Old Pauline News, Spring 2016

Old Pauline News

Spring/Summer 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 Andrew Harrop The Thinking Behind Labour INTERVIEW

Harry Hampson The Complete Pauline Family Man

Painting pictures on silence A focus on the world of OP musicians

Spring/Summer 2016 Editorial

My own fairly limited musical experience at St Paul's none-the-less still furnished me with a love of singing throughout my life. I was selected as one of three treble soloists by the inimitable Ivor Davies to perform the world première of the Easter Cantata, The Morning of the Day of Days by Malcolm Williamson, accompanied by the composer on the Willis organ and the School orchestra in the Great Hall. The performance remains a special memory of my time at West Kensington.

On page 16 Mark Wilderspin, current Head of Music at St Paul's touches on the rich heritage of music tuition at the School and introduces a special section devoted to OPs engaged in professional musical careers.

Finding enough space in the magazine to do justice to the wide range of accomplished musicians within the OP ranks was always going to be difficult, but I hope that this 'snapshot' of OP musical activity at least provides a hint of the wealth of talent that is out there. We will hopefully be able to feature many more in the future.

With good memories of some outstanding performances at the Quincentenary celebrations on Bigside in 2009, we can look forward to hearing more Old Pauline musicians play at the School's Summer Festival in June (see page 23 for details).

Elsewhere in this issue there are extraordinary tales from a descendant of the first High Master William Lily, the only boy to selfenroll at St Paul's and the victim of an attack by killer whales in the Pacific Ocean. The St Paul's alumni rarely fails to surprise.

Simon Bishop (1962-65)

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Contents

Page 12. Filmmaker Jon Blair (1967-69) at Buckingham Palace with his CBE

3 Letters & 'My St Paul's' 4 News and profiles of Old Paulines 10 Interview with Harry Hampson

The Managing Director at JP Morgan is also immersed in life at St Paul's School.

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Cover feature

Current Head of Music at St Paul's, Mark Wilderspin introduces a special section on OP professional musicians that includes the acclaimed conductor Robin Ticciati (pictured).

Editor and designer Simon Bishop Editorial administrator Viera Ghods All correspondence to: The Editor c/o The Old Pauline Club, St Paul’s School, Lonsdale Road, London SW13 9JT Copy for the Autumn/Winter issue of the Old Pauline News, to be published in October 2016, should reach the Editor no later than 19 August 2016.

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Keeping in touch

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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.

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A Focus on Old Pauline Music

24 OP Club Roundup

l Bursary provision at St Paul's and the

renaming of Colet Court – a message from the High Master, ProfessorMark Bailey. l New OPC Directory announcement. l Club events. l OP reunions. l Branch news.

30 Obituaries 36 OP Sport

Rugby, Golf, Football, Rowing and Fives.

41 Old Pauline Club Diary Dates Crossword OP Merchandise Tej Sood (1993-95)

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With no joining fee and reduced membership fees for Old Paulines, whether it’s for sporting or social activities, we strongly recommend that you take advantage of these superb facilities.

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Call us now on 020 8398 7108 or come in and we will be delighted to show you around.

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The Cricket Club offers cricket for all levels of ability, running three League sides on Saturday and one friendly team on Sunday. New members are always welcome.

The Football Club runs four teams that have been enjoying considerable success over the last few seasons.

New members are always welcome.

The Rugby Club runs an average of four teams per week to suit a mixture of abilities and ambitions. The social side is buoyant and we’re always looking for new members.

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Letters

Ron Stern's plane spotters' certicate from 1942.

Chris Arnold (1939-44) Interview Dear Sir, In the above-referenced interview with Chris Arnold, Chris mentioned that he was one of maybe two other boys at Easthampstead Park who were roof spotters. I was one of those boys. Before continuing, I want to point out that in the School records, I am shown as Rudolf Hans-Gustav Stern. I anglicised those German names to Ronald Henry Gerald before joining the RAF, and later dropped the Gerald.

Spotters Clubs had been established throughout the UK, for persons interested in sharpening their skills in Aircraft Recognition, and St Paul’s had one of those clubs of which I was a member, and a copy of that Certificate is hereto attached. One of the signatures on that certificate is that of Peter (later Sir Peter) Masefield who was very active in airlines, other aviation, and ground transportation.

The purpose of roof spotters on buildings was to avoid sounding air raid sirens over a large area, and thereby disrupting the work of hundreds of people, when there was only a lone enemy aircraft in the area, and that aircraft may not even

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

Bugle Boy

As a budding clarinettist at School I attempted to learn the bugle. After months of practice, to my parents' consternation, I ventured on to the parade ground of St Paul’s in Hammersmith. It was a short stay as 450 cadets were subjected to a truly awful rendering of Reveille. I was replaced by the School French horn player and I went back to Mozart.

Paul Leppard (1954-60)

Negative but positive

It was not a forgone conclusion that I would be offered a deserved place at St Paul’s. I was academically challenged with the then unrecognised gift of dyslexia.

It would be many years before I was professionally assessed.

After completing my CV questionnaire, under the watchful eye of the frockcoated Porter, I was ushered into the

be a bomber. I was only up there twice, and on one occasion did see a Junkers 88, but that aircraft was flying in a direction away from Lord Downshire’s mansion, and not towards it. Chris mentions that he was up there two hours a day, but I was only up there on two occasions, and not on a daily basis. I was hoping that Field Marshal Göring would send his aircraft over during Mr Fluett’s Latin class, in which I was not interested, and on one occasion he did so oblige.

I still have in my library 38 copies of Aircraft Recognition, The Inter-services Journal.

I notice by the way, that Chris and I are both Californians.

Ron Stern (1940-44)

The Maths master, R E D Brown (Royal Observer Corps), took me on the roof of Easthamstead. Whilst there a Junkers 88 dived out of the clouds and dropped a bomb a couple of fields away – we took steps to go down! I remember a Dornier 215 flying at treetop height. The observer in the nosecone was looking around over Wellington College, probably looking for our forces HQ in the south of England.

Farnborough airfield was always interesting for (the) latest secret aircraft and German aircraft – 11 miles to cycle.

(Sam) H Fletcher (1940-43)

Dear Sir, Regarding the interview with Chris Arnold in the autumn 2015 issue of The Pauline magazine, I was at Crowthorne from 1940-43. I joined the ATC and the Spotters Club and obtained my 1st Class Certificate.

High Master’s overwhelming, seemingly rugby pitch-sized office. To the side were endless, tall glass windows overlooking the fields at West Kensington. Ahead of me and far in the distance was TEB Howarth, commanding, behind a vast desk. After an age I managed to reach it.

Eventually he came to the questions, one of which was ‘Do you have a bicycle and how many miles have you ridden in a day?’

At the time it was a craze to have a speedometer. We lived in a mansion block, where the gardens were the sum of the 80 odd flats and as kids we set daily records for cycling round and round.

Me: “37 miles, Sir.” HM: “That’s an awful long way for a small chap; where did you do that?”

Me: “In my garden, Sir.” The reality was that I obsessively rode in modest circles, but in the HM’s expression I sensed his belief that my parents might own a huge estate in Scotland which I circumnavigated every morning past a small army of cap-doffing gardeners, and which might come in very handy when the new School building appeal came around.

I was offered a place.

On my way out of St Paul’s I had a second meeting with the same High Master. Then his small box-like office in

Barnes was altogether more utilitarian. He was succinct and measured: “Ah, Redbrick… well, good luck… anyway”.

And with that an undistinguished 4½ years came to an end, leaving only the question: why does one feel such an allegiance, given a fairly negative, overall experience?

Anthony Edels (1965-69)

Organ angst

I used to play the organ for morning prayers when Ivor Davies, the Director of Music couldn’t be there. Davies was away on the last day of the school year in 1961, and he had asked me to play for prayers. This landed me innocently in the middle of a controversy. Alan Cooke, the Surmaster, who was a good organist, thought that as it was an important occasion he ought to be playing. Davies could not be contacted, so Cooke complained to the Highmaster, Anthony Gilkes. Gilkes was in an unusual position, adjudicating between the Surmaster and a boy, and I think he did well. In Solomon-like fashion, he decreed that Cooke should play for the hymn and that I should play the voluntaries. And that was what we did.

Robert Ascott (1956-61)

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News profiles

Building a Global TV Brand Andrew Zein (1982-87) is Senior Vice President at Warner Brothers Creative, Format Development and Sales

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career in TV always seemed a likely option for Andrew. His mother worked for John Craven’s Newsround at the BBC and as he grew up there were always TV professionals around. “As a child I was regularly found wandering the corridors at the BBC.” Andrew took a BSc Geography degree at University of Bristol, rather than a Film and TV course. It was the business side of the industry that interested him.

“TV remained my ambition, so holiday jobs for me consisted of doing whatever I could on film or on TV sets. I started as a runner on ad shoots and film sets – scrabbling around to get anything I could. At university I took whatever

TV offers a brilliant career and now is a good time to be in it …… opportunities came along, at ITV, BSB and Anglia Television. After graduating I then had a year of being a third assistant director. The British film industry was tiny then and it was difficult to see developing a career in it. What I always loved was the impact of television – an audience watching something, followed by a shared

experience, which you don’t get with films. A film might be watched by 150,000 people over a few weeks if you are lucky.

By comparison, if you’ve got something good on television you used to be able to connect with 14 million people in one evening. That sort of connection with society, and that immediacy, is what I love about TV.” There was a turning point in Andrew’s career. His stepfather was a teacher at Colet Court. “I came home one evening, aged 21, moaning because I had to go off to deliver something to Kenya for a film, wishing I was doing television. Meanwhile my stepfather had been at a parents’ evening at Colet Court where one of his pupils’ parents also raised the issue of having a moaning son. Luckily the parent had a stake in a small TV production services company and offered me a job.

I worked with really great producers as a production manager across a range of genres. I never looked back from that moment. This was at a time when smaller independent TV production companies were emerging in the UK in the early to mid-nineties. There were many creative people who had left the BBC then who didn’t know how to organise production or budgets, schedule or run a shoot, so I ended up supporting them. It was a really good time, when the BBC, keen to have production expertise around people from

whom they were buying shows, supported the production infrastructure. That gave me an incredible grounding in every genre.”

Andrew began to work in comedy production, first with Pozzitive Television, run by Geoff Posner and David Tyler in the early days of Steve Coogan, and then with Tiger Aspect on the Harry Enfield Show. It was then that the BBC asked Andrew to join them in order to develop and produce entertainment comedy.

After a year and a half Andrew moved to Tiger Aspect Production, “the classiest indie in town”, as Commercial Director,

Multi-skilling in theatre technology Michael Sowby (1987-92) is the Senior AV Technician for the JFS School in Harrow

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ichael has responsibility for three venues at the JFS School, including a theatre, a main hall and a conference centre, all of which potentially require lighting rigs etc. He is also very much involved with media and music at the school, and is tasked with keeping everything running, including a music lab and a recording studio.

Working for a school represents another turn in a creative career that began in a gap year placement as a freelance computer graphic designer. An early stand-out project was the programming for the animation in GoldenEye the Bond movie, for Graphic Station.

Influenced by his enjoyment of drama

production and music at St Paul’s, which included working on a state-of-the-art lighting desk, set building, and playing in the School orchestra, he later decided to take a degree at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts where he gained a 2.1 in Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology. This led him to a wide variety of freelance commissions including work on a North Sea cruise ferry putting on live events, and stage work at the Peacock Theatre in the West End. “I love doing shows, not necessarily watching them, but getting them ready technically.”

“I really got involved with theatre for the love of it. I eventually did everything from lighting to operating the flies. At a

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time when you didn’t need a piece of paper to say that you could do something, I was constantly in work because I had developed multiple skills that people could rely on.

Being flexible was key to finding work, something I still tell the students at JFS.” Michael says that the technical side of his work is ever evolving. Sound is now mostly digital and there is currently a general move from incandescent bulbs to LED lighting technology with everything more computer-controlled.

Before joining JFS, Michael worked at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond with Dan Staniforth who is now Technical Manager of the new Samuel Pepys Theatre at St Paul’s, and at the New Wimbledon

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becoming MD a couple of years later. TAP enjoyed great success with shows such as Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Robin Hood, Charlie and Lola and The Catherine Tate Show. Andrew later led the sale of TAP to International Management Group (IMG) in 2006 and the later acquisition

by Endemol.

Andrew joined Warner Bros in 2010.

Over the last six years he has helped to establish them as one of the leading television producers around the world.

Warner Bros is currently enjoying great success in over 15 countries around the world on four continents.

“Television markets around the world are incredibly vibrant. There is a growing demand for quality content. There is a greater consumption of media than ever before. You’ve only got to look at the likes of Netflix. These companies all need content that marks them out as important to their clients. TV offers a brilliant career and now is a good time to be in it.”

Andrew advises that Warner Brothers is a good place to get a foothold in the industry. They run a comprehensive intern programme for graduates and the company is very committed to staff development.

Andrew is married with three children.

His son starts at St Paul’s in September.

He remains in touch with a number of OPs from his time at School including: James Harding (1982-87), Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC; writer Ilya Colak-Antic (1984-89); Nick Fox (1983-87), Director of External Relations at Virgin and Andrew Newman (1983-87), who has just set up an independent production company.

BULLETIN Dominic Parr (Bow) savours victory in Isis

Boat Races 2016

Three OPs participated in the Oxford and Cambridge Crews this year: Leo Carrington (2003-08) rowed for the Oxford Blue Boat; Dominic Parr (200813) for Oxford in the winning reserve boat ISIS and Piers Kasas (2009-14) rowed in the Goldie crew for Cambridge.

Two OPs, Giovanni Bergamo-Andreis and Charlie Cummins (both 200813), were members of the victorious Cambridge Lightweight crew. l The 2016 Colet Boat Club season got underway recently when Colet again entered two crews for Head of the river. Although the second crew unfortunately slipped back a few places to 191st, the first boat, with a few leavers from the School’s Henley winning 1st VIII of 2015 on board, had a great race finishing 116th out of 335. The club will hopefully next be in action at Henley qualifiers in June.

Simplifying Rail Travel

Congratulations to Jack Cowell (2007-12) and his fellow student from University of Bath who have launched 'Interrail Planner' the free Interrail planning website.

The concept was inspired by their own experience of a planning process that was complicated, stressful, and time-consuming. Interrail Planner makes that process clearer, easier, and faster: an interactive map and calendar enable you to create a custom itinerary, from which you can then book the necessary hostels and seat reservations. Go to www. interrailplanner.com Tom Chambers and Laura Rogers starred in Private Lives

Varsity match 2015

Michael working on the 'fit-up' for the UK tour of Chicago at the New Wimbledon Theatre

Theatre, which he still works for occasionally, such as recently on the ‘fit up’ for the UK tour of Chicago.

Michael is married with a daughter of five and they live in Uxbridge.

In the 134th Varsity Match played at Twickenham in front of 25,000 spectators, Oxford 2015 claimed a record sixth win in a row, 12-6, over Cambridge, the first match since 2001 without a try. Andy Rees (2008-13, & St Catharine’s), and George Williams (2006-11 & Clare) were both in the Cambridge squad.

Coward round the country

Tom Attenborough (2000-05), who amongst many other creative projects has provided the voice for Harry Potter in the video games based on The Chamber of Secrets and The Prisoner of Azkaban, directed the revival of Noël Coward’s romantic comedy, Private Lives, starring Tom Chambers and Laura Rogers, that toured the UK to great acclaim earlier this year.

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News profiles

Inspired by Maps Charles Emmerson (1990-95) is a writer, historian and broadcaster

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harles is currently working on his third book, which considers the years 191724 from both the European and American perspective. This will be the follow-up to his previous book 1913, The World Before the Great War, published by the Bodley Head, imprint of Random House.

1917… will look at the spread of civil war and revolution in Europe and debunk the idea that all hostilities ceased in 1918.

“In 1913 the world was not necessarily viewed as inevitably hurtling towards disaster. Some people might have foreseen it, but most didn’t. Trying to recreate how people actually thought at different times in the past, when the future was not yet determined, seems to me a way of underscoring the contingencies which make up historical experience, making history relevant to today. As well as the past, surely historical writing should tell us something about ourselves. In 1913… I viewed the world through the prism of twenty-three cities – from the old favourites of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg to the less familiar stories of Tehran, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Detroit, Mexico City and others – putting their immediate and local affairs into the global context in which all these cities were embedded.”

Charles was born in Melbourne, Australia. His grandparents had lived in either Australasia or India, so for him there has always been a fascination with a more kaleidoscopic view of the world rather than being UK centric. “The stories we tell ourselves about our place in the world make us who we are, they shape our politics – and they change over time”.

Before concentrating on writing Charles worked at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, as a Senior Research Fellow, working on a range of foreign policy issues, and how well (or badly) we think about future foreign policy challenges. One area of expertise was the Arctic, on which Charles wrote The Future History of the Arctic in 2010 (Bodley Head). “For better or for worse, the region’s relative isolation

The stories we tell ourselves about our place in the world make us who we are…… is coming to a definitive end. Global warming and environmental change are transforming the geography of the north; the idea of geo-politics is making a return.

The dreams and ambitions of the Arctic’s peoples and nations, particularly Russia, are the products of a history that we don’t always fully understand – and yet they are reshaping our world, and theirs.

Our southern imagination of the north is still held in the grip of a poetic, heroic, somewhat imperial vision. But it’s out of date. I felt that the Arctic might tell us something about our own future.”

Previously Charles worked as a researcher for the International Crisis Group on international security issues,

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as an Associate Director and Fellow of the World Economic Forum, responsible for their global risks’ work and as a leader writer for the Financial Times.

He has provided briefings on a range of international issues for governments, businesses and research institutes, and writes regularly on international affairs.

Last year he travelled through Iraq, Iran, Turkey and the south Caucasus on a longer-term research project.

An oboe player in the St Paul’s School orchestra, Charles has retained a strong love of classical music and says he remains fascinated by what people have listened to at different times. He refers to Vienna in 1913, in which he says arguments over music were often taken far more seriously than mere politics. On this Charles was featured in a BBC Radio 3 Essential Classics programme: WWI – Music on the Brink.

Stalin, Hitler, Tito, Trotsky and Sigmund Freud all lived in Vienna at the same time, and Charles finds in such moments excellent opportunities for imaginative historical writing. “There needs to be room for creative writing within history, and certainly playfulness in how one conveys the past. No one knows if Hitler actually bumped into Trotsky, or Tito met Stalin. But works like Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mr Hitler – a 2007 radio play by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran – are lively imaginings of such encounters. They have their place in enrichening our sense of the past.”

Having already made a series for Radio 4 last year in which he traced the history of the Armenian diaspora throughout Europe, Charles would very much like to do more work for radio, a medium that he says “allows you to breathe”, and also for television. Europe, he says, continues to be an inexhaustible source of fascination, of contrast, paradox and tragedy. “The map is a constant source of inspiration. I keep on finding new places, and new quirks of history. And sometimes – often, in fact – the quirks help explain the world today.”

