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The TRUSTY
SERVANT
NO.110
NOVEMBER 2010
Porcinum Os
We print here an edited version of the
address given in Cathedral by the Rev’d.
Justin White, Chaplain, at the Founder’s
Obit service on 27th September.
‘All of these died in faith without
having received the promises, but as it is,
they desire a better country, that is, a
heavenly one.’ (Hebrews 11:13,16)
Our founder, William of Wykeham,
was not just the founder of great places of
learning, he was also Bishop of
Winchester and Chancellor of England.
The office of Chancellor was the highest
civil office of the day, equivalent to
our Prime Minister.
What an odd conjunction
that seems to us, both bishop
and Chancellor of England!
We would feel distinctly uneasy
if the door to No.10, Downing
Street were to swing open and out
stepped a man wearing a bishop’s
mitre. Surely religion and politics are
inappropriate and dangerous bedfellows?
Religion ought to be confined to the
private sphere, and not enter into the
public square.
It comes as something of a shock,
therefore, to discover that, in the House of
Lords, in the seat of our national
legislature, there sit twenty-six Church of
England bishops, unelected, and there by
law established. Take a look at the website
of the National Secular Society to see
what they have to say about this state of
affairs: unfair, undemocratic, and
undesirable. How can it be right that, in a
diverse, multicultural democracy, we give
legislative influence to bishops?
I wonder how William of Wykeham,
bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of
England, would have responded.
Return to the extraordinary scene
that recently took place in London. As
part of his state visit, the Pope addressed a
gathering of parliamentarians and
statesmen in Westminster Hall, in the
very heart of our democratic tradition.
With an irony that was not lost on many,
the Pope spoke from the place where, 475
years earlier, St Thomas More, a successor
to William of Wykeham as Chancellor of
England, had been sentenced to death for
refusing to acknowledge King Henry’s
breakaway from the Church of Rome.
What did the Pope dare to say in such an
inauspicious setting? He said that religion,
rather than being society’s problem, is a
vital contributor to the national
conversation. Religion has a key place in
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the foundations of a state. Democracy
alone, the Pope said, is not a sufficient
grounding for how we should live: if the
moral principles underpinning the
democratic process are themselves
determined by nothing more solid than
social consensus, then the fragility of the
process becomes all too evident.
In short, politics needs religion. Well,
he would say that, wouldn’t he? But,
perhaps he’s right. Perhaps politics needs
religion as much as religion needs politics.
The one without the other is a recipe for
disaster. Where are the ethical
foundations of our democracy to be
found? Answer: in the interplay
between the reason of politics
and the faith of religion.
Religion shouldn’t be running
the country, neither should it
have a monopoly on determining
what are right and what are wrong
types of action. Instead, religion ought to
provide the corrective, shedding light
upon the application of reason to the
discovery of objective moral principles.
And likewise, religion must itself be
subjected to reason. Without the
corrective supplied by reason, religion can
fall prey to all manner of distortions fundamentalisms and sectarianisms which
create serious social problems themselves.
Without the corrective supplied by
religion, reason can also fall prey to all
manner of distortions - murderous
ideologies which fail to see humans as
ends in themselves but rather as means to
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
ends. Reason and religion: the one sheds
light upon and purifies the other. One
without the other is, at best, diminished,
and at worst poisonous.
That was what a religious leader was
trying to say in the heart of our reasoned
democracy and I think William of
Wykeham would have agreed. So too
would the man the Pope beatified two
days later, John Henry Newman.
The Roman Catholic Church of
Newman’s day was in crisis. The 19th
century saw the papacy besieged in an
aggressively secular Italy. Liberal
democracies, rising across Europe, were
posing a serious challenge to the Church’s
monopoly over ethics and education. The
then Pope responded by vigorously
reasserting the claims of the papacy and
denouncing the secular world. This faced
Newman with a dilemma. He shared the
pope’s distaste for secularism, but he also
deplored the Church’s suppression of
intellectual freedom. ‘Truth’ wrote
Newman, ‘is wrought out by many minds,
working together freely’. For Newman the
Church needed secular reason as much as
secular reason needed the Church.
The presence, then, of twenty-six
bishops in the House of Lords is not simply
a mediaeval hangover which has no place
in a modern democracy. Take a look at the
proceedings of the House in recent
months and you will see what
contributions the bishops have been
making. Have they been peddling their
repressive, archaic beliefs and hindering
the progress of enlightenment? As it
happens, homelessness, international
development, prison overcrowding, social
care - these have been their concerns.
Their speeches and their votes have
tended to reflect the interests of the poor
and the marginalised, rather than the rich,
the elite or the overtly religious. Their
democratic legitimacy may be hard to
defend, but no harder than it is to defend
the hereditary peers or life peers who hold
their seats by virtue of blood or political
patronage. Besides which, there are other
kinds of legitimacy; the kind of legitimacy,
for instance, that comes from first-hand
knowledge of local people and local
situations, insights which the Lords
Spiritual may have in greater measure
than the Lords Temporal.
The bishops in Westminster form just
that corrective, that mediation, between
the claims of secular reason and religious
faith that the Pope was extolling. In our
founder, that conjunction was lived out in
his twin responsibilities, his spiritual
responsibilities as a bishop and his temporal
responsibilities as Chancellor. I think he
would be pleased to see that the debate
between matters spiritual and matters
temporal continues energetically at
Winchester. Long may Winchester College
remain a place were reasoned faith and
faithful reason flourish.
It is clear that, in the words of the
Letter to the Hebrews, William of
Wykeham ‘died in faith desiring a better
country, that is, a heavenly one.’ By faithful
politics, he sought another country. He had
a vision of the Kingdom of God, a political
vision, seen through the eyes of faith, of a
place where the poor find their reward, the
homeless find their shelter, the hungry find
their fill, where the lame walk, and the
blind see, the imprisoned are set free, the
excluded are included, and the dead live.
His prayer for our great college is that we
might set about our faithful political
manifesto: to begin to make that kingdom
not just a longed-for future hope but also a
fought-for present reality.
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EMN
An appreciation, by Nick Fennell, of the life
of Liz Nash (Staff, 1982-97):
With a First in French and German
from Bristol University and a PGCE, Liz
Nash started her teaching career at The
King’s School, Ely, where she ran a girls’
house. She taught for a year at Phillips
Exeter, USA, and for fifteen at
Winchester, arriving here in 1982. In 1997
she left to do a course in literary
translating at UEA and then moved on to
Oxford where she furthered her career as a
French translator. She was a French tutor
at Oriel College until the final stages of
her illness. She died on 11 May this year.
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At Winchester Liz was a pioneer. She
was the first female don to teach an Arts
subject full time and to have a Sixth Book
div. She became one of the first deputy
heads of an academic department, helping
Alan Conn run the Modern Languages
department. In June 1986, she founded
FROG Soc, which is still going strong.
EMN’s contribution to the
intellectual and cultural life of the school
was great. She was a Censor of The
Wykehamist. She was a fine actress. She
excelled as Mistress Quickly in Jo Bain’s
production of The Merry Wives of
Windsor, but her greatest theatrical
achievement was her brilliant
interpretation of Agrippine in a
production in French of Britannicus. More
than once she came back from Oxford as
a guest reader for FROG Soc, and put in
unforgettable performances as Racinian
heroines (Phèdre, Agrippine,
Andromaque and Hermione).
Liz was also a wonderful singer. She
was the first woman to sing Domum
graces and she delivered a stunning jazz
solo at John Thorn’s leaving party. Who
can forget her beautiful contralto? Many
will also remember her deep, resonant
laugh and glorious sense of humour. She
would greet the absurd and pretentious
with hoots of mirth.
She was a challenging div don. Her
feminist views were a healthy counter to
the easy-going chauvinism typical of a
VIth Book Wykehamist. Once, instead of
sending someone out for overstepping the
mark, she left the div room herself. Her
shocked div apologised sincerely and
quickly, and the future of lively yet
tolerant debate was assured. Her views
also challenged the mostly male Senior
Common Room. For instance, she
successfully argued that we stop
subscribing to The Sun, on the grounds
that its Page Three models were
degrading.
She made her greatest impact as a
teacher of French and German, and spoke
both fabulously. Alongside Alan Conn
and John Surry, she was the only Modern
Languages colleague I have known never
to make a mistake in her grammar and
literature notes, or in exam marking. But
she was more than an academic teacher:
she cared deeply for her pupils, many of
whom would come to her for personal
counsel. Not surprisingly, she was a
wonderful House Tutor, especially in
Freddies, where she was an invaluable
deputy to Richard Manley.
Her move away from Winchester was
a real loss. Her reputation as a translator
grew; her tutorials became legendary. At
her funeral there were many heartfelt
tributes to her as a teacher, adviser and
friend. Her Oriel colleague, Richard
Scholar, movingly read Baudelaire’s
Élévation, whose last verse is a fitting
tribute to Liz:
Celui dont les pensers, comme des
alouettes,
Vers les cieux le matin prennent un
libre essor,
— Qui plane sur la vie, et
comprend sans effort
Le langage des fleurs et des choses
muettes!
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A dinner to celebrate Liz’s life is
being held at Oriel College, Oxford on
Saturday April 2nd 2011. Those wishing
to attend should contact Kate Love at
[email protected]
Anne Mary Pagella
eldest of three daughters of Major Colin
West-Watson and his wife Esme. Her two
sisters are Bridget and Deirdre. She
trained in the violin at the Royal College
of Music, and although at adjacent
colleges in London, Anne met Richard
[Shorter] only later, when playing in
Verdi’s Nabucco at Epsom Baths Hall.
We print here the address delivered by the
Headmaster at Anne’s funeral in Chapel on
6th July, 2010.
Anne Mary West-Watson was born
in Epsom, Surrey, on 19 June 1949, the
After graduation she taught at Hill
House in Belgravia, founded by the
redoubtable Colonel Townend, who ran
the best prep school in London by defying
all modern convention, including Health
and Safety and Employment law, and
running the school by hiring young
antipodean teachers and keeping the
pupils on the move all day long, so that its
limited accommodation was never
apparent to the children or their parents.
Anne was in her element. Anne and
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Richard then moved to Winchester, and
the Colonel’s grandsons were in due
course enrolled, no doubt owing (at least
in part) to her influence.
When Richard became Housemaster
of Furley’s, Anne became the
Housekeeper. She and the Matron,
Kathryn Irvine-Fortescue, were a
formidable duo, but Kathryn would
concede the coronet formidable to Anne.
Her standards were so high as to make her
(sometimes, not always) intimidating
among those who failed to measure up.
She was disarmingly frank too: when once
I dared to suggest a solution to a problem
about the use of New Hall, she looked me
straight in the eye and said ‘don’t be so
bloody silly’. The Major and the Colonel
were rolled up in one! All the while she
continued to teach the violin, to private
pupils who came to the house, at
Pilgrims’, Twyford and Prince’s Mead, and
to any boys in Furley’s who needed extra
musical help; and she was always on hand
to play in the School Orchestra and in
Glee Club concerts.
When Richard left Furley’s in 2006,
Anne moved on to bigger things in the
School, taking control of the entire
cleaning service in the College and
bringing to her new post the high standards
for which she was much famed and a little
feared. Win Coll had never been so clean
and orderly. Nor had any Central Cleaning
Supervisor been so respected, for Anne
would roll up her sleeves and set the
example whenever necessary.
But the efficient and formidable
Anne was only one aspect of her
character. The fuller and more complete
picture can be seen in the photograph on
the cover of your Order of Service, in
particular that wonderful smile and the
lovely eyes which were the windows to
her soul. In recent years she knew the
sufferings of Job, and she had his smile:
‘when I smiled at them, they scarcely
believed it; the light of my face was
precious to them’. She was a loving
mother to Sarah and Fanny, both of
whom inherited her artistic gifts and joie
de vivre, and of whom she was immensely
proud. She was a loving foster-mother to
the boys in Furley’s: Sarah and Fanny
have received many letters from old
Furleyites and their parents recording
their respect and affection for her. And
she loved dogs (always a good sign in a
carer of children) and the schnauzers
Ollie and Hugo somehow reflected her
energy and cheerful pluck.
And there was the humour, always
alive to the absurdity of the human
arrangements and ready at any time to
rise up in an infectious giggle. She went
on line to a social network and registered.
That is how she and Maurice met and as
innocent children of cyberspace they
discovered new happiness and joy in each
other. Fortunately for him, she found his
kitchen hygienic! She was so looking
forward to the move to Ashstead and to
the wedding on 3 July, but that was not to
be. Their marriage, only six hours before
Anne died, was a deeply Christian
sacrament: Anne and Maurice were
married into a new life fleetingly held,
and as in baptism, into death; and into
the new and lasting love symbolised in
their rings consecrated here at her funeral.
There could be no more complete
enactment of Christian hope and fidelity.
Anne’s illness was cruel, and yet
through the wonderful qualities of her
character, and (she would have said) by
the grace of God, she transformed it into a
gift. Her courage and her humour found
new scope for her capacity to love. When
she went into hospital for the last time
she was put in a ward full of old ladies, her
pain probably worse than theirs, and there
she had them singing songs from wartime,
conducting them and playing an
imaginary piano, and calming them down
in the evening with a hymn until they
went off to sleep. She brought them hope
and comfort in their distress: she turned
that ward into a party.
Anne was in the best sense a party
girl. She loved offering hospitality and she
loved family. Twelve members of her
family, her beloved daughters and sisters
and their families, gathered with her new
husband around her bed on 24 June, a
wedding feast and a leave-taking. How
privileged we all are to have known this
feisty, lovable, remarkable lady; and how
splendidly the trumpets will sound now, as
the new bride enters into her new home,
the wedding feast prepared for her.
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Presentation of New Colours to Winchester College CCF
by His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex KG KCVO.
Alastair Land, Master in College, writes:
The impact of Winchester College’s
new CCF Colours can be lost on no one.
The Union Flag, College Blue, gold
thread, proportions and emblemology all
appeal to the mind in a direct way and stir
the spirit profoundly. Granted to us
formally by the College of Arms,
presented to us by HRH The Earl of
Wessex and trooped by all volunteer men
in the Corps in front of the whole School
and distinguished guests, these new
Colours made 5th May 2010 one of the
proudest days in my life and a highly
significant one in the annals of
Winchester College.
The event was developed over a
period of three years, set in the context of
150 years of Cadet Force history at
Winchester and in the UK. Winchester
College CCF’s predecessor was formed in
1860, as the Volunteer Rifle movement
swept the country; similar volunteer rifle
corps were founded in other schools and at
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universities. Initially sustained by private
subscription, these organisations became
enrolled into local battalions of county
regiments. Some cadets took Certificate A
(basics of drill and shooting), becoming
what we would recognise today as TA
soldiers; Winchester Volunteer Rifle Corps
men were allowed as many as three days off
to take the test. In the year of its formation
the Corps was reviewed on Compton
Down by the local brigade commander
alongside other rifle volunteer units. The
next year, 1861, Headmaster Moberly
presented banners (they
should not strictly be
known as colours) to the
Corps. They had been
stitched by his daughters.
