OU Magazine Issue 36 2008-2009

The Magazine for the Old Boys & Girls of Uppingham School, Rutland Issue 36: Winter 2008/09

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Sun 15 March 2009 OU Hockey Uppingham School Organiser:Ian Rolison 01572 820812 imr@uppingham.co.uk

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Thurs 12 Feb 2009 OU Middle Ea st Dinner Jebal Ali Reso rt,Dubai Organisers:Nicola Tyers 01 572 820616 nmt@uppingha m.co.uk Rick Tatham (W B 77) ricktath@eim. ae

2009 Thurs 2 April nner Di ll wa rn OU Co stro, Bi ’s at St Petroc Padstow Organiser:572 820616 Nicola Tyers 01 m.co.uk ha ng pi up t@ nm

April 2009 TB C UVRC Shoot & Celebratory D inner Bisley Organiser:Chris kelsey (W B 91) chriskelsey@ec onomist.com

Forthcoming Events OUs interested in attending any of the above events should contact the event organiser, or Nicola Tyers, who will ensure that an invitation is sent out.

All events are listed on the Reunions page on the OU website www.olduppinghamian.co.uk and any updates or changes are put on to the site on a regular basis, so please keep checking for details.

If you would like to know who is attending these events or see some photos, please refer to the OU website.

Contents Message from the Headmaster OU News News from the Association and Foundation

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Uppingham Society Sat 23 May 20 Speech Day/Fo 09 under’s Day OU Lunch Uppingham Sc hool Organiser:Nicola Tyers 01 572 820616 nmt@uppingha m.co.uk

Thurs 11 Jun OU Norfo e 2009 lk at The Hos Dinner te Arms, Kings Lynn

Org Nicola Tye anisers:rs 0 nmt@upping1572 820616 ham.co.uk Paul Whitt ome (F 68 ) Paul@host earms.co.u k

Thurs 1 October 2009 OU Over 60s London Lunch Cavalry & Guards Club, London Organiser:Nicola Tyers 01572 820616 nmt@uppingham.co.uk

C May 2009 TB tion di pe Ex h ba Sa n 25 year reunio hool Sc m ha ng pi Up Organiser:572 820616 Nicola Tyers 01 .co.uk gh nmt@uppin am

Organisers:820616 Nicola Tyers 01572 nmt@uppingham.co.uk 820980 Tim Jefferis 01572 TJJ@uppingham.co.uk

OU is the magazine for the Old Boys & Girls of Uppingham School, Uppingham, Rutland LE15 9QE Tel: +44 (0)1572 820616 Email: nmt@uppingham.co.uk

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Photo Call 2007/08 Pictures from some of the reunions and events in 2007/08

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Announcements Births, engagements, marriages, obituaries and deaths

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OU Archives Archive Request Staff News Announcements & news about staff, past and present

Sat 20 June 2009 West Deyne 150th Anniversary pin Up gham School

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Memory Corner More memories of times gone by

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OU The Arts Arts in Uppingham and print offer

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OU Sports Societies & Clubs Golf, cricket, shooting, rugby, and sailing

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The London OU Dinner How to get your tickets

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Front cover includes:Edward Timpson (LH 87) who was elected to the Commons as the new MP for Crewe & Nantwich.

Mimi Poskitt (L 96) Director of documentary theatre company Look Left Look Right.

Andrew Bain (Hf 96) has been signed to top music label, SonyBMG. (picture credit: Joel Anderson) Rt. Hon Stephen Dorrell MP (M 65) has been appointed Chairman of Trustees.

Elliot Cowan (M/L 89) who starred as Darcy in Jane Austen’s ‘Lost in Austen’ and as Shakespeare’s Henry V last Autumn. (picture credit: Jonathan Keenan)

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A Message from the Headmaster

Richard Harman, Headmaster

It’s an interesting time to be running a Public School. Those of you who are responsible for the livelihoods of many others will perhaps understand some of the challenges which we face in moving forward in an era of almost unprecedented economic insecurity. I find myself constantly recalling the catch phrase of Ben Zander, OU, who spent several days with us exactly a year ago, speaking to the entire school on how to respond positively to life’s difficulties. Rather than spoiling for a fight, or sinking into gloom, Ben encouraged us to embrace every setback or problem as a challenge, to throw up our hands and shout ‘how fascinating!’

How fascinating it is indeed to look for and to look after what endures in a time when even rock solid institutions are under threat.

In my third year at Uppingham, I am encouraged by the times we live in to look deeply at what it is that we do particularly well, and what it is that we must prioritise and hold on to above all else. The spirit of this school is astonishing, and that spirit is generated and nurtured in the boarding experience. In my third year, I’m now willing to bet that we do boarding better than any other school in the country. The sense of community and belonging that each house generates, the quality of interaction and care between adults and pupils, particularly within the house and around those tables at lunchtime, is probably second to none. If you get a chance to see the new school promotional DVD – clips of which will soon be on the website – I think you’ll agree that the connection between staff and pupils appears again and again as an essential part of our ‘educational DNA’, to use a much bandied about term which actually was invented here at Uppingham.

It was Lord Adonis, the Government minister, who popularised that phrase as he went

about the business of developing the Academies programme, and we were very pleased to welcome him as our Guest of Honour at Speech Day this year. It was a chance also to celebrate the establishment of the Uppingham Collegiate, by which we are linked in partnership (though not direct sponsorship) with a number of Academies in Leicester, Northampton and Grimsby, which in turn are supported by prominent OUs. The Housemaster of West Bank, Steve Allen, is co-ordinating this work at our end and we very much hope that this exciting initiative will continue to bear fruit. It means that Uppngham is engaged in the wider educational world in a practical and positive way that helps to spread our values and ethos ever wider.

We believe in what we do here so strongly that we are going to continue to celebrate, invest in, and develop further what we already do well. I want every parent in the country who considers boarding to consider Uppingham, and I want them to be impressed with what they see when they look around. I also want to ensure that every child, insofar as it is humanly possible, enjoys boarding at Uppingham and to that end we are increasingly vigilant and imaginative in the endless work of encouraging good neighbourliness in the young. We have recently rolled out, training in counselling for staff, who are then training sixth form pupils as peer counsellors, and I am excited about the potential of these trained pupils to pick up on problems the adults might be missing.

I have also invested time and resources into leadership training for our pupils. Many of you have extensive experience of leadership, the seeds of which I hope were planted in your time at School. The high point of our leadership development last year was the aforementioned visit of Ben Zander, who spent a weekend at Uppingham (prior to addressing world leaders at the economic forum in Davos; they certainly needed to hear his message about the Art of Possibility!). He very graciously gave of his time and huge energies in various arenas, addressing every one of our pupils and staff, conducting our orchestra and encouraging pupils to have a go as well. Over meals in West Deyne he was able to lay a few ghosts to rest. I cannot recommend highly enough the potential value of coming back to your old school as an adult. Especially when you give of who you are now, you can put to rest any anxieties about who you were then.

Despite achieving remarkable examination

results this year, we know that some of our academic facilities will need investment in the coming years and it is the need for improved facilities in Science and also in Sport that drives my vision for new development on the Western side of the school. The vision is for a series of ‘Western Quads’ to mirror the lovely 19th Century quads at the heart of the school, and this is a vision which inspires not only the whole School community, but the entire town. We have been so lucky to have the tireless energies of the Uppingham Foundation, the OU community and the Trustee body behind this project. And I have been very fortunate as Headmaster to have had a seamless transition of Chairman of Trustees; I am absolutely delighted to be working with Stephen Dorrell at such an important time in the School’s history.

The first stage of the project – a new Sports Centre, Leicester Pavilion and associated changes to sports fields and parking– went through the planning process successfully, and the Trustees have given the go ahead in principle. By September, individual donors had pledged around £9 million to the project. How fascinating, then, that this project is due to kick off precisely as the economy looks most perilous! We are watching carefully and constantly revising our figures as we calculate the best time to begin.

Plans for the Sports Centre are on display on the OU website; do have a look at the future of Uppingham there. And do your best to ensure a vibrant future for this great School in any way you can – by encouraging your friends to have a look for their children, by sending your own, by sharing your wisdom and talents with us in many different arenas, and of course by making whatever contribution you can to our vision.

Please do read the tributes to Colin Williams elsewhere in this issue. He is I think, the epitome of the great OU – a man who has given back so much to his school, but, I hope and believe, has also received a real sense of purpose, and has enjoyed both a rewarding sense of involvement and a good measure of fun in the process.

I so greatly appreciate the chance to meet you, at dinners, at Speech Day, at sporting events, and sometimes just by chance. You are the great band of ambassadors for Uppingham School, and I am sure you are embodying the enduring values you learned here, in the face of the anxieties of the moment. In fact, it is those very values that will see us all through whatever challenges

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tours. This is the key to the Headmaster’s plans for the Western Quad: making the whole School a place to be proud of, to encourage and attract the best and to bring out the best in all who have the privilege of studying here. The staff and pupils of Uppingham are fully behind these plans and it is clear that many OUs feel likewise.

Support for the plans for the Western Quad has come in many forms, such as via gifts over the telephone during our summer telephone campaign or indeed an increasing number of bequests which will play a vital role in the next stage of the development, namely the new science centre. For confidentiality’s sake we do not publicise all the gifts which the School receives through the wills of OUs, but we always feel honoured that OUs are remembering the School in this very personal way.

In 2011 the Uppingham Association will celebrate its 100th anniversary, a major landmark for what must be one of the most successful alumni associations in the country.

As Richard Boston outlines in his section, more and more OUs are attending events, we have a huge number of OUs signed up to a dedicated website and in all spheres, from politics to business and from sport to showbusiness, OUs are making an impact in the UK and across the world. To cap it all, even in this most difficult economic climate, we have received record support this year for the Headmaster’s plans for the Western Quad. Uppingham is thriving at present and it is evident that OUs feel proud of their School and want to be involved, either through attending OU functions or through donating to the Uppingham Foundation.

In the course of the year we often see OUs making impromptu visits to the School and without fail they seem to enjoy their walks around the School House Quad, through the Chapel and the Colonnade and into the Memorial Hall and Library – the heart of the School is the same for whichever generation of pupil returns. The Paul David Music School overlooking the Masons’ lawn is widely appreciated (even if it stands on what was Mrs Alibone’s buttery), but this is the one new addition to the wonderful architecture of the main quads.

Few OUs however see their spirits revived when they visit the area of the science block, sports centre and other buildings along Stockerston Road, and indeed many OUs do not include this part of the School on their

We are in fact still learning of new ways to offer support – an OU in the legal profession has informed us of a very taxeffective way of supporting Uppingham via one’s annuity, but due to the complex nature of this means of giving I would ask that anyone interested should contact me for more details. Whichever way OUs decide to support their School, the donation is of course very much appreciated.

In closing I would just like to say thank you to those OUs around the world who offer their generous hospitality whenever representatives from the School turn up on their doorstep. In particular I’d like to offer my thanks to Michael Royce (SH 60) and Sam Blyth (L 69) in Toronto and David Li (H 54) and Anthony Nightingale (L 61) in Hong Kong for all their kindness this year and indeed to Rick Tatham (WB 77) who has been a great help in planning the Dubai reunion in February 2009.

If you would like to know more about the Western Quad campaign, the OU website or forthcoming events, or indeed you’d like to pay a visit to your School, please do feel free to get in touch. As the OU Association approaches its centenary, both the School and indeed the OU network are in great form and with your help we are sure to keep it this way.

Patrick Mulvihill

Secretary’s Message

I am pleased to be able to report another full and busy year for the Association. Since we last went to press we have attracted over 600 OUs and their partners to a wide range of events across the country.

The London dinner now well established at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, attracted a full house in early February. This must be one of the best value evenings in London, a stylish setting, first class cuisine, excellent service combined with a convivial atmosphere.

I hope many of you will support it this coming year when the Chairman will be Nick Hinchliffe (Fgh 71), past President of the Uppingham Veterans Rifle Club. An appropriate choice as the club will be in its 50th year. The UVRC is one of our most prestigious and successful clubs which has provided an almost continuous supply of National and International shots over the years.

The North West dinner followed London in early March before the team moved back to London where younger OUs gathered for an AMS evening (Alternative Music Society) at The 100 Club, this was organised by Ben Fry (F 96). The first ever South West dinner followed in April at Rick Stein’s (WD 60) Bistro in Padstow. The evening will be repeated next year and I thoroughly recommend it to those living in the area or those who manage to tie it in with an Easter holiday in Cornwall.

Speech Day and Founder’s Day saw the introduction of a new format for OUs where we offered a snack lunch following the drinks reception in the marquee on the Chapel Lawn. This provided an alternative venue to Houses – House events on Speech Day are parent orientated and non-parent OUs have

Who? What? Where? OU Patrick Mulvihill Development Director 01572 820615 pdm@uppingham.co.uk

Richard Boston Association Secretary 01572 820679 rasb@uppingham.co.uk

commented over the years that in many cases they would like a central option to congregate and socialise rather than being in Houses. The snack lunch proved popular this year, but next year we will extend it to a full buffet lunch for those who wish to take up the offer. It should be emphasised that OUs are still most welcome in Houses if they prefer to visit them.

Late June saw a large turnout of Constable OUs to the 150th Anniversary of the House. They had the opportunity to tour the House and see its transformation into a boarding house for girls. Whilst many were saddened by the end of an era, everyone was impressed by the reordering of the House and the new extension and hopefully were reassured that it is still their ‘spiritual’ home where they would be welcomed at any time when visiting Uppingham in the future.

September saw the Class of the Mid 50’s reunion in Uppingham. Instigated and organised by Willie Fulton (C 58) this proved a first rate occasion since a number had not met up since they left Uppingham fifty years ago! The event had the added bonus as the gathering watched the School 1st XV beating Haileybury 55-3 on a glorious sunny afternoon on the Leicester.

This was closely followed by a select but very enjoyable dinner at Rudding Park for the Yorkshire OUs. A well established function heralded in October, the Over 60s Lunch at the Cavalry & Guards Club in London. A good turnout ensured a very successful occasion.

Dawn Wilson (nee Keene) (Fd 80) initiated a ‘25 years on’ lunch at Uppingham - this proved something of a déjà-vu experience for your Secretary who had taught many of those present!

Many of the assembled company are current or prospective parents so there was a great deal to talk about. Yet another fine day weatherwise, but sadly on this occasion the OUs witnessed the 1st XV being defeated by Stamford!

Nicola Tyers OU Events & Membership Coordinator 01572 820616 nmt@uppingham.co.uk

including London, Dubai, Founders Day and the West Deyne 150th Anniversary. Do get your friends together and make up parties for these events and if anyone has ideas for a themed reunion of any sort please get in touch with either myself or Nicola Tyers as we welcome such initiatives and we will support them if they are considered viable.

Laurie Prashad Development Officer 01572 820617 ltp@uppingham.co.uk

2009 will see the return to a more ordered existence where we can all enjoy each other’s company at the various OU occasions at home and overseas.

Richard Boston (B 56) Secretary

The OU website continues to attract a steady stream of OUs registering for it, we now have nearly 1700 signed up. If you are amongst those who have not yet registered please do so, it is a splendid way of keeping in touch with each other and is fully secure.

All you need to do is to email us at OU@uppingham.co.uk to get on line.

At this years meeting of the Association’s Committee in June it was agreed that we should publish a supplement to the School Roll covering 1996 – 2009. Getting permission to publish information on individuals for this period will be relatively straightforward, it would be a near impossible task to republish the whole Roll as we would have to seek permission from every OU to satisfy the Data Protection Act. I refer to the current 11th Edition of the Roll frequently as it is still surprisingly accurate.

