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Charter Day 1959 L to R: Robert Coulson, Peter Dun, Keith Richards, John Page and Anthony Lee

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Management Committee 2017 — 2018

Officers President Anne Bradley o +44 (0) 117 933 9610 m o h

+44 (0) 7788 918 906 abradley@bgs.bristol.sch.uk a7bradley@outlook.com

President Elect TBC

Secretary Ian Southcott

The Gables Farm Street Fladbury Worcestershire WR10 2QD

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Immediate Past President David Perkins

Assistant Secretary Vacancy

Chairman Jeremy Parrott

Assistant Head (Old Bristolians and Events) Peter Jakobek

Beechcroft Hannay Road Cheddar Somerset BS27 3LJ Jeremyp25@icloud.com

Vice-Chairman Dr Geoffrey Wright

geoffrey.wright@southwest.hee.nhs.uk gwright@bgs.bristol.sch.uk

Treasurer and Membership Secretary Nick Fitzpatrick The Canal House 64 Murhill Limpley Stoke Bath BA2 7FQ

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AROPS Representatives Peter Jakobek

pjakobek@bgs.bristol.sch.uk

Dr Geoffrey Wright

gwright@bgs.bristol.sch.uk

OB Archivist Anne Bradley

Bristol Grammar School University Road Bristol BS8 1SR

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Committee members Careers Co-ordinator Romesh Vaitilingam

89 Berkeley Road Bishopston Bristol BS7 8HQ h +44 (0) 117 983 8777 m +44 (0) 7768 661 095 romesh@vaitilingam.com

Bristolienses Editor Gary Willmott

21 Sunnyside Road Teddington Middlesex TW11 ORP m +44 (0) 7989 978 450 bristolienses@gmx.com

Sports Club Representative Don Furze 103 Manor Road Keynsham Bristol BS31 1SF h +44 (0) 117 986 5222

Co-opted members Marcus Cryer

marcuscryer@galliardresorts.com

Jan Duncan

c/o OBs Office o +44 (0) 117 923 7037

Anna Freeman

o +44 (0) 117 933 9637 afreeman@bgs.bristol.sch.uk

Kate Redshaw

redshaw70@btinternet.com

Ian Rolling

24 Causeway View Nailsea Bristol BS48 2XG h +44 (0) 1275 790 580 ianrolling@blueyonder.co.uk

Richard Leonard

richard.leonard@ukgateway.net

Trustees Julian Portch Jack Prowting Richard Smith

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Bristolienses Issue 53 — July 2017

Management Committee Editorial 1 From the President 2 Thoughts from the Chair 4 Society Report 6 Foundation News 10 Charter Day Report 11 Careers Event for the Lower Sixth 14 AROPS Conference report 15 Medical Elective: Thailand/Burma 19 BGS Field Club Reunion in Devon 23 Reminiscences of Tony Durrant, fire watcher 18 Dates for the Diary 25 Sports Club: Rugby Club Report 26 Sports Club: Hockey Club Report 29 Annual Dinner 2017 Report 32 London Dinner Report 38 Inaugural Past Presidents’ Luncheon 42 Luncheon Club Report 44 Luncheon Club Diary Dates 48 Old Bristolians Around the World News of Old Bristolians Obituaries Marriages Honorary Members of the Society Society Past Presidents

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Editorial In a world that seems to be increasingly tilting off an axis that we might reasonably expect to call ‘normal’, it’s with some relief that I sit down to pull together the summer issue of Bristolienses and realise that there are some things that can be relied upon after all!

The new Bristolienses team is still in the process of gelling (early days) and we’re finding a way to work together so that we can continue to offer up to you an interesting and insightful publication that not only (hopefully) stirs some memories but also gives a peek into the new generations of school leavers and young adults venturing into the world on the firm foundation given them by an education at our school.

I had ten years at school and, when considered in the round, I loved it. There were highs and lows, but on balance my overall experience was great; enhanced by the enduring friendships that I was fortunate enough to form and maintain to this day.

So I was glad to offer to help when Ron Cockitt called me ten years ago and asked me if I would help out with Bristolienses. It’s not Conde Naste, but I think that we’ve offered up a half-decent mag over the years that people are familiar with and comfortable with. To the extent that I’ve never had much feedback - good or bad - I assume that we’ve done OK! I am proud to have become an honorary OB in the process.

Anyway, I feel that Bristolienses would now benefit from a fresh pair of eyes, some new ideas and an injection of enthusisam for a new venture. With work commitments and personal comitments making it harder for me to carve out enough time to pull it together I’ve decided to hand it on to some other lucky soul! Hopefully an OB will be able to take up the reins, because I do think that the insight gained by direct experience of attending the school and of the geography, history and culture of BGS, does resonate.

My last edition will be the next one and so, if there is anyone interested in taking over with effect from issue 55, next summer, please either drop me a line or contact Geoff Wright to express your interest. Interviews will then be held to discuss your proposed approach... just joking!

I wish you well, as always, for a splendid remainder of the summer and rest of the year.

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From the President When I introduced myself at the 2017 Annual Dinner, I mentioned that it was unusual, possibly even unique, for the new President also to be a current member of the School Staff. I am constantly reminded of this dual role, as I arrive at an event wearing my badge of office to ‘Oh, and Anne is also the Archivist’ or carrying a Storeall box of records and a presentation on a flash drive – but ‘Anne is actually the President of the OB Society as well’. So I accept the complementary nature of my roles and we’ll take it from there.

March 17, Charter Day, Presentation to year 7s: Did you ever see the 1532 Charter? The year 7s loved it.

March 18: Annual Dinner, a great occasion. Thank you to everyone involved and to David Perkins (and Geoff and Mike) for making sure I did the right thing at the right time and for fastening the Badge properly! I reported to those present that for the first time the Thorne portraits hanging in the Great Hall were the ones originally painted for the school in 1625, rather than 20th century copies, and I also pointed out the interim memorial to the additional BGS Great War casualties whom we have identified. We are obtaining a quotation for a fifth bronze plaque so that they can be commemorated appropriately.

March 20: Presentation to the year 2s (infants) about BGS and trench warfare in the Great War. Not an easy commission, but they really liked the Bell Bat and the picture of Stanley Booker on his horse.

April 3: Thanksgiving service for the life of David Higson at St Alban’s Church Westbury Park, a lively occasion reflecting David’s interest in theatre and cricket, and his outgoing, not to say mischievous, personality.

April 7: Luncheon Club, The Magic of Minack. David Higson had loved Minack, and a gathering of his friends represented him. Dave very kindly showed me the ropes and presided. Paul Spilsbury said grace, asked me to find the long grace for future use (be warned) and loaned me his school reports to be copied for the Archives.

May 5: Luncheon Club, Guernsey at peace and war; the speaker was a schoolboy on Guernsey during WWII, and his recollections were both vivid and moving. The BGS link here is that it was an Old Bristolian who accepted the German surrender.

May 10: The London Dinner at Painters’ Hall – a site they had acquired in 1532.

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Wonderful food, wonderful company, a range of reminiscences including a possible family connection to the only known OB opera singer who fought in the Great War, and a discussion of the nature of the Honourable Artillery Company. Our journey to and from London was significantly easier than the 2016 storm and flood disaster.

May 13: AROPS; I was invited to deliver presentations on preserving the modern archive, variously threatened by excess paper or by short lived electronic or digital storage or just by low grade materials. However, the question and answer session and subsequent requests for feedback and articles all seemed automatically to default to how Archives and Alumni and Development can work together for the mutual benefit of Schools and Societies. I really felt my dual role had positive benefits that day.

May 15: Rotary Club presentation; this in theory was not about BGS, but the link was so strong. Whatever lead I followed for the Bristol Rotary Club, founded in 1917, it inexorably led to BGS. One of their founders was Clifford Steadman, boot and shoe manufacturer and an OB, who bought tea at the Cadena for a group of sixth formers after their trip to Bristol Castle in March 1918. Their first President was the Sherriff of Bristol, Herbert Edwin Chattock, our Chairman of Governors and a later President was Joey Barton, who was also a keen member of the golf team, along with Percy Berrill, coal merchant, who sent his three sons to BGS; and many more.

Reminiscences are welcome!

May 24: David’s executor delivered a box of the Higson archive, school reports for both David and John, David’s school cap, photographs of John; a box of delights.

May 26: A trip to the British Museum with the BGS Librarian and Library Staff included lunch with the son of the late Francis John Hill, OB (1929 – 1938). F J Hill was a Captain in the Royal Army Service Corps, and on demobilisation he really wanted to be a librarian. His working life was spent in the Iron Library, in the days when the British Library lived in the British Museum, and he left a bequest to BGS Library. He must have had good memories of Fred Perry and the old BGS Library in the Fenwick Richards Wing.

As always, I welcome feedback.

Anne Bradley Old Bristolians’ Society President

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Thoughts from the Chair I am writing this article following our recent heat wave - according to the Met Office the hottest sustained June weather in 175 years!

This recent spell of good weather sent me back to the summer of 1976 and memories of that heat wave; I was coming to the end of my first year at BGS and I still have very happy memories of those times and the following years as a pupil. I know from talking to other OBs that I am not alone in this and it is testament to the school that so many of us have such fond memories of our time at BGS. I sincerely hope - and am confident - that the current and future generations of students will remember, fondly, their time at BGS, too.

