Old Pauline News, Autumn 2016

Old Pauline News

Autumn/Winter 2016

T H E S T PA U L’ S S C H O O L A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E

The Future is Chocolate!

Ed Smith and Richard Wilkinson Founders of Doisy & Dam

INTERVIEW Richard Thompson OBE MI6, Iraq and beyond PLUS Professor Paul Cartledge Ancient Athens and Brexit Gideon Rachman The Most Dramatic US Presidential Election since 1968

Autumn/Winter 2016 Editorial

The supposed Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times” seems to be upon us. Tackling two of the most pressing issues in the western world, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for the Financial Times, Gideon Rachman (1976-80) discusses the US Presidential election while Professor Paul Cartledge (1960-64) and Dirk Hazel (1969-73), leader of the UK European People’s Party, bring their expertise to bear upon Brexit.

While much of the world seems to be tearing itself apart, some young OPs are busy mapping out their own futures. Richard Wilkinson and Ed Smith (both 2001-06) are the latest in a string of young entrepreneurialminded OPs to launch and run their own businesses – in this case the Doisy & Dam ethnically sourced organic chocolate brand. I can recommend the Dark Collection box! Meanwhile, Raoul Malhotra and Jean-Philippe Jabre (both 2005-09) are keen to set up an OP Real Estate Network and are appealing for other like-minded OPs to join forces.

Elsewhere, Richard Thompson OBE (1973-77) gives a candid interview about his role in the Army and later for MI6, for which he served in Iraq and the Balkans, and OP Club President Sir Nigel Thompson (1952-55) shares his vision for the Club, and recalls his own experiences in the Middle East.

Amongst many other inspirational stories in this issue is that of Professor Michael Cotton (1966-70), who has spent the last 25 years editing and bringing up to date the free-to-download book, Primary Surgery, that should bring help to some of the two billion people in the world who currently have no access to surgical treatment.

My thanks to everyone who submitted their personal experiences at School for the ‘My St Paul’s’ section of the magazine. This is now beginning to suffer from its own popularity and some pieces are having to be held for next time. But please keep them coming in!

Simon Bishop (1962-65)

Contents Cover feature

Spreading the happiness: Richard Wilkinson and Ed Smith, Founders of Doisy & Dam

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Letters & 'My St Paul's'

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News, comment and profiles of Old Paulines

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Interview with Richard Thompson OBE

All correspondence to: The Editor c/o The Old Pauline Club, St Paul’s School, Lonsdale Road, London SW13 9JT Copy for the Spring/Summer issue of the Old Pauline News, to be published in May 2017, should reach the Editor no later than 17 March 2017.

Contact: opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk

Keeping in touch

The Club sends out a monthly eNewsletter bringing you up to date with current news of OPs and the School. If you have not been receiving these, please email opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk and we will add your name to our distribution list which now stands at almost 6,000 members.

We are always delighted to hear from you so do please keep in touch. Feedback on the eNews or the magazine is always welcome; please contact the Club office on 020 8746 5390 or at opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk if you have any news or views to share with us.

Social Events

Our social calendar for the year appears on the inside back cover.

Full details of each event will also be published in the monthly eNews.

For information on all Club activities please visit opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk

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149 Et Cetera

Professor Paul Cartledge argues that ancient Athenians would have been well- placed to caution us about the divisions unleashed by our referendum to remain in or leave the EU.

150 Old Pauline Club Roundup

l Highlights from 2015/16.

l New faces: Rob Smith, new Deputy

President of the OPC.

l New Vice Presidents.

l Annual Dinner 2016.

l Leavers' Ceremony 2016.

l Reunions 2016.

l Summer Festival 2016.

156 Obituaries 162 OP Sport

Rugby, Golf, Football, Tennis and Cricket.

167 Old Pauline Club Diary Dates 168

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Emails & Letters Please address all correspondence to the Editor, Old Pauline Club, St Paul's School, Lonsdale Road, London SW13 9JT, or by email to opceditor@stpaulsschool.org.uk

Bursary provision at SPS

I’m writing in response to the Spring/ Summer 2016 edition of Old Pauline News.

It was good to read Mark Bailey’s article, which was a response to the piece I wrote for the Daily Telegraph earlier in the year.

I had a meeting with Mark back in March, which was a positive one. I’m sorry, though, that you chose not to publish the original article (or a summary of the original piece) alongside it. I think that only having Mark Bailey’s piece has meant the issue hasn’t been aired properly.

For example, at no point does Mark Bailey’s piece recognise that the current proportion, with 29 boys out of 800 on bursaries, is vastly lower than most other public schools. I could name several other areas.

I’m not blaming Mark here: why should he address these specifics? He’s describing the School’s position for the future. But I think the lack of my original article meant that the more critical view of the school’s provision for poor students wasn’t given due weight.

For what it’s worth, since writing the article, I received a number of emails and letters, which have increased my knowledge of the history of the issue quite a lot. Francis Neate eg, remembers memory, for example, is that when he was at school, the 153 foundation scholars were absolutely full bursaries, and that this only changed in the 1960s as the school pulled in funds in order to raise money for the new buildings. Why weren’t these restored in the 1970s after the buildings were completed? Another respondent, an ex-teacher, reckoned that St Paul’s only survived the 19th Century attacks on public school elitism (during which time, other schools such as Harrow created whole new schools for poor parents and children) because of its free 153 scholars.

That loss of the free scholarships, then, was a considerable one, but is in danger of being swept under the carpet.

There seems also to have been a failure of governance/ leadership in two areas more recently: i. not making any adjustment to fees/ bursaries in the mid 90s, after the ending of the Assisted Places system. ii. making overly grand plans in phase 1 of the building project, which have left the coffers empty for a. later phases and b. bursary provision.

Doesn’t this need to be acknowledged publicly?

Finally, I actually believe Mark Bailey when he says he doesn’t see

himself in an ‘arms race’ with other schools to demonstrate more dazzling facilities/ rugby tours/ whatever. What’s interesting here is that the response I’ve had from governors and heads at other public schools is that they DO see themselves in an ‘arms race’ with other schools, because they feel they need to ensure parents, both international and domestic, are attracted enough to send their children to their school (feedback from, for example, Charterhouse, St John’s Leatherhead and Hampton).

Arguably, St Paul’s is in an almost unique position, because its academic brand is so strong, and its current Highmaster sufficiently unswayed by bling, that it can override the temptation to luxury that other public schools have fallen into and will continue to fall into if the current trend continues.

I think the issue will continue to be a hot one. I hope it will be discussed more fully in future editions.

Yours sincerely, Robert Stanier (1988-93) (Regretfully, there was not enough space available to reproduce Robert's piece for the Telegraph next to Mark Bailey's response in the Spring edition of the Old Pauline News.

In hindsight, a link, at least, to the article in the Telegraph should have been given.

For those who would like to read Robert's original comments, they can still be viewed at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/ secondaryeducation/12149907/Cananyone-afford-to-send-their-kids-to-publicschool-anymore.html. Ed)

St Paul's send-off

On Friday 17 June we were Peter King’s guests at the staff retirement dinner at school along with other leavers and their guests. We were treated to an excellent menu and exchanged many stories of times past.

It was very memorable for us as we both served the school between 1977 and 2003 with David covering staff shortages in the Maths department from time to time over the past 12 years. Meeting old colleagues and ultimately consolidating the friendships we made. I too am very envious of the wonderful Science facilities which had been in the planning many years before I left.

Peter was, is and always will be a fine Master, Tutor, Mentor and friend to his many pupils and staff. He was an exemplary Tutor to our son Eben Rollitt (1986-91).

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Stephen Baldock (left), with Michael Bradley and Peter King (right).

When Michael Bradley announced that he had been Peter's tutor before Cambridge beckoned, and with Stephen Baldock nearby, I saw a photo opportunity. (see above).

Thank you SPS for the great send off.

Yours sincerely, Shirley and David Rollitt

Old Pauline musicians 1

I read with interest your article on musicians in the Spring/Summer 2016 issue.

I am very poor at keeping in touch with the OP Club but this article made me realise that I should make contact.

I am currently based in the Netherlands and since 2013 have been Music Director of Dutch National Ballet and Artistic Director/Principal Conductor of the Dutch Ballet Orchestra. Prior to coming to Holland we were in California where I was Professor of Conducting and Orchestra Director at San Diego State University.

I am married to Nana (who is Danish) and we have two children, Oliver (12) and Emily (11).

Best regards, Matthew Rowe (1978-84)

Old Pauline musicians 2

I very much enjoyed reading the recent Old Pauline News, especially the feature on Old Pauline Music.

I was a bit surprised that no mention was made of my old chum Simon Mulligan, whose musical achievements are pretty remarkable (http://www. simonmulligan.com/about). If you had room to feature him in an upcoming issue, I’m certain that lots of OPs of my vintage would love to read about what he’s been up to.

Many thanks for a brilliant magazine.

Best wishes, Adam Parfitt (1986-91) (I wish there could have been more room to include many more OP musicians. I'm sure we will catch up with Simon soon! Ed.)

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My St Paul’s…

Rowing legacy

Congratulations on the Old Pauline News. Very readable, excellent content, nicely produced.

I am attending a Selwyn Visitors Four fiftieth reunion at HRR this year. Selwyn had a steady flow of OP rowers thanks to the enthusiasm of Robert Bennett and Conrad Rainbow. If Robert had not taken my first eight up to Cambridge to row against Selwyn, Douglas Dick (195864) and I would not have gone up there.

I think I was destined for the ministry.

We were soon followed by Mike Gardiner (1960-65) and Duncan Mount (1961-66).

I got a blue in my second year which proved to be a life-changing experience.

Well done Boggo (Bennett).

Sincerely, Drummond Challis (1960-64)

Theatrical OPs omitted

I read the Old Pauline News regularly with pleasure and, as I shall mention, with surprise.

The latter emotion is brought about by the fact that I have never seen any reference to Sir Michael Codron CBE and his distinguished life in the theatre.

It has been said that he is possibly most famous for the risks he took on a then virtually unknown playwright called Harold Pinter, who wrote a play called The Birthday Party. He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours List 'For services to the Theatre.'

And why haven't I seen any reference to Peter Shaffer who was awarded the CBE in 1987 and made Knight bachelor in the 2001 New Year Honours list?

In 2007 Peter was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

I look forward to your reply to this letter and your assurance that Sir Michael Codron and Peter Shaffer will be given appropriate references in future issues of the Old Pauline News.

Yours Truly, Michael Oliver (1946-47) (Former SPS English teacher David Bussey included a profile of Peter Shaffer in his excellent book, John Colet's Children. Sadly, Peter died recently. Tom Attenborough (2000-05) has written a short appreciation of Sir Peter Shaffer's theatrical legacy which appears on page 159. I will endeavour to include Sir Michael Codron CBE in a future edition.

To suggest any OPs for inclusion in the magazine, please get in touch at opceditor@stpaulsschool.org.uk Ed.)

The section devoted to your personal experiences (good and bad!) at St Paul's. Send yours to opceditor@stpaulsschool.org.uk

The Glory of The Lord

The day normally started with prayers in the Great Hall, the High Master lead the Lord’s Prayer, the Captain of the School read prayer for the day, both in Latin, from lecterns on the stage and then a hymn, but on Fridays there was a hymn practice for the coming week.

One Friday, however, Ivor Davies, the Music Master, had arranged for a table on the stage which he stood on and told us that there was to be a performance of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ sung by the School Choir and he wanted the body of the school to join in – for Apposition I suppose.

He conducted the choir as they sang the aria ‘The Glory of the Lord shall be redeemed...’ then threw up his hands to bring in the whole school for a mighty reprise: ‘AND THE GLORY...’

The baton slipped from his fingers and rose, end-over-end, high into the vaulted roof to fall with a clatter at the back of the stage. It was retrieved by the Captain of the School and returned to the conductor with deadpan courtesy.

I had not known how deep a shade of red the human face could assume. We heard no more of the ‘Messiah’!

Hugh MacBride (1949-54)

Memories of Leo Williams

My introduction to St Paul's was via “Trevear” the name of our hostel in Crowthorne and the daily cycle ride to Easthamstead Park, which certainly kept us fit.

Whilst I enjoy reading, in the Old Pauline News, the accomplishments of many Old Paulines, I think a thought or two would not be out of place for the influence some of them played in our lives before they reached manhood, or maybe maturity would be a better word.

I was extreemly fortunate in meeting a very exceptional human being – Leo Williams. Leo was one of those rare individuals who, coupled with adequate academic qualities and athletic skills, had compassion especially to those smaller than himself .

He excelled in most sports, which if I remember correctly, included boxing,

swimming and rugby. He eventually became Captain of the School on our return to London.

His effect and influence on me personally was profound and has followed me all through my life. It may seem extreme but I have never met anybody else with whom I could have so much regard.

It is so unfortunate that he was taken from us at such an early age. Through the good offices of your magazine I would love to hear from others who knew him.

Adrian Lever 1944-48

Scouting at SPS

It was with great regret that I belatedly learnt of the demise of the St Paul’s scout group. I may have joined it primarily to avoid the CCF, but it was one of the most useful activities I enjoyed at school. Through it, I became a Queen’s Scout, and I remember examining with a magnifying glass the signature “Elizabeth R” on my certificate, to satisfy myself that she had personally signed it and that it was not a rubber stamp! I subsequently became an Assistant Scout Master, and in that capacity helped at two annual national camps for disabled children, which remains one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Given the impressive number of extracurricular activities which have been introduced since I left school, it is a great pity that scouting has been jettisoned. Perhaps, after a century, boys now think it too old-fashioned.

Tony Barnett (1958-62)

A Brush with Classics

When I entered St Paul’s in January 1952, I was interviewed by the Surmaster, A B Cook.

ABC: “Well, Crooks, I have to decide what form to put you in. You could carry on with your Latin and Greek in 5 Alpha, or start Science in 5X “ Me (in a nervous squeak): Please Sir, I’d like to be in 5X. I’m very interested in science” ABC: “Let me put it this way, Crooks. If I put you in 5 Alpha, I can guarantee you a scholarship to Oxford. You’d like to go to Oxford, wouldn’t you, Crooks?”

Me: “Yes, Sir” ABC: “5 Alpha it is, then”

I barely scraped a pass in Greek O Level, having failed to master the irregular verbs in -mi. To my great delight (and relief), I was transferred to LMS8A, where we did A Level Maths, Physics and Chemistry in two fascinating years from a standing start. I did get to Oxford after all.

John Crooks (1952-57)

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News, comment & profiles

To Trump or Not to Trump?

Gideon Rachman (1976-80) is Chief Foreign Affairs commentator for the Financial Times.

Here he argues that the 2016 US Presidential election is the most dramatic since 1968.

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o events that took place as recently as ten years ago, really count as “history”? Fortunately for me, whoever was running the John Churchill Society back in the 1970s took a relaxed view of this question. And so in 1978, I was allowed to give a talk on 'America in 1968' to the Society – which is the History Society for younger boys at St Paul’s.

Compared to the rather drab British politics of the 1970s – think Harold Wilson and Ted Heath – American politics back then seemed impossibly glamorous and dramatic. I think the Watergate scandal was the first big news story that I followed really closely. My interest in the 1968 campaign had been fed by reading the books of Norman Mailer and Theodore White.

I’m sure it was back then that I formed the ambition to one day become a journalist and cover a US presidential election. I fulfilled my own American dream back in 1992 – when I first went to a party convention and watched the Democrats nominate Bill Clinton in Madison Square Garden. This year, I was back in the US to see Hillary Clinton nominated at the convention in Philadelphia.

The 2016 campaign is arguably the most dramatic presidential election since 1968.

Fortunately, there has been no parallel

to the violence of that year – which saw Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinated, and riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago. But the improbable and alarming rise of Donald Trump is certainly the most extraordinary US political story that I have covered, in more than 30 years of journalism.

Violence aside, there are also some parallels between the presidential elections of 1968 and 2016. Watching the angry and disillusioned supporters of Bernie Sanders in Philadelphia this year, they reminded me of the idealistic liberals who had backed the insurgent campaign of Eugene McCarthy in 1968.

As for Hillary Clinton, she is cast in the same role as Hubert Humphrey – as the embodiment of the Democratic Party establishment who have banded together to shut out the idealistic outsider; the Sanders/McCarthy figure.

There are also some links between the Nixon campaign of 1968 and the Trump campaign today. It was Nixon’s strategy to appeal to the “silent majority” of white voters, who were angry and frightened about the direction of the country. One of the books I read researching my talk for the Churchill Society was 'The Selling of the President' by Joe McGinniss – which detailed the pivotal role in the Nixon campaign of a young PR executive, called Roger Ailes. Mr Ailes is still around. He

The improbable and alarming rise of Donald Trump is certainly the most extraordinary US political story that I have covered …… was the mastermind behind Fox News until a sex scandal forced him out - and he is now serving as an adviser to Trump.

