His final school report was very similar in content to his Army report and his ability to organise and his interpersonal skills were noted in both. He was appointed CBE in 1981 for services to the arts. Just up his street.He was also a registered scrap dealer; probably the only person to have the two titles of Circuit Judge and registered scrap dealer simultaneously.He loved mid-Devon. After four years' postwar service in the RAF he went up to Balliol to study classic He joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and served in Warsaw, Jedda, Lisbon,Geneva and Moscow as cultural attache. He subsequently developed a detailed knowledge of Bedouin tribes, their customs and their varied dialects in which was proficient. His many TV series included The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, A Bit of A Do and The Very Secret Army. The following year he married Gillian Hickling; they had five children, Louise, Rachel, Ben, Oliver and Guy, who all became involved in the farm. Then it was back to field gunnery in 154 (Leicestershire Yeomanry) starting in the Lebanon and supporting 10th Indian Division who then took part in the campaign in Italy. They wed in December 1948 and began married life in Edinburgh where he was an assistant principal in the Scottish Education Department (SED). He even gave me running spikes. A founder member of the Worshipful Company of Insurers, Greig was its Master in 1992 and Chairman of the City of London Club 1988 to 1991. old marlburian deaths. Najibullah believed Hopkirks dramatic account of 19th-century Anglo-Russian rivalry in central Asia was on the Ministry of Defences required reading list for British soldiers who were deployed to Afghanistan.Hopkirk did his homework in the India Office archives at the British Library and knew and consulted academics and museum curators. Peter maintained a wide circle of friends from his days at school and university, as well as from his long and varied working life. Service of thanksgiving at St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, on Friday 17th February, at 11.30am, following private cremation. From there, in 1949, he moved to Camberley and the Staff College before joining the Ministry of Supply where he dealt with fire control instruments. Appointed in 1965, Brown was the key figure in this process, his reputation and charisma soon afterwards helping to attract other bright young stars such as Peter Tbori, Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth. He knew each boy well and it seems the parents: one of his most memorable reports contained the line Js many achievements were mainly helped by being the product of healthy parental neglect. Although he had to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he succeeded in carving out a career as a journalist, historian and director of the charity Spinal Research. Full Obituary, Joe Bain, who taught at English and Drama at Stowe from 1954 to 1973 and Winchester from 1974 to 1988, died in 2011. This was difficult for John, obliged as a public servant to follow government policy.Writing many years after the event, he said: Walking down the corridor, followed by BBC television cameras, to hand in our notice of withdrawal to [the director general], was the saddest day of my diplomatic career.The son of James Gordon, a materials scientist and author of several popular engineering books, and his wife, Theodora, John was born in Fleet, Hampshire. He then joined the Colonial Legal Service and was posted to Lagos, Nigeria where he became a Crown Counsel, rising to Senior Crown Counsel, Solicitor General, High Court Judge and, finally, senior Puisne Judge of Northern Nigerla and Chief Justice of Benue-Plateau State. He was probably never happier than when at a National Hunt meeting; Cheltenham of course was a special favourite. A kind and sensitive man who thought nothing of selflessly helping his friends and family. His system survived virtually unchanged at Marlborough until the late 1990s when the then Master insisted the symbology be changed as he couldnt read Greek! He won the Kings Cup Air Race in 1960 and became the British Air Racing Champion the same year, flying a Turbulent aircraft entered by the Duke of Edinburgh. She predeceased him and he is survived by their three sons and a daughter. There were complaints from visiting players that Geoffrey was able to combine his considerable tennis skills with his knowledge of the eccentric shape of the court and the location of various dandelions that altered the balls bounce, all to devastating effect.And he was a world champion in Sticke tennis, a type of Real tennis. Over the years, as well, his aphorisms (and he had plenty!) By 1926, his father had moved to Versailles, France as chaplain to the British community. Professor Colin Prentice (C3 1948-53), who has died aged 79, survived 33 days of captivity by communist Pathet Lao guerrillas in the 1960s and later built an international reputation for his work on blood coagulation. He was then invited by the South African diamond millionaire Jim Bailey to edit his West African news magazine Drum. But playing this music demands levels of virtuosity far beyond the average orchestral