The great thing is that it doesn’t end on leaving school! Thanks to the OBs, we can continue to be part of the BGS family throughout our lives and keep up with news and events through Bristolienses and other media. My thanks go to all who make this happen within the school and society.

Work has continued between the society and school to update the OB’s membership and subscription structure. Substantial progress has been made and we hope to roll-out the new structure over the coming academic year. Our aim is to create evercloser links with the school whilst broadening the support that the society gives to both current and former students. In particular, we aim to promote careers support for leavers and financial support for students, wherever possible. I am delighted to announce that we have recently agreed a further joint bursary with the school.

The War Memorial playing fields at Failand provide superb sporting facilities for the various Old Bristolian sports clubs and the society continues to maintain these facilities to the highest possible standards.

After 10 very enjoyable years as Treasurer, I passed the reins over to OB Nick Fitzpatrick at our recent AGM. The society is extremely grateful to Nick for volunteering to undertake this role and we all wish him the very best for the future.

Nick is currently settling in to his new role and will be reporting on our finances in future editions of Bristolienses.

As always, I hope that you enjoy reading this edition of Bristolienses and that it rekindles similar happy memories to mine.

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To: OB Society members From: OB Management Committee <obs@bgs.bristol.sch.uk>

Subject: Email details The Society can save significant sums of money by using email rather than print and postage. If you are willing to allow us to email you, please let us know your preferred email address at obs@bgs.bristol.sch.uk. If you’re not sure whether we’re up to date, just email us anyway.

This small effort on your part will reduce our adminstration costs and free up more money for the causes in which we all believe. Thank you all.

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Society Report Introduction

Once again, at the AGM held on the 7 March, we were looking towards the close of another year.

David Perkins would be handing over the office of President to Anne Bradley, our first woman President, at the Annual Dinner on Saturday 18 March. At the meeting I expressed the sincere thanks of the Society to David for all he had done in his year as President.

The inaugural Society Past Presidents’ Luncheon, organised by Mike Burmester and Don Furze, had taken place at Failand the month before where the new Past Presidents’ badges were distributed to the sixteen present. We hope that the luncheon will be an annual event organised by the Immediate Past President.

Finance

Over the last year, Jeremy Parrott, our treasurer, has kept a careful eye on the Society’s finances and assets and, despite the continuing poor economic climate, has managed to maintain them in a healthy state. However, there has been considerable expenditure relating to Failand and the all-weather pitch.

In the last few months we have found someone to replace Jeremy in this role and Nick Fitzpatrick was elected at the AGM. Margaret Barrington’s replacement, Jo Reeves, has been in post for a number of months, now. Our thanks go to her and to our auditor.

The Society is pleased to continue its support to the School in various ways including the Michael Booker Bursary Scheme, prizes to both Upper and Junior Schools, the School-leavers’ dinner and year book, and the discretionary fund for ex-pupils. We are still working to find a way to support an OBs’ Bursary.

Editorial

Bristolienses has had another good year and we are again very grateful to Gary Willmott for all his industry in putting the magazine together. Although a test e-version was first made available some years ago it has taken a while for us to get this into circulation, but I am pleased to say at last that we were able to use an e-version generally for the last edition and will be doing for this one.

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Those who elected not to receive a paper copy can access the e-versions. Our hope is that the number using the e-version will increase with time. Long-term this will produce significant savings. Paying members will, however, continue to receive a paper copy.

Jan Duncan and I amassed and collated the content and I must thank Jan for all her work. We recognise how much Ron Cockitt had his hand on this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tillerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and without him we have been on a steep learning curve. However, the collators can only collate what they are sent and I must thank the many contributors for providing their copy and apologise if some missed an issue.

Membership

The UK mailing stands at 2,630, a little up on last year and the overseas at 61, also a little up. Membership has been free to all leavers since 2002 and 15 years on, this is now due for review. The paying membership at 570 is 65 smaller than last year, in keeping with the year on year decline expected.

Peter Jakobek works hard to promote the Society to recent leavers and I would like to thank him for his considerable effort and enterprise.

Sports Club

Incorporation remains close but was not achieved, as we had once hoped, by the AGM. Richard Leonard remains keeping a watchful eye on proceedings.

Tim Thorne will be standing down as Chairman but has agreed to continue in position until incorporation is achieved.

Jeremy Kelsey is standing down as treasurer and Clare Coyne from the Cricket Club has agreed to stand for election at the AGM. Clare is an accountant with corporate experience that should be of use when incorporation is achieved. Richard Leonard was re-elected at the AGM. The sporting sections all appear to be thriving as their different reports indicate.

Lisa Merrick, ably assisted by her husband Nick, continues to do an excellent job as premises supervisor at Failand.

School

Peter Jakobek has been in post as Assistant Head for Alumni and Events for over five years, now. Anna Freeman is in her fourth year as Foundation Manager. We work closely together with them both, strengthening the close relationship between the Society and the School and reaching out more readily to the recent leavers and other Old Bristolians.

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We are still trying to put new initiatives into place with plans for more widespread and more informal gatherings in London and further afield. This is a real attempt to create a continuity of support.

We also feel that there is potential to improve even more the relation with the Society, particularly with the concept of shared identity and ‘branding’ so that events for and by former pupils are called ‘Old Bristolians events’, and we have met with the Headmaster and Bursar on several occasions to discuss this.

The sixth careers morning for the lower sixth in November was once again a great success this year. Romesh Vaitilingam and Alexandra Humphrey along with Drahuna Dutton and Justin Harford, supported by about 45 OBs, worked tremendously hard to make the event happen and the feedback from the students has been most gratifying. It is one of those events where when things come together the whole is so much more than the parts.

Social

The Society’s 105th Dinner on 18 March was a success. We returned to having a guest speaker on this occasion and were entertained by the food writer Tim Hayward (OB). Current school students waited on us at table and a table magician mystified us as we ate. Once again there was a choice of menu. Slightly fewer people came than last year but there were many supportive comments. The incorporation of students as entertainer and waiting staff continues as a deliberate attempt to increase the concept of a continuity of membership.

The London Dinner in May at Painters’ Hall was very successful, with splendid surroundings, wonderful food and excellent wines.

The Luncheon Club continues to thrive and the last year has provided talks on many interesting topics. Our thanks go to the organiser, John Crichard, and to Peter Tucker for recruiting the speakers.

The Officers

Jeremy Parrott, is now into his third year in office as Chairman and has recently had to oversee considerable expenditure by the Society for the facilities at Failand but nevertheless has managed the Society’s finances, as Treasurer, with great aplomb.

After five years as Secretary I stood down at the AGM and Ian Southcott was elected to replace me. It has been a most enjoyable responsibility and has given me great pleasure to be of service to the Society and, through the Society, to the SchooI. I wish Ian well in the role.

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AROPS representative so will remain heavily involved and committed to the Society.

I regularly write that my concern with the Society in general is that there is too much institutional history invested in very few and that, currently, there are too few people from the middle years taking an active role in the running of the Society.

More importantly, there are almost no volunteers of any age coming forward to take up roles relating to the Society. Well now we have a new treasurer and a new secretary and Marcus Cryer was an enthusiastic and helpful member of the Dinner subcommittee.

I would like to give my thanks to all the members of the Committee for all they have done in the last year and I look forward to working with them in the coming months.

We recognise and are very grateful to the office staff for keeping the Society’s day to day affairs in such good order. Thank you, Jan (Duncan) and Anne (Bradley). I would also like to recognise formally and thank Anna Freeman and Tony O’Callaghan (share office) for the help and support they provide to the Society.

Geoff Wright (1956 – 1966) Honorary Secretary

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Foundation News Firstly, as the academic year draws to a close I would like to thank all of you who have supported the school this year. We are very fortunate to have a strong community of alumni and friends and really do value each and every one of your contributions.

At this time of the year, I feel very privileged to be involved in many interactions with members of the upper sixth as they come to the end of their studies and prepare to move to pastures new. This is a period when they reflect on their time at the school and what it has meant to both them and their parents.

I am always moved when I hear from those who have been lucky enough to receive support and their ability to take this gift and make the very best of the fantastic opportunity they have been offered. As a parent of two Old Bristolians myself I have found that BGS really does help develop independence and a spirit of enquiry, and allows the children to leave as confident, compassionate and ambitious young adults.

Each year, however, we receive more applications from bright and talented young children from Bristol than we are able to offer financial assistance to. As I said, many of you already support the School, not just financially but with time, expertise and influence, but please if you can, join me in supporting the future of other children; together we could make a real difference.

If you would like to discuss contributing to our bursary scheme, either now or through leaving a gift in your will, please do get in touch. Every gift, however large or small, matters.

Thank you.

Anna Freeman Foundation Manager +44 (0) 117 933 9637 afreeman@bgs.bristol.sch.uk If you would like to listen to what some of our Upper Sixth Leavers say about their time at the School do have a look on the website: https://alumni.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/OBNews https://alumni.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk/OBsandFoundation

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75th Charter Day Service Storm Stella scurried across the Atlantic and reached College Green as the BGS family was heading to the North Door of the Cathedral. Old Bristolians were shown to their seating area and I found myself sat between two alumni, Mike Davenhill (1959) and Geoff Sampson (1962), who we see far too infrequently. Nearby sat other alumni and former members of staff including ‘veterans’ Roy Avery and Tony Warren. Some school governors were also in attendance following their morning meeting.

