His astonishingly logical and creative mind was put to good use when he was asked to take on the difficult matter of writing the school timetable. On arrival he was attached to the 1st Indian Medium Regiment, equipped with 5.5 guns, whose soldiers were Madrassis. One is left with a feeling of gross inadequacy. To cap a distinguished career, he spread his ideas to a wider audience by co-authoring a book with other members of the physics department. In 1974 the family returned to England where Peter had been appointed teacher and chaplain at Bedford School. LARRY Hickey (SU 1978-83) died on Tuesday 5th June aged 54. If an organ existed it was usually locked. Lord Langford OBE (C2 1925-30) died on November 13 2017, aged 105.Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy was the son of Major Geoffrey Seymour Rowley-Conwy (1877 10 August 1915), who was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, and Bertha Gabrielle Cochran (18801984) to whose genes, on his 100th Birthday, he credited his longevity. Eight enjoyable years at Marlborough involved teaching A Level History, and being form master to a junior form teaching History, Geography, English and Divinity, while also commanding the CCF from 1966, and coaching the 2nd XV, helping with Athletics, and being the last master in charge of Boxing.Keen for new challenges, he obtained a two-year leave of absence to take up a post at Cranbrook School in Sydney, Australia, little knowing that it would turn into a five-year stay from 1969-74. Initially educated by a governess, he attended Highfield boarding school and Marlborough College where he enjoyed sports before giving them up to help with farming for the war effort. Simon Smallwood (B2 1950-55) died on 14th December 2016.A lifelong wine enthusiast (he became a Master of Wine in 1970), husband to Valerie and father to Rob, Susannah, Caspar & Jessica. The large congregation in St. Marys proved he got that one spectacularly wrong. The business survived many setbacks not least when Reeves absent-mindedly left a whole weeks takings on the back seat of a London cab and has continued to thrive. She proved well able to plan the solutions with the eye of a chess Grand Master. The Great Game (1990) drew under single cover his work. 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. Robin de Beaumont (LI 1940 - 44) died on the 3rd February. A Diploma of Education from New College, Oxford, set him up for his first teaching post at Marlborough College, starting in 1960, when he also became an officer in the Combined Cadet Force. Denys Hodson (B2 1941-46) CBE died on 13 January. Nott-Bower MC RE and Angela Nott-Bower, Roger was raised at Holyford Close, Colyford Devon by his grandmother Susan Lister Kaye and sundry governesses. The Marlburian Club staff were particularly saddened to hear of Martin's death as he regularly sent in an entry for the Club Magazine crossword competition and 2012 was no exception. 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. An obituary from the Guardian can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jan/16/richard-hartley-obituary, Mary O'Hagan (SU 1971 - 73) died on 22nd December 2022. He deplored a defendant being referred to as half-caste by a senior judge and another case in which the judge had eagerly inquired: Can this man be deported?Brooke was born in London, into a family of Conservative politicians. And the rest, as they say, is history. He combined an interest in GP training with an emphasis on evidence-based medicine and audit. Outside the classroom, he was heavily involved in the CCF, Athletics, the Beagles and Rugby. Ultimately Bruce changed the direction of my life.Ali Sharp (CR 1990- present): I first met Bruce when I joined the Marlborough College Biology department. To the end she refused almost all assistance; a friend recalls that: At her very last concert in 2015 she let me carry her violin, but that was the only help that she ever accepted, another example of the courage and determination, which were such hall marks of her life. In 2013 Janet moved down to Town Mill and there received much help from the management and again from neighbours, who enabled her to retain her independence to the end. While he and his men were on the objective, they came under heavy mortar fire and shelling for three hours. In 2006 Reeves and Blacker shifted their efforts from catering to furnishing, establishing the eponymous online retailer, sofa.com. Sunday evenings, for a number of years, were spent counting and recounting the church collection to ensure it added up. Neave Brown at home in Fleet Road, Camden, in 2015. Neave Brown (C1 1945-48), who has died aged 88, was the architect of what is widely considered the finest housing built in Britain in the last 50 years. Kara's Baby - Disintegrated due to lack of attention. Returning to the post of Brigade Major of 7th Armoured Brigade, he went on to command the 4th/7th RDG. He continued for a few more years but although mentally alert he was interviewed for television about his wartime experiences just a few months before his death his mobility was severely impaired by myositis, a degenerative muscular condition which caused him to gradually lose control of his limbs.He is survived by his devoted wife Ann to whom he was married for 69 years, their four children, Jonathan, Charlotte, Catherine and Andrew, and six grandchildren. He was also President of the Norfolk Association for the Disabled, and Secretary of the Committee that established the first Norwich Cathedral Visitor Center. There was the annual ritual of trying to find the metal court markers at the start of each summer, they having somehow buried themselves over the winter; once the markers were unearthed the lines were marked out, never completely straight but eventually a sort of rhomboid shaped playing area was arrived at. There was little difference. Research & development, forest management, carbon offsetting, developing the medicinal values of trees and sustainable timber are all part of the African Forest business model. His father Archibald was descended from several generations of Fifeshire miners. His final school report was very similar in content to his Army report and his ability to organise and his interpersonal skills were noted in both. He sailed to Normandy in the aftermath of D-Day, landing on 1 July 1944, after being made a troop commander in B Squadron. 