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Issue 296 Contents 03

News

A word from the Chairman 04

Letters to the Editor 04

Events: a year in pictures 06

Forthcoming OE events 07

School news 08

Features

President Trump: an extraordinary election 10 Welcome Go out and make a life: Ashvir Sangha 12

As we begin to emerge from the dark days of winter, I hope that this edition of the Gazette will provide you with some interesting insights; with an eye both on the past and the future. Former Masters

Last term, two of our Sixth Formers stood on the stage in Big School to present the viewpoints John Claughton reminisces 14 of the competing candidates for the US presidency. It was knockabout fun, but very few of us in the audience believed that there was more than one likely outcome to the real election. How wrong we were. As the Trump presidency begins to take shape, two Old Edwardians with their fingers very much on the pulse of US affairs – Tim Franks of the BBC World Service, and US Archives columnist for The Guardian Richard Wolffe – offer us their perspectives on what we can expect.

As planning for our third exhibition on Old Edwardians and the First World War gets underway, Archive matters 16 we also look back at the Chronicles of 1917, as the death toll of Old Edwardians mounted even further following the severe losses suffered during the preceding year at the Battle of the Somme.

The vibrancy of the KES community is exemplified by the diversity of the articles and updates Old Edwardians within this magazine and I hope you will enjoy catching up with news from your contemporaries and the School. Over the last few months I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of Old Careers focus: engineering 18 Edwardians at a range of events and have been struck by the obvious affection held for the School by its alumni. I look forward to meeting with more of you over the coming months Old Edwardians news in brief 20 when we will also be able to share our exciting plans for the next phase of the School’s Obituaries 23 development programme. Old Edwardian publications 30

■ Dr Mark Fenton Chief Master and President of the OEA Tim Franks and Richard Wolffe write about covering the US election pg10 04 News News 05

A brief word from: Letters to The Chairman Wartime farm camp

It is increasingly the Editor easy to write a Dear Editor, provide the food rations for the army of ‘Chairman’s column’ hop-pickers who came out from the Black about KES when One of the great features of KE school life in Country towards the end of the summer for so many Old the wartime years was the summer farm their hop-picking ‘holiday’. We collected their Edwardians are out camp. This was started at the beginning of ration books, made out the bulk orders and there doing things, the war by Mr MA Porter, a confirmed collected them from Tenbury shops before and so much is going bachelor and an excellent maths teacher, distribution to the families. Never any on at school. This bridge player and Scoutmaster. The camp arguments and they trusted us completely. time is no exception. was situated on the large farm of Mr GA Nott Many could not read or write and we were at Newnham Bridge, three miles from Tenbury usually addressed as ‘master’. It was a One of the biggest surprises last year was Wells. The centre was a fine, old, stone-built valuable introduction to a side of life to which Donald Trump, so naturally (like any other A short trip barn, large enough for 50 or so campers to sit we might never have been exposed. We also school?) we have world-class at trestle tables to eat, and up a rickety ladder acted as bushellers: going round the family perspectives from both sides of the through was the accommodation for MAP and the groups in the gardens with a huge sack, Atlantic in Tim Franks and Richard Wolffe. three or four masters accompanying. The called a ‘poke’, a basketwork bushel measure history, campers were accommodated, six to a tent, and a clipboard. The pickers stripped the Mr MA Porter in 1958 I look forward to seeing John Claughton’s in the orchard surrounding the barn, with hops off the bines into big sacking troughs. Former Master interview, and to Mark medieval latrine and wet-pit for our convenience. One of our recreations was swimming in a When the troughs were filled, we recorded the Fenton’s thoughts half-way through his pool created by MAP by damming the river number of filled bushels as we emptied them first year. and In 1944, at age 15, I was old enough to go. Teme. Only used under supervision and, into the poke. The pickers were paid on their I only signed on for two weeks and, apart of course, no swimming costumes. Another results, but we never had any arguments We have been blessed with a stream of modern from a brief bout of homesickness, I loved it. recreation was drinking cider in the Talbot other than a gentle reminder to, “shake her fascinating visitors to days of celebration, We were issued with train tickets from Snow Hotel bar in the village. We all thought we up, master”. and on 2 March Dr Fenton set his own The New Street school designed by Charles Barry Hill Station to Newnham Bridge. Everything were doing this without the knowledge of the bar very high with Lord Robert Winston was free and we were paid a few shillings a masters, but I think they just turned a blind I think the camp ended in 1946 when peace day for our labours; but that went into the eye to a rite of passage and it never seemed came, but there were many of us for whom it giving the seventh Tolkien Lecture. A lucky Dear Editor, Another visitor to the palace was a name that kitty for food and transport. Work was to get out of hand. If you volunteered, and was the high spot of the year. A rare bonus in audience spent an hour being persuaded, surprised and delighted me, Tolkien, as he ‘stooking’ cereal crops, apple and plum many did, you could be one of the cooks austerity wartime. willingly, of the myriad reasons we should My home is near to the village of Ombersley and I were pupils at Barry’s magnificent care about science, whilst sewing the picking, clearing ‘brash’ (bracken), and under the guidance of MAP himself. I had a in Worcestershire, and not far from Ombersley building in New Street – not at the same time! narrative together with art, music and ‘stocking’ out weeds around the orchards and go for a week and did a lot of veg peeling, Rear Admiral John Croydon (1947) Court, the house and estate of the Sandys Among the contents of the house are an literature. It struck me that this holistic hop-gardens. The next year I went for the full egg frying and joint roasting. We lived very Barony. I knew Richard and Patricia Hill, inscribed Roman ring and lead tablet, approach is embodied in the IB. Pretty seven weeks and added to the basic jobs well and food seemed abundant compared to A message from the Foundation Archivist, the late seventh Lord and Lady Sandys. reputedly bearing a curse created by dwarfs reassuring, really. was helping in the apple press, supplying home rationing. Alison Wheatley: There are no photographs upon those who stole them. It is claimed Unfortunately, they had no children, so the bottled juice to the new market for health of wartime farm camps in the School archive. these artefacts were Tolkien’s inspiration for A science theme continues with three title passed to a distant relative. He is a peer drinks in wartime. This was an old cider press By my final year, aged 17, I had learned to If you are able to fill the gap, by either The Lord of the Rings. I felt part of Tolkien’s very different branches being explored of Northern Ireland and lives with his family in and was operated by a couple of German drive at Catterick on an army course and so, donating images to the archive or lending scene again, since as a boy I lived in Hall by Old Edwardians. All engineering, Yorkshire; consequently, Ombersley Court POWs who taught us lots of rude words at camp, I became a member of the elite them to be digitised, please contact me on Green, close to Gracewell Road where but very different. Automotive at iconic now has no occupier. in German. hop-garden squad. Our main role was to tel: 0121 415 6151 or email: [email protected] Tolkien had lived, and I was familiar with Bentley, mechanical in the critical arena Sarehole Mill, the river Cole and adjoining of renewables and chemical (a little The uncertain future of the Court prompted bog or marsh. worryingly?) in whisky – it’s the sort of me to explore the Sandys Barony. I knew stuff that makes careers discussions there had been three creations of the title and My fascinating journey had taken me to Tudor inspirational. As are people working for found them as follows: first 1523, failed 1683; England, Victorian Birmingham (albeit to that If you would like to share your memories the good of others like Jack Hoyland. House colours second 1743, failed 1797; third 1802, extant. of my younger days in the southern suburbs of King Edward’s, respond to anything William Sandys was a close friend of Henry you read in this Gazette, or have an idea The place we all care about is of the city during the first quarter of the Dear Editor, VIII and was granted the title as Baron Sandys th for a story for the next Gazette, contact undoubtedly thriving. 20 century) and finally home again. the editor at: [email protected] or of The Vyne (coincidentally I am reading Hilary Back in the 1970s when I was a pupil at Can anyone provide an answer to the by post to: The Editor, Development Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall, which records his Uphampton, Ombersley, April 2016... KES, Levett House colours were brown question as to when and why the colour visit to The Vyne in 1531). The Vyne is a Tudor (and I still have the House tie to prove it). was changed? & OEA Office, King Edward’s palace built about 1520 and its surrounding Ronald F Naylor (1931) Sometime between then and now these School, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2UA estate in Hampshire was bequeathed to the were changed to white. Barry Elkington (1974) ■ James Martin (1979) National Trust in 1958. Chairman of the OEA 06 News News 07

7 1 Careers Day, January 2016 Old Edwardians in careers ranging from forensic psychiatry Events: to software development talked to boys in the Fifths about Forthcoming their careers. OE events 2 Creative Industries Drinks, February 2016 a year in Get together with friends and classmates, visit the School Old Edwardians and parents involved in the creative industries and rekindle childhood memories or simply join us for a shared their experiences with pupils from KES and KEHS. drink. To find out more about any of our events visit: pictures www.oldeds.kes.org.uk/events or tel: 0121 415 6050. 3 Golden and Diamond Anniversary Reunion, March 2016 Event invitations are usually sent by email – update your Old Edwardians from the classes of 1956 and 1966 enjoyed details at: www.oldeds.kes.org.uk/mykes to make coffee in the Common Room, a proper school lunch in the 1 2 Dining Hall and a visit to the ‘King Edward’s School and the sure you don’t miss out. 8 Great War’ exhibition in the School Chapel.

