Saturday 12 October 2013

EDITOR’S LETTER

THE MAGAZINE FOR OLD STOICS

Issue 3

Features

THE MAGAZINE FOR OLD STOICS

Issue 3

Features

8 NINETY YEARS OF STOWE 33 POLAR BOUND A brisk canter through ninety Having recently completed his fifth glorious years of achievements, transit of the North West Passage, Welcome to the 90th memories and special occasions. David Scott Cowper reports on his Arctic adventures. anniversary edition of 14 HOLLYWOOD COMPOSOR The Corinthian – the IN RESIDENCE 38 OLD STOIC BANDS Old Stoic, Harry Gregson-Williams, Nigel Milne discovers the influence magazine for Old Stoics. swaps his studio in Los Angeles for of Rock ’n’ Roll on Stoics through a year in the Queen’s Temple. the generations. This magazine chronicles the 16 AN AFTERNOON WITH 41 CELEBRATE ALL THINGS VISUAL Society’s activities over the last Sir Nicholas Winton An insight into the myriad of year and includes news from Two current Stoics meet Sir talented artists who started out Old Stoics across the globe. Nicholas Winton to learn about at Stowe. In celebration of the 90th his years at Stowe and remarkable anniversary, this edition includes achievements thereafter. features inspired by Stowe’s history through the years. rEGULARS I hope you enjoy reading it. 1 EDITORIAL 29 BIRTHS Thank you to everyone who has sent in their news, and to all 4 FROM THE HEADMASTER 30 OBITUARIES those who have written articles. 18 NEWS 56 STOWE’S RICH HISTORY Thank you, also, for the time you have given to make this magazine 28 MARRIAGES burst at the seams, to the OS advertisers who have supported INSIDE the magazine, and to Caroline Whitlock, for spending countless 2 THE NEW OSS CHAIRMAN 55 COLLECTING ABROAD FOR THE V&A hours collating your news. A FAREWELL TO IVO FORDE 50th ANNIVERSARY RETURN MEET THE OS TEAM TO STOWE Lastly, a reminder: please ensure 57 THE BAOBAB TREE we have your up-to-date contact 36 OS MEMBERS’ AREA NIGEL RICE’S VICTORY details so I can keep you up to OS CAREER MENTORS, WORK speed with the Society, its events EXPERIENCE AND INTERNSHIPS 58 OLLIE’S ODYSSEY and services for members. 44 1957: FIRST SOLO ON BOOK REVIEW: BEHIND THE SCENES OF MOTOR RACING If in doubt, email me at: CHATHAM FIELD 59 THANK YOU CCF [email protected] 45 FILMING IN NORTH KOREA LETTER TO THE EDITOR 47 JUBILEE RIVER PAGEANT 60 STOWE OPERA 48 HIDDEN TREASURE! 61 AROUND LAKE LADOGA, 49 ACROSS NEW ZEALAND ON FOOT RUSSIA, BY PUSH BIKE Anna Semler (Nugent 05) OLD STOIC MP SPARTATHLON 2012 STOWE LODGE Old Stoic Society Director 50 THE BOOK OF BAIN OS SPORT 2012 JOE BAIN’S PAINTINGS 62 STOWE TEMPLARS 51 BUTTERMILK ART SCHOOL SQUASH 52 Gap Year Gillie TENNIS 53 THE ROXBURGH SOCIETY 63 CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this BOOK REVIEW: A BITTER HEART CROSS-COUNTRY publication do not necessarily reflect the views GOLFING SOCIETY of the Old Stoic Society and/or Stowe School. 54 DIAMOND JUBILEE SPEECH DAY The publication of advertisements in this 64 2013 GIFT COLLECTION magazine does not constitute endorsement by OLD CHANDOSIANS’ GATHERING the Old Stoic Society and/or Stowe School. OLD CHANDOSIANS’ EXPEDITION INSIDE BACK COVER TO FRANCE 2013 EVENTS Welcome from The Old Stoic Society may not be able to help you with hangovers but we do aim to help and enrich your life after leaving MEET THE the New OSS Stowe. As well as dinners, parties and networking events, we support the chairman many sports clubs and a number of special interest groups, such as the Welcome to this recently formed OS Wine Society and third issue of the OS group in Hong Kong. We are The Corinthian keen to encourage and facilitate even more groups or activities and modest which is, once funds are available too, so please get in again, a wonderful touch with Anna and she will help to get reflection of the things started. breadth of activities with which We are also developing our online Old Stoics are involved, both presence, with an improved website through the Society and in their and active groups on Facebook and careers or personal lives. LinkedIn. After some delays we are now The pages of this magazine bring able to connect people with fellow OSs to life the extraordinary breadth In addition, this year is Stowe’s 90th who have agreed to offer career advice anniversary, so we are looking back on or work experience. If you need help, of activities Old Stoics have been nine decades as well as forward to the or can offer help, please contact Anna. involved with over the last year; next one. Next, please let us know if you have a behind the scenes is a dedicated The last year has been very busy for business that can provide added-value team who form the General the Old Stoic Society and we have offers to fellow Old Stoics. Committee, and work hard to combined a very full programme of We encourage everyone to use those ensure that the society thrives. events with further development of the businesses that already do this – support services we offer to OSs. It has they are on the OS website. been great to see so many of you on various occasions. During the summer Finally, it’s YOUR Society so please let Tim Scarff left for pastures new, actually us know if you like what we are doing ice fields new, because he has joined a or, better still, join the Committee! company that organises car rallies on Meanwhile, enjoy The Corinthian and frozen lakes in Norway. In his place we I hope we will see you at an OS event were delighted to appoint Anna Semler this year. President: Vice President: as our new OS Director, who is just as Best wishes Anthony Bolton Dr Anthony happy to organise car rallies on the (Chatham 67) Wallersteiner, North Front. As she is a relatively recent Headmaster leaver (Nugent 05), the school staff can still remember teaching her – and, Chairman: Simon Shneerson (Temple 72) even worse, they can still remember Simon Shneerson (Temple 72) Simon has a business degree her hangover after the Leavers’ Ball! Old Stoic Society Chairman and spent his “first career” in marketing, where he managed major brands in companies such as Colgate-Palmolive. For the last ten years he has been providing Ivo stood down last November at the strategy and management advice to end of his three year term of office. independent schools. He has been closely He was a truly excellent Chairman, involved with the Stowe Club in London (‘The steering the OSS with wisdom, Pineapple’) ever since he was at school and foresight, leadership, diplomacy and, is particularly proud that a new £5 million most importantly, a ready smile. There building was constructed in 2005 – it is the has been much change over the last UK’s showcase youth centre. He joined the three years and, at a strategic level, OS committee in 2006 and was elected he oversaw the strengthening of our Chairman in November 2012. Simon is finances as well as management change married with two children, both at university. and a raft of new activities. Vice-Chairman: Patrick Cooper (Cobham 72) All this demanded time as well as ability Christopher Turner, the then and Ivo gave very generously of both, Headmaster of Stowe wrote in IVO FORDE attending numerous meetings at Stowe Patrick’s leaving report that he as well as in London, in working time doubted whether he was suited (Walpole 67) as well as in the evenings. Thank you, to further education. He was Ivo – you are a great friend, and we right! Patrick found himself in the City and has are delighted you are remaining on stayed in the Investment Management Chairman the Committee. industry ever since. “I have stayed in touch with Stowe throughout, my father was an OS Simon Shneerson (Temple 72), and I hope my daughter will become a Stoic in 2009-2012 Old Stoic Society Chairman 2 September.” His input to the committee centres His family have had a long association with Ivo Forde (Walpole 67) on events and keeping OSs, who he meets Stowe from John’s father’s time in the 1930’s Ivo has been a committee through work and social events, informed during the Roxburgh era, John’s own time at member for several years and about the strong progress of the school. Stowe during the 1960s through to 2004 when is currently the member John’s youngest son, Harry, left Stowe. Old Stoic Director: Anna Semler (Nugent 05) responsible for finance. His day Development Director: Colin Dudgeon job is running a financial public Anna returned to Stowe to take relations business. His previous career up the role of Director last With a degree in law and a involved him in roles as a marketing director September. During her absence previous career in marketing and in an investment management business and from Stowe, she read History of business (commercial radio and prior to that in merchant banking. He has Art at Warwick, and then went breakfast cereals included), Colin fond memories of housemaster, Ronnie on to run Althorp, a stately home in has worked at Stowe for nearly Adams (OS), who was humorous, fair and Northamptonshire. Delighted at having eight years, where his principal role is in raising universally respected, and both Jimmy returned to Stowe, she hopes to build on the awareness and the essential funds needed for Temple and Brian Mead, who taught good work of her predecessor by delivering a range of important school development engagingly and inspired Stoics on the more events and services for Old Stoics. projects, along with the continued restoration rugby field. Based in the Old Stoic Office, she welcomes of the mansion. He is delighted to be involved all Old Stoics to get in touch if they are in the closely with the Old Stoic Society, helping to Timothy Hart (Chandos 92) area, and looks forward to increasing the organise events both in the UK and overseas “As a film director and amount of opportunities the Society can and developing ideas that allow Old Stoics to producer, I am fascinated with provide to all Old Stoics. reconnect with each other and the School. people and their stories Old Stoic Event Co-ordinator: Hannah Durden (Nugent 01) especially those surrounding Caroline Whitlock love. The good bits and the bad Hannah joined the committee in bits, the highs and the earth shattering Caroline started working 2005 when she moved to London lows.” Having gatecrashed a networking part-time in the Old Stoic office in as a graduate surveyor. She event several years ago at the Ritz, Tim July 2007 but this soon became a writes, “I enjoy meeting Old voiced a couple of slightly crazy ideas to a full-time post. She spends her Stoics across all walks of life, committee member and was surprised to be time dealing with varied and through work and socially. Many of them have asked to join. Ever since, he has enjoyed diverse queries from Old Stoics all over the exceptionally varied careers and hobbies, bringing his ‘outside-the-box ideas’ into the world, preparing and organising the OS events many of whom were far from ‘academics’ at fray in which several of the wackier ideas both at Stowe and in London, keeping the school. They are now superbly successful in a have been extinguished. “It has been a database updated with members’ contact professional capacity and have a notable lust privilege to work with the OSS committee on details, helping to collate The Corinthian, for life. I am sure the school will continue to such an exciting opportunity as developing searching for ‘lost’ OSs, and generally keeping produce these hugely interesting individuals the vast potential of the Old Stoic Society for in touch with members of the Society. She and I will do my best on the OS committee to its members.” adds, “I have enjoyed meeting many Old Stoics support both our recent leavers and more at events over the years and I have two established members throughout their lives.” Katie Lamb (Lyttelton 06) daughters, one of whom is an OS.” Peter Farquhar (Former staff) Katie joined the committee Chairman of NME Sub Committee: this year. She works in Events “I sometimes feel that my Nigel Milne (Chandos 68) and Marketing, and hopes to membership of the committee, assist in getting more Old Nigel is a jewellery designer and though well over a decade in Stoics back in touch through has a shop in Piccadilly Arcade tenure, is held under false the social events during the year. “Clearly in London’s West End. He has pretences as I am not an Old some of us never truly leave school! This is been on the Old Stoic committee Stoic.” However, Peter’s association with certainly true of me and my fellow committee for just over three years. He is Stowe goes back 30 years, to when he first members. With the 90th anniversary of Chairman of the OS sub-committee – joined the staff as Head of English. His main Stowe to celebrate, I am looking forward to Networking, Marketing and Events. “I try to contribution is the extensive network of organising some truly special events that maintain a good balance of adhering to the contacts he has built up over the years. represent Stowe.” ethos of JF Roxburgh that Stowe must not be During ‘retirement’, he has had two novels hidebound by quirky traditions and published and he teaches English Literature Ben Scholfield (Temple 99) meaningless rituals, in order to attract the part-time at Buckingham University. Ben brings creative ideas to younger OSs into joining the Society whilst life. As the founder of Jambow, keeping those with a more traditional ‘Old John Fingleton (Chatham 66) he manages and licenses School’ bent happy as well. Whether I succeed World-renowned cricket buff, intellectual property as well as or not, we shall have to wait and see!” leading international charity producing content across film, auctioneer, one-time PR guru, John Arkwright (Cobham 69) television and music, having looked after fun-loving wit, bon viveur and singer-songwriters such as Bob Marley, John Arkwright is a Fellow of the grammatical pedant, “Fingers” Gloria Gaynor, FREE and Johnny Nash. Since Royal Institution of Chartered brings colour to the Committee (and to a joining the Committee three years ago, he Surveyors with some 40 years seemingly increasingly colourless world in has assisted Nigel and the NME committee, experience in the property general) and all the wisdom of one of our elder developing new concepts. “It’s been a real business. He runs his own statesmen. A true enthusiast, his passion for pleasure to be part of the team, and I look business, John Arkwright & Co, a property Stowe and all things Stoic shines out. forward to the years to come.” investment and development consultancy. “I’ve never really left Stowe – and Stowe has John is a past Chairman of the Old Stoic Society never left me”, he says. Eighteen years on the and as a Governor is a Trustee of the Stowe Committee and a past chairman, he also takes House Preservation Trust, and Chairman of the on the sad task of representing us at OS If you are interested in being part Development, Building and Works Committee. funerals, alongside the usually jollier one of of the committee please email John is married to Sally with three sons. attending thanksgiving services. [email protected] 3 From the Headmaster

Ninety Years On...

I am delighted to be writing “the financier in a surplice”, to put together an article to celebrate the a financial proposal to buy the house and School’s foundation ninety grounds so that Stowe could take its place amid a roster of schools dedicated to years ago: on 2 December propagating “the Protestant principles of 1922 final interviews took the Church of England, for boys of classes place for the post of above those ordinarily attending public headmaster of a new school elementary schools.” Using Wrekin College which was to be established as collateral, Warrington arranged to buy in the ducal palace of Stowe. Stowe and then used the same financial mechanism to raise a mortgage and 2 The teaching staff from 1923, with guarantee to acquire Canford in 1923. The Roxburgh at the centre in a bow tie. Among the five candidates on the short-list cycle of mortgage and advance, advance was the tall, elegant and cultured thirty-five and mortgage, was used to purchase year old John Fergusson Roxburgh, better Westonbirt, Felixstowe College, Harrogate struggled to maintain Stowe, leasing known by his initials JF. A gifted Trinity College, Seaford College, Lowther College, the house to the Comte de Paris, the Cambridge classicist, Roxburgh was also St Monica’s and even a girls’ high school in Bourbon claimant to the French throne, fluent in French and had been awarded the Kenya. Roxburgh, a housemaster at Lancing, but she eventually decided to sell the License-és-Lettres degree from the a school founded in 1848 by Nathaniel house and estate after her son and heir, Sorbonne after only a year of study (and Woodard to enshrine the High Church the Master of Kinloss, was killed in action came second in the French Essay, a notable in December 1914. achievement for someone working in his Anglo-Catholicism of the Oxford Movement, second language). He was widely regarded was unlikely to find favour among the The Martyrs Memorial Trust governors were as one of the most gifted teachers at Martyrs’ Memorial Trustees. While clearly able to buy Stowe in September 1922 for Lancing under the reforming headmaster, the outstanding candidate at interview, it is £34,500 (it is estimated that it had cost the H T Bowlby, where he exercised a profound claimed that Warrington attempted to use Temple-Grenville family some £4 million in influence over a generation of boys the proxy votes of four absentee members eighteenth century currency to build and (including Evelyn Waugh) through his of the Council to prevent Roxburgh’s design the Mansion and landscape combination of intellectual superiority, appointment. Fortunately, Stowe’s first gardens). It was the School’s great good sartorial flamboyance, cosmopolitan chairman of governors, Lord Gisborough, fortune that the values of the English sophistication and wit. Roxburgh showed interceded to invalidate any attempts at Enlightenment resonated with Roxburgh’s a courtesy and consideration for the electoral chicanery and Roxburgh was duly drive to liberalise and humanise boarding individual pupil which was unusual in appointed. He became one of the greatest school education while inculcating the schoolmasters before the First World War, headmasters of the twentieth century. virtues of tolerance, intellectual curiosity, a remote breed of men who looked askance It was pure serendipity that the place love of reason and an aesthetic appreciation at “beaks” who fraternised with boys and chosen to combat the insidious spread of Stowe’s sublime surroundings. While generally left the day-to-day running of the of Anglo-Catholic incense, bells and creating a school that prized individuality school and boarding houses to the prefects. vestments, also embodied some quite and diversity, Roxburgh was enough of a son of the Manse (his paternal grandfather, Roxburgh’s appointment as Stowe’s different ideas to those espoused by the the Reverend John Roxburgh, led the founding headmaster was anything but a Evangelical wing of the Church of England. Presbyterian congregation of St John’s Free foregone conclusion. An attempt in 1921 to Viscount Cobham and his heir, Richard Church in Glasgow) not to fall out with his meet the growing demand for public school Grenville, Earl Temple, had employed a governors on theological matters: in 1931 places from the burgeoning ranks of the veritable Who’s Who of eighteenth century when parents agitated about the lack of a professional middle classes by creating a architects, artists and landscape gardeners cross on the Lord’s Table (never an altar) school in “the fair majestic paradise of to realise their vision of Whig principles, an in Chapel, Roxburgh negotiated the skilful Stowe” had been led by the Hon. Mr Justice Arcadian celebration of civil and religious compromise of placing a Crusader’s sword Croom-Johnson and Edward Montauban, freedom, and to make Stowe the behind the Table to allow the hilt of the headmaster of The Hall prep school in headquarters of the great cousinhood of sword to serve as a substitute for a cross. Hampstead, but foundered due to Temples and Grenvilles, Pitts and Lytteltons. Roxburgh’s own beliefs can be summed up insufficient funds and opposition from The Sadly, however, by the early 1920s the in a sermon in which he quoted St John as Times. It was left to the Martyrs Memorial estate had fallen into disrepair after the uttering a “final and crowning statement of and Church of England Trust, guided by its first and second Dukes of Buckingham the Christian faith – God is Love.” visionary and entrepreneurial Secretary, had frittered away the family fortune and the Reverend Percy Warrington, vicar of the third Duke died without male heirs. On 11 May 1923, Roxburgh, resplendent in 4 Monkton Combe and known as Lady Kinloss, daughter of the third Duke, trilby, spats and a bow tie, greeted the first 1 The new boys arriving on 11 May 1923. 1 Roxburgh greets the first arrivals.

99 boys on the North Front steps. To ease the Corinthian Arch to Buckingham 1931 promoting the teaching of Economics identification, boys and masters wore tickets was saved from the depredations of the in the Sixth Form. He recognised that some on their lapels bearing their names and developers and timber merchants by a boys produced their best work in the Art houses. Although four senior boys came with subscription organised by Etonians and Department or in more practical subjects. Roxburgh from Lancing, the average age of a Old Etonians as a gift from “one of the Characteristically, he donated a £5,000 Stoic was 13 ½ and Stowe felt more like a oldest and not the least famous of our cheque given to him by the Old Stoics on prep school than an embryonic major public public schools.” his retirement in 1949 to the School to build school. It is testament to Roxburgh’s genius carpentry and metal workshops. Roxburgh organised the Upper School into that the School expanded quickly, with 108 Sides so that a pupil would come under the School rules were based on common sense new arrivals in the autumn and within a year tutelage of a subject specialist and and there were no made up rules about there were more than a thousand names on appointed masters who generally shared “bloods” wearing patterned waistcoats or the Admissions Register. By 1926 he was his educational views. He was convinced junior boys tipping boaters to acknowledge able to turn away sixty academically weak that schoolmasters achieved their best a prefect. Roxburgh would not tolerate boys who had failed their Common Entrance results when they treated pupils as adolescent boorishness, bad manners or and in 1930 there were nearly 500 Stoics. He had achieved his ambition of placing Stowe in the first rank of public schools. Stoics are still encouraged to A true polymath, Roxburgh worked closely breathe The spirit of the English Enlightenment, with Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect RElish the beauty that surrounds them and designer of Portmeirion, to convert the eastern and western pavilions of the Mansion into boarding houses and to ensure that new individuals and he did not insist on uniform lack of punctuality – but he was the opposite buildings were sympathetic to the teaching methods that stamped out of a martinet. Instead, he expected self- architecture of Vanbrugh, Adam and Kent idiosyncratic and eccentric teaching styles. regulation and self-restraint and preferred (Chatham’s red brick posterior facing Sir It was not how a teacher taught that really gentle persuasion and exposition to Robert Lorimer’s imposing and noble Chapel mattered, but whether he inspired pupils to hectoring admonition and collective was the only significant discordant note). take charge of their own learning, getting punishments (for example, when he came Grounds were levelled to create playing them to think clearly and to appreciate what across a group of boys thoughtlessly fields, classrooms were built, the single bath is great and good: “the centre of every boy’s chipping away at the stucco of a column on sunk into the ground for ducal ablutions was education is (or ought to be) the work he the South Front portico, Roxburgh gave them covered over while 60 baths and washbasins does on a subject that appeals to him”. a brief architectural history of the evolution were installed for the boys (the first bursar He was unusual among headmasters in of the house, encompassing Earl Temple’s estimated that he was responsible for 35 having a strong interest in aesthetics (he modifications of the original designs by miles of piping – he joined a religious order was a keen and skilful photographer) and Borra and Adam: “And you young gentlemen soon after the School opened). Quixotically, famously announced that “Every boy who are lounging on the portico watching some a small zoo was established where Walpole goes out from Stowe will know beauty when sporting contest, and slowly demolishing now stands, although it did not last long and he sees it all the rest of his life.” He had an this stately pile by perforating these pillars a bear presented by Sir Auckland Geddes has intellectually generous cast of mind and with the points of your plebian umbrellas.” the doleful distinction of being the first championed new disciplines, for example Roxburgh showed great solicitude and care expulsion from Stowe. The Great Avenue from he wrote an article for The Daily Telegraph in for each and every Stoic, never failing to 5 21 DSCs, 111 MCs and 46 DFCs. Roxburgh’s health had begun to suffer, made worse by his refusal to curtail his heavy teaching load during the war. The School had also suffered financial degradation during the Great Depression when Warrington’s Byzantine financial arrangements were revealed to have created a debt of £1 million for the Martyrs’ Memorial Trust schools. The Legal and General came to the rescue and took over the financial management of the schools, creating The Allied Schools Agency, The success of Roxburgh’s mission to create to supervise accounting and impose a school that did not churn out stereotypical financial rigour. Roxburgh left Stowe in 1949 public school boys ready to take their place after a magisterial headship that had lasted in the patrician class that still dominated more than a quarter of a century. He spent the Army, Church and Colonial Service can his retirement in a small cottage in Great be measured in the achievements of some Brickhill where he read, cultivated prize early Stoics: Leonard Cheshire won a VC for roses and taught part-time Classics, English his heroism in Bomber Command and was and French at a prep school, The Old Ride later awarded the Order of Merit for his near Little Horwood. He died on 6 May 1954 1 First 99 and teaching staff on the South humanitarian work as the founder and and his ashes were interred in the chancel Front Steps, 11 May 1923. director of Cheshire Homes; David Niven of the Chapel. starred in numerous Hollywood films and 1 Roxburgh teaching a French class in 1933. The six headmasters who followed Roxburgh was Britain’s best-known screen actor in the 1930s and 1940s; Michael Ventris, inspired each added impressive facilities to remember a birthday (“I believe, my dear by a school trip to Burlington House in 1936 Roxburgh’s original school and today the fellow, I have to congratulate you on an for an exhibition of Minoan finds and a pupil roll stands at 773 Stoics, there are auspicious occasion... many happy returns lecture by Sir Arthur Evans, deciphered a twelve boarding houses and one hundred of the day – you don’t look a day older”). previously unknown ancient script, Linear B, and twenty members of the Common Room. He never referred to Stoics as “boys”, and established that Cretan civilisation had 2013 will see the completion of the new addressing them instead as “members of been part of Mycenaean Greece; Bernard Music School, the final stage of the refurbishment of the Roxburgh Hall (built in the School”. Prefects’ dinners were civilised Gadney captained the England Rugby team JF’s memory – the inscription above the and civilising occasions: “he gave me my on eight occasions and became Headmaster proscenium begins with the words first glass of port and my last Egyptian of Malsis; David Shepherd and David Wynne “Magister Sapientissimus, Eruditissimus cigarette”, a prefect later recalled. established themselves as leading figurative artists, both specialising in Dilectissimus”) and the development of How Stowe would differentiate itself from wildlife, while Laurence Whistler was the plans to rebuild Design and Technology to other educational establishments is twentieth century’s most gifted glass meet the needs of this innovative and explained in the first edition of The Stoic, engraver; John Sainsbury created the popular subject. Last summer’s leavers published in July 1923: modern supermarket chain and continues achieved record exam results and the If we have a character of our own, we do not to be one of Britain’s most generous School’s achievements in sport are at an claim to take praise on that account. It is due philanthropists; Anthony Quinton’s all time high. Yet the shade of JF would to our surroundings and to our youth, distinguished career as an academic recognise his school as fundamentally and we owe neither of these to our own philosopher led him to the Presidency of unchanged. He would delight in the exertions. The place we live in is of a singular Trinity College Oxford; George Melly, an restoration of the house and gardens which allows a new generation of Stoics to enjoy and moving beauty, but we did not build the expert on Surrealism, brought jazz music the sweep of the colonnades as they first house or plant the trees. It has associations to a new audience through the medium of approach the tall portico of the North Front, with some of the great makers of English radio, television and his annual residency walk into the Marble Saloon to admire the history, but their history was made before we at Ronnie Scott’s; Peregrine Worsthorne, neo-classical frieze of nearly 300 figures, were born. All this is inherited wealth, incapable of writing a dull article or book, gaze at Vincenzo Valdré’s extraordinary not earned. For our youth we can take no edited The Sunday Telegraph. The oldest decorative schemes in the Music Room, credit either, indeed the time has not yet living Old Stoic, Sir Nicholas Winton, born find inspiration and wisdom in the come for us to take credit for anything at all. on 19 May 1909, joined the School in its surroundings of the neo-classical splendour That will be later on, perhaps. Meanwhile we second term and went on to rescue 669 of the Library, before stepping out onto the can only acknowledge thankfully the beauty Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the South Front loggia for that unparalleled view with which this place surrounds us, eve of the outbreak of World War Two. across the Octagon Lake towards the the stimulus which it gives to all honourable It is said that Roxburgh never recovered from Corinthian Arch. More importantly, Stoics ambitions, and also in particular the unusual the terrible sense of personal loss caused are still encouraged to breathe the spirit of freedom which it allows us from rules and by the high casualties among Old Stoics in the English Enlightenment, relish the beauty bounds and restrictions of all kinds... The Second World War. All were young when that surrounds them and appreciate the Our youth provides us with further freedom war broke and of the 1,918 Old Stoics who School’s continuing commitment to bring too – freedom from the traditions of speech served in the Forces, 270 lost their lives – out the unique qualities and talents in each and conduct which in older communities just over one in seven. The number of Stoics and every one of them. provide for every generation a ready made decorated was 242 – just under one in eight 6 standard of behaviour. – and the list includes two VCs, 28 DSOs, Dr Anthony Wallersteiner ‘Top 5 Golf and Spa Hotels in Europe’ THE SUNDAY TIMES

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Ninety years ago, on 11 May, 1923, JF Roxburgh welcomed the first 99 boys to Stowe – a remarkable moment in the history of this ducal estate, described in the preceding pages by Dr Wallersteiner, the School’s seventh Headmaster. Over these years, many events have shaped and defined the history, ethos and fortunes of the School. What follows is a very brisk canter through the annals of the School – with one thing plucked from the account of each year of the School’s life. By its very nature, therefore, it is a gross distillation and simplification – and we apologise to all those who would consider that we have missed something of particular note or importance… I’m afraid that we certainly will have done! But in the variety of what follows, there will hopefully emerge something of a picture of the first ninety glorious years of Stowe School. Persto et Praesto! Anna Semler (Nugent 05)

8 Presentation of Avenue Tide Deeds The First ‘99’ arrive “Prince Arthur drove up the full by HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught length of the Avenue, once My Darling Mums and Dad ... The new boys are nearly all very nice chaps on behalf of Eton (17 July). in this house. W. Cross is very nice in Form. We are having very good food again and forever Stowe’s, with Eton ribbon streaming this term; we have had porridge as well as the bacon or whatever it is, from both sides of his car”. most mornings so far. My bike is so useful and it does go so very well. Alasdair Macdonald (Former Staff) The radiators are now working and they make the place so nice and warm. I am getting on quite well with my work the Latin is rather hard but I am getting it done all right. We play quite a lot of rugger, I enjoy the games very much. I have put a little light in my locker it works quite nicely. This term we are having chapel in the Music Room. The labs are wonderful Dad they have the Master’s huge desk at one end with a sink and electric gas burners, also a lantern screen and two huge black boards at the same end. Then we have huge sort “One point in our future seems fairly well assured: of tables 3 chaps to each, all down the middle of the room with sinks we are not going to suffer from a shortage of and electric burners. We all have a draw and cupboard. There are all inhabitants. So many boys now want to come to sorts of things I don’t understand and a huge aquarium a case of Stowe that we shall be lucky if we can accept a balances and we all have stools to sit on. I can’t explain how nice fifth of the applicants for the next three years.” they are but they are absolutely up to date and seem to have 1924 The Stoic everything you want in them. So ever so much love to you all, your ever loving son Ron. Ronald Alford Andrews , Age 14 , First 99

“All I have to say is that Stowe is the best two-year-old in England.” Speech Day of 1925, Marquis of Lincolnshire 1923 1926 New Lions are expected to appear shortly on the long 1925 vacant pedestals below the South Front steps.

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“The weather was appropriately royal, with cloudless sunshine throughout the full length of the day. Before the stone was actually laid, a lead casket containing a Next term it is hoped to start copy of The Times of the day, a building a hut at Stowe for the school ‘Blue Book’, and a complete use of the Pineapple Club. set of gold, silver and copper coins bearing the date 1927, was The Stoic 1929 soldered down and placed in a cavity beneath the stone”. 1928 Prince George Alasdair Macdonald Dedication of Chapel 11 July 1929. (Former Staff) Foundation stone of new Chapel laid by Queen Mary, I3 June 1927.

First Cricket match between Stowe and the 1st XI Ghostly sighting on South Front of another School; draw with Radley. “As they mounted the steps one would have expected to hear the 1927 The Lord Mayor of London (Sir light trip of feet on stones. But no JF said that the seventh birthday William Phene Neal) was the such sound was heard. Silently he of the School might also be called chief speaker at the ninth saw them disappear into the gloom the Festival of the Thousand. Speech Day of Stowe School, 1932 of the Portico.” In May, they numbered 550 Old on Wednesday, 24 June. The Stoic Stoics and 450 present Stoics, 1931 which meant that just one thousand boys had been,

or were, members of the School. The Stoic

10th Anniversary “You have an opportunity of showing that the English public school system is not as antiquated as some1930 people are apt to make out. It has not When it became ten years old the School only a past but a future, and decided to give itself a tenth birthday present, the future lies in your hands.” and with the assistance of Old Stoics, parents HRH Prince of Wales, 1933 1933 and various other friends, money was raised to rebuild the Queen’s Temple1934 as a Music School. 9 The Southern Railway The Duke of Gloucester planted the cedar of Company presented to the Lebanon on the western side of the south lawn School a large photograph of “I am glad that Stowe has a character of its the engine named STOWE. Richard Booth (Walpole 38) own, because variety is desirable among played for England in the public schools, and it is in accordance with the Boys’ Golf International. habits of English schools in general to develop individualities and traditions of their own.” HRH The Duke of Gloucester 1935Opening of the new Cricket Pavilion 1937 The outbreak of WWII.