As silence fell, the Deputy Head Verger led a procession of OB clerics followed by the Headmaster and Lord Mayor while the choir sang the introit. In her greeting, Canon Nicola Stanley welcomed staff, students past and present as well as parents to ‘your cathedral’ and expressed how she valued the relationship between the two institutions. ‘All my hope on God is founded’ set the tone for the service with organ, choir and congregation all fortissimo. James McConnell, Deputy Head of School, gave the first reading, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (which those of a certain age may remember Pete Seeger copying, verbatim, in the late 1950’s to produce the song ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’, which the Byrds took to the top of the Billboard chart in December 1965.) The Head of School, Aarabi Canagarajah, followed ‘Be Thou my Vision’, with the second reading.

Revd. Alan Cook, at school in the late 1970s and now chaplain at St. Monica’s Trust, gave the sermon. He encouraged us to live by the first two commandments; love the Lord and love thy neighbour. He recounted episodes from his own life and ministry in this country and in Canada when he had tried to live up to the ideals and asked BGS student, Oscar Cowan, to address us with his experience at St. Monica’s helping the elderly, which was a heart-warming story.

The Headmaster delivered a Prayer of Thanksgiving and the choir sang the anthem ‘The Battle of Jericho’. Canon Stanley delivered the intercessions and we said the Lord’s Prayer. By this time many of us were quite moved by the occasion. So, when the service drew to its climax with ‘Guide me O Thou great Redeemer’ and the school song and its raucous ‘Quot, quot’ hard on the heels, a sense of the Welsh word ‘hywel’ captured the atmosphere perfectly.

‘Feed me till I want no more’ had just been sung and tea and cakes in the Chapter House helped us on our way… to the Annual Dinner that took place the following evening in the Great Hall; bread of heaven indeed!

Mike Burmester (1953 – 1964)

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Left to right: Geoff Wright (1955 – 1966), Mike Burmester (1953 – 1964) and Martin Sisman (1952 – 1959)

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Careers Event for the Lower Sixth A date for the diary: this autumn’s OB careers event for the BGS Lower Sixth – Friday 24 November 2017.

Following the success of the last six years’ careers events for the Lower Sixth supported exclusively by Old Bristolians, the school invites OBs to return to school for a seventh great year. This year’s gathering will be on the morning of Friday 24 November 2017, 09:00 – 13:00, which, following Melanie Guy’s retirement, will be led by the school’s new Director of Careers and Higher Education, David Ruck and his colleague Alex Humphrey.

Last year, a record number of 44 OBs provided the students with invaluable insights across a wide range of possible jobs in twelve broad areas: engineering, science and information technology; medicine, healthcare and physiotherapy; banking, investments and financial services; accountancy, tax and corporate finance; journalism, writing, publishing, public relations and film; law; the civil service, foreign affairs and cybersecurity; architecture, property and urban design; business startups, self-employment and small business; management, business, recruitment and marketing; art, illustration and theatre; and the armed forces.

The event began with a plenary panel on the theme of ‘career journeys’, in which four OBs sketched out how their working lives had developed after leaving school.

The opening session was followed by three ‘break-outs’, where smaller groups of sixth formers could talk to a handful of OBs in three of the career areas that most appealed to them. A coffee break allowed students the opportunity to follow up on their group sessions, and to network with the OB delegates in the Great Hall.

The morning concluded with discussion among all the students and OBs, held in the theatre of 1532, the new performing arts centre. A variety of issues were covered including whether going to university should be an automatic choice when you leave school; opportunities to work overseas; the value of foreign languages in almost every walk of life; the value of the OBs for career networking; exploring a variety of career options so as to find ‘something you really love doing’; and getting the balance right between a successful professional career and a fulfilling personal life.

The event was a very enjoyable reunion as well as being really useful for the sixth formers – and this year, we want to make it even better. If you would like to come along, please contact me, Romesh Vaitilingam, by email: romesh@vaitilingam.com Romesh Vaitilingam (1973 – 1979) Careers Co-ordinator 14

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AROPS Conference report As I have recently been appointed as Chairman of AROPS I was delighted that this year’s conference was held at Prior Park College in Bath.

AROPS is a group that brings together alumni societies from around the UK to discuss topics that relate to their organisation. This year we had over 90 delegates representing over 65 societies.

The Conference started with a welcome from James Murphy O’Connor, the Headmaster of Prior Park College and then a session on how Development Departments and Societies can work together. I believe that we already have a good relationship between the Society and the Foundation Dept. Anna, Tony and I share the OBs’ office and collaborate with the Society on events and communications.

We share the database and Tony is keeping the OBs’ website up-to-date. We are currently looking at a new database and new data regulations will necessitate a stricter control and how we use these data. The conference then divided into five breakout groups. I talked about how we use social media i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin, and the pros and cons of using each platform. We use them mostly for communication to tell you what is going on in school and to advertise events.

Our President, Anne Bradley, talked to a group about archives and the problems involved in looking after them in a digital age.

One breakout group focussed on new laws around data regulation, which will be enforced next year, and which will mean that we must gain consent to communicate with you on a number of levels. We wait to see what the final regulations will be but we will be encouraging you all to ‘opt in’ next year.

Another group talked about events and how we can attract members to our events, which is an issue that still concerns me. For example, if we put on a drinks event in London on a Wednesday, we will get twice as many OBs there than we would in Bristol. Formal dinners are enjoyed by some and not by others, and many of you would like there to be more drinks events, which will be organised if there is the support available. Other ideas for events are a series of lectures at school, in which visiting speakers would be invited to talk to parents, students and OBs and ‘networking breakfasts’ which will take place in the foyer of 1532 our new theatre building. As always I am happy to host reunions at school and I have already had requests from the 10 year leavers and the 25 year leavers for next year. Ideally these would be based around the Annual Dinner on 17 March 2018, but other events could be organised.

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The final breakout group was entitled, ‘Work Experience, Networking and Mentoring’, I was unable to attend this but I was told that this was very interesting. It is certainly something that I think we should be doing more of if the Society is to become more relevant in today’s world. We should be able to help with work experience and I know that many OBs are already helping by offering these opportunities; Mike Burmester spent a lot of time last year garnering support for career mentoring, for which a number of you signed up. If you are interested in helping young OBs make a start in their careers please let me know.

The conference closed with the dinner and I was delighted that our President, Anne Bradley, and Vice-Chairman, Geoff Wright, were able to join me. After a very enjoyable meal, PPA President Terry Ilott talked about his renewed interest and involvement in the PPA in order to help students, which was sparked, some years after leaving, by attendance at a college reunion.

It was Tat Ratcliffe who introduced me to AROPS and he, in a very Tat way, persuaded me to take over his role as our AROPS representative! Now, as Chairman, I regularly attend networking meetings around the country and committee meetings in London. If anyone is interested in attending a networking meeting please let me know and I will send details.

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AROPS delegates representing over 65 societies at the AROPS Conference at Prior Park College, Bath

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Peter Jakobek (staff: 1982 to date) with delegates at the AROPS conference

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Medical Elective: Thailand/Burma Earlier this year, during February and March, I volunteered at the Mae Tao Clinic (MTC) on the border between Thailand and Myanmar. I was lucky enough to be accepted for MTC, having chosen to apply based on their humanitarian and community centred work.

Dr. Cynthia Maung and five other refugees who left Burma to flee the violence during the 1988 Student Protest established the Mae Tao Clinic (MTC) in 1989.

Since then the clinic has grown from a small house serving fleeing Burmese prodemocracy students to a busy clinic providing free healthcare to Burmese migrant workers and people crossing the border from Burma. The clinic also serves as a health-training hub for medics working in Eastern Burma and for staff based at the clinic.

I started in child out-patients, which is where all the new child patients come to be assessed. Every day brought something new. We admitted a boy with hydrocephalus (literally water on the brain – caused by disorder of cerebral spinal fluid drainage leading to a build of CSF and subsequent, sometimes gross, enlargement of the head). His poor body looked shrunken in comparison. It was hard to get any eye response from him. I asked the mother, ‘Does he smile?’

She said ‘Not yet’… he was three years old. I asked when she had notice his head getting bigger and when she said two years ago, I did think that perhaps she had left it a little too long before bringing him to us.

She had in fact been to the doctor multiple times in Myanmar only to be repeatedly prescribed vitamins and given no further advice, but she was charged every time.

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would just never be seen in developed countries. It is so saddening. This boy’s case will be reviewed by BCMF (Burmese Children’s Medical Fund) to see if they can sponsor the extensive treatment required to save his life as MTC cannot fund this level of care. That was my first day.

The week brought many more similar cases and I saw more pathology than in all my time during my paediatric placement in Wales! There were lots of common things too: fever, cough, vomiting, diarrhoea... a lot of anaemia and malnourishment (not so common to me before). Treatment is confined to the medicines available at MTC (as informed by the WHO and carefully chosen by the clinical consultants).

They have a good selection of drugs but some are missing, in particular, antiepileptics. This results in many children being admitted to MTC with continuous or uncontrollable seizures.

