Justin de Blank (PR 1940-44) restaurateur and food merchant whose commitment to quality helped to launch a gastronomic revolution, died on 17th December 2012. During childhood, Batchelor used to play hockey along the balcony of his father's house in Binney Road. His own life was saved by a surgeon, who would become Colonel Professor Alphonsus d'Abreu CBE OBE(Mil) DL.The combination of the bullet and surgery diverted him into a career in weapons staff. At the bottom of the slide, a waiter would walk over to Captain Easterbrook and serve him a Gin and Tonic, which he would swiftly drink, before proceeding to waltz off as though he had just walked calmly down a flight of stairs. I dont suppose Jeremy ever presented these ditties but he may have had some more respectable Third Programme output. The family spent his 90th birthday with a bonfire there. Geoffreys admiration of Indian cricketers went so far as him buying what was said to be the great Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskars cricket sweater at a Charity Dinner auction we attended. Jeremys compositions were mostly short pieces for a few instruments, full of novelty and wit. He is best known for his idea that most massive galaxies contain super-massive black holes at their cores and that these black holes power Quasars. Johns sudden, and untimely, death means a huge loss to his many friends from the College, the town and to ex-pupils far and wide. One of his books, On Secret Service East of Constantinople, about German attempts in 1914 to unleash a holy war against the British and Russian empires, was even inspired by Greenmantle.Hopkirks years as a foreign correspondent stood him in good stead. His stories, many beginning In my boyhood, were gently polished through regular repetition. 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. He was a great-nephew of Winston Churchill and a great-great-great grandson of Sir Samuel Romilly, the abolitionist and law reformer. More importantly, Nigeria was where he met Audrey who, having graduated from Cambridge, had qualified as a teacher and been sent to Nigeria. He was educated at Coniston then Hillside, Reigate then boarded at St Peters, Seaford from the age of eight. Robin de Beaumont (LI 1940 - 44) died on the 3rd February. The bulk of his career was then spent at Canford School, teaching history, politics and religious education. I went to the Newbury National Hunt meeting with Geoffrey a few times. 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. That carries with it connotations of judgment that are always likely to cause alarm amongst colleagues. As he crossed the Arctic Circle for the first time, the captain asked him for a noon sun-sight. John Stanier. I mention this because father was now in a completely different milieu to his parents, who had their set pews in the churches in Devizes usually at the front if I recall the position properly. Naturally creative and highly intelligent (she was a member of MENSA) Helen was frustrated by the teaching methods and left College early. None, or nearly none, he argued in a fierce debate with Richard Titmuss, his colleague at the London School of Economics. 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. 30 Dec 1930 - 13 Dec 2011. Alan Brooke Turner, CMG, diplomat, was born on January 4, 1926. She loved Jersey. He grew up in Danbury, Essex, where he recalled his mother reading him Greenmantle. He added you know what; winning is much more fun. He attended prep school in Haywards Heath and gained a scholarship to Marlborough College alongside three of his four brothers. Educated at Marlborough College (1941-45), Magdalen College, Oxford (1945-48) and St. Thomass Hospital Medical School (1948-51), he led a distinguished medical career spanning decades.Undertaking his National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps, Mr Marston went on to work as a Consultant Surgeon and Senior Lecturer at Middlesex Hospital, Royal Northern Hospital and later University College London. Whilst in Nigeria he initiated and put into practice the financial reorganisation of the Kano Districts. Their success was in large part due to Brooke Turner's fluent, elegant Russian -even their KGB minder began to thaw - as well as his good humour and his inexhaustible fund of tales.From 1965 Brooke Turner had three years back at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and then a series of short posting. 11 am, the Arkle Bar, on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival. One wonders if The German government or the Hitler family will demand restitution. It is tribute to Janet that such a system was successfully introduced and later used by Eton College as a model. He was the Chairman of Scottish Opera from 1987 to 1993. An appreciation of Piers, 4th Baron Wedgwood (B3 1968-72), who died of cardiac failure in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday 29th January 2014Piers and I arrived in the same year at Marlborough College but I only got to know him well, when I taught him in the Hundreds. He was still at the school during my time but I kept my distance. Despite the unrest, Sharman and Co continued to publish, print and distribute newspapers, tossing bundles of papers over the back wall to hidden vans and making their getaway while the Flying Pickets blocked the front gates. When he was four he had appendicitis and his father took him for treatment to Colombo about 100 miles away. Funds raised through his efforts included the biggest ever grant made by the Injured Jockeys Fund. The large congregation in St. Marys proved he got that one spectacularly wrong. His charm, speaking ability and his uncanny resemblance to his ancestor, Josiah, made Piers the ideal spokesman for the Wedgwood brand and he travelled throughout the world as Wedgwoods international ambassador. Nicholas Grant (B2 1945-48) died on 4th November 2018 aged 87. He restarted the Barmine project and worked on the FOIL free flight rocket programme.Retirement from the Army in 1970 gave him more time to be at home with Biddy in Wonersh but his energy and imagination led to the foundation of the Defence Manufacturers' Association and Ring Sights with Ray Budden. 