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N O .112 NOVEMBER 2011 The Headmaster writes: John Harmar & the King James Bible

The year 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of 1767; it was the same bible that had been be Arabic. Christianity, however, places a the publication of the King James Bible. During used by George Washington in 1789. high value on a translation. There have, of the month of September we opened the doors of These two bibles have become part of course, been many translations of the Bible School to 3,000 visitors, among them many America’s history, just as the KJB is part of in the 400 years since the KJB was first OWs, to show them an exceptionally America’s religious culture. published in 1611, but the KJB is highly interesting array of bibles and related scholarly valued even by those who use another The KJB, which is known in the UK as books held in the Fellows’ Library. Place of version. The reasons for this universal the Authorized Version, is the most honour in the respect vary. Some exhibition went to our admire its resonant first edition of the prose, which KJB, recently sometimes has the acquired by the rhythms of poetry: Warden & Fellows. when Adam says to The lavish catalogue God ‘she gave me of was prepared by Dr the tree and I did eat’ Geoffrey Day, (Genesis 3, 12), his Fellows’ Librarian, words are cast in a and Mr Paul Quarrie, iambic pentameter, scholar and bibliophile. the five-beat metre Here is the of Shakespeare and Headmaster’s address Milton. Others given to the School just believe that the prior to the exhibition’s translators of the opening. 17th century were divinely inspired. On 20 January But by any account, 2009 Barack Obama the history of the took the presidential KJB is the history of oath of office on a the most influential copy of the King James Bible published by celebrated book in the English-speaking book in the English language. OUP in 1853; it was the same bible that world. In other religious traditions it is the had been used by Abraham Lincoln in version of the sacred book in the original The printing history of the KJB may 1861. Similarly, a series of 20th century language that is honoured. In the Islamic sound dry, but it is important and, at times, presidents (Warren Harding, Dwight world, for example, many Muslims comical in the difficulties that arise in the Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and George memorise the entire Koran, but often have printing of such a large book. These Bush Senior) chose to take their oath on only the vaguest idea of what the words problems can be illustrated by some of the a copy of the KJB published in London in mean, unless their first language happens to more memorable errors. In the first edition

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of the KJB, designed for private study Bible. The trouble was that there were so James I to chair a small committee of (1612) as opposed to reading aloud in many different editions of the bible printed scholars charged to work on the translation church, Psalm 119, 161 read ‘Printers have that a definitive text was not finally settled of the four Gospels, the Acts of the persecuted me without a cause’; ‘printers’ until English spelling and grammar were Apostles and the Book of Revelation, was a misprint for ‘princes’. The 1631 standardised; this was achieved with the which together form the bulk of the New edition, now known as the Wicked Bible, KJB printing of 1769 and that is essentially Testament. He worked upstairs in the made adultery compulsory by omitting ‘not’ the edition that has been used in churches Warden’s Lodgings in the room we now call in Exodus 20, 14, which read ‘Thou shalt ever since (not the text of 1611). the Warden Harmar Room, which contains commit adultery’. The printers were heavily the many books he bequeathed to the John Harmar (1555-1613) was born in fined, but in 1641 the same press printed an Fellows’ Library. This includes a unique Newbury and in 1569 was enrolled at edition in which they omitted ‘no’ in collection of foreign-language bibles. John Winchester. In 1572 he became a Scholar Revelation 2, 1, which read ‘And there was Harmar died on 11 October 1613, three of New College, Oxford. He graduated in more sea’. The problem with negatives years before William Shakespeare. 1577 and became a Fellow. He was a gifted cropped up again in 1653, when another linguist and in particular a brilliant Greek The KJB is not the only famous book printer omitted the second negative in I scholar. In 1585 he became Regius associated with Winchester College, but Corinthians 6, 9, which read ‘Know ye not Professor of Greek at Oxford and was it is certainly the most famous, and even if that the unrighteous shall inherit the responsible for the first Greek book printed the name John Harmar is relatively kingdom of God?’ From negatives we move at Oxford, the sermons of St John unknown to the world at large, the uneasily to murderers. A bible of 1795 Chrysostom. From 1588 to 1595 he was translation work carried out by Harmar rendered Mark 7, 27 as ‘Let the children Headmaster of Winchester, and then he and his committee has been heard and first be killed’ when in fact Jesus has asked became Warden. And this is where he loved by millions and millions of people that they be filled (that is fed). Similarly, in became a lasting influence beyond any throughout the English-speaking world a bible of 1801, the murmurers of Jude 16 other writer in English, even Shakespeare. for the past 400 years. ■ became murderers, and so that edition of In 1604 John Harmar was assigned by King the KJB became known as the Murderers’ Meg Brodhurst

Meg’s funeral took place in St. Michael’s How well qualified she was for the task of Church, Winchester College on 4th July helping him to manage all this! Born just 2011. This address, one of two made at the before Eton Match in Meadow House, the service, was delivered by Tommy Cookson daughter of a future President of MCC; (I, 1955-60), former don, Housemaster and brought up in Furley’s, where her father was Headmaster. Housemaster; a Wren well enough thought of to be posted to Mountbatten’s South East It is a touching story that Robin Asia Headquarters during the Second Brodhurst has told us of Podge and Meg’s World War – she had all the qualifications wedding in the Cathedral and of their for dealing capably with whatever a holding hands across Rufus’ tomb on their Boarding House and the larger Winchester way back from the altar, as if nothing in community of some 600 people could their lives was ever going to separate them. throw at her. The fact that they chose to marry in the Cathedral instead of merely in Chapel Everyone who knew them thought of suggests another thought: Meg wasn’t just them as a team. Podge-and-Meg, or just as marrying Podge: she was marrying his job - often Meg-and-Podge, were a composite coach of the First Cricket X1 and one of figure. If he was the Housemaster, she was the finer amateur cricketers of his the quiet and capable figure standing just generation; a man soon to be Housemaster behind him who enabled him to enjoy his of Beloe’s; and a man whose network of job because he knew that together they friends and acquaintances was enormous. could manage any crisis. They came into

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Beloe’s at very short notice and in very ‘Hullo, you don’t know who I am - I’m Sen difficult circumstances, with the sudden Hen’. departure of Podge’s predecessor. Their How well one understands why John youngest child, Tom, had just been born Thorn, newly arrived as Headmaster, asked with cystic fibrosis and his health was the the Brodhursts to do an extra year in Beloe’s source of constant anxiety; Rob and Sally before he chose their successor. When the were aged 2 and 4. It is said that Meg idea was put to Meg, her response was: interviewed candidates for matron from her ‘Only if you buy me a washing-up machine’. nursing home bed. More generally, it was a He did buy her one, and it was always period, still, of some post-war austerity, referred to as ‘John Thorn’. And how well when commodities and staff were hard to one can imagine the effect of the dreadful get. Nevertheless, within two years of their coincidence during that final extra year of arrival in Beloe’s, things were going so well Tom’s declining health and the tragic injury that Marcus Hampton, my Housemaster in to a member of the House, a brilliant Hopper’s, got a letter from a prospective athlete who never fully recovered. Such an parent saying, ‘I had thought of putting accumulation of bad luck could have down my son for Beloe’s but I think it more damaged any relationship, but for Podge prudent to enter him for a less distinguished and Meg it made their marriage, if possible, House. (Marcus, who was not used to closer. One can see Meg, mistress of the getting letters of this sort, retorted ‘I trust by uncomplicated integrity’. She just did, situation in public but grieving in private, “distinguished” you mean “notorious”’.) always, what the situation required. When and above all supporting her husband and Meg was the epitome of a good A Level teaching began to matter more, family in their distress. What carried her housemaster’s wife. When her cook fell ill, the 12th man and the scorer of Lord’s through this awful time were her sense of she took over the cooking of breakfast, weren’t given leave to miss any Saturday duty and her deeply held Christian lunch and tea for an entire term. morning classes. So Meg, as well as running convictions. And, as one friend has said, Astonishingly, this was not a unique the cricket teas, carried down a sack of instead of retreating into herself, Meg used occurrence in the Winchester of those days; doughnuts to distribute to both teams her own tragedy to give as much help as but under the circumstances of her family before play started. Then she went to help possible to other mothers in a similar life, it was extraordinary. Allegedly, when with the scoring. position. Podge said, on the first day of the holidays, The second half of Podge and Meg’s She was determined to carry on as ‘Where’s my cooked breakfast?’, Meg time in Beloe’s fell during the difficult before. As well as for the boys, Meg had retorted, ‘ I can do cooked breakfast for 50, period of the 1960s when the consensus on time for the young dons. Robin has already but I’m jolly well not doing it for one.’ Pat, how to run boarding houses began to told us about the number of Winchester the current head cook at The Pilgrims’ fracture with the changing social ethos of dons who stayed at Wavecrest, their house School, remembers being taken on by Meg the time. Discipline was more difficult, with in Polzeath, in the days of the St Endellion in Beloe’s at the age of 17. Having made the attraction of mysteriously exciting new Church’s Summer Music Festival. (I have yards of dough for pizzas for the boys’ tea, cafés in Winchester like The Two Bare always loved the name Wavecrest—so she had a dreadful migraine and remembers Feet; but what also emerged was a gentler, much more romantic than the houses Meg taking over at once without more tolerant school, a change which Meg nearby called Breakers and Seaweed.) hesitation. Pizzas were a new thing in the and Podge had the flexibility, good humour Anyone looking at it now sees it as a 1960s, but Meg was up to the challenge. and humanity to manage without the loss charming house for a small family, but not One correspondent writes, ‘She was of their principles. Meg by now was wife of as a hostel for half a dozen extra guests and reliably calm, straightforward and kind; the Senior Housemaster, and therefore a their various pets. One correspondent says never, or almost never, angry’. But one person of some standing. One could have that, in addition to doing the shopping, Beloeite told Sally: ‘You were wise not to understood it if she had preached from on cooking and washing up, Meg found time cross her.’ Beloeites who had neglected to high the ethos and the personalities of the to teach her to drive in the adjacent car shave in the morning were sent out by Meg past. On the contrary, she warmly park and, when that became a bit stressful to do so at lunch. I have seen her tearing welcomed and entertained all new arrivals owing to limited space, on the beach. someone off a strip, but without a trace of from the very young to the Headmaster. Calmness, efficiency and endless tolerance fluster or pomposity. One of her close One new wife remembers Meg coming up were qualities that came naturally to Meg friends told me: ‘She was a person of to her and saying in a self-deprecating way: and she would have seen hers as a

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contribution both to Winchester College slightly spoiled by one of the Club’s into one’s face, saying, ‘Tell me about and a local Church. members splashing a mop on the floor to yourself’. get rid of the spaghetti. What joys we all In her final years at the College she In an all-boys school, it is easy to had! lent her support, in conjunction with undervalue, or simply not to notice the Veronica Thorn, to a Win Coll group Her laughter was to be repeated over contribution made by the women who known as Entertainers, who, as part of their the many years that the Brodhursts stayed serve it, especially those behind the scenes, Community Service, met on Wednesday in touch with their friends in the College those who have foregone their own afternoons to be driven out to entertain after their retirement from it in 1978. The ambitions or careers, those who don’t make various clubs for the elderly. This was an Brodhursts and the College were essential a fuss and never lose their grip on the arduous task, as the boys had to be back for to each other. Meg was seemingly essential things, but just in the old wartime the first lesson at 4pm, always a race against uninterested in herself and despite her long phrase ‘Keep calm and carry on’. As we time. As the master-in-charge of it, I’ll association with the College, uninterested have heard in Robin’s excellent address, never forget Meg’s wonderful near-hysteria in her position of influence within it. Meg did a great deal more than look after at some of the events - for example, a Rarely among us all, she was utterly Beloeites, their meals and their domestic sketch based on a brain operation uncompetitive. What she did care about arrangements as well as her own family’s - involving, as props, scalpels and (to was the people she knew, their children, old but without her, and the wives of whom she represent the brain) hastily-prepared lamb boys, dons, colleagues. ‘She was always was a shining representative, the College stew and spaghetti, most of which ended up interested in what one was up to,’ writes a could not have functioned in the way it did. on the floor. The item which followed this friend, ‘always thinking of everyone else’s As a friend who knew her from childhood was a Beloeite playing, by way of soothing needs before her own, coming close wrote to me, ‘She was the most good person contrast, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. alongside, clutching one’s forearm, and I have ever known.’ ■ The soothing effect of his playing was staring earnestly and rather short-sightedly Ad Portas - 4th May, 2011

At mid-day on 4th May, in blazing Regalis, rei Wiccamicae, ut ita dicam, sunshine, in tribute to Winchester’s on- quintam illam praestatis partem, vitam ita going contribution to matters academic penitus studiis rebusque academicis and the life of the mind, some nineteen deditam, ut immemores vestri et pro bono Old Wykehamists, Fellows of the British publico fines proferatis et propagetis Academy or of the Royal Society, were scientiae humanae. received Ad Portas. The Prefect of Hall, [Professors, Doctors of Philosophy, of AFA Bott, welcomed them as follows: Science and of Letters, Fellows of our two ‘Domini Professores, Doctores in foremost learned societies and loyal sons of Philosophia, in Scientia et in Litteris, Socii Wykeham, it is with very great joy, respect and utriusque societatis virorum humility that we salute you as you enter our doctissimorum, huius Collegii filii fidissimi, courts today. Though all are welcomed with summa laetitia, summa verecundia, summa equal honour and esteem, Professor Dyson, modestia vos in aulam nostram hodie we note, must be judged a ‘first among equals’, ingredientes salutamus. Pari quidem the only honorand, save our most illustrious honore, pari dignitate salutamini omnes; at sovereign, to be received Ad Portas twice. As tamen unus vestrum, ut videtur, nobis Fellows of the British Academy and Royal primus inter pares habendus est, Professor Society you embody the quintessence of the Dyson, cui contigit, quod nemini antea nisi Wykehamical ideal, a life deeply devoted to reginae nostrae illustrissimae, bis ad portas academic study, furthering the bounds of sic palma nostra decorari. Vos, domini, human knowledge and understanding in the Socii Academiae Britannicae Societatisque selfless service of the nation.]

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It is an irony that the motto of the academic discourse, namely that concepts Winchester College helped stoke Royal Society is nullius in verba meaning and insights have to be repeatedly tested intellectual curiosity and the means to ‘on no one’s words’ or ‘take nobody’s word and proved, and subsequently re-formed. pursue it. To take up the life of the mind for it’, and yet it is precisely with words It is the transparency of this process and requires that the mind is not the master, that we welcome and honour you here its scrutineering focus that allows us all to but a disciplined and directed ‘trusty today. Certainly Fellows of the British trust the knowledge propagated by you servant’; and it is furthermore essential Academy might favour the power of and your colleagues. that the mind can work well in a words over empiricism, but we hope that community of souls striving together to Both Royal Society and British all honorands will feel entirely embraced unfold deeper layers of understanding. Academy are places of great intellect and by our welcome. You are arrayed before us erudition, yet both have a societal Amici venerandi, summo huius as Fellows of the Royal Society and of the outlook, neither body giving succour to Collegii honore vos nunc decoramus; British Academy, learned men, who, to the self-indulgently recondite or abstruse: multi enim praeterlapsi sunt anni ex quo conjoin the terms of each institution, are after all, scholarship is not effective until his excessistis portis per quas tanto peer-elected and the most eminent it can be shared. Wykeham would have triumpho iterum hodie estis ingressi; scholars in your fields of study, approved of this sense of utility. This is nemo tamen est quin credat vos tanta representing both a significant nowhere clearer than in your combined adhuc vigere doctrina, tanta sapientia, ut development of knowledge and academic output of, between you, many huius quoque saeculi iuventuti understanding, and the finest protocols of dozens of books, thousands of journal insignissimo possitis esse exemplo. Aetas academic working: this, surely, is the articles and more than a million hours of Fundatoris nostri, domini, cuius beneficio zenith of human endeavour. lectures, tutorials and seminars. ‘hic ad pietatem et ad studia literarum The methods and principles of Collectively you have been awarded some alimur’, societatibus illis quarum Socii science represented by the Royal Society, of the most prestigious prizes in the estis carebat; vobis, tamen, praecepta eius and those of the humanities represented academic world, giving credence to your secutis, usque per vitam placuit ingenium by the British Academy may differ eminent position. We earnestly hope that colere, studia amare, scientiam augere, substantially, yet both institutions fulfil in some small way the training and insigne vero et egregium παράδειγµα their work with common precepts of instruction received as pupils of omnibus Wiccamicis hodiernis.’

