All of us are unique, but Bruce was uniquer than most.However for Bruces obituary in this magazine, it seems appropriate to dwell on what Bruce meant to some of his distance runners and colleagues at Marlborough and what follows is a selection of their musings about him.Roger Ellis (The Master 1972-86): His quiet voice and gentle manner probably limited his impact in the classroom, but it only partly concealed his basic confidence. About OMRC. For the strings this is quite untrue. Their B & B booking service was unrivalled and sadly discontinued when the County closed the TIC. She ran swimming training courses on Saturday mornings for 25 years and as coach to Easter Courses for 26 years. Michigan Woman and 2 Sons Freeze to Death After Days on the Street Diana Reynell, grotto designer, died on August 1st 2017, at the age of 83. (Written by Howard Glennerster and reprinted with permission from The Guardian). Dr Evans and Mr Bourdillon were guests. Always interested in new ideas and new methods, Martin soon became heavily involved in the new Design Technology Centre, in which he ran courses in Alternative Technology. Obituaries Archives - The Marlburian Club Brooke Turner worked alongside reforming politicians and intellectuals. VISIT THE MARLBURIAN CLUB WEBSITE After education at Heathfield and at Marlborough she won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, to read English (despite turning up to the interview in a dressing gown and transparent plastic sandals). Although he did not travel in recent years he maintained contact with abroad through an internet advisory service via Bulgaria. I was in the top ten and Bruce shouted encouragement. Judicial Tribunal. He mounted guard against the sloppy use of English His old-fashioned manners required him to stand up every time a lady entered or left a room an increasingly hazardous process as he grew unsteady on his pins and his daughters-in-law begged him to desist. His duties ranged from supervising the clearing of the Glasgow slums during the Binmens Strike of 1979 to acting as ADC to HM The Queen, when she was in residence at Balmoral. Carr needed all his patience and tact in the negotiations to decide what could be saved and what had to go. Charles Truman (PR 1962-66), a leading historian in the decorative arts, has died aged 67. He grew up in Danbury, Essex, where he recalled his mother reading him Greenmantle. Angus went to prep school in Peebles and then to Marlborough College in Wiltshire. He was thrown into an overcrowded cell from which fellow captives were taken out to be shot. He advised on Exercise that will make you puff. Quartered next door but one was another IG, Major RSA Williams and his wife, Cicely, who soon after gained a daughter, Biddy, whose later home in Poulshot, outside Devizes, he would visit from Marlborough. Shaw was self-taught in subjects he chose or which were imposed upon him, ranging from Romanesque sculpture, to Thomas Brassey's railway contracting. From here he won a Foundation Scholarship to Marlborough College where he studied from 1943 until 1948. After university he joined the army, almost immediately suffering the accident that almost cost him his life and meant that he required constant care. He came to Edinburgh University as Crum Brown Professor of Chemistry in 1967 until 1990.He served as Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1984-88 and moved to Durham University in 1990 to become Vice-Chancellor and Warden for 8 years. They already had two young sons; Peter who is a professor of archaeology at Durham University; John who is a trader based in London; and they went on to have a third; Owain, who is the successor to the barony and the manager of the family estate in Wales. He combined a life of the mind with a relentless will to action, believing that examples inspired others far more than words. In 1928, his father took a parish at Escot in East Devon and John was sent to Cheam, and from there to Marlborough College in 1932 on a scholarship, becoming Head of C2 and excelling in Classics and sports, especially Rugby and Athletics. At his first scheme for Camden, Fleet Road (now Dunboyne Road), designed in 1966-67, Brown showed that there was no need to build high in order to achieve the prescribed densities. There was John Lubbock, who got into terrible trouble in the army when his telephone calls were taped and sent to the Brigadier (the record of the conversation was who is more common than the Brigadier? Whatever solution he hit upon, it didnt hold him back because, despite that start, his time with John Hicks was a happy one. Known as "the desert naturalist" and "the Titan of the Sahara", he was one of the last of the great adventurer-scientists of the mid-20th century a man whose considerable exploits read like something out of a Boys' Own adventure story.Born in Murree, India (now Pakistan), John was educated in Britain, at Marlborough