One should not forget that Nixon once stirred up almost as much fear and hatred amongst American liberals as Donald

Blending Eastern and Western Art Markets Nick Wood (2000-05) is a Director at the Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong

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ick Wood (2000-05) describes his activities and interests as a Director at Pearl Lam Galleries based in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore as an all-consuming lifestyle, rather than a job. Travelling the art world for work and for pleasure, he most enjoys visiting small collections such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Frick Collection in New York or Sir John Soane’s Museum in London; “magical places where you can appreciate a collection as it would have been enjoyed privately”.

Nick has always had an interest in art.

At St Paul’s he says Nigel Hunter was an inspirational teacher, who helped him to secure his A level. Later, Nick studied for

a Master of Arts degree at University of Edinburgh, which included History of Art, Italian and English Literature. As part of his degree course Nick lived in Italy, working at the Guggenheim Museum on the Grand Canal in Venice. “I would highly recommend anyone seeking work experience in the art world to try it. They help you to find accommodation and you are paid as an intern! A lot of my contemporaries in the art world, now in London and New York, were also there.

I was 19 when I went there, but I’m sure they’d be interested in taking on 17 and 18-year olds as well.”

Having spent his childhood in Hong Kong, Nick decided to move back to

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China after graduating from Edinburgh to acquire professional standards of reading and writing in Mandarin. He then returned to the UK, where he took his first job as an M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) Advisor at a boutique investment bank, where his language skills were useful.

“After 18 months I realised I wanted to work in the art industry, so I moved back out to Shanghai where for a while I worked freelance for Sotheby’s amongst others.

Through that I met Pearl Lam, the Chinese heiress who in addition to her Shanghai gallery had just opened a space in Hong Kong. I joined her four years ago, working in exhibitions. Since then we have opened a gallery in Singapore and a second gallery

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Trump does today. Even so, it seems to me that Trump is a much more alarming and dangerous figure than Nixon ever was.

Nobody doubted Nixon’s qualifications to sit in the Oval Office. He had been Eisenhower’s vice-president for eight years. And although Nixon was regarded as running a dark and pessimistic campaign in 1968, it was sunny and optimistic compared to the kind of vision offered by Donald Trump.

Nixon’s opponents frequently accused him of lying. But even “tricky Dicky” would never have dared to embrace the kinds of conspiracy theories that Trump peddles on a daily basis. To pick a couple of examples, Trump has recently suggested that the conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia might have been murdered; and that the father of Senator Ted Cruz could have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This is the kind of crazy stuff that used to be confined to the wilder fringes of talk radio in the US – but is now transplanted into the middle of an American presidential election campaign.

For anyone who has followed US politics for many years, this year’s presidential election is both bewildering and disillusioning. As a schoolboy at St Paul’s, I wasn’t just fascinated by the US – I also admired the country for its dynamism and the vibrancy of its democracy. Ever since then, I have retained a belief in the importance of the US to liberal and democratic ideas around the world. But it would be hard to maintain that idealistic view of America, if Donald Trump is elected president this November. l

Nick Wood (left) at the Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong

in Hong Kong focusing on emerging artists and design.

“Things happen very fast in China! Pre 2012 there really weren’t any international galleries in Hong Kong. Then a lot of

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experience, broadcast live from the Royal London Hospital.

World Rowing Championships

New Year’s Honours List

Alex Chesterman (left), Founder of Zoopla and Saul Klein, Founder of Local Globe, were both awarded the OBE earlier this year.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir David Brewer, CMG, CVO, JP (1955-58) to be Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Paulines and OPs achieved success at the 2016 World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam.

Current pupils Freddie Davidson, Bertie Woodward-Fisher, Seb Benzecry and Vlad Saigau and Old Pauline, Arthur Doyle (2010-15), who rowed with Harvard University as a freshman, represented Great Britain in the Junior and U23 categories, bringing home two silver and one bronze medal.

Arthur also stroked the GB U23 VIII to a silver medal at the U23 World Championships, having been in the final of the premier eights event at Henley earlier in the summer, losing narrowly to the Dutch Olympic eight.

Edinburgh Fringe Success

First VR operation broadcast

William English (2002-07), Surgical Education Fellow at the Royal London Hospital, was working on a project earlier this year that involved broadcasting the world’s first virtual reality operation, in which you were able to join a surgeon in an immersive operating theatre experience. Using Google Cardboard and your own phone you were able to join medical realities during what was a global educational

western art galleries started moving there, White Cube and Gagosian amongst the bigger ones. Pearl has been very well placed to take advantage of a growing interest in Chinese and Asian art.

Interestingly, in the commercial galleries there is almost an equal balance between western and eastern art – a completely globalised market now, thanks to the web.”

Of artists that have been featured at Pearl Lam recently, Nick picks out the work of Yinka Shonibare OBE, a British Nigerian artist. A Royal Academician, Yinka was responsible for the huge wooden sailing ship in a bottle for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. “For Asian art we specialise in Chinese abstract works. In the 80s, when China opened up to the West, there were two main strands that emerged: the political pop art that has become emblematic of Chinese art in the 80s and 90s; and artists making abstract

A double bill of Harold Pinter’s Family Voices and Victoria Station starring OPs Adam Goodbody, Tom Ames, Luke Cullen and Robbie Fraser, with theatre company 'Backspin', was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe for a week-long run. They played to several sell-out houses and received four star reviews.

art. Many of the latter left China, studied in the West, then returned, and our gallery has been a supporter of these artists. Their work is inspired by traditional Chinese culture, such as Chinese landscape painting, ink brush painting, and Daoism but uses modern abstract ideas to give the work a 21st century context.

“We have one artist, Su Xiaobai, who paints beautiful, meditative sculptural works using Chinese lacquer, a material traditionally used for furniture in China.

An OP friend, architect André Fu (199294), is also a big admirer of his work".

A potential contact for any OPs travelling or moving to Hong Kong, Nick hosted a drinks evening for about 20 OPs and Old Paulinas a while ago, which he enjoyed very much. l For further information: www.pearllam.com www.guggenheim-venice.it

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News, comment & profiles

Bringing People and Opportunities Together Sir Nigel Thompson KCMG CBE (1952-55) is the current President of the Old Pauline Club. He will be familiar to many as a former School Governor and as a consultant for the School’s redevelopment, now coming to fruition.

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former vice-chairman of Ove Arup and partners, Sir Nigel is one of the most respected names in development and construction. Nigel has also served as National Chairman of the Campaign to Protect Rural England where he was involved with influencing government policy for the countryside. He has guided the demands of both of these sometimes diametrically opposed interests with the utmost political maturity. Typically, he retains a positive outlook, claiming that with attractive and highly functional design, the demands of new housing development can be met at a low cost to the environment.

Having retired from these roles, he now acts as President of the Action for the River Kennet. He is also involved with local parish council planning, such as new neighbourhood plans for Marlborough.

Since 1972, Nigel has lived with his wife Nicky in an idyllic Queen Anne farmhouse in Wiltshire which he has fully restored, complete with 18 acres of farmland, cottage and formal garden with wild flowers and hornbeam hedges, a lake and a flock of 25 Hampshire Down rare breed sheep. “An attractive breed with a black nose, ears and feet, they look great in the field.” Nigel has also planted 7,000 trees on the estate with Nicky. He also established and ran a vineyard for some 12 years before repeated frost damage put paid to the venture.

Sir Nigel’s default position in life has always been it seems, wherever possible, to bring people together for the general good. Amongst many other projects he has been involved with, he mentions his work with BUILD (Building Understanding International Links for Development), linking schools in this country with schools in Africa via the internet.

Starting in 4b under Freddie Page, Sir Nigel was ‘promoted’ to 5x in his second year at St Paul’s as he was very keen on science. “I knew even then that I wanted to be an engineer. I liked the combination of art and maths.”

At St Paul’s, Nigel was in A Club and he boxed for the School. “I remember boxing against Arborfield, one of the ‘rougher’ schools – their boys were already smoking and drinking!” Taught by Bo Langham, Nigel says his chief weapon was the jab.

“You kept your left arm out and backed off whilst scoring points. I defended aggressively!” Bo also taught Nigel physics.

Nigel’s father sadly died quite young,

Sir Nigel at home with some of his rare breed Hampshire Down sheep

I would like to find new OP champions to involve the alumni which eventually caused Nigel to leave St Paul’s prematurely, aged 16, with some regret. He first joined a firm of structural engineers in Ely Place as an office boy, lighting gas fires first thing in the morning and learning to use a drawing board and slide rule. He enrolled at Westminster Technical College’s night school four nights a week to take the Higher National Certificate, a first step towards getting his qualifications as a Chartered Structural and Civil Engineer. After a year an opportunity came to join his mother and new stepfather in Rhodesia. Nigel jumped at the chance.

“Within a day of arriving in Salisbury (now Harare) I was given two offers of a job starting almost immediately! I joined a small office as an assistant engineer and supplemented my training on the drawing board by studying four nights a week at Salisbury Polytechnic.”

Nigel was called up during an emergency in Rhodesia and spent six months with the King’s African Rifles. He had been a decent shot at School and remembers when, on his first day in the range, “standing slightly immodestly holding the target into which I had shot a good cluster in the bull,”

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Montgomery walked in and commended his efforts. Whereupon Nigel was asked by the great man if he had had lunch before shooting. When Nigel answered “No,” Montgomery said, “That’s wrong, you should never march the troops into battle unless they’ve had lunch!”

After his brief experiences in the army Nigel was advised to try to get work back in the UK. He was to eventually get a postgrad scholarship through the Federation of British Industry with Arup in 1960, where he gained excellent experience, appreciating the system of apprenticeships. Amongst many projects including theatres, hospitals and universities, one of his favourite initiatives was to build a theatre inside the Manchester Royal Exchange where the construction was hung from four columns, as the floor couldn’t take the load.

In 1974 there was a collapse in building commissions and many employees at Arup were threatened with redundancy. Nigel volunteered to go out to Iran to open an office there for Arup, mostly working for the Shah. This eventually fed many projects back to the UK offices, including a new city centre, roads, bridges, a hospital, a military academy and a tank factory. In addition, for the Shah Banu, two museums and an art gallery were commissioned.

Having built up considerable experience in the Middle East, Nigel found himself appointed by Arup to take over the design

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and building of a new university in the desert for the Emir of Qatar, another in Bahrain and a music academy in Damascus. For his efforts Nigel was made a main board director of Arup.

Nigel was one of the first engineers sent into Kuwait after the Gulf War, dropping in via a Hercules, to see if the UK could get any work to recoup money spent on the war. “Landing there midday, it was totally black with all the oil fires burning. We were dropped down to the embassy roof and had to be escorted everywhere by an engineer who kept an eagle eye out for booby traps”.

But he was to discover that Kuwaiti officials had signed up for the rebuilding of Kuwait with major US firms prior to Desert Storm, a lesson learnt by the British government when Kosovo began to be bombed in the Baltic war. “There, we got in quickly and I was asked to lead a task force made up from the private and public sectors. At that point I had stepped down from Arup”. Nigel negotiated with the UN and EU task forces to provide a team to keep the electricity on over the winter. This led to procuring work for the UK, rebuilding the two lignite power stations that had fallen into total disrepair. Subsequently, Nigel received his knighthood for his work in Kosovo.

Nigel retains great affection for St Paul’s.

He was horrified when the old Waterhouse red brick building was demolished on the Hammersmith Road. Years later, when asked to consult on the new masterplan, for the School he felt strongly that any new development must celebrate and take account of the river frontage.

Working for another year as President of the Old Pauline Club, Nigel is determined to make the most of the changes that have been taking place over the last few years. “I saw that my opportunity was to strengthen the links between the Old Pauline Club and the School, with the governors, the Mercers as well as parents, the High Master’s office and the Common Room.

With the new alumni office in place there is no reason why we shouldn’t be working to develop an internship programme for boys and young alumni and build a career networking service on the strength of our contacts, and to broaden our events programme. This year’s Feast Service was a good example of how we can broaden our reach by involving parents from the Upper Eighth. I would also like to find new OP champions to involve the alumni with a broad range of cultural activities, with theatre and music for example. We need enthused young alumni to drive these things, and I believe the interest is there – I am excited about the progress we are already making. l

Modern marketing: same goals, new tools Roger Stone (1968-72) is a marketing consultant Roger Stone (1968-72) provides marketing strategy and implementation primarily to growth companies in the IT, communications and media industries. Here he considers the impact and growth of mobile marketing.

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echnology is rapidly changing the way we buy. We can now easily choose products from all over the world; we can do comparisons online, search for the best prices on our phones and order at the click of a button. With so much power in the hands of purchasers, how do marketers work effectively?

The objectives of marketing have not changed during the 30 years that I have been working in this area: understanding market needs, matching products to these needs and explaining the benefits relevant to each customer. Continuing to meet these objectives when purchasers have all this new found power is the

Luckily we can all vote with our wallets and our attention

firstly it means that whatever we put online, especially on our websites, should be in a format that displays well on phones, tablets and desktop computers.

Websites can now be set up to manage this automatically; so it is surprising that many websites are still virtually unreadable on mobiles. Secondly, headings for emails and articles need to be shortened – today you need to be able to grab a reader’s attention in 60 characters.

Mobile is also bringing a whole range of new opportunities including mobile adverts. The value of mobile ads will double in the next few years to take their fair share of the advertising market.

While more adverts on our phones could be annoying, they should also be better targeted, for example using information about your location to provide offers from local shops or attractions.

So while technology has given more power to purchasers, it has also given marketers the opportunity to target information for them and to communicate with them anywhere and at any time. This ability can be used badly, to create intrusive, annoying adverts, or it can be used well, to provide relevant and timely information and offers. Luckily we can all vote with our wallets and our attention (and via ad blocking) in favour of what is relevant and timely.

If you want any further information or to discuss any of the above points, Roger says you are welcome to contact him by email: roger@rogerstoneconsultancy. com or through LinkedIn or Twitter (@rogerstone26). l

challenge. The good news is that technology is also providing marketers with more ways to achieve these goals.

Let’s have a look at one of the big areas of change: the rise of mobile phones as computing devices. No longer are our phones just for talking and texting; they now allow us to browse the internet, manage messages, interact on social media and run hundreds of different apps.

Already 45 per cent of emails The value of mobile ads will are read on mobiles. double in the How does this change next few years marketing? In terms of presenting information,

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The Future is Chocolate Richard Wilkinson and Edward Smith (both 2001-06) Founders of Doisy & Dam Chocolate Company

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ail online has recently included Doisy & Dam’s quinoa, smoked tea & vanilla-flavoured organic and gluten free chocolate on its ‘most hipster products’ register, and the Evening Standard has included the brand on its list for best vegan chocolate.

Founded only two and a half years ago

by Richard Wilkinson and Edward Smith (both 2001-06) after they both broke away from their ‘real’ jobs in trading and marketing, Doisy & Dam is now fulfilling the early dreams of Richard, who, while at Colet Court, said he’d like to start a chocolate company. With a turnover of £250K in 2015 projected to grow to £600K this year, it seems there is a growing appetite for an imaginative and wholesome approach to confection.

To save you Googling it, the name of the company derives from two scientists, Edward Doisy and Henrik Dam, who won a Nobel Prize in 1943 for their discovery of vitamin K, and whose work was a contributor towards understanding diet and nutrition. “Two of them, two of us – we also like to think we’re working in the same field as they were, so the name seemed appropriate.”

Why chocolate? “When we were doing our previous work we were getting fat!

We had busy lives, often working seven days a week, and we were eating a lot!

So we looked to develop something that could balance the nutritional benefits of super foods and their textures and tastes with the indulgent side of food products.

Having tried all sorts of products from tea to cookies to brownies, chocolate seemed perfect.”

Although neither Richard nor Ed are vegan or vegetarian themselves, they nonetheless set themselves the task of

going on either a vegan or gluten or sugar-free diet during one Lent as part of a drive to find perfect formulas with unadulterated contents.

The business began in the basement of Richard’s parents’ house, from where they supplied and delivered to independent outlets on their bikes, checking whether or not there was a market for their recipes.

“We got a lot of feedback from our customers which allowed us to improve the products. Then we ‘grew up’. We realised

Downloadable Surgery Professor Michael Cotton (1966-70) is Chief Editor of a new online surgery resource

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comprehensively revised edition of Primary Surgery (Volume One) edited by Professor Michael Cotton (1966-70) has been published online. Now available and free to download, either as a whole volume or by chapter, Primary Surgery is essentially a ‘cook book’ guide to surgery in poorresource settings. As such it will be a ‘must’ for those keen to participate in disaster medicine. Michael, now a surgeon working in A&E at the University Hospital, Lausanne, in Switzerland, says that it will be particularly useful for those who find themselves having to perform surgery outside their comfort zone, when there is no-one to ask for help or advice.