If a patient’s health is poor and they require on-going treatment and observation they will be admitted to MTC as an inpatient. The difference at MTC is that when you admit a patient you often also admit the family and all those who have travelled with them that day. In child health, there are 12 beds in the main ward. Families gather around their child’s bed; parents sleep under, beside and together on the big tabletop looking wooden bed and other siblings wriggle in too. Sometimes they pinch and punch their invalid sibling but most of the time they help to sooth; holding, applying new damp clothes for fevers, feeding and helping to walk. Aunts, uncles and grandparents also form part of the entourage.

I have been in the labour room since early this morning; having left last night with many women beginning the first stages of labour, I wanted to catch the action! I arrived to a woman fully dilated, the baby in breech position.

‘Kitty? Baby in breech, no. You want to see, no?”

No gas, no air, no paracetamol, no epidural (as if) and the mother climbs onto the labour shelf. Bottom brought forward, legs spread wide - exposing all, in best visibility and the best position to PUSH! ‘Sh shay nei’ – long push. (The ‘sh’ and ‘shay’ are lengthened, ‘nei’ stops abruptly). ‘nnnnnei’ – push These are the midwives words of support. I have seen seven births now and never is there anyone but the midwives and the mother. No partner or relative holding her hand. These women are beyond stoic. Never do they wail. I have not seen a single tear.

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traumatic, yet simultaneously, magical. A baby, a new life brought into this world, into this space – the four walls of the labour room. When you hear it cry you want to cry too.

A call of life, from life to all other lives: ‘I’M HERE!’ Kitty Hardman (2002 − 2010)

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BGS Field Club Reunion in Devon Following the very successful reunion held in Bristol in May 2015, Tim Joy suggested a repeat event in 2017 between 14 – 17 May 2017. Lured by the attraction of a Sunday lunch in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, the following nibbled on the bait: Tony Warren (former staff, 1954 − 1988), and very much the guest of honour), Edward Towne (former staff, 1973 − 1983) and his wife Jane, Steve Albon (1965 − 1966, 1968 − 1972 and 1975 – 1976), Hugh Brazier (1965 − 1973), Brian Hamilton (1965 − 1972), John Rossetti (1965 − 1970) and his partner Debbie, and of course Tim (1961 − 1968) and Jane Joy, who provided the delicious and copious lunch.

That afternoon we visited Hawkerland and Pebble Bed Heaths, seeking Dartford Warblers and Tree Pipits – both, sadly elusive, but we were rewarded with views of Stonechats, Willow Warblers, Linnets and Yellow Hammers. Later that evening a few hardy souls remained, and spied a distant, churring Nightjar in the gloaming.

The next day, to coincide with high tide on the Exe Estuary, we went to Bowling Green Marsh and Goat Walk, and enjoyed views from the RSPB hide, the Clyst Viewing Platform and Goat Walk, seeing both Bar- and Black-Tailed Godwits and a variety of other waders and wildfowl, including Wigeon, Shoveler and Tufted Duck.

Steve was especially pleased to see a Little Egret here – a rarity in Aberdeenshire.

Before lunch at the Anchor Inn, Cockwood, a visit was paid to Exminster Marshes on the way to Yarner Wood further inland, where the best birds assembled at some well-sited feeder stations: a Great Spotted Woodpecker, Siskins (including one very colourful male), Chaffinches, a Nuthatch, and Coal and Marsh Tits.

The final full day was partly spent at Fingle Bridge near Drewsteignton, where a substantial public house provided ample parking, mid-morning coffee, lunch and excellent views of the river. Here the avian stars were Dippers and Grey Wagtails, Common Redstarts, Pied Flycatchers and (probably) a Wood Warbler. Thence we proceeded to Labrador Bay west of Teignmouth to search for Cirl Buntings, a scarce and very localized species. The presence of this species was confirmed by call and visually. A very enjoyable and fruitful stay in Devon was suitably completed by a splendid dinner in a pub at Otterton. We felt called back to the Field Club in its 1960’s and 1970’s heyday, when Derek Lucas and Tony Warren had led winter weekend visits to the Exe Estuary. Devon is still a fine spot for wildlife – even under the grey skies and occasional drizzle that we experienced on this trip.

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From the archives: reminiscences of Tony Durrant, fire watcher Mr Shaddick’s reminiscences (see B52) have aroused many similar memories for me, although I was a little before his time, I think. I didn’t know him - a couple of years’ seniority at that age is vast! I joined BGS at the prep school in 1B, where Billy Boulton was a great hair twister if you transgressed. The gang warfare in the playground and having to stick up for yourself was my introduction to the realities of life.

In 1937 I think, I joined the Boarding House at the top of Pembroke Rd. which was owned and run by Mr McGregor (Mackey), a master at the prep. Again, this was valuable life experience of community living. John Pople was in my dorm and in my year at school. I remember him as a very quiet boy, always ready to help with homework although a year younger. I particularly remember in the summer after prep we used to go to a clearing on the Downs, just above the chimney over the railway tunnel, and play cricket.

My masters in the senior school were Lesley Morris (Grassy Mow) and Fred Perry. I, too, was a firewatcher and was on duty the night the whole of Park Street, the Centre and Broadmead was fire bombed. Going home at 06:00, still dark, you could read a paper at the top of St Michael’s Hill.

I was always very keen on sport. At 16 in 1941, my last year, I made fly-half in the rugby Second XV, only kept out of the First XV by a brilliant Welshman, Gwilliam Edwards. I just crept into the First X1 cricket when Ken Graveney (Bouncer) was vice captain. Tom was a junior but being talked about. My particular friends at school were Bryan Cleaves (died 1950 from Hodgkins). Keith Holloway (lost touch), Peter Hickman (lost touch).

A G (Tony) Durrant Anne Bradley subsequently asked Tony: As to the date of the Park Street fire-bombing: the first full on air raid was Sunday 24 November 1940, when the Prep School was burnt down because Mr Moore and the School Sergeant had to save the Great Hall. After that, firewatching was introduced. The next big raid was 6 December; were you involved that quickly, or was the raid you remember a little later? I believe Bristol was regularly targeted for some months.

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Tony replied: I can’t confirm dates but you are right, Bristol had several big attacks with incendiary bombs. I believe that when Park Street and the Centre was set alight, the Germans had deliberately chosen low water which reduced pressure for pumping up the hill. I could not have been there that night, the night I referred to must have been later when Broadmead area was ablaze. I don’t remember being there when the Prep School was burnt down. Neither do I remember hot chocolate! I do remember crawling over the ladders on the roof and feeling very grown up! I think we there were a couple of incendiaries on the field and maybe one on the roof – we were very lucky.

Further reminiscences are always very welcome to the Archivist.

Dates for the Diary 2017 Sunday 10 September

Doors Open Day Great Hall, 10:00 - 16:00

Wednesday 13 September Class of 2016 lunch

Great Hall, 10:00 - 16:00

(formal invitations to follow) Monday 13 November Remembrance Service, 10:30

Great Hall

please contact afreeman@bgs.bristol.sch.uk

if you would like to attend Tuesday 12 December Carol Service, 18:00

Great Hall

please contact afreeman@bgs.bristol.sch.uk

if you would like to attend Wednesday 14 December

London drinks Pavillion End pub, EC4, 18:00 onwards

2018 Saturday 17 March

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Sports Club: Rugby Club Report At the time of writing the season seems a fading memory, but we’re at the turning point of our downtime before pre-season starts again in earnest.

It’s the end of May and we’re a month on since our final games; three home fixtures at a gloriously sunny Failand followed by our annual end of season awards dinner which of course was an enormously enjoyable and decorum-filled affair where absolutely nothing of mention happened whatsoever but everyone had a wonderful time. And of course, we’re only a month away from pre-season starting in July, where once again we will grace the fields of Failand with our skills, fitness, drills and voices.

Of course, for every rugby player either ex or present this is a special year, for it is a Lions year, and that means a summer of some of the greatest rugby on the planet.

The British and Irish Lions is a superb rugby institution and embodies the very magic of rugby. Four nations who face each other in the fiercest battle every spring in the Six Nations and onwards through various European competitions are required to put their differences aside and come together to form a cohesive team to take on the world’s undisputed best side; the current crop of New Zealand All Blacks.

But this write-up for Bristolienses does not focus on the goings-on on the other side of the world, rather the goings-on of an equally great rugby institution based just outside of Bristol in Failand. As anyone who played for the school will, I’m sure, remember, the micro-climate of Failand can make the playing fields feel far from Clifton Village and Bristol as a whole, but we are an Old Bristolian club by name and a Bristolian club at heart and nature. In the same way as the British and Irish Lions celebrate their bonding of players from the four corners of the British Isles, Old Bristolians proudly blends players from every one of the four and more – we even had a Kiwi lad with us this season which made the Lions tour a little more spicy!

We run four senior sides, occasionally on the same day, with our First, Second and Third XVs ably supported by our Vets XV who operate in a social ad-hoc fixture list.

We have a Ladies XV in their second season in the club and they are certainly bringing value. We also have around 500 mini and junior players of both genders registered, and they bring a huge amount to the club’s profile in Bristol and the wider region. As an organisation we are growing rapidly in all areas which is really fantastic to see, and we strongly encourage any lovers of rugby of any age or gender to pick up their boots and come and join in, we’re always recruiting for all players from four years old to fifty four. Or even older if you’re still up for it!

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sixth-placed finish. If we can squeeze a win out of a few more games in the coming season then a top-four position is certainly something we should be capable of achieving… but of course that requires a few lucky bounces of the ball as much as anything.