Infantry regiments have
had a tradition of colours
for hundreds of years.
Blessed, granted by the
sovereign and presented on
his behalf, colours have
served as a deeply totemic
link with nation, home and
regimental heritage.
Colours sport not only the
badge of the regiment and
symbols for crown and state,
but also battle honours,
thus embodying the
regiment’s history and
glories. In a pitched battle
(of a 19th century, and
earlier, kind) the colours
would be a rallying point, a
focus for control,
confidence and inspiration.
In adverse circumstances
they would be defended to
the last man.
That Winchester
College presented itself with ‘colours’ does
seem something of a conceit. I believe,
though, that the intentions were
honourable and reflected a strong
conviction that the school’s Rifle
Volunteers were part of a national spirit of
military endeavour. Having not been
granted by the College of Arms and the
Inspector of Regimental Colours, yet
equally having been designed and
produced with the best of motives, the old
banners include a number of eye-catching
features. Even now, after 149 years of
decay and damage they remain noble and
dignified. The old banners were marched
off Meads on 5th May as part of our
Colours Parade. They will be received
into College Chapel on Remembrance
Sunday and laid up in Crimea thereafter.
One of the banners, whose ground colour
is no longer determinable (it’s currently
armorial convention. In
one of the most poised and
courteous e-mail dialogues I
can recall, with Norfolk
Herald, the form of the
New Colours was
established; the formal
grant of a stand of New
Colours was made by Garter
King of Arms in April 2008.
orange) shews Queen Victoria’s Coat of
Arms (without permission) surmounted
by a Royal Crown (again not official).
The school banner shows Wykeham’s
Arms, the Garter (unsanctioned), and
‘Manners Makyth Man’ enscrolled with
the Union Flag cantoned top left. As part
of the Presentation of New Colours
process, the old banners have been
stabilised in a mesh that allowed them to
be paraded a final time, and will enable
them to hang in Crimea, gently and
honourably returning to their dust.
When it was decided in a committee
chaired by the Headmaster to attempt to
commission New Colours, my first point of
reference was the College of Arms. The
greatest civility and respect was accorded
to our old banners, but, of course, having
being internally generated and awarded
they were entirely non-compliant with
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The making-up of the
Colours was directed to
Ammo and Co. The work
takes several months, the
Colours being hand stitched
in silks and bullion thread.
At the same time two
colour belts were also
commissioned, most
generously donated by the
Warden and Headmaster. In
2009 the parade sequence
for the Presentation of New
Colours was formulated in
consultation with
Household Division and
Rifles Regiment warrant
officers. In the same year
HRH The Earl of Wessex
graciously accepted our
invitation to present the Colours. For a
regular infantry battalion such an occasion
is very significant and will involve many
hours of continuous, dedicated practice:
the challenge for a cadet unit is
commensurately greater. From the
beginning of the year a number of elements
had to be coordinated: parade uniforms,
the sequence of events for the day, protocol
and etiquette, security, the programme, the
participation of visitors, the band, the
pipers, the catering, the Spitfire. All of
these, and more, had to be developed over
the weeks incrementally and with coordination. From my perspective, as
Regimental Adjutant, whilst the
aforementioned were all in their way
essential elements, it was the training of
cadets in parade drill that achieved greatest
significance. Regular soldiers know they’ll
do drill, and depending on a battalion and
its cycle, there might be formal occasions
and public duties. A cadet volunteering in
June 2009 could not have appreciated the
magnitude of the occasion and how much
of his Corps career would be taken up in
the preparations.
Cadets started to learn drill moves
and sequences piecemeal from early
Common Time onwards. Then, amazingly,
coming back a day early at the start of
Cloister Time to devote ten hours
continuously to drill, the cadets finally
understood the full shape of the parade
and its magnitude. With each passing
rehearsal skills improved and a sense of
esprit de corps overcame the inevitable
tedium that can arise from repetition. Drill
is many things, not least a ‘team sport’,
and I was profoundly impressed by the
manner in which seniors and indeed peers
would encourage those finding it harder,
conducting micro-remedial sessions to
bring them up to scratch. Cadets in the
top year, with the most complex and
exposed elements of the parade – and the
most pressures academically - made time
to practise still more and to share the
burden of exhorting the troops!
Come 5th May the cadets who would
parade had formed into a close community
who knew they would be doing something
special, not least a warm up at 9 am on
New Field, involving three contra-rotating
rings of cadets doing mass PT, and taking
it seriously. At noon, 110 cadets and
officers marched on parade, preceded by
an especially composed bugle call and the
band of Prince of Wales’ Division. There is
something about ‘the day’, with its raised
expectations (and plasma adrenalin), that
enables a group to achieve its very best.
The parade was magnificent (by all
accounts: most of it happened behind
me!), and I found the marching off of Old
Banners and Presentation of New Colours
very stately and yet moving too. There
were some unique features to our
ceremonial that purists noted – and
appreciated. After the parade His Royal
Highness was hugely generous with his
time, taking the trouble to speak to a great
number of cadets. I cannot thank all the
people who brought about such an
occasion – save to say that it was an
honour to serve with them in this regard,
and that I hope they found the occasion as
moving and as important as I did.
Whilst the Old Banners will be laid
up as museum pieces, the New Colours
will be used as regularly as decorum
allows. They will next be on parade at the
School’s Act of Remembrance on
Remembrance Sunday.
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Readers wanting precise details of
participants etc. should apply to the
author for a copy of the programme.
Getting Close To Darwin
Anthony Smith (F, 1997- 02), the sculptor of
the award-winning statue of Darwin in the
garden of Christ’s College, Cambridge, writes:
going sufficiently well by the time I
graduated for me to bite the bullet, rent a
studio, and work full-time as a sculptor.
I first read The Origin of Species in my
third year at Win Coll; this triggered a
fascination in Darwin and his work that
has ultimately directed the course of a
large part of my life. When I came to apply
to university, there was only one place that
I wanted to go – Christ’s College,
Cambridge. If it was good enough for
Darwin, it would be good enough for me.
My career took a significant step
forward when my proposal was accepted
by Christ’s College to sculpt a life-sized
bronze statue of the young Charles
Darwin, to commemorate the
forthcoming bicentenary of his birth. And
on the bicentenary itself, the 12th of
February 2009, HRH Prince Philip
unveiled the statue. But before the
unveiling there had been another
important development. Word reached
me in my studio that there was a Dutch
crew filming in Cambridge for a
documentary on Darwin. They had heard
about the statue, and were interested in
filming me working on it. I was of course
very happy to oblige, and it was then that
After three happy years at Cambridge
studying Natural Sciences, I decided to try
to forge a career as a sculptor. I had begun
creating bronze sculptures whilst still at
Winchester, and had continued to practise
sculpting, exhibiting and selling my work
throughout my undergraduate years. It was
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I found out about the Beagle series. The
producer explained that they were going
to make a 35-part documentary series
about Darwin and the Voyage of the
Beagle, for which they would be re-sailing
the voyage on a modern tall ship.
Wow!! It was simply too perfect – I
had to be involved in any way possible. I
put together a proposal, flew out to the
Netherlands, and met the Chief Editor of
the series. I explained how I was uniquely
qualified to contribute to the series, with
my combination of nerdy Darwin and
Beagle knowledge, a first-class degree in
Zoology from Darwin’s own College, and
a particularly detailed knowledge of the
art produced during the original Voyage.
The Beagle had a ship’s artist – perhaps
the re-sailing should have one too? To my
ecstatic joy the Chief Editor agreed, and I
was invited to join the ship for the entire
voyage.
During the trip I saw some amazing
things, learned a great deal, and had many
new insights into Darwin and his voyage.
But in most places the years had taken
their toll, and I could find only scant
remnants of those things which had so
struck Darwin.
Cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Buenos
Aires and Sydney, have of course changed
immeasurably since Darwin visited in the
1830s. When the Beagle anchored off the
Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia it was
surrounded by tropical rainforest.
Wandering for the first time in these
forests, Darwin was captivated by the lush
vegetation and exotic insects, and wrote in
his diary: ‘The delight one experiences in
such times bewilders the mind’. But when
we sailed in, some 177 years later, there
were no such forests. It now requires a car
journey of several hours, through towns
and fields, to reach what remains of them.
someone that there are people living on
these islands. Over 23,000 people in fact, a
number which is growing every year as the
tourism industry booms and people flock
to the islands from mainland Ecuador.
There were even people living in the
Galapagos when Darwin arrived in 1835,
but the numbers were, of course, far
smaller (a significant proportion of the
population consisting of convicts
incarcerated in the islands’ prison colony).
Even the Galapagos Islands have
changed considerably. I have frequently
witnessed genuine surprise when I inform
It is also no longer possible to wander
the islands with the abandon of a 19th
century naturalist – collecting, dissecting
Stad Amsterdam anchored off Chaitén
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the town. We walked down some of the
empty streets and peered into the
abandoned houses. We could see
children’s bedrooms, with books and toys,
washed over with mud and ash, littered
on the floor. It was a surreal sight.
When the eruption began the town
was evacuated and thankfully no-one was
killed in the floods; but the town is totally
ruined. The Chilean government has reallocated the capital of the province to
another town and has set up plans to
rebuild Chaitén some 10km further north.
Buried houses in Chaitén
and experimenting on the local plants and
animals, as Darwin did. This is, of course, a
good thing, and entirely necessary given
the growing numbers of visitors to the
islands; strictly enforced regulations, such
as the need for a qualified local guide
when visiting most sites, endeavour to
keep the negative impacts of tourism to a
minimum. So now you can’t do as Darwin
did, and ride on the backs of the giant
tortoises, or pick up marine iguanas and
hurl them into the sea – at least not
without a very convincing research
proposal explaining the scientific benefits!
But we did eventually visit a place
where I felt truly close to Darwin. When
sailing up the coast of Chile, we made a
brief stop at a small town called Chaitén –
nestled in a protected bay half-way up an
expansive, beautiful coastline. The
western mountains of the Andes formed a
spectacular backdrop as we entered the
bay and set anchor, but it was one
particular mountain that we were
interested in during this visit – Chaitén
Volcano. We could see the volcano
looming in the distance, six miles north of
the town, as we took the sloop ashore. It
was smoking menacingly.
We were met at the out-of-town jetty
by a ranger from the local National Park,
inside which the volcano resides. Bumping
down the road in the back of his 4x4, we
headed along the waterfront road that led
into town. The ranger pointed out that
what appeared to be an enormous beach
was in fact a huge quantity of volcanic ash
that was filling up the bay. I then noticed
the window-frames, doors, and even large
sections of houses stuck out in the bay, set
at jaunty angles as the fine pale ash had set
like concrete. A minute later we were in
the town. Chaitén used to be the capital of
its province, with a population of five
thousand, but as we drove into the town
there was no-one. Not even the ubiquitous
dogs that inhabit every street in South
America. Only ash. The roads were caked
with the fine off-white powder spewed
from the volcano, and as we rumbled
further into town the ash got deeper.
Gradually houses were being swallowed
up; some streets were completely buried up
to the first floor. It looked like the world’s
largest cement truck had tipped over and
swamped the town.
And then we reached the river. The
Río Blanco used to skirt behind the town
before heading out into the bay, but when
the volcano had erupted eighteen months
earlier it triggered a mud-flow that had
diverted the river through the middle of
town, washing away roads and houses – it
was the flooding that had caused the
build-up of silt and ash that had buried
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Walking down the streets of derelict
houses, I recalled Darwin’s visit to the
Chilean town of Concepción. On the
20th of February, 1835 there had been an
enormous earthquake in Chile. Darwin
had been in Valdivia at the time, a few
hundred kilometres south, where he had
felt the violent moving of the earth. But
when they arrived at Concepción, he
found the town completely destroyed.
‘I have not attempted to give any detailed
description of the appearance of Concepción,
for I feel it is quite impossible to convey the
mingled feelings with which one beholds this
spectacle. — It is a bitter & humiliating thing
to see works which have cost men so much
time & labour overthrown in one minute; yet
compassion for the inhabitants is almost
instantly forgotten by the interest excited in
finding that state of things produced at a
moment of time which one is accustomed to
attribute to a succession of ages. — To my
mind since leaving England we have scarcely
beheld any one other sight so deeply
interesting. The Earthquake & Volcano are
parts of one of the greatest phenomena to
which this world is subject. (Darwin’s Diary)
I could picture Darwin walking
alongside me down the abandoned streets,
discussing the terrible devastating power
of the volcano that had reshaped this
landscape. I simultaneously felt the awe,
horror and fascination with the power of
nature that I had read about in his diaries,
and it was at this moment, in a place that
he himself never visited, that I felt closest
to the spirit of Darwin.
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Long Roll MDCLIII – MMX
Alastair Land, Master in College, writes:
was first noted. Prior to that the scriptor
had merely noted his initials. The Long
Roll illustrated – deemed by Holgate to be
one of the finest – is from 1730, and is
signed simply A. H. The roll of printers
starts with James Robbins, passes through
Nutt, Nutt & Wells and P& G Wells, and
culminates currently with Culverlands. In
its first twenty-five forms Long Roll was
written on vellum of parchment; since
1784, however, only paper has been used.
The preparation of Long Roll MMX
was different from that of all other recent
editions: previous versions were produced
by a single author, Tom David, whilst this
one was born of a partnership. The Senior
Tutor (Stephen Anderson) and I had
spotted that almost five years had elapsed
since the last publication: if the notion
that every man in the School should
appear on at least one Long Roll was to be
maintained, the collating of information
and publication would have to take place
in Cloister Time 2010.
The process was fascinating. A
sensible division of labour between the
two of us meant that I saw to the ‘header’
(Coat of Arms down to the last don),
whilst Stephen dealt with the names of
men in the School. Since 1854 it has
been the normal practice to print all boys’
Christian names in Latin; so, both wit
and classical scholarship were needed to
cope with the massive job of translation.
Of course, it is not possible to take on an
endeavour with such a distinguished
pedigree without investigating it at least
to some degree. In my research I have
uncovered that many of the traditions of
Long Roll are, in fact, no such thing;
indeed, most of its conventions seem to
have been constantly passing both in and
out of fashion.
The oldest Long Roll in the School’s
collection is from 1653, though there may
have been earlier examples (it was not
until 1899 that Holgate1 produced his roll
of Rolls). From then until 1684 Long Roll
was produced as a manuscript only, six
copies being made annually at the
instigation of the Prefect of Hall, typically
in October or November, just after
Election. After 1670 a hand-drawn Coat
of Arms (since 1678 until the present this
has been Wykeham’s own impaled with
that of the See of Winchester – highly
non-licet in armorial terms!) appeared,
and from1685 on the Arms were printed
from an engraved plate, the rest remaining
in manuscript. A hundred years later, as
well as the Arms, the lines, borders,
headings and the names of the Warden
and Fellows were printed. In 1813 the
whole document was printed for the first
time, and in 1844 the name of the printer
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Long Rolls tell us a lot about the history
of the structure of the School: for example,
they note which Scholars lived in which
Chambers, from which we can learn how
the accommodation in Chamber Court was
traditionally divided between Fellows and
Collegemen. In the first Long Roll,
everyone in the establishment is listed.It
therefore includes clerici, opsoniator, coqui,
promi, pistor, potifices, molarius, hortulanus,
janitor, agasones, stabularii, and eelimozinator.