Your Committee is made up of the following members:- Chairman (The Headmaster), Secretary (Richard Boston (B 56)), and Members (Mike Higgs (Fgh 69), Basil Towers (Hf 71), David Gavins (LH 73), Dawn Wilson (Fd 80), Fiona Bettles (Fd 86), James Hartley (B 92), Alasdair Coutts-Wood (WD 96), Ben Fry (F 96)).

If you have any issues you wish brought to the Committee’s attentions please channel them via myself for their consideration.

A reminder that the Association’s Bursary, set up last year, to assist OU parents with children currently in the School should serious misfortune occur, is available as a potential source of some financial relief.

Enquires should be directed, in confidence, to Jerry Rudman, Registrar, in the first instance

The second Canadian Dinner took place on 20 October in Toronto, kindly hosted

by Sam Blyth (L 69) at his home.

I would like to put on record the outstanding work that Nicola Tyers has done for the Association since her appointment in July 2007. It took her no time at all to get measure of her job and I am most grateful to her for her efficiency and diligence.

I do urge everyone to study the forthcoming events calendar as there is much to look forward to this coming year

In these uncertain and difficult times, I hope you will be able to relax with family and friends over the Christmas season and I trust

A Tribute to Colin Williams Colin Williams (L 55) retired as Chairman of Trustees this year after a long and distinguished career as a Trustee. He was appointed in 1991 and elected Chairman in November 1999. His association with the School spans more than half a century. The son of Graham Colin Williams (L 26), he came to Uppingham as a pupil in September 1955. Colin’s son Alex (Fgh 92) and daughter Sophie (L 97) were themselves pupils at Uppingham.

As Chairman, Colin has presided over a period of great change and success. He was a strong supporter of the move to coeducation, which led directly or indirectly to the building of Samworths’, the Fairfield wing, the Language Centre, New House, the Paul David Music School, the Williams Studio Theatre and the conversion of Constables, as well as setting up the School’s computer network; an investment all told of £25million over the last 7 years. Plans for the Western Quad, starting with a new Sports Centre received his support immediately. Colin has led by example. Having been instrumental in setting up the Foundation in 1999, he has supported the School with extraordinary generosity. The naming of the Williams Studio Theatre is only small recognition for Colin’s continuing contribution.

It is, however, for his affection that we know Colin best. Affection as a friend, and his affection for the School, which he has guided with consummate skill for many years. We salute him, and wish Colin and Gerlinda well.

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It is always good to hear from OUs, wherever you are!

Please keep the news coming in.

Norman Knight (SH 27), a former winner of the Public Schools Fives Championships (partnered by John Gillespie (H28)) now lives in Durban, South Africa. We are very grateful to Norman for sending in a wonderful collection of mint-condition photographs of School House and sports teams of his era.

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venerable Mr Bollands in the School woodwork shop where he spent so much of his free time in the late 1940s. He is now the Chairman of the Edward Barnsley Educational Trust which makes fine furniture in the traditions of the Art and Craft movement and provides training of apprentices to the highest level in the art and skill of cabinet making.

Jonathan Robertshaw (H 55) is retired and is now volunteering with Mission to Seafarers at Falmouth and other charities.

Humphrey Sladden (B 45)

John Griffiths (LH 47) has had his 14th book published named “Tea: The Drink That Saved The World” and is listed in the 2008 version of Who’s Who.

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Ian Miller (WD 41) has lived in Zimbabwe since August 1953 and says that despite the desperate state the country is in the sun shines most days!!

John Godrich (WB 44) is living in Somerset and is singing with the Minehead Chorus and participating in the University of the Third Age play. He enjoys reading, swimming and keeping watch on the local council. John would love to hear from any of his contemporaries, on email godrich.email@virgin.net.

Norman Harrington (B 44) has been Chairman of Leicestershire Cricket Society for two years. The society increases in numbers every year and invites well-known speakers to its meetings.

Humphrey Sladden (B 45) was one of the last cabinetmakers to be taught by the

developed an enormous reputation as a lecturer on leadership, and his best-selling book, The Art of Possibility, has been translated into 15 languages. Benjamin addressed the entire school, pupils, teachers and support staff during his visit to Uppingham in November 2007. He is also a conductor of The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.

William Sidgwick (Hf 48) has been awarded a Life Fellowship by the Trustees of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust "in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the work of the Trust." Being involved in recruitment he managed to recruit 2,500 new members over fifteen years David Ellis (F 52) completed the 222 Corbetts (Scottish hills between 2,500 3,000ft whose summits stand clear of all surrounding ground by 500ft) in May 2008.

Headmaster and Colin Williams (L 55)

Colin Williams (L 55) officially opened The Williams Studio Theatre on 30 November 2007. Colin has been an invaluable supporter of the School, and the arts in particular.

Reverend Anthony Russell (M 56) has been the Bishop of Ely since 2000 and is a visitor to a number of the Cambridge colleges (the Bishop of Ely founded the University in the 12th century offering hospitality to those escaping the Town & Country riots in Oxford). He has recently taken up his seat in the House of Lords and has been told he is the only member of Upper House who lives on the Fen. Roger Neill (B 57) works as an international management consultant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is married and has a five year old daughter, Dora.

John Suchet (Fgh 57) is now presenting the Channel 5 quiz show Going for Gold.

Patrick Barlow (Fgh 60) adapted the Alfred Hitchcock film “The 39 Steps” for the West End and went on to win the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2007. The show has now hit Broadway.

Benjamin Zander (WD 52)

Benjamin Zander (WD 52), a resident of the United States for more than 40 years has

Nick Gray (F 60) has been a documentarymaker for thirty years. His programmes include contributions to Extraordinary

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People, First Tuesday, Network First, Real Stories and Everyman. He was also the original deviser and producer of the hospital series Jimmy’s. He has made programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channels 4 & 5, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. His programmes have won many international awards including BAFTA and International EMMY nominations. He has recently been appointed Visiting Professor in Documentary Production at the University of Lincoln.

Chris Price (WB 60) left Uppingham and gained an Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nottingham.

The largest part of his career was with British United Shoe Machinery (BUSM) in Leicester. He then went on to join RollsRoyce plc for its Industrial and Marine Power Group and took up the position of Director of Engineering and Technology for Energy Businesses. He recently retired from his role as Executive Vice President of Engineering and Technology. Chris is a Liveryman of one of the modern City of London Livery Companies, The Worshipful Company of Engineers and has been a member of its governing Court for several years and is the Company’s current Middle Warden. Chris was awarded an OBE in the 2008 New Year Honours for services to engineering.

Adrian Dixon (Fgh 61) has been elected by the Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge as the 51st known Master from 26 June 2008. He left Uppingham to read medicine at King’s College, graduating in 1969 before undertaking clinical medical studies in St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He then pursued general medicine in Nottingham, before specialising in radiology. After spells in paediatric radiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and in computed tomography, he became a Lecturer in the University of Cambridge Department of Radiology in 1979. Since 1994 he has been Professor of Radiology at Cambridge.

Carole moved to Plymouth in November 1994 when he took up command of HMS Cambridge, the Royal Navy's live-firing Gunnery School at Wembury. ‘The Royal Navy in the Cod Wars’ was published by Maritime Books of Liskeard (www.navybooks.com) in November 2006.

Christopher Tinker (Hf 63) is an authority on the music of Imogen Holst. 2007-8 was her centenary year and he has been involved with the publication of a book ‘Imogen Holst – A life in Music’ and also a CD of her music released in May 2008. Visit www.imogenholstcd.com for further details.

Christopher has given lecture/recitals in many parts of the UK this year including the Royal College of Music, an establishment he went to after leaving Uppingham.

Countess Mountbatten & Andrew Welsh (H 62)

Mike Garrs (F 63) plans to write a booklet commemorating the five OUs who won the Victoria Cross. They are :A.M Lascelles (M 1893) J S Collings-Wells (F 1894) G M Maling (WB 1903) T H B Maufe (WD 1912) C A W Sandys-Clarke (M 1933) He would be pleased to hear from anyone who has information relating to these distinguished “Sons of Uppingham” and he can be contacted at 1, The Chestnuts, Nettleham, Lincoln LN2 2NH Telephone (01522) 595198 and email mike.garrs49@ntlworld.com.

Mike hopes that the booklet will be published in time for Speech Day 2011 to coincide with the centenary of the Founding of the Uppingham Association. He intends the proceeds from the sale of the proposed booklets will be shared equally between Uppingham and the Royal British Legion.

Martin Stephen (Hf 62) is High Master of St Paul’s School in London and is the author of fifteen books on English literature and naval history as well as four novels featuring his seventeenth-century hero Henry Gresham.

He has unfortunately suffered a severe stroke and has now written a book “The Diary of a Stroke” which is an unprecedented insight into the medical condition.

Andrew Welch (H 62) was awarded the 2007 Mountbatten Maritime Literature Prize

by Countess Mountbatten for his book 'The Royal Navy in the Cod Wars' at the Desmond Wettern Media Awards in London.

Andrew is a retired Royal Navy Captain, & Fellow of the Nautical Institute, who lives on the West Hoe in Plymouth. He, and his wife

March and April 2009, (1200 Kilometres in 7 weeks) and is looking for volunteers who would like to accompany him on all or part of the way which is mostly on the lesser known but very beautiful pilgrimage route of the Via de la Plata. Further information is available on www.elcamino.adana.es or contact him direct on elvins@avired.com

Julian Baskcomb (H 69)

Julian Baskcomb (H 69) has moved to France after 22 years in Leicestershire, first as a sports journalist and then as editor/director of a publishing/printing firm producing various Premiership football programmes, sports history books and handbooks for many leading clubs including Leicester Tigers, Leicester City & Leicestershire CCC. Now, with wife Jude he has renovated a 17th century watermill with three gite/cottages and a carp lake in the Loire Valley near Loches and invites any OU's interested in taking a fishing and/or family holiday in France to look at www.lemoulinholidays.com James Parton (LH 69) has, after 30 years, left law firm Lynch, Gilardi & Grummer and set up a new law firm in California.

Patrick Elvin (F 63) on a previous charity walk from Sevilla to Estepona Spain

Patrick Elvin (F 63) is leading a charity walk from Estepona (South East Spain) to Santiago de Compostella (NW Spain) next

Stephen Fry (F 70) appeared on the silver screen in the Uppingham Speech Day production of the Olivier Award winning musical ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’.

As members of the Lower Fifth and Fourth Form took to the skies in The Starship Albatross, Stephen appeared beside them in

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scenes recorded in the QI studios 10 days before the show opened on May 21st 2008.

Stephen Fry (F 70)

Photo: Rupert Watts

Michael Oughtred (C 73) is currently President of Yorkshire & Humber Chambers of Commerce and Chairman of Hull Truck Theatre.

Dominic Keating (WD 74) graduated from the University College, London with First Class Honours with Distinction. He tried various jobs before deciding to be a professional actor. Following a major role on the series Star Trek: Enterprise, where he played Lieutenant Malcolm Reed he has appeared in Heroes, Prison Break and Holby City.

Philip Maw (WD 75) is running the London Marathon in April 2009 raising money for the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance. Anyone wishing to sponsor him please visit www.justgiving.com/philmaw.

John Wolfendale (F 75) has moved back into property with the launch of Property Investment Management Spain (www.clickpims.com). During the last ten years he built a travel company, starting from scratch, out of Granada Spain and this has now migrated to the UK (www.danceholidays.com). He is happily married to a Spanish girl, Lola, and has two boys Richard and Alex and lives in Granada.

He is embedded in the local community and is also involved in charity work, skiing, and many entrepreneurial projects. He extends a warm invitation to all OUs with common interests to get in touch.

Mark Colquhoun (WB 76) has, over the years, started many businesses only to sell them on a few years or months later. He helped to introduce laminated windscreen repairs (NOVUS) into the UK in 1987 & was a founding member of ABGRO (Associated British Glass Repairers Organisation) which pressured insurance companies in to waiving their normal excess for a repair rather than a complete windscreen replacement, making

such things free to all fully comprehensively insured drivers, saving millions for the insurance companies and also saving landfill sites the millions of tons of broken windscreens. His sister company (Superstlyle UK) supplied graphics & logos to racing teams such as the Williams GP team, the Silk Cut Le Mans Jaguar, Le Mans Mazdas & the Duccatti UK motorcycle racing team to name but a few. He sold these businesses in 1999, the thought of retirement seemed a good one at the time and he spent the following three years travelling the globe including a year in India & Nepal. He now lives with his six year old son Finley in Cobo, West Coast of Guernsey, working as a landscaper. Mark’s email address is monktb66@hotmail.com & he would love to hear from any of his contemporaries.

James Whitaker (L 76) has been appointed to the role of National Selector for England’s Test cricket team. James, who captained the 1st XI while at Uppingham, is well qualified for the role. After Uppingham he went on to Captain Leicestershire CCC and led them to the top of the County Championship on two occasions in 1996 and 1998. He also played one Test for England against Australia during the successful Ashes campaign “down under” in 1986-7 and two One-Day Internationals against India and Pakistan in 1987. He has also managed the England A and U19 Teams.

Peter Watson (F 77) and Robert Friske (F 77) have re-united in business and are working together near Cambridge helping owner managers to buy and sell businesses.

Peter, a Chartered Accountant with extensive corporate finance experience, established Prism Corporate Broking following a management buy-out from an AIM listed group in 2006 and was joined in December by Robert, the two having stayed in touch since leaving Uppingham. Robert spent the previous 11 years in business consulting, primarily to the SME sector. As Peter says "Ever since a memorable house dinner comedy skit I knew we would work well together, and whilst the material is now rather more serious, it is still great to feed off each others ideas." Prism is much more than just a ‘match maker’. It provides extensive advice on preparation for sale, merger or acquisition, identification and vetting of potential buyers or sellers, plus continued support and advice throughout the negotiations and transaction processes. If any OUs are looking to sell a business or make an acquisition, please do contact them through: www.prismcorporatebroking.com.

David Ross (C 78), who co-founded Carphone Warehouse, has been appointed by the new Mayor of London, Boris Johnson,

to represent him on the board of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games. When asked about the appointment the Mayor commented: “I promised Londoners I would ensure that the investment we are making in the 2012 Games offers the best value for money and David is just the man for the job. Having cofounded one of our most well known household names and turned it into a huge success, his skills will be vital in helping to deliver the legacy on which the success of the London Games will be judged.

James Averdieck (F 79) the founder and Managing Director of Gü Chocolate Puds, was one of the panel of three on the BBC 2 spin-off programme The Apprentice: You’re Fired on 23rd April 2008. On the show, hosted by Adrian Chiles, James was joined by Carol Thatcher and Mark Price (MD of Waitrose) to assess how the team tackled Week 5. James Averdieck launched Gü Chocolate Puds in 2003, going from £0 to £3m turnover in his first year!

James Averdieck ( F 79)

Adam Black (L 81) runs Feather & Black, a chain of 35 bedroom furniture shops. He is living in London and expecting his fourth child. Ben Black (B 82) runs My Family Care, a company specialising in back up childcare and eldercare for corporate clients. He is married with twins and is living in London.

Oliver Black (L 85) works with his brother Ben running Tinies, the UK’s largest provider of childcare and crèches. He is married with one daughter and living in London.

Daniel Black (B 87) runs his own business Black & Blum and is married and has relocated back to Rutland.

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Neil Aitken (L 81) has had a change of career and is now working as Finance Director at law firm Kester Cunningham John.