4 Summer Concert, April 2016 The Summer Concert in Symphony Hall was the official King Edward’s School and the leaving event for John Claughton, Chief Master, and included special guest performances by Old Edwardian musicians Great War exhibition, Joe Thompson (1982), Roberto Ruisi (2014) and Adam Phillips Last Friday of every month (2014), alongside current pupils. The second phase of the exhibition commemorates the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, in which 52 Old 5 Tolkien Lecture, May 2016 3 Edwardians lost their lives. The Somme campaign is explored Sir Hew Strachan, the world’s most eminent historian of the in greater detail and the individual stories of Old Edwardians First World War, gave a talk on the Battle of the Somme as part who fought and died in the campaign are told. of this academic lecture series. Medics Careers Evening, 6 AP100 Celebration, June 2016 9 Wednesday 10 May 2017 Lee Child (aka Jim Grant) (1973) was the guest speaker Old Edwardian medics are invited to share their at this special event to celebrate the completion of the knowledge and experience with current pupils at this AP100 Campaign. informal networking event.

7 Year Group Reunion, June 2016 4 5 Old Edwardians AGM, Almost 80 Old Edwardians from the classes of 1976, 1986, 1996 and 2006 caught up with former classmates and teachers Thursday 22 June 2017 over drinks and dinner. All Old Edwardians are invited to attend the AGM and enjoy a buffet lunch. 8 Biennial Dinner, October 2016 Over 120 Old Edwardians attended this black-tie event, which Year Group Reunion: included a drinks reception, a performance from the Senior 1977, 1987, 1997, 2007, Swing Band and a four course dinner in Big School. Former professional rugby player, Miles Benjamin (2006), was the guest Saturday 24 June 2017 speaker and talked about the highs and lows of his career. Visit the School and catch up with former classmates over 10 drinks and a three course dinner. 9 London Dinner, November 2016 Sir Paul Ruddock (1976) spoke about his wide-ranging Jazz Afternoon, 6 experiences as a philanthropist at this annual event Sunday 25 June 2017 for Old Edwardians living in the London area. Join us for an afternoon of jazz featuring the School’s Senior 10 STEM Industry Drinks, November 2016 Swing Band and Joe Thompson (1982), musical director of The Ivy, London. Old Edwardians working in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM), shared their knowledge and offered advice to current pupils interested in pursuing a career within this sector. 08 News News 09

School news Round-up from the School Captain 1 2 4 1. Lokesh Jain, John Fern appointed School Captain.

2. Wuthering Headmaster of RGS Newcastle Heights, Senior Production 2016.

instrumental in the School’s move from 3. 2016 leavers in A-levels to the IB Diploma and has front of a banner supported countless boys through their that reads ‘Long university applications. live the Claughton IB revolution’. 5 Commenting on his appointment, John 4. The Senior Team said: “I am delighted and honoured to be Maths Challenge appointed Headmaster at RGS Newcastle. champions. Like King Edward’s it is the great school of its city and both have such important roles to 5. The U16 hockey play in their respective communities. team, national 3 runners-up.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at King 6 6. Romany Wood Deputy Head (Academic) John Fern has Edward’s, and I am sure that the opportunity in Birmingham been appointed Headmaster of The to be involved in so much that has happened Symphony Hall. Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar and changed over this time will stand me in Chief Master School, succeeding Dr Bernard Trafford in good stead as I head back north to take on September 2017. my new role. My departure is of course tinged Dr Mark Fenton with sadness at leaving, but I am quite sure During John’s eight years at King Edward’s that we will remain in contact and I look ‘Rounding-up’ a year at King Edward’s in 500 the Witch and the Wardrobe and Wuthering And it is with John Claughton’s retirement School, alongside teaching History and the forward to hearing of the great things to In September 2016, Dr Mark Fenton words is like trying to predict when Mr Dewar Heights were no exception. In particular, the that this article ends. Within his inspirational st occasional English class, he has been come for KES.” became the 31 Chief Master of King will retire: nigh-on impossible. Nevertheless, transformation of Emily Brontë’s classic love decade at the helm, he transformed the Edward’s School. it is worth picking out the highlights just to story from book to stage was ambitious yet School into one of the most accessible demonstrate the fun, active and exciting place hugely successful. independent schools in the country, raised Reflecting on his first term, Dr Fenton said: KES is for those lucky enough to be here. over £10m for Assisted Places, exponentially John Claughton receives “I am delighted to have taken up the post of Yet, ambitious does not even begin to expanded Outreach, invested in the Brode Chief Master and have been overwhelmed by Our mathematicians achieved an describe the vision of Martin Leigh and Tom Wing and the Ruddock Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Award the warm welcome I have received from the unprecedented victory, defending their title to Arbuthnott, Director of Music and Head of Centre, made the ‘Big Bang’ move to IB and whole school community. I have already been win the National Final of the Senior Team Outreach respectively, with regards to picked up a number of awards along the way. struck by the richness and diversity of school Maths Challenge with a perfect score for a Romany Wood: a 45-minute musical life and the passion held by all involved with second year running. Our chemists were performed in Symphony Hall by Symphony But for this humble writer, it is Mr Claughton’s the School. runners-up in the WMCTC Chemistry Quiz, Orchestra…and 600 primary schoolchildren! unwavering and genuine dedication, support our biologists won the Biology Big Quiz 2016 The children sang to raise funds for and care for the boys that stand above all “For over 450 years, King Edward’s has and our clever clogs won the Lord Mayor’s Birmingham Children’s Hospital, yet left with accolade. Mr Claughton loved King Edward’s provided an education that has enabled the Annual Sixth Form Mega-Quiz, capping off a an experience of a lifetime. School like family, and the amount of energy, boys of Birmingham and the surrounding successful year in intellectual combat. passion and commitment he poured into every areas to go on to achieve great things and I Academically, there were first class GCSE person who walked through its doors was an look forward to contributing to the future On the sports field, our greatest achievement results with 26 boys achieving 10 A*s, and inspiration. Being Chief Master was not his success of this truly great school.” came thanks to the U16 hockey team, who 87% of grades being A* or A. At IB five boys job: it was his life. He would inspire us in were not only county champions (again!) but achieved the elusive 45 points and over half assemblies to go out and make a difference Prior to becoming Chief Master of King also runners-up in the National Finals, a first obtained at least 40 points, broadly to the world; through his impact on the lives of Edward’s School, Dr Fenton was Headmaster John Claughton, who retired as Chief Master 2016 in recognition of the long-lasting in KES history. In Phil Powell and Hayley equivalent to 4 A*s at A-level. Another year of countless boys, I can confidently say that John in 2016 after ten years in post, has been impact he has made on both King Edward’s of Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, a leading Bettinson’s last season as coaches, the water outstanding results demonstrates how the Claughton changed the world for the better. awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at School and education in the region during his state grammar school in Buckinghamshire. polo team sent them off on a high with a courageous, risky, and daring decision to Long may King Edward’s School continue to the Times Educational Supplement time as Chief Master. The judging panel Educated at Brentwood School, Dr Fenton bronze medal at the ESSA Finals. switch to the IB was the right one; a decision do the same. Independent School Awards 2016. commented that John had been given this is a graduate of Peterhouse, Cambridge made and passionately backed by Chief recognition, above all, for his “impressive and with First Class Honours in History and The Junior and Senior Productions are always Master John Claughton. Lokesh Jain The Lifetime Achievement Award was long-standing commitment to increasing has since been awarded a PhD in highlights of any school year, and The Lion, presented to John in London in November access to an independent education.” Education Management. 10 Feature Feature 11 President Trump: an extraordinary election In this special feature Tim Franks (1986) and Richard Wolffe (1987) share their experiences of covering the extraordinary US election campaign which led to Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of the United States.

