Her very first restoration project was the grotto below the Marlborough Mound on the Marlborough College site. Medically downgraded he became a GSO3 in the Weapons Technical Staff Field Forces, AFHQ Caserta, (aka Wheatsheaf), the Ministry of Supply's Italian outpost. One of my prized possessions is a version of Palgraves golden treasury given to me by Ghanananda in 1959. It prompted a lifelong passion for desert wildlife, which began when the tank crews decided to adopt local creatures as their mascots.Before leaving for Normandy, he had married Anne Cloudsley, and they combined their surnames as Cloudsley-Thompson. John Bateson (CR 1973-98) died suddenly on Tuesday 16th May. Those wishing to attend, please email Angela Leap to ensure there are sufficient Orders of Service and refreshments afterwards. Old Marlburians: Old Marlburians (English) Noun Old Marlburians Plural of Old Marlburian In the fashion of the day, Geoffrey went away to board at preparatory school when he was seven. A Memorial Service and Celebration of the life of Annabel Freyberg (SU 1977-79) will be held this Wednesday 26th February 2014. He held various posts in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh and London. The boys and girls responded so well to her calm interest, enthusiasm and expertise: they loved her. On another occasion, when tasked to drop a 4,000 lb bomb on Wrzburg (where Bayons father had attended university), they found the city obscured by cloud. Janets sensitive playing, humour, quick wit and demon crossword and Sudoku solving were an essential part of the group. Bear in mind that these courses were ones where the group had to study pieces in advance and then be tutored by world famous ensembles. Always fun to be had when he was around. As a young Major, he designed and supervised advanced armoured training in Alberta, Canada. OM. He too was to succumb very soon after the trial to dementia. He liked Jumbo Jennings who was a classicist and I was set to join his house despite the fact that my aunt had blotted her copybook working as the Masters secretary. Piers Wedgwood was such fun to be with and his smiling face and wonderful sense of humour were a tonic. There was Charles Kaiser, who jumped out in front of a retreating German brigade with his dog Lord saying I am a Breetish offizier and took the surrender of the entire brigade. The seven artillery regiments, all TA and with proud histories and traditions, were eventually reduced to one by cuts in the defence budget. That same year he attended the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Evelyn Ebsworth (B2 1946-51) was born in Richmond, Yorkshire on St Valentine's Day, 1933. After the expedition he completed a PhD at Imperial College and went on to head the Engineering department for 30 years at the Commonwealth Develoment Department which saw him travelling the world solving all kinds of problems in all sorts of environments. A Service of Thanksgiving for Robin Brodhurst will be held in the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College, Pangbourne Road, Reading, RG8 8LA on Tuesday 28th March at 11.30 am. Nicholas Milner-Gulland (CR 1966-69)Died 26th November 2017The death is announced of Nicholas Milner-Gulland, who was a Member of CR from 1966-69 teaching Classics. Juan Merodio Sin Categora old marlburian deaths. Then on to other homes in mid-Devon where he and Jill created beautiful houses and gardens. He advised Richard Crossman, the new housing minister, on ways to introduce some form of fair rent policy. A Memorial Service will be held on Monday 8th October, at 3 p.m., at St Columbas Church, Kilmacolm. Teachers including Rainier and Alwyn helped him to develop a more individual style and Jeremys compositions were described as having an enduring muscularity, grit and tensile strength. As one would expect of him, he took great care to write as clearly as possible. At this time, in the mid-1960s, the housing being built by local authorities often included tower blocks, the defects of which for family homes were already becoming apparent. They married in 1950 and lived with Anguss mother in Kensington. He will be sadly missed. He enjoyed learning, and entered a variety of essay competitions, receiving awards such as the Maccabaean Prize in 1973 for an essay on the history of cholera. There were elements of reincarnation but the main thing I believe I understood was the diminution of the ego. You will need to be a subscriber to The Telegraph.A Memorial Service for James will be held in Winchester College Chapel on Saturday 24th June at 2.30pm. It was the worst of times for the return to Moscow of a loyal, gentle man who, as cultural attach 20 years earlier, had sought ways to improve understanding between Britain and the Soviet Union. Piers was an active member of the House of Lords for over 25 years and relished the opportunities afforded to speak his mind on many and various topics and to serve on Defence and Heritage Parliamentary Committees. As a result of this, a couple of inferior German landscape paintings adorn my childrens playroom walls with greetings to the Fuhrer on his birthday in 1936 and 1938 except they have the wrong date. Time spent on Dartmoor made him a keen naturalist, with a passion for collecting and breeding butterflies and moths. He was one of those capable people who deserved to be a Minister but sadly never was. Stanhope painted six stories from the Old Testament and six from the New Testament, all panels in tempera of approximately 531/8 x 681/2 inches (135 x 174 cm). He had some wild friends in the army who continued to be wild when I knew them in my teens and early twenties at the dinner table and would not have gone down well with my grandparents. Musical ability was