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OHs have been sending us their news throughout the year. If you have news from 1 April 2023–31 March 2024 that you would like to be included in next year's Follow Up!, let us know at oldharrovians@harrowschool.org.uk.

1930s

HSS Trotter DFC (The Head Master's 19371) received the Legion d'Honneur as a part of the French government's recognition of veterans of the Battle of Normandy. Hugo was invited to visit his old RAF Squadron, No 12, and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in May. Hugo celebrates his 100th birthday this year.

1940s

HEM Stone (The Knoll 19422), together with Jim Horne, started a hostel in Battersea for eight alcoholic vagrants in 1969. Now, St Mungo’s helps and accommodates 31,500 homeless men and women every night as well as providing extensive rehabilitation facilities.

I Fitzlyon (Rendalls 19493) celebrated his blue sapphire wedding anniversary with his wife Josephine in April 2022.

1950s

The Revd JA Kirk (The Grove 19503) was recently appointed Trustee of The Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology.This research centre in Cambridge encourages students under its auspices to engage in research projects that connect the Christian faith to important social, cultural, political and other issues of concern in the public square. It publishes journals, offers free seminars and conducts hubs for specialist research subjects.

MTSJ Dury (The Grove 19522), having retired after serving in the Grenadier Guards and selling his own company, has been writing music and poetry for charity. The Harrow School choir kindly sang and recorded a Christmas carol, which was also performed in Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, for a festival for the then Prince Charles' Foundation for Children and the Arts. Mark’s poems can be found at simplymypoems.co.uk for all members to read and to pass on.

MJH Weedon (Druries 19542) – you need to have been Head of School, double 'blood', Cambridge Law degree, cricket blue and a Harvard B School MBA with Distinction before you are qualified to trap moles! Mark caught 40 in 2022 and 53 in 2021.

M Hedley-Whyte (Moretons 19541), WEF Samuel (Druries 19543), JDC Vargas (Druries 19523), PW Pett (Druries 19542), MJH Weedon (Druries 19542), AJ Coni (Druries 19532) and HV Reid (Moretons 19543) met at the Army & Navy Club on 21 March 2023. The group meets three to four times a year.

The Revd AF Anderson (Rendalls 19582) joined a number of Old Rendallians for another annual lunch at the Oxford and Cambridge Club on 27 October 2022. Their friendship goes back to the years when George McConnell and Tim Warr were the House Masters. That it is now about 60 years on, making these reunions all the more special. Pictured from left to right: PW Mitchell (19592), DWW Norris (19593), NBQ Back (19623), PR Siddons (19563), RL Millbourn (19581), JH Cook (19603), RdeWK Winlaw (19563), A de Grunwald (19582), JP Swain (19563), JH Bonas (19573), AF Anderson (19582), RGN Nabarro (19583), JFD Williams (19573) and CHB Dorin (19593).

Professor RCA Harrison (West Acre 19573) is partly resident in the State of New York and partly in Hastings in the UK. Carey is a Professor of Comparative Literature and has taught at the City University of New York for 30 years. Carey previously taught Comparative Literature at Cornell, the University of Texas, the University of California San Diego and the University of Essex. He is a lifelong novelist and playwright; most of his 12 novels are available on Amazon and he has sold over 200 plays and scripts. In 2022, he and his wife moved from Woodstock to a mountainside above the town in the Mount Overlook Wild Forest. He would love to hear from any OHs who remember him, and even from those who do not.

PH Radcliffe (The Grove 19592) has written a book about his family that includes an abundance of references to their ties to Harrow. Peter notes, "It took seven years to write in between travel and other interests. The internet is an amazing resource, but I also visited many sites in the North of England and talked to historians who were only too willing to spare their time and provide both documents and leads. I have ended up with plenty of relevant literature."

1960s

Dr RB Packard (The Head Master's 19602) was the first recipient of the M C Luthra Gold medal at the IIRSI meeting in Amritsar.

RL Millbourn (Rendalls 19581) has joined Dowgate Capital as a Consultant. Dowgate supports proven entrepreneurs and helps their small and medium-size businesses to grow.

JCWA Caulcutt CBE (West Acre 19602) was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to Charity and to Philanthropy in the New Year Honours List 2023.