College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read natural sciences. This he did in 1977, when he took up the post of Rector of The Edinburgh Academy, a job he did with distinction until his retirement in 1992. The Rev John Burdett (C2 1938-43) died on Monday 10 December aged 86. After settling in Hampshire, he was treasurer of his local Conservative Association and as a church warden; he was an enthusiastic fisherman. He was always proud toclaim that he was a Wiltshireman, though the borders of bothHampshire andWiltshire passed through the bedroom in which he was born! Family flowers only please but donations, if desired, to St Clare Hospice or British Red Cross c/o Daniel Robinson & Sons, tel: 01279 722476. He had had a most distinguished career in engineering, which took him all over the world, and he spent many years working in the Middle East. Her longest friendship was with the late Beverley Heath, mathematics master at the College. His last overseas posting was to The Gambia as High Commissioner. From long-living stock his father died at 97, his mother was 103 in 2012 he put his memoirs down on paper for his family after writing an article for his church magazine, How To Die in Nine Easy Lessons, comprising practical advice on preparing for the inevitable, but declared he had no intention of succumbing just yet. Edmund obtained an acquittal for her clients, but long before the verdict was delivered she had been struck by the barristers charm and ability. He joined the RAF in April 1944 and completed his training as a pilot in October 1945. Janet Rest In Peace.Christopher Joseph, My friend and colleague Richard Constable, who has died aged 83, was the great-great-grandson of the landscape painter John Constable, and was himself an artist who did a great deal to further his ancestors reputation and legacy.Born in Lewes, East Sussex, to John, a military officer, and Eileen (nee Saltmarsh), Richard was brought up on a farm in Devon. OMGS Centenary Dinner - Friday 28th October. Then it was back to field gunnery in 154 (Leicestershire Yeomanry) starting in the Lebanon and supporting 10th Indian Division who then took part in the campaign in Italy. OMGS news. 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. You would pick him out as a former guards officer. He had not long recovered from being wounded, the result of literally sticking his head above the parapet, and would go on to win the Military Cross for yet another example of his daring in the face of danger. Regardless of the length or line of the ball he would be intent on dispatching it into the undergrowth in that direction. Sir Michael Latham (B2 1956-60), has died aged 74, He was the Conservative MP for Melton (which later expanded to include Rutland) for 18 years.After leaving Marlborough College in 1960, he went to Kings College, Cambridge, where he gained a First in History in 1964. Edmunds true love, however, was writing. He wrote a book on the history of whaling in which he expressed his passion for the industry citing countries who signed up to quotas but did not stick to them as the cause of its demise.The company stopped whaling in 1963 and, under his leadership, the company diversified into North Sea drilling, trawlers and refrigeration systems for food storage and delivery. Marlburian Club | Marlborough College Alumni For select detailed obituaries, please see the links on the right. I started there 16 years after he left. (James) Michael Pocock (C1 1942-46), younger brother of the late Anthony Pocock OBE (C1 1936-41), died in hospital on September 16 2010. When 70 years on I used to drive him on the short journey from Bishops Cannings to Etchilhampton he enjoyed looking at Mr Ryder s hedges but looked with dread at the little victims playing cricket beyond Spaniels Bridge. He and his troop led the advance of the division for several days. Those months in Razmak provided John with the only opportunity during nearly fifty years service to fire in anger, when his Troop engaged the camel gun belonging to the notorious Faqir of Ipi, whilst it was shelling Miram Shah, the administrative headquarters for North Wazirastan, on what is now the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Three days later, Murdaugh's father, 81-year-old Randolph Murdaugh III, died. There he stayed, observing and participating in Glasgows regeneration and reflecting on it in Regenerating the Inner City: Glasgows Experience (1987, edited with Alan Middleton). Roger was born on 3rd October 1921 in Rothwell, Northamptonshire. Malcolm Charles Harper CMG (B2 1953-57), died suddenly on 9th May 2013. Piers Rogers, father to Samuel (B1 1992-97) and Scarlett (NC 1993-98, and brother to Neil (B2 1963-66) died 3rd January 2023. Out jumped Martin, furious, ranting and raging at Dennis and the two proceeded to circle each other, fists raised. A journalist to his core, he told the authorities who wanted to interview him afterwards: I must ring my newsdesk and you can overhear my call. His story made the front page of The Times the next day.Hopkirk produced more than exciting adventure stories. Operating the high-flying Mosquito, they attacked targets over Germany, often acting as a spoof raid to distract enemy night fighters away from the main bomber force. 