THE KING’S SCHOOL IN MACCLESFIELD FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE Issue 04 Spring 2017

Sculpting success Turner Prize winner Helen Marten Against all odds Holocaust survivor who came to King’s Stanley’s Trump card Acclaimed illustrator makes his mark in New York KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE

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ne of the aims of my head; there are lots more with the awards. So we have elements of these comments HIS is the and Politics, Philosophy and Economics. in local families of limited financial this magazine over that could easily be identified. no hesitation in featuring Helen has been a brief update on fourth Courses applied for by other students means to attend the school. Our need for the years has been There would probably be this year. former pupils who featured O edition of include Archaeology, Aeronautical philanthropic support is great and, if you to inform readers about the general agreement that those The 2017 edition of King’s in the previous year’s edition. T King’s Speech, Engineering, Agri-Business Management, are able to help, further details of how to successes achieved by former in the above list have achieved Speech contains the usual Tommy Taylor features this year the magazine Computer Science, Forensic do so can be found on page 21. King’s pupils at a national recognisable success in their mix of information, school too; but a very recent update for – and about Anthropology, Geology, Journalism, The school’s connection with the level. But what constitutes own particular fields. The news and features, and again is newspaper speculation that, – our former Make-Up for Media and Performance, Merchant Taylors’ Company is through Sir such ‘success’ is very much relevant criteria may not be includes an update from the after his very successful switch pupils. As I wrote Real Estate, Music and Zoology as well as John, who was Master Merchant Taylor a debatable issue: Director easily identified, but by any Headmaster on the school’s from Sale to Wasps, he may in this year’s the more usual Law, Medicine, Economics, prior to becoming Lord Mayor. Merchant General of a free market criteria, a former pupil who has plans to relocate – which be an outside bet for selection edition of King’s pure sciences, languages and humanities. Taylors’ is one of the twelve great livery think tank? Lead singer of an certainly met them during 2016 we have no doubt will be of for the British Lions tour of Illustria (our annual school magazine): Our last cohort of Sixth Form students companies of the City of London and, iconic pop group? Coach is Helen Marten. interest to all readers. New Zealand in the summer ‘Like most changes in schools, two years (pictured below) obtained a particularly these days, its work is mainly focused on of the England cricket side? The front cover reflects her It is also the first edition that of 2017 – which would be after their introduction, they are routine pleasing set of A Level grades last charitable activities, including support for Vice-Chancellor of Dundee marvellous recognition and has been produced without a remarkable achievement. and, a year after that, they become summer. Pupils achieved some of the education. University? Member of there is also a feature on pages the invaluable help of Michael Secondly, Elliot Hanson did not cherished institutions to be tampered with best ever exam results at the school I am delighted to report that earlier Parliament? Director-General 8-9. Almost as noteworthy Patey-Ford, whose expertise make the UK sailing squad for at your peril.’ I must admit that King’s and, indeed, some of the very best in this year the Master and Wardens of of the International Labour as the fact that Helen was lay behind the design of the the Rio Olympics last year, but Speech is now one of the magazines that the country. 23% of all grades were at Merchant Taylors’ agreed to sponsor Organisation? England/ awarded the Turner Prize and magazine for many years. is reputed to be in the frame for I enjoy the most; the sheer range of topics the top A*; over 50% were A*/A, and a new Sixth Form bursary at King’s for British Lions rugby union also became the first ever Michael has finally retired, and Tokyo in 2020. and breadth of experience of our former around 80% were at A*- B. Almost all someone from Macclesfield. We have international? Master of an winner of the Hepworth Prize our grateful thanks and best And as for next year’s pupils is staggering. In this issue alone, students taking up higher education already had several applications for this Oxbridge college? Chief for Sculpture was the way in wishes go to him. He has been magazine, do please get in you will see the success of your peers places achieved their preferred course, assisted place and it will thereby help Sports Writer of a national which she responded; she replaced in the design process touch with us if you’d like to in the worlds of art, sport, charity work, with 61% going on to join Russell Group ensure the work begun by Sir John in ‘paper? Chief viola player in wanted all nominees to share by Gill Mullarkey, who has suggest stories or, indeed, start-up business ventures, mining and universities. Again, it was pleasing to see 1502 continues to this day. the Hallé orchestra? Or even in the honours and in the maintained the standard set by to contribute your news: medical research. our students joining a broad range of Head of an HMC school? And £25,000 and £30,000 prizes Michael superbly. [email protected]. Dr Simon Hyde, Headmaster The previous editions have focused on courses. that’s just a list off the top of respectively that came Finally, one of the traditional Ian Wilson, Editor similar successes in managing restaurant Those of you who remember your own chains, marketing, movie-making and school history will realise that it is the King’s Speech is produced by King’s Director academia. This diversity reflects the school’s 515th anniversary of its founding of External Relations Caroline Johnson, editor CONTENTS myriad opportunities on offer at King’s by Sir John Percyvale in 1502. Sir John Ian Wilson and designer Gill Mullarkey. 2 Editor’s welcome and, I hope, our aim to help create well- had been a Lord Mayor of London and, We’d love to receive your feedback or rounded and ambitious individuals. on his death in 1502, established the contributions for the next issue. Please 3 From the helm This year’s Upper Sixth are no school through an endowment. To this contact: [email protected] 4 From the Chair exception – five students (pictured right) end, we are using this anniversary year to are holding offers from Oxford and remind former pupils of our philanthropic Cover image: Helen Marten, with her prize- 4-7 Your News Cambridge and will, between them, read beginnings and our charitable status. We winning work at The Hepworth Wakefield gallery. Mathematics, Natural Sciences, English, are asking our alumni to consider whether Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA 8-9 Sculpting success they are able to support our current 10-11 People’s champion Bursary Fund, to help bright children 12-13 Peter Franck: Against All Odds

14-15 Letters from the Somme 2020 Update p17 16 Stanley’s Trump card 17 2020 Vision 18 School News 19-20 School Sport 21 A lasting legacy 22-23 Farewell