Michael explains that the book has been written in simple style, to help those for

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whom English is not their first language.

“The fact that some two billion people in the world do not have access to any surgery must be seen as a scandal. This book will do its part in correcting this tragedy.” Within just a few weeks of its release there were 60,000 downloads of the book worldwide. That number now stands at over a quarter of a million.

Michael had been working in Africa as a general surgeon for 20 years when he was approached and persuaded by epidemiologist Maurice King, the author of the first edition of Primary Surgery, published in 1990, to take on the task of bringing the book up to date. Michael says he rather naively agreed to take the job on, little realising at the time it would become a 15-year project.

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we couldn’t just keep doing this on our bikes. We approached wholesalers and are now selling into stores, theatres, cinemas and specialist coffee outlets, currently some 800 locations, mostly in London and the South East. But we have plans to push out into other cities across the UK later this year.

Both of us have always been obsessed with the idea of starting a business. Of the ideas we had, the one thing that was clear was that we both wanted to work with a physical product”.

Richard adds, “Having had the experience of looking at numbers on a computer screen for two years, it was so important for me to have something tangible to develop, something you could get passionate about”.

Edward was responsible for the packaging, which has been noticed by the likes of Grazia magazine which described it as ‘the prettiest packaging we’ve seen!’

Ed adds, “We didn’t apply any theory to our wrappers, we knew the shape they had to be and we just put in everything we thought would look good – not at all what was already in the chocolate market, but just what we liked. In the beginning I think that stood us apart from our competitors.

Others have since changed their approach

and have become more imaginative, but for us it’s all about keeping ahead and making our own mark.”

Quality ingredients are key to Doisy and Dam. As well as stringent tests for flavour and texture profiles, Ed and Richard strive to ensure the provenance of ingredients is ethical and fair to everyone in the supply chain. “Our chocolate, for instance, comes from an organic cooperative based in the Dominican Republic.”

Talking of their time at St Paul’s, Edward (who was D Club captain) and

Richard say they always knew that they wanted to do something on their own, and feel as if they might be the first generation to have had the right kind of opportunity. While they find it useful to be able to talk to other OPs also following entrepreneurial careers, the real value they say from being at St Paul’s comes from the lasting friendships they made there.

They enjoyed a mini-School reunion recently. “What I recognise in anyone I meet who has been to St Paul’s is their sense of self confidence – on the right side of arrogance!”

“We both came from jobs where we worked crazy hours. As a result we now like to work quite friendly hours and value the time we have to do other things including charitable projects and mentoring for people who want to start their own businesses.”

Should anyone be interested in talking through their own entrepreneurial ideas, Edward and Richard say they would be happy to hear from any current pupils or OPs. l Contact: edward@doisyanddam.com or richard@doisyanddam.com Web:doisyanddam.com

Originally commissioned through GTZ, a German technical aid organization that had a publishing deal with the Oxford University Press, the work was given a boost when GlobalHelp, a not-for-profit organisation, heard about the project and offered to distribute the whole thing free online – all 881 pages of it. “The principle has always been to keep it free. The problem with text books is that they are very expensive, so nobody buys them.” It is envisaged that the manual will also be translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.

Michael says it is rare that a book tells its reader what not to do, and what to do when things go wrong! This is such a book, whose aim, essentially, is to encourage surgery in remote areas, if necessary by non-specialist, even nonmedical, practitioners. Various procedures, which are in danger of being lost to the experience of Western style practitioners and their trainees but are eminently useful in poor-resource settings, have also been

described in some detail.

“The realisation that surgery is not an expensive luxury but a cost-effective intervention is slowly dawning on health planners; however, to remain viable, such surgery must remain relevant and relatively low-cost. It is estimated that 80 per cent of surgical necessities can be covered by as few as 15 essential procedures. If even only these are mastered, the surgical contribution offered will be substantial.”

One of the last group of Paulines to experience life at the old School at West Kensington, Michael eventually followed his brother Charles (1963-67) to Oxford where he studied Chemistry. His tutors there, Sir George Radda, a Hungarian scientist who had fled the Russian invasion of 1956 and became a leading figure behind the development of

MRI scanners, and Courtney Phillips, the Organic Chemistry Fellow, were inspirational he says. “They made things come alive, making it possible for me to better understand what I was doing.

But they were also instrumental in my securing only one of four postgraduate places at Oxford in Medicine after my Chemistry degree.”

Michael progressed to St Thomas’s Hospital where he enjoyed the forwardlooking nature of his mentors. Seeing that there were greater opportunities abroad at that time, he moved first to South Africa in 1984 before settling in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He only left there when it became impossible to offer patients assistance owing to a total lack of any resources. l To download the book go to: global-help. org/products/primary-surgery

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A Voice for Europe

Dirk Hazell (1969-73) is leader of the UK European People's Party Dirk Hazell leads UK EPP, the British associate of the European People’s Party, the continent-wide grouping of Christian Democrats and mainstream centre-right parties.

Here he asserts that Britain’s successor generations need both constitutional reform and continuing European engagement.

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efore coming to St Paul's I had been taught that, to secure peace and freedom, there was a European political project for economic and then political union. When I was at School, the UK then joined the European Communities. In the 1975 referendum, 43% of the total electorate (67% of turnout) voted to keep Britain on this European course compared in 2016 to 37% of the electorate voting to leave and 35% voting to stay.

Whatever now happens, we British secured enduring change: for example, making the European Parliament more democratic after the first direct elections in 1979, developing Europe’s single market and, if with mixed motives, accelerating full EU membership for former Warsaw Pact countries.

In January, I spoke to the St Paul's Polecon Society about Europe. It was a joy to engage with an audience young in years but analytically mature.

The boys were well on the way to becoming equipped for future challenge - such as managing environmental and technological change - which will be greater than that experienced by my generation and mastery of which will require reliable co-operation within Europe and beyond.

The fathers and grandfathers of OPs of my vintage fought in both World Wars, honouring the duty that each generation always owes its successors: to secure freedom. In contrast, after the referendum, OPs starting their adult life may face withdrawal of significant freedoms.

This, and economics burdening successor generations with mounting debt, suggest British politics are suboptimal for current and future purpose.

The British genius used to know what must change to preserve what must not change. The pressing interest of successor

generations is that this genius again now prevails.

This need not be unduly divisive: it requires honest recognition that an overcentralising Westminster Parliament, where 55% of its membership is unelected and only 24% of the electorate voted for the current government, urgently requires more than a dab of cosmetic incremental change.

And the wider British public must no more be patronised as pawns in the games of the mighty. They must again be more reliably and frequently told

There is cause for hope.

British political parties incapable of relevant re-invention are eventually replaced… relevant evidenced truth: for example how WW2 changed sovereignty and how, in our globalised and testing times, all Europeans gain from building partnership with neighbouring allies sharing similar interests and outlook.

There is cause for hope. British political parties incapable of relevant re-invention are eventually replaced. Retrospective protectionists of various types - Chartists, Corn Laws, Imperial Preference - get their moment but then Britain’s shared future interest generally prevails.

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evolved understanding that creating wealth matters but is not unconditionally all that matters.

While all three main British parties had strong Christian roots, each came to emphasise transactional materialist offerings. In contrast, the two most successful current upstarts - the SNP and UKIP - primarily offer identity.

So too, more positively, does my political family: significantly enhanced local identity and power implying more locally diverse politics, and a more coherent, relevant and transparent national government working within an effective shared European identity itself fully engaged in the wider world.

Influenced as the EPP is by both Christian Democracy and the Enlightenment, we offer a further dimension making our platform a reliable foundation on which those with public life ahead of them can build a better future in freedom across Europe.

We offer a clearer sense that each person, alive and to be born, should be enabled to secure fulfilment (including but not limited to economic fulfilment) and an economic model - the social market more focussed than neoliberalism on mitigating social and environmental costs while nonetheless securing widely shared economic gain.

Within ten years of leaving St Paul's, I had written the core source document for what became the Government’s and then Europe’s means to secure the single market. This became the leitmotif of my professional career and remains by far my own most influential intervention in public policy.

I mention it to younger audiences to encourage their own confidence that young people can make a difference: each successor generation in any healthy society, while learning from history, must believe it can and should improve their world.

Perhaps, in reacting to the 2016 referendum, Britain’s successor generation will find a cause around which effectively to unite: its positive democratic identity shared with other young Europeans. I hope our party can help them to secure that objective: and the sooner the better.

To that end, of course we also welcome such help as older Paulines and Paulinas are minded to offer! l

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Creating a Pauline Network for the Real Estate Sector

Old Paulines in Real Estate

Raoul Malhotra and Jean-Philippe Jabre (both 2005-09)

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aoul Malhotra and Jean-Philippe Jabre are interested in setting up a new initiative that would cater to OPs, boys and parents who have a common interest in Real Estate. Raoul believes that it could potentially be hugely beneficial to call upon the expertise of professionally involved alumni, such as the outstandingly successful Ian and Richard Livingstone (1978-80 and 1977-82), as well as others with a range of related interests, for example in investment management, development or sales, to set up an event at the School for an open-ended discussion and networking. “There will be crossover industries too. People who are involved in finance or have a general interest in the property market.” Raoul and JeanPhillipe both heard about how friends at other schools, which have active alumni Real Estate clubs, had been able to benefit greatly in regards to building networks in the industry. Moreover, as the market is particularly idiosyncratic in London, informational events could be of great value to OPs who are not professionally involved, but maybe looking to get on the property ladder.

Raoul is currently working as an Acquisitions Analyst for Meyer Bergman, a real estate private equity fund focused on the acquisition and active management of retail assets throughout Europe, with over €4 billion of assets under management.

Notable assets in London include Burlington Arcade in Mayfair, and the Whiteleys shopping centre in Queensway.

Jean-Philippe works at Mitheridge Capital Management, a specialist real estate investment firm with a focus on the London residential sector.

Post Brexit, Raoul says that the market has not appeared to have undergone a much anticipated correction – many assets that were marketed before the vote have not had any price reductions whatsoever. Having said that, the weaker pound bodes well for dollar or euro denominated investors, and London has not lost its allure to both institutional investors (such as pension funds or insurance companies) looking for a “safe” return on investment.

Raoul aspires to be a man of many talents. A few years ago he was on the bill for the OP Club Stand-Up Comedy Night at Headliners Club in Chiswick along with Dominic Frisby (1982-87), Chris Martin (1999-2004), Max Dickens (2001-06),

Raoul Malhotra (left) and Jean-Philippe Jabre

London has not lost its allure to institutional investors Neil Wates (1999-2004), Will Naameh (2005-10), Tim Schneider (2005-10) and Rory O’Keeffe (2004-09). Raoul carried on into his University years, culminating in a performance at the Lyceum Theatre in London’s West End, but couldn’t commit to the demands of a career in stand-up as well as his other interests and career. “I didn’t have the heart to perform every night of the week, and I also quickly ran out of publicly acceptable jokes. But it was good fun while it lasted.” Another surprise is to learn that Raoul boxes and competes in mixed martial arts. At Cruiserweight, he boxed at University and has taken part in two amateur fights.

Raoul graduated with a BSc in Managerial Economics & Strategy and an MSc in International Management from the LSE, completing one semester of the course at the Kellogg School of Management based in Chicago. It was there that he took MBAlevel classes in real estate finance, which proved instrumental in his landing a job as a Financial Analyst with General Growth Properties, also based in Chicago, before a return to the UK in late 2015.

Jean-Philippe graduated with a BA in Economics from Princeton University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the

Other OPs prominent in the real estate business include Ian and Richard Livingstone (1978-80 and 1977-82), former optometrist and chartered surveyor. Ian and Richard are cochairmen of London and Regional Properties (LRP), a company that has grown massively since the mid-1980s to become one of the largest private property companies in Europe.

LRP is active in London and has interests in 20 countries including the USA, the Caribbean and Central America, including Panama, where it is developing a new sustainable city, Panama Pacifico, that will include 20,000 residential properties, industrial parks with retail and commercial space, and a community centre.

Current major projects include the development of Old Oak Park which will be the most important new regeneration area in London, linking Crossrail, HS2 and the tube.

The site will incorporate a new cultural and business hub and provide up to 7,000 new homes, a new primary school, a canal-side park and a new shopping piazza. A corridor of mature oak trees will be a major feature of the pedestrian precinct. Other major projects include regeneration projects at Waterloo and Baker Street.

LRP also owns and operates many luxury hotels including the iconic Chewton Glen and Cliveden, as well as numerous business hotels and resorts throughout the Caribbean.

adoption of the Euro currency and its effect on Eurozone members’ government spending multiplier. He also played rugby throughout his schooling career representing both St Paul’s 1st XV and Princeton.

Following his graduation in 2013, he worked as a Financial Analyst in Lebanon at Tawfiq Gargour & Fils (TGF), where he participated in all aspects of the industrial and trading holding company, from analysing variable and operating expenses, to assisting with distribution and sales. While living in Lebanon, he also became proficient in Arabic.

He returned to the UK in 2014 and spent two years at Hedge Fund CQS, working in the bank and insurer’s credit desk, before moving into real estate at Mitheridge Capital Management in 2016. He has always been fascinated by global economic, financial and political developments and believes that the real estate industry, at the intersection of all three, presents the ideal opportunity for pursuing these interests.

Raoul and Jean-Phillipe would like to hear from anyone interested in contributing in any way towards setting up a St Paul’s Real Estate Network and/or taking part in a sector-focused event at the School. Please contact them via the Old Pauline Club at opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk l

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Common Ground for Dementia David Richardson (1956-61) is Chair of the Dementia Reference Group, Churches Together in Cumbria

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s the Dementia Coordinator and Chair of the Dementia Reference Group, Churches Together in Cumbria, David Richardson (1956-61) is leading a drive to make every church in Cumbria dementia-friendly by 2020. He has hopes that eventually this initiative will be picked up and replicated throughout the country. There are currently 850,000 people in the UK suffering from dementia, which is set to rise to over a million in the next decade.

David’s personal interest in the condition began in 2002, when his mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia. He joined the committee of the local branch of the Alzheimer’s Society (AS), going on to become a Trustee of the Society nationally.

During his time as a trustee, the AS began to develop the idea of a dementia-friendly community.

Stepping down in 2013, David wanted to continue to be involved, so he became active in the initiative to make Kendal, close to where he lives, one of the first dementia-friendly towns in the county.

“We have produced an online directory (kendaldirectory.org.uk) for services and sources of information that are relevant to potential users. We have managed to involve, among others, the local leisure centre, art gallery, the library, a local housing association, the fire service, two local firms of solicitors and a number of places of worship, including Kendal Parish Church.” David reflects that for those affected by a diagnosis there can be a devastating sense of being on one’s own, facing an uncertain future. “It is important to let people know that there are others who are or have been on the same journey and that help is at hand.”

Specifically, David wondered what churches could do to play their part. With the support of the Bishop of Carlisle, who is the lead within the Church of England on health issues, David co-produced a paper setting out what the church could usefully do to promote the initiative. It was then suggested that the project could be broadened ecumenically. The organisation Churches Together in Cumbria was approached and they enthusiastically backed the idea.

David developed the voluntary role of Dementia Coordinator, taking on the task himself along with the support of the Dementia Reference Group, whose

It is important to let people know that there are others . . . on the same journey members are drawn from a number of denominations (Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, United Reformed, Methodist and the Church of Scotland, who have an outpost in Carlisle). “Dementia is no respecter of denominational background. This is one area where we can all find common ground.

The role of the ‘Dementia Enablers’ within the overall plan is crucial – local volunteers in churches across the county.

We have already recruited 65 of them.

Amongst other tasks they are asked to help inform how their local churches can become dementia-friendly through a considered approach of welcome, worship and environment.”

Churches are encouraged to nominate their own Enablers, listen to their recommendations and give them opportunities to report to the Church Council. Training workshops and ongoing support are arranged for them.

The first Annual Cumbria Churches’ Dementia Conference will be held on 19 November at the Carver Uniting Church in Windermere. It will include speakers from outside the county including Dr Doug Brown, the Director of Research and Development for the Alzheimer’s Society.

The conference will include a progress report from three of the Dementia Enablers who

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have been recruited to take the initiative forward at local level. It will also provide an opportunity to hear and reflect on some of the pastoral and personal challenges posed by dementia and to receive an update on developments in research.

David would be delighted if any OPs would like to contact him about the work of the dementia initiative in Cumbria.