(The first man in the School to present the
author of this article with a correct
translation of all these functionaries will win
a handsome book prize!) A profusion of
titles has been held by the man we now
know as Headmaster: these include Magister
Informator (more or less as today),
Archididascalus (popular in 18th century),
Magister Instructor and Ludi Magister (my
personal favourite). The organisation of
Sexta, Quinta and Quarta Classis shows us
the proportions of these age groups in the
School, and further, that the number of
Commoners in the 18th century ranged
between 8 and 123! The noting of Founder’s
Kin as CF (= Consanguineus Fundatoris)
starts in 1679 but is not consistent.
Whatever your thoughts on Long
Roll MMX and its predecessors, you can
be sure that MMXV will be different
again!
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Holgate, C. W. Winchester Long Rolls (1899)
P & G Wells
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OWCC’s all-time ‘Dream Team’
Richard Orders (E, 1967-72) writes from
Hong Kong:
A few months ago the idea of selecting
an all-time Old Wykehamist Cricket XI
occurred in the course of an idle
conversation I was having in Hong Kong
with my brother, Jonathan (E, 1970-75). We
were subsequently able to persuade Hubert
Doggart (E, 1938-43 and Common Room
1950-72) to contribute his knowledge and
wisdom to this important task, acting as
Honorary Chairman of Selectors!
After a fair amount of discussion, and
lengthy correspondence, the side we
selected (others may, of course, beg to
differ) comprises, in batting order (below):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12th Man
H.A. Pawson
D.R. Jardine (capt.)*
Nawab of Pataudi*
Sir Hubert Ashton
G.H.G. Doggart (vice-capt.)*
J.R. Mason*
R.I. Jefferson
P.A. Whitcombe
N.L. Majendie (w-k)
J.C. Clay*
H.D. Reed*
B.L. Reed
It should be said at the outset that
comparisons between different eras are
difficult and perhaps not altogether fair. Pre
1914 – and even afterwards to some extent
before they became covered - pitches were
more unpredictable and less batsmanfriendly, such that you might add 10 to a
batting average and 5 to a bowling average
to get a more accurate comparison with
more recent statistics. In addition, the
existence of the amateur and professional
distinctions up to 1962 meant that more
people had the opportunity to play firstclass cricket than would be the case today
(the Gentlemen v Players fixtures were
regarded as only a notch below Test
matches in their importance), and this
would even have applied to Test matches,
and particularly overseas tours, when a
number, sometimes many, of the finest
amateur cricketers could simply not make
the time available. In a previous era, for
example, EJW Jackson (K, 1968-73), JOD
Orders (E, 1970-75) and SJG Doggart (K,
1974-79), each multiple-year Cambridge,
Oxford and Cambridge blues respectively,
might have played a number of times for
first-class counties, as more recently might
have EDC Craig (K, 1991-96), and
doubtless others.
That said, the side selected boasts six
Test cricketers, two of whom captained
their respective countries, and three others,
(B, 1934-40, Common Room, 49-50) - in Lords, 37-40 (capt. twice)
(C, 1914-19) - in Lords, 17-19 (capt.)
(K, 1955-59) – in Lords, 56-59 (capt.)
(E, 1912-16) – in Lords, 15-16 (capt.)
(E, 1938-43, Common Room, 50-72) – in Lords, 41-43 (capt.)
(A, 1897-93) – in Lords, 90-93 (capt.)
(A, 1954-60) – in Lords, 59-60 (capt.)
(B, 1936-41) – in Lords, 40-41
(I, 1955-60) – in Lords, 59-60
(H, 1911-16) – in Lords, 15-16
(C, 1923-28) – never in Lords!
(C, 1951-55) – in Lords, 54-55
Hon. Ment. (in chronological order)
J. Shuter*
Sir Henry Leveson-Gower*
The Hon Clarence Bruce, Lord Aberdare
A.J. Evans*
G. Ashton
C.T. Ashton
J.L. Guise
Sir Patrick Kingsley
D.C.H. Townsend*
A.N.M. Longmore
* Test player
(F, 1869-73) – in Lords, 1871-73
(H, 1887-92) – in Lords, 1890-92 (capt.)
(D, 1899-1904) – in Lords, 1904
(F, 1902-08) – in Lords, 06-08 (capt.)
(E, 1910-15) – in Lords, 14-15 (capt.)
(E, 1915-20) – in Lords, 17-20 (capt.)
(A, 1917-22, Common Room, 30-37) – in Lords, 20-22 (capt.)
(E, 1922-27) – in Lords, 23-27 (capt. twice)
(I, 1925-31) – in Lords, 29-31
(A, 1967-71) – in Lords, 69-71 (capt.)
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‘Jack’ Mason, Johnnie Clay and Hubert
Doggart, who captained their counties on
a more-than-occasional basis.
The balance of the side owes much to
a genuine top class all-rounder, Mason,
batting at 6. Notwithstanding a modest
Test record with MCC in Australia in
1897/8, Mason topped the bowling
averages for the tour, made more than 30
first-class hundreds and took 848 wickets,
most in his long career with Kent (in
1892, he also produced surely the finest all
round performance ever in Eton match,
scoring 147 and 71 and taking eight
wickets in a famous Winchester victory).
Both Richard Jefferson, with two
first-class hundreds, and Philip
Whitcombe, who averaged 18.7 with the
bat, could be described as bowling allrounders. Jefferson in his Surrey days was
talked of as an England prospect, and
Whitcombe, who troubled Bradman more
than most, had an impressive strike rate of
22.2 with the ball.
‘Hopper’ Read, the fastest bowler in
England in his day, who took six wickets
in his only Test against South Africa in
1935 (and never made Lord’s!), and Clay,
who took a stack of wickets for
Glamorgan at less than 20 each, with
slow-medium off spin/cutters (and whose
only Test, coincidentally, was the same
one as Hopper’s) complete a powerful and
varied bowling attack.
On the batting front, an opening pair
of Tony Pawson and Douglas Jardine
perhaps seems rather unlikely, but Jardine
did open for MCC in Australia in 1932/33
(without, admittedly, great success for
someone who held his place in the middle
order in Australia in 1928/29 at a time
when the depth and quality of England’s
batting was unsurpassed), while as a
habitual no. 3 Pawson should have little
difficulty in stepping up to open.
The Nawab of Pataudi is at 3, a
natural spot for him, certainly pre-injury.
To average 34.9 in Test cricket and to
score six hundreds with the enormous
handicap of only one fully-functioning eye
is an astonishing achievement. Sir Hubert
Ashton comes in at 4, arguably the best
batsman never to play for England and
scorer of a vital 75 for AC Maclaren’s XI
against Warwick Armstrong’s 1921
Australian side, the only match they lost.
In fact, he played four times against the
Australians that year, making three 50s and
one hundred. Also, he was one of Wisden’s
Five Cricketers of the Year in 1922 alongside McDonald, Gregory and
McCartney!
Despite his protestations to the
contrary, overruled by the other two
selectors, the Chairman, Hubert Doggart
(Cambridge, Sussex, 20 first-class
hundreds and 2 Tests for England v West
Indies in 1950), is at 5 to bring style and
solidity to the middle order, plus
contributing the occasional ‘drifters’ if a
lengthy partnership needs breaking. He
also bats one place below his godfather
after whom he was named.
Finally, Nick Majendie is chosen as
wicket-keeper; he was an Oxford Blue and
played eight games for Surrey.
For captain, the choice lies between
Pataudi, who captained India for 40 of his
46 tests, and Jardine, who edges it for his
ruthless single-mindedness (would he have
persuaded Hopper to bowl bodyline?!), not
perhaps a natural Wykehamist trait, and in
turn requiring the diplomatic skills of
Doggart as vice-captain to prevent
hostilities breaking out with the Etonians!
As for others under serious
consideration, the last batting place went to
Pawson, with a first-class average of 37, and
in that and a scoring rate of first-class
hundreds, superior to John Shuter, Barry
Reed, David Townsend and Lord Aberdare.
This although Townsend’s 193 in the
1934 Varsity match secured him a place
on the 1934/35 tour of the West Indies
where he played three Tests, and Aberdare
(a brilliant all-round sportsman) played in
the Middlesex side which won the
County Championship in 1921, when he
also made 127 for the Gentlemen v
Players, one of his six first-class hundreds.
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While Reed, a specialist opener who
averaged 24.3 with two hundreds in his
distinguished Hampshire career, is also
nudged out by Pawson, his great
experience, brilliant fielding and esprit de
corps see him take the 12th man slot.
Three other Test players are also left
out of the final XI: John Evans, Sir Henry
Leveson-Gower and John Shuter. Evans,
who played one Test in 1921 against the
all-conquering Australians, averaged 24.6
with the bat (six hundreds) and as a fastmedium bowler took 112 wickets at 27.8.
However, Whitcombe’s superior strike rate
as a bowler gets him the nod - as well as
having a better average, he took exactly the
same number of wickets, in 37 as opposed
to 90 first-class games. A more defensive
approach could, however, see Evans’s
superior batting prevail.
‘Shrimp’ Leveson-Gower captained
MCC in South Africa in 1909/10 (possibly
because a number of other amateurs were
not available), as well as Oxford and
Surrey, and was a leading figure at the
Oval, where he was President, 1929-39,
and at Lord’s as a Test Selector for many
years, including as Chairman in 1924 and
1927-30. However, over a long career of
277 first-class matches, he averaged 23.7
with the bat (four hundreds) and took 46
wickets with occasional leg-breaks – not
quite enough in either department, despite
being the only Wykehamist knighted for
his services to cricket!
As for Shuter, he must be the only
Wykehamist to have opened the batting in
a Test against Australia with WG Grace, in
1888 at the Oval, his sole cap, when he
made a respectable 28 in his only innings,
the Great Man himself falling for 1 in an
England innings victory. However, in 306
first-class games, mainly for Surrey, but also
a number of times for the Gentlemen v
Players, Shuter averaged only 21, although
he captained Surrey to five consecutive
County Championships in the 1880s/90s,
and as a specialist opener is also a strong
contender to open with Jardine.
CT Ashton was described in the 1920
Wisden as ‘the best all-round schoolboy of
the year’, and captained Winchester to
victory against Eton that year. The
following year, 1921, in Eton match,
Johnny Guise made 278 on the losing side
in the second innings, the remaining
Winchester batsmen contributing a total of
111 runs in the two innings! As well as
captaining Oxford, Guise played 94 games
in first-class cricket and averaged 26 with
the bat, and was a useful slow-medium
bowler (63 first class wickets), while Claude
Ashton was also in Maclaren’s XI which
beat Armstrong’s Australians, as was the
third Ashton brother Gilbert – all three
brothers captained both Winchester and
Cambridge, and registered first-class 100s
(and also gained soccer blues). Claude
Ashton averaged 25 with the bat and 31
with the ball over a 127 match first-class
career for Essex as well as Cambridge,
putting him close to Evans in statistical
terms, and another potential contender for
the Whitcombe place. Sir Patrick Kingsley,
a brilliant schoolboy cricketer, five years in
Lords’ and, three years an Oxford blue, was
subsequently unable to play first-class
cricket with enough regularity to establish
his credentials.
Finally, Andrew Longmore’s superior
batting had him in contention for the
wicket-keeping slot, but while he played
for Oxford, he didn’t quite get a blue, and
Majendie also registered at least one firstclass 50.
So, a side with no obvious weaknesses
except for the absence of a wrist-spinner,
and one whose pace attack would no doubt
relish their prospects on a lively Agar’s!
In conclusion, it is interesting that of
the 22 players considered, 16 played the
bulk of their cricket pre- the mid-1950s,
and of the remaining six, five pre-1970,
reflecting the increased professionalism of
the game over the last 30 years or so. We
should also recognise the great
contribution made to Winchester cricket
both by the many dedicated Masters-incharge, including in particular ER Wilson
and HS Altham, and also by the
distinguished professional coaches whom
Winchester has been able to attract. ■
Eli McCullough (Keeper of OW Records 1989-2010)
Eli, by which abbreviation she had
been known before her arrival here and
which Desmond Lee required her to retain
to avoid confusion with his wife, Elizabeth,
retired from her post as Headmaster’s
Secretary in 1988 after service of thirty-two
years, nearly matching that of Warden Lee
(1861-1904), but some way behind
Headmaster Burton (1724-1766). During
the following year she came out of
retirement, at the urging of Colin Badcock,
in order to assume the mantle of the eightyseven year old Gerry Dicker, who had
decided that it was time to end his service
to Win Coll, which had begun fifty-three
years earlier, albeit with a short gap of eight
years immediately after he had retired as a
don. Having reached the same age for
retirement as Gerry Dicker, but not
specifically because of that, and after
virtually unbroken service of fifty-four
years, Eli decided to relinquish her
responsibilities at the end of this summer.
Naturally the occasion cannot be allowed
to pass without comment, although it has
been made clear to me that there must be
no fanfare, since that happened at the time
of her first retirement twenty-two years ago.
It is not difficult to work out that
much the most time-consuming part of
the Keeper’s job is to record the passing of
Old Wykehamists, dons and others, and
to underline this fact Colin Badcock
irreverently named her ‘The Death
Watch Beetle.’ My research revealed that
seventy-six names appear in the obituary
section of last year’s editions of the Trusty
Servant, which means that Eli has
recorded the deaths of approximately
sixteen hundred people, a number which
is more than doubled when you estimate
those mentioned in ‘OW News’. Each
death generates the need to provide brief
biographical details of the deceased and
this process often involves an approach to
relatives for information or, alternatively,
the requirement to seek out information
from existing sources; the first of the two
processes is time-consuming and often
requires sympathetic and tactful handling.
In many areas of a job of this sort,
minutiae predominate and inevitable
errors are made, frequently producing
reactions that are out of all proportion,
but which nonetheless have to be dealt
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with, more often than not by telephone;
thanks to her tactfulness and/or
controlled irritation, the complainant has
seldom, if ever, been left with any lasting
sense of grievance. The fact that Eli has a
well-developed sense of humour and an
enjoyment of the ridiculous has eased
many of her labours and from time to time
she has greatly amused those taken into
her confidence.
The 1956 edition of the Winchester
College Register (editors HA Jackson and
ER Wilson) carries the dedication: ‘Love
the Brotherhood’. Eli has lived up to this
high ‘Jackerian’ ideal, and of course she
will have included the select band of
‘Wykehamist sisters’ in her collective
embrace. ‘The brotherhood’ owes her a
huge debt of gratitude for her labours of
devotion and it is fervently hoped that
health and happiness will attend her
during a second and much lengthier
period of retirement. To coin that most
appropriate phrase: ‘Well done, thou good
and trusty servant’.