score. Tragically, Annabel herself was diagnosed with terminal mesothelioma just days after delivering a moving eulogy to Blossom in St Mary Abbotts Church, Kensington. From what I have heard of his parents, I think that they probably quietly approved of his initiative, if not of his choice of horses to back.After school he went travelling; he loved Turkey and the Middle East and travelled extensively though those areas. Dismissing any doubters as to the sweaters authenticity, Geoffrey said that he was sure it was genuine because of the curry stains down the front.He loved playing at the beautiful cricket ground at Shobrooke, playing for the club for many years. She loved Jersey. He was also most kind and generous with his time within the community of Marlborough and had many loyal friends. In his 70s he began volunteering for Family Care, now known as Birthlink, an organisation to help those who have been adopted or fostered to search for their biological families. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Jean was an accomplished and influential musician. According to Geoffrey, who was never shy about telling a tale against himself, the case was called on, Geoffrey stood up and had been addressing the court in a nervous falsetto for 4 minutes when LCJ leant forward and bellowed tetchily Is there anyone here representing this man?This was but a temporary set back and Geoffreys career flourished. old marlburian deaths. One wrote: "a kind man who was interested in the wellbeing of those he commanded. Towards the end of a Civil Engineering career John trained for the Non Stipendiary Ministry, and became a priest in 1980. He also volunteered for a time with the Territorial Army and was given a commission in the Intelligence Corps. This would be at a considerably later date but if you are interested in attending please contact the Club Office marlburianclub@marlboroughcollege.org. Alison Shaw (NUJ Freelance Journalist and Obituarist)E: alison@alisonshawmedia.com. He was particularly proud that no industrial strikes occurred on his watches throughout his career.Shaw was the second son of Wilfred Shaw, whose book on Operative Gynaecology has recently been published in its 7th edition. They moved to Sheringham in North Norfolk. He used his understanding of ammunition to argue for a tripling of the budget.Then he enjoyed being Assistant Director (Weapons) at the Inspectorate of Armaments then based in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich with outstations at RSAF Enfield and at FN in Herstal, Belgium. He was demobilised in 1946 and returned to the London & North Eastern Railway, for which he had worked in the first two years of the war. Entries where "Marlburian" occurs: Marlburians: Marlburians (English) Noun Marlburians Plural of Marlburian. Click on obituary of William Le Blanc-Smith. All possible avenues of treatment were explored, but it was not to be. He told the story of this colonial family, of Burma and his early life in a revealing account, Last of the Guardians (2005). To cap a distinguished career, he spread his ideas to a wider audience by co-authoring a book with other members of the physics department. Diana later became known as the queen of grotto restorers and makers, commissioned to such places as Hampton Court House, Richmonds shell pavilion at Goodwood House and the Bath House at Walton Hall. From when he was a boy, watching the fighters flying from RAF Duxford a few miles from his home, Bayon had wanted to be a pilot. He was a keen bicycler, regularly cycling to the park at Guindy where he used to chase the deer on his bicycle. Patrick George Sharman, a member of the family which founded the Cambridgeshire Times newspaper, has died aged 75. Although he did not travel in recent years he maintained contact with abroad through an internet advisory service via Bulgaria. After being demobbed, with the rank of captain, in October he began his modern history degree at Brasenose College, meeting his future wife, Ann, the same month. By then the appalling sectarian slaughter following Partition had almost stopped and the journey was without violent incident. On Independence Day, 15 August 1947, John was serving with his Troop in Razmak on the North West Frontier, detached from their Regiment. His final appointments included Assistant Adjutant General to the Commandant General Royal Marines and Director, Pay and Records Royal Marines. Runner beans and raspberries were the staple summer diet. Nick had to retire early because of ill health, but thanks to the Royal Marsden Hospital, he had many years in remission. In 1974 the family returned to England where Peter had been appointed teacher and chaplain at Bedford School. He may have been reckless in his physical activities but was a safe pair of hands in his legal career. The Marlburian Club has over 10,000 members worldwide, supporting a dynamic network of OMs and building strong ties with Marlborough College today. She ran swimming training courses on Saturday mornings for 25 years and as coach to Easter Courses for 26 years. He delighted in their successes. He was approached by a young Dutchman from the Resistance demanding to know why they had stopped as the Germans had just