankfully recorded as Taylor, who is now 2. The junior McConnell (Grenville 10), Jasper Chartered Surveyor and has did use a lot of anatomy during their Charles Dixey the fact that there will be some 200 bunch part of an outstanding education in Stones are on assignment there for Simpkin (Chatham 12) and his sister resigned from all his former surgical careers. I have a request: (Chatham 62) million outbound Chinese tourists by preparation for life’s adventures and, 2-3 years in an amazing place: we Lara Simpkin (Lyttelton 09) and professional organisations. He says Stoics old, long gone the fold, Do any of you who were doctors 2020 and, without even mentioning between us, we have had more than did not expect to ski on top of a getting married soon, Archie he feels GREAT and recommends Travelled far, released, rejoiced have your old skeleton from your India (another 80 million outbound quite a few adventures! We are all fit shopping mall. We have discovered Voorspuy (Chatham 10) and Imo the state to all Old Stoics! Charles writes, “Sadly, our family Untied from Barr squeaky voiced; undergraduate days? If so, and you travellers), you have a true tourism and healthy and are planning our next a new way of accessing ‘culture’ Voorspuy (Lyttelton 12) and others. cricket match on the North Front was are happy to part with it to a good revolution! So, I hope that everyone And Nichol Reverend by chance event at Stowe itself. Persto et from afar, as a local cinema in My brother Tony Macoun (Grafton 62) cancelled in 2015 but we are booked home for teaching, please get in touch is focused on these incredible shifts revered Praesto. From left to right: John Tucson shows live performances was out here recently to visit Jeremy Hunter-Coddington in for 2016. Hopefully, I expect to be with me.” [email protected] in wealth distribution and leisure And through his calling steered Coleman, John Perriss, Anthony Mash, from New York’s Met opera, the (Chandos 61) playing with a grandson. My last year our mother.” because it will surely affect us all Young Patrick Frean. Robin Behar, David Rimmer, Robin Bolshoi’s ballet, and the Albert in the First XI was 1963.” over the next two decades.” Now Basil, facile, Scots tall and lean, Andy Bone Hunter-Coddington, Hugh Searle, Hall’s proms! We hosted an Jeremy has, for the past year, been Simon Blow touring Britain with his One-Man Took the post to Headmaster lots (Bruce 59) Donough O’Brien, Michael Likierman Oktoberfest party for 30 neighbours Mike Stewart and John Utley, all leavers from on our back patio and dressed (Chatham 61) Show on North Korea Exposed/ Of comely girls…I mean of course (Chatham 62) David Russell Chandos from 1957/1958 or 1959. suitably for the occasion.” Propaganda and the Cult of the Kim. (Temple 64) Roedean- Andy writes, “One is Simon writes, “I have written a play He managed to enter DPRK in 2011 Forsaking Grafton, supposed to slow called, The Past is a Tattooed Sailor, just before the death of Kim Jong-Il, Mike writes to tell us, down in one’s 70s David writes to say, “Our neighbour, Rob, Robin, Rog and Bill Richard Miall David Would which was inspired by knowing my and was able to observe life in the “Having built a boat at but somehow this Old Stoic, Michael Gregory (Chandos Perhaps by then he’d had his fill (Bruce 59) (Chandos 59) unusual great-uncle Stephen Hermit Kingdom, and its isolationist Stowe and owned a message has not got 51), of Mountsfield Lodge, Rye died As had we all come the fall of 65. Tennant. Uncle Stephen was a leader dictatorial regime. He had the great boatyard, I should have through to me as recently at the age of 82. He formerly Richard writes from the Southern David writes, “I am delighted that in of those Bright Young People who privilege of giving this presentation known better than to So here we are half-a-ton every year brings owned the famous Mermaid Coaching Highlands in New South Wales, September 2015 our granddaughter, created a playground of amusement last March to an audience, including have later fitted out and Alive, the same old game new interests. I remain Chairman of Inn and was a formidable naval Australia, “I regularly join with fellow Charlotte Would, entered Stowe in between the two World Wars. By the the Headmaster, in the Chung Music commissioned a 48’ steel sloop! This The chat, the jokes, just older folks agricultural machinery manufacturer historian. He kept three cannons in Old Stoic, Corydon Unwin (Chandos Queen’s House. Charlotte is a third time I knew him he was living as a School at Stowe. He has taken his took double the time (10 years) and Standen Engineering in Ely, have his garden, one of them a 32-pounder Standing firm, standing first 68) for a round of golf and often see generation ‘Would’ to attend Stowe. recluse. He lived in the delusion that show to many other venues and will budget. However, Monica and I left recently been appointed Chairman of from the lower gun-deck of HMS Let’s get it right dot the I and cross Tim Lunham (Chatham 51) who is I was in Chandos in 1959, my son, his youthful beauty was still there. be at Radley in March and The Royal Scotland in 2012, wintered Baker & Baker, manufacturers of Foudroyant (80 guns), and fired them the T also living here in Bowral. We would Philip Would was Chandos 90 and When I knew him it had long gone. Society for Asian Affairs in May 2016. respectively in Lisbon, Sicily and bespoke top-of-the market kitchens, regularly giving prominence to any Stoic welcome any other Old Stoics who now Charlotte.” The play is fictionalised. I want it www.jeremyhunter.com Crete where we are now for a second am Chairman of the Colchester anniversary even remotely connected P & P may be living in this area and seen as an original piece of drama winter. We have explored the Brewery, Executive Director of Standen with Viscount Nelson of The Nile.” unknown to me. Please contact me and not a piece of autobiography Dodecanese in the Aegean as far as Wilpoet Aka TW Evans (Grafton 65) Property Ltd and full time partner in the through the Old Stoic office.” which it isn’t. It has had some Ross Luke Lesvos, experiencing wonderful Clare Bulb Company. By and large that 1960s (Temple 61) excellent reviews: Ian McKellen: weather and the best winds to be Anthony Negus fills the average day! In January 2015, Ian Harrower ‘Clever, witty, and original. It will get found in the Mediterranean. (Bruce 64) my wife Jane and I had a lot of fun Brian Macoun (Temple 65) David Ridley its audience.’ Simon Callow: ‘An Ross writes, “Having retired from all Although the original plan was to featuring in a one hour Sky 1 TV (Cobham 59) (Grafton 60) duties at London Scottish FC (19 circumnavigate, we have shelved this excellent play. On an equal with Tom Anthony is now Music Director at programme Come into my Garden seasons as a player and 25 years a intent due to creeping age and Stoppard. Simon Blow is the bastard Longborough Festival Opera. He which covered three gardens in East Brian writes to say, ‘blazer’!), I keep relatively busy with because we so much enjoy the Greek child of Tennessee Williams and has established himself as one of Anglia, ours being one of them. We “Kenya has lots of OS my small accountancy practice in islands and the people who live Ronald Firbank.’ Anthony Page: Britain’s most distinguished Wagner also breed Labradors. The whole news and in July 2015, the UK and frequent visits to the here. Anyone who reads this is well ‘Rather better than Tennessee interpreters. Over several years, he purpose of keeping busy is to avoid the the HM visited Kenya Philippines, where I have business advised not to build their own boat. Williams.’ My play will open at The built up Der Ring des Nibelungen, temptation to take up golf. If anyone and a dinner was interests and equally important can This said, we gain much satisfaction Old Red Lion in Angel, Islington for culminating in three highly acclaimed wants to see pictures of the garden arranged at Karen get in some scuba diving. Any OS sailing our 23 tons at over eight David writes, “On a gorgeous day in the month of August 2016. It is one Cycles in 2013, the bicentenary of and Labrador puppies and much else, Country Club. As I was the oldest OS visiting Manila is welcome to get in knots on a beat. The ‘live aboard’ life Ian has taken over the mid September Patrick McCrea of the best venues to begin. From Wagner’s birth. Longborough was the go to www.clare-bulbs.co.uk and follow present I was asked to give a short touch. John Grantham (Temple 62) offers great freedom and variety in administration of the Club des (Walpole 59) assembled Hugo Curtis there the play is likely to travel and only company in the UK to stage a the links from the home page.” speech. I talked about Kenya/Stowe or I would be glad to hear from any retirement plus enough challenges Pilotes du Mans – Britannique. This (Walpole 59) and me at the Cabanon, grow. I am hoping to raise £30,000 to full Ring Cycle in this significant year. 28 links: My uncle, Capt Edward C of our contemporaries, possibly to keep what brain remains, active!” is a club open to any British driver 29 Nicolas Ollivant restoring a Series 1 E Type which the winter and construction in the achievement must have been the Ford Geoff Macleod-Smith Conservation and Dominic is keen to NEWS (Walpole 67) grandchildren seem to love. I find summer. He is also proprietor of Model T. This was the first production (Walpole 72) share it with the historic landscape there is less time in the day than Osoyoos Solar, installing Photo Voltaic car in the world. So, I’ve gone from industry (Historic England, The Nicolas writes, “In August last year when I was working!” panels and Enphase inverters. He self 500 Bhp in a 900 kg GT40 to 20 horse Geoff writes, “I work as Regional HR National Trust etc) and The Institute built one of the first electric cars in BC, power in a Model T! Barking you might of Landscape Architects because who has taken part in the Le Mans awarded the position of Old Stoic I joined Citrica LLP as a partner. Director for Wolters Kluwer Health, based on a Pontiac Firefly convertible, think, but quite honestly I can’t think there is under-recognition of these 24 Hours endurance motor race. Ambassador for his long standing The company is based in Broadway a medical information solutions Nigel Milne http://pontiacfirefly.com/ecarGallery of anything that is more of a joy to professional spheres and what we Ian took part a dozen times between commitment and dedication to the (near St James’s Park Station) enterprise based in Auckland. (Chandos 68) and dreams of re-building it for greater drive, with its two speed foot can do.” Dominic has been involved 1977 and 1990, his best result Society and its work. London. The business of the I oversee HR across Japan, India, range in retirement as battery operated gearbox, high driving with historic parks and gardens for being in 1986 when he finished 8th company is the management of South East Asia, China and technology has advanced so much position (like a Range Rover) and four some thirty years including advising overall, winning the C2 class (in the commercial and residential Nigel has established The STOWE-X Australia/New Zealand which since the first attempt! Most of his comfy seats pottering along with a at Stowe and other well known only car that was not a Porsche in buildings in and around London.” ROCK & BLUES COLLECTIVE for the involves quite a bit of travel. I am John Greenstreet working life has been involved in couple of friends on the Lincolnshire gardens, such as the Lost Gardens of the first ten finishers!). Old Stoics enjoyment of like minded OSs and still playing cricket and am part of an (Grenville 66) construction in the summer and many lanes to the pub. Sublime to the Heligan. For fifteen years, Dominic appear to have had a major their friends to witness the organisation called Vintage Sports performances of emerging and of the skills he uses every day were ridiculous? I’m not so sure. ‘Mrs T’ and manage mature cricketers on chaired the national amenity society presence in the 24 Hours; in fact, John writes, “I had to retire on Roger Charlton (Chatham 68) established artists. For more taught to him at Stowe by Mr Acton attracts more smiles and happy faces tours which have included playing The Garden History Society (now The in 1977 there were three Old Stoic health grounds in 2012 after information, please contact: (Technical drawing and Woodwork) than any super car.” in Chile (opposition captained by Gardens Trust) and was Chairman of participants – Ian Bracey (Chatham surviving a very rare heart condition [email protected] and Mr James (Metalwork). With well former OS Christian Hesketh the National Trust Parks and Gardens 61) (deceased), Nick Faure (Cobham (an aortic dissection) which is Roger writes, “Training racehorses is equipped metal and woodwork shops (Chandos 89) which was great fun; Advisory panel for nine years. He set 62) and Ian. There must be usually 98% fatal. In layman’s not without its ups and downs but it Michael Thomas at home he thinks that he can build also Argentina, Peru, Australia, up his own practice, Dominic Cole something in the air at Stowe, terms, it is when an aneurism was a great thrill to bring Al Kazeem (Chatham 71) Neil Wallace almost anything, although, as Barbados, California, UK, South Landscape Architects in 2001. wafting over from Silverstone! Ian partially ruptures. Provided the back to the highest level to win the (Chandos 68) retirement looms, 3D printing is Africa and, more recently, India www.dominiccole.net has also become a Trustee of the patient can reach a suitably Tattersalls Gold Cup Group One for Michael writes in to say, proving very attractive! which was an excellent, British Racing Drivers’ Club qualified operating team in time, the second time on his return from “For many years I was a Neil writes, “I’m living in if chastening, experience as our Benevolent Fund, a charity set up lives can be saved. In my case, an unsuccessful season as a stallion photographer based in Williamsburg, Virginia where some opposition was often very much Donald Lancaster set up some fifteen years ago to some 72 hours later, it was at The Queen’s Stud at David McDonough Cape Town, Madrid and radicals are demanding younger than our average age of 63. (Chatham 74) assist anybody in the motorsport Southampton General Hospital, Sandringham. We look forward to (Cobham 71) London, but these days independence from Great Britain. I have three grown up children all of world who is suffering hardship of with literally minutes to spare. We another exciting season ahead of us I spend my time writing th Working on a 3D without glasses whom work and live in Auckland.” Donald writes to say that he is now any description. survivors are keen to promote in my 38 year at Beckhampton. David writes, “This year marks my 40th mostly kids poetry and technology and two medical a lecturer at the University of Bath awareness of this rare condition Anyone interested in racing’s history year in the public relations business. song lyrics. My song What’s A Guy To projects, a stem cell treatment and School of Management in Marketing, which kills so many people should find the recently published I continue to run a successful strategic Do is at no 2 in the Number One Mark Henderson research facility in the Caribbean Etienne Millner and undertaking Doctoral research unnecessarily every year, as BECKHAMPTON (the men and horses communications consultancy in Music chart for the second week (Temple 65) and representing IBM Watson to the (Grenville 72) at the same time, also in Marketing. diagnosis is still difficult. To this of a great racing stable) by Paul Westminster from lovely Grade II running. It’s been in the chart for 40+ oncology field.” end, we have lobbied the Minister Mathieu of interest.” listed offices next to Westminster weeks. (NB it’s about a 17 year old Having retired of Health in Parliament.” Abbey: lots of interesting work for boy’s first taste of heartbreak).” Etienne writes in to say, “In 2015, from a career in Jon Mills interesting people. My philanthropic www.michaelrocthomas.com I was commissioned by St.Hugh’s Investment William Shenkman (Chandos 74) Robert Cooper life, in parallel, is as busy as ever College, Oxford to make a bust of Management (Chandos 69) David Hill (Cobham 68) including being Life President (and Mr Cheng Kin Ku father of St.Hugh’s based mostly in Jon has recently returned to live in (Bruce 66) co-founder and former Chairman) of Robbie Wraith benefactor Vincent Cheng. Harris the Square Mile, William is the general partner of a Cognac, Charente, S.W. France. All Robert writes, “I continue to present The October Club; founder and (Grafton 71) Manchester College, Oxford has he had the time major development in downtown commissioned me to make a life- OSs welcome, if they need help David has retired as Chairman of and report for the horse racing Deputy Chairman of the Samaritans to devote to his Ottawa, Canada containing an size statue of their major when visiting the area, or those living Warwick Racecourse, and now runs channel, At The Races. Our studio is Advisory Board; Appeal Committee Robbie writes, “My portrait of the Rt. Livery Company, the Worshipful outdoor sports stadium, an indoor benefactor, Lord Harris, of Peckham. nearby. [email protected] a number of horseracing syndicates. based at Milton Keynes but when on member of the Winston Churchill Hon. Lord Judge as Lord Chief Justice Company of Curriers. He was elected hockey arena, condominiums, town (My first bust of Lord Harris is in the He also manages the bridge and the road I head to all points of the Memorial Trust; adviser to the new is now hanging in the permanent Master of the Company for the year houses, office block and 360,000 National Portrait Gallery, London). golf events for the MCC south of the compass. I frequently encounter national Dementia Appeal; the pro collection of the Middle Temple, 2014/15 and served on the two sq.ft of retail. The partnership also They have also commissioned life- William Cavendish Thames and works with the charity fellow Old Stoics: some who own bono Special Adviser to the Board London.” charities raising a record sum during owns and operates the Ottawa size statues of sisters, Mrs Maevadi (Lyttelton 75) the Fredericks Foundation in horses and others, like Roger of Spark Inside, a relatively new but the year of about £46,000 including Redblacks of the Canadian Football Navapan and Dr Karnitha London. He remains non executive Charlton (Chatham 68), James impactful prison reform charity with Gift Aid. During the year, there were League who played in the Grey Cup Karnchanachari, who have funded Chairman of Echelon Learning Ltd. Fanshawe (Temple 79) and Michael programmes to wean young offenders Neil Davidson Bill is now Vice President Distribution several major anniversaries to mark final (Canada’s version of the super Bell (Cobham 79) who are off violence; and a member of the (Cobham 72) building a clock tower and a student for Emirates Airlines, Dubai. including the sealing of Magna bowl in the US) last November in only successful trainers. I also write a Prime Minister’s Advisory Group on accommodation block. The Carta and Agincourt. The numerous its second season of operation. The Gavin Laird Craig weekly column in Racing Plus. Away World War One Commemorations. Neil has spoken about The Golden Newmarket Commemoration commitments prevented him from Ottawa Fury of the North American Committee has commissioned me to (Bruce 66) from the racecourse, I was delighted (I have marched past the Cenotaph Age of Hollywood in 16 countries Christopher Drake running in the Old Stoics’ Cross- Soccer League who played in the to meet my old Cobham studymate twice last year, in memory of my over the last year to 25,000 people. make a life-size and a quarter statue (Walpole 75) country run last year but then Soccer Bowl final against the New Chris Manson and his wife Fiona. grandfather, as a member of the He is currently writing a book – of HM The Queen to commemorate perhaps, “It is time to hang up my Gavin writes to say that he is now York Cosmos recently in only its th We met at The Swan in Pangbourne Gallipoli Association). I am lucky, Hollywood Anecdote and Ephemera. Her Majesty’s 90 birthday in Chris writes, “In June 2015 I was boots anyway!” working for Pike, Smith & Kemp, second season of operation and the and so pleasant was the venue and too, to enjoy a happy and flourishing His film company, MWP Digital Media 2016.” www.etiennemillner.com one of a small group who Land and Estate Agents in Marlow. Ottawa 67s of the Ontario Major occasion, beside the banks of the private life. My proudest moment creates video marketing for 70 of the successfully completed the Great Junior Hockey league, the foremost Thames, that we are considering this year was being invited to be an FTSE 500. Kora trek, while also raising Piers Lawford making it an annual event on the junior ice hockey league in the world. Salvador Potter (Bruce 65) Peter Rapelye honorary grandfather of Eva-Deia £10,000 for Oxford University’s first Monday of each December. Any www.tdplace.ca and www.oseg.ca (Cobham 72) (Bruce 66) Branson, baby daughter of my China Centre. This involved two Old Stoics and partners will be most stepdaughter, Isabella and Sam Adrian Laird Craig days’ driving north of Shangri-La in Piers is retired, cycles every day and (Bruce 72) welcome on 5 December 2016.” Branson. Richard Branson (we were Salvador writes, “Having now western China to the remote village has been teaching Medical Students Peter writes, “Now in my third year both briefly in Cobham together) is returned to Fowey in Cornwall after of Yading from where we set off for at Warwick Medical School. of retirement, the teacher in me 1970s one of the two ‘real’ grandfathers.” Adrian and Tim Dew (Chandos 90) retiring, we let two properties for eight days of hiking through valleys continues to find ways to return to Nick James have started a bush fire for Old Stoics holidays in this lovely seaside with countless wild flowers and over the classroom. I am presently Colin McCubbin (Bruce/Lyttelton 68) in the North and devoted a Facebook town which can be found on the passes decked with fluttering prayer Andrew Thomson teaching a course: FDR and (Chatham 70) James Sutcliffe page called ‘Old Stoics in the North’ www.cottages4you.co.uk website, flags. The trek followed a circular (Temple 65) Churchill: A Legacy of Leadership for Nick writes, “Sounds impossible but (Chandos 71) for communication. Adrian is studying reference Clearview Cottage and route climbing up through lush the Ages in Princeton, NJ. Their ‘epic I have just retired as MD of Pol Colin lives in Osoyoos, British for the Scottish Tourist Guide Waterside.” forested hills and then around three Andrew writes to say that he received friendship’ is something I hope Roger UK after 44 years in the Wine Columbia, with his wife Frankie and Association two year Blue Badge sacred peaks, each about 6,000 his Honorary Doctorate of Business Americans and Brits will try to Trade! Can’t give up now so have Fred an elderly English Springer course, hoping to qualify in April metres high, that were sanctified in Administration in November 2015, cultivate in our current and future become Chairman of a new cider Spaniel, and is self building a highly 2016, when he will be delighted to Dominic Cole the 8th Century by the fifth Dalai which was conferred on him by leaders. I am also serving on two operation just down the road from insulated Near Net Zero retirement assist corporate and private forays (Lyttelton 74) Lama. These majestic mountains, Bournemouth University. independent school boards with a me in Worcestershire. It should be home there, partly buried in the North with humour and named after the three bodhisattvas special focus on strategic planning hillside, overlooking the valley below quite large but not large enough to interpretation. He still keeps one foot Dominic, who has of Compassion, Wisdom and Power, and professional development. A and the Cascade Mountains of the lose its wonderful quality. Living in in wine and is ‘Regent’ (Maitre’s recently been are still revered by Tibetan John Fingleton special note of gratitude to Stowe USA. He is still working in a dual-life Ludlow and enjoying plenty of support) of the recently established awarded the OBE, Buddhists and attract very few (Chatham 66) for reaching out to all alumni, even mode, ski guiding (a certified shooting and fishing expeditions in Scotland branch of the Commanderie writes “The OBE people apart from Tibetans on those ‘across the pond.’ The quality member of both the Canadian the UK and abroad. Now training a James writes, “Whilst the GT40 was de Bordeaux (a Edimbourg), devoted is awarded for pilgrimage and a few roving John stepped down from the Old of Stowe publications is superb.” Avalanche Association and Mike new Lab pup sired by one of mine the pinnacle of Ford’s racing to extolling the virtues of great claret. Services to shepherds. They were first visited by Stoic Society Committee after 20 Wiegele’s Canadian Ski Guide and completed the final stage of achievement in 1966, Mr Ford’s real Landscape outsiders only in 1928 and in many 30 years of service and has been Association, Cat and Heli ski) in the 31 Howard Goodall Simon Allport John Lawrence published (September 2015) by husband, who is Chief Executive of Henry Worsley NEWS (Lyttelton 76) (Bruce 77) (Temple 78) Prestel UK. It has been favourably the Royal College of Surgeons. She (Grafton 78) reviewed in The Spectator, World of would like to do other things apart Howard writes to say, “The West End Simon writes, “I am now living in John recently Interiors and Bulletin of the Oriental from work in 2016. Ceramics Society and other reviews ways not much has changed since when he left to be a Headmaster. It musical for which I’ve composed the Kent with the fabulous Lina Hopkins flew to Christmas will shortly be published in Hali, then. The going was tough at times, is his first publication since Britain, music, Bend it Like Beckham has just (née Highwood, Stanhope 81). I’ve Island (Kiritimati) th Arts of Asia and Cornucopia Michael Shew as we trekked up and over the Europe and the World, 1871-1971, had its 200 performance at the finally retired from cricket last year and thoroughly magazines.” (Chatham 80) Kora’s six high passes, the highest which some Old Stoics will Phoenix Theatre; it opened to 5 star but still involved with both the enjoyed the being about 4,900m, but we were remember. The book pays as much reviews in June, has already won the Shepway Stragglers and Band of ultimate fly- more than amply rewarded for the attention to early centuries as to Asian Media Award for Best Theatre Brothers in Kent. I have three fishing Michael writes, “In October 2014 I effort as we picnicked by glistening, more recent ones and an American Performance and was voted Time wonderful sons, Rogan (Temple 08) experience for six 1980s retired from Lancashire Constabulary glacier-fed lakes and pristine publisher has written that by “a Out’s Best West End Musical a few now 25, Cameron, 23 and Theo, 20. days. He was lucky enough to catch with thirty years of police service, streams under crisp blue skies while miracle of organisation, by clarity weeks ago. Old Stoics are warmly I am a member and Director of Rye 80 bonefish on the flats and would during which time I was awarded invited to bring their families to it!” Golf Club, as well as the Honorary recommend the trip to any fly Henry Worsley, Harry Gregson-Williams both of the Queen’s Jubilee medals gazing at breathtakingly beautiful of expression and the sharing of (Chatham 80) Secretary of the Lloyd’s Golf Club.” fisherman. It was an adventure one the only person to and the Police Long Service medal. mountainscapes topped off by the considerable knowledge it presents have completed Kora’s awesome snow-capped a remarkable survey of the history flight in/out a week en route from I was a traffic and motorway officer two classic routes Harry continues to live and work in summits in the land of the of Christianity.” An Anglican Clifford Halvorsen Fiji to Honolulu that drops you and for 24 years of my service. My second Rupert Arnold of Shackleton, Los Angeles and has had a busy legendary ‘lost horizons’. Other than bishop, a Roman Catholic canon, (Grenville 76) your fishing kit off on a tiny tropical wife, Renate, to whom I was married (Lyttelton 77) Scott and Amundsen, headed year. Scoring Ridley Scott’s space that, I continue to work for a small a lawyer, a Lutheran Professor of paradise. No TV, no internet but as in 2004, shares my love of Scotland. back to Antarctica in November epic The Martian certainly was a family office in Hong Kong and am Theology, a Humanist Professor Clifford has become a Partner much lobster as you can eat! In July we moved to Dunoon. I work 2015 to attempt the first solo, highlight, together with the arrival engaged with a number of charity of Microbiology and a Cambridge at Opus Corporate Finance Rupert has returned with his family for the local bus company and unsupported and unassisted of his fifth (and final) child. His time and non-profit organisations Professor of History have all written (www.opuscf.com) where he advises to live in Yorkshire from where he Renate is semi retired at last.” crossing of the Antarctic spent back at Stowe as Composer (including HK Friends of Stowe!), to praise it. It is available for £10 small and medium sized companies continues to run the National Nicholas Loup landmass. Aiming to raise in Residence in 2012 seems a mostly focusing on education.” from Waterstones and Amazon. on M&A and fundraisings, with a Trainers Federation, representing (Lyttelton 78) £100,000 for the Endeavour distant memory now, but an personal focus on the food sector. licensed racehorse trainers in Great Mike Tresise Fund, Henry’s journey extremely fond one at that. Although working in London, he Britain. In 2014, he was nominated (Lyttelton 80) to the Board of the British commemorated the centenary of Charlie Forbes Adam Jonty Crosse lives near Stowe and enjoys playing Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Horseracing Authority, the governing Mike finished a (Bruce 75) (Walpole 76) golf there in the summer. Endurance expedition, tracing and regulatory body for the sport. Francis Law creditable 3rd in his Shackleton’s intended route (Chatham 80) age group in the Charlie is High Sheriff of North Jonty is now Managing Director for Having stepped down as CEO from Berkner Island to the Ross middle distance Yorkshire for 2015/16. Julius Baer (Bahrain) looking after Nicky Leto Grosvenor Asia Pacific in April 2015, Ice Shelf via the South Pole and Oliver Colvile Francis writes, “After 28 years in (1.9km/70km/ the wealth of major Arab families (Cobham 76) a business he founded over 20 years the first ever solo descent of the (Bruce 77) Lloyd’s, I have formed ‘FEJ Consult’ 21.5km) 2015 Stowe around the Gulf. ago, Nick joined the board of Shackleton Glacier. Tragically, to service my Italian clients, which Triathlon. With the swim in the Eleven David Kneeshaw Chelsfield Group as a non-executive just 30 miles from his goal and Oliver was re-elected as the is great because it means I can now Acre Lake and the run following the (Cobham 75) Director and became a Partner of with his fundraising target Conservative MP for Plymouth work from home. Karen has also set old cross-country course, including Sir William Cubitt Dymon Asia Capital heading up a surpassed, Henry died on 24 Sutton & Devonport at the 2015 up a small shop in Felixstowe called four times up the Japanese Gardens, David is Chief Executive of RL360 (Temple 76) new real estate division as CEO. January 2016 after being airlifted Election. Immediately after the Suffolk Living, offering gifts, plants, it was a fantastic event full of and completed the acquisition of The new business will focus on to hospital. A full obituary will election he was made a harnessing the two way flows of home accessories, ladies fashion memories. It would be great to see Clerical Medical International in William continues to run his family’s appear in the 2017 edition. Parliamentary Private Secretary at capital between Asia and Europe items, craft work, a vintage section more Old Stoics competing. Simon November 2015. estate in Norfolk, immersing himself www.shackletonsolo.org the Ministry of Defence to the with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and an art gallery. My own small Gardner (Temple 95), Capt of the OS in farming, woodlands and wildlife. Nicky writes, “I’ve been living in Italy Ministers of State for the Armed Shanghai, Tokyo and London. contribution is a sporting X-C, was the first OS home who can He is also Norfolk President of the since leaving Stowe as, though Forces and Defence Procurement. Dymon Asia Capital is a fast growing memorabilia section, including a provide details. Please contact Simon Thomas Outerbridge Royal British Legion, Norfolk drawn initially to architecture and He is also the Chairman of the All alternative investment firm based Sussex scorecard featuring the through the OS office. (Chatham 75) Chairman of the Country Land and design, I opted for art restoration Party Group for the Built in Singapore with assets of Marc Hope much loved former Stowe cricket Business Association, Chairman and have been working for the state Environment and the APPG for the approximately US $5 Bn in hedge (Cobham 79) coach Charlie Oakes playing against Tom writes, “I very nearly died (from 17 December 2015) of the in this field with my own company Private Rented Sector and serves funds and private equity. Temasek, Don Bradman’s 1948 unbeaten David Andrews back in March. Four days before our East Anglian Air Ambulance and in until a few years ago. Although I on the Northern Ireland Affairs a substantial Singapore investment Marc has joined The tourists. Sussex batted first and (Grenville 81) 28th wedding anniversary, I was nomination to be the High Sheriff of haven’t given it up altogether, today Committee along with Danny company is a strategic partner and Sports Consultancy to Charlie scored 22 in the first innings wilting and my wife Angela called Norfolk in 2016. I’m trying to make headway as a Kinahan (Temple 75), Ulster minority shareholder. Nick has a start a new Rights batting at number 3 (and a duck in David is based in Sydney, with his my doctor to arrange with Stoke muralist and decorator, something Unionist MP for South Antrim. number of other positions, Chairman Marketing Division. the second), being bowled by Ray wife Rebecca and three children, Mandeville Hospital to have me I first experimented with at Stowe ANREV, Vice Chairman of the Council One of his first wins Lindwall in both innings, who took Edward 20, Louisa 17 and Arabella admitted by a non-emergency The Hon David Curzon producing the scenes for the House of China’s Foreign Trade, General was to become the 10 wickets in the match. Charlie 16. He works for Balmoral Partners, ambulance. Diagnosed with a (Cobham 76) play. (Also there may still be a study Peter James Committee British Chamber of Global Agency for The FEI The World then took two wickets in the commercial real estate agents double pneumonia, I ended up in door I painted as a prison!) I now (Cobham 78) Commerce Hong Kong, Director Governing Body for Equestrian Australian innings with his off-spin, specialising in Commercial Office intensive care and endured a live in Tuscany with my second wife David writes, “I have sold my art Spinal Chord Injury Fund Hong Kong, Sport, in the build up to the next both LBWs and including the and Industrial Sales and Leasing. tracheostomy and yet another and two children, my daughter who gallery business after 30 years Peter and Annie continue to thrive Chairman MIPIM Asia Awards Jury. World Equestrian Games in Canada opening bat, Arthur Morris, who His eldest daughter is undertaking a extended stay in hospital. After a is finishing her degree and my son (Curzon Gallery) and I am now a living in the wilds of Dorset. With 2018. His portfolio also includes finished the series with the second gap year in the UK in 2016 so he will period of recuperation, and a who has just started his university Director of Curzon Simpson Ltd both boys having left home to live Major Mass Participation Events highest average after Bradman (so be coming over at Easter 2016 to diagnosis of sleep apnoea which course in Siena.” based in London, a property in London and Sydney, Peter’s golf and Sailing. Marc continues as Vice no mean achievement against see her and will meet up with other has also now been treated with a David Thomas consultancy, estate agents in sales handicap has now returned to (Chatham 78) Chair of London Youth Games, arguably the best touring team of all Old Stoics then. CPAP machine, my wife and I flew and lettings, surveyors and property single figures. The rugby battered Europe’s largest Youth Sport Series, time and hats off to Charlie from all to Bermuda to visit my ailing father Jonathan Wheeler maintenance.” knees have still allowed some as well as being a non-exec Board Templars!).” who was in bed in a dark hospital (Temple 76) David is the host of a new online TV exciting skiing, trying to keep up Director of British Athletics Ian Keith ward where his third wife had him show, Think Global: China Edition with the boys both in Canada and Supporters Club. Marc fought the (Chandos 81) stranded. We then organised for Jonathan writes to say he has won which is streamed to a global Julian Fitzherbert France. Working for the Duchy of Central Ayrshire Seat in the 2015 Penny Newman him to be transferred to an old the Guild of Agricultural Journalists’ audience of small business owners (Bruce 76) Cornwall as Project Manager at General Election for The (Stanhope 80) folk’s home. Not long after Keenan Award for a feature about a via the new online web channel both Poundbury in Dorchester and Conservative Party, holding share returning to England, our beloved new cattle building packed with established by Business Blueprint Julian retired last year to manage his Nansledan in Newquay continues in a close third place despite Penny is a GP and medical director dog died. It’s been one hell of innovative design and technology www.businessblueprint.com Think family small holding and woodland. to be hectic but very enjoyable and significant tactical voting. for a Community Trust across Norfolk. a year.” to improve technical and Global: China Edition is designed to He enjoys having more time to She is also a National Innovation environmental performance. “I feel has involved working with two Old encourage, support and advise indulge in his hobbies, which Fellow and aims to build improved this goes a long way to prove the Stoics, Francis Terry (Chatham 88) small business owners to establish Two proud OS parents Ian Keith include aviation, writing and Arthur Millner communication skills for clinicians David Arnold adage that you start your life of Quinlan and Francis Terry a strategy to do business in China (Chandos 81) and Nigel Rossiter carpentry. He has recently celebrated Architects and Benjamin Bolgar (Grenville 79) ‘health coaching’ into mainstream (Former staff, 1967-1976) knowing nothing about everything and is the most comprehensive (Cobham 81) met up on a Leeds his 30th wedding anniversary with practice to support people to change and end it knowing everything (Lyttelton 85) of The Prince’s series ever created on this topic. touchline to watch their respective his wife, Pippa. They have two Foundation. Peter has been part of View the trailer here: Arthur writes, “My behaviour. She has just released a sons (Robbie Keith, Jack Rossiter) In the Context of Eternity, a short about nothing. Thanks heavens I children, Jessica who is a Primary a JV project to build the first gas to https://businessblueprint.wistia. book Damascus Tiles: report with UN Women play for The English Students versus history of the Christian Church by write on other subjects as well!” School Teacher and Peter, who is grid AD (Anaerobic Digestion) plant com/medias/82yitrz1sa Mamluk and Ottoman recommending action in the NHS to French universities. Also giving David Arnold was published last currently at Plumpton College. in the UK and sits on the board as Architectural improve women’s careers and support was Peter Dredge (Cobham summer. He was the History Tutor a Director, now in its third year of Ceramics from Syria, numbers at Board level. She lives in 81) who has returned from East at Stowe from 1967 until 1976, 32 successful operation. has recently been Suffolk with her three daughters and Africa to the UK. Unfortunately, the 33 Andrew Bird the Chapter Delta Kappa Epsilon The role has a special focus on Gareth Evans 3rd/4th play off between South Africa Amanda Ransom NEWS (Temple 83) (DKE) which was founded in 1844 at ‘church planting’ – starting new (Lyttelton 85) and Argentina at Olympic Park and (née Wyatt, Stanhope 87) Yale University. Andrew is still churches in London and in cities the final at Twickenham between Andrew is Chief Executive of working for Bell Canada in Calgary around the country. This is the first Gareth writes, “I continue as Film New Zealand and Australia. Luckily, Amanda launched The Wildlife and is to start a new role in 2016 bishopric of its kind and is a response my services were not required too English lost 21-15. Naturally their of the spirit of the world, the people Lulworth Estate as well as continuing Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, Garden Company in September within Bell as an Infrastructure Sales to the growing desire, particularly much, by either team!” fathers were all too easily persuaded of Nepal (as youth groups, his businesses in West Africa and London and in 2016 am co-curating 2015. The Wildlife Garden Company Specialist in Business to Business amongst young people, to explore the to extol their own expertise of the companies, and ad hoc groups of hoping to establish new landed the Estuary Festival, the designs and builds inspirational Sales. Christian faith for themselves. An game at Stowe, in the bar later! Left to friends worked together to gather estates both in the UK and overseas. Swedenborg Film Festival and the wildlife gardens, outdoor early appearance on media was Will Herrington right: Ian Keith, Robbie Keith, Jack and distribute relief materials to the Having a daughter in Lyttelton Whitstable Biennale. I conceived classrooms and community headlined, ‘Bishop Thorpe at (Walpole 86) Rossiter, Peter Dredge and Nigel 12 affected districts). Today, tourism (Charlotte) has allowed Andrew to and am co-curating Utopia 2016, projects. Planting for Biodiversity re-establish links with the School. Andrew Renwick Bishopthorpe’, when I spoke at an a year long exploration marking is our passion and we create wild Rossiter. is enduring a tough decline and it is Will writes, “I have been living and (Grafton 83) event at the Archbishop of York’s 500 years since Thomas More’s and beautiful gardens for education, one of the principal pillars of the working in the charming resort of official residence.” Utopia, at Somerset House, London. as well as pure pleasure. Nepal economy. It accounts for as Grimentz in Switzerland for the last Philip Davies Recent projects include Executive www.wildlifegardencompany.co.uk Jason Steinmann much as 5% of GDP and is a major ten years, where I have my own (Lyttelton 83) Production of artists’ feature films (Chatham 81) employer, some 500,000 people. property sales and rental Jamie Brown Unseen: the Lives of Looking The travel warnings are easing, management company, Frozen (Walpole 84) (Dryden Goodwin, Queen’s House, Paul Saville access and safety are in place – as Philip is President of Siegel+Gale, Action. I am happy to offer special Greenwich, 2015) and Andrew (Chandos 87) an Old Stoic witnessing the country which is a global brand strategy firm OS prices, for those renting chalets Jamie is living in Los Angeles, where Kotting’s By Our Selves (Soda first hand for 28 years, I encourage with offices in London, New York, from us! I was delighted to see a Andrew writes, “The photograph is of he has been for the last seven years Pictures, 2015). I have a first fiction all Stoics present and past to visit San Francisco, Los Angeles, couple of my closest OS friends over Paul continues his work as Project the Golden Gates to Chatsworth or so. He is a film director, working feature, The Lighthouse (Grant Gee) Nepal with confidence. Tiger Shanghai and Dubai. Clients here last winter, James Oliver and Manager for Lionbridge, working Mountain Pokhara Lodge will be include: British Airways, American House in Derbyshire, the home of the mostly on commercials and in development with Fly Films and on the DA contract at Rolls-Royce. Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. developing several features. He Mark Simpson (both Walpole 1986). Jason writes, “I’ve spent almost all my happy to help with your travel plans. Express, Hewlett Packard, SAP, Abu the BFI.” He also straddles the commercial These are attributed to the Designer recently shot a mini documentary My little sister Alex (Nugent 93) also time since Stowe involved with the Come to Nepal and thus support Dhabi Investment Authority, World aerospace sector, training technical Blacksmith, Jean Tijou, the father of called Balls about the reforming of lives in Switzerland in Seelisberg sea. A commission in the Royal Navy Nepal through honest trade better Health Organisation and Fabergé. authors who work on both Rolls- iron repousse leaf work and a large Pasadena women’s rugby team after Rod Fuerst close to Luzern, married to a followed by a varied career in the than aid any day!” Royce and Airbus technical contributor to Hampton Court Palace 30 years. He thinks there should be a (Cobham 85) mountain guide and speaking an private yachting world, from cleaning, www.tigermountainpokhara.com publications. He maintains a serious and St Paul’s Cathedral. The gates women’s rugby team at Stowe! Some impenetrable Swiss German.” painting, maintaining, selling and or marcus.cotton@ Tim Dolby interest in creative writing and his and screen components date to the of his fondest memories are still on Rod is currently CEO of IT-IS Life www.frozenaction.ch driving to what I do now. Six years ago tigermountainpokhara.com (Bruce 83) work has appeared over the past 1690s, when they were originally part the rugby field at Stowe, as well as in Science Ltd, the world’s leading I set up p3 Surface Care, a company few years in the Orbis journal of a Palisade near to the Elizabethan the bushes. independent producer of DNA dedicated to the restoration and Tim’s company Dolby and Taylor Dalton Philips (www.orbisjournal.com). version of the House. They have analysis instruments. protection of paint and gelcoat in the Nicholas Fellowes recently completed a year long (Grafton 86) Most recently, his work has recently been restored by a www.mygopcr.com marine environment. We constantly (Chandos 82) project as part of the team which appeared in Orbis 167 (Spring consortium of Blacksmiths led by Christine Losecaat van adapt to the changing technologies restored and refitted The 2014) and Orbis 173 (Autumn myself of Ridgeway Forge, near and are considered one of the Nick is Managing Director from 1 Lanesborough Hotel, London. The Nouhuys 2015), which included his short Sheffield. The project was led by Mark Kitto industry leaders in polymer and January 2016 of Amalgamated Metal Hotel reopened in September 2015. (Stanhope 84) story Rajasthan, an anecdote based Architect, Peter Inskip, (Stowe (Grenville 85) ceramic protective coatings. Trading, a member firm of the Tim’s new scheme for the on his travels in India. Advisory Panel) whose London Interesting discounts available to London Metal Exchange. He is Banqueting Hall at Vintners’ Hall in Christine has practice has managed the restoration After a ten year hiatus, he is yacht-owning Old Stoics (if you ask married to Henty and has two the City of London was also recently recently completed of many of the temples at Stowe for attempting to recover his standing nicely).” www.p-3.com daughters, Alicia who is 18 and Izzy completed by Dolby and Taylor. her role as Creative Mark Reed the National Trust.” Andrew joins his as a ‘mini media mogul’ (Financial Dalton has relocated to Ireland and aged 16. He lives in Sulgrave, & Programme (Cobham 88) father, David Renwick (Grafton 55), Times, 3 May, 2005). Mark has is living on a farm in Wicklow with his Northants. Director for the UK’s who died in 1994, in being invited to launched a marketing and wife Penny, Isaac (15), Ilana (12) and presence at the Mark writes to say, “In April 2015, Mark Cazalet Nick Macleod-Ash become a Liveryman of The publishing business in north Ruairi (8). They spent the summer (Grenville 82) (Chandos 83) 2015 World Expo in I departed a lifetime in the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. Norfolk. Target readership: the travelling in South America and had Milan. The UK Pavilion, designed by corporate world, most recently as Marcel Ivison Ridgeway Forge is currently working at holiday cottage market. His flagship great fun catching up with Neil Wolfgang Buttress, has won over 11 CIO for Financial Markets at Lloyds Mark has recently had (Grenville 82) Nick is now Managing Director of Hampton Court, Chatsworth, The publication is a VERY small but neat Rushton (Walpole 86) in Lima. prestigious international awards and Bank, to start up a new digital his two 12 x 9 foot BISEN Group Ltd. BISEN (British College of Arms and, quite possibly, newsletter series called My Week welcomed 3.3 million visitors over six personal privacy company with etched and engraved Marcel has been working in Asia Integrated Solutions Export Network) The Old Sessions House, Clerkenwell, in...and his international months, making it one of the UK’s top Charlie Perring friends MyLife Digital. I’m delighted glass screens installed since 1992; in Hong Kong for eight is a consortium of 30 companies, Green and Charterhouse Square. headquarters is in Wells-next-the- 10 tourist attractions for 2015. The (Chatham 87) to have made the change. In June, in The Chapel of years (1992-2000) and in Singapore supported by Her Majesty’s [email protected] Sea, behind a fish and chip shop. Pavilion addressed the Expo theme Reconciliation at for the last 15 years (2001-2015). Government, to improve export Email: [email protected] and I finished the Race Across America of ‘Feeding the Planet’ by focusing on OLD HOG, NEW Mirfield Abbey, West He was Managing Director, growth in the Maritime, Healthcare www.benedictmarketing.co.uk (RAAM) in six and half days. A 3,000 Yorkshire. This major ecclesiastical art Corporate and Institutional Clients and Cold/Clean Energy markets. One Dan Thomas the crucial role of pollinators, TRICKS Charlie has mile non-stop cycle race from west specifically the honey bee, in global recently acquired a coast to east coast USA. I was in a commission is the culmination of a six at Credit Suisse Singapore from recent success has been promoting (Chatham 83) year process of design, fabrication 2009-2015. Marcel has been Griffon’s hovercraft in Nigeria and the food supply. Christine provides Simon Kyte shareholding in team of eight, supported by an and fundraising, part of which was Managing Director since beginning UAE. www.bisen-group.com strategic and creative direction for (Chatham 85) Warthog Off Grid incredible crew of ten. It was a life Dan was appointed generously assisted by The Right Revd of 2015 of Financial Markets at special projects and events. Adventure, an changing experience; not just the as Director of Desmond Tutu from his Templeton Macquarie Bank Singapore. He independent British intense training for six months in Communications Simon is currently working for Award funds. The chapel will act as a remains a keen sportsman and expedition company that conceives advance, but also the extreme Andrew Neve and Spokesperson Oxford Economics on tourism and counselling and mediation centre for plays tennis, squash and golf (Chandos 83) Nicholas McAleer and manages a wide range of tailored conditions that riders and crew were for the President of living in Banbury. He has also the Community of The Resurrection’s regularly. He also enjoys adventure (Bruce 84) recently published A Certain adventures and challenges for thrown into during the race. We the United Nations Individuals, Charities and Corporate work with individuals, couples and holidays having recently trekked to Andrew writes, “It has been an Measure of Perfection – an ebook raised £84,000 for Asthma UK, a General Assembly, in September clients. Established in 1989 and with groups. The screens depict four Everest Base Camp. eventful and successful year for the Nick writes, “For the last nine years inspired by the life of the charity very close to my heart. I used 2015. Based at UN Headquarters in a strong military background in episodes from Mary Magdalene’s Neve family.” After living near I have been living with my family in seventeenth century maverick my fitness to cycle the Étape du Tour New York, Dan was also recently given mountaineering, Warthog specialises discipleship. The glass is sandblasted Calgary, AB (now in Cochrane) for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I work for minister, Roger Brierley, a subject in July; a crazy day cycling one of an award by the UN Secretary-General in Off Grid Adventures to some of the and hand worked on two sides Jules Walker seven years, the whole family, a company called Oryx Energies. which he researched for five years. the stages of the Tour de France with Ban Ki-moon for his role in leading most remote and undiscovered providing a rich variety of marks and (Lyttelton 82) Andrew, his wife Biddy and two boys Tanzania is an amazing country with 15,000 people. It was a brutal day, communications for the UN Climate locations in the world. The company’s contrasting qualities of surface. Rupert 18, and Edward 16 became wonderful Indian Ocean beaches 20,000 ft of climbing in one day in Summit. culture has always been to devise very hot conditions with only about Illustrated here is a detail from an Julian writes, “The Book Canadian Citizens last year. His wife (including Zanzibar) and amazing Mike Rossiter itineraries that capture its clients’ half of the field finishing. I moved to angel showing Mary the way to the of Cringe, his collection Biddy is an executive assistant for a wildlife (Serengeti/Ngorogoro Crater (Cobham 85) spirit of adventure. Whether it’s free Bath in April 2015, following my tomb. of reasonably clean but Consulting Company specialising in as examples). I have three beautiful Ric Thorpe riding motorbikes through the separation. The renovations lasted silly jokes, was Aboriginal Research. Andrew ran his daughters and one stepson. We are Mike writes to say, (Walpole 83) expanse of the Gobi Desert, old two months as the interior was last published in August first Marathon in 4 hours 12 minutes spread all over, from Mexico, UK and “I was one of the school exploring the mysteries of touched in the 1980s and I finally Marcus Cotton 2015 and is available and Edward is also a keen runner Tanzania! I would love to get in touch Independent Match Ric writes, “My news Nagaland or pulling pulks across got my 1974 Triumph Stag back on (Chatham 82) from all good and finished first in the Kelowna with those who remember me, many Day Doctors for the is that I was Greenland’s ice cap, Warthog’s ethos the road and I’m using her a few bookstores, online and as an e-book. under 18 age group for 10kms. of whom called me Mac/Mackerel/ Rugby World Cup consecrated as the may be off grid, but there’s little of the times a week now; she always Marcus writes, “Well, everyone knows Those at school with me may well Rupert started in his first year Maca! Please feel free to email me at and was lucky Bishop of Islington on world that’s off limits. Charlie is the brings a smile, even to the about the Nepal earthquake, suffice it recognise many of the 2,000 or so, studying engineering at the [email protected] I am not a enough to be at several matches. 29 September at St one on the left in the photograph. passers-by.” to say that the rescue and relief phase bon mots included in this book, for University of British Columbia in Facebook lover as I prefer spending I was particularly honoured to be Paul’s Cathedral by www.warthogoffgrid.com highlighted the incredible generosity which I make no apologies.” Vancouver and was invited to join my time on the beach!” one of the Doctors for both the 34 the Archbishop of Canterbury. 35 British Iron Age, then I can’t Wouter Schuitemaker Dirk Gently is currently a monthly work next year. I’d love to come back still be. I am currently at ING working Christopher Davis NEWS recommend Age of Iron more highly. (Chandos 92) title and James’ novelisation of to Stowe and see all my old friends!” on Requests for Proposal. 2015 was (Chandos 99) Google my name to find them. Douglas Adams famous Doctor Who quite the year. We bought a house, In other news, our two year old son, After establishing story City of Death is in stores I started a new job and to top it all, Chris writes to say, “I have started Charlie, continues to thrive and and having led the everywhere from BBC Books. Jessie Fletcher my girlfriend gave birth to twin girls, a new job with Barclays Bank where Kary Stewart Chester King looks forward to greeting a new (née Childs, Lyttelton 95) Emmie and Rosa in May. It’s hard to (Stanhope 88) (Chandos 89) inward investment I am now an Assistant Vice brother very soon. The photograph programme for the put into words how amazing they President Solicitor in the Chief of is the third book, Reign of Iron.” city of Birmingham Katherine Farrants are, but five words spring to mind Staff’s office for the Global Kary is a multimedia journalist Chester writes to say that, “Carlos since 2010, Wouter (Nugent 93) immediately: ‘Incredibly exciting and Litigation, Enforcement and working predominantly for The Peres (Walpole 89), Alastair Schuitemaker (aka Manning) is to immensely exhausting.’ I am in touch Investigations department.” Guardian in London. She covers Macintosh (Bruce 89), Bimbo Hart Bill Cahusac take up a new role from January Kat’s Online Yoga and Wellbeing with a few Old Stoics, most notably human rights, music and culture. (Lyttelton 89) and Chester King (Cobham 92) 2016 as Managing Director, EMEA start up, Movement for Modern Life Ray Hudig (Grenville 95), who was an Kary also runs a small NGO, (Chandos 89) all starred as for US headquartered leading global movementformodernlife.com is now Amsterdam friend before Stowe and Ben Morgan Fairtunes, that helps displaced and Kingsman Knights with Colin Firth nd After five very happy years doing site selection consultancy Hickey celebrating its 2 birthday with Robert d’Orleans (Chandos 95).” (Temple 99) disadvantaged communities. Their and Michael Caine in the hit movie a (second) curacy at Holy Trinity and Associates. some amazing press, Kat having He would love to catch up with work is mainly in Colombia and the Kingsman: The Secret Service, other contemporaries via Brompton, Bill was appointed been featured in the Daily Mail as Jessie’s book God’s Traitors: Terror Having moved out of consulting for UK. She is also a yoga teacher. directed and produced by Matthew Associate Pastor at Emmaus Road one of the UK’s start up success and Faith in Elizabethan England [email protected] Vaughn (Chandos 89).” Ernst & Young, Ben jointly founded Church in Guildford in September Rupert Alexander stories. MFML now has a North won the 2015 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Adviseinc with two former 2015. He is loving living outside (Chatham 93) American team and is now featured Prize for History, which she received Fiona Swadling Georgie Rolt colleagues to provide advice to London, which is something of as a corporate wellbeing solution, from Tom Holland at the London clients across the NHS. Three years (Stanhope 88) (Lyttelton 97) 1990s a surprise! as well as helping thousands of Book Fair. The girls are growing fast in, it’s still going well! individuals who find it tough to get Isabella is now 7 and Lara is 4. www.adviseinc.co.uk Fiona was appointed Head of Strings to find time to exercise and practise Georgie moved to Gloucestershire at Bromsgrove School in September Simeon Anderson Sam Pelly mindfulness. last year, and is now working as a (Chandos 90) 2014. The highly successful Year 3 (Grenville 92) Charles Inglefield respiratory practitioner. Last Vincent Hobbs String Initiative was launched in (Temple 95) summer she managed a bronze at (Grenville 99) September 2014 and is now in its Sam has been working as a Tom Wright the European ironman age group second year. Fiona is also (Walpole 93) championship and also became professional photographer since Charlie writes, “I am living in Zug, Vincent writes, co-founder and co-director of Bellini engaged to Andrew Tucker and they leaving Stowe (www.sampelly.com). Switzerland and working for a “Following three Strings, a highly sought after live He decided to take a break and after Tom writes, to say, “I was married healthcare digital consultancy in plan to get married at Easter 2016 string group which provides pop, years as Associate a year ‘out’ of travelling with his wife Rupert writes, “In July my portrait of on 6 October 2012 to Edyta. We Geneva. Married with two children, in Provence. rock and classical music for Director of Strategy Susie and their three daughters, the eminent mathematician Sir have relocated from London to Ibiza still in touch with lots of Old Stoics weddings and functions in and Simeon is married with three at Uniplan Melo, Lella and Juno through Andrew Wiles was unveiled at the in Spain and opened a tennis and and great to catch up with so many around the Cotswolds and Midlands children, Lily (14), Sorrel (7) and Orla Shanghai, I am Central America, Sam and the family National Portrait Gallery, London. health club, called Viva Tennis at the OS Summer party in London in Jimmy Swindells area. Continuing with her teaching (2) and lives between London and now Creative returned to Europe and settled in It was commissioned by the Gallery Ibiza.” www.vivatennisibiza.com 2015.” (Bruce 97) career of over 20 years, Fiona is now Wales. He is a Chartered Surveyor Director Concept & Strategy at the hills of Andalusia, Spain. for the permanent collection. The in the second year of the specialist and has been involved in a number Uniplan Hong Kong. Mainly for the A fortuitous trip in his old Land sittings took place at my studio in Jimmy writes, “Over the last year I British Suzuki violin teacher training of commercial and residential kiddo (Elvira just turned two) to Rover, Betty, to Africa opened up a south west London. The photograph Robert Bush Timothy Stunt have been having a lot of fun course and provides upper string projects including a development of grow up in a better setting, and forgotten High Atlas route and from is of myself with Sir Andrew and (Bruce 94) (Former staff, 1986-1995) juggling bringing up my twin tuition at both Bromsgrove and five mews houses in Kilburn/Queen’s work was enticing for me too; more this trip, Heroic Vintage Motorcycle Nicolas Cullinan, the Director of the daughters whilst working as an on Worcester Royal Grammar Schools. Park www.opalmews.com His wife, green all around, more blue in the Tours has been formed. Sam and National Portrait Gallery, in front of set and publicity stills photographer Sophie, designs handbags which are Rob is currently working as an Timothy writes, “Having taught at skies and a more mature his partner plan to offer Vintage the painting at the unveiling.” investment strategist at Deutsche Stowe from January 1986 to 1995, for film and commercial clients.” professional environment (with all stocked at Matches, Net-a-Porter and Motorcycle tours through Morocco His photography website is: Ed Hopley Barneys. Simeon returned from a dirt Bank in New York, and wishes every I am rather out of touch, but for the good and bad that entails). and other destinations. If any Old day that he had paid more attention anyone who remembers me, I have www.jimmyswindells.co.uk Also, after 11 years in Shanghai (Grenville 89) biking trip in the Mojave Desert Stoic is interested in joining, please between Las Vegas and Los Angeles Arvind David in maths lessons. He and his wife three items of news. I shall shortly be time to shake my feet loose.” contact Sam on [email protected] (Chatham 93) in Spring 2015. Marielle, and two children, Jack (3) moving (with my wife Nancy) from Ed is now and Lily (2), would be delighted to Newtown, Connecticut (scene of the Kristjan Byfield represented in the The play, Dirk connect with any Old Stoics coming recent Sandy Hook massacre of (Grafton 98) UK by artists agency Mark Robertson Gently’s Holistic through the city (a drink on him primary school children) where we 2000s House of Juba, James Norrie (Lyttelton 92) Detective Agency guaranteed). The OS Office has have lived for the last c. 20 years, Kristjan writes, “2015 saw my www.houseofjuba.co.uk (Chatham 91) by Arvind Ethan contact details. down to the West coast of Florida company, base property specialists, Darcy Chesterfield-Terry Mark writes, “It’s not every day David (Chatham, (just North of Naples). I have recently recognised as the residential letting (Chandos 00) James writes, “In 2015 I was an I have something to boast about. 93) and James been undergoing chemotherapy, management company in the UK Frank Hudson Executive Producer on a movie Apart from once winning the Much Goss (Grafton, 92) Jonathan Titley major surgery for cancer of the colon when we won Gold at The Times & (Former staff, 1969-1989) called Miss You Already starring Darcy was ordained Deacon on the Hadham junior tennis tournament, was published by (Temple 94) which had metastasized to the liver… The Sunday Times ‘Lettings Agency Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, 4 July 2015 in Portsmouth Cathedral hurdling the net and falling flat on Samuel French in seven weeks in hospital, and then of the Year Awards 2015’. A proud Paddy Considine, Dominic Cooper by Bishop Christopher Foster. He my face, my family is genetically December 2015. First written and more chemotherapy, but Grace à moment for us all. Would be very and Jaqueline Bisset. It was Jonathan writes, “I joined the Old will serve his curacy with his family quite a humble and self deprecating performed as the Chatham House Dieu I have made good progress interested to hear from any OSs with directed by Catherine Hardwicke Stoic Events Committee last year at St Mary’s, Portsea under Canon lot. So, it is with great delight and Play 1992, the play is based on the back to almost (albeit not very Estate or Letting Agencies in London who previously directed Twilight. and am enjoying it. I now live in Bob White. slight embarrassment to announce Douglas Adams novel of the same strenuous) normality and my book that they are considering selling in My company, The Salt Company, London and am reconnecting with that one of my wines has won a name and has been regularly of essays, The Elusive Quest of the the next 12 months. On another was a key partner in developing, Old Stoic friends. In March, I prize and an important one. 2014 performed around the world over Spiritual Malcontent: Some Early note, I am currently in the process financing and producing the film. travelled across America by road trip Stephen Davis Frank writes, “It is with regret that Chateau De Vimont Blanc, Graves is the past 22 years, including Nineteenth Century Ecclesiastical of designing a bespoke boat which Interesting side note is that fellow from Miami to New Orleans along (Chandos 00) I announce the death of my wife Winner of the Trophée des Grands translations into Dutch and award the coast, then back to Daytona Mavericks, has just been published I hope to have built at the start of Georgina Mary Hudson on 2 October Old Stoic, Harry Gregson-Williams Cru de Graves. This is given to the by Wipf & Stock (Eugene, Oregon) 2016 and then start living on the winning productions in Los Angeles beach for four weeks. I now have a Steve writes, 2015. She taught swimming in (Chatham 80) ended up being the best wine, including reds and and is available on Amazon” London canals.” and Australia. In an added twist, development with my sister in “I have recently Buckinghamshire schools and came composer on the film, although this whites, voted by peers (winemakers, Tony Meredith (former Chatham Ecuador building a gated community moved to a to my rescue when I was put in was nothing to do with me!” négociants, etc.) from a broad Housemaster) taught Douglas involving swimming pools, tennis marketing agency charge of swimming and we only selection across the whole Adams Latin at Brentwood School, courts, mini golf and 92 plots which Olivier van der Hagen Kwesi Amissah-Arthur in Bristol called had the Eleven Acre Lake available. appellation and at all price levels. and it has been speculated that the will have houses built on them.” (Chandos 95) (Bruce 99) Flourish as Head of Media. I am She gave the Stowe team ‘after- Angus Watson As you may know, this wine is made character of eccentric time-travelling working with clients such as hours’ training in indoor pools until (Chandos 91) by people with learning difficulties , professor Regius Chronotis was, in Olivier writes, “After university at Kwesi writes, “Maame, Emily and Samsung, Unilever, NSPCC and eBay I managed to raise the money to which makes it all the more part, inspired by the equally Giulia Ciocca Leiden and four years working in I have moved to Accra where I have and we provide creative marketing build our new 6-lane indoor pool: Angus writes, “All three significant. It is a classic Sauvignon eccentric AGM… The play has the (née Finco, Nugent 95) Dublin, I returned to Amsterdam taken up the position of Senior solutions through a wide range of opened in 1973 by the Duchess of of my Iron Age trilogy Blanc/Semillon Blend. Barrel following as its dedication page: For where I still live and moved into the Lecturer, Ophthalmic and Retinal channels and services. My role is to Gloucester. Gina then spent ten books are now fermented. It is a crisp, beautifully PASF in memoriam and to SGAH, Giulia writes, “I’m living in Brescia banking industry via Citi and RBS. Surgeon at the University of Ghana head the media department years helping me to establish the published by Orbit. textured, soft white wine, with a hint AGM, SHCR and all the teachers at with my husband Michele and my After a two year interruption in which Medical School.” planning, creating and launching Stowe Archives.” If any Stoics old or new of toasty oak.” Stowe School, who believed in two two little girls Sofia (5) and Vittoria I worked as a freelance writer, I marketing campaigns through on enjoy humorous, dark, www.luptonwines.com improbable teenagers. In related returned to banking and had the romantic, adventure-packed epic (4). Now I’m completely dedicated to and offline channels.” news, Arvind’s comic book featuring my family but I might get back to crisis not brutally interfered, I would 36 historical fantasy fiction set in the 37 which is used in pain management Brian Orger for event production equipment and Richard Gordon-Colebrooke Simon Plunket Haris Salihovic NEWS and aesthetic medicine. She is (Former staff, 1980-2004) technical management, with a range (Chandos 08) (Grafton 10) (Chandos 13) starting her own practice to treat of marquees, stages, sound, lighting, sports injuries and pain, as well as AV, Bars, Staff, lasers, hazers, smoke Richard writes, “I am Simon writes, “A documentary I Haris starred in Channel 4’s This is in aesthetics for facial rejuvenation machines, and everything else you been made Godmother to Wilf, who pleased to announce made called Black Sheep has been England 90 which aired in Kaunda Kavindele and hair loss. could need for a fantastic party. was born in October 2014 and has that I am now going round the world doing the film September 2015, playing the role (Temple 00) For more information on what we already lived on three continents!” engaged to Rebecca festival circuit. It’s been shown at of ‘Harrison’. do then please see Helen Fairbairn, and we are to be many of the festivals including the Kaunda has recently become Tony Meredith www.basslineproductions.co.uk” married on 6 August 2016, in West Lindon BFI Film Festival and has just engaged to Visamba Manda. Oliver Nohl-Oser (Former staff, 1973-2003) Sussex.” been shortlisted for BAFTA’s Best Edward Hopkinson (Grafton 01) British Short!” (Chatham 15) Tony, who retired from Stowe in Muir Temple’s Memorial Service last Peter Sharp Alex Lyell 2003, has just had his 12th book year brought together many (Chandos 06) Cordelia Evans (Grenville 00) Edward writes, “As my published. Another biography, generations of Old Stoics and Former (Nugent 10) Nicholas Rewcastle penultimate year at W.G. Grace: In the Steps of a Legend Staff. A memorable trio captured on Peter writes, “I am now living in (Grenville 10) Stowe came to a close, Alex writes, “I married Lucy in 2009 (Amberley, £18.99) is, as they say, camera were the three Secretaries Cambridgeshire and have a seven Cordelia is currently Deputy I was very fortunate to we have two boys Finn (b. 19.07.12) available at most good bookshops. who had served no less than four year old daughter called Zara. I am a Chairman of London Conservative be commissioned to and Henry (b. 09.04.14). Having In 2014, he was part of the creative Headmasters, Bob Drayson, Police Constable for Cambridgeshire Future where she worked hard in paint the iconic worked in Real Estate Fund team for Northern Ballet’s The Great Christopher Turner, Jeremy Nichols Constabulary working as a response getting young volunteers landmark, Battersea Power Station, Management for seven years, I am Gatsby which played at Sadler’s and Anthony Wallersteiner over a officer, which I have done for the last campaigning in the General which many of us have seen on the now the Pastor of a new church in Oliver supplies his Great Taste Wells and around Britain. period of almost half a century, more three years. I am currently tutoring Election and is looking forward to London skyline for our entire lives. Streatham, where we are bringing Awards Cumbrian Sausages to than half the lifetime of the School! new officers who join the encouraging more volunteers to However, as many of you may not Good News to the 90% of the Ocado! Find them online at From left to right: Jean Lloyd (née Constabulary when they come to the get involved in the London Mayoral know, it is undergoing redevelopment community who don’t do church.” http://bit.ly/1m99yrT Joshua Myerson Hopwood), 1966-1971, with Bob Local Policing area.” Elections. Cordelia also quit her which will reshape the south of (Grafton 03) Drayson, Sally Clarke (née Coles) job in the City recently to work full- Following his move to Brighton at London’s vista. As soon as exams 1972-1990, with Bob Drayson and time as COO of her mother’s award- the end of 2014, Nick has been were over, I travelled down to London Amelia Annfield Edd Post (Chandos 01) Josh has recently Jeremy Nichols and Frances Orger Mukami Wangai winning cocktail bar, Janet’s Bar enjoying the year working as a PR to do a site visit – an afternoon (Nugent 01) been made a 1991-2005, with Jeremy Nichols and (Lyttelton 07) in South Kensington. Be sure to Account Manager in a Sports PR capturing the life of Battersea and its Partner at Anthony Wallersteiner. Edd is now married to Maya Post. ask for the Old Stoic and Military agency which gives him the chance surroundings. I did not have long to Amelia writes, “I’ve happily settled Montagu Evans Mukami writes, “I finished at SOAS He is starring as Bob Gaudio in the Discounts! Cordelia is also now to work on exciting projects and complete this colossal piece, so every back into London life having been LLP, a firm of in 2010 and went on to the College West End Hit Show, Jersey Boys and on the Old Stoic McElwee Award with some of the biggest global hour I had, had to count. Immediately, living and working in New Zealand Chartered Anna Clare Lees-Buckley of Law, London to do a law is moving to California in 2016! Committee. sporting names. 2015 was also a I received a 5ft x 4ft canvas on which and Australia since 2010. Surveyors based (Nugent 05) conversion course, followed by the www.facebook.com/janetsbarlondon big year for Nick as he got engaged I was to design my piece. The art Freelancing as an art director and in London, where Bar Professional Training Course and to his partner Hannah Dickens and department quickly became my home stylist in film and event production.” Christina Schroeder he specialises in providing Business Anna Clare is was called to the Bar in 2012. is looking forward to getting as I remained in there from nine every www.ameliaannfield.co.uk Rates advice. Also last year, he was I planned on a Masters degree and (née Glatzel, Lyttelton 01) working on Lucinda Finlay married in August 2016. morning through till natural light elected as the Honorary Secretary of portrait applied for LLM programmes in the (Nugent 10) faded. In total, I spent 96 hours the Rating Surveyors’ Association, commissions US and settled on Duke University, completing my work and I am very After four years with LEGO, Christina Charles Carter following two years on the from her St Paul’s Durham, NC, where I spent a year Sena Oztosun glad I had such a great environment is now working as Category Manager (Grafton 01) Committee, and continues as a studio on specialising in public law issues, (Stanhope 13) in which to complete it. The painting for The Walt Disney Company in the Committee Member for the London Talgarth Road, and generally getting a different now hangs in the marketing suite at Toys Licensing Department. This year, Charles will leave Norfolk Rating Network. as well as completing a series of perspective on or approach to Sena writes, “After my second year Battersea Power Station. A limited run where he has held the Mastership of large scale grouse in flight, painted constitutional law, distinct from my at Columbia University, Barnard of 250 (40 x 50cm) numbered and and hunted the West Norfolk in oils, to be exhibited next year. British experience which is also College in New York, in summer signed printed canvasses are Foxhounds for the past ten seasons, Ian McKillop James Norman For details of her exhibitions, central to Kenya’s legal history. available so please email me at (Former staff, 1990-2002) 2015, I completed my internship at alongside being elected to Breckland (Bruce 03) see www.aclb.co.uk I returned to Kenya in 2013 and the Ministry of Economy in Ankara. [email protected] for any Council as Cabinet Member for was undecided whether to return During my internship I mainly enquiries. Also, I plan to produce Ian writes, “My latest Exhibition Planning, Building and Housing. James has been permanently living to the UK, complete pupillage and worked on export projects and five limited edition full size opened in the Queen’s House, He will move to Yorkshire to take the in Sydney since 2011, where he Gianni Mitchell start practising at the Bar or to Lucinda writes, “I have started as international trade policies with a canvasses poa.” Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great role as Master and Huntsman to the teaches Design Technology at (Chandos 05) remain in Kenya. After seeing the the Assistant Rural Surveyor at team of experienced economists Park on 11 December 2015. The Middleton Hunt on 1 May 2016. Newington College, Sydney NSW new opportunities in public law that Kingston Lacy, Dorset and and political scientists. Meanwhile, Exhibition finishes in March 2016. www.newington.nsw.edu.au Gianni has recently were arising in Kenya following the Stourhead, Wiltshire Estates for the I continued doing research for the In 2015, I started work on designing published a book, the promulgation of a new constitution National Trust. This is my first job President of my college; the focus the stage setting for Carmen, in Piers Craven title of which is Tripping in 2010, I decided to explore the since completing my MSc in Rural of the research was the Russian Spain, and another Exhibition of (Bruce 01) Verity Taylor to Utopia and it can be work opportunities here. I was also Estate Management at The Royal economy after the significant drop paintings in Castellon.” (Nugent 03) found on Amazon. looking to get into teaching, and Agricultural University, Cirencester. in oil prices. During my 3rd Piers writes to say, “After four years realised that law schools in Kenya I think the two years I spent at academic year, I am back in in Vietnam, I moved to South are often looking to recruit people Will Gallimore Verity writes to say, “After Living in Stowe really inspired me to work in England, and am studying History America in June 2015 to take up a Melbourne, Australia for the last Robert Parry into academia earlier in their legal beautiful places and look after and Economics (with Economics (Bruce 03) new job as Deputy Head of Mission three years, I’ve moved back with (Grenville 05) careers. I worked at a local NGO them for future generations.” focus) at Pembroke College, and HM Consul at the British my fiancé to live in York. Tom and I called the Kenya Human Rights University of Oxford for the full Commission where I focused on Embassy in Quito, Ecuador.” Will has recently moved to Barnes, are getting married in May 2016 at year. Life at Oxford is a big contrast On the Old Stoic website you south west London and continues equality and non-discrimination my parent’s house in Sulgrave, Albie Mackintosh after New York but I enjoy it so far will find lists of missing Old to play as much golf as he can issues. I have recently started a Oxfordshire. (Chatham 10) and explore the opportunities that Stoics for whom we have no Hannah Durden whilst helping with the continued new job at Strathmore Law School, Oxford has to offer. In January expansion of his business in the Nairobi and am involved in contact details. Please visit (Nugent 01) Albie writes, “Having achieved a 2016, I will be working for City. He would love to catch up with teaching, and research at the www.stowe.co.uk/school/ Kate Clive-Powell merit with distinction in his UCL MSc Pembroke College Alumni and Old Stoics young or old. Strathmore Law and Policy Institute. old-stoics/member-services/ Hannah writes to say, “I have now (Lyttelton 04) Neuroscience, he is looking forward Development Office as a student The project is assessing lost-old-stoics to look at the list been working as a property to publishing his work shedding fundraiser. In September 2016, constitutional implementation in for your year group. If you know developer for Berwick Hill since Kate writes to say, “In September some new insight on the causes of I will be back in New York to Milla Marinova Kenya five years since the new the whereabouts of anyone on summer 2014 www.berwickhill.co.uk 2015 I completed an MPhil in Textile Robbie writes, “Bassline Productions autism. He has recently accepted a complete my final year at Columbia (Lyttelton 03) constitution. It’s very exciting and We develop a whole host of is an events company based in South PhD fellowship from Marie University, Barnard College. Since the list, please do contact Conservation at the University of certainly very challenging with the residential and commercial West London. We specialise in the Skłodowska-Curie actions initiative I have been back in the UK in 2015, [email protected] If you Glasgow. I am now working as an responsibility of imparting properties, focusing on the south- Milla has technical side of event production. at the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare I have made my best effort to keep spot the name of an Old Stoic ICON Textile Conservation Intern at knowledge and supporting the east, in particular south-M25, finished her We have done a wide range of Pharmakologie in Berlin. There he in touch with the Stowe community you know who has passed The Bowes Museum. In a few years, development of legal practitioners. locations. Still living in London but medical training events, including working at will be investigating the role of and am delighted to see how much away, please do get in touch, I plan to start the first textile I now look forward to learning and planning my escape to the country and has Chequers, the Battersea fireworks, phosphoinositides in fast positive change there has been at conservation business in Wales.” growing in the institution, and soon so we can record their death at some point…also planning a visit completed a the Stowe Leavers’ Ball, weddings neurotransmitter recycling.” Stowe since I left!” to enrol on a PhD programme.” on our database. to see Piers Craven and his wife Jura diploma at the and even run our own music festival. in Quito, Ecuador next year, having Sorbonne in Paris in a specialist We aim to provide a one stop shop Thank you for your help. 38 technique called mesotherapy 39 James Norman (Bruce 03) 1980s MARRIAGES Kate Gordon-Watson BIRTHS OBITUARIES (née Reardon, Nugent 87) We have provided information about the lives and careers of a number Kate was delighted to give birth to of particular Old Stoics. In so doing, we realise that there are many other on 5 September 2015. They are twins, Katherine and Arthur, on Alberto Di Majo Nikhil Chauhan Old Stoics who will have made no less a contribution to society, the 1970s living happily in London. Aurelie is 27 February 2015. (Chandos 96) (Temple 02) country and the lives of others. We hope, though, that in reflecting upon an Art Dealer at Dickinson Fine The Hon David Curzon the lives of these alumni and their achievements in the world of academe, Arts Ltd. Albert writes to say, “My daughter Nikhil writes, Cobham 76) politics, the arts, the services and business, we are able to demonstrate 1990s was born in 2012, followed by two “My wife, the enormously diverse contribution of Old Stoics to the world. sons born in 2014 and 2015. Radhika, and Matt Steggles James married Felicity MacDougall Laura Jack My family and I still live in Brussels I are thrilled to (Chandos 93) on 3 January 2015, in The Uniting (née Farr, Nugent 91) and are all very happy.” announce the Church, Bowral, in New South Wales birth of our Mr George Barker 1920s (Chandos 43) on 14 June 2010. Matt married Sarah Meredith on followed by a fabulous reception at Laura is delighted to announce the Laura Lamb beautiful little 20 December 2014. Old Stoic, baby boy Ishan Sir Nicholas Winton Milton Park. James and Felicity met birth of her son, George Hugh (née McMaster, Nugent 99) Mr John Cameron Michael Champness (Chandos 93) at Swanbourne House School whilst Cameron Rose, born on 7 November Chauhan, born (Grenville 27) on 1 July 2015. (Chatham 43) on 7 December 2015. was his Best Man. on 2 December Felicity was on her Gap Year in 2004. 