“We have every type in the ranks here. “I arrived at Stowe in the summer One is an Earl and one is a butcher’s of 1949. After a week or two, on a roundsman. Sometimes some remarkable Sunday afternoon I had gone out Through the kindness of Mr PC Hall a friendships result. Everyone gets the dirty exploring the exciting overgrown jobs in turn. An amusing incident occurred 1936 particularly fine collection of British 1939 landscape gardens. I was near Birds has1938 been presented to the School. the other day. The floor of my dug-out was the swimming enclosure on the being1940 brushed and scraped by a man who Eleven Acre when I realised I would probably be late for

did not seem to be making too good a job chapel. I started running back when a small car stopped 1941 Air Raid of it. After a few minutes he looked up and between the lakes and the driver offered me a lift. He said, “They never taught us to do this sort of 1942 “The bombs started less than 200 yards due knew my name and asked if I was finding my way around thing at Stowe, did they, sir?” This surprising south of the front and curved round to miss alright and when we got to the balustrade on the South remark led to a cup of tea and a long talk Vanbrugh’s Rotunda...and end ignominiously in about Stowe. It proved to be S.F , who was Front he stopped and said he was going to the right but the mud1941 at the edge of the Eleven Acre. It was true in Temple a year or two before I arrived in felt that if I ran fast to Bruce. He is a magnificent fellow and I take that more than a hundred panes of glass were the left I might make my hat off to him.” smashed in the main buildings and classrooms, chapel in time. At that but no one was hurt by glass or splinter.” Old Stoic on Service moment I realised Alasdair Macdonald (Former Staff) the driver was JF, the Headmaster.” Monday, 5 July, was observed VE day was celebrated by a colossal Derek Jorgensen as a whole holiday to mark the bonfire on the South Front. award of a Victoria Cross to (Temple 53) Major J T McKellar Anderson, the first Old Stoic to win the V.C. VE Day: “On the night of the 7 May, 1945, the British government announced that the next day would celebrate the victory of the Allied Forces in Europe. This was the day that Stoics had been The King has approved the award expected to return to Stowe for the summer term. During the war, of the Victoria Cross to Wing the house room windows had been blacked out at sunset with Commander Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire thick cardboard screens mounted on thin wooden frames. DSO and two bars, DFC (C.1935). There being no further need for these, the screens were carried to Royal Air Force Volunteer the South Front where they made a significant bonfire. The School Reserve, 617 Squadron. Chaplain, Mr Windsor Richards, played a piano mounted on The Stoic school tables, and popular songs were sung. It was a dry sunny evening.” “I remember the thrill and honour of showing Field Marshall Montgomery around the School Dr John Marsden (Walpole 49) during his visit in 1946. During his speech in the Marble Hall, he turned ruefully to me and said

“I am asking the Headmaster to give you all a whole1943 holiday” of course, JF knew nothing of his 1944Geoffrey Chibbett (Cobham 47) won plan and gave me, as head of School, a look of the Junior Lawn Tennis Association despair, to which Montgomery retaliated by Singles Championship. saying, “In fact I will ask him to give you two”, 1945 at which point the whole School cheered!” Straight Course Edmund Skepper (Temple 46) Avenue Purchased. 1947 The decennial photograph of the whole school and staff was taken, 1946 beneath the East Colonnade. Performance of Othello at Queens Temple. 1948 JF’s retirement from Stowe “For all his generosity and his devotion, The chief event of this term was the Like everything else in this his graciousness and his sincerity, for all Inspection of the Contingent on June country this year, Stowe his belief in us, we owe JF our thanks.” First School Dance since 2nd by the Army Commander,1952 General newsreel showed tendencies 1951 The Stoic the beginning of the war. Sir O L Roberts, KCB, KBE, DSO. to go red, white and blue. In celebration of the crowning 1949 Death of Roxburgh of Queen Elizabeth II. On 18 September, at a private service in Cine1953 Section Chapel, the casket containing the ashes of Halford-Hewitt 1950the late Mr JF Roxburgh, Skiing Cup Victory. The School has been the was placed beneath scene of much building the Chancel floor. activity this term. The Headmaster’s house on the edge of Chatham Field is “In the history of education he will go down as one who added near to completion, the another great school to the country; and in the history1955 of Stowe 1956 Clearing the Oxford Water Memorial Hall is rising he was the man who fused the spirit of the past with the present swiftly, and a new master’s and made us feel that we were the heirs of the rulers and poets of It took over three weeks to complete the house is being built on England who two centuries ago sauntered on these lawns.” job of excavation, and some thousands of tons of silt were removed. Paper Mill Hill. 10 N G Annan (Temple1954 1935) At the beginning of this term Nugent, the new waiting house, opened its doors to thirteen boys, including the son of an Old Stoic.

George returns after 4 years absence Earl Mountbatten of Burma The first Assembly of the term found is greeted by the headmaster the School in unfamiliar surroundings, Of the 608 members of the School only 150 have EV Reynolds. the main body in the stalls, prefects ever set eyes on him, but nevertheless 608 turned and monitors in the gallery, and the out to welcome him. His absence was so deeply felt “I can remember the excitement of masters, rather self-consciously, when he was abducted eleven1960 terms ago that on the helicopter landing on the North seated in a double semi-circle on the the very next day (whether through grief or because it was the 1957Front, a rare sight in those days.” 1958stage behind the Headmaster; for the first of April) his pedestal became the seat no longer of a monarch Sandy Doggart (Chatham 58) new Hall, is at last completed and in mounted on a horse but of a scarecrow straddled across a bicycle. regular use; it is to be called the “Peter Jarvis and I erected the replacement for the missing statue in the Roxburgh Hall. middle of the night towards the end of the Easter term in 1957. We used 1959a bicycle scrounged from a nearby Bruce bike shed, RAF denims and a beret from the CCF, stuffed with newspaper.” Running Track Mike Andrews (Chatham 57) Third successive win of the “I won the Stowe under 15 Youll Cup (Tennis). “For me the landmark event in 220yds in 1962, the inaugural 1963 has to be the visit of the year of the running track. John Queen Mother. She spent most of Burden was in second place the day with us including lunch in and Lindsay Wilcox third. The the Garter Room (at which I had 1961 next day I won the under 15 the honour of sitting next to her). 440yds in 55.7secs from John As I remember it, the visit was Burden. That time still stands very much “boy” centric including as the Stowe under 15 400 HM fooling the system by asking metres record to this day – Isla Sitwell and myself to get in 50 years later.” her car with her by the Chapel to The Beatles concert 1962 John Kinahan (Temple 65) Stowe Beagles Founded. go to the 11 Acre lake. The staff “I remember being stunned by the were a little confused when we length of their hair, as Bob Drayson emerged first from the car (at her was always keen to stop us looking like instruction) before HM!” a bunch of broken down apostles!” “Stowe earned five places in the Tim Kilpatrick (Cobham 63) Ivo Forde (Walpole 67) England Schools’ team that 1963 competed against Wales, Scotland and Ireland in the annual international in Cardiff. Buckinghamshire represented in running order, by J H G Kinahan, AS Thomson, R Herbert (not a Stoic) and N K Rice, won the 4x110 yards relay at the English The ‘Unbeaten Rugby Side’ Schools’ Championships in Hendon, For the first time since 1938, the XV and were thereby selected to represent England a fortnight went through the season undefeated 1966 later. Three-quarters of the England team were Stoics, – both in school and club matches. Sixth Form challenge. a feat that no other school had or is ever likely to match. Furthermore, they won and the baton resides at Stowe with1964 other memorabilia. Kinahan and Rice also represented England in the 120yds hurdles and 220 yds respectively.” Nigel Rice (Chatham 64) Foundation1965 Stone for Lyttelton House.

1967 2 Stoics reached the final of BBC Science Fair. New1968 CCF Building: CCF moved from Gothic The Trout Hatchery being built. Temple to the new armoury. 1969 Oswald Mosley The final meeting of the Political Club featured a speech by Sir Oswald Mosley. This was bound to be controversial, but the fact that Stowe clapped for 1970 two minutes represents how1971 convincing he was. 1973

A mysterious new club is rising in our midst, which glories in the name of Corkscrew. The opening of the Swimming Pool. New Science Block under construction. 1972 11 First Girls at Stowe Winning the Micklem Trophy – Golf. The question of co-education has been Foundation Stone for considered at Stowe for several years now “I remember the heat wave in summer Drayson Hall laid and next term sees Stowe co-educational 1976 because if I recall correctly, it was “God bless this gymnastic with the arrival of four girls. Well you have so hot that we were allowed to wear Sports Hall, and all who got to start somewhere. 1974 1975shorts to sit the exams!” ‘Stowe’ away in it.” The Stoic 1977 Simon Clegg (Chatham 78) Earl Mountbatten of Burma

16 members of the School gained places at Oxbridge. 1976 Best Hockey Season to date for first XI with only Departure of Drayson one school match lost. Bob Drayson has been at Stowe for 16 years.1978 The best tribute to him and his work is that he leaves Stowe in a 1980 For the first time in the School’s position and condition of which even JF Roxburgh would have been proud. history, a marquee was erected “It is time to look ahead. I have stressed my for Speech Day, after the The Stoic concern to see a fuller involvement by Stoics in disastrous weather of Mr Turner’s every part of the School’s life-creative, musical, first two Speech Days. artistic, practical, athletic, academic and even The Stoic in our day to day management and thinking. 1982 There are hopeful signs on all sides, with a vast 60th Jubilee Year – Archbishop of Canterbury 1981reservoir of ability among our pupils.” “Stowe opened its doors sixty years ago1979 today. It The Reverend Christopher Turner (Headmaster) was started by a group of pioneer individualists who “Wise is the Head who keeps quiet wanted to create a new style public school – your about the winter of 1986. It was a first Headmaster, your architect, and those vigorous “I clearly remember the School’s 60th anniversary long, cold haul, starting with a new boys who are with us today. I am not at all sure blizzard which took five weeks to 1983that your pioneers would have approved of such a and continually talk about Foundation Stone for Bruce is laid. melt and ending with a gale which traditional and formal figure as the Archbishop of the Marillion concert, only destroyed 300 trees. There was Canterbury singing their praises; but they might now do I remember that 1986illness galore and standards have applauded my somewhat bumpy, last minute the then Archbishop of descent by helicopter into your beautiful grounds. Canterbury preached in slipped and tempers frayed towards the end.” Stoics in my experience have always had a taste for Chapel that day!” The Stoic the dramatic – sometimes for the flamboyant – and Patrick Cooper (Chatham 86) 1984 have certainly never been predictable cardboard The 1st Cricket Team won Athletics team won the Harold cut-out characters.” all but one match. Abrahams Cup at Iffley Road in Archbishop of Canterbury the Inter-Schools Achilles Relay. Excellent season for Stowe Cross-country Team Bucks Schools1985 Cross-country County Championships held at Stowe – 400 runners; 100 Stoic helpers.

The strongest winds arrived on the afternoon of Thursday, 25 January. A vast weight of lead covering the length of the State Dining Room suddenly sprung loose with a loud The Computer Centre has again crack. It quickly rolled itself up like the top of improved its technology and has a sardine tin to the surprise of some Stoics now moved into the much talked in the new Temple House room. of world of ‘Desk-top Publishing’. 1988 The arrival of the latest of ‘Laser Filming of Indiana Jones Printers’1987 now permits almost full type-setting and letter quality printing at the touch of a button. 1989 1990 The Voice reached runner-up in the Daily Telegraph’s school newspaper competition. Birt-athon in support of The Andy Birt Trust. Opening of the Dobinson Theatre Perhaps John’s most lasting Re-opening of Lyttelton as a girls House. contribution to Stowe will be the Bust of Leonard new small theatre created in Cheshire by David memory of Paul, their younger 1992 Wynne is unveiled The magnificent Temple of son tragically killed in an accident by1994 HRH The Duke Concord has been restored, a1991 few months after leaving of Kent. allowing it to once again Walpole in 1988. dominate its Grecian Valley. 12 The Stoic 1996 1993 1995 For a Stoic 95 Choristers of the Stowe Chapel Fire in Bruce House Choir perform at St Pauls. We were all left helpless as of the Future we watched the firemen battle with the fire, as our House went up in smoke. When you from out another age European immigration, mad cows, 1998 Piers Craven (Bruce 01) Dutch drugs and missing bicycles... 2000 Shall come to claim your heritage, just some of the lasting memories You shall discover ere you go from the Stowe Model European Parliament. Aristophanes’ Frogs – Junior Congreve. The mysteries we use to know. 1997 For you shall winter timely grace The enchanted trees with snowy lace; 1999 Summer shall be a strip of blue Above the Chestnut Avenue; The Grecian Valley’s dew-drenched grass In spring shall sparkle as you pass; Not in vain shall be your search 2002 Jeremy Nichols’ Retirement HRH The Prince of Wales visit. For rabbits by the little church, “I’m terribly proud of almost everything that Stowe produces.” And like flash across your way Completion of the North Front restoration. Jeremy Nichols (Headmaster) Squirrels shall dart their streaks of grey. 2003 Then, as of old, the sun shall fall 2001 On pillar and arch and mellow wall; “In a few months’ time we will Whole School 15-mile For you shall windows nightly make be welcoming a new cohort of Sponsored Walk in aid of 24 thirteen year old girls into Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. Gleans gold in the silent lake. Lyttelton to join Natalie and Charlotte who have blazed Along your path, as daylight fades the trail for full co-education.” Shall flit the elect augustan shades; 2004 AKW2005 Dimly a spectral Pope shall glide, Our younger phantoms by his side. Solemnly through the starlit gloom The Chapel’s classic grace shall loom; Visit of Her Majesty The Queen “It was a magical experience – I felt And you will slowly turn to keep Lacrosse Victory at The Abbotts Hill so privileged.” Contested tryst with night and sleep... Tournament Lara Simpkin (Lyttelton 08)

Against all the odds the team championed at The Abbots Hill tournament, winning for 2007 And we – shall we have left it all, the first time in the School’s history. 2006 Dead and forgotten, past recall? Or shall we wake to hear your spell Rustle the fields of asphodel? Surely some murmur oft may glide Across the dark Lethaean tide; Faintly and far the ages long First South African Scholars Shall ring your cheering and your song, “I simply cannot lyrically express my experiences throughout Mingles with laughter that bestirs Sir Nicholas Winton Opens the year in England. I have been through obstacles, failures, Stanhope House. achievements, tears, joy and laughter with Stoics.” Laughing echoes adown the years; Makhotso Maiko (Stanhope 09) 2009 Faintly and far from time to time

Stowe reached the semi-finals Shall sound your sweet, unpunctual chime. 2008of the Daily Mail Cup. If these thing be, shall we or you Best love the mysteries we knew? Happier he whose bat he wields

The Equestrian Centre In Bourbon or Elysian Fields? Lord Sainsbury of opened in September and And shall not you at length agree Preston Candover fourteen horses are now (Grenville 45) opened stabled in this superb To share our immortality? the renovated Art development. In the spring, School which he so we will start building the J. M Reeves (27) 2010generously funded. cross-country2012 course. 13 2011 FEATURE 4 Harry Gregson-Williams (Chatham 80).

This year, Stowe became home to one of the most prolific film composers in Hollywood, Harry Gregson-Williams (Chatham 80). How he came to be teaching and working at Stowe is an extraordinary story and one which tells you so much about what a kind, warm and generous hearted man exists behind the glitz and glamour of a Hollywood composer.

When I first arrived at Stowe, I remember over and ruefully remarked ,“A shame not flat screen TV, mounted on the wall. researching Old Stoic musicians with to meet Harry Gregson-Williams”. He pushed about 600 buttons in a matter of outstanding careers: George Melly, the 10 seconds and suddenly a moment from At 8 o’clock the following morning Colin extraordinary Jazz Musician; Howard Goodall, Cowboys and Aliens appeared on the flat knocked at my door; he had received a call the amazing Choral Composer and Educator, screen. He pushed a further 300 buttons and from Harry’s studio in Venice Beach: Harry had who also wrote TV theme tunes including sliders, and flew to the piano. He explained explained that the Director for Cowboys and The Vicar of Dibley and Black Adder; Harry the confluence of Wild West and Science Aliens had insisted on a music meeting about Gregson-Williams, the Hollywood film Fiction, from a musical point of view, and the new film, forcing him to miss the concert. composer with Man on Fire, Domino, Chicken played a melody which was related to the love Harry wondered could we come over now: Run, Bridget Jones’ Diary: the Edge of Reason, interest in the film. Within 4 minutes, he was Kingdom of Heaven, the Shrek Series, The Anthony and I jumped in a taxi immediately. Thirty minutes later we were walking up the back at the desk with all the kit. Anthony and I Narnia Chronicles and recently Total Recall, were mesmerised as Harry placed the melody as just some of the titles for which he has staircase of a large building called Wavecrest Studios, a couple of blocks up from Venice onto a French horn, set up a counter-melody, written scores. I had admired Harry’s films and then harmonised it with strings, before for years, having always been struck by his Beach, bedazzled by the 50 or so framed posters of movies decorating the stairwell adding the all important percussion and ability to write powerful themes which stir demanding rhythm which gently underlaid the emotions. for which Harry had written the music. the melody, adding tension and a unique The Headmaster, Colin Dudgeon and I had When we arrived Harry was already sparking sense of bewildering anticipation for an event been working tirelessly to find ways to raise with energy, he looked at us both, and asked not yet imagined. It was so extraordinary to money to develop and build a new Music who was Headmaster and who was Director of witness such directed creativity and such School. In November 2009, Colin and I sat Music. Frankly, he remarked, “we both looked mastery of the tools, essential to film looking out over the South Front talking about way too friendly to be either”. We made our composition in the 21st century. the West Coast of America and the number of introductions and spoke about Stowe and Colin arrived and explained the exciting plans Old Stoics out there; Harry’s name came up. Harry’s time there. Harry was a music scholar With the help of the American Friends of and had come from St John’s College Choir. for the new Music School; Harry was kind and Stowe, Colin raised money to fund the As we talked, Anthony suggested he should generous. As we left, Anthony raised the idea Chamber Choir and String Orchestra to travel come back and, with Anthony’s characteristic of a sabbatical at Stowe again, entreating to LA. Sir Howard Stringer, a current parent, sense of largesse, he invited Harry to return to Harry to give the idea serious thought. A few laid foundations for a large gathering of Old Stowe for a sabbatical year: we would give days later we flew home. I was elated and Stoics at Sony in Culver City. At the end of a over the Queen’s Temple for Harry’s use and, inspired at having met Harry but in all honesty tremendous evening, two name badges lay if necessary, find a way to put him and his didn’t think for one moment that I would ever unused: our two star guests had not come; family up in the Gothic Temple. meet him again. Jennifer Lopez and Harry Gregson-Williams. Before we left, Harry asked if we wanted to We had left sunny Los Angeles in late Anthony, Colin and I returned to the hotel see inside his studio. He was working on the February and later, during an almost Tuscan a little disappointed. Not least that the film Cowboys and Aliens, with Daniel Craig day in May, we heard from Harry. He and his beautiful and glamorous Jenifer Lopez and Harrison Ford as the lead actors. Harry’s family had decided to leave their home and had developed a cold but Harry had not studio was a vision of 21st century music Harry’s Studio in LA, and come and live in appeared. I had so looked forward to meeting making. A grand piano to one side, an 88 note the village of Wicken, bringing Harry’s entire him because his music was filled with so keyboard in front of a dazzling array of wide Venice Beach studio to the top floor of much energy and character; I felt he must be, screens, the very gentle hum of a number of Queen Charlotte’s Sewing Room, in the 14 too. We said goodnight and Anthony looked computers in the background and a very large Queen’s Temple. model, they see a man who has grasped each opportunity as it presented itself. The Stoics have been writing songs, recording songs, creating soundscapes to accompany songs and, of course, they have been learning about the world of film music. On Wednesday 6 September, Harry gave a presentation in the newly refurbished Roxburgh Hall. It was a really tough gig: without the team of Upper Sixth Stoics, the presentation would not have happened because every bit of technology was so new; it was taking a while to understand how everything worked. Stoics, parents and governors sat amazed as Harry brought up film after film and showed how he had created themes, motifs and percussion backdrops. He showed how he manipulated sounds, how he brought orchestras to life and, how they intricately framed and enhanced the images moving on the big screen. The presentation made your jaw drop, not because it was so impressive or because you recognised every movie he showed, nor because of his dextrous use of the advanced and complex technology. Simply because of his manner: kind, funny and warm, a style clear, precise and driven, all underpinned by a very natural humility and self-deprecating sense of humour. The combination of Harry’s gregarious and generous nature inspired all who listened. As a result of this, many Stoics went up to the Queen’s Temple to work with Harry and they continue to do so on a daily basis. When I ask them how they are getting on, they regale me with stories of what Harry said, what Harry did, how Harry helped them. One Stoic was looking in a catalogue of music technology instruments. Harry asked what he 1 The Queen’s Temple, now home to was gazing at. It was a drum machine with 1 Simon Dearsley, Director of Music. Harry’s studio. really awesome coloured buttons on it. The student thought it looked really fun, Harry ordered it! When it arrived he laughed, “It’s a In late August it seemed impossible to me Gym at Amesbury School in Hindhead, Surrey. really good buy and a really cool piece of kit!” that Harry would actually arrive. But when I Sport has always been a passion in Harry’s He will be taking it back to LA with him, but he returned for the academic year, Harry was life. Later in his career he found himself in has also bought one to leave behind at sitting in the State Music Room, at the first Egypt, where he taught music and also Stowe. He is generous not only with objects Common Room meeting. That afternoon I graduated from Alexandria University. In but with his thinking, his time and his went up to the Queen’s Temple and was 1995, he met Hans Zimmer at composer patience as he helps the Stoics he has worked amazed by the amount of equipment. The Richard Harvey’s studio on The King’s Road, with, grow in stature as musicians, and large screen, the projector and the full-size London. He created some choral music for sportsmen and women (Yes! Harry is out at keyboard; the various computers, 3 or 4 Hans Zimmer; Zimmer was so impressed by least two afternoons a week coaching on the guitars and numerous smaller keyboards, Harry that he suggested he get a one-way sports’ fields). reminding me of the Moog synthesizers of my ticket to Los Angeles. youth, sets of speakers and the grand piano On yet another Tuscan day in the first week Harry tells this story to the Stoics and they just sitting at his right hand-side. It was a of September, I stood on the steps of The always listen enthralled by the energy and transformation of 18th Century grandeur into Queen’s Temple and smiled as a Third Form dynamism that pours off him when he talks of 21st Century music making. The contrasts left their very first class at Stowe: their first this moment that changed his life. He laughs, overwhelmed the senses; the 18th century period at Stowe had been taught by an Old and comically explains how for a couple of vision remained, quietly in the background, Stoic, Harry Gregson-Williams. Their first years he spent his time in a room that was no a backdrop that composers only dream of, experience at Stowe had given them the more than a cupboard, and learnt all the let alone one who had come from the frantic aspiration to work towards an unknown future technical computer software that allowed him and competitive world of LA. but with such a start to their school career, to work as Hans Zimmer’s assistant before he I felt Stowe and, particularly Harry, had given After Stowe, Harry went onto the Guildhall launched his own career. The Stoics smile and them a singular and extraordinarily good start. School of Music and Drama to study singing. laugh and you can see them contemplating He then became Head of Music and Head of their own futures. Looking at Harry as a role Simon Dearsley, Director of Music 15 FEATURE

8 Sir Nicholas Winton opening Stanhope House in 2008. An afternoon with Sir Nicholas Winton

Current Stoics, Saskia Leboff rescued he simply accounted it as, “...just extricate the boat, when finished. In fact, and Imo Wallersteiner, a small part of my life – something I had all of the stories he remembered from his went to meet Sir Nicholas to do.” days at Stowe were incredibly entertaining and told with such wit that we feel certain Winton on a snowy Sir Nicholas was one of Stowe’s first pupils, not only that he enjoyed his time at Stowe, afternoon last December. as he started at the School in 1923, just but that he has a characteristic Old Stoic one term after it opened. All things excellent sense of humour. With the 90th Anniversary of the School considered – it was, after all, 90 years ago fast approaching, we were lucky enough to – his recollections of life at the School were Sir Nicholas was in Grenville and was a secure a meeting with an Old Stoic who very good. It was particularly reassuring to keen fencer mainly, apparently because it joined the School in 1923. Yet, as we set hear that he is proud to be an Old Stoic. meant that he could avoid playing cricket. off to Berkshire armed with questions As current Stoics, it was fascinating for us Indeed, when we asked what he gained about the school food in the 1920s and to hear about what it was like to be at the from Stowe he was positive that “the best what the teachers were like, little did we School when it first opened and to discover thing was teaching me to fence and not know that we were about meet such an how much has changed at Stowe and how play cricket. I fenced for 40 years after inspiring and modest gentleman. much has remained the same. that.” Was this the only activity he enjoyed, Sir Nicholas Winton is not only the oldest Old Stoic alive, he will be 104 in May, but “there are only two words To save the world today, he is also one of our greatest Old Stoics. In 1939 he evacuated 669 endangered one is ethics and the other is compromise.” children out of Prague, saving their lives. There are now over five thousand He didn’t remember much about his first we asked, to which he recounted that his decedents of these children who owe their day at school, but did recall that he had to riding experience ended promptly when lives to Sir Nicholas and his efforts to help request permission to “go to Egypt” every his horse deposited him in a tree. the children in mortal danger. Yet, his time he needed the loo. Sir Nicholas also When asked if he acted while at Stowe, achievements went unnoticed for more had a great deal of respect for his he whimsically remembered a ‘near death’ than half a century. In 1988 Greta, Sir Headmaster, JF Roxburgh. He remembered experience during a performance of Nicholas’ wife, found an old leather him as a very commanding presence, Hamlet. As he uttered the words, “Thus I a “good organiser” and “an imposing briefcase in their attic and discovered lists die” and pushed a knife into his stomach, of children’s names, letters from parents character.” Roxburgh seemed to make a he accidentally cut himself. Yet, such was and official documents. Only then did his great impression on Sir Nicholas and he his modesty, he didn’t think it important achievements come to light. said, “You can’t forget him. He always remembered everyone’s names and that he had taken the lead role. During the interview, we hoped to find out their birthdays.” about his school days, his later life, and if The course of his life after he left Stowe his time at Stowe had helped him with his He ruefully told us about one of his in December 1926 was determined by humanitarian mission before the outbreak teachers Mr Heckstall-Smith (who taught the economic situation of the age, of the Second World War. We had our work Sir Nicholas’ favourite subject, “The General Strike had taken place and cut out: Sir Nicholas is by nature incredibly Mathematics) who built a boat in his study, food arrived by horse and cart, so those 16 modest. When asked about the children he but had to take half his study down to were difficult times.” He went into banking and trained in Germany and Paris, in order to gain wide experience in the international markets. “I don’t think I enjoyed it” Sir Nicholas recalled, “It was the only job I could get, because my father was in it. You couldn’t choose in those days, it was the first big slump.” Conversation turned to the activity for which he is most famous, saving hundreds of Czech children from the Nazis before the 8 Saskia Leboff, Sir Nicholas Winton and Imo Wallersteiner. Second World War. First, we learnt about his background; his paternal grandparents had moved from Germany to England in 1860s Sir Nicholas gave us fascinating insights future generations of Stoics: “I think the and were Jewish. His mother was German, into his humanitarian work, and when most important thing in life today is ethics: so his family had friends and relatives in the asked what his greatest challenge in life love, honesty, decency and kindness and country and links remained strong. had been, he told us it was “getting the that’s what matters. Ethics and At the start of the Nazi movement in British Government to take the children: compromise are the things to go for.” Germany, in the late 1920s, he remembered after all, no other country would.” He then Sir Nicholas’s belief is that “there are only that his family seemed to know more about gave us a long description of the laborious two words to save the world today, one is what was going on at that time than the process of finding the children homes, ethics and the other is compromise.” politicians did, due to their links in which he described as “the most difficult Finally, when we asked Sir Nicholas what Germany. He still takes the rather sober part.” He told us that extracting the lists of piece of advice he would give to past and view that today’s politicians “don’t know endangered children from societies in present Stoics he answered, “Always have what they are doing now.” When we asked Czechoslovakia was incredibly difficult and an aim in life and be quite certain it’s not about the friends he had met in Germany said “this was the only time I used going to come off. Be flexible – life is blackmail in my life.” before the war, it was clear that they did not largely a matter of luck and being in the see the impending danger. “They were One of the lucky rescued children is Ruth right place at the right time.” either for the Nazi party or against. The Humphreys; she was on the last train out We asked Sir Nicholas if he had a role movement had hardly started and nobody of Prague before war broke out. In 2009, model or someone he admired. He simply took it very seriously.” when Sir Nicholas opened Stanhope responded by asking us both the same As the war approached, Sir Nicholas told us House, the newest girls’ boarding house question. We were both floundering, he felt that he was in a better position than at Stowe, he was introduced to Ruth. By stumped, struggling to recall someone we most to appreciate the situation emerging. chance, Ruth attends Stowe Parish Church, admire. Having met Sir Nicholas we both He was friends with Stafford Cripps and and heard that Sir Nicholas would be agree, if we are asked the same question Aneurin Bevan, which made him better coming to Stowe. Until then she had no informed than most politicians. In fact, it idea Sir Nicholas was an Old Stoic. in the future we will reply immediately: was a friend who encouraged him to cancel Sir Nicholas is truly inspirational, not solely We were both astounded by the ‘matter-of- his skiing holiday in the winter of 1938, for his humanitarian work, for which he is fact’ way that Sir Nicholas recalled his and instead fly straight to Prague. A large famed, but for his charm, wit, knowledge mission. He was incredibly modest about number of refugees had fled from the and charming personality. Meeting him his work and simply suggested he did what Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia ahead of was a real honour and is certainly had to be done and anyone would have Hitler’s army. Efforts were being made to something we will never forget: he is an done the same, in his position. evacuate the adults in the gravest danger, inspiration to Stoics young and old. but one major problem was unresolved: We were left wondering what knowledge Saskia Leboff (Nugent, Upper Sixth) and who could help the children? this inspiring Old Stoic could impart to Imo Wallersteiner (Stanhope, Lower Sixth)