left the neighbouring town of Boxmeer. In the 1970s he and Ann bought a property in west Fife which included the ruined 17th century Bath Castle. My parents met and indulged in what might be described as a courtship in the Black Forest in 1946. Contents. Whilst hurtling down the slide, he would wave his umbrella to the astonishment of spectators below. Laurence Ellis (CR 1955-77) arrived at Marlborough College in 1955 to teach Mathematics after doing National Service with the Green Jackets and reading Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. What is the demography, economics and politics of it? His piano teacher was M.O. H.A.G. Venue: WHITTON SPORTS AND FITNESS CENTRE Marlburian Pitch. During his 22 years at Marlborough he taught many generations of aspiring Mathematicians, specialising particularly in preparing pupils for Oxbridge, and was heavily involved in the School Mathematics Project which revolutionised the teaching of A level Mathematics. He followed his brother Tony Davies (C3 1943-48) to Marlborough College, before going up to St Johns College Oxford to read classics. Prior to his return to Singapore in 1981, Shaw was also involved in film production, distribution and exhibition in Hong Kong under his uncle, Sir Run Run Shaw. The painting now hangs in the National Gallery. The friendships that she formed lasted for decades and grew out of attendance at music courses, where she met people who were not part of local orchestras. The former lord justice of appeal, Sir Henry Brooke, who has died following cardiac surgery aged 81, was a tireless campaigner for improving access to justice and transformed his retirement into an opportunity to speak out on legal causes.After stepping down from the bench in 2006 following a distinguished career, he achieved prominence as a passionate advocate for much-needed reform of the justice system: he served as vice-chair of the Labour party-supported Bach Commission on Access to Justice (2016-17), drafting significant sections of the resulting report that called for a legally enforceable right to justice and legal aid.Brookes post-judicial renown owed much to his enthusiastic adoption of digital technology. He is greatly missed by all who knew him more. John lived in France for two years till he was 9 and at that point spoke French better than English. Toby Grafftey-Smith (B3 1984-89) has died, aged 46, on 11th April 2017. A great Gentleman and a superb ambassador for Wedgwoods - a fine Old Marlburian in every way, and a dear and well-loved friend. Davids funeral took place in Wales on August 24th. There his chief interest was the CCF, for service to which he was appointed OBE in 1989.He took early retirement in 1993 to enable a return to Australia (where he had met and married his wife, Bridget) on a Royal & Ancient Golf Club tour. After university he joined the army, almost immediately suffering the accident that almost cost him his life and meant that he required constant care. Between 1956-1957 he was the Physical Training Officer at Royal Marines Barracks, Plymouth. Now the Lord Chief Justice sits in a vast court room, as many of us here can confirm. He combined a life of the mind with a relentless will to action, believing that examples inspired others far more than words. She survives him, along with their four children, Michael, Nick, Christopher and Caroline. He was world doubles champion. Promoted to lieutenant that October, during leave in Brussels he spotted, in a shop window, a photograph of himself in an armoured car just after liberation. After settling in Hampshire, he was treasurer of his local Conservative Association and as a church warden; he was an enthusiastic fisherman. OMGS news. My father John Philp Hodge was born on the 12th December 1925 at Newport Isle of Wight. After graduating, he spent a year teaching in Quebec before returning in order to propose to and later marry Margaret Allen (Tiggy) whose brother Hubert had been his contemporary at St Johns. Between 1965-68 he was a Lecturer at Westminster College, Oxford after which he joined Marlborough. His father HMP and uncle FGP were both OMs, as were us sons GHP and RRPP.Click here to read the full obituary courtesy of the Independent. "A welcoming, kind and generous man, Patrick's homes in Trumpington and also in the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, were always places of discussion and good humor. An appreciation of Piers, 4th Baron Wedgwood (B3 1968-72), who died of cardiac failure in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday 29th January 2014Piers and I arrived in the same year at Marlborough College but I only got to know him well, when I taught him in the Hundreds. The Harrow Association was founded in 1907 to enable Old Harrovians, wherever they are in the world and whatever they are doing, to maintain lifelong connections with the School and with each other. David went to Marlborough college and then Magdalen College, Oxford. He was one of the few people to read the Riot Act which he did in 1953 at the Kano Riots. He eventually became Dean and Head of the Music Department. A characteristic of his approach to projects and assignments was his desire to complete them without apparent