Follow Up! 2018

ALCOCK AND THE OHAFC

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS

AN ARMY MARCHES ON ITS STOMACH

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON

The FA connection

Spotlight on OH entrepreneurs

Head Chef Sylvain Chevereau

The legacy of WW1 at Harrow

Follow Up! THE HARROW ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE 2018

A BIRD’S EYE VIEW Award-winning wildlife film and television producer Alastair Fothergill looks back on his school days

JOHN MITCHELL FINE PAINTINGS EST 1931

Clockwise from top left: Pierre-Joseph RedoutĂŠ, graphite and watercolour on vellum, 1819; Francis Cotes, pastel, 1766; Alfred Stevens, oil sketch, 1889; Gabriel LoppĂŠ, oil painting, 1880

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FROM THE CHAIRMAN

THE EXECUTIVE

It is my pleasure to introduce this year’s issue of Follow Up!, your Harrow Association members magazine.

President His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal (The Park 1960³)

It would have been remiss of us not to focus on the WWI centenary as a key theme for this year’s issue. One hundred years on, it is as important as ever to remember the Old Harrovians who died, as well as the eight who were awarded the Victoria Cross. e legacy of the Great War can been seen at Harrow in the buildings that are an integral part of today’s School life.

Read more about this on pages 78-83.

As a member of the OH Entrepreneurs and Investors Club, I was particularly pleased to read about the OHs who have been starting new businesses in recent years, continuing in the great tradition of Harrovian entrepreneurship.

As I reflect on the past year, my second as HA Chairman, it occurs to me what a year it has been, with a splendid display of Harrovian fellowship in November at Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall. It was great to see so many of you there and in such fine voice! See some pictures of this special evening on pages 36-37.

Early in the academic year, we heard that Harrow’s current Head Master, Jim Hawkins, will be stepping down and moving on to a new challenge.

I would like to thank him, on behalf of the Harrow Association, the Board and the Executive for his support and enthusiasm for preserving and enhancing the Harrovian tradition. We look forward to welcoming Alistair Land on his arrival in 2019. Alistair was a great supporter of the HA during his time as Deputy Head Master of the School.

Increasingly, we will be delivering information to our members in a digital form and so, in December, we launched a new online network for OHs, OH Connect, and it has been very pleasing to see how our global community has embraced it. At the time of writing, over 1,450 OHs have signed up and are reconnecting with old friends, booking for events, sharing pictures and posting jobs and other information on the site. Long may it continue.

Stet Fortuna Domus

Chairman Adam Hart (West Acre 19771) Executive Board Heyrick Bond-Gunning (West Acre 19853) James Darley (The Park 19843) The Hon Andrew Butler QC (The Knoll 19813) James de Broë-Ferguson (The Grove 19813) Colin Mackenzie-Blackman (Bradbys 19943) Will Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 19983)

Manager Perena Shryane ha@harrowschool.org.uk Digital Information Manager Luke Meadows meadowsl@harrowschool.org.uk Alumni Officer Arusha Pillay pillaya@harrowschool.org.uk Financial Secretary Cece Walker hadtaccountant@harrowschool.org.uk Communications Officer Jessica Bellringer bellringerjr@harrowschool.org.uk Information and Research Officer Dominic Parisutham parisuthamd@harrowschool.org.uk Careers Advisor Michael Wright wrightmd@harrowschool.org.uk

Adam Hart (West Acre 19771) CHAIRMAN

ALCOCK AND THE OHAFC

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS

AN ARMY MARCHES ON ITS STOMACH

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON

The FA connection

Spotlight on OH entrepreneurs

Head Chef Sylvain Chevereau

The legacy of WW1 at Harrow

Follow Up! THE HARROW ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE 2018

A BIRD’S EYE VIEW Award-winning wildlife film and television producer Alastair Fothergill looks back on his school days

Editors: Jessica Bellringer, Perena Shryane, Catharine Robinson Design: Andrew Sinclair (Newlands 1971³) Print: AGS Print Advertising: William Landale (e Grove 1978³) Advertising enquiries to landalewjf@harrowschool.org.uk or 020 8872 8522.

