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Brian Vaughton (F 41) looks back on a successful career and despite being made redundant twice, he has been roundthe-world; and done much in between - ending up with experiences that he once only dreamt about. Compiler/editor of BBC radio documentaries, industrial documentary filmmaker, RAFVR pilot, and accredited MOD correspondent; mainly on aviation subjects – from Tiger Moth to Lightning, Buccaneer (steam-catapult launch from former HMS Ark Royal), Red Arrows, Gnat, Harrier, Victor tanker, Gazelle helicopter, Nimrod, Wellington, Lancaster, Lincoln, and Spitfire – plus four days on a submarine. He did try very hard recently to get to fly a Typhoon – but you can’t win them all!

Brian Vaughton (F 41)

Alan (Justin) Howse (F 42) has been presented with an award by the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. From the late sixties he acted as an organisation dedicated to improving dancers’ health to most of the ballet companies and professional dance schools, as well as musicians and performing artists in general. However a greater part of his time was as a general orthopaedic surgeon specialising particularly in spinal disc surgery and hip and knee replacements. Alan (Justin) Howse (F 42)

Twenty years after being invented by Michael James (WB 44), the UK’s version of Nasaleze, Care Allergy Defence, has been accepted for public use by the NHS. Instead of giving medication for Hay Fever, Asthma and Eczema to alleviate these allergic reactions, he has found his product to be far more effective and much safer and cheaper to maintain and help restore the nasal tract’s natural air filtration system.

Sir John Ure’s (Hf 45) latest, and fourteenth, book was published in 2010 entitled ‘Shooting Leave: Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game’.

At School, Hugh Proctor (LH 48) was taught to play the violin by Jill Bean (nee Whitehead) and his violin lay undisturbed from 1953 until he joined a small string orchestra in 2003 where he once again plays second violin.

Sir James Hawley (Fgh 50) has been the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire since 1993. In 2010 he was made K.C.V.O. (Knights Commander of the Victorian Order) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary earlier this year.

Bill Hendry (B 51)

Mike Archer (WD 53) has co-edited a second edition of Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland, recently published by A & C Black Publishers Ltd. Mike leads the data management team at The Bardsey Bird Observatory, and he is also an active ringer at Gibraltar Point.

Sir James Hawley (Fgh 50)

Bill Hendry (B 51) is now a Crofter raising Highland cattle in the Outer Hebrides. He studied medicine at Glasgow University, pathology in Boston, Massachusetts and then trained in surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. For 30 years he worked as a consultant urologist at St Bartholomew’s and Royal Marsden Hospital and was President of the British Association of urological surgeons from 1996-1998. He is presently caring for his wife, Chirsty Marie, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s and

Mike Archer’s Book (WD 53)

Nigel Wilson (L 53) retired from the paper industry in 2002 after 42 years dealing mostly in waste paper. Since

August 2003, he has been Show Secretary of the Agricultural Show Society in East Sussex. To contact Nigel please email fairfhill@btconnect.com.

John Entwistle (F 54) received an Honorary Fellowship from John Moore’s University, Liverpool in July 2010 for ‘outstanding contributions to the visual arts’. He was Chairman of their fundraising committee for their new Art & Design Academy designed by Rick Mather which cost £25 million.

John Entwistle (F 54)

Freddie Grounds (WB 55) was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List for his voluntary service to the East Anglia Reserve Forces and Cadets Association.

Robin Carlyle (LH 54) met with Alistair Welch (LH 56) in Sydney in February 2011. They enjoyed an evening together comparing notes on their lives since leaving Uppingham having not seen each other for 53 years.

Robin Carlyle (LH 54) & Alistair Welch (LH 56) David Silvester (SH 63) has been elected onto the Henley-on-Thames Town Council. He is also a Committee Member and Treasurer of The Phyllis Court Club Tennis section and still plays the game regularly along with games of croquet, no doubt drawing on experience gleaned on the Headmaster’s Lawn.

Roger Porkess (B 56) has been awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Education from the University of Bath in recognition of his outstanding work to improve mathematics education at secondary and sixth form level.