24 Events Roundup Stanley Chow p16

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Rare success for Johny Channelling her success Rebecca Hughes (2015) was part of a six-person Rare cricket/rugby double blue for Oxford graduate team representing Cambridge University against Oxford last summer in an open-water swimming When Johny Marsden left King’s in As soon as Johny had joined Oxford, contest across the English Channel. They completed 2011, it was certainly expected that he was identified as a potential quality the swim in 9hrs.28mins, with each doing a one-hour he would go on to achieve significant cricketer and he duly gained blues for shift, then four swimming again to complete the race. success, both in the sporting sphere and cricket in each year 2013 – 2016; there Rebecca was one of the four. The most challenging elsewhere. School cricket captain for his is every reason to believe that 2017 will aspect of the swim, according to Rebecca, was final two years, outstanding back-row see a remarkable fifth blue in the sport. t has been another successful year for both ”the choppy and unpredictable conditions. With forward and rugby captain in 2010- Furthermore, he captained the Oxford the school and the Former Pupils’ Association. the race starting at 1am, the darkness at first was One to watch 11, he also had a holiday contract to side in 2016, the first year the university The association has continued to grow and disorientating. I was partly motivated to keep moving, Kingsleigh Viollet (2006) has I play for Derbyshire CCC whilst still a had ever won all three annual varsity we now have in excess of three thousand though, by the fear of what creatures might lurk recently launched his own schoolboy. In addition, superb A Level matches v Cambridge: the T20 game, members, the majority of whom are under the beneath the waves! Climbing on to French soil at the brand of luxury watches. results gained Johny a place to read the 50-over game and the four-day first age of 35. The school has continued to perform end, however, was an unforgettable experience, and He is working as a trainee Engineering at St Hilda’s College, class match. exceptionally on all levels and I congratulate made the sub-15 degree C temperatures and one lawyer at the European Oxford, after taking a year out. His captaincy skills were particularly Dr Hyde and his team once again not only on jellyfish sting worthwhile.” Rebecca is very grateful for Commission, but has had a Six years on and Johny has scored highlighted in the last of these, having the results that they are delivering academically, the sponsorship from the FPA. lifetime interest in watches some remarkable successes on and declared with four sessions left leaving but for the countless number of extra-curricular and the business is K.Viollet off the sports field. He gained a Cambridge 400 to win, he crowned achievements across sport, music and the arts Watches, launched in 2.1 degree in Engineering in 2016, a superb match by taking the final which you can view on the school’s website. September 2016. Earlier this is currently studying at Oxford’s wicket himself, in the 22nd over of the Last year it was probably more unlikely Rugby duo’s South African tour year, his watches featured Christ Church for a PGCE teaching final hour, to bring his side an amazing than likely that the school would relocate to a in Paris Match magazine. qualification and has already secured a victory. Two former pupils had a chance encounter single site. A year later, it now seems that the Details can be found at teaching post in Harrow’s Mathematics The contract with Derbyshire last summer when they were both selected 2020 vision will be realised with most of the www.facebook.com/kviollet department from September. prevented Johny from playing rugby, to go to South Africa as part of the obstacles now having being overcome. From a In sport, his achievements are so for nearly three years he gave up England Saxons squad tour. former pupils’ perspective, it would be true to incredible. In May 2015, Johny the game. When eventually Derbyshire Former King’s and Macclesfield rugby say that I have been slightly surprised that such appeared in matches at both Lord’s didn’t renew the contract, he player Tommy Taylor (2009) was selected Setting the bar a monumental change has not generated a and Twickenham in a single week. Has immediately took up rugby again, and to represent England Saxons in their Charlotte George (2009) has great deal of reaction. We are all mindful of the this feat ever happened before? He appeared off the bench for the final few matches vs South Africa ‘A’, with England established a business offering a continued journey of the school and the need played at Lord’s for the MCC against minutes of the December 2016 varsity winning both games in June. Dr Phil Riley mobile bar and catering service to take former pupils along on that journey. To MCC Young Cricketers, and then on match at Twickenham to become what (1979) was chosen to go with the England alongside her business partner. this end, there is an update on the plans in the the following Saturday at Twickenham is these days a very rare beast: Saxons on their tour as Team Doctor. After achieving a degree in following pages. for the Oxbridge U23 XV against the a cricket/rugby double blue. Pictured are Tommy (having already Business Management, Charlotte Socially it has been a good year yet again, Combined Services U23s. swapped his shirt) and Phil. decided the time was right to with well attended golf and rugby events, the Later last year, Tommy was called launch her own ‘Bars@Yours’ London Dinner and Drinks reception and of into the England squad for the Autumn enterprise. Much of the work course the Annual Dinner with special guest internationals. The Wasps Premiership star, developing a full complement of skills. consists of providing bar and this year Steve Smith. Steve entertained us who joined the London club from Sale Tommy also won an England cap against catering services for weddings all with wonderful stories of his glory days Sharks last year, was one of three hookers, Wales in May 2016. and outdoor events over the with the Sale and England rugby teams. This behind England skipper Dylan Hartley and Tommy was delighted to catch-up summer months, as well as coming November we have invited Paul Allott, Jamie George to make the final 33. with Phil, who left King’s in the same business and charity social former Lancashire and England cricketer and From one of Macclesfield’s most devout year as Tommy’s father, David. Phil went gatherings throughout the year. Sky Sports commentator, to be our guest at rugby families, Tommy is in a line of tough to Manchester University after finishing For more information, please see: the dinner so a great evening in the making front row forwards from grandfather John at King’s and, after almost 25 years in www.barsatyours.co.uk especially for all you cricket fans out there. Taylor, to father David and uncle Ian. General Practice, had a change of career So thank you for your support, keep in David played for Sale for nine seasons direction and went into Sport and Exercise touch with us and I would end by thanking my and was called into the North squad, Medicine. He worked in a number of fellow committee members for their support while Ian played for Orrell. All the men sports including cycling, football and the and enthusiasm and also Caroline Johnson, Ian were raised on King’s rugby fields, English Institute of Sport in Manchester. He Wilson and Gill Mullarkey for putting together starring for the school from the age 11 has worked for the Rugby Football Union this fourth edition of King’s Speech. up to the first XV. Tommy played hooker, for 13 years, mainly as Team Doctor for David Barratt, Chairman scrum half and centre for King’s first XV the England U20s.

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Tom Rushworth Edward Reeves (1965), who Cambridge, and spent some time Rebecca Hughes (2013), has achieved a 2:1 in (1981) visited the school retired several years ago as Head of working as an actuary in the city English and Creative Writing at Liverpool University. as a speaker in both Maths at King’s School, Worcester, before deciding that the academic life 2016 and more recently was awarded a PhD in Cosmology by was more to his taste. His father, Jack Former School Captain, Sophie Hurst (2013), who in 2017 to encourage Manchester University in 2014, at the Hargreaves (staff 1961-95) is currently got a starred First class degree in History from York. pupils to focus on ripe old age of 68. living in Sandbach. Sophie has now joined the College of Law in Chester. goals and achieve Emma Jarvis and Sarah Laughton, who have Jennifer Campbell (2008), who Jamie Winrow (2013) is making their ambitions. After leaving King’s, won the Outstanding Geographer Award from the left King’s to read Geography at a name for himself in motor racing. Tom read Mechanical Engineering at Geography Association for the Manchester region. Manchester University, was involved in Jamie left King’s to read Economics Bradford University and then worked performing a play with a difference at at Reading University, and raced Ben Marsden (2013), who graduated from Durham as an engineer and then in corporate the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival last year in the Caterham Graduates University last summer with a First Class Honours degree sales, until changing course completely; in July 2016. The interactive play is Sigma Championship. With 12 podium Mining expert returns to King’s in Natural Sciences. he has now set up in business as a life entitled ‘I’m Standing Next to You’. places, four of them as winner, out of In November, platinum mining expert Dr Ian Bratt (1972) returned to coach. Keith Oliver (1962), who has recently been appointed King’s to talk to young geologists. a life member of the English Schools RFU, a position held Mike Humphries (1975) left King’s Ian attended King’s before going up to Cambridge to study Wedding bliss for cake maker Laura too by former member of staff G P Wilson (staff 1965- to go to Jesus College, Oxford to read Natural Sciences, subsequently taking his doctorate in Chemistry. He 1997). Modern History and Economics, and Talented cake designer Laura Marten (2006) has emigrated to South Africa in 1981 and became part of the senior Esmé Patey-Ford (2000), who recently appeared in then worked very successfully in the city won a national award for her stunningly beautiful management team for Impala Platinum, the world’s second largest both Emmerdale and Coronation Street. for many years. He left UBS in 2008 wedding creations. Laura was named Wedding platinum mine, and also founded the South African Orienteering and opted to change career. He was Cake Supplier of the Year by bridal website, Association, represented South Africa at Orienteering in 1983 and Jennifer Pinches (2013), who graduated with the awarded a PhD by King’s College, Bridebook. Laura started her business, Yolk, three later managed their national team. equivalent of a first in Psychology from University of London in 2016; his thesis was titled: years ago in London and has since relocated His talk to A Level Geology students covered his career in ground- California, Los Angeles. She was awarded the Ashley The Power of Friends: Reginald Brett, back to Macclesfield. Laura’s award is the latest breaking mineral extraction, fracking and environmental concerns. Peckett Scholar Award for outstanding academic 2nd Viscount Esher and the Political celebration for the Marten family – her older sister He said: “There is still a great demand for minerals and natural achievement, given membership to the Golden Key Influence of Social Networks in Helen recently won the prestigious Turner Prize. resources and though we have been looking for many, many years International Honour Society and received the scholastic Edwardian England. For more information go to cakesbyyolk.com. there is still a great deal we don’t know about. We are running out All-American Award. Mike is now a visiting research fellow of coal, oil and gas and I am afraid green energy just will not supply • See pages 8-9 for our feature on Helen Marten at King’s College’s History department. global demand now or in the near future so we have to exploit all Holly J Smith (2013), who achieved a First Class resources that are available to us.” Honours BSc degree in Geography from Durham Tessa Whiskard Dr Bratt (left) is pictured with Dr John Fitzgerald (right) and King’s University. Holly now plans to undertake a law conversion (nee Street, 1988) It is essentially about loneliness and 16 events, he finished a very close Geology students Robert Massey, Eleanor Tunick and Jonathan Provis. course. became a partner features just three actors, who mingle second in the 2016 contest. As well as talking about his life in mining, Dr Bratt also told of his at Jobling Gowler, Eleanor Strutt (2012), gained a First in Music at with the audience to share their stories. passion for running. Ian said: “I started running at King’s – coming last King’s College, London. She has recently featured both in Solicitors, during 2016. Jordan Holt (2012) has completed in a cross country race, but I wasn’t going to let that defeat me and the cast and as a production assistant in Puccini’s Madam The local law firm won James Moir (1986) is Professor of a degree in Biochemistry at Imperial now I can say I have competed on the international stage, run 67 a national award as Biological Science at York University. College, London and now secured a Butterfly at Buxton Opera House. She is also now a standard marathons and 38 ultra-marathons.” ‘Local Law Firm of the Year’ in 2016, He left King’s to read Biochemistry at 4-year PhD research studentship at the Young Singer with Heritage Opera. and Tessa became one of a small Wadham College, Oxford, and first Institute of Cancer Research in London. Bridie Thompson (2012), who gained a first in number of solicitors nationally to gain joined the Biology department at York Classics (Latin & Greek) from Worcester College, Oxford. Hayley Gandey-Briggs (2001) is an advanced qualification in acting for in 2002 after periods at East Anglia now featuring as an aerial acrobat with Dmitri Whitmore (2016), who joined Cambridge vulnerable clients. and Sheffield after completing his Talking science the family-owned world-touring Gandey University in September and was awarded the D.Phil in Oxford. Dr Richard Crowder (1971) visited the Graham Watson (1991) is currently Circus. Pythagoras Prize by St John’s College for academic school to talk to Physics and Computer Head of Economics (and master i/c David Hargreaves (1987) is now excellence in his A Level results. Ian Goalen (1976), a Macclesfield- Science students in March 2016. One cricket) at Winchester and has recently lecturing in Actuarial Science at City based accountant, has recently been of the country’s leading experts on Patrick Symmons Roberts (2014), who has been been appointed as Deputy Head at University, London. He left King’s to re-appointed as a non-executive director robotics, he is Professor of Engineering awarded an Urquhart Scholarship by St Andrew’s to King Edward’s, Birmingham. read Mathematics at Jesus College, of the East Cheshire NHS Trust. at Southampton University. study for an MLitt in Writing for Performance, one of four scholarships issued to outstanding post-grad applicants.

