THE KING’S SCHOOL IN MACCLESFIELDKING’S SPEECH FORMER THE FORMER PUPILS’ PUPILS’ MAGAZINE MAGAZINE Issue 05 Spring 2018 K i ng’s Speech Making Waves Commodore Jerry Kyd on taking command of the Royal Navy’s newest and most expensive strike aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth Sporting Hero Remembering a local legend from the cricket field to the battlefields of the First World War Headline Acts Read all about the former pupils writing the news Spring 2018 1 KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE IN THIS Editor’s Welcome ISSUE From the Helm ELCOME to this, the with a reasonably healthy Editor’s Welcome 2 fifth edition of King’s smattering of female former Bursaries not only acknowledge the have raised over £20m over the Speech. We had pupils there too – some of whom From the Helm 3 debt we owe to Sir John Percyvale last couple of decades, so King’s W some very encouraging have been regular annual dinner and our other benefactors, but they has a long way to go to match this From the Chair 4 responses to the 2017 attenders over quite a number of help keep the school grounded. As level of generosity. version and would again invite years, but some too who were a beneficiary of a free education Your News 4-5 As a start, we are in the process readers to respond to this one, definitely first-timers. Crucially it myself, I feel strongly that these ties of establishing the Percyvale especially if you have some was a full house and everyone Speakers’ Corner 6 to our local community matter and Legacy Society and are currently suggestions for future editions. seemed to enjoy the occasion. that all benefit from a school that is Making Waves 8-10 inviting our Founding Members socially inclusive. In the following pages, the Since last year’s edition, the to join us by pledging to leave Sporting Hero 12 Headmaster has contributed an school has appointed Lauren The increasing cost of a gift in their wills. Any sum will article that aims to inform former Tidey as Development & Alumni Headline Acts 14 independent education over the be appreciated and will make pupils about recent times at their Officer and she has already had years has sadly priced a growing a difference. Benefactors can alma mater, and once again too a significant input in developing Alumni Gala Dinner 16 number of families out of schools determine how their legacy is to be spent, though we hope that many there is an update on the progress the efficient operation of the Update: 2020 Vision 17 T the end of this academic like King’s. It is little wonder that being made in connection with Association. I would like on year, I will have spent as public perception is unsympathetic will wish to support the School’s the move to the new site that is behalf of members to welcome School News 18 long as Head at King’s as I as our schools are portrayed as Bursary Fund. now coming closer to fruition. her formally, and to wish her Aspent as a pupil. The one constant bastions of privilege and unfair If, as a School, we are to Elsewhere, there is the usual mix continuing success in her role. School Sports News 19-20 advantage. in this 14-year association with the address the challenges of access of lengthier pieces about what I must also express my huge Supporting King’s 21 school has been change; change The less inclusive we are and social mobility that are at the we hope you will find interesting thanks to Caroline Johnson for the across the generations as well as perceived to be, the more remote heart of keeping King’s the school aspects of former pupil activity, marvellous work she has done Obituaries 22-23 change within them. we become from our communities. it is, then we will need your help. not to mention reminiscences, in pulling together this edition This is, despite all that we strive Robert Kennedy, at the University of news items and more factual of King’s Speech; without her, it Events 24 The recent Gala Dinner held for to do by sharing our facilities, Cape Town in 1966, spoke of the updates on alumni achievements would not appear! Gill Mullarkey, the first time in the School’s Main supporting local charities and ability of ‘tiny ripples of hope’ to over the past year or so. There is too, in her second year, has Hall was a marvellous opportunity helping the 100 or so pupils a year combine together into a current that some information too about current maintained the same high for 130 former pupils to catch up who could not be at King’s without can achieve great things. I hope happenings at the school, but the standard of design that has been with friends, join current students financial support. that you will consider playing your school’s website and King’s Illustria the hallmark of the five editions on a tour of the school and part in the next big step change we publication are locations where of the magazine since it replaced examine material from the archives. If we are to remain true to the need at King’s. you can get much more detail on the much more basic Gazette in Six decades’ worth of alumni values of our founders, we need to this if you so wish. 2014. attended and the event raised over build up a significant endowment £2,000 for the Bursary Fund. fund to provide bursaries into You will read of the Spring As always, the compilation the future. The most successful Dr Simon Hyde 2018 Gala Dinner of the of the obituaries section of the I have written before about campaigns in the North West Headmaster Association. What a magazine yields both sadness the importance of bursaries in stroke of genius it was and happy memories. Two of the increasing opportunities for those to hold the event in deaths recorded in this edition who would otherwise lack the the school’s hall! are particularly noteworthy from financial means to attend King’s. Bursaries not only acknowledge the debt we owe to There were widely the standpoint of the FPA and “ Sir John Percyvale and our other benefactors, but they varied groups of its development as a voluntary former pupils in organisation bringing together help keep the school grounded. attendance and, I am members of the school community ” delighted to be over the years. able to say, Both Alan McInnes and Brian Hillson held important positions King’s Speech is produced by King’s within the Association in their Director of External Relations Caroline time, but more important, their Johnson, Editor Ian Wilson, Development contributions at different times both Officer Lauren Tidey and Designer Gill played a major, indeed vital, role Mullarkey. We’d love to receive your in keeping it in existence and in feedback or contributions for the making it what it is today. It will next issue. Please contact: forever be in their debt. [email protected] COVER IMAGE: Commodore Jerry Kyd (1985) Ian Wilson & HMS Queen Elizabeth Editor 2 Spring 2018 Spring 2018 3 KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE KING’S SPEECH THE FORMER PUPILS’ MAGAZINE Send your updates to [email protected] YOUR NEWS From the Chair JUST BRIEFLY... OU may be interested to Guy scores a top role David’s organic success know that as a Former Pupils’ (2016), now in her Nicholls, my DT teacher, also greatly Association we are now over Emily Calvin Congratulations to Guy Laurence (1979) who David Baskeyfield (2001) continues second year studying Environmental influenced my passion for design, 4500 strong and growing, is the new Chief Executive of Chelsea Football to enjoy major critical success as Sciences at Leeds University, was something I rely on today.” Y making us one of the largest in Club. Guy started his position with the reigning an organist. He lives in New York asked to apply for an the UK. We would however like to grow Rebecca Sugden (2009) has Premier League champions in February, reporting and was the winner of the 2014 Advanced Leadership even stronger so please encourage your achieved a Distinction in her M. directly to the club’s Board of Directors and taking Development and old school friends to join as you have, so Canadian International Organ Phil. awarded by St John’s College, responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the Research Scholarship we can keep our King’s community alive Competition. He is currently Cambridge after achieving the highest club, including the continuing development of its commercial activities in the UK and around in her first year and, and well, not just today but into the future serving as Director of Music at mark ever recorded on that course. the world, especially in China. after a rigorous with the move of the school to a state of Christ Episcopal Church in Pittsford, Becca graduated in 2014 from Murray selection process, was the art new location. Chairman Bruce Buck said: ‘Guy is joining the club at an exciting period for Chelsea New York, close to the prestigious Edwards College, Cambridge with a awarded the scholarship. on and off the field. He will be working with the owner and the Board to increase our Eastman School of Music from double First Class Honours degree in I was delighted that the recent Emily is working on a Paleobotany commercial revenues and maximise digital opportunities.’ Guy was previously President Modern and Medieval Alumni Gala Dinner was such a huge which he gained his Doctor of project looking at the development of and CEO of Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s largest communications and media Languages.