For further information: charlesemmerson.com

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The Thinking Behind Labour Andrew Harrop (1990-95) is General Secretary of the Fabian Society

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ince 2011 Andrew has been General Secretary of the Fabian Society, Britain’s oldest left-leaning think tank and one of the original founders of the Labour Party. It currently has a membership of 7,200, the largest in its 130-year history. Andrew has been leading the Society’s research on economic and social policy as well as on the future of the Labour Party. “We have a deep historic link to the formation of the Labour Party.

One of the fascinating aspects of this job is that I act as a kind of guardian to the long history of Fabian ideas. But we’re now fully focussing on 2020 rather than simply being a heritage organisation. If you’d asked me when I was 21 what I’d most like to do, I would have said to run a think tank. Because I am not a frontline politician I can avoid personality issues and be free to produce new thinking, which might contribute usefully to debate.”

Andrew remembers his first-ever political involvement as an 11-year old, when he gave a speech on behalf of the Labour Party in a mock election at Colet Court. “I lost by a long way, but it was a good experience!” He doesn’t recall having any premeditated ideas of having a political career. “I was a creature of the times. Even if you came from a leafy suburban street, when I was growing

The Labour Party then was reaching outwards to people from all backgrounds

the European Youth Parliament.

After university Andrew started volunteering in politics and took a summer, then permanent job with Anne Campbell, then Labour MP for Cambridge. He later joined another think tank, the New Policy Institute, before joining Age UK (previously Age Concern), working on policy, public

If we do nothing the country will carry on getting more unequal… affairs and research. It was while with the charity that he ran as a Labour candidate in an unwinnable seat (North East Hertfordshire) in the general election of 2005. “The biggest thing I learned was how to lead volunteers and activists. The interpersonal relationships were much more testing than any political differences! Motivating people and bring them together as a team is hard in a workplace. But it’s even more important to get it right when everyone is a volunteer and there out of good will.”

As part of the Fabian Society’s remit to publish stimulating and analytical material for its membership and to inform frontline politicians, Andrew recently wrote The Greatest Divide on rising inequality in Britain. “It shows that if we do nothing

the country will carry on getting more unequal.” Andrew was also secretary to a major policy commission on government spending choices. And with his experience at Age UK, Andrew recently published a report on the fiscal effects of an ageing society. He remains optimistic that with proper forward planning the needs of the elderly can be met and that it should be possible for everyone to enjoy a decent retirement.

Andrew has a partner and they have a daughter aged seven. He retains many friends from his time at St Paul’s, amongst them Stian Westlake (1990-95), Director of Research at the think tank Nesta, so there exists professional common ground between them. Andrew played OP rugby for 10 years as hooker, stopping just a few years ago after an accident brought his playing days to an end. “I was 35, my rugby time was up!”

up in the tail end of the ThatcherMajor era a lot of young people were pro-Labour including at St Paul’s. At School I saw Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson speak. The Labour Party then was reaching outwards to people from all backgrounds, including Paulines, in a way it hasn’t been lately.” Andrew was a regular at Polecon and was a member of the St Paul’s delegation that went to Gothenburg to represent the UK at OLD PAULINE NEWS SPRING/SUMMER 2016 7

News profiles

Building Hope and Recovery Tom Hayhoe (1969-73) is Chairman of the West London Mental Health Trust

Thomas Jefferson proposed watering the ‘Tree of Revolution’ with blood every 20 years.

In the NHS we seem to do it every four or five

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om Hayhoe became Chairman of the West London Mental Health NHS Trust last year. He credits, in part, what he does now to having taken A-level Economics at St Paul’s.

When he arrived at Stanford Graduate School of Business with a Harkness Fellowship, Tom’s recall of John Allport’s teaching, six years earlier, allowed him to pass the exemption exam for the micro-economics course usually taken in the first term. He was then left needing to fill twenty per cent of his programme and found what looked like an intriguing course on Health Policy and Economics, taught by Alain Enthoven, “The architect, in many respects the ‘godfather’ of what is known in the NHS as the internal market”.

This unexpected opportunity kickstarted Tom’s interest in the field. A few years later, in 1981, he became part of the group that developed health policy for the newly formed Social Democratic Party, and in 1985 a member of his local Family Practitioner Committee, the first in a collection of nonexecutive appointments in NHS that led to his selection five years ago as Chairman of West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, and to his current position for the West London Mental Health Trust, responsible for inpatient and community mental health services in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow and the Cassel Hospital. The

Trust also runs Broadmoor, “not just the world’s most famous secure hospital, but a place infused with care, hope and recovery”.

A past President of the Cambridge University Students’ Union, Tom had been a research assistant and adviser to Conservative Party cabinet minister Peter Walker, before joining the SDP with seven other leading younger members of the Conservative Party.

He stood as the SDP candidate for High Wycombe in the 1987 General Election, increasing the vote for his party against the swing that returned Margaret Thatcher for her third term.

Following business school Tom became a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, before joining WH Smith as Head of Group Planning and Development. He then acted as advisor to Coopers & Lybrand before establishing the Brackenbury Group in 1994.

In the early noughties he chaired the board of the video games retailer Gamestation, steering it from 26 to 70 outlets in two years of sustained growth.

Reflecting on his second role chairing an NHS Trust, he says that one of his new remits is raising the profile of mental health, putting it on a par with physical health and considered as part of the same system. “When you are anxious, your heart races. That’s probably the best way to get across that you can’t separate physical and mental health.”

One of the most rewarding of Tom’s

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current activities is singing with patients and staff in the Broadmoor choir. “You’re doing something in a status-free setting, getting feedback about what’s going on, but also breaking down some of the barriers in the organisation. I sing with a local choir, so I don’t see why I shouldn’t do the same at my place of work.” (Gareth Malone take note!)

He says that many within the NHS share a frustration with what feels like constant reorganisation. “Thomas Jefferson proposed watering the ‘Tree of Revolution’ with blood every 20 years. In the NHS we seem to do it every four or five.”

A former commodore of Ranelagh Sailing Club and Vice Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, Tom was Captain of the School Sailing Club following Phil Crebbin (1965-69), who sailed for Great Britain at the Montreal Olympics in 1976, and Will Henderson (1968-72), three times winner of the Prince of Wales Cup and national team racing champion. Tom still enjoys sailing and competed in this year’s Fastnet Race in his J105 yacht. At St Paul’s he was also a busy stage manager for many School theatre productions.

Last year he very much enjoyed attending the reunion for those who had been at School House during the McGuinness years.

Tom is married to Natalie, a senior lawyer and fellow sailing enthusiast. He has a daughter who is now European PR Manager for Woolmark.

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An Accountant’s Odyssey Robin (far right) at the moment of rescue from the dingy Ednamair

Robin Williams (1962-67) has a surprising story of survival to tell

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obin Williams (1962-67) recently retired after a 40 year career working in various financial roles across a number of sectors including soft drinks, cosmetics, logistics and transport.

Having qualified as an accountant in 1975, he initially worked in Mallorca and subsequently for the cosmetic company Yardley in Colombia and Venezuela before returning to the UK, living and working for the majority of his career in Bristol.

For the final 15 years he worked for First Great Western as their Internal Audit Manager. He has been happily married to Sue for ‘even longer than his career’ and they have four children. He has enjoyed a solid career with few hard knocks. “I’m someone who has had plenty of diversions in life but have always come back to the straight and narrow.” But there is also a backstory to Robin’s life, a personal tale which is hard to find comparison with.

After graduating from Bristol University in 1971, he decided to travel around the world before starting his career (now known as a gap year). He began by bussing across North America, seeking occasional work to pay his way; during spring 1972, he had made his way to Central America arriving in Panama with the intention of finding passage to cross the Pacific to New Zealand.

In Panama Robin met the Robertson family – circumnavigating the globe in their 43-foot schooner Lucette. Robin was

An experience like that helps to put life and living into context taken on as crew for the voyage to New Zealand – his arithmetical skills were considered an asset for the children on the long voyage ahead, but they were not necessarily the skills he would find himself needing shortly afterwards.

Having reached and sailed around the Galapagos Islands, with airmail letters sent home to say no landfall for at least the next six weeks, the Lucette continued its journey across the Pacific. Way out to sea and days later the boat was suddenly holed by killer whales. It sank in just over a minute. There followed an extraordinary experience of endurance and survival

as Robin, Dougal Robertson, his wife Lyn and their children Douglas and twins Neil and Sandy clung to life, first in an inflatable raft, then after wear and tear led to its disintegration, in a small fibreglass dingy. They survived for 38 days at sea in extremely cramped conditions supplementing their meagre provisions with turtle, flying fish and shark meat and from rainwater collected on a sail. They were finally rescued by the Japanese fishing vessel Toka Maru II, that had luckily been rerouted to Panama for repairs because of engine trouble. With only a 6” draft the little dingy Ednamair had weathered storms, 20ft waves and the attentions of sharks to finally deliver its exhausted crew to salvation. It is now on display at the National Maritime Museum at Falmouth.

Dougal Robertson subsequently wrote what became a best-selling book about the experience, Survive the Savage Sea. The book was later made into a film of the same name in 1992, which starred Robert Urich and Ali MacGraw. Dougal’s son Douglas has since written a second book, The Last Voyage of the Lucette, published in 2005, which adds further detail before and after the shipwreck.

In Survive… Dougal refers to Robin’s unshakable belief in their eventual rescue and ability to survive – and how that had helped him to become determined that there would be a satisfactory conclusion to their ordeal. Amongst other much-needed distractions throughout the experience Robin played host to the family’s choices for a selection of Desert Island discs.

His own had included Elgar’s Enigma variations, Finlandia and a Mary Hopkins song. One can only imagine how valuable his irrepressible optimism and never-saydie attitude must have been to those in peril with him.

When asked what impact the experience had on him Robin says that “having had an experience like that helps to put life and living into context”. In 1999 and whilst in between jobs, he finally achieved his

The Robertson family and Robin pictured with their Japanese saviours

original ambition to complete a round the world journey, albeit in just seven weeks with most of the travel by air rather than land and sea.

When reminiscing about being at St Paul’s, Robin remembers the famous winter of 1962/3. As a novice rower at the time, training was often on a static boat in an indoor rowing tank. “That winter the water in the tank had frozen solid so we had a good excuse for getting off training!”

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Interview

Harry Hampson

(1978-83)

A Managing Director at J P Morgan responsible for its Strategic Investor Group, recently Harry has found himself increasingly re-engaging with St Paul’s, even organising a scout reunion.

What was your route to J P Morgan?

My parents are Canadian.

I started at St Paul’s the day after we moved to London.

When my parents returned to Canada, when I was halfway through my A-Levels, I boarded at School House when Stephen Baldock (1958-63) was housemaster.

After St Paul’s I went to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study Natural Sciences, then did Chemical Engineering in my last two years. I then joined J P Morgan, and I’m still there.

Why banking?

When I left university a lot of graduates were taking banking and consultancy jobs.

It was quite funny really – I had applied to an oil company, two consultancies and two banks. If you talk to graduates now they’ll tell you they’ve known what they’ve wanted to do since the age of ten. I didn’t have a clue! But the J P Morgan guys took me out to lunch and said they were going to offer me a job. They said, “The great thing about J P Morgan is that it doesn’t matter which university you’ve been to, we recruit from either!”

What have been your roles within J P Morgan?

I have always been in London. The great thing about Morgan at the time was that they offered a big training programme.

I did a mini MBA that lasted about the first six months before I joined our equity capital markets business at the very beginning. We didn’t really have an equity business at that time. I worked there for the best part of ten years. I then ran our equity syndicate operation, and then in 2000 just after the bank had been bought by Chase Manhattan I joined our Telecom, Media and Tech (TMT) practice, becoming an investment banker for the media sector. I then went on to run the TMT department in Europe up till 2012.

A few years ago I took on coverage of financial sponsors so I now look after everything we do with private equity funds. Most recently I now also look after

sovereign wealth funds as well as high net worth family offices.

Have there been standout moments in your career?

I was closely involved in a number of high-profile transactions across Europe but specifically in the UK. I was part of the team that helped finance the purchase of Manchester United for the Glazers. I sold Channel 5 for the German television group RTL to Richard Desmond. I worked for James Murdoch on his bid for the part of BSkyB he didn’t own and I also worked with Elizabeth Murdoch on the sale of her business Shine Group to News Corp.

What’s the future for media?

Broadcast television, newspapers, magazines, music – these industries have undergone or have seen dramatic changes during my working life. That has driven companies’ need to change or adapt.

On the flip side there have been many interesting new growth opportunities.

I was part of the team that helped finance the purchase of Manchester United for the Glazers ……

I have been actively involved with the development of a number of digital media and e-commerce companies. For instance I have been very involved with Auto Trader, an amazing business that has grown dramatically from nothing and which was taken public a couple of years ago by the private equity fund APAX Partners.

Do you have a view on Brexit?

My personal view is that it would be a big problem for the UK. There is a lot of uncertainty about what Britain’s trading position would be. The uncertainty that it would cause would undermine confidence in the financial markets. It puts a lot of risk into the country which is not worth taking. The financial markets are obviously nervous about it, and that uncertainty will continue right up until the moment of the

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referendum. If the vote is to remain within the EU hopefully things will recover. If it is to leave then I think we are facing several years of uncertainty. Britain would do better to use its influence to play a pivotal role within the European Union.

Is there another banking crisis on the horizon?

The situation today is significantly different from that of the financial crisis in 2007/8. We are much more heavily regulated now and I think that the oversight of the banking sector has increased dramatically, hopefully mostly for the good. I think the banks are in a position where there is much less financial leverage in the system.

In general I think the financial system is in a much better place than it was pre-crisis. Having said that there are probably some banks that still need to raise capital. There is still a lot of change to come. Fortunately I have worked for a bank that has weathered the storm very well. Morgan has been financially very strong and has gained market share from the uncertainty facing many of our competitors.

What qualities do you need to succeed in banking?

Compared to my day the graduates we see here now are often people who have had an interest in banking or at least know a fair bit about it. People are expected to know what’s going on and to have often done internships or work experience. If people are interested they need to find ways to gain exposure to the financial sector. J P Morgan certainly offers work experience and internships. It has always been a tough career but these days I think it’s even harder. There’s an element of having to do your apprenticeship, getting yourself through the first few years. It’s more challenging now as many more people want to work in financial services notwithstanding the financial crisis, so the competition for places is fierce.

Getting into one of the top banks is quite hard. But I still think it’s an amazing career. There are very few jobs where relatively early in your career you can get to a point of really making a difference, helping people to raise money or make

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Britain would do better to use its influence to play a pivotal role within the European Union… big strategic decisions about whether to buy or sell parts or all of their business.

Do you come across other OPs in your work?

There is a direct contemporary of mine, Saul Nathan (1979-83), who is at Morgan Stanley with a very similar career path to me who I remain in touch with.

What did going to St Paul’s mean to you?

For me it was very important. I came from Montreal as a kid to England and went straight to St Paul’s. My time there was very influential – for me a total immersion in British society. There wasn’t too much of a culture shock although I did have to play rugby when I was really an ice-hockey player! The School helped me to get involved in all sorts of things that I eventually did a lot of. I rowed for the School 1st VIII and then later for my college at university. But the School enabled me to get to Cambridge and on to my career so I absolutely think that it worked well. I see it with my sons, they are both very happy there, they’re getting huge opportunities through all the things that they can do at the School. I think it’s probably better now than when I was there.

How did you become involved with St Paul’s School again?

I don’t know quite how that happened!

You know how it is, you don’t have much to do with it and then you suddenly get re-engaged. Mostly it’s because I’ve had two daughters at the girl’s school and two boys at the boy’s school – we’ve become a Pauline family. My wife Rachel is also now Co-Chair of the Parents' Group at St Paul’s. She and another parent Claire Shaw have been trying over the last two years to engage parents more with the School. The recent Pauline Perspectives event, which featured Old Paulines Tim Otty QC (1980-85) and Dr Graham Easton (1979-84) who contributed to BBC Radio 4’s popular medical programme Casenotes, was part of that initiative.

A St Paul’s scout reunion?

I’m really getting over-involved with St Paul’s! I was a very keen scout at School.

I’d been a scout in Canada. One of the ways I got going at School was when I joined the scout troop

which was then run by Peter Brown (1971-76) and Chris Bound (1970-75).

They were great and we did all kinds of fantastic activities and trips. We went to the Norfolk Broads, summer camp etc. I reconnected with them recently and decided to organise a reunion on 26 June to mark the 30th anniversary of the closing of the St Paul’s scout troop.

We’ve had a good response with about 70 so far signed up. For those of us who were active it was a big part of our lives at School. I saw many parts of the country through being involved, Wales, the Lake District, Norfolk, Yorkshire. I believe that there could still be a place for the scout movement at St Paul’s.

You can find further information about the reunion on the Old Pauline Club website: opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk/ events/scout-reunion-2016 The complete Pauline family. Harry (second left) with his son Henry (far left), his wife Rachel, son Josh, and daughters Phoebe and Charlotte now an Old Paulina.

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News profiles

Filmmaker Honoured Jon Blair CBE (1967-69) is an Oscar and BAFTA-Winning Filmaker

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scar-winning filmmaker Jon Blair was recently awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours for his services to film.

Although as a young child he thought he would follow his father into medicine, Jon instead turned his attention to writing and journalism, inspired in part when he was just 14 by a school project in his native South Africa for which he interviewed Nobel prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, thanks to an introduction by his mother.

He subsequently went on to work as a war correspondent, playwright, TV producer and director. He was also the co-founder of the cult satirical puppet series Spitting Image and a documentary filmmaker, winning accolades for each.

He has 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, ten years before Steven Spielberg brought out the blockbuster Schindler’s List. Spielberg borrowed heavily from Blair’s documentary as a research resource.

His other awards include a Grammy, two Emmy’s and a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award.

Jon has not shied away from producing work about the country of his birth.

One of his early big breaks was his play

You can’t come from that place (South Africa) without an understanding that social environment is what makes people… about the death of Steve Biko, The Biko Inquest, which was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and which he then directed in New York. He also made the first TV documentary about the 1976 Soweto Uprising, There Is No Crisis! And in 2007 he collaborated with Shakespearean actor Sir Antony Sher on a documentary about crime in the country of their birth, Murder Most Foul. He says this film caused a very hostile reaction from some South Africans, along the lines of “Who are they, living in England, to tell

Jon and 'friends' at Buckingham Palace

us what’s wrong with our country?” But he believes that independent voices are necessary to shed light on society’s ills.

It was during an extended contract with Thames Television early in his career that Jon learnt most about his profession. The team on the current affairs series This Week was particularly influential on his later work. He bemoans the lack of such contracts now, which he believes militates against new talent gaining appropriate mentoring and practice alongside experienced professionals.

