The Old Pauline News - Autumn 2018 by St Paul's School

Old Pauline News

Autumn/Winter 2018

S T PA U Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; S S C H O O L A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E

THE MAN CHARGED WITH BREXIT ROBIN WALKER MP

Undersecretary of State for the Department for Exiting the European Union

Contents 4 Briefings

All things Old Pauline â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including the story behind an unusual stained glass window that features the front elevation of St Paul's School at West Kensington

5 6

Letters

Old Pauline Profiles

50 Years at Barnes A Celebration Fanfare for a new era. St Paul's brass and woodwind at the opening of the new site at Lonsdale Road

Former Glories

The quest to virtually rebuild Alfred Waterstone's school

Et cetera

Peter Cromarty (1966-71) on the importance of self-esteem

Old Pauline Club Including medics Ashish Mandavia (above) and Jonathan Marler and entrepreneurs James Kafton, Alexis Dormandy and Joseph Cherrez

OP London

Jeremy Withers Green 2 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

People, events and reunions

Interview

Robin Walker MP(1991-96) is the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Exiting the European Union.

Editorial

30 36

Obituaries

Old Pauline sports A round-up from the Clubs

Past Times & Crossword

41 Last Word

Editor and designer Simon Bishop All correspondence to: The Editor c/o The Old Pauline Club, St Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School, Lonsdale Road, London SW13 9JT Copy for the spring/summer issue of the Old Pauline News, to be published in May 2019, should reach the Editor no later than 22 March 2019. Contact: opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk

Dominic Frisby

Advertising in Old Pauline News For our current rates please contact the Editor, Simon Bishop: opceditor@stpaulsschool.org.uk

Diary dates

@oldpaulines Old Pauline Club Old Pauline Network

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 3

Rob Scott

I personally missed the move to Barnes by three years but was aware of the preparations being made in the neo-gothic red-brick edifice in West Kensington to take the School across the river. The CLASP buildings erected on the filled reservoirs of SW13 couldn't have been further from Alfred Waterhouse's imposing designs for St Paul's, but they paved the way for the recent developments that have seen an extraordinary tranformation of the School's facilities, with utilitarian buildings becoming more akin to a 21st century university campus. We're very grateful to a number of former teachers who made the journey from W14 for sharing their memories of the move. And to former Captains of School, one from each decade since the School has been at Barnes, who have written sometimes surprisingly candid stories of their various times at School. Before living memory of the old School in West Kensington is lost, Tim Cunis, with the help of Paul Velluet and a small team of SPS pupils working under the direction of Dr Chris Harrison, Head of Computing, has launched a project to create a virtual fly-thru of Waterhouse's building using digitised versions of original architectural elevations that reside in the RIBA Collection at the V&A Museum. Simon Bishop (1962-65)

Briefings

Old Pauline-related endeavours and interest

Rowing honours Freddie Davidson (2011-16) rowed in the Great Britain men’s eight that won silver at this year’s World Rowing U23 Championships held in Poznań, Poland. In the men’s eight final, GB pipped Romania to silver by less than one hundredth of a second in a photo finish. With eight medals in total, GB recorded its best-ever World Rowing U23 Championships performance, finishing third in the medal table.

Two Old Paulines Win Tony Awards 2018 Congratulations to Neil Austin (1985-90) for Best Lighting, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Robert Walport (20032008) for Production: Best Revival of a Musical, Once on this Island.

Old St Paul’s School in Stained Glass

Whilst visiting Northern Ireland with the After Eights (2008 Livery Past Masters Association), Former President of the Old Pauline Club, Nick Carr (196367), recently toured the Guildhall in Londonderry. Derry gets its London ‘prefix’ from the Royal Charter granted to the city in 1613 by King James I and to reflect the funding of its construction by the London guilds. The City of London Livery Companies, under threat of imprisonment in the Tower, generously volunteered to fund the Plantations of Ulster under the aegis of the Honourable The Irish Society.

The window (below) overlooks the staircase in the Guildhall and is comprised of eight lights featuring the Coats of Arms of the sovereigns who granted the various charters to the Mercers Company, and the Coats of Arms of the Honourable The Irish Society. The window also features views of important buildings connected with the company including the Mercers’ Banqueting Hall, the First Royal Exchange, the Present Royal Exchange and St Paul’s School, Hammersmith. The window is approximately 15 feet by 12 feet and contains 24 Coats of Arms including the Arms of King James I, King Henry II and King Richard II.

I know that voice!

After Garry Honey (19681972) pictured right) heard a voice on the radio he recognised reporting from an earthquake zone in Italy in 2016 he decided to reach out. In the first week of June, Garry met Timothy PE Hedges (1968-72) pictured left) in Italy while he was visiting Rome. Garry is based in Winchester, Hants should any OPs from School House or D club wish to get in touch. Garry and Timothy have both written pieces for the OP News about their memories of St Paul's at the time of the move to Barnes in 1968. Timothy's will run in the next issue – Ed.

New recording

John Paul Ekins (2000-05) has recorded a new CD, From the Shadow of The Great War – British Works for Cello & Piano with cellist Liubov Ulbysheva. The CD features works by Frank Bridge, Frederick Delius and John Ireland for cello and piano, written as a direct response to the First World War. For more information: www.jpekinspianist.com

Tipstaff and Town Crier Mike Seigel (1964-68 and member of staff 1973-99, 2011-14) has been appointed Tipstaff and Town Crier for the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The appointment was made by the Mayor, Deputy Lieutenant and High Steward, who were looking for candidates who lived

4 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

within the borough, were of notable standing, and had strong links with the community. Mike satisfied all three criteria and is currently Chair of the Kingston Tour Guides. The position of Town Crier was originally that of ‘Crier of the Town Court’ and dates back to medieval times. The town crier would begin his cry with the words “Oyez, oyez”, accompanied by the ringing of a large hand bell to attract attention. It was the job of the crier or bellman to inform the townspeople of the latest news, proclamations, byelaws and any other important information, as at this time most folk were illiterate and could not read. Besides proclaiming the news, it was commonplace for Town Criers to carry out other essential duties. They were known to patrol the streets after dark, acting as peacekeepers and escorting people to the stocks, and making sure fires were damped down for the night after the curfew bell. Kingston did away with its Town Crier in 1914 but it was re-established in 1984 by the present Royal Borough and combined with the position of Tipstaff. The office of the Tipstaff is thought to have been created in the 14th century. One of the earliest records of the Tipstaff was mentioned in 1570: “The Knight Marshall with all hys tippe staues”. It was a position of both law enforcement and ceremonial duties. The name originates from the early law enforcement officers who would apprehend a person intended for arrest by enforcing their duty, if necessary, with a tipped staff or stave. The staff was made of wood or metal or both, topped with a crown. The crown, which unscrewed, was removed to reveal a warrant of arrest inside the hollow staff. More recently the Tipstaff has been a uniformed official of the Council who takes part in Civic processions and performs the function of regulating the pace, as well as generally attending on Members. Mike and his wife Wendy (member of staff 1993-2010) have made regular trips to Rwanda over the past eight years (see article in The Pauline 201011). Here they volunteer to help teachers teach English. They have also done this for a similar charity in Cambodia. In addition Mike has become a lecturer for several luxury cruise lines and is now one of Viking Ocean’s Resident Historians. He and Wendy thus spend up to eighteen weeks a year travelling the high seas, where Mike is able to continue teaching – but in a very different way!

Letters OP Diplomats

I enjoyed reading, in your Spring/Summer edition, the recollections of various Old Pauline diplomats, many of whom I recall from my own time in the Foreign Office. I served there from 1966 to 2003 in a variety of positions, the last of which was Ambassador to Germany. My time at St Paul’s was from 1957 to 1962 – you published in the same edition on page 27 a photograph of me at the Remove ’57 reunion last November. There is a long tradition of diplomacy at St Paul’s. Among those with whom I served, both sadly now dead, were Sir Marrack (Mig) Goulding, who was for many years a senior official at the UN and who gave the Cotter/ Cruickshank lecture in the early 2000s; and Sir Michael Alexander who was Mrs Thatcher’s first foreign affairs private secretary and Ambassador to NATO from 1986 to 1992. Sir Paul Lever (1957-62) I enjoyed your article about Old Pauline diplomats. One way or another I knew almost all those mentioned as colleagues, but in most cases not as fellow Old Paulines. Richard Makepeace (1966-71) l Richard served for 35 years in the DS, mainly in the Middle East including as Ambassador in Khartoum and Abu Dhabi and Consul General in Jerusalem.

Launch Pad to Success

Greetings and salutations from an old Pauline (1949-51) in the “Colonies”. On the wall in my study is a framed etching of the old Hammersmith school frontage; it was purchased by my father in 1950 from a bookshop in Mayfair. As I look at that etching I am reminded of my youthful days at St Paul’s and of the profitable academic disciplines instilled by my masters. My experience at St Paul’s catapulted me from mediocrity to excellence in attitude and effort. As an American boy in a British school I learned humility but eventually gained recognition from my peers in fifth form as a result of my victories on the swim team and my good marks at CCF inspections. The CCF was my initiation to military regimen and it greatly influenced my future choice of profession: the U.S. Marine Corps. One day our CCF formation was inspected by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery himself come back to his old school. He later joined the boys for lunch in the dining hall. All of my memories of those days are filled with thanksgiving for having had the opportunity to be exposed

to and moulded in the St Paul’s crucible. I count it as my launching pad to later successes. Earl Piper (1949-51), Colonel, US Marine Corps (Retired), Greenville, South Carolina, USA.

School Song

Last year I attended a moving funeral service of a cricketing friend in which some of his school friends sang the Sherborne School song in Latin. I recall that during the Feast Service there is a St Paul’s School prayer of the Founder: Oratinuncula ad Puerum Jesum, Scholare but I am unaware there has ever been a school song. Most great schools have a school song or songs which fosters pride and an esprit de corps and may I suggest a composer, hopefully an Old Pauline, be commissioned to write one for St Paul’s. John Dunkin (1964-69)

Wartime at St Paul’s and Colet Court

With the passing years it is an inevitable fact that there are fewer and fewer Old Boys with personal experience of life at the schools during World War II when they were away from their home buildings.This is sadly reinforced by the recent obituaries in The Pauline. I recently visited Danesfield House Hotel near Marlow. Colet Court had been moved to Danesfield House in the early part of the war only to be evicted later to make way for what became RAF Medmenham an Intelligence unit specialising in the interpretation of aerial photography. The period at Crowthorne is more often mentioned but if any first hand recollections are to be documented, no time should be lost. The people who were there at the time probably don’t realise what a treasure trove of information they hold in their memories – things which need to be gathered now or they will be forever lost. AT Jardine (1952-56) l If anyone would like to contribute anything from their time at St Paul's during WWII, please contact, in first instance, the Editor at opceditor@stpaulsschool.org.uk

OP brothers killed in WWI

I have been prompted by the excellent article about Jeremy Gordon-Smith in the Spring/Summer edition of the OP News and his book Photographing The Fallen, to write to you about two Old Pauline brothers killed in the Great War, which may be of interest. A little background – during a lifetime working at Lloyd’s, one of my greatest friends was Charles Letts in whose memory I and another close friend established an educational trust at

Newcastle University, Charlie having tragically died in his fifties in 2000. Charlie’s sister, Henrietta, is married to a now retired Newcastle don and their father, Trevor Letts, was Deputy Chairman of Lloyd’s in the 1960s. Knowing my enthusiasm for military history, particularly of the Great War and my hobby in tracking down detail of lost family members, Henrietta asked me to research her two great uncles who had been killed in the Great War but about whom she knew little. Helped by the brilliant CWGC website and those of the National Archives at Kew, I tracked down both their histories in considerable detail, including discovering that they were both Old Paulines! The elder, Captain R W “Rex” Robinson (1894-97) was killed aged 35 in Gallipoli on 15 August 1915 at Sulva Bay. He was in the 5th Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was one of 7 Inniskilling officers killed on that day alone. He is buried in the AZMAK Cemetery at Sulva and whilst visiting Gallipoli in 2015 for the centenary, I was able to find both his memorial and headstone (see above). He is among those who could not be positively identified after the years that had elapsed before the British dead were found and buried in the 1920s but was known to be definitely among those in the AZMAK Cemetery. He is therefore memorialized on the central Special Memorial under number 52 and the separate headstone states that he is “Believed to be Buried in this Cemetery”. This is common in CWGS war graves in Gallipoli. Rex is also recorded in the St Paul’s School Roll of Honour on page 35. His much younger brother, Lieutenant Wilfred Cane “Thistle” Robinson MC (1910-12), was killed aged 26 near Courtrai in Flanders on 25 October 1918, only 17 days before the Armistice. He was in the 26th Bn. Royal Fusiliers and was posthumously awarded the MC for his “fearless and able leadership” on 14 October, only 11 days before his death. Thistle is buried in the in Grave B1 in the Heestert Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, some three kilometers from where he fell. Roger Earle (1954-57)

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 5

Old Pauline profiles Entrepreneurs The St Paul's Entrepreneurs network is launched on 29 November. The Old Pauline News spoke to a small selection from a growing band of OP entrepreneurs to highlight what is becoming an increasingly attractive career option for many current Paulines.

Right Place, Right Time James Kafton (1984-89) was a corporate lawyer with Clifford Chance in the City for 10 years before he got the itch to do something more creative.

“I

wanted to build something useful, and not look back in my mid-sixties and think I hadn’t really created anything.” James and his two business partners saw an opportunity in the claims management industry and set up a company together. “We started with just the three of us working in the basement of my business partner’s house. At that point we had nothing but an idea. There was a lot of hard work involved in growing every aspect of the business from operations, to marketing and compliance. We sold the business and by the time we left we had a staff of about 200, and had recovered over £100 million of compensation for our customers. It was a very rewarding experience.” Currently, James is focusing on a women’s health clinic, The Evewell, based on Harley Street, with specialisms in gynaecology and fertility. “I’m drawn to ventures where I see there might be an opportunity. It’s often just being in the right place at the right time, where an individual or an idea can spark an

entrepreneurial interest. But it’s never straightforward. You can go through any number of hitches along the way. There are times on the journey when you are not sure you have got it right or whether it is going to work. You need a huge amount of resilience! For The Evewell, the significant issues initially were to raise money and find a building. With a great deal of perseverance and a chunk of luck, the two came together. “We now have a building on Harley Street which has been fitted out. We have been busy hiring staff and preparing for our regulatory inspections. We plan to open in October.”

There have been plenty of St Paul’s connections in James’s world There have been plenty of St Paul’s connections in James’s world. One of James’s business partners is now married to Richard Flax (1984-89), a close friend from St Paul’s. In fact, the lead investor in The Evewell is Old Pauline, Andrew Elder (1983-88). James has also worked with Joe Bitran (1984-89), another lawyer, whom he has known since they were at nursery school together. “For me, it’s

James Kafton

very important working with people you trust. Particularly to know that you are working with people who share the same values as you.” James is married with two children: his son Charlie, who is 14, has just finished his first year at St Paul’s and he has a daughter Georgina who is 12. James was a weekly boarder at School. His House Master was Ben Taylor. “He and his wife Susan and family were really important to me at that time in my teenage years. I did medieval history at St Paul’s, and I had the same teacher, Dr Ken Lawson, of whom I have very good memories, right the way through my time at School.” l For further information: www.linkedin.com/ company/the-evewell

Good Returns from Funding Food Joseph Cherrez (1996-98) started his own company, Primestox, three years ago – the world’s first food-focused funding platform. Investors help to support local food producers while earning good returns, sometimes achieving as much as 18% per year.

ow the company is up and running, Joseph is looking for someone else to take the company forward having received some exciting proposals to re-join the investment fund world. “It will be the

shareholders of course who will decide on who carries the business forward, but I’d be interested to see if any entrepreneurial OPs out there would consider taking what I’ve started and moving it to the next level. Setting up Primestox has been a very good learning experience for me. Very few people get to see the full cycle of running a business or making a loan. It has been fascinating – I have been working almost like an old-style community bank manager. Primestox funds artisanal food producers but is in itself somewhat artisanal in its way of doing things. There is also an important ethos here which is to give capable younger people a chance and the funding to get going. Primestox investors like this aspect

6 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

and in fact sometimes favour the smaller, younger businesses we deal with, in spite of their less-tested business models. The fact that investors can ‘meet’ the producers in our video clips and can see their products in the shops also adds to investor’s confidence.” Joseph studied maths at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, before joining Lazard as an investment banker in their corporate finance team, advising on mergers and acquisitions. He was given a posting to New York in his third year at the company as he wanted to get experience of US investment banking. Because of his interest in natural resources-based business, Joseph joined the aluminium department of Glencore,

Geeks Rule Alexis Dormandy (1983-88) has had an extraordinary career track record since his days at St Paul’s, beginning by gaining an MA in Medicine at Oxford, before joining McKinsey as a business analyst, then making a name for himself as a Group Director at Virgin, responsible for new business.