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. 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. In 1965 he was promoted to brigadier and posted to Western Command as Commander Royal Artillery Lancashire and Cheshire Division in North-West District. In 1948 he was posted to the Middle East and served in Jordan, Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan Defence Force as Bimbashi. The evenings when he wasnt working were spent in the garden, making the clay more fertile and growing flowers and fruit and vegetables. 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 awarded FRSC and FRSE in 1969. Colonel (Honorary Major) in 1945.He joined the British Council as an officer in 1946 and was posted to Antwerp, Stockholm, Helsinki, Bristol, and London. In retirement Roger did not reduce his activities. Electronics is a dark art and when something goes wrong with a piece of applying logic and establishing exactly where you can test it and whether it is working thus far. To his wider family he was the much loved Uncle Geoff. You can read his full obituary from the Newmarket Journal here. His father was a banker turned sugar grower in Trinidad, where John and his sister, Pamela, grew up. His first was Ruth St John Murphy to whom he married in 1939. The original can be seen on The Guardian website. No flowers please, but donations, if desired, to RNRS, c/o R Davies & Son, 63 Westbury Hill, Bristol, BS9 3AD. Trained as a certified scuba diving instructor, pistol marksman, marathon runner, explorer, mountaineer - he scaled Everest a number of times, not quite to the top.Hinson was Malaysian with a British education. He ran the House with genuine compassion and understanding a product of his strong Christian faith and instilled the boys in his care with a strong moral code and a sense of service to others. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Jean was an accomplished and influential musician. My fathers innate self-discipline and love of the country enabled him to widen his interests out in Baden Wurttemberg. Always fun to be had when he was around. After the first year or two of Summer School, Marilyn was invited to be swim coach at Marlborough college,initially travelling daily from Corsham, progressing to staying overnight and then appointed as Resident House Tutor in Morris House which was the first girls house in the College. Brooke Turner worked alongside reforming politicians and intellectuals. For further information please visit www.joebain.org.uk. Captain Jack Asbury (CR 1976-84), CBE, RN died in September 2013. He was probably never happier than when at a National Hunt meeting; Cheltenham of course was a special favourite. John lived in France for two years till he was 9 and at that point spoke French better than English. Always known as Bob, he was an officer cadet at Woolwich and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in July 1939. They saw their grandchildren grow up, and were able to visit them in Ireland, Canada, and the Falkland Islands. Essentially an over achiever and with all the energy required for working and playing hard, he also gave back to the community as the managing director of Stand Up for Kids, a childrens charity in New York.Hinson was diagnosed with cancer more than 10 years ago, but was successful in fighting it several times, until more recently. His wife, Julie Goodwin, whom he married in 1954, died in 2009, and he is survived by a daughter and a son. The Marlburian Club @OldMarlburians It is with great sadness that Marlborough College and the Marlburian Club announce the death of Roger Ellis, Master of Marlborough 1972-1986, who has passed away at the age of 93. 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 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. His friend Christopher Hall (C3 1954-59) described John as a much liked, wise and kindly man. 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. His younger brother Christopher was born four years later, with Treacher-Collins syndrome, a rare calcium deficiency which required a great deal of medical care, special schools, and [], Born in Radlett, Hertfordshire, his father was a family doctor of a Yorkshire family and his mother Scottish, born in Cardross. Saturday, October 29, 2022 1:58 PM. The Marlburian Club, Marlborough College, Wiltshire SN8 1PA Telephone +44 (0)1672 892 384 marlburianclub@marlboroughcollege.org www.marlboroughcollege.org Twitter: @OldMarlburians. 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. Together they were a very strong team and she played a crucial role pastorally when he was appointed Housemaster of C1 in 1968. 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. He learnt to ski on mount Feldberg. Between 1956-1957 he was the Physical Training Officer at Royal Marines Barracks, Plymouth. 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 . The ever sociable Geoffrey enjoyed all of the many things that went with a day at the races.His Irish heritage also meant that he was a great supporter of Irish rugby.He had other appointments that he was particularly proud of. Ordained Minister. He later qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London and worked in the West Midlands for many years. His first marriage was to Susan Lee they went on to have Mark (B1 1974-79) & Hilary and consequently four grandchildren. He went up to Oxford, where he befriended Christopher French another shy studious man, who at that time remained below the radar. 