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Old Radleian 2018

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Contents

3 Letter from the Warden

4 Radleian Society Gazette

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12 College Update

20 Family Copies

James Bilderbeck (1985)

24 Radley via Italy

26 Focus on Socials

36 All that Glitters

Simon Frater (1975) Guy Richardson (1998)

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38 Peace and Survival

James (1904), George (1906) & Andrew (1909) Nugee

47 OR News & Notes

70 OR New Releases

76 Waddilove’s Wisdens

John Waddilove (1947)

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78 Controlling Chaos

Chris Parks (1984) 82 A Pride of Precentors

John Bridcut (1965) 90 Obituaries 113 Sports

Real Tennis, Rackets, Squash, Cricket, Football, Golf, Rowing, Sailing, Rugby

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Letter from John Moule, the Warden

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Dear ORs,

The 11th November was, of course, a poignant and important day for many.

Across the country – indeed, across many countries – people paused and paid their respects to those who laid down their lives in a war that stopped, finally, a hundred years ago. We were no different and I was very proud of the way in which the College rose to the occasion; as I read out the two hundred and thirty five names of those from this community who gave their lives in the Great War, the whole College stood silently at Memorial Arch. As wreaths were laid by the youngest cadet, the President of Common Room, MRAF Lord Craig of Radley OR and me, again, the College was silent. It was moving, formal, dignified and right.

Silence, however, was not the only accompaniment. As is so often the case, music played a crucial part. The Choir led our worship at the service in Chapel; the procession was led from Chapel to Mem Arch by a lone 6.2 piper; the College Band played both before and after and led us in the National Anthem, a 6.2 trumpeter played a quite outstanding Last Post and Reveille and, in true Radley tradition, we belted out the hymns. And, in order to mark the centenary occasion, there was a short concert in Silk Hall which was a fitting tribute to the fallen: a cello quartet, the orchestra, a solo piano piece, the choir, the brass band and, perhaps most movingly, a rendition of a song for baritone and piano – The Lads in their Hundreds to words by A.E. Houseman - by the composer George Butterworth, who worked as a don at Radley before the war and died on the Somme. As we remembered, the occasion was shaped by the music that was played.

Drama played its part too. I remember a visit to Radley before I arrived as Warden, in the spring of 2014. In advance of the centenary of the war commencing, the then Director of Theatre, Robert Lowe, directed a wonderful production of Journey’s End, the R.C. Sherriff play that has done so much to bring an understanding of the sadness and horror of war to generations of students that have studied it. It was fitting too that drama should play a part at the end of the commemoration too and some boys reprised a section from

their performance earlier in the year of Oh What a Lovely War as we closed our reflections at Evensong. Many parents and guests have spoken to me too of the dramatic impact of the Shell boys reciting the names of the fallen as they lined the route from Chapel to Memorial Arch.

Not surprisingly, Art was not outdone.

We have been proud to support the charity There but not There, headed

by Old Radleian, Rowley Gregg MC and in so doing, purchased 235 of their haunting silhouette figures to symbolise the fallen from our community (pictured left). Displayed around College in the weeks before the 11th, they are almost invisible but yet caught the attention: a moving thing. In addition, a wonderful archive of memorabilia of the war related to Radley has been on display in the Coffee Shop and has been framed in the windows by a simple panoply of poppies, produced by individual Shells in their Art lessons over the year to date.

A vibrant display of colour which has served to remind us day by day.

Schools like Radley do not need to be reminded of the importance of the Arts. It is part of our DNA. In an age where there are severe cuts to arts funding across the maintained sector,

we are fortunate to be able to embrace a genuinely holistic education and expose all our boys to the joys and benefits of art, drama and music. It is good to celebrate it and it is lovely to see the theme in this year’s OR magazine that does so.

Two days before the Remembrance ceremonies, a group of boys gathered for ‘Live Lounge’, an opportunity in a relaxed environment to hear their friends play a mixture of originals and covers. The school is covered day-to-day by art work that enlivens, pleases, challenges. We look forward to the College Musical at the end of the month. The Haddon Cup and Inter-Social Part-Song remain two of the highlights of the Calendar. We still belt out the hymns every evening.

Even the ‘Red Army’ sing on the touchline. That might be stretching the point a little far. What is certain, however, are two things. The Arts are vital in any community: to bring us together, to make us think, and to move us . . . to laughter and to tears. And, secondly, they are more than alive and well at Radley. Enjoy this magazine.

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Radleian Society Welcome It’s been an extremely busy year for the Radleian Society with over 30 events under our belt in 2018. We have come a long way from the days when the only date in the calendar was the OR Dinner. Nowadays we have a significantly expanded programme to cater for every stage in Radleians’ progress after leaving school, and for parents, who have been full and enthusiastic members of Radleian Society for several years. New events in 2018 included our ‘25, & 50 years since leaving’ reunions; an additional Radley For Life business event on ‘career change’; and two events for Shell and 6.2 parents at the Oriental Club in London. Based on your feedback and ideas, we will continue to learn what works and what doesn’t, and use this to enrich our event portfolio in 2019.

Community engagement through our events programme is vital to us, but our printed publications, the Old Radleian and Lusimus, are also a key part of what we do. We ran a survey this year to ask you how we can improve our publications, and your feedback was incredibly useful and extremely positive. More on this in the note from our Editor, Simon Brand. Other new initiatives from the Radleian Society this year include the launch of our online Shop full of Old Radleian merchandise, our Old Radleian LGBT+ Society, the Wildebloods, and our Radleian Society Racing Syndicate – with some shares still available to purchase.

Sam Melluish Radleian Society President

And finally, one of the other key focus areas for 2018 has been on how we can leverage the amazing goodwill and business expertise in the Radley community better to support our careers offering at Radley. With this in mind, we are delighted to launch our new digital platform, Radley Connect, designed to facilitate networking and to make it easier for the community to help each other in their careers. Everyone who joins has a shared affection for Radley College, this means we are able to create a highly engaged and supportive online community, willing to help each other both socially and professionally. From finding accommodation on a gap year trip, to giving advice to someone who wants to change their career; Radley Connect is a forum for people to support each other. Our LinkedIn group, Radley For Life, will also continue, enabling you to see the broader business connections of Old Radleians and Radley parents.

I urge you to join Radley Connect, and our Radley For Life group, as soon as possible, in order to grow your connections, network, find friends, give careers advice or simply to keep up with a Sports Club or Society. We will continue to develop our proposition in this area in 2019 so that we can continue to deliver our mission to connect and develop the Radley community so that we can support each other better.

Rupert Henson Radleian Society Chairman

Editor’s Note As I look back over my first year at Radley, I am still struck by what a stunning place this is.

Throughout the campus there are beautiful buildings, views, works of art. The sound of the choir at practice as it drifts up from the ground floor of Mansion of an evening is a constant reminder that Radley still holds true to its founder’s vision of a place of inspirational beauty.

It seemed fitting to me that this, my first edition of the Old Radleian, should celebrate the rich artistic heritage of the College and the talented people it has helped to create. To that end the articles that you’ll find throughout have been themed around the Arts.

One of the main requests that came from our recent survey into the style and content ORs and parents want to see from our publications was for more news and updates from the College. It is such a special and important place for so many of you that wanting to know the happenings at Radley doesn’t simply stop when you (or your boy) step out into the wider world. Therefore we’ve now included articles not only from the Warden, but from the Bursar and the Academic Director too, and season reviews from the College sports teams now sit alongside the exploits of their respective OR teams.

The focus of the Old Radleian, however, is still very much about news of the OR community for the OR community and that is not going to change, so please keep your news coming in!

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Radleian Society Racing Syndicate The Radleian Society is delighted to launch the Radleian Society Racing Syndicate, an initiative designed to bring members of the Radley community together around a shared love of horse racing through the ownership of a race horse.

We have partnered with Cheltenham Festival winning trainer Jamie Snowden (1992) (inset below) to develop the Syndicate. We have selected our Radley colours (right) and Jamie has found us a cracking horse - that is yet to be named! Those who invest in the Syndicate will have the opportunity to take part in the naming of the horse.

Purpose of the Syndicate The purpose of the Syndicate is to bring together members of the Radleian Society who have an interest in National Hunt racing, enabling them to share their experience, knowledge and joy of the sport, without the full commitment of purchasing and managing a horse themselves.

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Each owner will be entitled to two tickets each time the horse runs, subject to availability at the racecourse. Extra tickets will be made available to owners from the racecourse if possible, guaranteeing unique access to the Owners and Trainers racecourse facilities.

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Hospitality box at certain race meetings.

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Yearly invitation to the Radleian Society Syndicate lunch for you to see the horse on the famous Lambourn gallops followed by lunch at the local pub.

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Regular mornings ‘on the gallops’ will be arranged throughout the season to visit Jamie Snowden’s Lambourn yard.

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All owners’ prize money will be due to the Syndicate.

There are 30 shares in the horse and as of December 2018 there are still some shares available.

The total upfront joining fee is: £2,650 comprising £1,500 plus VAT towards the cost of purchasing the partnership horse (VAT is reclaimable) and £850 which will be applied to the continuing costs associated with the training and racing of the Syndicate horse until 30th April 2019 (the initial period).

About the Trainer Jamie nurtured a passion for racing from an early age, through Pony Club, hunting, and whilst at Radley College he began point to pointing. After studying agriculture at Newcastle University he had a short career in The Kings Royal Hussars, where he won both the Grand Military Gold Cup and the Royal Artillery Gold Cup four times. A proud moment in the saddle came when he carried the Queen’s colours to victory in a race at Sandown in 2006.

After a season as pupil assistant for champion trainer Paul Nicholls, Jamie then worked for three seasons as assistant trainer and amateur jockey for Nicky Henderson before branching out on his own in 2008.

Jamie then moved into Folly House in Lambourn in 2011. His first runner from his new base was Knighton Combe who landed the Summer National and Ixora became his first Cheltenham winner that autumn.

Now, seven years later, Jamie has 50 horses in training, already has a Cheltenham Festival winner to his name, and has recently trained his first winner for Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall.

About the Horse This 3-year-old gelding could potentially be top class. He is an unnamed gelding by the cracking sire Norse Dancer (sire of the multiple Grade 1 and 2 winner, Yanworth).

He is out of a winning sister to the three-time Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, Best Mate, and the Grade 1 winning hurdler Cornish Rebel, as well as the multiple winner Inca Trail (who Jamie happened to win a Grand Military Gold Cup on).

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Radleian Society online shop As highlighted in the last issue of Lusimus, this year has seen the Radleian Society Shop move online.

Now not only can you call us and order directly from our Shop at Radley, but you can buy your merchandise directly through our secure online portal.

Just visit www.radleian-society-shop.myshopify.com or follow the link on the Radleian Society area of the Radley website. Here you can browse the entire range and make a purchase today!

New Privacy Statement A big change towards the UK’s privacy law came into effect on 25th May 2018. In line with this, we have updated our Privacy Statement.

It details how we collect, use, share and store your personal data.

The Privacy Statement also provides you with information on the new rights available to you. You can view our new Privacy Statement here, under the ‘IT and Data’ drop down: www.radley.org.uk/about-radley/policies-inspection-reports

A gift from Clem Morgan's family

Our grateful thanks to Liz Byron Evans, daughter of CY Morgan, don from 1928, Tutor G Social 1936, Sub-Warden 19381952, then Headmaster, Michaelhouse, South Africa. She has given the College a beautiful watercolour of the Turkey Oak

by Bernard Gotch which has been in the family's possession since their Radley days.

The tree was felled in 1945 after which this obituary for it was written by AK Boyd: The Turkey Oak west of the House. It had long been plugged with concrete and held together by chains, but decay consumed its vitals. It was not only the most beautiful of Radley trees but also the most intimately tied to a hundred years of College history, having presided graciously over Sewell's carpeted soirees, bowling matches, Prefects' teas, garden concerts, Ben Greet plays, and countless Gaudy parties. the old radleian 2018

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1973-78 Year Group Reunion Over 50 Old Radleians rolled back the years at Radley College to the mid-1970s as they attended the Radley 1973-78 Year Groups’ Reunion on Saturday 15th September.

A busy day at the College saw the ORs able to watch a highly entertaining game on Bigside, where the 1st XV overcame Sherborne 22-15, attend the opening of the new Countryside Centre and take a tour around the College grounds given by Clare Sargent, the College Archivist, to see how things had changed (or not!) since their time here.

The Chaplain then led an early evening service in Chapel, where several firm favourite hymns were performed with gusto (and the assistance of a chamber choir) and ORs could reflect on their time at the College.

After such exertions, the assembled ORs were ready for the refreshments supplied at the champagne reception in Blue Room, spilling out onto the terrace in front of Mansion. The conversations flowed freely with reminiscing and catching up with faces not seen for nigh on 40 years, including dons of the era, Jock Mullard, Guy Waller and Hamish Aird, as well as Richard and Margaret Morgan.

This continued as the reunion moved into Hall for a splendid dinner, followed by short speeches from the Warden and the Senior Prefect.

No evening at Radley would be complete without a visit to the JCR, where the sharing of stories and laughter continued into the night, topping off a most enjoyable day.

Right: ORs make their way from Chapel after the service.

Below left: Gathering outside Mansion and catching up with old friends.

Below right: The conversations continue as ORs and former staff chat over dinner in Hall.

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50 Year Reunion For more than a dozen Old Radleians who left in 1968, Saturday 6th October was a chance for them and their guests to come back to Radley for their Reunion, 50 years after leaving the College.

The intimate gathering saw old Social mates catch up and reconnect over arrival drinks in the Sewell Centre Gallery. College Archivist, Clare Sargent, had supplied photo albums and Radleiana of 50 years ago and the ORs took great delight in pointing out old friends in their first flush of youth.

With particularly inclement weather throughout the day, the ORs showed their Radley spirit in braving Bigside to support the Colts taking on Tonbridge and continued on with a tour of the College site.

Top right: Acquaintances were renewed and fond farewells taken.

Above: The guests enjoying the refreshments provided in the Sewell Centre before heading out on their tour of College.

Right: Development Director, Philippa Roberts, joins some ORs trying to spot themselves in team photos of the time.

Evensong in Chapel, led by Assistant Chaplain Peter Taylor, provided another reminder of their time at the College and the reminiscing continued at a High Tea. Here the visitors were joined by the Warden and prefects, Jamie Walker and John Fu, who welcomed the ORs back to the the College. They spoke about the continuity of life and tradition at the College, as represented by the ORs present, and the plans for the future. The memories and conversations flowed on until the day drew to a close and many fond farewells were made, with the promise to “meet again at the 75 year Reunion!� if not before. the old radleian 2018

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RFL Events The Radley For Life Business Networking events continued to go from strength-tostrength through 2018, with both February’s and November’s events being well attended.

Both were held at Savills head office in London, which provided an excellent location for discussions on Disruptive Technologies (February) and Career Change (November).

The attendees at both events represented the broad cross-section of age, experience and expertise present within the society, with ORs and both current and former parents in attendance.

The February event was moderated by current Radley parent, Jonnie Goodwin OBE, with OR George Prest (1988), current Radley parent Dr David Shorthouse, and Cal Lee and Dr Rupert Levy of Savills making up the panel (pictured right). The topics covered included the impact of emerging technologies on many different fields of industry, Bitcoin and the interaction between education and employment.

The November event which looked at strategies surrounding career change was chaired by another Radley parent, Mark Blythe. Mark set out the picture of career change from the perspective of the careers sector, before bringing in the panel to talk about their experiences.

The panel (pictured left) of Toby Ashworth (1981), Hannah Bauer, Alexander Low (1991), James Pritchett (2001) and Chris Tufnell (1982) all brought a different angle to careers and to how to make career change work for you.

The lively Q&A session that followed demonstrated the extent to which career change can affect everyone within the Radley network. Various insights were shared, including knowing the importance of being self-aware and looking for feedback from people that you trust, harnessing your network, having an effective plan that you always reassess, and understanding the risks you are willing to take. At both events the attendees were equally keen to continue their conversations and networking over drinks and light refreshments. Do let us know if you have any requests or suggestions for the themes of our future Radley For Life networking events.

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2018 Events Gallery Another busy year in the Radleian Society calendar has seen numerous events held throughout the year from Durham, to London, to the Far East.

New Shell parents are introduced to the Radleian Society at drinks at the Oriental Club in London.

Keeping recent leavers in touch with the College at University Suppers, this one in Durham.

Maintaining links with ORs and parents in the Far East through the Radleian Society Hong Kong.

Annual drinks parties for Young ORs in London allow for old socials to get back together, and to catch up with each other.

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COLLEGE UPDATE

Bursar, Andrew Ashton, and Academic Director, Stephen Rathbone, provide their take on 2018 and look ahead to the plans for the coming year Financial stability is an important bedrock upon which we can strive to deliver a Radley education – especially so when we live in uncertain times. The independent education sector is challenged in respect of its charitable status, and all schools – state and independent – are currently challenged by rising costs of teachers’ pensions.

Thus we, and our peers, have many cost challenges – even before the transformational expenditure we want to undertake to ensure the provision of more “needs blind” bursaries for deserving applicants to Radley.

With the above in mind, I would like to reassure readers that the College’s accounts, as measured in the most recent audit at 31 July 2018, are in good health. We have been helped by an uplift in land values, but also by the generosity of donors to the Foundation which enables us to provide more life-changing bursaries. At a consolidated level, net income (which helps us sustain future development) was £1.4m last year and, after including investment gains, our total asset base grew by £11m to £106m.

I am also delighted to announce that the College and the Foundation have recently appointed Oxford University Endowment Management (OUem) to manage their endowment investments.

OUem truly understands endowment management – in the same tradition as the great endowments managed by Harvard and Yale - and already looks after over £3bn of funds from Oxford University and its Colleges. OUem has a most impressive track record – delivering average net real returns of 10.2% p.a. over the last five years. We are delighted to be their first third party investor and look forward to building on this relationship.

College Land Some have expressed concerns about development of College owned land, and land sales. The campus setting of Radley is important, and we are doing much to protect this, and to consider the wider Radley estate beyond our campus. While we envisage selling some development land (just as we did in the 1970s) this is a once in a generation opportunity and, in so doing, Council is committed to ensuring the long term custodianship of the proceeds of land sales to fund bursaries out of the income. When we sell land for development, Council may also look to reinvest some of the proceeds at a later stage in land for tomorrow.

Indeed, from time to time, the College does acquire land – and so this needs to be viewed as a reinvestment cycle taking place over many decades. In recent years the College has grown through the acquisition of land to acquire Park End, which with associated development has so far brought 5 new houses (including the Warden’s) and more open space onto the campus.

In the same way that replenishing land holdings is important to us, so too is the landscaping of the campus.

People often see the impact of trees being taken down at the end of their life, or when they become dangerous, but what people see less is new trees that are planted. It is our approach to plant more trees than we take down, and to landscape the campus, and the land we own beyond, in a way that preserves our special campus setting.

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New buildings The College remains a vibrant place. The new Strength and Conditioning Centre (right) was opened by HRH Earl of Wessex in May, the new Countryside Centre opened by Bill Shillito (1941) in September (below) and work on extending and refurbishing the Science Department is well advanced.

We have also had planning permission granted on the extension of Chapel – a major milestone in enabling growth of the school - and we await news on our planning application to build L Social.

While the sector faces challenging times, we can plan ahead with confidence – and there is much to do, especially to mitigate the impact of fees as best we can, but our commitment to offer a world class education in the finest traditions of Radley past, and present, remains our priority.

Andrew Ashton Bursar

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The Big Picture Radley has seen some exciting academic developments of late. Our big ‘looking over the horizon’ theme last year was free speech. We welcomed speakers ranging from Peter Tatchell on the left to Douglas Murray on the conservative right. There were some heated but civilised debates – the essence of a democratic society one might imagine, but sadly something increasingly denied to others by a portion of militant students in academia…

Continued controversy in the university and media worlds show that this was a timely programme.

For 2018-19, our theme is the technological revolution, with a particular emphasis on Artificial Intelligence. Having been to Silicon Valley in early July, I was staggered by the sheer energy and confidence I found there. The desire to succeed is accompanied by a happy acceptance that, while an idea may fall flat on its face, that should never deter the attempt. The Tesla car showroom was a highlight for me.

In San Francisco, I visited a start-up fintech company which operates in the micro-finance market in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria and now, India. All business is done via smartphone and the company uses algorithms to scan habits and interests (with customer consent of course), to see if a person is suitable for a loan. The company was run by tech-savvy people who were not, however, all primarily coders – the CEO took a Philosophy Major at Stanford – but they all ‘got’ the endless disruptive potential of the technological revolution.

I met up with an Old Radleian who, when not studying at Berkeley, works for Adobe.

Having visited some elite and impressively go-ahead universities in California (and there are so many more in that state alone), what were the key messages I took away? What were the exhortations heard at Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and University of Santa Clara? What would be the best advice for our boys?

Don’t be timid.

Jump in and get on with it.

Make change your own.

So, we must get on with the programme here, awakening boys to the growing challenges and opportunities of unprecedented change. Since 2017, the Shells have been taught a developing programme of Critical Thinking and we are already seeing the fruits of this.

They are getting better at spotting fake news.

“Don’t be timid.

Jump in and get on with it.

Make change your own.”

Graduates-in-Residence Due to a generous donation, we were able to appoint up to ten Oxford postgraduates (who joined us in September) to provide alternative educational and life perspectives and some state-ofthe-art intellectual grist to feed Radley academic life. They work within and across departments, through a variety of media, with a big emphasis on stretching boys and encouraging their curiosity. We hope they will provide the kind of challenge and extension which is going to help with applications to the best universities – and at Radley there is a growing interest in courses outside the UK.

Dr Yaron Brook, Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, answers questions from boys after his lecture on Free Speech in Theatre, February 2018.

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The Graduates-in-Residence are from all over the world and include two Rhodes Scholars. They operate in a variety of disciplines, from International Development to Medicine, from Maths to Philosophy. Crucially, we feel they will help dreams to be both conceived and realised.

Already, the feedback from boys has been very positive.

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Cook Fellows Additionally, we have appointed (again, as a result of a generous donation) two American ‘Cook Fellows’ who will push an agenda of communication expertise, interdisciplinary cooperation and academic challenge.

On that note, Radley dons were delighted to play a small role in advising on the creation of the new university NMiTE (New Model in Technology and Engineering), whose inception was co-led by Old Radleian, David Sheppard (1960).

The first, Ali Raza Galani from the University of Memphis, started in September and is already doing a superb job, while the second, Sam Wallace-Perdomo from Harvard will start in January. Fresh perspectives challenge, fertilise and transform minds. For the fourth year, we welcomed graduate input from the USA to work within the Design Engineering Department. Annaliese Saucier from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, like her predecessors from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), is aiming to show the boys the incredible opportunities available for those with creative imagination and ambition.

With its emphasis on selecting applicants with A-level Arts and Social Science profiles, as well as the obvious STEM ones (on the understanding that all the relevant Maths and Physics will be taught as required), NMiTE is trying to harness as much creative talent as possible to help remedy the shortfall in engineering numbers in the UK. With its guarantee of work placements and with degrees awarded through the University of Warwick, I predict Radleians will be applying there very soon…

Examination Results The summer brought happy news regarding examinations. In terms of A levels, we had one of our best ever years, with stellar A* and A*-B, and strong A*-A, percentages.

A* A*-A A*-B

2018 28.20 64.93 92.42

2017 22.68 63 89.92

2016 (record) 28.77 72.46 93.17

At GCSE we gained a pleasing number of 9 and 8 grades in the minority of subjects where we took grades in numbers this year.

Next year they will all be numbered. By converting all IGCSEs and GCSEs sat this year into numbers, we can see that 83% of results were graded 9-6, 77.5% graded 9-7, and 45% graded 9-8.

Above: One of Britain’s finest living poets, Simon Armitage, after his reading in Silk Hall, November 2018 .

Below: Guest and boys at the third Radley-St Helen’s-Watford Grammar School for Girls Joint Holocaust Study Day, November 2018

We are still in the midst of considerable national changes at A-level and GCSE, so these results give us much hope. Yet we are never complacent and look forward to improving year on year, with the central aim of helping each boy achieve his potential.

That, ultimately, is more important than the headline figures.

University Entrants In terms of university success, we were pleased that the vast majority of boys got onto their chosen courses, even if some missed a grade. Seven boys (somewhat lower than normal) achieved places at Oxford and Cambridge, with the rest going to top end Russell Group universities and a growing minority heading abroad, including to world-class destinations in the USA. Stephen Rathbone Academic Director

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VALES Rob King I first saw Rob teach on a visit to Haileybury School. He certainly looked the part in his snappy white coat; his face had a slightly ruddy complexion, suggesting exposure to too many toxic fumes, and his hair looked as if it had had a close shave with a fireball.

Both observations were probably somewhere near the truth, for Rob has never been one to shy away from an edgy demonstration!

Simon Hall The words ‘Radley Legend’ are often bandied around, but few dons really deserve the title. SAH is one who really does. Simon and his wife Tracy arrived at Radley in the summer of 1997, after 10 years at Mount House and Lord Wandsworth’s College, and depart after 21 years of unstinting work. Much of it was unglamorous and low profile, but the impact on hundreds of Radleians has been massive.

Modesty, dutifulness and industriousness have perhaps been the key virtues of this consummate school-master. His intellectual credentials and capacity for hard work were obvious from the start as he completed a PhD on the Roman poet Lucan in his first three years at Radley, although much of the time he went on to spend in CL5 was uncomplainingly devoted to more mundane teaching in the Lower School. He was always as happy to drill the basics into lower sets as he was to stretch the very able in the sixth form, and never seemed happier than when communicating his enthusiasm for The Odyssey to a class or recording brilliant audiobook summaries for revision.

But of course Simon, and Tracy, offered much more than this. On his arrival evening duties for external sub tutors were unknown, but Simon was in D Social every Monday night at 7.30 from day one to the end of term 63, equipped with the fruits of Tracy’s oven.

Tracy made another big contribution to many Radleians’ welfare through 18 years in the exams office, with many hours spent putting nervous exam candidates at their ease in the IT room.

Simon also spent 16 years as assistant to the Director of Studies, again meticulously doing unsung work that kept the academic side of the College moving smoothly, such as hosting hundreds of nervous scholars and shuffling countless GCSE options.

But of course the thing that many Radleians will remember Simon for is his role in games. He took 63 teams in 63 terms, the vast majority of them involving boys of very modest sporting ability, and in all 21 rugby seasons he looked after the very bottom of the pyramid - Midgets 5, then as the school grew Midgets 6 and Midgets 7. Many coaches complain about having to construct a scrum with, say, limited props. For two decades Simon constructed scrums with no recognised rugby players at all, always with the same enthusiasm.

We wish Simon, Tracy and Chloe every happiness in their new life in their beloved Devon. It is a massive understatement to say they will be hugely missed.

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The Kings arrived at Radley in 1997. Rob took over the Chemistry Department and Nicky taught Economics, becoming HoD a few years later. Rob quickly established himself as one of the finest Chemistry teachers on the circuit, so it was no surprise when he was made ‘Salters Chemistry Teacher of the Year 2000/1’. His lessons invariably involve practical work or demonstration, often from sources unknown to the rest of us. A feature of his time at Radley has been the way that the Department has gelled. The regular meetings have been hugely productive and a lot of fun.

Ideas have been shared; there has been discussion over what has gone well or badly; easy cooperation over cover needed; excellent coffee. There has never been any hint of ego or moaning and this is mainly down to Rob’s inclusive leadership.

He is particularly interested in how the subject fits into everyday life, which comes across in the classroom, where the boys he has taught have been truly inspired. He has also been an excellent teacher of sixth-form maths. His organisation of the recent Stemfest Festival for the Removes was exceptional: it was a wonderful day’s science at Radley.

Rob was Tutor of E 2008-12, which were happy and successful years for the Social. He was always available for the boys and they appreciated his straightforward style. He was a mainstay of the cross-country and athletics squads, benefitting the fitness of both the boys and the King pack of German Shepherds. He is a man of talent, playing trombone in a local orchestra and he is a very good artist – he produced an excellent painting of the Chapel as Luke Bartlett’s leaving gift. When he first arrived, Rob, Eric Sie and I published a resource to cover all aspects of A level Chemistry, which we have used constantly. Rob then became more involved in publishing, writing several textbooks and revision guides. He now moves on to be Subject Leader for Science and Maths, for an online company. It has been a privilege to work with him and we wish him and Nicky a very happy new life in Wiltshire.

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Chris Lee

James Ambrose

Ed Tolputt

Chris Lee has been (literally) a towering presence at Radley for ten years. He joined the Maths Department from Latymer and, before that, Harrow. As every Radleian knows, Chris is a hard man not to notice: a mighty 6’ 7” tall.

When, in 2011, the French Department advertised for a new teacher, we were looking for a big gun and, in James Ambrose, we got a Howitzer. His impeccable academic credentials included a first class degree from Exeter College, Oxford, as well as an M.St. in European Literature and a D.Phil in French. He had lectured at Grenoble, Oklahoma and Queen Mary Universities as well as at Trinity, Merton and Keble Colleges at Oxford.

To augment his physical size, he has a strident Burnley accent. He is thus a commanding presence both in the classroom and on the river.

Chris’ passions revolve around two things: rowing and his beloved Clarets (Burnley FC). He was a hugely talented oarsman in his own right, competed regularly during his London years and coached many Radley boats.

After marrying Rachel shortly after starting at Radley, then starting a family, he may have turned to the “soft Southern pursuits” of golf and skiing, but he pursued both with a ruthless determination to excel - which was reflected in the inspirational way in which he taught his maths.

There is something of Henry VIII about EJT. Not the penchant for real tennis, rather the idea of a Renaissance prince.

How do you adequately summarise the contribution of someone who has run Declamations, chaired the Spens Trophy, been a head of Physics, coached 7th XI football, helped with tennis and rugby, directed a play in a river, played the bassoon in gold lamé at cultural evenings, organised a Winter ball, appeared in dons’ plays, sketches and game shows - all in inimitable style?

In an attempt to sum Ed up, I was reminded of an email SRM sent his son (a teacher at Marlborough). Steve, with typical pithiness, summarised Ed thus: 1. The funniest public speaker I have known.

2. Well-liked.

3. Fiercely intelligent.

4. Involved across the board in school life.

5. Slightly dishevelled.

In 2013, he was seconded to Desborough, to be Head of Sixth Form, and clearly made a notable difference to the work ethic and A level results.

Chris was made Tutor of K in 2015, and has brought the principles he believes in to the boys in his care. As a sub-tutor in K, I can only attest that he has been an absolutely first-rate person to work with, and I, along with the boys in K, will miss him sorely.

He goes on to be Head of Maths at Shiplake. We wish him, Rachel, Harry and Charlotte all the very best in what I am sure will be a hugely successful step in his career.

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Ed is a fantastic example of the victory of substance over style, message over medium. As a friend, a colleague and a schoolmaster he is warm, engaging and inspirational in equal measure. A measure of his ability to inspire is the fact that both Physics teachers appointed under Ed’s leadership will become heads of department next year.

Although Radley was his first experience in secondary education, he soon found his feet in the classroom and established highly productive collaborations with Caroline de Bono and Emilie Danis at A level and managed a full set of A*s with his first IGCSE cohort. It is a testament to James’ development as a classroom practitioner that he can take the high-flying Oxbridge boys through undergraduate-type supervisions in APT and also drop down through the departmental gearbox and successfully steer boys of lower calibre through the rudiments of grammar. James is tolerant of trace elements of mischief and cheek and banter but his authority is clear and the boys know where the boundaries lie. James treats the boys as mature learners without stripping away the fun elements for enjoyable teaching at this level.

There is so much more to say about James’ contributions to the Hudson Society, to badminton and tennis, to form-mastering and UCAS. Néanmoins, having already exceeded my allocated word limit, we must wish James, Jenny, Elsa and Robin an exciting and happy new life at Abingdon School and thank James for being such a good friend and colleague, as well as the intellectual backbone of the Department, for the past seven years.

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Ed wears his talents so lightly that you never feel intimidated. He and Sophie have been remarkable friends and offered support to so many people. We lose Ed as a colleague but will be thankful for all he has taught the boys and us and will demand that Ed, Sophie and Jim come back to visit frequently and remain a part of this place.

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Trish Henderson Trish joined Radley from the Garden International School in Kuala Lumpur and swiftly made her mark in the MFL department. She has taught French and Spanish expertly throughout the School and has made a huge contribution to the success of both departments in recent years. Boys have greatly enjoyed her teaching and her results speak for themselves.

Alex Rhodes ARR (‘The Pirate’) has been a larger-thanlife presence at Radley for four years. A Renaissance Man, equally at home with books or bikes, Alex is a university-level literary expert, an excellent mathematician and someone capable of cycling 1,200 miles to Tuscany, to visit GW.

She knew instinctively how to motivate Radley boys and never shied away from challenging their slightly dated views when appropriate or necessary. Watching her patiently explain to a Lower Sixth group that the ‘Guía de la buena esposa’ wasn’t a modern day guide to a happy marriage was a perfect example of her ability to select the right material and gently lead the boys to more enlightened or reasoned opinions.

She is a dedicated languages teacher and her advice and expertise, as well as her examining experience, have been invaluable. It is no surprise that she has been appointed as Head of Spanish at Shrewsbury and we wish her all the best in her new role.

Tom Ryder describes Jeremy as “the most outstanding, loyal, efficient and reliable residential Sub-Tutor over the past three years in A Social.” And Rachel too. She got to know the boys (she learned all their names prior to moving in), and she earnt their respect and appreciation: not only for her legendary Friday evening baking, but for her cheerful and welcoming character.

So which ‘Rhodesy’ will we remember?

The one in the ‘Easy Rider’ shades, strolling around the grounds, unhurried, even with his accompanying spaniel on the loose? Or the one with a quart of cognac in hand, clad in a surprisingly natty tweed jacket? So many sides; such an impact.

In the English Department alone, in addition to being an inspirational teacher, Alex ran the Oxbridge programme, the Shakespeare Society (‘ShakeSoc’), and organised, introduced and delivered some amazing Monro Lectures.

She has also been fully involved outside the classroom running the Polo Club, taking exchange visits to Madrid with JMAS, helping with UCAS, DofE expeditions and recently taking over the Navy section of the CCF: not to mention her help in J Social and as a Remove and Vth form-master.

Trish has been a huge addition to Radley in many areas. She has been a supportive colleague and a valued friend to many in different spheres at Radley and we will miss her patience, good humour and friendship hugely.

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Jeremy Dodd Jeremy’s contribution to Radley life over the past four years splits tidily into three: teaching, sports-coaching and pastoral.

Jeremy has been the consummate triplethreat - a 360-degree Radley schoolmaster.

As threats go, however, Jeremy isn’t very threatening: he is gentle, generous, conscientious, supportive, positive, wise, considered, considerate and honest. And he is very good at his job.

But Alex was also a massive presence in Common Room, whether dining-in, or sitting cross-legged on the fender in Short Break. He was a popular sub-tutor in first F, then E Social – always the last to leave Wednesday gatherings and Leavers’ Dinners. He pulled his weight on the River too: spending long Saturdays at regattas.

Alex was also one of the most in-demand dons on the Social Prayers circuit, where his dead-pan, slow-paced delivery was a trademark. Boys’ faces would light up when he arrived, guaranteed an entertaining talk.

Alex leaves Radley to pursue an exciting writing project on a libretto for a cantata on the Anglo-Saxon epic, ‘The Battle of Maldon’ – one of his major research passions. Who knows, he may even be back in a top boarding school at some stage. Either way, ARR will be hugely missed.

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Jeremy was a three-term Midge 4 specialist from the start, coaching rugby, hockey and athletics. Whistle-wise, Jeremy’s strength of tone improved over the years (“he was a little reticent at first” reveals one colleague), and he became known for the catchphrases “Use the width” and “Stay on the strong side”.

In the classroom, however, Jeremy wasn’t one to stay on the strong side: despite his first-rate subject knowledge, he developed a reputation for helping the weaker students. He was patient, calm, and kind, and had a gift for building boys’ confidence.

It is wonderful that Jeremy is off to become Head of Physics at Cheltenham College.

He will be superb: he is organised and shrewd, and will be liked by those he leads.

Radley’s loss is Cheltenham’s gain. Jeremy we wish you all the best.

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Reuben Adams I first met Reuben in 2014. He had completed a degree in Mathematics at Oxford, and started a research degree at the Technical University of Munich. My immediate impression of Reuben was that he was clever. He had a great breadth of interests, and he loved Maths. It seemed obvious that we should offer him two terms at Radley as a graduate assistant.

Later that year we had a full-time Maths vacancy. Reuben taught the best interview lesson I had ever seen. He didn’t just teach the Maths on the syllabus. He looked at the topic in a non-standard way, and brought a new dimension to a routine piece of calculus. He clearly knew his stuff and was able to communicate and enthuse.

It wasn’t just Maths where Reuben stood out. Anyone who attended Reuben’s lunchtime concert in June will have realised that he is a talented pianist. Those who have played chess with him will know that he is also rather good at that.

You can talk to him about anything (except sport and politics) and without any boasting or arrogance, it will soon be clear that he knows much more than you.

When I last asked, he was teaching himself German. As with all the best people, Reuben combines talent with humility.

That said, sport is not a strength. Reuben had to buy a tracksuit when he agreed to work with Simon Hall on bottom Midgets Hockey and Rugby. But, what fun that has been, although, certainly as far as Reuben is concerned, the rules (or laws) remain a bit of a mystery. In Reuben’s three years he has brought much to the Department. He is a popular teacher. His Exam results are excellent. We really didn’t want him to go.

He leaves us to study for MSc in Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Delft. His departure is a great loss to Radley.

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Lucy Hamerton Lucy Hamerton started at Radley in April 2014, working in Mansion as a Common Room secretary. It was only some time later that she made the jump to PHM of F Social. In Mansion, her powers of organisation and administration were much appreciated by many – particularly

by RMCG, for whom she took on the Herculean task of sorting out Sixth Form JCR chits!

David Quinn

David joined Radley after organ scholarships at Southwell Minster and St Peter’s College, Oxford. He made an immediate impression, from his dapper dress sense to his particular brand of dark Northern humour. Indeed, one of his lasting legacies in the Music Department will be a large stock of Yorkshire tea-bags.

David is held in the highest esteem and affection by colleagues and boys alike.

