In Memoriam
IN MEMORIAM We regret to announce the deaths of the following members of the BGS family and extend our condolences to everyone that knew and cared for them. Adrian Ashley (1957-1967) Richard Anthony Camp (Staff 1960-1996) John Clarke (Staff 1986-2001) David Henry Gammon (1955-1961) Christopher James Goode (1981-1991) Martyn Dennis Hooper (1948-1956) Keith Grant Howard (Staff 1964-1976) David Mogford Lloyd (1935-1944) John Maurice Mansfield (1947-1954) Stephen John (‘Steve’) Marsh (Staff 2006-2017) Keith McGlynn (1953-1960) William Anthony Rhys Northwood (1949-1957) David A Raeburn (Staff 1951-1954) Vivien C Rees (Staff from 1978) Edward David Towne (Staff 1973-1983) Philip Colin Watts (1939-1949) Alan Winstone (1943-1950)
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Adrian Kenneth Charles Ashley 1949-2021 BGS 1957- 1967
purposes. Swings from Jane Austen to Sweet Valley and back again are quite common.’
A classics scholar who went on to read for Classical Mods at Wadham College Oxford, followed by Philosophy and Theology for his second examinations, he was a House Prefect and an enthusiastic sportsman. He was School Captain of Fives, and also played Rugby for the 2nd and 3rd XVs.
He oversaw the implementation of his ‘vision of a computerised Library’ and waxed lyrical about the ‘day-long use for serious searches’ which the computer provided, whereas ‘no amount of lecturing could actually get students to use the card-index effectively’. His valedictory Library report is a eulogy to books and readers, and a poem in itself.
Richard Anthony Camp 1936-2021 BGS 1960-1996
John Clarke Died 2021 BGS 1986-2001
Richard Camp taught English and is remembered as the master who succeeded ‘Fred’ Perry as Librarian.
John Clarke retired in February 2001 after fifteen years as School Sergeant at the heart of the School’s support service.
In his thirty six years he saw many changes: he was Librarian when the new Library was built, replacing the first formal Library on the ground floor of the Fenwick Richards wing. He loved the Library, he loved books, and he wanted everyone to read, ‘My aim since 1960 has been to make books increasingly accessible to readers, and to provide agreeable space in which reading can be done: so that the Library has been open during virtually every lunch-hour every day since 1960, and until around 6.00 every evening: as well as throughout the school day. He wanted ‘everything accessible to everyone’, because ‘everyone has different reading ages; we read in different moods, for different
His detailed knowledge of the ‘ways’ of the pupils, of the School site and in particular the hundreds of keys and locks needed to open and secure the buildings proved extremely difficult to replace. David Henry Gammon 1944-2021 BGS 1955-1961 In 1955 he joined Shell A and left in July 1961. He went on to Selwyn College Cambridge. Christopher James Goode 1973-2021 BGS 1981-1991 A Pro-Prefect, later Second Prefect,
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