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Sculpting success In 2016, former pupil HELEN MARTEN (2004) won two of the biggest art prizes in the world; The Turner Prize and The Hepworth Sculpture Prize. We asked Gillian Banner, Helen’s former A Level English Literature teacher, to catch up with her. In this profile, Helen reflects upon her time at King’s, the inspiration for her work and the responsibilities her status brings.

t’s been well over a decade since I left unfolds productive dialogue and Makers spend significant amounts of What influences upon your work something that may be paradoxical too. in general and without culture there is no King’s, but my school memories are still re-examination. I am certain this time in the studio and in their head. would you recognise in or ascribe to But I’m actually extremely methodical in the context for anything outside of totalitarian largely indelible. As transitional years animated plurality was something instilled How does this work for you? other modes of expression/artistic way I work…I always start in a very basic infrastructure. Art seeks out ideas, even incubatory period...things are percolating. ones that may already exist, and presses “ inevitably are, teenage existence for in my early days at school. I live in my head but equally by default endeavour? Ime was a giddy chaos attempting to I feel so pregnant and nervous with them into new shapes. Of course, art in a landscape unusually populated by Books, books. I love words. Fiction, Should we encourage young people information when I’m just beginning and cannot change the world alone, but navigate the paradox of simultaneous similar beings. My studio is an extension theory, poems, essays, fragments, elegies, to pursue a working life in the arts, I often think about this time as a bristling through its merging of aesthetic intelligence, desires to impress both friends and of this temperament to isolate and comedy...There are so many exquisite knowing that it is a precarious state of laminated suspension...words and critique and dispersion, the pessimisms of teachers. It is hard to know at that age thereafter explode. I am consistently masters of language whose work I look to path with no guaranteed ‘career images. trauma, politics or global emergency are how to coalesce with the generally grey amazed I am able to operate in the when lost, whose constructions I am more progression’? afforded positive momentum for change. and concrete attitudes of the common world in this incredibly luxurious way. infinitely jealous of than many visual things. world, and yet emerge beyond what We must urgently champion young I’m interested in language in its most might be conditioned as popular, and people to follow creative impulses of all Where are you most at ease? Town or primeval sense; I have little interest in “FOR THOSE WHO SAY AN What are your views on 2016’s nurture a friction or reactionary voice kinds! There is a pervasive inclination to Country? Does landscape matter? technology. I think a really beautiful way ARTWORK IS NOT POLITICAL political developments? external to those conditions. classify the ‘arts’ as soft subjects – this Town! Landscape matters to the extent to think about it is language itself as the ENOUGH: LOOK HARDER, With its rise of populism, nationalism and King’s imparted the idea that learning couldn’t be more contradictory. of my context and timescale within it...I abstraction. It’s great because words don’t THINK FURTHER.” fundamentalism, 2016 was a shitstorm of and knowledge is the most heady and Music, art, literature, theatre etc, love nature, but I can’t live in it for long. look like the things they designate so the dreadful proportions. Tempting to say yet intoxicating power you can have, and are not subversive but wholly integral The dream of infrastructure and space is reasoning is that this might be possible, another rotation of political modernity’s my teachers were so much a part of the pieces of a much larger puzzle. Without one I think everybody will always have, however precariously, for images, too. cycle. But, I think that the exceptionally infrastructure guiding productive answers their long and dense shadows, our no matter what their setup entails. I love Language is how we describe human visible conditions of precarity for the to questions. This all unfolded with a global perspectives on aesthetic theory, Politics and Art: is art a distraction gardening - I am quietly competitive in my methods of communication, so in some ordinary citizen are enabling a questioning humour and deftness of touch that I can mathematics, semiotics, philosophy – to from the horrors or a way of ownership of plants. way I think that the obsessive importance I of art, of language, action, and metaphor – well imagine is rare in the contemporary name but a few – would be hugely place on it is a way for me to de-stabilize interrogating them? as a form of political protest this is as school system. I believe today very deficient. Do you work in silence or with music? our existing object-oriented hierarchies. I The wonder of art is that there is no vital as blood. strongly in equality and humility, and that By promoting the exclusion of, or could fall in love with the aesthetic qualities policing of fantasy and, through its making, We’re endlessly squinting to peer through the challenge to anybody granted the eradicating, creative or humanities Depends...not music so much, but spoken of a thing, but be equally enthralled by the aliveness of the very real world around life’s pitiless fog and, as philosophers or privilege of a visible creative platform is subjects from the syllabus, the shallow noise, yes; stories, fiction, theoretical its linguistic receptiveness. Separately but us – replete with pains and pleasures – is policemen, every human body on this to respond to the world with an ethical tide pools of politics are exercising a talks...novels as audio books, or artist related: entropy is also such a gorgeous not diluted in urgency. At its best, art offers planet should juggle with problems of lost voice. Of course the solitary idea is systemic failure and promoting ignorance talks, lectures. If I need background word. I love that it is described as a widely expanded parameters for testing morality and hidden judgement. For those always hubristic, but diversity of thought to our young people. words where it doesn’t matter if I miss the ‘measure’ of disorder. It has a whiff of and debating the most immediate ideas who say an artwork is not political in the face of precarity inevitably narrative, I listen to Al Jazeera. a kind of crafted literary oxymoron, of our times: it is a progenitor for culture enough; look harder, think further.

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PROFILE Pioneering cancer care

