He was also a generous benefactor to Marlborough College, his most recent gift supporting the restoration of the Memorial Hall.Sir Gerald is survived by his wife, Margaret his three children, nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren. He did not need acting ability to aid his presentational skills. He had a new lease of life. He also founded the found the New Zealand Choral Federation in 1985.He was appointed MBE in 1978, Professor Emeritus at Auckland University in 1982 and CBE in 1988. Location Web Design| 2019 The Marlburian Club He kept a lively interest in the regiment and in technical matters, reading the New Scientist from its first publication right up to his death.Brigadier Fraser Scott (9th September 1919 - 6th July 2015)He gave his body for medical science. Old Marlburian of the Year award - The Marlburian Club Monday, June 27, 2022 Old Marlburian of the Year award Do you know of an Old Marlburian who has gone above and beyond to help their local community or society at large? These practice rooms and others in the Old Music School below Mount House (since demolished) were sometimes a welcome haven during bitter winter afternoons when the HOB rule (House Out of Bounds) decreed that we should be out of doors doing something healthy in shorts. We embraced the challenging, hilly sessions out to Fifield, Four Mile Clump and even Barbary Castle. Bored, he was accepted by PA Management Consultants, where he was put in charge of integrating two large London printing works on his first day. In 1942, whilst still at school, two events occurred: he gained a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford and he volunteered for the Royal Armoured Corps in 1942. As in Bloomsbury or Pimlico, the dwellings were in rows entered directly from the street and every dwelling had its own open-to-the-sky external space; and as with a Georgian square, the 1.8-hectare (four-acre) park at the centre of the scheme constituted the picture in the frame, the landscape offset by the hard edge of the terraced housing. He converted to the Royal Army Educational Corps in 1956 at the Army School of Education, Beaconsfield where his talent for languages later saw him head of the Russian Language Wing in 1969. He read Law, graduating BA 1949. Indeed, the textbooks were still in use well into the 1990s until the modular model was established. David Vernon Donnison (19 January 1926 - 28 April 2018) was a British academic and social scientist, who was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics from 1961 to 1969, and Professor of Town and Regional Planning (1980-91) and Honorary Research Fellow (from 1991) at the University of Glasgow . While he and his men were on the objective, they came under heavy mortar fire and shelling for three hours. He and I sat next to each other in Shell Q, with AH Davis as our form tutor, and became firm lifelong friends. Saturday, October 29, 2022 1:58 PM. To secure a council loan for the co-op, the houses had to meet local authority requirements; but the efficiency of Browns planning meant that he was able to deliver four bedrooms and two bathrooms within the space and cost limits that had been prescribed for a three-bedroom, one-bathroom unit. He wrote the papers that got approval for Swingfire, FACE, the 175mm M107 and for Rapier. Did he rush back home and change so that he was late arriving; did he run into Fleet Street and try and find a shoe shop or did he wear the slippers all day pretending that he had painful blisters and was wearing them on medical advice? It was inevitable that such an able man was at some point going to leave Marlborough to take up a Headmastership. He began to piece together the tale that would become his first book: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road (1980), describing the race between western archaeologists for the lost cities and treasures of the old trading routes of Chinese central Asia. This they used to give wonderful service to the many enquirers who visited and it allowed John to use his language skills, often to tourists surprise. Lubbock ( a Bob Hope character) was on his 5th wife when I knew him. Initially educated by a governess, he attended Highfield boarding school and Marlborough College where he enjoyed sports before giving them up to help with farming for the war effort. He was educated at Marlborough and St John's, Cambridge, between which he trained and qualified as a pilot in the RAF on Vampire jets for National Service. And so he was laid to rest in the mid-Devon soil that he loved so much, at the Church in Shobrook where as a young man he had worked as assistant grave-digger. He was appointed CBE in 1981 for services to the arts. Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, in a speech marking Brookes retirement from the court of appeal in 2006, also said of him: He has a slightly craggy exterior and an unruly and unruled head of hair (which is one of the more cogent arguments for wigs in the court of appeal), and which can even lead to an impression of slight disorganisation. That impression is totally misleading. ), he created a team spirit which was centered round admiration for him, but also affection. Robin de Beaumont (LI 1940 - 44) died on the 3rd February. This was April 1946 nearly one year after the German surrender. Peter Davies (C3 1946 51) was born in Bedford and grew up in Rochester. I wonder if they will ever be broken.Compiled by James Flecker (C1 1952-8; CR 1967-80). Tributes to Robert can be found on the British Athletics and European Athletics websites. John died at home in Victoria, BC after a courageous battle with cancer. Diana taught jewellery design at the college, and put together costumes for school plays. He was in a now rather old-fashioned sense a public intellectual, with a voracious appetite for the latest writing on every subject, but especially politics and history. You can read it here:. He and his wife, Stella (ne Portas), whopre-deceased him (7 September 2005),moved to Salisburyfrom Doncaster in1981, the year of his retirement. Celle was a wonderful station and apart from making good friends locally, he kept up with many who had been in 94 - in August 2014, many of those who had been in 94 back in 1960 gave him a reunion lunch at the Army & Navy Club. He much enjoyed his life in Philadelphia and was a much respected figure there. After the expedition he completed a PhD at Imperial College and went on to head the Engineering department for 30 years at the Commonwealth Develoment Department which saw him travelling the world solving all kinds of problems in all sorts of environments. He also assisted in fund-raising for the 1999-2000 Restoration Appeal for the Cathedral of The Isles at Millport, Isle of Cumbrae (the smallest cathedral in the British Isles). Captain Asbury was Secretary of the International Military Staff at NATO, Bursar of Marlborough College (1976-84) and a Governor of Wellington College (1984-91). The couple later divorced.After a stint at ITN as a newscaster he joined The Daily Express, and was based in New York. Zoom guide. Juan Merodio Sin Categora old marlburian deaths. He became central to the growth of Spinal Research, and during his 16 years with the charity he helped raise substantial sums that financed a worldwide research effort into spinal cord injuries. He will be hugely missed, not just by family, ex pupils and many friends, but by a great circle of music makers who were looking forward to him conducting a performance of Bachs St Matthews Passion next March.Nick Milner-Gulland was a talented, kind and considerate friend to many people and one most endearing characteristic was his great sense of humour, which helped to see him through some testing and challenging times, and gave great pleasure to those in his company.There will be a Service of Thanksgiving in Ardingly Chapel on Saturday 14th April 2018 further details will be published on the website nearer the time.MCWE/CAJ, Peter Godfrey, Director of Music at Marlborough College from 1949-58, died on 28th September 2017.Peter was born in 1922 in Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire. Hervey was made OBE in 1970 for his command of the submarine HMS Warspite, in which, in 1968 and 1969, he and his crew obtained valuable and highly secret information.Taken from the obituary featured in The Scotsman. He had firm views on the correct procedures for washing up, and etiquette in general. His final school report was very similar in content to his Army report and his ability to organise and his interpersonal skills were noted in both. A move to the War Office as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General was followed, in 1961, by command of 45th Field Regiment RA. In 1996, he was made OBE. A founder member of the Worshipful Company of Insurers, Greig was its Master in 1992 and Chairman of the City of London Club 1988 to 1991. A British citizen, resident in Monaco, husband of Serena, brother of Wilson and the late Anson, and son of Pat.After attending St Faiths prep school in Cambridge he arrived at Marlborough in January 1979. . Bo taught several schools swimming on weekdays - was involved with Wilts A.S.A. The Great Game (1990) drew under single cover his work. John Dunlop (B3 1953-56) died on 7th July 2018 following a long illness. Answer his wife) and for putting a lot of RAF mens hats in the bin lorry when they were having dinner. He was a great-nephew of Winston Churchill and a great-great-great grandson of Sir Samuel Romilly, the abolitionist and law reformer. Here Roger discovered the delights of the countryside a passion that was to live with him throughout his life. Tickets will be issued to help cater for numbers. Moscow threatened action against Poland, provoking martial law. He was Head of Chambers for a number of years, gently steering us along with a benign dictatorship, always being prepared to give his time and expertise to help and guide younger members of Chambers. Sophie Hamilton (PR 1971-72) aged 57, died on Friday 19th October 2012, peacefully at home in London, after a short and dreadful illness borne with her customary patience and fortitude. In 1940 he joined No 1 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation, a precursor of todays Commandos, as adjutant of the 2nd Anti-Aircraft Regiment. He relished the many opportunities they gave him frequent trips to the theatre and cinema, country houses, the monthly Poetry Group, the nightly challenge of the Word Wheel in The Times; they welcomed his visitors, ran his busy diary and gave him unsurpassed care.He was deeply appreciative of the care taken of him. And the rest, as they say, is history. In the 1970s he bred several foals and really got some satisfaction with this. He was a long-time modern languages teacher at the College, from 1973 to 1998 and thereafter a familiar figure in the town and supporter of many activities.At the College he was an inspiring teacher of German and the first Head of the subject. Donald was President of the (RAS) when I was at University and was the first Director of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge from whence he came to act as my external examiner for my astronomy and astrophysics Honours thesis viva and from when we became good friends. When he retired he moved to Waikanae on the Kapiti Close where he became Director of the Kapiti Chamber Choir and of the 100-member Kapiti Chorale. An appreciation of Piers, 4th Baron Wedgwood (B3 1968-72), who died of cardiac failure in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday 29th January 2014Piers and I arrived in the same year at Marlborough College but I only got to know him well, when I taught him in the Hundreds. He then moved to Singapore working for JM Sassoon 1990-1994 and Credit Suisse 1994-1999. The scrap metal firm were infiltrated by Argentine marines who then occupied