Our second XV did achieve a fourth-placed finish under the stewardship of alleged BGS old-boy Rob Hamblett, who brings a remarkable amount of energy and dedication to the role. As with the First XV, was it not for a few injuries and ski trips at the wrong time then they could have placed higher and been vying for the podium spots so there’s certainly a focus for improvements required to achieve promotion, but it’s not something that should be impossible.

Our Third XV finished fifth in their league under the leadership of Ben Jones, who has relished the role this season and has built a very solid core of players that give the team some decent structure and familiarity. Ben, as with any Third XV skipper, has the hardest job in the club and he does it with aplomb and a smile. At any given point up to around 35 minutes before kick-off he can lose players to sides higher up the club for any number of reasons and is required to find replacements, which he achieves more often than not. The Thirds are often bolstered by Vets but can equally be populated by plenty of lads new to the club, or the game entirely, but that’s the fun of the team and the sport as a whole.

Our Vets XV, as mentioned, don’t play in a structured league but rather a series of regular friendly fixtures against other local sides with a Vets set up. As a 35-year old myself I was looking forward to a bit of Vets rugby in my twilight seasons, until I remembered that the only blokes playing Vets are the hard old guys who have been playing for more years than I’ve had hot dinners so it might do me some good to keep playing senior rugby for a few years yet until I’m really old enough for Vets! It’s not quite the old boys muddy cuddle that we’re led to believe but they undoubtedly have a thoroughly enjoyable time and are a hugely valuable part of the club.

Our Ladies XV also finished mid-table in their Sunday fixtures, though this doesn’t seem to affect their ability to go and have a really lively night out afterwards, so their Mondays must be punishing – fair play to them really! On the pitch of course is what the real focus is and they play a very entertaining brand of rugby and have been increasingly supported by members of the men’s senior sides on Sunday mornings as well which is great to see.

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itself is often followed by a very competitive Pudding Club. We also have a very active social scene that covers all the sides in the club and players from all teams mix and mingle, truly embodying the sport as a whole. In the same way as the Lions mix players from four nations into one team, we mix players from many teams into one, awesome club that we are all proud to be a part of.

And we’d love to have you join us, whatever your age, gender, or nationality. Old Bristolians by name, Bristolians by location, rugby club by nature. We are OBRFC. Tristan Fowler (1993 − 2000) Note: Colin McFadyean (1956 − 1962) played for the British Lions as well as captaining England (Ed.)

Sports Club: Hockey Club Report The Season started for OBHC with 60 people playing some seven-a-side mixed games at Merchants Academy in early September. This was our temporary home while our new pitch was laid at Failand. On 1 October around 50 people watched three victories in our first four League matches on the new Stirratt Pitch. A new surface, new dug-outs, OBHC branding, new goals and repaired fencing certainly put a spring in the step.

The Gold medal won in Rio by GB Ladies drove a significant increase in juniors at the Club. We received almost 200 enquiries and this season we have run regular training sessions for almost 140 junior players from as young as six up to 16. We had U10, U12, U14 and U16 sides playing in local and national tournaments. Our girls U14 team won the Avon League, narrowly missing out on regional victory to a strong Cirencester team. Several of our players have been selected to attend Development Centres at both County and Regional Level.

We continue to operate six mens’, five ladies’, a mixed and two masters’ teams at senior level, playing every week between September and March. Our senior teams competed well in their respective Leagues. Notably our Ladies First XI missed out on promotion to Premier League by only two points, finishing second in the League for the sixth consecutive season. Our Mens’ Fourth XI were pushing for promotion most of the season, finally finishing third. Respectable mid-table was achieved by all of the other sides, with only the Mens’ Sixth XI struggling in their League.

The Men organised a combined team to compete against the School. It was a really good game of hockey, with very open play and the woodwork being struck on at least three occasions. The Club came out as victors 7-1.

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Our U10 team celebrating their wins in the Avon tournaments OBHC v BGS in the School Match Summer League is in full swing and matches taking place for six teams at the Stirratt pitch, Thornbury and Coombe Dingle, although most of the action seems to be down at ‘The Miners’ in Failand!

The Annual Club Dinner saw 100 OBHC players ‘going home’ to celebrate their season in the Great Hall at BGS. We took the Our U12 team collecting their medals in the club bar with us and celebrated Avon Tournament in style. Congratulations to Jamie Bassett and Kate Holgate who were Club Person(s) of the Year and Aash Shankar and Joe Thompson our Players of the Year.

To cap off a great year a Ladies team won a tournament hosted by Knowle Hockey Club. Finally some silverware in the club that we didn’t have to ‘steal’!

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Annual Dinner 2017 Report This year the dinner reverted, in part, to a more traditional format with the inclusion of an after dinner speaker. However, instead of a private gathering of the president’s guests beforehand, everyone met together in the Great Hall and guests were announced at the start of the dinner.

Once again we had given people a choice of menu, which seemed to be well received. Members of the sixth form ably served us at table.

Table magician Dheeran Canagarajah (year 9) entertained us and left us puzzled with his magic before and during the meal.

David Parfitt played the organ as people arrived and again for the national anthem and a rousing rendition of the school song.

President David Perkins handed his chain of office to Anne Bradley, the Society’s first woman president, who spoke briefly about her plans for the year.

The formalities came to an end after Tim Hayward (1971 – 1972) food writer and raconteur had treated us to a high speed but interesting and penetrating look at the sin of gluttony.

People stayed and chatted until the end of the evening and the bar closed.

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Left to right: Ali White (1980 – 1987), Sarah Cole (1991 – 1993), Roger Cox (former staff 1973 – 2014) and Marcus Cryer (1981 – 1993)

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Left to right: Nick Fitzpatrick (1954 – 1965), Geoff Wright (1956 – 1966) and (Anna Freeman (2013 – date)

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Left to right: Mike Evans (1953 – 1963), Michael Burmester (1953 – 1964), Jan Duncan (staff 2003 – date), Richard Smith (1954 – 1965), David Yates (1958 – 1965), Richard Parsons (1958 – 1966), Chris Yates (1958 – 1965) and Mike West (1954 – 1965)

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Left to right: Tony Southard (1980 – 1987), John Sisman (1980 – 1987), Jonathan Gould (1979 – 1986), Ian Barraclough (1980 – 1987), Steve Hassard (1980 – 1987), Tom Baker (1976 – 1987), Alex Harris (1980 – 1987) and Ali White (1980 – 1987)

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London Dinner Report We were delighted to return to Painters’ Hall for the OBs’ London Dinner on 10 May. Nick Levens was a fantastic host and the hospitality was excellent. Nick thoughtfully opened the bar early to cater for the thirsty travellers from Bristol! Our President, Anne Bradley, welcomed diners with a short address before Nick’s catering company ‘Life’s Kitchen’ provided us with a mouth-watering menu that was accompanied by some fine wines. There was a great atmosphere in the room as OBs of various generations mingled and enjoyed each other’s company.

Matthew Bennett, OB and Deputy Head, made a fine after-dinner speaker.

After dinner the bar remained open so that conversations were able to continue but the coach back to Bristol left at 22:30 for the journey home − tired OBs returned late but enthused by what was an enjoyable night. Our thanks to Nick and his team at Painter’s Hall and to Anna Freeman who organised such an enjoyable event We were slightly disappointed with the number of London OBs that weren’t able to join us at the London Dinner. The Society also generously subsidised the cost of the ticket for students but that message either didn’t get to those of you that might have attended, or the timing was wrong. If you have ideas on the kind of event that you would like to attend then we are always open to suggestions. Drinks evenings in London are usually very well attended.

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Inaugural Past Presidents’ Luncheon The first ever Past Presidents’ lunch took place on Saturday 11 February at the OB Sports Ground at Failand, when sixteen of their number attended, some accompanied by their wives. The principal reason for the event was to hand out to each Past President a lapel badge with the school crest and their ‘title’ displayed so as to denote the honour when attending formal functions in-house or representing the society elsewhere.

The idea of a badge was the brainchild of the late Tat Ratcliffe (President, 2013) and his successor Don Furze. Consequently, we were delighted to welcome Jenny Ratcliffe and their daughter Laura (OB) to the lunch. The bursar, Gerry Mitchell, had kindly arranged for the school’s supplier of insignia to produce the badges in conformity with the BGS branding template.

We also thought it would be appropriate to mark the occasion with a lunch when the current President, David Perkins, would award the badge to those attending.

Peter Jakobek, Assistant Head for Alumni and Events, represented the Headmaster who was unfortunately not able to be with us; he had most generously arranged for the school to fund the production of the badges. Speaking after the lunch, Peter referred to the strong ties between school and society and stressed the value that the Headmaster places on the role of society members and indeed other alumni in continuing to support their alma mater.

The photograph shows from left to right: Front row: Roy Avery, Philip Revill, Ron Cockitt, Mike Burmester, David Perkins (President), Don Furze, Tony Stirratt, John Evans and Charles Martin. Back row: Keith Gerrish, Tony Warren, David Yeandle, Keith Robbins, David Watts, Jack Prowting and Martin Sisman.

Sadly, Nick Baldwin, Richard Kingscott, Robert Lacey, Peter Stirratt and Sir Nicholas Wright were unable to join us on the day.