At St Paul’s Jon edited the boys’ magazine Folio, writing of his experiences staying at the Rowton House for the homeless in Hammersmith Broadway – an early venture into social realist journalism, feeling that many Paulines lived very privileged existences without knowing much about the environment around them.

Jon also got himself into hot water with High Master Tom Howarth when he wrote a piece about the local state schools in Barnes, comparing their facilities to those at the new School on Lonsdale Road.

His article included the then incendiary suggestion that St Paul’s share its resources with those less fortunate. Howarth’s response was to censor any mention of such a proposal. Inspired by the old

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Rhodesia Herald, which left blank spaces whenever Prime Minister Ian Smith’s censors made cuts, Jon published his article leaving similar blank spaces where Mr Howarth redacted the piece. Today of course the School proudly shares many of its facilities with the community. “My subsequent career as a bit of trouble-maker was no doubt partially forged while I was at St Paul’s!” As he puts it, “It was the late 60s so it was only natural that I went on to study revolution at the London School of Economics which was the hot-bed of student revolt back then”.

Jon has the distinction of being the only boy ever to self-enroll at St Paul’s.

Having been enlisted into South Africa’s apartheid-era army, Jon took his chance on a new life in London in 1966 when visiting his sister Hilary, herself a fugitive from the South African regime as a member of the African Resistance Movement. Refusing to return home to his final year at school and then the army, Jon got himself accepted at St Paul’s where he subsequently won a senior scholarship, and then phoned home to tell his parents he wasn’t coming back. He credits the way the School taught him History and English (with Peter Thomson and Patrick Hutton) as having influenced everything he has done since.

Jon has subsequently repaid that gift by

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Reinventing Risk Two OPs have escaped the City to set up a new business model endowing the School with the annual Blair Prize, awarded each year to a boy showing creative excellence across a variety of disciplines. This year the award went to Jake Curtis (2010-15), son of screenwriter Richard Curtis. Jake has been active in the popular ImpSoc at the School. For those entertaining thoughts about gaining a job in media, Jon advises, “There’s no real ‘road’ to a job, just determination.” And on frustration with not being able to realise some of his more daring projects, such as an all-access documentary on sexual abuse within the American Navy, he describes getting the money not only as the last hurdle, but also as the first and middle.

He does however currently have a primetime drama series in development with the BBC which deals with a particularly uncomfortable part of Britain’s history and which he hopes will be ready for broadcast in 2017.

It has been said that it is Jon’s empathy with his subjects that makes him such a compelling filmmaker. It’s a trait he

The people I feel most for are those in the middle, just trying to get by sees as emanating partly from his South African upbringing. “You can’t come from that place without an understanding that social environment is what makes people.” Referring to some of his past work in Brazil and South Africa he says: “You can be born into a favela in Rio, or into the desperate slum of Mannenberg outside Cape Town, and you can actually triumph above the odds and become an extraordinary person, or you can become a drug lord or perhaps land up somewhere in the middle. The people I feel most for are those in the middle, just trying to get by.”

Jon’s wife Yvonne also works in television as the Head of Production of an independent production company and his children are PhD research psychologist Tanya Graham, Ben Blair (1993-98), now a TV director, and 15-year-old twins, Artie and Louis.

(The Old Pauline News is grateful to Rebecca Davis and South Africa’s Daily Maverick for some source material used in this article.)

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ndrew Holder (1981-86) and John are often separated from the client Baillie (1971-75) are both part through one or more ‘middlemen’ this of the team at Mole Valley Asset understanding gets lost. As a result, fund Management (MVAM), a boutique private managers feel forced to play safe and hug client investment manager that builds the benchmark. At MVAM we will use our bespoke portfolios for clients, usually experience to assess and take that risk.” at the higher end of the risk spectrum.

Andrew joined MVAM from Berenberg Andrew and John have worked together Capital Markets LLC in the USA, where twice in the past, firstly at Cazenove and he was CEO, responsible for building Co and later at SG (Societe Generale). out the North American operations for They were both Berenberg Bank. Prior previously oarsmen at to that, Andrew was a St Paul’s. senior member of the Based in Dorking, specialist equity sales MVAM is a new type of team and the European Investment Company Healthcare team at J that Andrew says is P Morgan. He held breaking the mould a similar role at SG of the traditional asset Cowen between 2000 management market. “We and 2005, having started Andrew Holder invest our clients’ savings his investment career directly into the markets. at Cazenove & Co in Our clients can get to 1996. He is a qualified know their portfolio Chartered Accountant manager personally, and a Fellow of the ensuring the investments Chartered Institute we make are suitably of Securities and focused without having Investments. to spread investments too John was previously widely or compromising a Director at Societe returns. They are Generale (SG) in encouraged to keep in London, where he John Baillie touch with their savings headed the Panwith our dedicated app European retail sector Breaking the mould team, responsible and monthly reports.

We screen the UK and equity research of the traditional asset for European markets coverage of a wide range for investment ideas, management market of consumer stocks. looking for various Prior to joining SG, he ‘signals’, positive and was Head of Retail at negative, that indicate in which direction Cazenove & Co. During his career he has company valuations might be moving – been consistently highly rated in surveys our secret sauce if you like.” such as Extel and was regularly top-three FCA regulated, MVAM offers managed ranked for stock-picking by Starmine. He portfolios, including savings held in tax read PPE at Oriel College, Oxford and efficient ‘wrappers’ such as ISAs, Junior holds the CISI Diploma.

ISAs, SIPPs or SSASs. “We can manage Andrew has every confidence in corporate pension schemes for small and the MVAM business model. “We are medium sized businesses, charities and attracting new clients quickly. With the trusts and build bespoke portfolios for our infrastructure in place we will soon be clients, tailored to their individual dreams, ready to open new branches around the aspirations and financial circumstances. country. And we would be interested in We don’t charge for advice and we hearing from any investment professionals think our management fees are fair and that are tired of traipsing up to the city transparent. Our clients are often happy everyday and would be interested in to accept that they need to take some setting up their own office.” risk if they want to achieve above market returns, but because fund managers For more information: www.mvam.com OLD PAULINE NEWS SPRING/SUMMER 2016 13

News profiles Samuel Pepys (1646-50), Admiral Lord Nelson and Freemasonry Paul Ganjou (1960-65), Chairman of The Nelson Society, reports on the Exhibition Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution that was held at the National Maritime Museum. He explains that without Pepys, the great victories of Admiral Lord Nelson, 100 years later, would not have been possible. Paul is also the current Master of the Old Pauline Masonic Lodge. He compares Nelson’s humanity with the principles of Freemasonry.

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he Exhibition timeline began in 1649 when the 15-year-old Pepys skipped St Paul’s School to see history in the making – the execution of Charles I – and then explored the period from the execution to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. This formative era in our history saw the repositioning of the monarchy and the development of Britain’s place in the world as an economic, political and maritime power. Along the way Pepys became an MP, a JP, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity House and Secretary of the Navy.

From 1660-69 Pepys kept a diary that recorded daily life as well as national events. Luckily, for posterity, he was also a gossip, socialite, lover of music, the theatre, fine living – and women! Written in code, his diary contains many amusing and risqué stories! It is also an excellent record of some very important events, including the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666.

The Father of the Royal Navy

Pepys’ cousin, Viscount Montagu, helped him secure his first post with the Navy Board (responsible for the provisioning and maintenance of ships). Pepys knew nothing of ships or seamanship when he started, but in time an enquiring mind, hard work and concern for detail made him the most influential man on the administration side of the Navy.

Pepys discovered that cheating and theft had ruined standards of supplies and shipbuilding. He met with suppliers and agreed rules and standards for shipbuilding materials. At the same time he also reviewed crews’ food rations. Every

day sailors were to get one gallon of beer, 500g of biscuit, 100g of salt beef or fish and butter and cheese! He was also determined that naval commanders should have more experience of – the sea! So he created the first naval exams, including Mathematics and Navigation and set new standards for ships’ surgeons, pursers and even parsons.

The 17th century was an age of scientific enquiry which resulted in technological developments in many directions, especially ship design. The great naval dockyards produced warships that sailed more efficiently and could carry more guns and provisions. This rapid advancement was largely down to Pepys. He believed in a ‘scientific and mathematick approach to navigation’ which led to the building of the Royal Observatory in 1675. The study of the stars brought greater accuracy in navigation and the development of new sea routes, which augured well for future British naval commanders.

It was Pepys’ achievements in setting these new standards that made it possible, 100 years later, for Nelson’s Georgian Navy to make Britain the greatest naval nation on Earth, and why Pepys is often referred to as ‘The Father of the Royal Navy’.

Nelson’s humanity and the principles of Freemasonry Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) was England’s greatest hero. The victor of four great naval battles and the first man to beat Napoleon, he was the most interesting and spectacular officer in the age of fighting ships-of-the-line, who died at the height of his most famous victory when his fleet defeated the combined ships of France and Spain at the Battle of Trafalgar. Like Pepys, he was very fond of the fairer sex and his affair with the beautiful Lady Emma Hamilton was one of the great scandals of the age.

Although we are not certain that Nelson was indeed a Freemason, there is strong circumstantial evidence that he was – not just through his personal conduct and humanity, but also though references to ‘Brother Horatio Nelson’ in Masonic records.

Certainly several of his Captains, his ‘Band of

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Paul Ganjou (left) with (far right) the Mayor of Salisbury, ‘Lord Nelson’ and ‘Lady Hamilton’ at the 2015 Trafalgar Dinner re-enactment of Nelson being presented with the Freedom of the City in 1800.

Brothers’, were Masons. Nelson’s compassion and concern for his officers and men – and particularly for his vanquished foes – clearly shows that he practiced and abided by three great Masonic principles: ‘Brotherly Love’, ‘Relief ’ (Charity) and ‘Truth’.

Nelson’s interest in all those who served with him was legendary and he was as concerned with the health and well-being of his ships’ crews, as he was

Freemasons strive for Truth. . . in their view of themselves and in their dealings with others. . . with his officers. Throughout his career he displayed a close personal interest in individuals, so it was hardly surprising that when the news of his death spread through the British fleet after Trafalgar, many of his men broke down and cried.

He was also extremely charitable. On a famous occasion in 1802 he was unable to attend a Marine Society and Sea Cadets meeting and personally sent a £5 note for the benefit of the Charity (worth over £500 now). Nelson became a Governor of the Society and it still exists today, with HM Queen Elizabeth II as its Patron.

Freemasons strive for Truth both in their view of themselves and in their dealings with others and require high moral standards to uphold these principles in their public and private lives: in that respect, few men could claim to have better Masonic credentials than Admiral Lord Nelson. l If you are interested in learning more about The Nelson Society or The Old Pauline Lodge contact Paul Ganjou on 020 7631 2002 or email paul@ganjou.com

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Virtue Mine Honour Alan McLean (1957-59) declared a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur

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ollowing the creed of the Maclean clan motto has stood Alan McLean in good stead. He was declared a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur for his services to the maritime industry by decree of the President of France on Bastille Day last year. The ceremony took place in November in Emperor Napoleon III’s palace in Marseille.

The Légion d’honneur or, to give it its full name, L’Ordre National de la Légion d’honneur, created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, is the highest decoration in France, and rarely awarded to non-native Frenchmen or women. This is Alan’s second French honour. In 2005 he was made a Chevalier in the Order of the Maritime Merit. He enjoyed a big celebratory reception at his business head office in Marseille after the award ceremony in October and says he has been overwhelmed with congratulations.

Alan is an Anglo-Scot. Because of the Scottish side of his ancestry his father put him down for Fettes school but also, because the family lived in London, St Paul’s. “Fortunately I went to St Paul’s for a number of reasons. I have certain historical associations with the School. One of my English ancestors is St Thomas More, friend to John Colet and the first High Master William Lily.

Another was John Donne, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. My mother’s godfather was G K Chesterton (1887-92), and my own godfather was Judge H C Leon (191520), who doubled as a writer under the name Henry Cecil (his Christian names).

His most successful book Brothers in Law, published in 1955, was subsequently made into a film and stage play. Known as quite a character at the Bar, Judge Leon had a reputation for disliking any barrister who failed to wear a waistcoat in court.

Having gained his O-levels Alan left St Paul’s early on his godfather’s advice, but against that of High Master Anthony (Tony) Gilkes. At the tender age of 16 he was articled to a solicitor, Sir Percy Rugg, then leader of the Conservatives on the London County Council. Alan shadowed him as an unpaid clerk and says it was a wonderful experience to meet so many key people through him at such an early age.

Although only at St Paul’s for two and a half years he describes his time there as being some of the happiest days of his

Alan after the ceremony in Marseille, wearing his medal and the tartan of the McLean clan

One of my English ancestors is St Thomas More, friend to John Colet and the first High Master William Lily life. A proud member of H Club, Alan has very fond memories of Phil McGuinness, Alec Harbord, Buster Reid, Tony Gilkes and the Surmaster Alan Cook. Although not a boxer himself, Alan remembers being forced to box in the Green Cup by H Club Captain David Jennings (1953-59), who posted people at the School gates to nobble any reticent club members. Alan’s first opponent in the Cup became ill so he progressed unscathed. In the next round he managed to break the arm of his opponent before being knocked out by his final assailant!

Alan met his second wife, Old Paulina Dr Elizabeth Jenner JP, a specialist in hospital-acquired infections, whilst travelling to School on the same train from Hampton and Hampton Hill every morning. She became his first girlfriend.

After living very separate lives for many years they finally met up again and married just eight years ago.

Aged 18, Alan moved to Marseille, where he later started his business, the McLean Group, in 1973, thanks to the help of the Honourable Michael Summerskill (1941-46) who became his first client. He was also admitted to the French Bar. The McLean Group is a legal business handling all the claims of Protection and Indemnity (P&I) maritime insurers for anything that happens in France or in the countries where his company has offices, which are established in every major port in France as well as in Paris, Tunis, Algiers, Tangiers, Casablanca, Greece and West (Francophone) Africa.

“P & I is the biggest insurance business in the world, covering 95 per cent of the world’s shipping. Every vessel, right down to fishing boats, has to have two insurances. One is for the ship herself, and the other, the P & I, is for the liability.

The billions that were allocated for the Costa Concordia tragedy for instance were paid for by the P & I insurers.” Alan also remains a somewhat dormant British government Shipping Representative, with a requirement to attend any British war vessels in active service should they visit any port he presides in.

Alan enjoys sitting on the Clan Maclean Council and representing the French connection – important of course being the country of the ‘Auld Alliance’. The Clan Maclean Association has many more members abroad, particularly in North America, than those in Scotland. The Association organises clan gatherings, and historical research. Alan is pleased that the clan’s 14th-century Duart Castle on the Island of Mull was retrieved and is now in good repair. The present Chief ’s great-grandfather, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, bought the ruins in 1911 and restored the stronghold. Three years ago 1,000 Macleans attended a gathering there to commemorate the castle’s redemption.

Alan is currently in the process of encouraging the King of Morocco to commemorate the life of Sir Harry Aubrey de Vere (Kaïd) Maclean KCMG (1848-1920), an extraordinary man who gained the trust of the Sultan of Morocco when acting as his army instructor, later to become Head of the Moroccan army.

Alan has no plans to retire.

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Introduction by current Head of Music at St Paul's School, Mark Wilderspin

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Music There is a glittering array of musical talent within the OP community.

This overview highlights just a few of the many and varied musical careers that were nurtured at St Paul's.

t Paul’s is fortunate to have a rich musical heritage, with prominent OP musicians in all areas of the music profession. The current department aims to continue this tradition, providing talented young men with musical opportunities to challenge and stimulate them and ultimately preparing them for whatever part music will play in their lives when they leave the school. With a dedicated team of staff, some of the best visiting music teachers available and enviable purpose-built facilities, St Paul’s has a place amongst the foremost music departments in the country.

The department holds well over 40 concerts and events each year, from informal lunchtime recitals to full-scale choral and orchestral concerts (including a recent landmark performance of Howells’ Hymnus Paradisi as part of the Barnes Music Festival). The jazz programme remains a very strong component and the Symphony Orchestra continues to tackle challenging core repertoire (recently including Britten’s Four Sea Interludes, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espangol and Sibelius’s second symphony). The School is increasing its profile beyond the Wathen Hall, too: our links with the local community are strong and SPS musicians compete in regional and national competitions.

The chamber choir sings a number of external services each year (including an Oxbridge college guest evensong) and our jazz musicians are a popular fixture in local venues. The department also undertook a concert tour of Germany in Summer 2015, involving both choral and instrumental forces.

Adrian Butterfield (1978-83) Violin, Director, Conductor

John Bradbury (1980-84)

Danny Driver (1990-95)

Clarinet

Pianist

Music teachers at SPS

Music teachers at Colet Court / SPS

Music Teachers at SPS

Jonathan Varcoe, Robert Gower, Robin Wedderburn, Michael Stinton

Ian Hunter (CC), Jonathan Varcoe, Robert Gower, Robin Wedderburn, Michael Stinton

Peter Hopkins, Robin Wedderburn, Jonathan Varcoe, Peter Gritton, Peter Merry (horn), George Adie (jazz)

Formative musical moments at SPS

Formative musical moments at Colet Court / SPS

Musical path so far Four years as a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral under Barry Rose, 11 years studying chamber music at Pro Corda, music degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music. Freelance period-instrument performer firstly as a rank-and-file orchestral player, then as a leader, soloist and chamber musician and now as a violinist/director and conductor, musical director of festivals, teacher at the RCM and continuing chamber musician in the UK and abroad.

Stand-out musical experience Directing Bach’s St Matthew Passion from the violin last year with just nine singers including world-class soloists. Had such a fine cast of singers and orchestra and the whole thing was an overwhelming experience. Also had an amazing review! Also, debut at Carnegie Hall in 2014.

Current projects/involvements Working on a baroque dance project which involves performance, research, workshops and music courses and will result in a book, a DVD and an online resource. Short promo video here: https://youtu.be/GTLlenIc6YQ Also, half way through a project to record the complete violin sonatas of Jean-Marie Leclair – the recordings of Books 1 and 2 were the first complete ones to be done.

Selection of recordings: Leclair Book 1 Violin Sonatas on Naxos Leclair Book 2 Violin Sonatas on Naxos Handel Complete Violin Sonatas on Somm Handel Trio Sonatas Op.2 on Somm Handel Trio Sonatas Op.5 on Somm Geminiani Sonatas Op.1 on Somm ‘Handel at Home’ on Somm Mozart Clarinet Quintet with Colin Lawson on Clarinet Classics A Viennese Quartet Party - string quartets by Mozart, Haydn, Vanhal and Dittersdorf on Omnibus Classics - video: http://youtu.be/wnnzTvRTIlU

Formative musical moments at SPS

Colet Court: Singing with the Colet Court Choir in Handel’s Messiah at St Paul’s Cathedral.

SPS: Playing Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto at St John’s, Smith Square with the Joint Orchestra (SPS/SPGS).