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. He loved good food and experienced the best cuisine wherever he was in the world, and the cheaper the better. In the opinion of Steve Chapman, Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Evelyn Ebsworth was one of the leading inorganic chemists of his generation. He has been President, Dalton Division of Royal Society of Chemistry, Vice-President of RSC and chairman of various committees of the Society and was given Main Group Element award of the RSC and the Kipping Award of the American Chemical Society. Conscription was with the Royal Navy, where he was posted to the public school slot of captain of the heads. You can read his obituary on The Guardian Website and a wonderful tribute from his son in The Racing Post. After his retirement, he continued his passion for languages, adding to his repertoire of Spanish, Norwegian, Urdu and Punjabi by learning Persian and Arabic. In addition, the death of 19-year-old Mallory Beach, who died in a boat crash in 2019 while Paul Murdaugh was at the helm of the vehicle . Following Brian Williams (CR 1962-94) sad death on 28th March, Martin Evans (CR 1968-2018) has written an appreciation of his life. As well as visits overseas, he worked hard to devise political workshops for people keen to promote parliamentary democracy in their own countries. He worked for a number of years for Hambros Bank in London and Essex. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that August signalled the Japanese surrender, ending, he observed, a cruel war. Patrick is remembered by his family for being a loving father and a devoted husband. His father HMP and uncle FGP were both OMs, as were us sons GHP and RRPP.Click here to read the full obituary courtesy of the Independent. His first job in 1953 was as a master of French studies at the Ashfold Preparatory School located in Handcross, Sussex, which was relocated to Dorton House in Buckinghamshire. A full obituary will be written in due course. An avid fisherman, scuba diver and sailor, Shaw once landed a 280lb Queen Mackerel, one of the largest ever recorded, whilst skin diving off the waters of Hong Kong in 1979. Bruce was fiercely competitive and believed that success was worth striving for. His biography, Peter Godfrey: Father of New Zealand Choral Music, was published in 2015. Colin Richard Murray Prentice was born on December 13 1934 and educated at Marlborough College and at Cambridge University, where he read Medicine and served as president of the Medical Society. He was appointed CMG in 1980.He is survived by his wife, Hazel and his two sons and two daughters. His National Service completed, Jeremy attended the Royal Academy of music and entered the world inhabited by such masters as Gerald Finzi and Vaughan Williams. He skied energetically right up to this Spring. The weather grew hotter and hotter. OMGS Centenary Dinner - Friday 28th October. In a news release, police said they started an investigation in June 2022 when . He used his expertise to help restore and reopen the Keith & Dufftown Railway, Morayshire, and also to assist people with disabilities to live full lives. It was Spartan. He was an intrepid traveler who adeptly shrugged off the regions ever-watchful authorities to piece together his rip-roaring histories. As Brigadier, he commanded a TA Brigade in Wales. With thanks to The Guardian who gave permission to reprint. Hugh George Lyon Playfair, OBE 1935 - 2017. He also claimed that he rode down the Western Ghats from Kodaikanl to Madras on his bicycle (but that is rather a long way).Batchelor left the warm climate and privileged colonial life in Southern India for the colder existence in Marlborough. She was always the one who made copious notes after courses with all the bon mots such as no negative vibes. Betsy Zander writes We were members of a quartet, which was originally formed on the Grittleton course in 1986, which has played together for a week every summer from then until 2014. Peter maintained a wide circle of friends from his days at school and university, as well as from his long and varied working life. He was thrown into an overcrowded cell from which fellow captives were taken out to be shot. He wrote the papers that got approval for Swingfire, FACE, the 175mm M107 and for Rapier. It was held at Camp IV on May 2nd. I was his best man and managed the situation as best I could. His father Archibald was descended from several generations of Fifeshire miners. Bo had worked at Jollies in Bath and then Bulsoms in Chippenham where she met Dick and they married in 1960. With the aircraft on the ground at Amsterdam, he found himself on the tarmac between Dutch troops and the still-armed hijackers. Created a leading European Public Affairs consultancy with offices in Brussels, Washington DC and London Senior Consultant, Europe GJW Apr 1987 - Jun 19903 years 3 months London, United Kingdom. Click here to read the full Obituary in The Telegraph. As Martin said at one of the well-attended reunion dinners, it was the year, when the team arrived unbeaten at the last match, and by the final whistle, the Sherborne coach had already walked out and Marlborough ended the season unbeaten and with not one try scored against them.