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They’ve Special rates for Old Stoics! anybody is interested, she is for both had mutually overlapping Please email, [email protected] 1930s charter and because he is getting interests, including a lot of travel in on a bit, she is regretfully for sale. fairly wild places – North Yemen, Contact him for details at: Alexander Baxter camping in Sinai, hiking across the 1950s [email protected] (Grenville 39) jungles of Thailand, trekking in Charles and his wife, Eleanor, Nepal. Now no longer, as they’re both in their mid 80s but have no David Duckworth Dr Stephen Cross celebrated their 70th wedding (Grafton 50) anniversary on 28 March 2012. regrets, they’ve had a good innings. (Grafton 52) David writes “Having Stephen has recently returned from a Richard Cox TD moved to Christchurch, month in northern India as adviser 1940s (Temple 48) New Zealand, in 2006, on a film on Hindu religious life to see grandchildren being produced in France for the Axis Richard has published a biography grow up, we have Mundi Foundation. His new book, Ian Robertson of his ancestor, William Cox, who become Kiwi citizens. Schopenhauer’s Encounter with (Grafton 44) built the first road across the NSW We experienced the earthquakes on Indian Thought: ‘Representation’ Blue Mountains in 1814. The Ian has recently published, ‘The 4/9/2010 and 22/2/2011 and the and ‘Will’ and their Indian Parallels, Sydney Morning Herald called it Exploits of Ensign Bakewell: With the 11,000 aftershocks since. On will be published in the spring of ‘well researched and well written’. It Inniskillings in the Peninsula, 22/2/2011 we emerged from a 2013 by the University of Hawaii is titled William Cox: Blue Mountains 1810-11; and in Paris, 1815’. large building damaged by the Press in association with the Society Road Builder and Pastoralist and quake, dodging falling masonry to for Asian and Comparative obtained from sales@gazellebooks. reach our car, to get home. Our Philosophy. Meanwhile he continues co.uk He is giving a presentation on Dr Peter Rossdale OBE house foundations have broken, but to serve on the Academic Board of 15 April 2013 at the Royal (Temple 46) we still live here, with water, power the Temenos Academy in London. Geographical Society in London and sewerage; basics are easy to In 2004 Peter retired from equine commemorating the exploits of the take for granted and cherished by veterinary practice after 50 years; explorers who found a way across us. One of about 8,000 similar George Kent and after 31 years as editor of Equine the Blue Mountains in 1813 and, houses, we will be rebuilt in 2014.” (Cobham 52) Veterinary Journal in 2009, he now following in whose tracks, William runs Romney Publications Ltd built the road. This coincides with George is still active as (www.romneypublications.co.uk) and events in Australia organised by the Oliver Wall Chairman of Childrens is working on a book entitled The Royal Australian Historical Society. (Chandos 50) Homes in India Trust Power of Whitby, illustrated by the (chitonline.co.uk). artist James Power, containing Oliver passed his eightieth birthday Trustees include accounts of past denizens of the John Burrows-Watson in the summer of 2012, celebrating Rev Christopher Turner, former town, be they Churchmen, Authors, (Grafton 49) in a Munich beer garden, and is Headmaster, and Pauline Stanton- Explorers or Mariners. Of his time at presently the proud grandfather of Saringer, former staff member and John writes, “Having recently Stowe, he writes, “I was at Stowe two boys, Konstantin and wife of Chaplain Maurice. CHIT is a exceeded my biblical four score, during the war years and remember Christopher. Christian Charity nurturing 240 I have wound down a little, but am its austerity in terms of the bleakness needy Children in one of the poorest still keeping busy at Guildford of its buildings, and steady loss of parts of Andhra Pradesh in South Cathedral as a steward and, Michael Kelton Old Stoic lives. JF I remember as a East India. They particularly want following a period of 30 years as a (Walpole 51) towering figure with the intonation experienced teachers to visit and professional lay clerk, I am now worthy of compelling respect. He Michael writes that he is still alive in help in their High School, even if singing with the Guildford Camerata, attempted, unsuccessfully, to change his 80th year! His eldest grandson is it is only for a couple of weeks. plus the Cathedral’s voluntary choir my intention to enter the veterinary now at Oxford which makes him feel If you are interested, email him and the London Cantata Choir, profession in favour of medicine, even older. However, his at [email protected] deputising at various cathedrals with the classical alliteration that the contemporaries might like to know The photo is George being around the UK, including Canterbury, former was full of crooks, cranks and that he is still managing to do quite presented with a hibiscus from Gloucester and Hereford, plus some conchies. I shall always be grateful a lot of fishing and shooting. Santha Kumari, whose father died charity work with Age UK. I try to get that he facilitated my entry to Trinity when she was three. along to Stowe whenever I can and College, Cambridge via his friendship continue to follow with enthusiasm with the senior tutor, George Kitson Ian Marshall the progress of the new music Clark (1900-1975). My literacy career, (Chandos 51) Robin Dean school and other developments such as it has been, was fostered (Grafton 53) there, plus of course the scholastic Ian has recently moved into what initially by the English master Mr. and sporting achievements.” seems likely to be the final Robin has published a Meldrum; and my biological interests architectural project, a studio/house book African Days – by the Boyd family.” on a lakeshore in the White Rhodesian Farm John Lindgren Mountains of New Hampshire. He Memories, a short Rodney Shirley (Bruce 49) recently completed a 4-year term as collection of some of his President of the American Society of letters home to his parents in 1956-7 (Temple 46) John continues to Marine Artists. His latest book: while living and working with a make annual visits Rodney and his wife, Barbara, enjoy Cruisers & La Guerre de Course, farming family. He includes reference to Kenya, to their what is now a fairly quiet retired life. is published by Mystic Maritime to the happy times he spent at Stowe holiday home, In 2011, they were both surprised to Museum. His OS son, Paxton is a in the early 1950s. The ISBN number Chale Reefs, on the south coast. 18 be reminded that they’d been lawyer in Miami, he has two married is 978-1-84624-757-6. Charlton, Michael Fincham, myself has her next poetry book And Guess Prof James Humes OBE Michael Fincham and Roger Trevor. We were Who He Was With? launched on Chandos 53 (Cobham 55) accompanied by our carers, posing as Valentine’s Day 2013. James attended the Old Stoic dinner at Michael writes, our wives. After lunch we thought it would be a good idea to nip round to The Globe and sat next to our great “Having retired from Mark Gilbert Headmaster. He went to China in the South Front and have our my post of Chief (Temple 58) February 2012 for the 40th anniversary Executive of Altro Ltd photograph taken at the top of the of Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972. over ten years ago I steps. This we did, but nipped a little Mark had an Madam Li Ming, daughter of Mao, had two main too quickly and passed the school exhibition of hosted a State Dinner for Nixon’s objectives in my retirement. One entry kiosk (there was a tractor his paintings in brother, Edward, and the rest of his was to visit all four tennis grand partially obscuring it) without London in May delegation. He has a new book just slam major tournaments. This was stopping and were chased and 2012, which out: Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman achieved by 2009. The other was to severely reprimanded! The went very well. He sold about 29 oils (Regnery Publishers, 19/11/12). see if I could write a book. This was photograph was successfully taken, and watercolours. His website is finished a couple of years ago and and we returned to the Corinthian www.markgilbertartist.com so I decided to publish this year. It Arch to collect a buggy from the Trust Richard Meredith in which to tour the grounds. This was (Grenville 53) is an historical novel set in the time of Charlemagne (800AD) and very a huge benefit and enabled one of us, Ian Mackenzie In June 2012, Richard celebrated loosely based on the life of a real who uses crutches, to roam over all (Grafton 58) fifty-five years since his licensing life character whose tomb can be the old familiar haunts with his delighted passengers. This buggy is Ian is married as a Church of England Reader. seen in the small village of St with five children He continues to exercise his ministry Guilhem le Désert in the Herault SW provided free. The National Trust could not have been kinder or more and three regularly at St Mary in Charnwood, France. It is called A Certain Doubt. grandchildren Loughborough in the diocese Available through the usual helpful in loaning this, and they have also managed to make the landscape and is an of Leicester. channels! Currently we live in ‘almost-retired Patent Attorney’. Cambridge and spend quite a lot of that we knew and loved, even more beautiful. A day indeed to remember.” His youngest daughter, Harriet, time in our house in SW France not is a violinist and plays in a duo, Peter Shaw too far from the tomb of my hero!” (Cobham 53) under the name Retorica. They Rodney Golton have given many recitals in the Peter writes, “Marilyn, my wife for 40 John Mayers (Temple 57) major concert halls of Beijing, years, passed away in February so it (Grafton 55) Shanghai and three other cities. has not been an easy year for me. Rodney writes, “I still work for Luckily, I have five Donedaire Irish After a lifetime of living in Kenya, “The White Eagle Lodge” (a spiritual Terriers living here and they have done John sold his farm there and at the organisation). The Lodge in the UK Tom Wills-Sandford a great job of looking after me. The end of July 2011, he and his wife has split into 14 regions and I run the (Grafton 58) Donedaire Irish Terriers have continued North of England Regional Centre. This returned to the UK. At present they Tom retired at the to do well in the show ring with several covers all 4 Yorkshires, Lincolnshire are living temporarily in Dorset while end of 2011 after Best of Breeds and two new American they look for a permanent abode. and Nottinghamshire. I have about Kennel Club Champions and a Grand 800 or so souls in my patch and look 49 years in the IT Life here is very different to life in and technology Champion. Star, Ch. Donedaire Star Kenya but they are finding it after any queries, applications for new Sapphire, who will be 15 in December, membership, requests for healing, industry. After extremely stimulating and highly attending university had the crowd cheering and the judge enjoyable with a huge variety of funerals, christenings etc., but not in tears for her performance as a marriages. I am also the Treasurer and in the USA and learning a computer interests available to them. He very language in 1963 at MIT veteran at the Southern California Irish much looks forward to visiting Chief Healer. The main centre is in Terrier Club Specialty Show in Long (Massachusetts Institute of Stowe again and hopes that he will Leeds where we run our principal Beach, CA. The Long Beach show Technology), he worked at Bell Labs, be able to catch up with some of his activities and services. It keeps me ground was next to the RMS Queen very busy (and off the streets!). In my IBM in US and UK and a UK high tech friends who were with him at Stowe. start up. In 1998, he joined Intellect, Mary, which is berthed there as a spare time I also write procedure the trade body for the UK IT industry, tourist attraction and hotel, and I manuals for the Lodge (sometimes becoming Deputy Director General. celebrated the 50th anniversary of my The Revd Donald Reece worldwide as we have regional He spent much time trying to emigration to the US with dinner on (Walpole 55) centres in most countries) as and persuade HM Treasury, the Business board her, again with friends.” when called upon to do so.” Donald writes, “At Michaelmas 2011, Department, Parliament and other I celebrated 50 years ordination as public bodies of the importance of James Alexander priest in the Church of England. I Richard Lord the IT industry to the UK economy. He (Grenville 54) have served in the Dioceses of (Bruce 57) also undertook a number of overseas missions with the Government James has spent most of his career Chester, Derby, Mashonaland (Zimbabwe), Leicester, Southwark Richard has, over the years, been including to India, Israel, the teaching Maths, in particular at awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Palestinian West Bank and China. He Ashdown House in Sussex, where he and London. Most of my ministry has been in urban priority areas, except The College of Estate Management served for several years on the Main was Deputy Head. He is on a lengthy and made an Honorary Fellow of The Committee (Board) of The Hurlingham visit to New Zealand, preparatory to in our Putney parish where Ivo Forde (former OS Society Chair) and family National Association of Estate Club where he is an active member. emigrating there next autumn to join Agents. For the last eight years, he He writes, “I am no geek, but I was his son, Rory Alexander (Grenville 84) were keen members. I have now retired to Oxford and have has been a Director and Trustee of persuaded by the club when I retired who is in business there. Quite an Cotswold Archaeology and now to teach (unpaid) an IT workshop at undertaking at the age of 77! permission to officiate in an honorary capacity in the University Church.” chairs the Finance & General the club for those who had missed Purposes Committee. As one of the the IT revolution at work.” He has Michael Ferrier leading UK archaeological recently become very involved with (Temple 54) Sir Michael Ridley companies, they have continued to the museum at No 1 Royal Crescent (Cobham 56) expand through these difficult and in Bath. They are undertaking a major Michael writes, “In my autobiography challenging times and opened two project of putting the house and a (Propellers and Purple Socks) I new offices, together with a former annex back together again. mention a few anecdotes (a little specialist marine department. In the process, it was discovered that racy) of my time at Stowe in the 50s. the first resident (1776-1796) was his The most amusing includes the direct ancestor, Henry Sandford. He is expedition of four raw and pimply Donough O’Brien lending a number of family paintings, youths visiting a lady of ill-repute in (Chandos 57) miniatures and other artefacts to the Buckingham one Saturday afternoon. Michael writes, “On 23 August 23 museum for the opening. It will be Donough has recently released his There are a couple of less 2012, four of us who shared a study worth a visit after it is re-opened in sixth book, WHO? The Most ‘questionable’ stories.” Copies at together in Cobham in 1955 met at mid 2013! To maintain the family Remarkable People You’ve Never £10 can be obtained from Mike at the new National Trust visitor centre tradition, Tom’s portrait was recently Heard Of and his wife, Liz Cowley, [email protected] for lunch. The four were: Robin painted. The artist was David Parfitt. 19 running terribly late, we missed opera house, owned by Martin and NEWS several of the demonstrations/sports Lizzie Graham, Wagner’s works are events. Nonetheless, and despite the central. After a shortened Ring Cycle chilly weather, a good picnic lunch, with 24 players, (2002, 2004), they amidst the plentiful red, white and have, since 2007, been building the Michael Chapman blue colours, was enjoyed by full version with an orchestra of 70 1960s (Chatham 62) ourselves and many others.” players. Audience and critical Left to right: Dick Clegg (Walpole 63) reception has grown year by year. The William Parry and his wife, Carol, sister Cindy and culmination of their work will come in (Walpole 60) husband Tony Beresford (Old June-July 2013, when they perform 3 Denstonian, poor fellow)! Ring Cycles in the Bicentenary year of After 15 years as a District Councillor Wagner’s birth. Now that he is on West Lindsey D.C., William freelance, he can take on more became Chairman of the Council for Michael started the year in Cairo as Philip Martino outside work. This year he conducted the civic year 2011/12, which Consultant Adviser on a large Saudi (Chatham 63) a revival of Figaro for WNO, and in water system with Lahmeyer together with his wife Janet, made for Philip writes that “After 30 odd years October a performance of Parsifal in (German) then to Manila, Nairobi a busy year, particularly attending of working as a structural engineer, Lübeck, North Germany. A Beethoven and South Sudan as auditor and events and charity fund-raisers in all mainly in the UK, I ‘retired’ in 1997/8 concert last year in Bucharest adviser for 7 regional capitals water the surrounding authorities. to run a hardy plant nursery in (Georges Enescu Philharmonic) was project – the photographs from Warwickshire with my partner the beginning of more concert work. Kenya are at Lake Naivasha. His first Christine. Maybe a peasant’s life His wife Carmen is a stage director, John Blayney time in sub-Saharan Africa was suits me but it has been an they married in her hometown (Chandos 61) great. He is now in Kiribati doing a enjoyable experience, although one Breisach am Rhein near Freiburg, sanitation project to clean up their which we are both beginning to wind South Germany in 1985. In 2014 they environment – sea water flushing down now with approaching (dare I will share the exciting project of system – another beautiful place – say it?) old age. As a keen Tristan und Isolde at Longborough. but so far from everyone including ‘workshopper’ during my time at After the Ring Cycle, this should be a his family. He has one daughter Stowe (do you still have machine fulfilling experience. doing dentistry in London and tools or has H&S forced them out I another farming in Australia, his wonder) I continue with my hobby of wife and son are in Manila whom he His Honour Judge Anthony running a 60 ft steam driven canal hopes to see at Christmas. Scott-Gall (Temple 64) tug on the Grand Union canal. Last John continues his work in the summer, a friend and I organised the Anthony writes about The Armadillos biomass energy industry towards Sir Robert Ffolkes OBE largest ever gathering of steam canal CC restoring cricket at Sheffield Park the launch of a standard industrial (Bruce 62) boats in Coventry and hope to do so Garden. This cricket ground in Sussex wood pellet contract on an again in 2013. Memories of Stowe is one of the most historic in the exchange. This will be the first time Robert writes that, “I am now retired include trying to boil a kettle on DC country. Created by the 3rd Earl of wood pellets for power and heat and living in Norfolk. I do spend electricity as the cold weather Sheffield in the 19th Century it generation have been traded part of the year in Ladakh (India) resulted in ever lowering voltage and hosted many famous matches with electronically as a commodity. Any where I stay in a house I have built the use of 6” nails as fuses. This was the Earl’s team captained by W G interested party involved in the in Leh and travel round the villages surely the one thing Edison was Grace, playing the touring Australians, finance, broking, trading or supply on a woolly grey pony. I also try to seriously wrong about! And lighting a the South Africans and the Parsees. of woody biomass is invited to go to Tibet when I can.” match as ‘Skin’ MacDonald (my After the Earl died, cricket at Sheffield contact [email protected] for housemaster) entered the class for Park ceased and the ground went to further information. He has also Latin (I think), putting the match waste. It remained a forest until 2005 published a short photographic Christopher Wintle back in the box and the box in my when the National Trust cleared it history of his Bentley motor car and (Chatham 62) trouser pocket; one slight error, with a view to restoring the cricket how his late father, A J Blayney Christopher continues as a Senior match put in the wrong way round – ground. The Armadillos Cricket Club (Chandos 27), came to own it. The Research Fellow in Music at King’s result extremely hot, burnt leg and a was founded in 1983 by Anthony book contains interesting references College, London, and is busy strong smell of sulphur. ‘Skin’ was, Scott-Gall (Temple 64) and friends. to Stowe, WW2, the Royal Auxiliary preparing for the centenary of I think, well aware of what had The Armadillos signed a tenancy Air Force and some well-known Old Benjamin Britten’s birth in 2013. happened but being an intelligent agreement in 2008 and the Club set Stoic Bentley owners. The book is Boydell and Brewer have reissued man never said a word realising I was about restoring the ground to its entitled A Gentleman’s Bentley and his Britten monograph All the Gods unlikely ever to do it again!” former glory. Cricket now flourishes is published by Blurb Booksmart. (2006) in paperback, Plumbago there and the Club has many Old Stoic members, both players and Books are publishing his edition of Anthony Negus Hans Keller’s essays on Britten supporters, spanning the generations John Jackson (Bruce 64) from the 1960s to the present day. (Chatham 61) (2013), and Oxford University Press are including his study of the After 35 years on the Welsh National For information please see the working relationship between Opera music staff, Anthony retired in Armadillos Cricket Club website. Britten and Peter Pears during the the summer of 2011. He had assisted first staging of Death in Venice in many distinguished conductors, Bill Evans their Rethinking Britten (2013). He including Sir Reginald Goodall, Pierre (Grafton 65) also writes regularly for the Royal Boulez and Sir Charles Mackerras; Opera programmes. and conducted operas ranging from Bill has sent in Beethoven, Gluck, Handel, Martinu, a photograph John held a celebration 70th birthday Mozart (especially), to R. Strauss, of ice hockey party on 20 October 2012, at the Dick Clegg Wagner (notably Parsifal), Berg and at Stowe. Oxford Spires Hotel. About 20 people (Walpole 63) James MacMillan whose The Sacrifice attended, including Old Stoics Nigel he conducted for the BBC broadcast Rice, Anthony Shillington both in now on Chandos CD. On 10 June Mark Burton Chatham and Jeremy Hamp in 2011, 2 days after his 65th birthday, (Grafton 66) Walpole. All 4 loved sport at Stowe. he conducted a performance of Die Nigel and Anthony were outstanding Meistersinger von Nürnburg at Mark came back from a most athletes and Jeremy a triple colour. Glyndebourne; this, together with enjoyable 10 year stint in Abu Dhabi They had a great time at the party, Dick writes, “My wife Carol and I, Götterdämmerung at Longborough in June 2010 and now, very with short speeches by Anthony and along with my sister Cindy and her 2012, has been a highpoint in his fortunately, has 10 part-time roles John, himself, followed by 2 singers husband Tony Beresford, attended performing life. He is Music Director all around the world in Real Estate. from “Opera on the Run,” performing the Diamond Jubilee Speech Day of the Longborough Festival in the popular arias. activities. Sadly, with the speeches Cotswolds where, in a privately run 20 James Grantham Jess Miller Ian Ritchie John de Borman (Temple 66) (Cobham 67) (Temple 71) (Chatham 73)