Any OUs requiring legal advice are invited to contact Neil on neil.aitken@kcj.co.uk. Neil chaired the OU London Dinner in 2008 where he spoke of his career as the Director of Finance and Administration for the British Olympic Association,

Johnny Hon (H 85) is Executive Producer of the new George Bush biopic “W” which was released in October 2008.

Tim Clarke (F 83) has been working in the “mega” yacht industry now for 18 years. He spent 9 years as professional crew on a number of different super-yachts, both private and charter and since 1999 he has been shore-based working in yacht charter, sales and management. He joined a new company 3 years ago called Ocean Independence at its formation and it now has 10 offices worldwide and deals with all aspects of large-yacht ownership.

Robert Saunders (SH 86) started to read chemistry at Manchester Victoria University but changed to microbiology and proceeded to complete a Masters. After starting a PhD at the University of Salford he changed to the University of Giessen in Germany and is currently working as a medical writer for Schwarz-Pharma in Dusseldorf.

Andrew Bain (Hf 86) developed a love for singing whilst a member of the Uppingham School Choir. Now he’s hit the national news headlines after being signed up by a top music record label for his operatic rendition of pop songs. Andrew has been taken on by SonyBMG after the firm heard his opera version of Prince’s Purple Rain.

Andrew has been practising dentistry as well as singing in West End choruses and amateur opera for ten years. His album ‘Andrew Bain presents Modern Classics’, released in November 2008, includes operatic versions of songs from Abba, the Smiths and Snow Patrol. He has recently released a single “Chasing Cars”. For more information please visit www.andrewbainmusic.com.

James Woodcock (F 84) married Alexandra in 2006 and has a daughter Jemima born 2007. He and his family are currently ‘Houseparents’ at Summer Fields Prep School in Oxford,

Harry Sowerby (WD 85) has set up British Military Fitness an outdoor fitness company held in over 60 parks throughout the UK and South Africa. He has also served in Iraq 2004 and Afghanistan 2006.

John Mitchell (B 86) runs a fine art publishing company in North Nottinghamshire with his wife Bridget. They published and launched their first book last year at an exhibition in London’s West End and is in the process of putting together two further books for launch during 2008.

Ben Brown (LH 87) is working as Head of Operations and Quality for an Aerospace design and manufacturing company, STG Aerospace.

On Thursday 22nd May Edward Timpson (LH 87) became the latest OU to be elected to the Commons as the new MP for Crewe and Nantwich. Edward made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 16th June 2008. Other OU MPs are Jennifer Willott (Fd 90), the Liberal Democrat MP for Cardiff Central and the Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell (M 65) who is the Conservative MP for Charnwood in Leicestershire.

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eighteen months to complete and they will travel unsupported, unguided and will carry only what will fit into their rucksacks. In July 2008, Luke decided to return home and Ed is now continuing the expedition alone. He is living off what he finds growing or living in the jungle or the river. He will also be raising funds for a number of charities, including Rainforest Concern, Project Peru, the ME Association and Cancer Research UK. The latter two are dear to Ed’s heart: his father died of cancer eight years ago and his sister Janie (L 94) has battled ME for 15 years.

Gareth Morris (LH 89) has had a couple of very successful years’ shooting, including competing for Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and for Great Britain at the 2007 World LongRange Championships along with James Watson (L 88) and Nick Hinchliffe (Fgh 71) at which John Webster (C 70) was umpire for the team match. Gareth is currently studying for an MBA at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

Sasha Wilkins (Fd 89) has been appointed as the launch executive style editor at WSJ, The Wall Street Journal ‘s new luxury and style magazine which launched in September 2008.

Helen Rowlands (J 89) is a Consultant in cardinal intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Rosie Lang (J 89) has been married for nearly four years and has one son, Toby born January 2007. She works (part time) as a Business Development Management for the accountancy firm BDO Stoy Hayward.

Piers Predeaux (H/L 89) is married to Gail and works in London as an Interior Design Tutor at KLC School of Design.

Credit: Jonathan Keenan

Elliot Cowan (M/L 89) won rave reviews for his performance in the lead role of Shakespeare’s Henry V last autumn. The

Thomas Haywood (C 85) (Far right)

Thomas Haywood (C 85) is an amateur baseball umpire for Great Britain, umpiring at games including the German Baseball Open 2007 in Regensburg and also on the governing body for umpires in the UK. He is currently living in Edinburgh and has set up a business as a photographer. To contact Thomas visit www.thomashaywood.com.

Ed Stafford (WB 89)

On 1st April 2008, Ed Stafford (WB 89) set out on a walk of more than 4,000 miles along the Amazon river with fellow explorer Luke Collyer. Ed expects it to take at least

Elliot Cowan (M/L 89)

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production staged at The Royal Exchange in Manchester received a four star (out of five) rating from The Guardian. He also starred as Mr Darcy in ITV’s ‘Lost in Austen’ shown in September 2008.

He still sings regularly with other OUs at St Peter’s Eaton Square.

Hannah Parker (Fd 90) is the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Exeter.

In March 2008, Mike Clear (LH 92) embarked on a very worthy cause and completed the Marathon des Sables, a 155 mile footrace over six days in temperatures of around 42 degrees. Mike completed this in aid of Kids Kidney Research which is a charity close to his heart.

Nick Holt (M 90) was nominated for a BAFTA in the Break Through Talent category for directing Guys & Dolls, a documentary about men who have relationships with life size silicone dolls.

Charlotte Lawrence (J 92) is Head of English in a private bilingual school in Argentina.

Richard Madeley (now Graylin) (B 94) left Uppingham to read Philosophy at Oxford.

After that he went on to stage school and is now an actor working with the Young Shakespeare Company.

Stuart McMurdo (M 94) currently manages a Golf course in Dubai, as well as being a scratch handicap golfer. In February 2006 he qualified and played in the Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament on the European Tour eventually won by Tiger Woods.

Henry (WD 92) & Ted (M 99) Waite are currently on a 5 month overland trip through the African continent. Their trip, which they are doing with two other people, starts in Monaco and they will travel through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana and South Africa.

They are hoping to arrive in Cape Town by December 24th.

Nick Holt’s (M 90) Guys & Dolls

Andrew Kennedy (F 90) won the Song Prize at the 2006 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and was a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms last year. Andrew returned to Uppingham in the spring to give a recital in the Chapel where he performed songs from his recently released CD ‘Dark Pastoral’.

After leaving Uppingham, John Bower (B 93) studied Chemistry at Bristol University, and was awarded First Class honours in his MSci degree, obtaining the best overall score on the course. He also wrote a "Molecule of the Month" on the drug Ibuprofen for the University's website at that time www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/ibuprofen/homepa ge. He then continued with research in synthetic organic chemistry, and recently obtained his PhD degree from Bristol University for this; not only was his viva examination successful, but he even received a special letter from the Bristol science faculty congratulating him on the quality of his thesis.

He left the UK in May 2007 to carry out postdoctoral research with Prof Michael Krische at the University of Texas at Austin.

He has shared in 8 publications based upon his PhD research, and two more arising from his American researches have already appeared. In addition, he is currently collaborating with Prof Michael Krische in writing a chapter of a book, based upon his current research. He hopes to continue more research back in the UK later in 2008.

Andrew Kennedy (F 90)

Alexander Learmonth (B 90) has been elected Chairman of the Yount Barristers’ Committee of the Bar Council for 2009. He has also recently moved chambers to New Square Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn, and practices in property, succession and personal insolvency.

Stuart McMurdo (M 94)

Elizabeth French (Fd 95) completed three triathlons in 2007 raising money for Epilepsy Research UK. She is now working as School Accompanist at the Loughborough Endowed Schools Music School.

Sam Riley (M 93) has been awarded the 2008 British Film Industry Award (BIFA) for ‘Best Newcomer’ for his portrayal of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis in the biopic black and white film ‘Control’. At the ceremony on November 28th, at the Roundhouse in Camden, London, he also received a BIFA nomination for ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film’. Sam is currently working on the British science fiction film Franklyn.

Sam Riley (M 93)

Elizabeth French (Fd 95)

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Ashley Grote (Hf 95) has recently been appointed Assistant Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral. He also gave a recital of English music in the School’s chapel in May 2008.

Glyn Richards (B 95) is currently training to be a solicitor with international City law firm, CMS Cameron McKenna. Prior to starting work in February 2007 he went travelling after finishing two years of law school in June 2006.

Emma Cannings (L 95) was commandant of the English Under 19’s team touring South Africa. She has now retired from the Army as a Captain in the Royal Artillery having served with distinction in both Iraq and Afghanistan. She now looks forward to a career in ‘Civvy Street’.

Ben Dales (WB 95) is in a garage rock band called The Machiavellis. He and his band played at the Alternative Music Society event at the 100 Club on Oxford Street in March 2008.

at the last minute for the competition - their first practice was apparently in a minibus on the way to the audition. They were really well received by the judges in Saturday's show, singing very different styles of music to the other choirs, but had to sing again on Sunday to see if they could make it through to the next round which they unfortunately didn't.

Vilius Franckevicius (LH 99) a Soros Foundation scholar has just had a successful PhD viva at Cambridge. He has been doing his PhD for Steve Ley who is one of the top Organic Chemistry Professors in the UK. Henry Jacobs (SH 99) studied Viticulture & Oenology at Brighton University, worked Frances wine regions extensively and for a wine merchants in Paris. He is now working for the Antique Wine Company in London specialising in liquid assets and gifts. To contact Henry please email henry@antique-wine.com.

information their website is www.thetwosopranos.co.uk.

Tiffany Redman (L 02) & Felicity Redman (L 98)

Louise Downing (Fd 02) graduated from Bristol University with 2:1 (Hons) in Biology.

She is now working for a PR firm called Ketchum in London doing Healthcare PR. Jessica Stothert (L 03) was featured in Country Life magazine in January 2008 pictured at Portchester Castle where her parents were married and she was christened.

Cathy Lamb (nee Langston) (J 99) has recently moved up to Lichfield Cathedral to take up the post of Assistant Director of Music/Assistant Organist.

Ben Dales (WB 95)

James Mantle (WB 96) graduated from Bristol University in 2006 and after teaching Music at The Leys School, Cambridge for two years has recently started working for KMPG in London.

Jessica Stothert (L 03)

Will Fry (F 98) has driven to Nepal in a Citroen 2CV with a friend raising money for Gurkha Welfare Trust. Arriving at the end of October their adventurous two month expedition route took them to Nepal via Europe, Turkey, Iran and Northern China.

Anyone wishing to support Will should visit www.justgiving.com/norfolk2nepal.

Alex Davies (SH 00) and Ed Minton (SH 00)

Rock band Elliot Minor – Alex Davies (SH 00) and Ed Minton (SH 00) returned to Uppingham in May as part of the series of events held by the Alternative Music Society.

Elliot Minor recently released their first album after the success of each of their five single releases charting in the UK top 40.

Will Fry (F 98) and friend pictured with their 2CV called ‘Dan’

Matt Chinery (B 99) was featured on BBC1's Last Choir Standing. He was in a choir called Last Minute - formed in Oxford

Tiffany Redman (L 02) and Felicity Redman (L 98) now perform as ‘The Two Sopranos’ and have performed Burlesque Opera in Christchurch, New Zealand, Adelaide, Australia and returned to sing in the Edinburgh Festival in August. For more

Thank you to all OUs that have sent in news. As we receive news during the year updates will appear on the OU website, www.olduppinghamian.co.uk so please keep visiting the site to stay up-to-date with your fellow OUs

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OU Uppingham Society

Uppingham Society The Uppingham Society is run by Basil Frost (M 45) and is a branch of the Uppingham Association. It is responsible for financial grants issued to OUs involved with charity work or raising money for good causes via sponsored activities. Below is a selection of causes which have been supported.

Freddie Branson (WD 01) has recently returned from a second visit to Peru, where he worked with a small privately run charity Amantani UK dedicated to protecting children’s rights.

In March 2007, he visited Cusco in order to work as a volunteer in the charity’s orphanage. On the last day of his stay there, he went to visit the poorest and most forgotten district of the Cusco region; Ccorca. Shocked by the poverty and neglect in the district he first started to help with nutrition, educational materials and teachers, giving special attention to the children of 3-5 years, supporting the ineffective play-schools that were in existence as well as increasing the salary and therefore hours of the teachers, guaranteeing their attendance at the same time.

On top of this they have held several courses for the training of the district’s playschool teachers, as well as running three holiday courses during the two-month

summer holiday (a particularly hard time for these children) – this was a great success with more than 150 children attending. It has now been a year since they entered the district, progress is slow but little by little they are starting to see a difference in the Kindergartens and Primary Schools of the district.

During 2008 Freddie has broadened his support to the secondary school of the district, where he was horrified to find out that the pupils have to walk up to more than three hours to arrive at school and then the same trek to get back home. This, amongst other factors is largely to blame for the worryingly low number of young people in the district that actually finish their education (85% of the college students quit their studies before graduating). And so in trying to erase this as a factor, he has established a small modest boarding school for 21 of the secondary school’s girls, with hopes to grow in the future in order to be able to accommodate all the schools pupils.

Freddie Branson (WD 01)

Following in the footsteps of other OUs The Karen Hilltribes Trust For many years Uppingham has created a proud tradition of sending young OUs to Thailand in their Gap years to assist the Karen people through this remarkable charity.

In October 2008 Sophie Lusty (Fd 03), Nikki Hughes (Fd 03) and Emily Duncumb (Sa 03) left for Thailand to continue this excellent work. They will spend six months living with the Karen people in a village teaching English in local schools and assisting with clean water projects.

The Karen Hilltribes Trust is a UK registered charity with a Thai Foundation in Bangkok.

The long term vision is to see the Karen people empowered to help themselves in a sustainable way. At the heart of this lies the need improve health. Reducing disease such as malaria and typhoid will benefit the local economy with more time available to earn money. With a sustainable source of income,

the Karen will be able to invest in their social infrastructure such as education. We hope that in the future every Karen child will have the opportunity of a full education.

The Adam Cole Foundation Following the sad death of Adam Cole (F 89) The Adam Cole Foundation was set up by his family and friends one of which was Benjamin Elson (WB 89) to help make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children through sport. They wanted others to benefit directly from Adam's life, to share in one of his passions. The Adam Cole Foundation is for all those children who have not had the opportunity to experience what sport can offer: the way it can help build confidence, provide a sense of achievement but, most importantly, the fun and enjoyment to be had from just playing

it. £150k has been raised so far, with £50k of the money raised being given to Cambodia where Adam was sponsoring a little girl through Action Aid before his death. The first project undertaken was in Asia and they are working on further projects to raise much needed money. For more information on this charity please visit http://www.adamcolefoundation.org

Any OUs who wish to apply for a grant should send a brief letter in their own handwriting, to the Secretary of the Uppingham Society, c/o The OU Office, Uppingham School, Uppingham LE15 9QE. The letter should state details such as where, when and the duration of the work and for which charity the work is raising money for.

Photo Call

Pictures from some of the reunions and events during 2007/08

The OU London Dinner, held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on 7 February 2008

L-R Byron Fitzpatrick (LH 96), Henry Fleet (Fgh 96), James Russell (Hf 98), Ben Fry (F 96), James Hutt (WD 96), Alex Ward (Hf 96) & OU Coordinator Nicola Tyers

The London OU dinner was once again held at the prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel on 7th February 2008 under the chairmanship of Neil Aitken (L 81) who was the Director of Finance and Administration for the British Olympic Association. Once again the event attracted over 180 OUs who all enjoyed great food, great drink and great company.