t Virgin Alexis launched Virgin Mobile and Virgin Active, both of which became billion dollar businesses. He also sat on the Group board. He later became Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Orange’s Consumer business which became number 1 in the UK market with over £3bn in revenues. In his spare time, he became European Chairman of RED, the charity founded by Bono which raised $120m in its first 18 months. He now invests in, and is Chairman of, a number of UK startups, and is also a partner at Atomico, one of Europe’s largest venture capital investors, founded by Niklas Zennstrom, the founder of Skype. Atomico focuses on companies led by experienced entrepreneurs, wishing to build global businesses that transform their category. Alexis’ role sources investments, helps companies grow rapidly, and works with entrepreneurs on sales and marketing as they scale their businesses. Since 2009 Alexis has also been Chairman of Wattbike, created in collaboration with British Cycling. It has

a Swiss-based commodities trader to learn more about metals, mining and international commodities trading. He also worked with a mining company, based in Sierra Leone to develop their agricultural division. “I was originally hired to raise finance to build the agricultural division but then went to Sierra Leone to start a demonstration farm on the ground, hiring 300 people, almost none of whom could speak English. The project went really well. We managed to clear 100 hectares of land on which we planted sugarcane and maize as well as other crops such as yams and rice. It all grew incredibly well and was a success.” It was this experience that led to some of the ideas behind Primestox. Joseph then returned to London where he was employed by an investment fund largely focused on mining in Latin

Alexis taking to the hills for the Wattbike team

grown from an unfunded prototype in 2009, to now being sold to consumers and gyms in 17 countries across five continents (and to be found in nuclear submarines). It is now considered to be the best indoor bike in the world. St Paul’s School is a customer! Since the start of the year, Alexis has also been Chairman of SPOKE, an e-commerce menswear business priding itself on men’s trousers that look good and fit. He also sits on the board of Teralytics, a big data company that processes 40 billion data points, from 475 million people worldwide. Alexis has a message, particularly for current boys at St Paul’s – especially those who might, as he did, find themselves placed in the ‘geek’ category. He candidly admits he was in the maths teams, but was the last boy to be picked to play in any sports team. But by the time he was at university Alexis had changed, both mentally and physically – so much so he was playing university rugby league and rowed at college and University level. “I once ended up on a pitch playing against someone who had been in the SPS 1st XV. We beat them. He literally looked at me saying, ‘Are you the same bloke who used to get picked last for everything?’ The

Joseph Cherrez

America, with a primary interest in ironore. “I advised them on the development of a large-scale project in Uruguay. The

positive to take from this that it is possible for anyone to change – a lot!” Alexis later represented the GB Age Group Team for the European Duathlon Championships. “As the boy who always walked the ‘two bridges’ run at SPS, that might seem surprising!” Alexis was also British Masters Ski Cross Champion. Alexis was attracted to McKinsey because of the firm's emphasis on training rather than on money. “As I knew I knew nothing, that seemed to me to be a good place to start. I loved it, the training was phenomenal.” This undoubtedly helped later when Alexis helped launch Virgin Mobile from a piece of paper to a live business in 10 months. “It was so much fun! You never knew what to expect. One day we were launching a business, the next Richard Branson was asking to get Colonel Gadhafi on the phone. I thought ‘this is going to be an interesting day’. A balloon was drifting into Libyan airspace and the pilots were worried that they were going to be shot down.” Alexis is now married with three children. “Life’s never dull!” l For more information: www.atomico.com; www.wattbike.com www.spoke-london.com; www.teralytics.net

Latin American angle appealed to me as I speak fluent Spanish, my father being from Ecuador. I also managed the acquisition and restructuring of a $300million iron ore mine in northern Brazil owned by Anglo American. I launched Primestox after that.” Joseph got married eighteen months ago. He remains in touch with several OP contemporaries (all 1993-98) including Michael Birshan who is a Senior Partner at McKinsey, London; Alex Edmans who is a Professor of Finance at the London Business School, Alex Lang, Nik Sindle and entrepreneur Balreick Srai, who also started his own business while at university, in events and promotion. l For more information: www.primestox.com To contact Joseph direct please contact the Old Pauline Club office at opcadmin@stpaulsschool. org.uk or through the OPC directory.

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 7

Old Pauline profiles Medics The St Paul's Medical profession network is launched on 20 November – bringing together many in the St Paul's community who either have careers in healthcare or have an interest in joining the profession.

When Advice Runs Full Circle Ashish Mandavia (2004-09) says he has always been attracted by the numerous opportunities that are available within medicine. He now works as a Director of the MSAG, (Medical School Application Guide), which exists to assist students applying to medical and dental school at English-speaking universities all over the world. He also ‘moonlights’ as a doctor in A&E for a local trust, while his clinical interest at the moment is ophthalmology with a particular interest in laser eye surgery. Ashish has also been involved in some cutting-edge digital development that is poised to revolutionise the efficiency of A&E care.

“T

here has been an effort recently to increase the available number of places at medical schools to try to fill the gaps that are expected to develop within the NHS. In my opinion this is five or six years too late, but this firefighting approach does mean that there are a lot more places available for students to apply for. Unfortunately, the competition ratio has continued to rise, as the numbers of applicants has also increased.” Ashish now talks to students on a regular basis, travelling to Liverpool every week to deliver a medical school preparation course – which takes them through the basic clinical skills they will learn in their first couple of years at university, giving them a flavour of what doctors actually do, as well as giving them advice about their university applications. “While I was at Bristol University I was on the interview panel for two years. You get insight, from the medical educational point of view, into what is being asked of the next generation of doctors. It’s a very exciting business to be involved in.” Ashish set up the Bristol Leadership & Management Society, at university, which gained a lot of traction. His efforts culminated in a change to the curriculum

Ashish Mandavia

that then offered courses in leadership and healthcare management. “I ran teaching days where we talked to students about what it meant to get involved in quality improvement projects for the NHS services being delivered, what it meant to be a leader in the NHS and how you don’t have to be a

you don’t have to be a consultant doctor to invoke change consultant doctor to invoke change. It was well received and is still running.” After his first two ‘pre-clinical’ years, Ashish spent his third year doing an integrated degree at Imperial College in healthcare management, learning about business strategy, entrepreneurship and care economics, which put him into a completely different category to other medics he was studying with. Once he qualified as an F1 (House

8 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

officer, first year) doctor, Ashish trained in radiology and gained experience in a busy gastroenterology ward. In his second year he moved to Lewisham Greenwich Trust where he worked in a challenging environment in an acute psychiatry hospital, then in an acute medical ward in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, before finally gaining four months experience in A&E. Ashish also found time this year to assist a start-up company set up a healthcare app inspired by Babylon Health, a vanguard company within a new wave of healthcare apps that provide remote healthcare delivery. MedCircuit is a digital patient questionnaire, an algorithm-led app that follows NICE guidelines, asking the same questions a doctor would ask. “The software is clever. Depending on the number and severity of red flags triggered by a patient’s replies, the patient can be quickly prioritised over someone with fewer or less severe symptoms – improving the efficiency of the throughput of the A&E department.

Ophthalmologist With Culinary Aspirations Jonathan Marler (2004-09) was in the same year at St Paul’s as Ashish Mandavia, (see opposite), also joining him at the Bristol Medical School for his foundation training. Later he gained an MA in Ophthalmology at UCL, Moorfields Eye Hospital. Jonathan has a passion for Asian and Indian cooking and is poised to briefly leave the beaten track of medicine to check how deep his interest really lies.

“I

put my interest in food down to my mum who is Japanese. Japanese cuisine is my favourite – more of a cultural thing in Japan. But my current favourite dish at the moment is Goan lobster. I really like the way South Indians cook crustaceans. You don’t really get this in the UK at all. It is actually very difficult to do, I’m still learning. What I like in all cultures that feature seafood is the freshness and simplicity of the dishes. Unlike French or Mexican cooking it is not so technical – more to do with the quality of the ingredients. When we think of Indian food we usually think of spices, curry, heavier dishes. I really like those too, but seafood, when I grew up in Japan, was always raw. In India it is much the same but marinated in very punchy spices, so that the result tastes bold but very simple. Indian seafood dishes bring those two qualities together. I am going to be working as a chef in Kerala, The information from the patient is also presented in medical text and terminology to the doctor and can be copied into the patient’s notes, avoiding the need for inputting again later.” Venture capital funding for the app was achieved in March from Mercia Technology. The system was piloted in Burton Hospital in the Midlands during April – now live with contracts lined up for hospitals across the UK. Ashish has always had an entrepreneurial spirit, helping to fund trips abroad by selling text books and stethoscopes to students while at University. What Ashish loved about being at St Paul’s was the opportunity to

Jonathan (left) with Rick Stein

on the south-western coast of India, for six months next year before I start my ophthalmology training.” Jonathan says it is not unusual for junior doctors to take time out to do other things. “I have a friend who has gone to work for Bollywood for a year; another who has become a racing driver!” “At medical school I chose ophthalmology for a number of reasons – firstly because it has a dual

We were never designed to be static or periods of time medical/surgical specialty. There are some specialties that involve a training period of seven years but qualify you to be both a physician and a surgeon. Ophthalmology is one of those. I also like the technical side of ophthalmology – there have been exciting new developments especially with laser eye surgery and bionic eye implants. You also get to treat all age groups. Most other areas of medicine will limit your demographics. Eventually, I would like to specialise in corneal transplant surgery.” push the boundaries. With Mr Hamlyn’s help, Ashish set up a drugs synthesis society in which different drug compounds were synthesised and their purity tested. He was also President of the Medical Society. With alumni like Sir Robert Winston attending lunchtime meetings, he felt he was in a very privileged position. “From a young age at School I had the chance to explore ideas beyond the curriculum which was such a unique position to be in. I also felt I could have gone down a number of routes – medicine, economics or art. I was awarded the Chelsea Royal Art College scholarship, which could have been a career option as well. I really appreciated the support I had at

Jonathan discovered during his foundation years that Ophthalmologists rarely worked at weekends or during night shifts, which would leave him precious time to continue his interest in cooking. Although he hasn’t discounted the idea of pursuing a career in cooking at some point, Jonathan says he is aware of the difference between cooking at home and doing it professionally. “I am interested in working in the industry for a short while to see if it is just a hobby or not. I suspect I will not leave medicine.” While at St Paul’s, Jonathan and Ashish Mandavia ran MedSoc which was managed by Mr Sam Roberts, not a doctor himself, but, Jonathan says that he was a huge help. Jonathan’s A levels included Biology, Chemistry, Maths and surprisingly, Ancient Greek. “I was the only scientist in Mr King’s Classics group. Mr King was also my brother’s tutor and became a family friend. He knew that Greek was not my main subject but he was very good at helping me to develop my fascination for it.” At School, Jonathan was a keen fives player and musician. He took Grade VIII piano and clarinet, something he’d like to get back to, time permitting. St Paul’s when I was applying to medical school. To be able, now, to offer advice to students myself has been a full-circle moment.” Ashish is considering joining the OP Cricket Club, particularly as it seems to be made up largely from his peer group. He was captain of the 2nd XI for its tour to Sri Lanka with Peter King, Will Hansen and Alex Wilson in his final year. l For more information: www.babylonhealth.com; www.medcircuit.com www.themsag.com

NEXT ISSUE Anil Visram (1974-79) Anaesthetist

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 9

Old Pauline profiles

The British Army in Northern Europe Iain Gale (1972-77), former art critic and journalist, now an author based in Edinburgh, is giving a series of 10 lectures at the Cavalry and Guards Club in Piccadilly. Entitled ‘Blenheim to Berlin: The British Army in Northern Europe, 1704-1944’, Iain began his sequence of talks last month by examining the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, featuring that great Old Pauline, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough.

ach of Iain’s talks will deal with a specific military campaign, ultimately focusing on one key engagement. All will be fully illustrated on a large screen, with maps and photographs of the battlefields as they are today. Where appropriate and wherever possible, they will also be accompanied by original battlefield archaeology, artefacts and scale models. Our publishing deadline prevents our being able to give advance notice of Iain’s October talk on Fontenoy in 1745, but subsequent talks starting with ‘Minden 1759, the birth of the British infantry’ on 6 November will be followed by ‘Waterloo 1815, Wellington’s masterpiece?’ on 13 December; ‘Mons, 1914, tactical triumph of the BEF’ on 16 January 2019; ‘Somme, July 1916, the British army’s black day’ on 6 February; ‘Cambrai, 1917, the birth of modern war’ on 6 March; ‘ France 1940, defeat into victory’ on 10 April; ‘D Day, June 1944, storming Hitler’s fortress’ on 8 May; and finally, ‘Arnhem, September 1944, a bridge too far?’ 12 June 2019. Iain has spent forty years visiting these battlefields and knows many of them intimately, conducting regular battlefield tours to several. As a writer and researcher he has gained an appreciation

of each of them and can offer a unique perspective. Iain comes from a military family and has always been fascinated by military history, recently discovering that he had an ancestor at the Battle of Waterloo when he travelled there for the commemoration. Having begun his career as a painting expert with Christie’s, Iain left auctioneering in 1990 to join the recently launched Independent firstly to compile art listings, later becoming their Deputy Art Critic. He was encouraged to travel to St Ives to interview famous artists there, resulting in a first feature article being published, the first of many weekly contributions. British artists were suddenly in the spotlight and Iain was one of the first to interview Damien Hirst before joining Scotland on Sunday as an art critic, in Edinburgh. While working on the paper, Iain was also approached to write a series of monographs, including

Iain delivered his firstever lecture, on the Battle of Austerlitz, while he was at St Paul’s works on Sisley, Corot and MacTaggart. He also founded Caledonia magazine. He served on the Scottish Committee of the Society of Authors and the Scots Dragoon Guards Waterloo Committee and currently sits on the Scottish Committee of Combat Stress. Iain began to write military history in 2003 and to date has had four works of military history and nine militaryhistorical novels published by Harper Collins, Quercus and Birlinn. He is currently working on a new history of the First Day of the Somme due out later this year and a three-volume work on the

Some of Iain's published titles

10 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

Iain Gale

Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. Having grown one career out of art criticism and then a second in historical novel writing, Iain says he’d now love to teach a seminar, a post-grad degree if possible, on war and culture. “It’s a fascinating area – the two are heavily connected.” Iain delivered his first-ever lecture, on the Battle of Austerlitz, while he was at St Paul’s. He enjoyed being in the school épée team that was runner-up in the Public Schools Championship in 1977. His ambition at School had been to lecture at Sandhurst. But after taking a History of Art degree at Edinburgh, a successful career followed in the art world, first as a Victorian expert at Christie’s. He was later asked by Christie’s to run their Modern British Picture Department in South Kensington. For his lectures and in his books, Iain has researched the two famous OP generals, Montgomery and Marlborough, describing the first as ruthless and the second as everyone’s favourite. “Marlborough’s chief talent lay in logistics, getting supplies in place before his men arrived. Camps and kitchens would all be functioning for the troops on arrival; 50,000 new shoes would be delivered for the march to Blenheim. To his troops, Marlborough was known as ‘Corporal John’, he was one of them.” l For initial enquiries please contact: iain.gale@yahoo.com

A Role for Diversity in Education Formally the UK Climate Campaigns Manager for Greenpeace, Robert Gueterbock (1984-89) turned to a career in education in 2004, training as a Montessori teacher. In 2011 he founded a new school, The Montessori Place, in Hove, Sussex and has been the Principal of the 120-pupil school, and a full-time teacher since then.

“W

OPs are invited to share their favourite places to eat, drink or experience in the capital. Please send your suggestions to opceditor@stpaulsschool.org.uk This edition's selection by Jeremy Withers Green (1975-80)

Where To Eat Robert Gueterbock

them to engage in broader-based activities that they would not otherwise experience elsewhere. At St Paul’s, Rob says it was the teachers who made the effort to get to know him as a person who made a lasting impression, such as Peter Lascelles his biology teacher and Dick Jaine for geography. He always felt that the open-ended possibilities offered by the art room were exciting, as was the incredible freedom he enjoyed when taking a scull out for a lunchtime row on the Thames. “As a Head Teacher now I can fully appreciate the efforts that went into giving us the freedom to do things like that; trusting us to take responsibility.” Rob believes that there is a growing dissatisfaction with mainstream education. “Sir Ted Robinson’s TED Talk entitled ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’ is the most watched TED Talk of all time, with more than 50 million views. The question ‘What is education for?’ will always be open to debate, so it’s necessary to keep diversity – and original thinking – alive in the education system. With rapid technologydriven changes to society, now is the time to consider radically different approaches to prepare young people for the world.” Rob studied Social Anthropology then took an MA in Environmental Anthropology at Kent University, wanting to eventually work in the environment sector. After volunteering for various organisations, he started working for Greenpeace in his mid-twenties, developing campaigns, liaising with other Greenpeace offices around the world and taking part in the ‘exciting bits’, like direct action, which led to two arrests, but thankfully no convictions. “Otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to become a teacher!” l For more information: www.themontessoriplace.org.uk montessorieducationuk.org

The Carpenter’s Arms, Black Lion Lane W6 Hammersmith has any number of tradesmen’s pubs thanks to Wimpey being based there for a century. The Carpenter’s is the best. It first opened in 1871, survived a couple of doomed makeovers before reopening as a pub a decade ago. I became reengaged when A A Gill gave it five stars. Now run by the inimitable Simon Cherry, The Carpenter’s is a boozer with great food and wine.

Coffee time

La Cave, Hammersmith Grove W6 Who makes the best coffee in the world is always under debate at La Cave. Justin represents Australia, Stefano Italy and Monika Poland. Raouls works in Maida Vale but failed in Hammersmith. In came The Brackenbury Wine Rooms and La Cave and their giant cigarette-smoking moose. Also a deli and wine shop, La Cave is where you go for coffee. It is the heart of the community with mums and dads recovering after school run, wastrels taking a break from “working at home” and office workers.