Playing Lambert’s Rio Grande with SPS/SPGS joint orchestra and chorus (1992), my first experience performing as soloist with orchestra, and Schumann’s Piano Concerto (1994); both of these with Robin Wedderburn at the helm.

Musical influences My family

Musical influences

Musical path so far Many performance opportunities at St John’s College, Cambridge; post-Grad at Royal Academy of Music; 2nd Clarinet Chamber Orchestra of Europe; 2nd Clarinet London Symphony Orchestra; Principal Clarinet, BBC Philharmonic

Path so far

Too many to list and dissect.

Stand-out musical experience Mozart Concerto with BBC Philharmonic under Gunther Herbig at the Bridgewater Hall.

Current projects/involvements Developing a new recorded music format: the LEP (Layered Enriched Package) which annotates audio/video on a web platform. I want to bring the knowledge that I was lucky enough to experience from the likes of Robin Wedderburn to a much wider audience - it is an educational, non-profit project and I hope it takes off!

Recordings/Links The English Clarinet (NAXOS) with James Cryer, Piano (also Old Pauline) http://www.naxos.com/ catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.570539 Busoni Concertino / Jarvi (Chandos) https://www. chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%20 9920 Malcolm Arnold Scherzetto (Chandos) https://www.chandos.net/details06. asp?CNumber=CHAN%209851 Arnold Bax Concertante (Chandos) https://www.chandos.net/details06. asp?CNumber=CHAN%209879

Uncertain as to whether to pursue the piano professionally or not after leaving School, I took up a place at Clare College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences. As fate would have it, only days after my arrival at Cambridge (and before my first lecture) I realised that music was indeed my overwhelming passion and the subject to which I would devote my life. The next three years were a carefully choreographed juggling act; I commuted regularly back to London on weekends for piano lessons, keeping up with my science studies at the same time. After I graduated in neurophysiology, two years of postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music followed. My piano career from here built itself up gradually, step-by-step, and continues to evolve. The juggling act very much remains, however: I now balance an international concert career, a part-time University lectureship, and family life (married with two children).

Stand-out musical experiences Most often these are performances by others which I have been fortunate to attend: Temirkanov conducting the Leningrad Symphony with the St Petersburg Philharmonic at the Barbican; Krystian Zimerman performing Ravel’s Valses Nobles and Chopin’s Fourth Ballade at the Festival Hall; Semyon Bychkov conducting Elektra at the Proms with a cast including Dame Felicity Palmer as a blood-curdlingly crazed Clytemnestra. Of my own work, nothing quite compares with performing at the BBC Proms – the energy you feel from the audience in the Albert Hall (particularly the arena) is incredibly powerful.

Current projects/involvements This is an important time for me. I have début recitals at London’s International Piano Series,

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Performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the joint SPS-SPGS orchestra at SPGS conducted by Jonathan Varcoe.

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OP Music Music Toronto, the Fine Arts Museum in Montreal, and Paris’ Musée de l’Orangerie in November 2016, a short tour of the UK with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4, and continuing recital partnerships with dear friends violinist Chloë Hanslip and baritone Christian Immler, with dates in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. In terms of repertoire, I’m obsessed with Beethoven and Ligeti, two composers whose music is a severe challenge to any pianist.

Recordings/Links Recordings available from Hyperion Records (www.hyperion-records.co.uk) Personal website: www.dannyd.comrive r.com

John Paul Ekins (2000-05) Pianist

Music teachers at SPS Mark Tatlow, Ben Parry, Peter Gritton, Robin Wedderburn.

Formative musical moments at SPS Performing the second movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra in my final year.

Musical influences My parents, who were both singers and encouraged me with the piano from a very early age; playing-wise, Mitsuko Uchida is a constant source of inspiration and wonder.

Path so far I fixed on a career as a performer at a relatively late age, 15, inspired by my then teacher at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, John Barstow. I had previously been going to study Economics at Cambridge, but caught the music performance bug from him and finally started putting in the serious hours needed to catch up with those who had been working hard from a much earlier age. After completing my BMus at the RCM, as a scholar at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Charles Owen I benefited from his incredible tutelage and mentorship, putting me in a position to express myself on the piano as I had always wanted. Now, with a busy concert and teaching schedule, I am constantly pushing for more and higher profile

Embracing chance relationships in music Paul Rhys (1978-83) is a full-time Course Leader and Senior Lecturer of Music at Anglia Ruskin University In January a performance of Paul's piano concerto was performed at the Old Divinity School at St John’s College, Cambridge, performed by Ian Pace with the K239 Orchestra and conducted by Peter Britton – the second time that the concerto has been performed in public.

Paul says he was a dedicated scientist and mathematician during his time at St Paul’s. He later went up to University College, Oxford, to read Geology.

With talented sisters becoming highly accomplished musicians, including his eldest sister who became a professional harpist, he had always felt the need to ‘do something different’.

He describes himself as having been a rather poor French horn player at St Paul’s, having started on trumpet. But he had enjoyed singing a great deal especially with visiting teacher Richard Cooke who was inspirational. Richard was Chorus Master at the London Philharmonic Choir, which Paul joined after leaving School. But Paul’s route into music as a career was slow and not always easy he says.

At Oxford Paul sang in Schola Cantorum which he says was very rewarding. He became quite serious about a rock group he played in with Tristram Fetherstonhaugh (1978-82), Rupert Organ (1978-82) and Tom Greenfield (1980-82) that originated

opportunities, the nature of the profession meaning that one can never afford to stand still!

Stand-out musical experience

from his St Paul’s days. Very gradually, while at Oxford and despite his love of sciences, Paul began to realise that it was music that he wanted to devote himself to the most. It was later while at Keele University studying computer music that he says “the full synergy of mathematics and music opened up for me. It had never been possible before. I also worked

while at Keele University studying computer music the full synergy of mathematics and music opened up for me very hard because I felt I had to make up for lost time. I gradually became aware of the creative potential of computer programming and how it could help to realise ideas in your imagination.”

After completing a PhD in Music Composition at Keele, Paul noticed a newspaper advertisement asking for creative artists and scholars to respond to the work of Samuel Beckett in any way or form, with a financial incentive on offer to support any ideas chosen. “I had seen Beckett’s Not I as a teenager and had been excited by it. All that one sees is a woman’s mouth spotlit in a pitch-

William Goodchild (1976-81) Violin, Piano, Baritone, Conductor

Performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue at the Royal Albert Hall with Southbank Sinfonia to an audience of 5,000. Watch it here: www.youtube. com/watch?v=SlBLS-HL1g8

Current projects/involvements Concerts throughout the UK from solo to various chamber music formats and ensembles. More details available at www.jpekinspianist.com/ concert-diary/

Recordings/Links Recently released my first DVD, John Paul Ekins LIVE, which is available to buy here: www. jpekinspianist.com/video/ Like my Page on Facebook here: www.facebook. com/John-Paul-Ekins-Pianist-299635241869/ Follow me on Twitter @jpekinspianist

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Music teachers at SPS Jonathan Varcoe (Director of Music), Robert Gower (Assistant Director of Music)

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The song of the Blackcap informed his writing of a solo for clarinet…

computer, originated by Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. “Rather like pointillist painters creating myriad spots of colour to gain an overall effect, so by creating thousands of sound ‘events’ each of which can be specified with pitch, timbre, loudness and position, the computer can organise this cloud of sound grains, either statistically as Xenakis would have done, or in my case by use of fractals, a topic I am lucky enough to be pursuing in my post at Anglia Ruskin.” During a sabbatical Paul will spend the time composing using his own software for granular synthesis, which he intends to try and market later, possibly to the film and computer game industries.

Paul has also studied birdsong for his compositions. The song of the Blackcap

Formative musical moments at SPS

composers. Post WWII jazz including Third Stream and particularly, Bill Evans, Lennie Tristano, Jarrett and others. Film music: especially Bernard Hermann, Nino Rota, Ennio Moriccone and Jerry Goldsmith.

Playing the dissonance quartet and singing barbershop quartets in a train carriage on the way home to London, having given a chamber orchestra concert in Oxford.

Conducting masterclasses with John Lubbock, Christopher Seaman and Richard Hickox; conducting Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 in Eb major; ‘The Drumroll’ in a school concert; listening to musicians like Richard Watkins (French horn), and Peter Dixon, (cello), performing in the music competitions, and playing concertos with the orchestra.

Many years later, being asked to write an anthem for the Quincentenary and hearing it performed so beautifully by the School choir in St Paul’s Cathedral.

Musical influences Late 19th and early 20th century symphonic

Path so far I began work soon after leaving University, conducting recording sessions for London arranger, Steve Gray. I developed a passion for orchestration. Supported myself by playing and conducting sessions, and teaching piano.

My opportunity to orchestrate came when I teamed up with composer Barnaby Taylor.

Several major projects for the BBC followed including Journey of Life and Europe – a Natural History. In 2009 we won an Emmy for the score to Wild China. From 2004, I was beginning to be commissioned for television scores. My first break was a Channel 4 special When the Moors Ruled in Europe. I have since scored over 70 projects for the major broadcasters.

A large number of these projects have been

natural history documentary – for the BBC and American broadcasters, such as PBS and National Geographic International.

Stand-out musical experience Orchestrating and conducting BBC’s Nature’s Great Events Live with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Sir David Attenborough narrating.

Current projects/involvements Scoring Jago: a Life Underwater, due for release this year.

Scoring Wild Thailand – a 3-part series - for BBC 2.

Composing Concerto for Kora and Orchestra, with Senegalese musician, Mamadou Cissokho.

Conducting Bristol Symphony Orchestra.

Senior Associate Teacher at University of Bristol, teaching on the MA Composition for Film and Television.

Recordings/Links www.williamgoodchild.com/shop

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black theatre pouring forth a monologue that you can only just understand as the words come very fast. Later at Oxford I read the text of the play and was struck by its originality. I was determined to write a piano solo based on its structure.”

Paul’s submission was accepted and the resultant piece was given nine public performances across the UK, the US and finally in Strasbourg, supported by a British Council grant. “It seemed an amusing irony to learn afterwards that Beckett had used musical structures to inform his theatre texts, a truly circular undertaking as it transpired.”

Paul is very interested in both natural and computed structures within musical forms. He is currently engaged in what is known as granular synthesis, a technique for creating sound with a

informed his writing of a solo for clarinet, Dialogue for Clarinet and Birdsong.

He was delighted with the results. “It seemed the bird was showing off just as much as the clarinet! I’ve learnt from John Cage to allow two simultaneous things to happen that do not have any preconceived relationship with one another and embrace the chance relationships that emerge.” The Society for the Promotion of New Music enabled a performance of the work by clarinetist Andrew Sparling in The Pit Theatre at the Barbican Centre and the piece was recorded on the Lorelt CD label. Paul has since written another piece for alto recorder inspired by the Marsh Warbler, a species noted for incorporating imitations of other birds’ songs into its repertoire. He would like to write more works in this series.

In the meantime Paul very much enjoys conducting at Anglia Ruskin and teaching electronic music there. It has been in two sabbatical periods that he has been able to devote time to his own compositions.

Paul is married and has an eleven-year old son just starting secondary school who is showing early promise on the violin. Paul became a member of the Baha’i faith in 2000. He says it has brought him a deep sense of joy and optimism and has helped him to see aspects of service in everything he does.

OP Music Anthony Kraus (1987-92) Conductor, piano, organ

Robert Max (1980-84)

Charlie Mole (1978-79) Violin, saxophone

Cellist and Conductor Sam Pearce

Music teachers at SPS

Music teachers at SPS

Music teaching

Jonathan Varcoe, Robin Wedderburn, Peter Hopkins, Isabella Yu, Peter Merry.

Robin Wedderburn; Jonathan Varcoe; Robert Gower; Michael Stinton and Nicholas Woodall.

External lessons at Royal College of Music.

Formative musical moments at SPS

Formative musical moments at SPS

Playing Vaughan William’s Lark Ascending as the soloist with the School orchestra

Conducting wind band in Christmas concert 1991.

Musical influences Any decent operatic ones!

Path so far After School, music degree at Bristol, postgrad studies at Guildhall School of Music: repetiteur course (won Ricordi conducting prize), then National Opera Studio. Organist St Paul’s Knightsbridge 1996-200. Freelanced in London/ Europe 1998-2000, including English Touring Opera and Jeunes Voix du Rhin (Strasbourg). 2000-2003 was on the music staff at English National Opera, 2003 to present on the staff at Opera North, where have been Chorus Master and Acting Head of Music. Currently Assistant Head of Music at ON. Also Music Director of British Philharmonic Orchestra and Associate Music Director of Leeds Sinfonia.

Stand-out musical experiences Two: being involved with Grimes on the Beach, open air performances of Peter Grimes live on Aldeburgh beach as part of the Britten centenary celebrations at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2013; the second – conducting my own show at Opera North for the first time (The Bartered Bride, October 2014).

Current projects/ involvements Currently assistant conductor at Opera North for Cosi fan Tutte, and preparing to rehearse complete Ring cycles this summer.

Winning the first Schools Chamber Music Competition playing Shostakovich piano trio with Adrian Butterfield and Harris Aslanedis; playing Schubert Quintet with Adrian, Ben Bradshaw, Ricky Brafman and Adrian Bradbury; conducting the Symphony Orchestra in the Chapel in Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture, Bryan Robson singing my setting of Edward Thomas’ Adlestrop in the Chapel; playing Elgar concerto in the Sports Hall, the final Summer concert in the (then) new lecture theatre.

Musical influences Many of my wonderful colleagues and teachers, Colin Davis and Alfred Brendel (who I knew while I was at SPS), Carlos Kleiber.

Path so far For nearly thirty years I have been the cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio, performing on four continents and on TV and Radio. My love of chamber music has led to a close involvement with MusicWorks, which organises the finest chamber music courses for talented teenage string players and pianists and has also led to me founding a chamber music festival in Frinton-on-Sea. I have taught generations of cellists during 25 years of teaching at the Junior Academy and several are now successful professional players.

I have conducted in Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan and have been conducting the Oxford Symphony Orchestra for ten happy and successful years. In between I have been guest-principal cellist of the LSO, RPO, Philharmonia, ECO etc. and am the principal cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra.

Stand-out musical experience

Formative musical moments at SPS

Musical influences Growing up: Supertramp, Earth Wind and Fire, Rossini, Mozart, Benny Goodman and Maurice Jarre.

Path so far When I went to university my musical preference changed from classical to Jazz and then Jazz funk and soul. I ended up in a band at Oxford with a record deal playing the sax and writing songs for Hugh Grant’s first film at Oxford in1982 aptly named Privileged. When I left I carried on with the band and also played sax and wrote for a succesful 80s band called ‘Living in a Box’ which got me a publishing deal at Warner-Chappell. Through to early 90s I was lucky enough to write songs for and with the likes of Lenny Kravitz, Kylie Minogue and Chaka Khan. The song I wrote for Chaka Khan was used in Friends and The Sopranos and was on her greatest hits album (along with Prince, Stevie Wonder among others).

Then my career changed thanks to Oliver Parker (1974-79). Having had no experience or learning in writing for an orchestra I was able nevertheless to draw on my classical upbringing from School, jumping in the deep end to score his first feature film Othello with Kenneth Branagh. I never looked back and continue to this day to score all his movies.

Stand-out musical experience Playing the sax in a stadium in the mountains of Mallorca as dawn arose in front of 30,000 people, supporting Dr Feelgood.

Current projects/involvements

Playing in Westminster Abbey at the Royal Wedding in 2011.

Composing the scores for ITV’s Mr Selfridge, Dads Army the movie and Absolutely Fabulous the movie.

Current projects/involvements

Recordings/Links

Frinton Festival 2016, Oxford Symphony Orchestra season 2015/16, Barbican Piano Trio concerts in London and elsewhere.

Recordings/Links www.frintonfestival.com www.musicworks.info www.barbicanpianotrio.com Barbican Piano Trio recordings: Rach/Tchaikovsky (Guild), Taneyev (Dutton), Schnittke (ASV/ Black Box).

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Dads Army; Othello; The Importance of Being Earnest; Dorian Gray (All original film soundtracks) on iTunes.

An Ideal Husband (www.amazon.com/An-IdealHusband-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B00000JC7O).

Mr Selfridge (from the Television Series) on iTunes Never Miss the Water Chaka Khan.

Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan, Vol. 1 by Chaka Khan on iTunes.

Links coolmusicltd.com/composers/charlie-mole www.imdb.com/name/nm0596495

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Piano, Conductor

Music Teachers at SPS Mark Tatlow; Ben Parry; Peter Gritton; Robin Wedderburn; Roy Stratford (piano); Vicky Lewis (clarinet); Matthew Rowe (conducting); Stephen Thomson (harpsichord); Catrin Johnson, Jamie Burton (both singing).

Formative musical moments at SPS Mark Tatlow’s complete disregard of the really narrow and prescriptive GCSE syllabus, teaching us about Italian recitative instead. Constant chamber music sessions with Roy Stratford, Gareth Hunt and Stephen Thomson in any available break time!

Musical influences Besides my music teachers, Carlos Kleiber and Leonard Bernstein (mostly from old videos on YouTube), and time I spent with Emmanuel Ax in Tanglewood last summer.

Path so far After leaving SPS, I studied Classics at Oxford, which I loved, but in truth I spent most of my time playing chamber music and finding orchestras and ensembles to conduct. Having decided that conducting was the path I wanted to take, I went and studied in Vienna for three years, learned German, and discovered the world of opera. I’m now a freelance conductor/pianist/ opera coach in London.

Stand-out musical experiences At School, one particular performance of Schubert’s Fantasia in D minor which really stood out – I played it with David Isaacs (2000-05), who was in my tutor group, and everything was completely in sync! Since School, conducting The Rape of Lucretia for Glyndebourne on Tour was a big highlight.

Current projects Eugene Onegin for Garsington Festival.

Link www.jackridley.com

Alexander Soares (2000-05)

Hugo Ticciati (1993-98)

Piano

Violinist, artistic director, conductor

Music teachers at SPS

Music teachers at SPS

Mark Tatlow, Ben Parry, Robin Wedderburn & Peter Gritton.

Peter Gritton, Robin Wedderburn, Mark Tatlow.

Formative musical moments at SPS

Lunch time jam sessions with Mr T. (and his famous biscuits). Harmonizing Bach chorales in the style of Brahms with Peter Gritton.

Dictating Bruckner Symphonies with Robin Wedderburn (and not having a clue).

Performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 (shared with fellow pianists, one movement each).

Compositions performed in St. Paul’s Cathedral and by the Schubert Ensemble (+ others too many to count!).

Musical influences French contemporary composers, and particular inspiration from my teachers – Ronan O’Hora and Emily Jeffrey.

Path so far Graduated with a 1st class degree in music from Clare College, Cambridge. Completed a Master’s and Doctorate at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, researching memorisation of atonal repertoire.