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Patrick Maclure
Twenty Years of the Grahame Drew
Travel Scholarships
Christopher Rowell, (K, 1965-70),
Chairman of the Drew Travel Scholarship
Committee, writes:
Next year will mark the twentieth
anniversary of the Grahame Drew Travel
Scholarships at Winchester. First awarded
in 1991, the scholarships provide the
opportunity for Wykehamists in their
penultimate or final year to travel in
Europe to seek inspiration for their study
of art or art history. On their return they
stage an exhibition in Art School. Drew
Scholars usually travel in pairs or larger
groups to provide companionship, but
some of the recipients have chosen
isolation. Destinations like Florence,
Rome, Madrid, Vienna, Prague and Paris
are the norm (where Grahame Drew’s own
interests lay) but Drew Scholars have also
visited the industrial sector of Dundee,
war-torn Sarajevo, or have sought
communion with nature in the Outer
Hebrides and in the Arctic Circle. The
Drew Scholars’ exhibition in September
attracts broad interest within the School.
This reflects the catholic interests of the
Drew Scholars. Not all are habitués of Art
School or ‘arty types’, as Grahame called
them. Some have gone on to study art, art
history or architecture, but the majority
have pursued other subjects, while
continuing their artistic interests. They
almost invariably distinguish themselves
at university. The Drew Committee seeks
to award scholarships to candidates with
real talent, with the most interesting
proposals and who seem most capable of
the administrative demands of staging an
exhibition. Advice is taken from the Art
Department and other relevant members
of staff. To date, over 100 Wykehamists
have been awarded Drew Scholarships.
The Drew Committee was set up by
Grahame’s walls were hung with paintings,
some by Old Masters and one or two by
himself and his contemporaries from art
college. After reading Architecture at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
(where his rooms provided convenient
nocturnal access to those climbing back
into college after the gates had been shut),
Grahame trained at the the Camberwell
School of Art. He served with the Bays
during the War, and commanded a tank in
the Western Desert, an achievement that
always seemed rather incongruous to those
of us who knew him in later life. He
eventually arrived at Winchester ‘from
darkest Bromley’ in January 1958, ‘when
art here was in the doldrums’, as the
Headmaster, Sir Desmond Lee,
remembered. On his retirement, art at
Winchester was very much on the agenda,
and there is great competition for ‘Drew
Jug’, the prize for inter-House art.
former pupils and friends of Grahame
Drew (1918-86), who was Drawing Master
and Art Master of Winchester College
(1958-80). Grahame was much loved for
his kindness, his sense of humour and for
his idiosyncrasies. A bachelor of private
means, he provided a haven of civilisation
at 7, Kingsgate Street, with its beautiful
garden. Those in Art School around 4pm
(some of whom had arrived intentionally
shortly before) were often invited to tea
(Lapsang Souchong) which was
accompanied by delicious home-made
cakes, cooked to perfection by his
somewhat eccentric housekeeper.
Winchester was then a very different (and
far less comfortable) institution, still
dominated by ‘militant athleticism’, so for
those of us less inclined to find solace on
the cricket field, Grahame’s kindness,
hospitality and style were never forgotten.
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Grahame achieved his goals partly as
a generous host – ‘by champagne cocktails,
by parties and by good fellowship’
according to John Thorn, Sir Desmond’s
successor as Headmaster – but mainly by
insistence upon very high standards. He
loved gardening, music and drama as well
as the fine arts. Trips to Glyndebourne
encouraged Wykehamists to appreciate
opera. Much of the Winchester landscape
was planted on his advice, including the
trees flanking the Itchen and the garden
in War Cloister. It is this breadth of
interests that the Winchester Div System
still seeks to inculcate, so that – for
instance - doctors in later life might find
pleasure in Tolstoy as well as the British
Medical Journal. Grahame was a lifeenhancing figure. He used to take
Wykehamist artists and art historians to
Italy during the summer, where the rented
villa on Lake Garda was the equivalent of
7, Kingsgate Street.
After his memorial service in Chapel
on 4 October, 1986, it was decided there
and then that something should be done in
his memory for the benefit of Wykehamists
in the School. Travelling art scholarships
seemed the natural choice, as a truly living
memorial in tune with Grahame’s own
interests. These have been the greatest
success and £65,000 have already been
raised, which allows £2,500 worth of
scholarships to be awarded annually.
However, with the rising cost of travel and
the feeling that we should celebrate twenty
years by making the Drew Scholarships
more widely available within the School,
we are now seeking to raise an additional
£35,000 to bring the Fund up to £100,000.
Income only is spent, so that the Drew
Scholarships will continue as an element of
the varied opportunities offered by
Winchester to Wykehamists.
The Drew Scholarships are awarded
by an independent Committee (see list
below) made up of Old Wykehamists,
friends of Grahame and dons. The
Headmaster attends our annual meetings
and promotes the scholarships within the
College. After visiting the exhibition in
Art School, the Headmaster and the
Committee entertain the Drew scholars to
lunch in the Warden’s Lodgings. This is
always a lively and civilised occasion in
beautiful surroundings and one feels that
Grahame is there in spirit.
Committee
Christopher Rowell, Chairman
Professor John Stein, FRCP, Treasurer
Stephen Anderson
Colin Anson
Dr. Peter Cramer
Jonathan Hills
Miss Eli McCullough
Sir Hugh Roberts, GCVO
George Saumarez-Smith
Henry Thompson
To make a donation please contact
Tamara Templer, Deputy Director of
Development, 17 College Street,
Winchester, SO23 9LX. Tel: 01962 621
407, Email: [email protected]
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Wiccamica
Co Ro
Back at the beginning of September we
gained in Co Ro three new full-time dons
and six Winchester Junior Fellows. The
new dons are Christopher Berry
(Mathematics), Andrew Jaffe
(Mathematics) and Emma Macey (Art);
and the Winchester Junior Fellows are
Adam Gamsa (C, 1995-2000; Physics),
Laurence Guymer (History), Sarah Ladley
(Sport), Joel Taylor (Mathematics), Justin
Wheat (Biology) and John Wright
(Geography). Whether their stays with us
are long or short, we extend to all a warm
welcome and offer our very best wishes for
happiness and fulfilment as they find their
feet in this community.
Treasure in the Attic!
John Falconer, Curator of Treasury, writes:
Following the restoration of the Delphi
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Charioteer cast (Trusty Servant 109, May
2010), the final and most exciting stage of
our cast restoration programme has now
been set in motion, thanks to generous
funding of £23,000 from the Stavros
Niarchos Foundation, supported by John
de Lande Long (I, 1964-69 and a Director
of The American Friends of Winchester
College). The fifteen plaster copies of
panels of horsemen from the Parthenon
frieze were stored for much of last century
in the loft of the Warden’s stables.
Weathering and disintegration of the iron
frames, around which the casts were
constructed, has caused cracking and
breaks, and in an appropriately Grecian
late June heat-wave the casts were
successfully manoeuvred through the trap
door and down the narrow wooden ladder
in the stables, and laid out on the grass in
Paradise Regained, before being
transported to the conservator (Windsor
Workshop Ltd.) in south London. We
hope to publish a fuller account when the
restoration is complete.
Vince Broderick - 90 not out
From The Times, on 24th June 2010 and kindly supplied by that past-master in the
art of visual communication, Peter Stormonth Darling (C, 1945-50):
June 24, 1910
June 24, 2010
Geniuses of the age
Mahler, Monet,
Einstein, Edison,
Proust
Spielberg, Gates,
Stoppard, Hawking
Foster
Top Price
Royal Opera House
£105
Royal Opera House
£195
Cultural Celebrities
Beecham, Shaw, Lillie
Langtry, Diaghilev
Simon Cowell, Damien
Hirst, Lady Gaga,
Charles Saatchi
Biggest Sporting Draw
Eton v Winchester
cricket match
The World Cup
The Wykeham Arms was,
inappropriately, closed for refurbishment
on the Sunday before Vince’s birthday, so
a small group of family and friends
assembled on the other side of the street,
first of all to surprise him and then to
drink his health and enjoy his company.
Fuller’s Brewery more than made up for
the closure by providing free drink and
refreshments; Vince himself had already
been awarded a free pint every Sunday to
mark fifty years as a ‘Wykeham Regular.’
Vince was Lords cricket coach from 1960
to 1986.
Remembrance Sunday, 2009
Thanks to some extraordinary detective
work by former member of Common
Room, Shaun Hullis, a brief and dignified
ceremony in War Cloister, in the presence
of his family, recognised Hugh Dayrell
McArthur (I, 1902-07) as an official
casualty of war some eighty-five years
after War Cloister had been dedicated.
McArthur’s death was unusual to the
extent that he was killed in a train crash
in Temple Meads Station, Bristol on 3rd
November 1914, having been
commissioned into the Gloucestershire
Regiment. Although his name had been
included on the Roll of Honour in
Hopper’s, it had not been included in War
Cloister. Shaun put forward a case to the
Ministry of Defence, who confirmed that
he should be officially classified as a war
casualty and also listed in the
Commonwealth War Graves
Commission’s Debt of Honour Register. ■
The Rev’d Paul Burt, Senior Chaplain, with members of the McArthur family: Sam (C, 94-99), James (I, 63-68),
and Dayrell (I, 59-64)
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Old Wykehamist News
Academic
and Verse, at Oxford this summer.
P Convey (I, 75-80) is a senior ‘Individual
Merit’ scientist at the British Antarctic
Survey, where he has been working for 22
years. He has recently been appointed to a
Visiting Professorship at the Malaysian
Antarctic Research Centre, University of
Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, is an Honorary
Lecturer at the University of
Birmingham, a Guest Lecturer at the
University Centre in Svalbard, and cochair of a large international Antarctic
research programme (called ‘Evolution
and Biodiversity in Antarctica’,
www.eba.aq) under the auspices of the
ICSU body, the Scientific Committee on
Antarctic Research, whilst in his spare
time and in a sporting context, he is also
Chairman and Chief Umpire of the
Cambridge University Combined Boat
Clubs, in charge amongst other things of
their major Bumps Races each year. He
reports that there has been quite an OW
reunion in recent years amongst the
umpires for these events!
PNF Nunes-Carvalho (H, 85-89) moved
to Madrid in September to take up the
post of Head of Economics at Runnymede
College in Madrid. He is so far coping
with the language, although listening to it
being spoken is not as clear as he
remembers Dr. Williams’ lessons many
years ago!
DGG Davies (F, 65-70) graduated with a
PhD from the University of Manchester
in July. His thesis was on the evolution of
la droite liberale in France since the end of
the 1920s.
JGN Edis (H, 88-93) is teaching as
Adjunct Professor at New York
University’s Stern School of Business,
where he created a course on media and
technology for MBA students. He
recently celebrated his fifth year reunion
at the Harvard Business School, and he
continues to work at the TV network
HBO (maker of ‘The Wire’ and ‘The
Sopranos’) as Vice President of Emerging
Technology. He would welcome OW
visitors in New York.
HC Mason (Coll, 02-07) won the
Gaisford Greek Prizes and the
Chancellor’s Latin Prizes, for both Prose
MR Stanley-Price (G, 61-65): having
spent many years working mainly in Kenya
and Oman, and also as Chief Executive of
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in
Jersey, Mark gave a fascinating insight into
his view on the natural world during his
lecture to The Friends of Winchester
College in School on 5th October. It was
entitled ‘Connections and Consequences –
how well do we know our natural world?’.
He is now a Visiting Fellow in
Conservation Strategy at Oxford
University’s Wildlife Conservation
Research Unit. He has also joined the
Board of Marwell Wildlife, chaired by ST
Beloe (I, 58-63), and the Advisory Board
of the World Land Trust. At Oxford he is
currently working with the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) and the Al Ain Wildlife Park and
Resort in Abu Dhabi on two tasks for
IUCN’s Species Survival Commission.
JCK Wells (K, 81-86) has been appointed
Professor of Anthropology and Paediatric
Nutrition at UCL Institute of Child
Health.
Appointments/Elections
GD Clay (D, 60-64) has been elected
Master of the Worshipful Company of
Actuaries and was installed on 22 July
2010. His year of office will virtually
coincide with the Warden’s as Master
Mercer.
AC Lovell (B, 67-72) is the current High
Sheriff of Hampshire.
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Sir David Clementi (E, 62-67) is Master
of the Mercers’ Livery Company for 201011.
CHW Holloway (B, 63-68): April 2011
will mark an almost unique double-act,
when Charles’ wife, Georgina, becomes
High Sheriff of Norfolk. The actual
uniqueness lies in the fact that Charles
has been Under Sheriff for many years
and will have played no part in his wife’s
election.
J Holtby (I, 70-75) will become High
Sheriff of the East Riding of Yorkshire in
April 2011.
SMH Raison (A, 52-57) has been elected
a Trustee of the Garrick Club.
JEG (Viscount) Younger (F, 69-74) was
elected to take the vacant seat in the
House of Lords by an overwhelming
majority in the Conservative Hereditary
Peers’ By-Election in June. He becomes
the 12th OW peer to be sitting, of whom
four are lifers and eight hereditary (6
Conservative, 2 Labour and 4 crossbencher).
Arts
AD Adlam (A, 79-81): on 12th April,
2011 Adrian (violin) will perform at the
Wigmore Hall in London, with Thomas
Hell (piano) and the Quartetto di
Cremona. The concert will include
Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 18, No.6,
Bartok’s Sonata No. 2, and Chausson’s
Concerto Opus 21.
Head of Strings at Winchester College
since 2000, Adrian Adlam has performed
throughout Europe, the USA and Japan.
He has appeared as concertmaster with
several major European orchestras. His
CD recordings have included major
chamber music works by Spohr,
Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and
Tchaikowsky. His recording of the
complete violin sonatas by Carl Nielsen
received a Supersonic Award and his
recording of the Schubert Octet was
voted Surround Sound Audio DVD of the
year in Germany. His playing has been
described as combining ‘technical
expertise with musical integrity’.
JH Cartwright (H, 01-06) has produced
very finely detailed pencil drawings of the
Winchester boarding houses which are
now available to purchase for £29.50 at
www.winchestercollegedrawings.co.uk .
20 percent of every House drawing sold
will be donated to that individual House’s
funds. Please see page 31 for more details
on the drawings.
MI Ispahani (D, 74-78) has recently been
reappointed a Trustee of Shakespeare’s
Globe Theatre in London and serves on
the Audit Committee. He also serves on
the Advisory Board of Seeing is Believing,
a reversible blindness initiative sponsored
by Standard Chartered Bank, is a Member
of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the
English Speaking Union and a nonexecutive director of Cantos
Communications, which he co-founded
after he left JP Morgan in 2000 following
a 15 year banking career.
