obituaries We are pleased to include brief obituaries of deceased OUs though due to the limitations of space we need to edit submissions. Unabridged obituaries are available to view on the OU website. Frank South (Fgh 29) By Derek Bunting (B 45)
drinking it but it was almost certainly the only time they ever shaved in Champagne! He reached the rank of Major, winning the Territorial Decoration and being cited for a Military Cross. After the war he joined the family business of Lindrea and Co as head of the leather side of the firm. His great knowledge of the leather industry was much respected and together with his undoubted charm, brought business from many of the leading shoe and clothing manufacturers. In 1949 he moved to Somerset so that he could run the company’s head office in Bristol. But this was all to end in 1971 when the company’s owners decided to liquidate their interests and he moved on and had 11 happy years with BB Vos before retiring in 1983.
Frank South was born in Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia in 1915. At the age of 13 he made the six weeks’ journey to Uppingham. Cricket was his great sport. He was in the Uppingham XI in 1934 and went on to Cambridge where he played for Pembroke. He obtained a BA Chem before going on to join S H Johnson and Co Ltd, Chemical Engineers, where he rose up to be MD and later Chairman. He married Esther in 1941 and they had 4 children. Carol, Barry (Fgh 59), Nicky and Andrew (Fgh 69). Frank and Esther were married for 72 years. His first love was cricket and he joined the Rovers in 1939, and attended their 125th anniversary dinner held in October 1988. In later life he became a very keen golfer and supporter of the Old Uppinghamian Golfing Society, holding his captain’s meeting at Royal St George’s, Sandwich in 1990. He was elected President for 1998 and 1999. Peter Llewellin Lindrea (F 30) By his son Martyn (F 54) Peter Lindrea died on October 3rd 2012 after a stroke. He was born in Portishead in 1917 and went to prep school in Weston-Super-Mare before Uppingham. In 1938 he joined the Green Howards Regiment as a territorial and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant. He spent 2 ½ years in the Western Desert and was at Dunkirk. When moving into France with his platoon, they came across an empty house with a cellar full of Champagne. Not only did they enjoy
He sent his sons to Uppingham, Martyn (F 54) and Nigel (F 57) and gave them great support in all the sporting and music activities in which they were involved. In 1971, he converted an old barn into a lovely country home and enjoyed life in deepest Somerset for almost 40 years, watching his favourite county playing cricket. He leaves behind his wife of nearly 73 years Mary, his two sons and a daughter, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Bryan Jenks (SH 32)
Bryan Jenks, former Shropshire business tycoon, farmer and successful racehorse owner, died in May 2013 aged 94 after a long illness. Born in 1918, brought up near Wolverhampton, he started work in the family’s brass tap company in 1937. His business career was interrupted by wartime service in the Army which saw him evacuated from Dunkirk with pneumonia, but in the post-war period he and his father built the company into a major force. One of Bryan’s biggest joys was horseracing, which saw him owning horses on the flat with some of the biggest names in the turf, including Robert Sangster. His horses had success at Cheltenham and
Royal Ascot and Bryan was champion National Hunt owner in the 1968/69 season. He was elected to the Jockey Club in 1970. In 1988, at the age of 70 he retired to Monaco. Anthony Howitt (C 33) Anthony Howitt was a leading accountant who promoted the role of computers during the early years of data processing and played a prominent role in laying the foundations of the management consulting profession. On leaving Uppingham in 1938 he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge before serving in the Royal Regiment of Artillery during WWII. Tony joined Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG) in 1946 and will be particularly remembered for his pioneering work as a Chartered Management Accountant. In 1957 he led the way for Chartered Accountants to play a key consulting role alongside their auditing and accounting functions, so laying the foundations for the new Management Consulting profession. Tony was elected President of the CIMA Council in 1972 and he founded the CIMA Anthony Howitt Lecture in 1985. Tony was the son of Sir Harold Howitt (WD 1906), a former Chairman of Trustees at Uppingham and he remained a loyal OU throughout his life. During his long career with Peat Marwick (until 1984), Tony was also elected Master of the Merchant Taylors’ Livery Company in 1980. Tony died in September 2013 and is survived by June, his wife of 61 years. Guy Street (LH 33) By Guy’s niece, Caroline A Campbell Guy Street died on 6th March 2013 at the age of 93. After Cambridge he joined the Malayan Police and when the Japanese invaded in 1942 he was sent to Singapore. In February 1942 the Japanese crossed onto Singapore. All evacuation vessels had long since departed. The Japanese were progressing rapidly south across the island when Guy and a small group of fellow officers secured a tiny sailboat in which they began the attempt to cross the Malaccan Straits. They were among the very last if not the last to leave the island and avoid capture.
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