Indeed, on the recent tour to Prague the boys organised a special present for David to thank him. This reflects, particularly, David’s generosity with his time. He is often to be found in the Music Department or Chapel at unusual hours, helping boys with theory, accompaniment or offering last-minute choreography advice to the Radley Clerkes. As well as being a first-rate organist (often rivalling TMM in exciting last-verse reharmonisations of hymns to inspire the rousing ‘Radley sound’ in Chapel), David has played a key role in the development of the choristership scheme. To watch his rehearsals is to watch a masterclass in what is possible with high expectations and expertise in vocal coaching. David brings these same qualities to his reflective, thoughtful teaching, whether at Shell or 6.2 level.

Leaving coach bookings, billing, filing and other tasks behind, she made the short hop across Mansion Quad in October 2015, succeeding the outgoing PHM, Carol Duncan, after Leave Away of the Michaelmas Term. This was an exceptionally tricky time for anyone to join a Social, but even with no prior experience, she overcame the typical weariness of the boys instantly.

She has thrown her heart and soul into the job; the boys were left in no doubt that she cared deeply for them and their wellbeing, always welcome in her kitchen for a cup of tea, bacon sandwich, or just a chat.

Her warmth, kindness, professionalism and ability to communicate with teenage boys was second to none (having two strapping sons herself was the best training she could have had). As well as being an outstanding PHM, she was a ferocious baker. I shall miss the gorgeous smells of chocolate brownies and birthday cake which frequently waft down the stairs into my study, as shall the boys.

Sorely missed by me, the F Social team and “her boys”, she departs F Social to, we hope, take up another role in a local school which better suits her wish to live a more “normal” existence in Abingdon! We wish her well for the future.

Whilst at Radley, David has also undertaken teaching training with the Voices Foundation and the University of Buckingham, whilst also teaching at Headington Prep School, directing his choir Polyhymnia, and performing around the country as conductor and organist. He goes on to be Organist and Music Teacher at Bradfield College, a richly-deserved promotion. He will be much missed here and Bradfield are fortunate indeed.

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Family Copies

Family Copies

The world of fine art is not always quite what it seems to the untrained eye, but for James Bilderbeck (1985) it means he can put his creative skills to good use.

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It’s not every day that a full-size, 5 foot by 4 foot Picasso canvas gets unrolled on the floor of the Radleian Society office on the top floor of Mansion. However, this was not the culmination of an audacious art heist, but rather an Old Radleian demonstrating the stunning work that can be done in reproduction paintings.

James Bilderbeck (1985) is now into his second year running Family Copies, having taken over the reins from his father-in-law, Derek Bird, who founded the business over 30 years ago; and the enthusiasm and love for art that James discovered during his time at Radley has found a new outlet here. Family Copies may have its roots in fin de siècle French technology, but the huge technical leaps in photography, printing and digital image manipulation have markedly moved things on from the invention of oleography (the process of texturing a print to resemble an oil painting). Looking down at the Picasso on the floor, it was very evident just how much the brush strokes on the canvas were clear to see, and such is the quality of the copy produced that even those with an eye for art could be fooled. Indeed, some years ago a Family Copies customer sadly had their house burgled, but thankfully the paintings that were taken were not the originals. These were safely in storage and the perpetrators left carrying only (very good) Family Copies!

Reproduction & Digital Restoration Each Family Copy starts with an original image, and with the advances of digital technology, the client has a surprising amount of freedom over their final Family Copy; “Between 70 and 80% of all the pictures we produce have some sort of work done to it, whether its re-sizing it to sympathetically fit into a new home, a particular frame we’ve sourced or ‘digitally restore’ previous damage, where expensive and timely restoration might otherwise be required”.

The photographs taken not only capture the picture but also the surface texture, which will help build up a brief for the final ‘handfinishing’ of the varnish. Each Family Copy is faithfully reproduced on its original substrate which can vary from canvas, board, watercolour paper or even screen print to ensure it’s authentic to the original in every respect.

From college to cars to canvas Finding creative solutions to challenges that crop up has been a thread woven through James’ life ever since his days at Radley.

Arriving at the College in the mid-1980s, James recalls how the importance of the Arts to the boys’ education was becoming as well regarded as performance in sport and academia. “When I arrived at Radley, the Sewell Centre was a revelation to me. Coming from my prep school, I just hadn’t experienced anything like it”. Arts were very much at the core of James’ time here and his spare moments, when not on the golf course, would see him working away in the art department. His artistic interest even found its way into some of the fatigues he received!

During his 6.2 year, the bright lights of ‘Riots’ nightclub in Oxford had, once again, proven too enticing. Unfortunately, this time, the ingenious method of making use of the A Social telephone box to get back into the Social failed and he was caught. With Gaudy close at hand, James recalls how his Social Tutor, Peter Johnson, sent him off to the Art department to design and construct a large BBQ roasting spit for the house barbecue. It wasn’t quite the let off he’d hoped for however, “I was the one to sit and turn my creation in front of the hot coals for what seemed like hours…”.

After a successful career in marketing, that saw him working for new start-up Dialogue, and as a shareholder and board director of the Energy Marketing Group for 11 years, the siren song of art was proving more and more difficult to ignore. Despite working with such high-profile brands as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, VW, Global Radio, Aston Martin, SKY and Lamborghini, market conditions were changing.

“The increasing commercial pressures from procurement meant that the clients too often just chose the cheapest option.” recalls James. “It was becoming a less enjoyable field to work in anymore. I wanted something that was both creative and included a more personal way of working and that’s when the opportunity to take on my father-inlaw’s business, Family Copies, came about”.

Canvases being printed up to 6m in width and 3m in height.

But lest you think that this is simply a facsimile of a piece of art, a flat photocopy of a painting akin to a poster on the wall, it is the addition of the hand-finishing that raises these to a different level - in much the same way as the great masters of previous centuries employed ‘schools’ of copyists, James’ team of talented artists put their skills to use on the printed canvases, following the lines and brush strokes to build up layers of varnish to ensure a faithful match to the original.

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In contrast to judging a book by its cover, no painting, whether original or copy, will look complete without an appropriate frame contemporaneous to the original painting. “We work with four different framers, each with their own specialisms, so whether it’s a contemporary tray frame or a traditional 18th Century ‘English hollow’ frame, we can either source antique frames to suit, or make bespoke and appropriately age to the client’s wishes”.

One of the aspects of running Family Copies is the huge variety of clients that contact them from all over the world. “One day I’m dealing with wealthy art collector in the Far East who would like copies of their prized collections for his different properties.

The next day, I’m speaking with a family who want to provide a copy of a much-loved family painting to each of their siblings. No two commissions are the same and that’s what keeps it interesting.”

Hand-finishing the top layers of varnish.

A wide market It’s not just families that look to have copies of paintings made. Interior designers, schools, councils and other institutions often have varied and valuable paintings in their collection, the originals of which they are not able to display, often for reasons of safety or insurance costs. And it doesn’t stop there. Another key group of clients, who often need creative solutions to their requests, are the international auction houses who offer a ‘discreet service’ for clients wishing to sell their original copies and also historic houses, of whom over 30 have used Family Copies in the past. James is rightly coy over his ‘actual’ clients as, in his own words, “we are where we are by ensuring complete discretion with our clients”.

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The visiting public to these historic houses are becoming more and more discerning and demanding when it comes to visitor experiences. They want to see rooms decorated and furnished as they would have been in their heyday.

Often the families of these houses would have owned paintings that they no longer possess, so displaying a room with period correct artworks can be a problem.

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“To help in these situations we can sometimes trace the whereabouts of an original picture – as for a recent client in Hertfordshire whose painting we found in California, for which we negotiated the copyright and the ‘Family Copy’ is now back in the house after a period away of over 80 years.

We have an excellent relationship with the Bridgeman Art Library and their vast catalogue. We can then negotiate with the copyright holder to create a copy that can be put back in place in the historic house. Being able to work with Bridgeman means we’re also able to provide copies of paintings from our ‘Curated Collection’ which means clients can choose a painting where they don’t own the original”.

With an existing array of diverse clients, eager to replicate everything from a contemporary painting or family forebear; to Picasso or a family pug, where next for Family Copies?

“Sometimes we come across a painting, particularly oil and more contemporary pictures, that has impasto too thick to be accurately replicated. We are now researching developments in 3D printing technology to meet this need”.

The quest for creative solutions is never-ending, something about which James is more than happy. www.familycopies.com

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Radley via Italy

RADLEY VIA ITALY The impact of a pope and a groundbreaking 16th century architectural book on Radley Each year the sounds of mildly-exasperated photographers can be heard coralling various sports teams into the most photogenic shape possible to capture them for posterity. The location of most of these photographs will be familiar to Old Radleians and parents alike, the steps outside Mansion leading into Stone Hall. It is a view that is as much a part of Radley as Memorial Arch, Chapel or Bigside. So when the Radleian Society office was contacted by architectural historian, Professor Alistair Rowan, about the history of the front door of Mansion it was a perfect opportunity to find out more about this iconic backdrop.

As Professor Rowan demonstrates, the front door of Mansion is copied from a very famous late Renaissance palace in Italy, the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, a small town an hour’s drive north of Rome.

The Villa Farnese is built atop the pentagonal fort first constructed

by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, later elected Pope as Paul III in 1534. Being a cardinal however did not stop him fathering a son in 1503, whom he later made Duke of Parma. The Duke’s own son, also called Alessandro (1520-1589), would go on to become a cardinal in his own right, and it was he who was responsible for building the great five-sided villa of Caprarola, from 1559 onwards, to act as his power base. To design this palace he turned to an architect called Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Vignola for short.

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Above: The Radley choir in front of the door into Mansion in 1864 Below left: The Villa Farnese overlooking the town of Caprarola Below right: The main entrance door to the Villa Farnese

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In Rome in 1562 Vignola published an architectural handbook, the Regola delli Cinque Ordini d’Architettura (Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture) in which he set out the basic proportions and rules that applied to the Five Orders of Architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. In architectural publishing it was a first and it contains a very famous plate where each of the orders is shown one beside the other, changing in their details and getting taller and more slender as you progress from one Order to the next. The simplicity of the book made its name. There were at least nine editions published in Italy by 1635 and there were many more afterwards. The book, and the styles it included, were copied all over Europe and continued to be used in drawing schools until the end of the 19th century, influencing architectural design for centuries. And although there is no way of telling what edition of the Regola William Townsend and Bartholomew Peisley used when they copied the doorway of Caprarola into their designs for Radley, the source of the hall door in Vignola’s book is perfectly clear.

Some of the key features of Vignola’s work are the oversized keystone in the centre of the arch, which breaks through the line of the archway below and up through the horizontal entablature beam above; the two stones of the archway on either side of the keystone that also break into the architrave of the entablature above; and the intricate conceit that the door is framed by two pilasters (flattened columns) by the addition of moulded capitals and bases at the top and bottom each side, but these pilasters are then hidden beneath the blocks of squared stone.

Despite their obvious similarities, the original doorcase at Caprarola and the Mansion door at Radley are at quite different scales, where the entire doorcase and surround of Mansion would roughly fit inside the wooden door section at Caprarola!

Above: A street in Ascoli Piceno in the Marche in Italy with another Vignola doorcase.

Below left: The doorway into Mansion as it is today.

Below right: An engraving from a French edition of Vignola’s book.

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Focus on Socials

FOCUS ON SOCIALS A new feature that takes a look at that most Radley of institutions, the Socials.

This year, we showcase the art by Radleians and others on display in each Social that help create the inspirational environment that was part of the College’s founding vision.

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All that glitters

ALL THAT GLITTERS Old Radleians who put their artistic skills to work on gems and precious metals Simon Frater (1975) - Silversmith Having been encouraged by a grandmother with a Fine Arts degree and having started working with silver at Radley under the tutelage of Peter Williams, it has only been more recently in the last five years that Simon has been able to come back silversmithing.

Requests to repair some pieces of his wife’s jewellery rekindled his interest in this field of work, and with British silversmithing moving into a renaissance period not seen since the 18th Century, Simon has been building his portfolio.

Describing his work as ‘precision engineering without a tolerance’ and the best way of representing the process as being a hammer, the mixture of labour-intesnsive effort and artistic skill required to produce such fine and delicate work is evident to see in the examples shown here.

When Simon heard of the news to extend Chapel, he contacted the College with an offer to create a new ciborium. Following a simple, yet effective design comprising just five elements (a base, a cup and three nails), he wanted the opportunity to produce something challenging yet evocative and in keeping with ecclesiastical iconography.

The ciborium is planned to be completed in 2019 and we look forward to being able to showcase it in our future publications.

Top: Jam spoon and honey dipper.

Above: Tongue pendant with amethyst.

Left: Candlesticks with flower cone inserts.

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All that glitters

Guy Robertson (1998) - Jeweller Having left Radley in 2003, I took up an unconditional place at Central St Martins in London where I studied Jewellery Design BA. In 2007 after graduating I won the ‘Bright Young Gems’ Award with my final year collection and that winter took up a designer role at Links of London. Two years later I moved to Boodles on Bond Street as a designer and after three years there was headhunted to be the senior designer at Garrards under Stephen Webster’s Creative Directorship.

In 2013, I was approached to be a design consultant for DeBeers and so set up Guy Robertson Design Ltd and Guy Robertson Fine Jewellery. Since then I have consulted for several luxury brands, but have primarily been establishing and growing Guy Robertson Fine Jewellery where we create bespoke, hand made fine jewellery in London. Our work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and Tatler, and has been worn by the likes of JK Rowling and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The examples featured here showcase some of the artistic design work produced by Guy. www.guyrobertson.co.uk

Above: Snowflake Antler Brooch: 1ct aquamarine, white diamonds, white gold.

Top Right: Emerald Columbian Voyage Ring: 4ct emerald, white diamonds, platinum.

Middle Top Right: Deco Flip Ring: white diamonds, blue sapphires, rubies.

Middle Bottom Right: Lavender Orchid Cuff: lavender sapphires, spinels, white diamonds, white gold.

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Peace & Survival

Peace & Survival

With the commemeration of the centenary of the end of the First World War being marked at Radley and widely across the country, college Archivist, Clare Sargent, looks at the experience of three brothers, all ORs and all Senior Prefects, who survived the war, John (1904), George (1906) and Andrew Nugee (1909).

Gaudy on 28th June 1913 was one of Radley’s great festivities.

A new Warden, Edward Gordon Selwyn, had been in post for several months. The leaving Senior Prefect and Captain of Cricket, Oswald Austin Reid, was being trialled for England and leading a team which was described as the greatest ever fielded by Radley.

His successors in the post for 1913 and 1914 were to be Andrew Nugee, the third of three brothers to be appointed to the role, and his close friend, Geoffrey Adams, both of them destined for glittering university careers at Magdalen College, Oxford. Andrew’s brother, George, another former Senior Prefect, was completing his training at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to join the Artillery as an officer. On this particular Gaudy, he wrote to his father who was at Radley for the occasion, describing a horse race he was competing in called ‘the Saddle’. Out of twelve finalists, George reached the final four ‘which may be enough for the Horse Artillery.’

Such light-heartedness was part of the selection process for officers of the regular army before August 1914. By Christmas 1914 that regular army had been decimated in the field, nearly 4000 of its 7000 officers had become casualties, 1220 of them killed in action.

All five of the men in this paragraph saw active service in WW1.

Edward Gordon Selwyn became an army chaplain in 1918, deeply influenced by the losses experienced by Radleians. Of the four Radleians - George Nugee served with the Royal Artillery throughout the war, being mentioned in despatches three times and awarded both the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross. He survived and went on to a long military career.

Geoffrey Adams, Oswald Reid and Andrew Nugee all volunteered in the autumn of 1914. Adams was killed on the Somme in 1916.

Reid won the Victoria Cross in Mesopotamia in 1917. He survived the war. Andrew Nugee saw action for just four days in July 1915.

He survived the war.

Above: George Nugee in the 1911-12 Football team photograph.

Left: Warden Selwyn and the Prefects of 1913 with Andrew Nugee (back row, first left), Geoffrey Adams (back row, fourth left) and Oswald Reid (middle row, second left).

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So much of the Commemoration of WW1 in this Centenary year has focussed on the fallen, that we almost forget that three out of four who served actually survived the war.

This article is based on the papers preserved by the Nugee brothers, two survivors. Indeed, three survivors because their eldest brother, Francis (known as John), also a Senior Prefect at Radley, also served and survived. A matter which caused both great joy and great grief for their mother, who met with considerable resentment from other mothers less fortunate than her. The papers were deposited on long term loan with Radley Archives in 2018 and we are very grateful to the Nugée family for allowing us to use them for this article and for the WW1 exhibition.

George Nugee’s Table of Marks for the admissions exam for the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1911 shows a standard public schoolboy’s education in the Army Class at school. This was designed specifically to equip those who planned a military career.

Consequently, George was examined in Spelling, English, French, Maths 1, German and Science. He did not take papers for subjects which at Radley were taught in the Classical Class - so nothing on history, Latin or Greek. His brothers, John and Andrew, were both taught in the Classical Class to equip them for university entrance to Oxford or Cambridge - they did not study science or modern languages. George’s officer training at RMA, Woolwich, involved him in three years of specialist courses and exams. In his second and third years he qualified in artillery, military engineering, map-reading, field-sketching and reconnaissance, tactics, military law, chemistry, physics (electricity and light), infantry training and semaphore and advanced mechanics. At the end of this he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and was assigned to No. 4 Company, Royal Field Artillery in 1913.

A note written by George on his admissions paper questions why he was not credited 200 marks for service in the Officers Training Corps. He concluded that this was probably because Radley OTC was only formed in the Summer of 1909, therefore he did not have three years experience of it, nor had the ‘Certificate A’ exams started. 200 marks represented a contribution c10% towards his final score for admission to RMA, Woolwich.

His younger brother, Andrew, was awarded Certificate A in Radley OTC on 1st May 1912.

Andrew left school at the end of the Summer term in 1914. A brief undated memoir by him records that he ‘did not look forward with any relish to going up to Oxford’ and that no one seemed particularly bothered by ‘that spot of bother in the Balkans’. So unbothered, in fact, that his parents and eldest brother and sister went out to Chamonix for their holiday in the last week of July. They had some difficulties getting home again after Britain declared war on Germany on 4th August.

Above: Andrew Nugee participating in Fire Drill at the College, 1911.

Below: George Nugee (back row, second right) pictured in 1913 with the other Under Officers of the first half of that year at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

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Also on 4th August 1914, Andrew Nugee and Geoffrey Adams went to stay with Radley’s Warden, Edward Gordon Selwyn and his wife as guests of the Bishop of Southwell. The Bishop described to them the scenes in Parliament as they awaited the ultimatum of the declaration of war. Selwyn told the two young men that the War Office was offering places at Sandhurst to any who wanted a regular commission on a recommendation from their headmaster: would I like to be nominated, he asked me. Of course I would. So my name was duly sent in. Geoffrey and I had much talk together that night, wondering what the future held for us and the country. We parted the next day and I never saw him again. He was killed in action in 1916.

The nomination was duly sent in and on 20th August Andrew was summoned to London for a medical board: I reported full of hope. I knew my sight was not good, but with my spectacles I could see everything. I was a sergeant with Certificate A in the OTC, I had shot three years at Bisley. Surely, I thought, they will take me. But NO, they would not, because of my sight.

Disappointed, Andrew took up his place at Magdalen College.

While there, he received a recommendation to Colonel Nugent who was raising an 8th Battalion for The Rifle Brigade. After some shenanigans with the sight tests, he was passed fit for active service. He received his commission as a temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the New Army on 19th November 1914, based on Cert A in the OTC and his headmaster’s recommendation. On 21st November a telegram ordered him to report to Aldershot at once.

Some two million men volunteered for Kitchener’s New Army in 1914. The vast majority of officers were recruits just out of university and school OTCs just like Andrew Nugee and his eldest brother, John, who joined the 4th Battalion (Territorials) Leicestershire Regiment at about the same time. George had already embarked for France with the Royal Artillery in August/ September. This left their parents at home in St Martin’s Vicarage, Leicester, with their two sisters, Elizabeth and Laura.

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Above: Andrew Nugee in 1915 after having been passed fit late the previous year.

Below: George Nugee (second from the left) on a training exercise in 1913 during his time at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

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1915 probably began fairly quietly in the vicarage household. Or as quietly as possible in any household where a wedding is being planned. There is no record of when Laura became engaged to Reginald Richards, himself the descendant of a family with long Radley connections, but the wedding was scheduled for 7th August 1915 and Mrs Nugee had all the worries of any mother of the bride, whilst Canon Nugee, as father of the bride, was probably looking forward to performing his daughter’s wedding ceremony.

A close friend of Andrew Nugee’s, Libby Walls - whom he would later marry - was still studying and taking exams at Calder Girls School in Cumberland, whilst other close friends, Kitty and Norval House, who was serving in India, were eagerly awaiting the birth of their first child. All these received letters from Andrew Nugee, written whilst awaiting embarkation for France in July.

Things were not going well for the British Expeditionary Force.

The Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March had failed to break through the German lines. The subsequent loss of men in the Second Battle of Ypres in April to May led to demands for changes in command, which left Douglas Haig in command of the First Army. An optimistic report on the readiness of Kitchener’s New Army sent to the Commander in Chief, General French, in May 1915 claimed that the ‘quality of recruits is undoubtedly of a higher standard than that of the average men we have usually recruited in the old army’.

The first New Army division, the 9th Scottish, reached France on 9th May, followed shortly by the 14th (Light) Division. This consisted of 41st and 42nd Infantry Brigade, made up of battalions from the prestigious rifle regiments, its officers recruited almost exclusively from Oxford and Cambridge University OTCs and the more famous public schools. 9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade went with them.

On 11th July an agitated officer sent a telegram from Belhus Park Camp to 2nd Lt Andrew Nugee at St Martin’s Vicarage:

Above: The first of the telegrams received at St Martin’s Vicarage held in the collection, chasing up the whereabouts of 2nd Lt Nugee.

Below: The train ticket taking Andrew Nugee to Purfleet Rifle Range (right) from London and the one taking him to Ypres a mere two weeks later (left).

no reply my wire to you yesterday ordering you to rejoin at once to proceed overseas to join 9th Battn this matter is most urgent reply by wire immediately Andrew’s absence from home and from camp is explained by a first class train ticket dated 10th July 1915. The day before his posting he travelled from Fenchurch St, London out to Purfleet Rifle Range. He simply turned around and went straight to join his battalion. 9th Bn, The Rifle Brigade was stationed in trenches near Ypres. The unit’s War Diary records that on 23rd July 1915 a draft of 36 other ranks and one officer was received. On 24th July a working party of four officers with 200 men were sent to Ypres Railway Station to build a redoubt. Andrew Nugee kept an undated return rail ticket for Ypres in his wallet, which suggests that he was one of the officers working on this detail. On 26th July secret orders sent to the battalion’s commanding officer stated: Reports received from agents indicate an enemy attack N of YPRES on 26th July (today) ... Enemy trenches as seen from RAILWAY WOOD appear to be manned to an unusual degree. Planks reported being brought up to enemy trenches opposite H21.

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The same day, the battalion relieved the 5th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, taking over their trenches near Hooge in a routine manoeuvre which saw reshuffling of battalions along the line. The intelligence report just quoted was concerned that an attack was planned to coincide with this set of troop movements. Orders were: In the event of an attack taking place during the relief ... halt under the best available cover and send back orderlies for orders. Trench must AT ONCE be gained with units in the trenches.

But the relief went well with 27th July being described as a ‘very quiet day. No casualties’. On the 28th and 29th July, the Germans shelled the British firing line and the support and communication trenches for most of the day, with reconnaissance planes flying very low and observation balloons up all day.

Then at 3.15am on 30th July the tension was broken by one of the most horrific attacks of WW1:

Above: The telegram from the War Office, dreaded by families across the country. This one details the transfer of Andrew Nugee to hospital in London after being seriously wounded.

At 3.15am C.O. saw enormous column of fireworks apparently thrown up in direction of enemy redoubt. This at first imagined to be a mine. This appearance immediately followed by very heavy bombardment of all trenches in right sector. It appeared afterwards that column of fire works was liquid fire directed against 41st Inf. Bde sector lines MENIN road. S.O.S. telephoned to supporting artillery at 3.17am and British guns replied at once. Bombardment lasted 2 hrs and was very heavy. First news arrived 5.31am that 8th Rifle Brigade had lost trenches on either side of crater and were holding North edge of ZOUAVE WOOD. Ordered to get in trench with them. Lieut. GRAY 9th Rif Brig found trench with 8th Rif Brig on N.E. corner of that wood.

Telephone communication with headquarters now broke down.

Major Davis of the 9th Bn Rifles took command of the 9th Bn King’s Royal Rifles, and defended their trench with the aid of 50 soldiers of the 9th Bn Rifles who had taken shelter there during the morning. The battle continued throughout the day, with numerous requests for support hampered by the lack of direct communication.

At 2.15am on 31st July: Enemy sent up starshell and apparently made an attempt at liquid fire which failed.

During day Bn had frequently notified Brigade of preparations for this fire at different places in enemy’s trenches and these were fired on by British howitzers possibly with effect.

The fighting was ferocious. The Bombing Officer of the 9th Rifles claimed that he shot three German bombers with a rifle at one point. 8th Bn, The Rifle Brigade lost 19 officers and 469 men during two disastrous days which did indeed begin with a massive mine explosion on the 30th July followed by the first of the chemical weapons’ attacks of WW1 - the portable flammenwerfer/flame thrower. This weapon was later banned for use by the German army under the Treaty of Versailles. The 9th Bn suffered far less than the 8th, but still recorded casualties of five wounded officers, two of them for shock, and for other ranks 41 killed, 194 wounded, 2 missing.

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The wounded were given first aid on the battlefield (if possible) or in the trench, then taken immediately to a Casualty Clearing Station for assessment. An undated letter sent from 10 Casualty Clearing Station, BEF, by Andrew Nugee to his parents must have been dictated within a day of his being wounded: My dearest Father and Mother, I expect you are wondering what has happened to me. The fact is I have been wounded, and am now in 10 CCS. The wounds are not really bad, a rather nasty one in the head, one in my left leg, below the knee, and right arm above the elbow. Don’t worry.

The letter was dictated to an Army Chaplain, (Archdeacon) HK Southwold, who added a note of his own: your son is doing well, considering the wounds and the short time since he came in. The one in the head is rather serious...

Your son is very cheerful and confident and if there are no complications should do well.

The pattern of wounds, both left and right sides, and the head wound which was so serious that he lost his nose and one eye completely and much of the sight of the remaining eye, indicate that he was hit facing forwards, although it is possible that the wounds were sustained separately.

His mother, Edith Nugee, set out for France immediately upon receiving the news. The seriously wounded were often nursed at base hospitals by members of their family. Edith’s letter to her elder daughter, Elizabeth, sent from a hotel in London on 3rd August shows the strain and uncertainty of the situation. She leaves instructions about Laura’s wedding, due to take place in four days, ‘unkind to put it off’. She regrets that Andrew’s father cannot join her in France until after the wedding, and hopes that George, who was presumably coming home on leave for the wedding, won’t mind having to escort herself in France instead. She has no idea what she will find: If I find the dear boy still conscious or the least chance of his recovering I shall stay there, if I am allowed to do so... If on the other hand I find that the dear boy has been called to rest, I hope they won’t have buried him, and I shall stay for the funeral, and come back at once, whichever way it is, we must trust and try to see that somehow or other, God knows best, and that it is well with the child, it is well.

Andrew was her youngest child, aged just 19. He had been in action for less than a week. Her quotation at the end is from 2 King’s 4: 27 - the story of another woman whose son had just died.

Below: The letter from Edith Nugee to her daughter, Elizabeth, written on the way to France, with instructions on the wedding of her other daughter, Laura, that she would now miss.

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More bad news on 5th August. 4th Bn, Leicestershire Regiment was also in action in the trenches near Hooge. At ‘3.30pm Germans threw 3 heavy T.M. bombs into Trench 50.

3.30pm Lt FJ Nugee wounded in both shoulders from shrapnel from whizz-bang at East end of trench 47S.’ (War Diary, 1/4 Bn Leics). John was taken to No 3 General Hospital at Le Tréport, near Dieppe. By 17th August, he was being cared for at Mrs Burns’ Hospital for Officers in Torquay. Andrew, meanwhile, was transferred to the Liverpool Hospital at Le Touquet, near Étaples.

Canon Nugee travelled out to France on a special passport on 9th August, joining his wife and son at Le Touquet. He wrote a lengthy letter back to his parishioners which was published in the parish magazine. He was full of praise for the lovely atmosphere in the hospitals in the delightful surroundings of a small town that had been a fashionable holiday resort famous for its casino before the war: This is by nature a lovely place: imagine the sand dunes of the Lincolnshire coast on a much larger and wider scale, backed by many acres of forest land stretching away along the coast for miles, in which it is quite possible to lose your way... A year ago there was nothing here, now there are thousands of British and Canadian troops and no less than 14,000 hospital beds for the wounded The hospitals were under the direction of the War Office working with the British Red Cross, but the majority had been set up by individuals and organisations paid for by voluntary subscriptions or the gifts of the very rich. Radley and the other public schools had subscribed to the Public Schools Hospital for Officers earlier in 1915. At Le Touquet, Andrew Nugee was cared for at the Liverpool Hospital, an encampment of tents and wooden huts furnished and maintained by the people of Liverpool, staffed entirely by doctors and nurses from there. Other hospitals at Le Touquet were set up in the larger hotels, with No 1 Red Cross Hospital set up by the Duchess of Westminster operating out of the casino itself. Ambulances were another problem. At the start of the war the War Office only had 25 ambulances. Money for these, too, was raised by subscription, working in conjunction with the St John’s Ambulance Brigade. Often those who raised money for an ambulance also supplied a driver, as Radley did for the two motor ambulances they funded in 1915.

The final train ticket kept by Andrew Nugee.

This one taking him from Ypres to Liverpool Hospital at Le Touqeut.

Canon Nugee, of course, was writing to parishioners who also may have had sons at the Front, so was careful to adopt a tone both patriotic and realistic - a tricky task - but it is clear that some of what he saw shook him badly: I shall return to England with a contempt and indignation, more deeply realized than it is possible to do at home, at the many, young and old, of both sexes and various social grades, who are still going on as if there were nothing unusual taking place in the world, making no real sacrifice, doing nothing which involves the smallest selfdenial in order to help, and very possibly for the moment making extra profits out of all this terrible carnage. Truly the French attaché was right when he said with commendable anger, ‘When will you English understand that we are in the middle of a most awful war?’

However, his son disagreed with some of his harsher observations, particularly criticism of the miners of South Wales who went on strike in the middle of July 1915, pointing out that many had volunteered for tunnelling companies and that one, Sapper Hackett, had been awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for an act of bravery described as ‘Christlike.’

(He refused to leave a collapsing tunnel under heavy fire until a badly wounded comrade had been got to safety. Sadly, the tunnel collapsed on them and their bodies were never recovered.)

His son also disagreed with some of his rosier view of what happened at Headquarters: My cousin, Will Christie, after continuous service in the line with 27 Div was sent there as ADC for a 6 months rest. He was so shocked by what he saw and the number of people having a jolly good war he chucked it and went back to active service in 6 weeks.

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Andrew Nugee pictured after 1920, having taken Holy Orders. The extent of his injury can plainly be seen.

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There was no more active service for Andrew Nugee. He was shipped home to England, first to a small hospital for officers in Park Lane, London, then on to Sandacres at Parkstone in Bournemouth, a convalescent home which could house a dozen or so officers. It was set up by the financier Sir Ernest Cassel who gave at least £400,000 for medical services and the relief of servicemen’s families during WW1. Cassel also founded a hospital at Penshurst in Kent which specialised in functional nervous disorders, a new branch of medicine given impetus by the psychological traumas experienced by soldiers in WW1.

The patients and staff of Sandacres were photographed together in February 1916. Andrew Nugee is standing in the back row, wearing a headband which gives his face some semblance of normality despite the massively disfiguring injury. Next to him, ‘Peggy’ is wearing a nurses uniform with the insignia of the VAD, the Voluntary Aid Detachment of the Red Cross. Mrs Vandeleur, not shown in uniform, was probably in charge of the house, and is most likely the wife of Lt-Col Vandeleur, an officer who was wounded at Mons in 1914. Of the eight officers, four were highly decorated, including Captain CG Vickers who won the Victoria Cross on 14th October 1915 for defending a barrier across a trench at the Hohenzollern Redoubt against heavy German bombardment. He spent the next year recovering from his wounds, then went back out to the Western Front and continued to serve until the end of the war.

Both George and John Nugee went on to distinguish themselves.

John was awarded the Military Cross. George was mentioned in despatches three times, awarded the Military Cross and, in 1919, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He ended the war with the rank of Major. George continued his military career, serving until after WW2. John returned to Radley where he eventually became Sub-Warden and then Headmaster of Eastbourne College. Andrew spent the next few years undergoing treatment, but eventually, nearly five years to the day on 22nd July 1920, a Harley St specialist declared his condition permanent.

Captain F.J.Nugee MC in 1918.

Andrew then proceeded to take take Holy Orders, becoming a clergyman. Among his roles was that of Chaplain to St Dunstan’s Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors, which had been founded in February 1915, ‘when few people thought it possible that a blind person could lead a happy and useful life.’ On Christmas Day 1915, The Illustrated London News informed its readers that, ‘in a corner of London’s most beautiful park is a house where miracles are worked.’

St Dunstan’s became one of Radley’s most heavily supported charities during the 1920s and 1930s, with a particularly strong involvement by RCBC in promoting rowing as good exercise for the blinded.

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Commemorating the Fallen of WW1 I was recently asked what the experience of the Commemoration has been like from my point of view as Archivist at Radley. Harrowing, relentless, moving. Sometimes moved to tears. And certainly something that could only be worked on in small batches.

Several years before 2014 I realised that the Centenary might turn out to be a bigger thing than any of us were expecting. After all, when Harry Patch ‘the Last Tommy’ died in 2009 there was a national call to finally lay WW1 to rest. In particular, it had been dropped from the history curriculum so was no longer being taught in most schools. However, numbers attending their local Remembrance Day services were increasing year on year as we fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and warning bells were beginning to ring that we might need to be ready to hit the ground running on 4th August 2014.

Most fortunately, I had the help of Andrew Gray in the College Library, who rose magnificently to the challenge to create a database.

Andrew far exceeded his brief, creating a record not just of names and units, but used his formidable research skills to place each man on the battlefield. A team of boys helped with the digitisation of the eight volumes of photos kept in the Chapel of the Resurrection, and digitisation of The Radleian magazine gave us the ability to search for the obituaries and trace each man’s school and war story. That database is still being added to as researchers outside the school have sent their findings as they have worked on the names on their own village war memorials. This collaboration with local historians around the world and with the Imperial War Museum has been one of the major factors in our commemoration, and only possible because the database existed. Our Flickr page of the digitised photos, set up in collaboration with the IWM, has received nearly 150,000 views since it was set up, mostly by private researchers. While they were about it, Andrew and the boys also completed the work on WW2 – which proved vital when the 70th anniversary of D-Day nearly caught us off-guard!

In 2013, we set up a small working party to think about how the College would commemorate WW1, needing to timetable any music or drama events on the long-term planner. At that time we decided that there would be no book. However, the Chaplain requested a Book of Remembrance to sit in the Ante-Chapel, arranged in chronological order of the centenary of each man’s death. The sacristans have faithfully ensured that it always lies open at the page of the latest man to be remembered. That Book of Remembrance gave us the foundation of the blog which became Radley’s main commemoration. A new volume was written for each of the war years, 1914-1915, 1916, 1917, 1918-after the Armistice, which meant that all the work for that year had to be completed before the book was printed and bound. So November to January for each of the last few years has been dominated by producing this material. On a personal level, this solid block of work was harrowing. Some days I would go home and hug my husband just to make sure he was still there, having lived all day with bereaved young wives or dons and friends writing obituaries for young men who had been in class or on the pitches only a few months before. On the same day that the sacristans turned the pages of the Chapel book, the scheduled blog posts and the accompanying emails I sent out to the school released the information in an unsteady stream.

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And it was unsteady because this method allowed us to go step by step through the war, travelling across five years of war at its own pace. We began with the first Radleian to fall on 24th August 1914. He was Captain Francis Cresswell of C Social, killed in action at the Battle of Mons. Two days later, Captain Arthur McLean was reported missing, probably killed, at the Battle of Le Cateau.

And so it went on, sometimes weeks of inaction with no reported fatalities, when I sent no emails out to the school, sometimes day after day of relentless information as we went through the Battle of Loos (Radley’s worst day with 25 men killed), the First Battle of the Somme, Ypres, Messines, Gallipoli. Sometimes people asked whether I had stopped following the war because they had heard nothing recently. Other times, requests to ‘please stop sending all this stuff.’

So we lived through the war in the same way that the school lived through it from August 1914 to November 1918. Moments when you could forget about it altogether, and others when it was so close and immediate that it became unbearable.

There were specific events during those five years. In addition to the annual reading of the names of those who had been commemorated in that year on Remembrance Day itself, I gave Social Prayers at which I told the stories of the individual men from that Social. I began with most of the current boys standing, each representing one of their comrades. One by one they would sit, fewer and fewer left standing until there were none. Those evenings usually ended in silence. In 2015, Nick Bennett and Charlie Barber used the database to plan their ‘March in Memory for Combat Stress’ during which they visited the graves of every Radleian they could along the line of the Somme advance. They raised over £10,000 and added immeasurably to our commemoration by photographing the graves and memorials, and placed a cross with a message from the current Shells beside each one. Nick’s father, serving near Gallipoli, also sent us the names from that memorial. The boys travelling out to Gehandu School in Tanzania took a cross out to the grave of a fallen OR in Moshe cemetery: the film of their ceremony was added to his blog record.

And what after Armistice Day? In 1918, of course, many like Andrew Nugee were still suffering and would suffer for the rest of their lives. Indeed, ten of those named on the War Memorial died after the Armistice. The survivors of WW1 seldom spoke about it to those left at home, and many of their descendants regret that they did not have the chance to speak to them about it. Knowing what they went through, we can understand their silence – who could they speak to who could possibly understand? And how could they revisit so raw a memory? But there may be another factor, which we are already beginning to anticipate. The horrors of WW1 led to the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, the frivolity of the Jazz Age. Having gone with them step by step, I am also feeling that desperate need for brightness, for fun, for release from the darkness. 2019 will be a light-hearted year.