rivals squished. Look up, and across Middle never seen a candidate or president like America, above the eye-line, you could see a Donald Trump. “ Trump is not a normal forest of V-signs from people who felt they “ We take the information had nothing left to lose. Then in October, in Andrew Jackson, America’s seventh president, and he was Florida, Republicans, many of whom admitted we can scrape together president, may be the closest parallel: a they’d originally been appalled by the populist who hated bankers, Congress and not a normal candidate.” prospect of Trump getting the nomination, from whatever sources. Native Americans in almost equal measure. were swinging back into line: “I’m not voting Then we test it. And But that was more than 170 years ago, when there was nothing close to the notion of for him to be my friend”. Or, more memorably opponents, or world affairs, were often reality TV or Twitter: two of Trump’s most from one GOP county chairman: “If the then we report it. ” plucked from his own imagination or the powerful tools. choice was between a socialist Mother Teresa darkest corners of the Internet. Tim Franks presents ‘Newshour’ on Richard Wolffe is a US columnist for The and a small-government Satan, I’ll go with BBC World Service radio. He co-anchored Guardian, who has reported and written Trump is not a normal president, and he was Beelzebub, every time.” And yet he won, proving all the pundits and BBC radio’s US election night coverage extensively on the last five presidential not a normal candidate. His raucous rallies from Washington, DC. Tim has previously elections (for the Financial Times, party officials wrong. The sense of shock on Second lesson: but still trust your instincts. And now he’s the most powerful man in the bore some similarities to the arena-filling been a sports correspondent, a political Newsweek, NBC News, and The Guardian). election night was real among voters and events staged by Barack Obama in 2008 and correspondent, and a foreign This is more just an aide-memoire for me. In world, the manifesto: nothing changes. Our His 2008 book on Barack Obama’s first pollsters alike, even though the national polls 2012. But the crowds, and the candidate they correspondent – based in Washington, Terre Haute, Indiana, I sat through a whirlwind jobs, as journalists, stay the same. Years ago, election, ‘Renegade: The Making of a were remarkably close to the final voting tallies. Brussels and Jerusalem. performance from the orange tornado. I was asked to write a piece, after a long President’, was a New York Times bestseller. adored, could not have been more different. Actually, whirlwind is wrong. It was long, and embed with the invading British army in Iraq, Trump lost the popular vote by a greater Trump’s crowds were full of anger, not hope. rambling. Also petulant and incoherent. His about the differences between war reporting margin than any other president, and his audience, who’d queued for hours, quickly and my recent stint in the lobby – in other Their anger was hurled at a range of targets: approval ratings are the worst of any newly This makes me uncomfortable. I don’t trust lost their fever pitch. At one point, deep in to words, as a political correspondent at Covering a US election is an incredible the media covering the event, Mexicans, elected president in polling history. But he my generalisations. And I fear that by the time the non-sequiturs, Trump said of America’s Westminster. I hemmed and hawed and experience in any presidential cycle, but 2016 China, the Republican establishment, Hillary has tapped into the populist anger that this is read, several weeks after writing, they’ll NATO allies, that if they failed to pay their recounted a few stories which subtly showed was an extraordinary contest. Clinton, and many more. They screamed and emerged after the financial collapse of 2008, be rendered even more useless by events. way, and then found themselves in trouble, me in a courageous light. But my conclusion punched at protesters. Sometimes they and his dark view of the threats facing the Just a few days ago (my few days, not yours), he’d say “bye-bye, have fun with Russia”. The was underwhelming. And I wouldn’t alter a It was as unprecedented as the recount of screamed at one another because they had United States has clearly resonated with a normally phlegmatic member of the UK line made it into two reports I filed – a piece word of it. Even in these turbid times, where 2000, and as phenomenal as the rise of no idea where to direct their anger. They were many millions. National Security Secretariat told me that with for the bulletins, and a longer feature. But I the audience can select from a million Barack Obama in 2008. It represents an also much older – and much, much whiter – the world set as it is, and with the new man in buried it half-way through. Nearly three sources of information, where social media exceptional upheaval in politics, diplomacy than Obama’s crowds. Unlike the Brexit vote, Trump’s positions are the White House, there was a better than months later, Trump gave an interview to amplifies and distorts, where those in power and the media. not the majority view of Americans, who think 50% chance of one, maybe two major new the New York Times editorial board, and can see us as the enemy, it’s all the same. We In that regard, they looked and sounded like far more favourably of immigrants and international conflicts within the next four to said pretty much the same thing. The take the information we can scrape together At this point, Tom Hosty’s red pen will surely the crowds that adored George Wallace, traditional allies than he does. Whether Trump eight years. headlines screamed around the world for from whatever sources. Then we test it. And be scribbling in the margins of this story. If the segregationist governor of Alabama, can hold on to the support of his angry days after. Damn. then we report it. We question not only how this is the third extraordinary contest in five who tried and failed to run for president in minority – and the Republican party machine So with those caveats, four thoughts on we’re covering stories, but what stories we’re elections, is there any such thing as an the 1960s. – remains to be seen. covering Donald Trump: three lessons from Third lesson: be vaguely numerate. Close to choosing to cover. There’ll be times when we ordinary election? Or is this just the typical the campaign, one manifesto from the early the election, some of the more reliable wonks get it wrong. But however other people see hyperbole of a political hack? Yet the crowds were less extraordinary than One thing is already clear: his presidency will days of the administration. and number-crunchers had Trump as a 33% us, we are neither the opposition, nor the the man whipping them into action. Trump’s be as unpredictable as his campaign. The chance of winning. Even those who had him cheerleaders. And out there, a lot of people There are few good answers to those freewheeling speeches were more of a final chapter of the Trump saga has yet to First lesson: open your eyes and unblock your out at 10 or 12% weren’t saying it couldn’t are relying on us. questions. Memories are notoriously short, running commentary on his own campaign be written. ears. In April, I was in Indiana, ahead of the happen. Or even, it wouldn’t happen. Yes, it but there is consensus among presidential than a political speech detailing policy or primary which would see Trump’s final two was unlikely. And? Tim Franks (1986) historians that the contemporary era has asking for votes. His comments about his Richard Wolffe (1987) 12 Feature Feature 13

I was much more suited to and I was more would never have imagined that my brother mature by the time I arrived at university. and I would end up at a great school like this “You are about to enter When I was President of the Oxford Union, and go on to study at Oxford and Cambridge. the American Embassy in London called to one of the most exciting invite me to meet President Obama at the Knowing what a start in life I’ve been blessed phases of your life at Houses of Parliament, a phone call I would with compared to that of my grandparents, is Speech Day: never have received if I had been President a constant reminder to be thankful for the perhaps one of the best when I originally hoped. opportunity I have been given. By having the times in history for your good fortune of being pupils and soon Old So detours can turn out to be very Boys of this great school, you have all been Go out and make a life age group.” productive. They did not slow me down or given magical powers. You’re at ease with leave me several years behind. Quite the diversity, you possess a cultural fluency and opposite, they were like a catapult, pulling me you are blessed with a groundedness, an Ashvir Sangha (2007) talked at Speech Day in July 2016 about embracing detours, back before projecting me forward with extraordinary ordinariness that comes from The last time I was stood on this stage was enjoying what you do, and appreciating opportunities. The following is an abridged greater speed and greater impact. So, being in a city like this. This social dexterity, about a decade ago. John had appointed me version of the speech Ashvir delivered. embrace unpredictability as an adventure. Set this winning combination of humility and as his first School Captain and I rewarded him out a vision of where you want to go but be confidence, will stand you in very good stead. by colluding with his wife to get hold of one of open to adapting to take action towards it. his old school reports from his time as a pupil You are about to enter one of the most here: John, you were quite the troublemaker. My second piece of advice: enjoy what you exciting phases of your life at perhaps one of I’m pleased to say that your latest school do. I’m very fond of the phrase, ‘find what the best times in history for your age group. report reads rather differently: record exam you love and you’ll never work a day in your Governments and organisations need to listen results, a bold decision to shift from A-levels life’. I love my work. Along with my brother to you and they are increasingly realising that. to the IB, and millions of pounds raised to and close friends, we design and deliver Experience of course matters and seniority help restore access to this great school for innovative educational programmes that has its place, but so too should youthful boys from all walks of life. John, you have equip young people with the skills, idealism. After all, if the establishment had all reasserted King Edward’s School’s Premier experience and support they need to live truly the answers, then wouldn’t Waterstones have League status and you have been a brave, successful lives. In my role as Head of built Amazon, HMV have built iTunes, and dedicated and visionary leader. Partnerships, I advocate for our work and Blockbuster have built Netflix? So, don’t be build alliances with leaders from business, afraid to have a healthy level of scepticism I am here today to share three pieces of government and education. Over the last five when it comes to conventional wisdom. When advice. Number one: embrace detours. No years, we’ve had the opportunity to work with you are taking action, think big. Imagine a field of possibility in front of you and dream as journey, or at least no interesting journey, is young people in the UK, Singapore, China, big a field as you can. Recent events in simply a straight line from A to B. Now, I’ve the Middle East and India. Now, we are football, with Leicester, and in politics, with experienced more than a few detours. I embarking on an exciting new journey as we the EU referendum, have reminded us that the applied to Oxford for politics, philosophy and create a new kind of university degree which future is not pre-destined, rather, we create it. economics and will never forget my interview: we plan to launch next year. I don’t consider presented with a pen and directed to a any of this to be work. It’s what I enjoy doing Those of you who are about to progress to whiteboard, the tutor looked at me, drew a in life, it’s me in my element. So for the boys the next exciting stage of your lives, please very, very complicated mathematical formula here, think about where you find yourself in consider my three pieces of advice. Number and said, “Now, over to you. Draw the graph your element, define what success in life one: embrace detours in life. Number two: which that formula represents.” I hadn’t means for you. studied mathematics A-level, and didn’t have learn to enjoy what you do. Number three: appreciate the wonderful opportunity with a clue what the formula meant. So, I drew My third and final piece of advice is to which you have been blessed. Don’t just go something and hoped for the best. As you appreciate your opportunity. My grandparents out and make a living, go out and make a life. can imagine, that didn’t turn out too well, but had a very different life to my own. Both my You will not only be happier for it, but I firmly I regrouped and reapplied, this time for a mother’s father and father’s father were from believe that, ultimately, you will also end up subject I thought was more for me: history what is now Pakistan but was then British being much more successful. O and politics. On that attempt, I succeeded. India. They experienced the 1947 partition, the largest mass migration in human history. Once I was at Oxford, I decided to get Hundreds of thousands were killed and many involved with the Oxford Union. I ran for millions were displaced. After moving to the President, but I was unsuccessful. I ran new India, my grandfathers left their wives again a year later and, on that attempt, and children behind to move to the UK to I succeeded. Again, I achieved success on work in factories. Eight men would sleep in the second attempt and ultimately, I was all one room with four beds, with four working the better for it. I ended up studying a degree the day shift and four working at night. They 14 Former Masters Former Masters 15

Reminiscences of a former Chief Master: John

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John Claughton, Chief Master from 2006 to 2016, talks about learning to love teaching, becoming Chief Master of the school he attended as a pupil, and how reconnecting with the Old Edwardians has enriched his life.