GH Harris (The Grove 19633) has published several books on Kindle since retiring from teaching history in 2010. He has also sung a lot of church music, played with grandsons and painted several pictures. George's next exhibition is at the Coniston Institute and is in aid of the Coniston Mountain Rescue Team.

ENS Allen (The Head Master's 19633) is now enjoying retirement. Edward studied Civil Engineering at Loughborough University and began his career working on projects including Kings Cross House and Brent Cross Shopping Centre. Edward built railways in Natal in South Africa, and designed trackwork for the Army at Lulworth Tank Ranges, the high-speed line in Iraq from Baghdad to Basra and the Docklands Light Railway. He then moved back to Norfolk where he ran manufacturing and repaired scientific instruments, mainly mercury barometers and thermometers, at which he became the world expert, and worked in Kazakhstan and Papua New Guinea to repair barometers.

Professor CH Carr (Moretons 19652), Professor of Corporate Strategy, University of Edinburgh Business School, has given invited seminars on his book Global Oligopoly: A Key Idea for Business and Society at Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow and, most recently, Durham, Warwick and York universities. In April, he presented three papers on cross-cultural leadership at the Academy for International Business, hosted by Glasgow University. As Vice Chairman of the Marlowe Society, he organised the February London Marlowe Day in Deptford, with five speakers (four authors from the USA and Canada and one eminent British professor), all addressing the Marlowe/Shakespeare authorship issue.

TPF Robarts (The Grove 19661) has written a blog (robarts.com/blog/) featuring recommended books that he can supply to readers of the blog, as a result of his partnership with the London Library. The blog also contains videos on yoga and mental wellbeing, provided by Tim’s wife Michelle. For more information contact Tim at tim@robarts.com.

Colonel PRC Flach MBE (Moretons 19662), Lieutenant of His Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, and HG Robertson (West Acre 19703), Lieutenant of His Majesty's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, served at the State Arrival of the President of South Africa at Buckingham Palace on 22 November 2022.

DR Levinson (Bradbys 19673) retired last year after 40 years in Australia, and returned to his roots in the UK with his wife Ena. In 2022, he completed a 1000km charity walk in aid of Diabetes NSW in Australia, walking 20km a day for 50 consecutive days. David and Ena's love for long-distance walking continues; last year they walked 298km along the Thames Path from the Thames barrier to the sea, and recently trekked for eight days (154km) along the West Highland Way from Glasgow to Fort William. This year, they are planning to walk the Via Francigena, a 2000km pilgrimage from Canterbury to Rome, taking three to four months and camping and hostelling along the way.

GR Elliott (Moretons 19692) stepped down as Chairman of Sir John Soane's Museum in 2022 after a decade. He is now Chairman of Venice in Peril Fund CIO and of The Prudence Trust.

MW Hall (The Park 19691) was one of five OHs who met at AJ Anderson’s (Rendalls 19522) home in Berkshire on 24 July 2022. The group included three members of the 1957 Lord's team. Pictured from L to R: DWW Norris (Rendalls 19593), MW Hall (The Park 19691), AJ Anderson (Rendalls 19522), JDC Vargas (Druries 19523) and MJH Weedon (Druries 19542). It was Anthony's idea to entertain five locals who had all played for the XI. Messrs Norris, Anderson and Hall are all members of Huntercombe Golf Club and regularly play golf together.

JRB McBeath (The Head Master's 19673) was installed as Master of The Worshipful Company of Gunmakers, and formally accepted the keys to the Proof House on 2 November 2022 at the Gunmakers' Nomination Dinner at Mansion House. He succeeded Major GAF Hill VR (Newlands 19763).

BM Covell (Moretons 19682) represented Great Britain in the 2022 World Triathlon Age Group Championships in Abu Dhabi and the 2022 European Triathlon Age Group Championships in Poland.

1970s

MCG Peel (Druries 19703) released his latest book, Gilly:The Turbulent Life of Roy Gilchrist, in March and is set to release his next biography, Yorkshire Grit: The Life of Ray Illingworth, in July. Mark is currently working on a biography of Donald Dewar, Scotland's first First Minister. He much enjoys his frequent meetings with Ross Beckett (former beak 1966–2004, House Master of Elmfield 1983–95) and Peter Hunter (former beak 1985–2018, House Master of The Park 2001–13) at the New Club in Edinburgh.