13 March 2011 Ian Barton (C1 1939-44) was born in 1926 and died on 13 March 2011. Lastly, he was appointed to run, design and implement the examination of candidates for the Army Staff College under the Chief of General Staff. He first met Biddy 90 years before she died in 2011. She applied her inexhaustible energy to everything she embarked upon, including her battle with cancer, which she fought stoically and with great courage for ten years. He was particularly proud that no industrial strikes occurred on his watches throughout his career.Shaw was the second son of Wilfred Shaw, whose book on Operative Gynaecology has recently been published in its 7th edition. Neave was born in Utica, New York, into a wealthy Anglo-American family his British father, Percy, was a businessman and his American mother, Beatrice, worked in publishing. Not for Geoffrey getting off the mark by caressing a single to deep mid-off or nurdling the ball down to third-man. Ours was a very happy and warm relationship. Neil attended Marlborough College where he developed his interest in railways from an early age. His great project in retirement was a history of his family stretching from the 12th century until the millennium, including three generations of Marlburians, a volume of some 900 pages, which on completion encompassed his love and understanding of history, his deep understanding of people, and his gentle humour. Robert was amost talented Director of Drama from 1970 to 1990, having acted as Head of English from 1968-1969. Eventually the rescue mission was cut short as the proximity of the Japanese forced them across the island to Padang, but not before they aided the evacuation of around 2,500. In 1976, the couple moved back to Birmingham to become partners in the medical practice in Hall Green founded in 1910 by Guys grandfather, Cuthbert Houghton. List of Old Marlburians - Wikipedia. H.A.G. SIR Gerald Elliot (LI 1937-42), Chairman and Chief Executive of Christian Salvesen, the shipping, trawling and whaling business, died on Sunday 28th January 2018.Sir Gerald Elliot was born in 1923. He also became an honorary chaplain to the Polish Air Force following his involvement in commemorating the Polish 304 Bomber squadron, who had been stationed at Dale in WW2. Tony is survived by his children, Ruth, Paul, Ian, Hugh, and eight grandchildren. He advised Richard Crossman, the new housing minister, on ways to introduce some form of fair rent policy. He adored any dish with apples: Johns a pudding man he would say. He had kept it from most. The regiment sailed on the Rangitata from Glasgow, via Sierra Leone, to Durban where he purchased and posted their engagement ring before proceeding on the Nieuw Amsterdam to Egypt and thence to Iraq in case the Russians fell. This is not the kind of material which will make a composer famous, but his music, his teaching ability and his humorous and affectionate personality won him many devoted and admiring pupils and friends. OM. Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the "marlburian" Flickr tag. Discharge from the army meant father had to get a job. However when the Marlborough Concert Orchestra was founded in 2006 Janet joined soon after its foundation. Nevertheless, he chose to take additional A levels in Latin and Greek in his final year at school, and was accepted to read medicine at St Johns College, Cambridge, on condition that he passed these as well. 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. As such he prosecuted and defended in many of the most high-profile cases in the south-west. You can read his full obituary in The Times(you will need to be a subscriber to read it). He almost immediately joined the newly formed Ulster Defence Regiment in a full-time capacity, becoming the Adjutant and Operations Officer of the 3rd (County Down) Battalion (3 UDR) based at Ballykinler. The Marlburian Club, Marlborough College, Wiltshire SN8 1PA. In addition to this, he was also a prominent Corps rugby player and boxer.From 1957-1958 he served with 45 Commando in Malta, North Africa and Cyprus. 