After St Paul’s, David went to Cambridge to read History where he met his wife Susan. It is their golden wedding anniversary next year. He taught briefly before going into university administration at Manchester where he remained for 35 years, staying on in a part-time capacity for another nine. David was involved with the Christian Union at Cambridge and has been a reader in the Church of England for many years. He is active in his local church both as a Reader and a Churchwarden.

Towards the end of his time in Manchester, David became involved with fundraising, helping to set up a Foundation for the University in the US. He still employs his fundraising skills for the Prayer Book Society and the Jane Austen Society, for whom he is also a trustee. David has been the contact for the Northern Branch of the OP Club for the past eight years. l Contact David at: dardesk1@btinternet.com For further information: churchestogethercumbria.org.uk dementiafriends.org.uk liveability.org.uk kendaldirectory.org.uk

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Keyhole chronicles Dr Paras Jethwa (1982-86) is a Consultant General and Laparoscopic Surgeon based in Surrey and Sussex

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aras specialises in minimally invasive surgical procedures, which are also commonly referred to as keyhole or laparoscopic operations. He was one of the first surgeons in the UK to perform single-site scarless surgery for gallstones (cholecystectomy) and is regularly invited to lecture, both in the UK and abroad. The OP Club is grateful to him for finding the time between three gall bladder operations on the day we spoke to him to talk about his career.

With his general surgery NHS practice based at the East Surrey Hospital, Paras also has private practices located at Spire Gatwick Park Hospital and Ramsay North Downs Hospital. He has just resigned from the Royal College of Surgeons where he has completed six years of teaching.

“I have been a Programme Director there – taking people from square one and training them up. It’s actually very satisfying to take someone who can barely hold a set of chopsticks and give them the skills and confidence to be able to operate. Once you become a higher trainee it’s a six-year programme to become a Consultant. Usually by your mid to late thirties you get there.”

Born into a medical family – his mother was a gynaecologist who became a GP and his father was a research chemist who became a pharmacist – Paras says from the age of five he knew he was destined for a career in medicine. He briefly flirted with the idea of becoming a dentist, but a girl he met at a garden party advised him not to, and that was that!

At St Paul’s he remembers Mr Pattman in particular, sadly now deceased, who taught him Biology. “He was absolutely fantastic. The nicest man ever, just brilliant. I also had a great tutor in Dr Wilson who taught chemistry. I was in the bottom set, but had the best teacher!

As a consequence I got an A at A level, when A’s were hard to come by.” Other formative teachers were Peter King, his Deputy House Master and Dave and Shirley Rollitt. Chris Jackson was Paras’s Latin teacher and Colts B rowing coach, and Mike Sweeney, a former GB judo teacher, who Paras would go on to meet a few times at the Commonwealth Games, taught him judo. “If you walk into the Sports Hall there’s a picture of me there with my judo kit on. A few pictures along is a picture of the Olympic rowing team!

Dr Paras Jethwa (right) in theatre

I am not worthy to be there!”

After St Paul’s, Paras took himself round the world for six months before starting at St George’s Hospital in 1987, where he graduated with his BSc in 1990, qualifying three years later. He then began House Officer jobs that lasted a year and later Senior House Officer jobs at Winchester and the Royal Free Hospitals. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1997 and a Registrar in 1998. He

I like to keep myself active and not become like the patients I deal with! completed his training in 2006 followed by a year in Australia before becoming a Consultant in 2008.

“The advantage of working in Australia was getting the experience of independent operating, acting as a Consultant in all but name and making all the decisions.

With training nowadays you don’t get the chance to operate unsupervised. As a consequence of that, the first day you become a Consultant might well be the first day you have had to act alone, which can be daunting. I also went there to get experience of advanced keyhole bariatrics (obesity care) and surgery.” Paras says that the day of the general surgeon has gone.

“We all subspecialise nowadays, although

all surgeons will perform emergency operations. I will cover anything from liver disease, stomachs, oesophagus, spleen, gall bladder, adrenalectomy, bariactrics and abdominal reconstructions for example.”

Not very sporty at School, by contrast Paras became enthused at medical school, enjoying rowing, Ironman triathlons and cycling. He also has a fast personal marathon time, sub three hours, and has entered national championship triathlons.

“I like to keep myself active and not become like the patients I deal with!”

Paras was part of the medical support team for the London Olympic Triathlon race. He has also accompanied the British team to Nice and provided medical cover for the Ironman event in Canada. He now concentrates on cycling events where he raises money for Wateraid, SCOPE and cancer charities. He recently cycled over the Alps following some of the Tour de France climbs and took part in the London to Paris 24-hour event (some 280 miles), along with fellow OP Tom Gueterbock (1982-86). Next year he hopes to take part in the Ironman event in Copenhagen, the 26th anniversary since his first in 1991.

Paras returned to St Paul’s last year where he was giving advice and showing video footage of his work at the Careers Fair. One of his trainees, Sasha Kumar (1994-99), was a panel member at a recent Old Pauline Medical Dinner. Paras himself will be attending the forthcoming OP Medical Dinner on 23 November. l

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Interview

Richard Thompson OBE Last December, Richard Thompson OBE (1973-77) was the speaker at the OP Club Supper Evening, held at St Paul’s School. He delivered an unapologetically strong case for understanding and tackling the increasing threat from the sophisticated use of online media by ISIS. Of his career he says that it had been a privilege to have represented his country at the highest levels during some historic global events. In this extended interview he shares his experiences and insights at the heart of government and beyond.

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y 2012 Richard had completed 33 years Government service during which time he had accrued extensive policy and operational experience in the security, intelligence and defence world. He was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets, served in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and was the Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary. His postings overseas included Hong Kong, France, Oman, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Kosovo, and Iraq. He held a number of senior domestic appointments, as well as geographic operational commands, for Central and Eastern Europe within the FCO before becoming the first civilian to become a Chief Constable since 1947. In 2012 he founded Elvaston Global Limited, an international consultancy service; in 2013 he co-founded and is a director of Advanced Laser Imaging; and in 2014 he became CEO of Facewatch Limited, a security platform that revolutionises how the police and the public can interact online. He resigned from Facewatch in June 2016 to set up his latest venture, ARL and Partners. He was a lay member of the Bar Standards Board between 2009 and 2015; he is an Honorary Fellow at King’s College, London; an Honorary Fellow of the Strategic Studies Institute at Exeter University; and a visiting lecturer at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

How was your time at St Paul’s?

It was high-pressured – I took my first set of A levels early, when I was just 16. My parents wanted to broaden my education beyond academia and sport,

so they sent me to Venice on a History of Art Foundation Course, which gave me a lifelong appreciation of fine art and an abiding affinity with that city. It was a real eye-opener, a brilliant experience and so different after living in dark and dank 1970s London, doing my homework by candlelight!

I returned to St Paul’s after this idyllic time away in Italy to re-take my History A level and try for Oxbridge. I was offered a place, but by then I had already decided to join the Army. My interest in joining up had been partly fuelled growing up watching television news dominated by stories of either Northern Ireland or Vietnam. The idea of service appealed to me. It was something I thought would be enjoyable and worthwhile to do and a lot more exciting than other professions.

What did you do after leaving St Paul’s?

I went to Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets. I was posted initially to Hong Kong on a short service commission as a Platoon Commander in charge of 32 soldiers and an interpreter, the equivalent of my gap year. I was given a huge amount of responsibility patrolling the border and outlying islands on anti-peoplesmuggling operations.

After nine months I returned from Hong Kong to study Law at Exeter University on an army scholarship. Life seemed pretty tame there after my exploits in the Far East, so I put myself forward for selection in the SAS, joining 21 SAS, the reserve unit, in my second term.

Where did you serve?

On completion of my degree, I rejoined the regular army and my first tour of duty was in Northern Ireland in 1983 serving in West Belfast and Fermanagh as a platoon commander. My battalion moved to Tidworth where we resumed garrison duties. During this time, as a Captain, I led the regimental boxing team to the Army finals; I was my company's second in command before becoming its acting Company Commander. And I was sent to Brunei to take a jungle warfare course, later becoming an instructor in Kenya before being seconded to the French Airborne Forces as a Liaison Officer. I then served in Oman as a Company Commander for

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two years, in one of the Sultan of Oman’s Pakistani Baluch regiments. Our duties included patrolling the desert area along the Omani and Yemeni border in the area around Habrut, and supporting the local tribal families. During one deployment we experienced an exchange of hostilities with the Yemeni army when they conducted a limited incursion into Oman.

What followed after your commission in the army come to an end?

I spent the last seven months of my army commission serving with my battalion in Osnabrück in Germany, immersed in the very different world of mechanised and armoured warfare. During this time I was talent-spotted by MI6, and I began an extraordinary career with them in 1989.

I started as a Junior Desk Officer in London. I had just started my first Swedish language lesson in preparation for posting to Sweden when the news came through that Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait.

Because of my experience in the Middle East I was soon contacted and put in charge of special operations for the first Gulf War. It was like having a blank piece of paper – working out what it was that we could contribute towards the liberation of Kuwait. Given that the Saudis and the Japanese had agreed to underwrite the coalition war effort financially, we were

I was soon contacted and put in charge of special operations for the first Gulf War constrained only by our own imagination and the art of the possible.

I then began a two-year posting back in Stockholm which proved to be a fascinating political period – the attempted coup against Yeltsin in 1991, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union with the commensurate collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

From there I served two years in London, focusing on counter terrorism, before moving to Geneva. Geneva is a unique place; bringing together, under the auspices of the United Nations, officials

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from countries that are otherwise very difficult to reach and as a consequence can represent a target-rich environment.

For instance, the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, was at school there at that time. Switzerland was also a safe haven for a number of different people from different global conflict zones and in particular the Balkans. I started to work on Bosnian related issues. By 1998 it became apparent that the next war in the Balkans was going to be over Kosovo.

Having developed a certain expertise on the Balkans, I deployed to Albania during the bombing campaign before moving to Pristina in Kosovo in 1999 for a year.

During my time there I was involved in a number of different lines of operational activity. One was providing intelligence on the intentions of the various paramilitary organisations that were operating – the KLA, the Serb paramilitaries, and the various organized criminal gangs.

Another was providing very high-level political advice both to the commander of the NATO-led peacekeeping Kosovo Force (KFOR), and to Bernard Kouchner,

You’re advising London, but also the strategic players in theatre then Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. You find yourself in the unusual position of being one of the few people who actually really knows and understands what’s going on. You’re advising London, but also the strategic players in theatre.

You’re at the heart of policy formulation – supplying intelligence, delivering an operational effect on the ground that is designed to help strengthen local peace and security – but also involved in the diplomatic efforts that are looking to develop the political process that will put the country on to a more lasting, stable footing. And finally, you are also working on capacity building, trying to work out how you can support the nation-building effort that is being put in place.

The focus of my work in this area was on the criminal justice system, supporting the creation of an effective law enforcement machinery that could in turn be anchored in some form of judicial process. When we first arrived here were no prisons, there were no courts, and there were no police officers, nothing at all. As we soon realised, the challenges associated with rebuilding a failed state were very considerable.

You returned to UK in 2000, what were

your new responsibilities?

I was seconded to the Home Office during a national fuel crisis. I worked as part of a small emergency response cell that was created to integrate and improve the interdepartmental response to a situation that had caught everyone by surprise. I wrote a paper after the event that suggested the government needed to have a department devoted to civil contingencies. The Civil Contingency Secretariat, now at the heart of the Cabinet Office, was formed as a consequence of our experience of the fuel crisis.

From there I was sent out to Sierra Leone before returning to run the Central European desk, covering the former Warsaw Pact countries and the Balkans.

My brief included chasing war criminals.

There’s a very good book on the subject

by Julian Borger, Diplomatic Editor at the Guardian – The Butcher’s Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World’s Most Successful Manhunt.

Shortly after a shift in responsibilities to cover Eastern Europe, there followed a mission to Baghdad in 2004 in which I oversaw the UK’s clandestine operations in Iraq, providing intelligence and political advice to the Iraqi government and the senior leadership of the coalition forces.

I remain dismayed to this day that none of the conditions that were needed for success were laid down when the coalition forces went into Iraq in 2003. I witnessed a military and political engagement unraveling, a subject on which I now lecture at Exeter. A lot of the lessons we

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learnt in Kosovo should have been applied to Iraq in 2003. When I arrived in Iraq in February 2004, it became apparent that we hadn’t reflected on our experiences in the Balkans and in Sierra Leone and had failed to understand the limitations of our power when it came to nation building. We hadn’t thought through just how difficult it would be in Iraq to put in place those essential ingredients required in order for the coalition to deliver security, stability and crucially the rule of law, from which all other things can then flow, like economic regeneration.

Have you been back to Iraq since the British army pulled out?

I was back there for a week in January this year as part of an EU team providing high-level advice to the Iraqi government on delivering a more integrated counterterrorism strategy. It was pretty depressing to be honest. Looking back at 2004, it was really my first bruising experience of trying to talk truth to power, where power didn’t want to hear it. And you can see Iraq for what it is today: a failed economy, with very little prospect of picking up at the moment; a huge amount of instability in terms of the internal security situation and a full-blown insurgency in the northwest, where the only reason that ISIS has been able to seize and hold ground is that the local population see them as being a less odious option than their own government.

We might be able to push ISIS back out of Iraq militarily, but we won’t destroy its ideology. It has already emerged in Libya and the Sahel and it will elsewhere.

What are your feelings now about the British engagement, and are these reflected by the findings in the Chilcott Report?

Up until Iraq in 2003 I always felt Britain had played an honourable role in any intervention I had been involved with. But in Iraq in 2004, to see what we had done, the chaos we had created, the security vacuum that we had allowed to take place, literally opening Pandora’s box and unleashing terrible forces of sectarianism and ethnic rivalry, all of which Saddam Hussein had kept in check, albeit only by using the most oppressive methods imaginable… you did start to question… have we done the right thing? Politicians can only make decisions based on what they are told by experts. If they are not told the unvarnished truth, the so-called expert advisers are not doing their job.

It was really my first bruising experience of trying to talk truth to power Have there been any other twists to your career path?

I was sent to Harvard Business School to participate in a three-month advanced management programme, which was an effective antidote to working in Iraq for a year and a half. The course was a real eye-opener. The range of skills and the subsequent network that it provided me with was quite outstanding, as were the quality of the teaching, the students and the subject matter. I gained some fascinating insights into why organisations succeed and fail, and how you can make them operate more efficiently. You are dipping into expertise that is amongst the best in the world.

Afterwards I was put in charge of a team responsible for capturing strategic intelligence requirements for Number 10, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence, coordinating the delivery of intelligence to those departments but also carrying the intelligence brief for the Prime Minister when he went away on summits. I was working at the heart of the policy-making machinery alongside, or within Number 10. It proved to be a very interesting political period towards the end of Tony Blair’s reign running up to Gordon Brown taking over.

In 2006 I was headhunted for the position of Chief Constable of Britain’s Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), one of only three national forces that

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has jurisdiction in England, Wales and Scotland. It turned out that I was the first non-police officer to be appointed as a Chief Constable since 1947. It was a fascinating experience, understanding and learning about the challenges that confront the police service. During the five years I spent with the CNC, the constabulary went through a period of significant change, becoming a fully operational counter-terrorism force that is much more capable of talking today’s terrorist threat. The exposure to different change management models I had had during the course at Harvard proved invaluable.

In 2012, I moved into the private sector.

I set up my own consulting company as a vehicle to provide bespoke advice to a range of corporate and government clients with security-related concerns. I also helped found a company called Advanced Laser Imaging, a tech-based company that uses laser scanners to create 3D virtual representations of crime scenes, for instance, for the forensic investigation of crime.

In 2014, I became an investor and eventually CEO of Facewatch, a securitybased platform that enables any business or retailer to record, report and share the details of any security-related low-level crime incident directly with the police in a way that is evidential. I believe that there are opportunities for the police and the public to interact in a digital way, with all ‘blue light’ services enhanced through the digital space. I have since left Facewatch to set up my my own venture, ARL and Partners.

What else is important to you?

I have enjoyed my rugby over the years, playing for the Old Paulines as well as for my university, the Army in Hong Kong, and for the Stockholm Exiles, one of two teams that took it in turns to be Swedish champions. But there comes a point in your life when turning up to work on a Monday morning with a black eye is no longer appropriate and you have to realise that your body just can’t take it any more! I enjoy reading, I recently finished Fighters in the Shadows, a history of the French Resistance by Robert Gilbert. I remain an art lover since the time my parents sent me to Venice and I am a friend of the Royal Academy, the Tate and the British Museum. Now I am trying to create the space to see more of my three children (two sons and a daughter). I didn’t have much of a chance to see a lot of them when they were younger. l

Et Cetera Brexit – Another Distortion of Democracy?