People’s champion Andrew Hodgkiss (1979) left King’s to read Medical Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then qualified as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital in 1986. His post-graduate training specialised in Psychiatry and he later qualified as a psychoanalyst, being elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2008. As a Wellcome Fellow at University College, London, he completed his MD thesis on the history of chronic pain, developing it King’s former pupils artin Stevens left in branches he managed, Martin alongside his paid employment with to become his first published book, in 2000: ‘From Lesion to Metaphor: achieve successes in many King’s in 1981 with was then seconded to the national McDonald’s for a number of years and he chronic pain in British, French and German medical writings B,B,E at A Level in IT department of McDonald’s eventually retired from the latter in 2002. 1800 -1914’. fields and via interesting M Business Studies, Mathematics in the early 1990s, going on to Charity work then took over full-time and Martin Having spent 17 years as Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at St. Thomas’ routes. MARTIN STEVENS’ and History, respectively. He become Senior Business Analyst was elected Regional Chair of the UK MS Hospital, he joined The Royal Marsden in 2014 to specialise in the psychiatry career has combined both is currently a member of the for the UK. Then came a dramatic Society in 2007, joined their national board of of cancer. Andrew’s experience over the past 22 years, assessing and an international fast board of the Multiple Sclerosis life-changing experience: after directors two years later, and became the “UK managing the mental health problems of people with cancer, has led to his International Federation (MSIF) having suffered some symptoms representative of people with MS” at the MS latest book, published by Oxford University Press at the end of 2016. Titled food chain and two and Vice-Chair of Disability for two years, Martin was formally International Federation. ‘Biological Psychiatry of Cancer and Cancer Treatment’, the book is aimed high-profile charity Rights UK. diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1995. Martin says: “This is a unique global at oncologists, palliative medicine clinicians, cancer clinical nurse specialists, positions. Ian Wilson From King’s, Martin went to Leeds It was at that time that he had his first network of MS organisations, people affected liaison psychiatrists, ‘experts by experience’ and patient advocates. Andrew discovers the fascinating Polytechnic to study Finance/Accounting contact with the MS Society, becoming by MS, volunteers and staff from around the said: “I’ve worked in this field since 1995 and learned that sometimes severe and European Studies, but frustration a member of the Macclesfield branch of world.” Martin joined their board in 2011 and, psychiatric symptoms can arise from certain tumours story of how Martin, with the quality of the course resulted in the charity. Things mushroomed and he set in this leadership role, he has become much and treatments. Based on clinical experience and Vice-Chair of Disability him soon leaving. Instead he travelled in up computer systems locally, a profitable more involved in creating a framework for review of the literature, the book tries to understand Rights UK, moved from Germany, working in several factories as a charity shop and had 10 years as Chair globally collaborating research into MS, which this, to better prevent and manage it.” one to the other. manual labourer to earn his keep and, in of the branch, with his role being a mix he is pleased to see has become increasingly Andrew remembers his time at King’s as being his words: “learned incredible life skills in of local service provision, fundraising and effective and more patient-focused over time. very happy, with his performance in several school the process”. political lobbying. plays and attendance at residential drama courses When he returned to Macclesfield, This was a time when a new drug, beta being undoubted highlights. he worked for the family haulage firm interferon, was being introduced “THERE WERE THREE COURSES He also recalls the library of journals available in RH Stevens Ltd for a couple of years, at with huge controversy over I’VE FOUND PARTICULARLY USEFUL the foyer of what was then the new science block, the same time doing some part-time the expense it represented TO ME IN THE YEARS SINCE and the science project room, in which he had bench shifts at McDonald’s to help “earn for the NHS in order to space to pursue his study of lichen biochemistry – all influential factors in the I LEFT – A LEVEL MATHS AND enough to enable me to get onto enable relevant MS development of what became his lifetime vocation. In the book’s foreword, the property ladder”. Remarkably, sufferers to benefit. BUSINESS STUDIES AND O LEVEL Professor Martin Gore CBE, Professor of Cancer Medicine at the Institute of Martin then decided he did not Martin’s career WOODWORK – ALL INCREDIBLY Cancer Research, says: “It is compulsory reading for all involved in the care of want to follow the pre-destined path to in charity HELPFUL IN SO MANY WAYS cancer patients; an exceptional contribution”. Claire Murdoch, Chief Executive senior management in the family firm and work SI N CE.” of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and NHS National instead got a position as a trainee manager operated Mental Health Director, was very complimentary about the new book: “It’s a at the Crewe branch of McDonald’s, at the great day when real expertise in new areas is set out for clinicians to learn tender age of 23. He was soon opening from; it comes from experience and that helps patients, who will be really the first ever UK drive-through branch as He was also asked in 2015 to join the interested in the book. I also wanted to congratulate Andrew; it’s brilliant.” manager in Fallowfield, Manchester. board of Disability Rights UK, a well-known With responsibility for introducing some pan-disability charity, and indeed is currently revolutionary innovations in the use of the its Vice-Chair, working hard to create a society emerging computing technology where everyone can participate equally. “Looking back on my time at King’s, there were three courses I’ve found particularly useful to me in the years since I left – A Level Maths with Colin Kinshott and Helen Leicester, Business Studies with Tony Jordan and, at O Level, woodwork with Reg Price – all incredibly helpful in so many ways since.” There can be no doubt that he is an outstanding example of a King’s former pupil achieving notable and incredibly worthwhile success via a very unconventional route.

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An exhibition in Macclesfield last summer focused on the town’s Jewish history and uncovered the story This humbling account gives us a 1958, passed the final examinations of a former King’s pupil, PETER FRANCK, who came to England in 1943 after experiencing the horrors glimpse into what life was like in the of the Medical School and received camps, which were littered across the licence of the Royal College of of Auschwitz. Former pupil, Daniel Allmand-Smith, has researched Peter’s story... Europe. Many occupants were forced Physicians and the diploma of the to slave away doing manual labour, Royal College of Surgeons, becoming with little food and sustenance and a House Surgeon at Hope Hospital, N 1 September 1939, down. He was arrested and taken to community that had begun. He having to live with the constant threat Salford. France and Britain the local prison where he waited for was taken to a concentration of punishment from the Nazi guards. Peter went on to become a declared war on several weeks without interrogation camp, which he described to the However, in many ways, those taken prominent Orthopaedic Consultant in Germany, after their or news. He, much like the majority Macclesfield Times in an article to these camps were lucky, compared Manchester, helping those in need of Ounprovoked attack on Poland, of Europe, was naïve to the racism published about him on the 23 to those sent to extermination camps. care and surgical attention, inspired sparking six years of bloodshed and violence towards the Jewish September, 1945; Remarkably, Peter was eventually by the loss of his toes. and conflict that cast families across set free from the camp although the Peter’s second cousin, Hannah Europe into tragedy and disarray. effects would never leave him. His Newman, with whom he lived in Those who suffered the most most notable physical scar was the Macclesfield and who still lives were arguably the Jewish community ‘On arrival at the the time, I had to work in a coal loss of all ten of his toes to frostbite, locally, said: “I remember Peter living in the German Empire at the concentration camp, I had mine which had been shut down due to the poor living conditions, dearly and was amazed and proud time, who were rounded up and sent all my hair shaved off, my 60 years. travelling in cattle trucks and the of what he achieved, against what to concentration camps as part of “belongings were taken, and I brutal winters, and it was this chilling seemed to be overwhelming odds. Hitler’s unrelenting effort to “cleanse” ‘Sometimes the water came had a terrible beating. reminder of his harrowing experience “I only got to know Peter when he the German nation. up to my waist. that led to his enrolment at King’s. came to live with us, aged 16, but he The resultant death of 30% of the ‘I received prison clothes, ‘During the 12 hours I was Peter travelled to England in was amazing and like a brother to Jewish population was harrowing. and was put in a hut which had working I received no food, search of refuge, as his father was me. For a young boy to go through The Holocaust struck terror in the to hold more than 200. I was and when I arrived back in already working in England. Whilst what Peter did, and then come to a hearts of many and its effects sent forced to work for 12 hours camp each night, exhausted initially he planned to travel to a foreign country without speaking the shock waves across the world, each day.’ and hardly able to stand, all ‘crammer’ in Manchester with many language, and yet achieve what he even reaching the King’s School in ‘My time-table was 4a.m. I received was a cup of black, of the other boys from the camp, did was remarkable. I know he very Macclesfield. his ailment meant he was unable to TOP: Peter as a boy much enjoyed his time at King’s. He In the autumn of 1945, a 17-year- reveille, and then a run across substitute coffee. walk the whole way, and so arrived ABOVE: Peter (standing) at a is truly missed.” old Czech boy was enrolled at the whole camp to the only ‘Usually 200 of us left for Devon summer music school in 1949 in Macclesfield in 1943 and went to Peter’s story not only illustrates King’s, having been saved from the washing place. work in the morning, and in live with his cousin on Peter Street. a tenacity and determination to horrors of a concentration camp. His ‘Breakfast consisted of the evening only about 120 Under the leadership of T T Shaw, which he was learning from scratch. survive, reminding us of the courage account shows remarkable courage watery soup and eight ounces of returned. Beatings caused the King’s was committed to ‘doing its In 1949, Peter left King’s and was of those who faced war and the and tenacity against all odds of black bread. death of the others.’ bit’ for the war effort. Peter was documented in the school’s Annual current challenges faced by today’s survival. enrolled at the King’s School in Report of July 1950 to have gained refugees. Peter L. Franck was born in 1928 Work started at 6 a.m., and Macclesfield Times, 1945, joining what was called the the ‘Northern Universities Higher His tale also aligns with one of and grew up in Czechoslovakia; even though I was under 15 at 23 September 1945 fifth year. He studied Maths and the School Certificate 1949, Science King’s current aims: Aspire and he hadn’t even reached the age of Sciences, sitting in on English and 6th’. He went on to study Medicine work hard, even when faced with 15 when his life was turned upside ” History lessons to improve his English, at Manchester University and, in adversity. 12 Spring 2017 Spring 2017 13 KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE

Roy Mellor, Lieutenant, 22nd. Don’t worry about we people out here. Fighting has never been so Battalion, Manchester Regiment. severe as in this battle. Verdun is a picnic compared to this. On June 30“ we marched to the trenches we were going to attack from. It was Killed in action on Saturday, July some job, and when we were settled, you could hardly pass about 1st 1916 – The First day of the the trenches, they were so full. Everything was fairly quiet during the Battle of the Somme. night, but at 6:25 a.m. precisely, our artillery opened a “hell of fire” IN REMEMBRANCE and it was impossible for anyone to live in such a tornado of iron. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial A few minutes after our bombardment started Fritz retaliated on In November 2016, King’s was proud to hold a service to dedicate the new memorial plaque for those P&F 13A & 14C our crowded trenches, and calls were soon heard for stretcher bearers, chiefly “blighters”. My guns took part in the bombardment and at 7:30 Report in the Macclesfield Courier, August former pupils who lost their lives in the First World War, but were omitted from the original plaque in the a.m. our artillery lifted and over we went. What excitement! 5th, 1916: Macclesfield Man’s Promotion school’s Main Hall. Here, we share extracts from the ceremony at which King’s former History Teacher, There were four waves of men, and mine was behind them. Mellor on the Battlefield. Acting Captain before he David Hill, explained the history of the plaques and read two letters from former pupils. was in front of all (this was the late Lt. Roy Mellor of Macclesfield. is 21. Ed.). Capt. May was in the second line. I was so excited that I went over behind the third wave. Everything went very well for the first five The letter is dated July 19th 1916. It is by Lt. ou may be wondering why, as school together on one site and is, of complete and called for people to write in hundred yards, and I only saw one hit. Mellor must have been slightly (acting Capt.) Frank Harrison, a friend and there have only been two world course, the building in which these plaques with more information. This list, of course, hit the first time, because I was only about a hundred and fifty yards contemporary of Roy Mellor at the Grammar behind him, and he wasn’t there when I went past. wars, the King’s School is about to are housed. did not cover the years 1916 – 1918. “Y School – they joined the Manchester Pals We took the first system of trenches very easily but the next thing was unveil a third war memorial. It all has to do However, these changes had an It was not until ten years after the together in 1914. to take our final objective. Everyone knew his job, and off we went with collective memory: the school has a unfortunate effect when it came to war that it was decided that a school His brother, Jack Harrison, also a former again, this time meeting with more opposition. Bland was hit through collective memory which goes back more recording the names of pupils who had war memorial should be erected. It was the heart with a bullet while leading his company. Our corporal told pupil, was killed later in the war. This article than 500 years and at some points in time attended either of the two schools before dedicated by the Bishop of Chester in me Capt. Bland was too cool. He was marvellous. gives an account of the First day of the Battle that memory is clear, focused and detailed, 1910 and even the unified school after a service on the 1st March 1929. The Mellor, who was about two hundred yards on his right, got a lot of the Somme. but, almost inevitably, at others it is blurred 1910. The Rev. Darwin Wilmot, who memorial was not paid for by the school of shrapnel and was killed. By the time we had advanced about a Frank was slightly wounded in the leg. This and hazy. That memory has been at its had been Headmaster of the Grammar but, as with the new one we are unveiling thousand yards still further to the right was Capt. May, who had his letter to his sister gives a vivid account of arm and leg nearly blown off, but he gave orders and kept his men least focussed in times of emergency or School for 35 years before his retirement today, by the Former Pupils’ Association. his part, and particularly Roy Mellor’s part, together until he died. Everyone who came through said he was rapid change and such a period occurred when the schools amalgamated, had tried It is not known what entries were used to in the action on that day with the 22nd. wonderful and a V.C. would have been only a slight recognition of his at the beginning of the twentieth century. to keep accurate records, year by year, decide whose names should appear on the services. Riley came through all right, and is today the proud possessor Manchester’s, one of the Manchester Pals In 1844, the governors had decided of admissions but even he admitted that original memorial and, in any case, more of a Military Cross. The behaviour of the 22nd was admirable and battalions. that a separate new school should be built he was not certain that these lists were than ten years had elapsed since the end compared with any regular battalion. to run alongside the Grammar school. The complete. John Jackson, the Headmaster of of the war. It is clear from Darwin Wilmot ”

GeorgeLet Barber tersDear Dad, from thestill the clothesSomme don’t matter. All we have to Second lieutenant, Just a few lines to let you know that all is eat is biscuit, harder than dog biscuits, and 16/18th “still well with me. I am writing this whilst bully beef. Royal Fusiliers. lying in what is nothing more than a shell- About twenty yards away are a couple of hole. “tanks” which no doubt you have read of in Killed in action, the papers. When all this is said and done Tuesday, October We are just about at the furthest point of the advance and absolutely in the thick of we have the Bosches absolutely beaten to 3rd 1916. it. It is terrible, the stench is unbearable, the wild. Our artillery is “it” and can mop new Modern school, built on Great King the Modern School, who retired in 1907, and Mr. Evans’ lists that a number of pupils the floor with them. Son of Henry and Harriet and the sights are enough to turn the Street, was to teach new subjects such as and his successor, Mr Tadson had kept no who were known to have been killed strongest man sick. All I would say is that Well, I shall be jolly glad when I am Barber of Macclesfield, Chemistry, Geography and History, while such lists. Consequently, we have no idea during the war do not have their names on we cannot dig because it would be doing out of this. I’m afraid I shall come back Cheshire. absolutely callous if I remain here much the Grammar school, which moved to this which pupils came from the Modern school the original memorial. Why this is, we do nothing else but digging up bodies. longer. I’m afraid we don’t worry very site in 1856, was to continue to teach its into the new school unless they made an not know. Had their families left the area or Buried: The Guards’ There are no dug-outs, no water, no trenches, “we simply hang on by our eye- much in the midst of it all. traditional subjects of Logic, Mathematics, impact and appeared either in the school had they simply been forgotten? Cemetery, Lesboeufs, lashes.” The ground all round is so cut up We love a joke and enjoy our smoke as if Philosophy, Greek and Latin. The two magazine or the Governors’ Annual Report. Recent research revealed that there on the Somme, France. by shell-fire that it appears as if a huge we hadn’t a trouble in the world, and I find schools continued a parallel existence In the spring of 1915 Wilmot’s are 15 names, which should be on the plough has worked over everywhere for it is best too. If a man began to worry he This is his last letter home: for more than 60 years, but by the early successor as headmaster, Mr Evans, First World War memorial, and two miles. would go dotty in no time. October 2nd 1916. 1900’s change was in the air. responding to public interest in the early more that should be on the second. On Woods, roads and villages are wiped off The men are splendid. They don’t require The governors acquired land next to the months of the war, published a list in the 11 November each year we pledge the map, and not a stone is left standing. much cheering up, but they feel it most when writing home. But I suppose it is the Grammar school and decided, in 1910, Macclesfield Courier of those pupils who ourselves to remember all those who gave Shells are falling like hail and all we can do is hold tight and wait for the next advance. same with all of us. to sell off the buildings of the Modern were thought to be old boys of either the their lives for their country. At last, after a I never dreamed it could get so near to hell If I don’t come through, you’ll know that school, and amalgamate the two schools, Grammar school, the Modern school, or hundred years, the names of these King’s on this earth, for it is hell and nothing less. I don’t wish for anything better than to give and build a new home. That building was both, who were known to be serving in the School ex-pupils may be remembered I am covered with dirt from head to foot, my life for my country. completed in 1912, brought the whole forces, but he admitted that the list was not with honour and gratitude. ” ” 14 Spring 2017 Spring 2017 15 KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE 2020 VISION: Stanley’s Looking to the future Trump card HEADMASTER DR SIMON HYDE GIVES AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CURRENT RATIONALE