L-R Katy Wellesley-Wesley (J 99), Tom Higgs (C 00) and Camilla Smith (F 99)

Lottie Douglas Hughes (J 88) and Ed Smith (LH 84)

1981 1st XV Reunion on 8 Dec 2007

Stephen Pearson (WB 77), Captain of the 1981 1st XV pictured front left with his team mates.

L-R Alex Morrill (Fgh, 96), Chris Ward (SH 95), Jeremy Nettleton (SH 96) and Ed Plumley (Hf 96)

Michael Higgs (Fgh 69), Anthony Waite (WD 62), Jonathan Vaughan (WD 62) & Jonathan Palfreyman (LH 64)

OUs at the Leicester Tigers on 15 March 2008

Mark Edmunds (H 77), Dan Hipkiss (Fgh 98), Jerry Rudman (Registrar), Basil Frost (M 45), David Barrow (Hf 74), Patrick Mulvihill, John Humphreys (H 78) and Tony Keene (WD 47)

OU North West Dinner 13 March 2008 At Mottram Hall, Prestbury

Jamie Arthur (SH 71) John (LH 44) & Gwenda Arthur and

James (LH 85) & Roisin Timpson

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OU Alternative Music Society on 26 March 2008 The 100 Club, Oxford Street was buzzing with the sounds of OUs displaying their musical talents on Wednesday 26th March 2008. Around 80 OUs and their friends turned up to enjoy a selection of music from:-

The Machiavellis - Ben Dales (WB 95) Paisley Grammar - Benni Giles (B 00) Featherbrick - Nick Worpole (B 98) & Sam Featherstone (B 99) Plateman - Jonny Mott (Hf 98)

The evening was a great success and our thanks go to Ben Fry (F 96) and Andrew (Hf 97) and James (Hf 98) Russell who organised the event on behalf of the OU Association.

OU Cornwall Dinner 10 April 2008 OUs and parents were welcomed by Rick Stein to his St Petroc Bistro in Padstow. Drinks were held at Padstow Contemporary Art Studio where Simon Gaiger (F 78) was displaying some of his sculptutres followed by dinner at St Petroc’s Bistro.

Rick Stein (WD 60) and Richard Harman, Headmaster

Simon Gaiger (F 78)

Archie Dobson (WB 46) and Andrew Cameron (Fgh 91)

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Hong Kong 2008 Johnny Hon (H 85), David Li (H 54) and Michael Leung, all members of the Friends of Uppingham Executive Committee in Hong Kong

Richard Harman and Anthony Nightingale (L 61)

Ian Fok (ex-parent), Richard Harman (Headmaster), Joseph Yu (ex-parent), Mark Glatman (L 69) and Johnny Hon (H 85)

The OU Yorkshire Dinner 24 September 2008 held at Rudding Park, Harrogate

(Fd 79) d Alison Hickey ack (WD 46) an Bl Ian , ing m m Gay Cu

Piers Mudd (B 94) and Oliver Duckett (C 95 )

OU Canada Dinner 20 October 2008 held in Toronto

Francis Boston (B 46) and Kerin Lloyd (SH 51)

Michael Royce (SH 60), Francis Boston (B 46), Kerin Lloyd (SH 51), Sophie Williams (L 97), Richard Harman (Headmaster), Karin Harman, Richard Boston (B 56), Nicholas Hesse (L 88) Charles Fogden (M 71), David Strachan (LH 38), Andrew Campbell (M 56) and Sam Blyth (L 69)

Charles Fogden (M 71) and wife Ayesha Navarro

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Photo Call Over 60s London Lunch 2 October 2008 The Over 60s London Lunch was held at The Cavalry & Guards Club, London where 40 OUs gathered for another successful reunion.

Chris Crook (Fgh 58) and Richard Collingham (Fgh 58)

OU Half Century Reunion 13 September 2008 The weather was kind and the rugby went well so combined with excellent company, food and plenty of wine the Half Century Reunion was a resounding success at which many friendships were reformed and memories L-R: Peter Bennett (WD 59), Willie Fulton (C 58), shared.

Tim Melville-Ross (C 58), Christopher Lyle (C 58)

tin (LH 50) and (B 56), John Mar Richard Boston (LH 51) Rodney Bacon

and Chris Rawlins (F 58) Angus Bai n (Fgh 54 ) and Anth

ony Walke

r (L 61)

Thomas Ryland (SH 60) Peter Gwynn (SH 44) and

Nicholas Watts (H 57) and Peter Bennett (WD 59)

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Photo Call Constables 150th Anniversary Reunion 21 June 2008 Despite the weather everyone enjoyed good food, wine and company and all shared some unforgetable memories at the Constables 150th Anniversary Reunion. The day began with lunch at Constables where everyone had the chance to look through archive material and meet up with contemporaries.

Tours of the school were offered along with a chance to tour the house and see the major changes.

After music and drinks in the new Paul David Music School in the evening, 150 OUs and their partners enjoyed dinner in The Memorial Hall.

Price and (C 97), Esther David Brandon ) 97 (C Char lie August

Mar k (C 72 ), Peter (C 44) and And Leader rew (C 74)

Richard Boston (B 56) and Willie Fu lton (C 58)

Anthony Thornley (C 48) and Nicola Tyers, OU Coordinator

25 Year Reunion 4 October 2008 In Uppingham

Amanda Phillipson (Fd 82), Pat Land (ex-housemistress), Sophie Van Berekel (Fd 82), Ginny Bowman (Fd 84) and Stephanie Heath (Fd 82)

Emma Davies (Fd 82), Wendy McLachlan (staff), and Helen Fry (ex-staff)

Nigel Sturgess (Hf 79) and M ike Gavins (exstaff)

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OU Announcements

Announcements (Fd 92) and the page boy and girl were the children of Tara Corry (nee Cole) (Fd 90). The wedding was also attended by approximately 30 other OUs and Ian Rolison.

Marriages Justin Power (LH 71) was civilly partnered on 2nd June 2007 to Bill Pryde, his partner of 27 years at Woodbridge, Suffolk.

William Lee (WB 85) married Angela Hoyle on 7th September 2007. Their honeymoon was spent travelling the world for three months.

Toni Williams (J 90) married Steve Watson on 3rd August 2007. They were expecting their first child in May 2008.

James Lindsley (C 85) married Emma Fieldhouse (Fd 92) on 16th August in Masham, North Yorkshire.

Amanda Pyke (Fd 87) married Philip O’Brien in Northamptonshire in May 2008.

Amanda currently combines her singing career as a mezzo with teaching singing in Surrey.

Benjamin Elson (WB 89) and Becky Craig (Fd 94) pictured at their wedding with many OUs

Benjamin Elson (WB 89) married fellow OU Becky Craig (Fd 94) in Kirkby Fleetham, North Yorkshire on 27th September 2008.

The Best Men were Tim Reddy (Hf 89) and Mark Way (Fgh 87). The Ushers were Patrick Smith (Fgh 89), Simon Smith (Fgh 93), Nicholas Dickson (Fgh 89), David Casement (Fgh 89), James May (M 89), Jonathan Skrine (C 89), Thomas Sebire (C 89) William Wilson (WB 89), Benjamin Aspell (WB 89), Robert Craig (C 93), Daniel Wade (Fgh 90), Paul Woodhouse (WB 90), Alexander Haslam (F 89). The Bridesmaids were Laura Cullen (nee Day (Fd 94), Elizabeth Lawrenson (nee HopeHawkins) (L 94), Anna Guest (nee Fowler) (L 94). The lesson was read by Sarah Wall

Rebecca Woodhead (Fd 90) married James Warne in April 2005 and now has a daughter Ella Grace born 25 July 2007.

She is living and working in Cape Town.

Philip Hunter (Fgh 93) recently married Suzanna Hewitt (J 97) on June 21st 2008 at a church near Northampton. The Best Man was Graham Livesey (Fgh 93), among the Ushers were Tom Fletcher (Fgh 93), Neil Brearley (F 93), James Thomson (C 93) and the Chief Bridesmaid was Emma Ogilvy (J 97). The fiddle was played in the church

by Magnus Johnston (C 93). Philip and Suzie are living in Reading with Philip working as a Chartered Surveyor for national property consultants, Lambert Smith Hampton and Suzie is working as a Dealer Marketing Manager for MINI.

Amanda Pyke (Fd 87) & husband Philip

Dominic Williams (F 87) married Doreen Odette De Cabrera in Antigua Guatemala on 3rd November 2007. Dominic had two Best Men, Robert Redhead (L 87) and Michael Hardy (Hf 90).

Dominic Williams (F 87) and and wife Doreen Odette de Cabrera

Hannah Parker (Fd 90) married Lt Com David Foster RN on 9th June 2007.

Philip Hunter (Fgh 93) and wife Suzanna Hewitt (J 97)

Announcements OU

Jennifer Lee (nee Tod) (Fd 87) and her husband Jin have welcomed twins, Lucy and Davis, a brother and sister for Mackenzie and Taryn on 24th June 2008.

Tom Berry (SH 87) and his wife Emma are the proud parents to twins Elizabeth and Ralph on 28th July 2008.

Rachel Walmsley (nee Frith) (Fd 87) and husband Matthew had their first child, Ollie in September 2008.

Adele Swift (J& L 93) married Matt Walker on 8th April 2006 with two OUs as bridesmaids, Anna Wood (L 93) and Emma Curtis (L 93). She is currently living in Nottinghamshire working as a Physiotherapist having graduated from the University of Nottingham in July 2007.

Seb Mossop (C 92) with Sophie Elizabeth

Helen Walker (J 93) are the proud parents to a little boy Henry Thomas Walker born on the 28th May 2007. Helen has passed her professional exams and is now a fully qualified architect.

Victoria Netscher (Fd 93) & husband Henry

Victoria Netscher (Fd 93) married Henry Lloyd-Roberts on 27th October 2007 at St Andrews Church, Lyddington. Their reception was held in the Old School Room and a marquee on the Headmaster’s Lawn.

The wedding was attended by Joanna Netscher (Fd 95), Bertie Arkwright (B 93), Sophie Green (Fd 93), Diana Coulter (Fd 93), Lisa Bradley (J 93) Alice Bubear (Fd 93) and Mr & Mrs Dummond (Fairfield Housemaster and Mistress).

Seb Mossop (C 92) and Jo Mossop née Calder (J 95) are the proud parents of Sophie Elizabeth who was born on 12th August 2007.

Rachel Walmsley (Fd 87))

Simon Tyrrell (H/WD 90) has been living in Hong Kong for the last 7 years working in commercial property. Simon and his wife, Abi are celebrating the birth of their third child, Rosie who is the little sister of Lachlan and Poppy.

Helen Walker (J 93) with Henry Thomas

Engagements

Joanna Roberts (Fd 96) married Nigel Beswetherick on 30th June 2006.

Katherine Selwyn (Fd 80) and Nick Gee were engaged on Valentine’s Day 2005.

Their much wanted and long-awaited son Harry was born on 13 February 2006.

Births Stephen Little (Hf 59) advised the OU office that his son Thomas arrived on 12th June 2008 who is brother to Charles who arrived on 13th January 2004.

Jonathan Leigh-Hunt (LH 83) and his wife had a baby girl, Martha on 10th March 2008.

Anthony Alderson (F 84) and his wife Candida have a new addition to their family.

Olivia was born 7th January 2008.

Simon Tyrrell (H/WD 90), wife Abi, with Poppy, Rosie and Lachlan

Charlie Fleet (Fgh 92) and Jo Fleet née De La Salle (J 95) have had a son Jamie born 4th May 2007.

John Mitchell (B 86) married Bridget on April 29th 2006. They have had their first child, Sophie Abigail on 20th June 2007.

Liz Capell (Fd 92) and her husband Mark are the proud parents of Georgina born on 29th October 2007.

John Mitchell (B 86), wife Bridget and daughter Sophie Abigail

Katherine Selwyn (Fd 80) with Harry

Julian Fuller (F 84) is engaged to Alexandra Gordon.

Hugo Issac (B 88) got engaged to Dr Natasha Perice on the hills above Swanage on the 15 October 2008

Thank you to all OUs for sending in photographs – please keep them coming!

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Obituaries Harold Dennis Whitehead (WB 28) left Uppingham and became a chartered auctioneer, surveyor, valuer and estate agent.

Dennis wrote a journal throughout his experiences, and, together with his descriptive letters to his wife, historical information has been preserved, and some was used in a book written by Hugh Sebag Montefiore, called “Fight to the Last Man”.

Four years ago, at the age of 89, Brian and his wife decided to emigrate to Durban, South Africa, to be closer to their children, and their grandchildren. He died almost a month after his 93rd birthday with his family around him. .....................................................................................................

Tim Fortescue (R 30) who has died aged 92, enjoyed a parliamentary interlude in his long career in the food industry and as a colonial civil servant. He was Conservative MP for the marginal seat of Liverpool Garston for two terms from 1966 until 1974.

He stepped down just before it was captured by Labour in February 1974, as one of the additional seats which enabled Harold Wilson to enjoy a third term in office.

A shrewd and observant man, in 1971 Fortescue learned from constituents about the industrial chaos at Ford's Halewood plant, long before it reached the motor company's top management, and brought it to public attention. But such political sensitivities were largely hidden during his parliamentary stint by the Commons silence imposed on him by his service as an assistant whip (1970-71) and senior whip (1971-73).

Brian (WB 29) (left) and Dennis Whitehead (WB 28)

Dennis served as a J.P. in Bridlington for thirty years, twenty of which as Chairman of the Bench. He spent sixteen years as Governor of Bridlington Grammar School, thirty years on The Regimental Council representing The Green Howard’s 5th Battalion, twenty years Chairman of the Allotments and Garden Society and he was also a member of The Freemasons Lodge.

Dennis joined the Territorial Army as a member of the 5th Battalion Green Howard’s Regiment, and was called up in 1939 to serve in France with The British Expeditionary Force. In 1940 he married Joyce Evelyn Pearce, daughter of Colonel C.H Pearce, CBE, TD, DL., and managed the briefest of honeymoons!

He was amongst the last to leave the Dunkirk beaches and during this retreat he was awarded the Military Cross. Then Dennis was sent to North Africa, where he was captured by the Italians. He was held in an Italian Prisoner of War Camp and passed the time, amongst other activities, producing and acting in plays. He actually managed to escape with two colleagues (Dennis Field and Bill Bailey) and all three owe their lives to the Italian peasantry who hid them, and gave them what little food they could spare.

After the war, in 1954 he went back on a memorable visit there, meeting up with family members.

Dennis will always be remembered for his calm but jovial manner, and cheerful smile.

He had over 65 happy years married to Joyce, who cared for him in his latter few years, until he died peacefully at the age of 92. .....................................................................................................

Arthur Brian Whitehead (WB 29) was born in Bridlington, and after leaving Uppingham he joined the Regular Army in 1935, and served 35 years with The East Yorkshire Regiment, travelling to Egypt in 1939, and then on to India. Later he served with the Chindits in Burma, where he had a difficult time amongst the Japanese, and where he won an M.C. in 1944.

At the end of the war Brian went to Austria, and then back to Netheravon in England, and in 1950 he married Diana Field in Bridlington, Yorkshire. Shortly afterwards Brian became an Instructor at Sandhurst Military Academy for three years. He then took his family to live in Nigeria where he served with The West African Frontier Force for a further three years.

Brian finally left the Army in 1958, and emigrated to Southern Rhodesia where he took a job with the Rhodesian Sugar Refineries.

He retired, and returned to England with his wife in 1977, settling in Topsham, Devon.