2014. A beautiful brother for Robert Mr Ian Brameld David married Martine Mansourian Laura and Dave Lamb are 2015.” on 1 July 2015, in Windsor. (11), Annie (8) and Lily (4). wonderfully happy to announce the 1930s (Grafton 44) on 3 March 2012. safe arrival of Alastair Nicol Lamb on Guy Edwards Mr Edward Chapman Mr John Cullis Marielle Clarke Price 5 December 2015, a little brother for Libbit Osborne (Chatham 94) (née Cottee, Nugent 05) Rory Symes (Bruce 36) on 26 June 2015. (Walpole 44) on 15 September 2015. (Chatham 92) their 2 year old son, Thomas. (née Forde, Lyttelton 02) 1990s Mr Wellington Hay Mr William Dixon Marielle married Henry Clarke Price (Grenville 44) in April 2013. Rory and Sarah (Bruce 36) died in the USA on 19 on 26 April 2014 at St Mary’s Captain Hugh Beattie Symes are November 2012. Mr James Molloy Church Battersea, followed by a 2000s (Chandos 91) delighted to (Cobham 44) in 2011. reception at Fulham Palace. Mr Alex Hellawell announce the William Gaze (Chatham 36) on 24 June 2012. Mr Ewart Boddington arrival of Harrison (Grafton 00) (Walpole 45) on 3 December 2015. Roderick Symes Mr John Ratcliff Georgia Hutton Mr Trevor Clarke on 17 September (Cobham 37) on 20 December 2014. Guy married Karrie Hyatt in Los (née Raimes, Lyttelton 05) (Cobham 45) on 3 October 2015. Angeles on 4 September 2015. 2015, a brother for Charlotte. Mr Doug Howell Libbit and Simon Osborne, (Temple 38) on 17 February 2013 Dr Charles Dansie Georgia married William Hutton on welcomed their son, John Patrick in Westwood, Massachusetts. (Chatham 45) on 28 January 2015. 10 October 2015. He is the son of Nicholas Spencer Daisy Hurt Carnegy (Jock), on 21 April 2015 in Sir John Freeland Ian Hutton (Cobham 68). (Grafton 93) London. Mr Christopher Thompson Hugh married Miss Sally Jewell on (née Shann, Nugent 99) (Chatham 45) on 26 June 2014. 31 October 2015 at Grosvenor (Bruce 38) on 16 May 2015. Nicholas and his wife, Tamara, are William and his wife, Sophie, Mr Neil Ker Chapel, Mayfair. Dan Brandt Mr Gordon Darling Daisy married Roger Hurt on James Bradshaw delighted to announce the birth of welcomed a baby girl named Eliza (Grenville 45) on 14 March 2015. 21 February 2015. She now lives in Lorna Gaze, on 6 November 2015. (Former staff, 1998-2003) (Grafton 39) on 31 August 2015. (Grenville 06) their second daughter, Charlotte Mr Oliver Taylor Kenya and is expecting her first Roberta Bondy Sophia Eugenie, on 4 September Mr Edmund Neville-Rolfe (Chandos 45) on 24 February 2014. baby in May. (née Collier-Wright, Nugent 91) James married 2015, sister to Jessica aged two. Taro Koka (Bruce 39) on 3 February 2015. Mr Derek Binns Charlotte James (Cobham 00) Mr Robin Richards (Walpole 46) on 9 April 2015. at St Cuthbert’s The Viscount Hereford (Temple 39) on 28 October 2014. 2000s Church, Brattleby, (Chatham 94) Anna and Taro Mr Cranstoun Gill Lincolnshire on welcomed their first Mr Basil Sparrow (Grafton 46) on 7 March 2012. (Walpole 39) on 15 April 2015, 12 September child Emilia Rose Roderick McLauchlan th Dr David Granger 2015. They met Koka to this world a day short of his 94 birthday. (Temple 01) (Chandos 46) on 18 February 2012. at the University of Reading seven on 29 March 2015. years ago and are currently living in Mr Kenneth Milligan 1940s (Chatham 46) on 5 May 2015. Henley-on-Thames. Nick Verney Mr George Cox Mr Edmund Skepper Roberta married Todd Bondy from (Temple 01) Dallas, Texas on 9 May 2015. The (Walpole 40) in August 2014. (Temple 46) on 17 October 2015. wedding took place in Maida Vale, Thomas Prendergast Nick writes to say, “My wife, Dan and Sarah Brandt had a little Mr d’Arcy Dakin Charles Fitzroy, The Lord London. Old Stoics in attendance (Cobham 07) Alexandra, gave birth to our first girl in January 2015 − Flora Olivia: (Temple 40) on 16 October 2008 in Southampton from left to right included Charlotte child on 19 August 2015; a healthy, a sister for Bella, who was born Ontario. (Walpole 46) on 10 January 2015. Brenninkmeijer (née Wilson, Nugent Roddy married Iona Wotherspoon of happy little boy named Arthur. in 2013. 91), Ralph Hazell (Lyttelton 90), The Revd Jocelyn Grundy Mr Robin Wills Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire on 7 March Robin writes, “My wife Louisa and I He is already on the list to start at (Bruce 46) on 30 January 2015. John Collier-Wright (Grenville 87), (Chatham 40) on 30 September 2014. 2015, in Edinburgh. The photograph had a son, Henry Walter de Bohun Stowe in 2028!” Alison Arnott (née Howard, Nugent Devereux on 11 February 2015.” Sarah Walker Mr Clemens Reiche Mr John Broadley shows them with their son, William. (née Collett, Lyttelton 06) 91), Nicola Morrison (Nugent 91) (Grafton 40) on 27 March 2015. (Walpole 47) on 7 June 2015 in and Amanda Kakembo (née Luke Brewin Johannesburg. Fairhurst, Stanhope/Nugent 86). Ed Morgan (Temple 02) Mr John Sansom Christina Schroeder (Chandos 95) Mr Robin Jenkinson Roberta and Todd live in Venice Thomas married Phoebe Jackson (Bruce 40) on 12 September 2015. (née Glatzel, Lyttelton 01) (Chandos 47) on 15 October 2015. Beach, Los Angeles. (Ampleforth 09) on Saturday Mr Christopher Warner Air Vice-Marshal Darrell Lloyd 5 December 2015 at Ampleforth Ed and his wife, Anna, are pleased to (Grafton 40) on 12 September 2014. College in Yorkshire. They had a announce the arrival of their son, (Chatham 47) on 18 February 2015. Mr Maurice Denempont Marcus Cronan brilliant group of friends around Nicholas Hugh David Morgan on Mr Michael Ruthven (Grenville 92) them, including a number of Old 11 January 2015. (Grenville 41) on 13 December 2015, (Bruce 47) on 26 December 2015. peacefully in Arizona. Stoics. Benji Wills (Chatham 07), Michael Birkett, The Lord Birkett Yaerid Jacob (Cobham 07), Pencho Ben Bateman Mr Stephen Rowan of Ulverstone Dotchev (Cobham 07), Alexander (Chandos 96) (Chatham 41) on 17 February 2013. (Temple 48) on 3 April 2015. Hawkings-Byass (Cobham 07), The Brewins were delighted at the Sarah and her husband Oliver Mr John Simopoulos Mr Hugh Cotton Frederick Rolt (Grafton 07), Frederick Ben married Kristina on 21 June birth of their third child, Esmee, born welcomed their first daughter (Grafton 41) on 4 March 2015. (Cobham 48) on 20 July 2015. Prendergast (Cobham 09), Taisie 2014 and on 2 May 2015 we on the 18 December 2014, and she Abigail Iris on 16 November 2015. Grant (Nugent 09). Both Frederick welcomed our daughter Mia Mr Robert Fleming Mr Ralph Tattersall-Wright Christina married Tim Philip is already putting her big sister and Prendergast and Benji Wills were Fredslund Bateman-Kjeldsen. We are (Cobham 42) on 2 July 2015. (Walpole 48) on 29 March 2015. Schroeder on Saturday 10 October brother, Tilly-Anne and Hudson, in Marcus married Miss Aurelie joint best men. both thrilled to bits as are her two 2015. They are living in Munich. their place. Mr Martin Lloyd Mr Christopher Bartlett 40 Didier in Champagne, France, older sisters Jasmine and Sakia. (Chatham 42) on 18 May 2015. (Temple 49) on 1 October 2014. 41 OBITUARIES Sir Nicholas Winton (Grenville 27) 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015 Mr John Campion Mr Nigel Stern (Walpole 49) on 9 January 2015. (Bruce 57) on 17 February 2015. Mr Richard Fulford Mr Richard Cory Sir Nicholas had long consigned to the past his feat in rescuing 669 (Grenville 49) on 6 March 2014. (Temple 58) on 7 October 2011. Czechoslovak Jewish children from near certain death at the hands of the Nazis, when his heroic exploits came to light in 1988 and he was Mr Julian Twiston Davies Mr Geoffrey Lawson (Bruce 49) on 14 November 2013. (Grenville 58) on 22 June 2013. hailed in the press as the ‘British Schindler’. It emerged that he had worked tirelessly to arrange for the children to be settled with families in Britain, overcoming onerous Home Office 1960s 1950s bureaucracy, raising the £50 required for each one to enter the country Sir Jeremy Boles Mr Christopher Morland and orchestrating their escape route via ‘Kindertransports’. Working (Walpole 50) on 15 February 2014. (Bruce 60) on 13 October 2014. from an office in Prague in the months before Britain declared war on Mr Ian Holt Mr Mark Webster Germany and after Nazi occupation from March 1939, Winton knew he (Chatham 50) on 19 March 2014. (Grafton 60) on 20 March 2014. was struggling against time. Of 15,000 Jewish children that remained Mr Christopher Lezard Mr Robert Bailey-King stranded in Prague after war was declared in September, only about (Chandos 50) on 15 December 2015. (Chandos 63) on 24 June 2014. 100 survived. The modest Winton’s humanitarian deed might have remained unknown had his wife not found the evidence while clearing Mr Timothy Bladon Mr Robert Batten (Grenville 51) on 12 May 2015. (Temple 63) on 12 October 2015. out the family attic 40 years later at their home in Maidenhead. However, Sir Nicholas rejected the ‘British Schindler’ tag. Mr Peter Findlay Mr James Bertram (Cobham 51) on 14 June 2015, (Temple 63) on 19 June 2015, In late December 1938, Sir Nicholas, a 29 year old London stockbroker, after a long illness bravely fought. peacefully at his home in France. was preparing to go skiing in Switzerland with his schoolmaster friend Mr Michael Gregory Mrs Biddy Stephan Martin Blake. At the last minute Blake phoned to cancel and urged (Chandos 51) on 10 September 2015. (Former Staff, 1940-1963) Winton to join him in Prague instead. There was something important Winton turned to Jewish and Christian organisations, placed appeals in employing them in his factory. He insisted that he had risked less on 18 August 2015. Blake wanted to show him. the press, on radio, in synagogues and churches. Helped by his mother personally and that his work happened before the war. He would Sir Colin Hope and two volunteers, he joined them each day once the Stock Exchange sometimes argue that it was important to think less about the past (Cobham 51) on 31 August 2015. Major Richard Clifford MBE RM Sir Nicholas suspected that the change of plans was connected with closed at 3.30pm, and worked well into the night. Sending photographs because “we don’t learn from (it) anyway. It would be better to move (Grafton 64) on 15 November 2015. Hitler. Having read Mein Kampf (Winton was the son of German-Jewish Mr Andrew Ledger and particulars of the children to any would-be foster-parent had on from history and focus on the teaching of ethics”. Mr David McMurray parents) he had a clear idea of the threat Hitler and Nazism now posed (Cobham 51) on 27 February 2014. astonishing results. By the beginning of March, Winton had secured (Former staff, 1961-1964) to Czech Jews. “My family knew what was going on in Germany,” he Sir Nicholas was a committed pacifist in the 1930s (and a socialist), Mr Michael Posnett homes for the first 20 youngsters. However, now there were almost on 7 June 2015. said. “We’d had people who were being persecuted staying with us.” he joined the Red Cross in February 1940 and was sent to France as a (Cobham 51) on 29 October 2013. 5,000 children on his list. volunteer driver. He escaped from Calais. His pacificism faded away, Mr Antony Case The incorporation of Austria into the Third Reich in the Anschluss of Dr Trevor Robinson Winton’s efforts resulted in eight trains leaving Prague between 14 and he later joined the RAF as a link trainer instructor serving in France. (Chatham 65) on 11 July 2015. March 1938, followed by the annexation of the Sudetenland of (Temple 51) on 18 July 2015. March and 2 August 1939, bringing 669, mainly but not exclusively On demobilisation, he wanted to be involved with the rehabilitation of Mr Godfrey Deane Czechoslovakia to Germany under the Munich Agreement the following Mr Chris Mullineux Jewish, children to safety. The largest Kindertransport, with 250 children Europe’s refugees, and worked for the International Refugee (Cobham 65) Date unknown. October, resulted in thousands of refugees fleeing from the Czech- (Temple 52) on 18 June 2015. already seated on the train, was due to leave on 3 September – the day Organisation in Geneva. Mr Adrian Turner German border region into Prague and her surrounds. They were Britain declared war on Germany. The train remained in the station and, Mr Eryl Williams (Bruce 65) on 14 June 2015. crammed into makeshift camps, where the conditions were appalling. He met his Danish wife, Grete Gjelstrup, while working for the (Temple 52) in September 2014 as far as is known, most of these children ultimately perished in the International Bank in Paris. They settled in Maidenhead in 1950, in Tasmania. Mr Henry Calvert This was what Blake wanted Sir Nicholas to see. As an emissary for the camps. “I think about it a lot,” he later said, “how many more we could where Sir Nicholas built a house and worked for a time in the finance (Temple 67) on 10 January 2013. Mr Robert Arnott British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia which had set up have got out.” department of Britain’s first ice lollipop maker. His youngest son, Mr John Hunt an office in Prague, headed by Doreen Warriner – a lecturer at the (Cobham 53) on 17 November 2014. For half a century, the 669 children, now dispersed all over the world, Robin, who had Down’s syndrome, died of meningitis at the age (Former staff 1958-1969) London School of Economics – Blake had received a plea for help. Mr John Garratt of five. Winton’s wife died in 1999. He is survived by his daughter on 16 January 2014. Warriner and other volunteers were organising the escape of adults who were unaware of who had saved them. Even Winton’s wife Grete had (Cobham 53) on 5 January 2015. Barbara and a son, Nick, who speaks on his father’s work. were in the greatest danger. However, there was one major problem little knowledge of it until in January 1988, when she came across a Winton retired in 1967 and devoted himself to charitable works, Sir Michael Lakin unresolved: who would save the children? long-forgotten scrapbook documenting Winton’s actions, and the list of (Cobham 53) on 13 January 2014. 1970s all the 669 children he had helped to safety. particularly Mencap, and the Abbeyfield Housing Association, for which When faced with such misery, Sir Nicholas agreed to take on the life- he was appointed MBE in 1983. In 2008, he was nominated for the Mr Richard Morland Mr Eliot Dweck He gave the papers to Dr Elizabeth Maxwell, the wife of the late saving task. From a makeshift office, and in just three weeks, he Nobel Peace Prize by the Czech government. A statue depicting him (Bruce 53) on 9 April 2014. (Grafton 70) Date unknown. newspaper tycoon, who, as an expert on the Holocaust, was at that interviewed hundreds of distraught parents who were willing to let their holding a child and standing by another was unveiled at Prague’s Mr Clive Hawes time preparing a conference, Remembering for the Future. With her help Mr David Stewart children go alone to Britain. Armed with details and photos of more than railway station a year later. He was knighted in 2003 in recognition of (Bruce 53) on 26 October 2014. (Grenville 72) on 5 September 2015. the story was featured in February 1988 across several pages of the 500 cases, he flew back to London, leaving the Swiss-born Bill Barazetti, his work on the Czech Kindertransport. On 1 September 2009, a train Sunday Mirror and featured the same day on the popular television Mr Robert Vincent Mr Lawrence Werth who was at that time Warriner’s secretary, temporarily in charge. departed from Prague and arrived at Liverpool Street, met by the 100 (Temple 53) on 15 September 2014. (Temple 75) on 19 August 2014. show That’s Life. Winton appeared on the show with some of ‘his’ The Home Office, though co-operative, imposed more stringent year old Winton. Mr Rupert Winship children. It changed his life. He wore a ring given to him by some of Mr Colin Duncanson conditions of entry on the Winton children than on those coming directly He faced death with typical stoicism. “I don’t think there is a next world, (Walpole 54) on 16 April 2013. (Chatham 75) on 20 September 2015. them, engraved with the words: “Save one life, save the world.” from Germany and Austria. “We went to them urgently asking for but it’s no use bothering about something you can’t affect.” Mr Christopher Hammond Lt Col Simon Guyer The numbers of ‘children found’ kept rising and within a dozen years permits, only to be told languidly, ‘Why rush, old boy? Nothing will The Royal Mail have announced plans to produce a special stamp to (Chandos 54) in June 2014. (Grafton 76) on 17 March 2015. happen in Europe’,” Winton later said. There were to be no block more than 250 came forward – among them the Labour peer Lord Dubs and the film-maker Karel Reisz. With pitifully few exceptions, the honour Sir Nicholas. Mr John Fletcher Mr Guy Paine guarantees and no collective entry permits. Foster parents, guarantors ‘Winton children’ had lost their parents in the Holocaust. The Times/News Syndication (Grafton 55) on 26 August 2014. (Temple 78) on 18 November 2014. and £50 to cover repatriation costs (a huge sum at that time) had to be Mr Conrad Goulden found for each child. Sir Nicholas also had to raise money to help pay Sir Nicholas disliked the endless comparisons with Oskar Schindler – (Grenville 55) on 8 November 2014. 1980s for the special trains. the industrialist who saved 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust by Mr David Sanders Mr John Howarth (Cobham 55) on 21 January 2005. on 30 June 2013. (Grenville 83) Miss Abby Webb Mr Julian Garwood-Gowers 2000s (Nugent 09) Abby died on 9 December Mr Ben Atkinson Mr Alex Hellawell (Chatham 36)* connections across places and time. His lasting legacy to his family (Bruce 56) on 17 February 2015. (Walpole 84) was sadly killed on Miss Fiona Baddeley 2015, after a courageous battle with and friends was reflected in the music played at his service: his only 27 June 1918 – 24 June 2012 Mr Michael Miall 24 December 2014, whilst travelling (Former staff, 1995-2001) cancer. Full obituary to follow in the clear wish, but one often repeated, was that we should use the in Ethiopa. next edition. (Bruce 56) on 1 October 2015, on 2 January 2016. Adagio from Schumann’s 2nd Symphony for a time of reflection. after a long illness. The Revd Edward Coombs Mr Peter Farquhar Mr Mike Dawson Alex’s love for Stowe and his time there, under JF Roxburgh, remained He was equally clear that Schumann’s jaunty finale from the same Mr Frederick Rutter (Chandos 84) on 12 September 2015. (Former staff, 1983-2004) (Former Staff, 2007-2014) with him throughout his life. He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese symphony should cheer us as we left. This music, and the readings (Grafton 56) on 26 September 2014. on 25 October 2015. on 18 October 2014. after the fall of Singapore and said that the memory of the bell on the we had, reflected the central place of art in his life and his legacy. North Front would often sustain him in those dark years. Mr John Bryan 1990s Miss Rowena Pratt Mr David Meadows He was always grateful for his years at Stowe for the first contact (Temple 57) on 5 October 2015. (Former staff, 1978-2004) (Former staff, 2006-2015) After the war he entered the family firm enjoying the travel it brought with such a world. Mr Charles Hodgson on 9 March 2014. on 26 May 2015. and the personal contacts. He loved meeting people and making Alexandra Marshall Mr Michael Ducker (Grenville 90) on 6 November 2015, (Cobham 57) on 5 October 2015, unexpectedly after a marvellous day’s 42 after a long fight against cancer. shooting in Devon. * Regrettably, this obituary was mistakenly omitted from the 2015 edition of The Corinthian. Many apologies for its absence and delayed publication. 43 Mr John Simopoulos (Grafton 41) Sir John Freeland (Chatham 45)* OBITUARIES Mr Gordon Darling (Grafton 39) 12 June 1923 – 4 March 2015 16 July 1927 – 29 June 2014 4 March 1921 – 31 August 2015 After John died on Sir John was Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office when Margaret Thatcher Mr Edmund Neville- The then Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, paid tribute in the 4 March 2015 aged 91, and the FCO did not always see eye to eye and later served as a judge Rolfe (Bruce 39) Australian Parliament to Gordon Darling (Grafton 39) as one of a flurry of anecdotes did at the European Court of Human Rights. his country’s “most generous philanthropists.” He pointed out the rounds. JS had Sir John’s interest in law was stimulated by his aunt, Daisy Markham, 6 December 1920 – that Gordon “appreciated that a wealthier and more retired as an Oxford 3 February 2015 a famous Edwardian actress who successfully sued the heir to the productive economy meant more opportunities for philanthropy”. He praised him for philosophy don in Marquess of Northampton for £50,000 for breach of promise. He read Law at Cambridge and using, “the fruits of business to serve the community more widely”. 1988, but stayed on at practised at the Bar before joining the Legal Service of the Foreign Office in 1954. After a long stint in Edmund was a proud Old Stoic Gordon Darling, AC, CMG, who died in Melbourne aged 94 on 31 August 2015, had St Catherine’s College as Dean of Degrees. London, he was posted as Legal Adviser to the British Embassy in Bonn, where much of his work maintaining contact with contemporaries and teachers been born in London on 4 March 1921. He found his feet at Stowe and it was One task was to enrol students at the concerned the status of Berlin. In 1970 he moved to the United Kingdom Mission at the United notably the legendary history master, William characteristic that during his last illness, he was soothed by listening to recordings of University. When he began an address, Nations in New York. He was appointed CMG in 1973. McElwee, and his family. He was born in Norfolk where school hymns. Marilyn asked Christopher Huxtable for a suitable prayer for his “I expect you’re wondering what this coffin- the family had been squires for several centuries and He returned to London in 1976 and was closely involved in the many legal issues surrounding the memorial service, and the end of term hymn, Lord dismiss us with Thy Blessing, dodger is doing here”, a student whispered included the Rolfe who married Pocahontas. He was sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, the attempts to reach a negotiated settlement with Argentina and provided a fitting valediction. to her neighbour “he’s so old!”: the the only son of Captain Arthur Neville-Rolfe who neighbour replied, “but he’s so cool!” He the conduct of the war. Mrs Thatcher regarded the FCO as too full of peace plans in the run-up to the Gordon was especially inspired by his art teacher at Stowe, Robin Watt, and recently retired, wounded in WW1, at a young age from a applied to Dignitas, yet, after discovering a conflict, and Freeland was charged with putting up a more robust legal approach. In 1984 he was enriched the art school with Aboriginal art, including a watercolour by Albert Namatjira gurkha regiment. He sent Edmund to St Aubyn’s before mound of paperwork, withdrew complaining, promoted to Legal Adviser and appointed KCMG. and two etchings by Pedro Wonaeamirri. Stowe. “I wouldn’t be seen dead in your place.” On retirement in 1987, Sir John took Silk, and four years later was appointed the British Judge at the In addition to his academic studies, Edmund benefited Gordon’s great-grandfather, John Darling (1831-1905), left school in Duns, Scotland Being in his speech soignée, fastidious and European Court of Human Rights. On leaving the Court in 1998, Sir John continued with a number of greatly from the serious teaching of art at Stowe; he aged 11, and emigrated to South Australia in 1855, where his wheat trading business given to Latinisms, he would murmur after a legal appointments and was a Governor of the British Institute of Human Rights. produced fine work in his teens and twenties, earned him the nickname the ‘grain king’ of Australia. Later the family went into mining meal “consummatum est”. Above all, he was gradually developing his distinctive style and palette as early investors in the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd (BHP), and later branched known as a caring, gregarious bachelor who out into steel manufacturing and petroleum exploration. as a landscape and still life painter. ‘Bill’ McElwee took commanded widespread affection. Mr Neil Ker (Grenville 45) at the Royal Agricultural College before going into farming, eventually managing Whitcliffe the history class for a Grand Tour of Europe and Gordon served in World War II, first in the Australian Imperial Force and later as an John Charalambos Simopoulos ‘Jesus Christ 31 August 1926 – 14 March 2015 stimulated his lifelong interest in architecture and intelligence officer. In 1953 he became a director of BHP, serving until 1986, while his the Second’ was born on 12 June 1923. His Farm at Ludlow, which was owned by his European travel. After a shortened wartime degree at other interests included serving on the Council of Geelong Grammar School and as a father was Greek ambassador to the UK in grandfather. When his grandfather died the Neil was born at Ludford Park, owned by his Oxford, Edmund was commissioned into the 60th Trustee of the World Wildlife Fund. WWII and his mother both Scottish and Whitaker estate had to be sold and Neil grandfather, Henry Whitaker. His father, a moved on to rent the farm in Bitterley where King’s Royal Rifle Corps, as a liaison officer to the He suffered a perforated eardrum during a wartime flight, and damaged his other Jewish. He went from Stowe to read Greats at retired army officer, died when he was just he spent the rest of his farming career. Polish Army. A natural linguist, that early awareness of eardrum due to a loud explosion in a factory he was visiting. Eventually, his deafness Magdalen College, Oxford and, after teaching 10 years old. After Stowe, Neil enlisted in the European history and culture never left him. prevented him following board meetings and he retired. Latin at Christ Church Cathedral School and As well as being an active part of the Bitterley working for Oxfam in Italy, became a Royal Navy and was posted to HMS Condor. village community, Neil was a lifelong railway With farming experience and a Diploma in Agricultural His later years were devoted to philanthropy in the field of art. He became Inaugural founding member of St Catherine’s Society in This was a naval air station at Arbroath in enthusiast, who delighted in travelling by Economics, he started a business consultancy in Chairman of the Board of the National Gallery of Australia (opened by HM The Queen in 1953. Although the Society achieved Scotland, where Neil trained as a Fleet Air Arm train. In 1990, Neil founded the Ludlow Rail Brussels, advising on the Common Agricultural Policy 1982), and gave them his collection of works by Albert Namatjira. In 1987, he founded collegiate status and new buildings in 1963, Photographer. After two years, Neil was Users Association. He was chairman of the (CAP) for what is now the European Union. He was one the Gordon Darling Asia Pacific Print Fund which went on to acquire more than 7,000 JS was displeased with their modernist demobilised and he continued his education Association and remained as such until 2008. of the first Britons to thoroughly understand the CAP, prints for the national collection. He then founded the National Portrait Gallery, now architect, Arne Jacobsen “Gloomy as hell, a having followed the negotiations leading to its housed in its own building on King Edward Terrace in Canberra, an institution to match symphony by Sibelius brought to life”: he creation. After WW2, Edmund farmed on a small scale the portrait galleries of London, Edinburgh and Washington. To achieve this, he * Buckinghamshire local government and voluntary in Wiltshire, where at Ark Farm he and his Polish wife harnessed his business acumen to the considerable organisational skills of his second even led a successful campaign against the Mr Oliver Taylor (Chandos 45) work, eventually being elected the leader of the Margaret Evans made their home and raised their five wife, Marilyn. They pursued their goal with energy, financial generosity and consistent Dane’s bespoke two-pin plugs, which had 11 May 1928 – 24 February 2014 children. He resumed his painting after retirement moral support. They were both appointed Companions of the Order of Australia. failed every British Standards test. In Oxford, then majority Conservative Group on the County leaving a considerable body of work. in the heyday of post-war British philosophy, Council in May 1993. He spent the last 20 years By his first wife, Margaret Anderson, he had two sons and two daughters. After they After taking a first class degree at Cambridge, he was remarkable for publishing nothing. of his life in happy retirement in south west Cathy Brooks Baker (née Neville-Rolfe) divorced in 1989, he married Marilyn Davis, a former microbiologist. She survives him Oliver served in the RAF from 1949 to 1965, with Rather, he taught socratically, aiming for France, where he was active in local voluntary as do his children and ten grandchildren. clarity, truth and logic through conversation. several years as Assistant Air Attaché in Moscow work and enjoyed a wide circle of friends. He was Hugo Vickers (Stowe Parent) And it was pre-eminently conversation he and, thereafter with BBC Radio, ending up as proud to be known as an Old Stoic. Mr Robin successfully fostered across the college. Head of Administration, Radio. Having taken early retirement in 1983, he was active in David Natzler Richards (Temple 39) JS gained fame, however, for the intensity of Mr Basil Sparrow (Walpole 39) 18 April 1922 – his distraction activity: telephones in ‘Catz’, 28 October 2014 16 April 1921 – 15 April 2015 at the Rome exchange, for Getty. He knew in technical detail how the world talked and Michael Birkett, The Lord Birkett of Ulverstone (Temple 48) Robin’s career after leaving Basil was born on 16 April 1921 and sadly died from a how to make connections: he could link you 22 October 1929 – 3 April 2015 th Stowe comprised a two year accelerated degree head injury after a fall just one day short of his 94 birthday. to Hyderabad for 10p. More still, whereas in Engineering at Clare College, Cambridge, with From Prep School he joined Stowe as one of Walpole’s first others penned slim volumes of verse off duty, As an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, Michael indulged his 1st class honours after which he was seconded members in 1934. In 1939, he moved on to Christ Church, Oxford and, with the war now he produced a paper on non-specific passion for the arts. After graduating he joined Ealing Studios, working as an raging, obtained his degree reading PPE and Languages in a shortened one year course. urethritis for The British Journal of Venereal to SOE as Lieutenant Richards RNVR. Firstly, he assistant director and an associate producer, later focusing on his own films. Diseases and a collection of scatological joined the Helford Flotilla for cross channel He then joined the Coldstream Guards from Sandhurst and commanded a Reconnaisance While training, one of his first production projects was the classic 1955 rhymes, (‘There once was a fellow called Rex missions delivering arms and rescuing agents Troop of tanks in the newly formed Guards Armoured Division with which he landed in comedy The Ladykillers, with Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers. and drowned airmen. Subsequently, in 1944-45 Normandy in June 1944. Striking NE towards Belgium he led the advance into Arras, surprising / who had a diminutive organ of sex. / When He produced film adaptations in the 1960s of A Midsummer Night’s Dream he was sent to Italy and parachuted to join the the German garrison. After a fierce gunfight the town quickly fell and Basil was awarded the had up for exposure / he replied with composure / De minimus non curat lex [the partisans north of Genoa to blow up transports, Military Cross for his fearless leadership. – with Judi Dench and Helen Mirren – and later King Lear, starring Paul reconnoitre beaches on the Adriatic and finally law does not concern itself with little Scofield. When a radical production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker came close to collapsing, he Peace came in 1945 and also his marriage to Trish, daughter of Sir Henry Cox. He was to find the German General responsible for the things].’). As Lord Mandelson recently managed to persuade figures including Noël Coward, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor to immediately posted to the Bahamas as ADC to the Governor until his de-mob in 1946. port of Genoa and persuade him not to sink a conceded, “he was obsessed with sex”. contribute funds. The following year their son Oliver was born. He then joined as Manager of the Oakes family blockship in the mouth of the harbour nor Dedicatee of his friend Iris Murdoch’s The Trust and in 1951 they moved to Southern Rhodesia where he set up and chaired a tin mining He was appointed, in 1975, as deputy director of the National Theatre by Peter Hall. For much of the activate the many mines already prepared to Bell, John Simopoulos was the last of a company for the Trust. In the 1964 election he stood as candidate for Sir Edgar Whitehead’s 1980s he served as Director of Recreation and the Arts at the Greater London Council. Having blow it up. For all these hair-raising missions, he generation of dons lamented by the late OS Liberal party and lost on a recount to the right wing Rhodesian Front. So, he came back to succeeded to the peerage in 1962 on his father’s death, Michael was active in the House of Lords. was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Provost, Lord Annan (Temple 35): for them, England working in the London Metal Exchange and subsequently as a Director of various An avid piano player, he co-created the Royal Philharmonic Society’s annual music awards in 1989. being was the better part of doing. Oxford will Post-war, Robin became Technical Director at plastics companies involving overseas travel. Retiring in 1985 he spent some years fund Woodhall-Duckhams but after a takeover he miss him. His warmth and geniality were perhaps best summed up by Michael Blakemore, the actor and raising for St. John Ambulance. After a long illness Trish died. joined the staff of Imperial College to devise and Christopher Wintle (Chatham 62) former associate director of the National Theatre. Michael was, he said, “impossible to dislike”. direct a new four year course entitled Total His last years were taken up with travelling the world aiming to reach 100 countries: he got to St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 1963-67 Technology, with Sir David Huddie. 84 with a sadly unused ticket to Portugal when he died! 44 Anthony Sparrow (Walpole 50) * Regrettably, this obituary was mistakenly omitted from the 2015 edition of The Corinthian. Many apologies for its absence and delayed publication. 45 Mr Julian Twiston Davies (Bruce 49)* OBITUARIES 27 May 1931 – 14 October 2013 Mr Ian Holt (Chatham 50)* 24 September 1932 – 19 March 2014 Julian was the bass player with the Crane River Jazz Band, the British group Ian passed away at home in Heswall, Wirral on 19 March 2014. Having Mr Edmund Skepper (Temple 46) which came closest to capturing the been educated at The Leas, Hoylake followed by Stowe, he subsequently 31 August 1928 – 17 October 2015 original New Orleans feel. The band went up to Cambridge (St John’s) where he read Languages, completing had begun practising in a field by the both his BA and MA, before accepting a scholarship to Vienna University Crane river at Cranford, when Julian to continue his specialist studies. It was there he completed the first arrived with a sousaphone perched on English translation of the significant works of Hofmannsthal. He was a top of 17 different instruments in an quiet, introspective man with a dry and abundant sense of humour, who Austin 7. The band was to play together loved both music and language in equal measure. His additional periodically for almost 50 years. passion for nautical endeavour, first evidenced by rowing at No. 3 in the A keen record collector from the age of seven, Julian was Lady Margaret Boat, Cambridge and thereafter for Chester Rowing Club, working for EMI when he first heard the band, and was so struck continued throughout his life both in the UK and West Africa. He by its pursuit of authenticity that he blurted out to Colyer: co-owned a 25’ Westerley for many years, sailing far and wide and with “Man, you sound like [the New Orleans cornet player] Mutt many an adventure. Carey.” Colyer replied: “Would you like to join the band?” Having married Rosemary shortly after returning from Vienna, he was Julian bought a bass and settling into the band’s discreet transferred to West Africa to run a division of the family shipping rhythm section (piano, drums, banjo and, occasionally, business and there started a lifelong love affair with his beloved washboard). After 18 months the band drifted apart, with Julian Ridgeback breed of dog which he owned regularly throughout his life, embarking on an MSc in concrete technology at Nottingham often along with a Great Dane or two. In 1985, he returned to Liverpool University, which took him seven years due to musical to take a managing position in the Head Office where he remained until distractions. his retirement. During the later years, his continuing love of languages Julian became head of the Greater London Council’s buildings led him to tutor A level students privately in both French and German, as materials section and a sought-after expert witness on the well as setting up a moderately successful fine wine importing business. problems of water penetration in high-rise buildings. But he An accomplished pianist, he would regularly be heard playing through always managed to appear at band reunions until the final gig his vast catalogue of classical music. In his last few weeks he saw his in 1999. Retiring to Dorset, Julian chaired the Ken Colyer Trust, first novel published a fictional account of a junior executive thrown into which arranged the release of unpublished recordings and the turbulent chaos of Nigerian life with hilarious consequences (A publication of his memoirs. Season in Bedlam, ISBN 9781784073237). Much loved, Ian will be He also taught science at Colfox School, Bridport; became greatly missed and is survived by his wife Rosemary, children Rupert, Chairman of the local croquet club; and played with a local Candida, Simon and Annabelle and a loving group of grandchildren. band, the Sunset Café Stompers. His funeral featured recordings Rupert Holt Head Boy, Edmund Skepper with Field Marshall Montgomery of the Cranes. and JF Roxburgh on the South Front, 22 October 1946. Mr Robert Vincent (Temple 53)* Sir Colin Hope (Cobham 51) 20 February 1935 – 15 September 2014 17 May 1932 – 31 August 2015 * Mr Christopher Bartlett (Temple 49) Robert died in Manaus, Brazil on 15 September 2014. His 08 November 1930 – 1 October 2014 Mr Richard Fulford (Grenville 49)* Sir Colin was a leading figure in the automotive happiest school days were at Stowe where he learned how 7 August 1931 – 6 March 2014 industry. He spent his career successively with to love landscapes, keep ferrets, climb down drainpipes My father, Chris Bartlett, who died aged 83, was an engineer the auto component group Associated and shoot rabbits (something to do with one of the who ensured that people all over the world had access to Dickie had a glittering stock market career rising to Engineering, the tyre maker Dunlop and Turner masters!) as well as getting some academic qualifications water, spending his entire career with the engineering senior partner of Kemp Gee and latterly, after a & Newall, an industrial conglomerate whose which seemed to take him by surprise. consultants Binnie & Partners. From 1962 to 1967 he lived merger with Scrimgeour Vickers, senior partner of product range included Ferodo brake parts. in Pakistan, working on the Mangla dam, ensuring that the the combined group. He led Scrimgeour into the He joined Dunlop in 1975 to run its high design and construction were of the highest possible takeover by Citi. Dickie was a deeply principled man technology engineering division, engaged in Mr Nigel Stern (Bruce 57) quality, and he returned there several times in the ‘80s on in business. He rarely drank at lunchtime believing pioneering work on braking and suspension 31 July 1939 – 17 February 2015 smaller projects. it was a disservice to the clients of the firm. He also systems. In 1985, he was recruited by Sir Francis (later Lord) Tombs, upheld, for all his tenure, the meritocratic tradition From 1974 to 1975, he lived in Indonesia, where he was primarily responsible for Nigel Stern was for many years a stalwart of the of a secret vote where all partners voted each other Chairman of Turner & Newall, to be his Managing Director. agricultural irrigation projects, but was also involved in fluorinating Jakarta’s domestic OS Golfing Society Halford Hewitt side and, rare water supply. The next assignment took him to Abu Dhabi, from 1979 to 1981, where a share of the equity. After Scrimgeour was sold to The following year, he and Hope launched one of the hardest fought amongst golfers, he kept his silky swing and he helped the Emirate to secure its water needs: this task included establishing Citi he went on to chair the board of Nurdin and takeover battles of the era: a hostile bid, eventually worth £260 million, for immaculate short game well into his seventies. desalination plants and the Al Ain pipeline. He also worked in Iran and Iraq. Peacock successfully. the Midlands based Allied Engineering. Hope succeeded Tombs as But he was much more than a very good golfer. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, he worked on flood protection for London and was involved in Dickie was an extremely keen golfer. A long time Executive Chairman in 1989. He worked in the City and Tokyo as a metal trader, Sunningdale member and captain of the OS Golfing following in his father’s footsteps and latterly for consultations for the privatisation of the UK’s water authorities in the 1990s. He was Affable and energetic, he relished the cut and thrust of the corporate arena Society in 1991. He stopped playing in later years Enron, wisely leaving when he felt their values were an unbending critic of privatisation plans, believing that they were short-term, and coped bravely with the gradual onset of a muscle-wasting disorder but was ever present at Sunningdale, playing not his. He married relatively late to Linda, a QC and ideologically driven and did not safeguard the rights of the end user sufficiently. which afflicted his mobility. He was able to steer T&N successfully through bridge. Dickie was never backwards in coming prominent member of the Jewish community, and His opposition was stymied by his having signed the Official Secrets Act earlier, the choppy waters of the early 1990s recession and refocus its portfolio on forwards, essentially he was a very pragmatic and became a proud stepfather of her two sons. As a meaning he could only voice his concerns through official channels. It was higher-tech auto products. By 1997, four-fifths of T&N’s £2 billion worldwide characteristic of him that he witnessed the subsequent rounds of selling and profit- engaging man who always had time to listen, widower, he continued to live in Highgate but his turnover was in the automotive sector. He retired in 1998. taking of the companies, alongside their lack of investment, with pragmatism, always especially to the younger generation. He was spiritual home remained Worplesdon Golf Club looking to the future and how the situation could be redeemed. great counsel to me and fantastic company. Sir Colin was President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders and where his life was celebrated in July 2015 by some He demanded high standards from those around 60 golfers and friends. It was a great tribute to Nigel Chris retired in 1995, but sustained his interest in water issues globally, for instance Chairman of the housebuilder Bryant and the brickmaker Ibstock Johnson. him and his humour when those standards were that Old Stoic and friend David Julius (Chatham 72) propounding his belief that Israel began to consider ceding the Gaza Strip only once He served on a panel of industrial advisers to Prime Minister, John Major, not met was acute and appreciated by many of remarked he had never seen so many Gentiles in a it realised that the area could not sustain itself with accessible water. In a letter and was knighted in 1996. His private passion was for vintage Armstrong his friends. synagogue at Nigel’s funeral. He was always a published in the Guardian in 2004, he explained how the situation in Sudan Siddeley cars from the 1920s and early 1930s, of which he collected and gentleman. represented the world’s first major water war. Chris lived his life according to his Dickie will be missed terribly by his children, restored half a dozen; he was patron of the Armstrong Siddeley Heritage convictions: “Live up to one’s responsibilities and look after the weak.” He sustained grandchildren, large extended family and friends. Trust and a trustee of the National Motor Museum. Lorne Williamson (Temple 56) his keen sense of humour to the end. He is survived by his wife, Jean, his four children He leaves an indelible mark. and his eldest brother, Johnny. Toby Campbell-Gray 46 Tristram Bartlett (Temple 82) * Regrettably, this obituary was mistakenly omitted from the 2015 edition of The Corinthian. Many apologies for its absence and delayed publication. 47 Mrs Biddy Stephan (Former Staff 1940-1963) Major Richard Clifford MBE RM OBITUARIES 15 June 1924 – 18 August 2015 (Grafton 64) Mr John Hunt 15 April 1946 – 15 November 2015 (Former staff 1958-1969) Bridget ‘Biddy’ Stephan, who died last August aged 91, 4 March 1932 – 16 January 2014 was married to two legendary Stowe masters, Stowe suited Richard and his ‘Carpe diem and Mr Mark Webster mathematician Raymond Walker and classicist Brian Safety Last’ philosophy of life admirably. Some John had a profound influence (Grafton 60)* Stephan. Through her concern for others, her gift for of his adventurous escapades got him into on those he taught, many of friendship and her passion for Stowe over seven decades, 3 June 1943 – 20 March 2014 scrapes, and his determination to stand up and whom consider him a full Biddy herself became of legendary status. Indeed, for fight against apparent injustice did not always member of that line of great many of us, she was as integral a part of the Stowe scene meet with approval, but he profited by the teachers for which Stowe is Mark was the only child of Gillian (née as Queen Elizabeth at the Worthies or Venus and Diana on opportunities offered by Stowe, and left his justly proud and famous. He Hartland-Mahon) and RAF Squadron the North Hall ceiling. mark particularly as an athlete and as the was distinctive; very tall and Leader Harry Webster. A few months It all began in the Second World War. Biddy was just eighteen in September 1942 when her senior cadet in the CCF. On the athletics track, while he appeared to lack the build spare, and appeared to glide after his birth his father’s plane went father, Colonel O’Brien, a noted rugby player, scored the try of his life by requisitioning parts of to throw the discus, he trained hard to master the necessary technique and used around the School in his gown. He could have a down near the Azores with no the School for his unit of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. For the harassed Headmaster, his extraordinary strength to become a good and dependable performer. He was severe look which suddenly broke into a smile; survivors. His family on both sides JF Roxburgh, the smelly cookhouse alongside the Vanbrugh block and the noisy NAAFI nearby not a natural sprinter but, with his short strides and low centre of gravity, he was he had a great dry sense of humour and enormous had travelled widely and served in were only minor inconveniences compared to the burgeoning iron huts storing ammunition in able to scoot round the top bend in a 4 x 110yds relay faster than any one of the kindness and compassion. India, and Mark was especially drawn the grounds and along Stowe Avenue. But Biddy’s father ensured his Ammunition Sub-Depot recognised sprinters in the athletics squad, and he was one of the quartet who Following his degree at Oxford, John taught set the School record in this event which has now stood for more than 50 years. In to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. He maintained excellent relations with the School, and when the RAOC left after fifteen months, Geography at Stowe from 1958 to 1969 and the CCF, he was not greatly enamoured of the rather humdrum routine of the term spent six months near Almora in 1961, The Stoic declared “they were genuinely missed”. This certainly applied to the Grenville coached rowing. He left Stowe when he married Housemaster, Raymond Walker, much smitten by the Colonel’s daughter, and there was a happy time weekly parades and drills, but in the field, especially during Arduous Training teaching at the Doone school in Dehra and shortly after was appointed the first outcome. In December 1945, he and Biddy were married at Christ Church, Kensington, with camps, he was in his element and revealed all the qualities of a natural leader. Dun. Among the many interesting Headmaster of Roedean, the girls’ school. In Stowe’s new chaplain, Carlyle Windsor Richards (the rumbustious ‘Windy Dick’), officiating. After Stowe, Richard had a distinguished career as a Royal Marine, reaching retirement, he steadfastly endured Parkinson’s people he met there were Chögyam the rank of Major and earning a Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct. disease for many years, supported by his wife Trungpa, recently escaped from Tibet, And so to Chackmore. They rented Chackmore Lodge for many years and then bought Sheens at the other end of the village. With Biddy’s strong support, Raymond flourished as an He specialised in the Special Boat Service where he pioneered and brought into Sarah and his two sons Jonathan and Richard. and Krishna Prem, an English Hindu outstanding Maths Tutor. His sudden death, when 55, left Biddy a widow in her early forties service an underwater operational weapon system (for which he was appointed His impact on those around him can be judged saint. His impressions of this period with two daughters. A year later, however, in 1967, she remarried and found herself, for the MBE), and he involved himself in pioneering research into hypothermia. His in these tributes: remained a strong influence second time, wife of the School’s Senior Tutor. Like Raymond, Brian was not just a high- service career allowed him to pursue two of his most passionate enthusiasms – John Hunt inspired me to go into Education and throughout his life. powered scholar but a man of culture. Both were great entertainers at the piano. sailing and mountaineering. He first honed his climbing technique at Stowe, shinnying up many of the monuments (rather dilapidated in his day) of which changed my life. It was a great disappointment to Biddy certainly knew how to pick a husband. the 100ft Cobham Monument was the greatest challenge, before progressing to James Dixey (Bruce 66) him that he was not allowed to study Everyone agreed that marriage to Biddy changed Brian wonderfully. The shy and sometimes expeditions in mountain ranges all over the world. With the experience of 50 years Tibetan at Oxford, but had to settle crusty former Housemaster of Chandos quickly developed a quiet, twinkling confidence that of cruising, including multiple Atlantic crossings and other long range voyages to A brilliant Teacher; John brought Geography to life. for History. After university he taught underpinned his time as Second Master and his career of record-breaking length. Biddy again his credit, his reputation as a sailor is second to none. It is a happy coincidence Angus Sladen (Walpole 69) English in London, trained as an flung herself into her husband’s cloistered world and broadened it in all directions, her work that Richard’s initials RCC are also those of the Royal Cruising Club from whom John’s field trips to the Wye Valley and Tintern Alexander teacher with Patrick as secretary of the Choral Society and her care for the blind being but two small examples. he received so much support and for which, in turn, he proved to be an ideal Abbey were legendary for both fun and learning. She bore Brian’s loss, in 1998, with great fortitude, able to rejoice in a loving family and the ambassador. MacDonald and Peter Scott and We became enthusiasts just like him. faithful dogs that led blissful lives in Sheens with that wonderful garden. In old age Biddy’s became a skilled potter. The personal qualities which characterised him throughout his life emerge in the Anon youthfulness belied the years; she met painful suffering with characteristic resilience. At the two privately-published and limited edition autobiographical volumes, Bumpa In 1973, Mark was offered a position celebration of her life at Stowe Church, where she had regularly worshipped, David Donaldson, at Sea and Seldom a Dull Moment: modesty, loyalty, sociability, enthusiasm, John gave me huge support when I was coping with teaching the Alexander Technique to a friend since the 1950s, gave one of the moving eulogies, testimony to a much-missed and curiosity, ingenuity, unconventionality, energy, self-reliance and his relish of a the early death of my father; I shall never forget his young actors at the Zürich legendary lady. challenge. care and kindness. Schauspielakademie and relocated to Tony Meredith (Former staff 1973-2003) Few can have possessed such an indomitable spirit, greater determination, or Charles Dimpfl (Chatham 66) Switzerland with his first wife and more courage, tenacity and greater will to win. He will have been an inspiration young son. He taught at the acting to those who served with him and under his command. His Housemaster’s last John was a kind and helpful Mentor when I arrived school for 35 years, as well as teaching Mr David McMurray (Former Staff 1961-1964) report read: “He does everything dependably, quietly, conscientiously and without at Stowe on my first teaching job. I had a tough English at the Kantonsschule Wiedikon. 15 December 1937 – 7 June 2015 fear or favour” – what an apt and enviable epitaph! baptism; but John helped me through it. I owe him immense gratitude. He was a founding member of the first David Donaldson (Former staff 1957-1973) Stuart Morris (Former staff, 1964-1977) Alexander Teachers Society in David joined Stowe in autumn 1961 to teach English and also Switzerland and was its President from developed a very strong rugby 1st XV with Brian Mead. David was A glass of Sherry in John’s Grafton flat was a sign * 1981-1988. During the eighties he schooled at Loretto, followed by National Service in the Royal Scots Mr Lawrence Werth (Temple 75) that all was well in the world. travelled to Canada for several months and a distinguished three years of study at Pembroke College, 19 October 1956 – 19 August 2014 Anon each year to train Alexander teachers in Cambridge. Vancouver. Lawrence, who was Chairman of PC Werth, passed away on 19 August He was always interested in what I was up to long He was appointed to Stowe to replace a young man who allowed his after I had left Stowe. 2014. A respected figure in the International Audiology Industry, Lawrence Travel was in his blood, and he always pupils great freedom in the classroom. David said that the Upper Christopher Longstaff (Walpole 69) seemed at home in whatever corner of Sixth was one of the very best prepared that he ever had the privilege to take over and had been fighting illness for some time. He consistently amazed friends, colleagues and staff with his stoic attitude and approach to dealing with his the world he was in, never failing to prepare for A level. David was an exceptional teacher of English and, no doubt, many pupils John always wanted to impart “civilising condition. have a good conversation with whoever at Stowe will have achieved results beyond their expectations, due to his enthusiasm and influences”. This involved producing plays, taking he met. Mark remained a spiritual dedication. It was also quite well known that David used to add up his pupils’ marks while groups to introduce them to opera in London, seeker and a Buddhist throughout his he was calling the morning register. This skill, which is unusual, is an indication of his teaching Scottish Reeling, and having Field Trip Miss Fiona Baddeley (Former Staff 1995-2001) house parties at his family’s beautiful Georgian life with a great interest in and remarkable ability. 15 February 1964 – 2 January 2016 house in Scotland. knowledge of all forms of personal David spent his life in schools and was a consummate schoolmaster. After Stowe, he went development. The diagnosis of a brain to Fettes in 1964, where he became Head of the English Department and a Housemaster, From the Sedimentarians Society to an afternoon’s It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death, after a long battle with sculling on the Eleven Acre Lake, to arriving for tumour two years ago did not stop a finding time also to coach both the 1st XV and the 1st XI. In 1976, he went back to Loretto as cancer, of Fiona Baddeley who taught English and Theatre Studies at Stowe from breakfast at his Scottish country house still in rich life, full of friendship and travel to Headmaster, where his aim was to offer “greater scope for the individual” and to explain 1995-2001. She was a popular VI Form Tutor, UHM in Nugent and an outstanding evening dress after a party and, then taking his “the rationale behind the instruction”. the end. He is survived by his mother, Director – the musical Grease (with the young Henry Cavill in the cast) and 5 year old cousins straight off to look for pigeons’ his second wife, his first wife, the He left Loretto in 1984 to become Headmaster of Oundle, where he was instrumental in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (with Christian Roe playing the eponymous role) both spring eggs, John had an irrepressible zest for life. st mother of his daughter, two children, preparing the School for the 21 century. His Second Master, David Sharp, said that David to mind. She left us to be Head of Drama at Blundell’s, Devon, though she kept in James Dixey (Bruce 66) and two step-children, three grandchildren would go down as one of Oundle’s great innovating Headmasters: “If you seek his close touch with many of her former colleagues and close friends. Angus Sladen (Walpole 69) and many friends. monument look around you”. Crispin Robinson (Second Master) Robin Möckli Webster Martin Penney (Former Staff, 1961-1964) 48 * Regrettably, this obituary was mistakenly omitted from the 2015 edition of The Corinthian. Many apologies for its absence and delayed publication. 49 Mr Michael Dawson (Staff)* OBITUARIES 8 July 1956 – 18 October 2014 David Meadows (Staff) 6 February 1949 – 26 May 2015 Mike taught Mathematics at Stowe in two Lieutenant Colonel Simon Guyer (Grafton 76) different stints; 1986-1991 and 2007-2014. David joined the Old Stoic 18 June 1958 – 17 March 2015 In the intervening years he taught just across and Development Office the Bourbon at Akeley Wood, where he team in 2006, from a Simon joined the Royal Marines immediately on leaving Stowe became Deputy Head and acting Headmaster. career that had seen him School in 1976, where he had displayed an early aptitude for He will thus be remembered fondly by two work both in the UK and all things adventurous! As a child he had enjoyed walking, distinct cohorts of Stoics and by many local internationally for a ex-Akeley pupils. Mike was an expert Maths climbing, camping and sailing, and went on to represent Stowe number of leading teacher and he employed straightforward at rugby, swimming, and water polo. He was also a keen member companies, including delivery coupled with an intuitive of the CCF. Rolls-Royce. His skills lay Mr Peter Farquhar understanding of where pupils might struggle. in the introduction and After completing Young Officer training at the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone near (Former Staff 1983-2004) His own early academic leanings were towards Exeter, Simon went on to serve in a wide variety of roles, including winter tours in Norway, 3 January 1946 – 25 October 2015 Art and Sports Science, only later completing management of complex databases and he was three operational tours in Northern Ireland, nuclear security, maritime planning for the a Maths degree, and this perhaps explains his empathy with those who found the perfectly suited to the mission and challenge of Bosnian conflict, and an operational deployment to Kuwait during the Iraqi conflict. Peter, much revered former Head of English, subject challenging. He was universally liked and appreciated by his pupils and tutees. making and maintaining contact with Old Stoics around the world. However, the major part of Simon’s career was spent as a specialist in amphibious operations. died peacefully at his home on Sunday 25 Mike’s Head of Department at Stowe, Damian Blewitt, writes: October 2015. After a very successful period He obtained a Distinguished Pass at the Landing Craft Officer Qualifying Course at RM Poole “To be a teacher you have to be a little strange. To be a Mathematician you are David played a largely unseen but vital role in teaching at Manchester Grammar School, and from there went to serve in NATO deployments to the Caribbean and Mediterranean, probably going to be a little peculiar. Therefore, Maths teachers are always going to be the life and operation of the Old Stoic Society. In Peter joined the English Department at Falkland Island patrol vessels, duties in support of HM Customs and back to Poole as the weird, bar the rare exception. Mike was the rare exception. There was no pretence or charge of the OS database, he was the guardian Stowe in 1983. He was appointed as Head Landing Craft Training Officer. dismissiveness or exclusion; Mike was sincere, warm and supportive to all around him of the myriad of contact details and snippets of of English in 1989. He was widely regarded and most importantly normal. His presence around the Maths Department was always information that we came across for the many The highlight of this part of his career was a deployment to the Antarctic in HMS Endurance, as one of our best teachers, a master of reassuringly calming. When I saw him first thing in the morning he would open with his where, as Officer of the Watch, the ship struck an uncharted rock causing a major emergency Oxbridge, A Level and GCSE Courses. thousands of Old Stoics, current and former regular ‘Morning Boss’ followed by a big grin while his dog Frank leapt all over me – – and necessitated Simon, who was also the ship’s diving officer, to leave the Bridge and lead He inspired many of his pupils to achieve parents and other friends of the School and clearly he had taught the phrase ‘Morning Boss’ to be a trigger phrase for Frank. his team over the side into the Antarctic Ocean to inspect the damage. The rock was high academic standards and to read Stowe House Preservation Trust. He supported Lessons were a joy for his classes; they all enjoyed working and many left the subsequently named ‘Guyer Rock’ and was the source of many stories recounted to friends English at different universities. Peter was the work of the Campaign for Stowe, helping us classroom without realising how much progress they had made. His touch in the over a beer or round the dinner table at home! popular as a Sixth Form Tutor, caring deeply by carefully recording donations received from classroom was perfect; he knew when to push and when to hold back and always for his tutees and pupils on a pastoral level. members of the Stowe community in the UK and Passing the Army Command and Staff Course at Camberley led Simon on to more senior achieved fantastic results. More than once in the review of the previous year’s results Peter had a sharp mind and possessed great much further afield. Away from the office, he appointments, significantly as the first Amphibious Operations Officer in HMS Ocean, where the huge spike in the Mathematics results had again come from pupils in Mr Dawson’s moral integrity. At School he was a would be a keen and loyal supporter of events he played a key role in developing the Ship’s amphibious procedures. Other roles included classes. He was brilliant with the younger Stoics and inspiring to the unmotivated; he committed Christian, fully involved with the that we organised, helping behind the scenes at developing NATO Amphibious Doctrine, and establishing a new role within the Royal Navy’s was challenging to the able and encouraging to the less confident. All in the spiritual welfare of Stoics and staff. He many Old Stoic reunions, often being the friendly Sea Training organisation responsible for the training of all assault ships and their embarked Department miss him dearly; I feel extremely lucky to have worked with him.” air and landing forces. prepared candidates for Confirmation and face as we welcomed guests through North Hall. led Bible studies as well as often preaching Away from the classroom Mike devoted a great deal of time to sports coaching, Having served as the Chief of Staff at 1 Assault Group Royal Marines in Plymouth, Simon He would attend regular School events aplenty, in Chapel. Peter was a member of staff at particularly athletics, both at School and at Milton Keynes Athletics Club. Mike was a retired from uniformed service to continue in a civilian role at RM Instow in north Devon where and was an especially loyal supporter of the Stowe from 1983 to 2004. gifted hurdles coach and also contributed a great deal to rugby at Stowe; particularly he commanded Craft Wing and was responsible for the development of UK’s landing craft and Wednesday recitals held by the Music coaching and refereeing. He enjoyed the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, guiding Department. seaborne ship-to-shore capability, undertaking coordination of Research & Development, After his retirement from Stowe in July 2004, groups of Stoics in some of the more mountainous parts of Britain. Mike also trials, studies and acceptance of new landing craft and other types of military vessels into Peter devoted much of his time to Stowe participated in School expeditions to Nepal. In his first period at Stowe he was Under Outside work, David’s interests and talents were service. Parish Church where he regularly Housemaster in Bruce when Mike Waldman was Housemaster and in his second, Mike extraordinarily broad. He was a keen and very During his time in the Royal Marines, Simon enjoyed both recreational and RN Ship’s diving, worshipped and preached for many years was a Sixth Form Tutor, guiding many Stoics through the university application process knowledgeable ornithologist – a hobby he would parachuting, and expeditions, having led groups trekking in Nepal and mountaineering on and he also continued to support the School and writing superbly crafted references. combine with an amazing talent for wildlife by attending lectures and concerts, often in Mount Kenya. He enjoyed cross-country skiing and sailing and was an avid rugby fan. He was photography. We recall David very modestly the company of local friends. He kept regular Mike was a consummate professional and he ensured everything was done on time a strong advocate of safety on the water and volunteered as a Sea Safety Adviser for the RNLI. showing us some of his work, including a quite contact with many Old Stoics and some and to the highest standards. He was also a balanced individual and he understood extraordinary photo of a kingfisher in flight. He Simon died at the age of 56 from lung cancer, having never been a smoker. Characteristically, former colleagues and could always be that there has to be a trade-off between work and life; indeed this drove his decision to loved cycling and had an encyclopaedic he faced his diagnosis and final months with complete acceptance and courage and amazed relied upon for advice, literary discussions forsake management and return to the classroom full time. Mike relished holidays and everybody around him with his determination to continue living life to the full. This included and companionship. He sat on the OSS he and his wife Mandy travelled extensively, usually combining glamorous locations knowledge of both the technical aspects of making it to the highest point in the Preseli Mountains to admire the view, and purchasing a Committee for many years, as the ‘Local with activities such as windsurfing and mountain biking. cycling through to the glamour of the Tour de long dreamed-of Cornish Shrimper with plans for many trips around the Devon coastline. Representative’, where his presence and I met Mike when I arrived at Stowe in 1988. We quickly became firm friends and we France. His wonderfully quiet, unassuming, efficient and methodical approach to work The overwhelming memory of Simon by many is one of a true friend who was loyal, kind, input were always much welcomed, and seemed to have the same ideas about work, sport, music and the like. We spent much compassionate, honest, and reliable. He had time for people, treated them with respect and even after retiring, remained a ‘local – and time playing a variety of sports, particularly rugby for Buckingham, and Mike was adept belied a passion for other, racier matters...and was known as ‘one of the good guys’. He took every opportunity that life presented to him, loyal – friend’. Peter was firm in his deep at everything from squash to darts – he also held a black belt in Shotokan karate we loved hearing how, at about 4am one always pushing forward with a smile on his face. His wife, Jane, will be forever grateful for the and sincere Christian faith and may he rest (which I always found reassuring on a night out in the badlands of Buckingham). We morning, he got up and left the house, just so 21 wonderful years they spent together and he is missed terribly by Jane, his parents David in peace. fished for tench in the Stowe lakes and for pollock off the north west of Scotland, went that he could experience riding his motorbike at 120mph around the Brackley bypass! and Liz, and his brother and sister and wider family. Crispin Robinson (Second Master) windsurfing, running and weight training. Mike’s knowledge of, and interest in, contemporary music was phenomenal and we spent many nights in Nottingham’s Rock Mrs Jane Guyer David’s death – following a brief battle with a City and other venues seeing acts like Faith No More, Spear of Destiny, Neil Young, the horribly aggressive brain tumour – shook us all. Black Keys and Sparklehorse. Mike loved Bruce Springsteen’s music and saw him But it was the dignity and optimism with which virtually every time he toured the UK. His tastes were fairly eclectic, but he definitely Miss Rowena Pratt Walpudlians will remember her Rowena characteristically asked he confronted his illness which perhaps was enthusiasm, meticulous loving Her Majesty to return a drew the line at jazz and opera. It has to be said we also spent a good deal of time in (Former Staff 1978-2004)* most striking. David loved Stowe, and it was a care and the provision of watercolour of the Temple Room pubs and curry houses, for real ale plus hot curry equals contentment, was an equation devotion that came to rub off on his family too. 1939 – 9 March 2014 unending food and drink. She was now in the Royal Collection. A Mike subscribed to. Mike remained fit and active until a few weeks before his untimely His wife Kate and son Jeremy came to also an avid reader of history and memorial concert was held as death and he and Mandy spent much time working out together and making friends at understand too what it was about Stowe that It is with very great regret that we was a guide to the Mansion and a tribute to Rowena, the Music Crossfit in Northampton. meant so much to David and we are absolutely must announce the death of grounds for a number of years Room at Stowe in May 2014. We Mike will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved him; he was one of the finest thrilled that Jeremy will be married this summer Rowena who served Walpole and the leading light of the local will remember ‘Miss P’, as she people I’ve ever met and if you would like to evoke a little of the spirit of ‘Dawse’ may to Rachel in Stowe Chapel. House as Matron for twenty-five History group in Brackley. was affectionately known by us I suggest you listen to something by The War on Drugs, White Denim, or similar, at years, under three Housemasters. Her historical knowledge was all, and each of us will treasure considerable volume. Colin Dudgeon, Anna Semler, Caroline Whitlock, She served both the House and delivered with enthusiasm and our own particular memories in Janet King and Laura King Rory Akam (Staff) the School with deep loyalty, confidence, and on the occasion our hearts. sympathy and knowledge. of The Queen’s visit in 2007, Crispin Robinson (Second Master) 50 * Regrettably, this obituary was mistakenly omitted from the 2015 edition of The Corinthian. Many apologies for its absence and delayed publication. 51 Coins are made to extreme TOWARDS 2023: ARCHIVE COLLECTION precision compared with THE BIG BAD WORLD sculptures. My relatively free style of modelling had to be pared down to a closed surface and, In 2014, I was approached by the Royal Mint responsibility both to the subject and to his though made 30cm in to design a coin to mark the 50th anniversary previous sculptors! diameter, restricted to a depth of Reading the obituary of Sir Colin Hope (Cobham of the death of Sir Winston Churchill in 2015. My inspiration came from the famous Yousef less than 2mm and still had to incorporate 51) recently, reminded me of some adventures In 1965, the Royal Mint had commissioned Karsh photograph for Time Life. This image, all the detail required to achieve a likeness. we had together. Oscar Nemon to design and model a crown the most successful and most familiar of I modelled it on a levelled clay bed with We went to Stowe in 1946. Both of us came coin. Nemon had made a career sculpting Churchill, the wartime leader, has a power runners either side to allow me to check my from the North West and travelled by train with Churchill with statues in the Houses of surpassed by no other. Karsh took the modelling was kept below 2mm. The model three or four other boys, from Liverpool to Parliament and other prominent locations photograph on 30 December 1941 after was tipped vertically on an easel, more like Buckingham via Bletchley. The local train from worldwide. Few sculptors knew him better. Churchill gave a speech to the Canadian a painting, and strongly lit from above. Bletchley had non-corridor coaches and we No Old Stoic can forget the exhilaration of driving out of the Stowe gates as a leaver, He had not, however, made the greatest House of Commons in Ottawa. In a moment This was the only way to see the slightest once took exception to an unpleasant character no doubt with a stinking hangover from the Leavers’ Ball. It can take weeks, months statue of Churchill, the one in Parliament of boldness, Karsh snatched the cigar from nuances in fractions of a millimetre in the who joined us. By the next trip, Colin and I had or even years to miss the comfort and protection that is Stowe but sooner or later Square unveiled in 1973 and made by Ivor Churchill’s mouth. “By the time I got back to modelling. Though modelled large to allow devised, and made in the school workshop, a realisation will hit: “What on earth am I going to do next”. For many, this daunting Roberts-Jones, later to be my tutor at my camera”, he later recalled, “he could for detail, it is viewed reduced to final coin carriage door key. Thereafter, when we boarded feeling comes at the end of University alongside the inkling that it may be time to Goldsmiths’ College. Roberts-Jones’ work, have devoured me.” It became the most size. Once completed and moulded, the cast enduring portrait of Churchill and one of the was photographed and reduced to final coin the train, we found an empty compartment and find a job. At some point, a helpful friend or relative is bound to utter the famed which I had seen at Stowe in a group show in 1971, had inspired me to apply for most reproduced photographs in history. scale to be inspected by the Royal Mint’s locked ourselves in. Problem solved! words, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”, at which point you might be It was the obvious image on which to base Advisory Committee and, in this case, We were both members of the CCF and formed a Goldsmiths on leaving Stowe and he was thinking, “I know a hell of a lot of students, all of whom are brilliant at drinking the coin design. members of the Churchill family for approval. small motorised unit. Just us and an NCO (or working on the Churchill statue in my first games and last minute essay writing!” Not to fear, the OS Society is here! It was approved and is now available. Officer – I can’t remember which), who year at art school. The commission to design Designing and modelling a coin was a new supervised us. We had two or three pre-war We provide a range of services to give you confidence, a head start and connections a coin representing Churchill was a great direction for me and this was my first. Etienne Millner (Grenville 72) motorcycles which were in reasonable condition to support you as you take your first steps into the working world. but needed attention. It soon became clear that Colin was a gifted (and instinctive) engineer, so Career Mentors: We’ll match you up with an OS working in an industry that with little or no help from our supervisor, and a interests you. This can lead to work experience and placements. THE STUDIO OF ETIENNE “MARSDEN! little help from me, we soon had the bikes going Online Networking: Interaction between members is encouraged via the OS well. Somehow, we obtained a small supply of Register which integrates with LinkedIn to help you to grow your online MARSDEN!” petrol (it was still rationed) and spent many connection portfolio. MILLNER (GRENVILLE 72) happy hours ‘road testing’ the bikes around the It was about 6.30am on a sunny summer morning grounds. Incredibly liberating and much better Find a Job: Check the OS Jobs Board on our website for positions being offered by other OS members. when I was awakened from a deep sleep by shouts than drilling! of my name echoing from the walls of Walpole Towards the end of my time at Stowe, Tommy Careers’ Fairs: All recent leavers are welcome to attend the annual OS Careers’ Court, towards the end of the summer term in Sopwith (Grenville 50) acquired a brand new Fair at Stowe, which takes place in November. OS Speakers are needed; 1949. Looking out of the dormitory window, I was MG sports car, production of which had only just please get in touch if you can help. surprised to see my respected housemaster, resumed after the war. He kept it at a ‘secret’ Online Advice: Downloadable help sheets are on hand with advice on writing Mr Kinvig, wrestling a boy in the house, Richard location away from the School and we had a CV, interview tips, start-up tips and many more. Sparrow (Walpole 49). Going downstairs and out some great expeditions on the almost deserted of the front door I saw Richard being wrestled to roads. You may well have left Stowe but the OS Society ensures that Old Stoics across the On 26 September 2015, I had the great fortune to join a small group of Old Stoics the ground and Mr Kinvig explained that Richard After we left Stowe, Colin acquired a Brooklands world remain supported with the tools they need to go far in life. Full details about and parents on a visit to the studio of sculptor and OS, Etienne Millner. had been sleepwalking. The event was over, Riley with which to go racing, and he asked me these services are on our website, www.oldstoic.co.uk I hadn’t seen him for the best part of forty years when we had been Richard returned or possibly went up to his bed to go with him to races to help out. contemporaries in Grenville. Even then he was an exceptional talent and someone and peace returned to Walpole Court. We had both become keen on motor racing you felt destined for greatness. Quiet, assured and given his extensive The explanation of this bizarre event was as having heard wonderful noises (often when we achievements, one of the most understated Old Stoics of his generation. follows: were in class) coming from the former airfield at He studied at Goldsmiths and the Royal Academy and was a contemporary of The relatively long period of abstinence occurring Silverstone. Although we disliked cross-country the YBAs. He resisted the temptation to cut up cows and put sharks in tanks and in the summer term had been hard for Richard to running, we used to go on training runs which focused on the less fashionable but considerably more challenging art of taking bear, and he had formed a satisfying friendship a human being, often with a huge ego, and recreating their image in bronze. just happened to take us to Silverstone. with a young lady on the domestic staff. His ability to capture not only the likeness of his sitters but also the essence of Sometimes we got tips in advance, one notable Returning to the house after a night of passion, their character has led to him being in constant demand over the last four occasion being the introduction to the press of he had encountered his housemaster. Now the Rover Gas Turbine car. Imagine the scene, decades. With clients as varied as Lord Harris, Rumer Godden and Arsene Wenger. We’re looking for Old Stoics to come forward who are able to offer Richard was a quickly thinking boy and a talented the world’s press and two schoolboys! current Stoics or recent leavers work experience in their companies. For over two hours, he held us captive with his talk about the complex actor, having recently starred in the school play, technicalities of the sculpting process and gave us an insight into the challenges After Stowe, Colin went on to become a very We hope to collate a number of placements which can be offered Night Must Fall (incidentally kindly witnessed distinguished automotive engineer. Tommy of sculpting sitters varying from young children to captains of industry. by the distinguished London actor Sir Cedric to those starting out in their careers. Sopwith had a successful period racing cars and His most recent triumph was winning the commission by the Royal Mint to design Hardwicke whose son was in Chandos House at power boats. I had a few very happy years racing It could be as short as a few days or could extend to full year long internship: the new £20 coin in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s the time and later became the epitome of cars professionally, driving for Lotus, which we welcome all offers that members can give. We will leave it up to you to death (see article above) and following in the footsteps of another great OS television’s Dr.Watson). So Richard went into his included class wins at Spa and Le Mans. select suitable applicants and timings for the placements, so you can sculptor, David Wynne (Grenville 44) who created a design for the 50p piece brilliant, if unrehearsed, act of sleepwalking. This control how you manage this within your company. My son (alas not an Old Stoic) is the well known commemorating our entry into the EEC. rather unusual event ended without sequelae, Formula 1 commentator, James Allen. Would If you can help, please complete the form on our website: Etienne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors and a Past President of the apart from some damage to the housemaster’s any of this have happened without Stowe and http://www.stowe.co.uk/school/old-stoics/member-services/os-jobs-board Society of Portrait Sculptors. I only hope he can be persuaded to make a return watch. Mr Kinvig later retired to his native Isle of Silverstone? I sometimes wonder if today’s or email [email protected] visit to Stowe to impart some of his knowledge and experiences to the present Man, and Richard Sparrow became a Deputy Lieutenant for his native Cheshire County. Stoics are affected in the same way. We hope to be able to list a collection of placements in future editions of this generation of Stoics. Bill Allen (Grenville 51) magazine for members to peruse. Mark Flawn-Thomas (Grenville 72) Respectfully submitted. 52 John Marsden (Walpole 49) 53 MEET THE OLD STOIC SOCIETY COMMITTEE We’re always looking for new members, so if you’re interested in getting involved please get in touch by emailing [email protected] The OSS Committee meet regularly throughout the year to generate ideas and decide on the direction of the Society.