Since beginning a pen pal relationship with Louis Armstrong in the 1950’s up to his death in 1971, Stephen MaitlandLewis (WD 58) has been elected as a Board Trustee for the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York. Stephen has enjoyed a life-long love for Louis Armstrong and fully appreciates Armstrong’s legacy and the need to preserve and promote it for future generations.

Although retired from the ‘sharp end’ of the music business, Simon Park (SH 59) still plays and writes for pleasure and occasional business. He has also embarked on a second career as a motoring journalist. Having always had a passion for Italian cars, he is now a regular contributor to ‘Auto Italia’ magazine. Simon has now been asked to write both the script and the music for a proposed TV documentary about the early years of the famous Sicilian road race, the Targa Florio.

Greg Hutchings (M 60) continues to play for England hockey veterans winning the European cup played in Belgium in June 2010 and also in the World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2010.

After retiring as the Leeds Regional Employment Judge after 12 years in 2010, David Sneath (Fgh 61) took up an appointment as a fee-paid Employment Judge assigned to the Nottingham Office of the Employment Tribunals. He also became a member of the Mercian Regiment Council in June 2009 to serve on the Finance Sub-Committee.

Hilary Griffiths (SH 62) made his New York debut last year conducting the US premiere of ‘La porta della legge’ by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Lincoln Center Festival and he has just finished a tour of Colombia, assessing all the orchestras there for the Minister of Culture. He is currently Chief Conductor of the Wuppertal Opera in Germany, and guest conductor at the Prague State Opera since 1991. Other performances planned this season include operas in Italy, South Korea and South America.

Bart Hellyer (Fgh 64) has been appointed the High Sheriff of Rutland for 2012.

After graduating from Trinity College Dublin in Politics and Economics, John Holmwood (C 65) visited Spain and never left. He has set up an export business called John P. Whitten Holmwood S.L based in The Basque Country and also runs a small organic farm in the beautiful Guadalest Valley at the foot of the Sierra Aitanta in the Alicante mountains. John welcomes any contact from OUs and can be contacted at Johnpwh@yahoo.es.

Sir Nigel Crisp’s (Hf 65) book ‘Turning the World Upside Down – The Search for Global Health in the 20th Century’ has been published. The book is based on Nigel’s own journey from running the largest health system in the world to working in some of the poorest countries, and draws upon his own experiences to explore new ideas and innovations around the world.

Duncan Bruce (C 65) has had his first book ‘Brand Enigma’ published last year which provides a “refreshing antidote to tired, conventional approaches to business development, marketing and innovation”.

Hagan Bayley (WB 67), Professor of Chemical Biology, at the University of Oxford was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in May 2011

Richard Harman, Headmaster and Hagan Bayley (WB 67) at the Royal Society

On 9th May 2011, we welcomed back to Uppingham the Second Sea Lord, Vice Admiral Charles Montgomery (Hf 68) for the Biennial Inspection of the CCF.

Nick Freeman (L 70), Britain’s highest profile lawyer, has won more cases and attracts more Media attention than any other lawyer practising in this country today. Nicknamed Mr Loophole by the Press for his success in using legal technicalities to get clients acquitted, his career as a criminal defence lawyer has been nothing short of stratospheric. His roll call of stellar defendants - which includes Jimmy Carr, Sir Alex Ferguson, David Beckham and Ronnie O’Sullivan - ranges from actors and sporting heroes to pop stars and captains of industry. Nick is famous for forming winning, quirky and innovative defences - even when a case appears indefensible. Nick’s first book, The Art of the Loophole: Making the Law Work for You is due to be published by Hodder and Stoughton in April 2012.

On 30th April 2011, Jonathan Agnew (L 73) was guest of honour at a Sporting Dinner which raised funds for the summer Hockey Tour to South Africa and the Western Quad at Uppingham.

Steve Hobson (WD 75) has built and moved into a cottage in New Plymouth, New Zealand and is starting to develop the 32 acre farm into a stand-alone organic unit.

