Bill was a Founder Member of the Marlborough Brandt Group and later became its Chairman. and used his scuba diving skills for underwater archaeology in Sicily.Ants business career progressed from a holiday job selling blankets in the Harrods Sale, via a graduate traineeship at Marks & Spencer to a Diploma in Business Administration at Manchester Business School. The Confessions (and Regrets) of an Old Marlburian Tuesday 31st January 2023 | Wykeham Hall | 7.30pm. He also founded the Friends of Somerset Churches and Chapels in 1995 (now the Somerset Churches Trust), and was Chairman for its first ten years. Born in the Argentine, 16th April 1921, Angus was the youngest child of Angus and Vera Stewart. He loved good food and experienced the best cuisine wherever he was in the world, and the cheaper the better. Not for Geoffrey getting off the mark by caressing a single to deep mid-off or nurdling the ball down to third-man. Many who went on to important roles in Eastern Europe had been through his workshops, including Hanna Suchocka, who became Poland's first female prime minister in 1992, and Viktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary since 2010.Alan Brooke Turner was born in 1926 and educated al Marlborough. Jeremy (C1 1948-52) and Jonathan (B1 1948-52) Dale Roberts were born together on 16th May 1934, the sons of Dr Michael Dale Roberts and his wife Christabel. The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England. His wife Anne predeceased him and he leaves two children, Richard and Sarah. 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. 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 must have learnt to ride here as Peter was dead keen and his last words on earth were did I do a clear round when competing in some horse trials aged 58. Roger studied classics but as he says his last year of school was more focused upon war than study. Sensing a PR disaster, in 1978 the councillors had set up a public inquiry that they hoped would lay the blame on the architect; but when the inquiry, commissioned by Camden from the National Building Agency, was finally completed two years later, the finger was pointed not at the architect but at the councillors. The couple later divorced.After a stint at ITN as a newscaster he joined The Daily Express, and was based in New York. Very early on, one realised the magnetic pull of Bruce. Out jumped Martin, furious, ranting and raging at Dennis and the two proceeded to circle each other, fists raised. Professor Fritz Ursell FRS, who died in May 2012 aged 89, came to England as a refugee from Nazi Germany and was educated at Clifton and, when war required him to be moved at least 50 miles from the coast, Marlborough for two terms. JMC Coates (LI 1945-50) died on Wednesday 15th April in Sherborne. For the strings this is quite untrue. He will be sadly missed. To the end she refused almost all assistance; a friend recalls that: At her very last concert in 2015 she let me carry her violin, but that was the only help that she ever accepted, another example of the courage and determination, which were such hall marks of her life. Euphoria has been evident among the cricket fraternity following England's recent triumph in the T20 World Cup in Australia, and Old Marlburian Sam Martin-Jenkins (LI 2017-22) has been close to the action. Tony followed in his father's footsteps and continued the fight against injustice. He was a devout Christian and lived a long and very happy life - he leaves behind a legacy that won't be forgotten. He is survived by his two sons George (B1 1964-1967), Charles (B1 1967-1972) and his four grandchildren. Duties included patrolling the streets at night accompanied by two henchmen, known as Bulldogs, to apprehend students bent on misconduct. Johns chief activities though were musical. He and his troop led the advance of the division for several days. While he and his men were on the objective, they came under heavy mortar fire and shelling for three hours. His only disappointment was the oil crisis, in the early seventies, which put some of his plans on hold.
Some of the players are different, but the Game goes on. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, he was just as critical of policies in Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin as he was of the eurosceptic tide in London.Obituary by Jagjit Chadha (The Guardian). One of the current section writes of how Janet would tactfully correct the bowing and If I was ever lost then I could count on Janet to know when to come in and she was always right. You could fill an entire page with a list of his big-race successes. He was always so well supported by his wife, Mary Regina, and his daughter, Alexandra (Sasha), of whom he was immensely fond and he was a most loving father and husband. As a boy he haunted oriental bookshops around the British Museum and saved up to buy a brass camel with a mysterious inscription that he kept on his desk.Competitive from an early age, he played rugby at the Dragon School against Antonia Pakenham, now Lady Antonia Fraser, and shot at Bisley for the Marlborough eight. Never short of having a laugh, making others laugh and posing the question "just because something is popular - it doesn't mean that it is right?". We also scattered ashes together. Venue: WHITTON SPORTS AND FITNESS CENTRE Marlburian Pitch. Quartered next door but one was another IG, Major RSA Williams and his wife, Cicely, who soon after gained a daughter, Biddy, whose later home in Poulshot, outside Devizes, he would visit from Marlborough. He was also active in a number of voluntary and charitable activities.Born on 28th May 1948 to David and Joy, Ant joined an eclectic group of boys in Preshute where his qualities of friendship and humour were much appreciated. Alan Brooke Turner (PR 1939-44) spent three decade in the Diplomatic service and then he became even more closely involved in world affairs as director of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre.This small body had an important role as Eastern Europe unshackled itself from communism and from Moscow in 1989-90. Dr JWB Forshaw (LI 1936-40) died on 20 April 2011 at the age of 88. They saw their grandchildren grow up, and were able to visit them in Ireland, Canada, and the Falkland Islands. Of these the Eindhoven project, the Medina, completed in 2002, was his final project and also, to many, his final masterwork. Those months in Razmak provided John with the only opportunity during nearly fifty years service to fire in anger, when his Troop engaged the camel gun belonging to the notorious Faqir of Ipi, whilst it was shelling Miram Shah, the administrative headquarters for North Wazirastan, on what is now the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. However, his enthusiasm and resourcefulness were such that he made an outstanding success in the physical training of both Young Officers and Recruits.
