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. William Barlow (Bill) Blanchard 1945-1951 Ronald (Ron) James Chorley 1944-1949 Beverley Lewis Chuter 1944-1951 Brian Colston 1932-1939 Richard Charles Millward Cook 1941-1952 John Royston Drinkwater 1952-1959 Christopher John Gillingham Evans 1944-1954 Donald (Don) Furze 1955-1962 Nabeel Israrul Haq 1989-996 James Richard Harris 1942-1945 Michael John (Mike) Hayden 1944-1951 Jonathan Claude Binyon Higgens 1949-1958 Michael John Richard Hodge 1944-1947 Peter John Hurley 1942-1949 Robert Jenner (Staff) Left BGS in 2013 Robert Hamilton Jordan 1950-1958 Robert Alexander Kennedy 1945-1952 David Mogford Lloyd 1935-1944
Bristolienses - Issue 62
Mandy Meredith (Staff) 2010-2021 John Stuart Colin (Colin) Osborn 1941-1945 Roger Grahame Poolman 1947-1952 William John Hurlstone (John) Robson (Staff) 1963-1969 Geoffrey Richard Savory (Staff) 1948-1953 Richard Dodgson Sykes 1946-1950 Petrina Brealy nee Trueman 1983-1989 David John Weeks 1946-1954 Michael John (Mike) Winter 1944-1949 William Barlow (Bill) Blanchard 1935-2018 BGS 1945-1952
the Crown Prosecution service as a senior prosecutor until after a sudden brain haemorrhage and several major brain operations he took early retirement. Ronald James Chorley 1933-2021 BGS 1944-1949 Beverley Lewis Chuter 1933-2021 BGS 1944-1949 After leaving BGS he went on to Pembroke College, Oxford and subsequently became Senior Classics master at Chester School. Brian Colston 1922-2021 BGS 1932-1939
His daughter Diana writes, It was brilliant that my father got the opportunity to attend such a good school and I can see why there is real anger from many that grammar schools were abolished -or as in your case went independent. My father was a very intelligent man and no doubt benefitted from being in an academic environment - he went onto to Dartmouth Naval College after school and became a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy where he served for 20 years before coming out and training as a solicitor. He eventually joined
His daughter Nicola writes: My father, Brian Colston, who has died aged 99 of abdominal cancer (after a short illness) was born in
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