In 2015, his performance at BBCSO‘Boulez at 90’ celebrations (also broadcast on BBC Radio 3) received widespread acclaim in the press, described as “a brilliantly unbuttoned account” (The Sunday Times) and praised for its “huge intensity” (The Telegraph). Won 1st prize and Gold Medal at the prestigious Royal Overseas League Competition 2015, leading to a residency at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Selected as a 2015 Artist by City Music Foundation, with whom he will be recording his debut CD this year. Has performed in the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Bridgewater Hall, and toured France and Spain. Upcoming performances include debuts at the Brighton Festival and St George’s Bristol, and a return to Wigmore Hall.

Stand-out musical experience Performing Messiaen’s vast tone poem, Des Canyons aux Étoiles, with conductor Diego Masson, at Milton Court Concert Hall (see link below).

Current projects/involvements Currently planning debut CD recording with City Music Foundation, to be released in 2017. In addition, Alexander maintains a busy schedule performing around the UK and abroad.

Recordings/Links For further information and audio/video, please visit www.alexander-soares.com Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux Étoiles (youtube): http://bit.ly/1LvbEIL Twitter: @SoaresPiano

Formative musical moments at SPS

Musical influences All musics from Gregorian chant to Muse.

Path so far Hugo was all set to take his place at Clare College to study musicology. During the intervening summer, however, he met the Russian violinist Nina Balabina. Within ten minutes he was persuaded to relinquish his place at Cambridge and buy a one-way ticket to Sweden (where she was living). For four years Hugo returned to the basics, playing nothing but scales and studies. The musical ‘tabula rasa’ was mirrored in his spiritual path as he lived a hermit-style life consisting of practice, meditating, reading and sleeping.

Emerging from this silence and returning to the world of music, things slowly but surely took off. Now he says he is blessed to be doing what he loves every day of his life, performing with fantastic orchestras, working with inspiring artists, and sparking new creations from composers.

Stand-out musical experience Performing the world premiere of a violin concerto at Carnegie Hall and improvising with monks in the Himalayas.

Current projects/involvements Founder and director of Festival O/MODERNT; Co-director of festival L’Arte del Arco in Kazan, Russia; Vice-Artistic Director of the Specialist Music School Lilla Akademien (Sweden); Artistic Director of Ulriksdals Palace Theatre Confidencen (starting 2018); Artistic Director and resident artist of the Kings Place Unwrapped Series (2018).

Recordings/Links Sonic Philosphy: Colour and Affect www.hugoticciati.com www.festivalomodernt.com lillaakademien.se www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-Ticciati-HenrikOrchid-Classics

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Jack Ridley (2000-05)

OP Music Robin Ticciati (1996-2001) Conductor

Charles Watt (1993-98) Cellist

Sarah Wijzenbeek

Aside from Glyndebourne, recent opera projects include new productions of Peter Grimes at la Scala Milan, Nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival, Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, and a Metropolitan Opera debut with Hänsel und Gretel.

He will return to the Met in 2017.

Current projects/involvements

Path so far Robin Ticciati is a violinist, pianist and percussionist by training. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain when he turned to conducting, aged 15, under the guidance of Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle.

He was recently appointed ‘Sir Colin Davis Fellow of Conducting’ by the Royal Academy of Music.

Robin Ticciati has been Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra since season 2009/10 and the Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera since Summer 2014. From the 201718 season he will assume the Music Directorship of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for an initial five-year term.

For his first two seasons as Glyndebourne Music Director, Robin Ticciati conducted new productions of Rosenkavalier and Finta Giardiniera, Entführung and a revival of a Ravel doublebill with L’Heure Espagnole and L’Enfant et les Sortileges.

His season 2015/16 with the SCO features a twin focus on Brahms (symphonies, Requiem) and the Second Viennese School. Together they have toured extensively in Europe and Asia, and make regular appearances at the Edinburgh International Festival. Their latest recording for Linn Records, which features Haydn symphonies, was released in September 2015 to rave reviews, with particular praise for its energy and the originality of its programming. The other three albums they have recorded for Linn - two Berlioz discs (Symphonie Fantastique; Les Nuits d’Été and La Mort de Cléopâtre) and a double album featuring Schumann’s four symphonies have attracted unanimous critical acclaim.

Guest conducting projects over the next two seasons include return engagements with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, DSO-Berlin, Wiener Symphoniker, Swedish Radio Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as debuts with the Czech Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg.

Recordings Robin Ticciati’s discography also includes Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Linn), Dvorak’s Symphony No.9, Bruckner’s Mass No.3 and a Brahms disc with the Bamberger Symphoniker and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Tudor), as well as a number of opera releases on Opus Arte and on Glyndebourne’s own label.

Links www.robinticciati.com

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Music teachers at SPS Varcoe/Tatlow/Gritton/Wedderburn and of course Mr Thompson.

Formative musical moments at SPS Too many…! Playing Bach and drinking H2O in most breaks in Mr T’s room; the 8th form Music group with Economou C and Ticciati H; singing lessons before school started and an inspiring unexpected encounter with an Indian tabla player and additive rhythm.

Musical influences Variable and changeable over time, currently veering back from Art Tatum and J Strauss towards late Schubert.

Path so far Since SPS, I continued my studies by heading to the USA, to the Eastman School of Music before returning to Clare College Cambridge to read Music, followed by further instrumental training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

At the end of my time there I started teaching the cello at specialist music schools, The Yehudi Menuhin and Purcell

opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk l 020 8746 5390 and the Guildhall which continued until 2011. Then I emigrated to Holland, left the teaching behind and started out as a full time freelance cellist concentrating much as possible on being Dutch-based in order to occasionally see my wife and two daughters.

I have the good fortune of having a busy schedule and playing very varied types and styles of music with great musicians on a great instrument… who knows what’s next?

Stand-out musical experience Playing for Angela Merkel in Frankfurt with the Ensemble Modern was one that sticks.

Current projects/involvements Mainly Dutch-based collaborations these days ranging from contemporary modern groups like the ASKO|Schoenberg ensemble through chamber orchestras and symphonic like the Concertgebouw. Festivals too and some most enjoyable masterclass teaching.

Recordings/Links

www.charles-watt.com for links and concert listings. l The editor would like to thank all the OP musicians who contributed to this piece and to others that got in touch.

More will be featured in the October edition of the magazine.

If any OP musicians would like to publicise any career developments, performances, recordings or tour dates in our monthly eNews or in future editions of the magazine, please email the Club office at: opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk

Saturday 25 June 2016 Picnic with Music, Film, Comedy and Drama from 4.30pm until 8.30pm (Doors open at 3pm) Featuring: Archie Faulks (2008-2013), The Staff Band - ‘Steel Pedagogy’ and ‘Last Night at the Proms’

SAVE THE DATE! Further information coming soon...

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Old Pauline Club Meeting The Challenge of Rising School Fees and Bursary Provision at St Paul’s School, and the Renaming of Colet Court the boys: I have no idea and no interest in where other schools have toured.

But this misses the main point. Soaring fees reflect our attempts to grapple with the soaring costs of maintaining a really high quality educational experience in London. Nearly 70% of our annual expenditure goes on staffing costs. Our salaries have risen far above the beyond CPI in order to attract increasingly scarce mathematicians, physicists and top quality teachers in the humanities to work in London. In addition, we have to help them with their accommodation costs.

Pension and compliance costs are soaring.

These now are far more expensive than when Robert was here in the 1990s, and

We are now able and determined to focus on ‘Needs Blind’ or ‘Open Access’ admission…… they are fundamental to the provision of a first-rate academic education for able boys.

The problem of staffing costs is compounded at St Paul’s because we have had to confront simultaneously the problem that our school buildings were built to last until the late 1990s: they had still not been replaced in the late 2000s, when the problem had become critical and when construction costs in London were now far outstripping those elsewhere.

Old Pauline Club Directory 2016 The Old Pauline Club will be producing and printing an up to date Directory to give to its new members – the 2016 leavers. In addition to this, the Club will be printing a small quantity for those members who would like to have a printed copy.

The Club will be working on the content of the Directory over the coming weeks and would like to hear from members if they would NOT like their details printed. The details contained in the Directory will include the following:

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Years at the St Paul’s Surname, Initials Postal address Home telephone number Mobile telephone number

Founded in 1977, Colets is an independent health club set in 15 acres of beautiful Old Pauline grounds in Thames Ditton.

We will be happy to omit some or all of this information at your request. Likewise, if you would like to receive a printed copy of the Directory, please email the OPC office on opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk.

• Impressive gym with great views

• 25m UV-filtered pool

• Over 60 studio classes each week

• 6 squash courts

• Sauna, steam & spa

• Café & licensed bar

• Rejuvenate 2 luxury treatment rooms

• Free parking for members

• Crèche & nursery

• Packed junior programme

For full details of reduced subscription rates available to Old Paulines for these facilities at Colets Health Club, please call our Member Services team on 020 8398 7108.

Please email the OP office on opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk by 20 May St Nicholas Road • Thames Ditton • Surrey • KT7 0PW

www.coletshealthclub.co.uk • info@coletshealthclub.co.uk

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Robert Stanier OP recently wrote an article in the Telegraph, which used the example of St Paul’s to illustrate how independent schools in London have become unaffordable to many of their alumni due to the compound effects of annual fee increases. It made uncomfortable reading. Rather than engage with Robert through the press, we will meet at school soon to talk through the issues: I regret that he chose not to do so before he published, because some of his arguments and examples were either incorrect or misrepresented. But this does not obscure the fact that he has a powerful point, one which has been raised before by OPs. So I thought that it would be also be beneficial to engage with his arguments through the medium of the Old Pauline News and eNews bulletin.

Robert is right: St Paul’s annual fees are beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest parents. He argued that the rise in fees has been driven by a ‘screwed up arms race’ against other schools, so that the 1st XV has to tour Australia, and our buildings have to be grand, if we are to compete. Yet the notion that we are in an arms race has never occurred to me or the Governors. The occasional international trips are to enhance the educational experience of

The new buildings are not part of some ‘arms race’. They are essential. So do we replace them cheaply with buildings that will last until the 2040s, and bequeath to the next generation the problem of replacement?

Or do we build a school that will last well beyond 2100, which would cost a good deal more while being economically more prudent? We have chosen the latter, although the impact on fees has been greatly ameliorated by extraordinarily generous donations by the Mercers’ (£38m) and Lloyd Dorfman OP (£9m).

Our bursary scheme provides some help to those who cannot afford the fees. We currently spend around £850K each year on bursaries, which benefits more than 50 pupils at Colet Court and St Paul’s. Of these, around one third are 100%-bursaries (covering full fees) which are offered to families with a gross household income of less than £60K p.a. Ironically, on a vicar’s stipend Robert would receive a 100% bursary, so his son could attend St Paul’s.

But this provision is simply not enough.

And it is not good enough. We have strayed from John Colet’s vision to educate any able boy from any background. Our challenge is to restore the school to that vision. In 2008 Dr Martin Stephen declared the goal of making the school Needs Blind within a generation, an objective which remains close to the heart of the Governors and staff. The major hurdle to that objective was the vast cost of replacing the 1968 school buildings, but now that the redevelopment programme is well underway we are now able and determined to focus on ‘Needs Blind’ or ‘Open Access’ admission.

Within the next five to ten years, we aim to make St Paul’s accessible to any bright boy living in Greater London who passes the assessment and wishes to attend the School. Boys will be assessed and places offered strictly on the grounds of academic merit and potential. If their parents can afford the fees, then they will be billed for

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them. If, following strict means-testing, parents can afford part of the fees, then the School will pay the balance. If parents cannot afford any of the fees, then the School will support the boy entirely. Hence in some years the School may provide a considerable amount of money for bursaries, and in other years much less.

This requires a massive expansion of our bursary provision. The provision will also support boys whose parents are in the ‘squeezed middle’ with partfee bursaries. Our initial target is to be spending, on average, around £3.25M per year on bursaries by 2020. By doing so, St Paul’s estimates that it will be helping approximately 10% to 15% of its total number of pupils (across both Colet Court and St Paul’s).

We are already making progress: The bursary scale is already becoming more generous and realistic. From September 2016 families with £60k income will receive 100% of fees, and other incidental expenses will be paid by the Bursary Fund, and those with £120,000 will receive 25%.

We are refurbishing part of Colet Court this summer to accommodate another class of 11+ entrants, which increases opportunities for boys from state primary schools to obtain a place here.

A firm of consultants, Global Philanthropic, has been appointed to create a Development Strategy for the school, based on confidential interviews with selected OPs, parents, donors, potential donors.

We are introducing a range of new initiatives to close any perceived and real distance between Colet Court and St Paul’s, in part to reinforce the unity of the schools to potential bursary applicants at 11+. This includes renaming Colet Court as St Paul’s Juniors from 1 September 2016, to remove any confusion or misconception that ‘Colet Court’ or ‘St Paul’s Preparatory School’ is a stand-alone prep school, when we are actually one school unified by a common culture and Colet’s vision. Our founder’s name will continue to be preserved and honoured, reflected within the next building phase, completed toward the end of 2017.

The rising cost of fees reflects the exponential rise in the cost of providing a high quality education for able boys. We will not compromise on that principle.

The challenge is to expand the bursary provision to make sure any applicant who is good enough to benefit can come here.

We will confront this challenge over the next few years.

High Master, Professor Mark Bailey March 2016

Old Pauline Club Committee List 2016 President Sir Nigel Thompson KCMG CBE 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, 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, J A H Ellis, R A Engel, D H P Etherton, The Rt Hon Sir Terence Etherton, T J R Goode, S R Harding, R J G Holman, J A Howard, Sir Antony Jay CVO, B M Jones, P J King, T G Knight, P A Leppard, B Lowe, J W S Lyons, Professor C P Mayer, R R G McIntosh, I C McNicol, A K Nigam, The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, 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 Honorary Secretary A C Day Honorary Treasurer N St J Brooks FCA 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 / C G F Bourne Colet Boat Club P J King Fives (OPRFC) & Membership Secretary T B Peters Cricket Club B A Michels Elected S L Rooms Events Co-ordinator R J Smith Golfing Society D C Tristao Tennis Club Executive Committee Sir Nigel Thompson Chairman

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All the latest social events The OP Club’s Facebook page, which you can find by searching for ‘Old Pauline Club’ under Pages, has information about all the latest events. Search for ‘Old Pauline Club’ and request to join the Group.

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Events 2015/16 Pre-dinner drinks at Mercers' Hall after the Feast Service at St Paul's Cathedral

Careers Evening

On 1 October 2015 two Old Paulines returned to the School as part of a Careers Panel organised by two Paulines from the Upper Eighth. One of the organisers, U8th Pauline Rahil Patel said ‘this is the time that careers and universities were at the forefront of our minds. We thought it would be a good idea to invite Old Paulines and other speakers to enlighten us on their careers and share their experiences of their professions’. The speakers included: Tom Adeyoola (1990-95), Ilicco Elia (1984-89), Sir Harold Walker, Thomas Williams and Graham Seel (SPS Head of History).

The event itself began with a panel in the Wathen Hall where the speakers introduced themselves and their career paths. Following this each then hosted individual seminars, allowing the boys to hear more about their careers and ask questions. The format for the evening proved successful, with students getting a lot out of each personalised discussion. l Rahil Patel said that he would like to thank all the

speakers for giving up their evenings to come to talk to them.

Law Dinner

On 15 October 2016 around 120 Old Paulines, Parents and current pupils attended the biennial Law Dinner in the Samuel Pepys Theatre. The turnout for the event was the highest in recent years, and there was much lively discussion between pupils, OPs and parents about careers and university choices. The panel, chaired by Alex Wilson, Upper Eighth Undermaster, included David Joseph, QC (1974-78), Piers Pressdee, QC (1981-85), Toby Davis (2000-2005) and St Paul’s

Speaker Richard Thompson OBE (1973-77) at the Supper Evening in December

Governor Sarah Barker. Panel members spoke about their different career paths and their varying experiences, then gave advice to current boys on various topics including the struggle of a work-life balance as a practising lawyer. l Can you suggest our next law panellists or

suggest alternative event ideas? Get in touch on clj@ stpaulsschool.org.uk

Cambridge and Oxford University Dinners

The Cambridge and Oxford University Dinners took place this year on the 6 November at Emmanuel College and 13 November at Oriel College. Attendance for both dinners was at its highest for many years thanks to the support of James King and Aurélien Guéroult at Cambridge and Ashay Sodha and Dom Hopkins-Powel at Oxford (all 2008-13).

The speech at both dinners was given by the current Upper Eighth Undermaster, Alex Wilson who shared his advice with the guests about life after university. The Cambridge Dinner was described by one attendee as ‘the most enjoyable and best attended OP dinner I have been to during my time at Cambridge’. l These annual events take place every autumn, if you would like to be involved in their organisation or plan one at your university please contact clj@stpaulsschool.org.uk

11/11

At 11am on Wednesday 11 November, St Paul’s School fell silent to honour and remember those who gave their lives for their country.

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last year, and involves the whole School, with staff and pupils congregating in Founder’s Court. A reflective reading was offered by the Chaplain before a twominute silence was observed.

As the choir sang The Kontakion the processional party proceeded to the Cenotaph where they laid wreaths in memory of all Old Paulines who lost their lives in wartime. George Pedlow played The Last Post after which Ben Walker recited ‘Ypres’, a poem by Laurence Binyon (1869-1943). Col. Andrew Garrow (198893), one of the few Old Paulines currently on active service, laid the wreath for the Old Pauline Club.

Entrepreneurs Dinner On 12 November around 70 OPs, parents and pupils joined a panel of five Old Paulines who shared their experiences of their entrepreneurial lives and the trials and tribulations of start-ups. The panel included Paddy Griffith (198893), Founder of Work Club; Daniel Ross (1993-98) CrowdBnk and Chair of the OP Entrepreneurs Club and Simon Tesler (1974-1978), Co-founder of the influential fashion magazine BLITZ. The panel also included two young Old Paulines, George Burgess (2005-10), Founder of Gojimo, and Eamon Jubbawy (2005-2010), Co-Founder of Onfido who were both recently listed in the Forbes' 30 Under 30: technology. The panel was chaired by Nick Troen (1998-03), teacher at St Paul’s and Co-Founder of Poncho No.8, whose own experience of entrepreneurial life made him the perfect chair for this event.

The panel shared their successes (and occasional failure) and the lessons they had learnt since choosing to follow

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Cambridge Dinner, "most enjoyable… best attended."

Col. Andy Garrow (1988-93) (third left) salutes fallen Old Paulines at the Cenotaph

entrepreneurial paths. Guests stayed late into the evening networking during dinner and inspiring the current pupils. l To find out more about the OP Entrepreneurs Club,

contact Daniel Ross on dsjrltd@gmail.com

Whitting Lecture The Whitting Lecture was this year hosted

by Graham Seel, St Paul’s Head of History, who entertained guests with an illustrated talk about the artist Charles Sims and his controversial representation of King John.