Where to Visit

Police Memorials – St James’s Square SW1 and Charlesville Road W14 Michael Winner is remembered as a film director who lived in the house now owned by Robbie Williams. Winner was also the energy behind the Police Memorial Trust. There are approaching 50 memorials in the UK, each with its own story of courage and loss. The two memorials I visit are Yvonne Fletcher’s in St James’s and Stephen Tibble's in Barons Court. They are simple, elegant and moving. Yvonne Fletcher’s tragic story is well known. Stephen Tibble was off duty and only six months a policeman when shot by an IRA member following a raid on a bomb factory. It might otherwise be forgotten. If you've got five minutes, definitely do take a tour and have a read. Some of the stories are sad, some funny, but all are touching.

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 11

Courtesy of the Police Memorial Trust

e started the school with the aim of showcasing the Montessori approach all the way through to 18. We had no idea if the demand would be there, but once we began with the younger children, most people wanted to stay on. Every few years we’ve registered for older age-groups and now go through to 16 years. In 2016 we expanded into a second, thirteen-acre site in rural East Sussex where we’ve started the residential secondary programme, the first of its kind in the UK. The Montessori approach is radically different to traditional methods of education; we have mixed-age classes of 3-6, 6-12 and 12-16 years, and these communities feel more like busy creative offices than a classroom with the teacher at the front. A spirit of collaboration and cooperation characterises these mini-societies in which a dozen different projects might be happening at any one time. They have a lot of freedom, but it’s certainly not unlimited. Each student has as much as they are able to make good use of in an atmosphere of trust and respect. That’s also fun for the adults, as it means every day is totally different. Montessori begins by considering what it is that children are able do at certain ages and how it can offer them experiences that help them to fulfil themselves, rather than beginning with a set curriculum that leaves the child no option but to conform him or herself to the content. When you can follow and pick up on someone’s interest, it’s amazing how far and how deeply they will go. As a school we’re inspected by Ofsted so it has been satisfying to show that it’s possible to have academic excellence and an ‘outstanding’ school without the driver of formal tests, homework, set assignments, worksheets or even fixed lesson times.” Rob adds that Montessori students will take a limited number of GCSEs, freeing

OP LONDON

50 Special Feature

YEARS AT BARNES

A CELEBRATION 1968: Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated; anti-Vietnam war protestors march to Grosvenor Square; students and workers go on general strike in France; Enoch Powell delivers his 'Rivers of Blood' speech; Apollo 8 orbits the Moon, the Civil Rights Act becomes law and the musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre – plenty for Paulines to contemplate as the School makes the mile and a half journey from Hammersmith to Lonsdale Road in Barnes. Thanks to the help of new Librarian Hilary Cummings, a trawl through the archives has revealed some nostalgic visual material from those early days at the new site, a small sample of which makes an appearance here. Some of the teachers who made the short journey from old to new school write about their experiences, as do the Captains of School, one from each decade the School has resided by the river. We are very grateful for their contributions. But to set the scene, Garry Honey (1968-72) writes about his early days at Lonsdale Road.

remember my first term at St Pauls in 1968. New boarders in School House had to arrive a day before term began so I had the advantage of learning the layout of the site before the rest of the school. During the first week I enjoyed directing older pupils, and even some teachers, to their classrooms thanks to my colour coded plan of the school. As a new member of D club I think Monty would have been proud of my battlefield knowledge and short cuts. Despite being a thirteen-year old new boy, I had power to

The arrival of the great and good at Lonsdale Road. Colet's bust followed by portraits of Monty and Marlborough. High Master Tom . Howarth (second right) is on hand to make sure they are safely delivered

Early promises of a merger with SPGS to create a modern co-ed school were dashed after the first school dance unlock the mysteries of the labyrinth. Early promises of a merger with SPGS to create a modern co-ed school were dashed after the first school dance – the headmistress of SPGS being unimpressed with the less than gentlemanly conduct of SPS boys. Thus ended the dreams of many boys hoping to merge with girls and embrace the liberal values of the late sixties. Another sign of the times was the way the Maths department eagerly adopted the Schools Mathematics Project (SMP). Binary maths was considered the future of computer programming, which then consisted of card packs filled with only two digits: zero and one. To this day I still tell people that for two years of Maths O level I never wrote any digits from two to nine. In 1968 the playing fields at Barnes were not fit for use, the old reservoirs had been

12 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

cheaply filled and stones were a barrier to rugby and cricket. For all my four years at the School, the weekly trek to Osterley was major feature. We got to know the Piccadilly line, Hammersmith bridge and a cafe called the 'Odd Spot' where there was always a danger of being attacked by skinheads. I fondly recall my housemaster and German teacher Phil McGuiness, a kind and thoughtful housemaster as well as an accomplished German speaker, setting us vocabulary tests each week which we all dreaded. He knew this and would always announce on Friday the imminent in-class test with same phrase - which I shall render in English here for a wider audience - 'Because it is Friday, and the sun is shining, I have the intention to make you happy…' This was usually followed by a collective groan from the class as we knew what the next 20 minutes would entail. Garry Honey now operates a risk consultancy and executive training business on governance www.betterboards.uk and runs programmes at Henley Business School and the Stock Exchange.

Brave New World. St Paul's photographed from the Thames shortly after it was opened in 1968

Mind the stones! It would be three years before games were regularly played at the School rather than at Osterley because of detritus coming to the surface of the playing fields. From Folio 1968

High Master Tom Howarth with the prefects of '69

Boat Club Colts C 1968 with J Allport and D Porteus

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 13

50 Years at Barnes The High road to Barnes. L to R: Robert James, Anthony Gilkes, Surmaster AB Cook, Tom Howarth and Walter Oakeshott

A View from the Staff Room Stephen Baldock

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis

My first-hand experience of the school added up to 39 years, five as a pupil (58-63) and 34 as a member of staff (70-04). I was absent for the actual move from West Kensington to Barnes, but that absence may have given me a better perspective on the metamorphosis. On my return in 1970, gone were the CCF, the Great Hall with its whole school assemblies, the first and second lunches, the boxing; yet the ethos was undoubtedly intact, the indefinable buzz, the purposeful engagement, the competitive bonhomie. That too was the conclusion of Anthony Jay in his film “Four High Masters”: for all the changes, the school which he had attended as a boy was the same as the one which his son had just joined. In the early Barnes years there were battles about long hair and uniform; student unrest was in the air. I recall that Dr Cruickshank put a large expanse of plain white paper on the wall of his classroom, allowing boys to scribble graffiti or whatever they wished (within reason), on the understanding that they would not use any other walls for the purpose. It is to the credit of High Masters and Surmasters of the time that there were no major crises and staff-student relationships remained good. The decades which followed saw steady, but not dramatic changes. The tutorial system was strengthened and tutors were

supported first by one Undermaster and then by several as year group heads. Female members of staff were recruited, some for senior positions. The curriculum became wider and more flexible; all boys would take three full years before the specialist Eighth Form courses (I had only had one year and sat O-levels without any science or humanities); Art, Music and Drama gained far better facilities and enjoyed a much higher profile; there were excellent facilities for indoor and outdoor sport, all on the campus. New administrative posts were created to ensure compliance with the ever-increasing bureaucracy. No longer was it possible for the 1st VIII to be transported to Henley in one staff vehicle, as John Allport had done in his pre-war Rolls-Royce, but the Pauline spirit lives on and for the preservation and development of this unique ethos, we should recognise the invaluable contribution of a significant number of long-serving teaching staff, too many to name in this short piece.

Tim Moore-Bridger

I joined the staff of St Paul’s in September 1967, to teach French and Latin. I had therefore one year in West Kensington, before the school moved to Barnes in 1968. My main memory of the first few terms there is of the way in which we all worked together to get used to the new building. It had quite an impact on the way in which members of staff treated

14 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

each other. Senior colleagues, whom I had hardly dared speak to the previous year, were now approachable. We all ate together in what was in effect a staff canteen. After a year in West Kensington, where I had felt very young and inexperienced, almost overwhelmed by the history and tradition of the school and the buildings, I found the move to Barnes particularly exciting. My classroom was on the top floor in the Classics wing. It was bright, carpeted, with fans to provide rudimentary air conditioning, for it could get very hot in summer. We still went out to Osterley for rugby and cricket, as the fields at school were not ready for some years. I well recall seeing lines of boys picking up stones as they came to the surface on the Hammersmith Bridge side. l I remained at St Paul’s until 1988, when I moved to be Deputy Headmaster of Nottingham High School. In 1997 I was appointed Headmaster of King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, and remained there until my retirement in 2010.

Terence Pendred

Member of staff from 1963 to 1999, teaching Chemistry, and Head of Science from 1983 to 1999. To a junior member of the Chemistry staff of five years standing, the move to Barnes seemed surprisingly trouble free, but no doubt this was due to a good deal of forward planning by the then Head of Science, Jack Strawson,

and the smooth transfer of laboratory equipment, overseen by the Chief Lab Technician, Ted White. As I recall we had a very small number of familiarisation visits to the new buildings before teaching in the new Science Block began in earnest. There were more Chemistry Labs at Barnes, but space was at a premium and they were smaller than at West Kensington, where the cavernous labs had each housed a completely separate bench area and teaching space. To preserve this arrangement at Barnes it was necessary to mount the benches around the periphery, with tables for writing in the middle. This meant that those working at the benches had their backs to the teacher and were facing a wall. Nevertheless this arrangement survived into the twenty-first century. Other parts of the new school were less ready. The site consisted partly of reservoirs which had been filled in with the excavation material from the Victoria Line. Similarly a new boat house was not yet complete, and as a rowing coach I still had to cycle to Hammersmith Mall for outings. Some corners had been cut in the main building too. It was rumoured that several of the toilet pedestals were found to have sawn-off screwheads dropped into their fixing holes, so that they were not in fact fixed to the floor at all!

David Porteus

Member of the Physics Dept. and coach of Rowing and Rugby 1964-2001. The ‘Old’ School was a very imposing redbricked building. It looked as if something important went on there. Inside, the main corridor, which ran the length of the building, had a tiled stone floor and stained glass windows on one side and classrooms on the other. The classrooms had high ceilings with relatively small windows, meaning that the electric lights were on all the time. The teaching was done using black boards and white chalk (which got everywhere). What a difference to get to the ‘New’ School – carpeted floors, low ceilings, large windows, white boards, and for the Science Staff, only half the distance to walk to the Staff room. The old Dining Hall was on the top floor, 2 sittings, with Grace, while the Tuckshop was in the basement. Again, what a difference! Before the move, the Staff had meetings with the architects, who explained the aims and reasons behind the design, and so on. I well remember the ‘grounds’ architect explaining how the old reservoirs were being filled in by the spoil from the excavation of the Victoria line (it’s that

old!), nothing bigger than the volume of a house brick, and that the pitches would be ready to play on by the time the buildings were ready. No one believed him, but he was the expert. The pitches were played on for a short time, but after a lot of cut knees due to all the stones, it was back to Osterley, where the School had extra playing fields. Various schemes to get rid of the stones were tried, but the most successful way was by hand. There was a photo in the Standard of a number of young men, sitting in a long line, each armed with a long metal needle and a trowel, probing for and removing stones, boulders and bits of bicycles as they moved slowly forward. Then the pitches had to be re-seeded. It took ages. Three years after the buildings opened, all games were played at School. The new Boathouse was last on the list and wasn’t built for 5 or 6 years, till money

Buildings are built and . . . demolished, but Paulines are Paulines and, we hope, will never change. became available. Boys continued to walk to the old Boathouse on the other side of the river. This took about 20 minutes, just about the same time as it did from the Old School. I have often been asked if moving from the old buildings to the new changed the ethos of the school in any way. Not one bit. One hundred boys left in July, to be replaced by another hundred in September, to join those already there, as always. The group of Staff who combined to do the Times Crossword after 1st lunch in West Ken. would have an early lunch and get together to solve it in Barnes, as always (and there probably is a group still solving 50 years later). Buildings are built and buildings are demolished, but Paulines are Paulines and, we hope, will never change.

John Smith

Former President of C Club and Head of Classics The new St Paul’s was constructed using the ‘clasp’ system, involving hanging the outer walls on girders. York University had recently used it. The Classics department was on the top floor facing south, very hot in summer and cold in winter. One torrid summer day I complained to the Bursar. He did nothing until I borrowed a thermometer from the Physics department and found the temperature

A young Pauline tackles an early computer at Barnes

for a whole week more than 90 degrees. He bought an Italian air conditioner so noisy that teaching was a problem. Friday afternoon detentions continued after the move. In West Kensington it involved collecting rubbish within the school. In Barnes the target initially was the Eastern playing fields. The 1960s was the time when Victorian buildings were being pulled down. Hammersmith Council was responsible for the demolition of St Paul’s, built by Alfred Waterhouse. Fortunately School House, originally the High Master’s House, was spared. It is now a ‘boutique’ hotel.

Colin Stewart

‘A mile and an age away’; not a long move, either in time or distance, but a definite culture shock. Goodbye to an impressive Victorian building; hello to a more functional but less beautiful ‘clasp’ creation of the 1960s, with teething problems aplenty! Inside, the ‘new school’ had carpets! Never had those before and everything seemed so quiet! Having started my Pauline career teaching in the Upper theatre I appreciated normal classrooms with low ceilings and fewer draughts. But the ‘tannoy’ was a shock. Big brother was now talking to us and there was no escape; no Great Hall where the whole school could meet, but we did now have a Sports Hall! Eating was much less formal too. No High Table! We all mucked in together, cafeteria style. Outside, Oh dear! September 1968 was wet! Leave the building, and you were in a sea of mud, walking on duckboards. And the playing fields were a threat to life and limb! But we survived and the School continued to flourish in its fifth home. l Colin joined the staff in 1963 as an economist, assisting John Allport establish the ‘new’ Economics department. He was housemaster of High House, 1975-1987, and Head of Economics and Politics from 1987 until retiring in 1994.

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 15

50 Years at Barnes

Captains' logs Former Captains of School share their memories from their various decades at St Paul's since the move to Barnes

1960s

Julian English (1964-69) I think we were told that the new building was built according to the CLASP system. What we were not told that this was the acronym for the Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme which had been developed by English Local Authorities to assemble prefabricated buildings quickly and cheaply in the 50s and 60s. Nor did we know that such buildings had a short shelf life. I am indebted to John Makey, for my anecdote, and it relates to the first term at the new school when I was a Prefect and not yet Head Boy. Before term started all Prefects were given a tour of the new school so that they in turn could show other pupils round. John Makey was in the group I showed round (form 5 LZ – meaning Latin was taken). It soon became apparent that I was very unsure of which room was which as I opened doors and peered around, blustering to try and hide my own confusion; it did not seem to matter. Slightly more alarming were the repeated

The friendships forged with those cricketers remain to this day static shocks encountered when opening the doors; luxurious carpeting was the culprit. Having gained a place at university I stayed on to play cricket, captain for a second year. I shall draw a veil over the results from 1968; we were a very young team. 1969 was much better – unbeaten against school teams – and laying the foundations for the annus mirabilis enjoyed by the team led by Howard Masters the following year. The friendships forged with those cricketers remain to this day with an annual lunch in London; sadly we will be one short this year – Mark Symons, a truly kind, witty, talented person and great gully fielder. Having ‘retired’ to Dorset twelve years ago I am still working, indeed I have two jobs, one in the private sector and one in the public.

1970s Geoffrey Matthews (1972-77)

I don’t remember much stopping to smell the flowers in Colet’s beehive, with 800 souls buzzing busily around what was in effect a very confined space. A factory of learning, housed in, let’s face it, deeply unattractive factory buildings. But there was a brutalist dignity to it all, a relentless functionality that spoke to the school’s determination to get stuff done. There was no ceremony. That was no loss, perhaps, but there was precious little tradition, either: had the iconoclasm perhaps gone a bit too far? Thank goodness for Dean John’s marble words in the front hall, and Monty’s memorial room. At least there was a chapel, but I was sorry there were no more communal Latin prayers, a sonorous daily contemplation of the roots of our felicity. Instead we had the voice of Big Brother (well, Don Pirkis) issuing from the sorts of tannoys so beloved of totalitarian regimes. Those morning notices were followed by a stampede to tuckshop and common rooms, with the cheese or sausage rolls in the former providing welcome sustenance before the truly execrable lunch in the canteen had to be endured. (My contemporaries will perhaps remember Joe the kitchen porter, and the story about the mashed potatoes… I remember a biologist dropping a rat’s tail into a plate of spaghetti, and endless bowls of crumble and custard emptied into victims’ blazer pockets). The noise in the canteen must have been something else: there as everywhere there was constant activity, unbounded energy… animal energy expended on the playing fields (once the stone-picking stopped and the topsoil was finally relaid), in the sports hall and on the river; and intellectual energy expended in classroom and laboratory, in art room and music room and theatre. What vistas opened up in those classrooms… Latin and Greek became my University subjects, but I can still hear Peter Thomson lecturing passionately about Mediaeval History from behind his high lectern, rhapsodising about the ‘euphuistic, periphrastic, pleonastic Amundenesse charter…’ or about Frederick II, ‘stupor mundi.’ He’d have enjoyed St Paul’s, the Emperor Frederick, proto-Renaissance man that he was. It was a school whose treadmill was set to the highest speed: I loved it, but

16 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

I never lost the sense that others, less lucky, had got caught in the factory machinery. After reading Classics at Cambridge Geoffrey had a stint at McKinsey & Co. and then joined the Army, serving in Germany and Northern Ireland. He left the Army in 1987 and over the next 25 years worked first for research consultancy SRU and then in a variety of roles for the National Gallery, the Royal Household, the Foreign Office and the National Theatre. Since 2013 he has been Secretary and CEO of the Chelsea Arts Club.