Contributors: Adam Hart (West Acre 1977¹), Luke Meadows, Arusha Pillay, Dominic Parisutham, Fred Woolley (West Acre 1957³), Nick Compton (Druries 1999²), Adrian Ash (e Knoll 1975²), Freddy Paske (West Acre 1999³), Alastair Fothergill (Moretons 1973²), Jack Young (Newlands 2008³), Peter Hedley (West Acre 2008³), Sam Collins (Rendalls 2008³), David Longe (Elmfield 1989³), David Carden (e Knoll 1978³), Jamie Lyon (Rendalls 1987³), Jack Scott, (Elmfield 2004³), Alexi Pittalis (Rendalls 2007³), Tom Batting (e Park 2003³), William Brightman (Druries 2004³), James Lane (e Park 2010³), Edward McGovern (e Knoll 2010³), Alexander Olesen (Rendalls 2008³), Michael Sharron (Bradbys, 1979¹), Paul Molloy (e Park 1991³), Luka Gakic (Moretons 1998³), Tom Xie (e Head Master’s 2011³), Mark Greaves (e Park 2004³), Ogyen Verhagen (e Knoll 2008³), Laurence Williams (Moretons 2003³), Tace Fox, Helen Harrington, Sylvain Chevereux, Renata Bartnicka, (Billings and Edmonds), Peter Hunter, Ross Beckett, Christopher O’Mahoney, Fr James Power, Antony Hall-Williams, Anne Hall-Williams, John McGrail, Rachel Marchant, Rajinder Kalsi.

Due to space constraints we have not listed the OHs who supplied correspondence, event reports or their own news and images for News in Brief, but we are very grateful to them.

Cover: Alastair Fothergill (Moretons 1973²)

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Contents FROM THE HARROW ASSOCIATION MANAGER

We hope you look forward to receiving your annual members’ magazine as much as we enjoy putting it together. We received some really positive feedback from you last year and are keen to hear from you again with your ideas for Follow Up! 2019. is year, you’ll see from the magazine that our priorities of community, careers and heritage guide our activities. In 2018, we are trying out some new initiatives, including a 10 Years On reunion, a Christmas carol concert and a careers networking evening – all events at which we hope to catch up with many of you.

OH clubs and societies continue to be your favourite means of staying in touch with each other and the School, and we are very pleased to be launching a new OH Technology Club, proposed by some enthusiastic young OH graduates starting out in their tech careers. ank you to all of you who supported the very successful Careers Convention for current Harrovians here on the Hill in January. If you are able to join us next year, do contact the office. e HA and the School now have a dedicated Careers Advisor, Michael Wright, who is not only here to assist the boys but OHs too.

We’re very proud to have made a donation, along with the Harrow Development Trust, for a tenor bell that hangs in St George’s Memorial Church in Ypres.

Read more about this on page 89 and if you are planning a Battle Field tour I encourage you to pay a visit to the church.

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news and views from OH readers

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nE WS in BRiEF What you have told us you’ve been up to

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We’ve been pleased to see so many of you embracing OH Connect and signing up. I’d like to encourage those of you who have yet to sign up to do so and, do remember, OH Connect is a developing platform so contact the HA office with your feedback and suggestions so that we can create a website that works for you.

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OH BOOkS A round-up of new titles

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EnGAGE MEnTS, M ARRi AGE S, BiRTHS AnD DEATHS

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SOCiETy SPOTLiGHT: OHAFC Find out about the world’s second-oldest existing football club

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LiSTinG S: BOOkS nick Compton chooses his five favourite reads

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R & R: SOMETHinG FOR TH E WEEkE nD Adrian Ash chooses his favourite places to see art

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BiG PiCTU RE : FREDDy PASkE A look at this professional artist du jour

Perena Shryane MANAGER, HARROW ASSOCIATION

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EvE nTS RE PORTS An D SOCiE Ty UP DATES Some highlights from a busy year

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OHS WOR kin G AC ROSS THE G LOBE

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CAR EER S COn vEnTiOn 2018 AnD HA CA REERS TALkS

H ARROW L ivES The Head Chef. How many meals a day?!

A closer look at our bright young things

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OH vCS For most conspicuous bravery

Three OHs with fascinating jobs in Jerusalem

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ROLL OF HOnOUR: 2018 To mark the centenary, OHs who died in the First World War

Three OHs starting out

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AROUnD THE HiL L A Harrow Development Trust update

natural world and wildlife film producer and director

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TH E TiES THAT BinD Eighty-six School ties

How you can help in 2019

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2 5 yEA RS OF THE PETE R BECkWiTH SCHOL ARSHiP SCHEME A look at six scholars at different stages of their careers

FORTy yEARS On: THE HAR ROVI AN in 1978 “Toshing in the Pupes”

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TH E WAR MEMORiAL BUi LD inG The legacy of WWi at Harrow 100 years on

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SE CRET HARROW: WE LLS Hidden wells across the estate

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A BE LL FOR yP RE S The Harrow Association’s centenary project

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LEAvE RS in 2018 Welcome to the new OHs

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UPCOM inG E vE nTS And how to stay in touch

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CORRESPONDENCE DEAR SIRS,

DEAR SIRS,

DEAR EDITOR,

One notes a possible new fashion trend, leaving the trouser zipper partially open, as seen on the two OHs in front row at left of the Leavers photo. Also, the shirt hanging out may be further proof of a sartorial revolution. One also has the impression that Oxford bags are back in fashion.