While an MP, he opposed hanging and was one of ten Tory MPs to vote against Labour's curb on Commonwealth immigration, a suitable attitude for one formerly in the colonial service. He next role was more enjoyable as the Secretary General of the Food and Drinks Industries Council from 1973 to 1983, for which service he was appointed CBE. After Uppingham, he went to King's College, Cambridge, where he read modern languages. Graduating in 1938, he opted for the colonial service and was posted to Hong Kong as a magistrate. Imprisoned there by the Japanese between 1941 and 1945, he stayed on until 1947 when he joined the infant Food and Agriculture Organisation in Washington. He then resumed colonial service in Kenya, but returned to the FAO in Rome in 1951.

He became chief marketing officer for the Milk Marketing Board of England and Wales in 1954. He then went to work for Nestlé, first in Switzerland, then London.

When he decided on politics, Tim found it easy to find his parliamentary seat after Richard Bingham stood down from Garston to become a judge. Tim retained the seat with a 3,970 majority in 1966. Initially he took a considerable interest in aviation, becoming secretary of the Tory MPs' aviation committee. After resigning as a whip he took strong exception to Edward Heath's proposal for a Maplin Sands alternative to

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Heathrow, a proposal now being revived by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. .....................................................................................................

was rescued, eventually, by Italians stationed on the island who took him to the German hospital in Heraklion. From there he was transported to Frankfurt. He arrived at Stalag Luft III by cattle truck.

Frank Day (SH 31) who earned the sobriquet "Fearless" for his exploits as a Spitfire pilot in the Second World War, seldom referred to the fact that he was imprisoned in the notorious Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp from 1942 to 1945, where he was brutally beaten on several occasions. The only words he uttered to the German officers were his name, rank and number. He sustained himself in the worst moments of his long ordeal by humming "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Frank Day (SH 31) Square".

Frank was the son of a successful wine merchant in the City of London. He was educated at the Dragon School and at Uppingham, when John Wolfenden was Headmaster. The overpowering ambition of his youth was to qualify as a pilot in the RAF, and this was achieved in his early twenties.

As a flying instructor in Humble in 1938, he counted among his pupils Chiang Kai-shek, who would become the first president of the Communist Chinese republic.

In 1941, Frank married a WAAF named Antoinette Kaye, whose grandmother held the opinion that the groom was a "counter jumper", a period expression meaning "parvenu". Frank's middle name was Barton, and the Kaye family assumed for a while that Barton and Frank were double-barrelled, thus affording him a status he had to refute.

Frank and Antoinette were happily married for half a century, though her last years were spent under the terrible shadow of Alzheimer's.

One of the earliest assignments the young pilot had to undertake was to guard Rudolf Hess, the Nazi peace broker, at gunpoint at RAF Turnhouse. Hess refused to speak English, except to ask for a copy of ‘Herren Only’ magazine and a couple of veganin headache tablets.

In 1942, Frank was sent on a photoreconnaisance flight over Crete, during which he was attacked by a squadron of Messerschmidt 109s. The gunfire shattered his control column, severing his right thumb and wounding him in the leg. He baled out and was in the sea for 24 hours. "I had a Mae West lifejacket, but I couldn't open the bloody thing," he told Stuart Wavell in an interview for The Sunday Times in 2000. He

He soon made friends in the camp with Rupert ‘Pud’ Davies, who would later play Inspector Maigret on BBC TV with the enthusiastic approval of Georges Simenon, and the actor Peter Butterworth, who featured in many of the Carry On films, which were scripted

by Talbot ‘Tolly’ Rothwell, another inmate. The trio appointed Frank to be their make-up artist for the concerts they staged.

He was interviewed by the escape committee, who didn't rate his chances of joining them because of his injured leg and missing thumb. He was employed instead as one of 20 ‘penguins’ who stored the earth from the tunnels in their trousers and scattered it casually in the prison grounds.

These events were described in a book by Paul Brickhill and in the movie The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen. Most of the men who managed to dig their way to freedom were rounded up by the Nazis and shot.

Frank's eldest son, Jonathan, was born in 1942 and was not to see his father until the war was over. A second son, Michael (L 60), was born in 1946, and he now owns the very successful Mostly Cheese Company.

Frank, who left the RAF as a squadron leader, found post-war employment in the pharmaceutical company Savory and Moore.

He began his career packing parcels and ended it as Managing Director. Although he was profoundly moved by the deaths of his comrades in the camp, and the horrific sights he had witnessed, there was no bitterness in his nature. .....................................................................................................

Brian Catchpole (F 33) was educated at Northdown Hill Preparatory School in Margate and Uppingham School. He followed his brother Douglas (F 30) and preceded his brother Richard (F 40) and two of his three sons Graham (F 58) and Phillip (F 62) and his nephew Giles (F 72).

He trained in London at the Royal Dental Hospital , graduating in 1943 and distinguished himself as a sportsman, captaining the Charing Cross and Royal Dental Hospital’s 1st XV, in 1940-41 and

enjoying competitive dinghy sailing and golfing, which he’d started at a young age.

In 1943 he married Nancy Jaques and joined the Royal Navy serving on the aircraft carrier H.M.S.Premier.

After the war Brian joined the Yarde House Practice in Taunton. This practice was started in 1864 which makes it one of the oldest recorded in the country. Brian stayed here until his retirement in 1980. During these years he also worked at East Reach Hospital, Tone Vale Hospital and for the boys of Taunton School - saving more than one ‘rugby extraction’!

Nancy died in 1962 leaving Brian to bring up the family of three boys.

After 13 years as a widower Brian married Heather Osler in 1975, an artist who had grown up in South Africa.

Brian had 54 years with the Taunton Fly fishing Club, eventually becoming a Life Member in 1993. He made his own rods and flies and put into his pastime all the qualities that made him such a good dentist. He also acted as a Water-bailiff on the River Tone at Bradford.

On the 10th October 2007 Brian passed away peacefully at his home in Fitzhead, aged 88. .....................................................................................................

Michael Lowry (M 33) was educated at Uppingham and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into The Queen’s Royal Regiment in 1939. He served with 1st Queens on the North-West Frontier, being wounded in action against Waziristan tribesmen in 1940 and mentioned in despatches in 1942.

His battalion was moved to Burma after the Japanese invasion. Lowry was again mentioned in dispatches for his service in Arakan in 1943. In March and April 1944, he fought first at Imphal then at Kohima, as the Japanese 15th and 31st divisions threw themselves at these obstacles to their planned invasion of India. Lowry’s courage in both battles earned him lasting respect but no decoration.

Essentially a fighting soldier, Lowry eschewed staff appointments, although he served as military assistant and military secretary to the general commanding British troops in occupation of Austria from 1951 to 1952, living for a time in a house that Gustav Mahler had used in Vienna. He commanded a troopship during the 1956 Suez campaign

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and was second-in-command of the Somaliland Scouts from 1958 until appointed to command 1st Battalion The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment, following amalgamation of the Queen’s and East Surreys.

He took his battalion to Aden in 1961, then in the early stages of the unrest that led to British withdrawal in 1967, and to Hong Kong. Finally, he commanded a wing of the School of Infantry, Warminster, until leaving the Army in 1967. He farmed and worked on behalf of the Conservative Party and the European Union. He was appointed MBE in 1983 and was present in the Grand Hotel, Brighton, on the night of the IRA bomb in 1984.

His wife, predeceased him. He is survived by a son and two daughters. .....................................................................................................

Richard Stratton (Hf 36) left the RAF in 1949 and joined Saunders-Roe. There, in a rapidly changing aviation world, he was chief engineer on such diverse postwar projects as the SR45 Princess passenger flying boat, and the SR53 rocket-and-turbojet supersonic interceptor.

Born in 1923, Richard Bryan Stratton was educated at Uppingham, where his interest in aviation was kindled by the launch of a branch of the Air Defence Cadet Corps. In 1941 Stratton and his twin brother, Gordon (Hf 36), joined the RAF and trained as flight engineers at RAF St Athan, in South Wales.

From there he was posted to the Sunderland flying-boat base at Pembroke Dock.

During the war Pembroke Dock was the world’s largest operational flying-boat station, playing a vital anti-submarine role during the Battle of the Atlantic. At the height of the battle, almost 100 flying-boats were located in and around Pembroke Dock, and Stratton flew numerous operational patrols as a Sunderland flight engineer. The task of nursing the engines of these reconnaissance workhorses during long flights in often freezing conditions over the hostile North Atlantic was a vital one.

After the war Stratton was offered a permanent commission but decided to leave the RAF and in 1949 he joined SaundersRoe on the Isle of Wight. The company’s big project at that time was the 220-passenger long-range Princess flying boat, powered by ten Bristol Proteus turboprop engines, for which Stratton was chief engineer.

It was a magnificent aircraft, at the time one of the largest in the world. But the theory behind its raison d’être went back to prewar

days when long-range air travel had been conceived of as depending on flying-boats operating from the world’s natural harbours.

Runway and airport development had rendered such ideas obsolete. The future of commercial aviation lay all too clearly with land-based aircraft, which suffered none of the problems of weight and drag (and corrosion) of a flying boat hull. As a result the anticipated BOAC orders never materialised, and after more than 40 test flights, in most of which Stratton participated, the Princess was cancelled.

In 1962 he joined the short-lived Beagle Aircraft at Shoreham as chief flight test engineer of its various light aircraft types.

Other involvements in the 1960s were with promotion of the sale of the Brantly helicopter at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and with CSE Aviation, also at Kidlington. There, he was an early proponent of the armed attack helicopter.

Stratton was also a member of the Civil Aviation Authority’s Airworthiness Requirements Board, retiring in 1993. But he continued to be involved with the Rotorcraft Committee and General Aviation Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society. For years he campaigned for an Experimental Category of Airworthiness, aimed at encouraging the imaginative modification and development of light aircraft, without expensive regulation.

For many years he was chief technical officer of the British Gliding Association. (He had become a gliding instructor in 1952.) Almost to the end of his life he was giving advice to clubs on making winch launching safer. .....................................................................................................

Jonathan Routh (F 41) was a supreme practical joker and hoaxer whose star reached its zenith with Candid Camera, the hugely successful Sixties television series in which unsuspecting members of the public were duped into making fools of themselves while filmed with a hidden camera, to the delight of viewers. It was one of the earliest examples of television voyeurism. Routh was also a primitive artist and an author who led a charmed, eccentric, bohemian life in which, by his own admission, he relied heavily on the kindness of wealthy friends, living in a succession of smart addresses and eating at the best restaurants. “I have never had any money. Never,” he once confessed.

Candid Camera — a concept imported from America and the forerunner of Game for a Laugh and Beadle’s About — was presented

by Bob Monkhouse, with the lugubrious, beetle-browed Routh and Arthur Atkins as the pranksters who would spook hapless participants with talking pillar boxes and cars

without engines. Jennifer Paterson, who later found success in the cookery show Two Fat Ladies, would sometimes nudge victims into shot while disguised as a cleaner.

On one occasion he posted himself from Sheepwash, Devon, to the offices of the Daily Mail in Fleet Street, claiming that he was too scared to go to London on his own.

As ‘livestock’, parcels had to be accompanied at all times, he was put in a postman’s care for the duration of the journey and delivered for £2. The postman was silent throughout.

Routh thought this episode demonstrated the height of English tolerance and good manners.

John Reginald Surdeval Routh was born in 1927 and spent part of his childhood in Palestine where his father was a colonial governor. He was educated at Uppingham School. He read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, revived the moribund Footlights Dramatic Society and edited Granta, one edition of which was described by a chaplain as “the most obscene item I have ever seen in print”. As an indication of things to come, Routh took a group of undergraduates off to “measure” Bletchley for a bypass, and then collected signatures condemning the fake proposal. After 18 months or so he was invited to leave Cambridge.

Finding himself at a loose end, Routh, who by this time had changed his first name to Jonathan, invented Jeremy Feeble, an 18thcentury poet whom he contrived to get mentioned in the Times Literary Supplement and on the BBC Third Programme.

His first job was as showbusiness editor of the now-defunct Everybody’s Magazine, which published a piece he filed from India in 1951 while on location with Jean Renoir, who was filming The River. He wrote that shooting had to be suspended when the cast was struck down by “dhoti rash, a virulent infection contracted from low-caste washerwomen”.

This job was followed by a spell as “Candid Mike” on Radio Luxembourg. In one broadcast he conducted a bizarre conversation with a London Transport inspector who had caught him travelling with a grand piano on the Underground.

Candid Camera was launched on an unsuspecting public in 1960 and ran until 1967 and turned Routh into a familiar figure.

When Candid Camera came to an end he turned his hand to writing potboilers. He had already written his autobiography, The Little Men in My Life, in 1953. The Good Loo Guide was a tongue-in-cheek if meticulous

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appraisal of the best and worst of the capital’s public lavatories. The Guide Porcelaine to the Loos of Paris and The Better John Guide to those of New York, written with Serena Stewart, followed. Other books included one on hangovers; a book on disasters entitled So You Think You’ve Got Problems; and Leonardo’s Kitchen Note Book, “translated” with his second wife, Shelagh, and based on the premise that all the machines in drawings by the Old Master were for making pasta.

Routh had small parts in several films including Casino Royale (1967) and 30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968).

In 1948 he married Nandi Heckroth, a film costume designer, the daughter of Hein Heckroth, the German Oscar-winning filmproduction designer and painter, though their marriage ended in 1969.

In 1980 Routh and his second wife moved permanently to Jamaica to live in a threeroomed wooden hut, with no mains water, electricity or telephone, overlooking the sea, west of Montego Bay. It was a typically eccentric set-up where anything up to a dozen local children from overburdened families were sometimes given a temporary home.

The softly spoken Routh was an engaging, mischievous, social anarchist with an acute sense of the absurd and an iron nerve. He eschewed money, preferring to barter with his paintings, especially for restaurant meals, and remained entirely unworldly.

He is survived by his second wife and two sons from his first marriage. .....................................................................................................

Tony Scholfield (M 41) left Uppingham in March 1944 and served in the Royal Navy for two years. Following demobilisation he went to Malaya working for Harper Gilfillan & Co and then W R Loxley & Co in Hong Kong before founding his own firm. Initially making shoes he then manufactured toys, furniture and sports wear.

He was a keen member of the OU Golfing Society for many years where he organised their London meeting. Very generously he designed and presented four flags to the Society. .....................................................................................................

John Hilton Edwards FRS (WD 42), Emeritus Professor of Genetics of the University of Oxford, died on 11th October 2007. Born in 1928, and previously Professor of Human Genetics at Birmingham, he was one of the pioneers of the new subject of

human genetics. Edwards’s syndrome (trisomy of chromosome 18) is named after him.

After Uppingham he read medicine at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital, London. With an enquiring scientific turn of mind he was soon attracted to academic medicine, though always continuing to practice, ultimately as an honorary consultant in pediatrics and human genetics.

John was a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society (1979). He travelled widely in the course of his career, holding posts in New York and Philadelphia and collaborating with colleagues in Iceland, Newfoundland, India, Australia and New Zealand.

He and his brother Anthony (WD 49), now retired as Professor of Biometry at Cambridge, always quoted Uppingham science and mathematics teaching as the foundation of their academic careers. Both were taught by a remarkable cohort of masters, V.T.Saunders for physics, Cavell for chemistry, and Kendall, Crofts and Dunbar for mathematics.

The brothers had P.B.King as housemaster, and because during the war their father was serving abroad in the Royal Army Medical Corps and their mother an invalid, John used to stay with the Kings during the holidays.