Carl Islam’s (M 75) book ‘Tax-Efficient Wills Simplified 2010/2011 he achieved a best-seller ranking with Amazon in the category of personal finance books. Carl has recently started up a new business, ‘Wealth Planning Webinars Ltd’. More information can be found on Carl’s Linkedin profile.

Having qualified as a solicitor in 1987, Mark Carter (L 76) spent some years after that working in the family steel stockholding business which was sold in 2001. He now runs a business importing Indian wine and would welcome any enquiries from OUs. For more information visit www.southseawine.com.

Richard Hoskins (WB 77) is Deputy Head at Prior’s Field School in Godalming. Clearly public relations and Uppingham go well together as five OUs Christopher Clark (F 79), James Melville-Ross (C 85), Georgina Bonham (L 99), Josie Corbett (Sa 01) and Sophia Winfield (J 97) are all working at Financial Dynamics in London.

The Honourable Toby Butterfield (F 79) has joined New York law firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz as a Partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups. Toby has 20 years experience litigating and counselling on copyright, trademark, defamation, digital media and commercial matters and he has previously been listed as a New York area ‘Super Lawyer’.

Adam Black (L 81) is Managing Director and Founder of bedroom furniture retailer Feather and Black which has been selected as a finalist in the UK Business Awards 2011 Online Business of the Year. There are 36 Feather and Black stores nationwide (see www. featherandblack.com) and the Uppingham connection is further extended with Daniel Wade (Fgh 1990) in the buying department.

Leading advertising and marketing agency Ogilvy Group UK hosted Lab Day Live on September 9th 2011, an event combining a conference and a 3 stage music festival streamed live on-line. There was a strong Uppingham flavour to the event as Music Executive Ed Averdieck (F 79) spoke at the conference whilst Charlie Simpson (M 99) performed his new album supported by Nick Worpole (B 98) and Uppingham’s Head of Keyboard Alexis Ffrench played his new album ‘The Secret Piano’ www.boosey. com/thesecretpiano with backing vocals by Emily Round (Fd 02).

Barney Tinsley (C 88) became GP partner at Kingswood Surgery, Harrogate in April 2009. He had his first daughter, Olivia Grace in January 2010 with his wife Becky. He would love to hear from other OUs based in Yorkshire.

Marcus Mudd (B 88) has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order following a tour of duty in war-torn Afghanistan. His citation reads ‘Major Mudd has consistently displayed leadership of the highest calibre under highly demanding operations circumstances. He has formed, trained and led an elite force that, time and time again, has accomplished complex, arduous and dangerous missions’.

Despite remaining as an anonymous British blogger until 2010, Sasha Wilkins (Fd 89) was a finalist in the 10th Annual Weblog awards ‘2010 Bloggies’ for best Fashion weblog for her blogs as ‘libertylondongirl’ lifting the lid on the fashion world in Manhattan. She has also been signed up as the new face (and legs!) of Hunter Boots and appears in their Autumn/ Winter 2011 advertising campaign. She is also one of the Mayor of London’s tourism agency, London & Partners’, dozen London champions, chosen to represent London internationally, in the run up to the Olympics. The Independent also recently calculated her to be one of the 100 most influential Britons on Twitter (joint 37th with Boris Johnson and Lily Allen).

After working for Vodafone in the UK and Ghana for nine years, Nick Summers (B 90) has moved on to work for another telecommunications infrastructure company called Helios Towers Africa. He has kept in regular contact with Patrick Hunt (Fgh 63) who also works for Vodafone in Ghana, working to turn round the performance of Ghana Telecom. Nick is currently working between Ghana and the UK but has returned from living in West Africa to live in East Sussex with his wife and family.

In 2009, James Needham (WD 90) built a Caterham 7 for racing in the UK series and has spent the last two years competing in the Academy and Roadsport championships. With a number of podiums, pole positions and fastest laps to his name he is now progressing to the Supersport Championship which competes at many of the top circuits in the UK and Europe. Having been acquired by Team Lotus F1,

James Needham (WD 90)

the Caterham series is drawing more and more coverage both nationally and internationally and he would be delighted to hear from any potential sponsors who would be excited to share in the experience or the branding opportunities. Email jimneedham@gmail.com

Emma Chan (J 90) became Consultant Anaesthetist at Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Trust in October 2010.