Lying in the sunshine in our garden in Switzerland today and seeing German airliners flying over the mountains in the distance reminds me of the days in 1940 when we used to lie in Ducker and watch German bombers flying over to bomb the Air Force Bomber Command HQ located at Ruislip. How casual does that seem now!

In spite of some of the School buildings, including e Head Master’s, being set on fire with incendiary bombs, we all survived and are probably the better for the experience!

ank you for the 2017 Edition of Follow Up! I had a quick look at the picture of the new Old Harrovians and noticed many were wearing ties and scarves totally unfamiliar to me. It occurred to me that if you were scratching around for something to put in next year’s Follow Up!, an article on the ties and scarves available to current Harrovians might be of interest to Old Harrovians who have not kept up with such matters since they left.

To start the ball rolling, when I left in 1970, if I remember rightly, on half days, Harrovians might be seen wearing any of the following ties or scarves: School Monitor, Philathletic Club, Lion, cricket Flannels, Harrow football Flannels, Sixth Form Tie ( for those on the cusp of a Blood), House Tie ( for anyone who had their House Cap for each of the three major sports), athletics, boxing, chess, cross-country running, fencing, fives, golf, gymnastics, rackets, rowing, shooting (short range and long range), squash, swimming and tennis.

A Franklin (Bradbys and Small Houses 1945³) (Ed. Re. the Leavers photo in ‘Follow Up!’ 2017 – page 78.)

Kind regards, Peter Ryan (e Head Master’s 1944²) DEAR PERENA,

What a wonderful send-off we gave Nick Foot (Rendalls 1972²) yesterday. Over 500 crammed into the church to listen to stirring tributes and resounding hymns. A crescendo raised the marquee roof at Goddens House and the party went on until very late, with many OHs trying to recognise each other, whilst remembering our popular friend.

I attach a photo of three Rendallians who played cricket with Nick in the House team (which he captained in 1976, the season he was 12th man at Lords). From left to right: Hugh Lloyd (1971³) who conducts the business of the Musicians’ Livery Company; Rupert Wieloch (1972³); and Ivo Tennant (1969³), cricket correspondent for e Times.

Rupert Wieloch (Rendalls 1972³)

DEAR SIRS,

As you have had no word from me for many a year, I thought I should send you an update. Although now over 80, I am still very active! When at School, I was one of Duggie Reid’s Biology class. It was he who inspired me in my research, first on ‘e Flowers and Ferns of Harrow’, published while still at School in 1953. Since then, I have spent a major part of my life until I retired in 1996 working on the flora of Brazil at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and am still publishing many new species.

I spend most of my time in Brazil, still actively doing fieldwork, based at the Museu Emilio Goeldi. Last April, I climbed, using ropes, the Serra do Aracá, a ‘tepui’ mountain difficult of access. I am at present living in Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon, and have spent much time carrying out fieldwork in the Serra dos Carajás, Pará State, which Vale is mining for iron ore. In November, I was in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul. I still have a PhD student from the University of Sao Paulo, and have been in the field with him in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia. Plans for the future: more fieldwork in Bahia, where I have found further new species awaiting study!

Raymond Harley (Druries 1949²) (Sent in via ohconnect.org.uk)

Andrew Traill (e Grove 1996¹) (Ed. ank you for the suggestion – see pages 74-75.)

DEAR HA OFFICE,

I have a memory of training (well, jogging around) the running track when Roger Bannister was using it. is was in 1953/1954. Can you confirm this in any way?

Yours sincerely, Bill Wright (Bradbys 1951³) (Ed. Contemporary reports in e Harrovian and local residents still living on the Hill today confirm that Roger Bannister would train occasionally on the School athletics grounds in the period leading up to his record-breaking Olympic win in 1954.)

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Submit your correspondence for future issues (and a chance to win a bottle of Harrow Champagne) to editor@harrowschool.org.uk.

Correspondence may be edited.

DEAR SIRS,

In the last edition of Follow Up! I was startled to see my 17-year-old humour in print again in your article about e Harrovian 40 Years On – the year of e Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

I wrote the article you re-printed and was editor of e Harrovian at the time. It is fascinating to see how times change. In your headline you refer to 1977 as the year of both the Jubilee and e Sex Pistols God Save e Queen. If, in those days, e Harrovian had even admitted the existence of the latter, I’d probably have been up before the Head Master.

My article poking fun at tacky Jubilee souvenirs and, in the process, gently sending up some of Harrow’s over-reverence for the event (as I saw it at the time) was as radical as we were allowed to go, back then.

It reminds me what a transitional era the 1970s felt, from a schoolboy perspective.

Harrow still had fagging and felt locked in the Edwardian era: electronic devices of entertainment were still frowned on (it was two years before you were allowed a transistor radio) and yet, in the real world, British youth had a new energy. From what I read in your pages, Harrow does a far better job of balancing ancient and modern today.