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Bob Ely (1944) I have travelled to South Africa to attend a wedding in Port Elizabeth and took the opportunity to visit old friends in Pretoria and Capetown.

In Pretoria I caught up with Frank KirkCohen, one of my two oldest friends. I met him at Trinity Hall in 1950 and we chewed the fat over those days. In Capetown, I enjoyed extensive tours of the Cape Peninsular before the water shortage hit.

Last December, Derek Thomas (1943), my very oldest friend, arranged a special lunch at the Oxford and Cambridge Club to celebrate the conclusion of 12 annual lunches at the RAF club for our year at the Hall.

Just before Easter, I went on my annual pilgrimage to Bavaria to see family and friends and then on to Salzburg for the Easter Music Festival.

Dmitri Kasterine (1945) Dmitri’s latest film Newburgh: Beauty and Tragedy was screened in Newburgh in November 2018.

Twenty-two years ago I crossed the Hudson River from my home in Garrison, NY and drove into Newburgh for the first time.

No one in authority, either the police or the government, is given a speaking part in this film. This was deliberate, I wanted to hear and see only the people I was drawn to.

I came across subjects and opinions in unexpected and obscure places. I was assisted by a crew of three local, young people (see below), whom I took on as paid apprentices and instructed them in camera and sound techniques. No professional crew was employed.

Some of my original portraits are blended into the film. Many unstated events and feelings come out through these portraits.

There is an underlying sadness in the film but also great beauty, warmth, grace and hope.

Peter Burtwell (1946) This autumn I celebrated serving 60 years in the priesthood this year, having taken orders on 21st September 1958.

I discovered my vocation while at Radley, under the influence of the then Chaplain, Charles Neate, and Warden, John Vaughan-Wilkes.

I have, therefore, every reason to be thankful for my Radley years.

Nigel Konstam (1946) Nigel has continued his talks at the British Museum looking at evidence that the Parthenon was damaged by pollution from the Phidian foundry. He has also published a booklet arguing that many of the works taken from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the 1800s are in fact Roman reproductions of the Greek originals.

His theory is based on the recent discovery of a chimney near the Parthenon used by the great 5th century sculptor Phidias to cast his giant bronzes.

Konstam suggests that the originals had been eroded by acid rain caused by chimney effluent. He argues that the Roman statues were carved differently and look much cleaner than the Greek ones, which were etched (carved) with fragile iron and bronze tools, causing bruising and microcracks which allowed the smoke to penetrate deeper.

This evidence radically alters both the arguments for the marbles return to Greece and the aesthetic assumption that Greek originals are vastly superior to the Roman copies.

For this and other relevant discoveries see www.nigelkonstam.com

Today, sixty-five years on, the city is still a place of crumbling buildings, crime and violence. Will this present city government succeed where all the others have failed? In 2012 a book of my portraits was published, together with an exhibition of mural size prints on the wall of the Ritz Theater. (It is still up.)

Then came the film. After listening to stories of imprisonment, teenage parenthood, drug addiction, unemployment, poverty, violence and corruption I began on my own to record encounters with citizens in the street.

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Lindsay Phillips (1948) In this month’s July issue of Motorboat & Yachting magazine I was featured in an article, entitled ‘Me and my old Hagg: 30 years with an old classic’ (above). I live in the Var department of southern France and keep KYANOS in Sainte Maxime. People interested in old boats might like to see it and possibly have an outing around the Gulf of St Tropez. My email is winephil@aol.com and my website is www.stmarcdesomedes.com John Claisse (1948) Now retired from everything except being the General Secretary of the Nauticat Association (the owners’ club of Nauticat motor sailors) and being a full time Dad, Grandad and Great Grandad.

Christopher R Hill (1948) I don’t know if the fact is of interest that someone of my advanced age (83) has taken up blogging, but I hardly know anyone else of my generation who does it, so there may be some oddity value!

The thoughts of Hill may be found at rothercottage.wordpress.com, where those who are interested can find a Follow button. I also enjoy Twitter, though there is rather a lot of hysteria, bad temper and bad language. My Twitter address is: @ChristoHill3 I recommend Twitter as akin to Bridge, a means of keeping the aged on their toes.

Ted Dexter (1948) Ted was interviewed for Country Life magazine and appeared in the 8 August issue (right), talking about batting, boundaries and the problem with Jo Root. He continues to write about cricket at: www.teddexter.com 48

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News & Notes Mark Powell (1949) I left Radley in 1954. That was 64 years ago! I have lived a very full life.

My wife Elspeth sadly died in April last year from Alzheimers after 58 very happy married years. Now I am solo with our 5 wonderful children around….from time to time!

Life goes on and I am constantly reminded of the amazing background I received at Radley. I was probably not the best product of the period that I was there, but I am forever grateful.

Being told by David Goldsmith “you vile boy!!” and on the other hand, by the famous JVPT who gave me this riposte when I dropped mathematics and ended up doing 42 periods a week doing history, “You go and tell your father, I teach you HOW to think…not WHAT to think!”

Lifetime lessons learned, among many others I am sure. I don’t remember!!

I would be very pleased to hear from any ‘old’ contemporaries. Contact can be made through the Radleian Society. radsoc@radley.org.uk

Nick Salaman (1949) I had a launch party for my new publication, The Experimentalist (see New Releases, page 71) in the local bookshop, Daunts in the Fulham Road. The actress Joanna David, wife of my old Army friend Edward Fox, did a wonderful reading of a couple of pages.

I also had a page in the Saturday Telegraph magazine on 30 June, telling of my days at Radley, acting with Peter Cook.

Recently I raised money with a few Trinity friends for a more relevant and indeed more noticeable gravestone for Kit Lambert in the Brompton Cemetery.

Kit was the son of Constant Lambert, and became notable if not notorious after Oxford for putting the group known originally as The High Numbers, but at Kit’s insistence The Who, on the map.

The unveiling ceremony, pictured above, was attended by Terence Stamp (whose brother was a colleague of Kit’s with The Who), and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, whose father Robert (pictured below, on the left, with Nick on the right) was at Trinity with Nick and Kit. The new gravestone replaces the old one attached to the family stone (below right).

Tony Porter (1949) Having started and publicised London Fashion week with the help and support of a few top Designers, including Zandra Rhodes, Jean Muir and Bruce Oldfield, Tony and Beatrice decided to move on.

While cruising in their yacht off the West Country, they came across Burgh Island with its neglected but beautiful Art Deco Hotel. Against all odds they managed to buy the whole island in January 1986.

Over the next 15 years they restored and popularised the old building, filling it with furniture from the period, and encouraging evening dress, as their guests danced to the music of local band ‘Pennies from Devon’.

In 2001 the couple moved onto the Mainland where Tony wrote about their Island experiences in his first book, The Great White Palace, whose sales have now passed 26,000, mainly through local shops and from Tony himself by mail order.

Never being able to retire, the busy couple founded the highly successful “Aveton Gifford Classic Car Show” in their village.

The Parish Council have used the £40,000 profits from the show, together with local support, to build a brand new pre-school.

With highly qualified staff, this modern school is thriving, with 37 young pupils.

Living nearby, the Porters are fully involved with the progress of their pretty Devon village, while Tony has now published his latest book, entitled, guess what, Whatever Next?

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1950s Tony Heath (1950) Still painting my nudes (pictured right), exhibited in Affordable Art Fair Battersea and in Paragon Gallery Cheltenham between being chair of a pension fund, advising a charity and playing tennis two to three times a week.

Trying to keep mind and body working together! www.tony-heath-art.co.uk Rod de Courcy-Ireland (1951) I visited the school on June 1st, only to find it was totally empty of life, with a half term holiday! The Chapel and Hall were all locked up, so I wasn’t able to show my lady friend much of the interior, but the golf course looked splendid! We were on our way to stay with David Pow in Dorset, which is always a nice visit.

Now living in Montreal, I only get to my Black Prince Winery once or twice a month. In addition to our wine offerings, our vintage wine vinegars infused with different fruit flavours are going gangbusters!

Tim Willcocks (1955) The past 13 months have seen me pass the milestone of 75 with a good party, which I engineered to coincide with the prepublication launch of my first book.

‘On the Trail of the Waitaha’ is a personal travelogue and spiritual quest set in New Zealand, and I talk about the original settlers (vastly pre-Maori) of that land. I challenge widely held assumptions and have included ‘channelled’ information and a number of paranormal events).

I stayed a night with my old study mate Charlie Boase (1952) (“good at chess and rugby”) but have lost contact with my other one, Seb Chamberlain (“What news of him, O Grapevine?”).

Then, Chris Foyle (also in B Social) recently made contact with me, about my book, due to his interests as a researcher into the paranormal and unexplained phenomena.

I now have five grandchildren from three children, scattered across two continents.

And have had three wives, two of them female.

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I still work part time as a Bowen therapist, and have too many plans unfulfilled to think about becoming elderly. Last year I was commended on my storytelling performance, and was advised that I have

not yet reached my best! Apart from elevated, but stable, PSA, glaucoma and you name it, I remain in remarkably good health (pictured above).

News & Notes Terence Rosslyn Smith (1953) My wife Kate and I were delighted when the organisation known as BETEL-UK were visited in January by the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge at the Cafe & Refectory at Coventry Cathedral which Betel has run since 2016. All recovering drug addicts at Betel are involved in one of its social enterprises.

Individuals are received without having to pay fees. It takes no public money, and after 20 years in Birmingham had earned over £5m from its own social enterprises.

It was our privilege to be involved in its establishment in 1996.

William Theed (1956) Adrian Theed still chasing excellence in the Forest world and celebrating his 50th Wedding anniversary. I grow timber on Exmoor and driving performance improvement within the health and police sectors using an SPC statistical model.

I am also still rowing with LRC Masters with a win IV+ at Head of the Charles Regatta, USA (pictured below), Pairs Head 2x win, Challenge Prize Albert 2, Monaco.

My son is having to endure my cricket skills!

Tim Gardiner (1958) I was appointed President of the charity Tourism For All UK in September this year.

Jock Mullard (1958) I attended the Leander Club’s 200th Anniversary dinner for over 500 people at the Guildhall in London in October.

Among the Leander Olympic medallists to be honoured were ORs Chris Baillieu (1963), Silver Medal Double Sculls Montreal 1976; Tim Crooks (1962), Silver Medal Eight Montreal 1976; and Paul Bircher (1944), Silver Medal Eight Henley, 1948 and member of the GB 1948 Eight.

Jonathan Towers (1953) I continue to act as Honorary Secretary and Treasurer to the Under Sheriffs Association (having retired as Under Sheriff for four Shrievalties of Yorkshire some years ago now) and also act as a Trustee for various family Settlements, all of which keeps me as busy as I now want to be as I reach the ripe old age of 80 next April.

I also skied again last March and hope to do so next Spring and also enjoy various forms of Country Sports.

David Armitage (1954) I am still at Elm Tree cottage. Any OR of my generation or younger is welcome to contact me. I am still an active Conservative and a firm Brexit leaver.

Janet is still with me and we now have 4 grandchildren. All horribly predictable I’m afraid.

John E. Cooper (1959) I was intrigued to see the photograph of ERP Woodgate (1855) in the July edition of Lusimus, and I thought the following photograph (below) might be of interest.

It was taken when I visited Spion Kop, South Africa in 2013. It shows the memorial to Major General Woodate in front of the mass grave on the summit.

W. R. Christopher Foyle (1956) I am in the process of selling my family business, Foyles the booksellers which has been in the family since it was founded by my grandfather in 1903, to Waterstones.

I am chairman and majority shareholder.

When the sale completes, I will step down.

I am also in the final process of forming a new UK charity, the Foyle Research Institute of the UK (FRIUK). It will conduct research and give grants for research in the scientific investigation of the claims of ‘alternative’ archaeology and ancient history, cryptozoology and anomalous phenomena.

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I followed that with a quirky triple bill in Strasbourg of Das Mahagonny Songspiel, Pierrot Lunaire and Die 7 Todsünden – an unusual pairing of Kurt Weill and Arnold Schöenberg.

Jonathan Gaunt (1961) In November 2017, I resigned as a deputy judge of the Chancery Division, having served in that capacity for 17 years, and as joint head of Falcon Chambers, having been in that post for 25 years. I am the joint editor of Gale on Easements, having now produced five editions of that estimable, but obscure, work. I remain in practice at the Bar, specialising in the law of real property. I have given a number of historico-legal papers on such subjects as ‘Equity in Shakespeare’s plays’, ‘Magna Carta & the Petition of Right’ and ‘Charles II’s Guantanomo Bay’. These can all be found on the Falcon Chambers website: www.falcon-chambers.com Martin Sessions (1961) In 1972, I was fortunate to be selected for the British Joint Services Expedition to Chilean Patagonia to undertake glacier studies. The 11 man Expedition spent five months on and in the vicinity of the North Patagonian Icefield in Southern Chile. In that period, I walked the 15 kilometres from the terminus (snout) of Glacier Benito (47ºS, 74ºW) to the end of summer season snow line (also known as the firn line) seven times.

Since 2007, I have returned to the glacier three times with the last time in April 2017, (right) when we resurveyed the transverse glacier profile at the 1973 snow line. Here the glacier is now over 130 metres lower and the snow line has now moved several kilometres up the glacier to the encompassing mountain ridge as shown in the photographs above. What I have observed on this glacier in my lifetime is deeply disturbing. For more on this story, go to: www.tridyne.com.au/benito 52

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Chip Somers (1961) Chip Somers continues to work as a psychotherapist in Harley Street specialising in substance misuse and has launched a popular podcast called Soberful to help people trying to manage their alcohol usage.

minutes too late in this world than 50 years too early in the next”. Shortly thereafter I smashed a leg and ended up in plaster through the Summer of Love listening to the pirate broadcasts of Radio Caroline and Radio London shortly before their demise and the advent of Radio One.

Simon Fisher (1962) I thought I was a contact for anyone interested in Aviation but in 50 years no one has contacted me? Could it be because it isn’t a university. However you can have the ATPL (Airline Transport Pilots License) qualification combined as a degree. We are training over 1000 pilots a year. 2 - 3 years training but full time. £125k costs but a loan can be arranged usually. Salary £40k start rising to £150k variable with airline etc.

I am still working part time at 70.

Sure, I have been five minutes late for some appointments over the years but at least I can now look back happily on 50 years since Sister Boddy’s sage advice.

Look on the L3 website: www.l3airlineacademy.com

It has certainly been a year to remember for the family with such an emphasis on the Golf Club. Bron, my wife, and my three Sons David W.M., John A. and Michael C. (all ORs) have also supported me during the year - especially during Captain’s weekend when over 300 rounds of golf were played and ending with prizegiving in the clubhouse with a large social gathering. My year will end in early January 2019 when I can return to playing a bit more at Rye as well as Crowborough Beacon and, as Will Bailey regularly reminds me, also play for the OR Golf Society. Oh and try to reduce my handicap which has suffered from this year’s excesses!

John Gammage (1962) Seeing the picture of Sister Boddy in the July edition of Lusimus reminded me of some wise words she once gave me in 1967.

I had just left school and was using a motor bike to commute between home and work on the Isle of Wight, Radley being a convenient halfway stop along the way. She saw me once on my bike and, after a disapproving glance at the machine, said sternly, “Tis better to arrive five

Charles Tankard (1963) I have been Captain of Crowborough Beacon Golf Club during 2018. My Father W.H. (Toby) Tankard (OR) was Captain in 1982. I have represented the Club in matches and representative invitations including both the MacKenzie and Colt Societies.

News & Notes Anthony Sergeant (1962) In November, 2017 I played Lord Balfour (left) at the Royal Albert Hall in Partners in this Great Enterprise, a piece of work commemorating the centenary of the Balfour Declaration which paved the way for the rebirth of the State of Israel.

The DVD of this performance is now available.

I am also working with Philipp Humm, a German artist, who is doing a major work on Faust, in which I am to be Proteus.

John Nurick (1964) These days I’m married and happily retired living near the southernmost point of Western Australia.

Alexander Downer (1964) Alexander Downer has now finished his posting as Australian High Commissioner in London. He has since taken up the post of Executive Chairman of the International School of Government at King’s College, London.

Michael Ambrose Miller (1964) The European Union Chamber Orchestra (EUCO), which I founded with my wife in 1981, gave 21 concerts, directed by HansPeter Hoffmann, between mid-February and the end of April. Concerts took place in the UK and in Malta with Sheku Kanneh Mason as one of the soloists on the tours.

EUCO gave world premieres of works

by BBC Proms Young Composers, Anna Disley Simpson and Karl Fiorini, with especially pleasing spontaneous accolades from Peter Donohoe and Nikolai Demidenko, the other distinguished solo pianists on the tours. Both used almost exactly the same words between curtain calls, saying “the orchestra is fabulous”.

He is pictured below visiting the Australian war memorial in London after an emotional Anzac Day service in April 2018, along with HRH Prince Harry, who laid a wreath and signed a book in lasting memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

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News & Notes Anthony B. Rylands (1964) Having worked with the international non-profit Conservation International in Washington DC since 2000, in December of 2017, I moved to Global Wildlife Conservation to help in its newly created Primate Program.

Philip Marshall (1969) I have spent a month conducting research on traditional folkcrafts, and especially woodworking, in Romania. I visited a variety of open-air museums from Bucharest to Sighetu Marmatiei in the Marmures in northwestern Translyvania.

Guides helped me find a charcoalmaker, a mask-maker, a basket-maker, weavers, shepherds, shingle-makers and woodcarvers. Horses and wagons are still present in this vibrant hay and wood culture.

I continue to reside and work in Washington, DC, however, and continue to do what I have been doing for quite some years now, editing a journal, Primate Conservation (right), managing a small grants program for primate conservation and field research, editing and writing articles and books, and generally being involved in conservation initiatives for the world’s (currently) 511 primate species lemurs, lorises, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys and apes.

Simon North (1964) Enjoying retirement although still involved in the property market which keeps my mind active and producing business for my old office. Also now two grandchildren who are the greatest of fun, love gardening and fishing with regular beat on the river Test; still very involved in my local agricultural show on the committee as ex committee chairman and ex president, and also with the annual Game Fair.

Finally delighted to still be in contact with my social tutor and his wife, Peter and Kewpie Stuart. On a frustrating note the excised tumour out of my spinal cord is slowly paralysing my legs so life very much in the slow lane!

Michael Stopford (1966) Michael returned to the UK after decades in the US and elsewhere to take up assignment as Managing Director of Oxford Analytica (no relation to Cambridge Analytica!) and currently lives in Oxford.

Oxford Analytica has given several briefings at Radley and the Warden and other staff attended the OA Global Horizons Conference in September at Christ Church and Blenheim Palace.

Terry Blake (1967) I was invited to become an MCC Event Announcer at Lord’s Cricket Ground, which is great fun. I have also started life as a budding Voiceover Artist (voicereels available).

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The oak log churches of the Maramures from the 1600s with their 150’ steeples were inspiring. I hope to incorporate some old ideas into new items.

James Birdwood (1968) Just become a grandfather for the first time. Suki Sheppard born on 29th September to our daughter Philippa. All doing well.

Still living and working in the Cotswolds.

Come and stay at our holiday cottage.

Special rates for OR’s! www.streetfarm.co.uk Gavin Spickett (1969) I am not normally a contributor about my doings for the Radleian Society, but I thought you might be interested to know that I received a significant mark of esteem in December last year. I was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award, by the UK Primary Immunodeficiency Network (UK-PIN), the society for all clinical immunologists working in the UK. The award is only made every two years.

This is in recognition of my work as a Consultant Clinical Immunologist, within the NHS, my contributions to other professional bodies (I was President of Association of Clinical Pathologists and was the founding Secretary of UK-PIN) and contributions to teaching.

So far I have written three editions of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Immunology & Allergy (currently working on the fourth), have jointly authored four editions of Lecture Notes in Immunology and contributed research for over 100 publications.

William Greig (1969) My news is that myself and my wife, Gill, (pictured below) passed our 2nd Gold Bar Medal Test in Ballroom dancing with Honours as we both achieved 90%. The awarding body is the International Dance Teachers’ Association (IDTA). The dances we chose were the Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango and Quickstep.

I continue to read and write poetry and am going on a First World War Poetry course provided online from The University of Oxford in September.

News & Notes Owen Thompson (1962) I got quite a shock when looking at Lusimus Issue 36, July 2018, recently and saw on page 11 the photo of the gymnastics team ahead of the visit to Denmark. I am in it!

I left Radley in the summer of 1966, so it must have been taken before that, probably the previous winter. Those I recognise looking at the photo, from left to right, are: - Simon Stanford-Tuck - PTI Hill(?) who taught swimming - Unknown (but the name Wyndham or some such comes to mind) - Myself - PTI Williams who taught us gym - Unknown - Robert Hart (), whom I had also been at prep school with in Kenya - Mr Stoughton-Harris I remember being at the Christianhavns Gymnasium and sitting through a physics lesson in Danish - I would not have understood it even if it had been in English!

Andrew Packe (1964) I have just received the latest edition of Lusimus. A most enjoyable read as usual.

However on the Danish connection piece, the gym team photograph was not of the 1967 team ahead of their trip to Denmark.

I think it must have been of an earlier Radley team, or of a visiting Danish team (see above for details of who that team is). As a member of the team I include a (not-very-official) photo of the unbeaten 1967 Public Schools Champion team.

Pictured are: (back row) - A. Gaunt - M. Eastman - G. Andrew - J. de Sausmarez (front row) - S.J. Fisher - A.J. Packe

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Hugh Wolley (1970) Hugh finds himself unexpectedly working in London for the first time for 35 years, for a Venture Capital enterprise, enjoying the challenge of a near-vertical learning curve. Working partly at his home of 27 years in Suffolk is the only way to retain his sanity. His passion for golf comfortably outweighs his skill. With a few voluntary jobs too, life is extremely busy, which is just how he likes it. Fortunately, the next bi-annual trip to Africa is coming up.

Christopher Sandford (1970) I continue to write away, most recently on a history book about the summer of 1939, and a biography of my childhood hero, the late Middlesex and England cricketer John Murray. It was a pleasure to recently interview my fellow OR Ted Dexter in this latter connection. Both books should appear later in 2019.

See the New Releases section (p.71) for details of Christopher’s latest book.

Julian Haywood Smith (1971) Richard Bertram MRICS (1974) and Julian Haywood Smith MRICS have jointly purchased Britannic House, a threestorey office investment in Princes Street, Ipswich (below right). After successfully bidding at an auction in August, they have refurbished the ground floor, and relocated Richard’s commercial surveying practice Beane Wass & Box to the property. A further OR connection was made when they let another Ipswich office in July to Julian Bowden (1982) who has opened a second site of the travel agency Goodacre & Townsend in the town.

Tom Goddard (1972) Our careers are generally interesting to us, sometimes to our wives and occasionally to our immediate school contemporaries.

So in the hope that this may be of fleeting interest to those accomplices who smoked in the bicycle sheds or necked a furtive pint at The Bear, I will summarise the path along which I have travelled (sometimes dragging a reluctant family with me).

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unsuccessful attempt to re-integrate into English life and then emigration, with my stoic wife and three children, to Cape Town in 2005.

In South Africa, I have applied myself to the development of a new African luxury décor brand. Called AVOOVA, it is centred around the design and creation of very beautiful homeware and furniture, finished with a finely worked veneer of ostrich eggshell (see right). We have our own factory deep in the Karoo, just over the mountains from the Klein Karoo region, where 70% of the world’s ostriches are bred for their meat, leather and feathers. We collect the hatched eggs from the farmers and, through processes developed entirely in-house, we create our range of decorative accessories and bespoke furniture from this amazingly resilient and tactile material.

Inspired by mountains of discarded ostrich eggshell, we started the business in 2005 and now have 5 AVOOVA shops in South Africa, export to 15 countries and have been commissioned by some of the world’s leading interior designers to create bespoke furniture for their clients’ luxury lodges, hotels, mega yachts and private jets. We employ around 50 artisans at our workshops in Prince Albert in the Karoo and community upliftment and sustainable luxury are the two main pillars on which the business is built.

As an Old Radleian who was the benefactor of a travelling scholarship in

my gap year (that took me to Africa), and despite being described by the Warden as ‘a disgruntled Trotskyite’, because I liked wearing denim jackets, I am very grateful to the school and staff for their tolerance and for setting me off on this meandering, but very interesting and enjoyable journey.

If there are any contemporaries that want a discount on their next visit to Cape Town or would like to check out our factory on a glorious trip through the Karoo, please let me know! You can also take advantage of a special Radleian 10% discount on our online store by contacting us at info@ avoova.com or entering ‘radleian’ on the checkout page www.avoova.com – valid until July 2019.

William Morgan (1972) For my clearly grievous sins, I am Chairman of the Dumfriesshire and Stewartry Foxhounds, as of 2017, and of the Dumfriesshire branch of the Conservative and Unionist Party, as of 2016.

News & Notes Chris Parkhouse (1973) I am hugely proud to have been appointed as Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (pictured below) and it is a very great honour to fulfil my duties. As you will know, the Lord Lieutenant is the Monarch’s personal representative in each county. The role of Deputy Lieutenant is to support the Lord Lieutenant with the work of the Lieutenancy across the County, representing the Lord Lieutenant when asked, performing a range of public duties when required, and advising the Lord Lieutenant as needed.

G. R. Nicholas Holland (1973) I continue to row some 40 years later! I have recently participated in three rowing trips (see above). The first to Brazil in November last year to race in the Brazilian Masters Rowing Championships with my friends from Clube de Regatas GuaíbaPorto Alegre, where I won two Gold Medals, a Silver and 2 Bronze medals.

My next trip was to the UK at the end of March to coordinate the OUBC Veteran’s Crew for the 25th year. We were the only crew to beat Cambridge on Boat Race Weekend! The last trip was a foray to Chile to race in the South American Masters Rowing Championships with my Brazilian friends again. We successfully retained the Team Title for the 12th year running and I returned with 4 Golds, a Silver and 2 Bronze medals.

Rory Tapner (1973) I joined the Board of British Ski & Snowboard, which is the governing body for Team GB snowsport, with a mandate to “go win medals” just as Cycling, Gymnastics and Sailing have done.

Significant progress already with help from some other ORs - Mark FosterBrown (1977), Aidan Lisser (1973) - and a programme of change which will see Team GB start to move up the Winter Olympic medals table. Anyone wishing to help, do please reach out... the more the merrier.

In July I came over for the weekend of HRR and stayed in the UK with my clubmates to race at Henley Masters Regatta on 13/14 July, winning the Masters E (55+) Coxed Four.

Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson (1974) I was awarded a CBE in the 2017 New Years honours list for services to a low carbon economy, having earlier in the year being made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (pictured right).

These were awarded for leading the EDF new nuclear programme in the UK since 2008, principally setting up Hinkley Point.

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News & Notes Nicholas Mellor (1974) Nicholas has been mapping and modelling the ancient citadel of Shali in the Siwa Oasis on the Egyptian Libyan border, using drone-based aerial imaging and 360 degree cameras.

It was the iconoclastic destruction in the Middle East and Africa by Islamists in places such as Palmyra and Timbuktu which led to the creation of the mCubed initiative. Its aim is to explore how new technologies could provide an agile, non-invasive means of documenting and monitoring fragile ecosystems and endangered sites.

With support from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund, Nicholas has been investigating how such imaging can be used to open up new avenues for research, community outreach, education and advocacy; and how such documentation could be used to re-imagine the heritage experience.

Recent missions have included the island city of Djenne in Mali (above right), whose Mosque is the world’s largest mud building (below right); the caves and palaces of Zanzibar and now Egypt.

Max Horsey and his aerial film unit at Radley provided inspiration showing the versatility of compact drones, and how quickly young people can be trained up as drone pilots. mCubed now has a collaboration with Imperial College’s ‘Advanced Hackspace’ to explore how this digital documentation can be used to create new ways of sharing heritage experiences with virtual and augmented reality.

James Eadie (1975) James Eadie was knighted in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours, for services to the Law and to Government.

David Amos (1976) I was re-elected as a Labour councillor for Prince’s ward (Lambeth Council) in the local elections in May 2018. My ward covers residents and businesses in Kennington and Vauxhall in London.

Somehow I got the highest vote of all 63 councillors across the Borough.

I combine my councillor work together with my professional work as a human resources management consultant in the health care sector.

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George Hollingbery (1977) George Hollingbery was appointed as Minister of State for Trade Policy at the Department for International Trade on 21 June 2018. Previously he served as the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Private Secretary from July 2016 to June 2018.

William Lane (1977) I was appointed Assistant Area Dean of Sedgemoor Deanery, Diocese of Bath & Wells, on 17th May, 2018. My book, Look Well To This Day, was published on 28th January 2018 (see New Releases on page 71).

Philip Godfrey (1977) I’m a freelance musician, chiefly a music teacher and composer. Several of my instrumental and choral pieces have been published in recent years (see New Releases on page 75).

Tom Shakespeare (1979) Tom has moved from UEA to The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he will be Professor of Disability Research. He can be found in Kennington, when not working in developing countries.

You can find more information about me and my work at: www.philipgodfrey.co.uk

Tom has also appeared on Radio 4 in August as one of the contributors to A Point of View.

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A James E Hamilton (1980) I changed jobs in summer 2017 and am now the director in charge of the British satellite communication company Inmarsat’s government business across the Middle East and North Africa.

Though I continue to live in Abu Dhabi, where I have been for 7+ years since leaving the army (Light Dragoons), I now travel across the region for about half my working time.

Hugo Vaux (1980) Looking forward to Sept 2019 when our youngest son Freddie will be starting at Radley in E Social, the next big step...

I have now completed 20 years with IBM, and Lucy’s PJ business goes from strength to strength: www.thepyjamahouse.co.uk Michael Bracken (1981) After a career in investment banking in Asia most recently over 10 years in Hong Kong, Michael Bracken has returned to the UK. He is pleased to be visiting Radley more often with his oldest son (Timothy) now in 6.1 year in E social. His younger son is on track to sit his exams for entry to Radley in Michaelmas 2019.

Richard Johnson (1981) Still living in a farm in North Dorset, with a business nearby, supplying jewellery packaging products in UK, plus some export.

Sadly have been to last Radley versus Sherborne rugby match involving my children, which was a welcome annual reason to return to Radley, as youngest, still at Sherborne, has just stopped rugby to concentrate on climbing and sailing.

Two eldest at Bristol and Durham universities, and daughter at Bruton Girls School. Still follow interests in wildlife with frequent trips to the wilder parts of Zimbabwe, along with plenty of skiing and dinghy sailing.

Mike Stuart-Clark (1981) Mike still teaches at the Dragon, celebrated his 50th birthday this year, represented the College at real tennis and is a grandfather to Florence.

Alexander Wright (1981) Now living by the sea in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight with my young family. My day job is financial marketing - currently rebranding a City firm - and making magazines on the side. Last summer I launched Cowes Magazine, a high-end, yachting glossy distributed in the clubs, marinas and at the numerous sailing events which take place throughout the summer. www.cowesmag.com I will of course cover the Arrow Trophy, a huge public schools regatta, where Radley came 14th out of 23 this year (could do better?!).

Chris Tufnell (1982) I’ve spent the year coordinating the veterinary profession’s response to Brexit and encouraging innovation in the sector as Senior Vice President of the RCVS. I’ve also enjoyed returning to agriculture as Chair of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

Harry is thriving at Radley and Hector is looking forward to joining him in September 2018.

James Huntley (1983) Paediatric Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon: after a decade of working as a Consultant in Glasgow, I moved to Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar. I maintain some links to the UK, especially educationally, being the external examiner for Royal College Surgeons of Edinburgh’s Masters programme in Orthopaedics, and recently appointed a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers (FFSTEd).

I recently co-edited a large paediatric orthopaedics textbook: Paediatric Orthopaedics: an Evidence-Based Approach to Clinical Questions, published by Springer in 2017. I enjoy the sun.

Jonathan Sinclair (1984) Has this year finished his appointment as High Commissioner to New Zealand, after which he was Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs under Boris Johnson’s tenure.

Oli Christie (1984) I have been appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. The position is an honorary and voluntary one and Deputies support the Lord Lieutenant at events and carry out duties across the county.

Paul Telegdy (1984) I was recently appointed co-Chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Television Studios in Los Angeles, California. It’s 10 years since I joined the company from the BBC. Life in California continues to treat our family well, with Lily (17), Grace (15), Penelope (3) and now Winston (2) flourishing. My wife, Lauren, is painting prolifically while raising our family. Social media may have made politics worse, but it has made connecting with Old Radleian friends very easy.

I’m happy to help in any capacity on this side of the Atlantic or to offer any career advice to people interested in Media or Technology, or indeed careers in California, in the spirit of Radley for Life.

Sid Keyte (1984) Living the dream, battling with air travel as I bore Central Banks across The Middle East and Europe with my dribbling sales patter. The rest of my time is spent, like many of you, as a very unappreciated taxi driver between schools, sporting fixtures and parties. Still occasionally dressing up in lycra as I fight the ‘man boob’ wobble!

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James Castle (1984) I was a participant in the Great Pilgrimage 90. This five day pilgrimage by The Royal British Legion, which visited cemeteries and trench systems in both the Somme and Ypres salient, culminated in the biggest parade of the RBL since 1928.

1160 Standards from around the world marched to the Menin Gate in Ypres, accompanied by 1160 wreath bearers.

My son Toby, age 14 was one of the youngest to attend as a wreath bearer (pictured above on the march, and above right with Toby).

Fraser Owen-Smith (1986) Celebrating 20 years in NY and just welcomed our second daughter (Poppy) to the family. Working at Guggenheim Partners and still enjoying the US. Nick Christie (1986) Nick is CEO of Jump 7, a product sales agency helping entrepreneurs (or small and medium sized companies) sell their products into the retail world.

For example, he helps people who have been on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den and focuses on unique, innovative or problem solving products. If you know of anyone who might need some help or advice do feel free to get in touch at: www.jump7.co.uk Nick now lives in the Cotswolds with his wife, Mirry, and three children.

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Nick Newbury (1986) I recently moved with Carlotta and our two boys from London to North Norfolk and am thoroughly enjoying the sea air.

Can’t recommend Norfolk highly enough.

Earlier this year I completed 15 years running bespoke travel company, Original Travel (www.originaltravel.co.uk). In 2017, we exited our private equity backers to Voyageurs du Monde, France’s leading bespoke travel company and are currently underway making our next move into the US. We’re always glad to hear from prospective team members on both sides of the Atlantic. They must have a passion for discovering and experiencing the extreme and unusual abroad.

Outside work, I’m just about holding onto a semblance of fitness and particularly enjoy the mountains, trailing miles behind my wife and increasingly behind our children in everything snowy.... actually in pretty much everything, full-stop.

Hamish Mackie (1987) In April 2018, I went back to Kenya to Il Ngwesi Lodge, a community project set up and supported by the Northern Rangelands Trust.

I researched dik dik for a wedding present commission, then headed to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy where I got up close to a

rescued caracal. I also revisited Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, another NRT project.

These trips all resulted in several new sculptures. I will be supporting the NRT through Tusk Trust at my 2020 exhibition.

Research trips remain a fundamental way of gaining an understanding of my subject in its natural habitat and telling the story.

I am currently organising some exciting new field trips - suggestions are always welcome.

Roderick Lambert (1988) I’ve left the corporate whirl after 11 years in HR in banking and insurance in order to do something actually worthwhile and am thus training as a life/executive coach.

I would be keen to get in touch with any ORs who have taken a similar path to share experiences, particularly in the Prague area (but Skype is good too).

News & Notes Roger (Hodge) Vacher (1989) Our beautiful daughter and first child, Calanthe Grace, was born on March 26 2018 at 3:32pm in Luzern, Switzerland and is enjoying a charmed existence on its lake shores. My latest career continues to evolve positively in the pharmaceutical industry as does Daisy’s in the legal world.

Believe we are now 3 ORs living in the Zurich and Central Switzerland area - but who knows if there aren’t more in hiding?!

Justin Stenhouse (1989) Lieutenant Colonel Stenhouse, DSO, 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards was awarded an MBE in the military division of the Queen’s birthday honours list.

Monty Wates (1988) Has just finished shooting a feature length documentary concerning the use of psychedelics (like magic mushrooms) and the benefit they may have in medicine.

The documentary follows 3 volunteers over the course of 2 years.

The documentary premiered in November at the Curzon in Soho, with a limited release across cinemas/theatres.

Hugo Collis (1988) Hugo sold his businesses and joined the army in 2004, somewhat late in life at the age of 29. Since then he has been travelling extensively to hot and dusty conflicts around the world, mainly with his regiment, the Irish Guards. More recently, in 2014-2016 he was living in Czech

Republic with his wife and five children conducting extensive training missions in countries such as Ukraine, Georgia, Romania and Morocco. His son, Caspar, started Radley in B Social in 2016 and the family are now living in Toulouse.

Hugo is the only Brit in the French parachute brigade, where he is the exchange officer from the UK’s 16 Air Assault Brigade. This two-year post sees him take part in numerous exercises, some joint with the UK and others entirely French. He has just returned from a fourmonth operational deployment to the Côte d’Ivoire, where France maintains an airborne rapid reaction force. He expects to return to his regiment in England late 2019.

Marc Harris (1989) Marc married Claire Williams, January 2018 in London and Nathanial Harris born 10th October 2017.

Thoroughly enjoying life and work in Formula 1, managing drivers and spending as much time as possible with three amazing kids (two daughters and a son) and my wife and family.

Jules Hall (1989) For my part I’ve been living in Sydney, Australia the past 15 years, but this year I broke the Henley drought and headed back riverside for a 25 year crew reunion on Henley Saturday, the silver anniversary...!

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Tony Heywood (1990) I’ve been a vicar in the Thetford Team Ministry for over 7 years now. There are 6 churches in the benefice and I have particular responsibility for Grace Church on the Abbey Estate. This year it was encouraging to have two mini missions, one of which involved a team from St Helen’s Bishopsgate to help us out. The plan is that they will regularly send a team for a few days in March. It’s a great encouragement to have that support.

Also, this year we’ve started up a Thursday morning parent and toddler group and we now (at last!) have a website for Grace Church: www.gracechurchthetford.org I’ve enjoyed playing a few cricket games for Norwich Diocese and it’s always a pleasure to meet up with ORs like James Radcliffe to watch some cricket at Lords!