‘P.B.’ was also Trinity Hall, so it became John’s college too.

Throughout his life John failed to make any sense of ball games except squash (which he used to play with his college tutor), but took up gliding immediately after leaving school and enjoyed flying with Cambridge University Gliding Club. Later on he became a proficient skier, having taught himself to ski while visiting South Georgia as ship’s doctor on the survey vessel John Biscoe.

He is survived by his wife Felicity and their four widely-scattered children. .....................................................................................................

John Whitehead (C 42) left Uppingham in 1945 to do National Service as a Bevin Boy at Bolsover colliery. John then joined fabric company Stibbe toting his case of samples and knocking on doors as a fabric salesman.

When his father died, John took his place on the Stibbe board. Later in 1975 John and a fellow director from Stibbe’s started up their own company later buying Harrison’s dye works in Leicester.

John was instrumental in the transition of De Montfort from a Polytechnic to a University and following the change he

John Whitehead (C 42)

became Pro Chancellor and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors of the University for eight years and retired as Chairman of the Senior Fellows in 2006 taking a keen interest in all that goes on at De Montfort up until his death in April 2008.

His father and mother were both JPs and he was appointed to the County Bench in 1968, a Deputy Lieutenant in 1989, and was awarded a CBE for services to education in Leicester two years later. He became High Sheriff of Leicester in 1994.

John married Alanda in 1962 and settled in Houghton-on-the-Hill where they had a son Michael (C 81) and two daughters. Charity work has always featured in John’s life and his most eminent fundraising effort was to spearhead the Save for a Laser Appeal in 1990 which raised £600,000 for vascular surgery equipment.

John was a former Master of both the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters, and a Freeman of the City of London and the City of Leicester. He was a Tax Commissioner and a Special Constable, and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for his work during the East Coast Flood Disaster in 1951. .....................................................................................................

Eric Thompson (H 44) was born in Sunderland but because of the strategic nature of the local docks and the coal yards, like many children he was evacuated to an outlying village, Witton-le-Wear, near Bishop Auckland. He stayed there until his time at Uppingham. As a scholar Eric was an extraordinary mathematician and went on to read Chemistry at Oxford, where he also

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played rugby for the Oxford Greyhounds, as well as many racquet games and cricket, and was a life-long supporter of Liverpool RFC.

gardening, golf and were regular attendees at Uppingham functions either at the School, or around the country.

In those formative years he shared with his philanthropic parents an aptitude to raise substantial funds for medical causes, and the guides and scouts. His father and grandfather were founder members of both the Playing Fields Association and they, in turn, were primary fundraisers for Newcastle University.

He started work with the Crawford Biscuit family in Liverpool, and met his wife Joyce in Chester at the local branch of the English Speaking Union. He later joined I.C.I as a Development Manager for polyfoam, later starting his own company in Stockton-onTees, and more recently joining with his son Toby in business supplying Spa equipment.

Whilst he was essentially a quiet man, it was acknowledged without doubt that he was a good man to do business with, and possessed a rare quality nowadays – he was a gentleman. .....................................................................................................

Peter (Sam) Rawson (SH 48), who died suddenly in February 2008 at his home in Nether Wallop, Hampshire was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1935 and led an idyllic rural existence there with his elder brothers, Christopher and Fred (SH 45).

Having attended The Elms Preparatory School near Malvern, he joined his brother, Fred, at Uppingham as an Entrance Scholar in September 1948 which he left in July 1953 to join the Royal Navy for his two years National Service. He was commissioned and enjoyed his time in and outside the ports of the Mediterranean.

In October 1955 Sam went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge as an Exhibitioner in Classics where he read that subject and Law. On coming down in the Summer of 1958 he joined Gray Dawes, the insurance side of the Inchcape Group but found the excitement of the insurance industry too much after a time and decided on a career at the Bar instead.

He joined chambers in Lincoln's Inn as a pupil and was called to the Bar in 1962 where he practised in the Chancery Division and served on many committees of Lincoln's Inn with much enjoyment and success and of which he later became a Bencher. He left private practice in 1994 to become a Registrar in Bankruptcy in the High Court, a position he held at the time of his death.

In addition to his career in the law Sam devoted much of his time and effort to the Clothworkers' Company of which he became Master in 2004 following in the steps of his elder brother, Christopher, who had been Master a few years before.

Peter (Sam) Rawson (SH 48)

Another subject in which Sam was much interested, and of which he was a fine exponent, was flyfishing. He had a rod on the Dever, for 35 years and had also fished in Scotland and the United States (the Catskills and Montana) for many years as well as Chile and New Zealand. He was President of the Flyfishers' Club in 1994/5.

Sam is survived by his first wife, Tricia, his daughters Lucy (Fd 80) and Susanna (Fd 83), Mary his companion of long standing, and his many friends in all walks of life to whom he gave so much of his convivial and generous self.

Supplied by Mr R Brown .....................................................................................................

Peter Green (H 51)

Peter Green (H 51) died suddenly of a heart attack in November 2007 whilst out shooting. A devoted husband to Jan, he was a keen supporter of the school and father to four OUs Jonathan (H 77), Simon (H 82), Emma (Fd 81), and Kerry (J 86). He would have been especially proud of the next generation of Uppinghamians Tessa Boddington (NH) and James Green (SH) starting at the School. He was a well known and respected stockbroker at Henry Cooke Lumsden in Manchester, and friend of the North West OU reunions over many years.

After a successful career, he and Jan indulged a shared passion for travelling the world,

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Simon Green (H 82) died suddenly in January 2008 from diabetic complications.

Simon was a very keen sportsman, gaining triple colours at School and continuing his sporting association with the School throughout his life. As a member of the OU golf society many will fondly remember his unorthodox swing and brute force approach to the game. His association with the Uppingham Rovers was to be one of his proudest achievements – guiding many youngsters through their first games and helping support the Club throughout, culminating in his stint as Treasurer. His bludgeoning approach to the delicate art of batting was a thing many Rovers will remember for years to come! His business career started in stockbroking following in the footsteps of father Peter, but culminated in a switch to teaching at Eastbourne College. Here he found happiness in teaching, helping others, and indulging in his sporting endeavours. .....................................................................................................

Charles Flint (WD 55) died aged 65 after a lengthy battle against leukaemia. He was described as "a true gentleman who managed to adapt to a modern world whilst still maintaining old world charm, integrity and friendship".

A man with the widest interests and enthusiasms, he loved good food, fine wine and entertaining company. He enjoyed his home county of Warwickshire in all its facets and indulged his love of the countryside and country sports. He had a deep appreciation of music, the theatre, cinema, golf, watching cricket, reading and travel, to name but a few of his interests.

Charles was educated at Uppingham and Birmingham University and then articled to

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the late Charles Lea of Harold Roberts & Lea. He stayed with the firm on qualification and became a partner shortly afterwards.

Charles oversaw the rapid expansion of the practice by leading mergers with Ansell & Sherwin, NQ Grazebrook, Duggan Elton & James, Shakespeare & Vernon and Bettinsons to create by 1990 the firm of Shakespeares, of which he then served as senior partner from 1995-2001. He served for many years on the council of Birmingham Law Society and held the post of treasurer for a period.

He was generous both to his friends and to those who sat on the other side of the negotiating table which is one reason why he could make deals happen when more confrontational lawyers would have failed.

Many professional people in the modern age are one-dimensional. Charles was bright, articulate, multi-lingual, a great supporter of the arts, and a well-travelled and knowledgeable gourmet. Charles was also a fine linguist and was the founder and chairman of the International Advisory Group, a global network of professional advisors.

Outside of the legal profession he was Pro Chancellor and Deputy of the Board of Governors of the University of Central England (now Birmingham City University) and held numerous non-executive directorships of Midlands companies. He was on the board of Samuel Heath and Sons, one of Birmingham's oldest firms. He was also a trustee of innumerable private charitable trusts and was well known for looking after "his stable of Warwickshire widows"!

Business editor of The Birmingham Post, John Duckers (M 64) said: "Charles was a lovely man to be around. He was very proud of his Uppingham connections and was behind a fair few old boy get-togethers in Birmingham.

Only back in December I was having a banter with him while wearing my John Bright column hat. I had teased him about some hugely tedious speech years ago he had supposedly given about contaminated land – and he denied it. And, in great good humour, he insisted: “I could not go to my grave with friends and colleagues associating me with the register of contaminated land.

The 1982 vintage in Bordeaux, politics of a law firm, shooting in Warwickshire, maybe!”

And I rather suspect that is exactly how he would like to be remembered.

He is survived by his wife Marie and children James and Marianne. .....................................................................................................

Roger Cross WD 32 1 Aug 07 Richard Lovatt (Hf 64) left Uppingham in 1968 Brian Catchpole* F 33 10 Oct 07 and spent his life involved in the preserved Michael Vivian C 33 2 Jul 07 Great Central Railway since it's start up in 1969.

Michael Lowry* M 33 1 Sep 08 He had joined as a young man, with his father.

Gregan Law-Wilson R 34 26 Aug 08 He served not only on the board of the GCR Peter Foster C 35 7 Jun 07 plc, but also on the board of the supporting John Henderson F 35 7 Jul 07 charity. Ultimately the railway became more than his hobby, when he became a full time Allan Everett Fgh 35 9 Apr 08 accountant.

Henry Dean B 35 22 Feb 08 Silvester Litton L 36 25 May 06 Timothy Whitwell F 36 1 Aug 08 Leslie Seth-Smith F 36 5 Nov 07 Richard Stratton* Hf 36 2 Sep 07 Richard Williams C 37 13 May 07 Rodney Percy M 37 1 May 08 Frank Crump L 38 4 Feb 08 Peter Preston M 38 2 Aug 08 John Shapland Hf 38 26 Jun 08 Sidney Valentine L 41 11 Oct 07 Jonathan Routh* F 41 3 Jun 08 Tony Scholfield* M 41 25 Aug 07 John Adley F 41 8 May 08 John Edwards* WD 42 11 Oct 07 John Whitehead* C 42 27 Mar 08 Richard Lovatt (Hf 64) John Bennett H 42 19 Jul 08 Roger Schlesinger WB 43 1 Aug 08 Raymond Cazalet M 44 Sept 2008 The General Manager of the Great Central Eric Thompson H 44 15 Aug 08 Railway, Robert Crew said, "As a volunteer he David Besant WD 45 29 May 06 had given long hours, then as a member of staff Wilfred Pruden F 46 9 Oct 08 he gave his heart and soul. I arrived at the Kenneth Harper LH 47 27 Jan 08 railway just two and a half years ago but in that Rawson* SH 48 1 Feb 08 time quickly became firm friends with Richard. Peter He was a driving force at the centre of our George Gregory C 49 17 Mar 08 work and we shall certainly miss him. Our Robin Lilley Fgh 49 15 Oct 08 efforts to preserve the line continue in his William Proctor HF 50 22 Dec 08 name."

David Latham B 50 17 Jan 08 Peter Green* H 51 Nov 2007 "Richard never sought the limelight but was Ewan Forbes F 52 1 Jan 08 proud of his association with the railway. We Riley Hf 52 16Aug 08 hope to arrange a lasting commemoration for Mark him," concluded Robert.

Charles Flint* WD 55 18 Mar 08 .....................................................................................................

Christopher Hird-Jones C 55 1 Oct 07 David Hampson SH 55 17 May 08 Deaths John Woolley LH 56 24 Feb 08 Notification has been received of the following Edward Merrick L 57 2007 deaths since the last issue of the OU Magazine Richard Lovatt* Hf 64 14 Jul 07 was published. An asterisk indicates than an Anthony Williams B 65 1 Mar 08 obituary has been printed.

Philip Thyssen-Gee LH 69 2007 Name House Date John Stonehouse C 73 28 Sep 07 Died Steven Bloch WD 74 2 Feb 08 John Whitehead C 26 3 May 08 Nikki Clark (nee Penrose) Fd 79 1 Dec 07 Harold Whitehead* WB 28 6 Jun 06 Simon Green* H 82 10 Jan 08 James Caldwell L 29 20 Jul 07 Christopher Pollard WD 01 3 Jul 08 Peter Milne B 29 18 Jan 08 .....................................................................................................

Brian Whitehead* WB 29 10 Aug 08 APOLOGY Tim Fortescue* R 30 28 Sep 08 We would like to apologise to Frank Day* SH 31 29 Jun 08 Mike Cherry (H 60) who was mistakenly Geoffrey Price WB 32 21 Oct 07 listed in the deaths in Issue 34 of the John Haire LH 32 3 Oct 04 magazine. This is incorrect and we are pleased that Mike is still alive and well.

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Archive Request If you have photographs, magazines, programmes, books or pictures relating to the School which are surplus to family requirements, please do not throw items away. I am very keen to add to the School Archive collection and am always interested to receive original items or scanned copies. If you have medals, cups, old reports or any other Uppingham ephemera cluttering up the attic and you are considering what to do with it, please get in touch with Jerry Rudman the Archivist on (01572) 820610 or email JPR@uppingham.co.uk. I would be very keen to hear from you.

Jerry Rudman ARCHIVE MATERIAL NEW ON THE OU WEBSITE The Hospitaler

1851 – 1853

The School Magazine

1939 – 1957

Meadhurst House Photographs

1938, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1955

Photographs of selected pupils from 1860’s, 1870’s, 1880’s and 1890’s Cricket 11’s

1860’s and 1870’s

Football 15’s

1860’s and 1870’s

Would you like to help sponsor the scanning of more archival material for viewing on the OU website?

Some suggestions are:sponsor a decade of your house 50 years / century of your main sport your house photographs Sponsor another decade or two of the School magazine.

Scan the OU leaflets

OU Classic Car Club

Please contact Jerry Rudman on 01572 820610 or email jpr@uppingham.co.uk.

I would very much like to try once again to get this off the ground having floated the idea a few years ago. I would envisage it having its own small committee arranging one or two events a year one of which would include Uppingham. It would help foster the great tradition of motor sports amongst OUs created by legends such as Malcolm and Sir Donald Campbell and many who have followed them.

If you are interested in joining the club, please get in touch with me here at Uppingham.

Richard Boston (B 56)

Staff News OU

Staff News – past and present Leavers At the end of the summer term Uppingham sadly said goodbye to Neil Gutteridge, Housemaster of Farleigh, who left to become Director of Sport at Ardingly College. Neil Gutteridge joined Uppingham in 1995 as Head of Rugby and Director of Sport, positions he held for the next seven years. The undoubted highlight from this period was the unbeaten season of Uppingham’s 1st XV in 1998-1999, no mean feat when you consider the School’s annual opposition. Furthermore one of the players from that era, Dan Hipkiss (Fgh 98), played in the 2007 Rugby World Cup final – an incredibly proud moment for his ‘old’ coach.

Like all the Houses at Uppingham, Fairfield has its place deep in the School’s history.

Fairfield was the first Girls’ House at the School, opening in 1975, and quite remarkably there have only been two sets of Housemaster and Housemistress at the helm in 33 years. Tessa and Stewart Drummond left Fairfield this summer after 16 happy years in the House having, it seems, acted in loco parentis for half the young women in the local counties. They have made a great impact on the lives of their girls, been there for their ups and their downs, and for this and so much more, the young women of Fairfield are very grateful.

Fortunately Stewart will remain at Uppingham, sadly, however, Tessa is off to be Assistant Director of Music and a Housemistress at Oakham.

Rosemary Netscher retired from the post of Headmaster’s Secretary in the summer, after 24 years at Uppingham. The Headmaster thanked Rosemary for all that she has done for him, and the School, on Speech Day. “Rosemary has been secretary to three successive Headmasters and a more loyal, discreet and hard working person one could not wish to meet.