DR Busk (Druries 19712) and his wife Sophie were awarded a Guinness World Record in March 2023 for the longest espaliered plant. The champion espaliered pear tree Beurre Diel covers the westfacing wall in the garden of their home, Houghton Lodge Gardens, with a width of 16.33m.

WR Wieloch (Rendalls 19723) and MTO Stanley (Druries 19703) met at Cowes on 29 June 2022. In 1975, Martin was captain of sailing and Rupert was captain of boxing at Harrow; six years later, they were armoured troop leaders together in the 17th/21st Lancers and, 40-something years on, Rupert was Secretary of the St Moritz Tobogganing Club and Martin is currently the Vice Commodore of The Royal Yacht Squadron. In November 2022, Rupert returned to the Hill to give a talk to the Alexander Society on Old Harrovian Giants at El Alamein.

EC Gordon Lennox (The Grove 19742) represented the England Over-60s cricket team in the Carib Cup in Barbados in February. England beat the Aussies in the final of the competition at the Kensington Oval to lift the trophy. Edward top scored for the team in the competition and was Man of the Match in the final. Having beaten the West Indies in the semi-final, and as a reminder of the School tour to Barbados in 1979, England gained a supporter in ML Sealy (Rendalls 19752), himself having won the USA Masters Squash tournament the week before. Seniors' sport growing very fast!

AB Dick-Cleland (The Park 19743) is Property Manager at the Hardwick Estate near Whitchurch-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, where he looks after 27 houses. Alastair also works at the Landmark Trust as Project Development Manager for three days a week,

DN Wijewardane (Moretons 19781) is General Services Coordinator in the Directorate of Administration at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where he has worked since 2020. Having worked for UNICEF on relief and humanitarian work in Pakistan and Iraq from 2009, Nishy joined the Vienna-based Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation in 2015, engaging in preventing nuclear proliferation. Nishy’s wife is Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka and they have two children, one a graduate of Durham and LSE in Law and the other of McGill in Public Policy.

Dr DA Taylor (Newlands 19783) gave a talk to current Harrovians in November 2022 on his career as a Consultant Respiratory Physician as part of the Careers Business Lunch Programme.

CT Andrew (Rendalls 19731) is proud to have been selected for the second year in a row to photograph the prestigious calendar for Scania trucks. The project took Tim all over the UK, clocking up 4000 miles to capture company-owned trucks at work and at their headquarters. Each month features the hero shot and is accompanied by more images and the story behind the photos on the Scania website.

AJM Shearer (The Head Master's 19743) is Co-Founder of Bell and Loxton Innovations, developing intellectual property around valorising abundant, protein-rich agricultural waste streams and creating high value biorenewables for the nutrition and personal care sectors. The business has been awarded an Innovate UK SMART grant for manufacturing development and scale up.

PS Wannamethee (Rendalls 19783) assumed the post as Ambassador of Thailand to Belgium and Head of the Thai Mission to the European Union in 2021, and was engaged with the negotiations leading to the signing of the Thai-EU Partnership and Cooperation Agreement in December 2022, as well as a playing a role in the official resumption of the Thai-EU Free Trade negotiations in March 2023.

RJ Fairer-Smith (Newlands 19793) was invited to exhibit 100 of his backstage fashion images in a solo exhibition at SCAD FASH in Atlanta, Georgia. Backstage Pass: Dior, Galliano, Jacobs, and McQueen was curated by Director of Fashion Exhibitions, Rafael Gomes, and was presented in association with Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Robert was also invited to exhibit 40 images as part of the Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse exhibition currently on show at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, which will be moving to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec in the summer of 2023.

Dr JG Crowston (The Park 19793) recently relocated to Australia after four years at Duke-NUS in Singapore to take up a position as Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he works as a consultant specialising in the diagnosis and management of glaucoma.