he 2020 Vision is about charting the n October 2015, the front cover Amongst his fans are The White was easy to trust his advice and future of an institution that has been of The New York Times magazine Stripes, The New Yorker, Lego and tutelage. He gave me plenty of Ta part of Macclesfield for over 500 Ihad an image of a celebratory Sir Alex Ferguson. However, Stan encouragement and I also have years. In 2002, when the Borough of helium balloon featuring the face continues to live in Manchester to thank him for persuading me to Macclesfield granted King’s the Freedom of the election-hopeful Donald and much of his work reflects his stay on for Sixth Form, something of the Town, it was recognising not just Trump. The illustration of Trump ‘northern routes’, which, he feels I was reluctant to do. After a year the School’s quincentenary, but also its was designed by internationally helped to shape the man he is of art foundation at Manchester contribution to the social, economic and acclaimed artist and former King’s today “Growing up in a chip shop, Metropolitan University, it was educational fabric of the area. Very few pupil Stanley Chow (1992). all I had was chip paper and a clear to me illustration was the schools enjoy as long and distinguished Inside the magazine, Mark pen to entertain myself during my route I would take. a history as ours. Whilst this is a source of Leibovich profiled Donald Trump, early childhood. Despite enjoying “Growing up, my family weren’t pride, it also brings with it obligations to whom the other mainstream media sports, I always knew from a very particularly well-off; but what little the future. It is to that future the 2020 refused to take seriously at the young age that I was going to be rewards my parents gained, I Vision looks. time. The cover was well received: an artist of one form or another. knew they had to work extremely No school undertakes a move of initially winning Adweek’s weekly hard for them. I hardly ever saw this size and significance without careful magazine ‘Cover Battle’ and, a them in a non-working capacity, planning. In 2012, the Governing Body “Growing up in a chip shop, all year later, winning a Gold Medal because the chip shop was always resolved that King’s future could only be a development that would hardly have times better than some, but to compete in I had was chip paper and a pen from The Society for News Design open. I guess this made me more properly secured in the long-term on a been conceivable half a century before. the long-term we must secure a stronger to entertain myself during my in their annual awards, with independent and realise that if I single site. When I was appointed in Rev. Wilmot had the foresight to utilise business model alongside our attractive early childhood...I always knew I judges describing the illustration was to achieve anything good I’d 2011 – the second former pupil to serve a campus of sufficient size for future educational offer. was going to be an artist.“ as “Playful, fun, timely, tells a have to go that extra mile.” as Head – the Governors had already expansion across Coare Street, down King’s is Cheshire East’s top performing story, also timeless”. Although, Clearly Stanley is a man at the been considering the two-site issue for Westminster Road and eventually on school. We add £12m a year of value Trump later referred to the cover top of his field. He says: “I very some years. A proposal to relocate in the Pownall Street. In 1994, the School bought to the local economy and provide 480 as “ridiculous” in an interview with “At King’s, I was quite sporty much like being my own boss. I mid-2000s foundered only because it was the redundant site of Macclesfield High full-time equivalent jobs either directly or GQ magazine. and particularly loved athletics. I can pick and choose what I want not viable financially at the time. School to enable the expansion of the indirectly. We educate around 1,200 Stanley now works was Macclesfield district champion or don’t want to do. But the best In a school with our long history, the Junior School as well as the establishment pupils and around a hundred pupils internationally in the design, at the hurdles for 3 years and I was thing about my work is that I get to issues faced by the Governors were not of the Girls’ Division. Whilst both sites receive financial assistance in fulfilment editorial, advertising and fine art the school athletics captain too illustrate every day. It’s essentially new. In 1900, there had been two King’s flourished, the acquisition inevitably undid of our charitable purposes, which are the sectors and, in particular, features for a few years. You would never having your hobby for a job, and Schools in Macclesfield: the Grammar the work of Rev. Wilmot in re-establishing provision of education and associated regularly in New York publications. think it looking at me now. I also as a career goal you can’t beat School on Cumberland Street and the King’s on two campuses. The School activities for the benefit of the community. His illustrative designs are one of loved playing rugby, but due to not that. Being in the creative industries Modern School on Great King Street. The now had two sets of ‘legacy’ buildings Safeguarding this heritage is a key aim. the most recognisable styles in growing any taller after reaching you have to be strong and fierce if costs of operating from two campuses to maintain with all of their attendant The 2020 Vision marks the next chapter today’s design industry. His work 13 and a back injury, my sporting you want success, but my advice to doubled the investment requirement and challenges and costs. of our School’s long journey. I am grateful has an effortless simplicity teamed career was curtailed by the time I anyone is: ‘always be nice’.” reduced the ability to generate surpluses Whilst King’s is an ancient school, it to many former pupils for their interest and with an incredible likeness of its reached Sixth Form. necessary for future development. It was does not benefit from any sizeable or support.

subject. His characters and designs “Robin Hidden, who taught another former pupil, the Rev. Darwin significant endowment. Funds support a Most recently, the School has received www.stanleychowillustration.com span everything from Manchester art, was a great inspiration to me. Wilmot, who secured approval for the number of bursaries and scholarships, but its largest ever philanthropic gift, which @stanleychowillustration street scenes and music icons to He was an amazing illustrator merger of the two schools in 1910. the majority of the financial assistance was donated by a former pupil to fund @stan_chow sports stars and movie legends. and, because he was so good, it The building of the iconic Main Block comes from fee income. Numbers the purchase of the 50 acres of land on Cumberland Street enabled not just attending independent schools in the upon which the new school will be built. a firmer financial footing, but also the North have declined by around 6% since We have also received a generous grant curricular and educational advances that 2008, despite lower fee levels than the of £50,000 from the Merchant Taylors’ secured the School’s admission to the rest of the country. Some small schools Company. Combined with the required Headmasters’ Conference in 1938. By have closed, whilst others have been planning permissions, we have made great the time of the Second World War, King’s forced to forge a new future as either state strides toward achieving our Vision. had entered into the ranks of the country’s academies or free schools. King’s has To keep abreast of our progress, please leading independent schools, been able to weather these challenging see www.kingsmac.co.uk

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Foundation choir Sporting success Football Hockey King’s Under 11 football squad (pictured The most successful hockey year group tunes into Prague King’s has long had a philosophy in below) enjoyed an outstanding season were the U12 girls, who finished with Last summer, 40 members of King’s its sports provision of fostering not only and won four pieces of silverware a 100% record. The boys 1st X1 also Foundation Choir enjoyed a fantastic a large base but also performance including the ISFA North West recorded a ‘monumentally successful five-day tour to Prague. As well as excellence at the top end. The extent of Champions title which saw them through season’ winning 16 of the 26 games in enjoying a river cruise and visiting the the base – as well as the commitment to the national Finals and ultimately finish the season. The highlight achievement main sights of the city, the choristers of the staff involved – is very clear from in third place in the country. was to return unbeaten for the first gave a number of performances in reading the 27 pages of sport-related time for 15 years from the annual Bath and around Prague. material in the 2015-16 edition of King’s tournament, beating teams from across The first was an evening concert Illustria, the school’s annual review. the country. in the Art Nouveau central hall of Thirteen different sports are Mšené-lázn. This was followed by reported upon, certainly no fewer than singing a lunchtime mass at Týn experienced by former pupils in years Church, the 14th century Gothic gone by. church whose twin spires dominate And the excellence is there too. Just the Old Town Square. to pick out a few highlights: in athletics, After singing Rachmaninov, Tallis Katie Hughes was senior Cheshire 400m and Duruflé during mass, pupils champion. performed a short recital of choral In cheerleading, the school became works by Mozart and Maxwell- national champions at three different Davies plus Pachelbel’s Choral- levels, maintaining its recent remarkable Partita, dazzlingly played on the profile in the sport. organ, dating from 1673, by Mr In trampolining too, national success Dalgleish. was achieved, with all three junior The final planned recital of the teams recording podium placings in tour was at the Church of the Holy the national finals (pictured below). Saviour, just round the corner from the In major school sports, there was Old Town Square. This was followed sustained success recorded too. by several impromptu performances in public places including on the Charles Bridge.