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. She was always a supporter of the local community and realised that a new orchestra might find it hard to attract players, when there are established orchestras all around. The eldest son of Tan Sri Dr. Runme Shaw and his wife Peggy, Shaw is notable for leading massive changes to his familys film exhibition and real estate business in Singapore by redeveloping and upgrading Shaw Brothers single screen theatres into modern multiplexes and commercial developments. A year later he led the merger with Fester, Fothergill & Hartung that created Greig Fester. By this time, his own personal achievements, physical prowess and experience made him a superlative coach and natural leader, always instilling into trainees the value of supreme fitness for Commando service. He and his late wife Caroline were always enormously approachable and solved peoples problems very diligently. Hugh Day (PR 1940-45) died on Saturday 14th January 2017 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. The following year he was transferred to the Department of Agriculture and went on to become Assistant Under Secretary of State, then took charge of the Social Work Services Group before being made Under Secretary in charge of health care at the Scottish Home and Health Department. His classic victories in addition to the St Legers included the Derby twice, the 1,000 Guineas three times and the Oaks twice, while at the peak of his powers he had an enviable list of well-heeled owners using his services, including the Maktoum family. OM. A lovely sentiment that captures what so many of us feel.After 6 months in London Geoffrey came to Exeter to complete his pupillage with Neil Butterfield in our Chambers. We quickly became good friends and have remained so for 59 years. Donald never really recovered from a stroke last year and after a short stay in hospital died peace fully at home near Cambridge where he had spent his whole working life. John was at Marlborough college when the second world war was declared in 1939, and, after having finished his education in Trinidad and Ontario, sailed back in time for his 18th birthday to join up. and used his scuba diving skills for underwater archaeology in Sicily.Ants business career progressed from a holiday job selling blankets in the Harrods Sale, via a graduate traineeship at Marks & Spencer to a Diploma in Business Administration at Manchester Business School. As a result a new bathroom was installed or as Roger described it I got a new Throne. He graduated BA 1942; MA 1949; MB, BChir 1945; MChir 1952. Diana first came to Marlborough College with her husband, Antony Reynell, as a master and head of classics. Completed in 1966, the Winscombe Street houses followed the latest ideas coming from the US about zoning, with an adults zone on the top floor, a childrens zone on the bottom floor (spilling out into the garden) and an intermediate zone containing kitchen, dining and entrance on the middle floor. Oxford and Cambridge dropped Latin as a compulsary entry qualification in 1960. It was Spartan. This will be followed by a celebration at Kilmacolm Golf Club. Along with the Ghurkhas, the Madrassi soldiers could be relied upon to conduct internal security duties without favouring one side or the other.After serving in 34 Training Regiment in Rhyl, North Wales, and 60 Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) Regiment in Palace Barracks, Holywood, John was posted to 71 HAA Regiment in Fayid, Egypt in June 1952, initially as a Troop Commander in 187 Battery, and then as the Adjutant. As a boy he haunted oriental bookshops around the British Museum and saved up to buy a brass camel with a mysterious inscription that he kept on his desk.Competitive from an early age, he played rugby at the Dragon School against Antonia Pakenham, now Lady Antonia Fraser, and shot at Bisley for the Marlborough eight. Whether it is with the Hunt or in the courts you dont want to stand out for the wrong reasons unless you really are brilliant. So many sides to this charming, witty, generous man. He went to Marlborough in 1932 where he found his life long love of history, the later period at Marlborough being under the tutorship of HK Wylie a legendary Marlborough history teacher. For anyone who may be interested, there will be an exhibition of his oil paintings and poetry at 3 Bedfordbury, London WC2N from 19 October 2011 until 22 October 2011. He also inherited his parents passion for recording gravestone inscriptions and gave illustrated talks on Scottish tombstones, as a result of which he was elected an honorary vice-president of the Scottish Genealogy Society. He was the third child of 4 children: Christopher, Pat and his younger sister Elizabeth. In his early days at Marlborough, Martin played regularly for Dorset and Wilts Rugby XV in the County Championship, whilst not playing in any other matches. There are photographs of my grandfather appearing at a funeral in evening dress instead of morning dress much to the amusement of my father. Two years later, in 1963, John answered an advert for the role of assistant trainer and secretary to Gordon Smyth, private trainer to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and their friends at Castle Stables in Arundel. Janet continued in this post until 1991 and her successor writes of her sharpness of intellect and admirable administrative skills. Summer holidays were spent in Ireland in much the same vein. Meanwhile