1980s

JC Florey (Newlands 19801) is a Director of Gentium Advisers, a multi-discipline service company, based in Bahrain with offices in London, Manama and Manilla, supplying companies and individuals with services from technical procurement to real estate finance. John spends his free time on the usual expat pastimes: golf, paddleboarding, badminton and padel tennis. Anyone in the region, please feel free to get in touch at johnflorey@gentiumadvisers.com

NI Siddiqi (West Acre 19803) is Senior Partner at Novo Holdings, based in London and Copenhagen. He has built his career in backing medical innovation. At Novo, he is a venture capital investor investing in life sciences companies across Europe and the US. He is married and has two children: a daughter who is completing a Masters at Oxford University and a son who is an undergraduate at UCL.

MD Pacifico (The Knoll 19863) was elected President of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, a post he will hold for two years alongside the running of his private clinic, Purity Bridge, in Tunbridge Wells. He is regularly invited to lecture and teach across the world and, this year, has invitations to India, Morocco, the Czech Republic and Italy among others. His principal interests are plastic surgery to the face and breast.

JGAS Churchill OBE (The Grove 19893) was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to International Trade and to the Dyslexia and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Community in the New Year Honours List 2023.

AJ Trotter (The Head Master's 19802) spends time between London, Lagos and Paris. The fast-food restaurant business Alexander co-founded in Nigeria in 2018 has grown to 30 stores and, at the end of 2021, received private equity investment from a fund backed by the IFC and UK governments. Alexander hopes to see OHs in Lagos at a get together later in the year. He is also involved in Oxford University's Africa Initiative and is enjoying reacquainting himself with the School as a Trustee of the Harrow Club and Mission and seeing the fantastic work being done.

WTD Sankey (The Grove 19803) celebrated his 21st year as publisher of the The Good Shopping Guide. Starting out as a ten-edition reference book, the guide quickly established itself as the world's leading resource on the ethical rating of companies and brands. The ongoing research aims to cut through all the greenwashing and provide a true ethical comparison for investors, supply chain managers, consumers, employees and journalists, with the BBC and other news outlets regularly featuring. Over 15 ethical and sustainability criteria are used to produce the GSG Ethical Scores across 70 product sectors, with thousands of brands individually scored and ranked. You can now access this open-source guide at thegoodshoppingguide.com.

Brigadier SJ Cartwright OBE (West Acre 19813) has been appointed Under Treasurer/Chief Executive of The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.

Lt Gen Sir CRV Walker KCB DSO (The Grove 19833) was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the New Year Honours List 2023.

FM Nicholls (The Park 19833) graduated from Northumbria University with Distinction in November 2022 with an MA in Education SEND/Inclusion, having relocated to the North-East in 2021. Fiona enjoyed every minute of the course and being a student again, and has accepted an unconditional offer for a fully funded PhD studentship at Northumbria University, starting in October 2023. The research project concerns adapting and applying a whole-school intervention for autistic 8–10-year-olds in mainstream classrooms to increase school participation and connectedness.

Dr JM Ross (Newlands 19853) was appointed as Music Director of King's College London Symphony Orchestra in September 2022.

GRA Hindley (Moretons 19893) and his wife Amber recently completed the purchase of the Grade 1 listed Gisburne Park Hospital, Guy's old family home. This completes the final piece of the jigsaw in re-establishing Gisburne Park Estate and allows them to start converting the hall into one of the North of England's leading hotel and wellness resorts. Established in 1614, Gisburne Park Estate is situated on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, about 45 minutes north of Manchester, and is already a thriving holiday destination, film location, wedding venue and wildlife sanctuary.

OHs have been sending us their news throughout the year.

If you have news to feature in next year's Follow Up! email oldharrovians@harrowschool.org.uk

1990s

AT Nehorai (Druries 19903) completed his third London Marathon in 2023. This year, Alex ran in support of Macmillan Cancer Support and finished with a time of 4 hours 11 minutes.

AEC Gray (The Head Master's 19943) has gained a MSc in Transpersonal Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy. He is now working for Achieving for Children as a CAMHS Clinician and Child Psychotherapist. This post sits within the Mental Health Support Teams in schools throughout Kingston to undertake assessments, deliver high-quality, low-to moderate-level interventions to children and families, provide and develop workshops and support for parents, provide consultations, support and training to school staff, and line management for junior staff. Alexander is also the Founder of the OH Wellbeing Society. Contact him at oldharrovianwellbeingsociety@gmail.com.