Alex Field (1991) I am the Sales and Marketing Director for Reignwood, a global investment company.

Part of our portfolio, and part of my role, is Wentworth Club, the iconic private members golf and country Club in Surrey, (pictured below right). Birthplace of the Ryder Cup, it has recently enjoyed a multi million pound investment in the West Course and new Clubhouse. From one OR to all others, please do contact me if you’d like to know more about this great club, or have a private tour. www.wentworthclub. com Another element to our portfolio is our funding of the London Symphony Orchestra. As a Music Scholar at Radley I feel especially proud to be working with this great orchestra. Always nice to hear music I played at Radley being played by the LSO at the Barbican, arguably slightly better…!

Finally, we have a very elegant private members club in the City called Ten Trinity Square, in partnership with Chateau Latour and Four Seasons. If you’re based in the City and enjoy wine I would advise you have a peek. It reminds me of the odd wine supper in F Social, but with slightly better wine! www.club.tentrinitysquare.com Please email me if you’d like an intro to the Club: alex.field@reignwood.com

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Ali Shirazi (1991) I had a memorable 40th Birthday weekend in Goring Heath, Oxfordshire on 9th July (in blazing sunshine) spent in the company of my oldest and dearest friends from Radley. 8 couples; 16 children something for everyone!

Left to Right: Tom Turmezei, Ed Tuke, Ali Shirazi, Alex Mezger, George Brind, Justin Alexander, Charlie Mitchell, Milo Skene

Christo Hughes (1996) I live and work in Vietnam where I have founded a school teaching tech literacy, from basic through to coding and robotics.

Being an OR, I understand the value of such a great education and would love the opportunity to explore taking on OR’s; Radley 6th form, gap years, or others.

Vietnam has overtaken China as the

News & Notes world’s leading economy in terms of GDP growth, so this is an especially interesting opportunity for adventurous souls, with a global mindset - like most OR’s! I could easily put together a package to help, including accommodation, transport, insurance, social networks and activities including Vietnam tourist destinations for free time, local language classes, and other cultural/local experiences.

I can be contacted via our website: www.techtrainasia.com Alex St John Webster (1992) After a year in India I am back living in West London & have started a new soft drinks business called Genie Living Drinks - we are launching a range of the UK’s first live sodas (think ‘healthy Orangina’) ready for 2019. Please look out for us on a shelf/behind a bar near you soon!

Jamie Snowden (1992) I am pleased to say that we had a great season and finished with 35 winners coming from a 21% strike rate with £312k in prize money. I am very proud to say that there are just 5 trainers in the top 40 in the country with a better strike rate. We finished in the top 40 in the league table in terms of total prize money won, and 27th in terms of numbers of winners. We’ve started the new season off well and are looking forward to a productive summer.

As we expand so we are looking to recruit

a pupil assistant trainer whose role will include a wide range of tasks such as riding out, liaising with suppliers and vets, record keeping as well as also being responsible for developing the digital marketing strategy and handling media relations too. If there are any Radleians who might be keen to take this on then please don’t hesitate to get in touch through the Radleian Society office.

Charlie Pragnell (1992) Following the opening of our showroom on Mount Street in Mayfair, 2018 has been an exciting year. On the 21st April 2018, Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday, our family owned and run jewellery company received The Queen’s Award for Enterprise, which was a tremendous honour for us (pictured below). Emily and I live in Oxfordshire with our two children, Poppy and Harry and a brand new puppy called ‘Dolly’.

Henry Baggott (1993) Henry Baggott left Bonhams in Edinburgh at the end of 2017 opening ‘Leslie & Baggott’ at the beginning of December.

The new business sells Art & Antiques, advising private clients with all aspects of buying and selling of fine art and interior furnishings. The shop is located in the historic Isle Tower on the banks of the Nith in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, and is open 6 days a week. They have a mile of double bank fishing on the Nith and Henry would be delighted to offer a

days fishing for salmon and sea trout to any OR. When you drive north next, the shop is only a short detour from the M74 at Lockerbie and they offer home made cakes and a range of fine loose leaf tea.

Jack Dow (1993) I returned from living in Sydney for 10 years in July 2017. Following 14 years in property I am now Founder of Grapevine, a travel discovery platform that aggregates the best location-based content (articles, blogs, videos) and combines it with friends’ and influencer recommendations using a unique combination of AI and social media integrations. Think Flipboard/Pinterest for millennial travellers. We are planning to launch by the end the year so all sign-ups to www.yourgrapevine.com welcome!

John Wooldridge (1995) I got married last year in Jordan to Majd and we are now living in London. I have also recently left the Army and am doing a Masters at SOAS in Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

Edward Towers (1995) I’ve recently changed jobs having been an Associate Director at Winkworth in Kensington & Chelsea for nearly 7 years.

I’m now on the buying agency side as a Director at Aykroyd & Co in Mayfair (www.aykroydco.com) advising buyers on the right property for them and at the right price anywhere in Prime London.

In the current market with Brexit and increased purchase taxes it is more vital than ever to get accurate unbiased tailored advice which can save thousands of pounds and future-proof your investment.

If any OR’s wish to discuss their property plans or wish to sound out an idea or two please do get in touch et@aykroydco.com Oliver Gurney (1996) He spent 6 years in the Royal Marines before coming back to farm his family fruit farm on the edge of Norwich in 2013. He brought his new wife Charlotte and together they have turned the ancient ‘veg shed’ into an expanded PYO, Cafe, Farmshop and this year have added a new Butcher. They hired their first apprentice to help with the fruit through the EDGE apprenticeship scheme, and turned the crumbling old cart shed into the farmshop and café. www.norwich-pyo.co.uk

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News & Notes Charlie Hartley (1998) Charlie is the founder of leading digital agency Impression based in Yorkshire. He is pleased to announce that Impression have been shortlisted at the Prolific North Digital Awards 2018. The shortlisting is a testament to the stand out projects the agency are delivering for their clients.

Nick Heath (1997) Thanks for your help reaching out to other Old Radleians in the Netherlands. Three of us had drinks and dinner in August.

(Pictured above left to right: Nick Heath, James Mackay (1984) and Arnout Hooft (1988) Nicholas Hirst (1997) In May I joined MLex, a legal publication, to write about antitrust law. I am still based in Brussels, where I am married and we have a 2 year old boy.

Harry Langdale (1998) Currently living in California with my wife and our new baby boy. Still working in reinsurance, now as broker with Willis Re. Dominic Evans (1998) I got engaged to my girlfriend Kamilla last December. I continue to work for Polar Capital where I work for a Fund that invests into the Global Insurance industry.

Charlie said: “The Prolific North Awards is the most respected digital event in the North attracting a high caliber of agencies. This recognition is a testament to the whole team at Impression. To be recognised is fantastic news for the agency. We’ve invested heavily in recruiting top talent and this is now paying dividends. Our aim is to become the leading creative digital agency in the North and this award goes a long way to us achieving that goal.”

The Prolific North Awards celebrates digital excellence and rewards outstanding creative talent from the digital & media industries across the North. The event has seen over 800 entries from leading agencies & professionals.

Alex Whittington (1998) My wife Rachel and I were delighted to welcome our daughter Isabelle into the world on the 3rd February. Sleep is a distant memory! I started a new role as Estates Manager at Kent College, Pembury, an independent girls school, in June. It’s a bit strange to be back at school as a member of staff!

Ollie Campbell (1998) I’ve been running my gym in Abingdon and I’ve written a book to be published in December hopefully.

Bob Richmond-Watson (1998) After retraining as a Garden Designer at the London College of Garden Design, Bob is a finalist for the Society of Garden Designers Student Awards 2019 (pictured above and left). Since graduating Bob has co-founded Richmond Rodger Landscape and Garden Design. www.richmondrodger.com Hugh Brunt (1999) Hugh was orchestrator and conductor for the music to A Fantastic Woman, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Ranulph Murray (2002) Based in London working for Sir Lynton Crosby AO, advising corporate and political campaigns, including for Boris Johnson, a Zambian presidential candidate and most recently the Sri Lankan Prime Minister (pictured below).

Ollie Thornton (2005) Although not one to bang my own drum, I ran two marathons in the space of two weeks! The first I ran with Jamie Wynne-Griffith (2005) in Milan. This was planned, but two weeks later my boss pulled out of the London Marathon on the Friday before the race, after a last minute operation. He asked me to take his place on the Sunday, giving me 48 hours notice to prepare. I completed the feat (see right)!

Milan was quicker, definitely because I did it first. I completed it 30 minutes quicker than London. The only reason I ran London (other than short notice) was that I did it in 2014 for charity and loved it.

But it turns out you need longer than two weeks to recover!!! My legs felt like they were going through treacle after 4 miles and I started right at the back with the inflatable bananas and gorilla costumes!

Three days on I was still in pain!

Luke Gibson (2003) This year has seen Luke launch the world’s most comfortable boat shoes, with every pair purchased protecting 1,000 square feet of endangered habitat around the world.

Having worked in finance since leaving university, Luke wanted something where he could see the value that his work is adding to the world. Taking on the established boat shoe market, which is currently dominated by three main players shoe production industry, Two Degrees have now successully launched via a kickstarter campaign. www.wearetwodegrees.com

Jack Jervoise (2005) I have just come back from Jordan in October having completed the Wadi Rum Ultra (pictured below right), a 250km ultra-marathon spread across 5 days, and in the process raising over £10,000 for two charities: St Michael’s Hospice, which supported my family during my grandfather’s battle with cancer, and Street Child who have a highly effective model supporting child welfare & education across Africa and Asia.

Having wanted to undertake such a challenge for several years, I signed up in November 2017 and promptly started training with a plan that saw me running up to 6 times a week. My peak distance was 100 miles on a family ‘holiday’ in Mull and training also included the Race to the King ultramarathon (84km) along the South Downs Way.

The WRU itself was an incredible experience, and one that I cannot recommend strongly enough to anyone.

The mantra “anyone can run a marathon” should really be updated, as I was far from an athlete in my Radley days and yet have come back already looking to plan the next adventure.Fundraising is still ongoing and should you want to find out more about the race or the charities involved, please get in touch or visit my Virgin Money Giving page: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/ JackLoveysJervoise

Hugo Campbell (2005) I just wanted to reach out to say that I have recently become engaged to my beautiful wife-to-be, Petunia (née Winters) (pictured together right). She’s an astrophysicist and I just have to say to say that I’m absolutely chuffed to the moon and back and just want to absolutely shout it from the rooftops!

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Ed Bosson (2006) Ed coxed the Cambridge Veterans in the Veterans Boat Race on Friday 23rd March.

Archie Manners (2006) Alongside his private performances as a magician, Archie Manners is the presenter of the upcoming MTV International Series The Royal World, which is to be broadcast in over 180 countries. In 2018 he also starred in Comedy Central’s Trickheads and continues to create his online series, Archie Asks, which receives over 500,000 views each month. Additionally, he writes a satirical column in the Gentleman’s Journal.

Ben Boddington (2007) Ben returned to the College, where he spoke brilliantly in Chapel on Friday 16th March, about the difficulties faced by young males and how many commit suicide whilst at university. He is raising money for the charity CALM, which is helping in this area.

George Rogers (2007) I left Radley in 2012 and studied Planning and Property Development at Oxford Brookes after a year out of not really knowing what to do and having a few very standard jobs in the meantime. 18 months ago I set up a high-end painting and decorating company in central London, called Portobello Painters. Our focus

2008 A Social Reunion TG Ryder met up in Brick Lane with his first intake of A Social Shells from 2008 for a reunion, five years after they left Radley.

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is and has been to provide the highest possible service.

We have grown from 2 mates to a team of 12 over the last 12 months and are now able to offer full refurbishment services.

I am extremely proud of what we have achieved so far as I was always a bottomsetter at school and when I left school and indeed university I was lost as to what to do and have managed to land on my feet.

James Christie (2007) In September 2017 my wife and I (and 15 friends) cycled across the Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Med, raising about £100,000 for the wonderful Cameron

All are starting rather serious jobs, taking accountancy exams and some even working two desks away from each other in the same bank.

Bespolka Trust, set up in memory of the son of friends who was tragically killed in an avalanche in 2013.

James Tufnell (2007) This summer I represented the Achilles Club, which is the joint Oxford and Cambridge University athletics club.

I participated on a tour of the Baltics where I competed in the 100m at international meets in Finland and Estonia (pictured above, James is on the right).

“The stories were hilarious as you can imagine and I was generous enough to look surprised even shocked! The warmth of the evening just confirmed to me what a special year group they were.”

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Peter Norris (2008) Peter returned to the College where he performed Schubert’s Die schone Mullerin in Blue Room, Mansion on 26th September.

(Pictured right: TGR, Peter Norris, SJG and accompanying pianist, Simon Watterton) Angus Robinson (2009) Since the age of 16 I have been riding the Cresta Run in St. Moritz. A highly dangerous sport that is similar to the Skeleton in the Winter Olympic Games.

Speeds of over 80 mph are recorded with your nose just an inch from the ice.

In 2017, having finished 4th in the Grand National, I managed to achieve a time of 50.62, joining the exclusive 5’0’ club.

However more notably I became the 7th fastest rider of all time, and the 3rd fastest Briton ever (see below and below right)

Geordie Gordon Lennox (2012) Summer 2018 saw me complete a challenge in aid of Alzheimer’s Research when I cycled unsupported from Land’s End to John O’Groats.

The route I took was along national cycle routes making the total distance 1200 miles, 300 miles further than the normal route. It was a much tougher challenge than I expected both physically and in particular mentally but I made it, completing the journey in two weeks, which meant riding about 85 miles per day.

I raised a total of just under £10,000 for Alzheimer’s Research in the process.

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News & Notes Ross Gearing (2003): Swissman Challenge While I was a school boy in South Africa at St Andrews College, and during my time at Radley College my family and I have been closely linked with an amazing charity called Nemato Rowing Club. It has developed into a sports academy that is committed to changing the lives of underprivileged children in the small Eastern Cape town of Port Alfred. The academy provides the children with educational support, a hot meal, and the opportunity to compete and develop through sport.

They have achieved some truly remarkable results and have changed the lives of those at the academy and their families. I was looking for a way to contribute to this charity and needed a challenge that would be worthy of such a cause.

At Radley, I rowed with Alex Rose (2003), who is the co-founder of Let’s Do This (www.letsdothis.com) a website which helps you find your perfect challenge, whether it’s your first family fun run or tenth ironman triathlon. Alex and the LDT team participated in Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator that launched Airbnb and Dropbox at the beginning of 2018, and have recently raised $3m in seed funding, largely from San Francisco based venture capital funds and angel investors.

He’s recently moved to San Francisco to grow the company, which now also has offices in London and Sydney.

Alex helped me get signed up on their website and within a week the website suggested I enter SWISSMAN, an event I had never previously heard of. I entered through Let’s Do This and two weeks later, I had been accepted. With a grant provided by the Radleian Society to cover travel, I was soon on my way to Switzerland.

The SWISSMAN is one of the world’s hardest Ironman distance triathlons.

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breathtakingly beautiful and the challenge of the course absolutely extreme.

Only minimal support is provided by the organiser during the bike and running course. It is the duty of the supporter to provide his athlete with everything he needs during the race. This makes the SWISSMAN as challenging for the supporter as it is for the athlete. On the final climb to Kleine Scheidegg the supporter accompanies his athlete mandatorily and they cross the finish line together. They both share the experience of this event and their unforgettable memories of that day. My mother was brave enough to accept the supporter role and she was instrumental in helping me get across the finish line.

Race day arrived and provided a great day, the sun was out and the water was flat.

The price for this was windy conditions going up and down the mountain passes.

When you add in the fact that the first pass ended with 20km of cobbles I quickly realised that this was much less a race and much more a personal test of endurance.

The swim was fantastic, clean and cool water made for an enjoyable swim getting out of the water after 51 minutes. The cycle started out flat for 20km and then the first climb began, it ended 65km later after the last 20km on cobbles into a swinging head wind at 2091m. One major pass down, two to go. The second pass takes you to the highest point of the race at 2436m, it is a brutal climb. The last pass to 2164m was slightly easier knowing I had a substantial descent ahead of me. I

finally rolled into the running checkpoint after 8hours and 30min in the saddle.

You then realise you have to run a full marathon....

You start the marathon by immediately going up, to cross underneath a waterfall.

The course then flattened out before the true test began as you start the incline from 500m at the 15km mark to the final 11km of the marathon where you climb Kleine Scheidegg to 2061m. My goal was to finish while it was still light and 6 hours after starting the marathon I finished. It was an unforgettable experience and great test.

My mom and I were able to raise R25,000 for Nemato and we are very grateful to all those who supported the cause. While the SWISSMAN was a truly testing race it pales in comparison to what the children at Nemato have to overcome on a daily basis. www.matinyanafund.org.za

News & Notes Will Caplan, Jamie Farr and Harry Clifton (2012): Mongol Rally Over a pint in the JCR we felt the need to do something on our gap year other than the stereotypical South-East Asia.

So, we duly set on the idea of the Mongol Rally - a 10,000-mile drive from the UK to Mongolia. At 5.30am on the 10th July 2018 we set off from Hampshire, with our newly acquired £350 Nissan Micra (Sport!!), named Yoshi, and a whole heap of cluelessness. Yoshi made light work of Western Europe and arrived at the launch party, in Prague, by the 16th (a few days may have been spent in Amsterdam and Prague…). After experiencing the shenanigans of the launch party which can only be described as a mix between being in a Mad Max movie and a festival.

We then wiggled through the beautiful countryside of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Turkey. This is where the Rally really begun…

Central Turkey gave us one of our most eventful days. Getting up at 4am to experience something truly unique in watching 116 (Jamie counted) hot air balloons fill the sky, in Cappadocia, we then started a 14-hour drive towards Georgia stopping off at the second largest salt lake in the world. Feeling completely knackered we found a field off a small road and set up camp where we were joined by 6 locals who ate and took photos with us as we were the first tourists they had ever seen. We went to bed with the sounds of gun shots and explosions, but we were reassured by the locals that it was fine, so we were sound asleep by 9 not thinking about it again, our mistake…. At 2 am we were woken by the Turkish army!

However, none of them were in uniform and were driving a battered Peugeot. They proceeded to tell us we had set up camp in a dangerous area and should move on immediately. Fortunately, they moved on and we set off at sunrise. The next few weeks were less eventful, going through

Georgia and Azerbaijan – arriving at the Baku port on 27th July. Here, we needed to catch a ferry across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, a trip that shouldn’t take more than 24 hours. However, on the 1st August we were still at the port as the ferry simply never came – a long, hot and extremely boring wait in a shipping port, or something that looked more similar to a refugee camp.

Eventually we made it to Kazakhstan, arriving at 11pm, but we still had to get through security. After 8 hours of juggling papers and a few bribes, we were allowed to leave at 7am! Despite not sleeping for almost 36 hours, we were so disappointed with our progress that we decided to do a full day’s drive to Uzbekistan. We soon learned that the common fuel in Uzbekistan was in fact LPG instead of petrol. This is when we had our first fuel scare of the trip. However, we were saved by the generosity of a couple of locals and their young son who spoke extremely good English. Maybe the Mongol Rally Gods were on our side.

We eventually made it out of Uzbekistan having seen some incredible infrastructure in Bukhara and Samarkand and some incredibly bad roads, subsequently leading to a couple of punctures. Tajikistan was probably the most beautiful country we passed through and we saw the start of the Pamir Highway, the second highest road in the World! Yoshi had certainly broken the back of the Rally now, having made it to the top of the Pamir Highway (4661m high)! We spend the next couple of days pretty much traveling downhill, and camping under the stars. Kyrgyzstan was equally beautiful, but if it hadn’t been for Harry’s heavy foot, we wouldn’t have had to pay 3 speeding fines/bribes in the space of 2 hours! Kazakhstan is simply vast. It took us nearly 5 days to cross the

country and make it to the Russian border, and was painfully slow and itchy (we were accompanied by mosquitos the size of your thumbnail)!

Mongolia was easily our favourite country!

We were lucky enough to experience the true nomadic Mongolian culture for a couple of days when we stayed in Gers (Yurts) near Karakorum. Mongolia was simply stunningly beautiful, some of the roads were brand new (we could only dream of tarmac!), fantastic food, funky clothes and fairly disgusting dairy products (including fermented horse milk and fermented yak butter!) Finally, we made it to the finish line on the 19th of August in Ulan-Ude (Russia). I hope you appreciate we can only scratch the surface of the happenings on the Mongol Rally and you’ll have to do it yourself to get a real idea of what it was like.

With their fund-raising matched by the Foundation, the Rallyers raised over £52,000 for the Silk Fund.

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New Releases from ORs New Releases from ORs

The Best Fooling: Adventures in Canadian Theatre

The Many Faces of Coincidence

Michael Bawtree (1951)

Laurence Browne (1964)

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Imprint Books

In the first volume of his memoirs, As Far As I Remember, Michael Bawtree told the story of his youthful years, from his birth in Australia to growing up in England during and after World War II, with an education at Radley College and Worcester College, Oxford and a two-year stint in the British Army. In this second volume he recounts his experience as a raw new immigrant in Canada, and his first steps as a professional actor, a university instructor, a book critic, dramaturge and playwright.

Although much has been said and written about coincidences, there is a marked absence when it comes to the development of a comprehensive model that incorporates the many different ways in which they can be understood and explained.

One reason for this omission is undoubtedly the sharp divide that exists between those who find coincidences meaningful and those who do not, with the result that the conclusions of the many books and articles on the subject have tended to fall into distinct camps.

Michael’s story, elegantly and amusingly written, gives us a vivid picture of Canada’s theatre activity in the sixties and seventies, with honest though not always flattering portraits of some of its most distinguished artists. He is also open and honest about himself, recounting his failures and well as his successes, and sharing with us what became the love of his life.

The Many Faces of Coincidence attempts to remedy this impasse by proposing an inclusive categorisation for coincidences of all shapes and sizes. At the same time, some of the implications arising from the various explanations are explored, including the possibility of an underlying unity of mind and matter constituting the ground of being.

Scholarly yet lucid and engaging, Browne’s book guides the reader ably through the perplexing world of coincidence and synchronicity.

- Professor Roderick Main, University of Essex

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Seoul Glow: The Story Behind Britain’s 1988 Hockey Gold Rod Gilmour (1990)

When Footballers Were Skint Jon Henderson (1958)

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Biteback Publishing

Seoul Glow tells the story of the Great Britain men’s hockey team who won gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Little to the team’s knowledge, the final caught the British public’s imagination as they beat rivals West Germany in the gold-medal match. After Sean Kerly’s semi-final heroics and Imran Sherwani’s double in the final, BBC commentator Barry Davies uttered the now infamous line: ‘Where were the Germans? But, frankly, who cares?’

Long before permatanned football agents and TV mega-rights ushered in the age of the multi-millionaire player, footballers’ wages were capped and even the game’s biggest names earned barely more than a plumber or electrician.

Victory, for a team of amateurs, who had either quit their jobs or taken holiday to play in Seoul, propelled the team to celebratory heights on their return to British shores; it was GB’s first hockey gold in the postwar era and followed an eight-year plan for a major title.

The story also reveals how the team was inspirationally led by the late Roger Self, the manager who gelled his players into Olympic title holders.

Footballing legends like Sir Tom Finney and Sir Stanley Matthews shared a bond of borderline penury with the huge crowds they entertained on Saturday afternoons, often on pitches that were a world away from the pristine lawns of the game’s modern era. Instead of the gleaming, expensive sports cars driven by today’s top players, the stars of yesteryear travelled to matches on public transport and, after the game, returned to homes every bit as modest as those of their supporters. Players and fans would even sometimes be next-door neighbours in a street of workingclass terraced houses.

Based on the first-hand accounts of players from a fast-disappearing generation, When Footballers Were Skint relates the fascinating story of a truly great sporting era. All of us who call ourselves football fans owe the book’s multifarious cast our thanks for bequeathing our national game such a rich and deeply human heritage.

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Look Well to This Day – Some Musings on Christian Faith William Lane (1977) Independently Published William Lane is an Anglican parish priest in Somerset. Over many years, as a result of experiencing the rich tapestry of life and some of the different styles and theological perspectives within the Church, he has travelled his own long and sometimes difficult journey of faith. In this short book he sets out a non-dogmatic approach to an understanding of God and Christian faith - an understanding which is liberal, open, inclusive and, he hopes, full of grace. Lane shares his comprehension of the Trinitarian God of Christianity which, he hopes, will be fresh and liberating for readers who, like him, wrestle with doubt, and who struggle with prescribed dogma and doctrine.

Whilst accessible and readable, the book doesn’t shy away from the big questions - death, suffering, unanswered prayer and those parts of the Bible which are unpalatable.

Rather than giving neat and ultimately unpersuasive theological answers, the book grapples with these questions, offering authentic insights born out of experience. Lane offers this book as a response to the stage of his life where the norms of Christianity: truths about salvation, unequivocal truth and the necessity for exclusively Christian faith had been challenged. “Big questions about God, life and the Universe began to loom in my mind and in my heart.”

The Experimentalist

Zeebrugge – 1918: The Greatest Raid of All

Nick Salaman (1949)

Christopher Sandford (1970)

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Casemate Publishing

Marie is a child with a dark past - a secret family history that her guardian protects her from. She’s not sure what the dark secret is: was her father a criminal, a Nazi, both? Unpleasant lawyer Brickville seems to hold all the cards, until she meets a kindly American, Felix Middleberg.

When her life takes a turn for the worse, he steps in to look after her.

But he knows more about her than he should and exercises a control she finds oppressive.

Where does his wealth come from?

What has happened to her family?

Who, in fact, is Marie? And can she ever escape her protectors?

The Voyage of the One Step Tony Buxton (1945) Independently Published

The combined forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 remains one of Britain’s most glorious military undertakings; not quite as epic a failure as the charge of the Light Brigade, or as well publicised as the Dam Busters raid, but with many of the same basic ingredients.

A force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines set out on ships and submarines to try to block the key strategic port, in a bold attempt to stem the catastrophic losses being inflicted on British shipping by German submarines. It meant attacking a heavily fortified German naval base.

The essential story of the Zeebrugge mission has been told before, but never through the direct, first-hand accounts of its survivors – including that of Lieutenant Richard Sandford, VC, the acknowledged hero of the day, and the author’s great uncle. The fire and bloodshed of the occasion is the book’s centrepiece, but there is also room for the family and private lives of the men who volunteered in their hundreds for what they knew effectively to be a suicide mission.

In 1964 I abandoned my lucrative public relations job in Bangkok to join a motley crew on a Chinese junk. The group of ten included artists, filmmakers and writers.

We embarked from Sydney setting a course for Fiji and eventually Tahiti. However trouble arises soon after we set sail. Our captain’ was inexperienced and we lacked proper navigational charts and equipment. It’s corroded pre-war engines eventually failed and we were lost at sea in the South Pacific Ocean. The trip turned into a nightmare, but we were all determined to continue. After making some makeshift repairs in New Caledonia we continued to the South Pacific Loyalty islands and found an unspoiled paradise.

The book describes the interesting people that accompanied me and the extraordinary events.

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The Vocation of Sara Coleridge: Authorship and Religion

Natural Born Learners

The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils

Sherlock Holmes – The Devil’s Dust

Robin Schofield (Hon Member)

Alex Beard (1996) W&N

James Lovegrove (1979)

James Lovegrove (1979)

Titan Books

Titan Books

It is the autumn of 1910, and for fifteen long years Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have battled R’lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty.

Europe is creeping inexorably towards war, and a more cosmic conflict is nearing its zenith, as in a single night all the most eminent members of the Diogenes Club die horribly, seemingly by their own hands. Holmes suspects it is the handiwork of a German spy working for R’lluhloig, but his search for vengeance costs an old friend his life.

London, 1883. Mrs Hudson begs Holmes and Watson to help her friend, a fellow landlady whose lodger has been found poisoned.

Verbalisation Limited The book offers a radical reassessment of Sara Coleridge (1802–1852). It examines her achievements as an author, and celebrates her interventions in what was a masculine genre of religious polemics.

Sara Coleridge, the religious author, was the peer of such figures as John Henry Newman and F. D. Maurice, and recognised as such by contemporaries. Far from sacrificing her authorial opportunities in editing the works of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, she exploits his metaphysics in original religious writings that engage with urgent controversies of her own times. She emerges as the most eloquent and original critic of the Oxford Movement: a boldly resourceful intellectual and literary innovator, unbound by constraints of gender or elitism.

Learning is the soul of our species.

From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. Our education predicts how much we’ll earn, how content we will be, even how long we’ll live. But for all its obvious importance, learning has lost touch with human progress.

We live in an information age, work in a knowledge economy, yet our schools are relics of an industrial era.

In Natural Born Learners, education insider Alex Beard takes us on a dazzling tour of the future of learning to show how we can - and why we must - do better. Weaving together expert insight, entertaining anecdote and intelligent research, Beard leads us from the crowded corridors of a London comprehensive to the high-tech halls of Silicon Valley, through the exam factories of South Korea to the inclusive classrooms of Finland to reveal that today we stand on the cusp of a learning revolution.

Tackling everything from artificial intelligence to our growing understanding of the infant brain, this book is a user’s guide to transforming learning in the twenty-first century and roadmap to accessing our better future selves.

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The companions retreat to Holmes’s farm on the Sussex Downs, and it is not long before a client comes calling. Three young women have disappeared from the nearby town of Newford, and the locals have no doubt who is responsible. For legend has it that strange amphibious creatures dwell in a city on the seabed, coming ashore every few centuries to take fresh captives. As Holmes and Watson seek out the terrifying interlopers, the scene is set for the final battle that will bring them face to face with the Sussex SeaDevils, and perhaps with Cthulhu himself...

The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the lodger, a mining engineer recently returned from Africa, rented the room under a false name, and appears to have been on the run. His last act before his death was to scrawl Devil’s Dust in his own blood. What was he trying to convey, and what is the role of aged big game hunter Allan Quatermain, who visited the man just before his murder?

James Lovegrove is the New York Times best-selling author of The Age of Odin. He was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 for his novel Days and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004 for his novel Untied Kingdom.

New Releases from ORs

Essex Clay

The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps

Road to Mandalay

Johann Sebastian Bach: A Very Brief History

Andrew Motion (1966)

Edward Brooke-Hitching (1996)

Rolf Richardson (1947)

Andrew Gant (1976)

Faber & Faber Andrew Motion’s prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as ‘an act of magical retrieval’ (Daily Telegraph) and ‘a hymn to familial love’ (Independent). Now, twelve years later and three years after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to recreate a stunning biographical sequel - but this time in verse.

Essex Clay rekindles, expands and gives a tragic resonance to subjects that have haunted the poet throughout his writing life. In the first part, he tells the story of his mother’s riding accident, long unconsciousness and slow death; in the second, he remembers the end of his father’s life; and in the third, he describes an encounter that deepens the poem’s tangled themes of loss and memory and retrieval. Although the prevailing mood of the poem has a Tennysonian sweep and melancholy, its wealth of physical details and its narrative momentum make it as compelling as a fast-paced novel: a settling of accounts which admits that final resolutions are impossible.

Simon & Schuster

Independently Published

The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever created.

When Max and Alexei are asked to befriend young Freddie Ricketts, a promising cyber genius who spends his life in front of a computer screen, all is well until Freddie accepts a sudden invitation to visit China.

The book reveals how the world came to be known, featuring a magnificent gallery of exceptionally rare hand-coloured antique maps, paintings and engravings, many of which can only be found in the author’s collection. Arranged chronologically, the reader is taken on a breathtaking expedition through Ancient Babylonian geography and Marco Polo’s journey to the Mongol Khan on to buccaneers ransacking the Caribbean and the voyages of seafarers such as Captain Cook and fearless African pathfinders.

They have to think and act fast if they are to prevent one of Britain’s best computer brains from being poached by a powerful rival. Will they survive their escape across the border to Burma’s Shan state, the rough and perilous road to Mandalay? Or will the powersthat-be use whatever desperate and devious means possible to get their hands on young Freddie and his cyber genius expertise?

Their stories are told in an engaging and compelling style, bringing vividly to life a motley collection of heroic explorers, treasure-hunters and death-dealing villains - all of them accompanied by eye-grabbing illustrations from rare maps, charts and manuscripts.

SPCK Publishing

Find out all this and much more in this tantalising cybercrime, murder mystery thriller that will keep you guessing right up to the very last page

Part One: The History (What do we know?)

This brief historical introduction to Bach explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original context of his life and work, and considers how those factors affected the way he was initially received.

What was his impact on the world at the time and what were the key ideas and values connected with him?

Part Two: The Legacy (Why does it matter?)

This second part explores the intellectual and cultural ‘afterlife’ of Bach, and considers the ways in which his impact has lasted and how his music has been interpreted by later generations.

Why is he still considered important today? And what aspects of his legacy are likely to continue to influence the world in the future?

The book has a brief chronology at the front plus a glossary of key terms and a list of further reading at the back.

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The Power of Local Friends

Crow Dusk

To Wander Alone

The Assembly of the Severed Head

Roderick Archer (1963)

Mark Floyer (Hon Member)

Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie

Paekakariki Press

Giles Powell (1983) Circulo Rojo (publisher)

Hugh Lupton (1966)

Would you sell your home if Dave and Mac McClann offered you the best price? You may be a widow, frail or lonely. You may be struggling with bills or repairs.

Or has time stranded you in an unneighbourly neighbourhood?

Your capital can buy you rooms in the best nursing home. There you can make new friends and even get back into the swing of things. It’s as easy as signing their letter of sale.

MARK FLOYER spent his early childhood in Calcutta between the years 1957-63. He is a widely published poet and Calcutta and India appear in his verse, vividly imagined. His work has appeared in Muse India, The Irish Literary Review, Kavya Bharati, Poetry of the British Underground, The English Chicago Review and several other publications.

To Wander Alone is a novel, set in the present day, in Granada (Spain) and London. The book is split into four seasons and the chapters alternate between three main characters: Richard, Victor and Katy. Richard travels to Granada, Victor leaves home and Katy struggles in London. They are three characters wandering alone.

What are they searching for? Will they ever find sanctuary?

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Who stands a chance against developers with experience on both sides of the law, their shady solicitor and networks that include money laundering and reach as far as Russia? Geoff, the physiotherapist?

His tennis partners, Julie and Shirley? Shirley too is a solicitor, but is she smart as well as stunning?

Who will rally opposition to rapacious developers, or realise that distinguished old buildings are not all that is threatened?

Finely tuned, yet sometimes fittingly fragmented, these imagistic poems evoke early childhood memories in sensuous, compelling language.

-Stephanie Norgate, author of Hidden River and The Blue Den Crow Dusk remains with me both for its striking imagery and the co-ordinated music of the English, Bengali and Hindi.

-Rajat Chaudhuri, author of Hotel Calcutta

Giles is a Granada based author and EFL teacher. He was in C social from 1983 – 1988.

To Wander Alone is his first published novel. It is available from Amazon and in select bookshops in Granada, Spain. For further information: www.gilespowell.com

Propolis Press A small monastic outpost in 13th Century Wales is rocked to its core when a gruesome discovery is made on the nearby shoreline: a severed human head. It’s the first of several to wash up along the surrounding coast, and not long after, the holy brothers stumble across the smouldering ruins of a bardic school with a pile of decapitated bodies inside. Only one survivor, barely alive, is found hiding nearby.

He is Cian Brydydd Mawr, the greatest bard of his age, who holds in his head the four ‘branches’ of an ancient, epic Welsh myth cycle: The Mabinogion. Physically weak but strong willed, he asks the monks to put aside their rigid Christian doctrine and commit his tales (which they see as pagan relics) to parchment. It takes the intervention of a king to persuade them. And as the old poet tells his tales of spirits and shape-shifters, spells and curses, passion and vengeance, no-one in his audience will ever be the same again.

Bloody Wonderful. The oral tradition and the written, perfectly met, bracingly alive. - Max Porter

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CDs

Getting to Zero

Sinead Walsh and Oliver Johnson (1999) Zed Books In 2014, a 28-year old British doctor found himself co-running the Ebola isolation unit in Sierra Leone’s main hospital after the doctor in charge had been killed by the virus.

Completely overwhelmed and wrapped in stifling protective suits, he and his team took it in turns to provide care to patients while removing dead bodies from the ward. Against all odds he battled to keep the hospital open, as the queue of sick and dying patients grew.

Only a few miles down the road the Irish Ambassador and Head of Irish Aid worked relentlessly to rapidly scale up the international response.

At a time when entire districts had been quarantined, she travelled around the country, and met with UN agencies, the President and senior ministers so as to be better placed in alerting the world to the catastrophe unfolding in front of her.

In this blow-by-blow account, Walsh and Johnson expose the often shocking shortcomings of the humanitarian response to the outbreak, both locally and internationally, and call our attention to the immense courage of those who put their lives on the line every day to contain the disease.

Granny’s Kitchen Cupboard: A lifetime in over 100 objects

John Lubbock (1959) Last year I issued a CD and DVD of my re-orchestraton of Handel’s Messiah for wind instruments.

John Alexander (1975) Pavilion Books Accumulated over many years, ‘Granny’, the enigmatic collector behind this book, presents a selection of quirky post-war goods, advertising and kitchen items.

In Granny’s Kitchen Cupboard you’ll find a remarkable array of British twentieth-century ephemera. From children’s toys, boil dressings and chocolate wrappers to butane fuel and TCP, this selection is an incredible collection of innovative advertising designs, odd curios that have long since been replaced by modern technologies, and recognisable old brands. After the end of austerity in Britain in the early 1950s, consumerism boomed and these objects portray the societal change that followed.

Beautifully arranged throughout, the contents of this book reflect aspects of a long life, most of it lived in a single house in the Home Counties. Nothing was thrown away – everything was recycled and reused in a way that says something about their time, in particular the thrifty mindset instilled by rationing in World War Two.

Ol Wilson (1988) Ol Wilson is member of the deNote ensemble who have released their Volume 2 of recordings of Mozart’s Chamber Music.

Philip Godfrey (1977) Philip’s Three Piece Suite for orchestra features on the CD British Celebration 2, released in December 2017 on the Heritage label. Gavin Sutherland conducts the Royal Ballet Sinfonia.