Mr Seel packed out the Walker library with Old Paulines, pupils and staff for the lecture which celebrates the reputation of eminent history teacher, Philip Whitting, who was Head of History and taught at St Paul’s from 1929-63. l Could you suggest a speaker for the next Whitting

Lecture? Send names of Old Pauline historians to clj@stpaulsschool.org.uk

Supper Evening 56 OPs and partners attended the Supper Evening held in the School Atrium in December. Colets, the regular venue for the event was being refurbished.

The assembled took their seats around the Christmas tree to enjoy a magnificent Christmas feast of turkey, expertly carved by intrepid volunteers from each table, plus all the trimmings.

OP Club President Sir Nigel Thompson proposed a toast to the Pious and Immortal Memory of the School's founder John Colet before introducing the speaker, Richard Thompson OBE (1973-77) who had kindly stepped in with little notice.

Richard's talk drew from his thirty three years in government service where he had had extensive policy and

operational service in the security, intelligence and defence world. He had served with the Royal Green Jackets before being recruited into MI6. Later he had become a Chief Constable of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary before setting up his own consultancy business and becoming CEO of Facewatch, an online crime reporting system company.

Richard gave a comprehensive illustrated talk about the growth and influence of ISIS videos and messaging online, and our need for vigilance in the face of this sophisticated threat.

An extensive interview with Richard will be published in the October edition of The Pauline.

Feast Service and Reception Dinner 2016

There was a record-breaking attendance of OPs, their guests, parents and boys at the Feast Service at St Paul’s Cathedral on 1st February. 182 later attended the Reception Dinner at Mercers’ Hall.

At the Cathedral the combined school choirs of St Paul’s and Colet Court sang beautifully for the Evensong service under the direction of Mark Wilderspin.

Afterwards the congregation walked the short distance to Mercers’ Hall where they were were welcomed first by Timothy Haywood, Master of the Mercers’ Company, then Sir Nigel Thompson, President of the Old Pauline Club, who referenced the first ‘Feast of the Scholars’ at which OP Samuel Pepys had acted as steward in 1665.

Jane Ruddell, the Mercers’ archivist then gave a short talk on how John Colet had been instrumental in the establishment of the original Mercers’ Hall as well as founding St Paul’s School. Alex Aslett, St

Paul’s School librarian and archivist then thanked Old Paulines for their generous donation of an edition of The Players’ Shakespeare: The Tragedie of King Lear, printed in 1927 by Ernest Benn London, from the first folio of 1623, with illustrations

by Paul Nash (1900-04). Nash had joined the Artists Rifles in 1914 and later became an official war artist during WWII. Alex remarked that this seemed a highly appropriate acquisition for the School Library in this, the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s death.

There followed a splendid sit-down buffet supper in two of the oak-panelled upstairs rooms at Mercers’ Hall where all enjoyed a fine feast and an extremely convivial evening.

Finance Dinner

On 3 March 2016 around 80 Old Paulines, parents and pupils attended the biannual Finance Dinner at the School.

This years’ panel included Robert Rayner (1999-04), Associate, Saranac Partners, Philip Ehrmann (1972-77), Senior Managing Director, Manulife Asset Management, John Hepburn (former parent), Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley and Harry Hampson (1978-83), current parent and Managing Director, JP Morgan. The panel, hosted by Alex Wilson, Upper Eighth Undermaster, was flooded with questions from pupils about their careers and their advice on what path each of them should take.

Following the panel, guests retired to the atrium for a buffet supper where guests continued to make connections and share their advice with the pupils. l To hear more about Harry’s career path and life as

an alumnus and parent, see page 10.

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Reunions

Remarkable ‘Harbord Era’ High House Reunion in Brook Green

On Saturday 7 November a Reunion of High House boarders of the ‘Harbord Era’ of 1945-60 was held in the original building at 59 Brook Green, opposite St Paul’s Girls’ School. It was remarkably successful, both because of its ‘senior’ vintage and because several had travelled long distances to attend (Dallas, Belgium, Ireland, Cornwall, etc.).

Organised by Tim Cunis, Chris Marchant and Jeremy Denny, it had had a long gestation period, of over 5 years, since Tim knocked on the door of what is now École Française (for 200 primary school children) and was welcomed in by the Bursar. After lengthy negotiations, it was agreed that the Reunion could be held there. The next difficulty of listing and then contacting as many High House boarders of our era as possible having been overcome, it was astonishing to gather 30 former inmates there, together with Liza (Harbord) Tait and David Edsall (Assistant House Master), to explore our old dormitories, studies, etc.

A Reception in our Common Room was followed by an excellent buffet lunch in the basement’s (new) ‘Le Cantine’, after which all were persuaded to gather on Brook Green in front of High House for a group photo before returning for more beer & blather and tea and to examine the extensive display of photos, artefacts and memorabilia from our time there. Many illustrious names and initials were also discovered, scratched into brickwork and roofing leadwork, and all were the source of many happily exchanged recollections and repartee.

Two displayed House Boards of 1897 and 1945-46, listing our predecessors with their scholastic and sporting achievements, were particularly evocative as these had to be tediously copied out by miscreants as a Prefects’ punishment.

Chris Marchant (1951-56) is currently compiling an amazing book of collected photos and reminiscences of the Harbord Era. More contributions will be welcomed, if submitted quickly now, to: romseychris@me.com and rugby@tjdcunis.demon.co.uk

Tim Cunis (1955-60)

Reunion of the 1955 School 1st XV

On Saturday 12 December eight of the 11 surviving members of the St Paul’s 1st XV of 1955 met for a reunion luncheon at the School, hosted by OP Club Manager, Ceri Jones. After enjoying a wonderful lunch we watched the School play Felsted, who we also played against in 1955, beating them 22-9. On this occasion the School won 29-24.

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School XV joined us for tea. We chatted for quite a time with our interesting and attentive hosts. As one of our group remarked, it is sobering to think that, if our predecessors had done the same when we were in the XV, it would have been the 1895 team who would have been celebrating their 60th anniversary.

No doubt the conversation would have included the events in the First Boer War!!

Mike Whitton (1951-56)

25 Year Reunion The 25 year reunion will be on Saturday, 18 June 2016 at the School. If you would like to be added to the invitation list or require further information please contact Tristan Kitchener (tristan@kitchenerpartners.com.au) or Neville Illingworth-Law (nev1234567@gmail.com)

Those attending the 25th reunion 'rehearsal' last summer. Left to right: : Marc Davis, Joe Maudsley, Tim Savage, Neville Illingworth-Law, Henry Wells, Tristan Kitchener, Nick Jansa, Tom Ferguson, Andrew Moss, Ali Shafighian (Toby Feldman and Humphrey Serjeantson also attended but missed the photo).

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Branch events Athens Branch Pre-Christmas Drinks

An informal gathering of Athenian based Old Paulines and Paulinas took place on the evening of 1 December 2015. We met in Kolonaki at Mohnblumchen where we enjoyed fine Italian fare washed down with a carafe or two of red wine! A lovely time was had by all and old friendships and good times at School were remembered and new friendships were struck up.

Apologies were received from Christos Ioannou (1992-97), Nikkos Frangos (1980-84), Bill Mallinson (1965-70), Andreas Zombanakis (1971-76), Melanie Dalacouras (née Wenneker) (1990-97) and Anna Stamatiou (née Caroussis) (196774). An interest in attending future Athens meetings was also expressed by Alex Paseau (1988-93) in Oxford and Michael Asher (1954-59) in Istanbul and so we hope that next time we will be even more and even merrier!

Any Old Paulines visiting Athens are always welcome to contact the undersigned for any help or advice that I may offer or indeed to meet up for a drink!

It was fascinating to see so many people, divided by decades and experiences and separated by thousands of miles from London. Yet we all continue to treasure the Pauline tradition.

A huge thanks must go to Riki Shasha and Coral Navon (Goodman) (1962-69) respectively for hosting and organising the event. Let us hope it is not another five years until the next function.

Michael Horesh (1972-77) +972 523 448453 mshoresh@netvision.net.il

Sydney Dinner

New York Drinks, January 2016

Menelaos Pangalos menelaospangalos@hotmail.com

Left to right: Nick Comninos (1972-77), Calliope Caroussis (née Lemos) (1967-74), John Beloussis (1966-71), Merve Kosker (1993-98), Manes Pangalos (1980-85), Matthew Los (197984), Marie Caroussis (1967-72), Anthony Palios (1970-74) and Dimitris Tsalas (1973-78) and standing Menelaos Pangalos (1979-84), Isidore Caroussis (1996-01) and Electra Stamatopoulos (1999-05).

Israel Branch

It was a wonderful evening. Over 40 OPs, Old Paulinas and a few confused spouses gathered together at the Alexander Hotel in Tel Aviv for a get-together in late January.

We were honoured by three octogenarians, all of whom spoke for several minutes. I feel that a special mention must go to David Many (194850), who vividly described how fellow pupils were astonished to discover that he was an Egyptian Jew. On the ladies side, Anna Mittwoch, now in her 90s, regaled us with her stories as a teacher at the girls’ school.

Ten Old Paulines and Paulinas met for the fabulous buffet lunch at the University Club in New York on a balmy Tuesday in early March. With conversation ranging from the recent Telegraph article concerning independent school fees, the High Master’s comments on the same subject, Needs Blind Admission and, of much interest and wonderment, the state of US politics as exemplified by the Party of Abraham Lincoln’s candidates for President, it was a lively and convivial group.

As to future East Coast US events, there will be a ‘backyard barbecue’ and a ‘rooftop cabana cocktails’ in coming months as soon as the weather warms sufficiently; the next OP Club lunch was planned for early May, and we are working on the preliminary organisation of an OP Entrepreneurs’ Panel evening inspired by the same format recently held by the School in London. More details in the eNewsletter and OP Facebook and LinkedIn groups as dates are fixed.

On 5 November 2015 a group of Old Paulines and Paulinas met in Sydney at The Meat & Wine Co. They were hosted by Freddie Blencke (1986-91) who organised the event.

Guests had a very enjoyable evening discussing a range of topics including some adventure stories from the senior members, who came to Australia in the 1950s, either by boat via the Panama Canal, or by plane, which involved 13 stops on the way.

If you’re based in or are travelling to the Sydney and NSW area, please let us know and we’ll ensure you receive an invitation to the next event.

On 13 January 2016, Jamie Morris (195963) and his wife Betsy hosted a passel of Old Paulines, Paulinas and guests at their lovely Upper East Side New York City apartment for drinks and appetizers.

With a roaring fire, a brace of dachshunds and a small guest to enliven the proceedings, the conversation ranged between antique Morgan 4+4s, summers on Prince Edward Island, Anne of Green Gables, New York City co-op conversions, in addition to the usual reminiscences of life and old friends at St Paul’s and St Paul’s Girls’ Schools.

US West Coast There is a plan to put together a US West Coast OP branch in Los Angeles. If anyone is interested please email Rachel Marlowe at rmmarlowe@me.com

Wessex Branch

USA

New York Lunch

In March, 26 attended the Wessex Branch luncheon, hosted by David and Margaret Porteus, at The Langton Arms, in the beautiful Dorset village of Tarrant Monkton. After lunch there was an excellent talk, followed by discussion, from the OP Club President, Sir Nigel Thompson KCMG CBE (1952-55).

Left to right: Paulina Rose Wild, OPs David Bruder, Tom Johnson, Davitt Sigerson, Jamie Morris, Ed Pomeroy, Paulina Abi Greystoke-Snell, OPs Simon Strauss, Hooman Majd. Not pictured and present at lunch Matthew McGuinness.

l The next lunch will be on Tuesday 27 September at Minterne House and Gardens, Cerne Abbas near Blandford Forum. A guided tour of the House, (home of the Churchill and Digby families for 400 years), lunch and time to explore the beautiful gardens. Further details will appear in the eNews bulletin.

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Obituaries Name

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Sir Klaus H G F (Ken) Adam Colin E Ambrose Malcolm W Arthurton Robert E Baker Leonard Berney John Beveridge Nathaniel K (Nat) Billington Rahoul Biswas-Hawkes Godfrey H F Cake Derek Charman Francis C (Colin) Excell Andrew S Frankenburg (William) Bruce Gardner-Hopkins Martin Hankey David C Hebron Michael F Hellyar Christopher J (John) Hope Geoffrey M (Matthew) Hyde Lord Janner of Braunstone QC Geoffrey D Jones Bryan D Lask Frank W Lunau David S Mahany Peter A Mawer (Milan) Jeffrey Milout Anthony R D (Robin) Monro-Davies John E Monson John F Northridge John H Pain Klaus F Roth John H Seager James M Thorne Jasper Thorogood Assistant Director of Music Theodore M Van Beek Arthur H J Walker Peter J C Webster Martin L West Peter Westbury Edward J (John) Wilkinson John Wright

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obituaries are abridged for print publication. More comprehensive versions, if available, will be placed on the Old Pauline Club website at opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk/pages/obituaries * Indicates obituaries also appeared in the national

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Sir Klaus H G F (Ken) Adam (1936-37)* The Oscar and Bafta-winning film designer Sir Ken Adam died on 10 March aged 95.

His futuristic sets for seven Bond films, Dr Strangelove in particular, were to have a profound influence on architecture as well as the movie world.

Ken’s family escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s, setting up first in Edinburgh, then London. After St Paul’s Ken trained as an architect with the specific aim of becoming involved with film design. He gained a place at London University’s Bartlett School of Architecture in 1937, and joined CW Glover & Partners shortly before WWII. During the war he served in the Pioneer Corps before being accepted for RAF pilot training – one of a

handful of German-born pilots. Ken flew Typhoons in support of advancing Allied troops after D-Day. He had also been one of the first British officers into Belsen.

He began working on films in 1947, first as a draughtsman then as an Assistant Art Director. He worked for American film producer Albert Broccoli on The Trials of Oscar Wilde in 1960. Broccoli liked Ken’s futuristic style and picked him to design the first Bond movie, Dr No in 1962. His subsequent designs for Goldfinger (1964), Dr Strangelove (1964), and You Only Live Twice (1967) were to draw huge acclaim and made his name.

Notably he also designed the car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Ken later won Oscars for his work on Barry Lyndon (1975) and The Madness of King George (1994) and Baftas for Dr Strangelove and The Ipcress File (1965).

He received the Hollywood directors’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

He was appointed OBE in 1995 and knighted in 2003. He married MariaLetizia Moauro in 1952.

Nathaniel K (Nat) Billington (1984-89) Nat Billington died from lymphoma on 1 September 2015, aged 44. He was a clever and confident boy who became fascinated with computers at Colet Court, where he and I signed up to give weekly computer lessons to a teacher each. His interest carried on through St Paul’s, where with friends we built dial-up multi-user games. At Queens’ College, Cambridge he read Computer Science.

At university we started the company that would become Oyster Partners, one of the seminal digital agencies in London. As the Web became more about marketing, it began to leave Nat wanting for a sense of purpose. He was CTO of, and eventually ran, clinical pathways company Map of Medicine.

It changed attitudes and is driving quality and safety in healthcare across the world. Having sold it to Hearst, and spent some time observing corporate America from the inside, he left to form Synergy Energy with his great friend Steve Brooks. There he realised his ambition of a true portfolio career, managing Synergy’s investments, acting as an adviser and mentor to those businesses, and doing the same to help prisoners in his work with the Longford Trust. He also found time to create an ambitious new company, Product Health.

Nat became a great developer of people and an impressive leader. His wife Hannah and sons Phin and Jacob had a profound effect on him. All of his intellect, curiosity and focus remained, but added to them was even greater empathy and the wish to involve himself with others.

Lorenzo Wood (1984-89) (Lorenzo’s eulogy for Nat can be read at http://bit.ly/natbillington)

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Lt Col Leonard Berney (1933-37)*

Martin Hankey (1957-62)

Leonard Berney who has died aged 95 was born on 11 April 1920 in London, where his parents managed a couple of West End dress shops. After leaving St Paul’s, he joined the Territorial Army as a 2nd lieutenant. In 1939 he and his Anti-Aircraft Regiment were mobilised for military service and he took part in countering the Blitz and the V1 flying bomb attacks.

In August 1944 Leonard was in Normandy as the Staff Officer, AntiAircraft Defence, of XIII Corps of the British 21st Army. He was one of the first British Army officers to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 and he gave evidence at the war crimes trial of Kramer and 43 other SS guards. Last year, he published Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp, a harrowing account of his experiences.

Following his time at Belsen, Leonard was appointed Military Governor of Schleswig-Holstein. He was demobbed

Martin was born in Maidenhead on 12 March 1944: a son to Gus and Irene and a younger brother to Tim. At St Paul’s he was an outstanding scholar, deploying his aptitude for Classics, languages and friendship with his customary humour, vigour and aplomb. Passionate about rowing, too, he was stroke of the 2nd VIII in 1962. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, on an Exhibition in Classics. Martin also much enjoyed singing in the choir at St Paul’s, a madrigal group at Trinity and later in the Tonbridge Philharmonic. At Cambridge, he met and later married Gillian – a very bright classicist.

After Cambridge, Martin qualified as a solicitor in the leading City firm of Herbert Smith. Later he played a key role in setting up Handelsbanken and went on to become Head of Legal and Compliance for the investment side of the bank and was very happy there. He much enjoyed holidays abroad, where his French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish were much in evidence.

A Freeman of the City of London in 1990, he relished School reunions with his contemporaries including the St Paul’s Feast Service with Mercers’ suppers and Colet Boat Club dinners.

As his health rapidly deteriorated, he was thrilled to be able to watch on YouTube from his hospital bed all five days of Henley Royal Regatta last July culminating in the superb triumph of the 1st VIII in the Princess Elizabeth Cup. Martin was a devoted and adored husband to Gillian, father to Anna and Carrie and grandfather to Lucy, Thomas, Felix and Malika. He died on 28 July with his family around him, save Gillian who was too ill. His GP, Dr Peter Bench, told Anna and Carrie that Martin was undoubtedly the bravest man that he Adrian Barnes had ever met.

at the end of 1946 in the rank of LieutenantColonel.

After the war, Leonard moved to Plymouth to run the Berkertex factory, then the largest clothing factory in Britain, where he built up a large workforce. In 1960 he moved back to London as Managing Director of the company and in 1962 became the Managing Director of Rembrandt, another clothing company.

After his retirement, Leonard was regularly asked to deliver lectures on the liberation of Belsen, and to take part in documentaries on the Holocaust. He spent the last six years of his life living and travelling the globe on board the luxury residential ship, The World.

In 1951 Leonard married Patricia Purser, but the marriage was later dissolved. She survives him with two sons, Steve and John and three grandchildren: Zach, Chantal and Harry.

Another son, Nick, predeceased him.

Francis C (Colin) Excell (1958-62) Francis Colin Excell was born 8 August 1944 to Stanley and Phyllis Excell.

His family lived in Observatory Road, East Sheen. After attending Tower House, he went on to St Paul’s.