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obligatus sum, prius et olim ut Scholaris, world to serve; if you stay around, the third recentius et nuper ut Socius huius Collegii. option is regular flogging). Most of the Old Wykehamists who have been honoured by [Fellow Wykehamists, it is a welcome reception Ad Portas in the last hundred and privilege to me and a happy duty to reply, on fifty years have been men who took the behalf of this company of Fellows of the British second choice and went out into the world Academy and of the Royal Society, to the and served it with distinction – as Prefect of Hall’s kind and eloquent speech; statesmen, soldiers, judges, ambassadors and and to thank you, most excellent Warden, in other high offices. We, in contrast, have Fellows and Headmaster for your invitation to opted for the first choice, the pursuit of us, as delightful as it was unexpected, to learning, and have stayed with it for life, accept the honour of a Reception Ad Portas. and that gives Winchester a special claim This duty falls to me not for any merit of my on our gratitude and affection. For it was own, but because I have been twice over here at school that we made our first under obligation to the generosity of our encounter with academically serious study, Founder, William of Wykeham, first in the which is the life blood of the varied past as a Scholar, and then again more academic disciplines which have been the recently as a Fellow of this College.] focus of our individual lives. For the [Honoured friends, we receive you today It is indeed a pleasure to find myself scientists of the Royal Society this is with your old school’s highest accolade; for, assigned the duty of replying on behalf of inevitably so, since under the British system whilst many years have elapsed since you this party of my fellow scholars and betters the decision to specialise on the science passed out from these gates through which to what the Prefect of Hall has so side is one that virtually has to be made at once again today you have entered in such flatteringly told you of us. He has school. The number and distinction of the splendour, your capacity to inspire with described this ceremony as the School’s Fellows of the Royal Society in our wisdom and learning today’s young people too highest honour and for us as Old company is telling testimony to is entirely without question. The age of our Wykehamists that is an awesome thought. Winchester’s long and proud tradition in Founder, gentlemen, ‘by whose benefit we At the same time it is a joyful one, and the teaching of the sciences. For the are here brought up to godliness and the moving and meaningful for us above all humanists among us the position is not studies of good learning’, lacked the learned because the invitation comes in your quite so clear, but I suspect that for all of us societies of which you are Fellows; you, name, that of the current generation of Academicians too the combination of however, following his precepts, have chosen Wykehamists, and because we are in your inspirational teaching here and the throughout your lives to cultivate intelligence, presence, you who are benefiting today ambiance that six centuries of educating to love learning and to extend knowledge, a from the quality of the teaching here and youth have breathed into the buildings and conspicuous and outstanding example to all the encouragement to pursue interests and the lovely setting of this place will have had Wykehamists of today.] activities that do not centre on the Div a major intellectual impact on our young Room, as once we did. It is heartening for lives. For myself I know that it was very On behalf of the honorands Dr us to hear, as we do from young direct. It was the stones of Chamber Court Maurice Keen of Balliol (Coll, 1947-52) Wykehamists about the universities, that and charismatic task-times with Walter replied as follows: these remain as outstanding as ever. May Oakeshott, then Headmaster, and the only ‘Wiccamici, gratum est mihi they continue to be so, and may there be Headmaster of Winchester ever to have privilegium et felix officium pro hac among you, as I am confident there will been elected a Fellow of the British sodalitate Sociorum Academiae be, those who will one day be honoured in Academy, that first stirred what became my Britannicae et Societatis Regalis the same way as we are today, whether like lifelong enthusiasm for medieval history. respondere ad orationem Aulae Praefecti us in a group or, like Professor Dyson, at We all, I believe, will have had our different tam disertam benignamque, simulque his first reception Ad Portas in 1995, but comparable individual experiences of vobis, insignissime Custos, Socii et personally for personal distinction. intellectual awakening and excitement Informator, gratias agere pro invitatione during our time here, the memory of which There is a wooden placard that you tam suavi quam inexpectata ut honorem has stayed with us for life. will all know hanging on the wall in School receptionis Ad Portas accipiamus. Hoc and offering(with appropriate symbolism) So for all of us your welcome has officium mihi contingit non pro ullo three choices to the Wykehamist – aut disce made today a moving experience and a merito meo, sed quod bis liberalitati aut discede, manet sors tertia caedi (anglice, reaffirmation of the debt we owe to Fundatoris nostri, Gulielmi de Wykeham, apply yourself to learning, or go out into the Winchester. I would like to say a great

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deal more of that debt, and from a full Gratissima nobis hodie est haec [This reception Ad Portas today is a heart, but I am getting near what was put receptio Ad Portas, non solum quia nos great delight to us, not only for the individual to me as a suitable limit of words for my ipsi laude ornamur, sed etiam, et accolade bestowed on us, but also, and response. So I will conclude with some praecipue, quia utraque societas ab Alma especially, because our two societies have last words of gratitude and of good wishes Matre nostra Wintoniensi tanto honore been so greatly honoured by Winchester, our for the rising Wykehamist generation, est affecta. Stet Res Wiccamica!’ Alma Mater. Stet Res Wiccamica!] ■ reverting to the Latin tongue. Outside the Gates

Andrew McLachlan, FRS (Coll, 1948-53) motionless, mostly rapt by the majesty of intellectually talented alumni might reflects on the Ad Portas proceedings from the the scene, a few rapping their mobile encourage today’s Winchester boys also to point of view of the five Fellows of Trinity phones. A posse of brightly gowned aspire to the stars and scale new heights of College, Cambridge who were among the masters stood behind. excellence. As we stood blinking in the honorands. sunlight, eyes modestly downcast, we This little court, only 115 feet square wondered whether the sight of our 4th May 2011. Mid-morning. Five and one hundred and fifty years older ancient faces might not send a different Fellows from Trinity College, Cambridge - than our Cambridge College (Henry VIII, message. ‘Science is no easy life’. But The Holy and Undivided Trinity - had 1546) has been home for the seventy Dyson, tiny at eighty-seven years, stood earlier suppressed their natural modesty scholars since the year 1394 and home for firmly upright and alert, as Archie Bott, and now waited tensely in the gloom. us as well. In the Ad Portas Ceremony the Aulae Prae, stepped forward. Standing Crowded into an ancient outer courtyard, distinguished persons are welcomed to the in the centre of the court, he delivered a overlooked by frowning battlements and assembled school with a flowery speech in splendidly constructed Latin oration, towers, a score of great brains awaited Latin, delivered by the Aulae Prae entirely from memory, with force and their summons, clad modestly in morning (Prefect of Hall), the senior prefect of the conviction. Fine words rang out, ‘Socii coats, just a few sporting the brilliant scholars. Since 1873 honorands have Academiae Britannicae Societatisque enamelled insignia of their decoration. included William Gladstone, Viscount Regalis...’. Orders rang out. The group split into two Wavell, Arnold Toynbee and Queen parallel columns: sheep to the left, Elizabeth II. The FRSs now relaxed, leaving Dr. Fellows of the British Academy; goats to Maurice Keen, FBA, mediaeval historian Today’s crop represented safety in the right, Fellows of the Royal Society. In of Balliol, Oxford to reply for us all. Firm numbers, to make up for any possible lack front of them a firmly closed gate of solid of voice, his notes fluttering dangerously of stellar distinction. On the FRS side oak, studded with iron nails, and a tightly in the breeze, he reminded us that regular Trinity led off with the legendary Freeman shut postern. No Pearly Gate to Heaven, flogging, ‘Manet sors tertia caedi’, was the Dyson (1946), famed for his quantum but the Middle Gate of Winchester everyday lot of former Wykehamists. electrodynamics sixty years ago. Then College, founded in 1382, today the scene Then he concluded in resounding Latin Horace Barlow (1950), physiology of of the School’s ancient Ad Portas ‘Gratissima nobis hodie est haec receptio Ad vision (in absentia) and Michael Longuet- ceremony. Portas .... Stet Res Wiccamica!’. Higgins (1951), mathematician of the A clock struck noon and the doors ocean waves and analyst of the ‘slinky’ The honorands had stood firm in the sprang wide open, revealing a high toy. Lastly Andrew McLachlan (1958), brilliant sun; a boy passed out and was archway framed in brilliant sunshine. The molecular biologist and the youthful revived. The School cheered. Now we all great and the good strode bravely into Nicholas Shepherd-Barron (1990), processed bravely out of Chamber Court, Chamber Court and fanned out, eleven algebraist. On the FBA side Trinity mindful of past floggings. Mission FBAs to the left and eight FRSs to the fielded Assyriologist Nicholas Postgate accomplished: drinks and delicious lunch right, swaying cautiously across the (1969). in the Warden’s garden; back to modesty. uneven cobbles to form a line across. On Grateful thanks to Headmaster Townsend Headmaster Ralph Townsend invited either side in silent ranks, hundreds of and his colleagues for their vision, and for us in faith that this display of black-gowned or black-suited boys stood their wonderfully warm welcome. ■

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Three contributions, by Nick Ferguson the haggling voices of Phoenicia, Greece, of the seven wonders of the ancient world, (C, 1961-66), Mark Loveday (H, 1957-62) Italy, Egypt, Cyprus, Arabia and beyond. the Temple of Artemis: the three great and Charles Sinclair (B, 1961-66) bring to life Like wealthy Victorian Englishmen, the religions of the place in one line of sight. the Wykeham Patrons’ trip to Turkey in late merchants spent a lot of money on Ephesus has a magnificent theatre May 2011. temples; and their houses (some of which stretching up the hill, 70 rows high. At have now been beautifully unearthed), i) Virgil’s Aeneid was my travel guide. The the foot, Alan Lovell read from Acts were of a scale and luxury matched only dominant senses in South West Turkey are Chapter 19, the story of the riot that by today’s plutocrats. of history, the sea, trade, war and the Gods, broke out when St Paul (who lived two and of the ebb and flow of nations. The And one had the constant sense of years in Ephesus) challenged the cult of Aeneid has all of that. The story of the walking in some very special footsteps. St Artemis. In the King James Bible it’s Trojan survivors leaving Troy in the twelfth John, apostle, evangelist and prophet, is described as ‘a fair stir’ and took place in century BC and eventually setting up in buried on the top of Selçuk hill, the theatre. From high up we could hear Italy the dynasty that would found Rome overlooking the Greek city, in a majestic every word, and knew that we had been was echoed in the stories that we heard. Byzantine church, roofless now, built by walking in Paul’s footsteps too. Justinian in the 6th century. Incidentally, We started our trip in Sirince. In 1920, From Ephesus, like St Paul on his it’s a basilica but longitudinal, with Latin after Greece had attacked Turkey, following third mission, we travelled north to transepts, and pillared aisles in the nave, the latter’s defeat in the First World War, an Pergamon and Troy. Pergamon is a choir and transepts. The only comparable international commission agreed that all citadel, a stunning site on the top of a design is St Iago da Compostela: but they Turks should be returned to Turkey and all very high hill. Most of what remains is were brothers. Greeks to Greece. Greeks very often meant Hellenistic but it must have been simply Greek Orthodox Christians. This From the basilica we looked down on inhabited from early times. Poppies and seems a little unfair given that they had Ephesus. To the right stood a 14th century wild flowers covered the hills, and for probably been so since soon after mosque, built after the arrival of the Turks; somebody like me who loves fallen Constantine in 320 AD, some 250 years ahead of us, the sole remaining pillar of one sculpture, it was paradise. before the birth of Mohammed. The result was a number of deserted Greek villages and Sirince was one of them. We stayed in a beautifully restored house, looking out over valleys and hills which reminded us not of the Middle East but of Tuscany. The keys to travelling like this are good company and good food, a common interest, the Heineken aspect (visiting parts that others can’t), and first rate intellectual guidance. We had all four in abundance, and this was a very special Patrons’ trip indeed. Ephesus came first. Our guide was the wonderful Shaun Hullis, former Winchester Classics don, whose joy in history gave a glow to the entire trip. Before its harbour silted up, Bruges- like, Ephesus was a large and rich trading city created by the Greeks in the tenth century BC, home to 250,000. In the vast agora, with closed eyes, one could hear The theatre at Pergamon

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That evening, ahead of our visit to more than enough reward for a lifetime’s Embarking on a ‘slightly-smaller- Troy and after a supper under the stars at waiting. than-expected’ gulet, the coastline of the the side of the harbour, we sat in the Gallipoli Peninsula slipped by with the Before leaving, we looked out to candlelit courtyard of the hotel and read boat rocking gently on the wine-dark sea. Gallipoli, across the water on which aloud Aeneas’ description of the fall of Viewing the cliffs from the sea, it was easy Aeneas had said farewell to Troy, and Troy, from the first encounter with the to understand the immense difficulty of where the Allied Forces had arrived so wooden horse, to Pyrrhus’ slaughter of trying to attack well-defended beaches, confidently in 1915, only to see 44,000 ‘the power of Asia’, King Priam: although on such an idyllic afternoon it die in less than nine months, for the gain was almost impossible to imagine the ‘On the distant shore of a few hundred yards of peninsula. living hell endured by the Allied troops. The vast trunk headless lies without a name’. (ii) Reflecting on Virgil and Homer’s Hugh Powlett – our ‘naval attaché’ – Troy. Shaun had so darkly stressed ‘mythological’ Trojan War, we left Asia and outlined how lack of intelligence of that there was so little left that we were crossed the Dardanelles. Barely 20 minutes currents and appreciation of the existence prepared for a carpark with a few rocks. later we were in Europe and turning our of mines resulted in the loss of 6 Allied Not at all: majestic walls, some dating attention to the reality of an equally futile ships and a failure to knock out the main back 5,000 years, the spectacular and bloody campaign some 3,000 years Turkish gun emplacements. Shaun Hullis positioning at the top of the hill looking later. This was the main Wykehamical – now donning his 20th century hat – out over the Dardanelles, the stone gate focus of our trip to Turkey: to honour the 27 explained the landings and the ill- through which Hector had gone out, and OWs who had lost their lives at Gallipoli. prepared and ‘headless sheep’ actions by the ground where Achilles had stood were the Allied commanders leading the ‘lambs

Top left: Main street at Ephesus Main picture: Pergamon Top right: at the Basilica of St John, Selçuk

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to slaughter’, which won hardly any Next morning we set off to remember protracted love affair with Gertrude Bell, ground in 10 months and left over the OWs who lost their lives in this ill- the writer, explorer and political adviser to 44,000 dead and 97,000 wounded; fated campaign. Passing through rolling the British Government on Middle Eastern average age 21. The Turks lost 87,000 countryside swathed in deep crimson Affairs - to their dying days they both men with 165,000 wounded. How poppies, we made our way to a mere bitterly regretted that their affair remained prescient were those words from the handful of the multitude of war cemeteries unconsummated. Aeneid – ‘nameless and numberless, the and memorials commemorating the dead On 25 April 1915 Doughty-Wylie bodies piled high and rotting’. of both sides. Situated along the cliff-tops found himself on the River Clyde, a with beautiful views of the sea, it was We passed by the main beaches converted collier, as an observer for the difficult to imagine that this peaceful area where the Allies had landed on 25 April General Staff. With 2,000 men on board it had been so ravaged and devastated by 1915 – ‘S’ Beach where Lt Robert ran aground broadsides at Sedd-el-Bahr war. The haunting refrain from ‘…and the Behrens (E, 1907-11) had the dubious and, under merciless Ottoman fire, Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ over the ‘privilege’ of being the first Wykehamist casualties reached 70 per cent, including bus’s loudspeaker, bought us back to the to fall at Gallipoli; ‘X’ and ‘Y’ Beaches two of the commanding officers. Early the reality of the battlefield: where the landings were almost following morning Doughty-Wylie took completely unopposed but not ‘How well I remember that terrible day charge and, armed only with his swagger capitalized on; ‘W’ Beach where the How the blood stained the sand and the water stick, led the attack which captured the Lancashire Fusiliers lost 600 out of 1000 And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay fort, the village and the heavily defended men and won 6 VCs before breakfast; We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.’ Hill 141, before being killed at the and ‘V’ Beach, near Cape Helles at the moment of victory. He was awarded the Standing on the beach at Sedd-el- bottom of the Peninsula, close to Sedd- Victoria Cross, and boasts the only solo Bahr, Shaun Hullis gave us an insight into el-Bahr, where we would return the next grave on the entire peninsula on top of the the extraordinary life of Dick Doughty- day to follow in the footsteps of Dick hill, which still carries his name to this day. Wylie VC and his final hours. Here was a Doughty-Wylie VC (Coll, 1882-87). Retracing his steps on that fateful day, we Collegeman, who had fought on the climbed to the hill-top and laid a wreath Landing at the port of Gaba Tepe, North-West Frontier, at the battle of on his grave in honour of a brave College just south of ‘Z’ Beach and ANZAC Omdurman and in the Boer War, being man - the ‘Mr Greatheart of our War’ was Cove, we made our way two miles inland twice seriously wounded. He was appointed how the Allied Commander, General Sir to Kocedere – a tiny village where an Military Consul at Konia in Turkish Asia Ian Hamilton, had described him. Ottoman military field hospital operated Minor and once again was wounded whilst during the campaign, and not far from trying to prevent further atrocities during Moving on to the Helles Memorial a the village of Krithia, which the Allies the Armenian Massacres; he was further wreath was placed there, and each reached and then abandoned that first subsequently appointed British Consul in member of the party left individually day, never to get near it again despite Addis Ababa. Although married, he had a named crosses, in honour of the 14 three fierce battles. Our billet for the next Wykehamists whose names were found two days was in the ‘Gallipoli Houses’, recorded on the panels surrounding the one of the very few hotels in the south of memorial. In a somewhat reflective mood the Peninsula, which is now a National we made our way to Brighton Beach for a Park where no further hotel development picnic lunch under the pine trees, which is allowed. raised our spirits - and a bit of further light relief was provided by Mark Loveday and After dinner the Head Man gave us a Nick Ferguson splashing around in the moving talk on the tragedy and futility of Aegean Sea. This was the flat beach where the campaign, arguing that, in the context the ANZACs were supposed to land, but of the War as a whole, Gallipoli was not a due to the currents they drifted to what is failure as its aims were eventually now known as ANZAC Cove, where the achieved. Quoting from poets of the time steep cliffs were heroically scaled with huge including two OWs – AP Herbert (C, loss of life but very little ground gained. As 1904-09) and an Australian, James Fairfax the shadows were lengthening there was a (A, 1900-05), he described the horrors of short ceremony on top of the rugged cliffs, the campaign – decomposing bodies, with the Head Man, Cathy Townsend and disease, and unrelenting flies – with the Doughty-Wylie’s headstone, with the Turkish Memorial Lindy Seymour (wife of Michael, K, 1961- only escape being by bullet or official boat. across the water