Jess is giving talks and one on one Since 2005, Ian has John has help based out of Evolution in Fore been the Director of recently finished Street, Exeter, Devon. He is helping the City of London photographing people with dependency, emotional Festival, which in Dustin Hoffman’s and life problems of all kinds and his summer 2012 directorial debut self help books are available in celebrated its 50th anniversary. In ‘Quartet’ which came out in the James is President of DigitalDispense Evolution at a discount of just £4.95 November, he was named by the cinemas on 1 January 2013. USA LLC, whose Guinness-endorsed each. Contact Jess on 07813 908999 Evening Standard as one of “exactap” for stadia will dispense a to make appointments. Evolution can ‘London’s 1000 most influential Guinness in 4 seconds, without be found at: www.EvolutionExeter.com people’. He will step down in Joseph Miro spillage, rather than the 119.53 summer 2013, after eight Festivals, (Grafton 73) seconds previously recommended so as to devote more time to his Joseph writes, by Guinness for a “perfect pint”. He David Keeling other musical interests; as Artistic (Chandos 68) “There have is also Chairman of INNOVATIUN Director of both the Setúbal Music been many Limited, whose new revolutionary David has written about the family Festival in Portugal and of the memorable “PINTpoint” beer font system for of the Dukes of Buckingham and Musical Brain (Arts, Science & the moments during restaurants and pubs will deliver Chandos, with regard to Jamaica, Mind) as well as his work on the my five years at Stowe. However, high-margin chilled draught West Indies. If you would like to Boards of a number of Arts Charities. nothing is more important or more beverages without the need for a read his research, it is available on memorable than the camaraderie bulky and expensive EUR500-1200 the OS website. and life-long friendships that were in-line cooler. He gives occasional Neil Davidson (Cobham 72) formed at Stowe. The photographs pen-and-watercolour lessons in are a snapshot of a memorable Canterbury for U3A,(work on Lt Col Charles Thwaites Neil developed a revolutionary video moment when I photographed www.CharityArt.webs.com) and held MBE (Bruce 68) technology for the web through his friends (all Grafton) at the Temple of 2 exhibitions before leaving Malta. company My Web Presenters. He British Worthies. They were then He has written a book on his Charles was appointed the has a film studio close to the BBC developed in the small darkroom at Calcutta childhood, which Joanna at White City, and provides film and Stowe to which I kept a key. We did Lumley said was “wonderful”. High Sheriff of Herefordshire for video marketing for many of the not always appreciate how lucky we 2012/13. This is FTSE 100. His film for Virgin Atlantic were to be surrounded by the Revd Richard Lloyd a particular honour for Charles who, won the E-Commerce award for the extraordinarily spectacular gardens most innovative way to engage and and temples of Stowe. However, this Morgan (Temple 66) other than his Army service, has lived in Herefordshire all his life. convert web visitors. He recently is a moment that captures Richard is still working worked with Joe Pelissier (Walpole something of the magic of the as Chaplain at King’s 81) on a video campaign for L’Oreal temples mixed with school boys in College, Cambridge. Neil Wallace at New York Fashion Week. the seventies.” The work is (Chandos 68) predominantly pastoral, but with the Etienne Millner Shaun Springer King’s choir and his background as (Grenville 72) (Chandos 74) an opera singer, there’s a good deal Shaun, as reported by his brother, of music with which he’s involved. Keith Springer (Chandos 79), sadly A good place to work. He had a suffered a heart attack in March sabbatical last year, and went cattle Neil has recently joined a new U.S. 2011. During resuscitation there ranching in Montana – very much was a brief period when his blood to be recommended! company (DaVinci 3D) that has a unique and impressive 3D without was not flowing properly, thereby glasses technology. We can convert Etienne is a Fellow of the Royal causing significant brain damage. Robert Nisbet 2D content to 3D content with or British Society of Sculptors and He is currently at a top neuro (Temple 66) without glasses. He’s the one on President of the Society of Portrait rehabilitation unit in Purley but the right! Sculptors and has received two progress is slow. His cognitive After their move major sculpture commissions. The ability does not seem to have been to deepest Leathersellers’ Company has affected, meaning that he clearly Herefordshire a Philip Wolfe commissioned him to make a life- recognises everyone who visits him. few years back, (Grafton 68) size and a quarter bronze statue of Likewise, his sense of humour Robert and his a ‘Flesher’ to commemorate Her seems in no way impaired. Keith wife have now Philip writes to let us know Majesty The Queen’s Diamond knows he made some close friends got the ‘west that Routledge has recently Jubilee. The statue will be placed at Stowe and that seeing them will wing’ of their old black-and-white published his book Solar in St Helen’s Place, off Bishopsgate make a big difference. If you’d like farmhouse ready for letting as a Photovoltaic Projects in the in the City of London. He has been to visit him or drop him a line then holiday cottage. Excellent walking, Mainstream Energy Market. It’s not commissioned to make a life-size do please get in touch with Keith cycling, etc – they’re looking forward yet competing with 50 Shades of and a half statue of the First World by email [email protected], to enjoying some themselves, after Grey on the bestseller list! War poet and painter, Isaac who would be delighted to make all the DIY. If any Old Stoic would like Rosenberg. The statue will be placed the necessary arrangements. to enjoy a rural break close to the in the grounds of the University of Failing that, your prayers are Welsh border, search online for 1970s London, Birkbeck College. Fund always welcome. Chimney Cottage Sykes. raising has started for this statue. The Hon Anthony Russell Perry Coysh Angus McDonagh (Temple 70) Salvador Potter (Grafton 75) (Grafton 67) (Cobham 72) Anthony has written a Perry and his Angus has had his book The Stamp memoir of his childhood Salvador plans to retire from full wife, Charlotte, Collection, featured in last year’s growing up at Leeds time work at the end of 2012 after are running an Corinthian, reviewed as “a Castle, Kent, where his 6 years running the Processors and up-market bed magnificent hoax” and this can be Anglo-American Growers Research Organisation, and breakfast downloaded onto an iPad from the grandmother, Lady Baillie, was the near Peterborough. He has also from their home, online bookstore at Blurb.com He last private owner. The book, titled been enjoying Old Stoic ‘coverage’ near Ipswich. will donate a copy to the School Outrageous Fortune will be on the popular TV series ‘Fresh www.holbecks.com published in Spring/Summer 2013. library. Meat’! 01473 823211 21 throughout the country. I continue to NEWS Frank Egerton be National Lead for Paralympic (Temple 77) Sport and Sports physician in the Frank was appointed Secretary to the English Institute of Sport and Clinical Director of the University of Bath wonderful time Bodleian Libraries Academic Library Sport and Exercise MSc programme. catching up with Services Strategy Group, in October 1970s cont... With all this, spare time activities are old friends and 2011 and attended the Latin in short supply but I continue to also meeting American Studies Association (LASA) enjoy life in the Bristol area!” Christopher Drake chums who used congress, San Francisco, May 2012 (Walpole 75) to be in Bahrain but are now Stoic for Bodleian Libraries. He was appointed Assessor for Oxford Christopher writes, “In my continuing and OS parents! He also met up Tim Richardson with his old housemaster, Michael University Certificate of Higher (Cobham 77) role as Chairman of The Asia-Pacific Education, Creative Writing, in Network for Moral Education, we held Kirk, whom he hadn’t seen for about 35 years and took a tour of Walpole Michaelmas 2012 and is publishing a successful conference in Taiwan in A Conscious Englishman by Margaret June 2012 and are now planning for with him. He was impressed with all of the study bed rooms but says he Keeping, a novel about the last years a large event in Yogyakarta, of the WWI poet, Edward Thomas, Indonesia in June 2013 with the preferred the idea of having the old studies, which separated sleep from under his StreetBooks imprint theme of “Learning from Diversity www.streetbooks.co.uk Tim is a Managing Partner at Kidd and Commonality: Ways Forward for play, rather than it all being in one place. He spent some time with Rapinet solicitors. He recently Moral Education in the Asia-Pacific”, achieved a long held ambition to do see www.apnme2013.org. Earlier in Simon Creedy Smith and Chris Alastair Jessel Wightman during the day and into a skydive. Next is a cage dive with a 2012, I joined with a few friends in (Grenville 77) great white shark! forming a new charity in Hong Kong: the night!! He just wandered around TCK Learning Centre for Migrant the grounds as he used to do, Alastair started the Workers, which offers courses to appreciating the beauty. We were year by launching Simon Clegg CBE truly blessed with the weather. some of the many migrant workers in the UK’s first ever (Chatham 78) Hong Kong www.tcklearningcentre.org doggie ice cream while another charity of which I am a Major General Sir William (actually a sorbet, Simon who, as Chief trustee, The Mother and Child Health since dogs shouldn’t Executive of the British Cubitt CBE (Temple 76) and Education Trust, has been eat dairy) and the Olympic Association making great progress (and winning William left the Army in October company behind it – Billy + Margot – (1997-2008), led the some awards) for its HealthPhone 2011 after 34 years. He now runs a appeared on Dragon’s Den in national campaign to project: www.healthphone.org. I also family estate in Norfolk. He and his September; Deborah Meaden persuade the recently became the Chairman of the wife, Lucy, have a daughter at invested £60,000 for a 40% stake. Government and the University of Oxford’s China Office Durham University, a son at Oxford He also appeared with Mary Berry Mayor of London to bid for the 2012 Hong Kong Advisory Group.” Brookes University and another son on ‘The Great British Food Revival’ in Olympic Games and who was one of on a gap year. October concerning the manufacture the three British signatories on the of proper, dairy ice cream and his host city contract in Singapore in Simon Gornall company, Taywell Ice Creams, even 2005, carries the Olympic flame (Walpole 75) Howard Goodall CBE has the afternoon tea in the OXO through the streets of Keswick. (Lyttelton 76) Tower named after it. Taywell has After a corporate career with Reckitt helped develop, together with a and Colman, Tesco, John Lewis and Howard was awarded a CBE for famous Michelin-starred chef, a new, Edward Hall Waitrose, Simon has worked since Services to Music Education in the dairy-free and sugar-free ice cream (Walpole 78) 2004 as an Interim Manager 2011 New Year’s Honours. He was which will be launched in the New Edward has been supporting both suppliers and commissioned to compose some Year. It has so far attracted some very retailers wishing to improve their new Water Music for the Queen’s recruited to set up a serious interest around the world new Estate Agency marketing and trading performance. Jubilee River Pageant (not that BBC prior to launch. As the company For example, he recently spent 14 TV viewers heard any of the 10 team for Smiths Gore rapidly expands into the foodservice in Marlborough. months helping NAAFI transform its musical barges, even if Her Majesty sector, it is breaking new ground by business model in those parts of the did!); he was musically responsible Smiths Gore is one supplying restaurants with Japanese, of the UK’s leading firms of rural world where British armed forces for Rowan Atkinson’s memorable Thai, Chinese, Mexican, Spanish and operate, including HM warships. moment in the London 2012 chartered surveyors and property Argentinian flavours of ice creams consultants. Developing a new Olympic Opening Ceremony. and sorbets. Alastair is putting his He continues to present his weekly business out of Marlborough is a Robert Synge work experience back into the perfect challenge for Edward, show for Classic FM, for whom he is educational system by becoming an (Grenville 75) composer-in-residence, ‘Saturday building on 10 years as a Partner for Oxford Brookes mentor for BA and Strutt and Parker, and with a track Robert writes, “My Night at the Movies’, his musical MA hospitality students. He has also A Winter’s Tale is enjoying its record of business development and company – Apollo become a trustee for the educational sales, he relishes the challenge. Business Parks – London première season as he charity of the Golden Hinde ship recently finished writes, his musical Love Story had docked at London Bridge, which a new small-office its US première in Philadelphia in helps educate children about Sir Charles Hugill September and he is currently business complex called Apollo Francis Drake’s history and his (Walpole 78) Office Court, near Buckingham. working on the stage musical forward thinking towards treatment We were honoured at the opening adaptation of Bend it like Beckham of slaves in the 16th century. The After almost 20 years working at ceremony by a guest appearance with its writer-director Gurinder photograph is of the OXO Tower’s the same international advertising from Charlie Duke, an Apollo Chadha. He has a new 6-part BBC2 ‘Taywell Tea’. agency group, Charles has now astronaut who spent three days series on the history of music being started his own independent exploring the moon back in 1972 broadcast from January 2013 with consultancy, providing specialist during the historic Apollo 16 an accompanying Chatto & Windus Dr Stuart Miller advice to a range of clients. mission. The attached picture shows book, The Story of Music, and a new (Chatham 77) Advertisers, agencies and media Charlie performing the opening CD on Decca Classics, INSPIRED, owners, both here and overseas, are also released in January. His Eternal Stuart writes, “ I was appointed Lead now making use of his international ceremony along with myself and the Sports physician for the Olympic and Mayor of Buckingham, Hedley Cadd.” Light: A Requiem has had its 250th experience in what is a fast-moving live performance (during a weekend Paralympic Games in London. and dynamic sector. Any Old Stoics in November where it was This was an amazing, exhausting, operating in these areas and who Jonty Crosse performed simultaneously in fascinating assignment, spending a seek help are welcome to make (Walpole 76) Canada, New Jersey, Texas, year or two preparing and 3 months contact through LinkedIn to discuss Stockholm and Lincoln) and he full-time in London overseeing potential co-operative ventures. Jonty writes that at the October recently composed the music for medical care to the athletes in village 2012 annual reunion he had a the tenth series of Red Dwarf. Polyclinic and all the venues 22 and colleges in the UK, and which Chris Gregory lays out recommendations to triple William Marsden-Smedley Miles Savage (Cobham 79) the annual amount given to (Walpole 82) (Walpole 83) Chris writes, “I’m universities, by 2022. The panel William has recently Miles is getting married to Nicola celebrating 10 years to whom they reported was chaired moved to Knight Frank Robson in March 2013. Best man since setting up in Indd by Professor Shirley Pearce, as a partner in their will be Andrew Keith (Chandos 83). Training, providing formerly Vice-Chancellor of Hungerford office, Miles now lives in Brooke, near Adobe training to Loughborough University, and the specialising in country Norwich and works as the Senior organisations such as report was commissioned by the house sales. Having Partner in the NFU Mutual Suffolk Boden, Condé Nast, BBC Worldwide, Higher Education Funding Council not been back to Stowe for many Coastal office, in Halesworth. HM Treasury and Associated for England. years, he is really enjoying having Newspapers. Latterly I’ve been both their children at the School who specialising in helping companies to are working harder and getting much Tim Hall Mike Tresise (Cobham 84) create their own apps for the iPad (Lyttelton 80) more out of Stowe than he ever did. and other tablets using Adobe’s Rosie is in her final year in Lyttelton Tim has recently shot a new software. I’ve also just produced my Mike has been and Alfie is the third generation of worldwide billboard campaign in first ebook for Kindle and iPad, coaching cricket in his M-S’s to be in Walpole. Great to see New York for Martini. He has also Behind the Scenes of Motor Racing, spare time for many the School in such good shape. opened a gallery space in Notting the first volume of my father’s years, and is now Hill (118 Talbot Road) to showcase autobiography. This tells the tale of Head of Colts Cricket his and other photographers’ his involvement with the early days at Eversley Cricket Doro Morrison (Cobham 82) works. He has recently had of Formula 1 – he not only drove Club. With its own indoor cricket exhibitions in Singapore, Paris himself, but also organised the very facility the 225 year old club has an Doro writes “The documentary I and London – his most recent first race meeting at Brands Hatch, annual charity fixture against made in 2010 called ‘Standing at The being Inside Out, photographs managed both Stirling Moss and Lashings (the ‘Harlem Globetrotters’ Touchlines’ about whether the FIFA from Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Peter Collins and founded the first of cricket) and this year Mike, who World Cup would unite Africa, and commercially sponsored Formula 1 managed to get selected for the 1st with which a few Old Stoics helped team years before it became the XI on the day, faced up to Devon us along our journey through Africa, John Young norm. Of particular interest to Old Malcolm and retired not out! They has aired in Asia and Africa. My (Lyttelton 84) Stoics might be the description of will be hosting Lashings again on latest documentary ‘No Apologies’ John recently marked ten years as a Silverstone in its formative years, not 31 May 2013, followed by their about two Aboriginal girls playing to mention the astonishing bravery annual summer ball the following newsreader and reporter for BBC football at the Women’s World Cup, South East Today, and is slightly shown by the drivers racing there.” evening and all Old Stoics will be has aired in Australia this year.” very welcome. For information, embarrassed to admit he has now email [email protected] been working at the BBC in one Marc Hope Will Isherwood-Smith form or another since graduating (Cobham 79) (Walpole 83) in 1989. In late 2010, he and his Antonia Clark partner Henry took nine months off Marc pictured with (née Mitchell, Stanhope 81) Will is now a Type Rating Training to save cheetahs in Africa, teach Clyde the Games’s Captain with Thomson Airways. monks in Laos and rummage mascot is playing a Antonia is now working as a careers around in a vineyard in New key role on the consultant at City University. Zealand. They live in a house commercial sponsorship programme Jonathan Portman overlooking the sea in Sussex. for The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth (Chatham 83) Games. He is also a Non Executive Sonya Martin Director of three Boards – GB (née Nightingale, Stanhope 81) Jonathan has recently relocated Justin Anderson Taekwondo which achieved a their racehorse training business to (Cobham 85) glorious gold with Jade Jones in Lambourn, Berkshire following the 2012, London Youth Games and purchase of a modern 60 stable Justin and Richard Saville’s software Pro-Active East London. yard with top notch facilities. They company they co-founded in 2005 have enjoyed their two best seasons recently won funding for a £1m R&D on the flat recently and are looking project from the Technology Strategy Peter Neufeld forward to 2013, with one or two Board, in collaboration with Jaguar (Chandos 79) Sonya writes, “My biggest news jumping horses to train in the Land Rover, recognising its is that I was selected as a meantime. They welcome any Old leadership in Cloud Computing. Peter has continued to light several ‘Gamesmaker’ at London 2012 and Stoic to visit the yard or better still See www.flexeyetech.com/about- new plays by Australia’s best known worked all my shifts as a Veterinary join one of their racing syndicates us/history.html to read their story playwright, David Williamson, to Physiotherapist on the headquarters’ as an owner! which starts at Stowe. sold out seasons in Sydney. One of Vet Team at Greenwich. Team GB his major projects for 2013 is as did brilliantly and to be there, technical designer on a major when medals were won and the Toby Priestly Laura Louthan international event in Sydney with National Anthem played, was just (Grenville 83) (Stanhope 85) 185 countries participating taking unbelievable. We were very busy but place over 5 days. He also continues it was a huge privilege to be treating Toby was a nominated finalist in the Laura writes “I’m still his teaching at 5 universities in the these elite horses and enabling them Innovation Category of the Lloyd’s living in Atlanta and Computer Aided Design programme to compete at such a high level. List Asia Awards 2012. Having have been working for Vectorworks of which he is a world The feedback we received was invented and patented a cheap Equifax since late last authority. Some of his work can be superb and friendships made will simple valve (Container Sinka) that year in the Information seen at www.limelight.cc last forever!” sinks shipping containers lost at Security arena, which has been quite sea, reducing risk to life, property something and very challenging, and the environment – this would especially bearing in mind our only 1980s Charles Hopkinson- have been something another Old product is sensitive data. I’ve been Woolley (Temple 82) Stoic might have been grateful for lucky enough to travel all over North on his first Blue Riband attempt! and South America this year for work, Adrian Beney Having worked in London for 23 There are also Customs and but have yet to make it back to the (Grafton 80) years, he moved to Monaco at the National Security aspects to the UK office on their dollar! Maybe next end of March 2012. They are invention. Toby also recently year. In the meantime, I’m still in Adrian has been appointed to the thoroughly enjoying life on the co-founded another business – touch with a few Old Stoics and I get Board of the Association of English Riviera and recently visited Michael Idax Software – specialising in data to hear current Stowe news from my Cathedrals. He was one of the Likierman’s (Chandos 58) mining identity access information nephew who seems to be having co-authors of a recent report which restaurant, Mirazur, in Menton, and analysing risk for businesses. a great time in his last couple of looked at the development of which they can heartily recommend. years there.” philanthropy towards universities 23 Christian Hesketh, on the right, both NEWS captained opposing teams in a 1990s cricket match in Santiago de Chile. Geoff was on tour from New Zealand captaining the Vintage Cricket Tour of Hugh Beattie South America and Christian is the (Chandos 91) 1980s cont... Toby Baker (Bruce 89) captain of the Chilean Masters. Chile Hugh painted the won. The meeting was a coincidence Royal Thames Toby is managing the UK office of Simon Billington and not arranged beforehand. Jubilee Regatta OnlyOne, the exclusive personal (Chandos 86) Christian has recently become the OS as part of his insurance division of the leading representative for Chile. exhibition in Simon is CEO of insurance broker on the French Farringdon. He Private Yacht Group, Riviera – Suisscourtage Assurances continues to a full-service luxury SA. This new division was created Ed Hopley paint portraits in yachting business to serve the Group’s global VIP (Grenville 89) his studio in Fulham. www.jhlb.co.uk based in the UK and clientele. Based in the City of 2012 has been a He is also the Second in Command of France. In November 2012, PYG London, Toby can be contacted via successful year for the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry acquired the European sales agency the website at www.onlyone.mc Ed with exhibitions (Reserves), from which a call goes for Cape Scott Yachts, a range of where he will be pleased to offer at Quaglino’s, The out to any Nottinghamshire Stoics to luxury expedition yachts from 54 to reduced rates to Old Stoics, Wet Fish, and join up! 111ft: www.capescottyachts.com staff and parents. Shutterbug in London, 1950 Gallery in Los Angeles and Maison Euzéby Art Charles Gartside James Cridland Contemporain in Nîmes. Selected as a Nick Fincham finalist in the Photography Open Salon (Chandos 91) (Cobham 86) (Temple 89) 2012, a selection of recent works went Charlie started up his own Nicholas is currently Sales and It’s been a crazy on display at Galerie Huit during Les engineering recruitment business in Marketing Director with eCamion Inc, year for James... Rencontres D’Arles, and one of his November 2012, called ‘FutureGen but also has a consulting company, His new estate images was awarded bronze medal in Recruitment Solutions’ having spent Brent Pelham Associates Ltd. agency business the FMoPA International Photography the last 6 years with the largest Oil has increased far beyond Competition, for which he received and Gas recruitment business in expectations and he has been asked honorary membership of the Florida the world as a Business Manager. Charles Inkin to consult for several Council Museum of Photographic Arts in The business will focus on technical (Chatham 86) departments as well as writing a Tampa. The photograph shows one of engineering clients across the UK monthly blog for the Oxford Times his images from his next show at The Felin Fach Griffin, Galerie Saint Laurent, Marseille as part and European markets. Based in newspaper, and his business was owned by brothers of the events for the European Capital Manchester, he would welcome any shortlisted for the Best Newcomer Charles and Edmund of Culture, Marseille Provence 2013. extra PR opportunities. Inkin under their award at the Estate Agency of the company Eatdrinksleep Year awards! It’s been a fun year too, Ltd, has received a number of 6 year old twins, and an 11 year old Chris Lascelles James Snyder accolades this year: Good Pub Guide keep him busy with rugby, ballet, (Temple 89) (Bruce 91) Inn of the Year; Pub Wine List of the and swimming, not to mention trying His book A Short History of the James recently recorded in a Year at the Roederer/Imbibe Wine List to keep his 1927 Morris up to World is currently a best-seller in masterclass concert with a Virtuosi of the Year awards; AA Wine Award for scratch, both for family trips and the Barnes and Noble History list orchestra. Playing the lead Eb clarinet, Wales; Inn; and a César award in the advertising the business. James’ under World History. He’s working the three day recording session was 2013 Edition of the Good Hotel Guide family keep a yacht in Falmouth but on his next book which is about supported by sound engineers from where it was also named Welsh Inn of he reports this year’s August trip was the future. the Royal Air Force and the BBC. His the Year. It also maintained its somewhat amusing with a ripped CD and iTunes album was released in Michelin Bib Gourmand. The newest gib, jammed anchor chain, plus a December 2012. Over the summer, he member of their stable, The Old dinghy outboard that failed, leaving Alexander Talbot Rice performed in a band called Deep Blue Coastguard in Mousehole, which they him with just oars one of which (Cobham 89) in the Lake District with his brother, acquired in 2012 was named County broke immediately! He still lives near John Snyder (Bruce 83) on the Dining Pub of the Year for Cornwall in Oxford and keeps in touch with a few Alexander spent the summer with Saxophone. He is currently busy the 2013 edition of the Good Pub Old Stoics but would love to hear the Welsh Guards in Southern working as a lecturer in Computer Guide taking the title from The from more, feel free to email him at Afghanistan, working as a war artist. Science for degree level students, Gurnard’s Head which held the title [email protected] if you want a He is currently based at Stowe as having learnt programming principles, for the previous two years. chat and catch up. ‘Artist in Residence’, developing work firstly from his father, Bruce Snyder for an exhibition next autumn at (Bruce 56). In his spare time, he has Stowe, proceeds from which are going Jonathan Fish been using his foreign language skills Alex Lewis to the Welsh Guards Afghan Appeal (Temple 89) to provide services as a qualified (née Goldsmith, Stanhope 87) and providing bursaries for Stoics. interpreter for the Police forces. He intends to return to Afghanistan in Alex now has a new job as VP and Jonathan is Chief Operating Officer the spring holidays to finish his book, Director of Marketing, Warner Bros and a founding shareholder of Ombu A Horse With No Name. Pictures International UK. Group, a new UK investment Hannah Wright company that provides capital and (née Baker, Nugent 91) management support to fast-growing Titus Ogilvy companies in the fields of advanced The Reverend Christopher Turner Since the last (Former Headmaster 1979-1989) (Grafton 87) industrial technology, energy Corinthian Hannah has been technology and water technology. He Christopher Turner writes that his Titus and his wife’s documentary promoted to is currently a non-executive director son, Matthew, now resident in New feature Film ‘Trashed’ premiered in Head of Security, of a number of companies including Zealand, has won the Auckland May 2012 at the Cannes Film Cisco Systems, Open Energi, P2i, Phase Focus and Libraries ‘Create a Character’ Festival, winning several prestigious Europe, Middle Bluewater Bio International. competition with his cartoon story awards since then. The film follows East and Africa “Blest pair of spiders” against 500 Jeremy Irons as he travels around the and Russia. She is also running competitors. In that country that is world and discovers the issues Christian Hesketh Cisco’s Connected Women in IT, quite a prestigious award. He writes surrounding waste and sustainability. (Chandos 89) which is an organisation to inspire, “That is really our only bit of news, The film score was composed and encourage and promote girls and In 2012, Geoff alongside the happy event that our performed by Vangelis. ‘Trashed’ women into the world of Information MacLeod-Smith son-in-law, Joe Mitchell, is at opens in cinemas in the USA in Technology. present playing the bass guitar with December 2012 and in the UK in (Walpole 72) on the left and Jerry and the Pacemakers.” 24 March 2013. sell parts and accessories for jetskis, Rafic Barrage Paul Drayton Alexander Nairn and build race and freestyle (Lyttelton 92) (Former Staff 1972-1993) (Bruce 94) machines that are sent all over the Rafic became a partner in the Paul continues as the music director Alexander and Tara Nairn (née Hay, world. www.jetpower.fr Washington, D.C. office of the global of Duchy Opera in Cornwall and has Stanhope/Lyttelton 94) have moved law firm Baker & McKenzie, where recently conducted eight back to Scotland from Australia Ben Styche his practice continues to focus on performances of Bizet’s Carmen. where they had been for 5 years with (Walpole 96) advising multinational clients on A recent BBC Radio 4 programme their two children Lochie (4) and international taxation matters. told the story of the first ever stage Jasper (2). Alex works as a Chartered Ben is living in Warwickshire and Prior to joining Baker, he was a performance of The Hobbit (attended Surveyor for Savills in Edinburgh and works in the City heading up sales partner in the Washington, D.C., by Tolkien himself) for which he Tara has put her teaching career on at Cafedirect, one of the fastest office of Mayer Brown, where he wrote the music in 1967 when he hold, while she looks after their two growing coffee brands in the UK. had worked since 2002. taught at New College Choir School boys and oversees the construction in Oxford. There were interviews with of their new house in Elie, Fife. himself and the original Gandalf, Charles Bell Vicky Nice who at the age of twelve predated (Walpole 97) (née Thompson, Stanhope 92) Ian McKellen by some years! James Lane (Walpole 95) Charles is involved in a venture Vicky now lives in Rudgwick on the (and the opening) of a new 6 star Sussex/Surrey border. Alongside William Evelyn James is currently the International boutique hotel property in London bringing up her young family she (Chandos 93) Sales Manager for Princess Motor called The Wellesley, located in runs an interior design practice, Vicky Yacht Sales based out of London. Knightsbridge, which opened in Nice Interiors, from home. She William would www.princess.co.uk He is living in December 2012. He is their new specialises in domestic interiors and certainly like our Thames Ditton, with his Doris, Emma. Night Manager. The website is tackles anything from a one-room fellow Old Stoics to www.thewellesley.co.uk It will be a makeover to total refurbishment of know that Tumuñan gem of a small boutique hotel and a large family homes. Her website is Lodge is the number 1 rated lodge in Matt Newnham haven for those Old Stoics who enjoy www.vickyniceinteriors.co.uk so do the Colchagua region of Chile, and (Temple 95) a cigar. We will be holding cigar get in touch if you think she might be they have just planted a vineyard of Matt is a Partner with the law firm tasting events in the near future! The able to be of any help with making Cabernet Sauvignon, the highest Birketts LLP based throughout the hotel will be home to the largest walk your house and home. Cabernet Sauvignon in the region. East of England practising in humidor and selection of cigars. This is the first bottling in 4 years. employment law. Oliver Wilson Tom Mulroy (Cobham 92) Dr Nick Smith Miranda Raison (Temple 97) (Bruce 93) Oliver’s paintings (Lyttelton 95) Tom writes, “2012 has offer an insight into a Nick has curated the display Miranda writes, “In been a very busy and dreamlike world using ‘Collecting Abroad for the V&A October 2011, I played exciting year, both models in and around 1851-1914’, Victoria and Albert Anne Boleyn in Howard personally and pools to portray figure Museum (Library Landing, Room Brenton’s new play professionally. studies in a contemporary setting. 85), 2 October 2012 - 26 May 2013. ‘Anne Boleyn’ at The It started in February with the He uses photography to capture the Globe Theatre. It actually opened as a birth of our son, Maximilian. At the images initially, enabling the viewer new play at The Globe in 2010 but we start of the summer, we moved from to see refractions of flesh and fabric Dr Peter Straker Manchester to Surrey, to set up the (Cobham 93) were invited back in 2011 as the first under the water. The subjects have a new play at The Globe ever to have new office of Calderpeel Architects, distortion bordering on abstraction Peter, having lost a career in sold out. I then went on to film Merlin to focus on the high end residential whilst maintaining a subtle surgery to MS, has set up a charity (BBC), Dirk Gently (BBC) and Sinbad market of one off superhomes. photographic realism. The titles of which funds research into MS. (Sky) before going to Dublin to film Please get in contact should you his recent works reflect the setting Donations are always welcome to: ‘Vexed’ for the BBC alongside Toby need any architectural services or of the scenes in the Greek Isles and www.whitecoatwonders.com In Stephens as DI’s Georgina Dixon and advice. So, this year has been also evoke the mythologies of the 2012, he was appointed as Coroner Jack Armstrong. I returned to London children, move across the country, ancient sea gods and nymphs. He to West Yorkshire (Western District), in April to start rehearsals for ‘The new job and marriage – hopefully has exhibited in London, New York, where he is moving to with his Physicists’ at the Donmar Warehouse next year will be a little bit calmer!” Chicago, Athens and the Bahamas daughter and wife, who is which ran until July 2012. Through and is in collections from Nassau expecting their second child. August and September I filmed the to Delhi. Matt Rader last 2 ever episodes of Lewis as the (Temple 97) guest lead alongside Alison Steadman Camilla Hampton and then went to Paris to film a new Matt finished his MBA at Wharton/ Rupert Alexander (née Wilson, Nugent 94) (née Atkinson, Chatham 93) police series starring Jean Reno. I’m University of Pennsylvania in May Camilla left the City in March 2012 to now at the Royal Court doing the new 2011. He spent six months travelling, Rupert’s portrait of Rob embark on a new career. She has set Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem) play hiking and exploring around Europe Fahey, the World up an Interior Design and Soft directed by Ian Rickson (Jerusalem) and the US and enjoying life without Champion real tennis Furnishing company called Camilla with Dominic West (The Wire) called work – including a visit to the summer player, spent last Hampton Interiors. They provide ‘The River’. party at the Roof Gardens last June summer hanging at the design advice, make curtains, blinds and the New York Old Stoic event in National Portrait Gallery as part of the and cushions and sell beautiful October. In October, he started work BP Portrait Award. It then travelled to Will Kemble-Clarkson at McKinsey and Company as a antiques and pictures. They are just (Bruce 96) the Scottish National Portrait Gallery about to open a shop in Wandsworth management consultant. He lives in in Edinburgh where it presently town. www.camillahampton.com Will has founded a brand Philadelphia and would love to see hangs. His portraits of the Royal consultancy called Perlin Design. any Old Stoics who “make it this way”! Family, including his 2010 portrait of the Queen, (which featured on the Paul McSweeney front of the Daily Telegraph on 27 April (Cobham 94) Richard Plyer Edward Bowring 2010), formed part of the QEST (Grenville 96) (Grenville 98) exhibition at Fortnum and Mason last Paul is currently training to be a barrister at the College of Law in Richard now lives in France Ed qualified as an occupational summer, as part of an exhibition therapist in the summer of 2012 and which celebrated British craft Birmingham, and will be called to the and is the 2012 French Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in July 2013. Amateur Jetski Freestyle is now working at the Huntercombe marking the Diamond Jubilee, Hospital in Roehampton with opened by the Queen. He is grateful still to be in touch Champion. He and his regularly with a number of Old Stoics. brother, Rowland Plyer (Grenville 99) patients with brain injury and mental are the owners of Jetpower, and they health issues. 25 three months working in Theodore NEWS Gericault’s original studio in Paris Darcy Terry and copying directly from the finest (Chandos 00) Old Masters in the Louvre. From April Darcy has started his training at 2010, I returned to the Loire Valley to Ripon College, Cuddesdon to be spend a further 6 months studying 1990s cont... Christopher Davis ordained as a vicar in the Church of (Chandos 99) under the tutelage of Ted Seth Jacobs England. He will be completing 3 at his school, École Albert Defois. In years and will be ordained in 2015. Kristjan Byfield Christopher qualified as a commercial February 2011, I spent an additional (Grafton 98) solicitor in September 2012. four months with an accomplished fine artist, Ryan Wurmser in his Hugo Wilson Kristjan writes that 2012 has been studio in Los Angeles, California. (Grenville 00) a huge year for his London Estate Pietro Melloni While in Italy, France and California Agency and property services (Grenville 99) I developed my ability and Hugo has shown a lot internationally company – base property Pietro has managed to turn his 3 understanding in figurative painting, specialists. They won Gold as the still life painting, portraiture, over the last year, passions of art, architecture and including ‘Best London Letting Agent north of skiing into daily fun and work. He landscape painting and composition. the River Thames’ at the ESTAS in Each school taught traditional exhibitions in now lives in St Moritz, runs his own London, Madrid, April; their website was shortlisted methods that can be traced back to architecture office www.psstudio.ch Bologna, New York and most recently as one of the best in the UK at the the Old Masters and is the basis of and works in an art gallery with a solo show ‘Ideal Hauntology’ at the Digital Entrepreneur Awards; they much of my work. Due to being born Gallerie Gmurzynska from Zürich. He Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles. In this were shortlisted for both ‘Best UK into a family of equine enthusiasts, married Simsa McNally Melloni and exhibition Hugo brought together a Independent Letting Agent’ and and brought up on a stud, one can they have 2 “bellissime” daughters. collection of paintings, drawings and ‘Best UK Property Marketing Team’ easily understand my keen interest in Greta 4 and Elena 2. instillations to investigate the at The Negotiator Awards; they won painting my chosen subject matters. philosophical concept of hauntology, Gold as ‘London’s Best Letting For many years I have studied the which suggests that we are drawn to Agent’ and Bronze for ‘Best UK Rory Scott composition of the horse and drawn the aesthetics and ideas of the past. Letting Customer Service’ and ‘Best (Bruce 99) great inspiration from my Hugo’s work juxtaposed the primal UK Lettings Website’ at The Landlord involvement in the horse racing Rory went to mysteries of life against the logic of and Letting Agent Awards and finally industry. I also take great delight in modern science to create a unique they were shortlisted for ‘Best UK Matt Williams’ portraiture, still life and landscapes. (Bruce 99) dynamic of “organised chaos” that Estate Agency Website’ at The Times I have exhibited numerous times in blurs the boundaries between faith wedding last and Sunday Times Estate Agency of London and my first international and reason. Hugo unites the summer in the Year Awards 2012. All this was solo exhibition was in Riyadh, Saudi seemingly divergent realms of science Ibiza when he married India topped off by a 25% growth in Arabia, in January 2010. I have and humanity by placing his art at the Masson-Taylor. The wedding was business and a 35% increase in collectors from all over the world, intersection of both these worlds. attended by the following Old Stoics profits. A very exciting year with big including members of the Saudi Hugo will also be featured in the plans for 2013. They welcome all of whom were in Bruce, and Arabian Royal family and world acclaimed Phaidon catalogue, Vitamin London property enquiries from Old ushers at the wedding. Back row, leading race horse owners, such as D2, which is an up-to-date survey of Stoics and offer special rates for left to right: Adam Cottrell (99), Mr and Mrs John Magnier and Mr and contemporary drawing featuring 115 them too – contact Kristjan at Mark Williams (95), Henry Wood Mrs Derrick Smith to name but a few. artists from around the world, due for [email protected] our website (99), James Haselwood (99) Front I am now in the process of preparing release in May. Later this year, he will is www.baseps.co.uk row, left to right: Rory Scott (99), a sporting themed solo show for June be exhibiting at the MODAM Centre for Matt Williams, the bridegroom, 2013 at the Osborne Studio Gallery, Modern and Contemporary Arts in and Chris Reeves (00). Belgravia, London. For more Hungary. The drawing, inset, forms Verity Scott information please visit my website part of the Deutsche Bank Collection. (Nugent 98) 2000 www.nicholaeddery.co.uk” Verity has been working as a Juliane Althoff ‘production buyer’ for the BBC at Tom Furse-Roberts (Nugent 01) the new Media City in Manchester Stephen Davis (Bruce 00) and is pleased to announce that the (Chandos 00) Juliane is now working as a lawyer for CBBC show The 4’0 Clock Club (on Tom is now a Director at Boundary Michael Simkins LLP, a media and which she has been working for Stephen has recently changed jobs, Space Ltd, a London based entertainment law firm in London. 2 series) has been nominated for 3 moving from marketing in the music architects specialising in high end Baftas. For now she is taking some industry to heading the marketing at residential buildings and hotels. well earned time off to go travelling Vouchercloud, overseeing its Amelia Annfield (Nugent 01) around Malaysia and Australia European strategy. This is based in Bristol. Vodafone recently took a Dr James Pegrum until August 2013 so fellow OSs, Amelia has have been living in controlling stake in the company (Chatham 00) please get in touch with her on Melbourne for the last 2 years and has recently launched in the [email protected] working as a film production Netherlands, with Germany opening James has had a coordinator. She moved to New in February 2013. Further countries busy 12 months. Zealand in December 2012 to Gideon Ashworth across Europe and beyond are He finished his continue work in Auckland. (Walpole 99) planned for 2013 and into 2014. basic surgical traning in Brighton Gideon would like to mention and now is only one of two people to Tom Baxendale news of his latest business – obtain a permanent position as a Nichola Eddery (Grenville 01) www.bespokegardenfeatures.co.uk (Lyttelton 00) specialist Orthopaedic Trauma He’s still designing and building Surgeon in Oxford. James has been Tom writes, “I have been living in Nichola writes, gardens all over the country, as well fortunate enough to travel the world Shanghai, China for the last 5 years “Whilst at Stowe as specialising in garden features presenting research in neck injuries, and have set up an industrial I was heavily and structures, tailored to sustained playing rugby and lower leg procurement, design & supply chain encouraged by the individual. stress fractures in athletes. The management company specialising my art teachers summer was hectic with getting in aiding mostly European to develop my married to Julia at Stowe Chapel on companies manage their purchasing art work. On leaving Stowe and after Sarah Dalby 21 July 2012, followed by working as operations and engineering (Lyttelton 99) a gap year travelling through Africa, a Trauma Surgeon and Sports solutions in the Far East. Next year, I studied at the Charles H. Cecil Medicine Doctor at the Olympics we are expanding and will have a Sarah started a new job as Head of Studios in Florence, Italy. During games covering BMX, Equestrian and second office opening in Mumbai, Science at Worksop College, 2009, I continued my studies at modern pentathlon. India”. www.zg-sourcing.com Nottinghamshire (an HMC school). Studio Escalier in the Loire Valley, 26 France, during which time I spent They organise a big fundraiser ball music is available on the website and music for the BBC Club, Coutts Mark Harper every November and various other from all the usual download sites Concierge, Grange Hotels, Hotel du (Bruce 01) fundraising events throughout the including iTunes. www.rykersear.com Vin, The Kensington Roof Gardens Mark is currently studying an MBA at year. She has written a documentary and Ten Group as well as working NYU Stern in New York. Next year he featuring the charity and is now with many private events across the producing it and making it alongside Lisa Greatwood UK and Europe. will start working for JP Morgan in (Former staff 1995-2005) the Investment Banking division, a fantastic NYC based director which focusing on Latin America. is also very exciting and will be seen Lisa writes, “Although I am still at the end of 2013. She has gathered Dominic Farr working at Rugby School, I was (Chatham 07) together an 8 man team to run in the granted a sabbatical for a year and Caroline Hughesdon London 2013 London Marathon for so am currently in Australia studying Dominic started up a Music and Arts (née Tovey, Lyttelton 01) the charity. In that team are 3 Old at Moore College, Sydney. It is festival called Farr Festival on his Stoic girls; Tara Nolan (Nugent 2003), strange to be on the other side of the father’s farm in Hertfordshire. Since Caroline and her husband, James, Zara White (Lyttelton 06) and Lucy moved back to London from Westcott desk for a change but I am loving it. 2010, it has grown in popularity and Mullen. A bit about the charity: Chain I am studying for a Diploma in Bible has become a great success. House, where James had just completed of Hope exists to provide children his ordination training, then two weeks and Ministry to help me become a For more information please visit suffering from life-threatening heart better Chaplain. Andy Pearce www.farrfestival.co.uk later James was ordained in St Paul’s disease with the corrective surgery Cathedral and ready to start his new job. (Walpole 96) is also studying for a and treatment to which they do not degree here as well, with his family.” It has been a busy but exciting few have access. Chain of Hope does this Imogen Midwood months living in the Parish of St Paul in two ways: by sending out medical (Nugent 07) Old Ford in East London, as well as teams to treat children in their own Robert Parry becoming new parents to Emma. country, by setting up training (Grenville 05) Imogen graduated programmes for local surgeons and in June 2012 from Robbie started his own company Bristol University, Alex Rogers medical staff and by bringing children to the UK for operations as just over a year ago. Bassline with a dentistry BDS (Walpole 01) an interim measure. Productions is a bespoke events qualification. Alex graduated and equipment hire company She is now working in Prestbury, from LAMDA in July specialising in sound and lighting. Cheltenham as a private and NHS 2012, and now Jamie Ryde They can assist with equipment for dentist. When she was at Stowe, runs Smoke & (Chatham 03) any event, including weddings, she was the only student whom the corporate days, private parties, teachers remembered going on to do Mirrors. Working Jamie is currently residing in with five of the UK’s premiere property festivals and night clubs to name a dentistry at University. Australia working as a consultant in few. The most recent addition to his agents, Smoke & Mirrors creates fully construction and he writes, “I would interactive murder mystery events for company is a mobile bar service. love to hear from any OSs who live www.basslineproductions.co.uk Krishan Thadani exclusive private parties – and they all out here!” (Bruce 07) take place in ingeniously haunted houses. Alex would be very happy to Thomas Blain Krishan became engaged to Renee hear from any Old Stoics planning a Caroline de Peyrecave (Grenville 06) Quirk in the summer of 2012. weekend away and, indeed, to offer (Nugent 04) them a special rate. Full details – Thomas is working in the bloodstock including a video trailer filmed on Last year, Caroline industry and moved to Newmarket 2 Charles Thuillier location at Stowe – can be found at was commissioned years ago. In 2012, he obtained a (Bruce 07) www.hauntedmysteryweekend.co.uk by Halcyon Days to new job with a bloodstock agency, draw HM The Queen Charles has left a called Blandford Bloodstock and graduate position at and HRH Duke of has travelled all over the world, Nick Verney Edinburgh for their Diageo to work full purchasing some of the best bred time on producing (Temple 01) Diamond Jubilee Charcoal collection. young race horses on offer. From Lately, she has been painting Luke what is believed to be Nick is engaged to be married to January 2013, he has taken up a the world’s first truly healthy ice Donald, the world’s number one new and very exciting role of Alexandra Munro Ferguson (not golfer for Beaconsfield Golf Club. She cream. Launching early 2013. herself an OS, but her father Ronald Assistant Manager at Barton Stud in [email protected] also painted Angela Rippon for the Newmarket, which will be a huge is!) and they will be married at Lady Taveners in a demonstration at Inverness Cathedral on 4 May 2013. challenge. the Mall Galleries. This is the link for Max Mackintosh the Halcyon Days collection: (Chatham 08) Christopher Dalton www.halcyondays.co.uk/shop.aspx?cat=3 Clementine McGaw (Grenville 03) (Nugent 06) Max graduated from Manchester University in May 2012 with a 2.1 Christopher graduated from his George Cox Clementine writes, in environmental science and is architecture course with a distinction (Grenville 05) “I recently won my planning to spend 4 months playing at The University of Nottingham in second award club cricket in Napier, New Zealand. Geordie is living in London and ‘The Graingers 2010; he is currently working for working as a trainee solicitor with a Sheppard Robson Architects in Award for Young City law firm, called Macfarlanes. He Artist 2012/2013’ Henry Pilleau London in their residential sector. is due to qualify in September 2013. awarded by the NOAC. I am currently (Grafton 09) working in London and exhibiting and Will Gallimore selling internationally, in Korea and Henry is currently in his final year at Regan Gardner Oxford Brookes, studying Real (Bruce 03) (Nugent 05) Hamburg. I am represented by Shine Artists at the Albermarle Gallery in Estate Management. William is working in the City as Head Regan’s passion Green Park and working towards an of Actuarial for High Finance Group. He for music MA at the Royal Academy for which I Albie Mackintosh is playing lots of golf and in the process before, during will shortly be applying.” (Chatham 10) of trying to join Royal St George’s Golf and after her Club in Kent. He continues to raise time at Stowe Albie is currently studying Medical money for spinal research through made it inevitable that she would Mark Stormont Bio Chemistry at Oxford Brookes. golf events and charity dinners. make this her world of work. Regan (Temple 06) fronts alternative rock outfit Ryker Upon graduating from Durham Lucy Mullen Sear. Playing established rock venues University in 2009, Mark founded (Nugent 03) like London’s Camden Barfly and Amethyst Music, an event music Water Rats, Regan has written most of agency based in London and now Lucy has been on the board for the the band’s material and handles lead acts as the premier supplier of live Chain of Hope since 2004. vocals and rhythm guitar. The band’s 27 wedding. Left to right Tom Barker (Bruce 95), Virginie Paessler (Nugent Matthew Williams 96), Max Mlinaric (Temple 96), (Bruce 99) Marriages Joe Stewart (Chatham 96), Charlie Matthew married India Masson- Stevenson (Bruce 96), Hugh Carling Taylor on 6 October 2012 in Ibiza. (Grafton 96), Guy Harwood (Grafton The wedding was attended by 57), James Dewar-Durie (Chatham 7 Old Stoics. 96), Nabil Moutran (Bruce 96), Jamie Robert Margossian Heriot Maitland (Bruce 97), Stuart 1950s (Chatham 95) Mun-Gavin (Chatham 96)(hidden!), best man Henry Titley (Chandos 96), 2000 Colin Maher Olly Gregson (Grafton 96) (hidden!), (Chatham 55) Alasdair Johnston (Bruce 96), Jeremy Olivia Ashfield Colin married his Pemberton (Chatham 96), Daniel (née Burwood-Taylor, Lyttelton 00) Russian fiancée of Collier (Chandos 96), Victoria the past 10 years, Casewell-Lunn (Lyttelton 96), Crispin Sveta. They married Marsland-Roberts (Walpole 96) Alex at the ‘Palace Robert married Ayse Erenel on Dewar-Durie (née Finch-Knightley, of Weddings’ in Moscow on 2 September 2011 at St. Yeghiche Nugent 96), Jenny Hudson (Lyttelton 24 October 2011. Armenian Church, London with the 96), Charlotte Jones (Lyttelton 96), reception at The Natural History Alexander Bodikian (Grafton 96). Museum. Old Stoics in attendance (left to right) are Alix Calvocoressi 1970s Rachael Milford Olivia married James Ashfield on (née Stuart-Bruges, Nugent 95), (née Jones, Lyttelton 96) 28 April 2012 at St David’s Robert Margossian, Mark Williams Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. Old Stoics Harry Lendrum (Bruce 95), Rupert Calvocoressi Rachael married Mark Milford on 18 in attendance, from left to right, were (Temple 73) (Chatham 95), James Paravicini August 2012. In attendance were Clare Duncan (née Fraser-Smith, (Bruce 94), Richard Dobbin (Chatham Harry married Elizabeth Anne other Old Stoics Alison Marston Lyttelton 00), Catesby Langer-Paget 95), Francis Wallis (Bruce 95), Lockhart at Chelsea Old Church on (Lyttelton 96), Ashley Jones (Walpole 00), Rupert Burnell-Nugent Emanuele Pesenti (Grenville 95), 8 October 2011. (Grenville 94), Robin Jones (Grenville (Walpole 00), Piers Winton (Walpole Luke Smith (Bruce 95), Ed Roques 99), James Defty (Temple 99) 00), Jay Ashfield, (Groom), Bride (Chatham 95), Dan Wills (Temple and Charles Howard (Grafton 99). Olivia Ashfield (née Burwood-Taylor, 95), Nicholas Janson (Chatham 95), They now live in Singapore. Lyttelton 00), Charlotte Devonshire 1980s Christopher Janson (Chatham 03), (Lyttelton 00), Naomi Powell (Nugent Jason Cheng (Grenville 95), William 00), Woody Morley (Chatham 00), Rudge (Walpole 95) and Ross Kate Papadimitriou Nick Fincham Roo Corbishley (Chatham 00), Emily Atherton (Bruce 95). (née Stephens, Nugent 96) (Cobham 86) Almond (née Holloway, Lyttelton 00), Kate married Michael Papadimitriou Camilla Grounds (Lyttelton 00) and Matt Newnham on 25 June 2011. Old Stoics in Emma Wainwright (Lyttelton 00). (Temple 95) attendance were Amy Stephens Other Old Stoics in attendance were (Nugent 99), Polly Stephens (Nugent Roddy Burwood-Taylor (Bruce 66), 00), Alison Marston (Lyttelton 96), Louisa Burwood-Taylor (Lyttelton 03), Henrietta Atkinson (Lyttelton 96), Antony Berger (Grafton 82), Nigel In January 2010, Nick married Fenella Hunt (Lyttelton 96), Kate Jamieson (Grenville 69) and Nicola Dr Sarah Rauth a Radiation Maxted (Lyttelton 96), Angus Havers Osborne (Lyttelton 03). Oncologist, in Las Vegas. His (Temple 96). Matt recently married Sally and brother, David Fincham (Walpole 91) is enjoying life very much. The Catesby Langer-Paget was present as best man. marriage took place at Norwich on Tom Mulroy (Walpole 00) 29 September 2012. Old Stoics in (Temple 97) attendance were best men Luke Tom married his 1990s Smith (Bruce 95) and Ross Atherton fiancée, Gayle (Bruce 95), and Richard Dobbin Baty, in October (Chatham 95). Maurits Gorlee 2012 at his (Walpole 91) parents’ home in Mentmore, Buckinghamshire. Maurits married Carolina Verhoeven Digby Oldridge Catesby married Bayan Osborne on on 21 March 2012. (Chandos 95) 20 August 2012 at Gretna Green in Scotland. From left to right best man Digby married Laura Lamb Piers Winton (Walpole 00), Catesby Iain Hall Katherine Mills on (née McMaster, Nugent 99) Langer-Paget (Walpole 00), Bayan 8 September at (Grenville 93) Laura married David Lamb on Langer-Paget, (née Osborne), Minchinhampton 12 May 2012 at Christ’s Chapel of and usher, Rodney Langer-Paget Iain married Katie Church. Old Stoics God’s Gift in Dulwich. (Walpole 03). Stuart on 16 June in attendance 2012 in North were Richard Berwick, near Hoskins (Grenville 95) and Edward Georgina Peace David Widdick Edinburgh. Deborah Morgan (Chandos 95). (née Lee, Nugent 99) (Chatham 00) Webster (Stanhope 93) attended the Georgina married wedding. Will Kemble-Clarkson Alex Peace on (Bruce 96) 14 July at Birtsmorton Court in Jo Rankin Worcestershire. They (née Francis, Stanhope/Lyttelton 94) both currently work at Monmouth School, Jo married Richard Rankin on where she is Head of 20 October 2012 in North Berwick, English and Alex is near Edinburgh. Old Stoic, Tim a Housemaster. David married Melissa Morgan on Dew (Chandos 90) attended. Will married Tara McKeen on 31 13 October 2012 in Richmond, March 2012 at Chelsea Old Church, Surrey. Alexander Pooley (Grenville London. 23 Old Stoics attended the 28 00) was best man. Lucy Kelly Charlotte Southwell (née Wright, Nugent 01) (née Lee, Nugent 97) Lucy married Justin Kelly in March BIRTHS Charlotte and her husband James 2012 and they are expecting their are pleased to announce the arrival first baby in March 2013. of Evelyn Rose on 18 October 2012, a sister for Olivia May. especially thankful that Max doesn’t Christopher Dalton 1980s wake up too often in night…!” (Grenville 03) Armand David (Chatham 98) Mark Drage Rachel Bruins (Chatham 86) (née Beer, Stanhope/Lyttelton 94) Armand and Amanda are pleased to Calum David John Rachel and her announce the birth Drage born 18 husband, Jonathan, had of Isabel Lila December 2011 in a baby boy, William, on Kingsmill David born on 19 October Preston, Lancashire to 23 May 2012, a brother Christopher married Catherine at 2012. All, including proud big sister Kerry Ashcroft and to Abigail and Isabella. Beeston Free Church, Nottingham Emily (2), are doing well. Mark Drage. His three sisters (Olivia, on 16 October 2010. Ophelia and Sienna) as well as his parents think he’s wonderful despite Vishal Daryanani Laura Marshall (Temple 94) Merlin Hanbury-Tenison looking so much like his Daddy. (née Humber, Lyttelton 98) (Temple 03) Vishal and his Laura and Robert had wife, Priyanka, Merlin married James Gartside a new baby boy, had a daughter, Lizzie Hemstock on (Chandos 87) Lucas Elliott Marshall, Mahika Aashna 2 June 2012 at on 17 August 2012. Daryanani born Cardinham Church A little brother for on 27 March 2012. Mahika was born on Bodmin Moor. sister, Sophia. in Manchester although they are all Jeremy Nichols (former Headmaster) living in Lagos, Nigeria where he is attended with his famous 1923 the Managing Director of an Energy Bentley and Jamie Henderson Susannah Theophilus James’ wife Katie gave birth to twin Solutions company. (former Temple Housemaster) (née Toynbee, Nugent 98) girls in May 2012, Hollie Elizabeth played the organ in the church. and Poppy Lancashire, sisters to Susannah and her husband, Phoebe. Henrietta Black Luke, had a baby boy, Zac, Danielle Lilley (née Magan, Lyttelton 95) on 3 January 2012. (née Goodger, Lyttelton 03) Huw Thomas Henrietta and Dan had a baby girl, Ella (Eleanor Anne) on 30 July 2011, Danielle (Chandos 87) Rowland Plyer a little sister for Jamie. married Ben (Grenville 99) Huw and his wife, Leigh and Lilley on daughter, Cameron, welcomed a 21 July at baby boy, Graydon James Thomas, James Lane Waddesdon on 26 September 2012. (Initial (Walpole 95) Manor. impression being he’ll be an James and his openside flanker!) partner, Emma, are Sarah Walker pleased to announce Rowland now lives in France and (née Collett, Lyttelton 06) the birth of their first Huw Burford-Taylor married Eva Precigou on 20 August daughter, Lola Lavender Lane, born (Grenville 88) 2011. Their baby son, Edward, was on 20 May 2012 at a ‘fighting’ born on 3 August 2012. Huw and his wife, Anna, are pleased weight of 7lbs 3oz. to announce the birth of their son, Rafferty Christopher Burford-Taylor on 16 May 2012. Kate Papadimitriou 2000 (née Stephens, Nugent 96) Sarah married Oliver Walker on 28 April 2012 at Crockwell Farm. Helen Corner Kate and Michael Rupert Burnell-Nugent had a son, Yanni, (Stanhope 88) (Walpole 00) born 4 April 2012. Anna Hughes Helen is engaged to Rupert and Emily had a baby (née Jackson, Nugent 08) Mace Bryant, and girl, Jemima Mary, born at the had a son, Albion Ben Styche Chelsea & Westminster Hospital (Walpole 96) Thomas Bryant on 16 March 2012. born 6 March 2012. In 2012 Ben and his She now lives in Dorset and travels wife Annabel welcomed Caroline Hughesdon to London for her business, Toby Frederick Styche (née Tovey, Lyttelton 01) Cornerstones, a literary consultancy. into the world on 17 September. Caroline and her Anna married Dr Jonathan Hughes husband, James, on 18 December 2011 in Stowe 1990s had a daughter, Chapel. Her sisters Clare Jackson Emily Cosby Emma Rosemary (née Williams, Lyttelton 97) (Lyttelton 07) and Lucy Jackson Maurits Gorlee who was born on (Nugent 11) were bridesmaids and (Walpole 91) Emily and her 11 June 2012. her father, Reverend Jackson husband, Alex, (Former Chaplain) walked her down Maurits and his had Ethnie Zillah Emma Thompson the aisle. Anna’s Godfather Pete wife, Carolina had a Judith Cosby who (née Blayney, Nugent 02) Last (Walpole Housemaster) gave son, Maxwell (Max) was born on 30 the address. Also in attendance Gabriel Adriaan June 2012, a little sister to William, Emma and Piers had a son, were Nella O’Brien (Nugent 08) and Gorlee on 26 May who will be 3 in January 2013. They Wilfred Piers John on 19 July 2012. Pippa Russell (Nugent 08). Left to 2012 in The Hague, the Netherlands. are currently living in Ireland, having right Lucy, Anna, Jon and Clare. “We are all doing well, and we’re moved back there in March 2012. 29 Mr Nigel Murray (Cobham 56) on 3 November 2012 Obituaries Mr Adrian Thorpe (Bruce 56) on 27 March 2012 We have provided information about the lives and careers of a number of particular Old Stoics. In so Count Zygmunt Zamoyski doing, we realise that there are many other Old Stoics who will have made no less a contribution to (Grenville 56) on 26 September 2012 society, the country and the lives of others. We hope, though, that in reflecting upon the lives of these Mr William Rainbow alumni and their achievements in the world of academe, politics, the arts, the services and business, (Cobham 57) on 12 December 2012 we are able to demonstrate the enormously diverse contribution of Old Stoics to the world. Mr John Hancox (Grenville 59) in November 2012 1960s Col John Durie MBE (Cobham 38) 1920 – 2012 Mr Brian Borthwick John Durie left Stowe, from Cobham House, in 1938 and went to the RMA Woolwich on a maths (Grenville 61) on 12 June 2012 scholarship. He was commissioned, just before the outbreak of war, into the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Mr Howard Oakley He had an interesting and diverse career in the Gunners, serving in horse, field and amphibious (Chandos 61) on 8 February 2012 appointments and was, variously, on the Staff of the Governor of Kenya during the Mau-Mau emergency, Mr Gavin Vapenik Defence Adviser in Iran and the senior army representative in the Corps of Royal Marines, as the Colonel (Bruce 61) on 11 May 2012 AQ, and commander of the garrison fort at Plymouth – a ceremonial appointment. He was awarded an Mr David Hadfield operational MBE during the Italian campaign in the War. On retirement from the Army, he was selected (Walpole 63) on 1 December 2012 as the Secretary General of the Royal Yachting Association, an appointment he held for eleven years and Mr J Alan Gibbs (Former Staff found very fulfilling, if sometimes a little frustrating! One of the milestones with the RYA, was the 1958-1965) on 4 March 2012 establishment of Weymouth and Portland as an Olympic training facility. In his retirement years, he lived in Norfolk and his and Anne’s major contribution to the community was the provision and cooking of a Mr Charles Henniker-Major turkey for the local Royal Artillery Association Christmas lunch, which they did for a number of years! (Cobham 68) on 9 May 2012 He was a keen sportsman and enjoyed sailing, skiing and riding, in particular. Mr Roger Loodmer (Bruce 68) on 23 July 2012, after a long illness