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Paul Cartledge’s (1960-64) new book, Democracy: A Life has recently been published

by Oxford University Press.

Here he argues that ancient Athenians would have been wellplaced to caution us about the divisions unleashed by our referendum to remain in or leave the EU.

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rexit – wrecks it? Let’s forget for a moment about June 23 2016.

Suppose we were to enter a timemachine and have ourselves transported back 2400 years, to the democracy of ancient Athens. There, in the city that invented both the word and the thing ‘democracy’, a direct plebiscitary referendum style of government was the norm, not a desperate, abnormal expedient.

It happened regularly, even as frequently as just every ten days. For there the demos (People) of the Athenians really did hold and exercise the kratos (power, strength, force) – the power over the public organs of governance, and the power to decide, by majority vote, what the laws and policy of the Athenian state should be.

From that original meaning of democracy to our etiolated, watereddown, indirect versions of representative, parliamentary democracy is a stretch, a very long stretch indeed. It’s that stretch that my book has tried in some way to cover – to chart and map its vicissitudes, its twists and turns, its more or less radical transformations. The ancient Athenians alone had – over a period of getting on for two centuries – at least three significantly different versions of Project Democracy.

After the revolution of 508/7 BCE that brought an early form of democracy into fledgling being, a further flurry of reforms in 462/1 gave political access to ever widening layers of the qualified Athenian people: that is, free and legitimate adult males over the age of 18. 50-60,000 at most, out of a total population – including citizen females and subadult children, resident foreigners and slaves – of 250,000 or so, all confined to a space the size of Derbyshire or Luxembourg today.

A very long inter-Greek war saw Athens heavily defeated and its democracy replaced briefly by a brutal dictatorship,

…No campaign manifestos to exert even a minimum constraint on demagogic fantasy but within a year a democratic restoration ushered in a less extreme and therefore more stable governmental form that lasted for almost 80 years. Towards the end of that period Aristotle, the giant thinker, classified and analysed all the main Greek forms of governance – monarchic and oligarchic as well as democratic. Most of the thousand or so existing Greek communities then enjoyed or at least experienced some version of either democracy or oligarchy (the rule of the few rich citizens). But most oligarchs in most cities more or less virulently hated democracy – the rule of the many poor over their few rich social superiors, as they saw it, the dictatorship of the proletariat.

From the end of the fourth century BCE and for the rest of Graeco-Roman antiquity direct mass democracy of the Athenian type was suppressed, often violently, in favour of variously moderate or extreme forms of oligarchy.

In direct consequence, the meanings of the Greek word demokratia modulated accordingly. Instead of people-power it came to have the force of our (Latinderived) word republic: that is, notmonarchy, and in practice rule by the rich or richer minority. The Romans who conquered the Greek world between the third and first centuries BCE had their own peculiar version of republicanism at home. Abroad, they abhorred Greek-style primary demokratia and stamped out any

remaining vestiges. When the Roman Republic transitioned into a disguised monarchy, fawning Greek intellectuals committed the linguistic crime of describing the Roman imperial system as itself a form of demokratia - under one man! But worse was yet to come. From the 330s and the Christian revolution of Constantine onwards, absolute monarchy was buttressed by theocracy, leaving no place whatsoever for the people as a recognised political force of any description. Within the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian (527-565) demokratia the word plunged to its nadir: making literal the implicit negativity of demos as the unwashed masses of the ‘people’, a pietistic chronicler used it to mean ‘riot’ - a particularly unacceptable form of mob-rule.

Thereafter the word existed in its Latin transliteration as democratia but had no real content or application outside scholarly or pious treatises. It took the Antiquity-worshipping Renaissance to rediscover some virtue in the notion of popular political presence, the seventeenth century in England to put republican flesh on that skeleton in the shape of the regicide of 1649. But modern democracy – or rather democracies – owes its origin more specially to the American and French Revolutions and their respective aftermaths.

The remarkable Englishman Thomas Paine straddled both Revolutions like a populist colossus and gave in outline both secular reason and uncommon sense to the ideas of representative and even social democracy.

In fits and starts the idea of universal suffrage took hold and gained currency in the UK, alongside those of parliamentary sovereignty and ‘constitutional’ monarchy.

But in 2015, following the Tories’ victory in the May general election, Parliament of its free will set aside its sovereignty in favour of a direct plebiscite – not a first-past-the-post election, and with no campaign manifestos to exert even a minimum constraint on demagogic fantasy. Crucially too there was no education of the voters in the many key differences in both process and outcome between a general election and a referendum. The result? Predictably, an almighty mess. The Athenians, who knew a thing or two about direct democracy and had in place many sorts of measures and resources to counteract such possibly divided and divisive outcomes, could have told us a thing or two and warned us in advance. Brexit wrecks it? Politically speaking, unambiguously – alas - yes. l

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Club News

The Old Pauline Club Highlights of 2015/16 This year I have had the opportunity to meet, greet, and connect with many Old Paulines. I am always impressed with how interesting they are and how much time they are willing to give back to the School, the pupils and the wider community.

New faces Rob Smith

Deputy President of the Old Pauline Club

Rob Smith (198186) was a prefect, played in the 1st XV Rugby and the 1st XI Cricket teams and was Captain of Badminton during his time at St Paul’s. During his last two years at school, Rob also represented Surrey Young Cricketers, and enjoyed playing at the Oval with Graham Thorpe and other top names in the game at the time.

After St Paul’s, Rob took a Business

With your help the Old Pauline Club has enjoyed an action-packed and successful year. There have been four well-attended reunions; incredible turnouts for the Law, Finance and Entrepreneurs Dinners, at which OPs and parents gave their time and advice to current students; and a sell-out Feast Service, which highlighted our strong connection to the Mercers’ Company. Thanks to our great network of volunteers, the Club is now better placed than ever to provide a stimulating and rewarding service to the alumni. We have increased our event attendance by 30% and we are now in contact with even more of you.

There have been too many memorable moments throughout the year to mention

them all, but some of my own highlights include:

Studies degree, joining Infocheck after a brief spell working for Lloyds Bank. He rose through the ranks to become their Director of Credit Insurance. He later went on to become a Commercial Director at Thomson Reuters before joining IHS, publishers of Jane’s Defence Weekly magazine. Through a former colleague, Rob became involved in Recruitment.

Shortly after, he decided to set up and run an agency of his own – and has now been Managing Director of Grand Slam Search for almost ten years.

Rob has been an active member of the Old Pauline Club for some time. He captained the Old Pauline Cricket Club in 1998 and the Old Pauline Golf Society in 2002, for whom he still plays. He was instrumental in helping Ian Bester and Ali Summers organise industry business dinners and breakfast meetings as part

of the Club’s entrepreneurial events for members. He was made a Vice President in 2010, and has been a regular attendee of the OP Club Main Committee.

Looking ahead to his role as President next year, Rob says he would like to continue current Club President Sir Nigel Thompson’s initiative to involve younger OPs in the activities of the Club.

Specifically, with his own professional experience in Recruitment, Rob is determined to see the Club access more internships and work placements that could be offered to current Paulines. He would also like them to be able to view the Club as central to their post-university plans. Furthermore, Rob intends to explore the possibility of developing a private job portal, which could potentially be accessed by Paulines, their parents, OPs and potential recruiters.

The club now has a new 38M balcony on the western side joining the original northern balcony, giving excellent viewing platforms over all the 15 acres of playing fields and with immediate access to the bars and kitchens.

The new offices provide proper accommodation for the Colets staff which is a relief from the rather cramped and disparate arrangement previously provided.

The shiny new changing facilities bring the commercial club up with the market leaders and boast the country’s first ‘Air Shower’ for cooling down after broiling in the steam room.

l Welcoming Lt Col Andy Garrow (198893) back to St Paul’s for Remembrance Day. l Inviting OPs at University back to School for Universities Afternoon where they shared their experiences and gave valuable advice to current pupils. l Working with four sets of amazing volunteers to run their class reunions.

To all of you who have given your time this year, whether on a committee, giving a talk, sharing advice with current pupils or providing a placement or internship, thank you.

Ceri Jones, Events and OPC Manager

Colets, your Club Colets is very pleased to announce that the building project at the Club is now complete and the contractors have left the site.

The complex programme of work included: renewal of the central heating and hot water plant; construction of a first floor western balcony; building a new Ladies’ Changing Room & Gentlemen’s Changing Room; constructing a vertical extension of the Gym Atrium with an extended helical stair; an extension of the Cafe Bar with balcony access and enlarging the first floor toilet facilities.

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Colets – do come and enjoy the facilities on offer at Thames Ditton.

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Jon Blair CBE (1967-69) Jon was recently awarded a CBE for his services to the film industry. Previously a war correspondent, a playwright, TV producer and director, Jon also cofounded the satirical TV puppet series Spitting Image. He has since won most of the major honours in his profession including an Oscar for his documentary Anne Frank Remembered and a BAFTA for Schindler: The Real Story. Jon has endowed the School with the Blair prize, which is awarded annually to the boy showing creative excellence across a variety of disciplines.

Alex Duncan (1993-98) Captain of OPC Cricket OP for 15 years (approx), Alex is the current Hon. Secretary of the Cricket Club.

Alex plays for the 1st XI and holds the record for the highest innings. He comes from a very sporting family, his father having played cricket for the OPs before him.

Lt Gen Sir Peter Graham KCB CBE (1950-55) Lieutenant General Sir Peter Graham is the most senior living martial alumnus of St. Paul’s School. After leaving St Paul’s in 1955 he attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

He served with great distinction in Borneo and elsewhere abroad before being transferred to Northern Ireland in 1970, where he would spend spent some fourteen years at the height of the Troubles, rising to command the Ulster Defence Regiment. Sir Peter’s appointments included General Officer Commanding Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh Castle. Sir Peter received his MBE in 1971, an OBE in 1978 and CBE in 1981.

Stuart Kerrigan (1990-95) Stuart is a past Captain of Rugby Club the Old Pauline Football Club (Rugby) and has played as a hooker for the OPFC rugby 1st XV for 15+ years.

Alan McLean (1957-59) Alan was recently made a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur for his services to the maritime industry through his company the McLean Group, a shipping insurance business.

The highest decoration in France, the award was originally created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and is rarely awarded to non-native Frenchmen or women. Of Anglo-Scot origin, Alan can claim a direct family line back to Sir Thomas More, friend of John Colet and William Lily, the first High Master of St Paul’s. Alan is married to Old Paulina Dr Elizabeth Jenner JP.

Tom Peters (1989-94) Tom is Chairman of the OP Cricket Club and has been in the 1st XI for 20 years. Tom He has been a very strong supporter and active participant in OP life including playing for the OP Rugby Club.

Duncan Gordon Smith (1984-89) Duncan is a former Chairman and Captain of the OPFC Rugby . He and plays for both the OP cricket and rugby cricket and rugby for the Old Pauline Club.

Old Pauline Club Committee List 2016/17 President Sir Nigel Thompson KCMG CBE

R J Smith Golfing Society D C Tristao Tennis Club J Withers Green Elected

Deputy President R J Smith Past Presidents D J Cakebread, B D Moss, C D L Hogbin, C J W Madge, F W Neate, Sir Alexander Graham GBE DCL, R C Cunis, Professor the Rt Hon Lord McColl of Dulwich, The Rt Hon the Lord Baker of Dorking CH, N J Carr, J M Dennis, J H M East Vice Presidents P R A Baker, R S Baldock, J S Beastall CB, S C H Bishop, J R Blair CBE, Sir David Brewer CMG, CVO, N E Britnor, N St J Brooks, R D Burton, W M A Carroll, Professor P A Cartledge, M A Colato, R K Compton, T J D Cunis, S J Dennis MBE, L M Dorfman CBE, C R Dring, C G Duckworth, A R Duncan, J A H Ellis, R A Engel, D H P Etherton, The Rt Hon Sir Terence Etherton, T J R Goode, D J Gordon-Smith, Lt Gen Sir Peter Graham KCB CBE, S R Harding, R J G Holman, J A Howard, B M Jones, S D Kerrigan, P J King, T G Knight, P A Leppard, B Lowe, J W S Lyons, Professor C P Mayer, R R G McIntosh, A R M McLean, I C McNicol, A K Nigam, The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, T B Peters, D M Porteus, The Rt Hon the Lord Razzall CBE, The Rt Hon the Lord Renwick of Clifton KCMG, B M Roberts, J E Rolfe, Sir David Rowland, J W Runacres, M K Seigel, J C F Simpson, R J Smith, D R Snow, S S Strauss, A G Summers, R Summers, J L Thorn, R Ticciati, Admiral Sir John Treacher KCB, Sir Mark Walport FRS, Professor the Lord Winston of Hammersmith

Executive Committee Sir Nigel Thompson Chairman A C Day Hon Secretary N St J Brooks Hon Treasurer S C H Bishop Editor, OP News R D Burton Secretary for Affiliated Clubs & Associations N J Carr TDSSC Ltd Representative J H M East J A Howard Liaison Committee Chairman B M Jones P J King Membership Secretary S L Rooms Events Co-ordinator Communications Committee S C H Bishop (Editor, OP News), Suzanne Mackenzie (Editor, The Pauline), Andrea Hudson (Development Manager), Zeena Hicks (Marketing and Communications Director), Ceri Jones (Events and OPC Manager) President and Hon Secretary (ex officio) Thames Ditton Committee J S Beastall CB, C G Duckworth, C D L Hogbin, T G Knight President, Hon Secretary, Hon Treasurer (ex officio) Liaison Committee J A Howard Chairman, T B Bain, I M Benjamin, N J Carr, R J G Holman, B D Moss Ground Committee J M Dennis Chairman, R K Compton, G Godfrey (Groundsman), M P Kiernan, I C McNicol, D Richard, J Sherjan

Honorary Secretary A C Day

Accountants Kreston Reeves LLP

Honorary Treasurer N St J Brooks FCA

Trustees C D L Hogbin Chairman, J S Beastall CB, C R Dring

Main Committee composed of all the above and: P R A Baker OP Lodge B C M Dover Rugby Football Club S C H Bishop Editor, OP News T J D Cunis (Archivist & AROPS representative) N P Troen Association Football Club J P King Colet Boat Club P J King Fives (OPRFC) & Membership Secretary N H Norgren Elected T B Peters Cricket Club S L Rooms Events Co-ordinator

Alumni and Development Office Andrea Hudson (Development Manager), Ceri Jones (Events & OPC Manager), Viera Ghods, (Events and Alumni Administrator)

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Old Pauline Club events

Annual Dinner 2016

Lord Winston gives his after-dinner speech

Pre-dinner drinks in Founders' Court

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his year’s Annual Dinner was a convivial affair with 120 OPs and their guests attending a pre-dinner drink in Founders' Court, the highest attendance since 2007, before enjoying a three-course meal in the tented dining hall at St Paul’s School, where they heard Professor the Lord Winston (1954-59) give an amusing speech about some of his early experiences as a medic, but also deliver a more serious plea, given recent political developments, for education to better inform a public assailed by misinformation.

Old Pauline Club President Sir Nigel Thompson heralded a period of future investment by the School in development and communications before proposing toasts to the Queen, the School and the pious and immortal memory of founder John Colet. Senior Undermaster Alex Wilson spoke of the recent

achievements of the School and drew attention to the highly successful Pauline Perspectives event held in the Samuel Pepys Theatre and the Summer Festival, before proposing a toast to the Old Pauline Club.

Presentations on behalf of the Old Pauline Club were made to retiring members of staff Paul Littlewood, David Smith, James Renshaw, Tim Meunier of Colet Court, and Peter King, who received a rousing cheer for his extraordinary 40-year career at the School.

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Lord Winston (left) with Sir David Brewer, CMG, CVO, JP (1955-58), Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

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Leavers' Ceremony Guest speaker Tim Otty QC

The Class of 2016 celebrate

Listening to the speeches in the Sports Hall

Checking the record

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or the 2015/16 Upper Eighth, the 30 June was a date marked firmly in our calendars. Not only did the evening promise a lavish black tie Leavers' Ball, but more importantly it represented the formal end to our St Paul's education. And, as the boys streamed into the sports hall, I think everyone, whether they'd been there for two, five or ten years, was cognisant of the importance of the occasion.

I must admit, I expected the occasion to be somewhat tearful. Perhaps some tutors would be hiding a tear at the prospect of never registering us at 8.32am ever again.

Or maybe a boy, devastated at the loss of the chicken balti from his weekly diet.

But, as is often the case, I was very much mistaken. In fact, proceedings struck an excellent balance of being celebratory but

also very thought provoking throughout.

Our first speaker was the High Master who, as ever, was on hand to offer us some excellent and wittily constructed advice: don't be lazy and make the most of everything you do! Indeed, for those of us who will have enjoyed more than three months of it this summer, a kick up the rear may well be needed to get us back into working gear.