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The final evacuation of the Peninsula Wykehamist that month. News travelled had been secretly planned by an OW, fast in this First World War. General Edward Altham (C, 1868-74), and So, here is his wonderful, affectionate successfully carried out with no casualties. poem, which perhaps presages his own An ANZAC soldier said to General death in action just two months later. Birdwood on the last morning as he pointed to the cemeteries - ‘I hope they won’t hear Twelve years ago, that hot July, us marching back to the beach!’ What was We walked together, you and I, expected to be over and won in 10 days had From Flint Court into School, to show lasted 10 months and ended in retreat and How much and little t’others know. the resignation of Winston Churchill - but You smile at me. I seem to live still this was way short of the Trojan War’s Through each long hour in every Div.; 10 long years. It was now time for us too to You whisper, and I watch you rise 66) – all native Australians – reading a leave for home with memories of more than With mischief dancing in your eyes. poem by AB Banjo Petersen in memory of 3,000 years of myth, history, archaeology, their compatriots who lost their lives:- culture and the heroism and futility of war. Your coat was gray in Magdalen Tower; I see you, at each sounding hour, ‘They fixed their grip on the gaunt hillside iii) Charles Sinclair (B, 1961-66) Flit through the winding Oxford street With pluck that has won them fame; addressed the assembled company beside With tattered gown and eager feet. And the home-folks know that the dead men the graveside of ‘Lt Isaac ‘Bay’ Balfour (F, died 1903-08), King’s Own Scottish Borderers, A year ago last June, we walked For the pride of Australia’s name.’ who had been killed in action in 1915 at The Highland hills, and bathed, and talked At Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery a Gully Ravine on the Helles front. Of everything beneath the sun, And all our races yet to run. wreath was laid at the headstone of Lt ‘Bay’ ‘In November 2008 a few of us here Balfour, where Charles Sinclair so movingly today were privileged to follow ‘in the July is come again – but you read out the poignant tribute from Andrew footsteps of Monty Rendall’ to the Have done all that a man can do. Gillespie that is quoted below. Somme, the first of what I like to call You loved your friends, and will not want Next morning, before leaving the ‘Fellowes’ Forays’. Companions by the Hellespont. Peninsula, we stopped at Green Hill You cannot help being moved on these For your brave spirit wanders free Cemetery near Suvla Bay where Shane occasions by what you see and hear. While To islands in that summer sea, Gough (G, 1955-59) placed a wreath by thinking about ways of expressing our And your light feet will pass with joy the headstone of his great uncle, thanks to the organisers of the Somme trip Across the windy planes of Troy: Brigadier-General Sir Thomas Pakenham, for the experience that they had created for And all the heroes Homer sung, 5th Earl of Longford (G, 1878-81) – aged us, I came across, in my grandmother’s Hector, Patroclus ever young, 51 he had been the Sen Man at Gallipoli. library in Cornwall, a slim volume, Letters And Nireus with flowing hair, from Flanders by AD Gillespie (Coll, 1903- Will smile to give you welcome there, 08). This is a collection of letters from two young Wykehamists, AD and his younger And weave into another lay brother, Tom. Both were killed, Tom in Your golden deeds of yesterday, 1914, and AD in 1915, a few miles apart in For half the tale was left unsaid Flanders. Inter alia, I wrote to David Until you shone among the dead. Fellowes about them. Then, swift as thinking, you will come Imagine my surprise at the To Flanders, where the bullets hum: coincidence when, 2½ years later, Shaun Your spirit will come to mine to tell Hullis, our home-team guide, asked me to My loneliness that all is well; read a piece by the same AD Gillespie Yes! to the friends who know his friend (hardly known, despite the quality of his And knows himself, Death’s not the end, writing) about his great friend, ‘Bay’ And every day until I die Balfour. Bay died in Gallipoli on 28th We’ll walk together, you and I. June 1915, and AD heard of his death on 11th July. This poem was published in The Quo Fata Vocant …

11 T HE T RUSTY S ERVANT The Road to Ruins

What follows is more a celebration of an current 1929 ‘baby Rolls’. In 1957, for empires, sawed them up to make them extraordinary Old Wykehamist than anything reasons that remain unclear, he shipped transportable and attempted to chop off else, but Robin Hanbury-Tenison’s enticing his first Rolls, a 1925 sports coupé, to New saleable chunks, often destroying them in book review in Country Life on 2nd March York, where, for a time, he scraped a the process. The fury that he felt at this 2011 on Ian Graham (B, 1937-42)’s living as a fashion photographer. Then, he vandalism shows through in this tight- memoir, The Road to Ruins, manages to set off to drive to the west coast, only to lipped and matter-of-fact narrative achieve both tasks admirably. be tempted to divert to Mexico, and so written in a supremely British self- began what was to become his legendary deprecatory style. ‘Ian Graham is one of the most career. remarkable Englishmen alive today, and Mr Graham describes himself as ‘a his life story is long overdue. It tells of Over the next 40 years, he built up a bushwacker outfitted with camera, decades devoted to fighting the despicable formidable reputation locating, analysing compass, pencil, some grains of common trade in Maya artefacts, often as and rescuing innumerable great Mayan sense, and an instinct for self- dangerous in the urban jungle where works of art. This was at a time when preservation’. No one has done more to unscrupulous dealers dwell as in the much of the Maya forest of southern stop this terrible trade and to record what primeval tropical forests where he Mexico, Guatemala and Belize was still remains. Mr Graham is a true hero, of conducted so much of his pioneering pristine, but being increasingly invaded by whom this country should be proud.’ work. He is a true, real-life Indiana Jones, ruthless gangs of greedy robbers. They The Road to Ruins is published by and just as good-looking in his day as hacked the beautiful carved stone stelae University of New Mexico Press and is Harrison Ford. (monuments), altars and lintels which priced at £35.50. ■ had lain undisturbed for thousands of Born into an aristocratic family in years, since the collapse of the Maya 1923, he was given a penknife by Rudyard Kipling, a close family friend, when he was nine, and his early years were a familiar mixture of chilly grand houses and freezing boarding schools. Blessed with exotic tastes and a brilliant mind, but little money, he turned himself into an outstanding, largely self-taught, polymath. He became an excellent photographer, providing illustrations for Weidenfeld & Nicholson taken with a gold-plated Adams camera. He got a job at the National Gallery restoring Old Masters where, with his unusual scientific bent, he invented new ways of removing and applying varnish. And, in 1962, he drove a 1932 Rolls-Royce Phantom II back from India through remote parts of Afghanistan. He did this with Patrick Lindsay, to whom the car had been given by the Maharaja of Jaipur. Old Rolls-Royces played an important part in Mr Graham’s life, as I found when I went to see him in Suffolk recently, and he proudly showed me his A great Briton: Ian Graham [left] with Ledyard Smith at Seibal.

12 T HE T RUSTY S ERVANT Lessons for a Head

Mark Pyper (D, 1960-65) reflects on his formidable figure (as well as a time at Winchester. Mark, who retired in July considerable scholar) from a slightly from the Headmastership of Gordonstoun earlier age. The battle was tough and after twenty-one years at the helm, was protracted; I was resilient but he much awarded the OBE for services to education in more so. As I slid reluctantly into this year’s Birthday Honours. submission I was left feeling that, while classroom life may perhaps be easier for Peering inconsequentially into the the teacher who has a range of battlefield bathroom mirror, contact lenses having tactics, just occasionally a fearful concern been removed, and grateful always for the by young people for the consequences of classical education I received at Win Coll, their actions may be no bad thing. I decide to follow Milton’s lead and consider how my light - and indeed my A somewhat different and possibly life - are spent. more modern approach was certainly employed by John Manisty, Housedon for Assuming that the teenage years may most of my dissolute years. One would fairly be described as a crucially formative have expected a man who had spent most period, I find myself looking back, fortified of the war at the heart of top secret by the luxury of time and aided by the learning may be a dangerous thing, but a lot decoding work in Bletchley Park (and expedient of hindsight, to appreciate what I of it is rather a good idea. even there assuming responsibility for rail learnt and from whom in the early 1960s. So on to MP3 and Hubert Doggart. I travel) to remain calm but, in an Before the slippered pantaloon beckons, I already rather rated Hubert (we had the unexpected way, ‘Fred ‘ exuded a quiet offer a range of snapshots, reflections on Grand Hotel in Eastbourne in common) warmth as well. One of his real strengths how I may have been helped to bestride the and at a very early stage of Winchester life lay in his end of term reports, a model for upper reaches of the slippery academic pole he had given us first year men a lesson in any Housemaster to this day. What parents for quite a long stint. lateral thinking during a Chapel time received was a poignant summary that was Starting in JP1 with Podge Brodhurst, gathering in Chantry, persuading us that always direct, honest, generous, reasonable invariably affable but consistently the newly born daughter of a member of and, even for a wastrel, tinged with hope. workmanlike also, I immediately felt the staff really could be a ‘good man’. I When John Manisty was succeeded benefit of a warm welcome. I was given my experienced variety of teaching method in by Peter Partner and I had somehow own nickname ‘ Piperides ‘; I was his div as I was obliged to toil up the pole (a inexplicably risen to a position of constantly reminded of the importance of real one this time) in his classroom and responsibility in the House, I began to planning with Sapiens qui prospicit, the attest the Judaistic authenticity of the appreciate the need for administrative motto of Malvern College, where Podge Almighty’s son: ‘Jesus was born in a Jewish structure. I failed to resist the urge to go himself had been a boy. I was also stable, under a Jewish sky ...... ’. I also into the Housemaster’s study at 5.30 am introduced to his father-in-law, Harry learnt that stating the obvious is frequently to order his papers and prioritise the Altham, whom I regarded as one of the true necessary with young people. ‘Christmas contents of his desk. Peter was a man full schoolmastering greats. Spirit’ was Hubert’s term for academic of humour, as well as scholarship, and he success. Much of it I fear I left behind, but While in JP1 I studied Greek briefly wasn’t short of the milk of human until last year I reminded the young ad with the very senior and highly academic kindness either. Interviewing prospective nauseam that ‘industry gains its reward at Jerry Poynton. I understood not one word housemasters many years later, I suggested examination time’. of what passed in his div room, but I that they would be doing well in their became profoundly impressed with the In MP2, now established as one of relations with their senior boys if the notion that undiluted, unadulterated the not-so-bright fraternity, I was also idle latter wanted to spend most of the scholarship, free from overtly materialistic and difficult, ‘uncommonly spree’ as a sen summer holidays in their company, as I relevance, was a practice of intrinsic merit man in Kenny’s described me. I entered had done in my last year with the Partner and the sign of a civilised society. A little the lists with Marcus Hampton, a family in a villa outside Rome.

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Grahame Drew, in addition to his congenial; the College men so menial’. Mark gave me an apple, a generous gesture artistic skills, provided an example of a All teachers are actors. but I realised as it was largely consumed thoroughly nice man who was not afraid there was no receptacle into which I could But that doesn’t prevent them from to go his own idiosyncratic way. His place both core and stalk. I could sense having integrity. I regarded John expressions of generosity, that were Mark watching as I simply consumed all Gammell as a giant in every way and neither deserved nor expected any that there was and reckoned that I had especially for the value of his honesty. thanks, were unusual at that time. In passed a test. This quality could have surprising 1963 I watched most of the Test series manifestations. I remember discussing against the West Indies when I should with ‘Gam’ in his study in Hopper’s a have been doing other things. somewhat humdrum essay on racial We all wanted to visit Anthony discrimination. I did not know where to Wood’s house for a different sort of put myself when he suggested that I ought diversion. His family boasted the most to consider the theory that antipathetic eligible au pair girl to be seen on Kingsgate views towards certain peoples might be Street. Tony wrote exceptionally good text linked to the supposed generosity of their books for ordinary A-Level historians like physical endowment. myself, but it was his modesty that I Without doubt I benefited from my particularly remember. We were on a visit dealings with the man at the top, to Normandy, doing both the beaches and Desmond Lee. I had quite a few run-ins the Bayeux Tapestry. I vividly remember with him as Headmaster; one of us was Tony, an early arrival on those beaches in wise and one foolish - and there are no 1944, saying in a completely matter of fact prizes for guessing who was which. He was way as we wandered down a country lane, not just merciful with a poacher turned ‘I think this was the ditch I jumped into gamekeeper turned poacher, he gave real when German soldiers appeared, firing at Thirty years later I was attending a responsibility where he saw a glimpse of us’. We still have much to learn from the summer holiday charity tennis tournament talent. In 1965 Winchester was on the self-effacement of that wartime generation. at Gordonstoun. A Head does not always threshold of a revolution in sport; hit it off perfectly with his predecessor, In my latter years most of my Geoffrey Dyson was first consulted and especially if the latter had been an iconic positively-spent time was consumed in then employed as a guru. When he first figure and brilliant at everything, which athletics and the corps. I therefore saw a visited the school, Desmond Lee not only mine certainly had. There was a slight good deal of John Hunter Durran. In him gave me the task of hosting him for a stiffness in the air therefore as we met at the was life, even if it wasn’t quite the variety whole day, he also gave me the same ice cream counter and exchanged a few to which the fourth gospel writer referred. briefing document that had been issued to pleasantries about not very much. I took a Dealing with unpredictable adult members of Common Room. I have it still substantial mouthful of my cornet and, only behaviour is a formative experience for as a reminder that the interests of the having done so did I realise that I had young people, and Hunter D emerging challenging, energetic student (or staff admitted an expeditionary and now angry from nowhere on CCF camp, brandishing member for that matter) are best served wasp as well. What to do? I was cornered, and indeed firing a large pistol above his by promoting him out of sight. knowing that either a sudden oral ejection head, was an example which it would be Finally, the person from whom I learnt or a rapid disappearance to the bushes could difficult to better. most at Winchester was Mark Stephenson. be interpreted as a sign of discourtesy and In, for me, the dizzy heights of SP2 I In my whole education he was the only weakness. I there decided simply to munch marvelled at Ronnie Hamilton, that most don, teacher or supervisor to give me an away, talking all the while; the roof of my stylish and consummate performer, with alpha for any piece of work (an essay on mouth stung, my taste buds in disarray and his immaculate dress sense and with us ‘King Alfred, just a plodder’) and for ever my throat fearing the wasp’s continuing tapping fingers on our desks in approval. since I have appreciated the value of effectiveness. He was at his best in the Masque of 1961. encouragement. At that moment I came of age as a You could sense him believing every word I used to go to Mark’s study in College, Head and thanked Mark Stephenson for of those marvellous Burchnall lyrics where he was Tutor, for tasktimes. These teaching me the only real lesson you need when, in the role of Headmaster Dr were challenging occasions, academically of to learn as a Head - whatever the adversity, Burton and referring to his favoured course but, I recall, once personally as well. just smile and carry on. ■ Commoners, he sang ‘I found them more