effort and with as much cheerfulness as possible. It is being published by Otago University Press and is due out this month.Conon and his wife Jackie emigrated to New Zealand in 1958 with two small sons. Laurence Edward Ellis (CR 1955-77)21st April 1932 7th August 2017Housemaster C1 1968-77. The Club engages with the wider College community, including pupils, parents and staff, who are able to attend certain Club events. Donald never really recovered from a stroke last year and after a short stay in hospital died peace fully at home near Cambridge where he had spent his whole working life. He had to appeal the sentence and in due course went to London to RCJ for a hearing in front of the Lord Chief Justice and 2 other senior judges. However when the Marlborough Concert Orchestra was founded in 2006 Janet joined soon after its foundation. Maurice Balme, who died in December 2012, played a major role in ensuring the survival of Classics as a significant subject in school and university curricula. David Clemmow (B3 1934-39) died on 17th November 2011, just two days before his 90th birthday. He also provided workshops for the disabled to work in all the key Hertfordshire towns and funded baby monitors in the local hospitals to prevent the likelihood of disability from lack of oxygen at birth. After the expedition he completed a PhD at Imperial College and went on to head the Engineering department for 30 years at the Commonwealth Develoment Department which saw him travelling the world solving all kinds of problems in all sorts of environments. He created a local low-growth, utopian community, with a vegetable-growing co-operative feeding into the LETS (local exchange trading system) network. OMGS news. A good leader, thorough planner, and a highly experienced professional, he was appointed MBE during his career and retired from the Army in 1968. I was in the top ten and Bruce shouted encouragement. Anonymous member. He was an inspirational teacher, first privately, then at Morley College and for thirty years at the Royal College of Music where he held the post of Professor of Composition. He married Marion Walker in 1949. This was followed by his devouring of many Agatha Christie novels, their family having a copy of everyone published. He was a light aircraft enthusiast from his first flight in a Gipsy Moth at the age of 10. The following year he was transferred to the Department of Agriculture and went on to become Assistant Under Secretary of State, then took charge of the Social Work Services Group before being made Under Secretary in charge of health care at the Scottish Home and Health Department. After it was finished, he had a change of direction and did what he had planned to do as a schoolboy study for a fine art degree (at the City & Guilds of London Art School) and work as an artist. Robin de Beaumont (LI 1940 - 44) died on the 3rd February. From here he won a Foundation Scholarship to Marlborough College where he studied from 1943 until 1948. I even remember him doing the shot putt when we were doing the 5 Star Awards; at the same time he was tickled pink when our burly discus thrower, deciding he would see to it that a new junior high jump record would be set, put the bar up to maximum height, and then threw a Shell boy over it!World Cup Marathon winner in San Sebastian in 1993, Richard Nerurkar, who trained with Bruce when a member of Common Room (CR 1989-91): At Marlborough Bruce created the perfect training environment for me. Recognised for his significant contribution to the way the academic programme is run today, Mr Marston was responsible for directing the policy and strategy of the RSMs academic programme, ensuring the provision of high quality educational services for all medical professionals. He spent his last few years in Tye Green Care home, close to his children, where he was popular with staff and residents alike. Venue: MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE. Golf was a passion throughout his life, being a native St Andrean. 31 October 2010Derek Huffam (SU 1935-39) passed away on 31 October 2010, aged 89. Sadly, the idea has yet to gain any traction.Richard is survived by his second wife, Valerie (nee Zelle), whom he married in 1970; by their children, Sasha and Ricky; and by four children, Yvonne, Julia, Caroline and Stephen, from his first marriage, to Elaine (nee Good), which ended in divorce.As featured in The Guardian. After the war ended, John returned to his studies at Cambridge, gaining his MA and PhD, following which he became a lecturer in zoology at King's College London. He remained a member of our Chambers throughout his time practicing as a barrister. His wife Anne predeceased him and he leaves two children, Richard and Sarah. His twin brother died of a fatal illness in 1993 and Jeremy joined him on 11th July 2017. The family migrated south and morphed into barristers and respected solicitors with their own firms with the assistance of a bit of local freemasonry His uncle was Alfred Leete, who was the Great War artist responsible for your country needs you. Marilyn as she was known at the college, organised Water-Polo here and enjoyed great success with her swimming and water polo teams. They