P Puwanarajah (I, 94-99) is currently
playing Guildenstern in Nick Hytner’s
production of Hamlet at the National
Theatre and was nominated for the Ian
Charleson Award in 2009. He is also
finishing the edit on a short film entitled
The Half-Light, which features David
Haig, Henry Goodman and Harry Lloyd
(as an Old Etonian ...).
M Quirk (A, 67-72): Matthew’s erstwhile
‘Unexpected Opera’ has changed its name
to ‘The Merry Opera Company’.
The Merry Opera Company
Vexour Farm, Chiddingstone, Kent
TN8 7BB England
(44) 1892 871 377
(44) 778 236 1998
www.merryopera.com
WJ Verity (K, 80-85) lives in Australia
and writes features for a newspaper
magazine. He is the correspondent for
books, beer, motorcycles and weekends
away. He also teaches journalism at the
University of Western Sydney. He wrote a
book, Bear Is Now Asleep, about the year
after his daughter died. He is married with
three sons.
Books
SP Anderson (staff since 1980): Writing
Greek: an Introduction to Writing in the
Language of Classical Athens (with John
Taylor), Duckworth/Bristol Classical
Press, ISBN 9781853997174. £14.99.
RR Avery (K, 85-89): ‘Quicklook@wine’.
Part of the Quicklookbooks stable, it is a
modest sized book, downloadable but
primarily intended to be read online via
palm readers, ipads, etc.
AJMcC Foulkes (G, 89-94): Oxford
Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 8th edition.
Oxford University Press. ISBN 978019923-217-8. £24.95.
ML Hichens (H, 39-43): Queens and
Empresses – from Cleopatra to Queen
Victoria. Book Guild Publishing. ISBN
978-184624-533-6. £17.99.
RCS Hill (F, 67-72): Walking London’s
Statues and Monuments. An illustrated
tour of London’s public art in 13 fact-
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filled walks. New Holland Publishers
(UK) Ltd. ISBN 978-184773-599-7.
£12.99.
DFB Le Breton (A, 45-49) edited I
Remember It Well to commemorate the
fiftieth anniversary of the Overseas
Service Pensioners Association. Over
seventy contributions make up this
anthology from members who served the
Crown in far-flung territories both before
and after World War II. They write about
their personal lives from their first tour,
about travel, work and their leisure
activities. Life in the Colonial Service was
varied, sometimes dangerous, often
hilarious, but never dull. This is an
important record of the lives of many
professionals in the colonies. Librarion
Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978-190677-518-6.
£16.99 + p&p.
JA Lees (E, 80-85): The Fan Tan Players an opulent family saga, set in Macao,
Russia, the Scottish Highlands and Hong
Kong in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
Exotic and beautifully written, it is a story
of love, history, adversity and adventure,
and has been nominated for the MAN
Asian Literary Prize. Sandstone Press Ltd.
ISBN 978-190520-749-7. £7.99
GL Mallory (Coll, 1900-05): over 75
years after his death, the first book written
by George Mallory, called Climbing
Everest: George Mallory’s writings on
Mountaineering, has been published. It
gathers from disparate locations the small
but influential canon of his writings on
mountaineering which started as letters to
his wife, Ruth. The book is introduced by
Peter Gillman, the author of the standard
biography of George Mallory, The Wildest
Dream. Gibson Square Books Ltd. ISBN
190-3933307. £17.99.
CL Sunter (E, 57-63): Foxy Futurists and
How to Become One. What do you call
people who are vaguely right about the
future, but seldom precisely wrong? Foxy
futurists. In the latest in Clem’s top-selling
series of books, he explores the
methodology of foxy futurists as well as
their propensity to turn their thoughts
into action. This book is a collection of his
most recent columns. It covers topics of
general interest, updated and annotated
with new insights from this master
strategist, and includes possible paths the
global economy and South Africa might
follow in the years ahead. Packed full of
wit and wisdom, Foxy Futurists is a guide to
survival and success in these volatile and
uncertain times. ISBN 978-062404-872-5.
Business and Commercial
Honours
MWP Cunliffe-Lister (Lord Masham) (G,
83-88) and his family are the owners of
Swinton Park in North Yorkshire, which
was recently named ‘Family Hotel of the
Year’ in the Good Hotel Guide 2011.
DSO: NJ Kitson (H, 82-87): awarded for
his highly successful command and
leadership during active operations. Part
of the citation reads: ‘Lt. Col Kitson
demonstrated indomitable leadership
throughout, setting an example of dogged
determination for those beneath him,
even though he was caught in two
explosions himself.’
RC Gow (G, 61-65) has been appointed
Chief Executive of Asia House, a nonprofit, non-political organization, and the
leading pan-Asian body in the UK which
promotes business and cultural exchanges
through seminars, forums and events.
SDC Pusey (B, 03-05): after graduating
from Bristol University, Simon completed
a postgraduate broadcast journalist course
at Cardiff University and then started as a
broadcast journalist on the BBC TV
News in Wales - producing and reporting
for the lunchtime, 6.30 and 10.25 news
bulletins. In April he joined the politics
unit to report on the 2010 General
Election and in July he moved to
Aberystwyth to become the new MidWales reporter for the BBC - the largest
geographical BBC patch in the UK.
TS Rowan-Robinson (H, 62-67): when
not on the golf course, Tim is chairman
and managing director of Thorpeness and
Aldeburgh Hotels, which took the top
honours at the 2010 Anglian Business
Awards in July. His company won the
Medium/Large Business of the Year
category, sponsored by NatWest, and then
went on to claim the overall Business of
the Year title, chosen from among a total
of 14 category winners. The company’s
properties include the Brudenell and the
White Hart in Aldeburgh, the Swan in
Lavenham and the Thorpeness Hotel,
Golf & Country Club.
Ecclesiastical
DG Reid (I, 91–96) was ordained a priest
by the Bishop of Oxford on 26th June this
year, following his diaconal ordination in
July last year. David is a member of the
ministry team of St Ebbe’s, Oxford. He
works along with the Rector of St Ebbe’s,
VE Roberts, (C, 78-83).
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KCVO: RH Vickers (H, 58-63): Serjeant
Surgeon, Royal Household.
Medical
SA Al-Barazi (B, 87-89) was awarded the
Fellowship of the Royal College of
Surgeons (Neurosurgery) in 2009, and has
been appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon
at King’s College Hospital, London, to
start in December 2010.
HGB Hoare (I, 43-47) has written a
fascinating, brief account of his
experience as a patient in Guys Hospital
in 1948-49, entitled At the Dawn of the
National Health Service. He clearly
survived to tell the tale and has been
involved rather more with agriculture
than medicine ever since. Copies are
available from the Win Coll Soc office.
NGJ Keenan (Coll, 90-95) received his
MD degree from Imperial College
(National Heart and Lung Institute) this
year for a doctoral thesis entitled
‘Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance of
the Arterial Wall’. Having completed six
months at Hôpital Bichat in Paris, he is
now back as a registrar in cardiology in
London.
RH Vickers (H, 58-63) has recently
retired from his roles as Orthopaedic
Surgeon to HM The Queen, since 1992,
and as Serjeant Surgeon, since 2006.
There is now, alas, again no OW in the
eam of Royal Doctors, but at least his
successor as Orthopaedic Surgeon has a
slight connection: Professor Justin Cobb’s
father-in-law is Peter Stormonth-Darling
(C, 45-50). After 18 years on the ‘Royal
watch’, Roger plans to continue for a few
years advising lawyers in matters of
M Hardy (A, 01-06) has been selected for
the British Ski Team for 2010-11. He has
also been provisionally nominated to the
Team GB long list for the 2011 World
Student Games, where he hopes to
represent the nation.
OLeH Stevens (H, 92-97) remains in the
USA as assistant trainer to Kellyn Gorder
at WinStar Farm. Notable horses that they
have trained include Super Saver, winner of
the 2010 Kentucky Derby, and American
Lion, winner of the 2010 Illinois Derby.
The annual golf match for the Sinister
Pot was held on 15th June at Sandford
Springs Golf Club. The Sinister (lefthanded) men were captained by CD
Brims (K, 63-68) and included AJ Bligh
(D, 61-66) and DA Oldridge (G, 60-65).
Two Trantites at war: Major-General Nick Carter (72-76) and Lt. Colonel Kitson (82-87).
alleged negligence, whilst helping more
with the RNLI and the Barbers’
Company.
Services
JJC Bucknall (A, 72-76): Colonel of the
Coldstream Guards and currently
Assistant Chief of the General Staff, he
was promoted Lt. Gen. in August 2010.
He will command the Allied Rapid
Reaction Corps, this being the only Corps
level command in the British Army.
Sport
OS Bakhaty (E, 02-07) competed in the
Big Air competition, consisting of a 60
foot jump and a smaller additional jump.
The competition was formed of over 60
riders, drawn from 2500 British university
students. Omar won the Bronze medal
with his ‘Flat 360 Bow and Arrow grab’
that consists of ‘a very off-axis back-flip
whilst grabbing both skis and pulling one
towards me’. We’re glad you lived to tell
the tale, Omar!
NP Carter (H, 72-76): now GOC 6th
(UK) Div, Nick is to be Director General
Land Warfare from February 2011.
RGS Luckyn-Malone (A, 98-03) was
commissioned into the Light Dragoons
last summer.
The Dexters were led by GC ScottMalden (D, 62-67) and included JN
Scott-Malden (Coll, 63-68) and AJC
Normand (F, 76-81). The match result
was a win for the Dexters by one stroke on
the final green. The overall series now
stands at Sinisters 5, Dexters 4, with one
match halved.
TJ Towler (G, 00-05) was awarded the
Sword of Honour by the Prime Minister,
David Cameron, at the 163rd Sovereign’s
Parade at RMA Sandhurst on 13th
August. Tim has been commissioned into
The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
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Obiter dicta
PE Cattermole (staff, 76-00) has been
awarded the Bridgwater Cup for voluntary
services to the local community and to
young people. He is Honorary Curator of
the Blake Museum and Vice-Chairman of
the Bridgwater & District Civic Society.
ASC Cheke (Anthony) (D, 58-59 &
Coll, 59-62) wrote to the Editor in
general appreciation of the colour feature
on the School’s Natural History Society
‘in the field since 1870’. However, he
pointed out that a rather egregious error
had crept in. Two ‘real experts ... of
international repute’ were mentioned as
dating from the society’s activists in the
1960s, Dr John Mackinnon (H, 60-65)
and ‘Dr Alex Cheke’ (A, 61-65), the
latter having allegedly made ‘a
monumental study of the rare birds and
their extinction in the islands of the
Pacific’. Well, not quite, it seems …..
Anthony’s brother, Dr Robert Alexander
Cheke, Professor of Tropical Zoology at
the University of Greenwich, was indeed
in Furley’s between 1961 and 1965 and
does indeed have an international
reputation, but in the field of pest control
and mathematical modelling, whereas the
man with the expertise in rare birds and
their extinction is Anthony himself!
However his ‘monumental study’ was on
birds and other animals on islands in the
Indian Ocean, not the Pacific - his book
Lost land of the Dodo - An ecological history
of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues (2008)
was noted in a recent Trusty Servant (TS
106). His middle name notwithstanding,
his brother has never been known as
‘Alex’. The relevant contributor’s
apologies are offered!
Anthony went on to inform us that John
Mackinnon’s career, incidentally, has
more to it than pandas and goes back a
long way - he was much involved in
developing the first orang-utan
rehabilitation centre, at Sepilok in Sabah
in the late 1960s, having spent his gap
year following these enigmatic apes alone
in the forests of Borneo (see In search of
the Red Ape, 1974). This was before most
people had gap years – Anthony spent his
prosaically monitoring Great Tits in
Wytham Woods, Oxford!
He ended by pointing out that Duncan
Stewart’s untimely death in his gap year in
2008 was a sad echo of the similar loss of
his own friend and contemporary,
Jonathan Sparrow (C, 59-64), a
promising ornithologist, who was killed
by falling off a cliff on Lundy Island, like
Duncan, doing what he loved.
G Ibrahim (E 95-00) was married to Miss
Eleni Papoula on 31st May 2010 in
Athens.
MD Kelland (Coll, 78-83) was married to
Anna on 7th September 2009 at the Casa
de Solana in St Augustine, Florida.
WAN Muir (K, 92-97) writes that Equal
Community Foundation, the social
enterprise that he set up and acts as CEO
for, is now one year old! He goes on:
‘Equal Community Foundation (formerly
Solar Cinema) was established to engage
the current and future perpetrators of
discrimination within their communities.
Our work leverages the impact of existing
programmes that empower the victims,
thereby accelerating progress towards
equality. We have established four
branches since January 2010 and are
opening a further twenty in January 2011.
We predict that 1,200 women will
Memorial on London’s Embankment
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experience reduced violence and
discrimination within the home as a result
of our activities in 2011.
Over 100 million women in India live
with violence. Many more suffer from
regular gender discrimination including
restricted access to basic services such as
education, health care and productive
employment. A key reason for this is the
attitudes of men towards women and the
patriarchal structures they enforce; yet
men still are not engaged as part of the
solution.
Equal Community Foundation has been
developing and implementing solutions to
this and other discrimination issues in
India since 2009. We have been
recognised through our work by Dasra,
Ashoka and other leading international
organisations. Our work continues with
programme variations to serve the 700
million people who live in rural India. In
2011 we will also develop a programme to
reduce maternal and child mortality by
engaging husbands and mother-in-laws,
the primary decision makers in high-risk
births.’
Will will be holding a drinks reception to
launch Equal Community Foundation in
February 2011 and will keep us updated
on this closer to the time. More details
can be found at www.ecf.org.in.
The Battle of Britain – 70 years on
GD Craig (C, 28-33)
It seems right that these pages should
honour those OWs who took part in the
Battle of Britain in 1940.
JC Melville AFC (F, 33-37)
The standard criterion for being named
on the memorials (Embankment and
Capel Le Ferne) as a Battle of Britain
pilot is to have been awarded the Battle of
Britain medal clasp. 2,937 British and
Allied airmen were awarded this clasp for
having flown at least one authorised sortie
with an accredited unit of RAF Fighter
Command in the period 10th July to 31st
October 1940. By that criterion, eleven of
these brave pilots were Old Wykehamists:
DHW Hanson (B, 31-36)
killed on 3.9.1940
ANC Weir DFC (I, 32-37)
killed on 7.11.1940
NR Wheatcroft (F, 32-38)
killed on 26.11.1940
JRA Bailey DFC (C, 33-38)
JC Carver (D, 29-34)
killed on 4.6.1942
CWW Darwin (C, 32-35)
killed on 7.8.1942
The Hon DHT Dowding (G, 32-37)
CN Foxley-Norris DSO (Coll, 30-35)
Top Sporting All-Rounder
FDS Scott-Malden DFC* (Coll, 33-38)
Lest it be forgotten, Air Chief Marshal
Lord Dowding GCB, GCVO, CMG (G,
1895-99) was C-in-C Fighter Command
1940-41, whilst Marshal of the Royal Air
Force Viscount Portal of Hungerford KG
OM GCB (F, 06-12) was Chief of the Air
Staff 1940-45.