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Luncheon Club Report January 2017 The year started with good attendance to hear a presentation by John Penny of a potpourri of local films – points in time – a nostalgic dip into film activities. John is a film historian who has unusual access to films stored at the BBC and makes presentations to suit his audience, adding his own musical background and commentary. The two themes on this occasion were education, and the means of getting to it.

The first film was from 1941 at Northwood in West London, both a senior and junior school. It showed the typical life of those days from arrival to departure and everything in between. There were normal lessons, plus music, drama, sports and practical subjects such as wood and metalwork.

There was a hint of wartime propaganda in the film, stressing how normal things were despite the war. The second film was an educational one from the 1960s which again portrayed school life in a peaceful era. Again pupils were shown at their lessons and featured their reactions − some very attentive, others not so! We all remembered the scenes.

The transport films John showed featured the Bristol Bus Company of 1951, with vehicles full to the brim and overflowing but orderly queues. It showed various officials doing their best to tweak the services to get the best possible result. More general transport films showed the new Bristolians setting off from Temple Meads in 1959. Much of Brunel’s old station − now a car park – was on view and we saw views of the old Aust ferry which closed in 1966 when the Severn Bridge opened.

The soundtrack featured the late Fred Wedlock OB, who visited us in April 2006.

February 2017 Our speaker this month was Gareth Williams, the Science historian and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Bristol. Born in Glasgow to Welsh parents and educated at Belfast and Cambridge University, he is now resident in Rockhampton near to Berkeley where the subject of his talk ‘Edward Jenner; the man who changed the face of the world’, was born and grew up. Jenner was a multi-talented man, primarily a physician who was also a musician and poet, he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Chipping Sodbury for medical training before moving to London to study under John Hunter. It was to him he mentioned his belief that anyone who had had cowpox was immune from smallpox. Hunter suggested that he should test this theory by experiment when he returned to the country.

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body with cowpox by vaccination. When an outbreak of smallpox occurred in his district, he vaccinated a young country boy, James Phipps 8, and demonstrated that he could safely have contact with those affected by smallpox.

The success of his vaccination was enthusiastically taken up throughout Europe, the USA and globally but in England there was strong opposition from the medical profession and the church and there was an orchestrated campaign in the 19th century to do down Jenner. However the number of cases of smallpox decreased steadily until the WHO formally announced that the scourge of smallpox had been eradicated. Jenner’s house in Berkeley, now the museum, stands as ‘one of the most important places in world history’.

March 2017

This month’s event was a rugby inspired double act between David Perkins, the outgoing OBs’ President and our guest speaker, Mark Hoskins OB. Mark, who has recently retired from his teaching career of 34 years, is now Bristol Rugby’s official historian, and he decided to tell the story of the club as seen through the eyes of the Old Bristolians’. He has also just completed the ‘Definitive History of Bristol Rugby’ a weighty tome that has taken him five years to write and will be published later this year. To give the talk, Mark came resplendent in a striped rugby blazer. OBs have had a proud record of service to the Bristol club prior to the current professional era.

Percival Thomas was the first OB to play for the club and Wallace Jarman the first to play for England. There were four OBs with links to WW1, including M. Angel James VC, and he said that 26 OBs who played for Bristol, did not survive the conflict.

The Memorial Ground was opened in 1921 and Reg Pickles was the first captain for three seasons and other notables were Bunny Chantrill and Pat Russell. In WWII, Brigadier AE Snow was involved in Operation Nestegg, accepting the German surrender in Jersey. Post-war players included Hayden Tanner who was on the staff at BGS and a young Tom Graveney. At the end of the 1950s David Weeks, Laurie Watts and Bill Redwood all featured in John Blake’s ‘Bristol fashion’ style of rugby.

Following them were John Evans, David Woodward and Colin McFadyean, the only OB to have played a test match for the Lions. The list is completed with John Currie, David Tyler, Simon Hogg and Andy Dux. The final slide was of a game between Cardiff and Bristol in 1971 that Bristol won. The two scrum halves on view that night were Gareth Edwards and David Perkins!

April 2017

Sandy Bateman was our guest this month and she told the story of how one woman created an internationally renowned theatre at the bottom of her Cornish Garden.

She called her talk ‘The Magic of Minack’.

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She set the scene; you are on board the Scillonian, leaving Penzance en route to the Scillies when you spot an Amphitheatre on the rugged cliffs. Who built it? The Romans? No, prior to 1921 it had not been there. The answer was one woman, Rowena Cade, born in Derbyshire, one of four children. She had a happy childhood and moved to Cornwall with her parents in 1906. She was a strong-willed and determined young woman with a keen interest in amateur dramatics and was involved in a production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Then in 1930, when ‘The Tempest’ was being proposed, she had the idea of creating a setting on the cliffs to stage it. The rest as they say is history. Together with a local gardener turned theatre builder, Billy Rawlings, she created the much-loved Minack Theatre, naming it after a black rock jutting out of the cliffs. Over a period of seven years they built this setting with pillars, rocks and boulders above a sheer drop down to the sea. The war years took their toll on the project, but restoration came about afterwards.

Billy died in 1966 and Rowena worked on alone to improve her creation until her death in 1983. Funding comes to the theatre from various sources including Friends of Minack of which Sandy is a member and she has appeared there with the Abbots Company. The ashes of the late David Higson, also a lover of the Minack will be scattered there at a later date. This talk was dedicated to his memory.

May 2017

Our speaker this month was Peter Taylor, now resident in Ilminster, but who is a genuine Channel Islander, having been born in Guernsey in 1935. His talk entitled ‘Guernsey at peace and war’ would have been too long for one lunch, so he gave the ‘peace’ half this month and will return in May 2018 to give the second half of the war years.

In this talk he dealt mainly with the historical background of the islands, from preRoman times to the present day. There are eight inhabited islands with Jersey and Guernsey by far the largest, but the total area of all the islands amounts to only half of the Isle of Wight!

The significance of the islands lies in their position, just off the French coast. They are protected from storms and St Peter Port in Guernsey has a large sheltered harbour. They attracted the Romans, then the spread of the Christian church, and then the Vikings by the 10th Century. In a move to promote peace, the islands became Norman when the French ceded Normandy to the Vikings. William, Duke of Normandy, became King of England in 1066 and so it can be claimed that England is the Channel Islands’ oldest possession!

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showed familiar scenes of Guernsey, the rocky coastline, St Peter Port, Castle Cornet, Victor Hugo’s house etc... This was Guernsey as it was and is now.

Next time Peter will tell of the trauma of the war years; he was on the quayside with his father when the bombs rained down and two German soldiers were billeted in their house!

June 2017

Paul Evans gave an entertaining poetry recital.

Peter Tucker (1952 – 1958)

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Luncheon Club Diary Dates The Luncheon Club commences again in October with John Crichard at the helm.

OBs and their guests are welcome to attend. Please note that guests may arrive at 12:30 but the lunch will start at 13:00.

Contact John on +44 (0) 117 968 7451 to book your place(s) or for further details.

2017 (all Fridays) 6 October Dr David Proops

Oral to Aural 10 November Tony Stirratt – a remembrance

Failand 1 December

Three Men’s Company ‘A Christmas Concatenation’

2018 5 January

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Air Ambulance

Old Bristolians Around the World The following people are keen to hear from fellow OBs in their country/continent:

USA Dr Richard Mason and Peter Williams continue to develop a US network and are keen to hear from other OB members in the USA. For information, please contact: Dr Richard Mason (1951 – 1957) h 00 1 617 803 8425 thepaulmason@hotmail.com

Peter Williams (1951 – 1958) 112 Birchside Circle Locus Grove VA 22508-5150 h 00 1 540 872 7117 m 00 1 540 237 2627 anglodane@adelphia.net

Canada

Australia

Martin Dash (1963 – 1970) is trying to develop a Canadian OB network.

Contact details: 12146 Osprey Drive Richmond British Columbia V7E 3S6 Canada h 00 1 604 275 4670 f 00 1 604 275 5684 martincharlesdash@hotmail.com

Phil Ohman (1972 – 1979) is keen to hear from OBs in Australia, regardless of distances. Phil is happy to be the contact for NZ as well, as he’s there a few times a year.

Contact details: 44 John James Loop Macgregor ACT 2615 h 00 61 422 309 455 phil@missionsupport.org.au

South Africa

Chris Taylor (1952 – 1961) If any readers know of OBs living in South Africa who may not be paid-up members and do not, therefore, receive Bristolienses, it would be appreciated if they could pass on Chris’ contact details.

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News of Old Bristolians Julian Black (1956 − 1967) has recently retired after nearly 40 years running his own companies in the packaging industry. During this time he also established and was the first chair of the Association of Dorset School Governors, was chair of his local parish council, and was on the Governing Board of Bournemouth & Poole College. He is currently a chair on the Dorset Magistrates Bench. Unlike his brother he supports Tottenham Hotspur and also directs his local amateur dramatic society.

Nick and Julian both went to the Prep School when F G Bone was Head and the Upper School in John Mackay’s period as Head. Julian was very active musically both in the orchestra and choir (often singing jointly with Colstons’ Girls School) and orchestra, both under the excellent tutelage of Ewart Rusbridge. He was also Head Library Prefect when R A Camp was the master in charge.

The memories come flooding back... but it was all a long time ago!