Spellbinding performance King’s Girls’ Division actors relived the traumas of the lucky few in a play that echoes today’s refugee crisis when they staged Diana Samuels’ modern day classic “Kindertransport.” Packed audiences were spellbound by the tale of the Jewish children fortunate enough to escape the Nazi death camps to flee to Manchester in 1938. The play spans four decades with the narrative skilfully criss-crossing from World War Two right up to the 1980s, clearly demonstrating the continuing devastation caused by dislocation from family. The subject demanded sensitive, powerful and intelligent performances from all the cast, many of whom are just 12 and 13 years old. Despite this, their performances were flawless and kept the audience’s suspension of disbelief throughout the powerful play. The Jewish children wave goodbye to a life they will never know and to parents they will never see again

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Netball Netball continued to develop internally, with the remarkable achievement by former King’s pupils in A lasting legacy the 2015 Oxford v Cambridge varsity King’s 515th Anniversary matches no doubt helping to inspire the current generation of pupils. A King’s bursary and scholarship can be Three former King’s girls played: his year is the school’s 515th anniversary and an life-changing. Proud King’s pupil George Elizabeth Bell, successfully, for ideal opportunity to reflect on its founding by Sir John Murphy explains how much it has meant Cambridge, in the main contest, with Percyvale in 1502. Sir John set out from Macclesfield T to him and his family... Laura Venables for Oxford (who lost) to make his fortune in London and succeeded beyond his and Kate Garnett for Cambridge wildest dreams, acquiring a knighthood, powerful friends (who won) in the 2nd and 3rd team and a spell as Master Merchant Taylor and Lord Mayor Dear Alumni, matches. of London. Upon his death in 1502, he established The Senior Netball 1st team were through an endowment a school in his home town to I am so grateful that I have been given second in both the Macclesfield & educate poor children. this wonderful opportunity to come to King’s. Rugby District Netball League and also the Clearly, much has changed in the last 515 years, The support and encouragement given by all the members of staff, has made my family (and me) very proud of Guy Mason [1991], another old boy Cheshire County Tournament. The although despite the passing of the centuries, there is the person I am becoming. running a school sport (Steve Moores girls went on to qualify for the North still the need to provide a good quality education and, I live at home with my mum and my disabled sister in a also runs King’s hockey), began his West round of the National Schools’ equally, the need for generous gifts to help support the small but loving and beautiful home. My mum works hard as a rugby report: “Mighty oaks from little Tournament and finished in a very school. full-time nurse and then comes home and looks after me and my acorns grow” and the results from the respectable fourth place. We believe that a King’s education lasts a lifetime. sister, who requires 24hr care. 2015-16 season show clearly what The U15 Netball team had their We hope that our former pupils feel that King’s is still No one in our family has ever been given the opportunity he meant. There was success at age most successful season, finishing a part of who they are today. Despite the founding of that I have been given. When my mum suggested I sit the exam group levels, with the U13 side earning Guy Mason (right) hands over to King’s fourth in the Cheshire Tournament the school through an for King’s, I knew it was the place I wanted to be, but was also new Head of Rugby, Giles Hetherington a 100% record in the regular season as and runners-up in the Macclesfield & endowment, King’s is not aware that mum could not afford to send me here. Without the well as winning the Cheshire Cup and District League. a ‘rich’ school with large WAYS YOU financial support of the school’s bursary and scholarship, I would sevens fairly comfortably, for the first reaching the quarter-finals at Rosslyn Park Our U11 girls also had an exciting reserves to finance new CAN HELP not have been able to come to King’s, and I can honestly say, the time in the school’s illustrious history in the national school sevens, and the and successful season, winning initiatives or our bursary bursary has changed my life. in the sport we returned from Rosslyn U15s winning the prestigious Warwick all their local league matches, the scheme. Now, more than • Make a one-off King’s has made me realise I can achieve my dreams and Park with a trophy – winners of the School sevens. At senior level, although Macclesfield & District Tournament, ever, our charitable status donation ambitions through hard work, fun learning and dedication. Bowl competition in a tight televised early results were mixed, as the season coming second in the AJIS North means we must fundraise • Set up a small, Before I came to King’s, I knew what I wanted to be, but I also final against St. Paul’s. A great way for developed the side’s immense potential West tournament and winning the to offer each assisted regular gift knew it was going to be hard. I have been nurtured at King’s Mason to finish, too, as he left King’s to was gradually realised, first in the full ‘Jersey Games’ tournament. place through our bursary through a standing and now realise I can achieve my dream to be a Paediatric join RGS Lancaster last September, Oncologist, to provide my sister with 24hr nursing care and a game and then in the sevens version. and scholarship schemes. order and he will be very much missed. bright future when she is older. In the latter, after winning the Cheshire We are asking our • Consider leaving Although working and studying to the best of my abilities alumni to consider whether the gift of a legacy is hard and challenging, my mum always says, “work hard, they are able to support through your Will play hard” and this is achieved by all the phenomenal extra- Cricket our current Bursary Fund, King’s retained its place in The Cricketer magazine’s top 100 curricular activities King’s has on offer. When I joined, I had to help local children never even picked up a rugby ball, let alone played, but I knew cricket schools in England. The U15s became county champions with the talent and potential to succeed. Our need for on my first session that rugby was going to be a huge part of my and the win earned the team a place at the North of England philanthropic support is great and, if you are able to help, life. Thanks to the excellent pastoral support, I had the confidence Schools’ T20 finals. Particularly encouragingly, at a time when please complete the donation form enclosed with this to practice hard and earn my place in the A team - something I many schools are experiencing trouble retaining interest at this magazine or email: [email protected] am immensely proud of. level, King’s 2nd XI went from strength to strength. Earlier this year, the school received a very generous From the very first day I joined King’s, I felt like I belonged. The 1st XI had a very young side which finished with a very gift from former pupil Roy Millward (1937) whose obituary It is hard to describe the feelings I have whilst tying my tie or respectable end-of-season record in the circumstances; there can be read on page 22. This will now fund several buttoning my shirt ready for school in the morning. I am coming were three Festival victories as well as wins against Bolton, bursary places at King’s. We were delighted to welcome to school with a positive attitude and this is because teachers Leeds GS, Merchant Taylors’ Crosby and a strong Old Boys Roy’s family recently, when they came to visit the school make learning fun, but challenging. It has been a magical first seven months and it is lovely to XI. Master i/c Steve Moores (1980) commented on “a genuine Roy had enjoyed so much. be given the opportunity to express my sincere feelings to you team ethic on match days and hard work in practice.” This academic year, King’s has received more requests No fewer than 25 boys represented the 1st XI in 2016, and to acknowledge that I have been given a once in a lifetime for bursary help than ever before. Sadly, we have only opportunity. Something I will be forever grateful for. so with all but two of these back in 2017, another successful been able to help about half of the bursary applicants. Mr Brookfield season should be in prospect. Your gift really could make a huge difference to a child: George Murphy, Year 7 with his daughter please consider if you could make a gift to the school.