their student passengers were open mouthed with shock; the lights turned green and the traffic began to honk and hoot, although whether with applause or frustration was not clear! He became a Lay Reader before he was married and preached in churches and schools throughout his adult life. Of the 416 deaths involving COVID-19 in Week 7, 63.7% (265 deaths) had this recorded as the underlying cause of death, which was a lower . SS reunions would take place as black tie and dinner jacket occasions when out from behind the curtains would emerge my 19 year old father with a set of handcuffs. They moved to the Lodge at Steeple Ashton in 1949. The son of The Reverend George Trevor, he was born at Madras in British India.He was educated in England at Marlborough College, where he played for the college cricket eleven, featuring in their first match against Rugby School in 1855. A contributing member of society, he was a Justice of the Peace, a council member of the Shaw Foundation, Chairman and later Advisor to the National Fire Prevention and Civil Emergency Council and a founding member of the International Seakeepers Society. A full obituary will follow but in the meantime you can read more on The Times website (you will have to sign in to read it). He passed away on 9th December 2014. On 1st July 1960, in Madison Square Gardens, due to a faulty piece of equipment, Captain Easterbrook fatally fell whilst making his breath-taking descent.As a true sportsman and Commando leader, he was a splendid example to the Royal Marines and it is for this reason that this Sports Pavilion is dedicated to his memory. Bored, he was accepted by PA Management Consultants, where he was put in charge of integrating two large London printing works on his first day. It was held at Camp IV on May 2nd. . He was larger than life, friendly and supportive and a giant in his field. This involved John in much travelling, but brought contacts that enabled him to teach in two German schools at Salem and Birklehof. Francis R Gamman. Johns chief activities though were musical. Graham Brown (B3 1949 - 53) has sadly died. Although he was not cut out for military life on one occasion he inadvertently directed his fire at the officers mess rather than towards the enemy the experience proved formative. Ant retired at the age of 57 at which point he took on a variety of appointments including as trustee of pension funds, membership of the Competition Commission and of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator. For general enquiries, please email the Development Office or call on 01672 892385. Alan Brooke Turner (PR 1939-44) spent three decade in the Diplomatic service and then he became even more closely involved in world affairs as director of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre.This small body had an important role as Eastern Europe unshackled itself from communism and from Moscow in 1989-90. That year, he went to Singapore to join the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery, which was manned by British gunners and with which he was serving at the time of the Japanese attacks on Singapore.As the Japanese army closed in on the British at Singapore in January 1942, Geoffrey Rowley-Conwy was a formidable character and he fought a strong fight boosting morale with heavy attacks directly on Japanese mortars instead of troops. Promoted to lieutenant that October, during leave in Brussels he spotted, in a shop window, a photograph of himself in an armoured car just after liberation. Typically, he had left his application rather late; others have coaching to prepare for the interview and spend days rehearsing for the process; Geoffrey just turned up. That countrys independent way of doing things fitted Davids instincts so much better than conservative England.Son of Ruth (nee Singer) and Vernon Donnison, he was born in Yenangyaung, the town in Burma (Myanmar) where his father was a colonial administrator. He was Managing Director from 1973-81 and chairman from 1981 until he retired in 1988. He left Marlborough as the 2nd World War started. H.M.S. Marilyn managed to make the old outdoor pool work well and the first school waterpolo match was held in this: I have a memory of strawberries and wine accompanying this event - very 'eighties Marlborough'! He later became Secretary to IAPS, where he had a distinguished tenure. According to Geoffrey, who was never shy about telling a tale against himself, the case was called on, Geoffrey stood up and had been addressing the court in a nervous falsetto for 4 minutes when LCJ leant forward and bellowed tetchily Is there anyone here representing this man?This was but a temporary set back and Geoffreys career flourished. He also undertook an early locum in Lambeth with Professor David Morrell which he found particularly formative.Guys first GP appointment was as an assistant in Tenbury Wells.
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