MBW Jeffers (West Acre 19943) completed the London Marathon 2023. Having taken quite different career paths, this is the first race in which Matt has run with Mo Farah since they both represented Middlesex at the cross-country nationals in 1999, some 24 years ago!

HRG Syms (The Knoll 19963) joined Willis Towers Watson in October 2022, after spending 17 years at Lloyd's of London insurance brokers Howden (formerly R K Harrison) in their Fine Art team. Harry continues to specialise in arranging bespoke insurance solutions for private and corporate art collectors, as well as dealers, museums and international exhibitions.

DJ Foster (West Acre 19963) recently returned to the United States after 15 years of living and working overseas, primarily in Southeast Asia. Jemison has settled in Fort Collins in Colorado, where he has formed his company Odyssey Admissions, which provides university admissions guidance remotely to students around the world. Outside work, Jemison spends his time with his five-year-old daughter, hiking, mountain biking and enjoying life in the mountains.

S Datta (Bradbys 19973) won the prestigious Aga Khan Music Award in October 2022. Soumik released his new album Silent Spaces on 24 October to coincide with Diwali and then began his UK tour with Choose Love in support of refugees.

PJ Kennedy (The Knoll 19913) starred as Will in Atlanta in 2022 and, in 2023, played David Cartwright in Death in Paradise and Mark Bolton in Liaison

GR Schaad-Jackson (The Park 19913) launched Cooking Smarter Not Harder this year, an app with live, interactive, virtual cooking masterclasses. Using his 15 years of professional cooking experience, his Engineering degree and Diploma in Diet & Nutrition, Gregory created a step-bystep six-week coaching course to help people eat more healthily. Alumni of the programme have so far testified to gaining confidence, being more efficient in the time it takes them to cook regular meals, and consuming a greater variety of fresh foods. Gregory is passionate about helping people improve their long-term health through an enjoyable and balanced diet.

PS Sednaoui (The Grove 19963) recently launched a new business, Fogdog IT Ltd, the UK offices of a San Francisco-based IT support and services provider. As Director of UK operations, Paul is excited to bring the firm's distinctive philosophy of ‘adaptive enterprise’ to the SME market in the UK and is actively soliciting new business. He welcomes the opportunity to share the firm's value proposition with interested parties. Further information can be found at fogdogit.com.

JDOR Schneider (The Knoll 19973) and RPF Schneider (The Knoll 19993) are the Founders of Gardenia Technologies. They are excited to announce their Partner status with AWS, as the pre-eminent ESG calculation and management platform for global corporates. Through the partner status with AWS, their platform will deliver automated and effective ESG solutions to our global clients.

LM Raffety (Rendalls 19983), AM Raffety (Rendalls 19953) and WLGH Gossip (Rendalls 19963) work for fine wine merchant Turville Valley Wines and specialise in the world's finest, most collectible bottles. Thanks to the input from these OHs, the company was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2022, having seen substantial and sustained growth in both sales and profit. Established in 1979, Turville supplies the world's rarest wines to drinkers, collectors and investors across the globe. While the company trades in the star producers from both the old and new worlds, it is best known for its extensive selection of the greatest wines of all, those of Domaine de la Romanée Conti.

Dr OL Duke (Newlands 19993) participated in Comic Relief's Keep Dancing challenge, helping his BBC Good Morning Live co-star Gethin Jones complete 24 hours of dancing and raising over £1 million for the charity. In May, Oscar returned to the Hill to deliver a talk to the Medical Society entitled ‘You Can't Be a Doctor!’.

2000s

DYP Kim (The Head Master's 20003) joined Watson Farley & Williams in London in November 2022 as an International Arbitration Partner.

JH Robinson (Rendalls 20003) and his wife recently relocated to Rwanda for his work. Jack currently works for Bboxx, an offgrid clean energy company, and would be interested in hearing from any other OHs in the region or those visiting.

CR Osborne (The Head Master's 20013) was appointed as a Partner of law firm Slaughter and May in May 2022.