Mr John Mansfield 1930s (Walpole 45) on 22 February 2012 Mr Michael Webster Major Gen Colin Wallis-King CBE (Walpole 38) Mr Charles Ashton (Grafton 44) on 10 April 2012 (Chatham 35) on 6 January 2012 1920 – 2012 Mr Geoffrey Chibbett Mr Michael Robinson OBE DL (Cobham 47) on 31 March 2012 (Grafton 37) on 27 November 2012 Michael Webster was the last family Captain David Egerton chairman of the Watneys brewing Col John Durie MBE (Temple 47) on 17 January 2012 empire before its hard-fought takeover (Cobham 38) on 5 October 2012 by the Grand Metropolitan hotel group Lt Col Richard Evans Mr Toby Robertson OBE (Bruce 47) on 4 July 2012 in the 1970s. (Grenville 38) on 12 November 2012 Webster’s mother’s family owned the London brewery, Mr Robert Kee CBE Mr Russell Brown (Walpole 48) on 16 July 2012 Combe Delafield & Co, which formed part of Watney, Combe & (Grafton 38) on 11 January 2013 Reid. In 1958 it merged with Mann Crossman & Paulin to form Mr Michael Webster Mr Michael Doyle (Chatham 48) on 25 September 2012 one of Britain’s “Big Six” brewing groups. Michael joined Watney, (Walpole 38) on 26 October 2012 Combe & Reid on demobilisation from the Grenadier Guards in Mr David Fenwick Mr John Peploe 1946 and became chairman in 1963. (Chandos 48) on 7 August 2012 (Walpole 39) on 24 January 2012 In 1970 Michael succeeded a member of the Crossman family as Mr Colin Page chairman of the parent company, Watney Mann. He was faced with (Cobham 49) in May 2012 1940s securing the future of the company: some of the group’s breweries had already been closed; diversifications had been attempted The Lord Fisher 1950s with mixed success. (Temple 40) on 31 October 2012 He aimed to expand the number of tied pubs selling Watneys Mr Ian McAllester Mr Edward Nettlefold (Temple 50) on 16 March 2012 beers, which led to a takeover battle for an East Anglian brewer. (Bruce 40) in 2012 Watney Mann’s £47 million bid was topped by Grand Mr Richard Thornton Metropolitan, the hotel and property group. Michael went on to Mr Malcolm Tweedy (Walpole 50) on 26 January 2013 (Bruce 41) in 2006 launch a successful offer for the wines and spirits group Col David Fanshawe OBE International Distillers & Vintners (IDV). Mr John Burt (Walpole 52) on 3 June 2012 (Chatham 42) in February 2012 But no sooner had this been completed than Watneys itself was Mr Michael Thompson the subject of a hostile £400 million bid – the largest of its kind at Mr John Colbeck (Grafton 52) on 9 June 2012 that time – from Grand Met. Grand Met prevailed in July 1972 by (Temple 42) on 30 October 2012 Mr Richard Boddy DL the narrowest of margins. Michael joined Grand Met’s board and Mr John Black (Chatham 53) on 28 March 2012 was briefly chairman of its combined brewing arm, Watney Mann (Chatham 43) on 19 October 2011 Mr David Mann & Truman, before retiring in 1974. Mr John Jordan (Grafton 53) in September 2012 A countryman at heart, Michael particularly loved fishing for (Temple 43) on 20 October 2012 Mr Julian Taylor salmon on the Awe in Scotland and for trout on the Test. He was a Mr David Lunn-Rockliffe (Chatham 53) on 12 May 2012 past Master of the Brewers’ Company and a fund-raiser for Great (Chandos 43) on 23 August 2011 Mr Muir Snow Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He was also a Deputy Mr John Harrington (Cobham 54) on 2 July 2012 Lieutenant and former High Sheriff of Berkshire. 30 (Grafton 44) on 8 October 2012 1970s 1980s The Right Hon the Lord Mr John Naumann Mrs Kate Keville Fisher DSC (Temple 40) (Cobham 70) on 15 January 2012 (Stanhope 82) on 19 December 2011 1921 – 2012 Mr Richard Edridge Mrs Shirley Rainer, wife of (Walpole 78) on 19 June 2012 Mr Charles Rainer (Former Staff The 3rd Lord Fisher, who has died 1963-1988) on 13 November 2012 aged 91, was the grandson of Admiral Lord “Jacky” Fisher, First Sea Mrs Rachel Drayson, widow of Lord during the Great War, and himself served in the Royal Navy Mr James Watson the late, former Headmaster, during the Second World War. He was decorated for bravery in (Walpole 89) on 29 August 2012 Mr Robert Drayson (Former actions against German patrol vessels; after the conflict he opened Headmaster 1964 – 1979) Mrs Rose Skuse (School Shop a “Latin American” zoo at his estate at Kilverstone in Norfolk. on 6 May 2012 c.1980-2002) on 6 January 2013 Despite his ancestry, Lord Fisher did not become a career officer but joined the RNVR in August 1941. He volunteered for coastal forces and became navigator and later first-lieutenant to Ken Mr Robert Kee CBE (Grafton 38) Gemmell, who commanded the 58th “Dog Boat” Flotilla from 1919 – 2013 Motor Torpedo Boat 687. In June 1944 Gemmell led his flotilla, based at Lowestoft, in two Robert Kee was well known as the presenter duels against German patrol ships which guarded the entrance to of Panorama, This Week, Yorkshire the Texel and the German inshore convoy route off Holland. Television’s Various Faces of Communism, The enemy opened fire at 2,000 yards, but the flotilla pressed on and ITN’s lunchtime news programme, which to fire torpedoes and followed up with a gun attack in which a he launched in 1972. Arguably, he was best tanker was sunk and two other enemy ships damaged. Fisher was known as an historian of Irish nationalism. awarded a DSC. Robert reported on conflicts in Algeria and the Congo, as well as After the war, he returned to his family estate in Norfolk where he the Prague Spring; as an historian, he also chronicled the key years and his second wife, Rosamund, opened the Kilverstone Wildlife of the Second World War. His interest in Ireland developed in the Park. They didn’t have any special training and only ‘romantic 1950s, when he embarked on a three-volume study, The Green notions’ about what running a zoo would involve. They specialised Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism, published in 1972. in the wildlife of South America. In the late 1970s he worked on a major 12-part BBC series, Ireland: Over the next 18 years the Fishers built up a collection of 700 A Television History. The series chronicled 800 years of hostilities animals and established Kilverstone as an internationally between Ireland and England, relating contemporary troubles to recognised centre for breeding and rearing endangered species. the history from which they grew. Many animals were hand reared. A jaguar born in 1977 was taken Robert was born Calcutta in 1919, where his father ran a jute into the house, kept in a basket by the Fishers’ bed and even business. After Stowe he went on to read Modern History at accompanied them to Royal Ascot so as not to miss its three hourly Magdalen College, Oxford. He trained as a pilot in the RAF and in feed. At the height of its popularity the zoo attracted some July 1941 he flew Hampden bombers against naval targets. 160,000 visitors a year. After the war, Robert worked for Picture Post from 1948 to 1951, as a special correspondent for The Observer, followed by The Sunday Times. He was also, briefly, literary editor of The Spectator. Robert was unrivalled as a presenter, bringing clarity to complex issues, Major General Colin Wallis- and was a skilful interviewer. He was appointed CBE in 1998. King CBE (Grafton 44) 1926 – 2012

Mr John Jordan (Temple 43) Cool headed Director of Service Intelligence, Major General Colin Wallis-King, played a 1925 – 2012 significant role in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. He took over command of 2nd Coldstream Guards in Germany in John won an immediate Military Medal in 1969. The battalion was converting from marching to mechanised Normandy in 1944 while serving with the infantry mounted in the FV (Fighting Vehicle) 432 armoured Essex Regiment’s 2nd Battalion, known as personnel carriers. In mid-1970, they were obliged to revert to the “The Pompadours”. marching role when assigned to a tour of duty at the Belfast The award came following operations in the Bas Brenil Wood. Catholic Lower Falls interface with the Protestant Shankill Road, On 12 August 1944, John’s regiment was advancing in difficult at the end of which Wallis-King was appointed OBE. bocage country. His platoon’s position was attacked, and he was Bloody Sunday, on 30 January 1972, led to his extraction from the wounded. Seeing his position overrun, he lay down and played Senior Officers’ War Course at Greenwich and promotion to Colonel dead, a ruse which succeeded. He then picked himself up and with urgent despatch to Londonderry as Deputy Commander 8th pursued the enemy. He approached two from the rear, Infantry Brigade. The commander, Brigadier Pat MacLellan, took them by surprise and killed them. The citation for John’s was under pressure giving evidence to the Widgery Inquiry and Military Medal praised his great courage and initiative under needed support. Wallis-King undertook the planning of Operation most difficult conditions. Motorman in Londonderry, the clearing of the so-called no-go John went on to serve in Africa, where he was part of the Guard of areas. On returning to England, he joined the MoD Combat Honour for the tour in 1946-47 of King George VI. In Africa he was Development, and was then appointed to command the 3rd able to indulge his love of animals – his adopted orphan cheetah Infantry Brigade in Ulster. This five-battalion group was responsible was so well trained that he allowed it to sleep at the foot of his for security of the southern border with the Republic and the camp bed. countryside between the two cities. After leaving the Army in 1950 he lived in the Dordogne, where he In 1975, Wallis-King was advanced to CBE and sent back to the took up subsistence farming. One year he lost his automatic steel MoD as the Brigadier of Intelligence. In 1977, on promotion to Rolex watch while ploughing a field – only to rediscover it in the Major General, he became Director of Service Intelligence. mud when he ploughed the same field a year later (the watch still The final decade of his military service was either wholly or works to this day). indirectly concerned with the Northern Ireland security situation. 31 Obituaries Mr Michael Doyle (Chatham 48) 1930 – 2012

After Stowe, Michael served with the Queen Victoria’s Rifles. He then emigrated to Mr Geoffrey Chibbett Sri Lanka and embarked on his career in international trade. An accomplished athlete, (Cobham 47) he had a passion for rugby, water-polo and especially boxing. 1928 – 2012 Michael moved to Vancouver in 1956 where he met his wife Angela. He established a successful export trading company and became a leading authority on international Geoffrey Chibbett, who died suddenly last letters of credit. He had an unwavering commitment to his family, reflected in his 50 year March, was 4 years older than me, and, marriage to his loving wife. He was adored by his children, their spouses and his 11 when I came to Stowe in 1945, already a grandchildren. demigod, to be worshipped from afar. After many years of holidaying in Kaleden, Michael and Angela fulfilled their lifelong 1st XV, Captain of hockey and tennis, a sport ambition to build a dream home and vineyard overlooking Skaha Lake. One of his great at which he particularly excelled, later prides was spearheading the cleanup of decades of dumped rubbish along Skaha Lake, playing both tennis and rugby for Cheshire. earning him RDOS Man of the Year and the nickname “Mr Clean”. As Head of School he inspired two Michael’s love for history and literature was complemented by his Irish sense of humour memorable events – the first, a bicycle and a gift for story telling that entertained many, especially his children and gymkhana. Many boys brought their bikes grandchildren. Michael made everyone feel special. He was a true gentleman, known for back each term, so there was no shortage of his warmth, humility, generosity and charm. equipment, nor, with his imagination, any lack of variety in the events, which even included a hazardous form of bicycle hockey. Later, a school concert, more a Mr Toby Robertson OBE (Bruce 47) grand entertainment. The evening ended with a performance by two senior tutors, 1928 – 2012 Dr Huggins, in full white tie and tails, and JC (Grubby) Saunders, his nickname coming Toby Robertson believed in the importance of the regions from his endemic and deep five-o’clock as a vital source in British theatre. He toured the classics shadow. Grubby wore a rich blue flowing around the country as head of Prospect Productions for ballgown, contrasting well with his 15 years and ran the remote Theatr Clwyd in north Wales complexion, and the two sang and danced between 1985 and 1992. ‘After the ball was over’, to a delighted Toby’s regional work with Prospect breathed new life to the struggling theatre movement. audience and tumultuous applause. To my Under his leadership, Prospect brought forward players such as Ian McKellen, deep regret, there was no repetition of Derek Jacobi, Dorothy Tutin, Eileen Atkins, Alec McCowen and Timothy West. Prospect either event! achieved national and international acclaim for its ensemble work, worldwide tours and design style. I got to know him rather better as our relative age gap narrowed, and over the last Based for its first five years at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, Prospect annually staged few years regularly played bridge together at three or four classical plays. Among its most celebrated productions were Shakespeare’s the golf club, a game to which he brought Richard II (1968) and Marlowe’s Edward II (1969), in both of which Ian McKellen made his own special dimension, even if, as he his name long before the shows reached London. would instantly have agreed, his chances of As the first artistic director of Theatr Clwyd, Toby turned an unpromising municipal playing for Cheshire were remote. The playhouse on a hill in a far-flung corner of north Wales into one of Britain’s first highlight of the afternoon would be the equivalents of a French Maison de la Culture, persuading many of the country’s leading arrival of tea. “I do like jam,” Geoff would actors (including Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Michael Hordern and Maria Aitken) to leave the say as he took a teacake. “I get two goes at capital to work for him. the jam with a teacake, only one with a Toby directed over 40 productions for Prospect, he also directed more than 25 television crumpet”! We still play on a Tuesday; productions, including The Beggar’s Opera, Richard II and Edward II, and for Scottish we miss his fun, but still comment on the Opera and several American opera companies. He directed Measure For Measure in quality of the jam. Beijing, Coriolanus in Spain, and worked on television for the BBC, ITV, Thames and Kindly supplied by London Weekend Television. In 1961 he was assistant director (to Peter Brook) on the Richard de Zouche (Grafton 50) film of Lord of the Flies.

Count Zygmunt Zamoyski (Grenville 56) 1937 – 2012

Count Zygmunt Zamoyski descended from a family of prominent In 1989 Zygmunt went to live Polish aristocrats, but lived for most of his life in England. In 1989, and work in Poland. He he went to live and work in Poland, where he achieved a degree of learned Polish from scratch, celebrity by launching a campaign against cheating in exams. and taught English as a foreign After Stowe and Christ Church, Oxford, Zygmunt did his National language. Whilst teaching in Warsaw, he became appalled by the Service in the Navy. He was asked to stay on but instead chose to common practice among Polish students of cheating in exams. In enrol as a trainee officer at a borstal institution for young offenders. 1998 he opened a travelling “anti-exam cheating” exhibition in a He had to resign when a group of inmates he was supervising ran brave effort to eradicate the practice; the exhibits included a away. After two failed attempts to read for the Bar he settled on “vestment” of his own devising, without pockets, for students to teaching, and was even a part-time caretaker. All the while he wear in exams. A friend once pointedly bought him The Book of cultivated a well-deserved reputation for harmless eccentricity. Heroic Failures for his birthday. 32 Mr David Hadfield (Walpole 63) FEATURE 1945 – 2012