From cricketer to teacher 3 5 When I was at school and university, the idea of being a teacher had never occurred to me. The boys just on a human level, to spend time with the been quite a relief. I’ve coped better and In the year after university, I played cricket for alumni. The New Street and First World War behaved better than Alexandra thought I In each generation there were boys of Warwickshire, briefly and badly. I then spent exhibitions, the Tolkien Lectures, the concerts would – so far. remarkable talent and character: academic, two years working for NM Rothschild & Sons, have been great events and it was a thrill to sporting, musical, dramatic, artistic. Of which is what Oxford graduates did in the late go to New York and meet Lee Child, Sir Paul Final thoughts course, I was particularly proud of the boys 1970s for no good reason at all. I was really Ruddock and others. It has been a real I just think that I have been lucky. No job from very ordinary backgrounds, who could unhappy and I was sitting in the Jolly privilege to spend time with such remarkable could have meant as much to me as not have come to King Edward’s if they had Gardeners in Putney with Alexandra, my now people. The School is lucky to have alumni of spending my last ten years at King Edward’s. not been sponsored through the School. wife, and she said to me, “If you’re so such quality and commitment to the School I am proud of so much that we have done, Many of them were triumphant in their time unhappy now, what did you ever enjoy?” I and, on a personal level, I have formed the International Baccalaureate, the AP100 here. However, I was also really proud that we said, without a moment’s thought, “Greek and friendships which have really enriched my life. Campaign and the boys it brought into the developed our pastoral care for boys to a Latin” and she said, “Well, why don’t you go School, the academic progress, the wonderful massive degree, so that we knew every kid and do it then?” So, I wrote to some schools Life after King Edward’s new buildings and all that happens in them. and one of those schools gave me a job, and and helped them along. Of course, it didn’t I found my final year quite scary in terms And I was incredibly fortunate to get so many that was that. always work out, but we worked really hard to of what might happen to me. I am really good people to work with across the look after boys who were strugglers as well 1 institutionalised: I’ve spent all my life since whole range of the different aspects of as celebrating the stars. There are many great Learning to love teaching 1982 living in school accommodation with a school, teaching and support staff, and I was tales: one boy got a grade 4 in biology in the I spent 17 years at Eton College and was not boarding school mentality, where you’re there lucky with the governors, too. I think this is a Upper Middles – that’s basically a fail – and particularly happy in my early years, I was Becoming Chief Master all the time. So, I’ve been quite lucky that truly amazing school, one of the great schools he is now studying medicine at Oxford. I also quite stroppy and wild – I know that’s hard to I was incredibly lucky. When the job came up I’ve got half a job, which is working for of this country, if not the world. I just hope thought I was really lucky to have two of my believe – but as the years went by I improved. in 2005, I was at a stage, in age and in International Baccalaureate as a kind of UK that the good things I did will survive and the own sons get the advantage of a King First of all, I loved my subject. Secondly, as experience, when I could apply. And then I ambassador. I’m helping a couple of old boys cock-ups I made will be set straight. O time went by, I loved teaching my subject and got it. The agony of worrying about getting Edward’s education. who think they want to set up a university,

I always loved coaching cricket. Then thirdly, that job, I will never forget. And, when I one or two schools think they want my 1.The 1st XI Warwickshire Cup winners in 1975. and it took me longer to do this, I came to came back, I felt lucky to be head of a school The Old Edwardians expertise in fundraising and I’d like to do John is second from right on the front row. really enjoy spending time with the boys and that I loved and a school that I thought I Perhaps the most important thing of all has some translating, if I could. 2. John’s final assembly in July 2016. seeing them progress. In my time at Eton I understood. It was also to my advantage that been rediscovering the Old Edwardians and learnt all three of those things, not least in my there were senior masters in the School who bringing them back to support the School in I’m just trying to find a balance whereby 3. Receiving the TES Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2016. four years as a House Master, which really did had taught me and knew me and knew that I many different ways. I rather hope that we I’ve got some things which interest me and I transform me. I was told by the Headmaster cared about the School. However, I don’t have generated a community so that the enjoy doing, whilst not doing too much. I 4. John with Sir Paul Ruddock (1976) at the of Eton that I was too volatile to be a House think I fully understood, until I became Chief pupils and their parents, former pupils and haven’t done much for my family in the last AP100 Campaign launch event in June 2014. Master. I was told by the Second Master at Master, the impact on the School of the end their parents, the alumni, the governors, and 30 years and it’s nice having some time for 5. The opening of the New Street Remembered Eton that I was not the right kind of person to of government support, the progress of the the staff and the former staff, all feel very them. From a personal point of view, although exhibition in 2011, with OEs who attended the be a Headmaster and, for most of the years I grammar schools, and the complexity, and closely linked to the School and its fortunes I miss school in many, many ways, the fact New Street school and the Lord Mayor and Mayoress of Birmingham. was at Eton, they were right. frustrations, of the King Edward’s Foundation. 2 and its purpose. I found that really rewarding, that I don’t have to worry all the time has 16 Archives Archives 17 Archive matters Jack Hoyland: the bear maker The First World War:

The First World War centenary commemorations have given us the Copyright: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy opportunity to remember the many Old Edwardians who served and an insight from the Chronicles of 1917 died in the conflict. Very little is known, however, of OEs who, for With ever-growing casualty lists and reports of missing and wounded reasons of conscience, chose not to serve in the armed forces. Old Edwardians, the editorials of the School magazine reveal that life at KES in 1917 took the same sombre form which had characterised it A recent acquisition to the archive – of two teddy bears and a transcript over the past few years. of a play written for the BBC Home Service in 1962 – has helped us to rediscover the remarkable life of John ‘Jack’ Hoyland, Quaker and Poems to friends lost in France started to appear in print and conscientious objector. Jack dedicated his life to helping others, both the Debating Society grappled with war-related motions such as at home and abroad, spending his final years raising money for UNICEF conscription and commercial isolation of Germany after the war. by making and selling thousands of teddy bears. Hoyland Way, off Oak Mr Heath remained busy compiling the School’s Service Record, by Tree Lane in Bournville, is named in his memory. now on its fourth issue and being sold for one shilling to raise funds (copies were free to those whose names appeared in it). Jack’s obituary from the Old Edwardians Gazette of December 1957 is reproduced in full below: But despite the dark shadows cast by the war, there are glimpses of schoolboy humour throughout the period, which must have J. S. HOYLAND provided some welcome relief during the difficult months following School Captain in 1906, John Somervell Hoyland, whose death, the Somme offensive. last October, followed several years of poor health, came to K.E.S. from West House School and went up to Christ’s College, Cambridge, with the Milward Exhibition. Soon after he went down, he became a missionary in India, going to Hislop College, Nagpur, in 1912, and remaining there till 1929. During this period, influenced

largely by the work of an older O.E., C. F. Andrews, and by Mahatma Jack Hoyland with his son and Gandhi at Woodbrooke College in 1931 Gandhi, he became a strong advocate of Indian independence, publishing in the year of his return The Case for India and Gandhi work with unemployed men on a scheme for reclaiming waste land, and World Government. described in his Digging With the Unemployed. He also was associated in Vacation Camps for voluntary service, undergraduates and seniors In that same year he became a Lecturer and Tutor at Woodbrooke from public schools working with unemployed men. Particularly notable College, Selly Oak, and remained there till ill-health compelled was his work among unemployed miners in the Rhondda Valley. After his retirement in 1953. Here his influence was profound – alike on the Second World War he toiled on lona, assisting to rebuild the old the philosophical and practical side. The same concern for the monastery there and in Finland, on camps set up by the Society of underprivileged which had moved him deeply in India led him to Friends for people who had been “displaced” when parts of Finland were ceded to Russia. Chronicle, June 1917 It was a tragedy when grave heart trouble ended all hopes of activity for a man who had always believed the hard work of the body should The Chronicle of June 1917 makes several references to boys and complement the hard thinking of the mind. Jack Hoyland refused to be Chronicle, February 1917 masters working on the land to help the war effort, and self-mockingly beaten. If he could not work standing for the United Nations, he would tells of the impact this agricultural toil is having on the School: work sitting. In three years at home he made 3,000 Teddy Bears and sold them for U.N. charitable funds. “We are all round-shouldered, knock-kneed farm labourers, and as a consequence, parades of the OTC are now utilised for taking the At School, Hoyland’s big, raw-boned build made him a useful, if bend out of the backs of its members.” clumsy, forward. He played cricket from a sense of duty. He was a sound, reliable School Captain, respected by all and loved by the few “One boy, who as a result of prolonged agricultural work, was who really knew him. His life after Cambridge kept him far away – first, heard in school to address his master as ‘Gaffer’.” physically, and then (because of his intense preoccupation with social problems) spiritually – from his School and University intimates. For all “One master, who for a similar reason, addressed two boys that, he retained the greatest affection and loyalty for K.E.S. and was as “Willum” and “Jarge”; announced that he always always interested in news of that and the Association. Though he died a marked homework by piece-work!” very poor man, no appeal for any fund for the School’s or Association’s good passed him without response. 2nd Lieutenant Hugh Randolph 2nd Lieutenant Ryan-Bell’s grave in Ryan-Bell, Old Edwardian Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Flanders The Hoyland teddy bears in the archive’s collection 18 Old Edwardians Old Edwardians 1919