He was in the choir of Christ Church, East Sheen and later at St Paul’s. Colin was very practical and inquisitive; at four he watched a workman ‘wood graining’ (the practice of imitating wood grain on a non-wood surface) and fifteen years later used the technique at his father’s house in Worthing. As a member of St Paul’s Scouts, Troop 3, he helped at ‘Agoonerees’, supporting disabled scouts while camping.

Colin took up rowing at School and became a cox. He coxed Barn Cottage and was awarded his national colours.

He was involved with Expo68 raising money for Sussex Churches. Colin produced sound and lighting effects for various amateur theatrical societies and he performed four son-et-lumières at Chailey Heritage, Cuckfield Park, Sompting St Mary’s and St Mary’s, Goring. Stress in the late 1970s meant he was not working when he met his wife Judy Warren. They were married at Sompting St Mary’s in 1981.

When he was again fit enough for work, he immediately obtained a job as a cleaner, later becoming a team supervisor. He was highly regarded at the agency that employed him. Colin joined Neighbourhood Watch and in 2000 was a member of the local Search Team.

He was called out on several searches up until 2010. He was Chairman of the Sussex Family History Group from 20082015 and helped with the establishment of The Keep, which houses local record office material. Colin died on 7 September 2015 of a heart attack.

Judy Excell

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Obituaries Michael F Hellyar (1952-56)

Christopher J (John) Hope (1951-56) Christopher graduated from LSE with a BSc (Econ) and went on to qualify as a Chartered Accountant. He worked as a Senior Manager for ten years with Price Waterhouse in Trinidad, Geneva and Paris, before returning to London and working as European Regional Audit manager for Occidental Oil, European Regional Audit

Manager for Marine Midland Bank and Finance Director for Merrill Lynch.

Having a film producer for an uncle, his interests included cinema. In later life he built an extensive classical music collection.

He is survived by his wife Margaret and his two Old Pauline sons, Julian (1976-80) and Christopher (1979-83).

Geoffrey M (Matthew) Hyde (1960-65)

Michael Francis Hellyar was born on the 11 January 1939. He was a pupil at Colet Court before attending St Pauls.

Michael worked as an Articled Clerk, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1962. He enjoyed a successful career working for Ernst & Young at their London office along with spells in The Hague and Leeds. A move to commerce took him to Hampshire before he returned to London to conclude his career as Finance Director at The Royal Society of Medicine. He retired to Devon in 1999.

Although officially retired, Mike would fill his days with part-time accountancy work as company secretary for the Journal of Laryngology and Otology and preparing the farm accounts for his wife’s sister and brother-in-law.

In the Autumn of 2008, Mike was diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Despite this Mike was generally in good health enjoying a daily walk with his two dogs. In August 2010 he was taken ill towards the end of a cruise.

Following surgery in Sweden he returned to the UK and over the next few months gradually recuperated. Sadly Mike suffered a stroke in December 2010 and his health continued to deteriorate over the next few years. He passed away on the 17 November 2014.

Mikes leaves his wife Jane, son Andrew, daughter Sue and grandchildren, Ellie, George, Max, Charlotte, Beth, Maddie and Isabel.

Jane Hellyar and Susan Harvey (Michael’s daughter)

Matthew Hyde, writer and architectural historian, died of a stroke on 18 September 2015 aged 68.

Matthew was author of several revised ‘Pevsner’ Buildings of England architectural guides. Architecture and music were his lasting interests; he was a church organist and a valued singer in numerous choirs.

Matthew was born in London, son of John Hyde who worked in the Foreign Office, and the novelist Lavender Lloyd.

He spent his early years in Kenya where his grandparents had bought Karen House, the former home of Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa. Returning to England in 1956, he attended St Paul’s. While studying General Science at the University of Bristol, he met Maria; the two married in 1968. Soon after they moved to

Macclesfield and Matthew found work teaching rural studies and biology.

In 1992 Matthew completed an MA in architectural history at Keele University.

He lectured and taught part time in Manchester museums and galleries, and wrote or co-wrote books on local history and architecture including The Villas of Alderley Edge (1999), Lindow and the Bog Warriors (2002) and Around The M60: Manchester’s Orbital Motorway (2004).

For Yale University Press’ revised ‘Pevsner’ architectural guides, Matthew is joint author of Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (2004) and Cheshire (2011); and author of Cumbria (2010).

Arts and Crafts Houses in the Lake District (2014) with Esme Whittaker and Val Corbett won the Bookends Prize for Arts and Literature at the Lakeland Book of the Year Awards 2015. His last book Britain’s Lost Churches (2015) was published posthumously.

He leaves his wife Maria, three children Joseph, Lily and Alice, and two Lily Hyde grandchildren.

Bryan D Lask (Prof) (1954-60)* Bryan Lask, child and adolescent psychiatrist, died aged 74 on 24 October 2015 after a long illness.

He continued to work, teach, write and research until six months before his death. From his earliest days as a consultant child psychiatrist, Bryan had shown an unusual ability to bring scientific rigour to his subject while retaining genuine enthusiasm for finding

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ways of treating illness. He was a pioneer child and adolescent psychiatrist with an international reputation for his work on eating disorders, especially those occurring in children and adolescents.

After many years treating the families and psychological states of these patients, he turned his attention to the possibility that there might be a brain-based explanation for these. It had previously been assumed that the causes of anorexia nervosa lay entirely in the personalities and upbringing of those suffering from this disorder. Inevitably parents were made to feel guilty at the thought they might have been responsible

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Peter A Mawer (1955-58)

Anthony R D (Robin) Monro-Davies (1954-58)*

Peter Alexander Mawer was born in Putney on the 19 April 1941 and lived there for most of his life. He attended Willington and in later years became a governor there. After three years at St Paul’s, he went to the College of Estate Management in Kensington to qualify as a Chartered Auctioneer and subsequently as a Chartered Surveyor. He then worked in central London but when his father died in 1980, he took over his Estate Agency practice in Putney.

Peter rowed at School, later joining Vesta Rowing Club in 1959 on Putney Embankment. He subsequently became a Life Vice President. For some years he was an official at the annual Head of the River regatta.

Peter married Lesley and whilst Peter had no children, Lesley had a son and daughter and grandchildren who brought love and laughter into his life and home.

Peter’s great interests were in music, particularly Jazz and the Arts and he was an authority on theatre, ballet and films.

He had a wide circle of friends including a number from School. He enjoyed his life and walked the towpath from his home most days, as well as practising Pilates and yoga.

He was diagnosed with lymphoma last July and after several months of painful treatment; he died peacefully earlier this year.

He will be sadly missed by Lesley, his stepchildren and his many friends.

Anthony Robin Dominic MonroDavies (known as Robin) died on 15 September 2015.

He went to St Paul’s from Colet Court where he had been Head Boy. After the death of his parents he boarded at High House under Philip McGuinness. He was a 1st XI cricketer, through which he struck up a lifelong friendship with the then newly arrived teacher, Alastair Mackenzie.

Initially, he chose a career in the Royal Navy via Dartmouth, which awarded him a scholarship for his final two years at St Paul’s. He served on HMS Ark Royal, which took him to the Far East. He subsequently trained as a fighter pilot and served for the next ten years in the Navy before embarking on a new career.

He applied to the Sloan School at MIT to do a MSc. Following graduation he

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for their children’s disorders.

Bryan was able to demonstrate changes in regional blood flow in the brains of girls with eating disorders and developed a neurobiological theory focusing on the insula, a deep-lying structure in the brain, as central to the development of these conditions. These studies were brought together in a book entitled Eating Disorders and the Brain. More than anything else, he aimed to reduce the stigma and blame associated with eating disorders by highlighting that they were not a choice but an affliction for those affected.

Phillip Graham (a colleague)

became a stockbroker in New York and shortly after returned to London to join the newly established company Fox-Pitt, Kelton quickly becoming a partner of the firm. In 1978 with a handful of people in a couple of rooms he set up IBCA, a ratings agency, with the dream of creating a European alternative to the American giants Moody’s and Standard & Poor.

Under his indefatigable drive and single-minded leadership, IBCA became an astonishing success. In time it merged with Fitch, growing into a multinational business and the third significant ratings company in the world.

He married Anne in 1969. His son Benedict (1984-89) followed him to St Paul’s and his daughter Sophie to St Paul’s Girls’ School. Currently four of his grandsons attend Colet Court and St Paul’s.

He had a successful career and was a gifted and highly amusing public speaker.

He is greatly missed as a husband, father and hugely indulgent grandfather and by his many friends.

Anne Monro-Davies

John F Northridge (1946-49) John was born 20 May 1932 in Ealing, West London. With the loss of his father at age 4 and whilst no doubt still grieving, he was placed into a boarding school at the same tender age. Life must have been tough.

At St Paul’s John discovered the sport of rowing which proved to be an enduring passion and pastime throughout his entire life. There is a wonderful obituary to him on the Bewl Bridge RC website (www. bewlrowingclub.co.uk/) that elaborates on his many achievements. His friends from London RC (www.londonrc.org. uk/) have published an obituary that elaborates on his achievements as a young man in the 1950s. Across the two obituaries you will all get a much fuller picture of John’s rowing career as an Elite and Veteran Oarsman.

Post National Service, John worked in refrigeration before moving into Financial Services. He specialised in the Life Assurance business, passing CII exams and had a long and successful career with the Phoenix. His next role, fronting Phoenix’s International business was also a good period in his career, flitting between London and Guernsey managing the offshore business.

On taking early retirement, John taught for a while at the CII in Sevenoaks and West Kent College in Tonbridge. And of course he spent a good deal of his spare time in a rowing boat.

John loved his music, and music of all sorts, Classical, Jazz, and even some of ‘that modern stuff!’ In retirement, John took up the trombone, played in a local band, including performing in a few concerts.

John’s last few years, like his first, were tough, with prostate cancer, onset dementia and diabetes, but he handled everything with quiet dignity.

John died on 19 May 2015 and is survived by his wife of 58 years Sylvia, son Simon and grandson Richard.

Simon Northridge

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Obituaries John E Monson (1940-44)

John Edward Monson didn’t quite make it to his 90th birthday, but as with everything else he did, he gave it the best that he could. Born in June 1926, he spent his

early life between London and the North Yorks Moors. He started school at Colet Court and while at St Paul’s was evacuated to Crowthorne.

He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and after a spell of teaching at Sandhurst he trained as an Architect and joined the family firm ECP Monson, the Borough Architects for Islington. He married Margaret in 1951 and they started a family soon afterwards.

In the last 30 years of his life, after Margaret’s sudden death, travel became an increasingly popular aspect of his life and he was proud to consider that he had visited

every continent at least once, except for Antartica. Deserts were of special interest to him, despite having a near death experience in the Atacama in Peru, due to altitude sickness. Many of his stories came from this period, as well as from earlier sailing trips.

John’s hobbies included sailing, travelling, Morris dancing and country dancing, all of which he continued to enjoy up to the last. He sailed across the Channel in 2015 and was getting ready to go Morris dancing when he died.

John is survived by four children and four grandchildren.

Anthony Monson

John Hawhurst Pain died aged 87 at home in Sydney, surrounded by his family.

He attended St Paul’s during WWII and recalled General Montgomery at Prize Giving. One enduring school friend was the actor and playwright Richard Huggett.

Soon after the war, John’s extended family emigrated to Africa and he studied Roman Dutch law at Natal University. He married Shelley Eunice Dixon and had three sons, Ralph, Charles and Jonathan.

Shelley died in 1964, having become ill on holiday in England. The boys were aged 7, 5 and 3. John immediately returned to South Africa to escape what he deemed to be the undermining influence of the welfare state. In the same year he married Colleen Henderson. By then, African students were being refused entry to universities. John could not work in

such an environment and in 1965 he and his family caught the ship back to England.

He returned to Africa in 1968 where, as Professor of Law at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, and later at the University of Bophuthatswana, he taught a generation of African lawyers.

In retirement he published Sin and Status in which he exposes double standards in the treatment of white and blue-collar crime.

A devoted father and grandfather, John was active in the lives of his eight grandchildren as they grew up together in Sydney, up to his final weeks. After a life lived on principle, his legacy is the generation of legal minds who have made their contribution in southern Africa, and his family.

John was born in Chiswick, later moving to Ealing with his brother Andrew. After Colet Court and St Paul’s he studied Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at University College at Southampton for two years. At both school and university he was a keen rower and was Captain of Boats at his college.

During the war John was in the Royal Navy, first at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, then until 1949 at Cochin in India, working on the electrics of landing craft. Back home he went up to Metropolitan Vickers at Manchester to catch up with the practical work that he had missed so much during the war.

In 1954 John married Mary Griffin.

He first worked at Smith’s Industries on Automatic Transmission for Industrial use, and from 1954-70 with the Sierra Leone Company transporting equipment. John joined the Civil Service, first working on plans for the Channel Tunnel and then becoming a Railway Inspector and a Chief Railway Inspector before his retirement in 1989.

John served on the Parkleys Residents Society Committee and helped at church as a Guardian at weekends. We enjoyed sailing cruising yachts for 35 years and caravanning and travelling for 25 years; a happy and friendly life. He was a wonderful companion.

John H Pain (1943-46)

Ralph, Charles and Jonathan

John H Seager (1936-41)

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Mary Seager

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Martin L West (1951-55)* Martin Litchfield West, widely regarded as the greatest modern scholar of ancient Greek poetry, died suddenly aged 77 on 13 July 2015. Over a career of fifty years he published 500 articles and almost 40 books. The main focus of his research was Greek epic and lyric poetry, and his editions of Homer, Hesiod and other basic texts are likely to remain standard. He also wrote the standard work on ancient Greek music. But perhaps his most remarkable achievement was his lifelong attempt to trace the connections between Greek literature and the literature of the Near East, an interest that culminated in his East Face of Helicon (1997) and Indo-European Poetry and Myth (2007).

At St Paul’s, in Martin’s own words “a legendary pair of teachers, W. W. Cruickshank and E. P. C. Cotter, concentrated on instilling in us a sense of Greek and Latin grammar and style.” Yet

Edward J (John) Wilkinson (1961-66) Edward John Wilkinson who died on 11 October 2014, was a charming, intelligent, highly competent and compassionate man. He had a highly successful finance career in the NHS having qualified as a chartered accountant. He was part of many major developments within NHS finances using his intellect and strategic bandwidth to scope out new approaches to existing and emerging structures and services.

He had a fabulous sense of humour and was amazingly modest. He inspired great loyalty and treated all those he worked with in a respectful and supportive manner. He had friends aplenty who valued his integrity, his sense of fun and loyal camaraderie.

He remembered fondly his years at St Paul’s and felt that they gave him both a sound academic grounding and an aspiration to achieve and contribute to the world positively, both of which he achieved in spades. He will be greatly missed.

Mrs Peta Wilkinson

Martin’s first love was astronomy, and at Colet Court he founded an astronomical society, with a monthly journal, Starry Nights, which ran from 1948 to 1952, all handwritten and illustrated by Martin.

After an Oxford fellowship and a Chair in London, Martin ended up as a Fellow of All Soul’s. He was elected a Fellow of

the British Academy at the extraordinarily early age of 35, awarded the Balzan Prize in 2000 and the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies by the British Academy in 2002. In 2014 he was appointed to the Order of Merit, only the second Pauline to receive this outstanding honour.

Alan Cameron (1951-56)

John Wright (1951-54)

John found his time at St Paul’s very fulfilling. He was a member of the Christian Union and played in the orchestra as a flautist. He also sang in the choir. Singing was to become his lifelong, joyful pastime.

Starting in the South British Insurance Company, John worked for different organisations as mergers and takeovers took place. His skills in the technical aspects of insurance saw him rise from manager to Associate Director for Bain Hogg with responsibilities for cranes, quarries and visiting mines in Wales. John

was a member of the Chartered Institute of Insurance from 1957-96. He completed his Associateship in 1964. With career advancement, he became a Chartered Insurance Institute Practitioner and in 1988 -89 the Careers Officer at the Insurance Institute of Canterbury and East Kent.

Retirement allowed him to develop his enjoyment of trekking, which had begun in his 20s, with the highlight of a Sherpaled trek in Nepal. Already a member of the church choirs in Bromley and Sidcup, John extended his passion for singing by joining the Rochester Choral Society, performing the great choral works, such as the Messiah, in the cathedral – a culmination of over 60 years of singing.

John also sang with groups raising money for charity and to entertain older folk .

His love of animals was very important – his home was never without a dog. He would be out daily exercising his dog, walking the paths around his home and in the nearby countryside.

John died five days before his 78th birthday. He is sadly missed by his wife Yvonne, his children Jonathan, Rebecca and Naomi and his grandchildren Jacob, Miles, Chloe, Eva, James, Hannah and Emma.

David Prichard (1950-54), lifelong friend

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Sport OPFC

A Challenging Year on the Field

Main picture: The OPFC home pitch at Colets.

Superb work by Groundsman Graham Godfrey ensured no fixtures were lost to the weather this season.

Inset: the Cup-winning OPFC touring side in Sicily.

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his year followed in last year’s footsteps: increasing numbers of dads and international career jetsetters, coupled with the Rugby World Cup, meant playing rugby at the weekend had to compete with many other priorities.

As a result, it was another challenging year on the field, although there were plenty of positives in that we welcomed some fantastic new players to the Club and there was a real sense of club spirit – a number of people played across all four teams in the Club and in particular a number stepped up to play for the 1XV. This will stand us in great stead for next season.

Off the field there has been a great deal of activity, driven by the Executive and General Committees and supported by the Old Pauline Football Club members.

A comprehensive plan has been put in place to improve recruitment efforts,

The inaugural Friends & Family Day was a huge success …… identifying groups of potential players and specific ways to target each group. We’ve improved links with SPS, Rob Rayner and Ben Palairet recently presenting to the current crop of rugby playing boys at SPS. We’ve also been working closely with the Old Pauline Club to communicate with recent (and not so recent!) graduates who might be interested in lacing up their boots. As always, we welcome all OP rugby players to come down to Thames Ditton to see what is on offer. Please contact membership secretary David Richard if you are interested in playing (at any level):

membership@opfc.org.uk Efforts to retain players have also been improved; we now offer hot meals post match to all players, not just the opposition, and we offer a crèche to look after the little ones. The social side has also been reinvigorated, with the popular Ladies' Day now relaunched as the Friends & Family Day to reflect the ever-changing demographic of our supporters! The inaugural Friends & Family Day was a huge success, with almost 100 people coming down to Colets at Thames Ditton, enjoying a good catchup over finger sandwiches, cupcakes, Prosecco and (Champagne) rugby.