The Harrow Association - Harrow School "Niall Hamilton (CR 1985-)"Many OM swimmers will remember Marilyn for her kind but no-nonsense approach to swimming as well as her role and responsibilities at the College .
[TMP] "28mm Marlburian/War of Spanish Succession/WSS miniatures" Topic In the same year Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. He also founded the found the New Zealand Choral Federation in 1985.He was appointed MBE in 1978, Professor Emeritus at Auckland University in 1982 and CBE in 1988. Evelyn went to King's College Cambridge as Exhibitioner in 1951 and graduated BA in1954 and PhD, MA 1958, ScD 1967. Perhaps it was this background that gave him the quiet assurance with which he could tell permanent secretaries and senior politicians, with great courtesy, that they were just wrong and why that was so.He served in the Royal Navy during the second world war: I still recall vividly the moment when I heard that the British people had elected their first Labour government as a midshipman on the bridge of a cruiser steaming across the Indian Ocean. After the war he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and gained a first.He went on to become an assistant lecturer at Manchester University (1950-53), where he produced his thesis, published as The Neglected Child and the Social Services (1954). She had several different jobs, including setting up her own millinery business, working for Principles for Men, and in IT, but her heart and genes were firmly rooted in nature. The nine-person team offers a broad base of experience in archive research, communications, event management, photography and social media. Beloved husband of Ann, devoted father of Clare, Kate and Charles, adoring grandfather of Samson, and a much loved brother of Michael, Ewan and Diana. He was one of the proof-readers of The Marlburian Club Magazine until 2013 and remained sharp eyed and keenly intelligent to the end. He was responsible for the administration in the Crown Courts here as well as having his every day duties in court. 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. The following week he flew to the Wellington hospital in St Johns Wood and had several more treatments over the next 5 months. Indeed, the textbooks were still in use well into the 1990s until the modular model was established. Although the region was still largely closed except to strictly monitored tour groups, Hopkirk became adept at seeking out individuals with recollections of key events and personalities: Whenever my minders backs were turned I would sneak off to find where key events in the Great Game took place. He was sometimes accompanied by Kathleen, his third wife and an author, who did much initial research and helped with inquiries in Peking, Tokyo and Delhi.His second book, Trespassers on the Roof of the World, published in 1982, concentrated on the increasingly frenzied at times lunatic attempts by Europeans to reach Lhasa, the Forbidden City, and to achieve domination of the huge Tibetan plateau. Despite having very different political views from some of his friends, there was never an acrimonious discussion. SCHAUMBURG, Ill. A woman was discovered stabbed to death on Wednesday night in Schaumburg and the incident is now being investigated as a homicide. As a direct descendant of Josiah Wedgwood, it did not take long for Piers to enter the family firm but he started out cleaning the pottery kilns and learning production methods at the home of Wedgwood in the village of Barlaston, Staffordshire. A round-up of this week's Marlburian match action. Their four children were born in the sixties and Roger took a temporary job running a charity for the physically disabled, Hertfordshire Association for the Disabled.
Old Marlburians | Arthurian League Dr Evans and Mr Bourdillon were guests. In this last role she was tasked with producing an Appraisal system. His awards included the Schwarzschild and Eddington medals, the Gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and most recently in 2008 the prestigious $1M Kavli prize in Astrophysics, perhaps second only to the Nobel. As in Bloomsbury or Pimlico, the dwellings were in rows entered directly from the street and every dwelling had its own open-to-the-sky external space; and as with a Georgian square, the 1.8-hectare (four-acre) park at the centre of the scheme constituted the picture in the frame, the landscape offset by the hard edge of the terraced housing.