14 T HE T RUSTY S ERVANT Win Coll’s project in India completed

In April of this year 14 boys from VI Tarsaal and the neighbouring village played We drove off in jeeps down the hair- Book 2 accompanied John Wright and me on a narrow dirt strip, the ball regularly raising dirt road out of the village, and then on a second and final trip to Tarsaal, the disappearing into a stream or one of the eventually, by overnight train, returned to village in the foothills of the Uttarakhand terraces of bright green wheat, only to be Delhi for a day’s shopping and site-seeing Himalaya where we have financed the miraculously found and returned. We were and a day in Agra to see Agra Fort, the Taj building of a primary school for this thoroughly trounced, a fitting result as this Mahal and Fatephur Sikri. remote and poor community. This time was only a few days after India’s triumph in Although I shall be stepping down, a our task was to decorate as much of the the World Cup. We had taken a selection new project is already underway, again in completed building as we could in the of gifts with us, some toys, pencils, pens, conjunction with Lotus Flower Trust time available - 4½ days. crayons, paper, and these we shared out into which is run tirelessly by John Hunt. It is the 100 satchels we bought locally for the After a trek of 3 days, a tougher and worth visiting their website children. These were then distributed at longer one than last year, which took us up (www.lotusflowertrust.org) to get some the official hand-over, a moving ceremony to just under 10,000 feet through some idea of all the projects completed and in when the local children sang and danced breathtaking scenery, we arrived above the hand. Sam Hart will be taking over from their thanks and each classroom was village and looked down on a splendid me at Win Coll and the plan is to take on opened and blessed. It is clear that we have building, much bigger than I had expected the funding of an extension to a nunnery caused quite a stir: at a village meeting the and standing out rather magnificently for young Buddhist nuns in Ladakh. In school’s management committee was amongst the green terraces of the village. addition to working on the site at the end removed from office and a new one elected, Over two years the boys of VI2 have raised of the summer holidays, boys will teach in an interesting view of Indian democracy in a considerable sum which has built a solid a local school and tackle the summit of action. The new chair is a feisty woman three-room school with a separate room Stok Kangri (6153 metres). who intends to bring in more and better for a kindergarten, and another block with teachers. A second floor is already under It should be possible to see pictures of a toilet and a washroom each for boys and construction, a local initiative to provide the last expedition to Tarsaal on the girls. Some play equipment has been fitted accommodation for teachers. The warmth College website, although by the time you on one of the verandahs. We even have of the welcome and thanks we received read this, they may be in the archive some money left over to take through to gave us all an unforgettable sense of a section. If you want to know more about the next project. worthwhile job well done – we shall never the Tarsaal project, please contact me The boys immediately set to with a forget the experience and we have left ([email protected]). For will, coming up with their own design behind a solid and durable memorial to information on the next project contact ideas, and by the time we left, just about Win Coll’s and Lotus Flower Trust’s Sam Hunt ([email protected]). ■ every interior wall of the classrooms was contribution to the community. covered in colourful scenes, maps of the David Baldwin world and India, an outline drawing of the Taj Mahal, flowers, butterflies, a height chart, and a signpost showing the kilometres to the major cities of the world. Outside we painted each pillar a different colour and the doors and shutters a bright blue. The pièce de résistance, perhaps, was the Win Coll crest with the Union and Indian flags fluttering on either side painted on an outside wall. We had more interaction with the local people this year. One of the highlights was a hilarious cricket match against

15 T HE T RUSTY S ERVANT Fifty Years ago – the Arthur Dunn Cup

A dinner was held in the Warden’s new 4-2-4 formation and practise April, Charvet’s absence through injury, Lodgings on 13th May this year to effectively the defensive covering and and a hard, rough ground almost bare of commemorate the last occasion on which mid-field working which the new grass, Wykehamist heads, though high, the Old Wykehamist Football Club lifted formation required, and to emerge with were, perhaps, without any great the Cup. Seven out of the eight surviving convincing wins in both games. expectation of victory. Very greatly members of the winning team were outnumbered by Cholmeleians supporters But the Cholmeleians were known present, as well as some wives and other (the afternoon’s only disappointment), to be stern and uncompromising, having guests with long associations with the Old Wykehamists who were there had a accounted for the Carthusians and Club. John Hornby (I, 1967-72), current clear vocal duty to perform. Malvernians on the way and having won Club Chairman, proposed the toast to the the Cup in 1958 and 1959. With The first ten minutes gave grounds winning team, to which Hubert Doggart thoughts about lack of team practice, the for hope. Both sides soon played (E, 1938-43), the winning Captain, difficulty of keeping fit for a final in mid- remarkably accurate and tidy football on a responded in his inimitable style. The Wykehamist [issue no. 1089 – 24th May 1961] included the following match report on the final. ‘There are those who say that the Old Wykehamists’ record in the Arthur Dunn Cup does little to support the case for the School playing soccer in interrupted progress during Short Half. But Old Wykehamists very rarely play as they did at Wealdstone on April 15th, to defeat the Old Cholmeleians by 4 goals to 2 in a rousing game and so to win the Cup for the eighth time. In fact, one can’t really remember Old Wykehamists playing quite like this since the war, even though the Cup was won in 1948 and 1950, and we were the defeated finalists in 1953 and 1956. Many notable individual performances stand out over the years, but this year’s final victory was the result of real teamwork; no player stood out above the rest and each played up to his very best. The path to the final had been surprisingly smooth. A comparatively easy first round against the Chigwellians had been followed by wins at Forest and Brentwood where in both games an early lead had been established by simple goals scored after a kindly bounce or other unexpected twist of fortune. These had Back row: Marcus Smith, Peter Stevens; Middle row: John Robertson, Ian Maclure; enabled the team to settle down to its Front row: David Woolley, Barry Reed, Hubert Doggart

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most difficult pitch. Jenkins and Drybrough on the Cholmeleian wings were threatening, but Robertson was holding the dangerous Fawcett in the middle and the defence was covering well. Knightley-Smith was a pillar in the Cholmeleian defence, but the backs were playing wide and soon some gaps appeared. The half ended without score and with the feeling that the Cholmeleians were a powerful foe who had perhaps had the advantage, but that there was a possible weakness in their defence which might be penetrated by more direct assault. And so it was. After less than 15 minutes of the second half the game was OWFC’s winning team on fire. Smith pounced on a loose ball to Back row: DR Woolley (Coll, 53-57), JF Charlton (C, 53-59), PR Stevens (C, 51-56), JW Robertson (E, 47-52), GHG Doggart (capt.) (E, 38-43), MD Fontes (D, 55-60), JM Smith (D, 54-60), 12th man: PJL Wright (A, 53-58). put Winchester one up and Patrick made it Front row: MSK Greenway (A, 56-61), BL Reed (C, 51-55), JRS Maclure (I, 47-52), JC Patrick (H, 54-59). 2-0 from a centre by Greenway that should have been cleared. Highgate replied at The Wykehamist side had remained An earlier report in The Wykehamist, once with a goal from a goalmouth unchanged for the first three rounds of the [issue no. 1086], in anticipation of the scrimmage following an accurate corner. competition. For the final, Greenway, an semi-final against Old Brentwoods, had This was the signal for an all-out assault on Old Wykehamist by only two weeks started: whose father played centre-forward in the the Wykehamists’ goal. The Cholmeleians’ ‘With eight of this year’s Arthur side which shared the Cup with the attack clicked into gear and the ball Dunn Cup side products of the Lee era, Malvernians in 1939, replaced the seldom came back into their half. The two of the Oakeshott era, and one – tell it absent Campbell, and Smith, also in Wykehamist defence remained not in Bath, or anywhere else – a throw- his first Arthur Dunn Cup resolute and unruffled but back to the Leeson era, there can be no match, the injured the pressure was high denying its blend of relatively crabbed age Charvet. Throughout and soon, following and youth. The blend to date must have the competition another corner, A. proved not unpleasing to Wykehamical careful attention had Jenkins made it 2-all palates.’ with just over 15 been paid to new minutes to go. The positional ideas well Historic note: The Arthur Dunn odds were now firmly on suited to the team and Cup began in 1902, but was not won by the Cholmeleians, but they this made a great OWFC until 1920, when a clutch of failed to press home their contribution to victory. talented players arrived on the scene, advantage. Instead, Doggart, Reed With so many young players in notably Max Woosnam and Claude and Woolley were allowed to the side, hopes must be high Ashton; both later gained full England probe the opposing defence for the future, though one caps. Indeed, when Claude Ashton and again and feed an attack which also hopes that Doggart will his two brothers, Hubert and Gilbert, realised its job was not yet still not be content with were all together in the Cambridge team done. Another gap appeared his newly established of 1920, the University side earned itself and there was Smith to take a record of playing in the nickname of ‘Ashton Villa’. winning Arthur Dunn Cup sides over a pass from Patrick almost in front of goal to OWFC’s other wins were in 1929, period of 14 years, for all but two of which restore the lead. Minutes later Maclure 1930, 1931, 1938, 1948, 1950 and, of he has been captain. This was a worthy took advantage of a fatal hesitation in front course, 1961. ■ of Clyde’s goal to make it 4-2. Drybrough final and the traditions of this great then hit a Wykehamist post from 5 yards, competition are in safe keeping if but the issue had been settled and the fire competing teams can maintain the died away. standard seen at Wealdstone.’

17 T HE T RUSTY S ERVANT Wiccamica

Go Bo Cambridge Pre-U: phenomenon that has gone hand-in-hand with the introduction of the Pre-U has We offer all good wishes to Robin Fox (A, a four-year perspective been a noticeable rise in library use by 1950 -55) who has retired from the James Webster, Director of Studies, writes: members of VI Book). Academically, Fellowship and relinquished the post of Winchester College adopted the brand- members of VI Book are more focused on Sub-Warden. He has been replaced in this new Cambridge Pre-U qualification for the disciplines of their chosen subjects role by Robert Sutton (I/Coll, 1966 - 71). nearly all of its VI Book subjects in 2008. than on the techniques required simply to Also new to the Go Bo since our last Faced with yet another government- pass exams. In this atmosphere, it’s been update are Charles Sinclair (B, 1961 - 66) imposed reform of the VI Form very much easier to get pupils to take their and Dr Peggy Frith of New College. curriculum, which further reduced the work in Div much more seriously too. Co Ro content and coherence of A Level, it was an easy choice for the majority of Cambridge Pre-U would not suit every There has been quite an influx this half. departments to move to the linear and school but, even in such a short period, it We welcome the following new dons and terminal approach of Pre-U. The is clear that it suits Winchester very well Winchester Junior Fellows: Susan Atwill advantages were manifold: we would be and has delivered all the benefits which (Art), Amanda Chain (PE), Claire able to teach in intellectually coherent we hoped it would. Crowther (Mod Lang), Andrew French ways, to pursue aspects of subjects which ā Treasury News (Mathm ), Jan Hepworth (Mod Lang), were simply no longer available in the Jessica Lawson (Biology), David Leigh new A-Level specifications and to create John Falconer, Curator of Treasury, writes: (English), Shaun Macey (PE), Rachel a VI Book which would be a great deal A watercolour showing the Treasury in its Poole (Biology), Matthew Rogers freer from the disruption caused by previous state as a Beer Cellar has recently (Physics), Stephen Shuttleworth (G, intermediate exams in VI Book 2. When been most generously presented to the 1971 -75, Physics and Chemistry), Oliver Pre-U teaching began, only Biology, College by the Wykeham Arms and its Tarney (Music), and Carla Williams Mathmā and Design Technology manager, Jon Howard. The artist, Bernard (Physics and PE); and we thank John continued to offer A Level: Winchester Cecil Gotch (1876-1963), studied and later Burrell for his help in the Classics had become the flagship for Pre-U. taught at the Winchester School of Art, department during Jon Hunt’s illness. and while living here painted a number of Two year groups have now gone through pictures of the College and the surrounding Claire Talks is now Secretary of Common the complete process and the results have countryside. This painting must date from Room, and Matthew Crossland has taken been more than satisfactory: grades have the early years of the 20th century; the over from Jon Hunt as Treasurer. Further, generally been just and have rewarded College ceased brewing its own beer in Tim Parkinson, formerly Economics don work and inspiration in the ways in which 1904, but the barrels may have remained and more recently the School’s we had hoped; universities have, with for some years. It was formerly owned by Representative in the Asian Region, has some initial uncertainties, given a fair Tim Wiltshire, whose bookbinding classes been appointed Head of External Affairs assessment of the standard of the grades in the back of Wells Bookshop continue to from January 2012, and Michael Wallis and made offers that reflect the greater delight and instruct both dons and pupils. has been appointed Don Associate in the stretch and depth of the qualification; Later in the collection of the late Graeme Winchester College Society. dons have relished the opportunities to Jameson, owner of the Wykeham Arms, it teach their subjects constrained much less LM came to hang above the bar until a recent by the demands of interim examinations. redecoration. All will be delighted to learn that Lachlan Most importantly, the return to a linear Mackinnon (Co Ro, 1981 - 2011) was and terminal exam in VI Book has We are immensely grateful to the awarded a Cholmondeley Award at a transformed the culture of the upper part Wykeham Arms for their gift. As our Society of Authors reception on Tuesday, of the School. Cloister Time of VI Book 2 ancient buildings continue to be adapted to 14th June. is once again largely free from interruption new uses, paintings like this are an and pupils have been able to concentrate invaluable record of their former state and more fully on their summer sports, prize purpose. Before its conversion to the essays, plays and general reading (one

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Treasury, been loaned to the British Library as part of atque haec ipse suo tristi cum corde volutat Beer Cellar their exhibition, Royal Manuscripts: the aspectans silvam immensam, et sic forte precatur: served for Genius of Illumination. This exhibition will ‘si nunc se nobis ille aureus arbore ramus many years consist mostly of books and manuscripts ostendat nemore in tanto! quando omnia vere as the from the Royal Collection, and runs from heu nimium de te vates, Misene, locuta est.’ robing November 2011 to March 2012. Not making much of the forte in 186, room for The Roses Tapestry was commissioned to HSA contended that the line should read Chapel celebrate the birth of Prince Arthur, aspectans silvam immensam, et ‘si forte’, Choir. eldest son of Henry VII. The colourful red precatur, so that the words si forte became There are and blue design includes heraldic devices part of the prayer. John wonders what also intended to evoke the Prince’s namesake, other classical readers of The Trusty references King Arthur, and the overall intention Servant might make of this. Certainly one, to its use for was to celebrate the union of the Houses the present editor, is far from convinced! the painting and varnishing of Sailing Club of York and Lancaster. Prince Arthur was boats and as a venue for the performance of A Trollopian perspective born in Winchester on 15th September ‘alternative’ concerts and poetry readings in 1486 and christened in the cathedral a on the Res Wiccamica the 1960s. These included a recital of few days later. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, brother of the ballads, when ‘Beer Cellar preserved more more famous Anthony, reflects here on the than a tinge of moth-eaten surplices and contribution of his Winchester education to crumbling sandstone’ (The Wykehamist, his disagreements with Dr Richard October 11th 1966), an ‘electronic Whately, Principal of St Alban Hall, concert’, and a recital of religious poetry Oxford. and music, in which Bruckner seems to have rubbed shoulders with ‘The Incredible ‘Yet I do not doubt that I may have String Band’ (ibid. May 7th 1969). occasionally rubbed Whateley up the wrong way, as the phrase goes. He was, ‘The Annunciation’ as a man said, a most autocratically Jane Boyles of the Collections Committee writes: minded man. And we Wykehamists as ‘The Annunciation’ by François Le the reader may have perceived from Moyne, Court Painter to King Louis XV my Winchester reminiscences, were of France, originally displayed as the altar not accustomed to be ruled piece in Chapel, and more recently hung autocratically. We lived under the in Thurbern’s Chantry, has been on empire, and I might almost say, in an public display at the National Gallery in Winchester College has owned the atmosphere of law, as distinguished London since 22nd October. tapestry, now in four pieces, since the late from individual will. It was constantly 16th century, and parts of it are usually on in our minds and on our tongues, that The painting is on a short-term loan of display in Chapel. This exhibition will ‘the Informator’ or ‘the Hostiarius’ five years, after which it will return to provide the rare chance to see at close could not or would not do this or that. Winchester. It shows the Blessed Virgin hand two pieces of the tapestry in context We lived with the ever present Mary (to whom William of Wykeham with other art and artefacts of the period. consciousness that the supreme lex was dedicated the College) receiving the For more details about the exhibition visit not what this master or other master, salutation from the Angel Gabriel that http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/roy or even the Warden might say, save in she is to be the Mother of God. It was alman/index.html. so far as it coincided with the college given to the College in 1729 by statutes. And I doubt not that Headmaster John Burton. For Latin Textual Critics Whateley perceived and understood The painting can be seen in Room 33 of John Dancy (Coll, 1933-39), prompted by the influence of this habit of mind in the Main Gallery. the appreciation of Harry Altham in our something or other that I might have last issue, writes with an account of a rare said or done. It was probably The Roses Tapestry foray on HSA’s part into the world of something of this sort which led to his Suzanne Foster, Archivist, writes: Latin textual criticism. telling me that he wanted no New Two pieces of tapestry from Winchester College manners at Alban Hall.’ The locus in question is ll.185-189 of College, known as the Roses Tapestry, have Book VI of Virgil’s Aeneid:

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Academic beginning of the new academic year. This has been three years in the making, is coincides with his son, Jacob, starting his about a love triangle, and is set in the PWW Disney (B, 69-74) has been made a first year as a Collegeman. present. It has only three parts and is, Fellow of King’s College, London, in according to Alexander, ‘very stripped recognition of his service on the Arts down’. Both have just completed their Governing Council from 2001-2010. He NR Atkins (B, 57-62) and his wife, Suzy, first years at London University, Peregrine is currently Chairman of the Investment have created a unique European centre reading Art History at Goldsmiths’ and Committee for the college’s endowment. for contemporary ceramics at Poterie du Alexander studying History and Russian Announcements Don. It is a cultural oasis, situated in the at UCL. vicinity of the village of Fel, overlooking a GWL Fellowes (G, 93-98): a son, WWL MJR Gaitskell (H, 62-66) has recently superb panorama of vineyards in the Lot (Wilfred), born on 10th September; retired. His career as an artist-potter valley, and is the result of a joint co- grandson to both DWLF (I, 63-67) and stimulated him to think that many of the operation between the founders, Nigel CHW Holloway (B, 63-68) and great- problems in today’s world stem from the and Suzy, and the locals. Suzy’s own grandson to NWLF (H, 37-41, dec’d). absurd way most people have to live. world-renowned work can be appreciated Balanced by different diciplines, his has AB Hoare (B, 75-80) announced his in the gallery, along with a continuously been a life of harmony in the Socratic engagement to Claudia Martin in The evolving display, showcasing the works of sense: artistic, scientific, physical, mental, Times on 29th September. ceramicists from all over Europe. There is reflective in solitude, yet sociable and very also a boutique. www.ledondufel.com WW Slack (D, 38-43): Sir William and informed by direct contact with an Lady Slack celebrated their Diamond P Bennett-Jones (C, 68-73) was presented impressive variety of visitors from different Wedding Anniversary on 28 July 2011. with the Special Award at the British social backgrounds, age, gender, race and Academy Television Awards ceremony on Appointments / Elections beliefs. Michael has a wish to take up 22 May 2011, organised by The British painting again, which he had begun before TH Breitmeyer (A, 73-77) has recently Academy of Film and Television Arts. making pots, but he’s also an enthusiastic been appointed a Gentleman at Arms, Peter is also a Governor at Rugby School. amateur geologist, so he will be keeping thus joining Sir Charles Lowther Bt (I, 59- himself busy enough. Incidentally, he still HMH Dancy (B, 88-93) acted in the 64), OC Howard (O, 61-66) and AGW has many pots to sell, following his move Indie movie, Martha Marcy May Marlene Wigram (H, 62-67) in that capacity. to Dunster, in Somerset! which received an award at Sundance for NMH Jones (B, 60-65) was appointed an Best Director, Sean Durkin. It opened in P Puwanarajah (I, 94-99) is certainly independent director of horse racing’s October in New York. Hugh, as one half keeping busy! He has been at the governing body, the British Horseracing of a cast of two, is also about to appear on National Theatre for a year and a half, Authority, in April, 2011. Broadway in Venus in Furs, a play about where he has been in three productions T Martin (D, 49-54), High Sheriff of East sex, gender and class, lasting for 90 and has written a play called Yorkshire 1996-1997, has retired as Vice minutes without any intermission. Nightwatchman, quite probably the NT’s first ever debut play. He is currently Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of PC Kitchener-Fellowes (I, 04-09) and AJ performing 66 Books at The Bush Theatre Yorkshire, having reached 75 years of age. Thomas (I, 04-07) have co-written and (former member of Common Room, directed their first play, I See Simon, a JGH Schneider (F, 00-05) was appointed Lachlan Mackinnon, has been one of the Pinteresque three-hander, which opened Editor-in-Chief of ThinkAfricaPress.com writers) and is also writing a short film for at the Edinburgh Festival in August. (www.ThinkAfricaPress.com) in 2010. the Olympics (using the cinematographer There are no dowager duchesses or James is seeking to recruit university from The King’s Speech). This will be shot sinister gay footmen, and the audience is graduates as interns, researchers and in November and premiered at BAFTA in unlikely to stretch into the millions; writers, so please contact him on: February. He will briefly return to the rather Fellowes Jnr and Thomas’ dramatic [email protected] National Theatre in November and will creation is on a considerably more modest be directing a half-hour drama for SA Thorn (D, 79-84) was appointed scale in comparison with Fellowes Snr’s Channel 4 in January. Chaplain of Downe House at the Downton Abbey series. The play, which

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Books country and of life itself. If ever there is an P&P. Sadly, Rupert died on 20th example of someone who personifies the September 2011; his obituary will appear PdeF Delaforce (B, 37-42): Nelson’s First essence of being an English gentleman, in in the next issue. Love; Fanny’s Story. This is the strange terms of decency, courtesy and a story of a mother and her son and their JWM Mansel dec’d (B, 22-28) :The mischievous sense of humour, it is Robin. intimate Mansel Diaries. The Diaries of Captain There was no surprise that, when the last relationship with John Mansel. Prisoner-of-War - and Labour government foolishly decided to England’s Camp Forger – in Germany, 1940-45, cull all but 92 of the hereditary peers, he greatest naval edited by his fellow prisoner, Ted topped the ballot to stay in the lifeboat. hero. Published Beckwith, has been re-published. Biteback Publishing ISBN no. by Amberley. Available at £9.95 + pp £2.00 from his 9781849540919. £20. ISBN 978- widow, Gilly Barnard: 01608 643276 or 1-4456-0365-0. PGTW Fiennes (D, 76-81) has recently [email protected] Two more are to written his first CJ Moore-Bick (B, follow, on Hitler book, To War with 93-98): Playing the and then God, published by Game. The British Churchill. Mainstream Junior Infantry Publishing. It tells JA Earle (G, 34-38): From Nile to Danube – Officer on the the story of Peter’s A Wartime Memoir. This book pulls no Western Front: grandfather’s time punches. It is about a wartime journey: no 1914-18 . Helion as an Army ordinary journey, but the honest personal & Company Ltd Chaplain on the account of a young Rifle Brigade officer on September 2011 Western Front in transit through WWII preparation, ISBN 978-1- World War One conventional fighting in the deserts of 906033-84-2 and is based on an archive of diaries, letters, North Africa, unconventional warfare in photographs, postcards and memorabilia he Gordon Corrigan, author, writes: ‘… this is a former Yugoslavia and on to post-war found in the attic three years ago. ISBN groundbreaking work; a detailed peace. The writing style of this wartime 9781845966522 examination of the platoon and company account is light and easy and the book is commanders who had to make the plans of presented in bite-sized chapters. A striking RJS Hoare (B, 69-74) was unexpectedly their seniors work. It is scholarly but feature is the unbridled and candid analysis diagnosed with immensely readable … an essential addition of people and events encountered, pancreatic to the library of any military historian, including Monty, El Alamein, Evelyn cancer in whether professional or interested amateur.’ Waugh and the reconciliation of post war January and used Yugoslavia. These memoirs are refreshingly his time off work JGD Musson (F, 79-83): English Country frank, telling it how it was at the time. The to write a book, House Interiors (Rizzoli International book is an invaluable ‘on the ground’ Mountain Views, Publications, New York) takes us round account of key aspects of WWII and SOE about his 38 fourteen of the great country houses of activities. Available from Mladika at years of walking, England, providing an illuminating tour [email protected]. ISBN 8873421458. climbing, through different aspects of the history of mountaineering interior decoration, including up to the Earl Ferrers (D, 42-47): Whatever Next? and ski- present time. The book is lavishly Reminiscences of a mountaineering illustrated with new photography, thanks journey through in Britain, the Alps and further afield. The to a collaboration with leading life . Robin book is richly illustrated with over 150 architectural and interiors photographer, Ferrers has photographs and opens with an account of Paul Barker. ISBN 978-0847835690 written a his discovery of mountains in Toye’s House wonderful and RM Perkins (E, 69-74): Not Out First Ball library and his first rock climbing trip with entertaining – The art of being beaten in beautiful places, John Hunter Durran. It was published by book about his co-authored by Roger Morgan-Grenville. Vertebrate Publishing in September (ISBN life. In many Published by Bikeshed Books, £7.95. 9781906148331) and is available from ways his is a life ISBN 978-0-9569176-0-7. Not everyone Rupert’s family at 22 Hatton Court, of love; of his can be a sporting hero. Most of us lost out Fintray, Aberdeen AB21 0YA for £22 + £3 family, his in life’s sporting lottery, and we have to

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The tune comes from a piece Business and Commercial RC Stanley-Baker (I, 56-61) has Elgar himself wrote three years earlier, RBH Lane (H, 67-71) has recently started compiled a small book of his poems, ‘Meditation’, which opens his cantata The a new business: Wine Supplier Support. entitled Dreaming time, published by ASM Light of Life; the tune is used to denote The company offers Business and (Association of Stories of Macau), Macau ‘Light’ throughout the cantata. This essay Marketing support to wine and spirit in 2010. Richard is the sole distributor at explores this possibility in detail, and suppliers to the UK and mainland present, and can be reached by email at discusses many of the other suggestions European markets. Previously Robin ran [email protected]. £7.95. that have been made over the last 120 the successful wine agency company Lane years or so, one as recently as 2010. 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The best-selling authors’ first Sir Harold (Hooky) Walker (F, 46-50) was to them was a pen-name; but he has been alcohol title Beat the Booze quickly presented at a ceremony in London on the one least studied. This essay contains a became the market leader in the UK after 21st October with the BRISMES (British brief life of Stanley, followed by an being launched in January 2008. Society for Middle Eastern Studies) Award itemised summary of the evidence that Available in most Waterstones for £9.99, for Services to Middle Eastern Studies. points to him as the real author; much of but can be ordered at a 45% discount for this evidence has only come to light in the Medical only £5.50 via www.beatthebooze.com. last two years. An appendix describes how ISBN 978-1905744794 BDL Fitt (E, 65-70) is now Professor of his name was concealed ‘in plain view’ in Plant Pathology at University of the First Folio (1623) by a method first AJ Watson (Staff, 70-83): his latest book, Hertforshire. used for such a purpose over a thousand Beethoven’s Chamber Music in Context, was years earlier – an acrostic. ISBN 978-0- published in November 2010 by Boydell 9561433-1-0; pp. 20. £6 incl. p&p, & Brewer. £45. ISBN: 9781843835776

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Political members of ICENA. These were produced The 2012 Icena Club Dinner will be held to the meeting and recognised as being the at the Hurlingham Club, Fulham on RJS Edsberg (B, 81-86) was the constitution of the Icena Club in place of Saturday 24th March. Partners are Conservative Party’s parliamentary any other constitution. The meeting voted welcome. If you are interested please candidate at the 2010 General Election for in favour of this constitution and also the contact Jonny Coppel (E, 02-07) (email the constituency of Manchester Blackley election of Officers: Chairman - Howard [email protected] and Broughton. James stoically stated that Jacobs (D, 65-70); Treasurer - Preshan the experience served to sharpen up his Jeevaratnam (C, 01-06); Secretary - Chris OW Sailing campaigning skills in a ‘challenging’ part of Kerr (Coll, 00-05); Communications - Arrow Trophy 2011: on 9th October and in the country for the Conservatives. Mike Fabricius (K, 94-99). A scale of breezy conditions in the Solent, Winchester Services suggested voluntary annual donations was won the Arrow Trophy for the third time in also discussed and agreed. its history (the event started in 1992), using Lt. Gen. JJC Bucknall CBE (A, 72-76) a Sunsail F 40, in competition against 20 Recollections from Martin Knowles (K, 46- has just returned from his role in other schools. In the best-of-three match- 51) of the ICENA part of Wykeham Day: Afghanistan as the Deputy Commander racing final, Winchester beat Wellington ‘First, I recall Chris Kerr’s welcome when he of ISAF (International Security 2-0 in convincing style with superior tactics spotted my Icena Club tie in School early Assistance Force). He will resume and faster boat speed. command of the ACE Rapid Reaction in the day and introduced me to Preshan Corps, now based in Gloucestershire. and Johan. Second, I recall Howard’s able David Anderson (Coll, 69-74), WSC’s Chairmanship of the reconstituted Icena Commodore, was skipper of the team, Lt. Gen. NP Carter CBE, DSO (H, 72- Club Committee and his injunction which included two pairs of fathers and 76) was promoted to his new rank w.e.f. preferably to correspond only on the wings sons, the Clementis (David (E, 62-67) and 28th October 2011. His next of the modern Hermes, today known as e- Tom (K, 92–97)) and the Morleys (James appointment will be as Team Leader of mail. Third I would like to thank James Fox (B, 62–67) and Alastair (B, 93–98)). Al the ‘Army 2020 Team’, tasked with (don i/c Rowing) for his welcome on the Hall (D, 95–00)) helmed with advice from redesigning the Army from first principles towpath and subsequent organisation and tactician Charlie Somerset (G, 94–99). in light of the straightened economic hosting of the barbecue. James Pinder, current Captain of Sailing, circumstances and life after Afghanistan. was jun man and the remainder of the Fourth, as a former A-Ladder classical crew was Kit Beer (D, 60–65), Roddy Col. NJ Kitson DSO (H, 82-87) has non-scholar who took to River as soon as Walker (G, 69–74), Alastair Moye (Coll, recently returned from his role in Libya as possible, partly to escape the terrors of bat 78–83) and Will Close-Brooks (F, 92–97). Defence Attaché, based in Tripoli. and ball, I would like to pay my tribute to Col. HA Watson MBE (F, 80-85) is Zeus who managed to honour the It cannot be often that a Warden (also currently responsible for managing the Reconstitution of Icena with a display of the Club’s Vice- Commodore) has Army’s operational commitments in thunder, lightning, and hailstones in mid- participated in a winning sporting team. Headquarters Land Forces in Andover. barbecue, worthy of the very best classical Perhaps another notable feature was that traditions à la Odysseus, and who knew the crew contained the chairmen of Sport exactly how to draw us all together inside Boards of Governors of two schools so Golf: the annual contest for the Sinister Boat House alongside today’s magnificent closely associated, Winchester and Pot was held at Sandford Springs Golf rowing machines (this includes those of us Midhurst Rother Colleges. with lop-sided shoulders who remember Club, Hampshire on 10th June. The The WSC participates in three events without regret days long past when, at age winners this year were the Sinister (left- during the year - a Solent cruising minus 15, we rowed in a house 4 or 8 with handed) team, captained by CD Brims weekend in May (12th to 13th May single oars. Double sculled 8’s such as I (K, 63-68) and included AJ Bligh (D, 61- 2012), a regatta in Seaview Mermaids in observed yesterday were unheard of!). 66). The Dexter team were led by GC September and the Arrow. The 2011 Scott-Malden (D, 62-67) and included JN I almost forgot to mention that, while AGM will take place at 4.00 pm in the Scott-Malden (Coll, 63-68). walking down to Boat Club, one of our Warden’s Lodgings on 10th December. Old Wykehamist Sporting Societies: more ancient oarsmen told me he had Any Wykehamist interested in joining never had any problems about having one WSC should contact David Anderson, ICENA (OW Rowing Club) shoulder substantially different from the Commodore, A meeting was held in the Wykeham Day other because of rowing stroke at Win Coll, ([email protected]) or marquee on 17th September to approve though this view was not shared by his our secretary Claire Webster documents previously circulated to tailor!’ ([email protected]).