This poem was written by the late Air
Chief Marshal Sir Christopher FoxleyNorris GCB DSO OBE (College, 30-35)
Chairman of the Battle of Britain Fighter
Pilots’ Association (1975 - 2003).
Remember Him
Remember him, he was no paladin, sans
peur et sans reproche.
Sans peur? Fear was the second enemy
to beat.
He was a common unconsidered man,
who, for a moment of eternity,
held the whole future of mankind in his
two sweating palms
and did not let it go.
Remember him, not as he is portrayed,
but as he was.
To him you owe the most of what you
have and love today.
A Token of Gratitude
A recently re-discovered and renovated plaque on the Hockstapler side of Meads Wall.
In the August/September 2010 issue of
Sky Sports a roll-call of the top fifteen
sporting all-rounders was published,
drawn from across the globe. Second only
to CB Fry in this list comes Max
Woosnam (F, 1906-11), praised for his
football, tennis, table tennis, snooker and
cricket. Only scratching the surface of
Woosnam’s achievements, the magazine
reads: ‘The archetypal amateur, Woosnam
began the unlikeliest of careers whilst at
Winchester College, for whom he made
144 not out against MCC at Lord’s. At
Cambridge he gained blues in football,
tennis, real tennis and golf, and also
turned out for Chelsea [and captained the
England team]. After fighting in the First
World War, he won Olympic gold in
tennis, and when injury ended his football
career, turned to golf – he was a scratch
player; snooker – he has a 147 break; and
table tennis – he defeated Charlie
Chaplin using a butter knife instead of a
bat.’ Even Max Woosnam must yield to
Charles Burgess Fry, the undisputed king
of all-rounders.
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Errata
It is A J Perry (B, 83-88), rather than his
father, CH Perry (B, 54-59), who has held
the position of Africa Bureau Chief of
Time Magazine since 2006.
I McGilchrist: The Master and his Emissary
in OW News. His dates should have read
(Coll, 66-71), not (Coll, 76-81) as given.
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Obituary
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Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron
Quinton (Fellow, 69-85), died 19.06.10. A
British political and moral philosopher,
metaphysician and materialist philosopher
of mind. A Fellow of All Souls, he became
a Fellow of New Coll, Oxon in 1955;
President of Trinity College 1978-87;
President of the Aristotelian Society
1975-76; Chairman of the Board of the
British Library from 1985-90. In 1983
created a life peer as Baron Quinton of
Holywell in the City of Oxford and the
County of Oxfordshire. To BBC radio
audiences, Anthony Quinton became well
known as the presenter of the long
running Round Britain Quiz. Survived by
his wife, Marcelle and two children. Obits
in Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and
Independent.
Henry Thomas Bingham, Lord Bingham
of Cornhill (Fellow, 83-93), died 11.09.10.
Former Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief
Justice and Senior Law Lord. Survived by
his wife Elizabeth, sons THB (Coll, 80-84)
and CTB (C, 83-87) and daughter. Obits
in Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and
Guardian.
James (Jim) Noel Bates (staff, 60-80), died
August 2010. As a Sgt Major he served in
the Royal Marines for 22 years as Staff
Instructor, before joining the staff at the
PE Centre. His main area of expertise was
boxing which he coached for many years,
as well as swimming and diving. Jim was
also qualified in fencing and athletics and
was a key figure in the department. His
philosophy on Games and their
importance was borne out in an interview
some years ago. When asked where Games
fitted into the educational spectrum, he
replied that they encouraged both the
spirit of fair play and a degree of aggression
necessary in today’s world; as such they
enabled people to learn properly how to
take their fair share of knocks, just as in
life. He is survived by his wife, Sheila, and
their four children.
Michael Clive Burn (F, 26 – 31), died
3.09.10, aged 97. One of Ten Sen Men.
Brother of the late ACB (F, 35-40).
English Lit, Verse and Essay. Winchester
Exhibitioner and Open Scholar at New
Coll, Oxon 1931; 2 Lt KRRC (TA); Capt
1939; transferred to Commandos; Norway
1940; wounded and POW, St Nazaire
1942; MC 1945; Foreign Correspondent of
Times 1946–9; author of Yes, Farewell
1946, (written whilst incarcerated in Oflag
IVC, Colditz); The Modern Everyman (a
play) 1948, Childhood at Oriol 1951, The
Midnight Diary and Poems to Mary 1953,
The Debatable Land 1970 and other novels.
His wife, Mary, predeceased him. There
were no children. Obits in Telegraph, Times
and Independent.
Frederick David Gordon Campbell (K, 2833), died 12.06.10, aged 95. One of Ten
Sen Men. Asiatic Petroleum Co 1933;
Exeter Coll Oxon 1936, 3 Theol BA
1939; Wells Theological Coll 1939; Holy
Orders 1940; Curate St Mary’s, Portsea
1940; Chaplain RNV 1945; Curate
Fareham 1948; Priest-in-Charge of St
Mary, E Hounslow 1949; Society of St
John the Evangelist 1957; Prior of St
Edward’s House, Westminster from 1968,
Superior 1976-91, stayed on as
guestmaster until 2002. Obit in Times.
James Francis Marshall (H, 29-33), died
16.01.10, aged 93. Father of RAJM (H,
72-76). Hongkong & Shanghai Banking
Corp 1935-70; Middlesex Yeomanry 1939;
Greece and Libya 1940-1; 2 Lt RC of Sigs
1942; Palestine and Italy 1942-4; Staff
Capt 1944; Capt, Guards, Div Sigs 1942;
Germany 1945. Whereon the Wild Thyme
Blows: Some Memoirs of Service with the
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Hong Kong Bank 1986. Jim’s retirement
was full and varied; he worked as an
advisor and accountant to a number of
local businesses. He also qualified to coach
tennis and squash through the LTA and
played tennis well into his 70s.
Predeceased by his wife, Marie, and
survived by their three children.
John Finlay Alexander (G, 30-34), died
22.06.10, aged 93. City & Guilds Eng
Coll, London; electrical engineer: ACGI,
BSc Eng 1938; Anglo-Iranian Oil Co
1938; RAFR 1935; Sgt Pilot; P/O 1940; Fl
Lt Gibraltar 1942; Sq Ldr, E Africa and
Aden 1943-4; France 1945; BICC Erith
1946; Aluminium Union Ltd 1948-58;
British Geco Eng Co 1960; Ajax
Magnethermic (UK) 1963-82. Married
Nancy Corner, Dec 40.
Charles John Wrong, (H, 30-35), died
23.06.10, aged 93. V Herbert Smith and
Gillespie Prizes; Exhibitioner Magdalen
Coll, Oxon 1935, 2 Hist 1938, MA 1952;
assistant master Trinity Coll, Kandy 1939;
RAFVR 1941; MEF and Italy 1943-4; P/O,
Greece 1945; Fl Lt 1946; Colonial Office
1946; Instr-Officer RN 1947; assistant
master, Prior Park Coll, Bath 1950, Palm
Beach Florida 1952-3, Cheshire 1956 and
New Jersey, USA 1959-61; graduate
student, Brown Univ USA 1961-5; PhD
1968; instructor Massachusetts Univ 1965
and History Department Simon Fraser
Univ, Canada 1966; assistant professor
Simon Fraser Univ 1965 and Univ of
Florida since 1970.
Ian MacHattie Crombie (Coll, 31-36),
died 27.03.10, aged 92. English Essay,
Latin Prose and Greek Prose, Goddard
Scholar, School Exhibitioner; Scholar
New Coll Oxon 1936, 1 Cl Mod 1938, 1
Lit Hum 1940; MA 1945; Civil Defence
Rescue Service 1941-5; lecturer at Balliol
1945; Fellow of Wadham 1947-83,
holding at various times the offices of
Tutor for Admissions, Librarian, Senior
Tutor and Sub-Warden; his style of
teaching was marked by its care and a
reflective lack of dogmatism. Earning
some fame in the 1950s by rebutting
Ayer’s dismissal of religious belief through
presenting a ‘rich and complex view of the
understanding of talk about God’. His
major work was his 2 volume Examination
of Plato’s Doctrines, 1963. He is survived by
his widow, Frances, their three sons and
two daughters. A memorial service was
held at Wadham College.
Brian Beynon Lloyd (Coll, 34-39), died
28.06.10. Bib Prae 1938-9, School
Exhibitioner 1939, VI, Gymna scarf for
Boxing 1937-9; Sch Balliol College Oxon
1939, war degree in Chemistry 1941;
registered as ‘conscientious objector’
1941; worked on various nutrition
surveys; BA and MA 1946; 1 Nat Sci
(Animal Physiology), 1948; Fellow
Magdalen Coll Oxon, Theodore Williams
Scholar in Physiology, 1948-52, Fellow in
Physiology 1952-70, Sen Tutor 1963-4,
Vice Pres, 1967-8, Emeritus Fellow since
1970; Chemist in Laboratory of Human
Nutrition, later University Demonstrator
and lecturer in Physiology, Oxon 194870, Sen Proctor, 1960-1; Chairman of
Governors, Oxford Coll of Technology
1963-9; Recorder 1958-62 and President
1964-5, Physiol and Biochem Section 1,
Brit Assoc for Advancement of Science,
Pres Section X 1980; chairman, Oxford
Gallery 1967; CNAA Health & Med
Services Bd 1975-80, Oxford Polytechnic
Assoc, director 1970-80, Trumedia Study
Oxford Ltd 1985, Oxford-Bonn Soc
1973-81, Oxford Management Club
1979-80; member, Adv Council (Home
Office) on Misuse of Drugs 1978-81,
Health Educ Ccl 1975-82 (chairman from
1979); CBE 1983; in partnership with
wife and son, Owen, as makers of round
tables since 1989; author of Gas Analysis
Apparatus (various patents) 1960 and
publications in various books and journals
on nutrition, vitamin C, respiration and
the limitations and trends in human
athletic performance. He worked in his
retirement in 1979 on Health Education
Council matters as its Chairman; on
woodworking – including the
construction of complicated three legged
tables! – on his wonderful garden at High
Wall, Pullen’s Lane, Oxford
(www.highall.net); and in 1990 he started
work again as the Director of the
International Nutrition Foundation,
carrying on the work of a former
colleague, Hugh Sinclair, transferring the
assets of the Foundation to the University
of Reading. He is survived by his wife of
61 years, Reinhild, and their seven
children, including two sets of twins. A
Memorial Service is to be held on 13
November at 2.30 pm in Magdalen
College Chapel, Oxford.
Stephen Jenner (C, 34-39), died
19.07.10. Brother of RJ (C, 41-45), VI.
London Hospital Medical School 193940; RNVR 1941, Sub-Lt 1942; in
submarines from 1942; Lt Mediterranean
1943; Indian Ocean and Malacca Straits
1944-5; farming 1962-70; administrator,
Halifax Mental Hospital 1970 and Abbie
J Lane Memorial Hospital Halifax, Nova
Scotia 1971; Administrator, Psychiatric
Services, Camp Hill Hospital 1981,
Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital 1983-5.
Throughout his life he was a passionate
advocate for mental health and rural
health programs. Following his
retirement, he was involved in numerous
community organizations in Canada and
India. He acted as Guardian Ad Litem for
many vulnerable adults in need of
protection and in 2000 was awarded the
Governor General’s Caring Canadian
Award. In addition Stephen was an
enthusiastic gardener and cook. He is
survived by his wife, Anna, and two
stepsons.
Kenneth Peter Barnett (Coll, 35-40), died
19.07.10. Greek Verse, and Freeman and
Hunter Prizes, Goddard Scholar, School
Exhibitioner; Scholar New Coll, Oxon
1940, 2 Cl Mod 1942; RA 1942; seconded
to FO; RN Intelligence, Ceylon 1943-5;
New College, 2 Lit Hum 1947, MA 1948;
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assistant master King Edward VII School,
Sheffield 1948; taught at King’s School,
Worcester 1952-84, as Head of Classics
and as a Housemaster. Classical music was
his lifelong passion. His record collection
was huge and he loved to share it with
others. Peter’s holidays were serious
explorations of history and culture.
Journeys anywhere often involved
diversions to hunt for well-known or
obscure Roman sites. He remained fiercely
independent and uncomplaining, despite
the onset of Parkinson’s disease. His wife,
Sheila, predeceased him and he is survived
by his children. Obit in Guardian.
Michael Julian Hirst (I, 36-40), died
29.05.10. German Prize; Oriel Coll Oxon
1941, 3 French and German (War
Degree); 2 Lt Yorks Hussars 1943, MEF,
UK; India, SEAC, BCOF, Japan 1945-6;
Capt 7th Light Cavalry (Indian Army);
Cirencester 1948-9; farming in Yorkshire;
Queensland since 1957; Queensland Rep
Sheepmeat Council of Australia 1979-84.
Survived by his wife, Margaret.
Douglas McAdam Craig (C, 36-41), died
20.04.10. Assoc XI; Special Entry RN
1941; Sub-Lt, Home Fleet 1943; Lt (S/m)
Home Fleet and E Indies 1944-6; Lt-Cdr
1952; retired 1960; William Robertson
Shipowners Ltd, Glasgow 1960-8;
Robertson Research International Ltd
1969-78; left Maidstone to live in Jersey,
working for Viberts Associates 1979-89, in
the Probate dept. In retirement he enjoyed
a leisurely pace of life with simple
pleasures with Elizabeth, his wife of 65
years, who survives him. Their only child,
Emma, predeceased them.
John Connock McArthur (I, 37-42), died
31.08.10. VI; Sub-Lt RNVR 1943;
Normandy Landing 1944; Lt 1946;
farming 1946; studied agriculture at
Cirencester 1947 and Univ of British
Columbia 1949. This interest was to be a
continuous thread throughout his life.
After spending 10 years of his retirement
in Gascony with his second wife,
Charlotte, they returned to the UK to be
closer to family. His first wife, Elizabeth,
predeceased him. Charlotte and his three
daughters survive him.
Timothy Edward Barnby Green (C, 3943), died date unknown. Sen Co Prae,
Assoc XI, VI; Scholar Keble Coll, Oxon
1943, taken up 1978-80, 3 Mod Hist, MA;
RNVR 1944; Western Approaches and
Mediterranean; Sub-Lt 1945, W Indies;
Burmah and Shell Groups 1946; Gas
Council 1962; Steel Co of Wales 1965;
Bakelite Xylonite Ltd 1967; Wm Baird &
Co 1969; director of planning and
development; Harris & Dixon Ltd (Lloyds
brokers), MD 1970-7. Married three times:
Mercy, Mariana and Anna.
Robin Angus Graham (B, 40-44), died
01.08.10. Bro of IJAG (B, 37-42). Sub-Lt
RNVR 1945-7; Trinity Coll Camb 1948,
Agric, BA 1951; farmed in Suffolk 195159, in Austria 1959-62; post-grad
certificate in Social Work, Exeter Univ
1964; Child Care Officer, Plymouth 1965;
Family Care Worker, Waltham Forest
Service Unit 1969.