Next rose our main speaker, Tim Otty QC, a leading practitioner in civil liberties and human rights law. Given the date of the ceremony, there was little doubt about what the speaker might choose to talk on.

And, within seconds, nor was there any doubt how he may have chosen to vote.

Having said that, the speaker tackled a toxic and contentious topic excellently.

He firmly disputed Mr Gove's claim that society had little need for experts and said our year group had a fantastic opportunity to be such experts for the next generation. Though the speech may have divided the room, its main point resonated with all in there.

Lastly, up rose Mr Wilson, the U8th Undermaster. After recounting funny stories about missing ties and the like, he went on to tell us how fond he was of us a year. I can confirm the feeling was very mutual.

We all stood tutor group by tutor group to shake the High Master's hand, but now was the bit we'd all been waiting for‌ the fabled Old Pauline Club goody bag packed with all sorts from laundry bags to bow ties; Olly Hill it proved extremely popular.

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Old Pauline Club community

Reunions in 2016 25 Year

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ver 250 guests have attended the last four reunion events at the School. This impressive turnout is thanks to our strong network of Reunion Volunteers who have encouraged and publicised these events to old friends. If you are interested in running your own reunion contact Ceri Jones at clj@stpaulsschool.org.uk

30 Year

Old Pauline Scout Reunion

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n Sunday 26 June, 34 Old Pauline Scouts, plus a number of their wives and partners, gathered at the delightful riverside home of Harry Hampson.

A couple of years ago, Harry and former Scout Leaders Chris Bound and Peter Brown met for dinner and discussed the idea of a reunion. It was noted that 2016 would mark the 30th anniversary of Scouting at St Paul’s coming to an end, due to the School’s failure to provide on-going support and a shortage of OP members able to take time out from their careers to continue running it.

Once the decision had been made to hold the event, the organisers trawled through their records to identify the names of former members.

A list of nearly two hundred OPs who were known to have been Scouts during their time at School was compiled and, with help from the OP Club team, letters and

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e-mails were sent, generating nearly a hundred responses.

Amongst attendees, we were delighted to welcome no fewer than three members who were at School in the 1940s. There were five from the fifties, nine from the sixties, eleven from the seventies and the rest from the final years – the eighties.

Gathering at around 4pm, we enjoyed “drinks and nibbles” on the terrace overlooking the River Thames before moving indoors for an excellent meal.

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Summer Festival Buster Dover (left) and Ben Palairet ready to sign up some new OP rugby players Archie Faulks

The Old Pauline Club, with the help of the OPFC and the OP Trust, supported the Upper Eighth party at the St Paul's Summer Festival in June. Club President Sir Nigel Thompson and Deputy President Rob Smith, with other members of the Club executive, were on hand to welcome the U8th and their parents to the OP community, and to share information about the Club. OPs featured throughout the day including Archie Faulks (2008-13) who was one of the performers on the main stage, and Tom Ames, Captain of School 2014/15 who helped to compère the day.

Pre-autumnal lunch at the Cornelia Street Cafe, owned by Robin Hirsch.

Left to right: OPs Ed Pomeroy and Peter Fielding, Paulina Stephanie Connor, OP and host Robin Hirsch, Paulina Sylvia Scheuer, guest John Brendon, OPs Kut Akdogan and Simon Strauss.

Huge thanks go to Harry Hampson and his wife Rachel for hosting the event and providing all the catering.

Needless to say, there was no shortage of conversation as ancient memories were discussed and mused over.

Many deep friendships were formed during the wide-ranging activities undertaken as part of the Scout Group, but had lain dormant since leaving school.

It was widely observed that many of those present do not usually attend OP events but were attracted by their fond memories of Scouting.

Two opinions were universally expressed: firstly, it was a tragedy that Scouting at St Paul’s was allowed to die and, secondly, we should meet more often and not wait another thirty years.

Chris Bound

USA East Coast Branch 2016 In 2016 Old Paulines, Paulinas, Colet Fellows and their friends and family began the year with well-attended drinks in front of the fire at Jamie Morris’s apartment. We dressed up for lunch on several occasions at midtown Manhattan’s University Club.

Many of us enjoyed OP Robin Hirsch’s hospitality and hand-crafted cuvees at his Greenwich Village restaurant.

Some participated in a Sunday afternoon barbecue at former East Coaster, now transplanted to Berkeley CA, Jasmit Rangr’s garden.

Several of us sipped cabana cocktails on Paulina Tamora Rush-Kellett’s roof-top.

A few enjoyed evening aperitifs with David Bruder on the patio of Central Park’s Tavern on the Green.

To conclude the year, OPs in and around New York will meet with two groups of St. Paul’s boys as they visit New York for the Politics/Economics trip and the US universities tour during Autumn Remedy.

We are invited to attend Paulina Lily Dorment’s Pond Theatre Company production of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party on November 17.

We will have a Thanksgiving/ Christmas lunch at the University Club on November 30. l Join SPS Director of Rowing Bobby Thatcher at the Newell Boathouse to cheer on the St Paul’s 1st VIII and 1st IV who will be racing in the Men’s Youth VIII and Men’s Youth IV at the annual Head of the Charles Regatta, in Boston on the weekend of 22 and 23 October.

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Obituaries Name

(at SPS)

Colin E Ambrose The Rev David R (Roly) F Bain John Beveridge Rahoul Biswas-Hawkes Thomas S Cree John L Crowell Barry S Dare Jon E Dixon Christopher H Donne Gustav (Gus) O Ehrman Terrence (Terry) J B Geffen Simon Gillett David C (Christopher) Hebron Christopher Hill-Kelly John P (Paul) Hindle William B (Bruce) G Hopkins Sir Antony R Jay CVO John Lyons James E A Mason Milan J (Jeffrey) Milout Malcolm C Muir Michael J (John) R Munn Peter M Norman John D Obey Richard B Owen Bryan Robson Head of English Director of Drama Nicholas R Sargant Sir Peter L Shaffer David B Tapley Jasper Thorogood Assistant Director of Music Edward A Vincent Peter J C Webster Peter Westbury Michael L Wood John D Woodthorpe

1949-54 1967-71 1950-55 2010-15 1955-58 1965-68 1949-54 1941-47 1948-53 1936-41 1934-39 1951-56 1954-59 1989-92 1947-51 1948-51 1941-48 1941-44 1991-96 1943-47 1943-47 1941-45 1941-44 1943-45 1952-56

1936-2016 1954-2016 1936-2016 1996-2016 1941-2016 1951-2016 1936-2016 1928-TBC 1935-2015 1922-2016 1921-2015 1938-2016 1941-2014 1975-2016 1932-2015 1934-2016 1930-2016 1926-2016 1977-TBC 1929-2016 1929-2008 1927-2015 1928-2016 1928-2015 1938-2016

1970-89 1989-94 1960-65 1942-44 1947-53

1935-2016 1947-2016 1926-2016 1934-2016

1965-75 1935-40 1946-51 1951-56 1949-53 1940-42

1943-2016 1921-2013 1932-2016 1938-2015 1936-2016 1926-2016

Please note, an obituary for recent leaver Rahoul Biswas-Hawkes appears on page 130.

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Colin E Ambrose (1949-54) John Beveridge (1950-55)* ** With great sadness, we announce the death of Colin Edwin Ambrose of West Vancouver from heart failure, with his wife and sister at his side in Lions Gate Hospital. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Jennie, his sister Pat Hargrave, nephew James Hargrave and niece Sue Monett, and their families, all of Vancouver, along with many cousins and friends around the world.

Colin was born in Barnes and attended Colet Court and St Paul’s. He was Captain of the School Rifle Team and was in the Combined Cadet Force.

He later obtained a flying scholarship, gaining his private pilot’s licence on Tiger Moths. He spent 10 years in the RAF and served in the UK, Aden, Singapore, Borneo and Nigeria, flying fighters, transport and communications aircraft. In 2010, Colin was awarded a medal by the Malaysian Consul in Vancouver for his RAF tour of operations in Malaysia.

In 1967 he joined Canadian Pacific Airlines in Vancouver and flew for the company for 21 years, ending up as Captain on the B-737. Routes flown included North & South America, South Pacific, Europe and Asia. On taking early retirement, he continued to fly and train pilots on the B-737 in Canada, Istanbul and Malaysia.

His last flight was on 30 August 1997 with just under 18,000 hours in his log book.

Colin and Jennie met in England in 1961 and were married there in 1968. They lived most of their married life in West Vancouver and enjoyed travelling throughout many parts of the world, boating around the BC coast and building a cabin on Hornby Island.

Colin was a keen fisherman and enjoyed a game of croquet. He was a crack shot and represented his school, the RAF, BC and Canada in target rifle competitions in Canada, the UK, Australia and New Jenny Ambrose Zealand.

John Beveridge, who died recently aged 79, was one of the most successful and distinguished of Pauline oarsmen of his generation.

He was also a successful rugby player for two years in the St Paul’s School 1st XV, as well as a first-class classics scholar who won a major scholarship in Classics to Jesus College, Cambridge.

After Cambridge, rowing for Molesey BC, he won gold and bronze medals at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia.

Coached by Freddie Page, Beveridge rowed in the St Paul’s VIII at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1953, 1954 and 1955. The 1953 crew won the Princess Elizabeth Cup; the 1954 and 1955 crews lost only to the eventual winners.

Joining the RAF for his National Service, John was posted to RAF Benson where the RAF rowing club was based. He rowed for the excellent RAF crews in the Thames Cup at Henley in 1956 and 1957.

Deciding to read Engineering rather than Classics, John read on his own to take and pass the three science A levels required that allowed him to begin reading Engineering at Jesus College in Michaelmas 1957.

John stroked Jesus to the Head of the River in the Cambridge May Races, winning the Ladies’ Plate at Henley in 1958. In 1959 he rowed at 6 in the Cambridge Boat Race crew. In his third appearance, as President, accompanied by two other Pauline oarsmen, he succeeded in defeating Oxford by over four lengths.

John Beveridge married Margaret Shelton in 1961, with whom he had four children.

Subsequently, with his second wife Diana Millett, he lived in retirement at Henley. For seven years he was Hon. Secretary of Leander Club and played a leading role in its re-development.

John is survived by his wife Diana, and four children, Fiona, Rachel, Justin, Douglas Calder(1952-57) and Hallam.

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Thomas S Cree (1955-58)

Simon Gillett (1951-56)

Thomas Scott Cree, airline owner and operator, born on 11 August 1941, finally succumbed to cancer on 29 April 2016 at the age of 74.

Tom’s early years were spent in Africa where his father was an FCO Commissioner. As a child he contracted polio which left him with a limp. Persevering with this impediment, he obtained his commercial pilot’s licence and took a position with the original Bush Pilots of Australia. Tom worked globally and at various times had airlines in Australasia, Africa and the United Kingdom. Latterly he pioneered industrial level renewable energy in Britain.

He is survived by his wife, Irina, and his daughter from a previous marriage, Sarah.

Before going to Cambridge, Simon did National Service and was commissioned into the Nigeria Regiment stationed in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria. After two years he went up to Peterhouse, reading History, which he enjoyed, and Law, which was, he realised, a mistake.

While at university he took a year out to work on the Cameroon Plebiscite, for the UN. After graduation he joined the Ministry of Labour for three years, but didn’t find enough to do (and hankered for Africa), so he set off to Bechuanaland to spend seven years around the Kalahari as a District Commissioner and District Officer. By now he had a wife and two small daughters in tow, who all had happy memories of life beyond the reach of a telephone, or even a telegram, if the police generator failed.

After Botswana, as Bechuanaland had become, he worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat, before Administering Nauru, Ascension Island and St Helena followed by Agricultural Development in Nigeria, the Sudan, Tanzania and ultimately Pakistan.

Here he was employed by the UN and the Pakistan government to provide alternatives to poppy-growing and to support the infrastructure this would require. For someone who had spent his whole career fascinated by Colonial History, working ‘on the Frontier’ in a small village near the Afghan border was a real delight.

He retired in June 2001 to work for his sheep-farming wife in West Somerset.

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Alice Gillett

David (Christopher) Hebron (1954-59) David (Christopher) Hebron, Captain, Royal Navy (retired), grew up in Putney, and attended Willington Prep School before entering St Paul’s in 1954. His sisters remember him setting off for school on his bicycle holding his boater on with one hand to cross Hammersmith Bridge. A keen rugby player, he played for the 1st XV as prop forward.

Always wanting to join the Royal Navy, he won a scholarship to Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1960. He specialised in the Supply and Secretariat branch, and gained early promotion to Commander and Captain.

He served on HMS Aisne, HMS Ashanti and, as secretary to Flag Officer 2nd Flotilla, HMS Tiger. He was selected for the Army Staff College, Camberley, and later became a director at the Royal Navy Staff College, Greenwich. He worked for many years at the Ministry of Defence and was secretary to two Commanders-in-Chief, Naval Home Command and two First Sea Lords. An able administrator with an excellent memory and immaculate handwriting, he could quickly extract the important facts from a mountain of paper. His final appointment, in 1989–92, was as Commodore of HMS Nelson, Portsmouth, where he carried the honorary title of ADC to the Queen.

After the Navy, Christopher Hebron was appointed Comptroller of Rochester Cathedral, a post he held for seven years.

Retiring to North Devon, he worked in many voluntary posts and enjoyed fly-fishing, gardening and travel. He is survived by Jill, his wife of 49 years, and Jill Hebron three sons.

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Obituaries William B (Bruce) G Hopkins (1948-51)* **

John Lyons (1941-44)*

Born in Ealing in 1934, Bruce was raised in Kingsbury, along with his elder sister, Dera, who survives him.

At the start of WWII he was evacuated but returned to London, “just in time for the Blitz” because of illness in his ‘foster’ family. Watching the dogfights overhead made him dream of being a fighter pilot.

Educated at St Paul’s where he gained his School Certificate, his first passion was swimming at which he excelled.

In February 1952 he entered the RAF for officer and flying training, receiving his Commission and earning his Wings in March 1953. He later achieved combat-ready status on the Venom and other fighter aircraft in Germany and the UK through the 50s. While deployed to Cyprus he met his wife Thomasina.

They had two sons, Mark and Guy. In the early 60s he flew the Lightning, the first single-seat high-performance, supersonic, radar-equipped fighter to enter service in the RAF, while assigned to the Air Fighter Development Squadron at RAF Coltishall.

In 1967 Bruce and his family moved to the USA where he worked with the

John Lyons, at one time leader of the EPEA (Electrical Power Engineers Association), was not a typical figure within the Trade Union movement.

He was described as the antithesis of the militant leftwing trade unionism that prevailed in the 1970s and 1980s. As a student, John joined the Communist party. He met his wife, Molly McColl, at the Marylebone Young Communist league. They married in 1954 and had four children, Kate, Roddy, Jane and Matthew. They both left the party after the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1956.

A member of the Labour party for 25 years, John became more centrist politically, eventually becoming the only union leader to support the Social Democratic Party in 1986, though he did rejoin the Labour party a few years later. His relationship with Arthur Scargill was always a rocky one, Scargill accusing him of ‘class collaboration’ and John professing support for the nuclear industry, a rival to coal.

John was born in Hendon, the son of a publican. He served in the Royal Navy towards the end of WWII before studying Economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He worked initially for an American oil company before joining the Army Bureau of Current Affairs – an organisation set up to educate servicemen.

In 1952, Lyons joined the Post Office Engineering Union. He would spend the rest of his career within the Trade Union Movement. Along the way he became General Secretary of the Professional Civil Servants before moving to the EPEA in 1973.

John believed that unions should remain politically independent, refusing to endorse the industrial disruption of the Winter of Discontent 1978-79 and criticising the TUC, to which he had been elected, for refusing to talk to the incoming Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He famously opposed the miners’ strike of 1985, for which he took considerable flak. He cited as one of his finest achievements saving the pensions of power workers, after the Thatcher government had privatised the Electricity Industry in 1990.

Chess and cricket remained great passions throughout his life.

McDonnell Douglas Phantom F4. For two years he flew with the US Navy in St Louis, Missouri, test flying on both US and British aircraft.

In 1972 he was given command of 23 Fighter Squadron equipped with the Lightning Mk6. He led the Squadron for three years – the pinnacle of his operational career as a fighter pilot; he was awarded the Air Force Cross, bestowed on him by HM The Queen, for his command and leadership skills.

He then commanded RAF Wattisham in Suffolk for two years at the end of the 1970s.

Bruce elected to leave the Service in 1986 having flown over 3,800 hours on 16 different types of aircraft. He worked for GEC Avionics based in Maidstone, but retired to Norfolk when he turned 60.