age and the opening of the Design and refined and quiet enough to allow Automotive Technology Centre, so I had many conversations to take place at close to Careers focus: opportunities to explore my engineering 200mph! Getting to work on, and be around, engineering interests during my education. I also enjoyed these fantastic cars every day (and getting the extra-curricular House activities, which to drive them too) is still something I still play a big role in the life of the School and enjoy immensely. provide invaluable learning about leadership skills and working in teams. I recently joined the Project Management team for the Bentayga SUV, where no two I went on to study automotive engineering at days are the same – I can be creating reports Engineering Loughborough University and later worked for for Board meetings one day, managing GKN at a driveline testing facility. In 2001, project timing plans the next and chairing In this edition we put the spotlight on Old Edwardian engineers. I was offered a job at Bentley Motors Limited, meetings to help solve technical problems for where I still work today. customers in between. Jonathan Grigg (1995), Daniel Page (1995) and Simon Straker (1987) write about their different career paths in engineering. My various roles at Bentley have had me The founder of the company, WO Bentley, using many of the skills that KES cultivated in said that his desire was, “To build a fast car, me from an early age. Working in teams a good car, the best in its class”. That still across the Powertrain Engineering holds true today and reminds me of the ethos For as long as I can remember, I have been Department, I have been responsible for at KES that has served me well; to build interested in all things engineering – cars, developing engine control systems and well-rounded individuals that can be the trains, pulling things apart, putting them back complex 4-wheel drive systems, which need best in their chosen fields. together and understanding how things work. to work just as well in the heat of Death Valley My time at KES was coincident with the as they do in the freezing cold, snow-covered Daniel Page (1995) School investing in the rise of the computer mountains of Switzerland. All whilst being

Since a young age I have had a strong Following my Masters in Mechanical My career as a Chemical Engineer and more supply and production from Leeds in the UK Mechanical interest in the way mechanical systems work Engineering I set about the next stage of my Chemical recently as a Technical Manager has been to St Petersburg in Russia. I led the team that and are designed – how to improve and career and, having been interested for so very enjoyable and varied. I have been lucky made it happen. engineering innovate – and a career path into engineering long in all things car-related, chose to leave engineering enough to travel the world and live and work seemed inevitable. In the early 1990s, I was this in the realms of hobby and pursue a in France as part of my work. I moved to Bacardi from Unilever and took on very fortunate that my focus on technical career in power generation. I joined Powergen the role of Technical Director, making whisky design, engineering and creativity was (now E.ON) on a structured graduate training I studied chemical engineering at Nottingham; in Scotland. This involved leading the nurtured by KES’s John Lloyd and Colin scheme, and over the past 16+ years the best days of my life. Chemical engineering Innovation, Quality and Health, Safety and Howard in the, then new, Martin Rogers have undertaken many roles in the design, is a really useful degree for the business Environment teams at the bottling plant in Design and Technology Centre. I designed, development and construction of new power world. The pure degree teaches you to design Scotland. The smell in the bottling hall was created and developed many things, some stations, ultimately directing my career process plants to make chemicals, however a amazing and making sure the product tasted useless, some less so, and also satiated towards engineering project management on big part of the degree is about modelling as it should was a real chore! my passion for racing cars, competing with major capital infrastructure projects. processes and this can be used widely in the radio controlled models at a national level. business world, from project management to King Edward’s School taught me to think. The love of engineering racing cars (although I am currently a senior project manager for making things more efficiently, to business This enabled me to apply myself to solving now somewhat bigger, faster and far more E.ON, working within a team responsible for process mapping. You need strong applied all the issues I have come across in my expensive) still remains to this day. constructing a large scale off-shore wind farm maths for the degree and an aptitude for career. My close friends at school are still my project called Rampion, based 12 miles off solving problems, chemistry is not a major friends today and whenever I meet ex-pupils, In 1994, I joined a small extra-curricular the Sussex coast in the English Channel. I am part of the degree. I find we have a closeness that still surprises group, organised by Colin Howard, to enter immensely proud of what I do, which plays an me. I am a great believer in life is ‘what you a design competition with the Engineering integral part in delivering renewable energy I joined Unilever from university and started make of it’ and I am eternally grateful to Education Scheme (EES). This project, on such a large scale that it will be a lasting as a process engineer. My first role was King Edward’s for the fantastic start in life it sponsored by local industry, gave our team legacy for our society’s future. working as part of a team to create a gave me. a real opportunity to innovate and develop dishwashing liquid. This involved working something that had meaningful industrial I firmly believe my passion and drive for across Europe and travelling to southern Simon Straker (1987) application – and we succeeded in being engineering excellence, nurtured and France to carry out trials at the factory where shortlisted to represent the School at the developed during my schooldays, formed the the product was to be made. Later, Scheme’s national finals. The success with foundation upon which I continue to build my I had the opportunity to work in France, EES led, in part, to me taking a structured professional development. For that, along spending five years as a Quality Manager in Year in Industry prior to university, which was with countless other opportunities presented two sites. Learning French was a challenge, a short, sharp shock into the real world of to me by the School, I am extremely grateful. but one you had no choice over if you wanted engineering in the mid-1990s. to work effectively. My greatest achievement Jonathan Grigg (1995) within Unilever was moving deodorant stick 20 Old Edwardians Old Edwardians 21

Births Old Edwardians Peter Handford (1965) Pete Nienow (1983) Tarique Hussain (1994) I retired from the University of Western I have recently been awarded the Polar My pioneering work in heart imaging was Australia Law School in July 2016, and Medal for the glaciological research that showcased on BBC news. Subsequently, I was offered a post as Associate Professor Mark Colman (2002) have now been given the title of Emeritus I have undertaken on the Greenland Ice News in brief at University of Texas Southwestern, Professor. I taught at the Law School for Sheet and in the Canadian High Arctic. Birth of son, Harry, on 27 July 2016. 40 years, including the period 1983-1998 I’ll be buying a hat shortly for a trip to where I am working as a Paediatric when I was Director of Research of the Buckingham Palace in May... Cardiologist and setting up a research 1950s Law Reform Commission of Western programme looking at improving outcomes

Australia but continued to teach on a in congenital heart disease by improved Martin Rumsby (1957) live. I have moved three miles in that time. part-time basis. imaging diagnostic methods. I have moved I have started a new career (?) as a During a recent spell in England, I to Texas with my wife (Sue) of 19 years and fully qualified guard and trainee diesel managed to meet Clive Port, David my children (Maysoon, Hamza and Jenna). engine driver on a narrow gauge railway Crigman QC, Judge John Warner and Neil Hickman (1968) My daughter completed her GCSEs at (the Golden Valley Light Railway) at the ‘Mint’ Harborne. A highlight was the Dennis I retired from the District Bench in the KEHS and my son passed the entrance Midland Railway Trust site near Ripley in Amiss dinner speech. Recently I spent time middle of 2016 and towards the end exam for KES and was going to start there Derbyshire. This is so totally different from in Japan visiting my wife’s family and two of the year I had a small book of but we moved in the summer before he my academic professional life as a Senior months in Guatemala doing volunteer reminiscences and funny stories started – he was upset but is loving his Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University work. I have now embarked on studying published: May it Please You, Madam. new life too. of York (retired 2006) but it does reinforce Mandarin, my 10th language. What would my longstanding interest in railways VJ Biggs say to that? which were kindled by going off on family Matthew Nicholls (1996) holidays by steam train from Snow Hill Colin Falconer (1964) OEs – and indeed current pupils – might Station in the late 1940s and early 1950s. I George Fraser (1984) like to know that we (the University of After leaving school I studied at King’s 1970s combine this new interest with research by I am now living in Dubai as VP EMEA for a Reading) are about to launch a free online College, Cambridge and the London Keith McLean (1970) returning to York two days a week to work technology company called CSG. I would course on ancient Rome, which I present School of Economics. In 1979, I moved in a prostate cancer group. After my year as Mayor of Milton Keynes love to hear from anyone also living in and illustrate from my digital model of the to France and since then have lived and I have started a new career working for Dubai at: [email protected] city. KES was instrumental in getting me worked in various suburbs of Paris. I Marriages Iain Stewart, MP for Milton Keynes South. interested in the Romans and pursuing my David Arthur (1958) retired from teaching English – mainly to I manage the local office dealing with a studies at school and then at university. I’d After more than half a century as a professional people, the unemployed and very varied scope of casework, policy be delighted if any OEs felt like signing up: prominent activist in Liberal and Liberal students in higher education – in 2011 and Peter Morris (1969) matters and managing the MP’s schedule www.futurelearn.com/courses/rome Married Karen Thompson in April 2016. Democrat politics, I am slowing down a now spend part of the year in Guadeloupe, in the constituency. After 46 years working 1990s bit, and retiring from front-line political a French overseas territory in the in IT and project management this is an Alexander Rennie (1991) Andy Owen (1996) Darren Scott (1989) involvement. I was secretary of the Union Caribbean, where my wife was born (we exciting new role that is exposing me to of Liberal Students in the early 1960s, and have a house to rent for holidays if anyone I have got married, moved to Epsom and My second novel, East of Coker, was Married Karen Brooks on the inner workings of government and have held many offices of responsibility in is interested!). taken on a new role as Gateway Technical published this year by the War Writers’ 30 August 2016. people who need their MP to assist them. the party, locally, regionally and nationally, Campaign, a US independent publisher. My two daughters are now in their 30s. Team Leader at the AI Corporation based most recently as Vice-Chair of the in Guildford. I very much enjoyed attending I have been invited to the York Literature Alexander Rennie (1991) After receiving a bilingual education they Paul Smith (1974) Yorkshire Region of the LibDems. I have Festival to do a reading of the book and a now work 1) as a legal expert in a well- both the Biennial Dinner and the annual Married Amy Marie Greir on now been elected Honorary President of I am now Director of the British Council Q&A on 23 March. I am currently working known international organisation in Zurich London Dinner. 20 August 2016. Wakefield Liberal Democrats. I continue to and Cultural Counsellor to the British on my third book which is a biography of specialising in football and 2) as a journalist serve on the Yorkshire Region Candidates Embassy in Indonesia. a Second World War deserter. All of my for the French national press agency. In Dave Mayer (1992) John McDermott (1996) Committee, helping to assess and select royalties go to a PTSD charity. January 2016, I became a grandfather for I’ve recently taken up a new position as Married Lucy Webb in May 2016. candidates for political office. the first time. My grandson is of English/ President of Chase Design, a specialist Asghar Ali (1997) Interestingly, I have recently discovered Welsh/Scottish/Afro-Caribbean and Swiss- in Shopper Based Design based in that my great-uncle George Harrison German origin – his father being a native of 1980s Skaneateles in upstate New York: I am working at Goldman Sachs London worked as a full-time agent for the the German-speaking part of Switzerland www.chasedesign.net working in the Regulatory Reform team. Liberal Party at the end of the 19th century. – and attends a trilingual nursery. For Simon Lambert (1981) I wonder whether Liberalism runs in most of the time I live in Saint-Denis, in Currently living in Bucharest, Romania, my genes! the northern suburbs of Paris. The photo I have been elected to the Board of shows a typical scene in Guadeloupe – the Directors of the British Romanian Chamber islet in the background is called Tête à of Commerce. I am working on education l’Anglais (Englishman’s Head). initiatives with the Romanian government Tell us your news and looking forward to the challenges Thanks to all OEs who have sent us 1960s facing the business community post-Brexit. their news. Unfortunately, we cannot The groom and his three best men: (L-R) publish everything we receive but Andrew Owen (1996), John McDermott Nick Collins (1964) please continue to keep us posted! (1996), Chris McCavert and Alexander I am now marking 50 years living in Email: [email protected] or visit: Blaikley (1996). Vancouver, Canada – all spent teaching languages. When I first arrived, I thought I www.oldeds.kes.org.uk/yournews would move when I found a better place to 22 Old Edwardians Obituaries 23