Nick Black (1958 − 1968) was awarded a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list this year. Nick is Professor of Health Services Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine specialising working in top level research planning with the NHS. After leaving school he went to Birmingham University and later ran a medical facility for Save the Children in Nepal before returning to the UK in 1978 to start a long and successful academic career. Nick is a keen Arsenal supporter and is currently restoring a period property on the seafront at Herne Bay. Joseph Edwards (2000 − 2005) founded Raw Space, an innovative office co-working business, and Gleem, a cleaning company. He tells us that the idea started while he was searching for a new office for Gleem, but when he found the perfect space for a business idea he’d been thinking about for some time, he knew the timing was right to expand. After some planning and securing the building, the space is now complete and open to the public.

Raw Space aims to offer much more than just a desk and a chair, seeking to develop and nurture a culture of collaboration and community in the heart of Bristol’s local independents on Gloucester Road. The space itself provides a variety of different environments to help people to find their focus. The community approach is underpinned by Raw Space’s app that helps members to manage bookings, desk reservations, chat with fellow members and communicate with the plethora of mentors and experts that Raw Space has connected with.

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Seeing a gap in the market and an opportunity, he set out researching and developing his own unique offering. With his previous business experience of growing Gleem he has a wealth of experience and contacts on which to draw.

Joseph’s cleaning company can be found at www.Gleem.co.uk and Bristol’s best coworking space can be found at 111 Gloucester Road (or www.Raw-Space.co.uk) Alderman Tim Hailes (1979 − 1986) has been elected by the Liverymen of the City of London to be one of their two Sheriffs for 2017/18. He will take office after a ceremony at the Guildhall in September. In order to be eligible for election to the office of Lord Mayor an Alderman must have served in the office of Sheriff, so he will become Lord Mayor next year.

Steven Leonard (1999 − 2006) has been the Physiotherapist at Hartpury College for four years. He has worked with the elite sports students many of whom are in England development squads and teams.

Steven plays rugby at outside centre for Hartpury RFU who this year won National League one with a 100% win record and gained promotion to the Championship.

As well as being named in the league team of the season he was picked to play for English Counties against Scotland and Ireland.

He scored two tries in a convincing win over Scotland but missed the Ireland game due to injury.

Simon Mathieson (1990 − 1997) writes: ‘In my continuing adventure in the UK bus industry I have just been appointed as Business Development Director for Arriva Midlands having been Managing Director for the East Midlands since October 2013. This new role sees me looking at new products and services as well as meeting the challenge of how clean air action plans will impact on our business and the local communities we serve.’

Tuppence Middleton (1998 − 2005) stars in the latest series of ‘Sense8’ on Netflix.

Hamish Potokar (2004 − 2015) who is in the first year of a Philosophy and English degree at Glasgow University, represented the University in climbing at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Nationals in Sheffield last February, and won two medals; a silver in the men’s individual final climb-off and a bronze team medal.

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Alex Saunders (2006 − 2013) has been selected to play golf for Gloucestershire in the South West Inter-County Match Week. He recently graduated from Exeter University.

Chris Skidmore (1992 − 1999) was re-elected as MP for Kingswood at the General Election in June.

John Sisman (1980 − 1987) is the President of the Bristol Property Agents Association in 2017 and runs his own property consultancy in Bristol. He is now a Governor of the school George Weeks (1996 − 2003) received his MA degree from Prince Charles at Dumfries House.

Matt Wilson and Joe Murley (2005 − 2012)

have started their own dating agency, the idea behind their app is not to find a partner for a date but to find an interesting date. The app is called ‘Datemakers’ and is available to download to your devices. If you are keen to impress it will be worth giving it a go − if you work for a company that could provide an interesting date I’m sure that they would like to hear from you.

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Obituaries We record with sadness the deaths of the following Old Bristolians and extend our condolences to their families and friends. It is now our usual practice, due to constraints of space, to include obituaries of those who were Society members only.

Stephen Aldhouse-Green (aka Howard Green) (1957 − 1964) Colin John Branfield (1934 − 1939) Roger John Dawes (1947 – 1956) Peter George Leon Drabble (1932 − 1937) Grant Hayward (1952 − 1958) Maurice Keith Horseman (1942 − 1950) Brian W Maurice (1946 − 1952) Kenneth Painter (1943 − 1953) Raviram Ramesh (2005 − 2012) Derek Rees (1965 − 1966) Richard Smallwood (1949 − 1959) Kenneth Norman Speare (1933 − 1938) John B Wilkins (1946 − 1953) Robert Yemm (1947 − 1957) Colin Branfield (1934 − 1939) Colin died on 25 January at the age of 93. Born in Street, Somerset, he gained a scholarship to BGS from Winford Primary School, of which his father was Head. He fondly remembered one of his form masters, Mr. Guerra. He left in 1939 to join the Westminster Bank.

From 1942 to 1947 he served in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and on demobilisation married Jean Storey of Bishop Auckland, County Durham. He returned to the bank and worked in the Bristol and Bath area, managing a number of branches, notably at Kingswood. After retirement in 1984 he moved to Sudbury in Suffolk, to be closer to his immediate family. His only son, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren survive him.

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He always spoke with pride about his school and, although an unremarkable scholar, he remembered with gratitude the grounding it gave him on which he built a successful career. He kept up his membership of the Society for many years, watching the school’s successful growth and change, and only recently was speaking on the telephone to A. K. (Dickie) Green, now, I understand, the last surviving member of Mr. Guerra’s form. He believed strongly in that sort of enduring contact.

John Branfield, MA, FRSA (son) Roger Dawes (1947 − 1956) Roger was born in Knowle, the son of the manager of the Dutch Yeast Company. A keen cricketer and hockey player at school, he played for many years in adulthood.

He left BGS a year early to take up a post with Barclays Bank, with whom he gained his AIB qualification and remained throughout his working life, mainly in the West Country but with two years at Heathrow Airport, which he very much enjoyed. He married Sheila in 1973 and settled in Chipping Sodbury, working at the Yate Branch of Barclays.

He was an active member of the OBs for many years, playing cricket and hockey, acting as Treasurer of the Hockey Club, and latterly was a committee member of the Lunch Club. He took up competitive bowls in later years with the Bradley Stoke Bowls Club, where he also helped to tend the greens. For 38 years he was an active member of the Lions, becoming President in Calne and Yate at different times. For seven years he was District Secretary of Lions Clubs International for District 105W, covering most of South West of England and South Wales. His last duty was to attend the international convention in Birmingham in 1989 before his stroke.

He was also an active member of All Hallows Church, Easton, where he served as Treasurer of the PCC, and was a long-serving member of Yate Choral Society, arriving early at rehearsals to arrange the chairs.

Unfortunately he had a serious heart attack in 1986 which forced his early retirement; three years later he suffered a stroke, but continued to live a busy life until developing vascular dementia; in his final years he was cared for at Warmley House in Bristol. He was a neat, tidy, efficient and busy man, always ready to help others, and is much missed by Sheila, his daughter Rachel, and step-daughter Jane.

Peter Drabble (1932 − 1937) Peter was born in Bristol on 19 July 1920 and was in Boulton House in the Prep School and on starting the main school joined Jacobs’. He played rugby for the Under 13 XV and gained his cap with the First XV. He captained Jacobs’. He was a member of the OTC and still remembered Mr Barton’s poetry appreciation classes!

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On leaving school he took up an appointment as a student gas engineer with Bristol Gas Co. He joined the Territorial Army in 1939 with the 3rd Survey Regt RA and was transferred to the 5th Survey.

He attended training at Teignmouth and the Regiment was mobilised just before the outbreak of war in September 1939. During the war he took part in the first landings of Operation Torch fighting in Algeria and Tunisia joining up with the 8th Army in Tunis. Later Peter took part in the invasion of Italy landing at Taranto In September 1943. He ended up in Rome meeting the Pope and visiting the Sistine Chapel.

After the war he joined the Goodyear Tyre Co. and was eventully appointed Manager of Sales and Customer Training carrying out a survey of training needs in Europe.

Peter was table and area chairman in the Round Table, First Mayor of Shifnal in Shropshire, served on the Bridgnorth District Council, the Shropshire County Council and the Shifnal Town Council. He was very active in local affairs being chairman of the Shifnal Branch for Arthritis Research, founder chairman of the Millennium Sensory Garden and organised a twinning Association between Shifnal and the French town of Machecoul, school Governor for 25 years and a proud member of the local branch of the Royal British Legion who paraded at his funeral.

His daughter Amanda and three grandchildren survive Peter. His son Mark sadly died in May 2016 aged 51. His wife Mary died when the children were quite young.

Peter was proud to be a Bristolian and to have been educated at such an outstanding school.

Kenneth Norman Speare (1933 â&#x2C6;&#x2019; 1938) Kenneth died in March at the age of 95. He was very proud of his education at the School: for some years he contributed to the Bursary Fund as he wanted to help other students the same opportunities that he enjoyed.

Kenneth Painter (1943 â&#x2C6;&#x2019; 1953) Kenneth died in 2016 at the age of 81. He was a distinguished Deputy Keeper at the British Museum. The son of a bus driver and a teacher, he won a scholarship to BGS and gained his first archaeological experience helping to excavate a Roman temple outside Bath. He read Greats at Worcester College, Oxford and after National Service in Germany, where he taught himself German, valuable in his later scholarship, he joined the Department of Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum, overseeing the Romano-British collection and gaining expertise in silver plate, glass and early Christianity. This led to his being called to lead the excavation at Hinton St. Mary in Dorset of the famous mosaic incorporating the head of Christ.