PLSI Ali-Noor (West Acre 20013) is now a Jersey-qualified advocate practising at Carey Olsen. He has a busy and varied disputes-focused practice but specialises increasingly in the Court-related aspects of trusts and private wealth work spanning advisory, administrative and contentious trust matters.

The Hon JF Bowes Lyon (Bradbys 20023), BT Busk (Druries 20023) and Old Etonian W Bolitho began an 180-mile walk along King Offa’s Dyke from Chepstow (in the south) to Prestatyn (in the north) in February 2023. The group completed the challenge over the course of 14 days to raise money for Maggie's Cancer Care.

SA Northeast (The Head Master's 20033) became the first batsman to score 400 in the County Championship since 1994. in July 2022, Sam hit 410 not out off just 450 balls for Glamorgan, making him the fourth man in history of the county game and the first player for Glamorgan to score more than 400 runs in an innings.

EFV Voelker (Druries 20053) married Dr Caitlin Mahoney on 23 May 2022. The couple were married by former beak, Chaplain and Eliot's late stepfather, Father Peter J E Jackson (1990–2001). The ceremony took place at Holy Trinity Anglican and Episcopal Church in Nice.

EJ Armstrong (Elmfield 20053) held an exhibition entitled Wake at the South Parade Gallery in London during December 2022–January 2023. The exhibition featured Ned's paintings, which take drawing, imagination, memory and his own photography as a departure point. Ned is a versatile artist who is comfortable painting in a variety of ways and is not tied down by any set aesthetics, categories or styles. His work engages with art-historical references from a typically British muted colour palette and German 20th-century Modernism to contemporary painters such as Amelie von Wulffen and Allison Katz.

ACG Blount (Elmfield 20073) began a 4000-mile solo cycle across the USA, zigzagging from LA to New York, in February 2023. Arthur is raising money for Only a Pavement Away, a charity supporting prison leavers, veterans and people facing homelessness into careers in hospitality. He is hoping to complete the challenge by 1 May and has so far cycled 725 miles and raised £8,000. Arthur’s fundraising page can be found at justgiving.com/page/arthur-cycleacross-america

AH Elsey (The Head Master's 20063) became Associate Director at Savills UK in January 2023 after a successful eight years at BNP Paribas Real Estate. Alexander works within the National Development Consultancy team in the OCM Division.

MA Fosh (Bradbys 20083) made his solo debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on 29 August 2022, performing his "hilarious and unpredictable" comedy show Zocial Butterfly. On Christmas Day 2022, Max hosted a show on Radio 1 as part of their TikTok Takeover programme.

AHP Olesen (Rendalls 20083) featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2023 for Social Impact. Alexander serves as CEO of Babylon Micro-Farms Inc., a company he founded in 2017 at the age of 22. It has now grown into one of the world's leading providers of distributed vertical farming technology whose clients include IKEA, LinkedIn, Aramark and Sodexo. To date, it has raised $17 million to commercialise its technology. The company was awarded Emerging Technology Start-up of the Year in 2022 and featured in Emmy Awardwinning documentary Made In Virginia.

CHW Short (Rendalls 20093) was cast as Nick Massi in Jersey Boys in September 2022 for the new UK and Ireland tour.

2010s

ES McGovern (The Knoll 20103) and JW Lane (The Park 20103) and their production company, Indigo Productions, put on three shows at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including MA Fosh’s (Bradbys 20083) Zocial Butterfly

BPD Maxwell (Elmfield 20113) held an exhibition of his work at the Pasmore Gallery at Harrow in January 2023. His work featured a series of world maps made from faux fur attached to an amalgamation of found objects. Ben works across all media but is predominantly a painter.

JJA Simoes (The Head Master's 20123) is an organist studying at the Royal Academy of Music where he has released a CD with Delphian Records of the choral and organ music of Edward Nesbit. Joshua’s CD has been critically acclaimed, receiving five-star reviews from Choir & Organ magazine and was the Gramophone magazine’s Editor's Choice.

HJF Smith (Lyon's 20113) has founded and been developing his company Sentium over the past three years. Sentium is a cutting-edge tech company that designs and builds powerful AI-driven data systems. Sentium has a track record of success using AI to transform the finance, pharmaceutical and technology sectors. With a rapidly growing international team of 40 engineers, designers, consultants and analysts who are on a mission to reshape the future, Sentium offers AI and data consultancy and product development services to large and small businesses.