Christmas at the Old Church with Michael Allen Harrison 2021 Whatever solution he hit upon, it didnt hold him back because, despite that start, his time with John Hicks was a happy one. He said that Lebanon was possibly the most beautiful country he ever visited. During his retirement he completed an MPhil thesis at the University of Birmingham on the history of GP education in Birmingham drawing on this extensive professional experience.A cardiac arrest in 2007 prompted his complete retirement, which permitted him to indulge his interest in foreign travel and work on his familys genealogical archive. For some reason I persevered and then one term this new beak, Bruce Tulloh, appeared in our midst. Edmund was born in July 1951 and brought up in London. Former pupils, Old Marlburians. He was Head of Chambers for a number of years, gently steering us along with a benign dictatorship, always being prepared to give his time and expertise to help and guide younger members of Chambers. Educated at Marlborough College (1941-45), Magdalen College, Oxford (1945-48) and St. Thomass Hospital Medical School (1948-51), he led a distinguished medical career spanning decades.Undertaking his National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps, Mr Marston went on to work as a Consultant Surgeon and Senior Lecturer at Middlesex Hospital, Royal Northern Hospital and later University College London. 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. But playing this music demands levels of virtuosity far beyond the average orchestral score. His parents drove him back to school and gave him some money to see him through to the end of term. JOHN Gordon (B3 1954-58) has died aged 77 was the UKs permanent delegate to Unesco from 1983 to 1985, and remained deeply committed to its principles of peace, security and sustainability throughout his life.His time there proved to be a turbulent one, during which the US government withdrew from Unesco and the UK threatened to follow suit, eventually doing so on 5 December 1985. After MC and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, Sir David was called to the Bar before the war. He then applied to resign his commission on completion of his regimental command in 1957 as he had 30,000 (about 690,000 today) in death duties to pay on the family estate and would not be able to run the 5,000 acres estate while still serving. Romanian economists, Polishlawyer, Bulgarian doctors, Hungarian judges- all came to London as the centre's guests, to be introduced by Brooke Turner to British colleagues.It was a triumph. Generous of spirit with a wry sense of humour, John sat on several charitable committees, was a tireless fundraiser for a variety of causes in racing and, in particular, was a big supporter of the Racing Welfare charity. After leaving Marlborough College, he began a law degree at Kent University but left tojointhe Victoria and Albert Museum as an intern in 1969, which set him on his path as an expert in the field. John was born in Woodford Green, then in Essex, the younger son of William Watson and Emily Halfhead. A particular contribution was to solve the problem of crossing the crevasses in the Antartic. He was thrown into an overcrowded cell from which fellow captives were taken out to be shot. They met at the home of the Finzi family, where Jeremy was a frequent guest, and were married in 1966. Along with the Ghurkhas, the Madrassi soldiers could be relied upon to conduct internal security duties without favouring one side or the other.After serving in 34 Training Regiment in Rhyl, North Wales, and 60 Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) Regiment in Palace Barracks, Holywood, John was posted to 71 HAA Regiment in Fayid, Egypt in June 1952, initially as a Troop Commander in 187 Battery, and then as the Adjutant. In retirement heenjoyedgolf, cricket, bridge,crosswords, sport and current affairs. With his friend and colleague Andrew Carter (CR 1965-70), Nick inspired many pupils to take an active part in musical events, whether it was listening to LP recordings, singing and playing in small groups and working with the Chapel Choir. Although he was not cut out for military life on one occasion he inadvertently directed his fire at the officers mess rather than towards the enemy the experience proved formative. Since his early years Roger was an avid follower of the capital markets and invested wisely and well in the shares of a number of different companies. After demobilisation from the army in 1946 and a two-year agricultural degree at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1951 he took on the tenancy of Riverford, a derelict Church Commissioners farm. Location Web Design| 2019 The Marlburian Club In 1962, aged 43, he left Eton to become Vicar of Hartley Wintney, a large, lively and socially varied parish in north-east Hampshire where he stayed for an exceptional 26 years. Sometimes I have had to tell a dying woman that her plans are not sensible and bring her into line even when on oxygen.
Marlburians: meaning - WordSense Village churches were a favourite destination and, when we had explored church and churchyard, Jeremy would head for the harmonium. His father was a banker turned sugar grower in Trinidad, where John and his sister, Pamela, grew up. In 2013 Janet moved down to Town Mill and there received much help from the management and again from neighbours, who enabled her to retain her independence to the end. At the same time, he became one of the Corps and Navys leading athletes competing in track and field, cross-country and pentathlon, and he was placed fourth in the Combined Services National Pentathlon Championships. The Headmaster was Basil Garnons-Williams, a former housemaster of C1, also on the staff was Reggie Fair (B1), Master i/c Cricket. At the time, this was a fledgling common law set under the headship of John Rankin QC. However she had strong friendships with her neighbours. Whilst at Corsham she had played Netball, eventually becoming qualified at coaching and umpiring, skills which she carried to Marlborough College. A childhood friend of his was Diana Pratt, who had two daughters. After school she went to University in Scotland, later studying Fine Arts at the Courtauld Institute in London. in 1958 and remained until his retirement in 1994. Born into a century of change he was the ideal man - as a young teacher, headmaster and housemaster - to embrace the demands of new generations on old institutions with alacrity and glee. He had a mobile phone and many of us had a number for it. It wasnt all plain sailing, we all have our set backs and for Geoffrey one came very early in almost his first case in the Crown Court. The College has lost one of its great scientific alumni. Justin de Blank (PR 1940-44) restaurateur and food merchant whose commitment to quality helped to launch a gastronomic revolution, died on 17th December 2012. In person Brown was always polite and courteous, with the apparel and demeanour of an artist; but it took only a few minutes of conversation for the penetrative power of his intellect to become apparent.