1980s Lincoln Jopp (1981-86) Among the hundreds of memories of being in Barnes two stories stand out in my mind and both of them involve crossing the river at varying rates of knots. The prefects room had decided that we would like to do something for charity. There were very few mathematicians around. Nevertheless, we somehow managed to work out that if we

A landscape artist's perspective of the proposed School at Barnes

A favourite view for many Paulines since the move to Barnes

got a second dart board in, in 24 hours we should be able to do ‘a million and one down’. So, we had a plan – the Prefects Room 24Hour Sponsored Darts Marathon was born. The only hurdle was getting permission to be in the school overnight. Surely not a problem for prefects who were meant, after all, to be the epitome of responsibility. The Surmaster seemed somewhat unconvinced and said that we could only do it if we could get a master to agree to being there overnight too. We set about calling in favours, cajoling, blackmailing and so on. Finally, we found a master who would do it. Chris Jackson was very cool about it, as he was about most things. “Sure. Put me down for it but make sure nothing happens and that there’s no smoking in the prefects room when no one’s around. You probably won’t see me, but I’ll be around.” The deal was that we would all be on site all

night. We broke the prefects down into shifts so that there were two on each dart board at any one time. Needless to say, the lure of the pub was too great, and the off-shifts headed out. The Bridge pub and the Boileau Arms were considered ‘Masters’ pubs’ so we headed across the river and sat outside the Blue Anchor in the warm evening sun. Suddenly a fleet of fire engines came hurtling across the bridge from Hammersmith to Barnes. We thought little of it until we saw through the trees their flashing lights pulling up outside the prefects room by Big Side. Cue spilled pints and general mayhem as reality dawned on us – the school was on fire and the prefects had probably started it. We sprinted back across the bridge and down the tow path overtaking the usual dogwalkers and lovers. Oh, and Mr Jackson who himself was dashing back from the Bridge pub. The sense of panic was matched only be

the sense of relief when a burnt piece of toast, rather than a stray Silk Cut, was located as the source of the alarm. Mr Jackson and I looked sideways at one another. Not a word was spoken, but in that silence we both agreed that nothing would be mentioned of this incident ever again. The other story revolves around almost exactly the same territory. By some massive clerical error, I had been made the Captain of the school. On the day that I finished my A levels, like a Pauline homing pigeon, I was found again outside the Blue Anchor and proceeded to try to drink my body weight in pints of Directors. I was struck by the momentous nature of the day and thought that I would do my bit for posterity. “I am going to initiate ‘The Captain’s Swim’.” I slurred to my gang of Paulines and Paulinas crowding onto the pontoon down by

On the day that I finished my A levels, like a Pauline homing pigeon, I was found again outside the Blue Anchor

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 17

▲

the water’s edge. “I shall swim from here to the other side and in doing so am laying down the challenge to every captain that follows to do the same on the day that they finish their final exams. Who will come with me on this inaugural feat of endeavour?” Unsurprisingly, there weren’t many takers. It fell to the Captain of the first XV, my old mate Vince Neate, to bail me out of my embarrassment. “Go on then. I’ll do it,” he said with all the enthusiasm of Stephen Willink being asked to become the masterin-charge of cross country running. Dressed in a pair of rugby shorts I dived in. It started well, I thought, although I had rather underestimated the speed with which the tide was going out. I looked round at the half way point only to see Vincent still standing on the pontoon flicking enormous and vigorous V-signs at me. I made a gesture which was meant to suggest that he should come in and that the water was lovely. This was interpreted by my mates as a sure sign that I was in the advanced stages of drowning. So Vince dived in and the remainder all piled into cars and started driving round Hammersmith Broadway to come to my rescue. Why they didn’t just walk (run even?) across the bridge escaped me then as it escapes me now. Meanwhile I had made it two thirds of the way across and was starting to flag. With beer inspired logic, I saw the huge abutment sticking out of the water and made for it. There was a greasy rope

50 Years at Barnes 1st XI 1968. Julian English (Capt) third left front row.

hanging down and I somehow managed to haul myself up so that my feet were level with the rushing water beneath. Exhausted, I was surprised to see my mates now on the Barnes side and, miraculously, Vincent too who had somehow managed to overtake me. There was nothing else for it but to dive back in and swim the final third which I did. I got two very different tellings off for this whole incident. One from the mother of the girl who, I saw in retrospect, I was trying to impress. The other was from the High Master, Warwick Hele, who a Master had rather ungallantly dobbed me into. The High Man was much gentler than the mother. “Lincoln, I do hope that you are not encouraging anyone to follow you in attempting this foolhardy endeavour.” My classicist friends tell me that Empedocles reckoned that there were four elements. It occurs to me that my memories of St Paul’s at Barnes involve all four in some way, shape or form. In order to tie them all together in a nice neat bow, let me, like Aristotle, try to suggest that there is a fifth. So here’s to the Blue Anchor, long may she stand. Somewhat over your alloted 250 words Lincoln, but had to let this run. – Ed

1990s

Dan Snow (1991-86)

I was incredibly lucky to be part of an undefeated 1st XV side and a 1st VIII that won Henley. They were two experiences that taught me just as much as I learned in the classroom. I still get a warm glow when I look back on them now. Amazing camaraderie, hard work and great support from our coaches.

2000s Alex van Besouw (2001-06)

Reflecting back on St Paul’s in the years after the millennium the thing that stands out for me most is just how much the world was changing around us. The overriding memory I have of my first few weeks is sitting in French class on September 11th when the news came through about the attack on the twin towers. The tech revolution was already well underway by then and when my classmates and I left in 2006 the school experience was on the cusp of being revolutionised by the Internet and new tech. The School was changing throughout this period too with the arrival of Martin Stephen as High Master (along with his tie-wearing dog!), a succession of longerserving teachers departing, and plans announced to construct new facilities. The essence of the School didn’t change though. St Paul’s has always challenged its pupils to think critically and be curious. Inside and - often more importantly - outside class we were afforded numerous opportunities to broaden our horizons and prepare for the future. The things that stick with me now are the talks by speakers such as Rory Bremner, Anne Widdecombe, David Trimble and Boy George; the opportunity to act in plays like Lord of the Flies that went well above and beyond the standard you would expect of school productions; pacing it down the river in the 1st VIII during the Schools' Head; watching talented musicians in my year group hone their trade before going on to achieve commercial success; and the enduring friendships with smart and driven classmates from whom I’ve learned a huge amount.

18 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

2010s Jonathan Routley (2013-18) When I joined St Paul’s in 2013, the School looked much the same as it had for the past five decades. However, after what seems now to have been a brief five years, the site has changed dramatically; the notorious Masterplan has entered its final stages, the iconic General Teaching Building has been razed, and comments such as, “You have to admit, it does look a bit like a prison,” have become much less frequent. Although the School’s time in Barnes makes up only one tenth of its total history, it’s difficult to picture us being situated anywhere else. The Pauline experience to me is as much marked by the unique academic environment, the pupil-teacher relationship and the dedication to all manner of extracurriculars as it is by having to work around the geese when using the pitches, knowing the art to taming the 419 bus and being able to pinpoint your position on the river by the strength of smell emanating from the Fuller’s brewery. Singling out just a few moments from my time here is challenging. I’ve witnessed worldclass performances in plays and cheered on the 1st XV and VIII to famous victories. I’ve seen a time at the School where pupils have wanted to advocate more for the bursary fund, mental health provisions and outreach work. Perhaps one of my favourite recent quotations was said by a friend about my role as Captain of School in helping mediate between staff and our year-group: “Jonny, if you were any less likeable or good at your job, you definitely would’ve been punched in the face by now.” A confusing compliment, but I’ll take what I can get. It goes without saying that I will deeply miss St Paul’s, and having just left I will soon start nine months work at the Cambridge-based medical robotics firm CMR Surgical. During my time there I will re-apply to university, and afterwards I hope to travel. l Plus ça change. Top: digger in 1968, below: digger in 2018

We welcome all Old Paulines to enjoy the Caribbean charm & English country house comfort of Cobblers Cove. The hotel is surrounded by an exquisite tropical garden set right on the shore. It lies between two sandy beaches and has an award-winning restaurant. All OPs receive a 10% discount & complimentary extras when booking direct. +1 246 422 2291 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; reservations@cobblerscove.com quoting OP cobblerscove.com

Special Feature A watercolour by Alfred Waterhouse of his design for the south elevation of St Paul's School at West Kensington

Life before Barnes It is now 50 years since St Paul’s School left its fourth home in the magnificent and inspiring building in West Kensington, fronting onto the Hammersmith Road. The School occupied the building from 1884 to 1968 when it moved to Barnes, beside Hammersmith Bridge. I was lucky enough to be educated there and, as Archivist to the OPC, I’m keen to record as much as possible of life there before our living memories are lost. Tim Cunis (1955-60)

Courtesy of the RIBA Collection.

North front of SPS in 1939 from the Hammersmith Road.

Elevation view of the south front from the Cromwell Road (A4) Drawn by Alfred Waterhouse

20 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

ith this in mind projects have been initiated to find, photograph and digitise the beautiful original drawings by its noted architect, Alfred J Waterhouse, who also designed the Natural History Museum. Thirty of these drawings have eventually been located. These are held at the V&A Museum in the RIBA Collection. With funding from the OP Trust Ltd and invaluable work by Paul Velluet (1962/67) and utilising his enthusiasm and RIBA Membership, it is intended that these digitised photos will now form the basis for a two-part project for a small team of SPS pupils working under the direction of Dr Chris Harrison, Head of Computing, to generate a 3-Dimensional fly-thru virtual ‘wire’ image of the building. Phase two of this ambitious Project will be to ‘wallpaper’ this virtual image using

It is intended that these digitised photos will . . . generate a 3-D fly-thru virtual ‘wire’ image of the building archive photos of desks, lockers, wall mosaics, the organ in the Great Hall with its balcony, the Dining Room and Chapel, etc. Many of these photos can be seen in the small red book St Paul’s School in West Kensington by Mr ANG ‘Tony’ Richards who acknowledges the diligent work of (pupil) Paul Velluet, who had the foresight to take so many photos before the building was demolished to make way for blocks of flats, a Nursery School and Hammersmith & Fulham College.

I know I belong to an age that's gone, and I know I can't complain, But when I came here the Hammersmith Road was a winding country lane. The fields were green close by me, you could hear the cuckoo call, Where now the traffic roars past Latimer Court and Cadby Hall. They only have celebrities now. We used to have heroes then. The Walker generation was a generation of men: Gollancz, Compton Mackenzie, Binyon and G K C, Their lives and their books are a witness to the lessons they learnt with me.

Top Floor, showing the Lecture Theatre(s), Dining Room, Kitchen and ‘Chemistry Lab’ which became the Walker Library

And many more, who in both the wars went out to fight and fall, Their names are written in letters of gold upon my chapel wall; And D-Day, the greatest invasion that ever the world has known, Was planned within my Board Room, and planned by a son of my own. I know I'm not a beauty, but whatever the smart folk say, I can claim a kind of grandeur in my own old-fashioned way; A stateliness, that nowadays is not very often seen – Well, just look over the river, and I think you'll see what I mean. I know I belong to an age that's gone, and there's something else I know: That now the days that I loved have gone, I too would be glad to go; The days of the widow at Windsor, when Britannia ruled the waves, Before the coming of Beatle brows and Hippies and all-night raves.

1st Floor, showing the Balcony to the Great Hall, the Art School and ‘Library’ which became the Chapel Ground Floor, showing the Foyer, HM’s Board Room, Great Hall and Room 10 which became the Staff Common Room

So this is the end. There is only one more thing I want to say To my daughter across the river, a mile and an age away: When I look back to the men I reared, and back to the times I had, Well, if she does only half as well, she won't have done too bad. Anthony Jay (1941-48)

Floreat Schola Paulina!

Alfred Waterhouse Architect Alfred Waterhouse RA, 1830-1905, employed his trademark terracotta neo gothic style for St Paul’s School on the Hammersmith Road, West Kensington. Born in Aigburth, Liverpool, the eldest of the large family of a cotton broker and his wife, both Quakers, Waterhouse was educated at a Quaker boarding school in Tottenham. His Quaker connections were to be important in launching his career. Waterhouse had only been in practice for four years when he won the competition for the Manchester Courts. He would go on to become the most widely employed British architect between the years 1865-85. He also painted throughout his career, producing many fine architectural and landscape watercolours. Waterhouse’s many stand-out commissions included the Natural History Museum, London; Manchester City Hall and the National Liberal Club in Whitehall. He later became the ‘brand’ architect for a string of Prudential buildings throughout the UK.

As a second part of this ‘Fly-Thru’ Project, it is hoped to be able to open each classroom door to see a portrait photo of the appropriate Form Master, i.e.: Room 1 = Freddie Page, 2 = Jonny Usborne, 3 = Willie Gawne and MH Law, 4 = ‘Bogo’ Bennett, 5 = Phil McGuinness, etc. It would be a bonus to be able to add a wee CV anecdote to each Master’s photo to give greater vitality to this historic ‘legacy’ project. I would hope that any reader of this article who has photos, artefacts or succinct memories of their time in this remarkable building will send them to us (after prior contact because of limited space and archive

Basement, where covered playgrounds became the Fencing Salle (under the Great Hall), Armoury (under Rooms 4 & 5), the Tuck Shop (under Rooms 6 to 9) and Prefects Room (in lieu of Workshops under Rooms 12). The rooms under the Boardroom became the School Shop and CCF and Scouts’ storage rooms.

capacity) in order to add to the historic knowledge and legacy of St Paul’s and its staff and pupils in West Kensington. Please remember that today’s ephemera could be tomorrow’s valuable archive record. Don’t ditch it! If any OP or parent reading this has any Fly-Thru software knowledge or expertise which they are prepared to offer to assist this Project, we would love to hear from you. Likewise, we hope to fund these SPS pupils’ projects with OP Prizes, to be awarded after completion of each segment. If anyone is prepared to make a contribution to these Awards, it will be

much appreciated. Tribute has been paid previously to Tony Richards’s small red hardbacked 1968 book St Paul’s School in West Kensington. A few copies are still available for a nominal p&p charge. Please write to the OPC office at opcadmin@stpaulsschool.org.uk if you would like one. This book contains a thoughtful ‘Valete’ (as above) by the writer, broadcaster and director Sir Antony Jay CVO, CBE (1941/48) who co-wrote the brilliant (and currently apposite!) two British political comedy series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister in the 1980s.

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 21

Images Courtesy of the RIBA Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum

VALETE So this is the end. I've sheltered them all since eighteen-eighty-four; But now they've gone, and not one of them will ever come back any more. I suppose I had better say good bye; what else is there to say? The laughter has died, the bells are dumb, the spirit has passed away.

Interview

The Man Charged with Brexit Member of Parliament for Worcester since 2011, Robin Walker (199196) is also currently the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Exiting the European Union. You kindly gave the Old Pauline News an interview back in 2011, shortly after you had become MP for Worcester. In that article you mentioned that you and your father Peter, Lord Walker, were at odds with your opinions on Europe. It was always a complicated debate. My father started off, in the 1960s, opposing Britain’s entry into the Common Market, but became an enthusiastic supporter in the 1970s. I started off very Eurosceptic, but I joined the referendum campaign for Remain taking the view that my constituency had an EU path to travel, and that we could press for changes if we stayed in. I always accepted, though, that if the consent needed from the British people was not forthcoming we would need to find a way to leave and forge a new relationship which we are now in the process of doing. There have been lively debates around the dining room table! Could you say something about how you gained your ministerial post? In the aftermath of the referendum itself and then the leadership of the Conservative Party for which I had supported the election of Theresa May, I had at that stage been serving as a Parliamentary Permanent Secretary, effectively an aide-de-camp for a minister, over the previous three years and had hopes of being asked to join the government in some form at some point in the future. It might be assumed that having been on a Business Innovation and Skills Select Committee for a long period of time and having run various campaigns in education, I might have been asked to participate in one of those spaces. I got the call from Downing Street when I was going out to buy some lunch in Worcester on a Saturday morning asking me to join the Department for Exiting the EU working with David Davis. It came as something of a surprise! But it was such an important thing to get right and I believed that it was

important to have people from both sides of the referendum debate. I joined the department with Lord Bridges and myself on the Remain side with David Davis and David Jones on the Leave side. In my new ministerial role I immediately began meeting with a wide range of industries to understand their key requirements – what they wanted to see from a deal – doing a lot of work in my old stomping ground in the City, but also more widely with industries, automotive and aerospace for instance, that informed the summer papers that were produced in 2016, in which we

I got the call from Downing Street when I was going out to buy some lunch in Worcester on a Saturday morning published a number of suggestions on science, customs arrangements, incorporating aspects of what we wanted to see from the negotiations. Separately, we had the whole debate in Parliament about the Article 50 process – when to start, what role Parliament had to have in it etc. That was all going on at the same time, but my focus, really from the beginning, was getting the best deal for business, what is most needed. That is reflected in the recent (Chequers) White Paper. Are the messages from industry moreor-less the same now as when you first set out to listen to initial opinions? Is there greater concern now? Businesses fundamentally want certainty. They don’t like talk of ‘no deal’. But in fact, when we agreed in December, then in March the framework for the