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). I was his best man and managed the situation as best I could. Following his retirement in 1972, he and Margaret moved to Old Costessey in East Anglia. Following the successful restoration of the grotto, Diana went on to restore and reintroduce many grottoes, shell rooms, and chandeliers that had been left, some had been without them for more than two centuries. He also founded the found the New Zealand Choral Federation in 1985.He was appointed MBE in 1978, Professor Emeritus at Auckland University in 1982 and CBE in 1988. Further John Cloudsley-Thompson obituaries:The GuardianThe TelegraphThe Scotsman. He died peacefully in his sleep. Pat had a good sense of humour - very much needed in the role of a Dame - but she was also firm when required and no one could "pull the wool" over her eyes or dared to stay in bed overlong in the morning on hearing the advancing footsteps of Dame Cotton! She lived in the White Lion in Corsham in her teens and was a 400m runner for the county and was also a fair table - tennis player. He then earned a Certificate in Education at Oxford. 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. He bore these responsibilities with his customary light touch, those qualities of humanity, judgement, fairness and empathy he had always shown in his work as a barrister served him well in his judicial work. More.. P W B (Peter) Barrows (C3 1945-49) died on 26th October 2012. He was commissioned in the Royal Horse Artillery, and left the Army in 1946 with the rank of battery commander. They lived in the Cotswold village of Minchinhampton where his father was in general practice with his surgery in the house. Martin stopped at a traffic light; Dennis came up behind and deliberately nudged his rear bumper. Then on to other homes in mid-Devon where he and Jill created beautiful houses and gardens. In retirement in Reading, Berkshire, and subsequently at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, he recruited sapper veterans to attend the post-war annual reunions at sHertogenbosch. My father John Philp Hodge was born on the 12th December 1925 at Newport Isle of Wight. John Bateson (CR 1973-98) died suddenly on Tuesday 16th May. From when he was a boy, watching the fighters flying from RAF Duxford a few miles from his home, Bayon had wanted to be a pilot. At Cambridge he became an expert on fluid mechanics and, in particular, the behaviour of waves. To read the full obituary please click here. During his retirement, he pursued his lifelong dedication to trout fishing on the rivers of Norfolk. Dr Angus Mitchell CB CVO MC (C2 1938-42) died on 26 February 2018 in Edinburgh, age 93. Dearly loved husband of Mary, father of Rebecca and Matthew, and grandfather of Edward, Hattie, Tom, Matilda and Leonora, James was a much respected Beak at Marlborough College from 1964-68 and went on to become the Head of Winchester College in 1985. She became County President in 1990 and in 2004 proudly accepted the Dolly Rice Award. Of his time at Marlborough College, he had fond memories and praised his maths and physics teachers, though admitted that he never really got involved at the observatory. He was Managing Director from 1973-81 and chairman from 1981 until he retired in 1988. DAVID Donnison, who has died aged 92, was one of a group of outstanding academics who played an important part in shaping social policy during the 1960s and 70s, and, in his case, well beyond. His residence was deemed the most suitable for Her Majesty to stay in. Francis R Gamman. After graduating, he spent a year teaching in Quebec before returning in order to propose to and later marry Margaret Allen (Tiggy) whose brother Hubert had been his contemporary at St Johns. He was answerable to my future godfather and nightclub king, who styled himself Major Peter Davies of London and Alexandria. The couple later divorced.After a stint at ITN as a newscaster he joined The Daily Express, and was based in New York. It includes Regiment and Rank details for those who served in the Great War, plus school attendance and business details. The College has lost one of its great scientific alumni. It was seemingly only thanks to the efforts of the owner of the Express, Lord Beaverbrook, and his contacts in Mexico that his release was secured. He arrived as a fully formed player aged 13, and remained that size throughout his time at Marlborough, whilst we very slowly caught up.After Marlborough he studied LLB at Birmingham University 1984-1987. A subsequent collaboration with James Morwood resulted in The Oxford Latin Course. 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. OMRC Annual Report 2015. "Life as a weapons GSO1 back in London in 1962 might have been a disappointment after being a CO but he enjoyed finding situations that were worth examination and illumination, and working on re equipping the regiment with new guns and ammunition. When Angus was 6 the family moved back to Scotland and finally settled at Ardpatrick in Argyll, which he adored. None, or nearly none, he argued in a fierce debate with Richard Titmuss, his colleague at the London School of Economics. On joining No 128 Squadron he teamed up with an Australian pilot, Doug Swain. He was to stay there only two years, far too short a time to make a firm mark but the Brooke Turners enjoyed their time in Helsinki and made lasting friendships, before he was appointed to the Great Britain-East Europe Centre (later the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe), a quango largely financed by the FCO and devoted to improving relations with Central and Eastern Europe.