It is my very sad duty to inform the Old Stoic Society and, particularly, the members of the Old Stoic Golfing Society that our President, David Hadfield, died on 1 December 2012 after a short illness. Our thoughts and prayers are with Gill, his wife, and their children James, Christina and Philip and all their family at this time. The Hadfield brothers, David and Christopher represented the Stowe golf team in the 60s and presented a formidable part of Walpole House’s golf team. Careful planning had to be used to avoid a thrashing on the Stowe course by either one of the brothers. David was also a sprinter and held the 100 yards record at Stowe until 1963. We normally appoint our President for three years, but due to his character and solid support of the Society, David was re-elected 2 The stern of Mabel E Holland with a trench dug down to the ice to as President by the members of the OSGS allow the sun’s rays to eventually melt the ice around the boat. at their autumn AGM in Norfolk for at least 7 terms. David will be sadly missed by everyone. He was a member of Stowe’s winning Halford Hewitt side in 1988. David also held the post of northern secretary for the Society and contributed to the selection of Stowe’s teams for the Birkdale Bucket held in March each year at Woodhall Spa. The Society also plays in the Over 50s competition at Worplesdon each June in the Cyril Gray Golf Tournament and David has led and selected the team as captain for the last 3 years. David was a public schools’ member of Deal or more properly described as Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, the natural ‘home’ of the Halford Hewitt Cup for 64 public school golf teams of 5 pairs held in March and April Having recently completed his from East to West, via the most northerly route through Lancaster Sound, Viscount each year. David also became a member of fifth transit of the North West the Cavaliers Golfing society who play Melville Sound, the Parry Channel, foursome’s matches at Deal (RCPGC), Passage, David Scott Cowper and finally through the McClure Strait and Sunningdale, West Hill, Worplesdon, the (Grafton 60), reports on his out into the Beaufort Sea, has always been Berkshire and Woking. recognised as the ultimate route. This is not David’s other interests included the British Arctic adventures. only the shortest distance, but the hardest Legion in Woodford, where he was also route to undertake due to the very severe ‘el Presidente’. The legendary visits by the ice conditions. BLOTS to the fleshpots of Europe have been When I compare the Arctic with that of 26 recorded on film! Hazel Grove Golf Club was years ago, the difference is chalk from In 1986, I departed from the Tyne on 14 July David’s home club. He was a chartered cheese. I first travelled up into the Arctic in the Mabel E Holland (an RNLI Watson 42ft Accountant and masterminded the structure in August 1986, and the experience of Beach Lifeboat), considerably strengthened, and financials for the family firm of AtoV in transiting the North West Passage over the to travel around the North of Scotland and Woodford. His other interests included his following three years still remains across the North Atlantic. I had a fairly easy wife’s golf and the family’s sporting exceedingly vivid in my memory. There were crossing until I was abeam Cape Farewell, activities, skiing and holidays abroad. many problems to overcome; not only where I encountered heavy weather David was a good friend to many Old Stoics, considerably more difficult ice conditions, conditions, and once past the Cape it was a wise and respected adviser to many but the sinking of the boat, the retrieval and not long before a large area of small ice and friends and relations. He will be missed repair and the logistics of travelling to icebergs were met. by all. isolated places and being entirely self- I planned to call at Jacobshaven, close to John Luddington was elected Vice-President sufficient with no-one to rely on but oneself. of the OSGS at the Autumn AGM and Disco Island for refuelling, but it was very became President of the OSGS from Over the years, with global warming, the difficult to identify Jacobshaven amidst so 1 January 2013. climate in the Arctic has changed much pack ice. Once refuelled, it was Charles Dimpfl (Chatham 66), dramatically and of the five transits I have necessary to remain fairly close to the coast Honorary Secretary, OSGS made of the Passage, it has become easier for open leads: the pack ice was not too each time. The last transit, just completed, far offshore. Navigation was mainly eyeball. 33 GPS as we know it today was in its infancy I was told in no uncertain terms to remain the bay for the whole of the summer had and to obtain a fix would take approximately where I was because my vessel would be cleared around the boat allowing her to be six hours. crushed within seconds. pulled ashore above the high water mark. The exercise took about six hours and then I Entering Lancaster Sound was reasonably After the departure of the World Discoverer, knew that the boat would be safe and allow easy and visibility was very clear. I put in to I was left to cool my heels with the thought me to make the necessary repairs in 1988. the bay to take a rest only to find a Canadian that the back door had closed behind me as icebreaker (Des Groseilliers) and a refuelling Prince Regent Inlet became choked with ice. I returned again at the beginning of July vessel at anchor. The Captain of the 1988 and spent six weeks underneath the After about four days, I had acclimatised. icebreaker invited me for supper that evening boat, placing tingles on vulnerable parts I accepted that I would be wintering at Fort and pointed out that the prognosis of going that were leaking. I had to watch my back Ross, and then out of the fog the World further this season was exceedingly slim. as the odd polar bear could, and did turn Discoverer appeared. It transpired that up to investigate. The Captain offered me an escort as far as another icebreaker had been called in to give Resolute, which I gladly accepted and support, with the result that she was unable Around mid August it looked as if there might be a possibility of breaking out from my certainly if I had been left to my own devices, to follow the original icebreaker. It took two present situation and making progress into it would have been out of the question. I knew icebreakers to turn the World Discoverer the Franklin Strait. Again, I chartered a Twin the World Discoverer, a cruise ship, was around so that she could retrace her steps. Otter with all the winching kit to come and intending to go through the Passage and was As she made her way up Prince Regent Inlet, pull the boat back into the water. Once afloat, the engines running and equipment Icebreaker captains strongly discouraged restowed, the boat was still leaking but a Honda generator and a good submersible the World Discoverer proceeding any further, pump were able to cope with the intake. saying the ice was very much under pressure Mabel ventured out of the Bellot Strait and then into the Franklin Strait and made steady due to arrive at Resolute around 20 August, a third icebreaker was called upon to give progress down a lead as far as the Tazmanian 1986. On anchoring in the bay, it was quite further assistance. Islands where, for a 48 hour period, she obvious that not much progress would be remained drifting in the pack ice. With a These were the sorts of conditions that made; not only was winter beginning to set change of wind direction, the pack opened, prevailed in the eighties. Mabel E Holland in rapidly, with temperatures down to -10 and a narrow lead developed allowing her to over wintered at Fort Ross, and I was fortunate degrees C, but there was a great deal of pack escape down into the St. Roche Channel and enough to be able to return to England having ice which was refusing to clear. on to Tuk. With the boat still leaking, and with hitched a lift from an icebreaker, before the need for her to be taken out of the water, When the World Discoverer arrived at joining an Esso oil carrier, as a supernumerary I travelled up the McKenzie River to Inuvik Resolute there were a number of discussions and work my passage down to Halifax. where I was able to arrange for the boat to be with the icebreaker captains and, in spite of In April 1987, I returned to the boat via a lifted out of the water. the advice that the Passage was not going to skidoo journey from Resolute over the frozen be open that season, she wanted to take the The boat was left there, and in 1989 I flew sea lanes down to Fort Ross to check the boat. Prince Regent Inlet and go through Bellot into Inuvik again, armed with material for the She appeared to be perfectly intact. Returning Strait out into the Franklin Sound. I am of the repairs, and spent nearly two months trying to England at the beginning of July, I received opinion that the icebreakers’ advice was to make her more watertight. By mid August a call from the Canadian Coastguard who, defied because the World Discoverer had the ice had receded a very small amount, having flown over Mabel’s position, fare paying passengers on board. providing a narrow lead off the Alaskan coast. reported that she appeared to have sunk. I was able to take the lagoon route along this Captain Pullen negotiated an escort with I brought forward my plans for returning to coastline and edge around Point Barrow. a Canadian icebreaker, which would Resolute, chartering a seat on a Twin Otter to It took me three years to transit the North rendezvous on the east side of the Bellot drop me off at Fort Ross. On arriving at the West Passage and the Mabel E Holland had Strait. They felt they could reach this point boat, I found her submerged to her decks. the distinction of being the 38th vessel to unassisted by backtracking down Lancaster I set about rescuing the boat. transit the Passage since records were started Sound and travelling down Prince when Amundsen transitted it in Gjoa in 1903 Regent Inlet. On establishing when high water was, I was to 1906. able to pull Mabel towards the shore until she In my naivety, I thought if I did the same route grounded, and as the tide went out I pumped The next time I travelled the Passage was I might be able to tag along. So, I set off at and baled water out of the vessel. Eventually, from West to East in 2003 in a purpose built the end of August from Resolute backtracking when the boat was almost empty of water, boat called Polar Bound; I passed Point along Lancaster Sound with difficulty, at one I was able to find the leak. I had my work cut Barrow about mid August, and was making point being beset in ice for 24 hours before out trying to drain the engine and gearboxes my way down to Herschel Island. After leaving breaking free to make my way down the east of water, aiming to restart the engines before the island, I certainly encountered heavy pack side of Prince Regent Inlet. I was exceedingly too much damage was done. ice, and was not able to back track, and for pleased with myself, having arrived at Fort three weeks I remained, being carried by the Ross before the World Discoverer, who also The boat needed to come out of the water. ice in that area. Eventually it opened up and I encountered difficult ice conditions. I managed to arrange a team of four people was able to escape, continuing on to and obtain some heavy winching equipment Icebreaker captains strongly discouraged the Cambridge Bay. On arriving there, the with blocks and tackle, along some timber, World Discoverer proceeding any further, prognosis for the ice in Franklin Strait and and chartered a Twin Otter from Resolute to saying the ice was very much under pressure, Peel Sound was not encouraging, but it is Fort Ross. and it was much harder to force a passage. often said that the best time to navigate the However, Captain Heinz Aye of the World My guardian angels were smiling on me; Arctic is towards the end of September when 34 Discoverer decided to proceed. At that stage, conditions were clear and ice which had filled the high winds can break up the ice. tip of Greenland, we entered the Prince Christian Sound which cuts off the tip of the peninsula, avoiding the worst of potential heavy weather. It was sobering to note the shrinkage of the mini glaciers that had formerly calved into this stretch. When I first passed this way thirty years ago, there was so much ice, now it was virtually clear with the glacier beds dry. We had a straightforward trip up the west coast of Greenland, apart from patchy fog, and occasionally seeing a few icebergs. Day after day passed with exceedingly poor visibility and heavy reliance on the radar. We encountered a small amount of pack ice off Stefanson Island which was easily 1 Skidoo and sledge used on my trek down negotiated, then on to Banks Island up to the to the boat from Resolute to inspect Prince of Wales Strait and on into the McClure boat and the tent provided temporary Strait, finally exiting into the Beaufort Sea. accommodation each night. 3 Polar Bound caught in the Pack Ice in Jane kept her own log of the trip: as we Franklin Strait in September 2002 and at approached the McClure straight, we had the time looked almost certain that there been experiencing 18 hours of high winds would be no escape as it was at the end of blowing 30-35 knots and creating a short sea the season but fortunately at the 11th hour which Polar Bound was taking on her beam there was change in the wind direction and thus rolling heavily. This is an extract which opened up a lead allowing Polar Bound to escape and return to Cambridge from her log: Bay where she wintered over. “The ice pack was on the move with a strong 4 David Scott Cowper standing in front South Easterly wind. To start with there was of Polar Bound after antifouling her at not even the ghost of a breeze, but gradually Whitehaven in preparation for her voyage the open area of water took on a ruffled across the top of Canada going through appearance and before long, the wavelets the McClure Strait which she had the distinction of being the first surface vessel gave way to bigger seas. When I re-emerged apart from icebreakers to transit this area. after a couple of hours sleep, it was like a scene from Dante’s Inferno – there was a full 5 Boat iced in at Fort Ross with footprints of Polar Bear inspecting boat. gale blowing on the beam, and the entire frozen sea appeared to be on the march with great rafts of pack ice proceeding with remorseless power on their individual trajectories – some in full sail like huge, delicate lotus flowers, others looking like stacked-up railway sleepers.” I have never seen such an amazing sight, and wouldn’t have believed it possible, that so many square miles of thick pack ice could be broken up and moved so quickly by the With this in mind, I set off and successfully allow the icebreaker to create a path for me to combined action of wind and waves. reached the Tazmanian Islands where the ice follow her approximately 25 miles, allowing It took 19 days, 20 hours and 20 minutes to conditions then became very severe. me to return to Cambridge Bay, where the cross the Arctic Circle in the Davis Strait, boat was left for the winter. For that year, the However, with a gale force easterly wind to re-crossing the Arctic Circle in the Chuckchi Passage was only passable for a few hours forecast, I was rather hoping that a lead Sea. This would have been considered would appear and that I would be able to before ice sealed it again. The following year impossible back in the eighties and it is my reach Bellot Strait and break out into Prince I was able to complete the transit. thought that in five years’ time, the Arctic will Regent Inlet. As the ice did move a small The next three journeys through the Passage be free of ice during the summer and only amount offshore, the gale did not last very were all completed within the same season. freezing during the winter, and that is how long with the consequence that I was caught global warming has affected this area. in the pack ice which then became On my most recent trip in early autumn 2012, I broke with the tradition of sailing on my own Before completing this narrative I would like pressurised. At that stage, it certainly looked and took an old friend. We left Portrush in to pay a high tribute to Peter Semotiuk who as if there would be no escape. Northern Ireland on 2 August 2012 and put not only has given me tremendous support in A Canadian icebreaker came by this area and into Nome in Alaska on 7 September 2012, the way of ice information, weather the only assistance they could give, due to having had three stops in Greenland for conditions and morale boosting when times the ice being under pressure, was a supply of refuelling and two days hove to in the North have been tough, but has also helped many fuel. However, they did stand by for 48 hours Atlantic, due to heavy gale force winds from other yachtsmen to successfully succeed in and again my guardian angels unexpectedly the west. The whole trip down to Dutch passing through this route between the Pacific and Atlantic. came to my aid in the way of a wind shift Harbour from Whitehaven took 42 days. which just relieved the pressure of the ice to On arriving at Cape Farewell at the southern David Scott Cowper (Grafton 60) 35

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An extraordinary thing happened in the 1950s – the birth of Rock ‘n’ Role. This so called ‘Devil’s Music’ captured the hearts and guided the ambitions of many youngsters frustrated by the confines of a more genteel music form. “I’ll tell you ‘bout the magic and it’ll free your soul – The profusion of guitar and piano driven but it’s like trying to tell a stranger bands which, during that period, were playing Skiffle, Boogie Woogie and basic ‘bout rock ‘n’ roll.” Rock ‘n’ Roll suddenly morphed into the iconic Sixties line up of lead guitar, rhythm, John Sebastian – ‘Do You Believe In Magic?’ bass and drums and with the occasional addition of a piano and a harmonica vamping vocalist. rhythms and an adrenalin rush at the sound There was also a band which rejoiced in the of a series of ridiculously fast guitar licks. name Muzbak, a clever use of the musical Suddenly, performing Rock ‘n’ Roll was open This simile was borne out by the honour notation. I remember seeing them to everyone. Yes, prior to that it was open to extraordinary blind and autistic pianist Derek perform in the Roxy during my first term at everyone to a certain extent, but it was in the Paravicini whose piano tutor recounts his Stowe and with their lead singer, Roger Sixties that more people wanted to become talent of telling him, during a car journey, the Watson, shouting out the lyrics of ‘Little Red musical entrepreneurs than ever before. exact moment at which the gear should be Book’ alternated with blistering harmonica On 4 April 1963, just six months after the changed as the sound of the engine reached solos. Boy, was I impressed! I remember release of their first single ‘Love me do’, The specific notes of a musical scale. It also thinking “Yes, I should really like to be able Beatles gave a performance in The Roxburgh made me understand why my father, to do that!” The band also included Jess Hall at Stowe. Alas, I arrived at Stowe two whilst not sharing my love of the sound of Miller on drums, Barry Olorenshaw on lead years later and so missed them. The Beatles, loud rock music and I, who was unmoved by guitar, James Atherton on rhythm guitar and at that time, were not very well-known; the screaming of a high performance car John Stockwell on bass. their image and their music were very engine, could appreciate the kick each other A third school group was called Wild Thyme. different from what had gone on before. got out of both experiences. Attempting to This band featured the Stoic with one of the There are some excellent photographs of the explain or describe such a feeling and best sixties Rock ‘n’ Roll names ever to grace occasion showing crowds of Stowe boys emotion is impossible. It is as John the academy – Rory Stormont on guitar, looking curiously at the strangely dressed Sebastian of THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL explains David Jones on bass, James Atherton on and coiffed quartet, who in turn, are looking in the quote at the top of this page. rhythm guitar, Johnnie Greenstreet on drums back at the uniformly tweed jacket clad boys When I arrived at Stowe in 1965 the main and, on guitar and lead vocals, Roger with a mixture of ‘us and them’ curiosity school rock band was The Mongrels who, Hodgson, destined later to take over the and resentment. from memory had Mike Avery, Phil Walker world as chief singer and writer/composer This performance proved to be a milestone and possibly Dennis Gartrell and Jamie of Supertramp. Following the departure of in the cultural development of Stowe’s Doggart amongst its members. I recall there James Atherton and Johnie Greenstreet, musical output. Gradually, alongside choirs, was great excitement when their single ‘My (the latter who was replaced by Jess Miller), orchestras, brass bands and string quartets, Love For You’ was released on the Decca this band morphed into The Dream rock bands began to develop. Okay, it was label, with copies for sale in the School Merchants named after the Harold Robbins not to everybody’s taste, especially that of shop. This excitement grew even greater book of the same name: all sex and the older generation and those with a as we all lay in our beds (after lights out), sophistication (the book, I mean, not the purist’s love of the classical format, but boy, with our transistor radios tuned into Radio band!). From 1966 – 1967 Roger Hodgson was it exciting! There is an inherent and Luxembourg, which had guaranteed a play and Jess Miller teamed up with Phil Walker 38 primeval excitement in the feel of pulsating slot for the single. and formed the trio Solid Silver. deemed best forgotten? There will, Mark performs regularly with his band 5 Nigel Milne (in the white shirt) fronting no doubt, be OSs who feel slighted at The Redstone Collective. his band ‘The Regime’ in a production having been left out of this article but I can of Arnold Wesker’s ‘Chips with Another OS band was Strayday (formerly The only apologise for the apparent oversight Everything’ in 1966. Wake) comprising Will Puxley; Hwei Joon for this era. Kim; Tom Elkington; Tom Allport and Jamie In the 1980s, Christian Gaines, together Wemyss. They were signed to Rockmaster with Richard Wheaton, Chris Marshall and Records and released a single ‘Life like a Victoria Ward formed Kublah Khan who had Zoo’. However, they disbanded in 2008. the ignominy of being ‘shut down’ by the Stowe, being the sort of place that it is, music teacher who decided that Kublah always keeps abreast of the times and with Khouldn’t, after the audience rushed the the changing styles of music. The most stage in a mass fit of blind adoration – Oh, recent success stories include Caspar mayhem in the mosh pit indeed! Sheppard, whose school band was called Latterly, Christian has met up with fellow OS Empire and whose current band Get People Martin Dew in Los Angeles and have both is making huge waves in the techno funk/ teamed up with singer/songwriter J Scott electronic arena. During their time at Stowe, Bergman and have been hammering home Caspar’s brother, Orlando Sheppard the riffs in fashionable spots such as Molly together with three other Old Stoics – Malone’s and The Silver Lake Lounge. Ella Girardot, Hamish and Elliot Barnes performed as ArtBeat but now, being older An OS of this decade whose residence at and more cryptic, perform as Arthur Stowe was, sadly, short lived is Crispian Beatrice. Both of these bands are about to Mills whose spiritually driven band Kula go stratospheric with the release of their Shaker made seismic waves within the debut albums in 2013. music industry and charts but who has now gone ominously silent. The most recent Stowe rocker I have seen performing, shares the honour of having The nineties saw the emergence of the an equally wonderful Rock ‘n’ Roll name as charismatic Orlando Seale who, after a spell Alongside them were two more groups. the previously mentioned Mr Stormont, flirting with the celluloid goddess in The Jinx whose vocals were delivered with and that is Regan Vincenza. Now here is a Hollywood, is now to be seen fronting a urbane elegance by Anthony Russell on girl who knows exactly what a guitar is for! hugely fascinating Arcade Fire-like guitar, accompanied by Peter Olofson also Great tunes and deliciously dirty guitar riffs; behemoth of a band called Orlando Seale on guitar, Oliver Croom-Johnson on bass she and her band Ryker Sear are definitely and The Swell; the Swell being made up of and Charles (Max) Wardell on drums. ones to watch. Their debut album ‘Outatime’ cellists, violinists and other escapees from is pretty impressive and their more recent The only other band during this period a symphony orchestra: strong and output promises even greater things was The Regime with Chris Smith, mesmerising stuff. to come. John Buckingham on guitars, Rick Cressman In the early 2000s, Mark Stormont, (son of on bass, Bill Shenkman on drums and Yours So, who is coming through now? the aforementioned Rory), assembled Pigs Truly on vocals. Yes, when we performed the We wait to hear great things from Mights Fly with Charlie Reynolds; Hugh crowd went – well, mild! No, joking apart, George Huxtable; Otto Balfour; Siana Viney; Luke Marchant; Charlie Margesson we did have a lot of fun performing at house Vere-Nicoll; Shannon Devlin; Isaac Ajala; and others. Their zenith was performing dances both at home and away, at Tudor Rosie Devas; Lizzie Witkowski; Celia covers of The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys at Hall, and in the Roxy. We even performed Marment; Lucy Alderton; Alice Gurr; an event held in aid of Muscular Dystrophy in the Naafi scene in Joe Bain’s somewhat Tris Rothschild; Patrick Keating and Antonio sufferers. Mark also performed with Sam controversial production of Arnold Wesker’s Muñoz, all of whom wowed the audience at Holland and Edward Cohen in a combo that ‘Chips With Everything’, which, as I recall, last December’s Junior Unplugged. was dangerously close to being called The featured Richard Branson as a Wing Cardboard Chaffinch Alliance but mercifully It is wonderful that Stowe gives its pupils Commander! remained anonymous. Since leaving Stowe, the freedom and encouragement to develop In his final year at Stowe, Roger Hodgson fronted a new band wittily yclept Roger and Out. This particular combo featured Andrew Chance on drums. Andrew and the aforementioned Oliver Croom-Johnson, were later to find popularity on the social circuit as founding members of The Chance Band. So, what happened in the 1970s? The only information that we have been able to find are two references in The Middle Voice of 1972 and 1973, which mention Guy Ponsford in Prometheus and another called The Soft Weed Factor. It was, of course, the decade when major rock stars were derided by the anguished demi-mond and which 1 saw the emergence of Punk Rock raising its Jess Miller performing at Stowe. spiky head and spitting in the face of 8 Shannon Devlin (Stanhope) and George celebrity culture. Did this not happen at Huxtable (Chatham) perform in Junior Stowe too? Apparently not, or is it a part of Unplugged 2012. Stowe’s musical heritage that has been 7 Regan Vincenza and her band Ryker Sear. 39 balustrade of the Queen’s Temple, a lone Stoic was totally absorbed in an outpouring of cadenzas and staccato fingering to; as the Bard would have it ‘... make the welkin ring’. It then hit me that I was completely wrong. Where could be a more fitting and inspirational place for a musician to practise, perfect his skill and fill the surroundings with his talent than here at Stowe where, generations back, play writes, musicians and composers would have been invited by Lord Cobham to try out their latest pieces to his house guests two hundred years before him? Perfect and idyllic. That is, after all, what Stowe is all about: a place 2 Strayday perform at Highclere in 2006. where anyone can give free expression to their talent and art in beautiful and the sounds du jour so readily. With the Temple. Suddenly, scything through the inspirational surroundings. forthcoming completion of the new Music languid summer’s afternoon like a machine School with its designated band rehearsal gun, we were assaulted by a barrage of A lot has been written about popular music room and recording studio, we are sure to blistering electric guitar riffs played at full by those who appreciate it and by those who abhor its very existence. However, hear some seriously exciting stuff echoing volume. “F***!” I thought, “That’s seriously when it comes down to it, as was loudly from Stowe soon. not in keeping with these surroundings!” I borrowed my chum’s hugely expensive proclaimed by a famous erstwhile Stowe One beautiful summer’s day about ten years camera and pointed the zoom lens in the parent, Sir Mick Jagger “it’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll ago, long after I had left Stowe, I was direction of the sound. Through the lens, and I like it, like it” – YES, I DO! walking with a friend towards the Gothic propped up insouciantly against the Nigel Milne (Chandos 68)

Like so many great ideas, it all started with a speculative telephone call. Becky Armstrong, the Stowe Enterprises Manager approached the Antiques Roadshow production team to sound out their interest in filming at Stowe. Two visits later and the series producer was definitely interested, then came the inevitable long 2 Graham Lay explains a fascinating piece of kit for manufacture of small arms. silence until we heard that Stowe had been included in the 2012/13 series. has any inkling of what the experts will say (and some did indeed emerge towards It should come as no surprise that the when filming starts. Those of you who the end of the day) plus the satisfaction filming process is well orchestrated but the were able to see the first programme, will of explaining provenance or significance relaxed and professional manner in which have seen the Headmaster presenting to all their visitors. The House, the South the whole thing unveiled itself before our Beatles’ memorabilia. Still to come, during Front newly restored, looked splendid eyes really impressed everyone. Large the second programme on 12 May, is the and made a superb backdrop for items of furniture were collected following National Trust with some garden the programme. pre-arranged visits to owners and guidebooks and Fiona Bruce talking to Joe assembled in the Marble Saloon for Wotton, whose family (the Morgan- Quite apart from the fun and the privileged pre-viewing by the experts. Grenvilles) has loaned the copper vases to insight that we all enjoyed, the public enable copies to be made and re-instated relations benefit will be enormous. The On the day, it was fascinating to see the on the South Front in preparation for production team were fully aware of Stowe eclectic mix of items presented and to restoration of the full balustrade. School’s role in rescuing Stowe House and watch reactions in real life and, as the our delight in continuing to care for the familiar music sounded over the PA Fiona also happened upon Sir Jackie building and site. Hopefully, a reference to system, we knew that we were in for a Stewart in the crowd and another relaxed that will be included in the programme. As fascinating day. The experts undertake to and delightful scene was captured for ever, none of it would have been possible see anyone who arrives before the closing camera. The rain held off and, as the day without the help of our Events, House, time and no one goes home without progressed, so the cameras moved around Grounds and Catering staff to whom a having had their item valued provided they to capture the best light. The experts massive vote of thanks is offered. register in time. Although the programme proved indefatigable, their prize being is not live, there is no rehearsal and no one the possibility of an unexpected find Nick Morris, Operational Director SHPT

The second programme filmed at Stowe is scheduled to air on Sunday 12 May 2013. 40 FEATURE

8 Untitled Figure Study by Oliver Wilson (Cobham 92). celebrate all things visual

I was asked to write an I aim to highlight and celebrate the ranged from the romantically run down article about Old Stoic enormity of talent and variety in the grounds to a range of imaginative still life approach to Art being explored by set ups with not-so-still life inserts such Artists a few weeks ago different generations of Stoics. I was a as a life model or a senior citizen and having made some Stoic when William Dady and then Guy dressed as a farmer (perhaps he was inroads into researching a Scott ran the Art School back in the mid one), parked on a chair in the middle handful of artists, I can see 1980s. There was great emphasis on of scrap objects, yucca plants and cardboard boxes. this could be an ongoing, drawing and that seems to be a constant, not only in the fabulous new Art School As the boundaries of Art seem ever more lifelong project. today, but also in the following Artists’ open and integrated, it seems we should work. The source material back then celebrate all things visual from Old Stoics 41 8 HM The Queen by Rupert Alexander (née Atkinson, Chatham 93). 8 Sturm and Drang by Edgar Both (Bruce 61). 8 Beefalo by Hugo Wilson (Grenville 00). 8 Caroline de Peyrecave. 7 School Run by Tim Hall (Cobham 84). 7 David Shepherd (Chatham 49). 1 Untitled Nude by Clementine McGaw (Nugent 06). 1 Jockey by Nichola Eddery (Lyttelton 00). 42 1 Alex Talbot-Rice’s ‘The Warrior’. and perhaps pay more attention to the teaching students about Art as well as Headmaster portrait! Alexander Talbot fact that all these Art makers share one how to make it! Rice (Cobham 89) is spending this year thing in common: they lived part of their as Artist in Residence at Stowe. David Shepherd (Chatham 49) has to lives at Stowe. A good Art education will be one of the most famous OS names. It is always interesting looking at Art that not simply produce painters and An analogy could be drawn between challenges our boundaries of aesthetic draughtsmen, but open up everything Drayson asking Richard Branson to get rid appreciation. Clemmie McGaw has been visual. Dominic Hyman (Temple 90), of his telephone in his study or he would taken notice of early on in her career by a contemporary of mine who painted have to leave and the story of Shepherd winning the Saatchi and Saatchi award very well, is now an award winning film being turned away from the Slade School “Best emerging Fine Artist” 2010-2011 set designer; his most famous work to of Fine Art on the basis that he had no having just left Central St. Martins School date being the hugely imaginative Pacific hope of becoming an Artist. They are both of Art. With Clemmie’s paintings, one is film series sets. Hattie Rickards (Nugent examples of dogged stoicism that end in immediately drawn in by her sensitive 01) recalls “I remember becoming remarkable success. Shepherd has use of oil and household paint. She consumed with the architecture of Stowe painted four Stowe Headmasters. pours the paint, lets it bleed, and works and sketched it endlessly which really However, his fame really comes from his opened my eyes to seeing. This process back into it with thick impasto paint. now iconic views of wildlife in Africa. But her subject matter highlights the taught me that I was lucky enough to be Likewise Nichola Eddery (Lyttelton 00) able to really communicate through complicated political issues surrounding seems to be forging ahead in the world of modern warfare, culture and religion. drawing. At Stowe I was guided by great Equine Art and as the daughter of world teachers and absorbed by an array of famous champion flat jockey, Pat Eddery, Although their work differs enormously great books to learn from, which gave me Nichola is in a great position. both Oliver Wilson (Cobham 92) and Tim the confidence and belief I needed. Hall (Cobham 84) perhaps share an I then went straight on to a jewellery The Charles Cecil Studios in Florence interest in the links between photography design degree at Central Saint Martin’s have been a natural draw to many OS and painting. I was struck by Hall’s and now, three years into my business, artists and I wonder if the classically Battersea Power Station rising out of the my drawing is still very much the linchpin influenced surroundings of Stowe made mist. This image brings to mind the great the transition a natural one? Perhaps for translating clients’ visions into pieces tradition of painting the Thames, with the hugely informative History of Art trips of jewellery.” In fact, Hattie’s clients are Monet, Whistler and Turner’s wonderfully to Florence taken by Crispin Robinson, often just as excited by her drawings as atmospheric paintings being the best Deputy Headmaster, reinforced this they are by the end product! examples. Wilson’s paintings of figures interest in traditional expertise? The underwater in swimming pools are a nod Until recently, when I started my own emphasis on traditional Old Master to the photo realists such as Richard Art School, I was lucky enough to teach technique at the Studios obviously draws Estes who wanted to make a point, in the Stowe Art Department for 12 years. those who want to understand the rules I believe, on the medium of paint and its A very strong philosophy developed and methods employed by the Old unmatched ability to go beyond the within the Art School that encouraged Masters. The challenge for students is to photograph, amongst other hugely the individual student to learn to absorb these methods rather than be intellectual aims I am sure! If it is the recognise creative development for absorbed by them and go on to develop Mediterranean you like, then Justin Tew’s themselves in their own work. An an individual take on the world. For all-inclusive, open-minded approach example, Hugo Wilson’s (Grenville 00) (Cobham 88) indulgent paintings of that quickly developed. It will be fascinating work is a fascinating mixture of part of the world literally focus on the to watch for the new OS talent of the installation, drawing and painting that, deep, dark blues and light of the Med. future. I strongly believe the Stowe although rooted in traditional training, Edgar Both (Bruce 61) started painting Art School is giving the best possible takes the viewer into some challenging in the 1950s and has consistently grounding for students to arrive on Art realms to do with the interaction between developed his interest in the American Foundation courses with a confident, modern science and primal thought. School of Abstract Expressionism. His open minded ability to negotiate the Hugo will be included in Phaidon’s works are indeed abstract and simply world of Art and all its possibilities. catalogue, Vitamin D2 that is a who’s explore the ability of the gestural mark to In the very early years of the Stowe Art who of contemporary drawing, a huge express a human energy or spirit. They Department, there was a Canadian accolade/acclamation. are paintings full of colour, form and couple who ran it. They subscribed to Caroline de Peyrecave (Nugent 04), space that transmit feeling rather than every Art periodical that came out of Rupert Alexander (née Atkinson, Chatham realism. Edgar developed his style during Paris. A Stoic called John Richardson 93), Nichola Eddery (Lyttelton 00), Hugh the emergence of Jackson Pollock, (Chatham 42) began to read them Beattie (Chandos 91) and Alexander Mark Rothko, Willem De Kooning et al; obsessively and today is known as ‘the Talbot Rice (Cobham 89) are but a few of that would have been an extraordinarily man who knew Picasso best’. Richardson a succession of OS Artists who are exciting time in the development of has become one of the world’s most pursuing the world of the Society portrait Modern Art. reliable authorities on Picasso and his with remarkable success. Rupert There will be many Artists I have missed Art. John has entertained Art students Alexander’s portrait of the Queen out and I hope that they will get in touch many times in recent years as part of the featured on the front page of the with the Old Stoic Office so that the Art and History of Art trip to New York, Telegraph. The calm, personable yet School can continue to build a record where he talked about his own authoritative air of his subject cleverly of what people are up to in the Arts. remarkable collection of Art and comes across; Rupert shows an Please send details of your work to artefacts, most of which had incredible impressive command of his medium and [email protected] stories relating to the Artist behind them. ability to employ chiaroscuro. Surely he is This story highlights the importance of in strong contention for the next Stowe George Irvine (Grenville 90) 43 1957: First solo on Chatham Field

8 Michael Andrews piloting the Dagling.

My spirit was too cement and ‘dope’, but we shared and was assembled on the Bourbon independent to take kindly enthusiasm. I would take my plans and playing fields early in 1957. It was a balsa-wood into a freezing classroom and Dagling, with a high wing, and an to discipline and I was never build away the afternoon on the master’s open-frame fuselage on which was a fan of the compulsory CCF. desk. The most ambitious of my models perched a seat and the controls. It was Hours spent polishing brass was a flying scale model De Harilland under the command of Michael (Freddie) Tiger Moth biplane. It was rather Fox who taught Maths. It was launched and toecaps and being underpowered with a 1cc ED Bee engine, with a double bungee cord. Eight boys shouted at did not appeal. but it flew well, at least until it crashed would walk and then run, stretching the Even worse was to be put into the Rotunda! I then had to borrow a elastic cords in a V until the glider was on ‘standing still parade’ ladder from the Power House Yard to get released at the tail. The only problem was the pieces down from the rim. that nobody knew how to fly it. We had for sneezing. only been taught the theory. Freddie sat I really wanted to get airborne. Climbing me at the controls. “You have flown So it was a considerable relief when I was the cedar tree on the South Front gave me gliders haven’t you?” was his only old enough to join the Air Force Section, a bird’s eye view – there were about a instruction and I realised why the ‘plane renowned for its lack of square-bashing dozen boys who could or dared to make had already been broken once. and bull. Here we could do much more the ascent, and the headmaster, exciting things like fly a Harvard (the Mr Reynolds, turned a blind eye – and it Thus, on a flat field, I managed to get a World War 2 advanced trainer) from was blissful to lie on the sweet smelling modest four feet off the ground. I knew Kidlington airfield and go on a visit to the uppermost branches on a summer day, full well that on a tow or bungee launch RAF Hawker Hunter fighter squadron at at a delicious distance from discipline and you have to keep the nose down till you Bruggen in West Germany. I had been ball games. But it wasn’t flying. get full air speed, or you will stall. The fact fascinated by flying since the age of four, that I wasn’t given a second ‘flight’, nor I used my pocket money to join the when I could identify different war ‘planes promoted to teach my fellow cadets, may Southdown Gliding Club in the holidays, from the sound of their engines. But at not have been unconnected to the fact and spent days retrieving the tow cable Stowe, at first, my flying was confined to that I had earlier hosed Mr Fox with a soda with a Fordson tractor, but too little time building models. syphon after too long a stay at the RAF bar in the air. There was only one dual-control (strictly out of bounds to us 17 year olds) There was a large cleaner’s cupboard trainer and too long a queue. The thrill of at RAF Bruggen. upstairs in the Shell classroom block that a first solo flight seemed so unattainable. was the lair of the Aeromodelling Club. The Air Force Section, however, had a The following term was the annual CCF 44 Only about six of us dabbled with balsa glider. It returned from expensive repair parade and no less grand a figure than The First Sea Lord, Earl Louis Mountbatten, came to inspect us. To my incredulity, I was suddenly ordered, the very same morning, to make a demonstration flight in the Dagling. This would be the most spectacular event of the parade! I was even more amazed when I saw where the ‘plane had been assembled – it was between Chatham House and the newly built Headmaster’s House at the top of the long slope that is Chatham Field. This was a very different challenge to a flat field. 8 Michael Andrews with his model Tiger Moth biplane. The sun shone, the top brass duly arrived and smiled at me. “Walk.” I gave the command. “Run!” And off I went. I had no the fuselage and hurting the back of the Now I could take passengers! A splendid idea of the flying or stalling speed of this unfortunate but overconfident young pilot. way to impress the opposite sex, of which glider – but I had enough basic I thus became the first and probably the till then I had little experience. It also experience to guess, and, having at first last boy to successfully fly a ‘plane from meant that I could fly an Auster back to kept the nose down, soon I was a good Chatham Field. Stowe and get that longed for aerial view thirty feet up. For a transcendental of the South Front. Flying, quite literally, moment as I flew down the shallow valley, After an exam that summer at the RAF broadened my perspective of the world I wondered whether to fly into the Eleven training college at Hendon, I won a Flying and my place within it. I know my love of Acre Lake. I could certainly reach it, and it Scholarship. This paid for powered pilot’s flying was enjoyed by the public too – would make a grand splash in more training at the Southern Aero Club at with the stunning footage we obtained for senses than one! But on this occasion Shoreham – the nearest airstrip to home. my Stoic’s sense of discipline, duty and Appropriately enough, I trained and went the 1982 BBC2 natural history series The common sense prevailed. I banked to solo on a Tiger Moth biplane. My instructor Flight of the Condor. It was a noted hit. the right and landed gently on the was a grumpy old man called Jack Pashley. Mike Andrews (Chatham 57) sold his first opposite up-slope, far down the field, But to me he was a hero as one of film to the BBC at the age of 22 and went to distant applause. England’s first aviators, who had built his on to make numerous programmes first for own aircraft early in the century and flown The glider was dragged to the top again. the BBC2 Horizon science series, and then it from Brighton sands. Despite my protestations, the pilot for the BBC Natural History Unit. He won a counter-weights were incorrectly installed, I then joined the University Air Squadron score of international prizes and has had and on the very next launch the ‘plane at Cambridge and completed my training three best-selling books published. stalled and fell to the ground, breaking and gained my Private Pilot’s Licence. Michael Andrews (Chatham 57) FILMING IN NORTH KOREA In September 2012, Mont Tombleson (Cobham 83) and the current Head We chatted about the Olympics. They had seen of Communications for the vaccination charity the GAVI Alliance, Dan the opening ceremony and like the rest of us Thomas (Chatham 83) went to Pyongyang to make a film. Just a short one. hadn’t understood it, but thought it marvellous nonetheless. “James Bond!”, I said. Minders: Many are sceptical about North Korea’s The 11th Pyonyang Film Festival also Big smile and a nod in the affirmative. very high rate of vaccination coverage. opened the same week, no doubt buoyed “You’ve heard of him?” Minders: Big smile and Why should we believe them they ask? by last year’s break out success (an Old a nod in the negative. “The Queen of England?” Here’s why – the government wants Stoic production), Bend it like Beckham. Minders: Big smile. Total blankness. children vaccinated because it saves their NHS money and this is a country where We ate once in a revolving restaurant on top On one of our in-country excursions, I had a go people do what they’re told. Like I said, of the hotel where the turning mechanism at explaining the United Kingdom and how it it was a short film. was operated by a swift kick from a lonely works, to increasingly pitying nods, also saying waitress to a red button on the floor. that Scotland (blank looks) was shortly to have We travelled from Beijing with China The pace was glacial: in fact, tectonic. a vote on independence. Pitying looks turned Airlines. This was tough since Air Koryo, the I’m not going to moan about the food to grave ones as Mr Kim our translator said, North Korean national carrier is the world’s because whatever we were presented with, “So there will be war…?” only one star airline, and widely known as the worst. Our hotel was on an island, in the it was like the last days of Rome compared After a week we returned to the airport, were middle of the river, in the middle of town. to the diet of the general population. given back our ‘phones and breathed out loudly as a man waved us through. We turned The Alcatraz of Fun was how Trip Advisor We had four minders in attendance at all around to wave goodbye to see the tight smiles described it. Booking a taxi takes a week so times, except mealtimes. They were polite, and yearning expressions of four people who there was no slipping into Pyongyang for respectful and funny, even, after a couple of would have given a great deal for the pleasure cold noodles and beer. Next to us was a beers – and downright rapacious when it cinema, bizarrely modelled on the Royal came to duty free cigarettes. of a journey on the world’s worst airline. Shakespeare theatre in Stratford. “Tombleson!! Camel!!” Mont Tombleson (Cobham 83) 45 families