Edwin John Baden (K, 41-46), died
13.05.10. RA 1947; CA 1953; wine
importing for 7 years; Samuel Montagu &
Co, merchant bankers, 1963-78, director
1967; Italian International Bank 1978-89,
MD and CEO; Chairman, N American
Property Unit Trust 1973; member of
Management Committee PanEuropean
Prop UT 1975; council member, Inst of
CA (Scot) 1984; trustee of the
International chair for Research in
Accounting (Lancaster Univ) 1972; dir
Girobank 1987; Cavaliere Ufficiale 1986.
Married Christine Grose, Sep 52.
Edward Arthur Trevor Bonnor-Maurice
(B, 41-46), died 10.08.10. 3rd generation
Wykehamist. Assoc XI; Coldstream
Guards 1946-61; Adjutant 2nd Battalion
1955-8, Commander Junior Guardsmen’s
Company 1958-61, MELF 1948-50 and
1951-4, BAOR 1955; Cricket in Egypt;
retired 1961, Honorary Major;
Montgomeryshire CC 1961-74; High
Sheriff Powys 1975-6, DL 1983; MFH
Tanatside Foxhounds since 1971. Married
Lavinia Leighton, Apr 58.
John Reginald Gillum (Coll, 41–46), died
15.08.10. Brother of the late KSG (E,3641). RMAS 1947; 2 Lt The Buffs 1948;
Far East 1949; MELF 1950; Exhibitioner
King’s Coll Camb 1951, 3 Cl 1953; Golf
1952-53; OW Halford Hewitt Cup team
1952-69; Kleinwort Benson Ltd (and
predecessor company) 1956-71, dir 1964;
Samuel Montagu & Co 1971-81, director
and deputy chairman; NM Rothschild &
Sons 1981-8 director. On retirement in
1988, he was described as ‘one of the finest
corporate financiers of the post 2nd WW
generation’. He was a man of the highest
integrity and fairness. Thereafter he took
on several non-executive directorships,
including Debenhams, and Blagdon
Industries. Golf was John’s main activity
outside his career and his family; he almost
reached scratch at one stage. He made a
formidable opponent at Bridge. He is
survived by his wife, Mary Rose, and three
sons. A memorial service will be held at
3.00 pm on 11th November 2010, at St
Stephens Church, 39 Walbrook, London
EC4N 8BN.
John Philip Kelsey (B, 42-46), died
03.10.10. RAC 1947; 2 Lt 10th R Hussars;
Moulton Coll (Agricultural); farming 1950;
director Benjamin Kelsey & Co, brewers,
Leamington; farmer and businessman;
Warwickshire and Worcester Yeomanry.
Nigel Theodore Hesketh Jones (D, 4247), died 13.05.10. Brother of the late
RCHJ (D, 33 - 38). Art Prize; RAEC
1947-9; Palestine; Sgt; Scholar CCC
Camb 1949, 2 Mediaeval and Modern
Languages 1952, MA 1960; taught at
Clifton 1952-89, housemaster 1966-71,
head of Modern Languages 1971-82.
Married Elizabeth Bete, 1964.
Christopher William Wordsworth (C,
43-47), died 10.12.09. Brother of FRBW
(C, 36-41). Farming; Life Guards 195169, retired as Major; he threw himself
into a variety of business ventures. The
final 21 years of his life were spent in
Jamaica, where he returned to farming
and also ran a charity. His wife, Rachel,
pre-deceased him; he is survived by their
son and two daughters.
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Peter Rodney Shires (Coll, 43–48), died
28.7.10. Exhibitioner Caius Coll Camb
1948, 2 Nat Sci 1951; MB, BChir 1954,
MA 1955, FRCS 1959; Squash and Golf
for St Thomas’s Hospital; consultant
orthopaedic and accident surgeon,
Guildford and Godalming Group of
Hospitals since 1965; publications in
medical journals. Married Ann Hyde,
Oct 55.
Richard Aubrey Wootten, (D, 1945-49),
died 04.05.10. Co Prae, VI 1948-49 (capt),
Assoc XI 1948-49 (capt); Mons OCTU,
Stick of Honour; 2 Lt Queen’s Bays 1950;
County of London Yeomanry 1952; Magd
Coll Camb 1951, 2 Econ BA 1954; Tube
Investments 1954, MD of various
subsidiary companies; JP Birmingham.
1984 moved to small businesses. Joint
inventor of the Vivat fire and smoke mask,
which provided up to 15 minutes of
protection from toxic smoke. Although it
passed every known test, the safety
standard agency persisted in concocting
more and more tests until time and finance
ran out. Returned to his favourite hobby:
building working model ships. A first class
shot and fly fisherman. Prolific reader.
Survived by his wife, Veronica, and their
son and two daughters.
Ian Harrison Cameron Walton (D, 4852), died 24.07.10. RA 1952-4, Lt; trainee
Paint Research Assoc; sales manager and
director 1956-9, MD of various companies
1962-70. Married Nanette Wheelwright,
Jan 60.
Anthony Edward Vicars-Miles (F, 194954), died 29.04.10. Co Prae, Exhibitioner,
Eng Lit and Jun Freeman Prizes, Latin
Speech, Editor of The Wykehamist, Capt
of Fencing, Kirby Foils, PS Foil Champion
1954; Scholar New Coll, Oxon 1954-7, 2
Mod Hist, OU Fencing Team 1955-56;
joined Shell Petroleum Co Ltd 1957,
serving in London and overseas. Member
of the Crown and Manor Club. Married
Anne Field, Jul 67.
Jeremy Herbert Bryson (C, 49-53), died
25.08.10. Brother of JBB (C, 43-47).
Textile manufacturer, spinner; joint MD
of Edenderry Spinning Co, Belfast 1965;
MD of Northern Ireland Spinners,
Killinchy Co Down 1968; director Spence
Bryson Ltd 1973; MD of Spence Bryson
Carpets Ltd until 1989, when the
company was taken over. He was a
member of the Equalities Commission for
Northern Ireland. Jeremy was a dedicated
and expert glider who taught it to many
people. He is survived by his second wife,
Pamela, two daughters from his first
marriage to Elizabeth who predeceased
him, and stepsons.
Jeremy Hugh McLachlan (C, 50-55), died
20.06.10. Brother of ADMcL (Coll, 4853) and DAMcL (C,63-68). Winner of
Jun Steeplecha 52, and Sen 54 and 55,
Capt Cross-Country; Royal Tank Regt
1956-8, 2 Lt; Magdalene College Camb
1958, Econ Pt 1 (2:2) 1959, Hist Pt 2 (2:1)
1961; schoolmaster Onitsha, Nigeria
1961; PGCE London 1964; Eltham Coll
1965-8; Lancing Coll, master 1968-1997,
History and Economics, Housemaster
Olds House 1980-94, Senior Master 199597; OL Registrar 1997-2004. In retirement
he was a potter, sculptor and photographer
and lived a nearly normal life in spite of
loss of activity in his hands due to motor
neurone disease, diagnosed in 2004.
Survived by his wife, Philippa, and their
three children.
Jasper Wyatt Royds Larken (I, 53-57),
died 07.07.10. Grenoble Univ, France,
Dip I and II 1958; Grenadier Guards
1958-61; Investment banking, New York
1961-8; James Capel Invest Bank London
1968; he started his own firm called
Financial Intelligence and also helped his
wife with her stationery business for 25
years. They retired to Pewsey seven years
ago, where he hunted, played golf and
tennis and became an avid gardener. He is
survived by his wife, Caroline, and their
son and daughter.
Borneo, Germany and Berlin 1961-67;
instructor School of Infantry 1967-69;
retired 1969, Captain; landowner; DL
Caithness 86. He served on the Spey
Fishery Board, and in Deer Management.
He was Factor at Gordon Castle, before
running a shooting lodge at Glenlivet for
10 years. He is survived by his wife of 40
years, Amalia, and their three daughters,
Emma, Amanda and Penny, whom he gave
away at her wedding in May, despite his
failing health.
Ian Humbert Arthure Garton (E, 56-61),
died 23.08.2010. St John’s Coll Camb
1962, 3 Mech Sci, BA 1965; 3 London
External Economics 1970; left RAF 1972;
Flt Lt; Shell since 1973. Married Ursula
Kaufhold, who predeceased him.
Richard John Ayoub (E, 58-63), died
04.09.10. VI, Running Stripe, VIII; Ealing
Hotel School, London; Nat Dipl in
Catering and Hotel-Keeping; assistant
hotel manager, Toronto. On this
foundation he built a career in private club
management, a career which suited him
admirably because of his gracious and easy
way with people. He became National
President of CSCM (Canadian Society of
Club Managers) 1995-96. With his wife
he owned Expedia CruiseShipCentres in
Barrie. He was very proud of having been
at Winchester College. Survived by Sandy
and their daughter and son.
John Charles Butterfield (C, 82-87), died
19.01.10. He read Theology at Oxford. ■
Winchester College Register
Seventh Edition
I reported some years ago that it was
the intention to start work on this
volume as soon as practicalities relating
to data protection and electronic
transmission had been clarified. This
process has been tortuous, but at last the
way forward is clearer.
For those who wonder what the
volume will contain, it is probably
simplest to describe it as a Wykehamist
Who’s Who, which will carry basic
details (name, date of birth, House and
years) of all living Wykehamists who
entered the school before Short Half
2005, together with the names of fulltime and part-time dons; dates of death
will be recorded where necessary.
Obviously the main purpose of the
publication is to provide full
biographical and other details, but this
Simon Brian Taylor (F, 53-57), died
21.09.10. Brother of CDT (F, 64-69).
Bisley VIII; QO Cameron Highlanders
1959; Queen’s Own Highlanders on
amalgamation 1961; service in Malaya,
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information has to be supplied or
approved by the person in question.
Early in the New Year it is intended to
circulate questionnaires and supply other
information. I have already received
offers of assistance with the editorial
process, which I will follow up in due
course, but the list is far from closed!
I shall also be hoping to recruit a
young Wykehamist who might be
attracted by a modestly remunerated
first-time job, based at Winchester for a
limited period, probably of one year.
Anyone interested in becoming
involved is asked to make contact with
me.
Patrick Maclure
([email protected])
Winchester College Society
Office
17 College Street
Winchester
SO23 9LX
Telephone: 01962 621217
Facsimile: 01962 621218
E-mail:
[email protected]
Web site: www.winchestercollege.co.uk
Directors: David Fellowes (I, 63-67)
Lorna Stoddart
Deputy
Director: Tamara Templer
The Council
William Eccles (H, 73-77) - Chairman
Rod Parker (A, 61-65)
David Fellowes (I, 63-67) - Director
Andrew Joy (C, 70-74)
Richard Morse (K, 72-76)
Toby Stubbs (E, 72-77)
Rupert Younger (F, 79-84)
Alasdair Maclay (Coll, 86-91)
Michael Humbert (B, 90-95)
Mark Toone (E, 90-95)
Ed Mathews (K, 91-96)
Peter Joost (past parent)
Dr R D Townsend - Headmaster
Lorna Stoddart – Director of Development
TEN SEN MEN
A G C F Campbell Murdoch (C, 24-29)
D J J Evans (F, 25-29)
M R Evans DFC (H, 27-30)
Dr J Gask (K, 28-33)
J S T Gibson (Coll, 29-34)
Lt. Col. The Lord [GNC] Wigram MC
(H, 28-34)
P W Ward-Jackson (G, 29-33)
Dr J F Monk (A, 29-34)
Lt. Col. A D Murray (K, 29-34)
J L Pinsent (E, 29-35)
From the Director
Yet More about ‘Class of …’
Reunions
We have now completed the first full
round of these reunions and by all
accounts, they have been very well
received by those who attended. Old
friendships have been rekindled and it has
been amusing to witness the puzzled look
on the faces of some guests as they have
struggled to work out ‘who on earth is that
over there’!
The highlight of the season had to be the
wonderful gathering of our most senior
ranks – the ‘Class of ’45 and beyond’,
some of whom had been to extraordinary
lengths to be there, with the inevitable
‘Well, I couldn’t miss this, could I, in case
it might be my last chance?!’.
As you will see from the back page, we
have already settled on the dates for next
year, but could the Classes of ’81 and ’61
please note that the dates have been
changed from those given in the previous
issue. The only disappointment has been
that nobody stepped forward from the
‘Class of 2000’ to run the one
‘independent’ event, the 10 Years-on
reunion – I live in hope that a champion
will emerge from the 2001 leavers (see the
shaded box on page 30).
I am particularly grateful to two people
who have done so much to make these
reunions work so well: David Rosier (I, 6469), who, as Chairman of The Cavalry and
Guards Club, has enabled his club’s doors
to be opened so welcomingly to us on
several occasions during the year, and our
ever willing and patient Events Manager,
Penny McPherson. Thank you both.
House or Year-group Reps
I continue to look for OWs who would be
prepared to volunteer to be on stand-by as
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House or year-group ‘reps’. All that they
would be asked to do is to whip up some
support for whatever relevant event it may
be – in particular the above ‘Class of’
reunions and, of course, the Cookite
150th Anniversary celebrations, to be
held in June 2012. A little healthy
competition to beat the numbers achieved
for other Houses’ 150th anniversaries
should provide some incentive!
Chapel Choir Reunion in 2012
Plans are beginning to take shape for a
repeat of the last such event, held in 2005.
It would help us enormously if all those
who have been in Chapel Choir, let alone
may be interested in actually taking part,
could let me know, so that we can ensure
that your record on our database reflects
this – all ages will be welcome for what
should be a real ‘choir-fest’. One thing is
for sure: if we don’t know of your interest,
you should not expect an invitation!
Ian Dunlop’s Cartoon Map
A few of you have expressed an interest in
my reproducing the splendid ‘cartoon
map’ of Win Coll, that was shown on the
page back of the last issue. If enough of
you should step forward, I would be happy
to look into the economics of such a
venture, which is already fortunate
enough to have the artist’s blessing.
Legacies and membership of the
William Stanley Goddard Society
Some events – from mid-May
2010 to October 2010
Believe it or not, though I am quite sure
not as a result of the cheeky mention about
legacies in my last despatches, we received
a windfall six-figure legacy a month or so
ago, effectively from an OW who had died
in 2001, who had asked his widow to
remember his old school in her Will.
Wykeham Patrons’ Annual Lecture:
The Wavell Evening – a party of 40, made
up of Patrons and other guests, gathered in
Old Cloister on Thursday, 27th May to
mark former Collegeman, Lord Wavell’s
death, 60 years earlier, on 24th May 1950
and his subsequent burial in the Cloister
garth. After a Reception, Adrian Fort,
Wavell’s most recent biographer, delivered
My sole purpose in raising this is to
remind readers that, unless of course they
would prefer anonymity, membership of
our Legacy Society is there to be enjoyed
and your intended generosity appreciated,
whilst you are still on this earth.