NEP Trotter (The Head Master's 20123) completed his master's in Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology at Imperial College in October. Nicholas is now working at PicturaBio, an Oxford-based biotech start up, developing a diagnostic test powered by AI, capable of identifying within minutes and from one nasal or throat swab known respiratory viruses such as influenza and COVID-19, improving not only virus identity but also differentiation between strains.

HFD Wan (Newlands 20131) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Huntsman Program, a unique undergraduate dual degree in International Studies and Business.

MHG Evans-Tovey (Druries 20143) ran the London Marathon on 23 April 2023, fundraising for The Charlie Waller Trust, a charity that teaches parents, carers, educators and employers how to look after young people’s mental health.

A Shashoua (Rendalls 20143) signed for Unión Deportiva Ibiza in July 2022, leaving Atlético Baleares. He played in 51 games for the team across two and a half seasons, scored four goals and had two assists. In January 2023, Armando joined Córdoba on loan until the end of the season.

CH MacLeod (The Head Master's 20153) gave a Careers Lecture in September 2022 on The Third Way: the Degree Apprenticeship in the Old Speech Room Gallery at Harrow.

JA Chohan (Lyon's 20153) signed to Yorkshire CCC in January 2023, on a rookie contract until October 2023.

SAA Malde (Elmfield 20163) and JK Kryca (Moretons 20163) founded Arda, a software for drone delivery start-up in 2021, during their freshmen years at the University of Chicago and Harvard respectively. The company was born out of a series of conversations and initial research between Shubh and Jan while they were in the Upper Sixth at Harrow and members of the School's Drone Society. They raised their first round of venture capital in the summer of 2022 and are now raising their second round. Having participated in some of the USA’s most renowned tech start-up programmes, Jan and Shubh have gone full-time with Arda. They are in West Africa this summer, enabling critical medical supply deliveries by drone with the Gambian government, Red Cross Society and Medical Research Council. In May 2023, Jan featured in Forbes Poland’s 25 Under 25 list after winning the competition in the Business category.

SIW Trew (The Grove 20123) returned to the Hill in April 2023 to deliver an interactive computer science workshop to the Computer Science Society. Sam is a Full Stack Engineer at Solidatus. He previously co-founded Occum Health while completing his degree at Imperial College London.

GDC Davies (The Head Master's 20163) won Gold in Judo for the University of Nottingham in the British Universities and Colleges judo competition. George helped his team win Gold in the men's team for the first time, defeating the University of Bath, a regional British Judo Centre, in the final. George is currently studying Physics at Nottingham and is Vice President of the university's judo club.

MRE Morgan (Rendalls 20163) is in his second year of studying English Literature at Christ Church College, Oxford, and has recently directed Breakwater. Breakwater is a psychological drama set between Oxford and the Suffolk coast, exploring how we connect, forgive and grieve both for others and ourselves. It follows the relationship between Otto, a university student, and John, a retired angler who lives on the coast, who bond over the shared trauma of losing a loved one. This is the university’s first feature-film in 40 years since Privileged, the 1982 film by Oxford undergraduates that launched the Hollywood careers of Hugh Grant, Andy Paterson, Mike Hoffman, Mark Williams, Imogen Stubbs and others. The team are fundraising for the post-production stage of the film and are running a digital auction, which can be found at app.galabid.com/breakwater/items.

HPS Arundell (The Knoll 20163) was the joint top scorer in the 2022 Under-20 Six Nations competition, scoring four tries in three appearances. Henry was awarded the Land Rover Discovery of the Season at the 2022 Premiership Rugby Awards and, in July 2022, he made his debut for England in the first test match of the series against Australia, scoring a try with his first touch and going on to play for England for the Six Nations again in March 2023.

RM White (The Knoll 20163) signed a long-term contract with Sale Sharks in November 2022. In February 2023, Rekeiti was selected to play for England's Under20s Six Nations team, playing against Scotland and then Italy where he scored a try and was awarded Man of the Match.

OHs have been sending us their news throughout the year. If you have news to feature in next year's Follow Up! email oldharrovians@harrowschool.org.uk