22 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

implementation period, that was one of the key asks that businesses had been making. Initially, just a few sectors, including services, had been beating that drum, but by the time we came to the March European Council, it was pretty much a universal ask from businesses to have that settled, including businesses on the continent. It was good to get agreement on that. Of course, what we also have to do, the other area I have been involved with, is the agreement on the Irish border. I had some personal interest in that I served the PPS in Northern Ireland for a period of time. I have been quite involved in policy work around that from the start. One of the advantages of the Chequers agreement is that it allows for free movement of goods as well as people. We agreed very early on with the EU and the Irish that the common travel area would be able to continue, which deals with the movement of people on the island of Ireland. But of course to avoid any infrastructure at the border you also have to deal with the movement of goods and that’s where the suggestions within the White Paper are very important. Where would you say we are at the moment? It seems that every time the government presents a new formula it is rejected by Brussels. The negotiations were always going to be tough. We are, after all, trying to change an established system. But there are many things where we have already reached agreement – on some of the difficult issues such as ‘the money’ and protecting citizens’ rights and some of the detail of how a transition or implementation period would work. A lot of arrangements for Northern Ireland, such as the common travel area itself and the single electricity market we have also thrashed out and reached agreement. There are, of course, areas still outstanding, where we need to get things agreed over the coming months. But I would say that, hidden behind the headlines, there has actually been a great deal of progress on much of the detail. About 80 percent of the legal text of the withdrawal agreement

Interview Robin Walker MP (1991-96) is now fully agreed between the parties. We obviously have to work that up to 100 percent by the end of the year. There will be noises off throughout of course – lots of headlines. In this country the press is polarised very much on one side of the debate or the other. There are very few people who are neutral. What we have to try and do in government is not get distracted by that but focus on how you get a deal. The agreement that was reached at Chequers was helpful in that respect in that it made very clear priorities of the free flow of goods at the border avoiding any disruption for the automotive and aerospace industries for example, and for the flow of medicine in both directions. One of the points we have been making to our European counterparts is that the UK has a huge amount of expertise in pharmaceuticals and medicines and it is in no one’s interest to disrupt those supply chains. If it looks likely that a ‘no deal’ Brexit is on the cards, would the government consider extending the Article 50 negotiations beyond March next year to avoid that eventuality? I don’t think so. The focus is actually on getting the withdrawal agreement completed by this autumn in order to get ratification from the European and UK parliaments by March next year. Given that the vast majority of the legal text is already agreed, I think that there is no reason to believe that the process will overrun. What we all want to see is further detail on the future framework. That’s really what the White Paper is

Given that the vast majority of the legal text is already agreed, I think that there is no reason to believe that the process will overrun aimed at. I’m confident that both those things can be achieved before March. What we will not have is a final treaty for the future relationship with all the ‘i’s dotted etc. because that is something that the EU have said to us they can only do once we have left. So, the aim is to have a political agreement and a declaration that would set out a framework for the future relationship alongside the withdrawal agreement. It will be those that will be brought back to parliament for a meaningful vote. I don’t think there

We need to work in a way that brings people back together is any reason to extend Article 50. From a business perspective that would only add to uncertainty. Ideally, business would only want to see one set of changes and so that’s where the implementation period is very important because that gives you a two-year standstill. At the end of that you move to a new system. That makes sense from a business and investment perspective. This is something that in principle we have agreed with the EU, but in order to secure it we need to thrash out the final details of the withdrawal. Was the idea of a cross-party negotiating team ever considered? Funnily enough I don’t think it would have made a vast amount of difference. One of the things I say to my continental counterparts is that they should look at what was in the respective manifestos of the two major parties in Westminster. What they’d see is that the objectives of both are largely the same – to respect the result of the referendum, take control of immigration policy and have an independent trade policy. Of course there is going to be lively debate and it is the job of the opposition to oppose, but if you look carefully at what Keir Starmer and his team say from the Labour benches, it is very similar to what the government is saying. I don’t think we necessarily need a crossparty committee to see that there is a degree of consensus about what we need to do. I’m all in favour of working in cross-party ways and we have actually had a good relationship between our

24 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

front bench team and Labour’s which has been visible at many stages of the process. The passage of what is now the Withdrawal Act is a good example of that. We had 1,300 government amendments on that particular piece of legislation. Eventually through a process of debate and compromise, only one of them ended with a vote against the government in the Commons. We had 15 defeats in the Lords, all of which were either overturned or responded to with a compromise which allowed us to get that legislation through. That did involve a deal of consensus with the opposition. It’s right that that is how the parliamentary process works. How do you balance being a constituency MP and your role as a minister? Both jobs are all consuming. But I try to make sure that all my Fridays are spent in Worcester and getting around and doing things in the constituency. On Saturday I either go door knocking or hold a surgery. And I have a good team in Westminster who help me. In my current role I have to travel a lot. The week before last I was in Germany for two days, and Portugal and Italy for a day – trying to ensure that we land some of the messages from the White Paper and that we get a response from our European counterparts. There are also regular trips to Brussels to meet MEPs. Did David Davis’s resignation come as a shock? No, if I’m honest, it was some time in

the coming. He did have the decency to phone me to tell me he was going and that he hoped I wouldn’t as we needed people who had been in at the start to continue working on the process. We got on well, better than I might have expected before joining the department. It was something very much about his personal position on the White Paper. I respect the fact that we disagreed on the approach to that. While we need to take account of the decision to leave, we also need to remember that 48 percent of people voted to remain. We need to work in a way that brings people back together. I am therefore very comfortable with the approach as set out in the White Paper which says that yes, we are leaving, but we will have a close relationship that preserves many of the benefits of existing cooperation that has been built up over time. A people’s vote? We had one! I don’t think the result would be any different. The interesting thing to me is that when I’m in London I hear lots of people say, “Oh yes! People would now vote to stay in.” But a large majority of Londoners voted to remain in the first place. When I’m in my constituency the word, including from people who voted for remain, is actually, “Get on with it!” That’s why it is so complicated. I don’t think it will happen, technically it would make a nonsense of the negotiation process. It would just say to the EU ‘Don’t give anything because they might change their minds’. I think too, that it would just have the effect of reopening all the divides in the debates over the referendum and would most likely disappoint those who believe they could achieve a different result. So I think it is better to focus on saying this was a once in a lifetime decision, the decision was made – let’s make a success of it and deliver on that in an effective way for everybody. Robin and his wife Charlotte had a daughter, Hermione, earlier this year. His brother Jonathan (1983-88), based in London, now has a one-year child and has been making up for Robin’s lack of cricket-watching opportunities this year, while his other brother, Timothy (198893), is enjoying a new life in Devon. For more information: www.gov.uk/government/publications/ the-future-relationship-between-theunited-kingdom-and-the-europeanunion

Et Cetera

Is self-esteem Inestimable? Peter Cromarty (1966-71)

I had a privileged upbringing. I went to one of the best private schools in the UK – St Paul’s. When I left School I didn’t think I was stupid, slow and dull. I knew I was.

struggled all through School and had a very low opinion of my abilities as a person both intellectually and academically. I was reserved and shy. I had low self-confidence and very poor self-image. Please don’t misunderstand – I wasn’t bullied, I didn’t self-harm and I wasn’t suicidal. I just didn’t think much of myself. Other kids did much better than me academically and seemed naturally more confident and able. In those days there were no support services or mental health programmes except, perhaps, to be told to “be a man!” That was life and I accepted my lot. I worked really hard all day to keep up, I worked in the evenings doing my homework for two, three or four hours. I would spend several hours at the weekend on schoolwork. I did project work during the school holidays and revised hard for examinations. But in every subject I was always in the lowest third of the class and, frequently, I was dead last. Suffice it to say, I left school with very low self-esteem. Roll forward to 1994. I was happily married and had two marvellous children. I had worked in the UK and Bahrain as a controller and safety regulator, had faced various challenges and was quietly quite proud of my achievements. However, my career had not really progressed, Then, quite unexpectedly, my wife left me and we were divorced. I had a very bad time for about four or five years. Looking back, I was probably suffering with depression, but it wasn’t diagnosed. However… a big ‘however’, I came out of the lowest point of my life and started up the other side. I recognised in myself that I had done some pretty amazing things in my life. I was physically fit and healthy, I was not as sad as I recently had been, I had been promoted at work a couple of times and was feeling much better about myself. And that was when it first occurred to

me that, perhaps, I was not as thick and stupid and slow as I had always thought! I was 47 years old. This wasn’t a blinding flash type of realisation. It was a gradual change in my outlook and my feeling about myself. It had taken me 29 years from leaving school but I was becoming more selfconfident. My self-esteem was growing. At work, I was given some plum jobs and was sought out for more when other similar tasks came along. I went to Ghana, Mauritius, Finland, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands on business. I was asked to take over underperforming sections to bring them up-tospeed and given under-performing staff to manage and look after. My seniors must have seen something in me that I was still only just beginning to realise about myself! I won a management post in a new area against stiff competition. In 2006, I received an email from a recruitment company in Melbourne saying there was a job being created in the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in Australia and would I be interested? I thought it was some sort of scam and that they would be asking for my bank details next. (Evidently my old self-doubt hadn’t disappeared completely!) Six months later I was in Australia working for CASA as an Executive Manager. I’ve just turned 65 and I am happier than I have ever been in my life. I firmly believe that my low self-esteem stemmed originally from being among such high-achievers when I was a boy at School. I was always at the bottom of the class and this fact was a continual humiliation to me. If one has self-esteem, the potential for success is more likely to be fulfilled and academic success is more likely to follow. If one lacks self-esteem, no matter how good the school, academic success is unlikely to follow and that same lack of self-esteem will inhibit professional success – potentially for one’s entire working life. The importance of self-esteem cannot be overstated or underestimated. l See the full article at www.thecrom.com/blog

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 25

The Old Pauline Club Message from the President Building a Club for OPs of all ages Last year, making sure we were compliant with GDPR took up a sizeable proportion of the Club’s time and I am very grateful to those who made it their priority to make sure we understood the complexities of the new rules. The Old Pauline Club also funded, for the first time, a student’s complete education at the School with

a new OPC Bursary award. I am very proud that we managed to achieve this, reflecting the School’s ultimate ambition to become ‘needs blind’. Going forward, we need to take a long look at how we’d like the Club to develop. Times have changed so much since I was at School – what might have worked then bears no resemblance to what might appeal today. In order for us to build a picture of where the Club is heading and what we would all like to see it become, we will need some empirical evidence to guide us. We especially need to ensure the Club is relevant to younger generations of OPs who will instantly recognise its value, be it social, cultural or commercial. We are now beginning to see an increase in the numbers of engaged

Events

Researchers Network Evening

ld Pauline and Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist, Prof Duncan Haldane, was visiting from the States to be this year’s Apposer at Apposition. The Researchers Network Evening sought to make the most of his visit by bringing together pupils, parents, OPs, staff and former staff with an interest in scientific research. During a lively and energetic evening, staff and pupils presented research projects and experiments that attendees could engage with. The High Master and Prof Duncan Haldane both commented on the work and on the importance of science.

Main photo: the Augmented Reality Sandbox at St Paul's, bringing physical geography to life – modelling water flows across any shape of topography. (inset) Prof Duncan Haldane

26 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

OPs thanks to the superb efforts and professionalism of Ellie Sleeman and her incredible External Relations team. But we can do more. My ambition for the Club is for it to become a vibrant and inspirational hub for OPs of all ages. I particularly look forward to reading your responses to the survey I recently asked you to complete. These will help us to prioritise those aspects of your membership you would like us to improve on or develop. The word ‘old’ can be misleading when applied to ‘Old Paulines’. Certainly some of us enjoy some advancing years, but as a community of former Paulines, young, middle-aged or indeed old, we are all extremely fortunate to be part of an extraordinarily dynamic pool of people drawn together by the shared experience of attending a great school. The Club seeks Rob Smith (1981-86) to reflect this.

opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk l 020 8746 5390

Old Pauline Club Committee List 2018/19 President R J Smith Deputy President B M Jones 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, Sir Nigel Thompson KCMG CBE Vice Presidents P R A Baker, R S Baldock, J S Beastall CB, S C H Bishop, J R Blair CBE, Sir David Brewer CMG, CVO, N E Britnor, N St J Brooks, R D Burton, W M A Carroll, Professor P A Cartledge, M A Colato, R K Compton, T J D Cunis, S J Dennis MBE, L M Dorfman CBE, C R Dring, C G Duckworth, A R Duncan, J A H Ellis, R A Engel, D H P Etherton, The Rt Hon Sir Terence Etherton, Sir Brian Fall GCVO KCMG, T J R Goode, D J Gordon-Smith, Lt Gen Sir Peter Graham KCB CBE, S R Harding, R J G Holman, J A Howard, B M Jones, S D Kerrigan, P J King, T G Knight, P A Leppard, B Lowe, J W S Lyons, I C MacDougall, Professor C P Mayer, R R G McIntosh, A R M McLean CLH, I C McNicol, A K Nigam, The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, T B Peters, D M Porteus, The Rt Hon the Lord Razzall CBE, The Rt Hon the Lord Renwick of Clifton KCMG, B M Roberts, J E Rolfe, Sir David Rowland, 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, Sir Mark Walport FRS, Professor the Lord Winston of Hammersmith

OPClub Annual Dinner

his year’s Annual Dinner returned to School and to the new Dining Hall. This was another wonderful opportunity to formally bring together Old Paulines to reconnect, to see new School developments and to bid farewell to retiring staff - Richard Barker and Philip Berg. This year’s guest speaker was Jonathan Foreman (1979-83), who shared entertaining tales of adventure and moral dilemmas from his career so far as a war correspondent. The High Master, Prof Mark Bailey then related amusing stories from the year at St Paul’s and provided insight into the School’s future. President of the Club, Rob Smith, presiding over the evening, explained his thoughts and ideas about the future of the Club and the challenges it faces.

Engineering Network

he Engineering Network, part of the St Paul’s Professional Networks Programme, launched in Summer Term 2018, with a exciting panel filled with Engineers from across the Network. Nearly 150 guests attended and quizzed the panel on the future of Engineering. Guests then moved to the Dining Hall for a thought provoking dinner where each table was chaired by an expert in the sector. St Paul’s own Formula 24 team showcased their car and their work to guests, and the Engineering Department displayed some of their pupils' incredible work, highlighting the developments in the curriculum over the past few years.

Honorary Secretary A C Day Honorary Treasurer N St J Brooks FCA

John Foreman

The Millennium Sundial: 18 Years On

n the late 1990s, 400 OPs, parents and pupils donated towards the Millennium Sundial. During the recent building work, the sundial was put into storage. This summer it was reunveiled on 16 June in its new position outside the Wathen Hall by the river. All donors were invited to a drinks reception for the unveiling.

Main Committee Composed of all the above and P R A Baker OP Lodge, A Riley Rugby Football Club, S C H Bishop Editor OP News; T J D Cunis (Archivist & AROPS representative), N P Troen Association Football Club, J P King Colet Boat Club, P J King Fives (OPRFC) & Membership Secretary, N H Norgren Elected; T B Peters Cricket Club, J Withers-Green Social Engagement Officer, J Morgan Golfing Society, D C Tristao Tennis Club Executive Committee R J Smith President (& Chairman of the Committee), A C Day Hon Secretary, N St J Brooks Hon Treasurer, S C H Bishop Editor, OP News, R D Burton Secretary for Affiliated Clubs & Associations;, N J Carr TDSSC Ltd Representative, J H M East (Elected), J A Howard Liaison Committee Chairman; B M Jones Deputy President, P J King Membership Secretary, J Withers-Green Social Engagement Officer Liaison Committee J A Howard Chairman, T B Bain, I M Benjamin, N J Carr, R J G Holman Ground Committee J M Dennis Chairman, R K Compton, G Godfrey (Groundsman), M P Kiernan, J Sherjan Accountants Kreston Reeves LLP Trustees C D L Hogbin Chairman, J S Beastall CB, C R Dring R C Cunis

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 27

Old Pauline Club reunions

10-year

Welcome back! The reunion programme is now established at St Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with five year groups returning to the School each year to reconnect. Each year reunion is led by a dedicated group of volunteers who reach out to former classmates and direct the format of the evening. Judging by these pictures, looks like a good time was had by all!