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Secondly, we tested the new We were all up very early on Sunday, as Spirit steps which had been expressly made to of Chartwell had come up to Cadogan Pier bridge between Britannia’s Royal Barge and overnight. At 0730hrs we were alongside her the shiny new one. We all knew that Her for a final rehearsal, before heading back to Majesty would be more than capable of George Watson (Chandos 80), the pier for a final deck scrub and tidy up. negotiating the climb but this was essential writes about his involvement training for Chartwell’s crew. We were also At 1413hrs Her Majesty the Queen, having with Her Majesty The Queen’s extremely well fed as Chartwell tested her inspected a Guard of Chelsea Pensioners, Diamond Jubilee River Pageant, catering facilities! Thirdly, and perhaps most stepped on board her Royal Barge, for the first importantly, we established that Britannia’s time in 15 years. The look on her face as she as Royal Barge Officer. Royal Barge was seaworthy and therefore saw her own boat, crewed by faces she knew I was fortunate to serve in HMY Britannia from insurable under current regulations. The Barge so well, was the most wonderful reward for the 1989 to 1991 and remain involved with The was then shipped back to Edinburgh to months of hard work put in by so many, Association of Royal Yachtsmen, having retired continue preparing her for the pageant. as were all the photographs of the Barge once from the navy in 2003. Two years before the On the Thursday before the Pageant, again flying the biggest Royal Standard and Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, it was the three boats were transported by lorry White Ensign we could get away with! suggested to the Royal Household that it might from Edinburgh to King George V Dock, about With 13 minutes to get to the Spirit of be appropriate for the late HMY Britannia’s a mile downstream from the Thames Barrier. Chartwell, I had to keep tabs on all the streets Royal Barge and two Escort boats to be From here, we headed off upstream to we passed, to ensure we were not behind involved in the celebrations. This suggestion Chelsea harbour. schedule. However, even after closing the was received with great enthusiasm, and so All the way up the river, we passed historic Thames barrier the tidal stream was running started a vast amount of work and preparation vessels coming to be part of the Avenue of much faster than we had been led to expect; for the big day, all willingly funded by The Sail, and even on Friday morning we were the biggest challenge was actually not to go Royal Yacht Britannia Trust which nowadays being cheered up the river as people realised too fast. This caused serious problems when lovingly cares for the former Royal Yacht. they were seeing the Queen’s faithful old Royal we came alongside Chartwell as there was no The boats had not operated since 1997, Barge and Escorts. one ready with our head and stern ropes, so major reconditioning work had to be Friday afternoon and Saturday morning were despite the rehearsals. The Queen’s Coxswain undertaken, with some former yachtsmen spent ensuring the boats looked as very nearly lost the bow of the Barge as we sat giving up their weekends and holidays for over immaculate as they always had done on Royal alongside waiting for our ropes. Luckily, Are you looking for a six months. I was privileged to be chosen to Duty. 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R22187 REVISED TBH WELL FIT FAMILIES STOWE ADVERT.indd 1 22/01/2013 10:57 archaeological evidence was uncovered of what had actually gone on in the room. Since the room was created out of two small rooms and extended southwards in the 1770s, recesses were formed, particularly around the niche on the north wall. During the course of repairs, the plain panels below the niche were taken out revealing a recess full of hidden treasures that entertained pupils of the past and will intrigue the pupils of today. Also found in the recess were three out of the During the spring of 2012, the State Music Room started its 5 five original panels, placed carefully there by some considerate Bruce boy. These have month conservation project. With a grant from the Mellon been restored to their rightful position, Foundation through the World Monuments Fund, with a top up reiterating the arabesque design repeated from Stowe House Preservation Trust’s general fund (made up of around the room. Search it out next time you are in the room! grants from generous groups and individuals). While repairing the back of the niche itself, a recess was discovered to the right of the niche base that reached up into the ceiling. Here, again, was another mound of treasures found on the floor. So what are all these treasures of which I speak? Whose are they? Where did they come from? What are they worth? This is where I am asking for your help as those who were here when it happened. Can you date them for me? Find their owners? It’s a decent mystery that we can work out together. During the 1960s, the School commissioned two Old Stoics, Michael and Benjamin Gibbons, to undertake some remedial conservation work on the Music Room and in the 1980s, copied the central circular ceiling painting that had been sold in 1922. The fireplace surround was also found in the 1980s in an historic house that had suffered a small fire and sold back to Stowe – the cracks and breaks caused by the fire 1 A selection of treasures found in the recess on were filled in as part of the current project. the east side of the niche. All yet to be dated. So how different does the room look now? The repair of the fireplace surround and During the course of the project, it was Although the fixtures and fittings in the room mantle piece includes the replacement of the necessary to lift floorboards to assess their were offered up in the great Stowe Sale of black concrete hearth (after the original white condition – years of dancing, pacing up and 1848, only the furniture went. It was not until marble one was sold off in 1922) with a new down and furniture rearrangment have the second contents sale in 1922 that the white marble hearth, the replacement of gradually worn them down – and to open up fireplace surround, the mirror, the chandelier some floorboards, the cleaning of the hidden recesses behind walls and the niche. and the central canvas painting were sold off. painted panels have brightened the room And it was in those places that we found the With the arrival of boys and masters in May but also shows up the difference between the sun-drenched panels and those that have hidden treasure... 1923 to create Stowe School, the Music never seen the sun, the return of the gilding Room and its sister room, the Drawing Room, Let us go back in time and look at the history to the window shutters, backs of doors and were turned into house rooms for the first of the Music Room. Extended from a drawing column bases and the lift of the background two houses – Bruce and Temple respectively. room and bedroom in the 1770s, when the colour from blue/grey to a light green/blue. South Front was rebuilt by Earl Temple to the During my seven years at Stowe, I have heard Excitingly, one of the other discoveries was magnificent façade we see today. The wall many tales from Old Stoics as to what they the remains of the gilded decoration on the paintings were added in 1781 by Vincenzo got up to in the House and Gardens. Some window reveals and shutters. We’ve left Valdré, an Italian artist who spent half his are unrepeatable, others enlightening! One I one section exposed to show what the rest working life at Stowe, and because they were heard recently with regard to the Music Room looked like – look out for it when you’re painted straight onto the lathe and plaster was that the storeroom on the back room next in. wall, they couldn’t be sold off. was the ‘office’ for the Head of House, who Despite the need for a conservation project of would be smoking in there! How the main Although the room is called the Music Room the Music Room, it is amazing how well the mansion has never burnt down is more out of in the original guide book, it is clear from diary room was kept from the 1780s – it’s good to luck than due care! accounts that the State Rooms are used for know that the Bruce boys of 40 years appreciated the room they were in! the same purposes during the party season I’m sure there are many more tales to hear 48 – eating and entertainment. but during the course of the restoration, Anna McEvoy, Stowe House Preservation Trust Old Stoic MP! After resolutely sticking with earlier unsuccessful attempts to prise the Plymouth Sutton & Devonport constituency away from Labour in the previous two General Elections, Oliver Colvile MP (Bruce 76) managed to achieve a Conservative majority at the 2010 General Election. Since then he has been working tirelessly in his constituency and is “My feet hurt almost every day and have been making a name for himself, not least as a almost permanently blistered – certainly on the member of the HoC’s Northern Ireland Select sole. I’ve had pain in my feet, ankles, knees, Committee and the vice-chairman of the All hips and back. I slept outside almost every night, Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed including in sub-zero temperatures and in the Forces with special responsibility for the snow. I walked through a blizzard, a couple of very Royal Marines; and, particularly, just before windy hail storms, had a whole day of super-high Christmas, asking the Prime Minister, at winds which actually closed the route I wanted to weekly PMQs, to recognise the valiant efforts take. I was almost blown over many a time! I lost almost 70 years ago of those taking part on 15 kilograms during the walk, my toenail fell off the Arctic convoys during World War II. A after two weeks, and I didn’t shower with soap or direct hit: the PM immediately responded by even wash my hair for three months. I ran out of ensuring that the medals they had deserved water a few times in the middle of nowhere, until I for so long would finally be awarded. came across the next stream. I passed out at the end of my penultimate day.” He recently invited two fellow OSs, John Fingleton and Charlie Dimpfl (both Chatham 66) to PMQs on a particularly momentous day, following David Cameron’s landmark speech a few hours earlier on Britain’s future in the EU and the proposed introduction of a Referendum. Furthermore, he even managed to win the ‘champagne moment’ playing cricket for the Lords & Commons CC in India in 2012 Last year, Riley Curtis (Bruce 11) trekked 1,400 miles over 105 days, becoming – somewhat improbably taking the wicket of the youngest person to walk the entire length of New Zealand. But, as his blog one of the opening batsmen! It was watched accounts, it was no walk in the park! That’s because Riley carried a hammock on by 20 million on Indian television. his journey and slept wherever he ended up, whether it was in a derelict building John Fingleton (Chatham 66) or under a tree. Riley finally completed his journey on 13 November 2012. The route he walked took him 1,400 miles, from Cape Reinga, the northernmost tip of the country, to Shortly to come on the market, Bluff in the south. His epic journey through the land of Hobbits and The Lord of the Rings took him down coastlines, through forests, over volcanoes and a Grade II family house, mountain passes and through seven major cities. And apart from the pride of 3 miles from Stowe. having completed such an arduous journey, Riley did it all in aid of Help for 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a spacious Heroes, so far raising £1,270. kitchen, 3 reception rooms and about 1 acre You can read about his journey at http://walknz.wordpress.com or donate to his of garden. Former Parsonage house. cause at www.helpforheroes.org.uk/events/walking_new_zealand Email: [email protected] for details.

49 (1974-88). At both schools he was a Robert Browning, A.E. Housman, dominant figure who contributed hugely to Louis MacNeice, Edmund Rostand and the production of plays and later opera. A W.B. Yeats. pianist from childhood, he took up painting after retiring to his native Wales. Betwixt The Book of Bain, an 80-page and between he wrote poetry and, when he commemorative treasure, has been could be persuaded, prose for publication. compiled and edited with a Foreword by Verses, Orations and Essays Justin Wintle (Chatham 66) and prepared Privately published in paperback by for publication by his brother Christopher by Joe Bain Plumbago Books and Arts, and illustrated (Chatham 62). It is offered to Old Stoics with photographs of Joe at different Joe Bain Joe Many Old Stoics will and others at the cost price of £7.95 per moments of his life, The Book of Bain is a copy including p&p (except overseas). remember Joe Bain collection of his writings: playful limericks It can be ordered from The Book of Bain, (1928-2011) as an and crafty clerihews; other shorter verses 47 Ashburnham Mansions, Ashburnham BookThe Bain of exceptional and along with a handful of fine translations; Road, LONDON SW10 0PB. Cheques inspirational teacher thoughtful homilies to some of his Stowe should be made payable to ‘Book of Bain’. of English, German colleagues – notably the Headmaster Eric Email enquiries can be sent to and French, first at Reynolds and Brian Stephan; lively, festive [email protected] Plumbago Stowe (1954-73), then orations delivered at Winchester; and a Joe Bain · The Book of Bain · Verses, Orations and Essays edited by Justin Wintle at Winchester College group of five perceptive literary essays on Justin Wintle (Chatham 66) Joe Bain’s Paintings Joe’s large collection of sheet music has been donated to the new Music School, but it seems appropriate to commemorate further his happiness at Stowe.

With this in mind, Priscilla Bain has offered some of Joe’s paintings for sale at modest prices to raise a fund for a small memorial – or, if enthusiasts want to contribute more largely, to support an aspect of music or drama at Stowe. The paintings which are available can be viewed at www.joebain.org.uk Joe took to painting in the last two decades of his life. He needed an outlet for his effervescence now there was no one to instruct, and no more plays to direct. He developed a striking primitive style, describing himself as, ‘The Grandma Moses of Tenby.’ Working initially in pastel and watercolour, he developed his technique by exploring still lives and flower pieces, but as his confidence grew and he ventured into oils and acrylics his colouring grew bolder and more skilful, and more and more of his irrepressible humour found its way into the work. He relished a joke in paint as much as he did in talk. He turned out lugubrious self-portraits, unintentionally caricatured Christmas card with the latest frolic impressions of colleagues and friends – brushwork, the only circulation the works P.G. Longhurst a repeated victim – had during his lifetime. The pictures, garden pictures; landscapes; odd historical notwithstanding their amateur style, have or mythological subjects, and imaginary vivid presence: crude perhaps, but never portraits of famous writers. bland, and they provoke smiles. If you would 8 A guest in the garden by Joe Bain. His paintings hung on the walls of his like to own one or more, please contact 8 Swans by Joe Bain. basement music room, on the stairs, Chris Atkinson via the Old Stoic Office for 1 Self portrait by Joe Bain. more details. [email protected] wherever space could be found. Old friends 1 Joe Bain in action at Stowe. 50 will recall the annual apparition of Joe’s Peter Yapp (Temple 62) Old Stoic and former art master, George into one of the most acclaimed and Irvine (Grenville 90) set up Buttermilk Art renowned secondary level art departments School last year. The studios are housed in the country. in a large adapted 300 year old barn, set amidst 75 acres of beautiful Oxfordshire “Starting up an art school at Buttermilk countryside, on his stud farm. Buttermilk has always been a dream and is now a Art School provides the perfect setting reality. It has been built on some of the and excellent tuition for budding artists main principles that were established in and art enthusiasts. my teaching at Stowe.” Born into an artistic family, George Buttermilk offers a variety of drawing flourished at Stowe, filling his sketch books and painting courses for both adults and with impressions of the overgrown temples, children of all skill ranges, from professional like so many enrapt Stoics in awe of their artists to art students and complete surroundings. At the age of sixteen, he was beginners. Old Stoics, their family and the youngest exhibitor at the Royal Academy friends are welcomed with open arms Summer Exhibition. He went on to win a to enjoy all that Buttermilk Art School place at The Slade School of Fine Art. Later, has to offer. deciding to teach, he couldn’t resist the opportunity to return to Stowe, and took Email [email protected] up a position in the art department. George www.georgeirvinefineart.co.uk/ played a key part in developing Stowe buttermilk-art-school

51 6 Patrick returns a Shin salmon. 5 Patrick and Rosie discuss their plan of attack on Eleanor’s pool.

Gap Year Gillie Patrick Tillard (Walpole 07), Journalist for FieldSports & Scottish Sporting Gazette, tells the tale of his gap year on the River Shin.

Scotland or Thailand? For most 18 year olds that offered unmatchable exhilaration. with each slack line retrieve, the river had a contemplating their gap year options this The anticipation and thrill of banking a fresh change of heart. Her small Red Francis was would be a very simple decision, but as a salmon never wore off. However, as any seized and an enthusiastic behemoth salmon fishing addict and in search of fisherman knows, the salmon season can erupted vehemently from the water, something off the beaten track, the be schizophrenic and hours of futile casting almost dragging Rosie in as she clung onto opportunity to spend a season as a fishing in unforgiving conditions made for tricky her rod for dear life. spells. Fortunately, these lows were few gillie was too tantalising to refuse. After a mighty 20 minute grapple, the silver and far between as the constant supply brute showed signs of fatigue, waving his So in early May, I substituted the Sussex of tumbling water from the hydro scheme tail as a flag of surrender. I waited anxiously Downs for the Highlands and travelled 650 meant that reel-ripping action was never downstream with my net poised in the flow. miles north to Lairg in Sutherland. My home too distant. for the following months was an idyllic However, inches from the bank our five-roomed bothy, sharing a plot with a herd The highlight of the season became the champagne moment fizzled as the salmon of ginger, woolly cattle and overlooking the diverse array of guests I met from week to took one last explosive surge for freedom south-eastern point of Loch Shin as it week. A charismatic lady, Rosie, particularly and in a gut-wrenching moment, spat the fly funnelled into the Shin. stood out who on the brink of her 90-year- and retreated into the depths of the pool. Under the supervision of Head Gillie, Alick Murray, we set to work on the multitude of However, as any fisherman knows, the salmon season season preparations. With no guests arriving until the start of June, I was given free rein on can be Schizophrenic and hours of futile casting the river most evenings after work – an in unforgiving conditions made for tricky spells opportunity I rarely squandered. It was a great way to learn each and every pool on the beat intricately and I was lucky enough to old landmark was still able to cast an Two minutes of open-mouthed shock land some stunning multi-sea winter salmon. immaculate line, despite her antique rod summed up the utter disbelief. I was torn requiring more effort than caber tossing. between whether to breakdown in tears or The entrance of June kick-started the season Her character was infectious and on the strip off and dive in to pursue the salmon into action. Each week a new selection of closing Saturday afternoon, despite brief myself. I turned to Rosie and beaming from guests pulled up at the lodge, eager to chuck contact with a grilse midweek, we still had ear to ear she broke the silence: “Wow that a fly onto the water. Most were regulars to nothing to add to the game book. was fun. I won’t forget him anytime soon.” the Shin, and after only a few weeks of exploring the river, I could easily see why Unperturbed by our lack of success, we I hope I am as sporting in my later years. ventured to the Eleanor’s pool for a final they followed the salmon’s example and A brilliant lady, and just one highlight from flick. Rosie took position at the head of the returned year after year. the hotchpotch of memories formed over pool and delicately sent her line slicing those five epic months. When fish were running in healthy numbers through the light drizzle. She covered the 52 and my net saw regular action, it was a role water faultlessly and, as hope was fading Patrick Tillard (Walpole 07) Book Review bursaries, along with the continual need to update the School’s facilities) or The Stowe House Preservation Trust (which supports the ongoing maintenance and restoration of the House) are the two registered charities that our legacy donors support. Leaving a charitable bequest can attract considerable In these uncertain financial tax advantages, and not just those in relation by Peter Farquhar times during which the word to Inheritance Tax. austerity is writ large, I should stress that it is not necessary to Former Head of English, legacy-giving is becoming an Peter Farquhar has recently ever more crucial element in quantify one’s bequest on joining, just to completed his second supporting one’s alma-mater confirm (in writing), that it is your wish to novel. A Bitter Heart begins or indeed any other favoured charity. leave such a bequest. If you are prepared to inform the School where your donation is with tea and sympathy in the aftermath of A year ago, I accepted the considerable ultimately destined, this is appreciated but it tragedy. As with the author’s, Between Boy honour of becoming the President of the is not essential. Meanwhile you will have and Man, (Published 2010), readers find Roxburgh Society – a Society for those of us added to our numbers, and hopefully have themselves falling through a cracked social who have chosen to support our School by attended our very convivial annual lunch at veneer into the characters’ turbulent inner leaving a legacy. For me, and for almost 100 Stowe. The date of 2013’s gathering is lives. Students Rob and Kate, and her mother, other current members of the Society, it is a Tuesday 18 June. find love and trust replaced by guilt and wonderful way of helping secure the future resentment. The moral predicaments that of the School and the Stowe estate. I would therefore ask anyone who would follow are set principally in a superbly realised On taking over from Kit Clucas, I boldly like to know more to email me or call Gabi Manchester. Tension builds as we read to stated back then that I wished to increase Murphy at Stowe. If you would like to speak discover what fateful — and fatal — decisions our membership to over 200 by 2015. We to me directly, I will be delighted to make are making encouraging progress and I and contact with you. Thank you. are made. Assumed values are tested to the team at Stowe have learnt that being breaking point. Who will most suffer the pain Nigel Rice (Chatham 64) able to talk personally to those that show an of moral isolation? A Bitter Heart is a story of great drive and serious interest, an engrossing interest, over the telephone or meeting for a For more information about the Roxburgh and page turning read that leaves the reader beer, is a great way of explaining what Society, please contact either Nigel on reflecting on its rich pattern of meaning. membership of the Society involves. [email protected] / 07971 501750, or The Stowe School Foundation (which Gabi Murphy in the Development Office on Copies of the book can be purchased direct supports the provision of scholarships and [email protected] or 01280 818326. from Peter Farquhar: £10 + £3 p&p. 01280 817464 or [email protected]

53 Diamond Jubilee Speech Day Speech Day was a perfect opportunity to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and was held on Saturday 2 June 2012. Stowe celebrated the Jubilee in appropriate style.

On arriving at Stowe, guests were greeted by a fine display of Classic Cars of differing styles and ages displayed on the North Front in front of the beautifully restored mansion. This provided an ideal backdrop 2 The ‘Big Picnic’ on the South Front. for the annual Stowe Templars v Stowe 1st XI on the North Front cricket ground. and Old Stoic matches against the Stowe venue for The Big Picnic with guests, Music featured throughout the day with tennis, water polo and golf teams. patriotically dressed in red, white and performances by the Stowe String blue, sitting at trestle tables festooned The South Front became the focus of Orchestra, Wind Band and Big Band, along with bunting, adjacent to the marquee the day with excellent speeches by the with a performance by the Virtuosi GUS and a fun fair. Chairman of the Governors, the Band. Speeches were punctuated with Headmaster, Head Boy and Head Girl. Despite cool weather, the events, brass performances on the South Front. The guest speaker, Ed Smith, the former displays and general feeling of wellbeing Other events and displays took place international cricketer and author of Luck, to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s throughout the day including Old Stoics v stepped in at short notice and gave an Diamond Jubilee provided us all with a Stowe clay pigeon shooting, the annual inspiring speech to the School. The South memorable day. beagles display, a riding demonstration Front became a spectacular and colourful John Arkwright (Cobham 69)

Old Chandosians’ Old Chandosians’ Gathering Expedition to France September 2012 On 27 September a number of Old Chandosians gathered at Queen’s Club for dinner in the Club Restaurant. The years covered were 1979 to 1990, with the year group of 1979 represented by Harry Marriott and that of 1990 by Matt Pumfrey and Tim Dew. The best represented group was that from 1984 with many of the key members of the cast of ‘Journey’s End’, the Chandos House Play from 1983 present, including director and actor, Martyn Downer. This prompted me to go onto the OS website and look at the review of the play in The Stoic for that year, which are now all online and a fascinating resource. The review by Alison Nightingale was fairly Following on from the success of the Old Chandosian gushing: “It was widely agreed that this was one of the best acted and dinners held in London every 2-3 years, it was decided to move abroad for a change. As guests of Michael Likierman, most memorable of the Drama Festival Plays.” At the dinner was (Chandos 1954-58), two groups – one in June, the other in Fergus Wylie who apparently “had surprised everyone with his October – were given a tour of the astonishing Ferdinand powerful performance as Captain Stanhope…” (pronounced by the way Bac architectural gardens at Les Colombières in Menton, with a short ‘hup’ not as in ‘hope’ which somehow seems to have Southern France (restored by Michael over many years) and slipped into the pronunciation of one of the girls’ houses!). James a visit to the famous Hanbury Gardens just over the Italian Patrick was also with us for the dinner. He had been Lieutenant border. With two splendid lunches and one semi formal Raleigh in the play “who had idolised Stanhope since childhood” and dinner plus accommodation overlooking the sea, the “who was very well portrayed”. “Other commendable performances foreign “expedition” was deemed an outstanding success. were given by Hertford King as Lieutenant Osbourne.” Hertford was Robin Hunter-Coddington (Chandos 59) also with us, together with his youngest brother Chester. Others from 1984 present at the dinner were Nigel Browner and Adam Gurney. 1 Left to right: Bill Bennett (Chandos 58), John Coleman The feedback from the dinner itself was very positive and the intention (Chandos 58), John Utley (Chandos 57) is to try and hold one every couple of years, the next one therefore Middle row: Anthony Whinney (Chandos 57), being planned for 2014 which will be fitting for the year group of 1984 Michael Likierman (Chandos 58), Alexander Zafiropulo who will be marking 30 years since leaving Chandos and Stowe. (Chandos 59), Robin Behar (Chandos 59) Front row, seated: Donough O’Brien (Chandos 57). 54 Richard Hopkinson-Woolley (Chandos 87) Nick Smith (Bruce 93) is an archivist at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Over the last year, he curated the exhibition Collecting Abroad for the V&A 1851-1914, which is on display until 26 May 2013. Nick outlines his work on the project below. Collecting Abroad for the V&A 1851-1914 uses rarely-seen personal 1 Sir Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave in the garden at Gore House, accounts and official records to introduce visitors to five intrepid curators 1854; albumen print by Charles Thurston Thompson Museum no. and agents, whose mission was to find and buy the best of world art and PH.835-1987 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. design for the V&A. The display offers a rare insight into the history of collecting in the late nineteenth century. My work started in May 2011: I submitted a proposal for a display on collecting abroad, an area in which the Museum’s archival holdings are particularly rich. I wanted to showcase unpublished travelogues, curatorial notes, photographs, maps, correspondence and official papers, to promote lesser-known areas of the V&A’s collections. The display was approved and I was allocated a space on the Library Landing. The focus of Collecting Abroad for the V&A 1851-1914 is not so much on objects and their histories but on how and why these objects ended up at the V&A. Defining the display’s scope was a challenging task. First I decided to limit the display’s timeframe to the period between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the start of World War 1. Even then it was necessary to reduce the potential cast of characters. A major casualty was John 50th Anniversary Charles Robinson (1824-1913), the Museum’s ‘Art Referee’, who frequently travelled across Continental Europe in search of objects. Eventually, I managed to narrow it down to five key characters: return to Stowe the display investigates the work of each agent and collector. A visit to Stowe is always a pleasure, so an invitation to I felt it was important for the display to be geographically broad, lunch for those who left in 1962 and a chance to meet up to highlight the extent of the V&A’s early international networks, so I with some of those one had perhaps not seen for half a selected tales of collecting set in Italy, Turkey, Iran and China. century, were not to be missed. October 10 turned out to be as glorious as only a sunny autumn day at Stowe can be. The result is a tale of risky ‘shopping’ trips; dodgy dealers; hard-nosed A welcoming drink on the beautifully restored South Front customs officials; arduous travelling conditions and illness. The agents and an address from Colin Dudgeon, Development Director faced stiff competition from other European museums and private were followed by a splendid lunch in the Blue Room. After collectors, lengthy negotiations through brokers, a ‘superstitious lunch there was the option of a tour round the House or the repugnance to sell family heirlooms’, and the difficulty of obtaining Gardens led by a helpful volunteer National Trust guide. permission for export. Most retraced their steps round the grounds and all These agents developed formidable expertise, made important contacts, appreciated the efforts of the Old Stoic Society Director and befriended private collectors, and bought objects on more competitive the Events Co-ordinator to help bring back so many good terms than if they were sold on the London art market. The result of their memories of their time at Stowe. efforts abroad is the outstanding collection housed at the V&A. Struan Robertson (Bruce 62) Nick Smith (Bruce 93)

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Nearby, inside the screen ethos reflected Sir Clough workmen were still laying the 30 miles of walls, Clough added three classroom blocks pipes and wires inside the house, and Williams-Ellis’ vision to (Cobham House and Grenville Housemaster). installing 60 baths and 120 washbasins. preserve and yet In the eastern courtyards the indoor riding In his four years as the architect, Clough school became a temporary gym until the recreate Stowe. aimed to add facilities with “minimum wooden gym/assembly/chapel/cinema was It was doubly dependent on his marriage disturbance to the architectural integrity of built where the Drayson Sports Hall is now. to Annabel Strachey in 1915. Clough wrote the historic fabric”, since he argued that The riding school and adjoining carriage about Stowe’s past and future for his “the boys must be trusted with Stowe as far houses then became Cobham. as possible unaltered”. Thus the wine cellars father-in-law’s magazine, The Spectator, in On the west side the old laundry (Nugent gave way to boots and drying racks, while July 1921, just after Harry Shaw had bought south wing) became Biology laboratories, the servants’ hall and butlers’ pantry became Stowe. He likened Shaw’s plan of giving while the orangery (now Adam classrooms) changing rooms. Until the sanatorium was Stowe to the nation to Lord Lee’s of giving was turned into Chemistry and Physics built, the Bachelors’ corridor on the top Chequers to the nation for “its educative laboratories with an art school above. Nearby mains held the sick bay. Even the beer effect on future Prime Ministers.” a greenhouse wall formed the back of the pipe from the brewery now supplied oil to fives courts, and in 1924 Mr T A Miall In December 1921, Maxwell Ayrton, architect the new boilers. of the old Wembley stadium, reported to the donated some squash courts (StoweBucks). prep school committee for a new school at Stowe School started with 99 pupils, nearly The menagerie became the shop, while its Stowe, that Stowe’s buildings, “would lend all Third formers aged 13, with five Senior “rather dismal box” garden was turned into themselves to adaptation for school boys mainly from Lancing with JF, in Bruce tennis courts. and Temple, located in the west of the house, purposes” with full living and classroom At first all teachers were unmarried and two along with ten teachers. At first the reception accommodation for 150 boys and staff. When even camped out in the portico of Concord, rooms in the east pavilion were used as the second sale was announced in July 1922, as had six emergency plumbers. The classrooms: “the ceiling is an education in the Rev. Percy Warrington, backed by Lord headmaster lived in the suite of rooms itself – if all else fails”, as The Stoic noted. Gisborough’s Martyrs’ Memorial Trust, around the Gothic Library, previously provided the funding and asked Clough to Four houses were planned for the main occupied by the Master of Kinloss. Male and become the architect for converting the House, each served by a stone staircase. female servants’ quarters were provided house to a school. Clough, in turn, showed They were named after families linked with around Power House Yard, re-using old his vision by buying Stowe Avenue to Stowe, keeping roughly to the order of the servants’ accommodation, while the masters’ preserve it from development. old names of the suites of rooms, except for common room started on the first floor of the Bruce which came first with its royal Secondly, through his wife, Clough met JF Nugent central block. connections through Lady Kinloss. Bruce Roxburgh, then a housemaster at Lancing houseroom started in the Garter Room but A zoo was probably the first additional College, whom he “had had to bully into later transferred to the Music Room. Its twin, building, typifying the adventurous outlook of putting in for the job” of headmaster. “JF” the State Drawing Room on the other side of those early days. Creating a new educational gave Stowe its special ethos and achieved the Assembly Hall (the Marble Hall), became ethos amid 18th century classical splendour national renown. Temple houseroom. When Grenville and was not easy but depended on a humane Clough had from October 1922 to 11 May Chandos Houses were formed in September empathy for teenagers. Clough, who lost track 1923 to transform “this great echoing long 1923, bringing numbers to 203, the Grenville of the Rysbrack statue he had bought, offered neglected palace of 400 rooms” – he said houserooms occupied the present Blue a reward to the first pupil who could find it, that he counted them on the survey plan – Room and the neighbouring Green Room, while JF dignified his pupils with classical into accommodation for 200 boys in four with Chandos’ at the end. By September connotations as “Stoics”. boarding houses. The building lacked an 1924, numbers reached 342 and a year later Michael Bevington, Stowe Archivist adequate water supply, drains, heating, 424 once Chatham House was completed, lighting and even maintenance, supposedly with 451 in September 1926.