What’s your greatest What’s your contribution What’s your favourite Which OS project excites Naughtiest moment at Stowe: Why did you join the OSS Recent OS event highlight: Stowe achievement? to the Society? view at Stowe? you most? Committee?

Jonathon Hall Surviving springs to mind but that Chairman. Turning up on time and The Garter, if only I had a bed Careers to OS Benevolent Fund, Too many to mention! I joined to turn Stoics on to or away Becoming Chairman and neatly (Bruce 79) may not be the most diplomatic focusing us on becoming more beneath it! Failing that, the view the fully rounded proposition: from Advertising as a career or more avoiding a calamitous skating response! commercial. from the Corinthian Arch to the something we will do better than generally to help guide where incident... School. anyone else. guidance was lacking.

Hannah Durden Beating the boys in the I have been encouraging OSs to It’s got to be the South Front. There are exciting plans for Hiding under a desk in a boy’s study room Super-interesting mix of OS The tour of Roger Charlton’s training (Nugent 01) Coldstream Cup. participate in any sport possible whether Playing lacrosse there was the sole involving our President in an OS because his Housemaster was showing a personalities that I meet and a huge yard in Wiltshire in 2014. an old boys/girls’ competition or on a reason for deciding to come to event over the next year which prospective parent around. There were variety of projects to get involved in, more informal level. Recently promoted to Stowe for Sixth Form. I thought it will require mass-participation also a couple of particularly enjoyable not to mention career and business Vice Chair [aka Chair of Vice]. was the most beautiful place I’d across the globe. Watch this cigarettes, having climbed head first out opportunities generated from ever seen. space! of a window in Nugent, on the roof of the networking events. I have also loved study block whilst reclining in a deck chair meeting and mentoring current Stoics in the evening sun. The perfect antidote to at the OSS Careers’ events. exam term at the time.