Births Andy Chessell and his wife Rachel had their second son Hal on 28th August 2007.

Glen Moodie and his wife Vanessa had a daughter, Olivia 2nd September 2007.

Lorne House Housemaster, Kurt Seecharan and his wife Katie had an early Christmas present in December as baby Alice arrived just in time for the festivities on 21st December 2007.

Leap year baby Abigail arrived on February 29th 2008, a first child for Clive Simmons and his wife Helen.

The Bursar, Stephen Taylor and his wife Vera had their first son Cecil on March 8th 2008.

Sharon Bialacki and her husband Jez had another daughter, Lydia on 11th March 2008.

David Jackson and his wife Fiona had a daughter Imogen on 24th May 2008 a sister for Phoebe.

Engagements Colm Kelley (ex-staff) now teaching at Shrewsbury got engaged on 25th October 2008.

Deaths Jeff Abbott – Housemaster of West Bank 1968 - 1983 Jeff Abbott, “the Major”, was the Mr Chips of Uppingham. He was the father figure, mentor and legend for generations of Uppinghamians. He continued to care for them after they had left the school, and they kept in touch with him. He taught his children Roman stoicism, good manners and Britishness. They never forgot him.

Jeff was born in 1933. He was the star of Newbury Grammar School, playing rugby for Berkshire, and winning a major scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, to read Mods under Tommy Higham and Greats under James Holladay. From him he learnt his love of Rome. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was one of his favourite books. He played at No 8 or lock for Oxford and the Harlequins, and was fast, clever and brave. Although a giant, he was not quite big enough to win a cap for England, though he came close. He was also a thespian for the dramatic society and the Trinity Players. In later life he and his friends re-enacted The Four Men of Sussex around the inns of the Downs, setting a table with jugs of ale between the audience and the players for all to help themselves ad lib. And his performance as Badger in The Wind in the Willows, whacking the weasels, gave a taste of his later ironic use of the cane as schoolmaster.

At Uppingham he taught English and Classics, in a memorably individual style. He was Housemaster of West Bank between 1968-83. Innocents imagined that his house flag displayed crossed hockey sticks. In fact, Abbott had designed crossed canes, and a sun with flails coming out of it. He chose St Francis Xavier as his house saint because St Francis introduced the scourge to Japan. It was irony. He was a strict housemaster but was in turns both frightening and funny. He was a gentle father figure to unhappy small boys without male role models. He created West Bank’s wonderful garden, “the Dell”, where he would teach his class whenever weather permitted, or even if it didn’t.

The crusty codger carapace was partly a jocular act. He hated ships and pretended to be terrified by mobile phones. He held that the Greeks were nowhere as good as the Romans, and he thought that a healthy respect for all things Roman would teach our current political masters a thing or two. He stood for Parliament for UKIP, not entirely as a joke, though he managed to get many laughs and jokes out of his campaign. But beneath the bluff exterior, the Major had a bottom of good sense. “Be precise, concise and concrete,” he advised his boy essayists.

And: “No essay is complete without a quote from Alice (in Wonderland).”

He loved going to Devon for bridge and beer-drinking. Every year he went to Scotland for the Melrose Sevens and the Edinburgh Tattoo. He was the subject of a cricket book by J. S. Finch called Game in

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Season, subtitled Mr Abbott’s Sporting Tour, which is regarded as a classic.

Abbott was a regular correspondent to his Old Boys, with newspaper cuttings, encouragement and jokes. He was a great schoolmaster who influenced his country more than most schemes of political improvement.

He is survived by his wife, Angela, and by the three children of his first marriage to Jo Philby, and three step-children.

Courtesy of Anthony Trace (WB 72) .....................................................................................................

Revd. Ian Watts (1915-2007), School Chaplain (1968-1973), from a former pupil’s eye view.

Little seemed to be known by his pupils, at the time of his Uppingham ministry, about Revd. Ian Watts’ previous experiences. In his characteristically modest way, nothing was said about his 1st Class Geography Tripos at Oxford, his twice Rugby blue as University fly-half and his work in the Sudan Political Service. As a fluent speaker of Arabic, he was ahead of his time in interfaith work.

Who would have relished the challenges facing a minister of the Gospel in a testosterone-charged public-school atmosphere during the days of Mary Whitehouse, the publication of the first edition of Oz and the culmination of the 60s social revolution? It was, probably, Ian. Those of us at Uppingham in the late 60s and early 70s may remember the battered old Volkswagen, imported from Nigeria, otherwise known as “The Moving Experience”. Latterly, we may have noticed its replacement, registered EUT – “Evangelical Uppingham Transport”.

Evangelical, a Bible Christian, but not limited or literalist, Ian Watts’ generous care and purposeful conviction were there for all, and his inner peace and gentle humour absorbed even the worst excesses of teenage ribaldry.

These qualities also quietly informed us charges about the merits of some degree of personal dignity and responsibility.

It was sad to learn of Ian’s death in the last edition of this news. He lived in good golfing health till his 90s and remained a quiet source of encouragement to thousands more after his Uppingham days. I well remember his unmistakeable profile appearing, unannounced, in the late summer evening shadows at village Evensong in Culham, rural Oxfordshire, some thirty years after all those debates about the Permissive Society.

We condole with Dorothy, the lady he went

on to marry soon after the completion of his Uppingham ministry, and thank God for a faithful Christian soul who gave much and touched lives for the better. The prayer he prescribed for us black-suits, in his final chapel sermon, was for love, joy and peace; these he gave and, within them, abides.

Revd. Edward Tildesley (B 69)

Who? What? Where?

Paul Griffin, Senior English Master (1949 – 1955), has been awarded the Seatonian Prize for Religious Poetry at Cambridge University. He won it once before in 2001 but was only 79 then!

Old Uppinghamian

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Memory Corner OU

Memory Corner Below is an entirely true story (involving Roy Bean, Housemaster of Highfield at the time, French teacher and all round good sport) on why pike must be respected, if not feared, as recounted in anticipation of the said fishing match:“I can tell you that pike take some killing they have Rasputin like death avoidance powers. One Sunday morning at Uppingham I decided to call Mr Bean's bluff - he'd always said (as a true Francophile) that if I caught a pike he'd eat it. So Forgaard Senior and I cycled off with our rods to spin the Welland, near Gretton. It was a beautiful late autumn day, sunny and cold. Third or fourth cast after arrival Forgaard got a classic reel birdsnest, putting him out of action as he wrestled with handfuls of tangled nylon. This allowed me to move smoothly in to cast towards the half submerged tree on the far bank that had been his target. Bang, rod bent double, lots of churning of water, and five minutes later a 5lb (probably 3lb really, but 5lb just sounds right) pike is bullied to the bank and with much shrieking (like girls) eventually unhooked. I'm ashamed to say it now, but there followed a massive battering over the head with bits of wood, banksticks, rocks etc - pike' s head now subtly misshapen.

Pike goes into Carrier bag. Carrier bag goes onto handle bars of bike. We carry on fishing - for three hours - without success (and ultimately embarrassed as three ten year old boys dibbing small spinners in at the edge of a weir on a feeder stream pull out five 2lb to 5lb pike in ten minutes while we sit watching them having a fag in the sunshine). Slow cycle ride back to Highfield for lunch at one.

Smirking we present pike to Mr Bean. He makes big show of being thrilled (he might genuinely have been, I don't know) and plonks the fish in an empty sink in the Highfield kitchens saying he'll deal with it later.

We then had our annual five a side house football competition on the Middle tennis courts next to Highfield. Mr Bean is in and out supporting, making wise cracks in his inimitable way etc. About fourish, in the short break before the final, we hear a booming voice " Forgaard! Arrand! - here now!". We follow Mr Bean into the kitchens.

Quite rightly he felt he ought to give the pike a bit of a wash before he prepared it for the table - it was a bit covered in leaves and slime etc. The beast is swimming in small but lazy circles in the giant Belfast sink - gills clearly working - eyes dark and unblinking with all the evil malevolence that only one

who has caught a pike can truly understand and which still makes me shudder when I think of it.

A lengthy discussion ensued as to who then was to tackle the creature. Mr Bean claimed, probably correctly, that his part of the bargain was to receive a dead pike. Forgaard looked so pale that I took pity, and feeling slightly queasy, I picked up the, by now fully oxygenated and obviously very alive, pike out of the sink and wrestling it with one hand plunged a large kitchen knife straight between its eyes and nailed it to a breadboard.

All this did was annoy it, unfortunately.

Flapping noisily for all it was worth it managed to get itself and the breadboard onto the floor. Luckily the knife held. It was still fighting as I sawed (I'm sorry but there is no other word - this was not the act of a surgeon with a surgeon's tools) its head off with another knife which wasn't as sharp as perhaps it might have been. We were all pretty shaken - to the extent that Mr Bean asked "Do you think it's dead now?". We gave him a weary look, as teenage schoolboys do - but in our minds I think we were asking precisely the same question.

Charles Arrand (Hf 82) .....................................................................................................

Nigel Richardson, who retired this summer as Headmaster of the Perse School in Cambridge, was formerly a master at Uppingham. While here, he became interested in the typhoid epidemic which broke out in the town due to the dreadful sanitary conditions which prevailed in the 1870s. Disagreements about what should be done and delays in actually doing anything caused the school’s headmaster, the Rev Edward Thring, to take the whole school to Borth on the Welsh coast until matters improved. Nigel Richardson wrote an earlier article about these events, and has since been awarded a PhD for his study of their social and economic impact on both town and school. .....................................................................................................

Tim Clough (M 57), who edits the Rutland Record also attended the BALH presentations. He said, “it’s quite unusual for a small local history society like ours to figure twice in quick succession in these awards, but it is a true reflection of the quality of Nigel Richardson’s research that he won this prize, and very gratifying for us to know that what we publish can be reckoned to be up there with the best.

Further information can be found on the Society website www.rutlandhistory.org. .....................................................................................................

“When I first went to Farleigh we didn’t have the benefit of Mr Crapper’s invention. In a fenced-off yard outside a back door, stood a free-standing building containing earth closets. This building had glass louvres for ventilation above the brick of its walls, and through these louvres, in the Easter term of 1934, snow would drift on to the lavatory seats. So a House Polly would call for a fag to warm the seat before exposing his praepostorial bottom to it.

Instead of W.C’s we had bucket-rears, which dispensed ash by means of a clever system of levers connected to the seat (which rose automatically when the weight of the occupant was lifted) thus distributing a hopperful of ash over the contents. The receiving bucket could then be emptied through a separate door in the back.

(One of my fellow Farleighans went along this posterior row of doors, applying a stinging-nettle to the naked behinds of the sitters! As it was forbidden to close the anterior doors, an uninformed observer might have been forgiven for thinking he was witnessing some serial form of St Anthony’s Fire!).

The cubicles were allocated a “pecking” order , of course, according to the sitter’s seniority.

The urinal (known by us as the pumphreys) consisted of a sheet of slate that was washed every twelve minutes by an automatic siphon which expelled the air from its delivery pipe with an unearthly scream that could be heard in our studies!”

By a Farleigh resident in 1933 .....................................................................................................

A selection of photos have been kindly sent in by Norman Knight (SH 27) who is currently living in South Africa:-

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The Arts at Uppingham EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL Out of Bubble Theatre Directed by Robert Wilkes (SH 06) presented “I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change” Performers George Hicks (F 03), Ruth Laverick (J 06), Megan Davies (NH 03), Amy Newman (NH), Alex Wingfield (Fgh 03) went to great lengths in this fast flowing musical comedy to explore the funny sides of dating, marriage and growing older. Currently the longest running musical off Broadway having played all over the world, the show was a great success in Edinburgh during the Summer. Peter Thomas (Fgh 67) has exhibited very successfully in numerous one-man shows and mixed exhibitions in France, the UK and the USA, gaining several prestigious awards over the years, including, in 2001, the title of ‘Maître Pastelliste de France’ having been elected a member of the Société des Pastellistes de France in 2000.

A member of the Artistes Indépendants d’Aquitaine since 1984, he shows with them annually and has twice won the Premier Grand Prix de la Ville de Bordeaux. He had six pastels accepted for the Salon des Beaux Arts in the Grand Palais, Paris in 1987.

That year he exhibited at Glyndebourne Opera Festival for the first time, he has accepted invitations to show his work there twice since then.

The Arts OU

Royal Academy Art Trip

John Entwistle (F 54), Trustee of the Royal Academy, David Kirk, Richard Hegarty and pupils

On the 11th June 2008, Uppingham art history pupils enjoyed a unique tour of the Royal Academy in London hosted by John Entwistle (F 54), Trustee of the Royal Academy. They were treated to a guided tour of the Post Graduate Degree Show by the Keeper of the Schools, Professor Maurice Cockrill, a lunch with the opportunity to meet some of the graduates and then complementary tickets to the Royal Academy Summer Show.

Denis Pannett (F 53) started exhibiting in local galleries and the London Exhibitions and in 1975 was elected a member of the Guild of Aviation Artists followed in 1979 by being made an Honorary Freeman of the Painter Stainers Company. By 1982 he found he had more art work than he could cope with, so resigned from De Beers with whom he had worked for 20 years and went full time into art. In 1985 Denis was invited to become a member of The Wapping Group of Artists

Art Print Special Offer David Kirk, Housemaster of Fircroft and Head of the History of Art Department, a graduate of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts exhibits regularly at the RONA Gallery in Mayfair, The Flying Colours Gallery in the King’s Road as well as galleries in Bath and Cambridge.

The three limited edition prints are all signed and numbered by the artist. They are offered at the price of £165.00 each plus £15.00 postage and packaging – a discount of 15% on the gallery price. In addition, David Kirk is very kindly donating 20% of the purchase price to the Uppingham Foundation.

Prints will be museum double-mounted and sent flat in time for Christmas.

Cheques should be made payable to ‘Golden Apple Limited’ and sent to Patrick Mulvihill in the Foundation Office at Uppingham.

Best Cricket 2 (54cm x 41cm)   Fishing at Night (31cm x 41cm)

 Big Catch (54cm x 43cm)

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OU Societies & Clubs Uppingham Veterans Rifle Club The club activities began, as last year, with a dinner at Uppingham and we thank Nicola Tyers for her help in organising this event.

2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the club and there will be a number of events to mark the occasion.

Firstly, the guest speaker at the London OU dinner will be Nick Hinchliffe (Fgh 71). We expect to have a number of UVRC tables, anyone interested in joining us should contact Chris Kelsey (WB 91), the Club Secretary. Secondly, the club will be hosting a weekend at Bisley where club members and guests will be able to have a shoot before a celebratory dinner. Whilst the date is yet to be finalised, it is expected to be held in early May, again, please contact Chris Kelsey for more details.

The club has enjoyed many successes over the past fifty years with over 20 members representing England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales winning more than 200 caps. Of those 20, 13 have won over 90 GB Caps and 5 have participated in Commonwealth Games winning 1 Bronze, 2 Silver and 1 Gold Medal.

Those successes do not even begin to take into account all of the individual competitions won by members. Shooting has been and continues to be very strong at Uppingham where our track record for producing international sportsmen and women is second to none.