Golf and bridge were his passions during retirement, but he also liked to ‘give back’ through his involvement as Secretary to two Armed Forces charities – the Norfolk branch of the SSAFA, and the North Walsham branch of the RAFA for which he was also Welfare Officer.

His was a life of success and achievement. Bruce was a determined gentleman with a sense of duty and a desire to give something back, but also a loving and kind husband, father and grandfather. He is greatly missed.

Mark Hopkins

Michael J (John) R Munn (1941-45) John, as he was always known to family and friends, died at the Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford after a long illness.

He was born in Twickenham, Middlesex. His father was a customs and excise official and his mother a headmistress setting up a school initially to educate her own children. He had an older

sister, Pamela. His schooling started at his mother’s school and he then went to Colet Court where he won a scholarship to the senior school.

After St Paul’s, he joined the Royal Engineers for three years, serving in Palestine where he participated in building a jetty from bailey bridging.

He later worked for Esso petroleum for 27 years as a chartered civil engineer.

He left to set up his own consultancy.

John was a keen sportsman enjoying cricket, rugby, squash and tennis.

He leaves behind his wife, Jill, and daughter Stephanie.

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Born in Harrow, north-west London during 1929, Milan Jeffrey Milout attended Colet Court before joining St Paul’s senior school in 1943.

He very much enjoyed his time spent there, often recalling many fond memories. He was also pleased to be part of the Old Pauline Club.

After leaving School, a spell in the army followed. By chance, Jeffrey (as he preferred to be known), was introduced to his future wife, near to where he was stationed.

For career purposes, after marrying, they relocated to many different parts of the country. They were later joined by their three children. Jeffrey’s last position was as Managing Director of the south-west region for a countrywide builders’ merchant company.

Jeffrey retired when he was based in Somerset. He and his wife, who survives him, enjoyed many years together, nestled amongst the Mendip Hills.

The Milout Family

Sir Peter L Shaffer (1942-44)* My first encounter with Peter Shaffer’s work was while I was at St Paul’s, acting in a production of The Royal Hunt of the Sun in my final year at the School under the direction of Edward Williams.

I was struck by the extraordinary scope of Peter’s writing – he had a unique style of constructing dialogue that was purely his own; its subtly heightened naturalism allowed him to deal with a wide range of ideas, themes and issues while always remaining inherently human and personal.

His plays therefore always contained that perfect balance of universal human emotion and challenging, provocative intellectual thought.

Like Peter, I studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, before moving into the theatre in a professional capacity. My first encounter with his work professionally was when I worked as Dramaturg on Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Amadeus. I had the joy of working closely and intimately with Peter’s text,

exploring its delicacies and researching the fascinating dramatic universe he had built.

Again I discovered a play of extraordinary timelessness that explored ideas of ambition, creative genesis, jealousy, madness, envy and love. It also offered to a director and a company of actors a world that fired the imagination, as well as characters that earned our sympathy, our engagement and our understanding.

I cannot wait to see the National Theatre’s production of the play this autumn.

Peter Shaffer has left us a wonderful and broad literary legacy. To think that the same man wrote the wonderfully imaginative, hilarious farce Black Comedy and the moving, engaging and raw drama Equus is astonishing. The frequency with which his plays have been made into films serves further to demonstrate just how versatile and dramatically engaging his writing is.

His passing is a great loss to British theatre and film, but the timelessness of his writing will, I’m certain, ensure the continuation of his legacy in numerous revivals of his work over the coming years.

Tom Attenborough (2000-05) Tom is a theatre and film director. He is Artistic Director of Rhapsody of Words and Associate Director of the Watermill Theatre.

Bryan Robson Head of English 1970-89, Director of Drama 1989-90 Bryan died on 21 May 2016.

He came to St Paul’s in 1970 as Head of English, which he had read at Magdalen College, Oxford where he was also an Academical Clerk (that is Choral Scholar). He led the English Department with great verve and vivacity until 1989 and was from then until 1994 Director of Drama, a position for which he was also immensely well qualified having previously been Head of Drama at Campbell College, Belfast, and a professional actor with the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Bryan was entirely his own man, and a man much larger than life.

Enormously well read, he communicated his enthusiasm to several generations of Paulines, not only to such future academics as the present Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, but to average Paulines too. His dislikes were also passionate: he despised and ignored the drearier limitations of the curriculum; he used a photograph of an eminent (Old Pauline) statesman as a dart board on his classroom wall; he denounced the authorities of his much loved old school (Aldenham) for their Philistinism in selling their Stanley Spencer altarpiece.

Among his many memorable appearances on the Pauline stage were Toad in “Toad of the Toad Hall”, Dr Johnson in Bryan’s own one man entertainment and Charles Dyer in “Staircase”. Among his notable

productions “Twelfth Night, “The Long and the Short and the Tall” and “The Public School Fiction Show” coauthored and produced by Bryan and David Bussey.

For many years Bryan sang in the distinguished professional choir of the Grosvenor Chapel. He was a discriminating book collector and an energetic allotment gardener and mushroom gatherer. He was a fascinating conversationalist and correspondent. After retiring from St Paul’s he continued his stage career appearing as Starkey and the storyteller in a wonderful “Peter Pan” in 1998.

Bryan was twice married and leaves three children by his first wife, including Barney (1985-90). His second wife, Annick, cared for him lovingly and tirelessly throughout his long and Hugh Mead painful final illness.

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Milan J (Jeffrey) Milout (1943-47)

Obituaries Jasper Thorogood GRSM, ARAM Assistant Director of Music 1965-75

Jasper was a distinguished conductor and organist. While at St Paul’s he was also Organist and Director of Music at St Mary the Boltons, where in 1974 he married Lizzie Thomas. Convivial, witty, ingenious, and occasionally Rabelaisian, Jasper was a born teacher and communicator, whose musical enthusiasm was infectious and who made a host of friends among his pupils and colleagues. He threw himself into the life of the Common Room, not least in revues and “Orpheus in the Underworld”.

After leaving St Paul’s, Jasper served from 1975 to 1983 as Director of Music at Chigwell School where in 1981 he conducted a concert in the presence of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

From 1983 to 1989 he was Registrar at the Royal College of Music and from 1989 to 93 a Director of the Royal Academy of Music. From 1993 to 2003 he was Director of Music at Felsted School where, under his leadership, the annual “Music for a Summer Evening” has become a major cultural event.

An inveterate traveller, Jasper was an international examiner for the Royal Schools of Music. Elected to the Savage Club in 1973, he was an active and popular member for the rest of his life. In recent years he has served as Chairman, and a highly successful fundraiser, of the Choral Foundation of Chelmsford Cathedral.

The marriage of Jasper and Lizzie was an outstandingly happy one, and its happiness brightened the lives of their three children, four grandchildren and many friends. His family’s unfailing support in Jasper’s later years of illness helped him to enjoy musical and social events with all his customary energy and Hugh Mead enthusiasm.

Edward A Vincent* ** (1935-1940) Edward Vincent was born on 11 November 1921 and was 91 when he died on 15 September 2013, after a brave battle with bowel cancer.

He was husband to Marguerite until her death in 2011. He later married Susan, a friend and business associate for many years, in Vienna on his 90th birthday.

After living with his parents in High Street Kensington until the age of 8, Edward then went to Colet Court as a weekly boarder before attending St Paul’s.

Whilst at St Paul’s, he was evacuated to Crowthorne where he joined the Army Cadets and had to cycle home at weekends. Edward was also a member of the School Boxing Team. At Trinity College, Cambridge he achieved a double first in Classics and won the prestigious Richard Porson Prize.

The war interrupted his time at Trinity, after a year there he was called up and joined the Army where he was chosen to join Army Intelligence in India for the course of the war. For this Edward attended a crash course in Japanese at SOAS. Edward went on to have a successful career first in Advertising where he became a senior copywriter at a number of agencies including J Walter Thompson before running an Advertising Agency in Madrid. The next stage of his career was at Southern Television where he was a member of the Programme Planning Committee and responsible for buying foreign films. In 1986 as a freelance writer he worked for Reader’s Digest and completed several major pieces of research for Channel Four. Retirement was never an option.

Whilst at Southern Television, Edward was elected to BAFTA. He was a voting member for the Film and Television Awards until the end of his life.

Susan Vincent (widow)

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Peter J C Webster (1946-51) Peter talked fondly of his happy childhood with his sister, Anne, in Isleworth.

He won a scholarship to Lichfield Cathedral Choir School, and then moved onto St Paul’s where he excelled at rugby and rowing, representing the School on many occasions. Then followed two years of national service which he loved, inspiring him to join the Territorial Army to train as a parachutist. Not content with jumping out of planes, he packed his bags and started travelling the world for a British company and living out of a suitcase for 10 years. During this time he also became an expert water-skier. At aged 36, he met Sally, his wife for 46 happy years, and they had three children.

Sally foolishly introduced Peter to golf, and he became smitten, regularly playing with the Old Paulines and many other golf societies. He also loved his three-week summer holiday every year playing at Trevose in Cornwall.

He captained the Old Pauline Golf Society in 1984, which he considered a huge honour. During his long association with the Club, he won the Walker Cup, the Coeurlander Cup, the Jubilee Salver and many others.

He started skiing at the age of 60, and was determined to continue until he got his free ski pass aged 74. At that age, he set off with his wife, to spend three months backpacking around South America, and eventually conquering the gruelling Inca Trail trek to Machu Picchu.

After a life of love, laughter and adventure, his final years were spent battling cancer with stoicism and courage. He is hugely missed by his wife Sally, and his children, Kate, Sam and Amy and his grand-daughter, Beatrice.

Sally Webster (widow)

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Peter Westbury (1951-56)* **

Michael L Wood (1949-53)**

After an adventurous life lived to the full, Peter died quietly in hospital on 7 December 2015. Born in Roehampton in 1938, Peter was evacuated with his sister Anne to a farm in Lancashire for the duration of the war.

At St Paul’s, Peter coxed the Colts VIII before achieving individual success as a sculler. He was also a keen member of Troop 1 in the Scouts and continued with scouting as an ASM after leaving School.

Peter read Mechanical Engineering at the Northampton Institute in the University of London. Having bought a large house in the Surrey Hills, he married his first wife Sue and had two daughters, Nicola and Louise.

Both Peter and Sue enjoyed recreational flying and obtained their private pilots licences. But Peter’s main passion in the 1960s was motor sport.

In 1963, Peter made his name by winning the British Hill Climb Championship in a car which he had designed and built at home. The next year he was loaned the unique Ferguson-Climax P99 and won the Championship again. He went on to further racing success in F3 and then F2. He even finished 9th in his only F1 race, the 1969 German Grand Prix. Peter proudly wore the hat band from his old school boater round his crash helmet.

In 1973, Peter retired from racing, closed his business, Felday Engineering, and concentrated on boats and planes. By then his marriage had broken down. Peter embarked on a new career by qualifying as a commercial pilot.

In the early 1980s he met Jenny and they eventually married in 1998.

Peter bought his first yacht jointly with Sir George Martin. Another yacht was bought later for chartering out in Turkey. In 1995 Peter and Jenny sailed their 50-foot catamaran Star Trek across the Atlantic and in 2006 they bought a new family home in Tobago.

Peter loved to socialise in pubs and characteristically provided in his will for a big party in his old ‘local’. His friends and family miss him greatly.

Michael was born to Joseph Lawrence & Phyllis Wood in Streatham in April 1936.

After a period at boarding school in Somerset, Michael spent three years at St Paul’s and was happiest indulging his passion for sport, and in particular, cricket. After completing his National Service, Michael began his working career with the National Bank of India where he joined the Eastern Staff for which a posting to then Rhodesia awaited him.

The posting was never fulfilled and Michael decided his future lay with the National Provincial Bank, which later became the National Westminster Bank.

He spent several years in branch banking in and around the City. On one occasion, when working at the Oxford St branch, he confronted and pursued a man trying to extort money from the cashier with what turned out later to be a fake bomb. The judge commended Michael for his bravery.

Michael also spent a number of happy years as a Schools Liaison Officer for the bank targeting the next generation of bankers. During this time he was instrumental in starting up the Schools’ Under-19 Rugby Tournament at Twickenham. This was a perfect match for Michael, combining his passion for sport with his professional career.

Married to Liz in 1962, he settled in Chelmsford in Essex to raise a family. Three children followed, Nicola, Amanda and Matthew and in time five grandchildren. In retirement, Michael and Liz settled in Danbury to share their passion for gardening and golf.

Michael was always one to share his time and knowledge – as a coach at Chelmsford Rugby Club, as part of the NatWest Caravan Club both as a caravaner and Chairman of the Club and latterly as Vice Chairman of Danbury Parish Council and an active member of the Danbury U3A (University of the Third Age).

Always active, always supportive and always with a smile, he is very much Matthew Wood missed.

John Holder (1955-60) with contributions from Nick Campling (1950-54), Paul Boon (1951-56) and Jenny Westbury.

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Sport

Old Pauline Sport

OPFC

Keeping the spirits up

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his was an incredibly disappointing season for the 1st XV with just a solitary league victory as a reward for our efforts through the season.

However, while the on-paper results were disastrous, it certainly wasn’t as bleak a season as that might suggest.

The spirit of the side was strong from the first minute to the last and actually strengthened as the season went on which is testament to the character of the core of players who turned up week in week out.

In addition we welcomed a number of new players into the side including a number of Old Paulines. This was pleasing and it is critical we establish a new core of players for the 1st XV over the coming seasons who can form the backbone of the side

Our first Friends & Family Day . . . had the clubhouse heaving …… going forward. Stand-out new performers were Freddie McNicholas and Tom Roberts, who played virtually every game at full back and was named players’ player of the season for his efforts. In addition, Will Key also made a strong impression before he left for his post university gap year and John McNally, Binya Even and Charles Rayner also made a number of appearances for the side.

We have also seen players having to step up regularly from other teams in the club and make a huge contribution to the side.

In this regard I would like to highlight the contribution of Juyong “Chewy”

Kim, Johno “Boom Boom Bill Williams” Barrett, Dave “Tiny” Richard and Ben “Kiwi” Palairet all of whom ended up as pretty much regulars.

In particular Tiny’s The OPFC performances came tour to Dublin on so much that he was a deserved winner of the most improved player award at the end of season dinner. Lastly, there were a core of players who grafted week in week out that I would like to recognise for their efforts and unstinting commitment, namely: Tim Radcliife, Will Gough, Dan Adkins, Stu Kerrigan and Ross Syder.

For his efforts through the season Dan Adkins was deservedly awarded the 1st XV tankard for player of the season.

Having reflected on the season there were a number of areas which cost us: We were not clinical enough when we were on top in games – we often came away from time in the opposition’s 22 with no points and made crucial errors at key moments when we were in the ascendency that cost us momentum.

We conceded far too many points during the times when momentum wasn’t with us in games. There were far too many soft tries conceded, especially early on in games, that often left us behind and chasing the game.

Consistency of availability – only six players played more than 12 of the 18 games which is clearly not enough consistency week in week out to get momentum going in the side.

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Allied to the above we continue to struggle for numbers at training which makes finding cohesion on a Saturday almost impossible when players haven’t played or trained in key combinations before.

When you look back at all of the games there were seven matches which were lost by ten points or less and we were only on the end of a small number of really heavy defeats. A number of those seven games were ones that we had plenty of opportunities to win in terms of territory and possession so hopefully we can learn and next year we will be on the right side of those close margins more often than not.

There remains a fantastic spirit within the Club, we were delighted that our first Friends & Family Day in January had the Clubhouse heaving and was the best attended social event in a number of years.

As ever we finished the playing year with a fantastic tour, a jaunt in Dublin, and officially ended the Club year with the best attended AGM in living memory.

I am delighted to announce that since the nominations at the AGM, the Old Pauline Club has ratified the appointment of five honorary Old Paulines: John Barrett, David Cox, Martin Crawshaw, Chris Jackson and Dan Powell. This is in acknowledgement of the huge commitment each of them has shown to the playing and administrative side of the Club over a number of years.

Over the summer we have put a focus

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back on recruitment of the leavers from St Paul’s School as they have proved to be a strong source of ongoing recruitment among their peers from work and university. We have launched a new website, and we have teamed up with The Hub in Clapham to provide fitness training and skills drills on Tuesday evening. As I write, this has already achieved a significant increase in pre-season training numbers, fantastic pre-season camaraderie and a significant increase in fitness. We are also kicking off the season with a Friends and Family day with three home games and as I write more than 110 supporters already signed up.

It will be a fitting testament to the work of all those involved in the Club if we can start the season with an after-match bar of players and supporters topping 200.

As ever, I would like to extend a huge thanks to everyone who has helped with the organisation and running of the Club behind the scenes, in a tough year, all of your commitment was fantastic and many of you are continuing that commitment into this season with renewed energy.