married in 1970; their children, James (C1 1992) and Elizabeth, are both journalists.Its extraordinary to see how history is repeating itself, he said of the current situation in Afghanistan. He was a leading arts and leisure administrator who was head of arts and recreation for Swindon (later Thamesdown) Borough Council for 22 years. Many years ago he anonymously endowed a fund to enable Members of Common Room to undertake training to further their careers and many members of Common Room have benefited from his generosity, and will do so in the future. During a break in New Delhi, John attended one of Mahatma Ghandis prayer meetings in Birla House. I only saw him using it once in Chambers; he was playing on-line bridge with someone in Barcelona.There was much more to Geoffreys life than the law.He was a talented all round sportsman. SIR Gerald Elliot (LI 1937-42), Chairman and Chief Executive of Christian Salvesen, the shipping, trawling and whaling business, died on Sunday 28th January 2018.Sir Gerald Elliot was born in 1923. Read More Friday, February 3, 2023 . Posted 20 January , 2003. He was the sixth of seven children born to John Arthur Malcolmson Morley (known as Arthur) and to Ruth, known as Mums, whom he adored. In spite of fragile health he enjoyed a long and happy retirement with his beloved wife, Tiggy. She predeceased him in 1979. Closest to his heart, however, was his work supporting healthcare in Sierra Leone which he did as a founder member and trustee of The Kambia Appeal. Peter Boreham (B2 1936-40) was born on 26 May 1922 in China of missionary parents. Neil loved history and liked politics, geography, maps, reading, music and travel. He wrote to Clement Attlee before the election to say the Marlborough College Labour Party would be fighting his cause. He excelled at French and German all requiring the natural discipline that would be a feature of his later life. He left Littlefield early to joined the Army, where he excelled himself. In the early stages of his career, Edmund had a fairly general legal practice, but he soon began to focus almost exclusively on criminal law. A true global citizen, he spoke fluent French, Italian, Spanish and Mandarin. He arrived at Marlborough from the Wick, a preparatory school in Hove. He and his family enjoyed living in Scotland and took the opportunity to explore the country widely. He was a considerable expert on mushrooms, principally for culinary reasons. He was also an excellent university administrator.Ebsworth was a Fellow of Kings College and Christs College, Cambridge, Faculty member at Princeton, Crum Brown Professor of Chemistry and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham. In the same year Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. Later in her career, she tutored and assessed many swimming teaching and coaching courses and we roughly worked out that she had visited over 230 different venues whilst involved in the sport - including Gibraltar and Jersey. At the bottom of the slide, a waiter would walk over to Captain Easterbrook and serve him a Gin and Tonic, which he would swiftly drink, before proceeding to waltz off as though he had just walked calmly down a flight of stairs. Old Marlburian: Old Marlburian (English) Noun Old Marlburian (pl. He was also a Member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. The marriage was dissolved in 1956. His National Service completed, Jeremy attended the Royal Academy of music and entered the world inhabited by such masters as Gerald Finzi and Vaughan Williams. The placid Paisley silk-weavers who were the ancestors of Rear Admiral John Hervey would have blanched at the daring tasks his twentieth-century naval overlords asked him to do.As a commander of nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarines, Hervey was one of a select body of modern British buccaneers who in the 1960s and 1970s stealthily explored the Arctic, gleaning high-quality intelligence on the then Soviet Unions sea-power when, Hervey later explained, they think no-one else is around.It meant trailing the Russian vessels up close so close that with the limitations of the sonar equipment the British boats carried, together with the restrictions on its use that silent snooping imposed, the risk of collision and an unmarked, deliberately forgotten, watery grave was ever present.The rewards were deemed worth the risk. There was a time when his parents were driving through Wiltshire when they saw a smart young boy on the side of the road hitch-hiking. One is left with a feeling of gross inadequacy. He laughed a great deal at jokes, especially puns, at New Yorker cartoons, funny birthday cards. Thinking back over my many years of running, I felt most fulfilled as a runner when I was at Marlborough and because of all I shared there with Bruce and Sue. His main area of expertise was the Soviet bloc and he built strong networks with dissidents in both Hungary and Russia, where he was the culture attache.John went on to head the FCOs nuclear energy department, dealing, among other issues, with the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, followed by a secondment to Imperial College Londons centre for environmental technology.