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The Salopian No TITLE HERE 1 THE SALOPIAN SALOPIAN CLUB FORTHCOMING EVENTS n More details can be found on the Salopian Club website: www.shrewsbury.org.uk/page/os-events n Sporting fixtures at: www.shrewsbury.org.uk/page/os-sport (Click on individual sport) THE SALOPIAN Issue No. 160 - Summer 2017 n Except where stated, email: [email protected] All Shrewsbury School parents (including former parents) and guests of members are most welcome at the majority of our events. It is our policy to include in all invitations all former parents for whom we have contact details. The exception is any event marked ‘Old Salopian’ which, for reasons of space, is restricted to Club members only (e.g. Birmingham Dinner). Supporters or guests are always very welcome at Salopian Club sporting or arts events. Emails containing further details are sent out prior to all events, so please make sure that we have your up to date contact details. Date Event Venue Mon 7 – Thu 10 Aug Saracens Devon Tour Devon (Various) Wed 27 Sep Chapel Choir sings Evensong at Keble Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG College, Oxford Sat 30 Sep Old Salopian Day Shrewsbury School 12.15pm onwards Please see magazine insert for details and booking form. Wed 1 Nov Tour of the British Museum Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 4.00pm London, WC1B 3DG Thu 23 Nov Salopian Club AGM and City Drinks Royal Air Force Club, 128 Piccadilly, AGM 5pm Mayfair, London, W1J 7PY Drinks and Canapés from 6pm Thu 30 Nov Salopian Club Birmingham Drinks All Bar One, Newhall Street, Drinks and Canapés from 6pm Birmingham, B3 3NY Sun 3 Dec Salopian Club and Foundation Alington Hall, Shrewsbury School Drinks and Canapés from 6.30pm Christmas Drinks Mon 11 Dec New York Dinner New York Racquet and Tennis Club, 7.15pm 370 Park Avenue, NY 10022 Drinks in the Ante Room from 6.30pm Wed 10 Jan 2018 Salopian Club Epiphany Service St Mary-le-Bow, London, EC2V 6AU 7.00pm Wed 17 Jan 2018 Salopian Club Committee Meeting Stephenson Harwood, London, EC2M 7SH Thu 8 Mar 2018 Birmingham Dinner St Paul’s Club, Birmingham, B3 1QZ Mon 12 Mar 2018 Schools’ Head of the River Race The Blue Anchor, Hammersmith, Gathering W6 9DJ Fri 13 Apr 2018 President’s Dinner Wadham College, Oxford, OX1 3PN Sun 20 May 2018 A Celebration of John Moore Musicals The Manoukia Music Centre, Westminster School, SW1P 3PF Issue No. 160 - Summer 2017 Issue No. www.shrewsbury.org.uk OLD SALOPIAN NEWS 103 Sir John Wood (Ch 1936-41) independence, integrity and industry. He was described by one divorce litigant who appeared before him as “The New appointment for Headmaster Mark Turner Sir John Kember Wood MC QC was born on 8th August model of a judge – charming, courteous, patient and 1922 in Hong Kong, the only child of the Deputy Chief endlessly interested. Light, fair, calming, charming, Shrewsbury School’s Headmaster, Mark Turner, has announced that he is to Justice of Hong Kong, Rosskruge Wood, and his wife, wise and just.” leave Shrewsbury at the end of the summer term 2018, to take up a new role Frances, a PNEU-trained governess. He was sent to prep as Head of St Michaels University School in Canada. school in England at the age of eight then on to Shrewsbury A gifted and enthusiastic raconteur, there was nothing School, living with the family of his cousin, Ray Cullimore. he liked more than bringing people together, most often Many years later, on circuit in Chester, he was tickled to around his dining room table, supported by Ann. Their hairman of Governors, be hosted by Cullimore, who was by then Under Sheriff hospitality and generosity was legendary, extending to CMatthew Collins, commented: of Cheshire. At Shrewsbury he was a respectable scholar the friends of their children and grandchildren in each “Under Mark Turner’s outstanding and versatile sportsman. He secured a place at Magdalene generation. He was a great enabler of others: many leadership since 2010, Shrewsbury College, Cambridge, before joining up. Every six months benefitted from his wisdom and enjoyed his good humour has evolved, grown, and during the war his father would write to Magdalene on these occasions. flourished. confirming that his son was still alive and that they should In retirement, Ann introduced him to fishing, and they “The move to co-education, which keep his place open for him at the end of the war. spent happy days on the River Anton. He continued to began in 2008, has been fully He joined the Rifle Brigade in August 1941, just after his chat up people from all stations: bus drivers, waiters, and successfully realised during 19th birthday, and was commissioned in May 1942, passing those next to him in the hospital queue and, on one this time. With