Shop for your OPC Merchandise Online

Order your Summer (top) or regular OP blazers

Choose, order and pay for your items online. Try it now! opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk/ shop/merchandise

Merchandise

28 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk l 020 8746 5390

20-year

25-year

30-year

40-year OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 29

Obituaries Name

(at SPS)

Michael J Brown Christopher M Crichton Paul A Dare Hugh L Davy Martin R Farr Prof Robert D Fine John R D (Denis) Gildea Prof David W Goodall William D (David) Harper Robert Hutchison Roger I W Kemp Rev Ian A Lambert Michael (Mike) J Long Basil E Lord Robin G Macdonald Julian Mandiwall Philip G F Manning Philip H S Martin Graham R Perry Robert A Pollock Colin R Rosenstiel Harvey B Ross John E P (Peter) Simpson Sir David C Smith Geoffrey P Stevens Marcus (Mark) R J Symons Geoffrey S G Toms Admiral Sir John D Treacher KCB Keith L Watson Prof Richard (Dick) Wilson Peter S Wisher Edward S (Steve) Woodward

1955-58 1946-51 1959-62 1947-52 1965-69 1959-63 1938-42 1927-32 1946-52 1954-60 1959-64 1956-59 1948-53 1938-42 1943-48 1957-60 1968-73 1963-67 1957-61 1954-59 1963-67 1942-46 1955-59 1945-48 1945-49 1965-70 1947-53 1938-42 1943-46 1939-43 1965-70 1953-58

1941-2018 1933-2017 1946-2017 1933-2018 1952-2018 1945-2018 1923-2018 1914-2018 1933-2017 1941-2017 1945-2018 1943-2017 1935-2018 1924-2018 1929-2018 1944-2018 1955-2017 1949-2017 1944-2018 1941-2018 1949-2018 1928-2018 1942-2018 1930-2018 1932-2017 1951-2018 1934-2018 1924-2018 1929-2017 1926-2018 1952-2017 1940-2017

Viera Ghods Section editor vg@stpaulsschool.org.uk Because of space constraints we ask that when submitting an obituary for publication, it be no more than 325 words. Longer obituaries will be edited to fit with author’s permission. * Indicates obituaries also appeared in the national broadsheet newspapers. ** Indicates longer obituaries also appearing on the OPC website: opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk/pages/obituaries

30 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

Paul A Dare (1959-62)**

Hugh L Davy (1947-52)

Paul was born on 5 January 1946. He died on 10 October 2017 at home surrounded by his family after a two-and-ahalf-year battle with cancer. Paul grew up in West London and the Isle of Wight and was a boarder at Colet Court and St Paul’s until 1962. Leaving school at 16, Paul began a lifelong career in finance when he joined Vickers Da Costa as an articled clerk. He completed his A-Levels at evening classes and read Accounting and Finance at the LSE. Paul’s financial career took him to work in oil, computer technology, pharmaceuticals and banking. Paul was keenly interested in politics, coming close to running as a candidate for the Social Democratic Party in 1983. He campaigned for the Liberal Democrats, before joining the Conservatives, chairing the local party. Paul’s eye for detail and knack at Pauline-schooled argumentation led to many letters of his to The Times and The Financial Times being published. Regardless of his political affiliation, he worked tirelessly for his community and we were touched by the many who approached us following his death with stories of how he had helped them with personal issues over the years. Paul was an excellent sportsman, captaining the Junior Colts and Colts A XV. He carried on this love of sport, playing occasionally for the OPs, but also acquiring a lifelong love of rowing. The blazers of his fellow rowers from Kingston Rowing Club provided a welcome splash of colours at his funeral. He rowed in red, but for football blue was the colour, a tradition now followed by his Chelsea-supporting sons and grandsons. Paul is survived by his wife, two sons, four grandchildren all of whom miss him terribly. We remember him most poignantly when we holiday in Scotland, speak French poorly, see a sculler on the river, or find there is no-one to interrupt during family meals.

Born in Chiswick, Hugh was the first son of Ronald and Vera Davy. His birth was remarkable as he was born still inside the ‘caul’. Legend says that people born this way will never drown; a fact which was to be tested years later in Hugh’s rowing career! During the war Hugh was sent away to boarding school in Loughborough where, as he was only 7, he boarded with the girls. At 13 he returned to London to begin his schooling at St Paul’s. There Hugh developed his lifelong love of rowing. He rowed for the school and, until the veteran age of 84, was a devoted member of Quintin boat club. Hugh completed his National Service in the RAF in Nairobi, leaving behind his girlfriend, Shirley, whom he later married in May 1959. Whilst in Kenya he learnt Swahili, a language he enjoyed using at any opportunity throughout his life. In 1954, like his father before him, Hugh began a career in shipbroking, later to be followed by his younger brother John. A member of the Baltic exchange from 1958, he spent the majority of his career, working for Tradax, later Cargill PLC. Hugh had many and varied interests; driving and tinkering with his Morris Minors and his pride and joy “Hektor”, the MGA. A lifelong learner, Hugh took his Italian A level in his seventies. He loved travelling particularly in France and Italy and had a fondness for the Lake District which he visited every year. A kind and loving man, Hugh leaves a wife, Shirley, and daughters Alison and Katie. He was a wonderful “papa” to grandchildren, Matthew, Christopher, Jessica, Charlie and Harry; Hugh was thrilled to welcome a new great granddaughter, Emily, shortly before he died. He will be greatly missed by his friends and family.

Tom (1989-94) and Felix Dare, sons

Shirley Davy, widow

opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk l 020 8746 5390

Prof David W Goodall (1927-32)*

William D (David) Harper (1946-52)**

The Revd Ian A Lambert (1956-59)

A renowned botanist and ecologist, David William Goodall was of the first scientists to consider the ‘greenhouse effect’. Goodall’s work, using statistics and mathematics to substantiate his theories was ground-breaking. He was an early adopter of computer programmes for classifying vegetation and for modelling ecosystems. But his crowning achievement was his editorship of the 36-volume work Ecosystems of the World completed in 2005. Born in April 1914, Goodall attended the Stationers’ Company School before joining St Paul’s. Here he took to biology rather than his early interest in chemistry before going on to study botany at Imperial College London. His PhD focused on maximising food production with fertilisers, work considered so important he was prevented from joining up during WWII. His thesis, Studies in the Assimilation of the Tomato Plant, was published in 1941, a year after his marriage to Veronica Kirwin. They had a son, Patrick, but the marriage wasn’t to last. After the war, Goodall was employed by the African Cacao Research Institute as a plant physiologist in Tafo, Ghana. He later moved to Australia in 1948 where he married Muriel King. They had two sons, Glyn and Peter and a daughter Karen. His second marriage also dissolved and David married a third time, to Ivy Nelms. Goodall began a long academic career at the University of Melbourne, then the Tobacco Research Institute in Queensland, as Professor of Agricultural Botany at the University of Reading and later in the US as Professor of Systems Ecology at Utah State University. He was a research scientist at various Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) divisions in Australia. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia. Goodall enjoyed acting in amateur theatre. He was also a poet, an adventurous traveller and a keen tennis player. Never one to seek publicity, Goodall became notorious in a well-publicised journey to Switzerland where he elected to end his life by voluntary euthanasia aged 104.

David was born in Liverpool and spent the war in North Wales. He then attended St Paul’s where he preferred to box rather than join the CCF because of his pacifist views. He also played rugby and was later selected to play for Surrey County. David always spoke very fondly of his time at School. As a committed Quaker and Pacifist David became a hospital porter rather than do his National Service. This led him to study Medicine at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Whilst a student, David ventured to Moscow, with other Quakers, to establish links with young Russians. After graduating, he worked at the Middlesex Hospital, where he met nurse, Eleanor Woolley, daughter of the President of the NFU, Lord Woolley. They married in 1961 and worked at Clatterbridge Hospital on the Wirral. Then David took up General Practice in West Kirby. They had three children. A much-loved GP, David was involved in research into epilepsy and ran a pioneering clinic for drug addicts. He also spearheaded the campaign to save Hoylake Cottage Hospital and to open St John’s Hospice. In 1990 he and Eleanor bought an eleven-hundred-acre farm on the slopes of Snowdon. This was the happiest time of their lives as they farmed a thousand sheep and thirty cattle. David sang in Welsh in a local choir and attended Bangor Quaker Meeting. After Eleanor’s death in 1999, David sold the farm and moved to Cambridge to be near his son, James, then later to the Isle of Mull to be near his daughter. There he joined the Gaelic Choir and with his daughter set up Mull and Iona Quaker Meeting. He made many friends and was much loved by the local community who cared for him as his dementia developed. David died a peaceful death in the local cottage hospital on the Isle of Mull in August 2017. He leaves behind him his children: Andrew, Katharine and James and grandchildren: Grace, Hamish, Ben, Robert, Lauren, William and Daisy.

Ian was ordained as a deacon in 1967 and as a priest in 1968. He was Curate at Bermondsey, St Mary Magdalen with St Olave, St John & St Luke in the Southwark Diocese from 1967-70. Ian was Rector in Lluidas Vale, Jamaica from 1971-75, and was Chaplain to the RAF from 1975-98. After many happy postings with his family in the UK and Germany, Ian retired from the RAF as a Wing Commander in 1998. Ian then chose to relocate to Nottinghamshire and became honorary Priest-in-Charge at Averham, St Michael & All Angels with Kelham and at North & South Muskham in the Southwell & Nottingham Diocese from 2001-03. Ian also became a fully qualified marriage guidance counsellor for Relate and he served in the Nottingham & Mansfield district. This also led him to becoming a counsellor trainer, working with and training other Relate counsellors in his chosen field. Ian served as Bishop’s Advisor for Pastoral Care and Counselling from 2004, and then served with Permission to Officiate from 2014. Ian died peacefully at the John Eastwood hospice, Mansfield on 9 September 2017, aged 74, after a twoyear fight with cancer. He is survived by his son Stuart and daughter Claire. A plaque to mark Ian’s life can be found at St Wilfrid’s Church, North Muskham, the final church Ian served as vicar.

Stuart Lambert, son

Katharine Elwis, daughter

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 31

Obituaries Michael (Mike) J Long (1948-53)

Robin G Macdonald (1943-48)**

Mike was born in Kew on the 21 May 1935. He attended Colet Court then St Paul’s, spending most of his time at West Kensington with a brief period at Crowthorne. Despite not being particularly academic, he loved the School, making many friends there with whom he kept in contact with throughout his life, including the brother of his wife to be. Whilst at St Paul’s he loved rowing, a failing of the Long family, and made his way up the Boat Club. Mike was 17 when his father tragically died. The School supported him through his final year – rowing coach Freddie Page becoming something of a father figure. In 1953, he stroked the first VIII to victory in the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley. After leaving School, he decided on a career in the army and did his National Service at Sandhurst, training to be an officer. Shortly before finishing his training, Mike was involved in a terrible car crash which left him badly injured. He was invalided out of the army and had to consider another career. He briefly worked for Watneys before joining the City as a Blue Button. He was to remain working in the City for the rest of his professional career, specialising in the mining market. He continued rowing at Thames RC, reaching the final at Henley in 1958 and 1962; and he always attended the regatta throughout his life, the Bridge Bar being a favourite haunt. He was also active in politics, whether on the Parish Council in West Hoathly or, later, as Chairman of the West Berkshire Conservatives. He loved walking his dog, Alf, and was well known around the village of Shalbourne for his habit of wearing shorts in all weathers and the friendly way he would greet fellow dog walkers. Mike died in May 2018. He is survived by his wife Susan, his daughter Katie, his sons Chris and Ben and seven grandchildren.

Robin Garfield Macdonald, known inevitably as Mac, died in April 2018 aged 88. He was at St Paul’s during the School’s ‘Crowthorne’ years. He recalled how, cycling for lessons along the Berkshire lanes, boys would find small, corrugated iron huts stuffed with ammunition lying ready for local defence. Obviously, it was also there so that boys could take the powder from shells to make rockets. However, less unauthorised activities included boxing, tutored by coach Begley and chemistry master, Bo Langham. St Paul’s had such a reputation that the army declined boxing matches, saying it was not good for military morale to be always beaten by schoolboys! Unluckily, Mac had ‘a glass jaw’ which meant he was too easily knocked out. Joining the CCF and shooting for the School at Bisley, Mac’s foremost skill became clear. His father gave him his WW1 Luger pistol. It was faulty, though, which saved the day when Mac was hauled before the High Man for shooting through the cricket pavilion! Oakshott knew a bit about firearms, decided the Luger was ‘inert’, and handed it back. Mac thus went unpunished but was admonished: “Don’t go showing it about”. At Crowthorne, Mac’s house was Barracane, ruled benignly by ‘Boss’ A B Cook. Friendships among Cook’s students have lasted for life, with their wives and families staying in touch. Mac was in the Royal Military Police during National Service. He once came across three OP soldiers out of bounds but let them escape before his fellow RMPs discovered them. One of them was Patrick Bashford who 30 years later was teaching guitar at the School. He laughed when recalling the incident at a reunion lunch. The family heating engineering firm provided a job, but Mac’s greatest achievements were in pistol shooting. He represented Scotland in the Commonwealth Games and World Championships and helped establish shooting as a Paralympic sport. Finally, he took up safe, bullet-free ‘laser’ shooting for corporate entertainment and charity events, until he was almost eighty.

Chris Long (1976-80), son

Seamus Flannery (1942-47), friend & Madeline Macdonald, widow

32 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

Philip G F Manning (1968-73) Phil was educated at St Paul’s, following the Manning family tradition, and in 1973 won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford, to read Classics.

After a law conversion course, Phil joined a West London firm of solicitors, although he considered himself first and foremost a musician. It was through playing music at Holy Trinity Brompton that he met his wife, Cas, marrying her there in 1987. Passionate about percussion, rhythm and drumming, he became particularly interested in their therapeutic properties. In 1995 he founded BeatsTHINKING, and with a colleague began delivering corporate, team-building percussion workshops, both in the UK and Europe; they also worked in schools and with healthcare professionals. Phil was interviewed by both the BBC World Service and the Evening Standard. With strong interests in history, current affairs, language and philosophy, Phil was an avid reader and loved indepth discussions. He was also, in more recent years, a keen photographer. Phil’s Christian faith was very important to him and in 2006 he left the legal profession, becoming Church Manager of two historic churches in the City of London, St Olave Hart Street and St Katharine Cree, where he was also Church Warden. He oversaw several restoration projects and collaborated to provide engaging educational experiences at St Olave’s, Samuel Pepys’s ‘own church’. Kind, thoughtful and often giving generously of his time to help others, Phil became a Trustee of Cruse Bereavement Care. Diagnosed with a rare lymphoma (Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinaemia) in 2010, he and a fellow patient turned a basic patient support group into the charity, WMUK. Phil also sat on the board of the European WM Network. Very sadly, he succumbed to the lymphoma in October 2017, leaving behind his wife and two children, Greg and Nicola. One of many tributes read: ‘The world has lost a fine, fine man.’

Cas Manning, widow

opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk l 020 8746 5390

Philip H S Martin (1963-67)

Robert A Pollock (1954-59)

Geoffrey P Stevens (1945-49)

Philip Howard Spencer Martin was born on the 8 September 1949 to Reginald and Mary Martin. As a young boy he attended Durston House Preparatory School and was ‘Victor Ludorum’ in his final year. He won a scholarship to St Paul’s, enjoying all its delights, especially rugby. Philip went on to study medicine at Charing Cross Hospital but an aversion to blood steered him towards a career in banking! Philip joined Morgan Grenfell in 1969 where gentleman’s hours were honoured - 9.30 am to 5 pm - which rather suited him as he could often be seen heading out of the door at 5 pm on the dot in frilly shirt and flares to run a mobile discotheque ‘Get on the Right Track’ with John Freestone and Tony Lewis (both former St Paul’s students). Philip moved to Udisco Brokers in 1972 and then on to First Boston in New York. The majority of Philip’s working life was spent at the Deutsche Bank trading Deutschmarks before moving to ABN Amro and finally looking after the computer systems in a local secondary school. Philip married Joy in 1982 taking on two young boys (Robin and Jonathan) and having two more children (Kathryn and Adam). The family home was in Little Bentley where Saturdays would usually be spent renovating the property and Sundays mowing the grass. Family holidays were spent investigating the wine areas around France – a passion close to his heart. Unfortunately that enormous heart that embraced family and the many friends he made throughout his lifetime began to let him down and he took great comfort in ‘thinking about’ making model trains and listening to Bob Dylan. His dignity and respect for others never left him and he will be remembered as a greatly loved son, husband and father who was a larger than life character with a passion for fun and life, which sadly he lost on 15 August 2017.

Robert Alexander Pollock, the second son of Lt Col CBR Pollock RAMC and Eileen Pollock, was born on 18 September 1941, younger brother to Nicholas Pollock (195257) and brother to Laura. At St Paul’s, Robert joined Mr Harbord at High House. Robert later graduated from Geneva University. On return to London he joined Hambros Bank. He then joined Lombank, a subsidiary of NatWest Bank. He then moved to Bexford, a subsidiary of ICI producing specialised film bases used extensively in the photographic film and X Ray industries. While at Bexford, Robert was sales manager responsible mainly for sales to communist eastern bloc countries – the Soviet Union, Poland and Hungary – during the later stages of the Cold War, plus South America. After three years with Bexford, he followed his uncle and aunts into the Foreign Office. Amongst his postings were as First Secretary in Calcutta, Bombay then Kuala Lumpur. After a career in the Foreign Office Robert joined Photo Me as International Business Development Manager, again travelling extensively, this time in a much freer Europe but also to Asia, the Middle East and New Zealand. His last position was as Export Advisor with Business Link supporting SME’s to export overseas. Robert retired to Mandelieu, near Cannes in the South of France, where he spent many happy years with his lovely French wife Helene. They had two children, a son Jack and a daughter Danièle. Sadly Danièle died at the very young age of 21 from a severe cerebral haemorrhage – a blow which he found very difficult to accept. Robert was always a generous host and wonderful company. He will be greatly missed by his Old Pauline cousins Bowen and Simon Wells. He is survived by his brother Nicholas, his sister Laura and his son Jack and daughter in law Jacqui who live in Sydney, Australia with their two adult children Zoe and Fred. He was predeceased by his wife Helene some three years before his death in March 2018.