Peter Comber Selected for 1st XV rugby aged 16. Act as the Treasurer to keep control on South Front from the Marble Hall. The new OS Benevolent Fund Caught smoking in Cobham bike sheds Desire to give something back. OS Careers’ Fair at Stowe. (Grenville 70) finances. and focus on social and/or and received 6 of the best. financial assistance to OSs.

Anna Semler Playing 1st XII Lacrosse and Old Stoic Director. The Gothic Temple high on the hill, Developing the online Hiding wine under my bed and a I saw the potential to make the Careers’ Fair at Stowe, it’s great to see (Nugent 05) winning eight matches out of ten when jogging in the grounds. networking so everyone can raucous evening at the Leavers’ Ball network of Old Stoics more useful for so many OSs coming back to help the in my last year. interact with one another. which, 10 years later, I think I’ve finally everyone and I love meeting people Stoics widen their horizons and lived down. and hosting events. discover what they might want to do with their lives.

Paul Burgess Running in the county cross- Newly elected. Look forward to making a View from South Front. Careers’ development Best left on tour... To be able to help others and put Nigel and Anna ice skating! (Cobham 89) country championship. difference. something back from my experiences.

Tim Hart Being awarded Congreve colours Generating ideas and setting up OS The vista of the South Front from The networking capacity of the Getting demoted from Deputy Head of I thought there was a huge network Summer Party, a great evening! (Chandos 92) in Fifth Form, for Romeo and Juliet. Corkscrew. Since getting involved, I’ve (inside!) the Corinthian Arch. new website. School within two weeks of being of interesting people that was not I was one of the first in my year. helped to rev up the OS Events appointed. being properly utilised for the benefit programme. of the OS community.

Jonathan Keating Getting my dismal adolescent Hopefully to bring a commercial eye to the Looking down over the small valley All are good news, but the Drinking six pints of beer in Akeley and Having recently had a son at the Great skating, though due to a bad (Cobham 73) poetry published in the School organisation. and water, to the Temple of Ancient ambitious launching of a London then staggering back across the fields to School and another one coming in back, stuck to the drinking. magazine. Worthies. Club is really exciting. throw up all over the Cobham dorm. 2017 thought I had better keep an eye on things.

Katie Lamb The achievements in my final year, Over the last couple of years, I have been The view from the Corinthian Arch, I’m looking forward to That would be telling... Fingers and Nige roped me in! The 90th Anniversary stands out as (Lyttelton 06) including sports captaincies, heavily involved in Old Stoic events. looking towards the South Front. establishing official 10 year my favourite event. Head of House and school reunions at Stowe. prefect.

Ben Mercer Getting in! I try to give the School’s perspective on South Front, no question. Mentoring Gosh, I shouldn’t have one should I?! As part of my role at Stowe, the Old Hearing Old Stoics delight about (Development matters arising, but most importantly love Stoic Society falls within my mandate. their time in DT and how it changed Director) to encourage the Society to help with I am very glad that it does. the way they lived their lives. careers and mentoring and, of course, get as many Old Stoics to events as possible.

Nigel Milne Breathing life and fun into the Being Chairman of the Networking, The Kent Pavilions and Corinthian The Stowe-X Rock & Blues After attending Catholic Mass in I was suitably flattered by Johnnie Being kissed by THE PINK (Chandos 68) Old Stoic Society. Marketing and Events Committee and Arch viewed from the South Front Collective! Buckingham every Sunday morning, Arkwright’s request that I should CHAMPAGNE SISTERS at a recent broadening the Society’s vision. Portico – pure Claude Lorraine! I would return to the School, having do so! OS Dinner. And the reverse, with the South fulfilled my shopping list at the off-licence Front framed by the Corinthian and then do my deliveries around the Arch and reflected in the lake. studies while all of the pupils and staff were attending Matins! My first experience of Retailing!

Simon Shneerson The work I did with Community As Chairman, I was able to help shape the The Routemaster speeding down The OS Benevolent Fund that we Brewing beer in the cellars underneath the I was conned into it by another All our events are great but probably (Temple 72) Service we were looking after Society for the future, encouraging its the hill and leaping over the are now starting up – I think Powerhouse Yard Boiler Room. committee member, who promised the most memorable moment for me about 300 pensioners each week wider vision and facilitating new activities hump-backed bridge over the there’s a huge unmet need for me lots of wine and no work. It turned was meeting Sir Nicholas Winton. in the days when welfare benefits which will make a real difference in the Oxford Water. this. out the other way round! were negligible. coming years.

Jules Walker Becoming an Old Stoic after the Creative thinking and ideas. From the Cobham Monument. School centenary collaboration. Now that would be telling, wouldn’t it? I like doing things for others. Getting the go ahead for all new (Lyttelton 82) full five years. initiatives.

54 55 6 The Metropolis Recording Studios.

5 JJ Rosa. 5 Orlando Seale. 5 The Metropolis Recording Studios.

Things are so much more RUMHONEY punched out infectious and driving rhythms topped off by a wailing fun if shared with like-minded harmonica resulting in grinning faces people, don’t you think? throughout the audience – excellent stuff! It is with this in mind that WARREN – an urban funk-bunny (appropriate I have established the with a name like that) playing keyboards and accompanied by a single Fender-wielding Old Stoic Rock, Blues and colleague produced a contemporary feel Country Music Collective. tinged with Latin rhythms. HATTON MANOR is definitely a duo to look out for, exquisite Our inaugural gig was in April with two voices and harmonies accompanied by phenomenal bands – the jaw-droppingly superb guitar picking. The Star Trac Studio series indoor cycles combine user-focused features, best-in- awesome JJ ROSA and the string driven The two stand-out acts from the last session class biomechanics and popular features for riders of all shapes, sizes and abilities. magnificence of ORLANDO SEALE (Lyttelton were ROZELLE – an excellent quintet with a 91) AND THE SWELL. JJ Rosa’s guitar playing very unsophisticated image belying a From the indoor cycling leader in bike design, manufacturing and rider satisfaction. style owes a great deal to Prince and Jimi colossal talent. Brilliant vocals by the two Hendrix and with a sizeable nod to Nile girls with strikingly different styles, the main For more information visit startrac.com/studiocycles Rogers, too. Her Amy Winehouse flavoured singer’s being sweet and lovely whilst the vocal delivery and tight backing band blew other’s is astonishing in its huge range, us all away. It really was a brilliant set. depth and intensity. Secondly, JOE CORBIN, Orlando Seale’s material is almost cinematic a great bluesey voice, wonderfully dirty guitar in its bravura. Big melodies with sweeping riffs and just enough excellent virtuoso guitar strings which are totally uplifting but whose bursts to let one know of what he is capable Ian Daniell | Account Manager (London & Thames Valley) lyrics can be tinged with dark menace. but without being tempted into long Orlando is a charismatic performer with great self-indulgent meanderings. 07810 125464 | [email protected] charm and elegance. A visit to SHOREDITCH LOFT to see the much So, there you have it. Now, my intention for Since then, we have had three inspiring gigs vaunted THE PRISCILLAS resulted in a this club is to alert everyone to interesting at The Metropolis Recording Studios in mixture of intrigue and slight disappointment gigs by emerging and established artists in Chiswick – the birthplace of many an iconic in that we had been led to believe that this the smaller venues around London. However, At Core Health & Fitness, when we brought together fitness brands to build our company, album by stratospheric artists and most band was the ‘best-kept-secret’ in the music music is a very subjective thing and so I am recently noted for giving birth to Adele’s 21 business and that we would be given a taste very keen for other members to flag up any we settled for nothing but the best. Four iconic brands that pioneered entire categories and and 25 albums, the latter being the fastest of what a gig in the Bowery district of New forthcoming gigs that you think will appeal to selling album in history. York was like in the Seventies. Whilst that the rest of us, so please do let me know whose machines are still the ones members ask for by name. Today, we’re committed to At these Metropolis Sessions (which, claim was undoubtedly true, in that the [email protected] and I shall publicise continuing the tradition that started decades ago - and that’s greatness you can feel good incidentally, are FREE!) we feature four or five all-girl band resembled The Kramps and The them on the regular e-bulletins. I would like different sets by brand new and established New York Dolls, they were time-locked in the membership of this Club to increase and about building your business on. artists. Memorable highlights from the three 1974. About four out of the dozen or so not just with OSs – please involve your sessions up to the time of writing this article songs were slickly delivered, the remainder like-minded non-OS friends too. After all we can’t actually explain such an emotive have been the extraordinarily talented were chaotic and one led into another passion to the uninitiated can we? 16 year old (yes 16!) NATALIE SHAY whose without any discernible variation, which I beautiful voice and aggressive guitar playing think that we have all rather grown out of Nigel Milne (Chandos 68) style had us all in her thrall. A delightful now, haven’t we? Still, it has to be said it 56 Southern Rock infused outfit called was good fun. To join the club email [email protected] ©2015 Core Health & Fitness LLC. All rights reserved. Star Trac, the Star Trac logo and StairMaster are registered trademarks of Core Health & Fitness, LLC. Schwinn and Nautilus are registered trademarks of Nautilus Inc. used under license to Core Health & Fitness LLC. There is a popular misconception in some quarters of the Common Room that fundraising is all about peeling Plover eggs and sipping vintage Dom Perignon from Murano champagne flutes while cultivating potential donors in exotic destinations. All Old Stoics living in Scotland and the Far North Last year, the Old Stoic website was pulled, kicking and screaming, into the of England are invited to a Black Tie Dinner at The workaday reality of the Campaign Office is about as far 21st Century. I hope you will find it an engaging and useful area containing a myriad removed from this decadent image as it is possible to be: our of services for members. The website acts as our online hub, connecting members benefactors prefer to see their donations being spent on worldwide, recounting news and advertising OS events and activities. We’ve made The New Club, supporting the School, enhancing facilities or increasing the it a little bit special, to encourage you to come back regularly and make use of it. Edinburgh, EH2 2BB, endowment and frown on conspicuous consumption. The Old Stoic Register is now an advanced connection tool which integrates with LinkedIn. You will be asked to sign on using your LinkedIn username and password Colin achieved a huge amount over the last decade by raising Friday, 20 May 2016, 7.30pm. (please set up an account if you don’t have one). The OS Register is now searchable and Colin’s impeccable organisation made it a complete triumph. £25m for the Campaign. I’ve seen grown men weep when Colin on name, house, year, industry, profession and location. These advances allow you There were comic moments: a rower capsized in the Octagon Lake comes into a room but without his tenacity, perseverance and to track down friends as well as make new connections for business or travel Tickets £65 per person, energy we would not have the new Athletics Track, Equestrian just as Michael Righton was explaining his plans for the future of purposes. You can connect directly with an Old Stoic on LinkedIn to communicate to include a three course dinner and wine. Centre, Music School, the completely refurbished Roxburgh rowing at Stowe, The Queen showed great solicitude and care for and network with them, to increase your contacts. the Stoic artists whose hands had turned blue with cold while To book visit www.oldstoic.co.uk/events Theatre, the transformation of Lyttelton and the significantly In order to make the OS Register to work to its best advantage, we need everyone enhanced Science Building which is currently being developed. sketching in the grounds and then spent more time with the or telephone 01280 818349. Beagles than anyone could have predicted. It was a magical, to sign up right away to link their LinkedIn account to the Register. Please go to www.oldstoic.co.uk to get started. Colin’s finest hour at Stowe was on 29 November 2007 when Her never-to-be-forgotten day. Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh The new website also contains numerous other online services, including a jobs Old Stoics who work in London or elsewhere in visited Stowe to open Queen’s House, something which had begun At Speech Day last year, I said that a school cannot be better than board, business listings, careers’ advice, career mentors, sports teams, special the country and hail from Scotland are warmly with a casual remark by The Queen when I met her in 2003 and its best teachers. I should have added that neither can it be better interest groups and helpful information. I hope you enjoy the new services on offer. encouraged to return for the event. than its best support staff. It has been a privilege to work alongside turned into a production of epic proportions. Colin found himself Please do send feedback about the new website to [email protected] Colin and we have been fortunate to have him leading the organising a Royal Away-Day which took in The Queen’s opening of Campaign for Stowe over the last decade. So much has been Milton Keynes Football Stadium, the Hub, a new St John’s achieved and his legacy is secure. The following tribute to Sir Ambulance Brigade Headquarters as well as a tour of Stowe House Christopher Wren can be found engraved in stone under the dome and Gardens, a Service of Thanksgiving in Chapel, the opening of of St Paul’s Cathedral: “Lector, si monumentum requiris, Queen’s House, lunch for 300 invited guests and a completely circumspice” (Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you). separate programme for HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. The transformation of Stowe over the last ten years owes a great During the final dress-rehearsal Colin confided to me that he could deal to Colin Dudgeon and we wish him the very best of luck as he feel a tingling in his left arm. He did not look reassured when I told develops his career at Radley. Fortunately, Colin and Lucy are not him that the Medical Centre had acquired a defibrillator especially entirely lost to the Stowe community as their two daughters will for the occasion and that he could be the guinea pig to find out ensure that they remain very much part of the Stowe scene. whether it worked. Of course, all went smoothly on the day itself Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, Headmaster