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Obiter Dicta disasters helps us put life into perspective. sporting all-rounder, Hughie Webb (G, 40-45), whose 145 not out for Oxford David Fellowes received the following God bless and take care, David. against Cambridge at Lord’s, in 1948, letter, dated 19th April: Yours sincerely made a great impression. Alas! Both his Dear David Peter [MG] Young (C, 61-66) medical studies at Oxford and his subsequent medical career prevented his In Christchurch, New Zealand, on 27th Esmond Spokes (I, 1945-49) recalls from playing enough First-class cricket to be February 2011 his home in Bahrain that there used to appear at Eton Match time, a humorous included. I trust that you are well and you are still magazine (The Silly Point or The Cow Shot A claim, secondly, was made for Mike managing to keep us Old Woks under etc) and one anonymous hero contributed Scott (A, 47-52), another fine sporting control. the following rhyme, which has remained all-rounder. Had a wicket-keeper/batsman On Saturday, 26th February, I flew into in his mind for over 60 years: been selected rather than someone on his Christchurch, as I was booked to walk Wykehamists in foreign parts, wicket-keeping alone, he would clearly (tramp) along the Routeburn Track, near When nostalgia fills your hearts, have strong claims; and he merits Queenstown. This was four days after the Take a stroll along the strasse; inclusion as a second reserve wicket- earthquake there. So instead of in a hotel in Walk, until you chance to pass a keeper among the Hon. Ments. Latimer Square, I had to stay in a motel Fishmonger, where on a slab, near the Airport. The third name to be raised is that of Lie row on row of clammy dab. Michael Barton (B, 28-33), who On the Sunday morning, I strolled along Gaze, and you’ll return in soul captained Surrey for three seasons from to a nearby Anglican church, namely St To afternoons at Gunner’s Hole. 1949 to 51 (the middle one as County Christopher’s, Avonhead. The 9.00 Champions) and made six hundreds in his service was packed and very moving, as 14 If anyone can attribute this rhyme, please 147 match career. The selectors consider other Anglican churches in the City had contact the Editor. that he too should have a place among been damaged. A few people broke down A Cricket Postscript, from Hubert the Hon. Ments. and required to be escorted out, whilst Doggart (E, 38-43) others had lost their livelihoods. The selectors’ attention was drawn to the In a recent Trusty Servant there appeared Three-quarters of the way through the fourth name by Dale Vargas, a great an article on what, in the modern idiom, service, I realised through his grey hair and contributor over the years to Harrow became known as the Old Wykehamist beard that the vicar and preacher was the School and a shrewd observer of the Cricket Club ‘dream team’. The selection Reverend Bryden (ABS) Black who was at cricket scene. The selectors admit that a of such a team and of its reserves, was the Cook’s with me. (His text was strong case can be made for Roger brain-child, backed by considerable appropriately Matthew ch v v19 ff – as per Winlaw (A, 26-31) for the final batting research, of the two Orders brothers the Lectionary). In fact, Bryden lived in place, since he was good enough to make working in Hong Kong – Richard (E, 67- the next door village to us in East Surrey four hundreds for Cambridge in 1932, his 72) and Jonathan (E, 70-75). They are back then. I last saw him 38 years ago in debut year, and to play successfully in a both past members of Lord’s and what the City of London, before he returned to strong Surrey side, averaging 36 over his could, affectionately, be called ‘cricket Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) for a time. first class career. nuts’ of the best sort. Later in the afternoon, he and his wife Any selection of an OWCC ‘dream team’ Cathy very kindly entertained me to They had asked me, in, perhaps a fit of is bound to provoke debate, so these afternoon tea with their family at their nostalgia, and because of their wish to comments, agreed by all three of us, are home in Merivale, near the City Centre. have a greater historical perspective, to be post factum judgements only. We are also It was strange and emotional chatting the Selection Committee’s Honorary all three excited by the thought that with an old friend from Cook’s amidst red Chairman. In that role, I twice brought several of the fine crop of Lord’s tape, cracked and leaning walls and silt pressure to bear on my fellow-Freddyites cricketers, nourished, in recent years, by everywhere. to drop me from their intended team; the Masters-in-charge and the twice, as the article showed, I failed Bryden and Cathy did tell me that they indefatigable and evergreen Barry Reed dismally! wish for us all to pray for the residents of (C, 51-55), will merit serious Christchurch at this time and for many The main purpose of this postscript is to consideration when, perhaps a decade or months and years to come. mention the names of four candidates two on, a new ‘dream team’ comes to be selected. ■ Certainly the recent string of natural raised by interested readers of the original article. The first candidate is that fine

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Joseph Bain (Staff , 74-88): died 27.5.2011, aged 91. Corpus Christi were four celebrations for his 90th 24.6.2011. Son of John Bain (Coll, 1868 - College, Oxford 1938, Medical War BA, birthday, all starting with a church service. 72) Exhibitioner, St John’s Coll, 1941; Diploma Psych Med, (University of As if to accentuate both his ecumenism Cambridge. Before coming to Winchester, London), 1941. BM, BCh, 1943. Radcliffe and the diversity of his friends, the one in he was a Housemaster and Head of Infirmary Prize in Medicine, 1943. DM London was conducted by Cardinal Modern Languages at Stowe School. On Oxford University 1958. Born a Jew, he Cormac Murphy O’Connor and attended arrival he took up the running of Drama. changed his name to Spencer and by Archbishop Rowan Wiliams. Two He taught brilliantly English, French and converted to Roman Catholicism during weeks before he died, he attended the Ad German and was a spectacularly successful his time at Oxford. House physician to Sir Portas for Fellows of the Royal Society and div don in VI Book. His flamboyant William Hume, father of Cardinal Basil of the British Academy. As someone who handkerchiefs, floral ties and coloured Hume, Newcastle General Hospital, 1944. knew him well said, ‘his remarkable socks will be remembered by all he taught. Commissioned into RAMC 1944, serving capacity for friendly curiosity made him He was renowned for his library – 7,000 in India and Burma before being such a talented psychiatrist’. In October books by the time he left Winchester to demobbed as Captain 1947. Trained as 1944 he married Margaret Isabella Behn set up a secondhand bookshop in Tenby psychiatrist, Warneford Hospital Oxford who died in 1999. He is survived by his in his native Wales. He is survived by his 1947 before serving in the Department of daughter Mary and his sons Michael, Paul, wife Priscilla. (See also Vale: The Psychology, University of Durham, 1954; John and Martin. Wykehamist Dec 1988). There will be a Consultant Psychologist, Exeter Clinical memoir in the next issue. Area, 1958. Returned to Oxford in 1961, Richard Alfred Chambers (G, 36-41): where he was Consultant Psychologist, died 21.1.2011. Lord’s XI 1940-41, VI Hilary Hugh Bickford Smith (H, 31-36): Oxford District Health Authority 1961- 1940, Editor The Wykehamist 1940-41. died 16.5.2011, aged 93. New College, 82; Clinical Lecturer in Psychology, Balliol College, Oxford 1941, BA 1944, Oxford 1936, 3 PPE 1939, MA 1946. Oxford University 1962-95. Fellow, Royal MA 1949. University Scholar St Thomas’s Commissioned into Royal Artillery 1939, College of Psychology 1975. Visiting Hospital 1944, BM, B Ch 1947, MRCP mentioned in despatches during psychotherapist, HM Prison Grendon (London) 1949. Served in RAFVR Flight operations following D Day, retiring as a 1983-93; Locum Consultant, Psychology, Lieutenant as a Medical Officer 1948 – 50. Captain 1946. By then too late to become Oxford Region Health Authority 1987- Carried out sophisticated medical research an architect, he trained as an accountant, 93. In retirement he worked at Sir into toxins to seek defence against their subsequently working as such in Notting Michael Sobell House Hospice. possible use as weapons by the Soviets. Hill. A keen mathematician, he was Publication: The Good that I Would, Fellow in Neurology, Harvard Medical taught by the great CV Durrell, who Denton, Longman & Todd, 1967 – a School 1950; Leader of new Neurology taught dynamics by firing pieces of chalk treatise on the nature of psychiatric illness. Department at Medical School of across the classroom – useful for a An avid lover of cricket, be it on the University of Toronto before moving in prospective Gunner. An accomplished beach or at the county ground, whilst at 1956 to spend 40 years at Thomas artist and a great walker, who thought the School he cycled to Southampton to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, nothing of walking from Kensington to watch Don Bradman playing for the rising to be chairman of the Neurology Henley, he completed the daily crossword Australians v. Hampshire in 1934 – Department, and eventually one of the without pen or pencil. A longstanding unfortunately Bradman was out for a duck. foremost neurologists in the US. Although Freemason. Married 1955, Anne Thomas He took part in pilgrimages to Lourdes for residing in the US for 61 years, he always who predeceased him. Survived by his over forty years and was generous in giving retained his British citizenship. Winston daughter Joanna and three step-sons. his psychiatric services to the church, both Churchill was his idol after the Prime at Ampleforth and in the Archdiocese of Minister gave him a lift home having Seymour Jamie Gerald Spencer (formerly Birmingham, for which he was made by delivered a speech at Winchester. In 1956 Schlesinger) (Coll, 33-38): died the Pope a Knight of St Gregory. There married Margaret Doherty (died 2002).

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Henry Uvedale Antrobus Lambert (Coll, from Abberley Hall when he came to sit making 10% of all bicycles in the world. 38-43): died 19.4.2011. Father of RMUL Election. He was a Fellow of the During this time, HRH the Prince of (F, 72-76). VI 1942-43 (proud to have College,1979-91, where his wise and Wales worked for two weeks in his factory played in last College XV to beat valuable financial advice was always as a pupil, learning about trade and Commoners). As Aulae Prae in 1943 he sprinkled with practical nautical industry. During a business trip to Russia gave the address at the Ad Portas for Lord commonsense. In 1951 married Diana he found himself, much to his Wavell, the last occasion on which the Dumbell who predeceased him. Survived embarrassment, involuntarily laying a honorand was not given three cheers. As by his two sons and daughter. wreath on Lenin’s tomb in front of a member of SROGUS he played Duncan in crowd of thousands in Red Square, having Macbeth 1943; Vere Herbert Smith prize Robert Ian Hewitt Paul (F, 38-42): died been mistaken for a visiting dignitary. 1943. Commissioned into the Royal Navy 19.8.2011. On leaving the school he joined Chairman, East Midlands CBI Council as Sub-Lieutenant RNVR 1944, demobbed the RNVR, first as a trainee at HMS 1983-84. Member of Pay Review Body for as Lieutenant-Commander RNR 1946. Collingwood. Thereafter he was Nurses and Midwives 1984-90. Deputy Served Western Approaches and commissioned in 1942 and spent most of Lord Lieutenant, Nottinghamshire 1990- Mediterranean. Exhibitioner, New the war on the Russian Convoys to 2007. High Sherriff, Nottingham 1992 College, Oxford; History BA 1948, MA Archangel and Murmansk. He also served during which time he was closely engaged 1957. It was a rare time to be at university, in the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. with helping young people involved in when the mature undergraduates included Despite the bitter conditions of the Russian the criminal justice system to find work the President of JCR who had a DSO and Convoys he retained a love of the sea and and secure employment. An MC with bar. Nevertheless they had to later in life sailed in the Baltic. In 1946 he accomplished horseman, he hunted on abide by the rule to be back in College by went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge: 3 most Saturdays during his working life, 10.00pm. A hole in the college wall helped Economics, BA 1948. Worked in the family with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt to circumvent this until discovered by the flour milling firm before joining Spillers and later with the Quorn. Married (1) in Dean, who on one night took the names of where he became Deputy Chairman and 1958 Jennifer Robinson (died 2000) and half the college. Tempted to rejoin the played a part in the development of the (2) in 2009 Diana Gamble, who survives Navy but followed his father into Barclays, well known Homepride. Retired in 1980 him with his son and two daughters. and so began his long association with the when Dalgety took over Spillers. He was a bank: starting in Lombard Street, then to founder member of Friends of St Stephen’s, John Richard La Touche Corrie (Coll, 39- Southampton 1959, before becoming Sparsholt and played a key role in the 44): died 25.4.2011. Father of COBC (F, chairman, Birmingham Local Board 1969; establishment of Winchester Night Shelter 74-78) Aulae Prae, VIII 1942-44 vice-chairman, Barclays UK 1972. for which he cooked once a week. In 1958 (President 44), VI 1942 -43 (Captain 43) Chairman, Barclays Bank International married Gillian Masser (died 1981). He is – a unique triple achievement. 1979-83; Deputy-Chairman Barclays Bank survived by his two sons and two daughters. Commissioned into Coldstream Guards 1979-85. Barclays was a very Wykehamical 1944, served in Palestine and Egypt before bank with at one time 8 Wykehamists on Ian Hugh Phillipps (B, 38-42): died being demobbed as a Captain in 1946. the board. Later, when he followed Lord 28.7.2011. VIII 1940 (cox) and 1942. Scholar Trinity College, Cambridge: 3 Aldington as chairman of Sun Alliance, he Exhibitioner, Trinity College, Cambridge History, 2 Law BA 1950. Cambridge U became involved in the Tolstoy Cossack 1942; 2 Mechanical Science 1944. VIII and Secretary CUBC 1949. In saga. A voracious reader, especially of 20th Captained winning Cambridge boat in winning boat in what became known as century naval history, he possessed a 1944 Boat Race; President CUBC 1945 the ‘20th Century Classic’ Boat Race. remarkable library. In turn he was first but did not row in Boat Race. London Cambridge won by less than a second in Treasurer, 1974, and then Vice-President, Rowing Club 1st VIII 1947-48. First last ten strokes, but by then both crews 1985, of the Navy Records Society; Trustee reserve for British VIII 1948 Olympics. were enveloped in thick fog. John Snagge, National Maritime Museum 1990-95; Wartime engineering research with Royal the BBC commentator famously reported, Chairman White Ensign Association Engineers 1944-45. Humphreys & ‘I don’t know who is ahead, but it’s Oxford 1992-96. He was Treasurer of the Glasgow Ltd 1945 -67, designing and or Cambridge’. On graduating he joined Winchester College Mission for twenty building gas works world wide. Radiation Burmah Shell in India where he remained five years. He was a passionate Ltd 1967-70, Tube Investments plc 1970- from 1951 to 1969. He adored India and Wykehamist. Rockley Wilson marked him 81. Chairman, Council of Society of maintained his Indian friends for the rest out as ‘a dyed-in-the wool Wykehamist’ on British Gas Industries 1970-72; Chairman of his life. He was the Chairman of the meeting him in Kingsgate Street as a 12 and Managing Director Raleigh Industries Oxford Mission in Calcutta. Later in life year old in the company of Gilbert Ashton Ltd 1974-81 at a time when Raleigh were he was successively Chairman, Fibre Resin