2010s Sam Newton (2010) Arthur Henry Iles (1943) Deaths I’m currently playing Christopher Boone in the UK and Ireland tour of The Curious 1926-2016 Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. It’s We regret to report the deaths of the coming to Birmingham in July. following Old Edwardians: Arthur entered school in 1938 in the same form as Stanley Clifford (1930) his cousin Peter and they Ian K H Cooke (1936) were always known by their Maurice H Evans (1939) contemporaries as simply Donald H Lambert (1941) AH and PJ, a custom that William Baird (1942) persisted long after they Geoffrey R Harris (1943) had left school. Arthur Arthur H Iles (1943) entered school life with Alfred M D Shaw (1943) enthusiasm and joined the Ronald F Fletcher (1944) scouts and the OTC which, Maurice V Simpson (1945) Abhrajit Giri (2012) after the outbreak of war, John P Reeves (1946) became the Army Cadet Michael H Wassall (1947) I won 1st prize for a poster presentation at Corps. In September 1943 Ronald W Heath (1948) the British Association of Physicians of he joined the Navy and Lincoln J Lawson (1948) Indian Origin (BAPIO) annual conference in after training at Cardiff was Michael A Spittle (1949) November 2016. My poster was on Arthur, with his wife Joan, after being presented with the Ushakov posted to HMS Zealous on Frank L Jenkins (1951) ‘Evolution, Ethics and Etiquette – The Medal in August 2014 which he served until 1946. Graham J Tayar (1951) similarities and fundamental differences of He took part in several Arctic convoys, action in the Norwegian Fiords and the liberation of Rupert S Glydon (1952) Modern and Classical Roman Medicine.’ Andy Street (1981) runs Copenhagen. He was proud of his white beret and wore it to the Armistice Day parades at the Robert S Lowrie (1953) Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to local war memorial where he often played the Last Post and the naval version of Reveille on John J Eastbury (1956) win my first poster presentation at a Remembrance Sunday. Roger K Wilson (1956; Staff: 1961-64) national conference. for West Midlands Mayor Robert A James (1957) After ‘demob’ on 14 November 1946, Arthur enrolled the following day at the University of Andy Street, former Managing Director of John Lewis, is the Conservative candidate for the Roger C Spiers (1957) Birmingham to study French and German with a view to becoming a teacher. At Christmas, he met West Midlands Metro Mayor and I am working on Andy’s campaign team. The role of Mayor Keith A Bradshaw (1961) Joan who was completing her course in the Department of Education and from that meeting is the biggest job in the region: controlling £8 billion in investment funds, running public Peter A Higgs (1964) Arthur and Joan became inseparable, culminating in their wedding where Joan arrived in style: not transport, ensuring enough new homes are built, and investing in skills and apprenticeships. Jonathan Paget (1964) in a common Rolls Royce but by a Jensen! Teaching posts followed at Dudley Grammar School, Martin J Cardinal (1971) Wolverhampton Technical College, Marsh Hill and West Bromwich Grammar School and the birth Since I joined the campaign at Christmas, week by week there has been a notable increase in Chris B Jones (1971) of their two sons, David and Adrian. In 1967, he moved to London to become a divisional intensity and we are most definitely gathering momentum! I’ve been working on Andy’s policy Tim A Mears (1976) inspector of schools in Tower Hamlets and the Inspector for German for the whole of the Inner team, briefing him on meetings he’s going to and helping him put his policy manifesto Waqas Y Saigol (1994) London Education Authority – posts which he held until retirement – and a very respected JP for together. Key priorities are transport, housing and jobs. Plans to bust congestion include Waltham Forest. improving buses and reopening rail lines – such as the Camp Hill line to Moseley – which may The School has also recently learnt of the even ensure the 885 arrives at KES before 9am! We’ve also been putting together our death of Tony Trott, long-serving Head of Arthur was a regular participant in the affairs of the London Section and, until advancing years comprehensive plan on house-building, skills and the economy. English and author of No Place for Fop or Nick Eccleston (2014) curtailed his activities, always attended the Christmas Dinner where he enjoyed reminiscing with Idler. A full obituary will appear in the next On 6 August 2016 I commissioned from those who made the journey from Birmingham, particularly Brian Creed who was a contemporary The election will take place on 4 May 2017, and who could be better than an Old Edwardian edition of the Gazette. the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst into at school. Although, until PJ died, he made an annual visit to Birmingham I could never persuade to shape the future of our region?! the reserves. I then transferred into the him to attend the Biennial Dinner, or even the 450th anniversary: as far as Arthur was concerned, Queen’s Own Yeomanry. travel out of London ceased at the end of August. Always eclectic in his outlook, Arthur joined the Will Mills (2016) local Probus group and our last meeting was at a party at his house to celebrate an overseas trip that he had organised and his becoming Chairman. The highlight of the evening was a musical interlude by Arthur on the trumpet and Lord (Len) Murray on the piano. Len provided the artistry and Arthur the volume! Joan always maintained that when Arthur wanted to practise, she sent him to the bottom of the, very long, garden and that way they always remained friends with Can you help us find any ‘lost boys’? the neighbours. We have lost touch with a number of Old Edwardians. You can help us by searching for Arthur died, after a short illness, on 16 March 2016. Tragically, but perhaps mercifully, Joan died ‘lost boys’ from your year group. Visit: www.my.kes.org.uk/lost and type in your year suddenly later the same morning, heartbroken. Together as always. group to see who we are missing. If you have contact details for a lost OE, email: [email protected] or tel: 0121 415 6050. Alan Blower (1940) 24 Obituaries Obituaries 25

Alfred Malcolm Davenport Shaw (1943) Maurice Simpson (1945) Michael Arthur Spittle (1949) 1926-2014 1928-2015 1931-2016