Nick Holt (M 90) had been working in television for the last 10 years, mainly for the BBC and Channel 4. He filmed the documentary ‘Between Life & Death’ over 6 months in the NCCU (Neuro Critical Care Unit) of Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge which aired on BBC One in July 2010 and recently won Best Single Documentary at the Royal Television Society Awards, The Grand Jury Prize at the Celtic Media Festival and a Best Single Documentary BAFTA.

Nick Holt (M 90)

Simon Middleton (C 91) has just returned from a tour of Afghanistan as an orthopaedic surgeon claiming that the Science Society and Aesclepians meetings he attended whilst at Uppingham inspired him to go on to his chosen career.

Wavehunters is a surf lifestyle company founded by Andrew Cameron (Fgh 91) and now has several OUs working there. Tom Wigan (Hf 02) and Alex Taylor (Hf 03) have all decided against the 9-5 working life and have embarked upon a life of sun and surf. They are all keen to offer advice and help to OUs and pupils looking for an alternative career and anyone wishing to contact them should email mail@wavehunters.co.uk. Discounts are also available for OUs wishing to learn to surf.

Tom Wigan (Hf 02), Andrew Cameron (Fgh 91) & Alex Taylor (Hf 03)

Nick Wall (Fgh 92) had the idea for his business of selling premixed cocktails while working at a global real estate consultancy in the City of London, and with both his father and grandfather running businesses he knew he had inherited a strong entrepreneurial streak. More than two and a half years later, ‘Tails’, his range of readyto-drink cocktails, is sold in Selfridges and in Harvey Nichols. For more information visit the website www.tailscocktails.com.

Hing Chao (SH 92) is CEO of the Hong Kong International Kung Fu Festival and International Guoshu Association. Over the last few years, Hing has given talks and lectures at international conferences and leading academic institutes in Hong Kong, China, and overseas. Under his initiative, the National Museum of Ethnology in China launched an international campaign to protect the Orochen heritage in 2006, one of the oldest ethnic groups in North China. He is also the founder and executive editor of the Journal of Chinese Martial Studies for which he recently wrote a paper on Bruce Lee’s legacy, marking 70 years since the film star’s birth

John Bower (B 93) has become a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.

Sam Riley (M 93), who shot to fame in Control, once again received rave reviews for his performance in Brighton Rock, in a cast including John Hurt and Helen Mirren which opened in February 2011.

Tom Frankland (C 93) is the Chief of Staff/ Service Security Manager on the Olympic Park Security contract for CLM (as a CH2M Hill employee) acting commercially on behalf of the Olympic Delivery Authority. He was head-hunted out of a Global Evacuation company as the Operations Director after the ‘Arab Spring’. He is engaged to be married in February 2012.

Alexander Eggleton (B 94) relocated to Singapore in September 2009 where he is working as a headhunter in the commodities sector.

In April 2012, James Cowan (Fgh 94) and Leven Brown intend to be the first people to row 4345 nautical miles from Fremantle, Australia to Durban, South Africa. Working in partnership with the International Primary Curriculum to engage and inspire children from over 1000 schools in 36 different countries. For more information or to sponsor James, please visit www.indian-row.co.uk.

Hattie Hammond-Chambers (nee Egerton-Smith) (J 95) is married to Jonny who is a Housemaster at Oundle. They have a son, Angus.

In July 2011, Piers Mudd (B 94) swam, yomped, paddled and pedalled his way around Loch Tay and its surrounding mountains in the Artemis Great Kindrochit Quadrathlon. In a field of 360 competitors he came 143rd and completed the challenge in 12 hrs 50 minutes raising over £3,500 for Mercy Corps and Mary’s Meals.

Sam Stapleton (F 94) owns a football agency called Star Management Signings Ltd, he works as a football agent, representing clients in the Premier League, Football League and internationally.