more pupils on out top of his OCTU intake. He was sent on commando occasion, recommending his barber to Boris Johnson. He the school roll than at any time training at Lochailort, which he described as one of the sold poppies into his nineties and attended chambers and in its history, and a fourth girls’ scariest things he ever did, but passed out with an alpha Lincoln’s Inn parties and regimental reunions whenever house set to open in September, grade and an invitation to stay on as an instructor. This was he could. He never stopped taking an interest in and the School is in excellent heart. an indication of a life-long skill in developing people which encouraging young people. It is proud of the strength of its he never lost, always caring for and paying great attention He faced his diagnosis of cancer a year ago with typical boarding community and pastoral to the ordinary people who are the enablers in determination to beat the odds, never losing his zest and care, the academic, sporting and any community. enthusiasm for life, nor the twinkle in his eye. Only a few artistic achievements of its pupils, days before his death in January 2017 he wanted to know His overseas wartime service started in North Africa, and the beauty of its campus. the details of the Supreme Court decision on Article 50 including an adventure carrying gold bullion from Beirut to There is further testament to this (Brexit). He is survived by his wife, Ann, their son, daughter Aleppo for the Treasury, and continued in Italy, a country in the recent ISI Inspection report, and three grandsons. in which the School’s education to which he formed a long-lasting attachment. He was quality was classed as ‘excellent’ taken prisoner, having been one of two officers left standing in all respects. at the end of the Rifle Brigade 2nd Battalion’s brave but “Governors will be seeking a unsuccessful attempt to capture the elevated village of successor with the vision and Tossignano from recently-reinforced German defenders. The credentials to lead Shrewsbury two had to make the difficult decision to surrender when through the next stage of its the house in which they were based was blown up. He development. We are looking for always acknowledged that the German soldiers helped them experienced candidates from a to dig out their wounded comrades. Having spent some wide range of backgrounds and very cold and hungry months as a POW, he couldn’t look expect to make an appointment root vegetables in the eye for the rest of his life. later this year.” He was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in Italy during the period May to August 1944. The citation refers to “Dressing the wounds of those injured in the open To mark his final year at Shrewsbury, Mr Turner will be under continuous shell fire....coolness and cheerfulness in taking part in the Birmingham Vélo, a 100-mile sponsored unpleasant circumstances...daring patrols into enemy lines... cycle ride, with the aim of raising £10,000 for Shrewsbury initiative and untiring efforts (which) set a fine example House (The Shewsy) and Medic Malawi. to the members of his platoon, whose achievements have On his initiative, these two charities have become closely subsequently been of the highest order.” linked: in 2016, five girls from The Shewsy joined 11 He took the two-year shortened law course at Cambridge Shrewsbury School pupils to work at the Shrewsbury School and was called to the Bar in 1949. He married in 1952 Eye Clinic and orphanage run by Medic Malawi. This was (Kathleen) Ann Lowe: she remained his best friend and literally a life-changing experience: before the trip, only sounding board throughout his life. one of the girls from Liverpool was confident enough to apply for university. Since the trip, all five of them are now As a lawyer starting from modest beginnings, earning fees undergraduates, and John Dumbell, their youth worker, says of one or two guineas a time, John Wood developed a that it was “amazing to see their self-confidence blossom growing practice in commercial and family law, ultimately because of their experience in Africa”. There will be another enabling him to travel widely, including to Hong Kong, joint trip in July 2018. where he was born. Wood became Head of Chambers at 1 Mr Turner will join 15,000 other cyclists in the Birmingham Crown Office Row and introduced a number of innovations, Vélo on Sunday 24th September 2017. The route starts such as the use of telex machines, setting a trend for the and ends in the centre of Birmingham and passes through Bar in general. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1969 Worcestershire and Staffordshire via Sandwell and Dudley, and a High Court Judge in 1977.
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