1 Cobham Houseroom and Courtyards. 7 56 JF Roxburgh – reading over, Assemby. The Baobab Tree Mike De Butts’ company, PirateTechnics designs and builds temporary art installations for festivals, galleries, events and corporate retailers. Last year, Mike was commissioned by the A key challenge was to ensure that the Southbank Centre to replace his 24ft straw tree could pass beneath Waterloo Bridge, sculpture ‘Urban Fox’ with an imposing 50ft without necessitating too many separate upholstered tree. The piece was designed pieces. Designed and prefabricated in as a beacon outside the Royal Festival Hall Nottinghamshire, the four sections made during the Jubilee and Olympic season, a memorable journey to London, where drawing visitors closer and providing they were up-righted, extended and craned seating at its base. This was designed in into place in a single (unseasonably hot) the somewhat other worldly form of the day. Once attached together, and to the Baobab tree: this sacred African tree can walls of the Hayward Gallery, two more live for thousands of years and is often seen days in a cherry picker saw the last touches as a symbol of strength and community. made good. In keeping with this year’s Arts Festival Installed in May, ‘Under the Baobab’ was theme, ‘Under the Baobab’ displayed on display throughout the summer as part over 80 different fabrics, selected to of the Southbank’s Festival of the World. represent the global community through After its inclusion in the BBC’s ‘The Culture familiar textiles. Show’, it was selected to stay on as part of the Winter Festival. At the time of writing, The piece is constructed of stacked it is still there. concentric rings, in the style of a coil pot. The canopy is a tangle of yarns and wools. More pictures and a short time-lapse Within it, representing the fruit, is a video of the project, and of replica trees multitude of reclaimed cotton reels and designed for John Lewis, are available at bobbins from an abandoned cotton mill www.piratetechnics.com in Andalusia. Mike De Butts (Grenville 99)

Nigel Rice’s victory

In July 1963, Nigel Rice (Chatham 64) became the English Schools 220 yds champion. A measure of this outstanding sporting achievement can be gauged from the fact that today, 50 years later, he still holds the School’s two sprint records and has a share in the 4 x 100 relay record. David Donaldson (Former Staff 1957-1973)

57 Ollie’s Odyssey

In December 2012, Oliver Plunket (Grafton 12) set off on an epic seven month, 24,000 mile, solo motorbike adventure.

He is riding from the southernmost city of Argentina to the top of Alaska. Ollie was awarded an Old Stoic Gap Year Scholarship to help to fund his trip and is raising money for Fisher House UK, a charity which provides a home-away-from-home for the families of wounded soldiers. “I wish I could explain what it’s like being here. Being given the opportunity to have an adventure like this whilst meeting amazing people, seeing amazing landscapes and witnessing different cultures and traditions. I’m struck by it all and I know that as I head closer to Central America the impact is only Book Review going to be stronger!” On completion of his adventure, Ollie will be going on to Exeter University on Behind the Scenes an Army Scholarship to read Politics and Philosophy. He writes “I wanted to fuse both my love of travel and my intention of Motor Racing to do something useful with my gap year and this perfect combination also links Chris Gregory (Cobham 79) recently produced his first ebook for Kindle and iPad, “Behind the to my future career in the armed forces. Scenes of Motor Racing”. The book tells the tale I hope this makes a real contribution of his father’s involvement with the early days of to the welfare of wounded servicemen Formula 1 — he not only drove himself, but also and their families.” organised the very first race meeting at Brands So far, we hear his trip is going well. Hatch; managed both Stirling Moss and Peter You can follow Ollie’s trip via the blog Collins and founded the first commercially on his website www.olliesodyssey.org.uk sponsored Formula 1 team, years before it All donations of any size will be became the norm. Old Stoics might be gratefully welcomed and will go interested in the description of Silverstone in its straight to Fisher House UK formative years, not to mention the astonishing www.justgiving.com/olliebikeride bravery shown by the drivers racing there. We eagerly await a full report on his trip Chris Gregory (Cobham 79) 58 in the next edition of The Corinthian. Letter to the Editor There were some splendid articles in Issue 2 of The Corinthian, one of these being ‘Stable Foundations’ on page 4. I was, however, surprised by one omission in this article about racing, that of Peter Hastings-Bass (Temple 39). He was of course a pre-war Old Stoic and he died in 1964 at the age of 43. I feel that he merits some mention and so I am writing something about him below. The two years immediately before World War 2 were a golden era for sport at Stowe and one of the outstanding sportsmen at the School during this time was Peter Hastings. In 1938 Stowe beat Oundle at rugby for the first time ever, 17-11. At Sports Day in 1939, JF announced that he had gathered together a collection of ladies who were mothers of captains of football (rugby), cricket and athletics, and the competitors who had established four new records in the Stowe Sports: Mrs Hastings would be representing them all! Her son of course was all of these things, as well as being a Prefect and an Under-Officer in the Corps. Peter ‘Robin Hood’ Hastings was at Stowe from 1934-39. When he left, he went up to Christ Church, Oxford and achieved unofficial wartime ‘blues’ in rugby and athletics. He went into the Army (Welsh Guards) and played in wartime rugby internationals against Wales (1942) and Scotland (1943). Thank you ccf! Peter Hastings was the son of National Hunt In 1962, while I was at Stowe, I applied for an RAF Scholarship. I cannot trainer Aubrey Hastings and, after the war, remember anyone else doing this but the offer of learning to fly at no cost was became assistant to his father’s successor at Wroughton, near Swindon, Ivor Anthony. irresistible to me. I was sent to the Officers’ and Aircrew Selection Centre at RAF His aunt’s husband, Sir William Bass, who died Hornchurch, as it then was during term time, which was a great adventure. I did in 1952, left his considerable estate and fortune the tests and was then interviewed. It was explained to me that I did not do to Hastings on condition that he retained his very well in the tests but they liked me, so I was in. family name –he changed his name to Hastings- My home at the time was in South Devon so I was told to report to the Plymouth Bass by deed poll in 1954. This legacy enabled him to buy the Kingsclere Stables, near Newbury Aero Club at Plymouth (Roborough) Airfield during the second half of that in 1953 and to begin training horses there, on the summer holiday. I arrived on my BSA motor bike and was amazed to see 8 flat. Between 1953 and 1964 he trained 340 immaculate silver Tiger Moths, 5 belonging to the BRNC, Dartmouth and 3 winners. The owners for whom he trained belonging to the Club. It looked like a pre-war aerodrome, especially when I included HM The Queen and Paul Mellon. also saw the DH Dragon Rapide operating the air service to the Scilly Isles. In 1947, Hastings had married Priscilla Bullock, The flying training was easily the most exciting thing I had ever done. I went the daughter of Sir Malcolm Bullock. Sadly, Peter solo on 2 September 1962. Above is a photograph of my fellow cadets, Hastings-Bass died of cancer on 4 June 1964, other pupils and our instructors (I am standing fourth from the left). shortly before his 44th birthday. The Kingsclere stables were taken over by his young assistant Ian I am pleased to say that I have a friend, David Wood OBE MC, who is an Balding, but Priscilla, who had held the Stables instructor and who owns a 79 year old Tiger Moth G-ACDI at Old Sarum, near together during her husband’s illness, stayed on where I now live. Thanks to his kindness I was, after some training, able to do and continued to run the stud operations there. a solo circuit in his aeroplane on 2 September 2012. That is 50 years since my Peter and Priscilla had four children. last solo flight in a Tiger. I cannot tell you how exciting that was. Above is a Their daughter, Emma, married Ian Balding. photograph after the flight. Emma and Ian’s daughter, Clare, has made a I was not a great success in the CCF. After my Flying Scholarship, Freddie Fox, name for herself as a racing commentator and particularly last year, covering the Olympic and who commanded the RAF section, reluctantly had me promoted to the rank of Paralympic Games, and is to take charge of all Corporal. Still, my time as an RAF cadet changed my life and gave me a lifelong racing broadcasting on Channel 4. interest in all matters to do with aviation. Thank you very much CCF. Jock Asbury-Bailey (Walpole 47) Peter Hope (Temple 63) 59 STOWE OPERA production at Winslow Hall (The Marriage of Figaro) was a resounding success “It’s not easy to do Figaro right, and this was a treat” (Robert Thicknesse in Opera Now).

Following this success, plans are underway for Stowe Opera (which will be re-named Winslow Hall Opera) to perform again at Winslow Hall. Six performances of Bizet’s Carmen will be staged between Thursday 25 July and Saturday 3 August, 2013. Tickets can be ordered from the Box Office by telephoning 07504 298575 on Monday, Wednesday or Friday mornings, or email [email protected] More information can be obtained at 2 Marc Callahan – Figaro and Helen Massey – Susanna in Stowe Opera’s www.winslowhallopera.co.uk Marriage of Figaro at Winslow Hall. Since leaving Stowe, Robert Secret has had Many of you will recall that It was resurrected last summer (2012) a very busy time running Festivals, concert series, playing the viola and conducting Robert Secret, then on the music in the grounds of nearby Winslow Hall, thanks to an approach by long standing professionally. Following his concert with staff at the School, ran the Stowe Opera fan, Tom Cross Brown, The Czech Philharmonic Chamber much acclaimed Stowe Opera to Christopher Gilmour, the new owner Orchestra, he returned to Prague recently at Stowe from 1992 to 2005. of Winslow Hall. Robert Secret’s first to conduct the Consortium Pragenese.

60 ARound Lake Ladoga, Russia, by push-bike

The articulate Russian on the plane, Ilya, menacing hard shoulder of sharp rocks, said don’t worry too much about the glass and jagged metal scraps formed a bears; he’d not heard of any recent continuous ambush for defenceless tyres. attacks in Karelia Province where Caroline and I would be cycling (on our own and North then, up the right-hand shores ‘unsupported’); a promising start! of the Lake; river-side communities, wooden churches, villages linked by Perfect BA landing at Pulkova Airport, winding, undulating roads, endless St Petersburg. Taxi driver on time, and an pine forests; chained dogs everywhere, absolute star – the first of many ‘couldn’t buses, fuel and timber lorries, other be more helpful’ Russians we would huge trucks, vast tracts of barren encounter over the following three weeks, sandy-soiled ‘prairie’. Unmarked hotels despite zero shared language. An hour’s (ours for 24th went bankrupt on 22nd), drive out through the rush hour left us sporadic shops and cash machines; distinctly shell-shocked by the locals’ no pubs, caravans, fences or road-kill. robust motoring style; oh dear! Never ending birdsong. Next day, bikes re-assembled with advice Top of the Lake; close to the Finnish and encouragement from the locals at border, hints of tourism from car our lovely Hotel, off we went full of registration plates; sauna country but porridge, fried eggs and high hopes; ‘left here isn’t it …?’ the worst roads of all; scant tarmac, mainly corrugated grit, choking dust Day 1; after 20 miles, the port-side trailer and vindictive gradients. Occasionally tyre gave way – disaster; on with the we noted incongruously huge engineering spare, being sworn at by a mad driver projects. Our lovely trailer, ‘Natasha’, whose engine had overheated, insisting retired at Priozersk after 450 valiant on occupying the exact same spot on the miles – no more wheels; sad parting The Stowe Lodge has met for its usual planet as us while pouring water through (in exchange for a commemorative four meetings this past year, three times in his moribund radiator; 580 miles to go. wall clock!). London and once at Stowe, a highlight of the year when we meet and dine in the State Arrived Schlisselburg town 6.30pm; We passed the shiny Aero filling station roadside sign said 28º; heavens, Rooms. In addition to enjoying the social and Macdonalds sign on St Petersburg’s we expected frost-bite. A kind German side of our meetings, the Lodge raised over northern outskirts; lunch beside the huge on a bike showed the way to our hotel £3,000 for charitable purposes during the and gracious Neva mid-city, as in-line overlooking the historic River Neva year, either by way of regular commitments skaters lazed by. At 8pm we were back at fortress island and White Canal. from members or through the collection Izhora, relieved and thrilled to have made Tomorrow the M18 St Petersburg – passed round at dinner after our meetings. Murmansk highway awaits; 140 miles it round intact! We made donations of over £7,000 to of quasi racetrack till we could turn off; Charles Orr-Ewing (Grafton 69) charitable causes. We supported the St Bartholomew’s Hospital Cyber Knife Appeal, a worthy cause to fund a new cancer treatment facility at St Bartholomew’s Spartathlon 2012 Hospital in London which was supported When is running 100 about mile 60 when Commonwealth particularly by London Freemasons. In miles not running 100 runner fought back. addition, the Lodge has supported two current Stoics through bursaries to enable miles? When it has the By 75 miles the Commonwealth runner them to have stayed at Stowe when their incline and descent of and I had pushed each other so hard parents might otherwise have struggled to Everest! The Cotswold that we had smashed the previous 100 is a non-stop footrace taking in course record to this point by 2 hours keep paying the fees, through unfortunate some of the most breathtaking scenery and had run each other into the ground, circumstances beyond their control. of its namesake. literally. His stomach stopped working We welcome enquiries from existing I took off from the start with some fast and I collapsed. Freemasons who might like to join their runners who I later discovered to be a The 24hr champion took us both out in Old School Lodge or from Old Stoics who Commonwealth team member and one hit. I managed to come home in 3rd might be interested in finding out more 24hr marathon champion. and still broke the previous year’s course about the institution generally and Stowe The commonwealth runner and I broke record. Not bad for a training run! Lodge in particular. To get in touch with away and put an hour or so between us Matt Mahoney (Walpole 94) the Lodge Secretary, please enquire via and third place. I then took the lead until Ultra-Athlete, British Team. the Old Stoic Office. 61 OS Sport Stowe Templars The OS Sports teams 2012 was, as for pretty well every cricket form. His hundred was a spectacular effort. have had yet another team in the country, extremely frustrating. The end of the season ended in marquee busy year. In last The weather ensured that little sensible cricket fashion with our game against Hurlingham, year’s update I was played until the second half of the year, where Will Dudley scored 228 and still ended brought you news of and even then, matches were just as likely to up on the losing side, when the opposition increased funding be rained off as played. It also contributed chased down 355 to win. from the Society to significantly to our demise in The Cricketer Cup, In the middle, came the focus of the year, the encourage more Old Stoic participation in that having had to call off the First Round Cricket Week. Although games were cancelled and this continues. game on the designated date due to the due to weather in one form or another on the weather, most of the selected team were This year, I am delighted to announce Monday, Friday and Saturday, there was good unavailable for the re-fixed game at Clifton cricket played in between, with 2 wins and the foundation/revival of two teams. and we had to withdraw. Adding to our established teams in 2 losses leading up to a closely fought and sports such as golf, cricket, fives, The pre-season went well. We had a hugely exciting draw against The Frogs on the Sunday. cross-country, sailing, clay pigeon successful supper evening at The Beaufort In spite of the weather, the season was shooting and tennis, Old Stoics are House on The King’s Road, which was well considered a success, with several new now represented in squash – attended and enormous fun. This is a function members being blooded, and we look forward competing this year in the Londonderry that has been re-introduced to the Templars’ to 2013 confident in the fact that we cannot Cup – and the OS football team has calendar after a few fallow years, and it is possibly be subjected to weather similar to that endured in 2012. been rejuvenated by Hamish Eggins something we intend to keep going at least (Temple 09) in a bid to compete for every two years and possibly more frequently. We would love to hear from anybody who entry to the Arthurian League. The early games had to be cancelled due to would like to be involved, the numbers at our end being Adam Cossins (07545 590710), We are so pleased to see more Old either rain or water-logged pitches, but we Rupert Rowling (07833 694336), or Oliver Stoics getting together to participate played a good game against the 1st Xl which Croom-Johnson (07909 962076). in the teams. Whether winning or was well won by the School and during which losing, playing in OS teams forges we considerately batted Ben Duckett back into Oliver Croom-Johnson (Temple 69) friendships which last a life time and not just amongst the same year- groups. I recently attended an OS Templar’s 30th and the range of OSs in attendance spanned at least 15 years. Squash The OS Golfing Society suffered a blow at the end of the year, losing their The Londonderry Cup is an annual squash President, David Hadfield (Walpole tournament held for alumni societies of 63). As Charles Dimpfl reports, he will schools throughout the country. It is a be missed terribly by his team. knock out tournament and the final is played at the Royal Automobile Club, As always, I am keen to encourage OS in London, in April. Our thanks go to the players who teams to challenge current Stoic teams represented the Old Stoics; Jamie Gubbins on Speech Day. Plans are in place for An Old Stoic team entered the tournament (Grafton 07), Arthur Hobhouse (Temple 12), matches against Stoic teams in fives, for the first time in over 15 years, this year. Josh Sainsbury-Bow (Chatham 10), James cricket, clays and tennis this year but I We were drawn against the Old Harrovians Saunders (Bruce 11) and Hugh Stanley for one would love to see a female OS in the first round, a very strong team who (Chatham 11) and particular thanks go to team challenge the school at lacrosse, had reached the final in each of the last Roland Johnson, Stowe Squash Master, netball or hockey. After a failed initial three years, losing to an even stronger team for his considerable support in putting the attempt to arrange an OS v school from Norwich School on each occasion. team together. ‘pre-season’ lacrosse match I am keen Our team of 5 players played our match to try again: I promise to dust off my at The Hurlingham Club on Monday John Arkwright (Cobham 69) lacrosse stick and play! Yes, girls, I am 10 December. Whereas we lost 4-1 to a talking to you: there is little or no very strong side on our debut, our team If you would like to play Squash for the OS participation in OS Sport and now that put on a spirited and good performance. Team please email [email protected] we are so established throughout the school please get involved. You might find yourself playing alongside your The OS Team had a strong team out for Speech future employer – who knows?! Day and beat the School 9-3 (in sets). With so many Old Stoic teams to Tennis The team was (left to right): Chester King choose from, I hope you will be (Chandos 89), Nick Gorey (Temple 89), Witney jumping at the chance to join in. If you King (Chandos 85), Hertford King (Chandos are keen to get involved please contact 84), Charlie Empson (Walpole 07) and your relevant OS Sport Captain (details Dominic Farr (Chatham 07). on the OS website) or, if your sport is not represented, please contact either During the year, the OS team played in the myself or the OS office. I will be P.S.O.B.L.T.A.’s D’ Abernon Cup and also pleased to put you in touch with other played against Stoke Park and Campden Hill Old Stoics who used to play or suggest LTC. Unfortunately, we did not progress to the a team to join. quarter finals of the Cup, but managed to Hannah Durden (Nugent 01), Old Stoic Sports remain unbeaten in the other fixtures. 62 Chester King (Chandos 89) possession and the family continues to take an active interest in the competition. The School teams’ winning performance in Golfing competitions is testament to their excellent training from Bob Spademan over the last years and now Clive Harris and John Grace; Society so, with this in mind, the Old Stoics invite recent leavers to keep in touch and to get As many of the Society know our involved in Old Stoic clay pigeon shooting. President, David Hadfield, died on 1 December after a short illness. I did A second competition for what has visit him late in October shortly after he historically been known as ‘fathers and came out of hospital. He was in good OS Clay Pigeon sons’ (that’s what it says on the cup) was spirits and determined to fight. I have held at the same time and jointly won, in a written a separate tribute which I hope Shooting very hot competition, by the Grant-Rennick you will read on page 33. and Constantinides duos. We have seen The annual competition between the that Stowe Ladies are a force to be reckoned John Luddington succeeded David as our School and the Old Stoic teams was held, with – well done Nugent in the inter-house President from 1 January 2013. Peter Comber was elected the Society Captain at as usual, on Speech Day, which produced matches this year – so we need to the AGM in succession to Stewart McNair, a close and exciting match in surprisingly encourage mothers and sons or daughters better weather conditions than we have who will succeed David Hadfield as the to get involved in this competition, too. come to expect! Cyril Gray Captain for the next 3 years. Contact Peter Staples at Stowe. Charles Rotheroe has accepted the role as For the second year running, the Old Stoics Speech Day 2013 will see a similar set of Halford Hewitt & Grafton Morrish Captain failed to win the prized Galitzine Cup, competitions, so if you wish to get involved, for 2013/2015. I shall arrange losing by 3 points (76-73) to the School please contact David Pickavance, whose accommodation and assist in team trials teams. The Cup, first presented nearly and selection. Charles Consett succeeds ninety years ago by Princess Galitzine, details are at: www.stowe.co.uk/old-stoics/ David Hadfield as Northern Secretary and is one of the oldest (and certainly one of sports-clubs/clay-shooting will arrange the Birkdale Bucket team and the most misshapen!) trophies in Stowe’s David Pickavance (Walpole 72) assist in the Formby weekend organised by James Gartside. We drew Clifton in the Hewitt first round faithfuls Richard Weston 40:08 and Marc and lost. We only played 2 rounds in the CROSS-COUNTRY Hope 40:53. Plate. We did not field a team for the No problems with livestock this time. Grafton Morrish qualifier. Matches went The worst we can encounter on this well, we beat R.C.P.G.C, halved with REPORT Haileybury at Royal St George’s, lost to course are curious sheep, errant waterfowl and the canine accessories Templars at Deal, beat Canford and the RACE v THE SCHOOL – 4 MARCH 2012 Gregorians, lost to Aldeburgh and of National Trust visitors. THAMES HARE & HOUNDS INVITATION Haileybury at Sunningdale. Numbers fell RACE – 15 DECEMBER 2012 A small team of five competed in the off for the spring, summer and autumn annual Thames Hare & Hounds five meetings, but players all enjoyed I start my annual report by completing mile race on Wimbledon Common on themselves and prizes were distributed. the last one, from which the final 15 December 2012. This race is by paragraph got the editor’s chop – the We have a new venue for the qualifier for invitation to selected schools and Stowe the Grafton Morrish at North Hants G.C in pork chop in fact. Readers with a good has proudly competed every year for memory will recall that I opened the May. We have drawn Hurstpierpoint in the decades. Only more senior members first round of the Hewitt to be played at report by referring to the warning we were available this year, apart from Royal St George’s on Thursday 11 April at were given to ‘Beware of the pig’. Simon Ridley who excelled with a time 2.30pm. All supporters are welcome and This fearsome beast was to be found in of 38:27. the lunch at the Club is excellent. Please Copper Bottom. There it was, sure let me know if you will be there, so I can enough, standing menacingly beside the Neil Harvey, Marc Hope and Mark warn the Club? We are looking for new track. I couldn’t speak for the main field Henderson (re-emerging from blood in the team so contact me to but from my perspective at the rear, I did retirement!) and Richard Weston register your interest remembering that it not want my rear compromised so I propped up the lower order. Abusing his is scratch foursomes. passed by ever so carefully. privileged position as author of this report, Richard Weston (Chatham 65) There are plans to play another match with And so to the 2012 edition of the race adds a personal note that his time of Canford this year consisting of 6 current over the usual course of 4.5 miles 51:22 was only a minute slower than last pupils, and 6 old boys and 6 staff golfers, around the lakes and up the ‘Japs’ to the year which had been his best time for a as yet we are trying to find a suitable date Gothic Temple, twice round. Sadly the number of years. Records back to his first at Frilford Heath. If any members of the Old Stoics, despite sterling efforts by the run in about 1965 and an unbroken Society would like to donate to David captain, Simon Gardner, with a time of annual appearance since then (subject Hadfield’s fund for the support of young 25:21, the ever dependable Chris Hutber to verification!) no doubt exist but are golfers in the Society’s matches, please 25:25 and Simon Ridley 25:46, the best archived. send your cheques to the Old Stoic Golfing school buried us. We promise revenge Society, to the Hon: Secretary, High in 2013. Richard Weston (Chatham 65) Hampton, 34 Holland Road, London Making up the eight Old Stoics were two If you would like to join the OS NW10 5AU. I look forward to hearing from young Shillingtons 29:05 and 33:02 Cross-country Team please email you in 2013. sandwiching Peter Ham 29:41 with old [email protected] Charles Dimpfl (Chatham 66) 63 2013 Gift Collection This page features some of the growing range of Stowe and Old Stoic merchandise 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 be delighted to serve you in person, or to deliver an order to you by post. To order, please call 01280 818211 or email [email protected] STOWE You can see the full gift collection on the OS website: www.stowe.co.uk/old-stoics

Scarf 100% Wool, fleece backed scarf in either Old Stoic or Stowe Colours, available in two lengths 64" or 72".

£34.95 OS 64" 88862 OS 72" 88886 STOWE 64" 88855 STOWE 72" 88879 Pyjamas Available in blue/pink and white candy stripes. Made from 100% fine cotton with elasticated Stowe waistband and pockets.

£28.00 Blue and White in mens fit Sizes S 8898, M 8899 or L 8900 Pink and White in ladies fit Sizes S 8895, M 8896 or L 8897 Stowe Boxer Shorts Stowe Monopoly Suitable for underwear and sleepwear. Available in blue/pink and white candy Featuring all of your favourite landmarks at stripes. Made from 100% fine cotton Stowe, this special version of Monopoly with elasticated Stowe waistband. has been produced exclusively for Stowe. Blue and White Sizes £30.00 87834 S 84512, M 84529 or L 84536 Pink and White Sizes S 83430, M 83447 or L 83454

Old Stoic House Ties Old Stoic Ties No man’s wardrobe should be without one of these Two, recently refined, fine quality silk ties. splendid Old Stoic House ties made from 100% silk. Silver-Plated One with a black background, known to some Compact Mirror Old Stoics as the ‘Town’ colours and the other £30.00 (Left to right above): A stylish gift with double with a brown background, known to some as Walpole 12256 Cobham 49160 Grafton 12249 mirror and engraved crest. the ‘Country’ colours. Temple 123950 Bruce 12188 Lyttelton 27601 £30.00 84130 £30.00 Black 12164 Brown 12171 Chandos 12218 Grenville 12201 Chatham 12232

Golf Balls High quality Srixon golf balls with the Stowe crest, pack of 3.

£5.25 65342

Old Stoic Cufflink with Old Stoic Cufflink with Oval Colours Shield Colours Old Stoic chain-linked double-sided Imprinted Old Stoic chain-linked Pitch Mark Repairers cufflinks. The Stowe crest in colour on double-sided cufflinks. The Stowe crest Souvenir pitch mark repairer with magnetic ball one side and the Old Stoic colours on on one side and the Old Stoic colours marker carrying the Stowe crest. A perfect gift for the other. on the reverse. the avid golfer.

£28.00 84543 £28.00 84550 £5.00 84383 All cufflinks are boxed as seen above.

To order: Telephone 01280 818211 or Email [email protected] 64 2013 Gift Collection 2013 Events C ale nd ar This page features some of the growing range of Stowe and Old Stoic merchandise available in the Shop at Stowe – a blend of traditional apparel and some new the shop at We have endeavoured to organise a wide range of events in 2013 that will appeal to clothing and gift items that we have introduced in the last few months. We would Old Stoics of all ages. To make enquiries or to book any of the events below please be delighted to serve you in person, or to deliver an order to you by post. call the Old Stoic Office on01280 818349 or email [email protected] To order, please call 01280 818211 or email [email protected] STOWE You can see the full gift collection on the OS website: www.stowe.co.uk/old-stoics

Scarf 10 March 2013 matches, including the Templars’ cricket 100% Wool, fleece backed scarf in either match, will go ahead as usual. Old Stoic or Stowe Colours, available in two Cross-country: Old Stoics v Stowe lengths 64" or 72". Stowe 18 June 2013 £34.95 The race starts at 2.30pm and is over five Roxburgh Society Lunch OS 64" 88862 OS 72" 88886 beautiful miles through Stowe’s landscape STOWE 64" 88855 STOWE 72" 88879 gardens. All are welcome, both runners Stowe (at all levels) and supporters. To take part Pyjamas contact Simon Gardner W/C 15 July Available in blue/pink and white candy [email protected] stripes. Made from 100% fine cotton with Templars’ Cricket Week elasticated Stowe waistband and pockets. Stowe 20 March 2013 £28.00 Blue and White in mens fit Sizes Old Stoics in Property Networking 14 September 2013 S 8898, M 8899 or L 8900 Reception Old Stoic Reunion Day Pink and White in ladies fit Sizes 42 Berkeley Square S 8895, M 8896 or L 8897 Stowe All old Stoics and their guests are invited Open to all Old Stoics. A short Chapel Stowe Boxer Shorts to this networking drinks reception. service will be followed by boarding house Suitable for underwear and sleepwear. Tickets include drinks and canapés and Stowe Monopoly tours, drinks in the Marble Saloon, Available in blue/pink and white candy are £25 each. Featuring all of your favourite landmarks at stripes. Made from 100% fine cotton welcome by the Headmaster and Lunch. Stowe, this special version of Monopoly with elasticated Stowe waistband. Afternoon options include tours of the new has been produced exclusively for Stowe. 20 April 2013 school facilities, landscape garden or Blue and White Sizes £30.00 87834 S 84512, M 84529 or L 84536 40th Anniversary Reunion Dinner House finishing with afternoon tea. Pink and White Sizes Stowe S 83430, M 83447 or L 83454 25 September 2013 For those who left Stowe in 1973. Afternoon tours of the House and 50th Anniversary Lunch landscape gardens followed by drinks in Stowe the Marble Saloon and dinner in the For those who left Stowe in 1963. Drinks Temple Room. in the Marble Saloon with lunch in the Music Room. Guided House or landscape 14 May 2013 garden tours, followed by afternoon tea. OS Drinks Party in Hong Kong Hong Kong Club 12 October 2013 Old Stoic House Ties Nostalgic at Ninety Old Stoic Ties All members of the Stowe community and No man’s wardrobe should be without one of these their guests are invited to join us at the Two, recently refined, fine quality silk ties. Park Lane Hotel, London Silver-Plated splendid Old Stoic House ties made from 100% silk. Hong Kong Club. One with a black background, known to some In honour of the School’s 90th Birthday Compact Mirror Old Stoics as the ‘Town’ colours and the other £30.00 (Left to right above): the Old Stoic Society will be hosting a A stylish gift with double with a brown background, known to some as Walpole 12256 Cobham 49160 Grafton 12249 24 May 2013 celebratory event in London. Save the mirror and engraved crest. the ‘Country’ colours. Temple 123950 Bruce 12188 Lyttelton 27601 Roger Hodgson at Stowe date and look out for your invitation soon. £30.00 84130 £30.00 Black 12164 Brown 12171 Chandos 12218 Grenville 12201 Chatham 12232 Stowe 14 December 2013 Golf Balls Back by popular demand, Roger Hodgson High quality Srixon returns for an evening of entertainment on Cross-country Race golf balls with the the South Front to celebrate the 90th Wimbledon Common Stowe crest, pack of 3. Anniversary of the Foundation of the The race starts at 2.30pm. £5.25 65342 School. All Old Stoics and guests are To take part contact Simon Gardner welcome, tickets £50. [email protected]

25 May 2012 To make enquiries or to book any Old Stoic Cufflink with Old Stoic Cufflink with Speech Day and the Old Stoic of the events above please call the Oval Colours Shield Colours Classic Car Meeting Old Stoic Office on 01280 818349 Old Stoic chain-linked double-sided Imprinted Old Stoic chain-linked Pitch Mark Repairers cufflinks. The Stowe crest in colour on double-sided cufflinks. The Stowe crest Souvenir pitch mark repairer with magnetic ball Stowe or Email [email protected] one side and the Old Stoic colours on on one side and the Old Stoic colours marker carrying the Stowe crest. A perfect gift for Please note, payment for events Old Stoics are warmly invited, by the the other. on the reverse. the avid golfer. must be made in advance to secure 1 Headmaster, to attend the 90th Annual Dinner at The Globe Theatre. £28.00 84543 £28.00 84550 £5.00 84383 Anniversary Speech Day. The guest of your place. 1 Old Stoic Reunion Day 2012. All cufflinks are boxed as seen above. honour will be Prince Michael of Kent. Please note, the summer party and 1 Marketing, Events, Hospitality, Leisure and Travel Once again, we are welcoming Old Stoics Networking Event. with classic cars to line the North Front annual dinner have been replaced and take part in the annual display. This by the special 90th Anniversary event To order: Telephone 01280 818211 or Email [email protected] year there’s even a chance for a ride on this year. Both events will return as To see more photos visit the OS Event Gallery at 64 the Stowe Routemaster Bus! OS Sports usual in 2014. www.oldstoic.co.uk 65 Old Stoic Society Committee President: Anthony Bolton (Chatham 67) Vice President: THE MAGAZINE FOR OLD STOICS Dr Anthony Wallersteiner (Headmaster) Chairman: Simon Shneerson(Temple 72) Issue 3 Vice Chairman: Patrick Cooper (Chatham 86) Director: Anna Semler (Nugent 05)

Members: John Arkwright (Cobham 69) Colin Dudgeon (Associate Member) Hannah Durden (Nugent 01) Peter Farquhar (Associate Member) John Fingleton (Chatham 66) Ivo Forde (Walpole 67) Tim Hart (Chandos 92) Katie Lamb (Lyttelton 06) Nigel Milne (Chandos 68) Ben Scholfield (Temple 99)

Old Stoic Society Stowe School Stowe Buckingham MK18 5EH United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0) 1280 818349 Email: [email protected] www.oldstoic.co.uk

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