After two years teaching at The Leys in Cambridge, James Mantle (WB 96) joined KPMG in 2008. James still enjoys

James Mantle (WB 96)

music and, more recently, discovered a passion for mountaineering after a charity Kilimanjaro climb, and he has subsequently climbed Mera Peak and Mont Blanc with a climb up Gebel Dendi in Ethiopia planned for the future.

Despite a career in property consultancy, Alex Duckett’s (C 97) passion has always been for singing and 8 years after leaving Uppingham he has put his music scholarship to good use and has won Leeds’ variant on the X Factor, ‘The Crypt Factor’ – having returned for a second attempt after finding himself disqualified the year before for having a couple of seductive Leeds Rhinos Cheerleaders as his personal backing dancers.

Since graduating from Birmingham Conservatoire, Harry Lightfoot (Fgh 98) is now working as a full time musician dividing his time between session playing and composing. He has his own band, ‘The Paris 1940s’, and his own function band company, ‘Funktion8’. For more details please visit www.funktion8.co.uk.

Sam Smith (B 98) has been working as Player Liaison with Celtic Football Club for three years based at the training ground working around the first and reserve team. From what started with work experience after graduating led to a full time job shortly afterwards.

Since leaving Uppingham in 2001 and graduating from Christ Church, Oxford with a First-Class Honors degree in 2005, Elizabeth Burgess (J 99) has continued her musical repertoire as a diverse musician. To find out more visit www.elizabethburgess.com.

On 11th May 2011, Fiona Slominska (Fd 99) performed the Nocturne for tenor, strings and 7 obligato instruments, by Benjamin Britten with fellow OU Andrew Kennedy (F 90). She was Guest Principal Flute with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Andrew was the soloist. This followed a performance in January 2011 as ‘The Blind Flute Player’ in the UK premier of Weinberg’s Opera; The Portrait, with Opera North.

Alanna Lynott (Fd 00)

Alanna Lynott (Fd 00) is the author of Writers in Black and White in which 31 successful authors reveal the secrets of their lives as writers, their creative processes, their advice to would-be authors and how they made it as writers themselves. Alanna is currently writing the second in the series, Artists in Black and White. To find out more, visit www.alannalynott.com

Following his graduation from University College Oxford with a double first in Music, plus a college prize and a Gibbs Prize for the highest marks awarded to an undergraduate in their final exams, Ben Wingfield (Fgh 02) worked as a teaching assistant at St Edward School in Oxford for a year working alongside Uppingham’s ex-Assistant Director of Music, Alex Tester who moved there to become Director of Music.

James Kay (Hf 02) reached the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent 2011 as part of Oxford’s premier all-male a cappella group, ‘Out of the Blue’. The group has been named European Champions of a cappella 3 times, come second in the ICCAs twice, toured the USA, had sell-out runs at The Edinburgh Fringe and produced 12 CDs.

Jeremy Rawlinson (Fgh 03) has set up Encompass - The Luxury Travel Service where the aim is to bring the ‘chalet experience’ from the Alps to the UK holiday market. The company has adopted the attitude of ‘nothing is too much trouble’. For more information on Jeremy’s business please visit www.encompasstravel.co.uk.

Sam Glatman (M 03) played the role of Dr Bartolo in The Barber of Seville by Rossini at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford in February 2011.

Toby Davis (SH 04) and his brother Ben (SH 09), sons of Emma (nee Selwyn) (Fd 82) are featured in a article in the March 2011 edition of Karting Magazine (www.kartingmagazine.com ). The brothers both race in the MSA British 250 National Championship at long circuits such as Silverstone, Thruxton and Donington Park. Last year they finished 1st and 2nd in the 250cc National Clubman Championship. This year they will be competing for the title of MSA British Superkart Champion. Toby and Ben are searching for a corporate sponsor to support their passion; if you can help please contact Richard Davis on 07766 134680. Their progress can be monitored on the British Superkart website www.superkart.org.uk.

Toby SH 09 and Ben (SH 09) Davis

We would like to apologise to Derrick Bedwell (LH 34) who we incorrectly reported having test flown many types of aircraft. We have been informed by Derrick that this is incorrect and he ground tested the aircraft but did not actually fly them himself.

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.