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Waddilove’s Wisdens

WADDILOVE’S WISDENS ‘To the Students & Staff of Radley College In appreciation for the wonderful life spent at the school, for the joys of learning and the enjoyment of participation in sport.

May Radley continue to inspire, challenge and engender all that is good and noble.

John Stuart Waddilove.’

John Waddilove (1947) dictated this card when he discussed with his family, primarily his nephew, the gift of his collection of the complete run of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac to Radley College.

Sadly, the expression of his wishes was all that could be achieved before John became unable to act for himself. We are very grateful to his family in Australia who have honoured his desire to bequeath the collection to us, surely one of the kindest acts people can do, particularly when the proposed gift is potentially of value and relates to one of the most treasured aspects of his own life. Honouring John’s wish was also not a trivial affair since it involved packing and shipping the entire book collection from Australia to England, with various Customs and Excise hurdles to overcome on the way.

John Waddilove came to H Social in 1947. He became Pup of H and played for the Cricket XI in 1951-2 and the Rugby XV in 1952. His ‘enjoyment of participation in sport’ was very real.

He made his debut for Junior Colts Cricket with 23no against Bromsgrove in June 1948, and scored his first 100 for the school (101no) against St Edward’s the following year. The write up for the match credits him as the best of the junior cricketers: ‘Outstanding amongst the most promising cricketers was Waddilove - an unusually good captain for a young boy - who made a century against St. Edward’s and also did very well in Social matches. He has, too, considerable possibilities as a slow bowler.’ In the Colts in 1950 he was replaced as Captain by Clive Carr both being described as ‘exceptionally mature batsmen’. He was also proving proficient as a Colts rugby player: ‘At fly-half Waddilove had safe hands and covered well in defence.’ He was awarded colours for First XI Hockey in 1951, the same year that saw him as one of the opening pair of batsman in Radley’s remarkable 1951 Cricket XI: ‘Walton’s captaincy was intelligent, alert and determined. He knew the game and got the best out of his side, who had complete confidence in him. To have such a good captain for a second year will be an enormous advantage and with E. R. Dexter, Carr, Davies, Waddilove and Cooper also available, there are immense possibilities for the future even if most of the bowling has to be found. During the holidays A. C. Walton played for Berkshire, C. E. B. Carr for the Young Amateurs of Surrey, R. R. Davies for the Young Amateurs of Bucks, and P. R. Le Cras for the Young Amateurs of Hampshire.’

The batting averages for 1951 & 1952 (left) demonstrate what a good schoolboy cricketer he was, particularly in a team which contained the future Captain of England.

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He was no slouch for the ‘joys of learning’ either, leaving school in 1953 with A Levels in Physics and Maths, a high achievement at that time.

After leaving school he played for both the Rangers and the Swallows.

In 1956, after National Service, he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to study Natural Sciences. This led to work with Esso Oil in East Africa from 1958, where he married his wife Joyce Hinett in Nigeria in 1962. Eventually, he settled at Avalon Beach in Australia, where he loved to walk along the beach every day.

There is no record of when he began to subscribe to the annual editions of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac, but he became a serious collector in 1991, with the purchase of a limited edition set of facsimiles of the 1864-1878 almanacs. After that, throughout the 1990s and 2000s he bought second hand copies, often bidding at auction. I wonder how he felt when the three volumes for 1950, 1952 and 1953 came up for sale at JW McKenzie’s in Ewell, Surrey, for just £25 each in 2012 – the numbers that contain his own record in schoolboy cricket at Radley.

The complete collection arrived at Radley in June 2018, with a request that they be used to support cricket and H Social. Radley already owns a near complete set of Wisden’s so the plan is to create the best possible collection for the school, and then to realise the value of the rest. With heartfelt thanks for a bequest from a great schoolboy cricketer.

Clare Sargent

Below: The undefeated 1952 Cricket XI (Played 15, Won 8, Drew 7) with JS Waddilove taking his place middle row, far right.

The team are (back) JB Gleave, L Cooper, SM Scott, MWG Duff, (middle) RR Davies, ER Dexter, AC Walton (capt), CEBL Carr, JS Waddilove, (front) ECH Huddy, TI Perkins

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Controlling Chaos

controlling chaos

The journey that Chris Parks (1984) took to a life of ultra-high-tech cameras, yeast, ink and Hollywood blockbusters shows how the options we choose at school can often lead down unexpected paths.

Above: An example of one of Chris’ fluid artworks, ‘Muybridge Motion II’ For many of us, life at times can seem somewhat chaotic, but in Chris’ case this is often his choice. It is on the border of this chaos, where technology meets art, that he works as he brings a measure of control to shapeless fluids looking for that one moment where everything comes together to capture the story he wants to tell.

An A Social wetbob with a penchant for working away into the wee small hours in the Design department of the Sewell Centre, Chris’ time at Radley was where his love for design truly blossomed. The options and opportunities afforded him by the different disciplines in the Design department gave him the ability to focus on creating things he really loved. The work he did was design for its aesthetic value.

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It wasn’t as simple as that though, for his other academic talents tended towards a more scientific slant. His A-level Design was accompanied by Maths and Physics and he found himself being ‘advised’ towards engineering degrees. In the late 80s/early 90s, Design students went to Polytechnics and as Chris was told ‘Radley boys don’t go to Polys’. It was with this mixture of snobbery and practicality in mind that led him to read Engineering at Imperial College. However, a career in engineering was not quite what Chris had in mind, the pull of the artistic was not something he could ignore and he followed his degree with a design course at the Royal College of Art. The creative drive and the technical knowledge were now well set in tandem in Chris’ portfolio, and at this point plankton takes a hand…

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In the late 1960s Chris’ father co-founded Oxford Scientific Films (OSF), who earned a reputation for natural history filming, and particularly creatures at a microscopic level, hence the plankton. Upon leaving the Royal College of Art, Chris began to work with his father, where he learnt the specialist skills and techniques needed to film at such a small scale. Being able to control the environment at this scale was a vital part of the work and Chris realised the potential for creating some truly unique art this precise level of control could give.

By introducing different fluid flows using inks and paints along with chemicals and even yeast he can create some truly remarkable images.

“There will always be something in mind that I want to achieve be it visual, thematic or emotional but often I’ll not know what it will look like until I see it.”

This tension that exists between the chaotic nature of the medium and his attempts to control it is what leads to that moment of creation that he captures in image form, be it static or filmic. He is trying to create something controlled from the chaos of fluid flow. Bringing this measure of control is key to creating art, and this is built in through the engineering background and the approach he has.

“The way I create is absolutely a mix of science, engineering and art & design. The link between engineering and design is a grey one and the pieces I create simply wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for this overlap. Creating in this way is very satisfying for me.”

Above: Chris at work in his studio with just some of the equipment used to create his art.

Below: The piece ‘Valkerie’s Return’ demonstrates the constantly changing nature of the medium in which Chris works.

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( Mark Allan/Barbican )

Controlling Chaos

It’s not always about one specific moment captured in a still image that Chris is looking to create and this led to the very first live performance of his art! Providing the backdrop to the on-stage performance of electronic music duo, Simian Mobile Disco, he created a dozen films that needed to be perfectly-timed to each track as they were performed. They were then shown via a live feed to a packed-out crowd at the Barbican in London.

The fluid film artwork that Chris creates are often in demand, from advertising agencies right through to big Hollywood studios who need to try and create something that cannot be recorded. He can be asked to create anything and everything, often to represent things that are simply too big or too powerful to film properly. Recent commissions have included visuals to show the Big Bang or the start of life on Earth for National Geographic’s One Strange Rock series and Terrence Malik’s The Tree of Life. Other times it will be to realise something that doesn’t even exist, such as the ‘animus’ effect in the Warner Bros film Assassins Creed.

When working on these fluid films, Chris is adamant that the narrative drives the process.

Knowing what the director is trying to get across is the key, because it is this that informs how he can tell when something is right. This has often been the case in the other major area of film that Chris is involved in, 3D. “A lot of 3D work was poor and seemed to be more about using the technology to drive the experience rather than using the story to do that. 3D was seen as a gimmick on which to sell something, rather than a narrative tool. When we start on a project I work with the director to establish how we are going to use the medium. I can then use the right technology to produce that.”

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Above: Providing the backdrop to Simian Mobile Disco’s gig at the Barbican, London in April 2018.

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Indeed it was frustration with the way 3D was being used in films that inspired Chris and two colleagues to come together to create their Vision3 company. Showing the big budget studios what they could achieve has allowed them to work collaboratively with directors and in so doing develop the grammar of 3D storytelling. This has led to Chris supervising the 3D on films such as Gravity and the Fantastic Beasts series.

The technology does not stop at 3D however. The rise of virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) has simply opened more doors for Chris’ unique blend of creativity and technology and he is now looking to get their own creative ideas off the ground. With much of the work up to this point in the VR and AR world being driven by the video game industry, he wants to bring this more into the filmic medium.

“We’re working to move away from the CGI look inherent in video games to a more photoreal experience. For example we’ve recently completed a community-led project in Kenya to create a 360 degree VR film, accompanied by an interactive experience, where you can nurse orphaned baby elephants. We’re also talking with companies such as the Eden Project over new concepts for visitors. We want to take lessons from film such as the three act structure to engage visitors more in what it is they are experiencing.”

Chris is even planning a nod to his father’s work and to his early days in filming by creating a VR plankton experience where you get to ride on a jellyfish and get eaten by a whaleshark! But this will, as always, meld together the narrative, scientific, technical & creative, an approach that he uses in all his current work. An approach that the direction given during his time at Radley started him towards.

Above: Chris on set as a 3D supervisor.

Below: ‘Poseidon’s Static’

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A Pride of Precentors

A Pride of Precentors

Church Times

It is not just beautiful art that can be found at the College. Here, John Bridcut (1965) takes a look at the work of the Precentors of the last 66 years who have made music such a central part of life at Radley.

Radley has been graced by many fine musicians over the years, but the appearance of Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1953 is an untold story. The enormous frame of the 80-year-old composer perched awkwardly on the organ bench in Chapel and, to the delight of members of the choir crowding round, tootled at the console. But then, in his salad days, he had been a church organist. He was there at the invitation of the young precentor, Anthony Caesar, whose death last July at the age of 94 left six surviving successors who have nurtured Radley music over the past sixty years. Caesar was appointed at the tender age of 28 by Warden Wilkes, but picking precentors young was a long-standing Radley habit. William Sewell chose Edwin Monk, composer of Angel voices ever singing, to be precentor at St Columba’s College in Ireland at the age of 23, and then at the foundation of Radley four years later, for which he composed Lusimus.

Of all Monk’s successors, George Wharton looms largest: he began his reign at the age of 24, but in those pre-assessment days had no clue about when, or even whether, to leave. He irritated seven Wardens for 52 years, doubling up for 35 of them as the first tutor of A Social, and then stayed on: he was only prised from his Mansion flat at the age of 87 by the undertakers. The piano prize is named in his memory, and his bewhiskered face still glowers from the west wall of Hall, a clue perhaps to his nickname ‘Kitty’, though 82

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others attributed it to his feline blend of politeness and spite.

In the interminable Wharton years, music at Radley was in the doldrums (as indicated by the Radleian’s review of a concert in which he ‘conducted Beethoven’s Hallelujah Chorus’). But we do have him to thank for hiring the young composer George Butterworth for one brief year: he founded the Choral Society and composed some of his wonderful Shropshire Lad songs in the Lodge. Under Wharton’s aegis, the original Chapel organ (two instruments back from the present one) was considerably enhanced.

Indeed it was said that, after his one and only attempt at matrimony had been rejected, he remained “happily wedded to his organ”.

Whereas Wharton was a clergyman for most of his Radley career, Anthony Caesar left the school to take holy orders, and eventually became domestic chaplain to the Queen. According to one of his choristers, Martin Hines (1952), he was a gentle man of great spirituality, who inculcated a lifelong love of singing. He wore evening dress to conduct the Christmas concert in Hall, and morning dress for the Gaudy one. He also ran the RAF Section, at a time when his succentor, Standish Lester, was the officer commanding the whole CCF – so the twin track of the present succentor and contingent commandant, Tim Morris, has good precedent.

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When the 29-year-old Donald Paine took over as precentor in 1959, he found Radley music in fine fettle. He also found an exercise book, in which Caesar had left instructions and advice. He formed a strong and stable partnership with his succentor, Hugo Langrish, who had arrived six months earlier. Their music department provided a safe haven for boys struggling in the more philistine socials. It was in their time that the tradition of foreign musical tours began, largely at the initiative of Bob Stoughton-Harris (tutor of G Social). He was not only Master-in-Charge of Gym, but also had a talented musical family, so the unlikely combination of gymnasts and musicians set off for Denmark in 1967 and 1969, the precursors of triennial ‘Scantours’ which each encompassed all the Scandinavian capitals over the next fifteen years.

In Paine’s day, apart from precentor and succentor, the teaching staff covered piano, violin, cello, woodwind and brass – a total of five people and a dog (his Pyrenean, who occasionally sang). The school was then 480 strong. Today, with 200 more pupils, there are forty music teachers (most of them part-time), who give 500 lessons per week. Yet the music school is the same building as was built in 1928. The Silk Hall was added in the eighties, and the original ground-floor armoury was commandeered for music teaching rooms (perhaps the 1950s musical-military marriage had an ulterior motive). But the dayby-day practice space is little changed, and sometimes today’s boys turn up to practise, only to find nowhere to do it.

I remember rooting around in a music school cupboard in the late 1960s, and unearthing some dusty photographs of the music department in the twenties. I realised with some shock that my violin and piano teachers (Violet Blofeld and Rhona Parkinson) were in the pictures. Ten more years passed before they retired, each with more than half a century of service to Radley under their belt. They taught in opposite rooms in the music school, and had a relationship politely described as prickly – though I once found them playing a piece together, which seemed the equivalent of the battlefield Christmas truce. Beside them, the fondly-remembered woodwind teacher and bandmaster, Eric Goater, was a stripling. He hadn’t joined the Radley music staff until after the war.

Radley Precentors 1952-present Anthony Caesar 1952-1959 Donald Paine 1959-1978 Anthony Dowlen 1978-1982 Robert Gower 1982-1996 John Madden 1996-2002 Stephen Clarke 2002-2016 Sam Gladstone 2017-present

Opposite: Thirty years of Precentors (left to right) Anthony Caesar (1952-59), Donald Paine (1959-78) and Anthony Dowlen (1978-82).

Below: The 1957 Orchestra with Anthony Caesar (front row, centre left), bandmaster Eric Goater (front row, centre right) and violin teacher, Violet Blofeld (front row, third from the right).

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Innovation and experimentation

Their retirements obliged Paine’s successor, Anthony Dowlen, who had run the music at Ellesmere College and was an old pupil of Warden Silk, to start re-shaping the department with his customary enthusiasm. But it was under Robert Gower that it was fully re-vitalised in the 1980s: he imported outside professionals; he founded the close-harmony Radley Clerkes under Peter Gritton’s direction; he expanded the collaboration with St Helen’s and St Katharine’s girls’ school in Abingdon; he launched an ambitious programme of subscription concerts and appointed composers-in-residence. He drove his new ideas forward with such energy and individualistic determination that some of the old guard, and some of Common Room, bristled. He had a terrier-like ability to winkle promising musicians out of prep schools, and raise Radley’s musical profile and ambition. The Christmas concert of 1986 was described in the Radleian as “the first of its kind in recent years that has not been something of an embarrassment”. But Gower’s drive (not a cricketing reference) had its flipside: his departure after 14 years was messy, and music departments of the prep schools he had courted so assiduously, and of some other public schools, stopped recommending Radley.

This was John Madden’s unfortunate inheritance. He was chosen as someone unconnected with Gower and, as part of the mess-clearing, almost the whole music stable was replaced.

It was not surprising that he felt exposed, and had as difficult a relationship with the Warden as had his predecessor. But Madden free-wheeled with the musical calendar. He gave additional zest to the annual piano extravaganza devised by the one survivor of the Gower years, the head of keyboard, Anthony Williams. The Silk Hall stage was stuffed with pianos, with sometimes six hands per instrument. Madden, acknowledged by his colleagues as “a fabulous musician”, began writing his own multi-piano arrangements of famous pieces, like Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, which corralled no fewer than 70 Radley pianists (up to fourteen at a time) on seven instruments. Years after his departure, Madden continues to make these unique arrangements for Radley – a remarkable exercise in musical participation, often humorous, but also musically stimulating.

The arrival of Stephen Clarke as precentor in 2002 was even more unorthodox. There was actually another precentor in between, whose appointment was revoked before it had begun, leaving Radley facing an interregnum. A chance conversation aboard a train saved the situation. Returning from a headmasters’ conference in June, Warden McPhail 84

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Above: The Orchestra as pictured in 1966, with Donald Paine pictured sitting behind ‘Tiny’, his Pyrenean. Hugo Langrish sits second from the left in the front row, and the author of this article holds the cymbals in the middle row, fourth from the left.

Below Robert Gower, Precentor 1982-96, as pictured in the 1996 Radleian magazine.

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The Radley Clerkes at the Barbican in the early 1990s, with Robert Gower (back row, far left).

discovered from the head of Portsmouth Grammar School that his brother-in-law, a peripatetic opera conductor with no teaching experience, was looking for pastures new. The Warden took the plunge, and appointed Clarke to take charge of orchestral and choral performance from September, with Anthony Williams running all practical tuition and Suzie-Louise Naylor the academic side. It was a shrewd calculation of their respective strengths, and a bold division.

After years of often unsuccessful intervention by previous Wardens, they then asked McPhail to “leave us alone to sort things out”. He wisely obliged, and the result, after years of tension and turmoil, was a happy department, which once again appealed to prep schools – a pleasing inheritance for the current precentor, Sam Gladstone, who also arrived via the Portsmouth Grammar stable, this time as its highly-prized director of music.

Chapel choir

A major challenge for each precentor is the chapel choir. Anthony Caesar moved it down from the gallery to the centre of the chapel. In those days, the psalm at weekday evensong was sung to Gregorian chant, at the instigation of Warden Ferguson in the 1930s. He was one of the 20th century’s greatest hymn writers, (think O Jesus I have promised or All hail the power of Jesu’s name), yet he apparently wanted all chapel singing to be in plainchant, until persuaded to restrict this to the psalms. The chant was sung antiphonally between the tenors/basses (and the whole school) and the choir trebles. I well remember my own first rehearsal in the treble section with Hugo Langrish, who (with the aid of his own fine falsetto and a natural twinkle) taught us how to read plainsong, and to work out the placing of words. In 1965 there was a strong treble section at Radley – indeed my first Sunday we sang Parry’s anthem I was glad, which ends on a top B flat, and I’d only ever been up to A before! Some of us trebles had been well-trained at prep school, and carried on in that role without awkwardness.

Others felt being a treble wasn’t cool and had to be inveigled into it.

So Donald Paine, who began each term with voice trials for all new boys, had to cajole them to give the choir a try for just one term.

They usually stayed longer.

It was another Warden, Richard Morgan, who, in the 1990s, ensured that the plainsong psalm died out. So eventually did the treble section itself, a consequence of one of the most enlightened moves Radley has made in the past twenty years. John Madden had found it increasingly difficult to provide any treble line at all, as boys’ voices were breaking earlier (or they said they were), and he and Tim Morris drew up an ambitious proposal for what was in effect a Radley choir school for boys aged 8-13. At first the idea was parked, but Madden’s successor, Stephen Clarke, and Morris drive the concept forward with strong impetus from Warden McPhail.

As a result, for fifteen years now, Radley has taken in four or five choristers a year from local schools to sing regular services, as well as in concerts and music tours, for which they receive pocket money and free instrumental lessons. The scheme also takes boys from dons’ families, and has now spread to households from as far afield as Bicester. Today there are some 23 choristers involved. The natural consequence is that Radley new boys with unbroken voices no longer have to be persuaded to remain trebles – indeed they are now excluded, and asked to sing alto instead. The chorister scheme is a unique venture, which Clarke and Morris managed with great success and pride, broadening links with the wider community, and enriching Radley’s musical life. It is no coincidence that in this period the chapel choir has grown to a hundred strong. Many ex-choristers have graduated to Radley itself, with several benefiting from Foundation awards to support two years of prep-school education first. The chorister scheme, while not exactly unsung, is one of the College’s most important outreach ventures, with the the old radleian 2018

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chance of each chorister sprinkling a little Radley dust back at his own school.

The strength of the congregational singing in Chapel is widely recognised as part of that dust. During a service two years ago, I was standing next to the distinguished conductor, John Lubbock (1959), one of the many musicians from Paine’s time who turned professional, and noticed he wasn’t singing. He later told me he couldn’t because he was so overcome by the awesome sound of the school in full voice. The current plan to extend the Chapel building is largely motivated by the desire to maintain whole-school worship when the numbers rise to 750, rather than split the boys up and risk losing the distinctive Radley sound.

It wasn’t always like this. In the build-up to the year of student rebellion, 1968, there was a claque in the gallery who set out to disrupt services by singing very loudly at half-speed, and also bellowing their spoken Amens. It was a gathering storm in the final year of Wyndham Milligan’s wardenship, but his hands were largely off the reins. So it was up to the precentor to prevent the approaching carol service turning into a fiasco. We arrived one Saturday morning for our weekly congregational practice, when the normally mildmannered Paine would coax the school into learning new tunes with dry, faintly ironical, humour. But this time the organ wasn’t playing.

The school stood as Paine walked to the east end, bowed, turned round and (without a microphone in those days) ripped a strip off the rebels for their misbehaviour. I sat in my choir stall, wondering whether the gallery would shout him down. But as he took the long walk out again, there was total silence. I think the rest of the school was as stunned as I was. And at that moment the rebellion died.

Congregational practice has had other moments too. In the 1930s Warden Ferguson, as a fine musician, used sometimes to take it himself, an example prudently eschewed by all his successors (apart from one instance in the late 1990s by Richard Morgan).

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Above: John Madden, Precentor 1996-2002, as featured in the 2002 Radleian magazine.

Below: The choir at rehearsal in Chapel.

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In Paine’s day, the whole school learnt the congregational part in Stanford’s B flat setting of the Te Deum. In Clarke’s, the ambition was greater: Messiah, Haydn’s Nelson Mass for the bicentenary of Trafalgar and CDs of Radleian hymn-singing.

Congregational practice had come of age, as an all too rare example of whole-school participation in music.

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In the secular field, the Choral Society has had a chequered history. Butterworth started it in 1912, and it was revived

by Caesar in the 1950s. Paine kept it going, with the encouragement of Warden Silk, who tried to boost the numbers by turning up himself to Tuesday evening rehearsals.

Later it languished, until it was Langrished successfully by the succentor in the early 1980s, notably with a performance of Haydn’s Creation. Dowlen led performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and the Verdi Requiem. Then it went into decline again, before Clarke imaginatively revived it in the 2000s as a society for parents, the local community and staff as well as boys: under his experienced baton, and with a largely professional orchestra, the Society tackled big opera choruses, Bach’s St John Passion and Chichester Psalms among other pieces.

Clarke was fortunate enough to have the active support of the most musical Warden since Ferguson in the thirties.

Angus McPhail unobtrusively played viola in the orchestra, and started the Warden’s Music invitation concerts that still feature in the calendar. The informal concerts that had begun under Gower, re-named ‘coffee concerts’ under Madden, were moved (appropriately enough) to the new coffee shop next to Clocktower, thanks to a canny seizure of turf by the music department, which moved a grand piano there in the holidays in defiance of the architect. These short concerts which had struggled to find an audience in Silk Hall or the Mansion, now regularly draw 70 or 80 people a time. Music has become audibly central. In Gower’s day, boys were sometimes armtwisted to fill the performance slots. Now the enthusiasm is such that there aren’t enough slots to go round.

Above: Haydn’s Nelson Mass being performed in Chapel.

Left: Stephen Clarke, Precentor 2002-16, conducting the choir in Salisbury Cathedral in 2016.

Conductors long ago abandoned white tie and tails for the Christmas Concert, but they laboured for decades with the cavernous acoustic of Hall, which amplified any boorish behaviour from boys at the back of the audience. This reached a noisome peak in 1980 when Paine’s successor, Anthony Dowlen, was conducting, and its failure as a musical venue resulted in a new concert hall, first agreed in Dowlen’s time, but not opened until 1986. Later named after Dennis Silk, it gave Radley music its first permanent performance space in 140 years. No longer did boys need to acquire the expertise to manoeuvre a grand piano up and down the stairs into Hall. No longer was the orchestra obliged to rehearse in the confines of the music school’s not-so Big Room, where they could barely hear what they were playing. And audience behaviour in the new benign acoustic was transformed.

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Really Trying, embodies a recent Radley custom, and marks the first collaboration between Sam Gladstone as precentor and the new head of drama, Victoria Buse. The tradition developed roots with their predecessors, Stephen Clarke and Rob Lowe, with West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, The Producers and Titanic receiving glowing reviews. The roots would not have been so deep without the advent of the new theatre, or the good working relationship between Clarke (with his background in opera) and Lowe.

Together they integrated music into the broader co-curricular canvas. Decades earlier there had been a similarly fruitful partnership between Donald Paine and Peter Way as head of drama, with a succession of dons’ plays (or more accurately, musicals) – wicked words by Way, puckish music by Paine. Few who attended Peter Panto (title role fetchingly played by Hamish Aird) can forget

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the E Social tutor, David Goldsmith, singing the part of “a new girl called Wendy”, sent “to he-e-e-e-e-e-elp out the boys”.

One of the continuing features of Radley music is the delight in English (or British) works. In Paine’s first concert as precentor, he presented Elgar’s From the Bavarian Highlands at a time when Elgar was rather in the shadows. Gower was a passionate advocate of Finzi, and commissioned the touching Butterworth ‘window’ by Laurence Whistler which hangs outside the Silk Hall – especially poignant during the centenary years of the Great War, and of Butterworth’s death at the Somme in 1916. At the end of Clarke’s reign, Anthony Williams organized a remarkable two-day Butterworth festivial, completed with a blue plaque on the Lodge – without doubt the most comprehensive celebration of the composer anywhere in Britain.

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The ongoing musical legacy

I like to think of our musical life as a great pyramid, at the apex of which are the great virtuosi performers and composers of international renown. Then, immediately below this, come those devoted musical practitioners, true artists who by precept and example are spreading the knowledge and love of music in our schools, our choral societies, our musical festivals. Then comes the next layer of our musical structure, that great mass of musical amateurs who make music for the love of it in their spare time, and play and sing for their own spiritual recreation in their homes.

The roll call of other Radleian conductors is impressive, many of them composers as well: Christopher Bochmann, James Wood, Harry Bicket, James Burton, Andrew Gant, Robert King and Hugh Brunt. The world of opera features the producer David Pountney and the “prompter, accompanist and general dogsbody”, Antony Shelley, who is Daniel Barenboim’s right-hand man at the Staatsoper in Berlin. Then there are the pianist, Michael Dussek (grandson of Ronald Dussek, precentor in the thirties and forties), the singers Jeremy and Simon Birchall, the festival and orchestral manager Ambrose Miller, and the innovative pianist-composer Alex Hawkins and the list goes on.

In the same way, many of us amateurs have had our musical appetites whetted by those “devoted practitioners and true artists” at Radley. In my case it was Donald Paine, to whom I am eternally grateful. We were lucky to make music alongside boys of much greater talent, who raised our horizons and aspirations before they moved into the wider world.

Perhaps the greatest achievement is the number of Radleians who currently work professionally in the music world. Caesar was wise enough to give the violinist Richard Deakin a music scholarship: he went on to lead the National Youth Orchestra, and has had an illustrious career as soloist and chamber musician..

His contemporaries at Radley were his fellow violinist Oliver Butterworth, and John Lubbock, who founded the Orchestra of St John’s in London.

A few years before Vaughan Williams came to Radley, he appeared in a short film by the great documentary-maker, Humphrey Jennings. In The Dim Little Island, he paid tribute to the musical resources of his native land. He saw the fertility and commitment of musical amateurs as the foundation on which the highest professional standards were built.

“Precentors come and go”, said Anthony Caesar in his farewell to Radley, “but the spirit of music lives on for ever”.

John Bridcut Opposite Top: The 1977 Dons’ Play, The Case of the Compromised Question Papers.

Opposite Bottom: The 2017 performance of the musical, Titanic.

Below: Sam Gladstone, Precentor 2017-present, leading the choir at the 2018 Ascension service atop Memorial Arch.

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After serving in a variety of ecclesiastical posts in London and Winchester he was appointed Subdean of the Chapels Royal in 1979, having previously been Canon Precentor and Vice-Dean of Winchester Cathedral. During this period he was also the music editor of the New English Hymnal. In 1991 he retired from the Chapel Royal, and in that year’s Queen's Birthday Honours he was promoted to Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO), having previously been a lieutenant of that order.

Following his retirement from the Chapel Royal, he was appointed an Extra Chaplain to the Royal Household. His best known works include his short Mass setting, Missa Brevis Capella Regalis, and his O For a Closer walk with God. The following extract appeared in the 1959 Radleian upon his leaving the college: "Are you taking "A" level or "O" level this

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Caesar, AD (Precentor 1952-59) Anthony Douglass Caesar, the son of a vicar, was born into a musical family in Southampton. Caesar was a boy chorister in the Winchester Cathedral Choir under Harold Rhodes. and went on to study music at Magdalene College, Cambridge, after RAF service in the war. He arrived at Radley in 1952 from Eton College and served as Precentor until 1959, leaving the school to go into the clergy (see pp.8289 for more on the Radley precentors, including Anthony Caesar).

Canon Caesar with HM the Queen in the 1980s. summer?" a visiting girl is said to have asked a member of Common Room at one of the College dances. Anthony Caesar is not the only don on whom this probably apocryphal story has been fathered, but it seems particularly appropriate to one whose youthfulness of appearance is hardly less striking today than when he came to Radley from Eton more than seven years ago. Yet more important was the accompanying youthfulness of spirit which enabled any activity in which he took part with the boys to wear the character of a communal enterprise; and the fruits of this were particularly evident in a series of School Concerts at which the formal dress and dignified bearing of the conductor did nothing to conceal the exceptional rapport of feeling between him and his performers, not to mention the audiences who were often persuaded to play their part with a degree of cheerful self discipline by no means usual in such circumstances. The same qualities served him well in the Air Section of the CCF, which he commanded for most of his time at Radley, and in his important contribution to the enjoyment of the Dons' Plays - he was especially successful in providing sentimental songs of regret for DFG's aspiring athletic maidens.

The Precentor's chief innovation during his tenure at Radley was the Choral Society, which many boys of little musical experience joined and enjoyed; one recalls with what exemplary patience he inculcated into such tyros the mysteries

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of maintaining a bass part against counter attack. Music Society concerts were developed in range and personnel, the activities of the Madrigal Society (in which Mrs Dussek had been such an asset to his predecessor) maintained and the Orchestra persuaded to face hazards undeterred when, as was seldom the case, they did not surmount them. Only in the discontinuance of the "Social Shout" was a break with tradition regretted by some.

But the major part of a Precentor's duties concerns the music of Chapel services, and this was especially dear to Anthony Caesar's heart. Beyond the moving of the choir from Gallery to central ground level, he made few innovations; he was in fact notably free from musical snobbery in his readiness to choose "old favourite" hymns because he regarded them as helping to preserve the vital link between school and parochial worship. Himself a clergyman's son, whose style of organ-playing and choir-training was deliberately lacking in drama so that music should remain the handmaid of devotion, he did more than anyone else to maintain the character of Radley worship during the interregnum between the Chaplains last year. And now he goes to the ministry himself. Only that can indeed reconcile us to his departure; for good musician though he was, many of us knew that the man in him was better still.

Anthony Douglass Caesar passed away on 14 July 2018.

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Stoughton-Harris, RW (Don 1955- 1985; hon Member) The list of posts held hardly seems enough to mark the input that Bob StoughtonHarris had on Radley, but the mere fact of being don at Radley for 30 years, G Social Tutor for 13 years, Master-in-Charge of Gym and an Honorary Old Radleian tells a tale in and of itself.

He was committed to giving a wellrounded Radley education to the boys in his charge through opportunities outside the maths classroom through sport, travel and the arts.

The Stoughton-Harris’ were champions of music in the College and many excellent evening concerts were given in the back garden of G Social (pictured right).

In 1978 he and his wife Bridget provided a fund to set up the School Prize. Designed to award up to three prizes each year to those members of College who make the most outstanding contribution to the cultural life of Radley in any one of the forms of a concert, an artistic exhibition, a dramatic entertainment or an illustrated lecture. When the Stoughton-Harris’s left Radley in 1985 the title of the Prize was changed to include their name and thus perpetuate the memory of their generosity and vision.

Hamish Aird recalls Bob’s time at Radley thusly: “The success of the tour was due to brilliant organisation. RWS-H knows just how to run a tour, and DWMP (Donald Paine) knows just how to run an orchestra. The benefits of such a tour are not measurable in terms of matches won or exams passed, but are evident in a corporate atmosphere which it is impossible to describe. The whole party worked and enjoyed itself together for a common purpose. The long-term effect has been a combination of professionalism and vitality in Radley’s musical and gymnastic spheres. We look forward to 1978.”

This is the final paragraph of an article in The Radleian by Michael Lloyd (a musical pupil) about the Scan (Scandinavian) Tour of 1975, which followed similar tours in 1967, 1969 and 1972, when parties of 50 or so pupils from Radley and St Helen’s toured initially Denmark, and then Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. En route there were concerts and gymnastic competitions at a time when both activities were flourishing at the school. Behind it all were the organisational skills and sharp bonhomie of Bob. It could be suggested that the Scan Tours were mildly idiosyncratic, but Bob himself was idiosyncratic, and I think it would have tickled him how successful the combination of gym and music proved to be. Some boys will remember him as their Maths teacher. Others as a Tutor.

Others as the don in charge who saw Radley gymnasts regularly winning the English National competitions. Others will remember the family of Bridget and their 4 daughters; and his colleagues may

remember his sometimes acerbic (but never intended to hurt) humour and his sharp eye for hypocrisy or cant. He was a man of principle and stood by those principles. And never more so than at Tutors’ Meetings where the Warden’s “I think we are all agreed” acted like a red rag to a bull. Bob cared very much about his Social. He believed strongly that a Housemaster could not look after more than 50 boys and held by this belief when we were all being encouraged to cram as many boys as possible into our Socials.

He was fearless, and his stammer added drama to the moments when he was backing his principles against those of his colleagues and boss. He was usually right.

His family were woven into the warp of G Social, and he, his wife and four daugthers played in Radley’s orchestras and sang in its choirs. They helped to cement the strong relationship at the time with St Helen’s. Michael Lloyd referred in the Scan article to “our picnic meals brilliantly prepared in exacting conditions by Mrs S-H” These few paragraphs deliberately are only dealing with or highlighting Bob and the Scan Tours. Sometimes Gordon Hill (cross-channel swimmer, i/c swimming and good friend of Bob and Bridget), would produce hilarious accounts of Scan Tour events that made one envious not to be there. There was fun, work, hilarity, skills, friendships, absurdities and a lot of eye-opening for young Radleians as regards Scandinavia and travel. Yes, a lot of fun.

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Haggett NL (hon Member) Norman Haggett was utterly devoted to his wife Beryl, his sister, children Matthew and Sarah, grandchildren, their partners and his great grandchildren. The most modest of men - a distinguished cricketer, intrepid member of the RAF’s parachute regiment and skilled teacher, he was always determined to bring out the best in everyone whether on the sports field or in the classroom.

A memorial service was held in his honour at 11am on 19th May at Radley College at which the following addresses were given, first by his son-in-law, Mark Rusby, and then by Harry Hammond for the College: -------------------------‘Norman was born in Blackheath, SE London in July 1926. As far as I know, his childhood was happy, unremarkable and probably well fed as his father was a butcher. Extraordinarily, he saw the planes diving and turning in the clear blue Kent skies during the summer of 1940.

However, for the greater part, he was saved the experience of the Blitz having been evacuated to a caring family in Wales.

By the time he was sixteen or seventeen though, he was ready to begin his long career of service. He joined the Navy and served (I know not where) for the final year or two of the war.

Once peace had been declared, he decided on a change of course and he completed his teacher training at St Paul’s, Cheltenham, majoring in, as you might

have guessed, physical education. Soon, he was back in London teaching at his old school, The Roan. He was friends with Jean and Geoff who, in their turn, knew a young lady at Goldsmith College. She was having trouble with the unwelcome attentions of a Scotsman and needed a reliable and trustworthy partner at a college dance. That woman was Beryl.

They were married in August 1953, honeymooned on the Isle of Wight (abroad!), bought a house in Mottingham near Bromley. Norman was then playing some serious cricket (for the Catford Wanderers) and his skills were spotted by a wing commander who was determined to sign up Norman as a batsman for the RAF. Norman could not resist and joined up. The family (yes, Sarah had appeared by then) was duly uprooted and began a somewhat nomadic life, living first with Beryl’s sister. A small caravan was conjured up from somewhere and the next eight years were happily, if cosily, spent on officers’ campsites at Abingdon and Boscombe Down near Salisbury. Another baby, Matthew, arrived. It must have been tight in that caravan.

The faith that had been placed in Norman’s cricketing ability had not been misjudged.

In 1963, a Colonel Stevens had collected an XI together to play the RAF team. His star batsman was none other than Gary Sobers, a West Indian player widely considered the game’s best ever all-rounder. The match was in its second and final day and the RAF expected defeat. Sobers was at the

crease again. Norman later wrote: “Our one and only star bowler, Tony Buss, bowled a fast ball outside the leg stump and well pitched up. Sobers flicked at it and the ball flew like a bullet toward square leg and somehow or other it finished up in my right hand and Sobers was out for two.” The RAF went on to win by 10 wickets.

Norman was not a great fan of flying in those rattling transport planes of the 50s and 60s. He said that he would always rather jump out of a plane than land in one. And he must certainly have jumped out of quite a few. Believing that the development of parachutes and free fall techniques would be of great benefit, he committed himself to the design and testing of new canopies. Yes… there were some mishaps; watched by a terrified Beryl one day, he sustained quite serious injuries when both his main and reserve canopies failed to open completely. He must have been a brave man. He became a member of the Falcon free fall display team. At Brize Norton he was chief instructor of the Parachute School, he even trained Prince Charles to jump. In 1981, he retired from that side of the RAF, and his extraordinary contribution was recognised with an MBE. He continued as a liaison officer, I believe, for a number of years before changing his career – back to education. He began teaching at Cothill in the late 1980s, maths and, of course, cricket. Here is a message sent to me by an old Cothillian who still has connections with the school: “I remember Mr Haggett as he taught me maths and then coached me for cricket.