encouraged at MC. He was appointed CBE in 1981 for services to the arts. Together they founded African Forest in 2006 at their home on Soysambu Estate with a vision to plant forests all over Africa and create the first indigenous tree seed bank in Kenya. After the war ended, John returned to his studies at Cambridge, gaining his MA and PhD, following which he became a lecturer in zoology at King's College London. He was counsel to the inquiry into the proposal to build the Sizewell B nuclear reactor in the early 1980s, chaired the bars computer committee and delivered a court modernisation programme.He also chaired the bars race relations committee (1989-91) and from 1991 to 1994 he was the first chair of the ethnic minority advisory committee of the Judicial Studies Board (now the Judicial College).He regarded his 1993 Kapila lecture, The Administratrion of Justice in a Multi-Cultural Society, which documented racial discrimination in the courts, as one of his finest professional achievements. He died on October 6, 2013, aged 87The Times 1/11/13. His final appointments included Assistant Adjutant General to the Commandant General Royal Marines and Director, Pay and Records Royal Marines. David was very supportive of the OM Arts and Media Industry Group and had expressed an interest in Mentoring. As well as visits overseas, he worked hard to devise political workshops for people keen to promote parliamentary democracy in their own countries. Graham Brown (B3 1949 - 53) has sadly died. OMRC Annual Report 2016. Known as something of a daredevil on Fleet Street where he reported for The Times for two decades and for The Daily Express Hopkirk had spent his career chasing stories from Cuba to Beirut. The Russians were as terrifying as their often usual repute but apart from the trophies from Hitlers desk war criminals had to be arrested. His description of his journey home at the end of term was quite an adventure for a 13 year old boy on his own. He much enjoyed his life in Philadelphia and was a much respected figure there. And so he was laid to rest in the mid-Devon soil that he loved so much, at the Church in Shobrook where as a young man he had worked as assistant grave-digger. At the end of the war Angus considered staying with the Army in the War Office but decided to leave and pursue a career in singing. In 1948 he was posted to the Middle East and served in Jordan, Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan Defence Force as Bimbashi. He was sent to board at St Peters Weston Super mare, being the same prep school attended by Roald Dahl but thought the great author was rather unkind about the headmaster. Just make your paragraphs twice as long. He was for six years the newspapers chief reporter before becoming a Middle and Far East expert. This fearless action won him the Military Cross. He was one of the few people to read the Riot Act which he did in 1953 at the Kano Riots. He also served a year (1954- 1955) as Junior Proctor, an ancient office as a kind of university policeman and something of a distinction. He and his wife did the same work, though less frequently, for Barnardos in Glasgow, The Child Migrants Trust in Nottingham and the Catholic Child Welfare Council. Charles Truman (PR 1962-66), a leading historian in the decorative arts, has died aged 67. On leaving the Army in 1949, he joined the 11th Parachute Regiment (Middlesex) Territorial Army as a 2nd Lieutenant, whilst also studying French and Russian at Cambridge University. His Memorial Service will be held at 12.00pm on Tuesday 15 March 2022 at Portsmouth Cathedral and afterwards, at The Royal Naval and Royal Albert Yacht Club. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Ka, and five children. James Richard Ledger Hill (C2 1945-49) died peacefully on 4th January 2023, aged 91. It's small wonder that, like many other Marlburians, I was inspired to run!Frank Gardner (LI 1974-79): He has been a lifelong inspiration to me, having taught me the lessons of long term endurance, pushing through the pain barrier on long-distance runs and keeping going when youre body is begging you to stop! He was also principal private secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland, Jack Maclay, and was involved in organising many Royal visits, for which he was made a CVO in 1964. The original can be seen on The Guardian website. These were good years as far as my recollection goes. Dressed in city attire, complete with bowler hat and umbrella, he would descend down the Commando Slide in dramatic fashion. The Headmaster was Basil Garnons-Williams, a former housemaster of C1, also on the staff was Reggie Fair (B1), Master i/c Cricket. The death is announced of Andrew Shaw on 28th July 2015. First though there was the little issue of Berlin 1945. He took immense care over his boys, even driving one of his Heads of House to his home so that he could vote in his first General Election. His greatest contribution to Design Technology was, however, within the realms of electronics where his genuine expertise, patience and support saw so many pupils through their GCSE coursework assignments. Old Marlburians. Father was not so lucky with his relationship with his housemaster if his parting words in 1944 are anything to go by. Roger was born on 3rd October 1921 in Rothwell, Northamptonshire. Nicholas Willink (CO 1949-54) died October 2021. Only in his final years, and especially in the last six months of his life, was his work recognised with the award of the Royal Institute of British Architects royal gold medal in September 2017 and a series of public appearances to sell-out audiences, culminating in a for one night only performance at the Hackney Empire, at which he received a 10-minute standing ovation.