Maurice Simpson came to KES after Producers Association. Between 1980 and 1985 he became the two years at Camp Hill GS, which Managing Director of D and F Steels, part of the Associated Steel had been evacuated to Warwick Distributors group in Leeds, and took the opportunity to buy a in 1939. Perhaps it was there that second weekday home in Harrogate. he formed his life-long interests in cycling and swimming. Many After nearly 40 years in the steel industry Michael set up his own boys cycled back home during that consultancy practice and had a second career as a mentor to fledgling ‘quiet’ first year of WW2. Pedalling entrepreneurs, a charity fundraiser and a health authority consultant. up Hatton Hill was always a He was a non-executive director within the Worcestershire Health challenge on gearless bikes. Authority and chaired their Research Ethics Committee and also sat on many of their other committees. We learned to swim in the Victorian Baths at Leamington Spa and in the muddy pool on the banks of the Avon near that incomparable view of After his initial training and qualification as a mechanical engineer, Warwick Castle which we passed on our way to school. Maurice’s lithe Michael maintained a passion for engineering. His hobbies have physique belied his strength and, still in the Fifth Form, he swam for included steam locomotion, as well as electrical engineering. He built a the School using an apparently effortless ‘American Crawl’ emulating scale replica of a Royal Scot Class Locomotive in his youth, rewired his Johnny Weissmuller of Tarzan fame. Later, he represented the Fleet Air house, and designed and installed an automatic watering system in his Arm for which he had volunteered in 1946 rather than be called up for greenhouse and garden. National Service in the Army. My grandfather’s diary for Friday, 13 August 1926 reads: “two ewes In retirement, Michael continued to support several voluntary sold; Malcolm born.” Maurice was a natural at many sports, representing the School also at organisations. Having served on his local church PCC for many years, rugby and cricket. When he left the Fleet Air Arm in 1949 he became a he joined the Droitwich Deanery Synod and the Worcester Diocesan Earlier that summer my grandfather had watched England play Australia keen member of the OEFC, often playing for the 1st XV and making a Synod. He also became a commissioner of income tax. at Edgbaston and was taken with a farm to let near Redditch. So, when large number of friends. my father was six weeks old the family and the cows moved by train to Michael also enjoyed travel, gardening, music and fishing, and led an Grange Farm, all disembarking at Alvechurch. Back in Birmingham, Maurice established a successful career in active social life, attending numerous lunch clubs and dinners with his insurance, becoming a Fellow at the Chartered Institute. Here he many friends. He founded a book club and very ably organised the Malcolm was always keen on education and very grateful for his continued to show his gift of friendship with groups of co-mates, which Brooke Room Lunch Club. He also attended the Remnant Club, the scholarship at KES where he took classics in the Sixth Form. From lasted well into retirement. Probus Club and the 4H club, and was a longstanding member of the there he went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he studied Midland Flyfishers Club. agriculture. Just before starting, he was seriously ill and had his It was in such groups of friends and colleagues that Maurice’s rare appendix out. He was thus mortified on the first day of term – his talent as a raconteur was displayed. In his quiet voice, in which a trace Michael enjoyed a happy family life with Rosemary and their three mother having to carry his suitcase. He was also not allowed to of his father’s Suffolk speech could be detected, he would hold his children Andrew, Susan and Jayne. The 1990s saw the arrival of his Michael Spittle grew up in Harborne and was educated at West House row. However, he was able to do his duty, driving fire engines for the listeners spellbound and in stitches of laughter. All this was done with seven granddaughters: Cordelia, Henrietta, Katherine, Lucy, Beth, School prior to King Edward’s School. He then went on to achieve an war effort. great modesty and a winsome smile. Caro and Lottie. He took huge delight in following all their various HNC in mechanical engineering at Aston University. Michael married activities and achievements. Rosemary (née Gillett) in 1958, starting out life in Birmingham before Malcolm and his brother, Colin, took over the family business, He married Julia in 1955 and settled into family life as their children, moving to Elmbridge, Worcestershire in 1969 where they have lived farming during a period of revolution in agriculture. They were practical, Paul, Ruth and Emma arrived. In his 40s Maurice took an Open Michael will be remembered for his charm and intelligent good ever since. innovative and did all their own engineering. He married his late wife University degree in psychology, and again showed his compassion humour. He had genuine interest in other people and was a in 1955: Margaret (née Reed) had been a pupil at KingHarold Edward Giles VI Barton by(1940) supporting disabled students at summer schools for many years. good conversationalist. After serving an apprenticeship at Tube Products Ltd in the early High School for Girls and had also taught English there before starting Maurice’s concern for humanity led him to make a major contribution to 1922-2013 1950s, Michael was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in a family. Amnesty International, organising collections and sales, or pleading the Andrew Spittle Germany for his National Service where he commanded the cases of political prisoners. th In 1988, Malcolm bought his own farm in Claybrooke Magna, near 11 Armoured Division Field Engineer Workshops. On his return, he embarked upon a successful career in sales and marketing within Lutterworth. Retirement in 1996 brought time for hisFl/Lt many Harold interests G Barton servedIn in March the RAF 2014 as aMaurice navigator suffered in Wellington a stroke. Bombers His last monthsduring WW2. were inIn the steel industry, initially as marketing manager for Tube Investments, and in 2005, he and Margaret celebrated their golden1946 wedding he embarked on a teachingThe Royal career Star and and concluded Garter Home his career in Solihull as Senior where Lecturer he received in Electrical unstinting and then as a director at The Patent Shaft Steel Works and a non- anniversary with family and friends. Engineering at Birmingham College.tender kindness. His retirement He had years lost were his speech spent, butsix monthsstill greeted at his everyone apartment executive director of Metro Cammell. He was also chairman of the in the South of France and sixwith months his ready at home smile. in WithCoventry. his family Following around the him, death he diedof his peacefully wife in 2002, his health and mobility steadily declined, ending his days in a care home in Bedworth where hot rolled products division of the British Independent Steel Malcolm is survived by his two daughters, Libby and Catherine. on 21 December 2015. A long life well lived. he sadly died.

Libby Wojcicki Keith Symes (1947) MD Moore 26 Obituaries Obituaries 27

Graham Tayar (1951) Robert (Bob) Sydney Lowrie (1953) Roger Wilson (1956; Staff 1961-1964) 1933-2016 1935-2016 1937-2016

In April, Wheatley lost one of its much-loved residents; after a year-long Roger was Head of School and Captain illness and stroke, Bob Lowrie died peacefully in Greengates Nursing of Rugby in his final year, captaining Home, Oxford. the School’s 7s team to victory in the Public Schools 7s Competition in Before retirement, Bob was the inspirational Head of Science at Oxford that year. School with previous positions at Magdalen College School and Malvern College, and a spell as science commissioning editor for He went on to read engineering at Pergamon Press. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge before returning to KES to teach maths Born in Birmingham, he came up to Merton College following National for three years. Thereafter, he taught Service as an RAF radar technician and went on to gain a DPhil in maths at Christ’s Hospital from 1964 to Chemistry, undertaking pioneering research in gas chromatography. He 1980, where he was coach of the was Merton’s 1st VIII Cox, steering them to success at Henley Royal 1st XV and a housemaster. From 1980 until retirement in 1999 he was the Regatta, and he coxed the University’s 2nd VIII, Isis. much respected Headmaster of Duke of Kent Prep School in Ewhurst, Surrey. He is fondly remembered by all who knew him there as a warm Bob arrived in Wheatley in 1990 with a national reputation as a tenor and caring Headmaster who led a highly successful school. soloist. For 25 years he was Lay Clerk of New College Choir and directed St Barnabas Church Choir, Jericho. Latterly he sang with Simon Wilson St Giles Church Oxford, singing in the Vatican and coaching the boy choristers. As a member of Pro Musica, he appeared several times in The Vicar of Dibley, including singing at Alice’s wedding! Graham Tayar, BBC broadcaster, trad jazz impresario and pianist, and poet Robert Anthony James (1957) In Wheatley, he sang with Wheatley Park Choral Society, visiting 1940-2016 Graham Tayar was a creative force, best known for his many BBC radio Graham’s infectious love of jazz and his unflagging energy meant that Grenoble, Prague, Freiburg, Menden and Japan, and was a strong series in the 1970s and for his trad jazz band, the Crouch End All Stars, he was a force behind a significant amount of London jazz in the 1970s member of their Madrigal Choir. He coached and wrote close harmony which has had a loyal foot-tapping following across North London for and 1980s. One of his main contributions as an impresario was to run for the ladies’ Barber Shop Quartet ‘Hot Wax’ who sang at his bedside Robert Anthony James attended the last 40 years. for many years a well-known jazz session at the New Merlin’s Cave a week before his death. pub in Islington. It has been widely described as one of the scruffiest KES from 1951 to 1957. His time Born in Birmingham to Robert, a research chemist, and Muriel, née at the School was notable for pubs in London but the resident jazz band, led by well-known Bob was a committee member of Wheatley Productions and appeared Aaron, he attended King Edward’s School and then won a scholarship his admission to the Birmingham musicians such as Bruce Turner, Wally Fawkes and John Barnes, in Gilbert and Sullivan productions of Iolanthe, The Yeomen of the to Jesus College, Cambridge where he obtained, as he proudly put Cathedral Choir under the aegis drew significant crowds. Guard and The Mikado as well as in many pantomimes. it, “the best third in my year”, as he devoted all his time to politics, of Willis Grant, who held posts as Musical Director of the Cathedral partying and punting on the river. Always modest about his own piano technique, Graham liked to claim Throughout his life, Bob maintained his active association with the and the School at that time. “Next year I’ll solo in A flat”. Nevertheless, his own band, the Crouch Scouts, rising to District Commissioner and earning the nickname After graduating, Graham started an artists’ colony in the South of End All Stars, was a much-loved North London institution. John Wain, ‘Bob-a-job’! France following direct instructions from Beethoven himself – one of Oxford Professor of Poetry and jazz lover, commented: “as the evening After leaving KES he studied to his friends who was a dab hand at automatic writing was apparently become a heating and ventilating goes on … either individual soloists or the whole group suddenly take In 2014, his health deteriorated. He bore his final illness after a severe in communication with the composer. In the end, the group ran out of engineer, which was his occupation off into that timeless dimension of excitement and invention that is jazz.” stroke bravely, receiving scores of visitors, and good wishes from money and had to be repatriated by the British Embassy! throughout his working life. A significant influence from 1974 onwards across the world. He died peacefully with, as he would have wished, Graham wrote poetry all his life and in 2000 published a volume of was his wholehearted support of the Birmingham Old Edwardian Lodge. Radio 3 playing quietly in the background. Graham went out to Ethiopia in the early 1960s, where he taught his collected verse called Not Too Late for Loving, which he would try He served the Lodge in various capacities including three years as English, met Emperor Haile Selassie and took up playing jazz piano. to sell to any and every unsuspecting person he met. His poetry was Master in 1983, 1996 and 2010. This commitment was endorsed by Carol Ward He also worked freelance for the BBC World Service, reporting on described by The Guardian as: “personal lyrics that remind one of Hardy the large number of members who attended his funeral at Oldswinford earthquakes and revolutions across East and Central Africa. and Houseman…his work is effective, often moving.” Church, Stourbridge on 5 May 2016.