I was never a good enough batsman for him but I remember him spending lots of time with me in the nets. He is definitely one of those teachers who defined my time at Cothill and whom I remember with fondness and gratitude”. I am sure that there must be countless boys-now-men who think the same of his dedicated and patient teaching.

There are still many things that could be said. He was nominated for membership of the MCC in 1962 and played 11 matches for the side. As an opening batsman, he scored 423 runs at an average of 60.42. He made one century and two half-centuries with his highest score of 120 against West Kent in 1964.

He was a staunch member of the Conservative party, loyal through thick and thin. He was chair of the West Oxfordshire Patrons and, as such,

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encouraged sensible debate and tried to shape ideas and policies. With Beryl, he organised many successful dinners at the House of Lords.

Norman was a keen gardener. He so enjoyed putting seeds and cuttings in the ground and watching them thrive.

He relished the taste of home-grown veg and wondered at the beauty of his flowers. Above all, he was a great family man. He was utterly loyal, never once wavering from his support of Beryl and their two children. He was truly proud of his grandchildren and delighted in their company. He saw four of his greatgrandchildren (I think rather to his amazement) and he just missed seeing his fifth.

The many messages from you to his family and to Beryl in particular, have been a great source of strength. He has been described as a bastion of good manners, courtesy and consideration, loyal, kind, selfless, a great friend, wonderful company at the dining table. Beryl has been profoundly touched. She would have loved to have seen you all today, but she believed that she would not have been good company. She sends you her love and deepest thanks for all your kindness and support.

There are two more words that I would add to the list: wisdom and modesty. I always valued Norman’s wise counsel; it cut through any sophistry and flimflam and hit the bull’s eye. As for modesty, I will read a few more lines from Norman’s account of That Match. “We (that is Gary Sobers and Norman) met on many occasions after that but during all those meetings, he never failed to impress me with his absolute professionalism. He was the complete cricketer and off the field he was a quiet, serious and unassuming man almost to the point of being shy. He was the perfect gentleman at all times and what a pity it is we haven’t more like him in the world today”. Had I not known the author or the subject of that paragraph. I would have assumed that it had been about Norman.’

-------------------------The Haggetts’ relationship with Radley started in 1974 when Beryl came to teach boys for dyslexia and learning problems in Anthony Hudson’s house in F Social.

She continued to teach as a peripatetic, in Hamish Aird’s house, until nearly the turn of the century. More recently, she became known as a maths teacher, but

her outstanding study skills work was central to the development of the school in the 80s and 90s especially. She spotted their weakness and treated it with real understanding of the individual. Some of her ‘clients’ would only need two or three sessions, but others could be with her for a year or more.

She took great pride in Jamie Olsen who was with her all five years and gained entry to Oxford! Beryl also gave a huge amount of help to the children of dons, over many years. Seeing her in action with our own children was an education in just how patient, and endlessly encouraging, a teacher can be.

Norman arrived in 1996 as he came in on a voluntary basis to coach cricket, but shortly after that, he started in the first classroom. In fact, his early lessons were in the History Department, but it didn’t take long for him to move to maths, where they stayed ever since. It is impossible to over-state just how much help the pair of them gave to so many boys, either through their teaching of the bottom sets, or through one-to-one sessions in Central Hour. Garry Wiseman writes: “Although technically they were part time, they were always available for the boys, putting in many hours beyond their contracts. The fact that they had previously worked at Cothill Prep School provided an invaluable link between what the boys were doing at Radley and what they had done before.”

Several ORs have contacted me to offer

their insight into the Haggett lessons. One says of Norman: “He was always a massive Frank Sinatra fan. In class, when one of us came up with the right answer, usually by pure chance, and hadn’t followed the conventional method, he would frequently break into a rendition of ‘My Way’!” Boys hated to be moved up a set, if this involved not being taught by one of them.”

But of course, for Norman and Beryl, it was far more than just about what goes on in the classroom - they took a huge interest in everything that went on at The College.

Partly this was driven by their love of sport (especially), music, drama and art, but mainly because they loved to support and empower the boys by encouraging them in all their activities, especially if they were finding it tough going in the classroom.

As they came from outside the school, boys felt more at ease and able to unburden themselves of any problems.

They watched virtually every 1st XV or 1st XI match, often travelling on the coach for many hours. They hardly missed a concert throughout their time.

They finally retired from teaching when Norman was 91. It was with great sadness that we heard the news of his death on 22nd February 2018; he was a hero in every way and they were a most wonderful couple. The phrase “we shall not see their like again” can be over-used; but in this case, it is entirely correct.

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Roff PAV (Radley Don, 1963-1966) The following extract comes from Phil Roff ’s vale in the 1966 Radleian: We shall miss Phil Roff for his unexcitable good sense. In school life small things tend to become important far beyond their worth and Phil, with his splendid dry humour, was very able to return them to their proper places.

He has been a full-time mathematics teacher where he has taken an important part in the introduction of modern methods and has encouraged study in statistics, a new branch of the subject to Radley. By his great energy and enthusiasm he has kept us all in touch with the problems which new maths has created in other schools, and in these schools he has addressed societies and departments and so made the exchange complete.

His “bush” background made him an obvious choice for the hardships of arduous training where again he was responsible for a step ahead. The pattern changed so that the boys had far more responsibility and were truly independent - it was up to them to work it out for themselves - and from the idea of arduous training, the possibility of taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme, which for long had been considered, became a reality. He has seen this scheme through its infancy and the first awards, at all levels, have now been won and the first school periods have been excused!

On the river he was invaluable. Arriving straight from Oxford, where he rowed in a winning Boat Race crew, he was well prepared for rousing the enthusiasm of his crews. He coached the Hedsor Colts crew which fed good material to the first eight and he nursed King’s out of an uncertain inter-regnum period. His was the crew which undertook a whole-hearted attempt to adopt the German style and, through this, much valuable information was discovered from which various modifications have been made.

On the rugger field he soon got accustomed to Northern Hemisphere, or Southern English, rules and was of great assistance to the Junior Colts.

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His wife has joined in many of his activities and has certainly chased him up mountains as well as being a generous hostess and good mother. Like father and mother, Jonathan seems unbreakable and we have yet to be attacked by Caroline.

The Roffs have left a deep impression on Radley and we all wish Phil, Barb and their little “Pommies” all the very best at Melbourne Grammar and perhaps we should remind them that, though the family has been represented on the summits of Snowden and Scafell Pike, Ben Nevis is still British. I We hope to see them when they return for this assault.

Upon leaving Radley, Phil returned to Australia to continue teaching. In 1975 he became Principal at Scotch College, Melbourne, a post he held until 1982.

Scotch College remembers his time there as follows: Whilst Scotch’s Principal, Philip modernised the School by giving staff

greater input, experience and professional development, employing more female Senior School teachers, and bridging the gap between Junior and Senior Schools.

The Scotch College Foundation was strengthened with an office at Scotch, and Philip actively supported its work, including promotion of the Glenn Centre project, which opened in 1983. By broadening the House system, appointing a counsellor, expanding remedial education, improving boarders’ conditions and enabling parents to meet with staff, Philip directed pastoral care to the level of each boy.

Philip’s time in office coincided with the disquiet emanating from the struggle for ownership of the School. A progressive leader of Scotch, who was, in many ways, ahead of his time, Philip will, perhaps, be best remembered for putting the interests and welfare of Scotch boys first.

Philip Anthony Vere Roff passed away on 27th April 2017.

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Keiller, IL (1936) Ian Lorden Keiller, was born on September 23, 1922. He came to Radley in 1936, followed by his brother Clifton Quinton (Quin) three years later.

In 2013, Ian wrote a letter to the Radley Foundation that describes in his words ‘how Radley influenced me’.

My prep school had not been as good as expected and consequently my parents made considerable efforts to make a good next choice for me and my brother and so, after visiting a variety of schools, they chose Radley. Unfortunately the autumn I was due to go to Radley I caught whooping cough which was followed by pneumonia and I was off school for the rest of the academic year. Consequently I did not do well at the common entrance exam and was allocated to the bottom form – the lower fourth.

When I arrived at Radley I found the work very easy and the atmosphere liberating. So much so that at the beginning of my second year I had caught up with those who had done much better in the common entrance exam. I took School Certificate at the same time as the others and got good results.

I was on the sciences side and in 1940 I went to Queens’ College, Cambridge, and took the Mechanical Sciences Tripos.

I had wanted to be a pilot, but my eyesight was not good enough. Having achieved a wartime degree as an engineer, I was directed to The Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, to be involved in aircraft research. I soon found that I was very well suited to such work – so that within about a couple of years I already had become wholly responsible for a small research team. At the end of the war I was given a permanent job as a research scientist and after about ten years I had become a principle scientific officer. Later I was transferred to London for management tasks and greater responsibilities.

I was married for 61 years and had a large and varied family (six sons and one daughter). I had many other interests, including 15 years on the General Synod of the Church of England. My memories of Radley are still very warm.

He is much loved and will always be remembered.

Ian Henderson (back row, far right) with the 1939 1st VIII. Henderson, IT (1936) Beloved husband to Sue, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

Upon leaving Radley, Ian went to Durham University and then joined the Royal Artillery, being made 2nd Lt in 1942 and ultimately gaining the rank of captain. After working in New York and London, he was company director of Henderson & Pearson Ltd, a property and construction company. In 1968 he received a Diploma from the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers.

he was employed by the Kassala Cotton Company in Sudan as part of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate. A member of the Sudan Gezira Board in the early 1950s, he returned to the UK where he worked for the Agricultural Research Council, Cambridge until his retirement.

He was a committed member of St Mary’s Little Chesterford, the church he loved and served and where his funeral took place.

Robert Inge Shebbeare passed away on 5th November 2017.

He kept in touch with his Radley contemporaries and would regularly meet up with them in East Sussex. On retirement he threw himself into charity work with the Friends of St Peter & St James Hospice and the Haywards Heath Lions Club. He was also Chairman of the Downlands Educational Trust.

Paterson, MDK (1937) After Radley he went up to Trinity College, Oxford, but war service in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps where he rose to the rank of Captain, interrupted his studies. He returned to Trinity after the war, completing his Diploma in Education in 1950.

Both his sons, Julian (1968), now the Bishop of Blackburn, and David (1969) and his grandson, James (2000) also attended Radley.

His education career would see him teach at his father’s prep school, Woodcote House, Windlesham, where he would go on to become Headmaster, until passing on the headship to his own son, Nicholas.

Ian Tudor Henderson passed away on 23rd September 2017.

Shebbeare RI (1937) Enlisting in the RAC during the war, he maintained correspondence with his Social Tutor, Mr Hope. After the war

He continued his involvement with the school acting as Assistant Headmaster even after his official retirement.

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Plaister, JAS (1937) Leaving Radley in 1941, John went into service in the Navy, being discharged due to ill-health in 1944. He would go on to read Moral Sciences and English at Trinity College, Cambridge, completing his studies in 1949. Stephen subsequently spent 31 years teaching Classics at Northaw Prep School near Salisbury, and after retiring, helping as a part-time tutor at the Godolphin School, Salisbury.

His interest in Classics continued outside the classroom where he was chairman of the Salisbury & District Classical Association, as well as acting as a churchwarden.

In 1984, he entered Oakhill Theological College to study for the priesthood and was ordained by the Bishop of Bradwell in 1985. Moving to France in 1991, he became the chaplain at St. John’s Church, Menton, France to the local Anglican community, and retired in 1999.

Following on, his own son, Armine Robin (1973) also attended Radley.

The Revd Armine Boyle Wodehouse died on 26th August 2017.

His younger brother, Michael (1940), also attended Radley.

Dutson, JD (1938) Beloved husband of Sheena; father of Patrick, Jane, Bryony, Christopher and Timothy; proud grandfather and greatgrandfather. A member of a Radley family, his two brothers, John Alan (1939) and John Kenneth (1942) came to the College, as did his son, John Patrick (1965) and his cousin and nephews.

He was president of his local Conservative Party and amongst his charity work he was also a committee member of the RNLI. John Derek Dutson passed away on 18th July 2016 Wodehouse, AB (1938) Armine, known as ‘Bill’, and his brother Charles (1941) were sons of Vice-Admiral Norman Atherton Wodehouse and both attended Radley.

A school prefect in 1942, he took after his father, who won 6 caps for England, on the rugby pitch where he represented the lst XV. Going into the Grenadier Guards in 1943 he attained the rank of Captain and was wounded during the war.

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In 1942, aged 18, Peter enlisted in the Royal Navy serving on an MTB (motor torpedo boat) taking part in D-Day. After the war, Peter finally got to become a student at Oxford University where he forged many friendships.

Peter married Rosemary Willis in 1949 and over the next ten years they had four children. When Peter became a schoolteacher, later headmaster, Rosemary was a true helpmeet to him, combining competent secretarial and organisational skills with the social skills she had learned as a rector’s daughter. Teaching posts included Temple Grove, Sussex, Sheffield, which became the best prep school in the area, and finally the Mall School in Twickenham where Peter built up the academic side of the school until it became a centre of excellence. He was never a solely administrative headmaster because he enjoyed teaching so much.

John Anthony Stephen Plaister died on 17th September 2018.

Serving as a Sergeant in the RAMC during the war, he went on to work at Colston Electric Company Ltd, eventually becoming Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Colston Manufacturing (Engineering) Ltd.

grew up happily in an eccentric household where Aunt praised and encouraged and insisted that life should be lived for other people – that a person must be useful.

The other compelling example Aunt gave was her very strong Christian faith.

Later, at Radley College, Peter was good at History and English and enjoyed playing the violin, dramatics and play-readings, and sports – tennis, cricket and rugby in particular.

Armine Wodehouse in the D Social photo from 1939 .

Waterfield, PB (1938) Peter Waterfield was born in Nakusp, Canada, the youngest of three, to William (great grandson of William Herschel, the astronomer) and Marguerite, who had emigrated to Canada. When he was only two and a half years old his mother tragically drowned and his father took his elder two children eventually to South Africa and sent Peter back to England.

He did not meet his siblings again until they were in their teens and returned to England.

He was adopted by his mother’s sister, Gladys Hazel, an unmarried, former militant suffragette, who since the War had been acting as a housekeeper for a lady doctor. From the beginning Peter called the two women Aunt and Doc and

Peter’s character has been summed up by many as a ‘perfect gentleman’ and ‘good’. Indeed he was a genuinely good person who strove always to be better.

He was always kind and thoughtful. He never forgot to thank people and to praise them for what they did well. He had a delightful sense of humour and a delight in the ridiculous. He was much loved by pupils, staff who taught under his headmastership, friends, the community which he served with such enjoyment, and of course, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He will be very much missed by us all.

Compiled from extracts from the eulogy by Peter’s daughter, Jeni Whitaker.

Peter was followed to Radley by his son, Nicholas (1970).

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He was married to Alannah for 64 years and together they have four daughters, five grandchildren and five great grandchildren, Allington remains the family home where right up to the end of his life he enjoyed his beautiful garden.

Air Vice Marshal Richard Augustin Riseley-Prichard, RAF passed away on 1st October 2017.

Raikes, RMT (1940) A member of a true Radley family, Roger Raikes was the son of OR, Lt Col WT Raikes and was joined at the College by his three brothers, RD, DK and TAG Raikes. Three of his own sons would also go on to attend Radley in the 1980s.

Dick Riseley-Prichard Riseley-Prichard, RA (1939) On leaving Radley, Richard went up to read medicine at Trinity College, Oxford.

Having represented Radley at Squash and Tennis, he continued his love of racquet sports by captaining the OU Lawn Tennis Club. He finished his training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, thus becoming the fifth generation of his family to qualify as a doctor.

During his own time at the school he was Senior Prefect in 1945 and part of the lst VIII who won the Hedsor Cup at Henley that same year.

After going up to Trinity College, Oxford, his rowing achievements continued as he was a winner of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley with the Leander Club in both 1946 and 1949 and rowed in the Trinity Head of the River crews three years running, from 1946-48, as well as the Oxford University VIII in 1946.

Completing his degree in Engineering Science, he would go on to work in the construction industry for Taylor Woodrow

International, qualifying as a Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (MICE) in 1956. From 1977 until his retirement in 1986 he was director of the company.

In 1960 he married Rosanne Margaret, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. D.T.Raikes, and over the years was a loyal supporter of the Radley Foundation, regularly contributing to several different funds.

Roger Melville Taunton Raikes passed away on 27th August 2018.

Corrie-Hill, JI (1941) His father, Commander James Corrie-Hill was killed in action in Holland in 1940 as part of demolitions operations at Hoek van Holland in the Netherlands. He was a proud recipient of assistance from the 1917 War Memorial Fund that allowed him to come to Radley the following year.

Whilst at the College he would play for the 1st XV in 1944, before going on to join the Royal Marines, who he would also represent on the hockey field.

After leaving the forces, he joined the Union Insurance Society of Canton Ltd and moved out to work in first India and then Hong Kong. He would go on to pass the Chartered Insurance Institute Examinations on his return to the UK. He married Bridget in 1954 and they had one son and three daughters.

Called up for National Service in 1951, he trained as a pilot becoming one of a small band of doctors qualified to fly jet aircraft.

He served in a variety of posts, attended the RAF Staff College in 1964 and was in the final withdrawal party from Aden in 1967, flying out on the last aircraft.

He commanded the RAF Hospital in Germany from 1973-1976 and RAF Hospital Wroughton from 1977-1980, when he was promoted to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. In 1981, he was appointed Honorary Surgeon to HM The Queen.

He was Principal Medical Officer of RAF Support Command until his retirement in 1985; he was then appointed Honorary Air Commodore of the County of Wiltshire.

It was during his retirement that he became instrumental in the successful foundation of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance service. He would also play an active part as chair of governors of Dauntsey’s School, Wiltshire, and as a governor of the BUPA Charitable Trust.

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Aldersey, M (1942) Loved and loving husband of Sybella (dec) and Alison. Much loved father and fatherin-law of Shane and Teresa, Catherine and Fabian, Rachael and Brad, Ann and Chris. Very proud grandfather of Olympia, Jack and Evie, and the “Onion’. “Lovingly remembered”.

Upon leaving Radley, Michael served as 2nd Lt in the Cheshire Regiment before emigrating to Australia, taking up farming on a landholding in South Australia. He served on rural development and protection organisations in South Australia and advised the government on environmental management.

Michael Aldersey passed away on 15th October 2017.

Ian Corrie-Hill in the 1st XV in 1945.

Always cognisant of the opportunity given to him by the War Memorial Fund he, in turn, donated to the Armed Forces Fund, who’s appeal in 2010 moved him to write the following poem: The Unsung Heroes He’s Dead.

“Tear the strings from my heart Give them to the Enemy” But No, It was, his choice, his wish, With every nerve & sinew tried To lead his troops with pride.

Sturges, PM (1942) Representing Radley’s lst XV in 1946, Peter went on to RMA Sandhurst and was commissioned into 4th Queen’s Own, later the Queen’s Royal Irish, Hussars, attaining the rank of Major.

On retiring from army in 1968 after a 21 year career he took up a career in Personnel Management. He worked for Rank Xerox for 16 years and than as a freelance management consultant. He married Gillian Eve in 1955 with whom he had a son and a daughter.

Peter Mansfield Sturgess passed away on 13th June 2017

His charitable contributions were not restricted to Radley and he was voluntary Chairman of the Hampshire Association for the Care of the Blind (Lymington District). A lover of racing, he followed the action on the Turf throughout his life.

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An Open Major Scholarship in History saw him continue on to Peterhouse College, Cambridge after his National Service and on his Leaving Boys Register Form, he has tentatively marked down his intention to study law to become a barrister.

However, this was not the route he was to take, instead attending Cuddesdon Theological College in 1953 and taking Holy Orders two years later.

His 2003 News & Notes entry explains that “the English lived in Biarritz in droves for a hundred years until 1939: they never returned after 1945.”

He, however, remained in Biarritz after his retirement.

In correspondence received just last year, he notes that he really enjoyed and loved his time at Radley.

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Livingstone, JM (1942) Prefect, Head of Social, Junior Scholar, Gold Medal winner, Birt Speech Prize and Editor of The Radleian were just some of John Livingstone’s many achievements during his time at Radley.

Over the next 20 years he would hold incumbencies primarily in London before in 1975 becoming Chaplain of St. George’s Anglican Church in Paris. He then moved further south, first to Nice, where he was Chaplain as well as Archdeacon of the Riviera until 1993 and then to Biarritz, until retiring in 2005.

For those who wait at home Love endures, to your dying day Where, perchance, you meet again.

James Ian Corrie-Hill passed away on 28th September 2018.

John Livingstone (rear, centre) in the 1947 Prefects photo.

The Revd Canon John Morris Livingstone passed away on 20th March 2017.

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Allsopp, JH (1943) Born in Kenya in 1930, John came to Radley and was a member of the 2nd VIII that won the Public Schools Vase at the 1948 Marlow Regatta. He also won the Senior High Jump Cup the same year.

Performing his National Service as a 2nd Lieutenant, in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, he continued his education at Magdalene College, Cambridge, reading Economics and Law. He continued to row whilst at Cambridge, making the College lst VIII from 1952-54 and rowing in the ForsterFairbairn Pairs in 1954. After graduating he was employed by Matthews, Wrightson & Company Ltd before joining Lloyds Bowmaker Ltd, Bournemouth in 1961.

He continued to work here until his retirement in 1989.

John Hope Allsopp passed away on 8th January 2018.

Kinchen, P (1943) After leaving Radley he entered directly into the Royal Naval College Dartmouth leading to a 22 year career in the Royal Navy. Upon his retirement from the service, he went to work for first Norwich City Council, and then Norfolk County Council as an Insurance Officer.

Peter and Jean married in 1956, and had three daughters. Peter was a generous donor to Radley Foundation funds and was involved in charity work as a trustee.

Lt Cdr Peter Kinchen RN (retired) passed away on 15th September 2017.

Wilson, TP (1943) Despite his lifelong love of rowing, which was sparked whilst at College, the 1st VIII he is listed as representing the school for was actually the 1947 Shooting VIII. The following celebration of Tim’s life was written by James Elder for the Thames Rowing Club: Tim grew up in Hadleigh, in the southern part of Suffolk, where his family were grain merchants, millers and malters.

Having learned to row while at school at Radley, he joined Thames in 1948.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given his relative shortness for an oarsman, he was often at bow. Having started in the Thames Cup eight in this position in 1949, in 1950

John Allsopp (front row, second right) and the 2nd VIII crew of 1948 that won the Public Schools Vase at Marlow Regatta. he moved up to the Grand eight, despite weighing only 9st 7lb. In 1951 he was bow and steersman in a Wyfold four; in 1953 he was back in the Thames Cup eight, this time at 2.

Although studying at Oxford had been envisaged, he did not take this route, instead taking articles and qualifying as a chartered accountant. He then went to work for Imperial Chemical Industries, where he was to spend his whole career.

Eventually he would become the chief internal auditor, under the chairmanship of Sir John Harvey-Jones.

In the 1950s, his work took him to the North East of England, for a spell at ICI’s large plant at Billingham, County Durham.

Tim was involved in internal audit, and would later tell stories of one man who took home a roll of platinum gauze to use as chicken wire having no idea of its value, and another who aroused suspicion at the gates when his bicycle fell over and he was unable to lift it up again - it was found that he’d filled the frame with valuable metals that he was attempting to smuggle out.

It was while in County Durham that Tim joined his second club, Tees RC, where he later became a vice-president and had a boat named after him.

By this time he had also taken up his other sporting love, skiing. He went annually with friends to Lech am Arlberg in Austria, until quite late in life. John McConnell recounts that after one winter snowfall, Tim was seen skiing down Putney Hill to get to the clubhouse.

On his return to London from Billingham, Tim again settled in Putney and renewed his connection with Thames. His last time in a racing boat may well have been the sponsored row he undertook in the mid1970s to fundraise for the club, when he and Jean Rankine took a double scull to Richmond Lock and back. By that time he was on his way to becoming a vital, if idiosyncratic, part of the fabric of the club.

Tim served as unpaid club bookkeeper for 40 years, including a stint as the Hon. Treasurer in the early 1980s. Sharp-eyed, and always keeping abreast of changes in tax law, he saved the club a vast amount of money in terms of his volunteer labour and in errors corrected, frauds detected, tax advantages exploited, efficiencies enforced and debts chased down.

One oft-repeated story, which may or may not be apocryphal, has him taking a pair of scissors and a stock of TRC ties into the Stewards Enclosure at Henley. The scissors were to cut off the tie of anyone he spotted the old radleian 2018

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whose subscription had lapsed; the new tie was to be proffered for sale to the victim after his arrears were paid.

More significant were Tim’s efforts which ensured that a large amount of tax was recovered on the construction and fit-out of the Burrough Building in 2005, an irony given his deep suspicion of the need for a new gym. He was also a familiar face to the staff of Barclays Putney as he banked the weekly bar takings – a potentially hazardous task on those days after Head of the River parties when he was carrying over £10,000 in cash with him on his bike.

Tim also became the guardian – first with Geoffrey Page, and later on his own – of the club’s archives, pictures, trophies and memorabilia. While his methods were sometimes unorthodox, he helped ensure that this invaluable collection survived the ravages of time. He additionally provided a living link to the ‘good old days’ of the club, with a fund of stories and observations.

In 2010, in recognition of his many services to Thames, he was appointed a vice-president. Additionally two coxless fours were named after him. The second ‘Tim Wilson’ won the Visitors’ Challenge Cup in 2016 and is still in use as the top men’s four.

Tim was a shy man and cultivated a gruff, irascible manner. This became more pronounced in his old age as he

was troubled by constant pain in his legs.

Moreover he did not, as he would admit, especially like change and sometimes found himself out of tune with the modern world. He had never, for example, entirely accepted that the club was right to cease entering crews for the Grand in the 1960s, or to begin admitting women in the 1970s.

However there was also undoubtedly an element of exaggeration for effect in his grumbles about such things.

In any case, for those who got to know him better, he was - as one of his clubmates put it -‘crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside’. He could be very entertaining company as he cast his witty and sceptical eye over the state of the club, the country and the world at large – often with the assistance of a clipping from the Daily Telegraph that had caught his eye.

Tim had in recent years suffered from a number of health problems and had, understandably, been upset by the thinning of the ranks of his Sunday morning ‘half pint club’ of drinking friends (notably Bernard Churcher, David Fairbairn, Eric Sjoeberg, David King, Bryan Gauld and Andrew Paterson).

However he was still down at the clubhouse almost daily, until very recently.

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Jeremy Stephen Gott passed away on 28th February 2017.

Munt, MH (1944) Upon leaving Radly, Mike started on a Mining Engineering degree at Nottingham University, but after one year he volunteered for the RAF. Serving as a Flight Lieutenant from 1952 he retired from the service in 1969. After this he attended St. Paul’s Teacher Training College in Cheltenham as a mature student where he obtained his Certificate of Education. He would go on to be a teacher for 23 years, with 22 years of them at Bilton Grange, the prep school that he himself had attended.

Retiring in 1993 he took on the role of Director of the North Cotswold Voluntary Help Centre.

Michael Henry Munt passed away on 13th February 2018.

Timothy Peter Wilson passed away on 6th April 2018.

Llewellyn, DW (1944) Aged 10, he was evacuated to Canada caring for his two younger brothers, JEC Llewellyn and GG Llewellyn (who would both later join him at Radley) for what was to be only a brief stay. He returned four years later with them still in his care, demonstrating the start of both his abundant leadership and nurturing skills.

Moving to Leeds, he worked as a County Pianist for the West Riding, and then Leeds Education Departments for over 25 years and was a part-time Lecturer in Piano at Leeds Metropolitan University.

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He maintained a fondness for Radley throughout his life, gifting three prints by E. Burrows of the School, the Octagon and the interior of Chapel to the College.

Tim is survived by a number of cousins, nephews and nieces.

Gott, JS (1943) An accomplished pianist, Jeremy won several piano prizes whilst at Radley before gaining the Thalberg Scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Music. He left in 1950 as a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM) and an Associate of the Royal College of Music (ARCM).

Tim Wilson in 1981.

around 100 different schools in the area.

He also spent time on local committees for Cancer Research UK and the YMCA centre for young people.

After retiring he and his wife, Susan, moved to south-west Scotland where he took on a role as Principle Organist and Choirmaster, never having set foot on an organ before. He also continued his association with Leeds, giving concerts in

During his time at Radley he rowed and spent much time out of school hours crewing on his father’s sailing boat.

On leaving school he became the first management trainee within the construction industry’s new training scheme. He was articled to Norman Longley of James Longley and Co of Crawley. At the same time he was studying for an HND in building, the highest academic qualification in building at the time.

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Byam Shaw, G (1944) A Junior Scholar, Gibbs Scholar and with an Exhibition to University College, Oxford, George was a gifted scholar at Radley. He would go on to read Classics (the Greats) at Oxford, graduating in 1952, before moving on to work as a Management Accountant. He earned his ACMA from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in 1958 and worked for Industrial O&M until his retirement.

commissioned in the Royal Engineers, and following that joined the family construction business bearing his name, started by his grandfather.

His whole career was spent within the Llewellyn Group, other than a period of sixteen months where he was on secondment as ‘industrial advisor’ to the minister of housing and local government in the late ‘60s. He received his CBE for voluntary work for government.

For nineteen years he was on the statutory committee which advises government on Building Regulations, and for six years he was its chairman. He was a member of the Housing Corporation, was a key driving force behind the formation of the British Woodworking Federation and was president of the CIOB. In conjunction with his brother John, through the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s they built the Llewellyn Group to be one of the most significant privately owned construction groups in the country.

Alongside construction of housing developments and town centre shopping malls the firm built district and general hospitals, supermarkets, airport terminals, offices, schools, factories, blocks of flats, and was reputed to be Europe’s largest timber frame housing supplier. The company also laid claim to be the only business to have ever built the entire content of a grid square in Milton Keynes.

Away from construction, apart from family, Llewellyn was passionate about collecting, restoring and racing classic cars, but in particular vintage Bentleys.

This passion was only matched by his dedication at the highest levels to City Livery and freemasonry.

George David Byam-Shaw passed away on 18th November 2017.

David Llewellyn CBE during his tenure as President of the Chartered Institute of Building De Winton, WLDP (1944) Educated at Indian Mountain School, Connecticut before coming to Radley, he played for the 1st XV in 1947. Nicholas would maintain his connection with the USA throughout his working life as a Wine Importer, and would later become the Company Director.

Living in both London and New York, he retired to Brecon, where his father had lived and where he became Governor of Christ College, Brecon and Governing Trustee of St Michael & All Angels Theological College, Llandaff.

Parry de Winton passed away on 21st June 2018.

He was also an accomplished water skier, opera lover, and organist, keeping a full keyboard church organ in his living room.

He leaves his wife Tessa, sons Andrew (1970), Tim (1972) and Simon, and grandchildren Emily, Sophie, Ben and Oliver.

David Walter Llewellyn CBE passed away on 23th April 2018.

Parry de Winton s part of the 1947 1st XV.

Prichard, PCHM (1945) The following extracts come from Preston’s obituary, written by his brother, David (1947).

Preston was born in the Rectory of Whippingham on the Isle of Wight, where his father was Chaplain to Osborne House, so it was not surprising that HRH The Princess Louise became his Godmother.

Preston’s Christian names always provided interest. Preston has been the name of the eldest son since the 17th century when the family fled in the Civil War from Wales to Preston in Lancashire. Ill fortune again occurred when Bonnie Prince Charlie passed through requiring from the Mayor funds and the support of one son. He escaped after Culloden and died on St Helena. Ill fortune struck again in 1915 when our uncle Preston was torpedoed on the Lusitania. Caradoc is another name for Caractacus, whose daughter Claudia you may remember, is mentioned by St Paul in his letter to Timothy. It was given by his Father to remind him of his family connections to Caractacus found in the family’s 19th-century Welsh pedigree produced with the help of the College of Heralds. Hardinge came from his Mothers family. Preston’s great uncle was Charles Viscount Hardinge, Viceroy of India, whose grandfather was also Governor General of India.

We moved to the Vicarage of St Anne’s Kew in 1938. Kew Gardens became our playground since the Vicar had the key to a private gate opposite the Vicarage. His first school was Gibbs in Sloane Square where he sat next to Kennedy and thus enjoyed children’s parties at the American Ambassadors residence. When war came he was sent to board in Goudhurst, Kent the old radleian 2018

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As a son of a priest he inherited little, but dispensed hospitality graciously. Preston worked on behalf of the King George Fund for Sailors, was Master of his Old Radleian Lodge, Treasurer and for 50 years never missed a meeting. He was a guardian at the Abbey, collected for the Yeatman Hospital, was Vice President of NADFAS, keen on tennis, Scottish Dancing, acting in the Sherborne Amateur Dramatics, greatly enjoyed swimming, as well as walking Lucy in the Castle grounds conversing with other dog walkers.

Preston Prichard near his great aunt, who had lost her only son in WW1 and largely funded his education. This was followed by five years at Swanbourne House School where Preston boarded till he passed to Radley.

There he also learnt the flute.

Prestons father had been in the 1920s the Precentor at Holy Trinity Church Sloane Square, under The Rev Canon Homes Dudden, so Preston, whose congenital heart denied him National Service, made contact with the Canon since he was then Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.

There Preston read law and played in the College 1st Squash Team.

During that time he became a Debs Delight featured often in Tatler and enjoyed lavish pre-dance dinners in London and Balls at stately homes. The footmen must have been surprised when unpacking his overnight suitcase to lay out his tails, that his cufflinks and dress shirt studs were in just two matchboxes.

Preston’s charm, courtesy, conversation and culture were always valued.

After Oxford Preston joined The London Life Association travelling from his Earl’s Court flat on his Vespa to Head office in King William Street, in the City. While there, sixty years ago, he wisely took out life membership and much use of The Hurlingham Club. LLA moved to Surrey and finally Bristol, from where he retired to Sherborne with his wonderful wife Barbara, rejoicing in being the father of Julian and Diana and the grandfather to Alice, Oliver and Jamie.

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Preston was polished, polite, never swore, never showed anger and was always kind, willing and cheerful. The many who offered condolences all said “what a lovely man”. Letters received included such words as “Old world characteristics such as courtesy and civility”, “unfailingly good natured full of shrewd ideas”, “that wonderful unforgettable smile”, “His company was always interesting and stimulating”, “A perfect gentleman” He was an inveterate hoarder, keeping every invitation so it was no wonder he could phone up someone to wish them a fortieth wedding anniversary He chatted up strangers in trains and frequently recounted some connection.

His memory for names, relationships and addresses was formidable. Some may have considered him laid back but his life time malady did not permit much exertion.

He was one who exemplified “The Lord will provide”. The Lord did for he was a wonderful brother, devoted husband, affectionate father, supportive grandfather, true godfather, honourable friend and a comforting neighbour.

Preston was throughout life involved with the Church, helped by his fine singing. He took the collection at Blunham Church from aged 10; served the Chaplain at Radley and the priests at Pusey House Oxford; occupied The Rectory at Covent Garden while assisting the priest. He was Churchwarden and Treasurer at Burrington Combe near Bristol, a lesson reader and server at Castleton .

The spirit of my brother was indeed the candle of the Lord.

Preston Caradoc Hardinge Mostyn Prichard passed away on 16th July 2018.

Eddleston, JDR (1945) Son of OR Robert Birtwhistle Eddleston, and brother to Robert Michael Eddleston, David, as he was known, left Radley to study at Loughborough University.

Living abroad in the Middle East, in Beirut and Baghdad, in the 1960s and ‘70s he later returned to the UK. John David Ritzema Eddleston passed away on 29th Jan 2018.

Whittington RM (1946) Whilst at Radley, Roger Whittington won the Shell 2b Form Prize in 1948 and was a member of the Natural History Society. On leaving the College he worked as an Insurance Broker.

Roger Michael Whittington passed away in December 2016.

Tooth JSH (1946) John Tooth left Radley to study Medicine at Clare College, Cambridge and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital where he obtained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BChir).

Emigrating to Australia, he would go on to become Medical Commissioner for the Mental Health Services Commission in Tasmania John Storrs Howard Tooth passed away on 7th January 2018.

Bircher FMStL (1946) Beloved husband of Teresa, devoted father of Johanna, Isobel, Charlotte and Veronica, and adored grandfather.

Born in Winnipeg in Canada and with a Swiss cavalryman father, Freddie Bircher followed his elder brother EAP (Paul) Bircher (1944) to Radley.

He had a distinguished time at the College, being Senior Prefect in 1951, the year he won the Upper Sixth Declamation Prize and was also Head of Social and Captain of Boats. Playing for the 1st XV in 1949 and 1950, he was also heavily involved in rowing whilst at Radley, winning at Marlow with the 2nd VIII in 1948 and rowing for the lst VIII 1949-51.

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trialled for the VIII in 1952 and 1953 and rowed in the Forster-Fairbairn pairs in 1953. Freddie would continue to row into his 70s and as a member the Veteran Coxless Four of Vesta Rowing Club, Putney. In 1998, this four won at Marlow Regatta, fifty years after the 1948 Radley 2nd VIII, of which he was a member, won its race there.

Salaman, CFA (1946) Clement Salaman, who has died aged 85, was a leading authority on Ficino, the Renaissance philosopher and humanist, tutor of both Lorenzo and Cosimo de Medici, who wrote copious letters to his friends and colleagues.

After his National Service in the Navy, Freddie joined Alcan Industries Ltd in 1957, becoming National Chief Executive Office Benelux before leaving to join the Board of Powell Duffryn plc. as Chairman of its principal engineering subsidiaries in 1987.

He held a number of Non-Executive Directorships, was the Chairman of the Council of Trustees of the PDSA (People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals) and a Trustee of the St Clement Danes Fund, which looks after the church built

by Sir Christopher Wren.

Frederick (Freddie) Max St Lawrence Bircher passed away on 11th October 2017.

Above: Clement Salaman Below: A photograph taken in Lent Term 1950 at the request of the D Social Tutor to mark the occasion of eight captains and prefects in the Social at one time. Freddie Bircher is seated at the front, on the ground.