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Developments in Cowes, Isle of Wight, moving on to be Managing Director, officer and a gentleman, loved by his Managing Director, RACOLE Ltd, South Africa subsidiary. 1964 returned soldiers and brother officers alike. He Director, Cryogenic Consultants Ltd and home to join main board until never married. Senior Adviser Hill Samuel Ltd. Music nationalisation of steel industry 1967. and singing were his passion. A chorister Director supplies and transport, British Francis Irvine Caird (Coll, 41-46): died at prep school, he still sang in the choir at Steel Corporation 1968-72, which he did 26.6.2011. Top of College Roll 1940. As St Matthews, Weeke into his last years. not like, saying: ‘I was a very uncivil civil Bib Prae conducted HM George VI round Win Coll owes him a great debt of servant’. Joined board of Ocean Transport Moberly Library following Ad Portas May gratitude for his co-editorship with Colin and Trading 1973, Chairman 1980-87. 1946. Greek Prose Prize 1946. Classics Badcock of the 1930-75 Register. In 1958 Director, Overseas Container Holdings Scholarship to New College, Oxford; married Gillian Brocklebank, who 1979-86. President, General Council of Changing from Classics to Medicine at survives him with a son (COBC: F, 74–78) British Shipping 1984-85, and for five the end of his first term required him to and two daughters. years of International Shipping learn Chemistry from scratch in 6 Federation. Awarded CBE for his services months. Nevertheless he was awarded a Caryl Reginald Chilton (D, 40-45): died to shipping 1985. On retirement he was first in Medicine. BA 1950, Oxford: 28.10.2009. VIII 1945. Commissioned an inspirational national chairman of Clinical Scholar, Oxford Radcliffe into Coldstream Guards 1946. Left the Help the Aged 1988-95. A keen shot and Infirmary: MB, BCh, 1953. He completed army in 1948 to join British-American enthusiastic golfer, he was one of the his National Service as a Clinical Officer Tobacco Group, working mainly abroad. longest serving members of the in the RAMC. MRCP (London) 1955. Subsequently he worked with WD & HO Honourable Company of Edinburgh DM Oxford 1960 for his research into Wills in Bristol, 1963; JK Farnell & Co, Golfers, otherwise known as Muirfield, cardiac valvular disease in the elderly. 1967; Imperial Life Assurance Company having been elected 1st January 1948. He Senior Medical Registrar, Radcliffe of Canada (Pall Mall); 1970; Kabor Ltd, a is survived by Elizabeth, his wife of 58 Infirmary 1961. Moved to Glasgow in subsidiary of BAT Industries, 1970; and years and their two sons and daughter. 1967 as Senior Lecturer and Honorary finally William P Solomon Ltd, 1974 Consultant in Geriatric Medicine, before retiring to East Malling, Kent. David Bullock Severn (K, 40-44): died Stobhill Hospital, University of Glasgow; Married 1954, Jane Hollins, who 18.7.2011. Brother of the late CDGS (K, Reader 1975, succeeding Sir Ferguson predeceased him. 35-40). Commissioned into Black Watch Anderson as only the second Professor of 1946. Athletics 1950-59 (captaining the Geriatric Medicine 1979. Retiring in Andrew Basil Ingram Fuller (E,40-45): winning team at the Army 1994 he returned to Oxford. He was a key died 4.12.2004. Oriel College, Oxford Championships 1958). Served with Black figure in establishing the academic basis (Army Course) 1945. Commissioned into Watch in Berlin, BAOR, Palestine, for the speciality of geriatric medicine in 3rd Hussars 1947, served in BAOR, Korea, Kenya and Cyprus. Training the second half of the 20th century. For retired as a Major 1960. Aden Officer, St Andrews University OTC this he was recognised formally by the Government 1960; Sultan’s Armed 1961-64 before serving with the Trucial award of Honorary Fellowship of the Forces, Muscat 1968; Abu Dhabi Defence Oman Scouts until retiring as a Major in Royal College of Speech and Language Force 1970. 1973. Bridge and golf were his pastimes. Therapists 1992, and the British As at home on the golf course at St Geriatrics Society’s President’s medal William Napier Menzies-Wilson (A, 40- Andrews as in the sand dunes of Oman. 1993. Married Angela Alsop 1956 (died 44): died 9.6.2011. Father of JRM-W (A, In Kenya, during the Mau Mau 1984). He is survived by their son and two 71-75), grandfather of RNM-W (H, 01- emergency, orders were issued that when daughters. 06) and JBM-W (H, 05-10). Grandson of confronted by a rhino one should stand Scottish Missionaries murdered in China still and jump aside at the last minute. Anthony Robin Hodgkinson (D, 42-46): during Boxer Rebellion. Editor of The Few were prepared to put this to the test. died 8.5.2011. Grandfather of JA Wykehamist. Commissioned into Rifle On one patrol the call went out ‘Rhino’, Johnston (G, 06-11). VI 1945, Fives Brigade 1945. His service in Germany all ran for the nearest tree except Captain 1946. RMAS 1947-48, Soccer XI. included guard duty during the Severn, who stood his ground and Commissioned into Royal Artillery 1948; Nuremburg Trials. Demobbed 1947. New achieved instant fame for kicking the initially he served in Hong Kong, Korea College, Oxford: 2 PPE, BA 1950. Won rhino as it thundered by at 30mph. Not and Japan, during which time he served as graduate traineeship with Stewart and normally fleet of foot, he was very clever Artillery Liaison Officer on HMS Belfast Lloyds. 1953 promoted Managing and had the reputation for completing in the Far East. Later served in BAOR Director, Rhodesian subsidiary, before The Times crossword in 20 minutes. An both at regimental duty with 1RHA and

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on the staff, finally serving as ADC to Alan Peter Hornby (I, 46-51): died 15 1973-75. Commanding Officer 3 Ulster General Jock McNeil, Commander July 2011. 3rd generation Wykehamist Defence Regiment 1975-77. Colonel British Army Staff in Washington 1960- father to son. RMA Sandhurst 1952-53. General Staff HQ School of Infantry 1977- 62, before retiring as a Major in 1963. He Commissioned into 17/21 Lancers 1953. 79. Principal Staff Officer to Deputy worked for Schweppes Ltd 1963-68. He Serving throughout in BAOR where he Commander-in-Chief HQ AFCENT (Air and his family settled at Seend in played polo and was a legend as an Chief Marshall Sir John Gingell) 1979-82. Wiltshire where he became a pillar of the outstanding Troop Leader. Retired as a Head of Joint Warfare Staff 1982-84 before community. President of both Cricket and Captain 1959. Stock Exchange 1959-60. retiring as Colonel in 1984. Regimental Football clubs and Captain of the Golf Then followed a period in the doldrums, Secretary Royal Green Jackets and KRRC Club. Having had both hips replaced, he which included selling second hand 1984-99. An accomplished cricketer, was very proud to achieve a hole-in-one cranes in Shepherds Bush, which brought outstanding golfer and knowledgeable aged 76. He is survived by Katherine, his him down to rock bottom. But his spirit fisherman. On his 21st birthday he took 7 wife of 57 years and their four daughters. never wavered. His skill lay in for 47 and scored 112 not out for Band of salesmanship and at the age of 47 he put Brothers against St Edmund’s School, Duncan Martyn Watney (H, 45-49): died his strength to good effect and became a Canterbury and in a regimental match 8 July 2011. Bisley 1948-49. Trinity Life Insurance Salesman. In the next 30 once took 5 wickets in 5 balls, all hitting College, Cambridge 1949 2 Nat. Sci. Pt 1 years he turned his life round, becoming the stumps, surely unique at any level of 1952, BA. Cambridge University one of the top five Financial Consultants cricket. Handicap 3 golfer, played in shooting team 1951. A third-generation in the Insurance business. He had always Halford Hewitt Cup 1973-83; Captain doctor, he trained at St George’s Hospital had a love of the country and became a Army Golf Society and President Old 1952-55, winning Class Prize in renowned arborealist, planting by his own Wykehamist Golf Society. 6 holes-in-one. pathology, Brackenbury Prize in medicine. hand hundreds of trees at his beautiful As a fisherman he gave Nick Faldo a day’s House physician 1955, resident home in Wiltshire. Earlier in life he fishing on the Test, in return for which obstetrician assistant 1956. tackled the Cresta Run, led a team in the Nick Faldo gave a golf clinic for Commissioned Royal Navy Medical London to Sydney car rally and ran a Wykehamist golfers on New Field. He Service 1956, serving as families’ medical couple of London Marathons in his fifties. never married – his regiment was his family. officer and SMO HM Naval Base, Later in life he gave generous support to Singapore 1956-59. Marston Green Air Ambulance and the RNLI, and as a Brian Rankin Connelly (E, 53–58): died Maternity Hospital, Birmingham 1959- member of the British Legion joined the 6.7.2007. Running Stripe. Imperial 60. In general practice for 31 years in ranks of those lining the street in College, London. Crowborough from 1960. JP 1964. Wootton Bassett for the repatriation of Pursuing his strong belief that a General the fallen. Married Prue Gilmer who Mansur Ali Khan (Tiger) Nawab of Practitioner should have interests outside survives him with their son and daughter. Pataudi (K, 54-59): died 22.9.2011. medicine and his determination to pay Father of SAKP (K, 84-89). Lord’s 1956- back to society for all the advantages in Ian Hamilton McCausland (B, 47-52): 59 (Captain 1959), VI 1956-58, his upbringing, he established a Citizen’s died 16.8.2011. Lord’s 1950-52, VI 1950- Association XI 1957-59. Paget Bat 1956 Advice Bureau, a Community 51, Running Stripe 1950. Captain 2nd XI (forerunner of Van der Noot Bat); winner Association and a Counselling service. Soccer. Unusually first attended Eaton Hall with Christopher Snell (A, 55-60) Public During his fifties and while still working as a National Serviceman before going on Schools Rackets Championship 1959. He as a GP, he achieved a First Class Honours to RMA Sandhurst 1953-55; Cricket XI made his first class debut for Sussex during Degree at the Open University. His 1954. Commissioned into KRRC 1955. the summer holidays 1957. In 1959 he service to Crowborough was recognised by Served with 2nd Battalion KRRC in scored 1,068 runs for Lord’s, beating the the presentation of the Civic Award Germany, Tripoli and Northern Ireland record of 997 runs established by Douglas 1991. Master of the Mercers’ Company 1955-60; Adjutant Queen’s Westminsters Jardine in 1919, and also scored an 1994. Governor of Collyer’s School, (TA) 1960-61; Adjutant 2nd Battalion aggregate of 2,956 runs during his time in member of the Council of Gresham Royal Green Jackets Berlin and Colchester Lord’s; both records still stand. Balliol College and for some years served as 1961-63. Following three years in Ministry College, Oxford, Oriental Languages and Medical Member of the Independent of Defence, Instructor Army Staff College History. OUCC 1960, 1961 and 1963, Tribunal Service. Married (1) Sylvia Khartoum 1970. Student US Armed Forces scoring a century at Lord’s as a Freshman. Baker April 1954 (died 2000) and (2) Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia 1970-71. Appointed Captain in 1961, he was 92 Edie 2008 who survives him with his two Military Assistant to Vice Chief of the runs short of beating his father’s record of adopted children and step-daughter. General Staff (General Sir David Fraser) 1,307 for Oxford, when, just before the

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university match, a car accident virtually India, was instituted in recognition of the audience out of a play at the Traverse deprived him of the sight of his right eye. contribution to Indian cricket by the two Theatre that sought to justify paedophilia, With experimentation and Nawabs. He was therefore in London a standing up and protesting ‘This is a determination, he was back at the crease, few weeks before he died to present the disgrace, you should be ashamed of making his Test debut less than five Pataudi Trophy to the victorious England yourselves’. Member of Royal Company of months later. In March 1962, in the West captain, Andrew Strauss. In 1969 married Archers. Married Lois-May Tulloch June Indies, he replaced the injured Contractor Sharmila Tagore, who survives him with 1967, who survives him with his son and to become the youngest Test captain (21 their son and two daughters. Obituaries in two daughters. years and 77 days) in the history of the The Times and The Telegraph. game. He captained India in 40 of his 46 Geoffrey Nicholas (Jiff) Peren (C, 04-08): Tests. He returned to captain Oxford John Ralph Neves (Coll, 55-59): died died 23.7.2011 as a result of a road traffic 1963, surely unique to captain his 17.4.2011. Scholarship, New College, accident in Wellington, New Zealand. He university at Lord’s after captaining his Oxford: M.A. 1963. Followed a career as was a proud Kiwi whose accent earned country. Later following his mentor, freelance journalist and linguist. him the nickname ‘Jiff’. He quickly threw Hubert Doggart, he captained Sussex Developed interest in European literature himself into all that Winchester had to 1966. Between 1957 and 1976 he played at Marburg University, Germany. Later in offer. A keen sportsman – Cricket Sen 310 first class matches, scoring 15,425 Austria wrote reviews of new German Colts A, Basketball 1st Team and Golf 1st runs. He had few opportunities to play literature for Times Literary Supplement; in team from a young age. Increasingly Old Wykehamist cricket, but his 88 runs Cyprus he edited the Cypriot Newspaper expressed his feelings through Art. Spent against Old Malvernians in the quarter- for expats. The author of two books for his Gap Year as a young ambassador with final of the Cricketer Cup paved the way children in German published in British Arts Council in China 2010, for the Old Wykehamists to win the cup Germany. Dogged by ill health almost before attending Chelsea College of Art for the first time in 1970. In the 1990s he throughout his adult life. Plagued by and Design. Some of his paintings hang in officiated as a match referee in Tests and schizophrenia and subsequently kidney Cook’s. Turned down offers from British One Day Internationals. In company with failure and Parkinson’s Disease, always universities to return to study in New Richard Noble (E, 59-64), holder of the uncomplaining and cheerful, he was Zealand. A talented, loyal, generous and world land speed record, he was received bolstered throughout by his formidable sensitive young man. Ad Portas 2004. In his welcoming speech intellect and Christianity. Spent his last the Aulae Prae enjoyed reminding him few years being looked after in the We are aware of the following deaths and will that he scored a golden duck against wonderfully caring St John’s Home, be including further information in the next College in Toye Pot during the only Oxford, and supported by his former wife issue: Cloister Time he did not play for Lord’s. Hannah, and his daughters Sarah and His love for the School may be summed Esther. IGD Dunlop (C, 38-43): died on 10.9.2011 up by the story he told in his Ad Portas PB Boucher (C, 39-43): died on 24.10.2011 response: ‘On my way back to London David Graham Donaldson (F, 57-62): EM Clague (E, 40-45): died on 17.10.2011 from playing for the Indians against died 3 August 2011. Stepson of J Dunlop JP Cornford (A, 48-53): died 26.9.2011 Hampshire at Southampton, I stopped to (D,14-18), brother of PGD (F, 51-55) and RN Younger ((I, 48-53): died on 7.4 2010 meet my housemaster, Podge Brodhurst, JWBD (F, 55-59). VI 1961-62 (Captain RM Stewart (B, 51-57): died on 31.8.2011 and asked him to keep a place for my son, 62). Brown University, USA 1963-64. AD Ferguson (A, 52-56): died on 7.3.2005 saying that I would give him his name as Accountancy apprenticeship Thomson IM Sproat D, 52-57): died on 29.9.2011 and when he was born.’ Universally McLintock, Edinburgh 1964-68. CA RJS Hoare (B, 69-74): died on 20.9.2011 popular, even at an early stage he 1970. 15 years working with Scott- possessed a certain dignity. Reflecting Moncrieff Thomson & Shiells CA Erratum: we must apologise for having later on a beating he had received for (partner 1978-88), subsequently both omitted and misunderstood some of some trivial offence, he remarked, ‘Better managing director Alba Trees before the information supplied for Professor to have a sore bottom than a swollen ending his career with the Noble Group Colin Normand (Coll, 41-46)’s obit in head’. He retained many long lasting in 2008. Squash, tennis, curling and golf the last issue. He was also: BM, BCh. friendships with Old Wykehamists and were his sports, but shooting was his 1952, MA 1956 …. and Foundation was a frequent visitor to Winchester, passion. A keen fisherman, he caught four Professor of Child Health, University of notably in 2006 for Podge Brodhurst’s salmon in two days on the Carron just Southampton 1971-93, Dean of Medicine Funeral Service. In 2007 the Pataudi three months before he died. Never 1990-93. ■ Trophy, contested between England and normally judgemental, he led half the

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Winchester College Society

Office 17 College Street The Obituarist Winchester From the Director Christopher Van der Noot (K, 1953-57) SO23 9LX Another Centenarian! Telephone: 01962 621217 has kindly agreed to take on the role of Facsimile: 01962 621218 Many congratulations indeed to the Trusty Servant Obituarist. He appears to E-mail: [email protected] number two on our roll of Ten Sen Men have taken to this challenge like a duck Web site: www.winchestercollege.co.uk on reaching 100 – not out! Derek Evans to water, displaying his inimitable Directors: David Fellowes (I, 63-67) reached this remarkable milestone on enthusiasm, alongside the requisite levels Lorna Stoddart 29th July 2011. I am delighted to report of sympathy and diplomacy. I am already that, for the third issue running, the roll indebted to him. The Council has remained unchanged. William Eccles (H, 73-77) - Chairman Don Associate Rod Parker (A, 61-65) My colleagues in the Win Coll Soc office David Fellowes (I, 63-67) and I have been delighted by the arrival Richard Morse (K, 72-76) of a new recruit to our ranks at the beginning of Short Half, the recently Toby Stubbs (E, 72-77) retired CO of the CCF, Lt. Col. Michael Rupert Younger (F, 79-84) Wallis. Michael has been on the teaching Paul Cleaver (H, 85-90) staff at Winchester for at least 25 years Alasdair Maclay (Coll, 86-91) and has thereby come to know a vast Michael Humbert (B, 90-95) range of younger Old Wykehamists. Among other tasks for us, he will be Mark Toone (E, 90-95) helping me with relevant events (even Ed Matthews (K, 91-96) most of those undergraduate Pizza Freddie Bjorn ((H, 95-00) Evenings, which I have so much enjoyed) Dr RD Townsend - Headmaster and will, of course, provide the ideal link A little tinkering around the between Common Room and the Lorna Stoddart - Director of Development edges of the ‘Class of’ Reunions Development Office, as he continues in Tamara Templer – Deputy Director of his role as Chairman of Common Room. After two years of these reunions, those Development who have attended them, whether they have been held ‘home’ or ‘away’, have left TEN SEN MEN me in absolutely no doubt at all that they AGCF Campbell Murdoch (C, 24-29) have been both very enjoyable and DJJ Evans (F, 25-29) thoroughly worthwhile occasions, the only regrets being the relatively low MR Evans DFC (H, 27-30) turnouts and a preference for either Dr J Gask (K, 28-33) ‘home’ or ‘away’. It is, of course, difficult JST Gibson (Coll, 29-34) to please everyone, but, after various Lt. Col. The Lord [GNC] Wigram MC soundings, the following simple-enough (H, 28-34) ideas have found favour: PW Ward-Jackson (G, 29-33) (a) broadening each reunion by a year Dr JF Monk (A, 29-34) either side of the actual ‘10 Year-on’ year Lt. Col. AD Murray (K, 29-34) and (b) in most, but not all, cases, alternating each year between ‘home’ and JL Pinsent (E, 29-35) ‘away’. These changes will be introduced for all the 2012 reunions as follows:

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• 20 Years-on Dinner for the Classes of little ‘blurring around the edges’ of those to Philip Low (G, 2004-09) for organising ’91, ’92 & ’93 – in London – and, at Classes, all well and good – the more the the first of, it is to be hoped, many such least for the time being, probably always merrier, I say, and to those outside the evenings for Oxford undergraduates. in London. prescribed parameters, please just ask for Vince Broderick’s Memorial Service – an invitation! • 30 Years-on Dinner for the Classes of the genuine affection in which Vince was ’81, ’82 & ’83 – in London, whilst the The full list of 2012 events can be found, held could be seen from the turnout for Classes of ’82, ’83 & ’84 will be in as usual, on the back page. the service in Chapel on 7th May and for Winchester, for XVs, ‘div’ etc, in 2013; the party in the Warden’s Garden the Classes of ’83, ’84 & ’85 will return Chapel Choir Reunion in 2012 thereafter. Should anyone like to read the to London in 2014. As previously announced, there is to be a excellent Address, delivered in Chapel by reunion on Saturday, 30th June. Please let Richard Priestley (A, 60-65) in his • 40 Years-on Dinner for the Classes of us know if you would like to be invited, capacity as President of the OW Cricket ’71, ’72 & ’73 – in Winchester, for should you not already have done so. Club, please let the Director know. XVs, ‘div’ etc, then in London in 2013, and so on. OW News section (pages 20 – 24) OW Visual Arts Evening – Ceci n’est pas une réunion Wiccamicale: instead the • 50 Years-on Dinner for the Classes of There are times when various sections are slideshow opened with present ’61, ’62 & ’63 – in Winchester, for a little sparse, even blank. Please do Collegeman, Richard Freeland’s witty and VIs, ‘div’ etc, then in London in 2013, volunteer and share your news with our award-winning talk on Magritte’s Ceci and so on. readership, including, by all means, under the new heading of ‘Announcements’ • 60 Years-on Lunch for the Classes of (with no apologies for a certain entry!). ’51, ’52 & ’53 – in London, in Winchester in 2013 for a Lunch before The next OW Register VIs, then back to London in 2014. This is a further reminder to fill in the It is to be hoped that, in such a way, form already supplied to you, necessary to everybody will have not only at least one update your entry to go in the seventh shot at their preferred venue, but also edition of the Win Coll Register. The three shots at attending – and why not editors urge you to complete this and come to all three?! return it AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, please. n’est pas une pipe. Thereafter, there was a In addition, and at either end of the steady and diversified stream of excellent above spectrum: Yet more about our rackets presentations: an architect ranging from a contemporary Palladian country house in • 65+ Years-on Lunches will probably heritage ... Wiltshire to a public convenience beside always be held in London and on an Just when I thought I had put the record Hungerford Bridge on the South Bank; a every-other-year basis, starting again in straight by owning up in the last issue to bronze foundry working on ambitious 2012, but I will take soundings on that two omissions from our role of past scale; a photographer inspired by Greek occasion as to whether there is any winners at Queen’s, yet another gem has myths; a young financier painting with demand for a Winchester event. been brought to my attention! One JDFM oils and collage; a curator showing his Thornton (D, 1943-48) followed Hughie • 10 Years-on Reunions will continue to works; even a collector not showing the Webb’s 1944 footsteps in winning the be run by volunteers on whatever basis works he’d missed! Art Convoy also Public Schools Handicap Singles (the they may choose, but most probably in featured, a non-commercial project, fore-runner to the present-day Foster London. founded by two OWs and involving an Cup) in December 1947. Michael itinerant troop of artists who paint on For all of these reunions, the key to Thornton achieved this without dropping hills, by rivers, or in the City. success remains, as ever, that you should a single game in the entire competition be making as much effort as you can to and in spite of being burdened by a There was more, much more, of course. encourage your particular ‘mates’ to particularly stiff handicap! What a triumph the evening was, the attend and not relying on others to ensure secret ingredient being a refreshing an excellent turnout for you. Peer-pressure Some events – from April 2011 transparency of intent! This was an remains by far the best means of to mid-October opportunity for Wykehamists, whether recruiting, and if this should lead to a Pizza Evening in Oxford – thanks are due OWs or men still in the School, but all

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with specific common interests, to meet, Cotswolds to Chilterns Regional Dinner to share and to enjoy. This was a – the benefit of a truly representative genuinely stimulating event, all skilfully gathering of the Wykehamical family was brought together on 12th May by in evidence for all those who attended Laurence Wolff at Ben Brown (E, 1981- this event on 8th September, held at the 86)’s Fine Arts Gallery in Brooke’s Mews, splendid Ditchley Park, near Chipping the hospitality provided by Mike Norton. Of the 51 in attendance, there Symonds (G, 1986-91)’s Rocket Foods. were 16 non-OW parents, both past and All lucky enough to be present were present, 2 Fellows and their spouses, 1 greatly indebted to all three. Headmaster and his wife, and 16 OWs, some of whom had brought guests. Your Arthur Dunn Cup Winners Dinner – Director was a happy man! please refer to page 16 for further details. Winchester Summer Party – Over 340 parents attended the inaugural Winchester Summer Party. A drinks reception was followed by dinner, the whole event accompanied by a Jazz Quartet. This was a fun and informal way for parents to meet each other. The online auction and raffle raised over £30,000 towards the purchase of Winchester Summer Party photovoltaic panels for New Hall roof. Drew Travel Scholarship Exhibition

Reunion Lunch for the 1946 Election Drew Travel Scholarship Exhibition - as gave everyone an opportunity to view the Roll – thanks to the valiant efforts of a tribute to Grahame Drew and in excellent work of the current Scholars, as Chris Minter (Coll, 1946-51), 15 celebration of twenty years of the Drew well as some paintings by Grahame Collegemen and 4 Exhibitioners were Travel Scholarship Award, past scholars, himself. present for a lunch, hosted by the Master donors and friends of Grahame gathered in College in his Dining-Room, on 25th in Art School at Winchester on 10th The celebration also provided the perfect June. Sen Man present was Robert Hardy, September to celebrate his varied life as a occasion to thank the supporters of the whilst Peter Parker headed up the 1946 teacher, painter and gardener. The event Scholarship Award, especially those who Election Roll. had given to the recent Appeal, which raised nearly £75,000. The original target was achieved more than twice over, thanks not only to the impetus provided by a most welcome challenge donor, but also to another particularly generous donation, given in memory of the benefactor’s son. This significant increase in funds will mean that more boys will be able to enjoy the opportunity to travel and thereby to broaden their horizons, thus preserving Grahame’s wonderful legacy for future generations. Wykeham Day – the weather gods were kind enough to us for most of the day on Saturday, 17th September, when a record turnout of OWs and other guests enjoyed a variety of attractions on offer, following the very well-attended service in Chapel. Two plaques were dedicated in Old Reunion Lunch for the 1946 Election Roll

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Cloister before lunch, first to Michael Burchnall (Housemaster of Freddie’s, 1962-74 and a member of Common Room, 1949-83), and then to Sir George Dyson (Master of Music, 1924-37). The truly fabulous Kings James Bible Exhibition was in full-swing throughout the day in School, more of which has been written at the beginning of this issue, whilst a reconstituted ICENA Club met to formalise matters in the marquee later in the day. Martin Knowles, (K, 1946-51) provided his recollections of the ICENA part of the day, which can be found on page 23. It was a delight to discover so many new faces, for whom the whole ‘Wykeham Day experience’ was a revelation; may their day have been the first of many more to come – please spread Wykeham Day the word!

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Colin Badcock (Coll, 1939-43, Housemaster of Chawker’s, 1962-76, who joined Common Room on the same day as MLB) started his dedication speech with the following lines: ‘The Masque opens with the workmen beginning to build Win Coll in 1387. In that very year Chaucer was beginning to build his Canterbury Tales. I think the two operations occupied the same years of 1387 and following. So with Chaucer, Burchnall and Winchester College, I think we can all say ‘the lot is fallen unto us in a fair ground: yea, we have a goodly heritage’. 25 – 40 Dinner – held on 22nd September, for the first time at The 25-40 Dinner Cavalry and Guards Club in London, and, by all accounts, all the better for the ‘Class of’ Reunions change of venue. 57 OWs (though some 60 Years-on Reunion Lunch for the marginally over the threshold applied a Class of ’51 – 14 OWs from this era certain Wykehamical cunning in spotting gathered at The Cavalry and Guards Club an ‘s’ on the invitation to the ‘25s to 40s on 6th October, with Haigh Carthew (G, Dinner’ – the positively middle-aged were 1946-51) particularly worthy of a hugely welcome, of course!) enjoyed mention, having flown over from Canada listening to speeches, first from the to see his contemporaries. The Sub- Warden and then from Henry Knapman Warden, Robert Sutton (I/Coll, 1966-71) (B, 1986-91). Common Room was apprised his audience of ‘things represented by Rob Wyke, Michael Wallis Wykehamical’, and Hooky Walker (F, and Anthony Dakin, whilst the ‘Old 1946-50) responded; he also took the Man’ for the evening was Jonathan honours as Sen Man present. Howe-Jones (E, 1982-87). East Anglian Regional Dinner – the National Trust’s Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds, was the venue for the latest of three dinners to be held in East Anglia over the past 7 years. A select band of 28 turned out on a fine evening on 29th September, amongst whom Geoff Hewitson (Housemaster of Beloe’s, 1970- 85) and his companion, Mrs Judy Shedden, were particular welcome. In recognition of the sad news of ‘Tiger’ Pataudi’s death only a week earlier, Richard Jefferson (A, 1954-60) entertained his audience with cricketing reminiscences about Tiger, in response to the Director’s earlier speech. The Sen Man was John Rigby (C, 1939-44), who later reported that he had somehow managed to survive having overlooked the invitation being intended to include his wife, also a keen 60 Years-on Reunion Lunch for the class of ’51 ‘Wykehamist’!

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40 Years-on Dinner for the Class of ’71 – once more, The Cavalry and Guards Club provided their admirable facilities on 13th October for an occasion at which the Sen Man, David Dannreuther (F, 1966-71) responded to an earlier speech by Michael St John Parker (current Fellow and former member of Common Room, 1969-75). In all, 21 attended the occasion, of whom 18 represented the Class of ’71. 10 Years-on Reunion for the Class of ’01 - thanks to Adrian Horsewood (D, 1996-01)’s enthusiastic organisation, sixty OWs from his year-group gathered in the Royal Society of Arts vaults in London for an evening reception on 20th October. All houses were represented, with Cook’s fielding the most impressive turn-out. Michael Wallis spoke about the most striking changes at the School over 40 Years-on Dinner for the class of ’71 the last 10 years – the ‘new’ HM, the introduction of Wykeham Junior Fellows, logistics for this event, please do feel free The books themselves are available at the ever-increasing demand for bursaries – to contact Rohan on: £10, to those wishing to complete their and also the many things that have [email protected]. I am quite sure set, as is the slip-case, though should you remained the same. The other dons in he would welcome some assistance, wish to purchase the full set of books and attendance were AJPA, PGC, CSM and particularly if you would be prepared to the slip-case, this will cost PSAT, as well as former Senior Chaplain, help him by whipping up only £35. The cost of Robert Ferguson. support within your postage will be assessed particular House or with each order. Please group of friends. contact Kate Ross should you wish to place an order Long Rolls for sale ([email protected]). The College Archivist, Suzanne Foster, has a Limited Print number of Long Rolls Reproductions of the which are surplus to Commoner Houses requirement. Should you and of Flint Court, by be interested in acquiring James Cartwright (H, one (particularly from 10 Years-on Reunion for the class of ’01 2000!), please contact 2001-06) Suzanne direct at: As reported in the last two issues, Dates for your Diary in 2012 have been [email protected] these particularly fine drawings are tabled on the back page. Please mark up available at £29.50 at your diaries NOW with any event that All from the Same Place www.winchestercollegedrawings.co.uk. If interests you and PLEASE encourage We have full sets of Malcolm Burr (C, 46- you would like to speak to James, his others to join you! 51)’s superb trilogy of books: All from the telephone number is 07920 427787. 20 % 10 Years-on Reception for the Class of Same Place, More from the Same Place and of every drawing sold will be donated to ‘02: Rohan Muralee (B, 1997-02) has Yet More from the Same Place, bound Winchester College. ■ nobly volunteered to arrange next year’s respectively in blue, red and brown – and reunion. Should you be interested or have now an attractive slip-case to hold all any contacts or suggestions about the three editions.

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Dates for you Diary 2012

2012: those who have been in Lord’s over the Speaker: Father Oliver Holt OSB. All 3rd February – Under 25s Dinner: at years to a lunch on New Field to celebrate OWs and families welcome – we will be Imperial College, in London. the life of ‘Tiger’ Pataudi (see page 28 for asking for an appropriate but modest his Obit). contribution towards the cost of the 4th February – XVs: Commoners v. lunch. For the School it is a ‘Y’ Sunday. 27th June – Henley Royal Regatta: the Houses. Kick-off at 2.30 pm on College Please let Mark Stephens (F, 1955-59), first day. Canvas. secretary of the Winchester College 4th February – 40 Years-on Reunion 30th June – Chapel Choir and Old Christian Fellowship, know if you are Dinner for the Classes of ’71, ’72 & Quirister Reunion Event: in Winchester. proposing to come by email on [email protected] or by letter ’73: in Winchester, after XVs. 5th July – Cook’s 150th Anniversary to Berakah, Larkins Lane, Kettle Green celebrations: at The Royal College of 9th March – Dinner to celebrate three Road, Much Hadham, Herts, SG10 6AJ. Cricketer Cup wins (in 1970, ’74 & Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in ’82): at The Cavalry and Guards Club, in London. Please read the following carefully: London. 7th July – Domum. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT 17th March – VIs: Commoners v. 14th September – Wykeham Patrons All data on Old Wykehamists, parents and Houses. Kick-off at 2.30pm on College Annual Dinner: in Winchester. others is securely held in the Winchester Canvas. College Society database and will be treated 15th September – Wykeham Day: in confidentially for the benefit of the Society, its 17th March – 50 Years-on Reunion Winchester. members and Winchester College. The data is Dinner for the Classes of ’61, ’62 & available to the Win Coll Soc office and, upon ’63: in Winchester, after VIs. 27th to 30th September – Wykeham appropriate application from its membership, Patrons to Provence: a house-party at to recognised societies, sports and other clubs 22nd March – 20 Years-on Dinner for Crillon le Brave. associated with the School. Data is used for a the Classes of ’91, ’92 & ’93: at The full range of alumni activities, including the 2nd October – Reception for Parents of Cavalry and Guards Club, in London. distribution of Win Coll Soc, Wyk Soc and Years 1 & 2: at Lincoln’s Inn in London. 24th March – The 2012 Icena Club other School publications, notification of events and the promotion of any benefits and Dinner - at the Hurlingham Club, 9th October – 65+ Years-on Lunch for the Class of ’47 and earlier: at The services that may be available. Data may also Fulham. Wives and partners are welcome. be used for fundraising programmes, but may Cavalry and Guards Club in London. If you are interested please email not be passed to external commercial or other [email protected] 11th October – 60 Years-on Lunch for organisations, or sold on auction sites. 19th April – Scottish Dinner: at the the Classes of ’51, ’52 & ’53: at The New Club in Edinburgh. Guests, Cavalry and Guards Club in London. including wives and partners, will be very 18th October – 30 Years-on Dinner for welcome. the Classes of ’81, ’82 & ’83: at The 6th to 12th May – Wykeham Patrons Cavalry and Guards Club in London. trip to the US: ‘The Land and Legacy of [Probably] 2nd November – OW Bath DC and Virginia: a Cradle of Democracy’. Meeting: at the Bath Spa Hotel 26th May – Public Schools Lodges’ 13th November – OW Reception: at Council: in Winchester, including Lincoln’s Inn. Lunch. 16th November – Goddard Legacy 6th June – Reception for Parents of Society Lunch: in Winchester. Years 3 & 4: in Winchester. There will be an ecumenical service for 23rd June – Winchester Day: including the Week of Christian Unity on Sunday cricket: OWCC v. Lords and 2nd XI. 22nd January in Chapel at 10.30 am Plans are already being made to invite all followed by a buffet lunch in Musa.

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