We’re looking for places and spaces to host Old Stoic events. If you own or work in a space that would be good for a wine tasting, drinks party, lecture or similar and you are happy for us to bring a group to you for an entertaining evening, please do get in touch. We aim to host events across the country and the world for Old Stoics living far and wide, so no matter where you might be, we would be interested in speaking to you if you can help. We welcome offers of spaces big and small, as the OS events we host range from around 20 people up to 200. Please email [email protected] if you can help. 58 59 BY EDWARD HOPKINSON (CHATHAM 15) the Stowe charities they will be Edward painted this iconic image of Battersea Power supporting and the enormous difference Station in 2014, the original painting hangs in the main their gifts will make. Pledging a legacy to Stowe is a The Roxburgh Society now numbers over reception at Battersea Power Station and measures a The Roxburgh Society events are always staggering 5ft x 4ft. This painting of the iconic London wonderful way of investing in 130 members, each of whom has pledged enjoyable occasions, filled with good 0–60° IN 3 YEARS Landmark has proved such a hit that a limited run of 250 the future of the School and a legacy bequest supporting the aspect of food and bonhomie, allowing members numbered and signed giclée printed canvases have been making a lasting difference. Stowe which is closest to their heart – be When my family and I moved from the equator in Kenya to the north to reconnect with the School as well as produced. If you are interested in purchasing a print, it bursaries, the restoration etc. Since our of Sweden, just a day’s drive from the Arctic Circle, describing it as a The Roxburgh Society is made up of those with each other. please contact Edward directly for further details, inaugural lunch in 2005, 50 legacies have shock to the system would be putting it mildly. Old Stoics and members of the Stowe [email protected] Please do consider supporting Stowe with Kenya will always be home, it’s where I grew up and started my community who have pledged a legacy to been realised. Every bequest received has had an extraordinary impact upon the a bequest in your Will. If you would like career. We lived a bohemian lifestyle, going on safari regularly, the School. They have chosen to support further information or to discuss your School and its pupils, for which Stowe is listening to the lions calling and inspecting the footprints in the either the Stowe School Foundation, wishes in confidence, please contact the very grateful. morning to try and identify our night time visitors. The blinding white which provides incredible educational Development Director, Ben Mercer at beaches and the warm turquoise sea water of the coast were a great facilities and much needed scholarships The Roxburgh Society has gathered twice [email protected] / 01280 818249. pull for half terms. We would have sundowners on the roofs of our and bursaries, or the Stowe House over the past year, bringing together coastal retreats listening to hyraxes and sipping gin and tonics. Thank you. Preservation Trust, which funds the members and guests in June and While holidaying in Sweden, my fiancé and I were invited to look restoration and preservation of one of November. Each occasion has included an Nigel Rice (Chatham 64) around an English speaking ‘Free School’. The Headmaster was an England’s historic gems. opportunity to see the incredible work of President, Roxburgh Society animated Canadian with an uncanny resemblance to Voldemort! After discovering we were English and teachers, he invited us back for interview and subsequently offered us positions. Very spontaneously, we took the offers and 6 months later said goodbye riders can reach speeds in excess of 80mph to family and friends and left for Sweden. on their skeleton toboggans, which weigh around 40-45kg. Unlike Bobsleigh and Luge, To my fiancé’s disappointment, Sweden isn’t full of leggy blondes falls are frequent at certain bends, although and ice bars. We immediately detected huge differences between the serious injuries are, mercifully, few. The education systems. Our new school is strict and pupils must follow fastest will achieve descent times of sub 52 stringent rules such as no hats, no mobiles in class and (oh horror) seconds and the all time record was lowered teachers must be addressed by their surname. But alongside these to just under 50 seconds during last season tough rules are other curious trends. Expulsion is against the law and by, Old Etonian, Lord Wrottesley. But, whilst there are no ‘houses’; also the School doesn’t coach any sports a steely nerve is a useful characteristic, teams: the students play sports in their own time outside school. athletic prowess is not a necessary physical When it comes to tests, the Swedes and Kenyans are successful in requirement, and the sport is open to those different ways. In Kenya, students are given notice about a test. men who wish to test their mettle on the ice They would study for it, take it and then receive their results. In during the morning and their social stamina Sweden, students must be given written warning of the said event during the afternoon and evenings. two weeks prior to it. When the day comes, half the students will be ill. Then if they are dissatisfied with their results you must allow Many Old Stoics visit St Moritz each winter to them to retake it repeatedly until they are! High up in the Swiss Engadine valley, sits the in Plus Twos and tweed. However, beginners, take on the challenge of the Cresta Run each alpine town of St Moritz, the birthplace of who are most welcome at the Club subject to season and the current Senior Champion Sweden is beautiful; we were recently treated to a magnificent winter sport. In 1884, residents of Badrutt’s complying with protocol, frequently elect to from Top and holder of the Crawford Cup (on display of Aurora Borealis, painting the sky in magically ethereal pink Palace Hotel decided that some gentle dress in the traditional manner. handicap) is Nicholas Rice (Lyttelton 71) and green swirls. Ironically, we feel confined and restricted in an egalitarian country, whereas, we felt wild and free in a conservative tobogganing would be an excellent way of An Olympic sport in 1928 and 1948 when who, at the age of 61 broke his personal best one. So why did we move? Well, life is an adventure and although a passing the gloriously sunny winter days. the winter games were held in St Moritz, the time (57.66 secs) and speed record (74.67 They selected a route from the near the bell humble and painfully low paying profession, teaching can take us Cresta Run is the forerunner of Bob Skeleton, mph) during last season’s race. Jonathan tower in the Town, that passed through the anywhere in the world, with brilliant holidays and full immersion into a sport in which GB enjoys considerable Seccombe (Walpole 66) has held the post of hamlet of Cresta and ended up at the bottom a variety of cultures and communities. Where will life’s adventure success at present. Seniors’ President and his sons, Sam of the valley in the village of Celerina. The Seccombe (Chatham 05) and Tom Seccombe take us next? Watch this space! The Grand National was the first official race Cresta Run was born. The St Moritz (Chatham 03) represent the Army in the Inter Kimberley Harries (Lyttelton 01) and it is still contested today – the blue Tobogganing Club controls the Run with Services race – both are very capable young riband event in the annual calendar. There military precision, essential given the riders. In Harry Sheppard (Grenville 03), are now some 40 races during a season, potential danger of the sport. Stowe has a serious contender in the highly which starts shortly before Christmas and Early riders rode their toboggans in the competitive Open races. finishes in the first week of March. seated position until one Club member (they There is, most definitely, something about The diamond hard ice run is constructed thought he was bonkers) elected to go down the St Moritz lifestyle that appeals to an the Run head first. Little has changed over the afresh each year. There are no permanent Old Stoic! Suppliers of pearl jewellery, loose pearls and clasps. intervening 131 years and the sport remains formers and it is set out by eye. As a result, it Please note we are a trade-only business. totally amateur, although the modern rider in is subtly different every season. Top to Finish Further details can be found on the Club skin tight lycra and protection equipment is is approximately ¾ mile long with an website: www.crestarun.com www.rawpearls.com 01460 281496 60 barely recognisable from his predecessor clad average gradient of 1 in 7.7, and the best Nick Rice (Lyttelton 71) 61 and was invalided out of the army. He spent the rest of the war working as an industrial designer in London where he befriended future luminaries such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. As the interview went on, it became clear that John Richardson has been acquainted with The storied connection between Stowe and the United States everyone of importance in the British, French and American art scene during the dates back centuries. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams visited second half of the twentieth century. Stowe in 1786 and both wrote about the grandeur of the mansion and the beauty of the gardens. The transatlantic ties have grown Last year’s recipient of the In 1949, he went to live in Provence with stronger ever since. American Worthies Award the art historian and collector, Douglas Cooper, and we were regaled with amusing Since the School was established in the early 20th Century, was Sir John Richardson stories of their friendship with Picasso, Stowe has welcomed Americans into its community and (Chatham 39). 1 Sir John Richardson, (Chatham 39) with Brian Hecht. Léger and de Staël. Together, Richardson encouraged Stoics to explore the United States. American Friends and Cooper collected artists whom the of Stowe is the culmination of this special relationship. Sir John is arguably Britain’s most Tate Gallery under the directorship of the the Art School where he was inspired by AFS is an active group of Old Stoics, current and former Parents of distinguished Art Historian and his John Rothenstein obtusely ignored and we Robin and Dodie Watt, the Canadian art Stoics, Stowe-Harvard Fellows and other friends and supporters achievements have been recognised in were given an insight into the teachers who actively encouraged Stoics of Stowe. The organisation raises funds for critical School the award of France’s Ordre des Arts et machinations which led to Cooper’s great to take an interest in Cubism and des Lettres (an honour also conferred on collection being broken up and sold initiatives and provides a social network throughout the United Surrealism, championing artists like Bob Dylan and T S Eliot), as well as his instead of adorning the walls of The Tate. States. Each year, we host a variety of social events, including a Picasso, Léger and Braque. lively summer Pub Night in New York City and our annual Fall appointment in 2012 as Knight The audience will long remember the Cocktail Party. Commander of the Order of the British John described poring over the journals colourful anecdotes of Cooper booing the Empire. His multi-volume biography of of contemporary art and Stowe must have Queen at the Coronation, but admiring the Last year’s elegant Cocktail Party featured remarks by Headmaster, Picasso has been awarded the prestigious been one of the very first schools to escort of Bengal Lancers, as well as John’s Dr Anthony Wallersteiner and the presentation of the American Whitbread Prize and we eagerly await the champion the international avant-garde. unique insights into Guernica which he Worthies Award to acclaimed art historian, Sir John Richardson publication next year of the fourth volume He also paid tribute to the genius of has decoded as being strongly influenced (Chatham 39). The Award was created to honour Old Stoics living of this heroic undertaking which will take JF Roxburgh who promised that no Stoic by Picasso’s interest in the Roman cult in America who have contributed in a significant way to Stowe us to the liberation of Paris in 1944. would leave the School without acquiring a of Mithras. and its ties to America. The event, boasting record attendance, Sir John is only the second recipient of the lasting appreciation of beauty – something embodied everything our organisation is about as supporters of As the acknowledged expert on Picasso, American Worthies Award (the first was which John clearly took to heart as he Stowe, old and new, reconnected, socialised and honoured one we eagerly awaited John’s verdict on the Old Stoic, Peter Sichel (Cobham 41), who dedicated the rest of his life to collecting, of our most distinguished Old Stoics. new exhibition of Picasso’s sculptures worked for American Intelligence during studying and writing about art. John told us currently showing in New York’s Museum Our Annual Reception is only one of the many ways that American the Second World War, ran the CIA in of a time when Stowe’s temples and follies of Modern Art. We were treated to a rapid Friends of Stowe serves the international Stowe community. Germany at the height of the Cold War and were crumbling and neglected, hidden by stream of invective as John dismissed the AFS also raises funds to build a sustainable endowment for then launched Blue Nun on an trees and shrubs, waiting to be discovered stultifying banality of MoMA’s curatorial the continued administration of the Stowe-Harvard Fellowship. unsuspecting world in the 1970s). John by an adventurous schoolboy with an choices, lighting and display. It was vintage This year will mark the 25th anniversary of this fellowship: an very graciously agreed to be interviewed interest in art and architecture. Richardson and reminded everyone in the opportunity for a graduating senior of Harvard College to live before he was presented with the Award by From Stowe, John enrolled at the Slade room of why even at the age of 92, Sir John and teach at Stowe for a year. Brian Hecht, Chair of the American Friends School of Fine Art which had been Richardson remains one of the most THE BEATLES influential and entertaining Art Historians The role of the Harvard Fellow varies from year to year but, of Stowe. From the outset, it became clear evacuated to Oxford during the Blitz. A new photograph has surfaced from the famous Beatles most Harvard Fellows teach classes in one or two academic that John still has enormous affection for A short spell in the Irish Guards ended in the world. Concert at Stowe. We are hoping to identify the Stoics in the departments, coach sport and assist with other activities and live Stowe and he spoke fondly of his time in when John contracted Rheumatic fever Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, Headmaster photograph. If you can help, please email your suggestions in a boarding house with the students. A major responsibility of to [email protected] the Harvard Fellow is to supervise Stoics who wish to apply to American universities. In the recent past, Stoics have matriculated For the Term of Your Natural Life at top American colleges and universities including Stanford, SPLIT PERSONALITY University of Chicago, Northeastern, Cornell, Boston University, A view across a turquoise bay with headlands far beyond Poems by Dennis Levet (Grenville 43) Fordham and New York University. The Harvard Fellow guides from a building more in keeping with an old baronial hall. students in every step of the application process, from preparing The scene: a winter’s eve of table seated guests for SATs to selecting an appropriate range of colleges and crafting Dennis, who now lives in and a place of cast proportions filled with fire to keep them warm. the various components of the application. Tasmania, Australia, sent news to Roo is on the menu with the finest reds from France, the Old Stoic Office last year and choicest fruits and rich desserts, cigars and foreign port. In the past year, our organisation sponsored Stowe-Harvard kindly enclosed a copy of his Fellow Michael Chilazi, a Harvard graduate, who went on to spend poetry book, Split Personality. Conversation quickly centres on the larcenists below a remarkable year living and teaching at Stowe, giving Stoics a Dennis writes, “For five years I wrote a poem each month for who’ve slaved all day in darkness mining coal, unique international perspective. His year concluded with an and now, hungry and exhausted, deprived of light and heat, elegant black tie dinner at Stowe co-hosted by AFS. a newsletter. I feel that much of today’s poetry has fallen under the spell of free verse which to me, on the whole, is are locked in cells beneath those very diners’ feet. Each year, the connection between Stowe and the United States prose broken up into short lines. I feel that poetry needs the It is said...Can’t be true...I regret to say it is... becomes stronger as more Old Stoics find themselves living in the rhythm of a basic meter. I acquired a book by an American Surely not...Too obscene for words... US. Although our network of Stowe supporters is concentrated in author from which I learned the basics of writing poetry. the bustling cities of New York and Los Angeles, our membership I have recently retired from this activity but my family The site of these obscenities is now a sandstorm ruin.* is geographically diverse, with a good number of Old Stoics living demanded that I have the collection of poems published. Visit at your peril if you dare in the Midwest, the South, and the Pacific Northwest. AFS serves The poem published below links England’s past with that of because its many ghosts are bound to mortify your soul as a way for these far-flung friends to stay connected to their time Tasmania both in historical terms and personal terms and ...for the term of your natural life. at Stowe and to help ensure that Stowe will continue to provide an because, as its title suggests, the site is capable of leaving international education for years to come. such an indelible impression on the mind.” * Saltwater River near Port Arthur. 62 Brian R. Hecht, Chairman, American Friends of Stowe 63 STOWE LODGE FEATURE What one gets out of being a Mason “The fact that the Lodge provides a bursary to help Stoics whose parents are in financial difficulties remain at the School was a major In the article last year, I tried to summarise cause of my initial interest in joining the Lodge. Freemasonry what Freemasonry is about (Friendship, promotes charity and it is very gratifying to know that through our Charity and Integrity) and what Stowe 1 The Annapurna Mountains. assistance we are able to help Stoics continue to fulfil their potential, Lodge stands for (maintaining the Masonic standards and to do so 7 who otherwise may have had to leave the School. Stowe gave me so A local Family. with a sense of style and fun). I am happy to say this must have been 6 much and I like it that I am now able to give something back.” Durbar Square, Shrestha. a helpful article in that a large number of people contacted me and 6 A village Walk in Rajbansh. have decided to join. Integrity 5 A Buddhist Monk. This year, I thought it would be useful to give you a sense about “In the three years since I joined, I have developed more as an what one actually gets out of being a Mason. As such, I asked a individual due to being a Mason than I would have done on my own. couple of our members, both Masonically experienced and relatively It has been one of the best decisions I have made and I thoroughly new, to outline their thoughts and these are given below. recommend others to consider joining.” Friendship “This can mean different things to different people but at the heart “Since joining, I have met some fantastic people of all ages. of it is a desire to know one’s self, nurture a solid moral code and These people will, without doubt, be friends for life and without to conduct oneself accordingly. In this context, I find the values of Freemasonry are a constant source of help and guidance to me in Freemasonry I would have never come into contact with them. I also I have lived in Nepal for almost like the fact that the Lodge likes to enjoy itself and whenever we get this ever changing world.” together, whether this is at a meeting or for drinks in the City, we To summarise, I think I could not put it any better than one of our thirty years since leaving always end up having great fun!” members when he says: Chatham in 1982. The period “All my friends have shared good times with me but it is my Masonic “This, in short, is what I get out of Freemasonry; the pleasure of has been characterised by friends who have been the most constant in supporting me in charitable giving, the opportunity to improve myself as a person and interesting, at times, turbulent difficulties. Through Freemasonry I meet an ever growing number to have a positive effect on others, and in being a member of a band changes. of amazing people who have never let me down, always give me a of brothers whom I will support, and who will support me, through warm welcome, are generous of spirit and are genuinely concerned thick and thin.” Mainly, these upheavals have been on the for my welfare – there are not many other walks of life where you I hope these reflections are helpful and if the above resonates with political stage but in April last year natural can find that!” you and you would like to find out more then please contact me at forces inflicted a massive earthquake that Charity [email protected] was severe but widely predicted – insofar “One of the things I had not realised is the amount of money Ian Bendell (Walpole 87) as seismic events can be. Luckily, loss of Freemasonry donates to charity, which is many tens of millions every life, though tragic, was limited, and damage year; an example of which is the recent donation of £30,000 to help to property likewise. the communities in Cumbria deal with the recent floods. I was also The details have been exhaustively scoured surprised to find out how much charitable work is done by individual over in the world’s media who descended Masons and the range of this. For instance, every weekend hundreds on the country but, as any spotlight, the Many Old Stoics of a certain vintage will of Nepal’s southern Terai plains are of Masons free up their time to take out mentally disabled and unlit areas remain invisible with only a unaffected and a range of safari lodges, disadvantaged children for a day’s fishing. This small act not only remember Roger Potter’s Stowe Himalayan harsh glare on a small area. Out of 75 provides the children with a day out in the countryside, but helps Expeditions. Visiting Nepal in the 1980s including Tiger Tops Tharu Lodge in districts in the country only 7 have them to develop their confidence, meet new challenges and allows and working to support Sir Edmund Hillary’s Chitwan and Karnali Lodge in Bardia are them to experience something that may otherwise have been significant impact for tourism; these are Himalayan Trust projects in the Everest ideal bases from which to explore the unavailable to them. For many of the children, this small act of northwest, north and northeast of the region. These expeditions supported rural national parks in search of tiger, rhino, charity is a life changing experience.” Kathmandu Valley. The remaining 68 are, development and provided Stoics with an leopard and more. Both Tiger Tops and STOWE LODGE largely or entirely, unaffected. insight into another world, far removed Tiger Mountain companies are Old Stoic from Arcadian Stowe. Now is the time for all owned, and welcome visits from Old Stoics (No. 9002 in the register of the United Grand Lodge of England) Nepal’s economy has moved on from Gurkha recruitment, albeit this is still an Old Stoics to be part of a new programme of all generations. element in focus in 2015 and 2016 as we of support for Nepal by returning there on Please visit Nepal and support the building RETURN TO SENDER celebrate 200 years of the Anglo-Nepal a holiday. back better campaign with your economic The address this magazine reached you at will be the address we relationship. Export of labour and the The April 2015 Gorkha Earthquake has support. For more details please contact: hold for you on the Old Stoic database. In many cases, this might invisible export that is tourism are both not affected the country’s primary [email protected] be somewhere you’ll always call home but you might not visit Stowe Lodge is the Masonic significant contributors to the economy. infrastructure – hospitals, roads, airports, www.tigermountainpokhara.com very often. Many Old Stoics leave their parents’ home as their The former is in conflict with the needs of hotels, shopping and services are all Marcus Cotton (Chatham 82) main address until they live somewhere permanently. Lodge for Old Stoics earthquake reconstruction – it enables the functioning normally. Mountain trails for If you would like to supply us with a secondary address, raising of funds for rebuilding but ensures breathtaking walks are open for business we will be able to invite you to business a dearth of manpower behind the shovel. – only Manaslu, Langtang and Rolwaling networking and social events We are a charitable and sociable London- Tourism is a force for domestic employment are currently not viable for visitors. Everest Those who remember the Stowe taking place near that based Lodge which meets three evenings a and Annapurna have been checked by Himalayan Expeditions might enjoy address. If you have a London in Nepal, offering opportunity and specialist international engineers to reading a transcript of a talk given by address, please make sure we sustainable futures for the country’s youth year in London and once at Stowe. We very reassure everyone. Miles of mountain trails Roger Potter (Former staff) at The have this on file so we can population. Responsible tourism is a force invite you to London events. much welcome new and joining members for good to underpin a real economy based are open and eager for business. Abundant Alpine Club in 1984, which can be Please specify which address on the robust principles of commerce. Real flora, fauna and rich culture await the found via this link http://himalaya. we should keep as our principal and for more information, please contact jobs, people, products that can be traded; wise ‘slow walker.’ socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/ means of contact. Simply email the secretary: [email protected] this is the bedrock on which Nepal can In Pokhara, the award-winning Tiger journals/bnsj/pdf/bnsj_08.pdf [email protected] to move from being a ‘beggar’ economy, Mountain Pokhara Lodge offers stunning Thank you to James Rossiter (Cobham update us. reliant on aid hand-outs, to an independent views and is a comfortable base for day 87) for bringing this to our attention. 64 economy balancing its books through trade. walks and post-trek relaxation. The wildlife 65 events: he married at Stowe Parish Church in the heart of the gardens and started a family here. Lord Cobham’s patronage STOWE allowed Brown to travel across the country to wealthy estates, advising landowners that their estates had ‘capabilities’ and suggesting changes. Following Cobham’s death, Brown struck out as a consultant, thus making Stowe his first, and only ever, Standing ’neath the gentle moonlight place of employment. Looking at the lakes below, Could anything be much more glorious To celebrate the tercentenary of his birth, Than the wondrous grounds of Stowe? in 2016 there are a whole host of activities and events to take part in at And in the clear, fresh light of morning Stowe. From insightful lectures to the When a gentle breeze may blow, Capability Found exhibition, you can visit With the fresh green lawns around it What can beat the charm of Stowe? Behind the seamless creation of the the festival hub to discover Brown’s life and work at Stowe, take themed tours of 8 George Clarke, centre. gardens at Stowe lie the designs of the When the midday sun strikes warmly glitterati of eighteenth-century gardeners the garden, visit the house where his On its grey walls now aglow, and architects and amongst these names patron lived, explore the church where Surely there is nothing better Brown was married or relax over a cup of is that of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. Than the sight of ancient Stowe? George and I arrived in September tea in the Grecian Valley – Brown’s 1950 – both new boys! He was this Starting as under-gardener to William masterpiece at Stowe. Then the gloaming of the evening Kent, Brown rose through the ranks to When the sun is sinking low fresh faced young master teaching Working collectively together the National Head Gardener. He sculpted the large And the darkness wraps the building, me history, who always looked Trust, Stowe House Preservation Trust, CAPABILITY CLARKE Grecian Valley with views out to his Sleep enfolds the walls of Stowe. dashing in his Naval rig on CCF days! Arts@Stowe and Dadford and Stowe parkland, with monumentally large We did seem to spend ages studying Parish Church are building a diverse and So, for me, there is none other temples sitting atop the high points whilst This year, George Clarke (Former the early history of the buildings, with the voyages of Columbus and other wide ranging programme of activities, Of all the places which I know naturalising the shapes of both the Staff, 1950-1985) will retire fascinating drawings and photographs explorers. I may still have the book under the umbrella of the national Where I find complete perfection, Octagon and Eleven Acre Lakes. from the Hall Bequest Trust, accompanying them, formed the core of we used. There was no syllabus laid Capability Brown Festival. Keep an eye out So, I give my heart to Stowe. many issues of the magazine, and still down in those days, especially as I after 32 years of involvement. Stowe was also Brown’s home for 10 on the Stowe House website for the Mrs Liz Zettl (née Duncan, forms the basis of much historical did not do History for O Level! years and witnessed many life-changing programme listings and bookable events. Former staff 1938-1942) research today. Indeed, the rule was that you could As a fresh faced 25 year old, George arrived It is, however, for his work in the Stowe only do it at 16, so we spent a year in at Stowe in September 1950, signing up for the Forty and one in the Twenty, a salary of £320 a year and accommodation. grounds that George will be most vividly remembered outside the classroom. His before doing O Levels in the Lower Having recently completed his National Sixth! George had a wonderfully Service in the Navy and finished his love for Stowe, both its buildings and its grounds, clearly grew apace from the time mellifluous voice and exuded a Cambridge education, he was brought to measured calm, so that we never Stowe by Eric Reynolds (former Headmaster, of his arrival. That love manifested itself in vigorous, insatiable research into the played him up! I spotted him often 1949 – 1958) who was keen to have him with a group of acolytes digging in history of the estate which eventually took initially to teach History and English. He the River Styx with Capel-Cure trying him across the Atlantic to the Huntingdon also offered to teach Classics and was to fix the dam, so I realised he was Library, California, where the Grenville asked to add Greek to this list (but admitted very keen on the gardens at Stowe. papers lie, for a few months sabbatical. he needed to brush up on this!). Lastly, we thought his wife, Tricia, In January 1975, he wrote back to Stowe looked like Ava Gardner and was one A letter from February 1950 thanking saying, “The whole setting seems quite of the three best looking women at Reynolds for his first visit to Stowe he wrote, unreal the problems of Boycott and Finmere Stowe then – her companions were “The work has all the openings I could wish interspersed with camellias and cacti.” Biddy Walker (later Stephan) and for and Stowe is a delightful place. I can’t Back home, he set himself, and work Miss Johnson, the Walpole House believe that anyone who has wandered parties of Stoics, the task of restoring the Matron. By 1976, he was looking and round the park would not want to live grounds as far as possible to what they sounding even more distinguished there.” His longer July visit confirmed that had been in their hey-day in the late than ever, especially as the instigator he had “seen enough of the House and Park 18th Century, while initiating fundraising for and researcher in chief of the history to be charmed by both.” the restoration of the garden buildings. of Stowe! It was, of course, delightful George excelled at teaching and many George has been involved with the Hall to meet up with him, as Senior Tutor, generations of Stoics are indebted to his Bequest Trust since it was founded in 1983. on my return in 1976, to become a patient ways, clear, enthusiastic The Trust has three aims: to purchase and teacher myself. explanations and wide-ranging interests. display historic and cultural items relevant Andrew Rudolf (Cobham 55) George was Housemaster of Grenville to Stowe, to support educational projects at between 1962 and 1974; joint compiler of a Stowe, and to provide bursaries for pupils new edition of Cantata Stoica, to be used in at the School. George is a long-serving past Chapel; editor of The Stoic for a number of Chairman and a mainstay of the Trust until Trust. The George B Clarke Prize for years; Senior Tutor in 1977 and contributor th Research Pertinent to Stowe has been has his retirement this year, after his 90 12a Piccadilly Arcade, London, SW1Y 6NH of many a House and School play. By this been established by the Hall Bequest Trust birthday. During his time with the Hall Telephone +44 (0)20 7491 9201 time, his virtues were firm and familiar. Bequest Trust, under his watchful eye, the in conjunction with the Georgian Group, as Email [email protected] Despite this brief outline, omitting a great paintings, statues, family heirlooms that we a mark of the great contribution that George deal of his dedication to the School, it is see in the house today are thanks to his made to Stowe over more than 60 years. Website www.nigelmilne.co.uk George’s love of Stowe for which he is best dedication and keen knowledge of Stowe. He truly is our very own Capability Clarke! 66 remembered and admired. His accounts of His vast archive is now with the National Anna McEvoy, Stowe House Preservation Trust 67 Chance Organisation and After leaving under the brand ProCoffeey in the Arts at Stowe Stowe in 2000, Contemporary Centre of Arts on the I studied at the outskirts of Vladivostok. present University of Skilled preparation of delicious beverages, Guelph (ON, sincere attention to our guests and a great, Canada) and small team quickly gathered a loyal crowd guess what? Now I’m the only highly skilled of constant clients and built us a solid ‘Bachelor of Computing’ barista in my home reputation. We successfully sold our small city of Vladivostok, in the Far East of Russia. counter in mid 2014 in order to move Helping my parents in their coffee business closer downtown, rent more room and at first, I remember the day I decided to increase our customer base. It proved very Legendary Lead Singer of leave my programming career and plunge wise to have invested most of the profits in into the vast field of professional coffee. quality equipment and renovations at the It was September 2003 and I had just new location, before the currency crisis hit Spandau Ballet served my first cup of coffee, complete at the end of the year. with latte art, to a sad customer and watched him become happier with every sip. The long financial recovery was very tough Ruby Laing (Lyttelton 06) has just both physically and emotionally, at some Since then, I’ve worked as a Coffee Sales launched an online market place point becoming very critical and only the Manager, certified Equipment Technician, for affordable art called support of good friends helped us. Finally, Head of Service, Coffee Coach and many www.raspberrylondon.com we opened our small café in the summer of more. In 2010, I won the title of Russia’s The aim of the site is to support 2015. Seeing smiles of people, hearing Far Eastern Barista Champion, coming first emerging artists, exposing them to compliments and sharing the excitement in three consecutive coffee championships the right market and saving them on a daily basis makes it all worthwhile and time and money on marketing. She in our region. Shortly afterwards, I realised that my next step should be opening my now we know that this is exactly what our has gathered an eclectic mix of city needed – a vibrant intelligent place beautiful prints, which are for sale at own business. with proper coffee, a cosy atmosphere, affordable prices, hopefully making My beloved wife, Yulia, who has been very great quality music and, in every brewed art more accessible for young adults. involved in all of my coffee endeavours with cup we infuse our motto ‘Persto et Praesto’! Ruby says, “I am currently working her numerous talents and advertising in Concert at Stowe hard to bring in small, home background, agreed to my plan and in Follow us on Instagram as #procoffeey accessory brands to work in the same 2013 we opened a small coffee counter Vladimir Karpov (Chandos 00) way, alongside a range of own brand Friday 27th May 2016 pieces, starting with Raspberry London scented candles. There are also regular posts on the site, OLD CHANDOSIANS GATHERING Stowe, Buckingham, MK18 5EH including interviews from artists and tips from the professionals. For the 10th time, a group of Chandosians Pinchbeck; ‘Windy’ Dick; not forgetting I’ve had a great interest in art from from the mid 50s got together for a truly Bertie Stephan, our Housemaster. a young age, and continued to study memorable gathering at Bucks Club, in Memories of defaulters for activities such it after leaving Stowe. I also work in London. We have all known each other for as: untidy hair, insolence, disobedience Interior Design so the idea came more than 60 years. This year, as usual and listening to the radio were fondly about when I spotted a gap in the there was much giggling about some of discussed and thankfully recorded as part market for nice pieces of art, which the things that we had got up to, whether of an outstanding education in swimming in the 11 acre lake, long before don’t cost the world something which preparation for life’s adventures. Between an indoor swimming pool (Chandos won is surprisingly hard to come by. us we have had more than quite a few most of the swimming cups under the adventures! It’s been challenging getting the captainship of Donough O’Brien); cooking business up and running but very spam on meths stoves in Plug Street We are all fit and healthy and are planning worthwhile too. I’ve really enjoyed (rationing was still in place for some of us) our next event at Stowe itself. Persto et the process and am constantly on a or remembering some of the masters who Praesto steep learning curve. My friends and tried to teach us: ‘Slug’ Gibson; ‘Paddy’ Robin Hunter-Coddington (Chandos 59) family have been extremely helpful 7 throughout, always ready to lend a From left to right: John Coleman (Chandos 58); hand or give some good advice. It’s John Perriss (Chandos 59); always been my ambition to run my Anthony Mash (Chandos own company and to see it happen 58); Robin Behar has been very exciting. Although it is (Chandos 59); David still very early days, I would really Rimmer (Chandos 59); Robin Hunter-Coddington encourage others to put their ideas (Chandos 59); Hugh into action, there is a good amount Searle (Chandos 58); of free support available for start up Donough O’Brien Tickets £50 businesses and many opportunities (Chandos 57); Michael Likierman (Chandos 58); for funding too, so no reason to John Utley (Chandos 57). 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Last year, The Queen approved the nomination of the Reverend Perhaps I may be permitted to Ric Thorpe to the Suffragan See of Islington in the diocese of comment on the letter of Stephen London which has been in abeyance since 1923. Suttle replicated in the last edition of The Corinthian: Headboy whilst at Stowe, Ric then went on to Birmingham University and trained for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall. He served For four out of my five years at his title at Holy Trinity Brompton with St Paul, Onslow Square in the Stowe, I was Dr Huggins’ pupil, diocese of London and was ordained priest in 1997. He went on to studying the piano, the organ and, serve as Priest in Charge of St Paul’s Shadwell in 2005 before for a short while, the basics of It’s been an exciting twelve months in the passed and we are working on designs and becoming Rector of the same parish in 2010. He served as Priest composition and harmony. His Development Office, which now has new pursuing planning. We look forward to in Charge of All Hallows, Bromley by Bow between 2010 and 2014. untimely death as the result of a leadership, I arrived last July as the new bringing you more news on this and other riding accident in the spring of Since 2000, Ric has been actively involved in supporting and Development Director. exciting developments in the coming months. 1952, came as a dreadful shock, enabling church planting in the Church of England. He took a team You may remember that last year our focus The impact of improvements to our facilities not only to me, but his many friends of 100 to St Paul’s Shadwell in 2005 and then went on to send and, of course, other music pupils. planting teams to four other Anglican churches in Tower Hamlets was on raising funds for a spectacular new is immediately obvious through the increased I feel, in consequence, what I may to revitalise their parishes. In 2012, Ric was appointed as the Science Centre and we are pleased to report achievement of Stoics. Since the opening of have to add has some relevance. Bishop of London’s Adviser for Church Planting and has been that construction is now underway. Progress our stunning new Music School, Stowe’s I am absolutely confident that any invited to support church plants in a number of other dioceses. is both on time and on budget, with the musicians have gone from strength to comment that may have been made He is also Tutor in Church Planting at St Mellitus College. fantastic new facilities due to be opened in strength, not least those in receipt of a the Michaelmas term. Support from the Stowe Scholarship or Bursary place. Their thirst for by JF Roxburgh was not actually Ric is married to Louie and they have three teenage children, Zoe, community for this project has been improvement and their drive to succeed is meant in any way to be critical of Barny and Toby, along with a springer spaniel called Tasha. Ric’s incredible, for which we are immensely inspiring, as are their achievements. This year Dr Huggins in view of what JF said to interests include sailing, rowing, music, eating chocolate, and grateful – thank you. There is still time to alone, three of our Music Scholars have been my father and me when I first visited Stowe several months before my he has competed in the London Marathon and London Triathlon. add your support, we would be delighted to accepted by the prestigious Royal Academy arrival as a pupil, in the summer The OS Society congratulates Ric on his appointment. receive further donations. and another has been selected for the term of 1949. On that occasion, my National Youth Orchestra. There are exciting plans stirring elsewhere in father explained that I was anxious the School: significantly a donation has Finally, I would like to draw your attention to to extend my music studies to already been received to start the ball rolling the South African Scholarship programme learning to play the organ. JF’s to revamp the Design and Technology which provides truly life-changing comments are as clear today as department. Today this is a challenging and opportunities and experiences for young they were then. He commented that vibrant area of the curriculum and, people from the Dominican Convent School in Stowe had a fine organ in the importantly, it is one of the few subjects Johannesburg. These pupils, who spend a Chapel and that I would study under where Stoics can forge and maintain close year at Stowe on the Scholarship programme, Dr Huggins who, as a brilliant comparisons with the practices and have the opportunity not just to be educated musician and teacher, had processes found in the world of industry and by superb teachers in magnificent advanced music at Stowe to a very design. The concept and user briefs are in surroundings, they also have the chance to high level. I am sure there must be place and we are looking to design and future break down borders and drive the next contemporaries of mine who can proof the project, seeking the counsel of generation of global citizens and testify to the high standard of the School Orchestra, the Choral major engineering corporations to help us entrepreneurs. Their time and friendships at Society and musical productions, produce a forward thinking project. Please the School also help Stoics to look beyond noticeably Carmen in full. do get in contact to learn more. their own horizons, forge new partnerships Of course, Stephen Suttle is right. The need for an expansion to our indoor and see how others live, helping to Dr Huggins’ academic achievements sports facilities has also come to the fore of demonstrate the opportunities available through hard work and determination. speak for themselves. I think what late. The increasing provision of sports, now was intended to be understood was numbered at 27, makes the need for indoor All the Scholarships and Bursaries available that Dr Huggins was not an space pressing. Additionally, we invite around at Stowe sponsor the pursuit of excellence. academic i.e. someone who 15 teams to play us regularly on a Saturday They offer the opportunity to pupils from all paraded his attainments. In my with many additional fixtures during the backgrounds to add to the exciting and experience, he was a very practical week. This increases the need for changing increasingly diverse Stowe community; every musician in his performing, his facilities and a complete upgrade of our donation to our Scholarships and Bursary tuition and just explaining what pavilions not just to host teams but to house Fund is an investment in the future of a music of all sorts was about. our increasingly successful Sports talented and deserving Stoic. All I can say, in testament to Departments. We boast incredible results If you haven’t already done so, please do visit Dr Huggins, is that his lessons against much bigger schools and even the Support Us section of the School website were fun and that what he taught universities in multiple sports. The talented to see more about the Development Office me, apart from playing the piano sports stars of tomorrow being educated and and the projects which need your support. and organ, has brought me coached at Stowe are extraordinary: we have immense pleasure and expanded www.stowe.co.uk/school/support_stowe many more international, regional and county my musical knowledge. players than we should. With this need in Thank you. Robin Moore (Temple 53) 70 mind, a concept for expansion has been Ben Mercer, Development Director 71 At the recent AGM we said farewell to three long serving members of the Committee who were standing down. All three have been immensely loyal and active supporters, each of them has Paul Joynson-Hicks (Lyttelton 89) has founded made a significant contribution to many the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, a Old Stoic activities, and at different times each photography competition, raising awareness of them took on the heavy workload of being the for The Born Free Foundation, aimed at saving Society’s Chairman. Winner: Julian Rad lives, stopping suffering and protecting John Arkwright (Cobham 69) species in the wild. The competition brief was was a committee member for ‘seeing the funny side of the majestic 17 years and Chairman from creatures we love to photograph and protect’. 2006 to 2009. During his The competition received over 1,500 entries Chairmanship, the Society from 52 different countries all around the undertook a major strategic world and Paul lined up an impressive review of its activities and since judging panel including Kate Humble, then he has become famous as Hugh Dennis and Will Travers OBE of the the organiser of the very popular Classic Car Born Free Foundation. Silver runner-up: Bronze runner-up: Highly commended: Highly commended: Display at Speech Day (if you haven’t been, come SHOOTING AT STOWE Paul, who is a wildlife photographer, said, “I William Richardson Oli Dreike Julian Rad Mohammed Alnaser this year – it is truly fantastic!). John is also now a can’t believe the incredible amount of entries Governor of Stowe School, where he uses his Shortly after arriving as a new boy at Stowe in 1963, I was handed a book of we have achieved in our first year and from so professional expertise as a Chartered Surveyor to School Rules, these included that firearms and ammunition were strictly many different countries, it’s very exciting take lead responsibility for the buildings, grounds forbidden. As it proved, walking on forbidden grass was probably more of a indeed. Judging was incredibly hard as we had and new developments. crime. To my delight, some enterprising seniors in Bruce had acquired their a lot of hilarious images to try and whittle own small shoot just outside the Stowe grounds: a syndicate I soon joined. down to the final 45. I think people have really Ivo Forde (Walpole 67) was a Guns were kept under lock and key in the Housemaster’s study (then Mr enjoyed this competition, something a little committee member for 20 years Deacon). However, access was easy and I also eventually kept a folding .410 bit different. It definitely exceeds our and, as Treasurer, oversaw the as a wall piece in my study. I well remember Mr Deacon leaning against the expectations for our inaugural year!” Society’s finances with great inside of my study door on a coat which had a very high pheasant behind it, Highly commended: Highly commended: Highly commended: Highly commended: Julian Rad from Australia won the prestigious diligence and responsibility, saying that my study smelt awful! He then eyed the wall piece and insisted Alison Buttigieg Charlie Davidson Graham McGeorge Julie Hunt award for his photograph Rush hour. His prize a fairly thankless but most on taking the firing pin and he checked the barrel which I had blocked with was a week’s photographic safari holiday important task. As Chairman, cotton wool! Having persuaded a friend of mine to make a replacement pin in consisting of three nights at Kigelia Ruaha he steered the Committee and the metal workshops, I was back in business. the Society through three very busy years between and four nights at Sand Rivers Selous in 2009 and 2012 and during this time the format of Regrettably, we lost the Bruce shoot since the farmer had other plans for his Southern Tanzania for two people courtesy the Annual Dinner was further modernised. Ivo’s land. Our syndicate continued with the authorities in ignorance of our loss, of Nomad Tanzania and a NIKON D750 with Chairmanship concluded with the recruitment of we were now poachers. We made many forays up the roman road by day and 24-85mm lens. night to Tile House Woods after hares and pheasants. We knew that the our very excellent OS Director, Anna Semler Paul said, “Judging was really difficult as we (Nugent 05). keeper’s name was Robarts but, fortunately, never encountered him. Cobham had its own team of poachers who did and were nearly caught. had so many amazing entries, but in the end we found an incredible selection of technically Highly commended: Highly commended: Highly commended: Highly commended: John “Fingers” Fingleton We got the blame when the whole School was held to ransom in assembly brilliant photographs which are hilarious!” Marc Mol Megan Lorenz Tony Dilger Yuzuru Masuda (Chatham 66) was also a unless the boys owned up. Fortunately, they did. committee member for 20 years On one occasion we lined guns between the Octagon and The Eleven Acre and Chairman between 1996 Lake early one Sunday morning; I put the ducks up from the other end. There and 1999. One of Stowe’s great was a fusillade of shots and as we were retrieving the ducks, there were enthusiasts, his love for the shouts coming our way. I had forgotten that Freddie Fox, prefects and School comes second only to monitors might be shooting, we escaped via the ha-ha and got away with it. his love of cricket, and if he I was challenged another time by Freddie Fox when returning from the isn’t at Stowe he is probably at Lord’s! Fingers Corinthian Arch with three hares, two rabbits and a fox adorning my bicycle continues to undertake the important role of which I had snared on legitimate ground. Later, when in Lyttleton, I was on a monitoring the media for OS births, marriages and foray near the Paper Mill Spinney and spied a duck on a pond: as I raised my deaths and, occasionally, representing the Society gun to shoot, the reeds opposite me parted and there was my Housemaster, at funerals and thanksgiving services. Mr Donaldson, gun in hand! Nothing was ever said, I suspect we were both poaching! Many thanks to all three and we look forward to seeing them as often as possible at future Eventually, I joined the gamekeeping profession in 1980 and spent 22 happy OS events and activities representing the Society years as Headkeeper at Molland on Exmoor developing a shoot at which as ambassadors. some Old Stoics may have shot. Simon Shneerson (Temple 72) The photograph is a recent one with the original .410! 72 Paul Beazley (Lyttelton 68) 73 REGULAR TOWARDS 2023: ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Always the biggest day in the Corps’ year and this year not just any of the normal high ranking officers, but Mountbatten, so that more than the usual diligence was applied to preparation and rehearsals. To avoid much of the endless drill and ‘bull’ that comes with such occasions, a good friend of mine, Chris Wates (Bruce 58), a cornet player in the Corps’ band, managed to smuggle me into it in the guise of a side drummer, which needed 8 JF Roxburgh at the planting of the ‘Imperial the least skill of any of the instruments. Now in its fifth season, Arts at Stowe has a growing reputation for bringing high quality Oaks’ on the North Front in 1923. The drill and spit and polish required for arts, theatre and music to this small corner of Buckinghamshire. Following the great 1 Queen Victoria planting the oak tree the band was minor compared with that success of last season’s events with the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, the legendary Royal visits to Stowe have about two hundred persons who were south-east of the Temple of Concord and for the rest of the cadets all we had to do singer song writer Judie Tzuke and stunning theatre productions, there are many reasons long been commemorated congregated in the park, at a point from Victory in 1845, with the second Duke to on the day was march onto the South to come to Stowe. Our Spring season offers some wonderful opportunities to experience whence a view of the pleasing ceremony the left and Prince Albert on the right. Front, form up and play while the main great music and theatre from professional companies and artists, as well as performances by tree planting, five times was obtained.” 1 HM Queen Elizabeth planting a Scots body of the Corps formed ranks in front by Stoics and staff from the School. Pine tree near the Temple of Concord and under the School and at least This was not the first royal planting. On of us, were inspected, then manoeuvred Continuing our seasonal exhibitions, we are very excited to have Cornish landscape artist, Victory in 2007. twice previously. Wednesday 13 January 1808 Louis XVII, to march past the saluting base on Mark Spray exhibiting his work at the Watson School of Art from 11 March to the 1 April. King of France from 1814 to 1824, planted the steps. The Ugland Auditorium has a definite vibe this Spring with the local jazz legend Miles the Clumps, the 32 oak trees in four groups and with it all the associations of empty A drawing, generously presented by John After reassembling in ranks, we all had to Nottage returning on 16 April, and the Steinway will respond to the virtuosic mastery from of eight, around the Keeper’s Lodge near the thinking, and vain-glorious speech which Massey Stewart (Walpole 51) shows Queen engage in a carefully rehearsed ‘informal’ Ben Andrew on 27 April and the acclaimed Philip Fowke on 4 May. We are also delighted Bourbon playing fields, together with six once clung to the word Imperialist. Yet these Victoria planting the oak tree south-east gather round for Mountbatten to address to have Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers on 20 April with their high energy, physical Bourbon princes, since the seventh had been oaks have been planted (like many other of the Temple of Concord and Victory on us from beside one of the lions. Of course, performance Way of the Drum. 17 January 1845. It was perhaps inspired taken ill. This was then renamed the Bourbon things at Stowe) not for us, but for the next the band had to rehearse as well, but Taking advantage of our wonderful new facilities in the Chung Music School and the by Landells’ engraving in the Illustrated Tower. The Latin inscription recorded that this generation. They will still be small trees when mostly on our own and more informally Stringer Recording Suite, we are launching the Stowe Creative Academy, with our Music London News of 25 January 1845. The event was to commemorate the residence of not one remains alive of the men who saw than the rest of the Corps. Thanks to our them put into the ground in the autumn of School at Easter 4–8 April with Rock and Pop for 10-18 year olds. report there stated: the exiled French monarchy in Grenville band master, we gelled well but there was 1923. It is difficult to compete in longevity houses. Some of the oak trees survive. one major problem. In one of the march Theatre for all the family includes classic funnies Stones in his Pockets, performed at “A most interesting scene occurred on with oaks. But the School itself can say to The Marquess of Buckingham at dinner that past numbers, the side drums had to breakneck pace on 30 April, which has been described as hilarious and loveable and Friday afternoon...Shortly after three o’clock them with confidence (in Browning’s words): night proposed the toast, “The House of come in on their own and if we came in SWING on 6 April will make you want to dance. her Majesty left the mansion, leaning on the Bourbon”, adding: “May their Posterity last ‘Grow old along with me. The best is yet to early, which was not infrequent, we would We have Tony Hadley (legendary former singer of Spandau Ballet) performing on the eve arm of the Duke of Buckingham, and longer than the latest acorn of the latest Tree be.’ ” proceeded to the above spot. Prince Albert put the marchers out of step. Eventually, of Speech Day on Friday 27 May and for those of you who would appreciate an evening of they have this day planted.” At the School’s 10th anniversary, on 1 June followed with the Duchess of Buckingham; we got it right more often than not and, on glamour and parlour theatre we have a dinner date with The Fingask Follies in the State 1933, HRH the Prince of Wales planted a and many of the other guests were of the Inspired, no doubt, by these royal trees, the the day just to make sure, we had a Rooms on Wednesday 25 May. commemorative copper beech near Stowe party. On reaching the south side of the School arranged, in its second term, for the couple of perfect ‘run-throughs’ off on one Church. This tree was raised from a seed The Summer Season will see more Opera Della Luna, The Florence Academy of Art Classes Temple, the Royal party paused; and the planting of the ‘Imperial’ Oaks on Friday 2 side before taking up our positions. All sown in May 1923, and is therefore exactly and Shakespeare in the grounds with The Handlebards. Duke of Buckingham having handed the November 1923, when some Delegates to the went well as we played away during the the same age as the School. In past seasons, the Arts at Stowe programme has included Old Stoics, such as Francis Queen an oak sapling, her Majesty placed Imperial Conference paid an informal visit to inspection and continued as the ranks it in the ground, and then received from the School. Among them were Major-General On 1 July 1938, for the School’s 15th formed into columns, peeled off and Terry (Chatham 88) talking about his career as an architect and exhibiting, whilst Jeremy Mr Ferguson [the gardener] a spade, with J.H. MacBrien, CB, CMG, DSO, Rear-Admiral anniversary, HRH the Duke of Gloucester marched along the South Front for Hunter-Coddington (Chandos 61) gave a fascinating talk on the Cult of the Kims in North which the Queen covered the roots. The Hotham, CB, CMG, RN, Senator JP Malan, planted a cedar of Lebanon near the first Mountbatten to take the salute. About Korea. We would welcome any suggestions for future programmes. Duke of Buckingham and Mr Ferguson Colonel J Obed Smith and Mr CW Schmolke. green of the golf course, west of the south halfway through this the tricky number We launched Arts at Stowe Membership last season and we have been delighted to completed the work, whilst her Majesty They planted five young oak trees between lawn. The Duke had been in Major Haworth’s came up. One of us (and who knows welcome so many supporters as Members. We are very pleased to offer a 50% discount kept the tree in an upright position. the North Front and the current Science company at Sandhurst before Haworth who?) came in early putting the second on our membership fee for Old Stoics. Membership includes discounts on tickets and Laboratories, on behalf of the Dominions became the first housemaster of Chandos. half of the march past out of step as we exclusive Membership events all for only £5 a year or £12.50 for families of two adults But this we hope in future years which they represented: Newfoundland, When high its royal head it rears On 10 June 1963 HM Queen Elizabeth the watched in shame and horror. and two children. Contact us for more information. Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Queen Mother marked the School’s 40th Above its fellows round – Zealand. The Stoic noted that “The Delegates The formalities completed and the We look forward to welcoming you to one of our events. That long ’twill be anniversary by planting a liquidambar tree troops back in their ranks, the order was were entertained chiefly by the Prefects. The near the Temple of Venus. [email protected] | Box Office: 01280 825710 | www.artsatstowe.co.uk | A leafy tree School would be false to its origin and out of given for the informal gather round and, Enquiries: 01280 818012 Near ‘Concord’s Temple’ found! joint with the times if it were not in a special On 11 May 1973, to celebrate the School’s in an orderly fashion, we went to our While she that plac’d it there still prove degree an Imperial School; for in 1923 the Jubilee, HRH the Duchess of Gloucester pre-selected positions to listen to planted three ornamental hawthorns, two The idol of her people’s love! British Empire means something more than it Mountbatten’s short speech with its Paul’s Scarlets and a May, on the edge of the Prince Albert then planted a young cedar tree meant when the older Public Schools were current, mildly jingoistic exhortations. North Front lawn near the Swimming Pool. at a short distance from the spot; and her being founded or becoming famous. And it He praised the Corps’ smartness, its Majesty and the Prince having planted two not only means something more; it means Most recently, on 29 November 2007, HM exemplary drill and then, almost as an other similar trees on the north side of the something different. We used to think of the the Queen, after opening Queen’s House, aside, mentioned that it was a pity that Temple, the Duke of Buckingham called out Empire as belonging to us. We now think of with HRH the Duke of Edinburgh planted some of the marching had not matched ‘God bless her Majesty the Queen,’ a ourselves as belonging to the Empire – Scots Pines east of the Temple of Concord the excellence of the band’s performance. sentiment answered, first, by the cheers of belonging to a free society of friends and and Victory. Jeremy Jessel (Bruce 58) 74 the noble party present, and re-echoed by kinsmen. The pride of possession has gone, Michael Bevington, Stowe Archivist 75 TOWARDS 2023: ARCHIVE COLLECTION APPEARANCES OLD STOIC GOLFING SOCIETY