Clement led a group of translators which eventually produced 12 editions of these letters, written in Latin, which had never before been published in English. They are full of interest, wisdom, hermetic teachings and sound advice. In his work, Clement became a font of knowledge about Ficino and his inspirations, chiefly Plato, Pythagoras and the mysterious but hugely influential Hermes Trismegistus ‘the thrice great’, a figure who has been variously identified with Moses and Akhenaton, the founders of monotheism.

Journeying to Europe, New York and Melbourne at the invitation of various philosophical groups, he and his particular area of scholarship, propounded in his lectures, found enthusiastic audiences across the world.

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Clement Francis Alexander Salaman was born on the 23rd December 1932 at Treborough Lodge, near Roadwater in West Somerset, a large white Edwardian house belonging to his grandparents halfway up one of the Brendon Hills.

He was educated at Radley and Trinity College, Oxford. He did his National Service in the Loyals and was fortunate to be sent with the regiment to Trieste.

After Oxford, where he read History, Clement applied to the Colonial Service and was accepted for a posting to Nigeria. He spent a fourth year at Oxford reading Hauser, and was promptly sent to the south-western part of Nigeria where they speak Yoruba.

This experience neatly summed up for him everything he disagreed with in the Colonial Service, and after two years he resigned. He took a job teaching History and English at Leyton Grammar School.

There was great excitement at the school before he arrived. ‘Have you heard? We’re getting a teacher who’s been at boarding school.’ Such a thing had not happened before in living memory. Clement spent several happy years there before taking a job with the COI, dealing with advertising agencies over issues like seatbelts, litter, and drink-driving.

It was during this time in central London that he became involved with the London School of Economic Science whose guiding light was a man magnificently called Leonardo de Vinci MacLaren. His disciples were popularly called ‘the Philosophers’. They believed in scholarship, self-denial, awareness, meditation, and giving up much of their time and something of their wealth to the cause. Clement had found what he regarded as the fulfilment of an intuition he had had as a schoolboy – that he would find something exceptional and strange, and that would fill his life.

The group had so much success that the idea of starting a school became mooted and eagerly taken up. A friend of Clement’s from Radley became prime mover and de facto headmaster, and in due course invited Clement to join him in their inaugural building in Queen’s Gate and subsequently at what became St James’s School in Twickenham.

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his maternal grandfather’s donnish persuasion about Clement, and this fourth change of career (from which he never wavered) fitted him like a welltailored Oxford gown.

However busy on school or philosophical matters, Clem loved to play the recorder, and sing with friends in a sturdy baritone. He was a devotee of early music, especially that of the first half of the 18th Century. His house was always full of people. He was a generous and enthusiastic host, on one occasion giving a Renaissance Dinner to a group of four strangers who had won it in a Raffle. Something went wrong with the Renaissance Soup which curdled and had (according to a nephew who was present) a strange, not altogether sympathetic taste. Clem roared with his readily-identifiable laughter.

He was working on the 13th edition of the Ficino letters when illness overtook him. He remained philosophical to the end. He is survived by his wife Juliet, and by his children Natalie, Daniel and Clara.

Clement Francis Alexander Salaman passed away on 4th May 2018.

Holcroft MWC (1948) Michael followed his father, grandfather and uncles to Radley, joining his cousin Tim.

Flying again from HMS Albion he helped airlift our forces during the withdrawal from Aden.

On return to the UK he bought an E Type Jag and was stationed at Culdrose, Dartmouth and other bases becoming a helicopter instructor. Ferrying Prime Minister Wilson to the Scilly Isles was one of his duties alongside delivering VIP Naval people to parades in Central London.

Naturally reticent about his flying and other achievements, he did admit to ditching upside down in the sea following engine failure. Retiring from the Navy he flew helicopters to North Sea oil rigs, combining this arduous occupation with running the farm at Wrentnall, inherited from his father.

Finally giving up flying, he helped run the Game Fair, while dedicating himself to his farm and beautiful garden and doing as much sailing as he could manage. Part of his legacy are the garden and farm projects he created in his practical way. A reserved but very kind person, Mike was much loved by all, particularly the young and will be sorely missed.

Lt Cdr Michael William Culcheth Holcroft passed away on 20th July 2018.

Rowing was at a high point when Tim’s VIII won the Princess Elizabeth Cup in 1952. The bold decision was taken to enter Mikes’ crew into the Ladies Plate in 1953. Though narrowly beaten in the final by Jesus College, Cambridge, Radley had led for most of the race. To quote an earlier Old Radleian “Throughout the Regatta, Radley’s times were quicker than any of the Princess Elizabeth Cup crews undoubtedly making them the fastest school crew in the country”.

After Radley, Michael joined the RNAS, doing his flying training in Florida becoming a fast jet pilot. Later transferring to helicopters, he was involved in the Borneo confrontation, being deployed to convey Marine Commandos to forward bases behind enemy lines in challenging jungle terrain.

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Dipple IAK (1948) A school Prefect in 1952, Ian Dipple won the Sixth Form Declamation Prize in 1952 and was CSM in the CCF.

Redward MJ (1949) Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Michael came to Radley in the third term of the 1949 school year.

Whilst at Radley he showed the skills at Rackets that would stay with him throughout his life. Playing as the 1st pair in 1952 and 53, he reached the Final of the Public Schools Rackets Competition at the Queen’s Club, playing alongside Ted Dexter.

In 1958 he was one of the founders of the Old Radleian Tennis & Rackets Club, acting first as Secretary, before becoming Chairman for many years.

He represented the Club on numerous occasions in the Noel Bruce Cup.

On leaving the College he trained in the Sales Department of Charrington & Company, Brewers, before moving into a career in logistics. He was Distribution Director at Hewitt Bros, Grimsby, Bass Marketing, Burton-on-Trent, and Canada Dry Rawlings, Kettering.

He then went on to become General Manager for United Carriers, Wellingborough and a Fellow of the Institute of Logistics. He married Diana Steedman in 1973, having two sons and a daughter together.

After National Service in The Life Guards, he spent his working life as a member of the London Stock Exchange, later becoming a Member of the LSE Council.

Michael John Redward passed away on 4th July 2017

He married Susan Margaret, daughter of Lord Latymer (OR) in 1965. He would go on to support the building of the new Real Tennis courts at Radley, and became involved in a charitable Special Needs school in Sussex, near where he lived.

Ian Alexander Keith Dipple passed away on 14th September 2017.

Hill ADD (1950) On leaving Radley, David (as he was known) attended University College, Oxford where he obtained an honours degree in PPE and rowed for the University 1st VIII from 1957 to 1959, During his National Service, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and was engaged on active service abroad.

He embarked upon a career in construction in 1960 by training with Trollope and Colls in the City of London. Later, he joined Higgs and Hill

Ltd, a firm founded by his great-greatgrandfather in 1874, which had become a public company in 1960.

David consolidated his wide experience of construction, joinery and plant at home and abroad, within the Higgs and Hill Group, as a Director from 1969, as Managing Director from 1985 to 1992, and as Deputy Chairman from 1992. He became the Chairman and Managing Director of the Overseas Construction Division in 1976 and continued to work in that capacity for over twenty years.

In 1991, he became Chairman of Aztec, one of London’s nine Training and Enterprise Councils and, in 1993, he was elected Chairman of the London Region and a Member of the National TEC Council. He was a member of the British Schools Exploring Society and his interests included rowing and cabinet making.

David married Cynthia Hutchins and had three children together, with their son, James Hill (1982) also attending Radley.

Andrew David Derry Hill passed away on the 7th May 2018.

Aylen, JA (1951) John Aylen represented Radley both on land and on the river, turning out for the lst XV in 1954 and the lst VIII in 1955.

He would go on to row for another 1st VIII again in 1956 and 1957, this time for RMA Sandhurst.

On completion of his training he joined the Royal Dragoons in 1957, before going on to RMCS Shrivenham, attaining his BSc (London) in 1960.

He attended Staff College in 1970 and was made Lieutenant Colonel in 1979.

He retired in 1988 having served in Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Dubai, Cyprus, Germany and Northern Ireland.

Lt Col John Anthony Aylen passed away on 17th July 2018.

Ian Dipple (front row, far left) in the 1953 Prefects photo.

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Palmer, MH (1954) Mick was born in Torquay on 21st November 1940, the eldest of four brothers, the others being Howard, Raphe and Anthony ’Wold’.

In 1946, Ged was posted to Germany and shortly afterwards Mick, Howard and his mother followed, becoming some of the first civilians to travel to Germany after the war. Mick attended Cothill prep school before going on to Radley in 1954.

John Aylen (rear row, far right) with the 1955 1st VIII. Upon leaving Radley, Patrick worked as a Chartered Accountant in Scotland, completing his qualification in 1963.

Proprietor of his own business, Cobham Consultancy Services, he married Gloria Lewis in 1970 with whom he had a daughter and a son.

Patrick Cochran Vavasor Durell passed away on 20th September 2017 LankesteR, PM (1952) In his final year at Radley, Peter was one of a number of Radleians who sailed in the Tall Ships Race in Theodora, a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter co-owned

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After leaving Radley, Peter became an apprentice with Vickers Armstrong, now BAE Systems, at their works on the former Brooklands motor racing circuit and airfield just outside Weybridge in Surrey. He was sent by Vickers to Southampton University to read for a degree in aeronautical engineering.

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in the sales department of Vickers for a number of years. It was an exciting time to be in the aircraft industry; at that time, Vickers were developing the VC10 and 111 jet airliners. In 1964, Peter joined GKN and was responsible for marketing the hydraulic Pilgrim Nut, which is still the industry standard for attaching propellers to ships.

In 1969 Peter joined Leslie Hartridge, a small engineering company based in Buckingham which manufactured and sold highly specialised diesel engine testing equipment around the world.

Peter became Sales Manager and travelled widely before retiring from the company after 27 years.

Peter lived with his wife Jill in the village of Hinton-in-the-Hedges for 45 years and became heavily involved with a number of village projects.

They had two daughters, Sally and Judy.

Peter’s younger brother, Richard (1961) was also at Radley.

Peter Michael Lankester passed away on 19th March 2018.

For Mick, Radley had been in the blood since 1888, as both his grandfather (Cecil) and father were ORs, as were his brothers and other cousins, Caryl and Richard. Mick enjoyed his time at Radley and made the most of the opportunities presented to him particularly when it came to sailing; he told stories of sailing on the river and gravel pits and was lucky enough to sail in the first Tall Ships race to Lisbon.

During his time at Radley, he sailed on Theodora with Chris Ellis who was a don at Radley and who went on to found the Ocean Youth Club.

After leaving Radley, Mick went on to qualify as a Civil Engineer working in London & Anglesey. In 1968, he took some time out and sailed to Malta to work as a sailing instructor. During this time, he met Alison who would become his wife and mother to two sons, Charles and Simon.

In 1975, Mick took a job in Iran as an engineer, building a power station in Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf. The family enjoyed the expat lifestyle in Tehran until the Iranian Revolution in 1978. After returning to England, Mick helped his father run his farm and ran his own building design company based in Whitchurch, Hampshire, until his retirement. Mick and Alison continued the schooling tradition by sending their sons Charles and Simon to Radley. Mick enjoyed being an active member of the community and church in Whitchurch.

Mick passed away after a short illness and he will be greatly missed as a husband, brother, father and grandfather to four grandchildren.

Michael Howard Palmer passed away on 1st October 2018.

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MacDowel, TE (1958) Tim MacDowel was Senior Prefect in 1963 and captained for the Cricket 1st XI the same year, having made his first appearance for them in 1962.

Going on to the Mons Officer Cadet School, he passed out first in 1964 taking on a short service commission with the 15th/19th The Kings Royal Hussars.

Upon leaving the army in 1968, he joined Watney Mann, before going on to work for Louis Gordon and then taking up the lease of premises from Cambridge University’s celebrated dining club, the Pitt Club. Calling it Mytton’s, from a local Cambridge 19th-century squire, he turned the Pitt into an old-school English restaurant serving kedgeree and kippers.

He married Hon. Angela Christine, daughter of Lord Hazlerigg, in 1969 and for a time they lived in Hong Kong where he was a member of The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club and an active member of the Radleian community there.

In response to a request for News & Notes in 2000, Tim responded: ‘Unemployable full-time. So much parttime work, not enough time to play golf!”

The obituary notice from the Royal & Ancient Club, St Andrews where he was a member since 1986 reads: Members and Staff of the Club will be very saddened to hear of the death of Tim MacDowel, who died peacefully in hospital following a brave battle against illness. In 1987 Tim won The Calcutta Cup playing with John Halliday (a partnership forged from Hong Kong where Tim was the Member Services Controller at The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club). As a Local R&A Member, Tim served on the Club Committee from 2009 to 2013, during which time he was a driving force responsible for a number of initiatives, including the commissioning of The Diamond Jubilee glass engraving now housed in the Clubhouse Library, and the introduction of the Monthly Medal Eclectic Competition.

A Memorial Service for Tim was held at Radley in April 2018 and was well attended by many of his College

contemporaries as well as members of his family, his two sons Ben (1984) and Richard (1986) also attended Radley.

Timothy Effingham MacDowel passed away on 24th February 2018.

Morgan, RW (1959) Winning the College Biology Prize in 1964 was not the path to a life in the sciences for Richard Morgan who would go on to Bristol University after Radley to study law, graduating with an LLB in 1968. Whilst at university he continued to play rugby, having turned out for the 1st XV in his final year.

He would go on to a lifetime working in the law as a solicitor for over 35 years until his early retirement.

Richard Woosnam Morgan passed away on 10th September 2017.

Hartill, RM (1961) After Radley, he read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was President of the ADC. He worked for some years in theatre management, but had health problems in later years.

Chorley, IL (1962) Ian left Radley and studied at London North Western Polytechnic School of Librarianship and completed his Chartered Librarian qualification in 1972. He worked for Royal National Institute for the Blind, North West Hertfordshire Health Authority and National Health Service Supplies and as a company secretary.

Upon retirement he was a Meals on Wheels driver for Age Concern and a voluntary youth worker, as well as performing various duties at St Albans Abbey as a Sidesman.

He is survived by his brother OR Nigel Chorley (1965).

Peele, NR (1969) Much-loved husband to Debs, wonderful father to Ben (1990), George (2009), Sarah and Charlie and adored grandfather.

He remained a bottomless well of recondite information.

Representing Radley at Golf in 1972 and then again in 1973, the year he was joined at the College by his brother Jeremy. For much of his working life he was a Company Director, raising capital for ventures and then managing the ventures.

Roger Minton Hartill passed away on 2nd October 2018.

Nicholas Richardson Peele passed away on 8th January 2018.

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Ross AJ (1970) Anthony won the Oxley Geography Prize in 1975 was part of the 1st VIII and helped win the National Schools Regatta the same year.

Receiving a John Nugée Travelling Exhibition, he and fellow OR James Hogg (1970) spent the year after leaving Radley travelling Australia, New Zealand and several Pacific islands. On his return to the UK he would train to become a Chartered Surveyor.

The following words about Anthony come from Peter Brigg (1971).

‘I am sorry to report that Anthony Ross, 1st VIII and Sculler 1975 and my first cousin, died just recently after two years battling bowel cancer. It was discovered unfortunately at a very advanced stage, and after a very good response to initial chemotherapy, which gave him a good remission for about 18 months, he was back on his bike riding literally 100s of miles, it recurred again .

Anthony was one of the most determined scullers and VERY hard to beat (even after rowing into the bank!) he would never stop pulling as hard as he could til the last stroke, almost invincible whatever the odds. Sadly that’s not how it works with cancer.

He was quite a private person, and not many who knew him will know he was so ill, or of his recent death.’

Richard W Smith (1970) remembers Anthony thusly: ‘Anthony was a mountain man, a DIY legend, a tenacious competitor and a loving, caring gentleman, devoted to his wife Suzie and son, Tullis.

A fellow new boy in H Social, Anthony was then a shy, quiet individual with a shared love of King Crimson and Jethro Tull. Naturally self-reliant, single-minded and something of a perfectionist, Anthony jumped at the chance to forsake sweep-oared rowing for sculling. Nonetheless in his last term at Radley he was asked to substitute in the school 1st VIII at the National Schools Regatta; the crew won “against the odds”.

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Anthony Ross University, Anthony pursued a career as a Chartered Surveyor, initially with John Lewis. Alongside developing a successful career, Anthony competed for Thames RC as a single sculler.

At Henley Royal Regatta, Anthony twice reached the semi-final of the Diamond Challenge Sculls. In 1983 Anthony led all the way to the half mile mark before losing to fellow OR, Tim Crooks. The following year Anthony lost by just over a length to the World Lightweight Champion. Later that summer Anthony won Gold at the National Championships.

A back injury prevented Anthony from continuing with his sculling, however in the mid-1980s he joined the London Region Nordic Ski Club. It led to some lifelong friendships spent exploring and skiing the mountains of Europe and North America. Anthony loved to test himself against the elements, spending nights in snow holes in the wilderness of Norway. Somehow Anthony also found time in the 1980s to complete two major restoration projects to South London

houses virtually single-handed. So long as he had the right tools, Anthony felt unfazed by any setback along the way.

At the time of Anthony’s death, he was working for M&G Real Estate. One of his colleagues paid tribute: “Anthony had a fabulous career as a Chartered Surveyor, was widely known and highly respected. He was always very modest and somewhat understated about his achievements but he had a professional career to be immensely proud of.”

One of Anthony’s last projects was to “refresh and enliven” the 1960s-built Cwmbran Shopping Centre. The Centre Manager reflected on Anthony’s contribution: “He was always a true gentleman. His enthusiasm for Cwmbran was infectious, especially his passion for the refresh scheme. When meeting with stakeholders he would speak so positively winning over any doubters! Even through his illness he remained positive and with a sense of humour.”’

Anthony John Ross passed away on 21st March 2018.

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Loxdale, PA (1973) The son of HAR Loxdale (1936) both he and his brother, Patrick (1974) followed in their father’s footsteps in coming to Radley.

He left Radley and went to the Welsh College of Agriculture in Aberystwyth where he gained an HND in Agriculture.

Staying in Wales, he took on the farming of Castle Hill Farm, near Aberystwyth as well as serving as a magistrate for many years. He also played an important role in a range of organisations in the area, including Llanilar Football Club, and was appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire.

Peter Alasdair Loxdale passed away on 28th July 2018.

Harrison JMI (1973) John Harrison was one of three brothers to attend Radley, along with Mark (1973) and Paul (1976).

A House Prefect of E Social in his final two years, he also represented the College 1st teams in both Squash, in 1976, and Basketball, 1976 to 1978. In the classroom, John was also the winner of the Sarsfield Hall prize for social history and current affairs in 1978.

Upon leaving Radley, he went up to Edinburgh University.

Throughout his working life, John held a number of high level posts and directorships. Much-loved husband of Sara, who he married in 1991, and loving father to Ellie, Jack, Hugo and Matthew, John Michael Innes Harrison passed away on 20th January 2018.

Haggett, MStJL (1975) Son of Norman and Beryl Haggett (see pp.92-93), whilst studying for his Art ‘A’ Level, Matthew was one of the first boys to stage an individual exhibition in the the Sewell Centre in 1980.

He would go on to continue his interests in the art world, working as a Freelance Artist and as a main buyer for the National Trust.

Matthew St John Louis Haggett passed on 16th September 2017.

Peter Loxdale Wakley, NV (1976) Born in Canberra, Australia, but to an OR father, William Vere (1938) it was no surprise that he and his brother, Simon (1977) attended Radley.

In 1989 he responded to a request from the Warden for a career resume, which we reproduce here: I left Radley in the spring of 1981, having achieved 3 grade As at A level and an S1 in Chemistry, and won a place Pembroke College, Cambridge in the winter of 1980. My last term at Radley was spent as Senior Prefect, during which time I undertook some teaching in addition to my other duties.

In winter 1981 I went up to Cambridge and began my 3 year Engineering course.

I also took a keen interest in sporting activities including rowing, hockey and cross country. As time passed, I concentrated mainly on my studies and rowing alone, and did a good deal of coaching of novice oarsmen. In my final year I captained the Boat Club which fared very well both at Cambridge and Henley, and gained a double first in my degree course.

From Cambridge, I came back to Radley to teach Physics and Mathematics for a year and I also coached the Colts crew on the river, as well as being an officer in the CCF. After this year I moved down to Greenfields School to teach Science at this

small independent school in Sussex, quite close to home.

In 1986 I left Greenfields to join the Personnel Division of the Scientology Religious Education College at Saint Hill in Sussex. My work there involved me in ensuring that the staff were well trained and competent at their jobs.

I am now working as the Executive Director of the part of the organisation which deals with the public mainly in the local area. The organisation provides services which improve the confidence and ability of those who take them.

These services embrace the fields of study, communication, personal relationships, finance, administration and many more.

The organisation is having a period of unprecedented expansion at the moment, including the completion of our new premises, the only genuine castle to be built in this century, next to a well-known Sussex manor.

He would go on to work as a Senior Marketing Director for Telco Global Communications.

Nicholas Vere Wakley passed away on the 17 July 2018.

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Moving to Australia, Simon became one of the country’s most experienced equity capital market bankers, working for UBS and Credit Suisse.

Beloved husband of Jen and father of Seb, Lily, Abi and Charlie. Simon’s brother, Mark (1978) also attended Radley.

Simon Charles Cox passed away on 10th November 2018.

Lister (née Rudd), HC (1986) Joining Radley as a day pupil in the sixth form in 1989, Hilary had the degenerative condition, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, which meant she needed to use a wheelchair from the age of 15.

She went on to study biochemistry at Jesus College, Oxford, but during her studies her condition worsened and she became paralysed from the neck down at the age of 27.

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Hilary Lister shares champagne with her support crew after completing her solo sail around Britain.

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She used the “sip-and-puff ” system of blowing and sucking through plastic straws to steer and control a yacht’s sails and so became the first disabled woman to sail solo around Britain.

She became the first quadriplegic person to sail across the Channel in 2005 and then the first quadriplegic woman to sail around the Isle of Wight in 2007.

Two years later she sailed solo around Britain. The International Sailing Federation (now known as World Sailing) judged that the feat put her in the top four sailors in the world.

Announcing her death, a post on her charity website said: “It is with deep regret that Hilary’s Dream Trust announces the passing of its founder - Hilary Lister - an inspiration to many, a recipient of many accolades and a record holder of many sailing achievements.”

Alex Lister paid tribute to his stepmother, telling the BBC: “She turned the suffering she was experiencing into an opportunity.”

Lister started sailing with Westbere Sailing Opportunities in Canterbury in 2003, and said: “Within 30 seconds of being in a boat I was in love.”

She won the Sunday Times Helen Rollason award for inspiration in 2007 and was awarded other accolades, including a Cosmopolitan superhero award and the Royal Cruising Club’s Seamanship Award in 2005. In 2009, she received a Doctoris in Honoris from the University of Kent, Canterbury nd the same honour from the University of Staffordshire the following year.

Hilary’s Dream Trust supports disabled and disadvantaged people in taking up sailing.

Hilary Claire Lister (nee Rudd) passed away on 18th August 2018.

Swift, RS (1999) Rupert Swift was a keen sportsman who enjoyed rugby and rowing in particular. In 2001, Rupert won gold in the J16 crew at the National Schools’ Regatta, a moment that was captured in

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an article in The Times paying tribute to Radley’s success on the water. It led with a picture of Rupert receiving his gold medal with his characteristic broad smile, despite still being on the water having just finished a gruelling race, exhaustion clearly visible on the faces of the rest of his crew.

In sixth form, rowing allowed Rupert to combine his love of sport with his love of people to good effect. With typical self-deprecation, he later talked with pride of being part of the “Gentleman’s Four”, as he called it, because it allowed him to row in the mornings at regattas and then enjoy time with his friends under the team gazebo in the afternoon.

Rupert was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension a few months before his 21st birthday, after suffering from altitude sickness climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at the end of his first year at Newcastle University. The way that he dealt with his illness over the subsequent 12 years was inspirational.

He lived a very full life, with great courage and good humour, in spite of the circumstances.

After obtaining a First in History, he managed a successful career as a Lloyds of London insurance broker in the City.

He was a proud member of Rye Golf Club and the RAC on Pall Mall, whose gym he frequented. He travelled widely, including to New Zealand earlier this year. Rupert enjoyed watching rugby and would host his friends for England

Above: Rupert Swift receiving his winners gold-medal with the J16.1 crew at the National Schools’ Regatta in 2001.

Above left: Rupert Swift shortly before his death. internationals, always getting out his fraying Radley rugby top for such occasions.

Rupert went into cardiac arrest at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and died later that day surrounded by friends and people who loved him.

Rupert Stephen Swift passed away on 1st October 2018.

Grant LWF (2000) Following his older brother, George (1998) to Radley, both in D Social, Laurence Grant was a talented performer who often graced the stage whilst at College.

He regularly appeared in the Guitar Prize competition, winning best composition prize with Matt Cooper in 2003 (despite having arrived on stage in “sartorially challenging form and proceeded to introduce their two pieces with abrief stream of gibberish”.

Lawrence’s distinctive and expressive voice was again in evidence when he performed at The Cornbury Festival in 2005 as part of the band, Spring Offensive.

It was not just musical talent that Laurence demonstrated either as he was

one of five boys were chosen for the National Youth Theatre in 2004 and would go on to read Drama at Goldsmith’s College, UCL. Upon completing his degree in 2008, Laurence joined the Army and throughout his four year career toured Afghanistan, working with Afghan, US and Georgian forces attaining the rank of captain. He moved to Hong Kong where he worked for Deloitte and Options Technology Laurence William Frederick Grant passed away on 17 October 2017 Lakin PB (2002) Beloved son of Mark and Christina, much loved brother of Henry and Molly.

Patrick Barklie Lakin died suddenly on 17th November 2016 in a tragic accident, aged 27.

Winter, JME (2011) On the 21st June 2018, a celebration of Jack Winter’s life was held at The Walled Gardens, Fulham Palace, attended by friends from his days in A Social and his Social Tutor, TG Ryder.

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chief builder. It was obvious that Bill was highly skilled in boatbuilding but we had no idea of Bill’s vast range of talents: he has been able to service and repair our outboard motors and our grass-cutting equipment; he has been able to weld and so make and repair riggers for the boats; he has managed to understand the video and so edit our tapes; he has even, with Joan’s help, been able to teach ballroom dancing to a 1st VIII coach; and so the list goes on.

Top: Attendees at Jack Winter’s memorial celebration Above: Jack Winter

Bill Weller (Staff) Bill was the Radley Boatbuilder from 1970 to 1990. The following comes from The 1990 Radleian.

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It is fashionable to be green in 1990 but Bill has always been green. He will not throw anything away and is capable of some amazing feats of recycling. Out of an old pram and scrapped motor mower he constructed a high speed go-cart for his grandchildren. From the sheet metal casings of old refrigerators and washing machines he has made fins and other parts for boats. He used an old electric motor to make a floor polisher for the clubroom and in another ingenious invention Bill coupled an electric motor with an Old Singer sewing machine to make a bandsaw.

One of Bill’s finest creations was a burglar alarm for his cabin cruiser. This consisted of old gas pipe, cartridges (with the shot removed), carefully positioned nails, line and weights. The one or two men who thought that they might spend a peaceful night on Bill’s boat, or take it for a trip down the river, found themselves needing

to make rapid changes to their plans and, perhaps, their clothes.

Bill has always treated us all with undeserved courtesy and patience. A few years ago we had a coach who introduced himself to Bill: “I’m Richard ..., call me Richard”.

“Yes sir”, said Bill.

The same coach had the misfortune, during one season, to use an outboard motor to chew the bows off an eight and, a few weeks later, to put the bows of his launch through the side of the eight he was coaching. Bill continued to call him “Sir”.

When a boat or oar was broken, Bill always regarded each repair as a challenge, the challenge being to put everything back together so that the repair was invisible. When necessary Bill and Malcolm have been prepared to work through the night to complete an urgent repair and have the boat back on the water as soon as possible.

Bill and Joan have been at the heart of the best boathouse team in the country.

They deserve the happiest retirement in the Wirral but we hope they will come back and visit Radley as often as possible.

Thank you for all you have done for so many of us.

Bill Weller passed away on 21st January 2018.

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Sport Rackets, Squash and Real Tennis: 2018 Review

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Royal visit One of the highlights of the year was undoubtedly the visit of HRH Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, back to the Real Tennis court at Radley.

Real Tennis The clean sweep in the National Schools in 2017 was always a hard act to follow, but Radley very nearly managed a repeat.

Benedict Yorston & Ned Batstone won the National Schools Doubles title, beating Wellington 6/4 2/6 6/1 in a splendid final. Batstone’s aggressive strokeplay and Yorston’s resilience under some pressure enabled them to come back from 0-1 in the final set after losing the second. Harry Purton & Harry Foreman came a close third, just losing 4/6 to Wellington in the semi-final. Ned Batstone also won the National Schools Singles, also beating a Wellington opponent. As a pair, they have the lowest (best) handicaps of any Radley pair since the court was opened and are both ranked in the top 10 juniors in the world, along with Harry Purton.

As reported on in the last issue of Lusimus, His Royal Highness played three hours of doubles against a group of Radley boys and Real Tennis Club members as part of his ‘Tennis

Challenge’. Designed to generate support for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) Charity, this challenge saw the Earl play on all 50 Real Tennis courts in the world in 2018.

It was a timely return for His Royal Highness, who had originally opened the Real Tennis Courts at Radley exactly 10 years ago!

Above: Prince Edward and members of the Radley Real Tennis Club ahead of their match.

Old Radley Racket “We are currently clearing out a lot of boxes which have not been opened in years between various moves, and attached is a picture of my "Radley" squash racquet from the early '60's which just came to light. As it says on the reverse side, it was strung by RL Lay who had a small shop on the premises.

I do no believe that squash racquets even look anything like this today.

I was never a great squash player (after all I was a "wetbob") and have to tell you a quick story about my use of this racquet shortly after leaving school. It was a very cold Boxing Day and I was invited to play a game with a potential father-in-law. We were both heavily dressed against the cold and after a few minutes' play I was down to a T-shirt while he never removed a stitch. He just stood there in the middle of the court, carefully placing the ball, while I orbited around him like an electron about a nucleus. Needless to say, I did not become his son-in-law, but I still have the racquet!”

John Gammage (1962)

Rackets Following a successful Michaelmas term, the squad continued to build on the firm foundations being laid, particularly at the Junior end of the club. The Junior Colts continue to go from success to success and the first pair of Jardine-Brown and Stone have come on leaps and bounds again this term. Following good wins on the school circuit during the course of the term, they went into Queen’s full of confidence. They performed admirably and played well to get to the quarter-finals. Sadly, at this stage, in an absolute epic, they were knocked out by Wellington in a terrific match that ebbed and flowed. The Colts pair of Crowston and van der Meerschen have had another strong term with wins over Cheltenham College, Clifton College and Rugby, to name but a few. As a recognised pair on the school circuit, there was some hope that this might translate into a threatening run at Queen’s. As it was, their run also came to an end in the quarter-finals against a Tonbridge pair who made fewer unforced errors.

Squash It has been another strong year for the Squash Club, not one without disappointment, but certainly with enough victories and fine performances to define it as a success. 42 different boys represented the club in matches against other schools, with an overall record of 16 matches won, and 8 lost. The win percentage of 66.7% is the envy of all other sports at Radley. the old radleian 2018

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Radley Rangers: 2018 Review Played 16 Won 7 Lost 7 Drawn 2 Cancelled 3 MCC – Rained off Bradfield Waifs – Won by 4 wickets.

Hearne 69.

Wesson Trophy T20 Tournament IZ – lost by 5 wickets. J Dalrymple 75 Radley College – lost by 61 runs The Hon Sec writes: This was a fitting tribute to the two men to whom Radley cricket has owed so much for over 30 years – James Wesson, in whose honour the fixture was created three years ago, and Wags, with whom he combined for 11 seasons, of which 8 were unbeaten.

Leading lights from that era returned to Radley to pay tribute, including Jamie Dalrymple (showing he has still got it) and Andrew Strauss (who resisted being pestered to do the same). The sun shone, Wags surprised a huge audience by making his first speech outside the privacy of the dressing room, and two separate Radley XIs demonstrated the depth and quality of coaching by brushing aside the Rangers and IZ with ease.

Here’s to the next 100 terms…!

Marriott, 107* (left) and Cunningham, 89* (right) after their match-winning partnership against Guards CC. Sherborne Pilgrims – lost by 12 runs Jamie Wynne-Griffith: Both sides were keen to bat first on a good looking Second Side deck and Sherborne won the toss.

Whilst the wicket looked good, there was some early movement for the bowlers, and after an ok start they suddenly found themselves 80-9 at lunch with Charlie Purton and Jonty Robinson in the wickets.

A good spell after lunch saw Sherborne post 132, with some good counterattacking from their number 5.

The Rangers started well with Will Eden and Mungo Fawcett setting a decent platform. Unfortunately, as can occur too often with Rangers sides, the middle order collapsed and Radley ended up being 120 all out.

A really competitive game but a chance missed.

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Guards CC – won by 10 wickets.

Marriott 107*, Cunningham 89* Shopwyke Strollers – won by 3 wickets Hon Sec: This low-scoring game was over by 4:30, or arguably just after lunch when the Strollers had collapsed from 70-2 to 106 all out.

Bad batting met steady bowling, especially from George Grace who picked up 4.

We didn’t drop a catch, helped by the absence of our specialist first slip who was elsewhere, doubtless celebrating his award that day in the Queen’s birthday honours.

Arise Sir James!

The run chase, led by OM-H, inevitably wobbled, and at 86-7 the Hon Sec was looking for batting kit. But we were seen home with some clinically clean hitting by debutant Henry Chapman (6.1), who has a bright RR future.

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Gloucester Gipsies – Lost by 6 wickets.

Cunningham 95 off 59 balls, G Grace 53 Radley College (Gaudy) – Lost by 60 runs Marlborough Blues – Cancelled (rain) Flashmen – Cancelled (player shortage) Hurlingham – Lost by 4 wickets. Stanton 58, Robinson 4-75 Hon Sec: This game witnessed the dawn of a new technological twist – connected to the scorer’s laptop the live TCS feed allows anybody around the world to follow the score. This partly compensates for the irritation of receiving a spreadsheet rather than a traditional scoresheet, since it sparked some lively commentary on the RR group chat along the lines of “Keep Robinson on” or “Stanton must be getting tired – take him off before he gets carted”.

Rangers leaving the field after cheaply bowling Charterhouse Friars, before going on to win in their opening Cricketer Cup fixture.

Charterhouse Friars (Cricketer Cup round 1) – won by 5 wickets. Wright 3-12, Wallis 3-42.

Hon Sec: Not much to report after we bowled Charterhouse out for 113 in 36 overs. In reply Marriott got a poor decision on 29, Martyn-Hemphill 30, and Duffell 25 not out, putting the game to bed after 26 overs.

Team: W Gubbins, Hearne, Marriott, J Dalrymple (Capt), Martyn-Hempill, Duffell, Low, Fawcett, Wright, Wallis, Robinson.

Cranleigh – Won by 4 wickets George Coles: Rangers lost the toss and were asked to bowl first. Cranleigh were off to a fast start on a very quick outfield, but Rangers bowled tight lines to limit scoring and take 7 wickets before lunch.

Declaration was made around 3:15, setting 232 to win.

Rangers looked comfortably on for the win, but always in danger of a collapse that never arrived and the chase was completed with the loss of only 6 wickets.

Gauchos – Won by 4 wickets. Grace 3-33, Lambert 3-53, Greville-Williams 77*

Old Bedfordians (Cricketer Cup round 2) Lost by 4 wickets.

Hon Sec: The Rangers got off to a flying start, led by S Dalrymple’s 85 off 76 balls.

J Dalrymple (71 off 72) and Duffell (40 off 44) were then mainly responsible for getting us to 271-6. The spectating Hon Sec and two captains of Rangers Cricketer Cup sides in the ‘90s agreed that this was surely enough. But we had clearly failed to appreciate how the game has moved on, and that this was barely par on a superb batting surface. Nobody bowled badly, but their number 4 rode his luck with an unbeaten 140 that saw Bedford home with an over to spare.

Team: S Dalrymple, W Gubbins, Coles, J Dalrymple (capt), Martyn-Hempill, Duffell (wkt), Cunningham, Wallis, Robinson, Wright, Folkestone.

Old Amplefordians – Won by 6 runs.

Low 102, Willis 3-26 Angus Gubbins: We were put in on a very muggy morning and were 0 for 3 with the ball hooping around. Tom Buckley then played a very gritty 50 and Alex Low got a fast 100 and we finished on 223.

Ampleforth were cruising along in the sunshine at 150 for 2 before a collapse.

9 needed from the last and one wicket needed - George Bland the hero with a yorker.

Yorkshire Gentlemen (2 day match) – Drawn. Williams 90, Hoddinott 57, Robinson 7-53, Morland 3-18.

Sam Hoddinott: The always highlyanticipated and very popular YGs fixture this year was looking unusually doubtful with the ever-reliable Henson team out of action and Mungo away in America.

But we managed to recruit a suspiciously young team with all members being 18 or 19 years old. The Rangers batted first and the big guns Moreland, Betley, Williams and Robinson looked a good top order.

But at 20-4 the faith had not been repaid.

With the Rangers on the rack, the Gents looked to squeeze, but some sensible and at times fortunate batting in the middle order dragged us to 164 all out.

The Gents looked to press home the advantage and pile on the runs on a flattening deck, but they didn’t count on J Robinson, whose figures of 7-53 from 17 overs speak for themselves. A terrific display of medium pace bowling!

However, one did get through the net with a young Saffer cashing in for 126.

Second time round the top order showed a lot more application with scores of 23, 40 and a special 90 from C Williams.

Although we were sitting pretty, 4 consecutive ducks in the middle order with opposition skipper B Fawcett (OR) taking 5 wickets for no runs (eventually 7) did unnerve the side a wee bit! Some lower order hitting did give us a lead of over 180 and something to defend. the old radleian 2018

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Back in the field the wickets were shared with K Moreland nearly being arrested for his 3 wicket haul. Jonty and Ollie Farr both bowled very nicely again- the latter interpreting the captains advice to ‘shake it up a little’ rather differently than expected. With two accurate Beamers at a now rather upset Yorkshireman wearing his beloved white rose cap it was time to ‘take a blow’.