Although I much look forward to meeting
and fêting the non-OW nephew of the
above benefactors, I would rather have
been in a position to thank them in
person, in anticipation!
an appreciation of parts of the great man’s
life. This was followed by a brief, yet
poignant recital of poems from Wavell’s
Other Men’s Flowers, given by two 4thyear Collegemen, Matthew Clayton and
Ewan Macauley. The party enjoyed the
evening sun as, on their way to dinner on
the newly-renovated top floor of Hunter
Tent, they strolled through Meads to the
strains of the bagpipes, played by 3rd-year
Chawkerite, Mungo Walls, from the steps
of Fraser Tent.
General Wavell was inspecting reinforcements during the North African campaign.
The first day he inspected a battalion of Australians, wearing, as usual, his monocle.
They had never seen an officer with a monocle, but every man stood firm. Next day
he reviewed another unit and, lo and behold, every man had an eyeglass, spectacle
lens or coin in his eye, but Wavell pretended not to notice. At the end of the
inspection he marched to the front, took out his eyeglass, flipped it up in the air,
caught it in his eye and shouted, ‘I bet none of you bastards can do that’.
The next OW Register
The good news is that there is to be one,
the last having been produced in 1992
and covering the years 1930 to 1975.
Patrick Maclure (I, 52-57) has most
kindly undertaken to master-mind this
massive undertaking. Please ‘watch this
space’ and respond promptly to his
mailing for personal information,
scheduled for the New Year (see page 25
for a note from Patrick).
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Parents Reception for Years 3 & 4 –
another excellent turn-out of parents
enjoyed a warm evening in Meads for a
Reception at the end of Leave-out on
Wednesday, 2nd June, ending with
Compline in Chapel.
Hunter Tent Donors Lunch – over 100
attended a most enjoyable lunch on New
Field on Winchester Day, Saturday, 19th
June, to celebrate the overwhelming flood
of support, mainly from the OW
cricketing fraternity, for the Hunter Tent
Appeal. Your Director is working on a
‘cunning plan’ which might justify a
repeat event in future years, most
probably designed to involve all those
prepared to support sport in general at
Win Coll.
Toye’s 150th Dinner – The Great Hall at
Lincoln’s Inn was the scene of much
conviviality, as over 200 Old Toyeites
gathered on Wednesday, 30th June to
celebrate the founding of Moberly’s in
1860 by The Reverend Harry Moberly,
who was succeeded by Jack Toye (18801899). Speeches were given by the
present Housemaster, Patrick Herring,
and Lord [David] Hannay of Chiswick
(49-54), whilst the Sen Man was Brian
Mackenzie (33-38).
Recent donations of
cricketing memorabilia
Toyeite Sen Men: Brian Mackenzie (33-38),
with Philip Whitcombe (36-41)
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Domum Dinner for Leavers’ Parents –
the weather continued to bless the
summer’s events at the farewell Dinner for
the 2010 Leavers’ Parents in Meads on
Saturday, 3rd July.
‘Class of’ Reunions:
65+ Years-on Lunch for the Class of ’45
and earlier – what an occasion this turned
out to be, with 34 OWs attending a
Lunch in The Cavalry and Guards Club
in Piccadilly on Wednesday, 8th
September! Peter Scott (H, 31-36) took
the honours as Sen Man, whilst Lord
[Geoffrey] Howe of Aberavon (H, 40-45)
spoke after the meal. The Director
received many a plea for a repeat
performance, with the emphasis on this
being sooner rather than later! Perhaps
every third year?
30 Years-on Dinner for the Class of ’80
– 25 answered the call to attend, mainly
from John Holland (A, 76-80), who
kindly responded to a speech by James
Sabben-Clare (Coll, 54-60 and
Headmaster, 85-00). John’s props
included a Short Roll, some John Des
paper and a bound edition of The
Wykehamist – he clearly knew they would
come in handy one day! Special mention
is called for to mark the effort made by
some to be at The Cavalry and Guards
Club on Wednesday, 6th October,
including David Foster (H, 75-80), who
65+ Years-on Lunch
Alastair Thorburn (A, 3338), having presented his
OTH Hot Roll from 1938
had flown over from the west coast of the
US that morning, only to make the return
trip the very next morning, and also
David Herskovits (A, 79-80) and David
Marks de Chabris (A, 76-80), who had
30 Years-on Dinner
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flown over New York and Toronto,
respectively. Rowland Monk (A, 75-80)
was Sen Man.
60 Years-on Lunch for the Class of ’50 –
yet another gathering at The Cavalry and
Guards Club, this time for Lunch on
Thursday, 14th October, attended by 21
OWs from that era. The status of Sen
Man produced a close tussle, with
honours shared between Richard Lister (I,
44-49) and Alastair Gavin (I, 45-49), the
latter being 15 days older and yet a whole
year jun to the former! The Sub-Warden,
Robin Fox (A, 50-55) apprised the
gathering of the ‘state of the nation’, to
which Peter Stormonth Darling (C, 4550) responded in his inimitable style.
Many are now looking forward to joining
their elders (see 65+ Years-on, above) for
what may well end up becoming the 63+
Years-on Reunion Lunch.
Wykeham Day – a stirring Chapel
Service, containing an Address by the
Headmaster, a sublime performance by
Chapel Choir (they have since been
persuaded to allow congregational
participation next year during the singing
of Psalm 122!), and rounded off by the
Warden’s reassuring words, provided the
prelude to another warm and dry
Wykeham Day on Saturday, 18th
September. Exhibitions drew many an
admiring visitor and several witnessed the
unveiling in Science School of a bronze
bust of Darwin, kindly donated by Ryan
Lim (F, 03-07) and his parents, and
sculpted by the talented Anthony Smith
(F, 97-02) – see page 6 for his account:
‘Getting Close to Darwin’. Tea in the
Warden’s Lodgings was available for
members of the Goddard Society, as ever.
West Midlands Lunch – thanks to the
generosity of David Thompson (F, 67-71)
and his wife, Marika, who not only
provided the venue for a splendid Sunday
Lunch at their home, Albrighton Hall, on
26th September, but also sponsored the
entire fare, a four-figure sum was raised
from voluntary contributions in aid of the
‘Crown and Manor Bursary’. Should
anyone be interested in learning more
about this, would they please contact
David Fellowes. Ted Wilmot (Coll, 3742) was Sen Man.
60 Years-on
Lunch
Parents Reception for Years 1 & 2 –
well over 150 parents attended this, the
third such gathering in Old Hall,
Lincoln’s Inn on Tuesday, 28th
September. The Headmaster addressed
the assembled company, followed by the
Director of Win Coll Soc, who briefly
outlined the School’s development
strategy.
25s - 40s Dinner – though, for reasons
unknown to the select band with the
enthusiasm to attend, the turnout was
well down on previous years, a hugely
enjoyable evening was spent at The Royal
College of Surgeons on Thursday, 30th
September. The Master in College,
Alastair Land, spoke memorably about
life in the School, inspiring some
thought-provoking debate thereafter.
Matt Morgan (H, 84-89) was Sen Man
and rather hopes that he may be invited
back to next year’s event, for which there
will be a change of venue (see back page).
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OW Bath Dinner – held at the Bath Spa
Hotel on Friday, 29th October. A report
will appear in the next issue.
Dates for your Diary in 2011 have been
tabled on the back page. Please mark up
your diaries NOW with any event that
interests you and please encourage others
to join you!
10 Years-on Reunion for the
‘Class of 2001’
The Director remains hopeful that a
ring-leader from among the 2001 Leavers
will step forward to organise a reunion in
London for his contemporaries. He will
be stepping into the illustrious shoes of
past organisers, all of whom have
reported really successful evenings. Even
some funding/sponsorship may be on
offer! Please contact him
([email protected]) to ensure that this
enjoyable notion does not wither on the
vine in what should be its fifth year!
Bishop Thomas Ken
The Reverend Colin
Alsbury, Assistant
Rural Dean of Frome
Deanery and Vicar of
Frome Selwood &
Woodlands, plans to
commemorate the
tercentenary of the
death of Bishop
Thomas Ken next year at Frome St John
the Baptist. Ken died at Longleat House
on 19th March 1711 and was carried a
day or two later to Frome St John the
Baptist, where he was buried just outside
the chancel. The celebrations are
intended to run from 19th March to 8th
June 2011, the latter being the date when
Ken is remembered by the worldwide
Anglican church. Please contact Colin
Alsbury for further details:
[email protected].
An ecumenical service, to which all OWs
are invited, will take place at 10.30am in
Chapel on Sunday, 23rd January, to mark
the end of the Week of Prayer for
Christian Unity. It will involve the
Christian Union, the Society of Our Lady
at Winton, the Winchester College
Parents Prayer Group and the Winchester
College Christian Fellowship. The Rev.
Peter Watherston (D, 55-60), who works
in the Parish where the Olympics are due
to take place and is responsible for a
number of social enterprises and hostels
linked to employment and housing in
that area, will give the address. It is an
'optional' service for the boys. There will
be light refreshments afterwards. More
information is available from Mark
Stephens (F, 55-59) - tel no: 01279843167.
• 30 uprights
• 30 benches and slabs
• 30 footrails
• 30 cupboard doors
• 5-10 book shelves
• 200 tongue and groove oak boards
(2’6”(l) x 5¾"(w) x ¾"(d)
More detailed measurements can be
obtained from Chester:
[email protected]. The oak has been
kept in good dry storage at his home in
West Wales since they were removed
from the mugging halls in Phil’s some
years ago. He is offering these rare pieces
of Phil’s history to OWs on a first comefirst served basis. Purchasers are expected
to collect in person or to arrange carriage.
Limited Print Reproductions of
the Commoner Houses, by James
Cartwright (H, 01-06)
James Cartwright spent much of his spare
time at Win Coll enjoying the variety of
printmaking methods in the Art School.
He has continued his artwork during his
time at university and these very detailed
pencil drawings of the Boarding Houses
are his most recent pieces.
These fine drawings have been
professionally reproduced, and there is
now a limited number of prints available
to be purchased directly from James. He
completed the picture of Trant's, as seen
below, whilst still in the School. The
other drawings will be available to view
online. James is now in his final year at
University College, London, reading for a
BA in French and Spanish and working
on his art in his spare time.
Prints may be purchased for £29.50 at
www.winchestercollegedrawings.co.uk. If
you would like to speak to James, his
telephone number is 07920 427787.
20 percent of every House drawing sold
will be donated to that individual House
Fund.
Seasoned Oak from Phil’s!
Win Coll Football fixtures in 2011 (k.o. 2.30pm):
Chester White (G, 47-52) has the
following pieces of seasoned oak to give
away, although he hopes that donations
may be forthcoming in support of Win
Coll, whether it be directly for the benefit
of Phil’s, or for any other cause that may
appeal to the donor:
XVs
Xs
Xs
V1s
V1s
V1s
Commoners v. Houses
College v. Commoners
College v. Houses
College v. Houses
Commoners v. Houses
College v. Commoners
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Saturday, 12th February
Tuesday, 15th February
Thursday, 17th February
Thursday, 24th March
Saturday, 26th March
Tuesday, 29th March
Dates for your Diary in 2011 (and even beyond)
4th February – Under 25s Buffet
Supper, at The Royal College of Surgeons
in London.
12th February – 30 Years-on Reunion
Dinner for the ‘Class of ‘81’, in
Winchester, after XVs. The Special Div
Hour will be up to Jock Macdonald
(Housemaster of B, 75-82).
3rd March – the Director’s Cambridge
University ‘Pizza Evening’ - contact
Conrad Griffin (I, 04-09) for further
details: [email protected]
4th March – the Director’s Newcastle &
Durham Universities ‘Pizza Evening’,
most probably to be held in Newcastle contact George Apperly (I, 02-07) and
George Harwood (K, 02-07) for further
details: [email protected]
and [email protected],
respectively.
24th March – 20 Years-on Dinner for
the ‘Class of ’91’, at The Cavalry and
Guards Club in London.
26th March – 50 Years-on Reunion
Dinner for the ‘Class of ’61’, in
Winchester, after VIs. The Special Div
Hour will be up to Colin Badcock (Coll,
39-43 and Housemaster of F, 62-76).
4th May – Ad Portas in Chamber Court.
Honorands will be all OW FRSs and
FBAs. N.B. in the unlikely event of any
honorands not having been contacted
about this prestigious occasion, could they
please contact David Fellowes.
May – OW Visual Arts Event –
Laurence Wolff (Common Room) is
planning a second event, following the
very popular evening in May 2009.
13th October – 40 Years-on Dinner for
4th November – OW Bath Meeting.
21st – 26th May – Wykeham Patrons
trip to Turkey – partially ‘in the footsteps
of Doughty-Wylie VC’.
11th November – William Stanley
Goddard Society Lunch, in Winchester.
1st June – Parents Event, in Meads.
15th November – OW Reception, at
Lincoln’s Inn.
15th June – Four Choirs, in Eton
College Chapel (Eton and Winchester,
King’s College and New College).
…. and beyond:
18th June – Winchester Day, including
cricket: OWCC v. Lords and 2nd XI.
25th June – Reunion Lunch for the
1946 Election Roll, in the Master in
College’s rooms.
29th June – Henley Royal Regatta, where
ICENA will entertain its members and
friends in support of the School VIII on
the opening day and, no doubt, beyond.
2nd July – Domum.
17th September – Wykeham Day, in
Winchester.
22nd September – 25s – 40s Dinner, at
The Cavalry and Guards Club in London.
27th September – Reception for Parents
of Years 1 & 2, at Lincoln’s Inn in
London.
6th October – 60 Years-on Lunch for
23rd June 2012 (most probably)–
Chapel Choir and Old Quirister
Reunion Event, in Winchester.
26th May 2012 – OW Lodge Dinner, in
Winchester.
28th June 2012 (most probably) –
Cook’s 150th Anniversary celebrations
– in London.
Please read the following carefully:
CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT
All data on Old Wykehamists, parents and others is
securely held in the Winchester College Society
database and will be treated confidentially for the
benefit of the Society, its members and Winchester
College. The data is available to the Win Coll Soc
office and, upon appropriate application from its
membership, to recognised societies, sports and other
clubs associated with the School. Data is used for a full
range of alumni activities, including the distribution
of Win Coll Soc, Wyk Soc and other School
publications, notification of events and the promotion
of any benefits and services that may be available.
Data may also be used for fundraising programmes, but
may not be passed to external commercial or other
organisations, or sold on auction sites.
KEEP IN TOUCH BY EMAIL
We now have email addresses for 5,900 OWs out of a grand total of
8,620, a good number of whom wish to remain in an email free zone.
If you cannot remember whether you are one of the 2,720, please
check by registering online on the OW website and join the 2,472 who
have already registered; you will then be able to see which of your
details are missing or incorrect.
Addresses: [email protected] or www.wyksoc.com
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