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A stickler for detail, authoritative and a master of several languages, he was well read in even the most obscure of sources. Colleagues would not think of sending an article on Roman silver to an editor without asking Kenneth to read it thoroughly first.

He was the consummate historian behind two of the Museum’s most spectacular exhibitions in the seventies and eighties: the 1977 blockbuster ‘Wealth of the Ancient World’, the first for which the Museum charged for admission, and the ‘Glass of the Caesars’ also shown in New York State, Cologne and Rome.

In retirement he became fascinated by the question of Roman ‘hacksilver’, deliberately cut-up plate found in several late Roman hoards. He wrote prolifically on this and other subjects, about 180 publications in all including ‘The Mildenhall Treasure: Roman Silver from East Anglia in 1977’. His wife of over fifty years, Barbara, died in 2014 but his daughter, Clare, and grandchildren survive him.

Richard Smallwood (1948 − 1959) The eldest of four children, Richard joined the Lower School in 1948. Bright and hardworking, he gained one of five scholarships awarded by Gloucestershire County Council and progressed to the Senior School in 1952, where he enjoyed playing the fife in the Fife and Drum Band of the CCF, achieving the rank of Petty Officer; he learned to play and love rugby while achieving excellent results in his O and A levels.

He was very proud of BGS and its long and distinguished history. After joining the Royal Navy in 1959 he studied for a degree in Engineering at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

We married in 1965 and, with our three children, enjoyed a busy naval life that took us to Malaysia and Italy as well as to appointments nearer home in Portsmouth, Plymouth, Bath and London. Richard retired from the Navy in 1994 and pursued a brief second career at the Royal Academy of Engineering, which afforded him further opportunity to travel. Retirement in 2004 was followed by a happy involvement with Sailability at Frensham Pond Sailing Club in Surrey and the local Almshouses in Fleet as trustee and treasurer. All his family shared his love of boats and sailing to a greater or lesser extent, and many happy holidays were spent sailing the waters of the Menai Straits in North Wales and cruising the canals of France. Time with his children and grandchildren was cherished by all of them, and he is very sadly missed by family and friends.

Angela Smallwood Erratum The obituary on Colin Wood in Bristolienses 52 was wrongly attributed to Peter Tomlinson instead of to Colin’s family. We apologise to both Peter and the family.

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Marriages

Andrew Moore (1999 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2006) married Emma Hayward

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David Wiltshire (1999 – 2006) married Georgie Bird (2005 – 2007)

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Sophie Enever (2000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2007) married Stuart Heath

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Lianne Dauban (2001 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2006) married Ben Montague

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Tim Duncan (1997 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2004) married Mariana Moyano Menta

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Honorary Members of the Society J R Avery Staff 1951 – 1959

Headmaster 1975 – 1986 N A Baldwin 1970 – 1980 Mrs M Barrington R Berry OB Sports’ Club Mrs R A Booker Mrs A V Bradley Archivist 1994 – M N J Burmester 1953 – 1964 J A F Burns Staff 1972 – 2005 R J Chambers 1957 – 1964 R A R Cockitt Staff 1963 – 1997 N Cousins 1964 – 1972 R A D Cox Staff 1973 – 2013 J J Crichard 1944 – 1951 G Davies OB Society Auditor Mrs J H Duncan OB Society J C Edwards 1941 – 1950 J A E Evans 1941 – 1952 D Furze 1955 – 1962 K T Gerrish 1946 – 1957 R Gillam OB Sports’ Club D K Golledge 1959 – 1967 J E K Goodbody Bursar 1979 – 1993 Andre Heintz 1934 – 1935 pupil

1955 exchange teacher G A Hodges 1953 – 1960 L R Jacobs 1930 – 1938

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P Jakobek Staff 1982 – P Key OB Sports’ Club R F Kingscott 1948 – 1953 R D W Lacey 1951 – 1962 C C Luker 1962 – 1969 R I MacKinnon Headmaster 2008 – C E Martin Headmaster 1986 – 1999 D J Mascord Headmaster 1999 – 2008 D Nott Staff 1968 – 2005 D J Parfitt 1943 – 1949 J R Parrott 1975 – 1982 K D J Prowting 1950 – 1958 Dr A Primrose Headmistress

Junior School 2001 – 2011 P J Revill Staff 1969 – 1998 K G Robbins 1949 – 1958 I H Rolling Staff 1970 – 2007 M Sisman 1953 – 1959 R W L Smith 1957 – 1965 N Stibbs 1964 – 1972 A F Stirratt 1942 – 1952 P F Stirratt 1935 – 1942 P M Tottle 1960 – 1968 P J Tucker 1952 – 1958 E A Warren Staff 1954 – 1988 D L J Watts 1945 – 1955 G J Willmott 1974 – 1984 D J Yeandle OBE 1964 – 1971

Society Past Presidents 1900 Herbert Ashman Bart 1901 Charles McArthur 1902 C E L Gardner 1903 Bourchier F Hawksley 1904 The Rev T W Openshaw MA 1905 Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith GCB, MA, BSc 1906 Professor H Lloyd Tanner DSc, FRS 1907 The Rev V P Wyatt MA 1908 Sir Hartman W Just CB, KCMG 1909 Philip W Worsley JP 1910 W Nicol Reid 1911 The Rev A W Oxford MA, MD 1912 T B Silcock BSc 1913 The Rev Canon F E Brightman

MA D Phil, DD, FBA 1914 The Rev A B Beaven MA 1919 Sir Holman Gregory KC 1920 Sir Cyril Norwood MA, D Litt 1921 George Langford 1922 Col T H Openshaw

CB, CMG, MS, MB, FRCS, LRCP 1923 The Rev Canon G A Weekes MA 1924 The Rev Canon Peter Barker MA 1925 D S Davies MD, LLD, DPH 1926 Col T M Carter OBE 1927 R C Hobbs 1928 Oscar Berry 1929 Sir Duncan Grey LLD 1930 Cyril Rootham MA, MusD 1931 Wilfrid E F Peake 1932 Sir Cyril Norwood MA, D Litt 1933 J Sumner Dury JP 1934 T Reaveley Glover MA, LLD, DD, Litt D 1935 Rear-Admiral V H T Weekes CB, CMG 1936 Charles W Stear 1937 E W B Gill OBE, MA, BSc 1938 Brigadier A L W Newth CBE, DSO, MC, TD,

DL, JP, Legion of Merit (America) 1939 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1945

Col G S Castle MC, TD, DL 1946 Brigadier M Angell James

VC, DSO, MBE, MC, DL 1947 The Right Rev Henry McGowan MA,

Bishop of Wakefield 1948 The Right Hon Lord Gridley KBE, MIEE, MP 1949 J E Barton MA, Hon RIBA 1950 The Rev Canon J M D Stancomb MBE, MA 1951 Sir W Marston Logan KBE, CMG 1952 Professor T F Hewer MD, FRCP, FLS 1953 Leslie Morris MA, BSc 1954 Sir Oliver Franks PC, GCMG, KCB, CBE, MA 1955 R C W Cottle 1956 Sir W Ivor Jennings KBE, LittD, LLD, QC 1957 H P Lucas BSc 1958 The Right Rev Bishop D B Hall BA 1959 C R Setter JP, FIOB 1960 Sir Douglas Veale CBE, MA 1961 Dr John Garrett MA, DLitt 1962 C H Clements 1963 E H Totterdill FCll FIArb

1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

K W Jones ACIS The Very Reverend D E W Harrison MA Alderman L K Stevenson H C H Punchard Col J B Cossins MBE J Angell James CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCS Philip E Maggs Edward V Colman Vivian H Ridler CBE, MA, FSIA Sir Paul Osmond CB, MA, CIMgt M E Dunscombe TD FBOA, FSMC Air Vice Marshal W J Maggs CB,OBE, MA R A Dolton D J Mann CBE, MA Dr J Mackay MA, DPhil Professor B H Harvey, CBE, MA, MSc J C Higson M L Booker MA The Very Rev S H Evans CBE, MA J B Ackland OBE, FRIBA G F Jarrett TD, MA D W Williams OBE, TD, DL E H Dehn BA J R Cottle MA P F Stirratt BSc (Econ) Major General I O J Sprackling OBE, BSc K J Stidard AE, DMS, MIMgt T L Beagley CB, MA, FCIT, FIRTE(Hon) M B Nichols FCA J R Avery MA, FRSA A F Stirratt MA Professor Keith Robbins MA, DPhil, DLitt, FRSE E A Warren MA K G H Binning CMG, MA K D J Prowting FCA His Honour Judge P N R Clark MA R Lacey MA M Sisman LLB C E Martin MA J A E Evans MA R F Kingscott Dip Arch (RWA) ARIBA R A R Cockitt BSc Professor Sir Nicholas (Nick) Wright MA, MD, PhD, DSc. FRCS, FRCP D L J Watts JP, MA, FRICS D Pople MA P J Revill MA KT Gerrish BA N.A. Baldwin G E Ratcliffe BDS, DDPHRCS D Furze MBCS, CITP D Yeandle OBE, MA, MCIPD, FRSA M N J Burmester BA, ACIB J D Perkins MA

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