On his return to Britain, he spent many years producing and presenting He is survived by his brother Clifford, his widow Catherine, his ex-wife He married Imelda in 1965 and had two sons, Richard and Michael. He programmes for BBC Radio 3, the most successful of which was Meriel and their two daughters Penny and Imogen, another ex-wife Lynn was a very considerate family man, both to his immediate family and the ‘Personality in Power’, in which Graham gathered high profile figures and their son, me, a third ex-wife Christina, and his five grandchildren: wider circle of his relatives and friends. His last two years were blighted such as Asa Briggs, Anthony Storr, Sir Oswald Mosley and Lord Blake Laura, Jethro, Atticus, Pearl and Erik. with pancreatic cancer which he bore patiently. to discuss the processes by which politicians achieve power. Daryl Tayar William James (1951) 28 Obituaries Obituaries 29

Keith Alan Bradshaw (1961) Peter Anthony Higgs (1964) Martin Cardinal (1971) Waqas Saigol (1994) 1942-2016 1946-2016 1952-2016 1975-2016

Keith died in March 2016 Peter won the Arnot Prize for Martin John Cardinal died of cancer on Waqas Saigol passed after a short illness. Born in Mathematics and after KES went 25 February 2016. It was a premature away at the age of 40 on Birmingham, at KES he could on to Bristol University to read end to a distinguished career in 7 January 2016 after a often be found in the library economics and accounting. After family law marked by an infectious long and courageous fight and, extra-murally, in the graduating he was articled to enthusiasm for life and a striking against a brain tumour. He science labs furthering the Price Waterhouse and then concern for the underprivileged. left behind his wife Tazeen, interests on which his career became a Tax Partner for the firm his one-year-old daughter Martin entered King Edward’s in 1963, was founded. On the sports Neville Russell (now Mazars). Sahaar, his parents and his field, he played House cricket as a KES scholar. His prodigious siblings Faisal and Sara. industry became a byword, yet he for Levett, progressing to the Work was an incredibly important st combined this with much cricket and a keen interest in debating and School teams and the 1 XI. part of Peter’s life. For many Waqas was a non- politics. He achieved an exhibition in history at Magdalene College, years he had his own company, conformist who lived Cambridge, where he took a double first in law. He was awarded Keith graduated in metallurgy Chapman Higgs, and he could his life by his own rules, university and college law prizes, but seemed equally interested in from the University of not be persuaded to retire! Many never gave up and never serious politics, joining all three main political clubs in his first year to Birmingham and started work of his clients became his friends and several commented on how they took no for an answer. find out what their members stood for. in 1964 at UKAEA Windscale (now Sellafield) in West Cumberland. looked forward to meeting him to complete their tax returns. He had a mischievous and There he examined nuclear fuel after irradiation, looking for possible wicked sense of humour Martin qualified as a solicitor in 1977, in his father’s firm, Wood, changes in dimensions and structure. Early on he wrote a computer Peter’s faith was also at the heart of his life. He was part of the Baptist that was never better on Amphlet, Wild & Co. He specialised in litigation, which included civil, program (DELTAL) to predict length changes in the fuel and continued church for some years and became a Lay Reader at St John’s Church in display than when he was family and criminal cases. His first murder case involved a man who developing this for many years. It became a standard program for this Walmley where his sermons were described as “always worth listening a pupil at KES. Exuberant and vivacious, he was always the life and turned up at a police station to tell the duty officer that he had done work and was widely used throughout the UK nuclear stations. to”. He eventually moved from the Church of England to become a soul of any gathering, regaling stories with such panache that the whole something “very bad”. It transpired that he had cut his wife’s head off. member of the Orthodox Church where he finally found his home. He room would be captivated. He was a keen sportsman playing squash, Martin was also the main legal adviser at a free legal advice centre in Keith married Christine in June 1966 and they settled in Seascale, worshipped mainly in the church at Palfrey but also in the community at cricket and table tennis, and even taking up real tennis at university. Sparkbrook, was a founder member of the Birmingham Law Society’s Cumbria, for the next 48 years. Both were committed Christians and Rugby when he could and at Athelhampton when we were on holiday in Waqas was also highly intelligent. He read medicine at Trinity College, 24-hour advice service and shared in the rota at other legal advice became heavily involved with Seascale Methodist Church and the Circuit Lyme Regis. He became known and loved in each community, recently Cambridge and was one of the very rare applicants awarded an offer, centres. In 1985, Martin moved to Anthony Collins Solicitors where he of which it was part. Keith became a Sunday School teacher and a local becoming a Reader as well as a member of the choir which sang the then and there, in his Cambridge interview. developed a large practice in representing those who found it difficult to preacher and also served in many offices within the church and circuit. liturgy in the services. He also examined the accounts of St Lazar understand the court process. In 1987, he became a Legal Chairman of Serbian Orthodox church in Birmingham. After Trinity, Waqas worked as a doctor in Sydney, Bristol and the Mental Health Review Tribunal. Much of Keith’s leisure time was divided between fell-walking and Edinburgh before making the gutsy decision to leave a stable career music. He knew the Lake District fells thoroughly and in early February Peter lived life to the full. Everything he did he approached with to become an entrepreneur and start his own healthcare advertising Appointment as District Judge came in 1992, Assistant Recorder in 2016 completed all 214 ‘Wainwright’ fells. For all of his 50 years in enthusiasm, making sure he had all the information and equipment company. He worked tirelessly to obtain exclusive advertising rights in 1998 and Recorder in 2000. He wrote a practical book, Matrimonial Cumbria, Keith was a member of the West Cumberland Choral Society necessary to fulfil his role. He was a member of Rotary for some years, hospitals all over the UK and won contracts from blue-chip companies Costs, with Simon Middleton, and was appointed a tutor on the Judicial and he was also Chairman of a local music and arts society. took part in the Mysteries in Lichfield, progressing from being a pagan and charities for their marketing campaigns. Waqas’s natural charm and Studies Board. Martin was appointed a Circuit Judge in 2004 and was priest in the life of St Chad to taking on the role of Jesus before Pilate! determination attracted many high net worth investors to his company. one of the country’s experts on forced marriages. After the passing of Keith has always been keen on railways. He was a founder member of He loved music, singing with Royal Sutton Opera and latterly with a the Mental Capacity Act 2005 he sat as a Circuit Judge in the Court of the local Copeland Rail Users Group and put lots of energy into it, It was during this time, in September 2008, that Waqas was diagnosed Lichfield choir, Ridware Cantemus. He worked to stop HS2, examined Protection. When Martin started treatment for his illness he had been editing the quarterly magazine and improving it greatly. He was Station with a brain tumour. True to form, this news didn’t phase him one bit the accounts for the Lichfield Competitive Music Festival and was the first choice as the Court of Protection Lead Judge for the Midlands. Adopter for Seascale station and worked to get improvements there. treasurer for a Christian charity working among those who had been and he carried on living life to the full and achieving what he wanted. Waqas fell gravely ill in 2015 and he fought his illness with fearlessness, divorced and their children. Martin was a devout evangelical Christian. He was active in church In recent years, Christine became severely restricted by rapidly positivity and valour all the way to the end. youth work, a lay reader and churchwarden. From 2005 to 2011 he was advancing Parkinson’s disease, and they moved to live near Preston in Peter was married in 1970 to Christine, whom he had met at Bristol Chancellor of the Diocese of Birmingham and was the first to allow solar 2014, to be nearer their three children to whom he was devoted as Waqas was hugely popular, remaining close with most of his KES University. Peter loved his family. He valued so much the friendship of panels to be fitted to a church roof. father and as grandfather to their children. our daughters and sons-in-law and delighted in his three grandchildren. friends who visited from all over the world when they learnt that he was ill. Meals together were always fun and we shared some memorable Martin married Janet Allnutt in 1977. Their son Stephen is a solicitor, Throughout his life Keith was enthusiastic in everything he did and his holidays. Peter was a man of integrity and a man of deep faith. I think who also has developed a practice in the Court of Protection. Their quiet demeanour hid a strong, dedicated, and committed character. Waqas’s death was a terrible blow to all of us and we not only lost a he would have been amazed to know the impact he had on so many daughter Deborah is a photographer and a PA in an architect’s studio. He had huge mental as well as physical energy. Keith is survived by truly wonderful, warm and compassionate person but also an amazing lives, amazed to know how many people loved him and will miss him. The eulogies given by Martin’s fellow judges at his memorial services Christine, son Robert and daughters Clare and Alice. son, brother, husband and father. His legacy is his beautiful daughter We thank God for his life and for our memories of him. showed the real affection and respect which the legal profession and who will walk in his light. the court staff had for him. 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