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Philip Clarke Hugh Chapman happier than when sitting at his bench Madox Ford. David’s confident assertion host he took particular pleasure in the repairing watches. to Melvyn Bragg that Evelyn Waugh’s years when he was responsible for (Staff, 1968-1991) died in 2016. He Hugh Chapman (1951) died in Sport was a large part of Philip’s Decline and Fall was one of the funniest maintaining the stocks of the Worcester joined the Mathematics department February 2015, aged 81. Geoffrey life – football, rugby, table tennis and books ever written can still be heard on a College wine cellar. at a time of great flux and taught Battman (1951) writes: Hugh was boxing, were succeeded by racket recording of Radio 4’s In Our Time (21st (Thank you to Mike Humphries for this obituary) the subject extremely effectively a regular for the 1st XV and the 1st sports and golf locally; indeed he February 2013). throughout the school. Philip also had X1. He gained an exhibition to read David was elected as Hawthornden responsibility as a year group head for Geography at Selwyn College, was a committed supporter of the Brian Young Professor of English Literature at Worcester several years and was very active in Cambridge, though by the time he whole range of Macclesfield sporting Brian Young (1961) College and the extent of his reputation outdoor activities. Towards the end of had completed two years national clubs. died during 2016. within the discipline was highlighted by his time at King’s, Philip taught some service with the Royal Horse Artillery, He was the former his appointment as Chair of the Oxford divinity, and having become ordained, he in fact went up in 1953 to read Alan Leeming vicar at St. Phillip’s, University English Faculty for a three-year he left to take up a position as a curate Law. He began his working career as Alderley Edge, Alan Leeming (1967) died in Spring term. For all his academic achievements in the Crewe area. Later he moved to a solicitor to the NHS, first in Cheshire where he served for 2016. He trained as a recording and publications, David took as much positions in the church in Cumbria. and then as legal adviser in Yorkshire. almost 25 years. A studio technician with Mecca Records, pleasure in the opportunities his position He later worked in Bristol, and was popular and well duly qualified as a sound engineer, gave for teaching, his students invariably also a Mental Health Commissioner. David Bradshaw respected vicar, and worked with many famous pop being inspired by the commitment and Bryan Hall Brian was a big part artists - the Moody Blues, for example. David Bradshaw (1974) died in October vitality he brought to his subject. (Staff, 1956-1966) died in August of the local community and had been Philip Jones 2016. Few who met David Bradshaw He also was a great advocate for 2016. Bryan was Head of Chemistry visiting speaker at the school’s Founders Roy Millward ever forgot the experience. His dynamism, wider diversity in student backgrounds, at King’s and had what his wife Philip Jones (1954) died in May Day. He passed away on the eve of his intellectual enthusiasm, humour and an attitude strongly influenced by his own described as the ‘happiest ten years 2016, aged Roy Millward (1937) died in January 75th birthday. passion left a lasting impression not only personal experience – he failed the Eleven of his teaching life’, before moving 78. Extremely 2016, aged 98. He left King’s on friends and colleagues but even on Plus, moving to King’s only in the Sixth to Portsmouth Grammar as Head of well known in to go to St. Catharine’s College, the most fleeting of acquaintances. A man Form. Richard Davis Science. After six years, he became the town, Philip Cambridge, where he took a starred with apparently boundless energy, David David was always conscious of his Richard Davis (1976) died in March Head of what was then Plympton was a genuine triple first. He was a lifelong pacifist saw every day as offering new challenges Macclesfield heritage, retaining many 2016, aged 59. Rick was very well Grammar, where he remained until he ‘character’; it (and a committed Quaker) and and opportunities. close friends from his childhood and known in Cheshire cricket circles in retired in 1993. was entirely registered conscientious objector. In A gifted English scholar, David left returning frequently to visit family. He was particular, both as a respected umpire fitting that at his 1947, after a short spell on the King’s King’s in 1974 and after an undergraduate as passionate about his birth place as he in the Cheshire County League and an funeral his coffin staff, Roy went to the university college Roger Newton degree at Newcastle University he was about other features of his life. David’s administrator at Alderley Edge CC, where entered the that became Leicester University. eventually found a permanent home at dedication to his research and teaching in fact his ashes were scattered. Some of (Staff, 1971-1993) died in December church to the song ‘My Way’. He was a lecturer and reader in Worcester College, Oxford. The quality did not prevent a vigorous pursuit of other his deeds as captain of the school’s 3rd 2016, aged 83. He joined the Classics Philip started at the Junior School Geography there and stayed until he of his scholarship on English modernist activities, not least on the sporting field. XI were also memorable! He spent the department in 1971 and very quickly at the age of 8, and left King’s in retired in 1982. He enjoyed a very literature was acknowledged at an early An enthusiasm for rugby, developed latter part of his working career as gained the respect of all, in particular 1954, his first employment being as distinguished academic career, with stage and he received a commission to at King’s, could be seen not only in a teacher at Beech Hall School. for his breadth of both knowledge an apprentice watchmaker. He then many books and papers to his credit write the biography of Aldous Huxley. his animated support for England at and commitment. In addition to his moved to London to work with the in his fields of European regionalism, Despite a wealth of research, however, Twickenham but also in David’s own very effective teaching, Roger was Rolex Watch Company in Mayfair, historical geography and regional and the publication of The Hidden Huxley appearances on the pitch, which continued Treasurer of the Staff Committee, as an ‘improver’, simultaneously development in the British Isles. (1994), an edited collection of newly well into early middle age. STAFF LEAVERS master i/c audio-visual resources, continuing his studies at Hackney. He For example, he was editor of discovered papers, the biography never His enjoyment of cricket was such that and a valued member of the school qualified to become a Craft Member the series ‘The Making of the English appeared. for many years he organised a regular choir. Roger’s daughter, Alex, was one of the British Horological Institute. Landscape’. For many years he was It became clear that the range invitation match on Worcester’s college The following long-serving members of the first cohort of girls to join the After National Service in the RAF, also secretary of the Geographical of David’s interests weighed against grounds for friends and acquaintances. of staff have all recently left King’s: Sixth Form in 1986 and was heavily he returned to Rolex, and then moved Association. The school is incredibly commitment to a single project and his While his cameo performances on the involved in music at King’s. Roger to the Omega Watch Company, Linda Pyatt, Jo Beesley, Eileen Olsen, grateful to Roy, and his family, for his talents became increasingly focused rugby and cricket field became less was also gifted in composition, a skill London. However he returned to Lucy Derby; Guy Mason and Michael large bequest to King’s which will fund on literary criticism. For example, his frequent he continued to play five-a-side he brought to bear in writing several Macclesfield in 1962 and became Patey-Ford. several bursaries to the school. introductory commentaries can be found in football with friends until a few months anthems, carols and prayers for school self-employed, first carrying out Trade the modern editions of works by numerous before his death. We wish them all well in their future occasions. Repairs, but after two years opening 20th century writers, including Huxley, David also was an avid collector of endeavours. his first retail shop. Philip was never Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf and Ford prints and as a generous and convivial

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Rugby charity match Stay in touch! HundredsSTAY of IN our formerTOUCH! pupils are now At Christmas, around 50 brave souls participated using the school website and Facebook in the third annual Former Pupils vs Club page to stay connected with King’s and fundraising match at Macclesfield Rugby Club. formerHundreds classmates. of our formerThere ispupils a dedicated now use The conditions underfoot were terrible but, Formerthe school Pupils’ website area on and the Facebookwebsite, page despite this, the standard of rugby was excellent. accessedto stay connected. from the homepage, There is a whichdedicated The game was high tempo and the crowd containsFormer datesPupils’ of area forthcoming on the website, events, was treated to a real contest. King’s former profilescontaining on notabledates of former forthcoming pupils, events, pupils were the eventual winners by 12 points newsformer stories, pupils, plus news, details plus of detailshow to of get how to 10. It was a family affair with several sets of involvedto get involvedand support and thesupport school. the Pleaseschool. brothers playing their part including James and see:Please www.kingsmac.co.uk see: www.kingsmac.co.uk Jonathan Keep, Dan and Jake Percival (pictured), Bruce and Frazer Lacey, Ben and Johny Marsden, Will and Andy Hodgson. The match raised around £1,000 for the AlumniFacebook & Twitter Teenage Cancer Trust and East Cheshire Hospice. FacebookThe open Facebook group now has around 880 ‘likes’ and contains groupschool updates and news, event details, Thisold open school group photos has andaround videos, 750 plus ‘likes’. It containsformer pupils updates updates. and news Please from see: the school,www.facebook.com/kingsinmaccfp details of forthcoming events for formerand clickpupils, ‘like’ old to school receive photos our updates. and videos, plus updates from individual former pupils. You Pleasecan follow see: us on Twitter www.facebook.com/kingsinmaccfpat @kingsmac and click ‘like’ to receive our updates. DIARY DATES

Bursary Fund Golf Day Friday 12 May London Dinner at the RAF Club, Mayfair The King’s eighth annual Bursary Golf Day helped to raise £4,000 to fund Contact: [email protected] assisted places at the school. Friday 2 June Cheshire solicitor Rob Thorneycroft led his team of Sean Hammil, Jonathan Frank Moore Golf Trophy Salem and Martin Allmand-Smith to a stunning win with 92 points, with Ken Macclesfield Golf Club, 1pm tee Grant guiding his team into runners up spot on 89 points and the last podium place taken by Ron Smart’s team with 88. Friday 7 July Organiser Alan McInnes, said: “Many thanks to our wonderful sponsors, Bursary Fund Golf day at Macclesfield players and those who have donated prizes, as well as Macclesfield Golf Club Golf Club for access to this wonderful course.” Friday 30 June, 10.30am Former Pupils’ Cricket at King’s Saturday 2 September Drinks In The City 1st XV Rugby Festival (daytime) and Old Boy’s 7s (evening) at Derby Fields Once again the London ‘Drinks in the City’ reception took Contact: Giles.Hetherington@ place in October, but this time attendees were truly in the kingsmac.co.uk ‘City’ as this year’s event was held in Threadneedle Street. Friday 8 September, 4.30pm Some 55 former pupils and staff assembled in the Former Pupils’ Hockey at King’s. sumptuous surroundings of the Drawing Room of The Merchant Taylors’ Halls. The history of the Merchant Friday 17 November Taylors’ Company is 1st XV Fixture vs Harrow School at Allianz Park. Spectators welcome. an integral part of the history of the City of London and, as one of the Saturday 10 March 2018 eight Affiliated Schools of The Merchant Taylors’ Myles Marshall 7s at Derby Fields. Company, King’s was very pleased to be hosted Spectators welcome. by the Company at their headquarters nestled in For more details, please email: the heart of the City. Our thanks go to Bill Beatson [email protected] for organising this hugely successful event.

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