Following a hugely successful tour to the sunny climes of Sicily in 2015, 40 of us are soon heading for the Emerald Isle, to Dublin, over the May Bank Holiday. In Sicily we took part in the first ever Sicily International Rugby Cup which included four teams: our hosts The Syrako Rugby Club, their local rivals Misterbianco Rugby, Hoplite Sigonella Rugby Club (the rugby club belonging to the locally stationed American Marines) and the OPFC. We won the Cup in a bruising floodlit finale and enjoyed superb Italian hospitality, long into the warm summer evening. As always it was a highlight of the season and a brilliant way to build relationships between players from across teams throughout OPFC. 2017 brings a “Global” tour in our tour cycle after European and British tours – watch this space!

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The 1XV has perhaps suffered most from the loss of key players and found it a challenge to get a consistent XV week in week out, although the squad still maintains a number of OP players from statesmen such as Stuart Kerrigan, Tim Radcliffe, Ben Jarman and Jake Coleman.

This season we have been delighted to welcome some new Old Pauline faces to the 1st XV squad in Tom Roberts and Binya Even. Rob Rayner, in his third season as captain, has led from the front throughout and despite the results the 1st XV have enjoyed their rugby this season.

A number of matches were very close (five were lost by less than a try), and victory against Kingston in February was a sweet moment which was well deserved.

All Club teams have performed valiantly in their league competitions. The 2nd XV (Surrey Conference 1) and 3rd XV (Surrey Combination 2) finished 9th and 7th respectively, the 2nd XV in particular lending a number of players to the 1st XV. The B (Vets) XV finished 7th (top half) in an extremely competitive league that featured Vets sides from London Irish, Harlequins & Richmond.

As in past years, we hope to enter a team in the Cronk-Cunis National Under-21 Rugby Festival taking place on 29 August (Bank Holiday Monday). Given the strong pool of OP student talent out there, we hope to encourage more young OPs to get involved and enjoy what is now the largest one-day rugby festival in the country. If

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you are interested, please contact John Howard at johnahoward58@gmail.com In the last playing weekend of 2015 we were delighted to host the now regular fixture between a St Paul’s School ‘Leavers XV’ and a team from the ‘Class of 2015,’ this year put together by James O’Byrne and Blake Fontaine. On a warm December morning at Thames Ditton, the crowd was treated to an exciting game of running rugby which ended 40-14 in the School’s favour. It was great to see a number of parents and OPs in attendance and we look forward to hosting the 2016 fixture.

We would like to thank Glenn Harrison and James Blurton at the School for continuing to support this match.

As ever, groundsman Graham Godfrey also deserves our thanks again this year for keeping the pitches in such good condition – we did not lose one fixture this season on account of the weather. Our facilities continue to be the envy of visiting clubs and our thanks to Colets for their continued support throughout the season.

Thanks also to the Officers of the Day for their support – come rain or shine!

Please note that pre-season training will commence in early July at the School – for more details please keep an eye on the website www.opfc.org.uk. Thanks again

Pre-season training will commence in early July at the School …… to the School for allowing the Club to use the pitches pre-season and extending us the use of the sports hall during the harsh winter. The new floodlights have now been installed to help improve (brighten up!) darker evening training sessions. We are introducing some exciting training ideas next season which we look forward to reporting back on this time next year.

We would also like to extend our thanks to John Barrett, who has stepped up to take on the responsibilities of Matin Macdonald whose career has taken him to Dublin (we’ll see you on tour Matin!), the Executive and General Committees. It has been another challenging season but a lot of hard work has gone behind the scenes in to improve the OPFC and we look forward to these bearing fruit next season. We would also like to commend the individual team captains: a huge thank you for your continued efforts to pull sides together week in week out, making sure we get to play rugby with our mates and with a smile on our faces every Saturday.

Contact: membership@opfc.org.uk

OLD PAULINE GOLFING SOCIETY April wind, rain and hail at the outset of the Halford Hewitt Cup match at the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal

A blustery day at Deal

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n October 2015, we repeated our two-night stay at the Dorset Golf & Country Club, which was greatly enjoyed by the Members who played.

Twenty four members attended our half day winter Meeting at West Hill in November. John East had the best score with 35 points on a countback to win the Pat Humphreys Salver. Nick Downing had the best gross score on the day to win the Downing Salver and Neil Fitch won the Kayton Cup for the best score from a player 70 years old and over. The golf was followed by the usual excellent lunch!

Our AGM & Dinner were held at the Royal Mid Surrey Golf Club with 16 Members present, with 18 Members sending in apologies. Toby Bain was elected as Captain for 2016 with Ian Starr as Vice-Captain. We were joined for Dinner by Hannah Mervis (Master ic Golf), and Tom Eterovic (SPS V-Capt Golf) & Max Groeller (SPS Sec Golf).

After dinner the outgoing Captain, John Woodcock, made an entertaining speech and presented Chris Vallender with the Jubilee Salver for the best aggregate points score in our Spring, Summer & Autumn Meetings and Toby Bain with the Cunis Claret Jug for the best aggregate points score in the Spring & Autumn Meetings. The final of the Bewshar Bowl for the knockout competition has still not been played due to the bad weather!

In our friendly matches for the rest of 2015, we had wins against Old Amplefordians and Old Cholmeleians.

Having played our Spring Meeting

at The Richmond Golf Club for the last ten years, we have decided to make a change and this year it will be played at Betchworth Park Golf Club near Dorking. Our Summer Meeting will be at Hayling as usual, the Autumn Meeting and Captain’s Day will be played at Walton Heath and our Winter Meeting will be at West Hill. Together with our eleven matches, we have a very active year ahead of us!

“In our first match of 2016, we had a win against The School at Royal Mid Surrey Golf Club. In the Halford Hewitt

with eleven matches, we have a very active year ahead of us!…… at The Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club at Deal, in spite of several regular players being unavailable, the team had a very close game against Westminster, with two matches being decided on the 18th hole, before losing 1½ - 3½. Nick Cardoza and his team of Charlie Prior, Hugh Roberts, Ben Rowan, Max Rose, Robbie Parker, Chris Cullen, Luke Mordecai, Tom Chase and Charles Miller, did very well in a typical April day of wind, rain and hail! We welcome Tom Chase in his first Hewitt.” l We would welcome new members and details of our activities can be obtained from Neil Fitch on 02392 715232 or n.fitch@ntlworld.com

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Sport OPAFC

A Bright Future SPS 1st XI / 2nd XI vs OPAFC

Back in February, the Old Pauline 1st XI welcomed a combined SPS 1st and 2nd XI to Thames Ditton for the annual school fixture. In a bright and open first half both teams had numerous chances, but somehow the game remained goalless.

Recent Paulines Alex and Jasper Harlington and Zach Sosah linked up well for OPAFC and tested the outstanding Kemlo Rose into making some stunning saves.

At the other end, the pacey front trio of George Pedlow, Rajan Soni and Alex Grigg regularly posed problems on the counter attack and with some better finishing could well have gone into half time in the lead.

The pace of the second half settled down somewhat as the pitch cut up, but both sides continued to create chances. James Sharrock and Will Cole maintained a quick tempo in the middle of the park for SPS and continued to unleash man of the match Pedlow, but an opening goal remained elusive. Max Gordon Brown and Andy Robertson also had good chances for the OPs but a deflected effort from Matt Bittlestone ultimately broke the deadlock and the hearts (on Valentine’s Day no less) of the excellent SPS side. The game finished 1-0 to OPAFC 1st XI, but both teams put on an excellent show on the hallowed Colet’s turf.

SPS Select XI vs OPAFC Select XI

On a rainy Saturday morning in February you’d be hard pushed to find anyone who fancied an early kick-off after a tough first five weeks of the Spring term. But Paulines, both current and old, turned out in their droves to participate in the second OP vs School fixture held on the vastly improved surface of Pitch 4 on Bigside. With the ever-committed Mr Schmitt managing the school side, murmurs had been rife about the tactical domination that the OPs were about to be subjected to.

And so it appeared to be, at least at the start of the match as the student side initially ran rings around their more senior counterparts. But it was the OPs who opened the scoring and soon managed a three goal advantage despite being pegged back by an Olly Tapper score. When Tapper pulled back a second, the fans were treated to a thrilling final 10 but centre back Dan Khan sealed the game for the OPs with a ruthless last minute strike. Final score, 4-2 to the OPs but special mention to outstanding players from the student side, Ben Wiggins, Olly Tapper, Luke ‘Angriest Defender’ Cullen and Elliott Wallis.

Whatever the outcome there is a bright

OPAFC 1ST XI

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future for the OPAFC with much talent on display right through the top senior teams at SPS.

OPAFC Pre-Season Tour 2016

This July, 20 Old Paulines will be setting out on this year’s OPAFC tour to Copenhagen. With such a strong squad (at least numerically speaking) it is sure to be at least as successful as the previous summer’s visit to Berlin. With places on the tour full this time around, be sure to sign up early to the 2017 tour to Miami well in advance to avoid disappointment.

OPAFC Round-up

The four OPAFC teams are approaching the business end of the season, with the 1st XI looking to maintain their status in Senior One and the 2nd XI seeking to secure their position in Division 1 South.

The 3rd XI are still on track to land the Division 2 South title, whilst the 4th XI have successfully secured promotion to Division 7 South. l More details about OPAFC can be found

on the new Old Pauline Club webpage and as ever, if you’re keen to get involved then please contact Nick Troen at nicholas.troen@gmail.com

opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk l 020 8746 5390

COLET BOAT CLUB 2015

Springing Back to Life

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fter a few years of relative inactivity, Colet Boat Club sprang back into life in March last year with two crews entering the Head of the River Race (HORR) on the Thames. The 16 rowers covered a broad span of SPS alumni with leavers from 1978 and 2014 rowing alongside each other. Despite only coming together on the day of the race, the crews coped well with the challenging tideway conditions and came a respectable 134th and 185th.

Buoyed by the success of HORR, it was decided that Colet should enter a boat for the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. The campaign was spearheaded

by Old Paulines Charlie Bourne (1993-98), who is also a rowing coach at St Paul’s, and Leonardo Buizza (2008-13). After receiving 2 km ergo times from several ex-SPS rowers a crew of: Misha Wilcockson (2008-13), Thomas Hilton (2005-10), George Hilton

The crew blew away some cobwebs at Marlow Regatta (2000-05), Max Robinson (2008-13), Leonardo Buizza, George Horrell (200914), Ben Bradshaw (2008-13), and Max Campbell (2005-10) with Sue Cole coxing was selected to represent the Club. The crew blew away some cobwebs at Marlow Regatta before embarking upon a week of intensive training at St Paul’s boathouse, during which time several current coaches at the school kindly helped to coach the boat.

The victorious Colet crew with silverware at the Alleynian Regatta

The crew arrived at Henley qualifiers with the tough task of needing to be one of the 13 fastest crews out of the 29 attempting to qualify. Unfortunately on this occasion the crew fell just short of the aim.

Nevertheless, it was a huge achievement just to have a competitive crew racing at qualifiers again, and this will no doubt serve as a great motivation for this season’s Henley campaign.

In early September nine Old Paulines, with leaving dates ranging from 2012 to 2015, congregated at Putney Embankment to compete in the annual Alleynian Regatta – a series of 500 metre rowing races hosted by Dulwich College for alumni boat clubs. After beating the hosts Dulwich in the first round, the crew faced Elizabethan Boat Club (Westminster Old Boys) in the final who had won four of the last six Alleynian Regattas. A strong start

Colet coming under Putney Bridge one length up against Westminster old boys in the Alleynian Regatta final

from Colet enabled the crew to establish a one length lead at the half way mark over the favourites which, despite severely tiring legs, was maintained until the finish thus granting Colet their first silverware for several years.

The final appearance for Colet in 2015 came in December at the Fairbairn Cup race in Cambridge. A crew of Giovanni Bergamo-Andreas (2013), Charlie Cummins (2013), James King (2013), and Alex Dawson (2013), with a guest cox from Cantabrigian Rowing Club, jumped in a boat together for the first time on the row to the race start. To the crew’s great surprise they came second in the invitational category, only five seconds behind the winners who had several recent Cambridge University Boat Club trialists on board. This concluded a great season for the Club, one which would not have been possible without the hard work and patience of Charlie Bourne.

The 2016 season got underway recently when Colet again entered two crews for HORR. Although the second crew unfortunately slipped back a few places to 191st, our first boat, with a few leavers from the School’s Henley-winning 1st VIII of 2015 on board, had a great race finishing 116th out of 335. The Club will hopefully next be in action at Henley qualifiers in June; information on how to get involved in this campaign will be sent out soon. If you are interested in racing for Colet Boat Club in the future, or would like to keep up to date with Old Pauline rowing related events, please get in touch with James King (jking7318@gmail.com) or Leonardo Buizza (leonardo.buizza@btinternet.com).

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Sport

A high five for new captain Chris Berke tt and new deputy skipper Joe Harris

OPCC 2016 Preview

A Rise in Fortunes

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s OPCC gears itself up for season four in the Surrey Championship, it’s important we look to build on our successes last year. Having battled to stay clear of relegation in our first two years, last year we found ourselves in top position half way through the season.

Unfortunately the pressure got a bit too much and our batting in particular, which had been so reliable early on in the season, failed to string together those match winning partnerships.

Last year saw the emergence of several new club players who, by the end of the season, had become integral to the skipper’s plans. Saumit Gorani and Upneet Aurora were very consistent throughout, and shared 33 wickets during the season. Other new recruits from last year, including Jamie Bomford and Ollie Ratnatunga, put in match winning performances and we hope that some offseason recruiting will continue to take the club forward.

Of note is a changing of the guard. Alex Duncan, after 11 outstanding years at the

top, has decided to focus solely on churning out centuries this year, and will be replaced by Chris Berkett, who was his deputy last year. Alex’s leadership has been an inspiration in gaining promotion and claiming a Fullers League Cup, and we all owe him a huge amount for getting the Club to where it is now. Chris’ first decision as 1st XI Captain was to name Joe Harris as his deputy, and together they look forward to continue taking the Club to bigger and better things.

The indefatigable James Grant continues as 2nd XI skipper and he’ll be hoping his troops can make the most of a lucky escape last year and put in a solid performance (and who knows, hopefully push for promotion), in the Fullers League Div 1. OPCC 2nd XI finished 9th overall, but improvement in availabilities should see a steep rise in fortunes.

Jamie Lyons continues to run an enjoyable and fun Sunday XI for those looking for some extra middle time or a

OP RUGBY FIVES

Continued Success As another enjoyable season comes to a close the Club can reflect on continued success and an ever-growing player base.

The Club is however always keen to welcome players back onto court – do feel free to get in contact via our website oprugbyfives. wordpress.com and join us for a knockabout on Thursday evening club nights.

The season started as ever with our internal singles tournament, The Cunis Cup, which was won for the first time by Julian Aquilina. Julian then captained an OP team to yet again win the RFA old boys tournament, The Owers Trophy.

Alongside Ben Beltrami and Dan Tristao they came through a semi final against Old Wykehamists to play another OP team made up of 2012 leavers (Francis, Parker and Russell) who had themselves beaten the Old Blues on their way to the final.

Great to see such strength in depth in the Club and continue our run of wins in this competition.

The Club didn't quite have total dominance on the Vs calendar ending runners up for the second year in a row to Wessex Vs Club in the RFA National Club

Championship (The Wood Cup). With OPs playing in four of the six clubs entered, the only 'true' OP team (Julian Aquilina, Tom Dean, James Tilston and Dan Tristao) beat a Cambridge University team, comprising of three young but very able OPs, in the deciding match of their group to reach the final. Unfortunately they could not regain the trophy they last won in 2014.

One of the most popular events of the season, our internal doubles tournament The President's Cup, brings a wide range of abilities onto a level playing field with the top players being paired with those who are a little rusty. A group of players mainly in their 20s, with a few outliers either end, took to the court for a highly competitive afternoon of Vs. Other than two pairs which went unbeaten until a deciding game, all other pairs won at least one match.

The decider saw Jack Malde and James Tilston edge Henry Jefferies and Jonny Baker in a tight game and get their hands on the trophy for the first time. Videos of many of the games were made (in a very amateurish way!) and can be viewed via the Club's website.

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gentler run out. Jamie’s team also contests the annual ‘Kempton Cup’, a self-pouring teapot, against local rivals Kempton CC. OPCC will be looking to regain said teapot after it returned to Kempton last year.

If you would like to get involved at any level, be it cricketer or umpire, please contact Club Captain Chris Berkett: berkettc@gmail.com.

Colet’s boasts excellent facilities, including a bar, gym, swimming pool and squash courts as well as the sports fields, providing several activities for friends and families. This year should see the finalisation of an extended balcony to cheer on the local side. If you would like to receive news and match reports by email, or the fixture card and newsletter by post, please contact Chris on the above address.

Captain Julian Aquilina with the Owers Cup flanked by Ben Beltrami (left) and Dan Tristao

Julian Aquilina wins this year's Cunis Cup in the company of Peter King (second left).

Very recently (April) the Club hosted its inaugural dinner. Organised to mark the imminent retirement of Peter King the dinner was well attended by OPs spanning 50 years and by some who have not played since leaving school. A fitting tribute to someone who has given so much to St Paul's Vs and who will continue to be a key member of the OP Vs Club.

Old Pauline Club diary dates

40 Year Reunion 24 September

30 Year Reunion 10 June

Annual Dinner 7 July

Remembrance Service 11 November

25 Year Reunion 18 June

10-Year Reunion 10 September

Medical Dinner 23 November

St Paul’s Summer Festival 25 June

20 Year Reunion 17 September

Supper Evening 9 December

Scout Reunion 26 June

Cotter Cruickshank Lecture 22 September

Feast Service and Supper 30 January 2017

Please refer to the OPC website for updates and booking information

Crossword By Lorie Church (1992-97)

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Lorie studied Classics at Exeter. He has had various articles and puzzles published in The Times and elsewhere. Contact: lorie@oath.com

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1 Bizarre Leuven A-Z includes East Indies republic (9) 6 It’s not PC returning from Western Australia with parrot (5) 7 Shark to stalk swimmer (7) 9 Steeplechase from Land’s End to John O’Groats (7) 10 Ancient city is bankrupt (4) 12 Sweet waffle (5) 13 Have fun with girl after dash to the printer (5) 16 Ingredient of sausages (4) 18 He’s barely got on the pitch before being sent off (8) 20 Leaning sideways for a slash (7) 21 He used to be a boy following ebb & flow of ’40s jazz (5) 22 A thousand and ten are supporting endless April race (5,4)

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1 Dumped spanish cow to meet delinquent wideboy… (7) 2 …he’s just arrived, bad omen with crew cut (8) 3 Heavens, all the signs are there (6) 4 Nerdy guy is regularly anxious (4) 5 Stop working in gold for so long (5) 6 Some faint woolly election promises (9) 8 Darling appears above bunker: a cunning plan (9) 11 Pay tributes about one in the clubhouse (8) 14 Presidents’ son and brother embraces this country to steer choice of music (7) 15 Wait on all the first aid (6) 17 Misplaced luggage for example abandoned in Soviet prison (5) 19 Paraquat part dissolved in this (4)

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