the site, raised the Argentinian flag and invaded both South Georgia and the Falklands within two weeks.In 1987, Aggreko was sold as a separate public company, against Sir Geralds vote, though the family retained interest in it. Brooke Turner needed all his enthusiasm to guide the centre successfully through a period of spectacular change in Eastern Europe and, almost as difficult, funding difficulties at home. He rose to the rank of Captain.When he left the army, he went to New College Oxford, for which he had won a scholarship prior to his time in the army, to read philosophy, politics and economics. Patrick worked alongside brothers Nick and John in the newspaper group which had seven papers including the Cambridgeshire Times, Wisbech Standard, the Hunts Post, and the last paid-for weekly newspaper in Peterborough - the Peterborough Standard. He added you know what; winning is much more fun. He was part of a Marlburian Family. Ordained Minister. He retired as a consultant physician from the Royal Liverpool Hospital in 1988 and enjoyed an active retirement fell walking in the Lake District well into his eighties and was still playing squash until a year before he died. Value for Money was his motto. Laurence Edward Ellis (CR 1955-77)21st April 1932 7th August 2017Housemaster C1 1968-77. Antony Laurence Easterbrook was born in Torquay on 20th March 1929 and was educated at Marlborough College where he was captain of both the athletics and rugby teams. Together they were a very strong team and she played a crucial role pastorally when he was appointed Housemaster of C1 in 1968. Janet joined the North Wiltshire Orchestra in 1968 and was still playing with us until the summer of 2015. His classic victories in addition to the St Legers included the Derby twice, the 1,000 Guineas three times and the Oaks twice, while at the peak of his powers he had an enviable list of well-heeled owners using his services, including the Maktoum family. After leaving Marlborough College, he began a law degree at Kent University but left tojointhe Victoria and Albert Museum as an intern in 1969, which set him on his path as an expert in the field. He was working his latest book The Enderby Settlement about Britains whaling venture from 1849 52 on New Zealands Subantarctic Auckland Islands up to the night before he died. In semi-retirement the family moved to [], Ian was born in 1923 in Brasted, Kent, and grew up at Thatches, the thatched house built for his parents on nearby Brasted Chart by his maternal grandfather. As he crossed the Arctic Circle for the first time, the captain asked him for a noon sun-sight. He looked like a school-boy so they decided to stop to give him a lift and were surprised as they drew up to see that it was their son. Obituries can also be read from The Independent and The Guardian. She applied her inexhaustible energy to everything she embarked upon, including her battle with cancer, which she fought stoically and with great courage for ten years. He travelled heroically, from early years of hitching, to flying to Singapore with the Air Squadron and driving an ex-army lorry to Sicily. You will need to be a subscriber to The Telegraph.A Memorial Service for James will be held in Winchester College Chapel on Saturday 24th June at 2.30pm. He was also a Member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Whenever I go to the track and look at the College middle distance records set during his time here, they are a magnificent testament to the generation of Marlburians whom Bruce inspired. Promoted to lieutenant that October, during leave in Brussels he spotted, in a shop window, a photograph of himself in an armoured car just after liberation. In 1967 he gave up teaching to concentrate on painting full time, producing a substantial body of work in gouache with an oriental flavour that featured, for example, junks, exotic flowers and insects. As a result of this, a couple of inferior German landscape paintings adorn my childrens playroom walls with greetings to the Fuhrer on his birthday in 1936 and 1938 except they have the wrong date. He responded with his customary honesty, though without the bluff confidence that normally went with it: Well, sir, we appear to be about eight miles north of Derby. He particularly liked to watch the wristy Indian batsmen, though there was not much sign of their influence on his own technique when he batted. He then returned to Nigeria, this timeas Deputy High Commissioner in Kaduna. Romance soon blossomed and they were married in the College Chapel in 1961. It was an honour to have been there for him through the difficult times, as well as all the good over so many years.by Mark Palmer (TU 79-83). For The Times obituary Just Click. His only disappointment was the oil crisis, in the early seventies, which put some of his plans on hold. Subsidies. Photograph: reprinted with permission from the Guardian, Professor J. Richard Batchelor (SU 1945-49), Michael Henry Astolf Topham Bayon (B2 1935-40), Professor John Leonard Cloudsley-Thompson (SU 1935-39), Alec Charles Hinchcliff Bond (B3 1954-57), Michael Birley (B1 1934-39, CR 1970-88, HM PR 1970-80), Diana Cook, wife of Raymond Cook (CR 1935-67), Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, Peter Godfrey: Father of New Zealand Choral Music. He was the Units Physical Training and Sports Officer and he proved to be an outstanding Troop Officer on active service in Cyprus.In September 1958, he joined Infantry Training Centre Royal Marines as the Physical Training Officer and Sports Officer at a time when the facilities there were limited. He was 102 years of age.Born April 6, 1911 , he was the only son of William and Mabel Washbourn of Blackfriars, Gloucester. They were followed by Hungarian, Bulgarians and later Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians. The bulk of his career was then spent at Canford School, teaching history, politics and religious education.