2015 was a year of change for the Old Stoic tough conditions to win the scratch significantly with Hamish Edwards (Chandos OS SPORT Golfing Society under the Captaincy of competition. However Chris and Nicholas 10), Ben Wackett (Temple 12), William It’s been another busy scenery and we will be looking to do this Christopher Luddington (Chatham 82). Luddington (Chatham 78) did stop Neil Gray Berner (Chatham 11) and Roddy Blackburne year of OS sport but one event again in June. Haydn Brooks (Cobham 04), winner of the and Nigel Wright from winning the Lucas (Walpole 12) representing the Society for more of consolidation prestigous Alba Trophy in 2014 with Langley Foursomes yet again. The Society the first time. We are keen for more younger My highlight of 2015, however, has to be and growth as opposed Jean-Michel Hall (Temple 06) (now turned also entered a team in the new Dick Watson players of all standards to be involved in the the OS Footballers’ final match of last to multiple trophies. professional), was the new First Team Trophy at Aldeburgh in October with Jeremy largest of the Old Stoic sports clubs and season which saw them avoid relegation That’s not to do down Captain and introduced several new younger Scowsill (Temple 76), Don Jeffreys (Grenville 50% green fee discounts are available to My very first race in the School cross- against a strong Old Sevenoccian side any of the teams’ players for both the Halford Hewitt and 64), Nick Rice (Lyttelton 71) and Hugo those under 30 for all matches and country team took place in the first few who went on to win their League and gain achievements. The Grafton Morrish team competitions. Douglass (Chandos 99) coming a meetings. months of 1949. I found myself promotion. It was a thrilling match with the key is that we have seen more ‘young’ Although the team did not progress in either respectable 7th out of 11 schools. suddenly picked to run in matches Old Stoics scoring first, then going down The year ahead: 2016 promises to be an (i.e. recent leavers and U25s) OSs getting competition, they gained valuable exciting year for the Society with more mainly because I had, most to two goals in quick succession before Mr Nigel Stern (Bruce 57): 2015 saw the unexpectedly, come second in the involved than ever before both as a experience for the future. playing opportunities and more Old Stoics result of increased funding from the our goalie turned the game by saving a death of one of the leading OSGS golfers. School cross-country race in a field of on our database. The 2015 AGM saw Lorne Society as well as the success of the cracking shot and then coming back to Matches: In addition to playing the School Nigel was a great supporter of the Society for over sixty runners. I had trained in Williamson (Temple 56) take over as score a stunning equaliser which had the team at Woking, Stowe and Stoke Park there many decades and his golfing achievements School teams driving enthusiasm to President from John Luddington (Chandos advance for the race with my House, were matches against Royal Cinque Ports at included being a member of both Old Stoic participate in your sport of choice well whole team celebrating, as well as me 54) while Nick Luddington was appointed Chandos, but it was the first cross- Deal, Old Haileyburians and Old Canfordians Halford Hewitt winning teams (1979 and beyond the Leavers’ Ball. on the side line. Vice Captain of the Society. First Team country contest in which I have ever at Sunningdale, The Templars at Deal, Old 1988), winner of the Senior Cyril Gray in I won’t steal the thunder of the Sports’ Captain Haydn Brooks haydnbrooks@ taken part. Indeed, had the race been Looking forward to 2016 and we have Gregorians at New Zealand and Aldeburgh 2014 with Mike Anderson (Cobham 57), captains and encourage you to read googlemail.com would certainly like to hear twenty yards longer, I believe I would Henry Kimbell (Chandos 04) building on Golf Club. The Society won all its matches long-term member and Past Captain of their reports detailing what they’ve been from low single figure handicap players who have won it. the success of our Roger Charlton yard tour until the final fixture against the Old Worplesdon Golf Club, Winner of the up to during 2015. The fixture lists are in 2014 with an OS horse racing syndicate. want to be considered for the Halford Hewitt Our first fixture was an away match Haileyburians when the opposition coped Worplesdon Mixed Foursomes and member quite staggering and I doff my cap to all We will be writing to all those that and Grafton Morrish. However, players of all against a nearby RAF station, Halton, if with the thick fog better than the Old Stoics. of the Moles and Royal St Georges. Nigel was those who contribute so much time and attended the yard tour but please do get in standards and eras, male and female, are I remember correctly. We travelled there a regular member of the OSGS team to play effort to organise their respective touch with the OS office if you would like Meetings: The Society Meetings were well welcome at our matches and meetings by coach. On arrival, we were taken to a the School and in his last match in taking place at some of the best courses in matches. Thank you. to register your interest. In addition to this, attended at Formby (Northern Meeting), changing room to get ready for the race. September 2014 memorably scored a hole the country. If anyone wants to know more Always worth a mention are those nascent on Sunday 20 March, we are holding an Woking (Spring), Aldeburgh (Summer) and The room was crowded with our in one at Stoke Park. about the Society check our section on the teams that are making their first foray OS Sports & Family Day at the School. Brancaster (Autumn). The performance opponents, mostly young men in their Old Stoic Society website or contact Peter into old boy fixtures, or even just a regular Alongside the OS Day in October, this will highlights were Charlie Consett (Cobham 96) Discounts for younger golfers: Over 65 twenties who were feverishly massaging Simmons [email protected] league. Of these, the OS7s team have provide everyone with the opportunity to winning the inaugural David Hadfield Salver different Old Stoics played in the fixtures in their legs with all sorts of lotions, or 07957 141826 made a fabulous start with some tough come back to the School for the day and at Formby and another quality round from 2015 and encouragingly, the number of tinctures, oils and other ointments, matches and victory at one of their Neil Gray (Chatham 78) at Brancaster in under 30 year olds involved increased Peter Simmons (Cobham 69), Secretary which caused the room to smell like a either support or participate in an array tournaments over the summer. Get in of sports against the School or other OS hospital. Inexperienced as I was, I was touch if you fancy a run out: I will happily deeply impressed by this display of teams. The cross-country team will be in come and support at the Dubai 7s if action and I hear mumblings of water professionalism and feared that we there is a supporters’ bus. were about to undergo the mother and polo, golf, horse riding, clay pigeon father of all drubbings that afternoon. In addition to the 7s we saw the shooting and much more. There will be My fears were immediately realised the beginnings of what could be quite a handy entertainment for kids too, so bring the OS CROSS-COUNTRY moment the race started for the RAF set OS Triathlon team with top 3 victories at family. We look forward to seeing you the Stowe Triathlon in July at both Half off at a cracking pace and were quickly there. The 2015 race against the School took place Ironman (men) and Olympic distance way ahead, only just in sight. There was If you have any interest in taking part or on 15 March 2015. A healthy 25 runners of all (women). It was a challenging weed-heavy not much we could do about it, I felt, organising your own team then please shapes, sizes, ages and sex toed the South swim, with a pretty flat and windy bike and accordingly dropped into a steady, get in touch with the Old Stoic office or Front line. ‘Healthy’ may describe the course, but the pièce de résistance was a contestants’ mental and physical state but stoical plod. This went on for a good ten hilly run which the competitors were contact the team captains direct, via the minutes or more, after which it began to details available on the OS website. does not necessarily mean ‘fit’! 3.5 miles pleased to see the end of. An excellent twice round the Lakes and up past the Gothic dawn on me that the figures we were excuse to go back to Stowe and enjoy the Hannah Durden (Nugent 01), Old Stoic Sports chasing were not actually getting any Temple awaited them, with the winner for the smaller. On the contrary, they seemed second successive year, Harrison Dockery to be getting bigger. Did this mean we (Chandos Upper Sixth), recording 22 mins 38 were catching them up? It did! secs and the tail-end Charlie over 46 minutes, Presently, I drew level with the leading so there’s plenty of scope for new people to OS CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING have an enjoyable run around the grounds, runner. As I passed him, he turned to well represented Chambré family, almost a some of the OS Triathlon and Adventure gorgeous as they always are with the face me and gasped out loudly, “These Speech Day 2015 was not a good day team on their own. competitors got in a little early season awakening Spring. fags!” So, well oiled legs were evidently for the OS Clay Pigeon Shooting Team. The OS team can take heart from the overall practice. A close second was Simon Gardner (Temple no substitute for lungs filled with We were defeated by over 20 clays to result. Officially we lost but only by 37 points There is also the race for old boys of invited 95) (22.43), fortified by his triathlon training, cigarette smoke, I thought unkindly. the Stowe side. The School shot very to 41. A bit of trivia: adding up the times, the schools every December hosted by Thames followed by Chris Hutber (Chandos 87) (4th, well and the out of practice Old Stoics times totalled 156 mins exactly for the School Hare & Hounds on their scenic five mile Stowe crossed the finishing line ahead 25.42), then Chris Lascelles (Temple 89) (6th, just couldn’t compete with the level of and 158 mins 40 secs for the OS team, an course on Wimbledon Common. That’s a great of the RAF and so we won the match 26.53) and Charlie Clare (Chatham 94) (8th, performance. It looks as though the Old aggregate difference of only 2½ minutes! cross-country opportunity for Home Counties outright. The mental element is a 27.18) with Oliver Selway (Grenville 94) and Stoic side needs to get some practice in based Old Stoics. Details via the OS office. powerful factor in competitive sport, Kate Chambré (Lyttelton 97) completing the In fact, the scores should have been equal beforehand to compete with the level of It’s difficult to commit ahead at the time and we all learnt a valuable lesson that OS team. They were supported by Francis on 39 each because Kate was sent off course, the School’s team. We’ll come up with a The Corinthian comes out but please do afternoon. This of course was, “Never, Graham-Dixon (Temple 72), Tom Chambré losing several places and about 2½ minutes plan of action and hopefully this year’s think about registering interest having read ever let yourself be fooled by (Grafton 95), Sophia E Chambré (née Calvert, so this biased reporter will call the 2015 Speech Day on Saturday, 28 May 2016, this report. appearances, however compelling.” Lyttelton 95), Toby Gauvain (Temple 89), Marc result a draw both on points and time! Oliver Wall (Chandos 50) will be a better day for the OS side. Hope (Cobham 79) and Richard Weston This was the best turn out for many a long Richard Weston (Chatham 65) 76 Harry Hay (Grafton 03) (Chatham 65). Special mention then of the year and could be swelled still further if 77 OS FOOTBALL STOWE TEMPLARS one of the very few remaining residential 2015 has been a year of consolidation for the stronger whenever Harry Wolrige Gordon’s Old Boy Cricket Weeks in existence. OS Football Team with the 2014-15 season (Chatham 08) name is down for the left back characterised by a relegation battle rather slot. In midfield, we have our version of the Julian Stocks has happily undertaken to than the cup final appearance and near-miss Neville brothers Harry (Grafton 08) and bring down his gang of vintage Templar on promotion of our debut season a year Thomas Benyon (Walpole 10), ably reprobates on the Saturday of the Week in earlier. Thankfully, relegation was complemented by Alex Jollivet (Grenville 08). 2016 to make a real Templar day of it as successfully averted but not without a Goals of course are the currency of the game per 2014. dramatic last-minute equaliser in our final and the team is lucky to have Jamie Hirst One other pleasing facet of 2015 was our game that ultimately ensured the Old Stoics (Walpole 08) and Tolly Leech (Temple 10) as continued introduction of younger players, remained in Division Four by a solitary point. scoring bankers. with the last game of the week against the Following on from the success of the 2014 the Templar total. The second round found Goalkeeper, Mark Thompson-Royds (Chatham Frogs featuring three of this year’s 1st Xl to Off the field, the side voted in its first proper season, 2015 was, happily, equally us at home against the Old Cheltonians, 07) was particularly outstanding in that add to three from the 2014 side. The plan is committee and Hamish Eggins (Temple 09) productive, albeit in slightly different areas. who produced an excellent example of game, pulling off a series of stunning to slightly expand the fixture list in 2016 to has shown impressive maturity in his new Whereas the feature of 2014 was the cup-winning cricket. They had the advantage one-on-one stops, and this was a fitting try to ensure that we continue to provide role as Fixture Secretary, as well as being performance in the Cricketer Cup, 2015 of the toss (which to be fair we had had at culmination of a great season for him, with good competitive cricket for as many arguably the Club’s most improved player. gave us a Cricket Week to remember. Repton) and benefited from a couple of his peers duly voting him Player of the Year. Templars as want to play. Anybody who is ‘interesting’ stumping decisions from one of To supplement this core, it has been fantastic Prior to this, we comfortably disposed of a interested in joining in, be sure to get in James Robson (Walpole 05) remains Captain the umpires, but in truth they produced a to see recent leaver Nyan Patel (Grenville 16) football on grass in and around the London Stony Stratford side in a game that we had touch with us – any of Adam Cossins (07545 of a youthful side as we go into the Christmas highly efficient bowling performance in and 2011 departee Nicolas du Bois de area, please don’t hesitate to contact hoped would be a Cricketer Cup practice 590710), Rupert Rowling (07833 694336) or break of our third season comfortably defence of their par total of 267 and were Montule (Grenville 11) contact us wanting to either Rupert Rowling on 07833 694336 or match, romped home by 1 wicket against a Oliver Croom-Johnson (07909 962 076) ensconced in mid-table hopeful of a more well worth their in-the-end comfortable win. play with both making their debuts this James Robson on 07971 504482. surprisingly ‘gobby’ Hampshire Hogs, and would be delighted to hear from you. Nets at sustained cup run as well as a push further season. As these two players ably lost in traditional manner to the strength of 2016 sees us up against a strong Old Lord’s start on Tuesday 15 March 2016. up the league to look forward to in 2016. Whilst those wanting to monitor the side’s demonstrated, there clearly is plenty of the Flashmen and then to the School on Wellingtonians team in the first round, The Club continues to build steadily with a progress, full details are available at http:// Oliver Croom-Johnson (Temple 69) footballing talent emanating from MK18 as Speech Day. which will be an excellent test for our core of players such as centre back pairing full-time.thefa.com/DisplayTeam.do?teamID the School takes the sport more seriously. improving side. Jamie Hirsch (Walpole 08) and Rupert Rowling =748704707&divisionseason=689848553 The Cricketer Cup campaign started well with Anyone interested in playing regular 11-a-side a convincing win over a slightly disconcerted This all led up to the Cricket Week, in which In addition to the Templars’ Report, (Cobham 05), while the team always looks Rupert Rowling (Cobham 05), Chairman Old Reptonians, the batting stars being Rob we boasted not only an unbeaten run for the we have recently received word of a White (Cobham 98) scoring 56, Harry first time in many years, but posted victories lovely mention in the MCC Newsletter Wolrige-Gordon (Chatham 08) on 46 and the in every single game that was played (the about the MCC v Stowe match which We then played the ‘Find Rugby Now 7s returning Richard Harris (Cobham 97) on 68, Monday v. the Nomads being rained off). took place on 7 June 2015. The point Tournament’ held at London Wasps RUFC. and the bowling being led by Rupert Rowling This is the first time this has happened in of note was not the result, a well fought OS7s WIN SILVERWARE chalking up only the 4th ever Templar 5-for in this scribe’s over-extended memory, and draw, but reference to the ground: OS7s made it through to the group stage the Cricketer Cup. However, the highlight of featured a first win against the South Oxon “...with express intention of setting an after knocking out some big names on the the match came deservedly from last-minute Amateurs and some fine performances by early declaration to force a result on the circuit and played the host team Find IN THEIR FIRST SEASON call to the colours Mark Thompson-Royds, Templars old and new. It was, as always, a superb Stowe surface” and “It was a Rugby Now in the quarter finals. We who produced the catch of the season to very happy week, and thanks again must go cracking day for all at one of the best started strongly and put FRN to the sword change the game’s momentum just as the to Harry Wolrige-Gordon, Rupert Rowling and grounds in the country. ” and came out winners 29-12 and then Repton top order were beginning to eye up Ed Hoy for overseeing so successfully what is went into the semis. In the semis, OS7s faced a team called Project Waterbodies who have been on the circuit for a few seasons. OS7s started slowly and PW went up by 12-0. OS7s had a man sent to the bin but came back well in the second half THE STOWE BEAGLES but unfortunately left it too late and lost 28-22. In pouring rain, at the Puppy Show in June, Hunting commenced in September with 2015, a stalwart gathering of Old and current support from within the School and the The 4th and final tournament of the Stoics, puppy walkers and guests attended the hunting country as strong as ever. In October, summer saw OS7s invited to Help For judging of the year’s young entry by Henry we travelled to Northumberland where we Heroes 7s. We won the tournament South MH (Temple 11) and Edward Birch- were the guests of the Wailes-Fairbairn family. coming out 56-0 in the final. Reynardson (Grafton 11). At the end of what Meets were hosted by Adam Waugh MFH (Bruce 89), The Fairfax Family and Ian McKie We are going back on to the 7s circuit of was a very enjoyable day, the Master, Theo After meeting several boys playing on the After a great start from the MK7s, we Shepherd-Smith (Cobham 15), handed over to MFH (Former Parent). Two excellent days were 2016 and hope to win one of the major enjoyed by a large gathering of followers 7s circuit for different teams, I came up with decided to enter one of the biggest our new Joint Masters: Annabel Wailes- tournaments. Our aim is to play in the including: Hugh Leyland (Bruce 73), Michael Driving rain and a steep climb to the top of the idea of entering an Old Stoic team into tournaments of the year being held at Fairbairn, Hamish Beaton and John Shin. Dubai 7s in 2016, if anyone is interested Leyland (Walpole 10), Nick Bannister (Lyttelton Hambledon Hill tested the stamina of all. the MK7s. With some help from Anna, Alan Saracens pitch at Allianz Park, with England in sponsoring us please do get in touch. In July, hounds were shown, at Peterborough, 77) and Oliver Beazley (Chatham 14). Sadly, Hughes and Craig Sutton we managed to During the year we have, sadly, lost two very winning the Invitational. The Men’s Open by former Joint Master Rory Knight (Chatham fog prevented hunting on the third day. We are put a team together of 12 Old Stoics. I would like to take this opportunity to loyal supporters, Chris Mullineux (Temple 52) Cup welcomed the best 7s teams on the 14) and current whipper-in Roddy Bannister. grateful to Rupert Gibson MH (Temple 73) for thanks all the boys who were involved and and Jo Wilkins. Supporters and Stoics attended On one of the wettest days of the summer, circuit looking to make an impact. OS7s did An enthusiastic gathering of supporters welcoming us into his hunt country. their funeral services. At the service for Jo James Clark’s (Temple 12) girlfriend for we turned up to MK7s with no themselves proud, considering it was only including, Laurie Strangman (Bruce 57), Nick Wilkins, the Joint Masters and Whips were being there to support him! If you would In December, many supporters and a minibus preconceptions and with ten rugby shirts our second tournament and we were up Bannister (Lyttelton 77) and former Masters, full of Stoics travelled down to Dorset as the present in uniform together with two couple of like to get involved, please do get in touch for a squad of 12. We managed to get to the against some very well established teams. Martin Wood (Bruce 65), Robin Bell-Irving guests of the parents of Bertie Alexander, the hounds. Bertie Alexander blew Going Home in by emailing [email protected] quarter finals where we lost by two points It was a great experience running on the (Chatham 70), Alistair McGee (Lyttelton 73) Huntsman. We enjoyed very generous the churchyard. A moving occasion for all. with some very dubious refereeing. main Saracens pitch at Allianz Park. Luke Brewin (Temple 02) and Charles Carter (Grafton 01) followed hospitality and two challenging days’ hunting. Alistair McGee (Lyttelton 73), 78 progress during the day. Chairman, Stowe Beagles 79 2016 Gift Collection

This page features some of the growing range of Stowe and Old Stoic merchandise 2016 EVENTS CALENDAR available in the Shop at Stowe – a blend of traditional apparel and some new clothing and gift items that we have introduced in the last few months. We would THE SHOP AT We have endeavoured to organise a wide range of events in 2016 that will appeal be delighted to serve you in person, or to deliver an order to you by post. to Old Stoics of all ages. To make enquiries or to book any of the events below To order, please call 01280 818211 or email [email protected] STOWE please call the Old Stoic Office on01280 818349 or email [email protected] You can see the full gift collection on the OS website: www.stowe.co.uk/old-stoics Full details of each event can be found at www.oldstoic.co.uk To see more photos visit the OS Event Gallery at www.oldstoic.co.uk Cushions and Mug A bright and colourful map of Stowe and the grounds printed on the highest quality linen/cotton. Each one comes with a Saturday, 5 March 2016 Friday, 27 May 2016 luxury feather inner or just the cover, in our presentation gift Stowe Beagle Ball, Stowe £50 Tony Hadley Concert, Stowe £50 box. Available in 2 sizes. Backing colours: White or Navy Blue Large Cushion 20 x 18" £30 Wednesday, 9 March 2016 Saturday, 28 May 2016 Small Cushion 20 x 12" £25 Northern SOS Lunch, Shrigley Hall, Cheshire £40 Classic Cars at Speech Day, Stowe Cover only 20 x 18" £25 This design also comes in a Mug and Greeting Card. Bespoke Cards Mug £8.00 …and many more… Wednesday, 9 March 2016 Saturday, 17 September 2016 Card £1.99 th th th th th £3.25 Northern OS Drinks Reception, £20 OS Day and 20 , 25 , 30 , 40 and 50 Anniversaries, The mug is ideal for coffee or makes Great John Street Hotel, Manchester Stowe an excellent stationery holder. Sunday, 20 March 2016 Saturday, 8 October 2016 OS Sports Day, Stowe Stowe Ten Years Out, Stowe

Monday, 18 April 2016 Thursday, 10 November 2016 Old Stoics in Hong Kong Drinks Reception, OS Dinner, Details to be announced The China Club, Hong Kong Stowe Travel Journal Stowe Pyjamas Saturday, 19 November 2016 A hard cover artist’s notebook Our bestselling pyjamas are available in Blue with alternate plain and lined or Pink and White Candy Stripes. Made of the Wednesday, 13 April 2016 OS Careers’ Fair, Stowe cartridge paper. Elastic finest cotton with ‘Stowe’ woven into the London SOS Lunch, The Savile Club, London £50 waistband. Cool and comfortable. retaining band. A5 128 pages. In addition, regional representatives are now in place £10.00 Sizes XS – XL £28.00 Watercolour print of the South Front, Stowe Friday, 20 May 2016 across the UK, so there will be an OS event taking place near you soon. If you live overseas, we are working with A classic, soft, architectural watercolour print of Stowe’s Dinner for OSs in Scotland and the Far North, £65 representatives to increase activity. If you would like to South Front. By Louise Cowley. The New Club, Edinburgh Unframed with mount 30 x 17" £60.00 OS Socks host an event, please get in touch. Framed £120.00 Stowe thin socks. Cards also available £1.00 Cotton/lycra. One size. Short or long.

£12.95 Dressing Gowns Luxurious long towelling dressing Silver plated gowns. bottle stopper Engraved stylish silver Navy Blue with Stowe plated wine stopper. crest, White with Presented in a smart navy ‘Stowe’ in Blue. blue box.

£60.00 £30.00 1 OS Careers’ Fair. 8 Old Stoic Day. Photograph Frame 5 Silver plated translucent enamel colour Face painting at Old Stoic Day. frame. 7.5cm x 7.5cm. Presented in a smart Navy Blue box with pale blue ribbon.

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Decorations Handmade decorations Stowe Lion for the Christmas tree Best selling Stowe Lion, 19cm or perfect for door sitting, wearing an embroidered handles all year round. navy blue Guernsey sweater. Stowe Monopoly Stowe House £8.00 Special offer £25.00 £12.95 Stowe Crest £8.00

To make enquiries or to book any of these events please call the Old Stoic Office on 01280 818349 or email [email protected] To order: Telephone 01280 818211 or Email [email protected] Tickets can also be purchased at www.oldstoic.co.uk using PayPal. Please note, payment for events must be made in advance to secure your place. 80