After having to move to Ireland with work mid last season, I would like to thank Matin Macdonald for his work as Club Captain as well as Dan Powell and

In a tough year . . . your commitment was fantastic…

Feargus Murphy who all stepped down from their positions in the Club this year.

Graham Godfrey, our groundsman, again provided us with pitches that are the envy of all around, he does it with such frequency and consistency that it is easy to forget just how much work goes into getting ground that is this immaculate.

Once again, thanks also go to the medical team of John, Emily and Owen, the duty officers, balcony boys and all supporters that have helped make last season possible.

Finally, I would like to thank Brian Holland our Club Coach over the past two season, who stood down at the end of last season to take up a full time coaching role at Harlequins.

If you are reading this and for some reason our recruitment efforts have not reached you, then please have a look at the new website www.opfc.org.uk and please get in touch, we have rugby for all standards from 1st XV regular to 3rd XV social and all ages, with a Vets XV (>35) growing in strength every season.

Afternoon Tea at Hayling OLD PAULINE GOLFING SOCIETY

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he final of our much weather delayed knockout competition for 2015 was won by Paul SalamaCaro who beat Ian Starr.

In the Grafton Morrish played at Royal Wimbledon in May, our team of Chris Vallender, Ben Rowan, Robbie Parker, Max Rose, Jeremy Williams & Max Grandison, did not qualify for the finals to be played in October, coming 8th out of 16.

In the Spring Meeting at a new location, Betchworth Park GC, Nick Downing swept the board by winning both the Just Cup with 33 points and the Haswell Bowl with the best gross score of 82. Ray Burton had the best score of those 15 handicap and above to win the Goldman Salver. Nick teamed up with Robert Silverstone to win the afternoon foursomes.

In the Alba Trophy played at Woking, Robbie Parker & Ben Rowan came near the end of the field being placed 25th net.

In the Cyril Gray – over 50s scratch foursomes – at Worplesdon, Jeremy Williams and his team of Chris Vallender, Hugh Roberts, Alan Stranders, Nick Downing & Brian Selwyn-Barnett lost to Edinburgh Academicals 3-0 in the 1st round.

In the Royal Wimbledon Putting Competition, Chris Vallender, Hugh Roberts, Dave Hitchins & Robbie Lyon came 4th in their group of eight to ensure we get an invitation back next year!

We had excellent weather for our Summer Meeting at Hayling and the

course was its usual good test of golf with a keen breeze! Nick Downing repeated his success in the Spring Meeting by winning the Mercers Cup with 33 points and the Sayers Cup with a gross 83. John Cooper and Chris Vallender teamed up together to win the afternoon foursomes.

In our friendly matches, we had wins against Old Laurentians and OMTs, halved matches against The Mercers & Old Westminsters, but we lost against Old Uppinghamians, KCS OBs & Fulwell Golf Club.

Our Autumn Meeting and Captain’s Day took place again at Walton Heath Golf Club and we had a very sunny, if windy, day compared to the very heavy rain of last year! Our Vice-captain, Ian Starr played excellent golf to win both the Walker Cup for the best stableford handicap score and also the Courlander Cup for the best score by a 15 and above, with 37 points. Nick Downing had the best gross score with 82. Nick combined with Neil Fitch to win the afternoon foursomes played over 13 holes with 28 points. 27 Members and guests played.

At the time of writing we were looking forward to our two-night holiday on 4/5 October at Padbrook Park Golf & Country Club in Devon, and our Winter Meeting at West Hill Golf Club in November. Our year will finish with our Annual General Meeting and Dinner at Royal Mid Surrey also in November.

As always, any OP golfers wishing to join the Society should contact Neil Fitch on 023 9271 5232 or n.fitch@ntlworld.com Neil Fitch

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Sport OPAFC

Goals a plenty, then akvavit

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his year's OPAFC tour to Denmark saw the hefty number of 16 Old Paulines make their way to Scandianvia for some long overdue payback since those first Viking incursions at Lindisfarne. After a leisurely Friday night spent in Copenhagen's beautiful open squares and finest steak restaurant the team was ready for a huge double header on Saturday.

With 16 players and a range of ages to account for experience and agility in equal measure 180 minutes of football seemed like no sweat. But after some injuries incurred both prior to the tour and over the previous 24 hours the team was far from full strength despite numbers. The first match started well with OPs going 3-0 up over expat team, Copenhagen Celtic.

But the score was pulled back to a close 5-4 at full time, thankfully in our favour.

The second game kicked off a mere 30 minutes after the first and against a far superior team made up of Ernst and Young employees. Despite going behind 4-1 the OPs fought valiantly to get themselves back into contention in the searing July

OLD PAULINE TENNIS

The Road to Wimbledon

OPAFC with their opponents from Ernst & Young

heat and ended the match 6-4 down. A last-minute goal from Dan Khan could have given them hope but this was cruelly ruled offside by the clearly partisan referee.

Max Gordon-Brown came away as top scorer with a four-goal haul but there were many stand out performances – especially in the middle of the park by Jehan Sherjan, Dan Hunter and on the wing and off the pitch by Rich King.

With two games completed under testing conditions, Saturday night was celebrated with many akvavit - the Danish national spirit - and most of the squad did admirably to make the most of the evening, inventing novel ways to make sure that everyone stayed up and active right until the early hours. Next year's tour is already in early planning stages and is sure to be as Nick Troen successful as the 2016 one.

D’Abernon Cup final team (left to right): Jamie Gibbor, Dan Tristao, Chris Jenkins, Tommy Moody, Richard Ground, Jeff Hunter

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his was a great season for the Old Pauline tennis team, culminating in a recent match at Wimbledon against the Old Reptonians.

OP tennis is centred each year around the D’Abernon Cup. This is the national public school old boys competition that kicks off in April each year and ends in September, with the final held at the All England Club. Roughly 30 schools enter each year, and St Paul’s have a strong history with plenty of success in the competition.

In this year’s qualifying round, the OPs had to win a final set tiebreak to make it through our group alongside Old Westminster. After getting past Old Millfieldians in the quarter final, we were faced with a semi-final against the Old Reedonians. With an old boy roster that includes Tim Henman, Reed’s was always going to be a tough game.

A team of Tommy Moody, Charlie Pisker, Chris Jenkins and Dan Tristao eventually triumphed in a match that ended with a must-win tiebreak which we won 12-10!

The final at the All England Club was a real highlight – Tommy, Chris and Dan were joined by Jeff Hunter, Richard Ground and Jamie Gibbor to contest the three-pair match against the Old Reptonians. Sadly the weather conspired

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against us and we weren’t able to play the match on the grass, but it was a great contest. Despite losing overall in a very competitive final, and having not won the competition since 2004, we’re all the more motivated to get there again next year!

If anyone would like to get involved in OP tennis, please get in touch with Dan Tristao at dctristao@gmail.com – all are welcome.

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OLD PAULINE CRICKET CLUB

Gala Day at Colets

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n 13 August, the Old Pauline Cricket Club held a special Gala Day at Colets to celebrate the opening of the new western balcony and the end of the massive refurbishment project of the clubhouse and facilities at Thames Ditton.

A cricket match was played between the Old Paulines and old rivals Kempton CC as a second leg to a match for the coveted Teapot Trophy which has been contested keenly by the two clubs, for many years. The OP XI paraded stars past and present including Chairman Tom Peters, past Captain Alex Duncan, David Methuen, Mike Kiernan, and

Our first Friends & Family Day . . . had the clubhouse heaving ……

Adrian Lee under the Vice Captaincy of Joe Harris (standing in for the injured Captain, Chris Berkett).

With the match in progress, some 40 adults and 10 children arrived to support including four previous Chairmen of OPCC, and past senior players Geoff Nolan, Alistair Duncan, John Makey and Sam Hyman.

Colets’ many facilities were open to guests and good use was made by the young children of the soft play area and the magnificent swimming pool.

Meanwhile adults were taken on tours of the complex and treated to glasses of Pimms on the balcony while others enjoyed the full facilities of the Club bar and the ice cream stall or took walks round the ground to watch the cricket.

At 5 o'clock a magnificent cream tea was served in the refurbished dining Teapot Trophy tied at the OPCC Gala Day at Colets

room to the delight of all, especially the children.

The cricket match itself was a tight affair. In the first match some two months ago at Kempton, the OPCC won fairly comfortably but knew this could be a close run thing.

Losing the toss, OPCC were put in to bat and scored a creditable 197 all out. A score which had been heavily bolstered

by Tom Rigby scoring a quick fire century (his second in a week).

In reply, Kempton started slowly and were behind the clock at 134 for 6. David Methuen and Saumitra had kept them quiet while wickets tumbled regularly leaving them needing 64 to win with 10 overs left.

Unfortunately, their Captain was still in, and going along reasonably well. The man who came out to join him, offered us some hope by bashing a couple in the air early on, but he hit the ball very cleanly, and four huge sixes took the game away from us. His six to win the game brought up his 50 off just 31 balls and Kempton had won by four wickets with a couple of overs to spare.

The two matches had produced the same points for each side and the result, after some debate was judged a tie. The now infamous Teapot will be retained by Kempton and handed over to OPCC in the New Year.

The match finished around 7.30pm, when all cricketers and spectators got together and were joined on the balcony by the 2nd XI (who had won away) for presentation of the trophy.

The day ended with a few beers for the players and a pizza and salad for all, as the sun set in the west over the cricket square on what had been a perfect Ray Burton English summer evening.

Lady Luck Lacking

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t’s been a difficult season for OPCC 1st XI who, under new leadership this year in Chris Berkett, were relegated from Surrey Championship Division 5. Far from being the weakest team in the division, we found ourselves in a remarkable amount of close games, with matches regularly finishing in the final over or two. Unfortunately, Lady Luck was not on our side as we failed to cross the line more often than not.

Injuries certainly didn’t help as skipper, first choice keeper and most experienced batsman all missed varying chunks of the season. As always, availabilities also played their part, with consistency in selection often lacking. However, despite showing a never-say-die attitude throughout, ultimately we failed to produce 100 overs of good cricket on a regular basis, with either our bowling or, more commonly, our batting letting us down.

One man who shone was Tom Rigby, who had his most successful season, topping the division tally with 699 runs at 53 apiece. His season will always be remembered though for three successive (the first two unbeaten) centuries towards the back end of the season, to add to his 3 fifties earlier on. Alex Duncan narrowly missed out on more league centuries, twice making 99 – the second one unbeaten! Wickets were generally shared amongst the bowlers, with skipper Berkett topping the tally with 22 wickets with one game to play.

Team spirit never dwindled, and it was a pleasure to spend long Saturdays with a group of individuals who showed passion throughout. If we can carry that through till next season, coupled with a bit more application with the bat, we should be challenging in the championship very soon.

Many thanks to everyone’s support this Christopher Berkett season!

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Old Pauline Club and School Events

October

January

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Head of the Charles (Boston, USA) Old Pauline Lodge Meeting Cambridge Dinner 1st XV v. Sherborne (away) Strings Afternoon (8-15 years)

March 1 Pauline Perspectives 10 Science Conference 15 Pauls4All Quiz Evening 16-18 Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim 22 Schools Head

November 4 5 9 10 11 12 16 19 23 26 30

Old Pauline Lodge Meeting Feast Service at St Paul's Cathedral and Supper at Mercers' Hall

Oxford Dinner 1st XV v. King’s College School (home) GCSE Composers’ Concert Sydney Branch Dinner Remembrance Service 1st XV v. Tonbridge School (home) Ensembles Concert 1st XV v. Berkhamsted School (home) Medical Dinner 1st XV v. Eton College (away) Winter Concert

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Old Pauline Lodge Meeting Earliest Vintage Luncheon

May 24-26 The Wind in the Willows adapted by Alan Bennett 26-28 National Schools' Regatta

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Edward II by Christopher Marlowe 1st XV v. Wellington College (away) Jazz at The Bull’s Head Christmas Festival Supper Evening at Colets 1st XV v. Felsted School (away)

Old Pauline Club Upcoming Events 2016/17

Medical Conference (until 2 July) Henley Royal Regatta

July 5 20

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Past Times 10 Years ago (2006)

25 Years ago (1991)

From a review of Sauternes - A study of the great sweet wines of Bordeaux by Jeffrey Benson & Alastair Mackenzie.

The first thing that strikes one lucky enough to hold a first edition is the metamorphosis of the dust jacket: the Noble Rot of Mark I, something of a twodimensional Hammer film, is superseded by something infinitely more succulent, where presumably the stricken Sauvignon has been given a face-lift or replaced by the more marketable Semillon with only the slightest blush of what one might call a Sainsbury's bar tan.

Question Time Anyone crossing the bridge that separates the stressful world of the main school buildings from the usual serenity of the music block in the first week of the Spring term will have witnessed some great hubbub.

However, the excitement was not over Mr Wedderburn’s new tie, nor the contrapuntal elegance of Mr T’s period groups, nor Tom Millar and James Partridge’s latest jazz odyssey; the hullabaloo was over the presence of a BBC television crew, here to film Thursday 12th January’s edition of Question Time in the Wathen Hall.

Introduced by David Dimbleby as being broadcast from “sunny Barnes,” the panel consisted of Ed Balls, Larbour Party MP and former chief economic advisor to the Chancellor; Lord Tebbit, the former Chairman of the Conservative Party; Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman; broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and Matthew Parris, columnist for The Times.

Mr Brewis (of Chemistry Department fame) managed to get himself a participating seat and was selected to put his question to the panel. Lord Tebbit pre-empted Mr Brewis’s concern that David Cameron was alienating right-wing voters. Mr Brewis concluded that he would either “abstain or look for a more rightwing party.”

50 Years ago (1966)

‘Richard of Bordeaux’ Not even the liveliest fear of cliché could hinder the assertion that this, the first St Paul’s junior dramatic production, was a resounding success – resounding is perhaps too much the mot juste, if only to describe the unfortunate noises off and occasional promptings.

These, and the perhaps rather sober nature of the text itself, are the only possible grounds for criticism.

The story, spread over nearly fifteen turbulent years, of Richard II’s growth from boyhood to king’s estate by way of the inevitable medieval carnage, provides a plot of no great subtlety but sufficient to maintain one’s interest. The part was admirably played by John Cone; his early ingenuous Richard was especially well

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Masters at the Front Mr Worster has had a lucky escape. He was out in front of our line at night, laying down the plan of a new trench. " The Hun," he writes, " should have been 400 yards away, for I had myself reconnoitred his position the previous day and night.

But by bad luck, or perhaps because he had knowledge of our intentions, he had that same evening advanced his own line 250 yards an hour or so before I went out.

I blundered close up to his wire and was fired at twice by a sentry. The first shot missed, and I turned and tried to drop into a shell-hole. Just as I dropped he fired again, the bullet meant for the small of my back went clean through my helmet, blowing it off my head with a noise like a dinner-gong." We are glad to hear that Mr Worster has quite recovered from the scalp wound which was the only ill result of his exciting experience.

6. Pope’s cocktail (7) 7. Stage whisper: point taken by confidante (5) 9. David’s father sound like a mamby-pamby (5) 10. Giant 99 went down in 1912 (7) 11. Render toothless cod cod escaping from fishing after getting fed up (6) 12. John’s follower pretends to be someone else (4) 16. Ultimately pzazz is French for gusto (4) 17. Tabloid penned by thoughtless movement, it’s very sad 20. Practical joke resulting from tight hamstring maybe (3-4) 22. Half of Bolsheviks back a work-shy approach (5) 23. Smell of a gypsy (5) 24. Hero blew ufo off course (7)

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realised, the later Richard well done, and even the difficult tantrum scenes were more than adequately tackled. Anne, his Queen, was touchingly played by John Parrott; unfortunately her death was rather unsuccessfully staged, attendants rushing from the wings almost before her collapse. Simon Scutt, as the domineering Gloucester, gave one of the most convincing performances in the play, and Lloyd Dorfman made a correctly superb Archbishop of Canterbury.

1. EU HQ where Russian in France annexes Belarus (8) 2. Braille translation is not right? (7) 3. Transmit drunk somewhere else in Rome, this should help him walk (3-5, 5) 4. Spiteful feline (5) 5. Baker, one that only works after being fired (4) 6. Maureen and Josephine familiar with voodoo spell (4) 8. Cut out tax (6) 13. Honest review about risqué show dropped at first wanting sex appeal (8) 14. Little rhododendron, topaz a leaf section (6) 15. Listens close in eavesdropping distance (7) 18. Muslim pilgrimage returns around 2nd or 4th of August to historic kingdom of Israel (5) 19. A bone to pick with Angus or Chuck (4) 21. Anglo-Welsh constituent is a bright spark (4)

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