Geoff passed away suddenly at home in April 2017 just a few days after his 85th birthday. He was the youngest of my mother’s four cousins, and I did not really know him until about 10 years ago. We had met on a few occasions prior to that, but sadly always at family funerals. On one such occasion he was driving from the crematorium between the cars of my two brothers in law. However, they returned from the Service without him. Somehow he lost them and never arrived at the wake! So typical of Geoff. After he left school, Geoff started work in the parks department of a local London authority. He joined the Territorial Army and met his future wife (not that he knew it at the time). Geoff enjoyed adventure. In the late 1950s he took up employment in the City Parks Department in Nairobi but feeling constrained joined the Forest Department and enjoyed being in charge of huge areas of forest or semi-desert. He enjoyed an active social life, joining the Mountain Club of Kenya. Stories shared indicated he was an interesting person to go exploring with! Whilst on home leave five years later he met up with Avis and they married in 1963. She followed him out to Kenya where they lived in remote forests in the hills, eventually moving nearer towns after Kenya gained independence. Avis was able to return to her teaching career working with Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi. They came back to England in the mid 80s and settled in Banstead: Geoff returning to work in the parks department of a London authority and Avis, her teaching. Life was very different and to settle they took an active role in the local church and local societies – involvement Geoff maintained until his death. He enjoyed community involvement, music, the arts, history and spent a lot of time travelling. In their camper van they extensively toured the UK. Avis predeceased him. We miss him and his kindly nature.

Adam Martin, son and Family

Nicholas Pollock (1952-57), brother

Shelley Carson, cousin

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 33

Obituaries Marcus (Mark) R J Symons (1965-70)

Geoffrey S G Toms (1947-53) **

Admiral Sir John D Treacher KCB (1938-42) *

Born in 1951, the son of author and poet, Julian Symons, Mark went to Colet Court as a boarder at the tender age of seven. Later, at St Paul’s, his interest in literature and history blossomed, and he represented both the Rugby XV, as a stylish centre, and Cricket XI (elegant batsman and brilliant close fielder) with considerable success. From here he went to London University, where he studied History, became Entertainments Secretary and met his future wife, Christine. On leaving university, Mark joined Lonsdales Advertising agency where he worked on the EMI records account. During this time he played both rugby and cricket for the OPs until his knees gave him an excuse to give up the former, while continuing to play cricket for Blackheath and then Bromley. Some years later, Mark went on to work with fellow OP, Mike Paul, before eventually setting up his own company, QRBT. After living in London for many years, Mark and Christine moved down to the Kent coast in 2007, where Mark enjoyed country living and the seaside. Mark was a superbly talented individual - not only at sport, but across a broad range of interests, including bridge, music and literature - as well as being a member of the MCC, regular visitor to Lords, and long suffering supporter of Charlton Athletic. He was also an excellent cook, superb host and had a tremendous sense of humour. Above all, Mark was a wonderful family man, with one son and two daughters. He was a proud and hands-on grandfather for the last three years of his life. I have had the pleasure of enjoying an annual pre-Christmas lunch with him and a few old school friends, in particular Peter Kaufmann (1965 - 1970) and Julian English (1964 - 1969) for over 40 years. He was a dear friend to all of us. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2017, Mark died at home in March 2018. He will be sadly missed by friends and family alike.

Born in Twickenham in February 1934, Geoffrey Toms, who died on 12 May 2018, aged 84 years, was educated at the Mall prep school before winning a scholarship to St Paul’s. During his five years there, Geoffrey became a prefect and captain of his house, and participated in cricket and boxing, winning his second colours. In 1953, Geoffrey went up to Downing College, Cambridge, with an exhibition to read classics with classical archaeology. After gaining his degree (Part I: first; Part II, upper second), and completing his two years of National Service as a lieutenant in the Royal Signals, Geoffrey undertook a Diploma in Education at Oxford University. Geoffrey taught classics first at Birkenhead Grammar School and later at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, where he began running excavations of RomanoBritish sites in Dorset, with boys from Blundell’s and Birkenhead to help with the digging. One of their most important finds was the skeleton of a late Iron Age warrior with all his weapons, which was displayed for many years in the Dorchester Museum. In 1968, Geoffrey moved from schoolteaching into adult education, taking on the role of deputy warden, and later warden, at Attingham Hall, an adult education college in Shropshire, and simultaneously holding the post of staff lecturer in the Department of Extramural Studies at Birmingham University, while continuing to participate in archaeological digs. In 1977, Geoffrey moved back to London to take up the role of Education Officer at the Museum of London, later becoming Director of the Education Department, a post he remained in until his retirement in 1994. Geoffrey then launched a very successful second career as a freelance lecturer on the history and archaeology of London and the eastern Mediterranean, giving one-off lectures and weekend courses, lecturing on cruise ships, and conducting his own study tours to all the most important historical sites in his field.

John Devereux Treacher was born in 1924 in Concepcion, Chile. His family moved back to England when the Chilean currency collapsed during the Wall Street Crash. On his return he shared a governess with the daughters of a Royal Navy captain who gave him a life-changing first glimpse of the service on a visit to Chatham Dockyard. Treacher would go on to serve as Commander-in-Chief Fleet from 1975-77, completing 35 years-service that began when he left Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth as a midshipman. At St Paul’s, Treacher was a prefect and played for the cricket 1st XI and rugby 1st XV. With his interest in the Royal Navy he became an enthusiastic member of the Sea Cadet Corps. Treacher went to sea immediately after graduating from Dartmouth, serving two years aboard the battleship HMS Nelson, which provided gunfire support for the Sicily landings in 1943. During D-Day, he was on board light cruiser HMS Glasgow, which bombarded Omaha Beach. He then joined the U-boat hunter HMS Keppel guarding Arctic convoys, a task he described as “the greatest test of all.” He later joined HMS Mermaid as sublieutenant. After WWII he joined the Fleet Air Arm ‘s 800 Squadron, flying a Supermarine Seafire Mk 47 from HMS Triumph at the start of the Korean War. After Korea, Treacher learnt about airborne early warning in the US, where he met his first wife, Patcie McGrath with whom he had two children. Returning to Britain, he set up 778 Squadron, introducing the capability into the Fleet Air Arm. After his first marriage dissolved he married Kirstie Landale with whom he had two children. Retiring from the navy in 1977, Treacher embarked on a civilian career, first as CE of National Car Parks before a surprise appointment as Chairman of London’s Playboy Club. But he returned full-time to defence as deputy chairman of Westland Group during its financial crisis in the late 1980s. He is survived by his wife Kirstie and children Jonathan, Alison, Toby and Mhairi.

Howard Masters (1964-70), friend

Fiona Weston, daughter-in-law

34 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk l 020 8746 5390

Keith L Watson (1943-46)

Prof Richard (Dick) Wilson (1939-43)* **

Peter S Wisher (1965-70)

Keith was a man of many talents – teacher, historian, author, artist and illustrator to name but a few. He was born into a family with classical music professions. His mother was a pianist, and his father was a founder member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in which he was the principal contra bass player, the same role taken eventually by Keith’s brother Roy. 1940: Keith and his parents relocated from London to Bristol during WWII. The Government and the BBC in its wisdom selected the City from which the LPO would broadcast to boost the country’s morale with classical music. It was in Bristol that Keith found his first teaching role at the mature age of eleven, introducing the members of the ARP to aircraft recognition for two years, after which he was presented with a service medal of which he was very proud. 1940-46: Keith chose art as his future life’s profession and vocation with some of his most formative years spent at St Paul’s. He told me his time there was the finest of his young life. Many of his teachers and boyhood friends were to figure throughout his life. 1946-51: Keith entered St Martin’s School of Art and gained The National Diploma in Design, specialising in illustration. He went on to achieve many more diplomas in various colleges and institutes. 1955: After a brief time in advertising studios Keith turned to teaching. 1965-82: After realising many of his ambitions, Keith finally attained the post of Director of MA Studies in Art and Design at the University of Kent, before retiring to ‘Martlets’ his splendid house with spectacular gardens in Stelling Minnis, Canterbury where he and I spent many evening discussing every subject one could imagine. 2017: Keith passed away in Canterbury General Hospital in the early hours of the 7th May 2017. The world lost a great mind, a lovely being, a talented and gifted man, but most importantly to me he was my best friend and will be sadly missed forever more.

Richard Wilson died in Needham, Massachusetts, on May 19, 2018. He was born in Putney, London, on 29 April 1926, the youngest of four brothers who went to Colet Court and became Foundation Scholars at St Paul’s. They all joined Scout Troop I (13th Hammersmith), of which Chris Heath was Scoutmaster. He went with a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, initially reading Mathematics under Theodore Chaundy and then switching to Physics. He earned his BA in 1946 and a DPhil in 1949. He received a Fulbright award for a year at Rochester, New York, and a second year at Stanford University, California. There he met Andrée DuMond, marrying after a whirlwind courtship in 1952. There was a brief spell back in the UK as a research lecturer at Christ Church, and in 1955 Dick joined Harvard, where he remained until his retirement in 1999. Andrée died in 2016. In all, Dick authored more than 900 scholarly articles and eight books, including, finally, a memoir Physics Is Fun: Memoirs of a Life in Physics (2011). As a professor of physics at Harvard University his work focused on the structure of the nucleon using Harvard’s Cyclotron and other accelerators elsewhere. When the university’s cyclotron became obsolete, he helped adapt it for the treatment of cancerous tumors. Dick was an early supporter of Andrei Sakharov, the dissident Soviet physicist, believing that direct cultural and scientific contact was essential to prevent war. His work in risk-benefit analysis led him to study risks of environmental carcinogens such as asbestos and nuclear power reactors, testifying at many hearings about safety concerns. He was one of the first foreign scientists to visit Chernobyl, in 1987, shortly after the nuclear accident. A TV film crew went with him, and they made Back to Chernobyl (1989), aired on PBS’s Nova program. He did extensive studies into the presence of arsenic in drinking water in Bangladesh, and raised funds to provide safe drinking water in several villages.

At St Paul’s, Peter developed as a caring determined man and leader. A great swimmer, he also captained the first XV and was a leading light in the Christian Union. At the age of 15 his parents died suddenly, and his remarkable courage and resilience emerged. From then he lived with the family of Bruce Junkin, who writes, “I met Peter on my first day at St Paul’s. We happened to be sitting next to each other and I asked him if I could borrow a pen. That was the beginning of the longest and deepest friendship of my entire life. We shared so much during our time at St Paul’s. We played rugby together, we competed on the swimming team together, we studied together, and when Peter lost his parents, we lived together.” At Exeter University he thrived attaining a law degree while being a University Cadet with the Queens Dragoon Guards (QDG) until 1979, becoming an Officer after Exeter and Sandhurst. The lifelong friendships forged at the QDG formed the backbone of his life. He served in Northern Ireland twice, and was mentioned in despatches. In his diverse working life, Peter was a successful investment banker at Charterhouse Bank; then a finance director and trainer of bankers with Baines Gwinner and latterly his own business; and an investor, adviser and director for numerous companies, always making good friends. From his first marriage Peter gained stepdaughter Alexi and had a son, Christopher. In 2000, he married Sarah and they had a daughter, Lucy. He was devoted to them all and they to him. Peter was instantly likeable, a selfdeprecating, totally trustworthy and good man with a wicked sense of humour. He faced the cancer to which he finally succumbed aged 65 with his customary no-fuss resilience. He is greatly loved and missed by Sarah and his family and everyone lucky enough to have known him.

Roy Sands, friend

Geoffrey Wilson (1938-42), brother & Elaine Wilson, daughter

Alan Paul (1967-72), friend

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 35

Old Pauline Sports OPFC

2018/19 season kicks off with inaugural Rugby Festival

he OPFC kicked off the 2018/19 season in style with the inaugural OPFC Rugby Festival, which was held at the OPC Sports Ground at Colets Thames Ditton on 8 September. Ably led by club administrators Jo Jackson and Nadja James the OPFC laid on activities for all of the clubs members and their families to enjoy. There was a fantastic atmosphere at the club and over 150 people attended. Highlights included: mini-rugby tag and touch tournaments with the rugby side of the day culminating in a 15-a-side internal trial game between a Club Captain’s XV versus a President’s XV; an excellent array of food and beverage options for all attendees including a BBQ, ice cream van as well as coffee and cakes; a special Old Pauline Ale which had been produced for the occasion by OP Toby Ejsmond-Frey (it was so popular it will now be a permanent fixture behind the bar at Colets); a range of activities for kids including face painting, t-shirt

decoration, bouncy castles and Disney movies. The club’s attention then turned to the formal start of the season for the 1st, 2nd and Vets XVs at the end of September when the first league fixtures took place. Pre-season training under Coach Shane Rutherford has gone well and all the captains are optimistic about the season ahead. The Executive and General Committees continue to focus almost all of their time on need to increase the recruitment of new players. This remains the most pressing issue facing the OPFC and other clubs at the same level. To that end we would encourage any OPs and their friends keen to play, whether regularly or just once or twice a season, to get in touch to find out more about what the club can offer. All you need to do is email club secretary Rob Rayner for further information on how to get involved (robertrayner@hotmail.com).

36 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

a special Old Pauline Ale was so popular it will now be a permanent fixture behind the bar.

opclub.stpaulsschool.org.uk l 020 8746 5390

OP CRICKET CLUB

Double Promotion

018 will have to go down as arguably the most successful season in OPCC history, with both teams earning promotion from their respective leagues. The 2nd XI not only sealed promotion, but 1st place, in the penultimate game of the season, while the 1st XI left it to the last match to leapfrog into 2nd position to claim promotion into Surrey Championship Division 4 - uncharted territory in the club’s history. The season started in unfamiliar

OP Vs

7 of the top 10

ld Paulines continued to dominate at open tournaments throughout 2017/18, ending the season with seven of the top 10 ranked players in both singles and doubles, and with two OPs practically sweeping the singles board. Dan Tristao won six of the nine open tournaments, including his third National Singles title, with Ed Kay winning in London and Yorkshire. Ed also picked up his third successive singles victory in the student championships, partnering Matt Shaw to success in the doubles, and both feats were repeated at the U25s. In doubles, six of the seven open tournaments featured at least one OP winner, and further success came

parts, as Richard Hay resurrected the Old Pauline preseason tour with an incredible 10-day trip to Cape Town, South Africa. Playing four games interspersed with trips up Table Mountain and to the vineyards, it was not only a fun but successful trip, and paved the way for the 1st XI winning each of their first 7 matches. Back in England, the 1st XI were buoyed by the return to the club of OP Sam Cato, who had a fantastic season, while stalwart OP and ex-captain Alex Duncan had a remarkable season, top in the President’s Cup, in which James Tilston won his second title in as many attempts. We’ve had more of the same at the start of the 2018/19 season, with Dan winning the South East singles, James adding to his handicap doubles trophy cabinet, and Ed doing the double at London. From a club competition perspective the 2017/18 season was a disappointment. We failed to produce a single OP team for the Owers Trophy, bringing to an end a 7-year stretch holding the title, and we fell just short in the Wood Cup final to Wessex. In addition, our internal handicap singles tournament, the Cunis Cup, did not take place. But despite these setbacks we managed to cap off the club’s season with an excellent OP handicap doubles tournament, in which then-current Pauline Harry Jackson and self-proclaimed next-gen star Sam Russell emerged victorious.

scoring in the league. 2nd XI Captain George Waugh had a season to remember, scoring over 500 runs and taking 28 wickets! The season brought dual reward for a group of players who’ve brought fantastic commitment and energy to the club, and hopefully we can continue to take the club where it’s never been before over the coming years! Thank you to all for your hard work this year. As always, we are very keen to keep a strong tie with SPS. So, if anyone is looking to play good quality, competitive but fun cricket on a Saturday, either in the summer holidays or after leaving school, drop Chris Berkett an e-mail at berkettc@gmail.com

Chris Berkett

Jackson & Russell win the OP President’s Cup

We continue to hold our regular sessions on Thursday evenings, and we encourage players of all standards to get involved. Contact: julian.aquilina@gmail.com

OPAFC

50 OPs in 8-a-side tournament

he unexpected success of the Three Lions at the 2018 World Cup inspired no less than fifty OPs to return to the school site over the summer for the inaugural pre-season 8-a-side tournament on the School’s fantastic new 3G pitch over by the Swedish School. For some of the older members the School was almost unrecognisable but all were pleased to see that most of the old buildings have been demolished. With so many in attendance the games

took on an additional level of competition, starting at a ferocious pace. Soon however the reality of pre-season kicked in, with captains begging for a rest between matches. The standard was good with no easy games, at least until the decider, in which Jasper Harlington’s team was clinically dispatched by his brother Alex’s. There was also a strong showing by the Class of ‘18, hopefully they’ll be representing the club in years to come.

If this kind of attendance can be maintained throughout the year it should make for an excellent season of OP Football. If you have recently graduated, just left school, or want to rekindle former glories, please contact Luke Warriner or Jehan Sherjan if you would like to get involved in Saturday league football for OPAFC. We run teams to cater for all standards, playing at some the best facilities in amateur football.