This chap was now fired up and batting long and hard - 30 from 120 balls – he took the Gents to a draw, 20 runs short and with the Rangers only needing two last wickets.

With good festivities had by all on the first night and no doors or noses to fix we agreed we had made a good stand, 3.5 kegs all out!! Good fun had by all!

Our total of 279-4 was anchored with 75* from ringer Bill Holland before a torn hamstring sent him off, and another 50 from Henry Bailey.

Hampshire Hogs – Drawn. Bailey 54, Mills 54*, Hollingworth 3-73 off 21 overs Hon Sec: Our last game was a high scoring draw. A shortage of 4 players with only days to go turned into a surplus of one on the day, allowing skipper Henry Mills to make a cameo half century then slide off to a party and shirk fielding duties.

The Hogs’ run chase started too late, and they ended 40 runs short with only 3 wickets in hand, but not before OR Jake Wolfenden had made a fine unbeaten century.

We claimed a moral victory, having scored more runs in fewer overs and having taken more wickets, a satisfactory conclusion to the season.

Nick Gubbins (2007) Having struggled with injury early in the year and on a difficult Lions tour the West Indies, Nick has posted 3 one-day and one County Championship centuries for Middlesex.

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An unbeaten 128* set up the Lions for victory against India ‘A’ in the triangular series with the West Indies ‘A’.

He has continued to be selected for the Lions squad, taking on Pakistan ‘A’ in a series of one-day, T20 and a four day match being held in Abu Dhabi.

With a new selector in Ed Smith looking to freshen up the England batting line up, Nick’s name has been in the conversation for a full Test team call up.

The club enjoyed a very successful summer in 2018. 83 of 135 (61%) matches were won and lots of teams had great records.

Colts 1 won every game they played, despite disruption from above, and the quality of the cricket these boys played bodes very well for the future. It was also a very promising season for JC1 who won 7 of 10 matches. Midgets 1 put in some great performances including their thrilling win against Teddies (who had won against Eton and Harrow) in the last game of the season.

All in all, 221 boys played in matches and a huge vote of thanks must go to the 29 coaches who give up hours to ensure the boys get to play as much cricket as possible.

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Normally I would try to avoid singling coaches out because they all give so generously of their time and enthusiasm but it would be remiss not to make special mention of SAH. He has made an invaluable contribution to the lower end of Midgets cricket for over twenty years. He manages a large number of boys effortlessly and herds them through nets and matches with incredible warmth, patience and genuine enthusiasm.

On behalf of generations of masters in charge of Radley Cricket and hundreds of boys I want to say a huge thank you to Simon for such tireless dedication. We wish him and his family all the best for retirement.

SH Dalrymple

Other highlights of the season include: Val Brooke’s unbeaten 130 against Cheltenham, innings of real poise as well as his usual clean ball striking. He went on to make a second century, 128 in the win against Marlborough.

Tom Vincent hit his maiden Radley ton off just 67 balls against Abingdon for the Colts 1.

Amongst the bowlers Will RogersColtman took a hat-trick for the 3rd XI also versus Cheltenham; Charlie Maunder recorded figures of 5 for 17 in the 4th XI match versus Marlborough and Hector Denny bowled a mesmeric spell of 6 for 32 to bamboozle the Tonbridge middle order for Colts 1.

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Old Radleians FC: 2017-18 Review After what turned out to be a disappointing season in 2016-17, with relegation from Arthurian League Division 1, expectations at the club were reset at the outset of the 2017/18 season with the appointment of Daniel Brownlee and Andrew Barrie as club captain and chairman respectively. I would like to take this opportunity to thank and commend Edward Hodgson and Henry Taylour for their tireless and selfless service to the club over the last few years. They were inspiring in their leadership and fearless in their play: the Patrick Vieira and Gilberto Silva of their time.

Despite an injection of youth to the squad and the new administration in place, we vowed to remain faithful to the ‘continental brand’ of football for which the club has become renowned since its inception, and ensure that our style of play would be the envy of every Division 2 club. Optimism was high in the OR camp ahead of the new season: we had welcomed youthful recruits to the squad such as Hugo Zeal and former Radley Captain of Football, Cameron Barrie, had enjoyed a convincing 4-1 win over Sherborne in a preseason friendly, and had more than held our own in prior seasons in a higher division.

A 6-0 thrashing of Lancing Old Boys 2s in the first game of the season thanks to a Harry Hall hat-trick ensued, and already dreams of immediate promotion were spreading like the early-May rumours of Summer Dress having been announced.

However, the ORs were brutally brought crashing back to earth by a 3-1 defeat away at Old Foresters 2s.

This barely dented the confidence of the ORs, and the sons of St Peter went on to record a hard-fought draw against Old Carthusians 2s and impressive wins against Eton 2s, Harrow 2s and Westminster. This was down in large part to lionhearted performances from ORFC veterans like Ed Hodgson and Tobi Ogunsanya, and the continued noteworthy contributions from wingers Angus Lowe and Alex Kelly, with the latter starting to make quite a name for himself with the referees of the Greater London area.

It is perhaps worth drawing attention to the 3-2 win at Fortress Whitton against Harrow 2s, in which the ORs found

ORFC pictured after their 5-3 win away against Old Harrovians 2s on the final day of the season, a result that clinched promotion.

Top row: Cameron Barrie, Harry Swift, Hugo Zeal, Will Haynes, Angus Lowe, Ed Hodgson, Rory MacInnes.

Front row: Alex Kelly, Wilf Marriott, Daniel Brownlee, Andrew Barrie, Humphrey Kelly. themselves 3-0 up at half time but down to 10 men 2 minutes into the 2nd half.

The 45 minutes of football that followed were nothing short of remarkable: Harrow scored two quick goals and, making the very most of their numerical advantage, were pressing incessantly for an equalizer.

However, the siege-like mentality that gripped the men in red and white, no doubt inspired by tales of Stalingrad and Verdun recounted by Mr Rathbone and Mr Beasley in Shell history, ensured that the ORs came out on top in this war of attrition, led courageously by club captain Daniel “Super Dan” Brownlee.

A keen observer remarked after the game that he could have sworn he overheard a hearty rendition of the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves emanating from the Radley changing room. Sitting in second place at the end of November, the future looked rosy for Radley.

A mildly embarrassing exit from the Arthur Dunn Cup at the hands of the Old Carthusians 1st XI aside, the ORs continued to enjoy something of a

winning spree, perhaps most notably with another convincing win (4-0) against Lancing Old Boys 2s. The contribution of former club chairman, Henry Taylour, in this game must be praised: he channelled his inner Riquelme and from all of 30 yards curled in a free kick to whose beauty even Claude Monet’s Water Lilies could not compare. More wins followed against the unbeaten league-leaders Old Alleynians (marked by a TRIPLE SAVE from a penalty by Andrew Sweerts), Old Etonians 2s and Old Merchant Taylors, and the Old Radleians continued to move the ball around with the kind of jovial nonchalance that would have made Paul Gamble and Adam King themselves proud. Were it not for a couple of sporadic losses against Westminster, Old Carthusians 2s and Old Foresters, the Old Radleians might have found themselves at the top of the table approaching the home stretch.

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of Wilf Marriott and notable performances from the 2011 LB cup-winning vintage: Oswald Miller, Jack Trowbridge, and, of course, the ever-reliable Andrew Sweerts between the sticks.

The June end-of-season dinner in Barrios of Soho saw the curtain drawn on a hugely successful season for Old Radleians Football Club, and the taking place of the hotly-anticipated Captain’s Awards

ceremony. Players’ Player of the Season was won by entrepreneurial chocolatier Wilf Marriott, Clubman of the year went to Rory MacInnes and the Golden Boot was claimed by Angus Lowe. An enjoyable night was had by all to reflect what was a near-perfect season in Division 2.

At the time of writing, the club continues to go from strength to strength. Archie Hewlett seems to have swapped his

affordable slip-on loafers for his scoring boots and the Old Radleians find themselves second in Arthurian League Division 1 (played 4, won 3). The club is growing and we always welcome new faces. If anyone reading this is interested in representing the Old Radleians, please send an email to adbarrie@live.co.uk.

Here’s to another successful season!

Andrew Barrie

Radley College AFC: 2018 Review

By any measure this was not a good season for the 1st XI, particularly when viewed in the light of last season’s LB Cup success.

Eight losses and a solitary win away at Marlborough tell a sorry tale! Most impressively, in the face of a poor run of results, the team kept going on the pitch and fighting for the best result possible right up until the very last game.

The season began full of optimism after a brilliant pre-Christmas trip to Villareal.

The boys, guided by Mr Perkins and Mr Newell, trained hard and enjoyed spending time under the stewardship of our professional Spanish coaching team.

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to get some sort of result – difficult, given that we hadn’t beaten the Harrow 1st XI for some years. What we didn’t expect was to be on the end of a 7-1 defeat and that took the wind out of our sails. The season’s nadir was certainly travelling over three to Ely only to be knocked out of the LB Cup (as holders) having gone one-nil up.

Once more, the boys’ efforts were beyond criticism but perhaps conditions and the pitch didn’t help and our game just didn’t come together.

As is always the way with schoolboy football, we approach the coming season in 2019 with as much optimism and excitement as ever - a new crop of talented 6.1s and more experienced 6.2s will steel us for the undoubted challenges ahead.

CA San Jose

Highlights from other teams included an emphatic 7-1 win against St Johns, including a classy Jewell hat-trick for the 2nd XI; an unbeaten season of 8 wins for the 3rd XI to win the league; an emphatic 10-1 win over Haileybury for the 4th XI, including two hat-tricks; and the 6th XI emulating the 2nds, as they also registered an unbeaten season.

The write up of the 6th XI’s season gives an ample demonstration of the enjoyment found on the sports field: Despite this lower team not receiving the same attention as others, I thought that this season showed that everyone, regardless of their ability, can enjoy themselves greatly whilst performing to the highest level.

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Old Radleian Golf Club: 2017/18 Review “It is not the winning that matters it is the taking part”.

However, winning does give you a good feeling.

Spring Meeting - The Berkshire 36 members of the ORGS enjoyed a wonderful day at The Berkshire in April sunshine. We played a medal/stableford in the morning and a foursome in the afternoon. A brief AGM followed with prizegiving. Archie Stirling (42 pts) won the stableford prize and Tom Wright (74) won the scratch with Fred Campion a close second, both left Radley in 2016.

Most encouraging to have young winners.

Autumn Meeting – Royal St Georges 20 members enjoyed a wonderful day at the host club for the 2020 Open Championship. The handicap prize was won by Philip Godden (42 pts) and the scratch trophy was won by Simon Curtis (77).

Halford Hewitt Our Hewitt campaign was disappointing.

We drew Canford who ‘on paper’ we should have edged past. I am sure that if we had met them in a later round we would have done so. The standard of golf in the Hewitt has significantly improved.

Our players need to be mentally match fit. There is a trend that if we are put to the test in an early round we can slip up.

We did against Canford. After all the hard work and time that is put in by so many, it is disappointing but that is why winning is so sweet.

Christopher Ball, Robert Seward, Lorne Smith, Michael Kfouri and the eternally young Hugh Mackeown.

We played Highgate in the first round, and performed well, winning all matches.

After a long lunch, due to timings, our second match was against the Auld Enemy, Tonbridge, who have a hugely successful record in this tournament. At the half way stage, Radley were in good shape in all the matches, but some loose shots paved the way for Tonbridge who demonstrated great resilience. They won all three games and went on to lose to Repton in the final.

In the Veterans’ Darwin, Radley were represented by the holders, Michael Kfouri and Hugh Mackeown. Despite an excellent score of 35 Stableford points, they were pipped by Malvern with two players who had recently qualified in age.

So, as a plea, I ask that our excellent stalwarts reserve the dates 18 and 19 June 2019 in their diaries!

2019 will be our year!!

The future is bright. I cannot remember when we have had so many talented young players keen to be selected for the Hewitt. The bright light of 2018, is that we went on to win some rounds in the plate with some young guns playing well. Our younger players, Tom Wright, Fred Campion and Keith Seward (son of Robert) all played well in pressure situations. There are some very encouraging green shoots appearing. The Presidents full report of the Hewitt is available on our website: www.orgs.org.uk Senior Darwin and Veteran Darwin 2018 Our thanks go to Duncan Ritchie for captaining the Senior and Veteran Darwin. Both the Darwin (over 55) and the Senior Darwin (over 65) consist of teams of 6 players (3 pairs) and 16 school sides scratch match play. The Veteran Darwin (over 75) is one pair over 18 holes scratch stableford.

Duncan Ritchie writes: Having been asked to write a few words on the Senior and Veterans Darwin (for which I do NOT yet qualify!!!), I have to try and remember Who, What, When and How…. not a trivial task!

We are lucky to have some reliable stalwarts for the Senior Darwin in

Bernard Darwin For the Darwin we also rely on some “old stalwarts”. Amazingly Michael Kfouri, 80 in November 2018, plays off 8, hits the ball straight and long. Michael has been a terrific supporter of OR golf - long may that continue. Our first pair saw the reunion of our 5th Hewitt pair from the 1996 winning Hewitt team Will Bailey and Nick Gareth Jones. Cannot miss an opportunity to “milk” that event!

First hole first round v Westminster is worthy of note: Radley halved the hole in 5 with Jones not hitting the ball once. We beat Westminster 3-0. Uppingham (again) just beat us even with one of their players having a “wing down” having been hit on the side of his face from a 150 yards by his partners drive. Duncan Ritchie and Christopher Ball (2nd pair) immediately offer the injured man a half which was declined. Beware the injured golfer!

Radley went on to lose that game.

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get up and down for a birdie 4 Radley with a solid par are only 1 up! 3 putt at next - level. Uppingham hole from off the green at 17 and half in 4 at 18 and we lose.

Sounds very familiar.

Team: Michael Kfouri, Robert Seward, Christopher Ball, Nick Jones, Duncan Ritchie and Will Bailey.

The Grafton Morrish Many thanks to our Match Manager, Angus Chilvers, for organising our young team for the Grafton Morrish Finals.

The OR golf team qualified for the Grafton Morrish finals played at Hunstanton in Norfolk over the first weekend of October.

The format is three pairs playing scratch foursomes matchplay. The team consisted of Tom Beasley (2007) and Arthur Tapner (2012) in the first pair, Keith Seward (B Social 2008) and Simon Stalder (E Social 2009) in the second pair, and two veterans – Angus Chilvers (1979) and Simon Peck (1986) – in the third pair.

With a bye in the first round, in the second round Radley beat Wellington by 2 ½ to ½ on a bright breezy day, the top pair standing at two under par when they won 3&2. The next day was atrocious with Northerly winds in excess of 35mph, driving rain and cold. It was a day for rain gloves and determination. Radley did very

well to beat old foes Eton in the morning by 2 to 1, with the top and bottom pairs securing a point each. In the afternoon’s quarter-final against Uppingham all three matches went to the 18th in a very tight encounter, Radley halving two matches and losing the top match by one hole, to lose the tie by 1 to 2. The competition was won by George Heriot’s, a team which included no less than three players who turned professional the week after the Grafton Morrish. Overall a very encouraging performance by Radley with four players in the team younger than 25.

Matches The Society have enjoyed several matches against Haileybury (played in the snow – only Radley produced a full team) Eton/ Harrow/Rugby weekend, Lancing and Old Carthusians at the time of writing.

I would like to thank all those who have represented the ORGS this year and a special mention for the match managers for organising their teams.

If you have not already registered, please come and join us – it is the taking part that matters. Register at www.orgs.org.uk

William Bailey, Hon Sec.

Left: (l-r) Christopher Ball, Robert Seward, Duncan Ritchie, William Bailey, Nick Jones and Michael Kfouri Below: ORGS brave the wintry conditions during their match against Haileybury.

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Results 2017/18

Winner Runner Up Autumn Meeting at Royal St. George’s Golf Club, October 2017 Scratch Cup Will Bailey 76 (back 9) Simon Curtis 76 (back 9) Handicap Archie Stirling 42 (back 9) Simon Curtis 42 Veterans (over 55) Jo Oram 40 (back 9) Will Bailey 40 Foursomes Angus Chilvers & James Nash The Birkmyre Trophy Angus Chilvers (Best scratch Spring and Autumn) Spring meeting at The Berkshire Golf Club, April 2018 Scratch Cup Tom Wright 74 Handicap Archie Stirling 42 Veterans Will Bailey 36

Fred Campion 75 Jeremy Meyer 37 Hugh Wolley 32

Captains Prize

Hugh Wolley

Bruce Cup (under 35)

Tom Wright

Foursomes

Alan Hutchinson and Hugh Wolley

Halford Hewitt

Lost to Canford

Veterans Darwin

Hugh Mackeown and Michael Kfouri 35 points (2nd)

Senior Darwin

bt Highgate lost to Tonbridge

Bernard Darwin

bt Westminster lost to Uppingham

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Radley College Golf: 2017/18 Review These past few years have seen Radley golf at its best. We have been fortunate enough to have had a run of several years where we have had one or more very talented, low handicap golfers. This year we are fortunate to have several very able seniors, including James Duffy, Freddie Horler, Andrew Liu and Bertie Southgate, as well as a talented Junior, Zac Carter and, with several other promising juniors coming through the ranks, there is every reason to hope that the success that we have enjoyed over these past few years will be sustained in future years.

Notable highlights this season have been our 5th year in a row winning the West of England Schools invitational at Burnham and Berrow GC, a record run for any school, we believe. The team also succeeded in making it to the regional final of the HMC Foursomes competition, where we were beaten by Wellington.

Tapner, Horler and Duffy also made it through several rounds to reach the National Final of the ISGA Matchplay competition at St Mellion GC, where Arthur Tapner finished in an outstanding 5th place in the individual competition, a significant achievement against some outstanding opposition.

We have also played a number of friendlies, amongst which were the match against the ORs – a very memorable day at The Berkshire in lovely conditions – as well as Stowe at both Sunningdale and Stoke Park, Bradfield at Huntercombe, Teddies at Frilford Heath and Cheltenham at North Oxford. We remain hugely fortunate to be in a position to play such outstanding golf courses so close to home.

Seniors: P14 W10 D2 L2 Juniors: P8 W2 D5 L1

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Radley Mariners Rowing: 2018 Review Your new President

This year saw Henry Morris stand down as President of the Mariners and quite rightly several members asked how such big shoes could be filled. The Mariners Committee undertook a farreaching, global search and after many interviews and a rigorous selection process (involving several bottles of claret), we somehow persuaded Ollie Wynne-Griffith (2007) (picured right) to take on the mantle.

Henley Royal Regatta

Alex Ball (2009) raced awesomely all week to win the Prince Albert Student Coxed Fours competition with Imperial College.

Alex sat in the stroke seat, setting the rhythm for his crew as they raced to victory leading from start to finish in a tight race to beat Goldie Boat Club (Cambridge) by ¾ length. The crew also broke the course record on the Friday of the regatta, rowing through a strong Durham University crew who led for large portions of the race. This is the first Henley medal won by any Mariner since 2015 (pictured below). Alex will continue his rowing at Leander Club for the 2019 season.

GB Representation

Tom George (2008) and Ollie Wynne-Griffith won bronze medals in Great Britain’s top boat, the Men’s Eight at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv. Ollie sat in the 6 seat and Tom sat at 4. They finished just 0.02 seconds behind Australia and 0.17 seconds ahead of The USA. This represents a great step on their way to pursuing a berth at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Both Tom and Ollie rowed and played rugby together back at Radley in the 2011/2012 season. They are the first Radleians to represent Great Britain at Senior level in decades. Tom and Ollie also won a silver medal at World Cup 2 which took place in Linz Ottensheim, Austria in June.

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The Radley Mariners (below) also entered an Eight into the Thames Challenge Cup for the first time in the club’s history.

They eased through qualifying handsomely to line up against a solid Agecroft Rowing Club crew that unfortunately had too much speed for them, beating them by a margin of 1 length.

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Charlie Elwes (2010) (below, second from left) also represented Great Britain at under 23 level in the Men’s Coxless Four, bringing home a fantastic silver medal. In a tight field they pipped New Zealand on the line by 0.07 seconds. Romania took home the gold on this occasion winning by 2 seconds. Charlie also won a silver medal in the same event last year.

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Charlie Elwes also sat in the 5 seat of the Yale Varsity Eight that went undefeated all season to successfully defend their Eastern Sprints, Harvard-Yale, and National titles by open water. The 4 second made them the most dominant crew the United States College rowing scene has seen in years.

Younger brother Freddie (2012) competed all season in the Yale Junior Varsity 8 that won the silver and the bronze medal in their event at the Eastern Sprints and National Championships respectively.

Archie McChesney (2013), Radley 1st VIII 2016-2018, has just joined them this fall (Michaelmas). It’s great to see the RadleyYale connection thriving.

Mariners’ Challenge

As reported in the July issue of Lusimus, a lovely June day saw RCBC host the annual Mariners’ Challenge. It was a chance to bring together all Mariners for a BBQ, a paddle on the river and a fun race with the current 1st VIII. It was also a special day, as Jock Mullard (1958) had kindly agreed to have a new eight named after him. Before any racing, the traditional boat-naming ceremony took place, with a tribute being paid to Jock and his outstanding service to RCBC by the Sub-Warden.

A very strong Mariners’ crew took to the water to race the current boys. The 1st VIII, however, just managed to edge ahead to take the win. After racing was finished, everyone had a chance to catch up with friends and enjoy refreshments.

A lovely day was had by all and we look forward to next year’s event.

McChesney Dinner at the Leander A dinner was held at the Leander Club in June to honour Angus McChesney’s enormous contribution to RCBC over 23 years. Organiser Jock Mullard reports: Party was excellent - just what I hoped it would be. I am told it went on until 3am!

Henley tickets charity fundraising Donald Legget’s efforts at redistrubuting unused Henley badges continue to bear fruit for charity and he wishes to pass on the following message: I would like to thank all the Radley Mariners who sent me their spare Henley Stewards’ Enclosure Badges as this was a huge help to Parents and ORs who are not Members. Donations to the Harry Mahon Cancer Research Fund totalled over £6,000.

Combined with last year’s donations and an individual donation of £10,000, a TapeStation machine has been ordered for the Human Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford at a cost of over £20,000. This machine will allow DNA and RNA work to be done with the highest quality control.

I realised last week that most current Wet Bobs were not born when Harry Mahon died in May 2001. Harry inspired RCBC from 1997 right up to his dying days as well as coaching Olympic Gold Medallists.

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Henley 1993 1st VIII - 25 Year Reunion 7th August 1993. Lake Arungen, Norway.

It’s just after 5pm and the junior British eight, with Dave Bristow at 4, crosses the finish line marking the official conclusion of the Radley rowing season. But let’s rewind a little. In 1991 Richard Morgan came to Radley as Warden. Amongst other things he told us that he wanted to win Henley, appointing Phil Hubbard as Master in Charge of Rowing.

Phil was different to what Radley boys were used to. He left school at sixteen and rowing was his thing. And he became very, very good, ultimately stroking the British Under 23 eight to gold at the world championships. He got there through sheer hard work and it quickly became apparent that he was not going to be condescending to any public school perceptions of privilege in his training programs. On arrival at Radley Phil did something smart. He teamed up with the late, great, Jean Le Manach. Jean was the yin to Phil’s yang. He understood the Radley system and he helped Phil push his agenda in a way that the college could palette (most of the time!).

Above: Then Below: Now (L-R) Piers Agace (Captain), Harry Barraclough, Jonny Wake, Jesse Owens, Mike Ellicock, Jon Cantouris, Will Wootton, Jules Hall, Dave Bristow.

The 1993 eight was a little early in Phil’s program for ultimate glory, but we still had one hell of a year. The results for the 1st VIII were respectable: 3rd at the Schools Head, 3rd at National Schools (12 inches off gold!), and a nail biting race against Eton on Henley Saturday that we ultimately lost. But it was the international representation of that year’s crew that stood out: Seven of us represented GB in the junior teams. Four were selected for the world championships and three represented at the Coupe de la Jeunesse.

On Saturday 7th July 2018 we reconvened that very special crew for a twenty-five year reunion. It was the first time we had all been together since we last rowed at Henley in 1993. So it was only fitting that we started with an outing. Courtesy of Shiplake College we were able to borrow a boat and have a paddle on their stretch of the Thames away from the crowds of Henley Royal Regatta. To all of our amazement we went alright! We did some starts, we did a couple of set pieces, we even got the rate up reasonably high. Then we had a swim, got changed and went over to Henley to do what most fortysomething ex-rowers do at the regatta….

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tell tall tales over pints of Pimms in the Fawley Bar under the big tree.

On behalf of the crew I’d like to thank Jock Mullard for helping us track everyone down. Sam Townsend for persuading Shiplake to lend us a boat. Andy Thomas for very kindly bringing over a set of Radley blades so we could row with right colours. And an especially big thank you to the crew for travelling so far to get to

the reunion (Australia, Oman, France and well, London). But the real nod for the day lies with another crew. Later in the afternoon, under that same tree in the Fawley Bar, we bumped into some of the boys celebrating the twenty year reunion of Radley winning the Princess Elizabeth Cup in 1998. Warden Morgan delivered on his promise.

It’s time we did it again!

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Radley College Boat Club: 2018 Review The 1st VIII started the Summer Term in a rather pedestrian fashion, but certainly gathered momentum as the term progressed and ended up with some excellent results in the second half of term.

Wallingford Regatta at Dorney Lake In the Junior 1st Eights event the crew won their heat and then finished 3rd in the final which was won by Abingdon with a very strong Eton 2nd VIII in second place.

Bedford Regatta This event did not go well for the 1st VIII squad. In the Junior 1st Eights event the crew were convincingly beaten by a strong Bedford crew. The coxed four then lost to a Shiplake crew in a very close race. The other half of the eight then lost their first round race in the Open Coxless Four event against eventual winners Star Club.

After Bedford, the crew were understandably a bit demoralised and it was clear that changes in the line-up were needed as the 2nd VIII had been achieving relatively better results.

National Schools’ Regatta After further trialling three changes were made to the crew for the following regatta. This event started with a time trial and the crew secured an excellent 3rd place behind St. Paul’s and Shiplake College. The crew knew that a strong performance in the semifinal would be very important and they came from behind to win their semi-final by clear water. In the final the crew achieved an excellent silver medal behind an outstanding crew from St. Paul’s but a length ahead of Shiplake in third. This result was an incredible turnaround from the first half of the term and it is interesting to note that crews such as Abingdon, who had beaten us in the first half of term, did not make the top eight crews in the A-final.

Reading Amateur Regatta The crew, now rowing with renewed confidence, marched through to the final in emphatic fashion and then proceeded to win the final against a good senior crew from Lea Rowing Club.

Henley Royal Regatta The crew faced St. George’s College in the first round and despite some first day nerves, they quickly took control of the race and were able to ease up in the second half to enable a comfortable win and progression through to the second round.

In the second round the crew faced Pangbourne College who had been showing good form in the build-up to the regatta.

However the 1st VIII were able to control the race from an early stage and secured a place in the quarter-finals without having to exert themselves too much. In the third round the crew came up against Shiplake College who had kept a low profile since securing the bronze medal at the National Schools’ Regatta. We knew this was going to be a tough race so were determined to get out fast and try to control the race from the front. The crew achieved this goal and despite a gallant effort from Shiplake, who kept attacking, the 1st VIII secured a well-deserved place in the semi-finals.

In the semis we came up against the exceptional St. Paul’s VIII. This crew had recorded the fastest time ever achieved by a school crew over 2000 metres a few weeks before Henley. The Radley crew gave it their best shot and never stopped trying over the whole course, but were beaten by St. Paul’s who went on to win the event and smash the previous course record by 10 seconds!

After their somewhat lukewarm start to the season, full credit should be given to the boys for never giving up and achieving some excellent results in the second half of the term.

GB Representation We would also like to congratulate Archie McChesney who represented the Great Britain team at the Munich Junior Regatta where he won a gold medal in the eight Current boys, Luke Miles and Theo Metcalf represented Great Britain at the Coupe De La Jeunesse regatta in Cork, Ireland this year. Luke won gold in the Eight, ahead of the Dutch by 6 seconds. Theo raced in the Coxed Fours event winning silver on both days behind the Italians.

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OR Sailing Association: 2018 Review The aim of the Old Radleian Sailing Association (ORSA) is to provide social and competitive sailing for Old Radleians (ORs), to develop and maintain a community for ORs who sail, and to maintain Radley’s presence, through ORs, in the wider sailing community. ORSA welcomes all ORs, Honorary Members of the Radleian Society, current and past Radley parents and current members of Common Room. ORSA activities centre around a number of activities throughout the year, and 2018 was no exception.

The 2017-2018 Season This season has been very positive for ORSA with all events well attended and importantly some promising results. In recent years the membership has grown significantly and there is now a large pool of keen sailors to draw from. Importantly our increasingly younger membership is providing us with a competitive edge that we have been lacking in recent years and our results are starting to reflect this.

Belvidere Cup The year’s activity started on 7th April 18 with the Belvidere Cup match racing regatta in J80s at Queen Mary’s Reservoir, Ashford Middlesex. Congratulations went to George Chilvers who was the first ORSA helm in four years to win a race! He was ably supported

by George Pitcher, Hugo Walker and Archie Gibson. The trophy was won by Winchester with Abingdon 2nd, Uppingham 3rd, followed by Wellington, Pangbourne, Charterhouse, Radley and Malvern winning the wooden spoon. Alexis Dogilewski, the ORSA Commodore, who was also the race officer showed no bias but gracefully clapped the crew when they won their last race against Malvern. All the teams then retired to the Royal Thames Yacht Club in Knightsbridge for an excellent and deserved Regatta Dinner.

Above: The OR crew in action in the Belvidere Cup. Below left: Jules Facer at the helm in the Round the Island Race.

2018 Round the Island Race Next, thanks to generous additional funding from the Radleian Society, ORSA entered the Round the Island Race on Saturday 7th July 18 as part of the Sunsail F40 class. With a crew of 7 (Jules Facer, George Pitcher, Simon Palmer, Will Dewar, Will Dodd, Will Goodwin and Billy Sims-Hilditch) the team managed 83rd over the line with an elapsed time of 10:33:55 hrs, and came 5th out of 22 boats in the Sunsail F40 class. Despite the forecast indicating little wind for the day, the combination of the early morning wind and the west-going tide, took the team down to the Needles, where they were the first of the class to round the lighthouse.

The spinnaker was then deployed and was carried through light airs and many wind shifts, all the way around the south of the Isle of Wight to just off Ryde where the wind finally died. The fleet was becalmed for the next hour or so before the wind filled in from the West, providing a challenging and actioned-packed beat back up the Solent to finish at Cowes. It was a long but excellent day for all involved, and the race result easily justified the 5am start.

2018 Seaview Regatta September each year sees the annual Seaview Regatta with ORSA racing against Winchester (Wykehamists and boys) and Radley boys. The Regatta is held at the Seaview Yacht Club, Isle of Wight on their Mermaid 26-foot keel boats, with crews of 3 people in each. Simon Palmer led the ORSA team this year, encouraged

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along again by Alexis Dogilewski (an Isle of Wight resident).

Following the informal Regatta Dinner in the Seaview Yacht Club on the Saturday, the team racing took place on the Sunday.

The Arrow Trophy Finally for 2018, ORSA again entered a boat into the Arrow Trophy, an open sailing competition between independent schools, raced as an annual weekend regatta in one-design yachts crewed by former pupils. This year there were 27 boats entered for the event in the Solent, aboard Sunsail’s fleet of F40 yachts. The forecast for the weekend was for winds of up to Force 8 on the Friday night and Saturday. After a very bumpy ride from Port Solent to Cowes in the dark on Friday night, the fleet racing on the Saturday started later than usual to allow the wind to die down slightly to a reasonably steady Force 6. This made for some very exciting racing with 28 of the 40-foot yachts in very close proximity. Needless to say, there were no spinnakers deployed throughout and the racing was conducted with up to 2 reefs in the mainsails mandated by the race officer. The OR crew consisted of Jules Facer, George Pitcher, Ross Culberston, Mike Baldwin, Ed Butterworth, Toby Brook, John Rosling, Will Goodwin and was augmented by Richard Butterworth and Charlie Rosling who had both escaped from Radley for the weekend, and Alex Haig, a former Radley parent.

Alexis Dogilewski joined the crew for the Regatta Dinner on the Saturday night, invited back in his capacity as a former member of the Arrow Trophy Management Committee. ORSA managed to achieve 18th place this year and all involved had a thoroughly enjoyable, as well as slightly wet and wind-blown experience.

How to Contact ORSA ORSA is a vibrant and thoroughly enjoyable part of the OR community, and all are welcome to join us for any of our events.

No previous sailing experience is necessary. Contact details are available through the Radleian Society website.

Above: Dealing with strong winds in the Arrow Trophy.

Below left: The College crew in action at Cowes.

Radley College Sailing: 2018 Review The Easter holidays and first two weeks of April finally saw some competitive action for the sailors with the Warsash Spring Series. Despite weather and illness putting paid to three of the race days, the crew got nine races under their belt, sailing our aptly named SB20 Trouble & Strife. Results were a little inconsistent - anywhere between 2nd-7th place.

However, considering this was some of the sailors’ first Warsash, they achieved a very creditable 2nd place overall and won a lovely bottle of bubbly. We call that a win! The rest of term consisted of further training for the SB20 crew in preparation for Cowes Week and dinghy sailing for the rest of the sailors. Summer Term lived up to its name this year, making capsize practice the favourite drill by far! As well as capsizing, we are glad to report many sailors also improved their sailing skills, earning them their RYA Dinghy certificates.

With term finished, the Cowes crew got a little rest before heading to the Isle of Wight in August. Weather-wise, it turned out to be a week of two halves, starting fabulously hot with light winds and ending with a bang (once literally) with typically challenging Solent conditions of strong winds and rain. Wednesday, the first of the wilder days, was the most frustrating, as the boat’s rudder snapped during a massive broach. A replacement blade could not be found in time for the next two days’ racing, which could easily have meant ‘game-over’. Fortunately, the boys’ fellow competitors very kindly offered them crewing positions on various other boats for the last two days. Naturally, everyone jumped at the chance and had a thrilling time with their new crews. The conditions were particularly rough on the last two days, returning the boys full of excitement and tall tales. Trouble & Strife being out of action sadly meant a last place result overall, but the boys took it with customary cheerfulness.

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OR Serpents Rugby After a hiatus in competitive matches, it was great to thsee the OR Serpents back up and running. On Saturday 10th November 2018 an Old Radleian XV travelled to Marlborough College to take on the Old Marlburian XV, the Malones.

The match was a curtain raiser to the 1st XV game where the two schools contested the Silk Cup - a trophy named in honour of Dennis Silk who was both the coach of the all-conquering Marlborough XV of 1963 and subsequently Warden of Radley from 1968-1991. A 10-8 victory by Bigside saw them take the Cup. After an impressive playing of the Last Post on Remembrance Weekend and some wise words from skipper Will Greed, the first Serpents vs Malones game kicked off.

Back: Ollie House, Ollie Friend, Lucas Sopher, James Marshall, Tiger Beck, Rupert Elmhirst, Alex House, Hugo Eyre.

Front: George Dillion-Robinson, Freddie Marshall, Max Anderson, Casper Hart, Will Greed.

In the first 20 minutes it was clear the weather was going to have an impact and saw the Radley Serpents defending a lot in the first quarter, with plenty of tackles coming in from Max Anderson and James Marshall, after 30 minutes the serpents had gone 19-0 down, but with some key distribution from Ollie Friend, a great break from Rupert Elmhirst playing 13 and a fantastic line from Alex House at 12 we went in to the break 19-14 down.

In the second half the Marlborough Malones quickly scored but with a storming break from Lucas Sopher from the line out, Rupert Elmhirst was through for his second try of the day. With some key tackles and turnovers from Freddie Marshall, Will Greed and some great wing play from Ollie House we had kept ourselves in the contest. But the Malones went over twice to put the game at 36-19 going in to the last 5 minutes.

After some great line out play from Tiger Beck, George Dillon Robinson a quick tap penalty from Hugo Eyre put Casper Hart through for the line. With final score at 36-24 it was a competitive game with lots of passion shown, and was a great opportunity to pull on the Bigside shirt again.

Hugo Eyre

Radley College Rugby: 2017/18 Review P11 W2 L9 Tries Scored 31 Overall, this season has been one of exploration. The boys have been exploring a completely new brand of rugby, a brand that requires high levels of fitness, skill and physicality, as well as comfort in making pressurised decisions.

The groundwork for this was laid down in the previous Lent and Summer terms with the inception of the Rugby Academy. This saw on average 20 boys involved in a development programme focused on skills, decision-making and game specific fitness. Alongside 45 minute pre-tour sessions held twice a week, it became clear that a huge amount of hard work had gone into the challenge before them. Most importantly, the boys were excited about rugby, an excitement that was to continue throughout the year whatever the score.

This season has been enormous fun, on the whole down to the effort of every single player involved. Even the results that went begging can’t taint the feeling that this particular team have started the school off on a long, successful journey.

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the old radleian 2018

Old Radleian Events 2019 Radley Reunions

Designed to reunite Old Radleians and bring them up to date with changes in the school. * 10 Year Reunion – 12th June Oriental Club, London * * 25 Year Reunion – 9th February Radley College * * 50 year Reunion – 18th May Radley College * * Year Groups Reunion, aged 70 and upwards – 14th September Radley College *

Old Radleian Dinner

An event held every two years in London to bring together Old Radleians of all ages. * OR Dinner 2019 - 17th October Fishmongers Hall, London *

Old Radleian University Suppers

Dons from College travel to various universities three times a year to bring Old Radleians together, buy them supper and reminisce. * The next event will be in March 2019 *

Young OR Christmas Drinks

A yearly event held at a pub in London to bring those under 30 together, to catch up over a few free beers! * The next event will be in December 2019 *

Radley For Life Business networking events

Business networking events to bring parents and ORs together around a current business theme or topic. * The next event will be held in February 2019 * Don’t forget to join Radley Connect to network with other Old Radleians and Radley parents. www.radleyconnect.org.uk For full details of these events (which may be subject to change) please visit: www.radley.org.uk/radleian-society/events

RADLEIAN SOCIETY Radley College, Abingdon, OX14 2HR