National and International representation continues to be strong within the club, this year Simon Belither (L 71) was Captain of

England for the Mackinnon Match and included Antony Ringer (B 79), Nick Hinchliffe (Fgh 71) and James Watson (L 88) in the victorious team. Shooting against them for Wales, Gareth Morris (L 89) and Chris Watson (M 92) put in respectable scores in what turned out to be a very close match; they also shot for Wales in the National Match. In the England Camp, Antony Ringer (B 79), Nick Hinchliffe (Fgh 71) and Andrew "Freddie" Grounds (WB 89) were all included in the team that won. James Watson (L 88) was selected for Great Britain who won the Kolapore Match in one of the closest contests on record.

In the Schools Veterans matches (for all past pupils) the A team were 3rd, the B team were 7th and the C team were 2nd in their respective competitions. Once again we had a strong turnout with over 25 people shooting. 19 of those stayed on and shot the British Open Championships including Emma Cannings (L 95) who is back to competitive shooting having taken a break whilst she served as a Captain in the Royal Artillery.

Despite the lack of adult shooting staff over the last few years, the club has maintained the intake of pupils and at least five of those participating have only left the School in the last three years. During the School’s matches Freya Hinson (Fd 02), Isobel Stevenson (L 05) and Henry Ives (M 02) all returned to help coach the School team. We are very pleased that the new shooting master Kevin Gladding has joined the School staff and with the mini range now refurbished and reopened, pupils can continue to excel at shooting!

In August, John Webster (C 70) captained the England Team that toured to the USA taking Nick Hinchliffe (Fgh 71) as the main wind coach, James Watson (L 88) as his Vice-

Captain and Alex Williams (Fgh 92) as a member of the team. John has also been elected to captain the next Great Britain Team in the World Championships to Australia in 2011, James Watson (L 88) will be his Adjutant for the team.

Steve Merton-Jones (LH 67) has been appointed as the Club President. Next year will be very busy for the club as we celebrate the first 50 years and we look forward to the next 50 years of the Uppingham Veterans Rifle Club.

Have you been intending to clear out the attic? If so, now is the time to dust the cobwebs off the TK blade, the DITA ‘Superlight’ or the extra gripped Dunlop ‘Featherlite’ and JOIN IN what is probably the biggest and one of the most successful OU sporting occasions north of the Watford Gap!

OU HOCKEY SUNDAY 15th March 2009

Get hold of some old chums and see if you can’t persuade them too……

If you are interested, please contact Ian Rolison on email imr@uppingham.co.uk

Sports Societies & Clubs OU

Uppingham Rovers 2008 The highlight of the 2008 season was undoubtedly the fantastic 4 wicket win against Oundle Rovers in the first round of the Cricketer Cup on a breezy Upper in June in front of a good crowd. Batting first Oundle were in desperate trouble with their 5 top batsmen back in the pavilion with the score under 50. However, the strength of their line-up told as they clawed their way back to a competitive 238 for 8 off their 50 overs. Uppingham’s reply also started badly with Christopher Bennett-Baggs (WB 02) and Hamish Barton (Fgh 00) both dismissed cheaply but runs from Ben Aspell (WB 89) 70 and Andy Lewin (F 90) 26 swung the match Uppingham’s way. When they were both out the match was in the balance again but a top-class innings from Duncan Kennedy (B 79) with an undefeated 86 well-supported by captain Nick Pont (SH 96) and Will Hodson (F 96) guided the Rovers home.

Unfortunately, these heights couldn’t be scaled in a rainaffected second round match against the Felsted Robins when an explosive inning of 97 from their Captian proved to be match-winning. The July tour was again a success with the introduction of two 20/20 matches against the Old Eastbournians into the programme – although both matches were lost (off the 5th and 6th balls of the final over) they proved to be very exciting.

The Club continues to thrive and welcomes contacts from any OUs playing regular cricket. If you are interested in playing please contact Sam Debenham (07917 171535 or at sdebenham@oasisdentalcare.com).

Uppingham Rovers Rules In the last year the Uppingham Rovers Cricket Club has made three important decisions which will affect both the School and OUs:

UPPINGHAM ROVERS RESULTS 2008 Played 8 Won 2 Lost 5 Drawn 1 CRICKETER CUP 1ST ROUND v Oundle Rovers at Uppingham Oundle 238 for 8 (50 overs) Uppingham 240 for 6 Uppingham won by 4 wickets

W Hodson 2-38, C Paxton 2-47, B Aspell 2-50 B. Aspell 70, D Kennedy 86*

CRICKETER CUP 2nd ROUND v Felsted Robins at Uppingham Uppingham 171 all out H Barton 44, W Hodson 39 Felsted 142 for 4 W Hodson 2-29 Felsted won by 6 wickets in rain affected match THE TOUR v Charterhouse Friars Uppingham 275 for 6 dec Charterhouse 219 for 8 Match Drawn

C Bennett-Baggs101, J Beaumont 53, S Peters 30 W Crowder 2-39, T Higgs 2-67

1. Following its foundation in 1863, it was a rule of the Club that only members of the School X1 could be elected as its members.

After almost a century this rule was amended to embrace OUs distinguished at cricket but, in practice, many still fell through the selection net because, in the main, it was only a few of the 1st XI who were elected as Rovers each year. Henceforth, the Club’s Committee is required to elect members from OUs recognised as being good cricketers and there is no reference to the need to have been a member of the 1st XI.

v Charterhouse Friars Uppingham 207 for 9 dec Charterhouse 210 for 8 Charterhouse won by 2 wickets

D Kennedy 42, H Swayne 40, T Higgs 2-44, H Swayne 2-52

v Lancing Rovers Uppingham 217 for 7 (40 overs) Lancing 136 all out Uppingham won by 81 runs

C Bennett-Baggs 89, D Stewart 30 S Debenham 4-7, C Paxton 2-36

2. The Rovers have also introduced Associate Membership, so that any OU who would like to receive the Annual Handbook and watch Rover matches (including Cricketer Cup matches) may do so for an annual subscription of £10. Applications for Associate Membership should be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Hedley Stroud, at 52 Northorpe, Thurlby, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 0JH.

v Old Eastbournians (20/20) Uppingham 117 for 9 A Lewin 51 Eastbourne 119 for 7 W Crowder 2-15, E Fowler 2-14 Eastbourne won by 3 wkts (off 5th ball last over)

3. The Upper is rightly regarded as one of the finest public school cricket grounds in England but its pavilion has suffered dreadfully due to the need to remove the rotting oak railings, which surrounded the front of it, as well as the front balconies, score box, and staircases. The pavilion now looks very bland. The Rovers intend to try and raise such funds as may be required to replace the oak railings.

v Old Eastbournians (20/20) Uppingham 104 for 8 S Peters 37 Eastbourne 105 for 5 B Aspell 2-17 Eastbourne won by 5 wkts (off last ball) v Old Malvernians Malvern 197 for 7 Uppingham 143 all out Malvern won by 54 runs

45 over match B Crowder 3-34 B Aspell 44

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Arrow Trophy 2008 place. Uppingham A managed to remain out of trouble for much of the day with John Tildesley steering the boat round relatively incident free – and even managed to complete the crossword, well all except the elusive 18 down. Uppingham B on the other hand, helmed by Henry ‘Dodgem’ Arnold took another approach – ‘if it’s in the way I’m going through it…’

The Royal Corinthian once again laid on a splendid Saturday night dinner that as ever resulted in many sore heads for Sunday’s racing. Sipping Champagne prior to dinner on the balcony of the Gabbertas suite, both Uppingham teams gazed out over Cowes marina and the various minor public schools they had allowed to enter this year, such as Eton, on the lawn below us !

Another year and another Arrows Trophy is under the belt. 2008 saw a record turnout of competitors with 23 boats making it out to Cowes for the Annual Schools Regatta – with Uppingham once again fielding two boats! Under the strictest of instructions from the two Uppingham skippers – David ‘Popeye’ Gavins and Mark ‘Pugwash’ Gabbertas both teams duly arrived at Port Solent at 4pm to collect the boats. A mild administrative error however meant that the boats were not available until after 6 – in true Uppingham style an impromptu drinks party of Plymouth Gin and Tonics and Pimms took place in the car park ensuring that we were all well oiled for the two hour crossing to Cowes. The two boats’ Cabin Boys – Pip Howeson on Uppingham A and John ‘The Wind’ Alderson on Uppingham B, cooked up lasagne and pasta respectively for the hungry crews on the way over.

Saturday morning arrived and with it brought thick fog and no wind – as the fog cleared both boats motored out onto an incredibly flat and sunny Solent for a day of racing.

After a couple of hours basking in the sunshine, travelling no-where fast and a warm-up of Frisbee between boats the wind eventually blew enough for us to start racing.

Due to the wind – or lack there of – only four out the five races were able to take

Day 2 of racing saw the top four finishes – Rugby, Cranleigh, Wellington B and Malvern going through to a match racing final with the rest of the fleet competing for the Charterhouse Bowl. Languishing in the middle of fleet Upp A in 14 place and Upp B in 15 both had their work cut out if we were to be in with a hope of coming away with the trophy. So it was with this attitude both boats went in to the first of the two races of the day – both boats crossed the start line incident free and all looked promising until it was pointed out that we had indeed crossed the line incident free but about 10 minutes after the first boat – resulting in us bring up the rear of the fleet with a solid last and second to last finish.

Determined to end the weekend on a high the final race was do or die and a newly competitive streak was ignited in the bellies of both helmsman. A cracking start from boat B had them crossing the line in 2nd place, which followed, by some inspired tactics and tide following from Guy Thornton meant we rounded the windward mark in first place. Arguably the worst and slowest Spinnaker hoist ever seen on the Solent meant that Pangbourne in 2nd place caught up to within a boat length of us but once again Guy and Henry picked the right side course and a healthy lead was once again built up on the down wind leg. Lap two saw the second worst spinnaker hoist ever but fortunately we managed to hold the advantage and finish the weekend with a win.

We would all like to express our thanks to the Royal Thames Yacht Club and Arrow Committee who put this event on. We would also like to thank Uppingham for all the support they give us and invite any other OUs out there to come and join us next year. We would love to put in three boats

next year – a competition first, so please do contact Ben Fry – ben@fry.org if you would like more information.

Report by Ben Fry (F 96) The Teams: Uppingham A: John Tildesley (WB 72), James Arthur (SH 71), David Gavins (LH 73), Johanna Cave (Fd 91), Pippa Howeson (Fd 98), Neil Gavins (LH 80) and Thomas Brennan.

Uppingham B: Henry Arnold (F 01), Tim Hancock (F 67), Guy Thornton Fgh 76), Mark Gabbertas (Hf 75), Richard Gabbertas (Hf 72), Ben Fry (F 96), John Alderson (SH 87) and Oscar Park.

OU Shoot Matthew Allen (Hf 69) would like to hear from anyone who might be interested in joining future OU Shoots.

For more information, please contact Matthew's PA, Zen James-Kulke by email on Zen@suncap.co.uk or telephone 020 7725 0810.

Sports Societies & Clubs OU

OUGS Captain’s Meeting 2008 Each year the elected captain of the Old Uppinghamian Golfing Society leads the Society and attends many of the 33 events arranged for members all around the country by our area and team organisers.

The Captain also chooses the venue for his Captain’s meeting which is the principal Society event of the year.

In 2008 our Captain was Chris Gotla (H 68) one of our best golfers over many years and with a great record playing for Uppingham in the main public schools team competitions the Halford Hewitt, the Grafton Morrish, and the Queen Elizabeth Trophy. He has also been a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews since 1981 and has won many of their famous trophies. He is also an international referee and current member of the R&A Rules of Golf Committee.

He decided to invite the Society to travel to St Andrews for his Captain’s meeting in October 2008. This opportunity was warmly welcomed and 65 members and their wives attended. It was especially welcome to see so many of our Captain’s fellow team members and top golfers coming to support Chris’s event. Also that Keven Johnstone , Master in charge of golf at Uppingham and two of his recent School team members were also able to join us.

Dinner on Saturday was held at the New Course clubhouse.

Forty four members and ten ladies played on Saturday 11th on the Dukes Course and on the New Course on Sunday 12th. The winners of the principal competitions were Stuart Lloyd, Chris Flather (M 67), David Sprake (SH 69), and the fourball competition on Sunday was won by Rick Taylor (M 59) and Chris Flather. The Veterans trophies were won by Michael Ingham (M 66) and Edward Bunting (B 49). The putting trophy played on the Himalayas was won by Chris Gotla. The weather was kind, if a bit windy for both days.

On Monday arrangements were made so that any members wishing to play the famous Old Course could do so playing with OUGS members of the R&A, of whom we currently have fifteen. Also parties of members and their ladies were taken on tours around the famous clubhouse during the weekend.

At the AGM of the Society held in St Andrews, presided over by our President Eric Auckland (C 53), Derek Bunting (B 45) was elected President for 2009. Brian Cooke (Hf 53) was elected a Vice President and Simon Marsh (M 54) was elected Captain for 2009 . He welcomed members to his Captain’s meeting to be held at Formby on 26/27th of September 2009. Martin Walker (L 67) our Secretary, Ewen Wilson (M 85) our Tournament Secretary and Derek Bunting the Treasurer agreed to continue in office.

Members attending were also advised that Denis Watson (M 76), this year’s Captain of Royal Birkdale Golf Club (who presented the famous claret jug to this year’s Open Champion Padraig Harrington) had made arrangements for us to hold the OUGS Merseyside meeting at Royal Birkdale on Friday 17th April 2009. All OUGS members are made very welcome at all our meetings.

Derek Bunting (B 45) OUGS President

The whole weekend was splendidly organised by Chris with help and support provided by OUGS & R&A member and St Andrews resident Stuart Lloyd (WD 74).

Chris and Ginny Gotla and Stuart and Sarah Lloyd provided dinner for all members and their ladies on Friday night at Stuart’s home.

The Old Uppinghamian Lodge Uppingham has a thriving Masonic Lodge with a membership drawn from different generations. It is what is known as a ‘closed’ Lodge, drawing its members only from Old Boys and their children and Masters at the School.

November, and afterwards there is a dinner, when guests are invited, including the Headmaster and other members of staff. This event provides a useful and enjoyable way of keeping in touch with developments at the School.

The Lodge was formed in 1919 and is open to membership regardless of age, race or creed. It meets three times a year (January, April and October) in St James’, London and there is a dinner afterwards. It also meets once a year in Uppingham, usually on a Saturday in

If you are interested in finding out more, contact any of the following who are members of the Old Uppinghamian Lodge and ask away, safe in the knowledge that we are not allowed to ask you to join. Any initiative on that side must come from you.

Robert S Greenly (F 55) (Treasurer) Cannon House, 47 Belton Lane, Great Gonerby, Grantham NG31 8NA Email: robert@greenly.com G Clive Burton (WB 54) Rookery House, Cockfield Road, Felsham, Suffolk IP30 0QJ Email: grenville.clive@virgin.net Nick Hoar (F 80) Email: nick.hoar@lehman.com Adrian Lewthwaite (M 76) Email: adrian.lewthwaite@btopenworld.com

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The London OU Dinner

The London Dinner is the biggest event in the OU calendar and following last year’s success it is once again being held in the prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel located in Knightsbridge on Thursday 5th February 2009.

The Chairman of the dinner is Nick Hinchliffe QC (Fgh 71), past President of the Uppingham Veterans Rifle Club and a lawyer in London.

The price for tickets are £60 per person (£38.00 for OUs 29 and under) and includes a bottle of wine with the meal.

Contact Nicola Tyers on 01572 820616 or nmt@uppingham.co.uk

Tickets can be paid for by credit card by calling Nicola Tyers at the OU Association on 01572 820616, or by cheque (payable to The Uppingham Association).

For more details, or to let Nicola know of any special dietary requirements, please email nmt@uppingham.co.uk.