Contact: jehansherjan@hotmail.com LDW@stpaulsschool.org.uk

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 37

Sport Old Pauline Golfing Society

A bright and breezy day for the Autumn Meeting

OPGS Cyril Gray team l to r: Nick Downing, Hugh Roberts, David Charman, Robin Young, Chris Vallender & Charles Mathias.

t the Spring Meeting at Betchworth Park Golf Club, Jeremy Williams won both the Just Cup with 34 points and the Haswell Bowl with a gross 79. John Cooper won the Goldman Salver for 15 & over handicaps with 33 points. In the afternoon foursomes, Toby Bain & Dick Vollmer teamed up to win the Eastman Salvers. In the Grafton Morrish qualifier played at Royal Wimbledon Golf Club, our team of Messrs Downing, Prior, Bastinello(T), Bastinello(A), J Williams & Clark came 11th out of 13 and did therefore not qualify for the finals in Norfolk. In Society matches we have had wins against Old Uppinghamians, KCS OBs, The Mercers, Old Westminsters, Fulwell GC, Old Haileyburians & OMTs, but

Players after lunch at Royal Wimbledon GC at our Autumn Meeting and Captain’s Day

At the Summer Meeting at Hayling Golf Club with the ‘usual’ sea breeze, Ben Rowan won everything! lost to The School, Old Amplefordians & Old Lawrentians. In the Alba Trophy at Woking Golf Club, Jamie Mac Farlane & Chris Cullen came = 21st of 28. In the Putting Competition at Royal Wimbledon Golf Club, Chris Vallender, Jamie MacFarlane, Robin Young & Nick Cardoza came 3rd out of their group of 8, thus not qualifying for the finals, but successfully avoided relegation! In the Cyril Gray at Worplesdon Golf Club, our team of Chris Vallender, Hugh Roberts, Robin Young, Charles Mathias, David Charman & Nick Downing lost in the 1st round to Taunton. At the Summer Meeting at Hayling Golf Club with the ‘usual’ sea breeze, Ben Rowan won everything! He won the Mercers Cup with 37 points, The Sayers Cup with a gross 80 and in the afternoon, teamed up with Our Captain

Hugh Garnham to win the Summer Meeting Tankards. At our Autumn Meeting & Captain’s Day at Royal Wimbledon, we had bright and breezy conditions and fast greens! David Pincott and John Woodcock had the best score of the day with David winning the Walker Cup on a last 6 hole countback. David also won the Courlander Cup for those with a handicap of 15 and over. Chris Vallender had the best gross score of the day to win the North Cup. In the afternoon, David Charman and Dick Vollmer won the foursomes for the Edgar & Williams Cups. Our thanks go to Hugh Garnham

38 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

our Captain for his generous hospitality and extra prizes! It is with much regret that I have to report that Dr J E Peter Simpson has died. Peter was our Society Captain in 2001 and was always a very keen supporter of the Society. He will be greatly missed. In November, our Winter Meeting is at West Hill on the 8th and our AGM/ Annual Dinner will be at Royal Mid Surrey on the 29th. Golfers wishing to join the Society should contact Neil Fitch, n.fitch@ntlworld.com Neil Fitch (1955-60)

FEEL FITTER, HEALTHIER, HAPPIER! Join a great club where the focus really is on you By re-investing our profits, we’ve not only got a club to be proud of but happy members too. New Group Cycle Studio Virtual screen... New Life Fitness bikes... A whole new experience! Plus brand new state-of-theart cardio equipment coming this November.

DISCOUNTED RATES FOR OLD PAULINES!*

Call now to find out more and book your free trial.

020 8398 7108

@ColetsHealth

@ColetsHealthClub

St Nicholas Road • Thames Ditton • KT7 0PW *

T&Cs & minimum contract apply. Free trial available to 18yrs+.

www.colets.co.uk | info@colets.co.uk

Past Times 10 years ago (2008)

Science Olympiad In the British Physics Competition, St Paul's was the joint top school with an incredible four Gold Medals for William Kalderon, Sasha Kasas, Nilpesh Patel and Dominic Yeo. William Kalderon and Dominic Yeo were invited to the selection camp at Abingdon School for the International Competition. Four intensive days included a wide range of activities consisting of tuition in areas such as self- induction and relativity, together with experimental work on water powered rockets and measuring the hot spots on a bar of chocolate heated in a microwave. The results of a three hour practical exam and a fiendishly difficult theory paper produced offers of places for Will and Dominic in the UK team for the International Competition in Hanoi.

20 years ago (1998)

Jazz Café Never had I seen the atrium used so inventively (until, a few weeks later, Kian O'Grady and Tom LeFanu staged their adaptation of the wonderfully surreal Third Policeman within the space). Certainly, though, Jazz Café had the monopoly on ambience: early evening sunlight of a fine spring day drifting down through the glassy panels; cold drinks shared at circular tables; the white noise of nearly one hundred friends, family, and staff

Crossword

rising up to fill the space with a pleasant buzz of anticipation. After a final sound check, members of the band loped casually onto the elevated stage. Drummer Johnny Coutts, baseball cap pulled firmly over his brow, intently tapped out the initial syncopations of the first tune, a latin number entitled 'Nina' by teacher and producer George Adie. As Coutts' powerful drumming gained momentum, the solid rhythm section of Phil Bonavero (piano), Max Golden (bass), and Simon Taylor Foster (guitar) slowly drew round, filling the pockets in Coutts' percussion. The remaining three instrumentalists — Will Hammond (trumpet), Gavin Robb (soprano and alto sax), and Harry Vann (tenor sax) — joined the fray in unison with the melody to the tune.

50 years ago (1968)

Eurosoc The expansion of the German Society into Eurosoc has brought with it the opportunity for a wider field of international topics, which has led to a larger membership. The first talk was given by Mr Ward

By Lorie Church (1992-97)

Lorie studied Classics at Exeter. He has had various articles and puzzles published in The Times and elsewhere. Contact: lorie@journalist.com 1

4 7

10 11

20 21

40 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018

on Goethe. In this comprehensive lecture he explained the philosophy of the "Sturm and Drang" movement in Germany in the middle of the eighteenth century. This was followed by J Bolton on the culture and history of Les Basques. T Whiffen then delivered a talk on French imperialism in South-East Asia, which followed the true Marxist tradition. The Anti-Common Market view was then proposed by Mr Maddison in a clear, rational manner, and this developed into a very worthwhile discussion.

100 years ago (1918)

Eric Kennington (1900-04) "The British Soldier" (see above)– Under this title an exceptionally vivid head in a "tin hat" has been for some time informing the metropolis that Eric H Kennington's war pictures are on view at the Leicester Galleries. Good authorities speak very well of them, and the Daily Mail writes: " He is a draughtsman of very exceptional power, with a Pre-Raphaelite passion for detail. At times he can command an effect almost mystical in its intensity."

Be thou my * Clues Across

Down

6 Peace found within generic reflection (5) 7 Excalibur undisturbed somewhere in Central African Republic (7) 9 Sad red fate for American forced into service (7) 10 Dishy Indian orders hijab (5) 11 Islamic name for Clay was “the greatest” (3) 12 Nameless stuntman crashes into genetic freaks (7) 13 Stocking material for New York and London (5) 15 Storyteller waves back to Old Pauline (5) 17 Wolves on cricket side? Send one to university (4-3) 20 Oddly, evenly it may be electric (3) 21 Second tea with chocolatecoffee (5) 23 Fiancée’s accent stumped the most severe (7) 24 Euchre lay Lee pronounced what George Formby picked (7) 25 Paper pancake (5)

1 * If ignorance is bliss, this must be misery (6) 2 Loads of people having a row, more than once, about Stargate (8) 3 (& 16d) Adieu, Thanks for the memories (4-2-5) 4 Ancient civilisation’s skincare extract (4) 5 * Sight and noise I’ve recalled without echoes (6) 7 * Heart-protection bent battle spear (11) 8 Dick Grayson’s alter ego is often seen on Christmas cards (5) 14 Bowler’s first ball, it spins off anti-clockwise (8) 15 * Secret lover smuggled right inside mail for knight (6) 16 (See 3d) 18 Latch urchin abandons Latin Place of worship (6) 19 * Man with issue pops (6) 22 This sandwich is tops: Chicken lettuce under bacon (4)

W T O S R A D L BLOCKCHAIN

The Breakthrough technology Dominic Frisby (1982-87)

’ve just got back from a technology conference in London, where I saw some breathtaking new applications demonstrated. One company was pitching itself as “AirBnB for hard drives”. The CEO estimated that about 30% of computer capacity around the world, whether it’s in the vast data centres belonging to the likes of Google and Amazon, or, simply, your laptop at home, goes unused. Soon you’ll be able to rent out your spare hard drive space, so that it’s put to productive and profitable use, instead of sitting there doing nothing. Another was designing a digital identity system specifically for refugees, NGOs and others in war-torn situations. The CEO, a refugee himself from Syria, described how he had to carry 14 kilograms of paperwork as he moved from camp to camp. Proving who you are, where you have come from and so on is one of the greatest problems in the nightmare existence of the refugee. His new application digitizes the bureaucratic hell in a way that is compliant with international security systems. In addition it enables aid and other workers to prove who they are and what jobs they have done. Finally, it enables charities and so on to track exactly where aid money has gone and how it is being spent. A third created and issued a fully compliant security token with all sorts of complicated contractual restrictions and conditions live on stage in under three minutes. His partner, a film producer, then described how he raises money for films by issuing such security tokens, representing a share in the film and its profits. All the conditions of the contract are programmed into the token, so that they execute automatically as the venture progresses. His experience is that those who fund his films become its most vocal champions, and so he is able to dramatically reduce his advertising spend. Thus do his films become more profitable more quickly. Everyone’s a winner, as they say.

the greatest moneymaking opportunity any of us will ever see in our lifetime, possibly ever The scope of these three ventures could not be more different, and yet all of them have one thing in common. They rely on blockchain technology. Blockchain is the breakthrough technology behind the internet cash system bitcoin. Devised almost ten years ago now, in reaction to the bailing out of the banks, the money printing and the suppression of interest rates which followed the financial crisis, bitcoin went from a market value of less than a tenth of a cent to $20,000 at its peak at the end of 2017. It was the greatest moneymaking opportunity any of us will ever see in our lifetime, possibly ever. It was so successful because it caught a zeitgeist. First it captured the imagination of computer scientists, because it solved a problem that had confounded them for over 20 years, known as the problem of double-spending. Any computer scientist familiar with the problem could see just

what a breakthrough bitcoin was. Bitcoin was an open-source project, totally transparent at every stage of its evolution. Rather like the those who funded our film producer's films, anyone who contributed became the project's most powerful advertisers. Coders wrote and re-wrote the code, fine-tuning and developing it. The more they contributed, the better the project got and the more they fell in love with it. As it grew, many of those who were philosophically opposed to the reaction of the authorities to the financial crisis, also got involved. They too invested in the project and started buying coins. Economists were fascinated by this new system of opensource money with no government control. Speculators were excited by this new volatile, asset-class. Markets suddenly opened up, many of them illegal, as here was a way to buy and sell goods over the internet without fear of being traced. Entrepreneurs jumped on board as a myriad of different business opportunities were suddenly created. There are thousands of alternative coins to bitcoin – alt coins, each with their own unique properties: some are more private, some have faster transaction times, some are better for micro payments, some enable apps to be launched on top of them. But now the technology has gone way further than an alternative system of cash for the internet. The way we transact, the way we message each other, our social media, our accounting, legal processes, contract law and notarization, the way we keep record, prove our identity, even the way we vote – these are all going to change in the years ahead, because of this breakthrough distributer-ledger technology that is the blockchain, the accidental consequence of solving a simple computer problem: the problem of double-spending. It is very exciting. l Dominic Frisby (1982-87) is the author of Bitcoin: the Future of Money?, published by Unbound.

OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 41

Diary Dates 2018/19

Old Pauline Club and School Events Friday 26th October 19:00 Cambridge Dinner Cambridge University, Emmanuel College Saturday 27th October 12:15 Wessex Branch Meeting : Guest speaker Maxine Shaw Langton Arms, Tarrant Monkton The Wessex branch of the Old Pauline Club is pleased to host Head of St Paul’s Juniors, Maxine Shaw, for the Autumn meeting. Sunday 28th October 13:30 Strings Afternoon St Paul's School An enjoyable and challenging day of ensemble playing. Attendees will work towards a performance at the end of the day. Thursday 1st November 18:00 Parents and Staff Book Club Kayton Library, St Paul's School Come and join us at our first Book Club to chat about the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. Thursday 1st November 19:00 SPARTA Lecture: On Being an Artist, Wathen Hall - St Paul's School Sir Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA Saturday 3rd November 14:15 Rugby: 1st XV v Radley St Paul's School Monday 5th November 18:45 RAF 100 : 100 Years of People Pushing Technology Samuel Pepys Theatre, St Paul's School In this talk, Paula Kitching and Dr Taj Bhutta will explore some of the key events that have been shaped by RAF technology and how that has a affected the world in which we live today. Tuesday 6th November 18:30 Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Form Parents' Seminar: ICT Montgomery Room - St Paul's School Wednesday 7th November 18:00 Art Exhibition : Translation Milton Gallery - St Paul's School Wednesday 7th November 18:30 WWI with Michael Grant and Graham Seel Kayton Library - St Paul's School In what promises to be an illuminating occasion, Michael Grant (Head of Art) and Graham Seel (Head of Faculty Humanities) host an evening of thought-provoking reflection upon the centenary of the end of the First World War. Thursday 8th November 08:30 Old Pauline Golf Society Winter Meeting West Hill Golf Club Thursday 8th November 18:30 Paulines in the First World War St Paul's School Join the Junior History Society to explore the part Old Paulines had to play in the First World War. Friday 9th November 09:30 Lower Eighth Parents' Coffee Morning Whole Foods, South Kensington Friday 9th November 11:00 Act of Remembrance St Paul's School Tuesday 13th November 19:00 How did the First World War end? St Paul's School A talk by Professor Sir Hew Strachan Wednesday 14th November 18:30 St Paul's Juniors Play: The Terrible Infants School Hall, St Paul's School Wednesday 14th November 19:00 Ensembles Concert Wathen Hall, St Paul's School Thursday 15th November 18:30 OP Third Thursday Drinks The Rutland Arms, Hammersmith Back by popular demand, this is a restoration of an OPC event that used to take place in previous years. Thursday 15th November 18:30 St Paul's Juniors Play: The Terrible Infants School Hall, St Paul's School Friday 16th November 18:00 Wine Tasting at 67 Pall Mall 67 Pall Mall Back by popular demand, we return to 67 Pall Mall for another evening of fine wine and socialising. Friday 16th November 18:30 St Paul's Juniors Play: The Terrible Infants St Paul's School Saturday 17th November 18:30 St Paul's Juniors Play: The Terrible Infants St Paul's School Tuesday 20th November 18:30 Launch of the St Paul's Medical Professional Network St Paul's School The St Paul’s Professional Groups were first launched in 2016 in collaboration with the Old Pauline Club and Parents’ Group. Their aim is to connect those working in specific professional fields and to support current pupils on their career journey. Tuesday 20th November 18:30 New York Wine Tasting Cornelia Street Cafe Robin Hirsch, Old Pauline and restaurant owner, will host a monthly wine tasting on the third Tuesday of each month at Cornelia Street Cafe. Wednesday 21st November 19:00 Music: Autumn Concert Wathen Hall, St Paul's School In the term’s flagship concert, we will enjoy music from groups including the Chapel Choir, Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. Sunday 25th November 11:00 SPJ Christmas Fayre St Paul's School, Sports Hall, Dining Hall - St Paul's Juniors The annual Christmas Fayre, organised by the SPJ Parents’ Group, is a chance for all SPJ staff and families to get into the Christmas spirit. Tuesday 27th November 18:30 Fourth and Fifth Form Parents' Seminar: 'The party scene' Montgomery Room, St Paul's School Wednesday 28th November 19:30 My Fair Lady Samuel Pepys Theatre, St Paul's School Thursday 29th November 18:30 Old Pauline Golf Society AGM and Annual Dinner Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Course Thursday 29th November 18:30 Launch of St Paul's Entrepreneurs Network Huckletree West The St Paul’s Professional Groups were first launched in 2016 in collaboration with the Old Pauline Club and Parents’Group. Their aim is to connect those working in specific professional fields and to support current pupils on their career journey. Thursday 29th November 19:30 My Fair Lady Samuel Pepys Theatre, St Paul's School Friday 30th November 10:00 Parents' Group: Upper Eighth Parents' Christmas Coffee Saatchi Gallery Upper Eighth parents are invited to pre-Christmas coffee in Chelsea at the Saatchi Gallery. Friday 30th November 18:30 Autumn Concert Wathen Hall, St Paul's School Friday 30th November 19:30 My Fair Lady Samuel Pepys Theatre, St Paul's School Saturday 1st December 19:30 My Fair Lady Samuel Pepys Theatre, St Paul's School Sunday 2nd December 14:30 Music: Jazz at the Bull's Head, Barnes St Paul's School Tuesday 4th December 18:00 Wreath Making with Bloom & Wild Samuel Pepys Foyer, St Paul's School Bloom & Wild, co-founded in 2013 by Old Pauline Aron Gelbard (1995-2000), is now the UK’s top rated online flower delivery company. Thursday 6th December 18:00 Christmas Festival St Paul's School Warm yourself up with mulled wine and enjoy some mince pies as we gather to celebrate the annual switch on of the St Paul’s Christmas tree lights, accompanied by the St Paul’s Choir. Friday 7th December 19:00 Carol Service (SPS) St Mary Abbots Church Friday 7th December 19:00 Supper Evening Colets Health and Fitness, Thames Ditton All Old Paulines are invited to this traditional Christmas Dinner at Colets to celebrate the festive season. Saturday 8th December All Day SPS Boat Club Plum Pudding Races The Boat House, St Paul's School Sunday 9th December 18:30 Colet Choral Society and St Paul's Camerata: Wathen Hall, St Paul's School Handel's Israel in Egypt Monday 10th December 18:30 St Paul's School Carol Service Holy Trinity Barnes You are invited to join us to celebrate Christmas at the St Paul’s Carol Service at Holy Trinity, Barnes. Monday 28th January 2019 17.30 Feast Service at St Paul's Cathedral followed by a buffet dinner at Mercers' Hall

42 OLD PAULINE NEWS AUTUMN/WINTER 2018