Anyway, I’ve made my career producing TV entertainment, so can still find myself writing what (try to be) funny script lines as part of what I do. ank you for the reminder of where this all started!

Yours sincerely, Mark Rowland (e Head Master’s 1973²) (Ed. By way of thanks for providing such entertaining content for last year’s issue, albeit inadvertently, we’ll be sending you a bottle of Harrow Champagne for your efforts all those years ago.)

DEAR PERENA,

My uncle, RC Dafforn (Small Houses 19293), arrived at Harrow in about 1929. He enjoyed art when he was at the School.

You may like to see the following website about his work llfa.uk/llfa__A_286__.htm.

Some of it was recently sold for £1,000.

He was barely 16 when he painted them, which I find remarkable. I thought it might interest you.

He was the eldest brother to my mother who is still alive at 104!

Kind regards, Ian Macfadyen

DEAR SIRS,

is year I count myself fortunate in having enjoyed 35 years providing technical solutions in hydrogeology and I’m eternally grateful to Jerry Gates, Jock Smith, Jack Webster, MAC Crofts, Sir Alan Outram, Mr Duncan and many other wonderful beaks for instilling in me the passion for things scientific. In recent years I enjoyed teaching maths at St Columbas College in Dublin and was reminded of that school’s links with Harrow and my former housemaster. Sidney Patterson taught mathematics to both me and my father. He was a prolific writer in the classroom and few Grove new boys from those years will have forgotten the daily drudge of cleaning his overhead projector.

Recruited to Harrow in 1941, there is little doubt that this Limerick man’s experience of running the farm at his previous school was particularly welcome during the Blitz.

In other news, last year I was privileged to join Henry Bagwell (e Grove 1974¹),

Mike Rhodes (e Grove 1973³) and Chris Latilla-Campbell (e Grove 1973³) in a select gathering of Grovites in Windsor Great Park to mark the passing of Lady Margaret. Due to short notice, sincere apologies were received from Charlie Lawson (e Grove 1973¹), Patrick Chalmers (e Grove 1973³), Ed Bonham-Carter (e Grove 1973³), Teige O’Donovan (e Grove 1974¹) and several others. Requiem in pace.

Lady Margaret Rhodes (Elphinstone), the mother of Michael Rhodes, (e Grove 1973³), was a 1st Cousin of the Queen and Lady-in-Waiting to her aunt, the Queen Mother. Gathered unto the Lord on 25 November 2016, Margaret always welcomed the frequent and usually unannounced intrusion of young Harrovian renegades aboard small and raucous motorcycles at her homes in e Garden House, Windsor, and Poundsgate, Devon. e attached was snapped on a cold Saturday in February last year after a wonderful reunion lunch in the Horse & Hounds Pub in e Great Park.

Witness four OH petrolheads, including the photographer, being treated to a personal viewing of the power plant in Christopher Latilla-Campbell’s magnificent beast.

Sincerely yours, Shane Bennet (e Grove 19723)

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Lord Millett (Newlands 1946³) is chairman of the Prudential Group, of City Uk’s Advisory Council, of the much smaller Fintech company RateSetter, and Templeton Emerging Markets investment Trust plc.

JF Edmond (Elmfield 1951¹), at the age of 80, is still working regularly as a walking tour guide round Oxford University and the colleges and hopes to achieve a 25-years season.

HVS Williams (Newlands 1960¹) is currently playing Justin Elliott in The Archers on Radio 4.

KR Hindell (Moretons 1947³) wrote the play Dead or Alive, performed at the Theatro Technis in London from 15–26 May. Written to mark the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Act, the drama takes place in the womb of a woman who is pregnant with twins and who is pondering an abortion. She insists, despite passionate opposition from the putative father and the boy embryo, that she has an absolute right to terminate her pregnancy. A witty, poignant, feminist play written by a man.

PFB Tatham MBE (The Knoll 1948²) was awarded an MBE for services to the Mole valley Community.

JCR Dennis OBE (Bradbys 1955³) was awarded an OBE in HM The Queen’s new year’s Honours list for services to the fire fighting industry.

DB Buik MBE (Elmfield 1957³) retired from his post as Chief Executive of Panmure Gordon after three and a half years.

RF Foster RP (Druries 1958³) was elected President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in May 2017.

TB Palmer-Benson (Moretons 1958²) lives in northeastern vermont, near the Quebec border. His activities at the age of 73 include website development, sailing, and editing wedding videos in new England.

CR Curwen CVO OBE (Druries 1959²) was appointed as an extra equerry to HM The Queen in May 2017.

JG Tregoning (The Grove 1960²) retired as Chairman of Oundle School in July 2017, having served as a Governor for 15 years.

He was appointed Chairman of Halo Global Asset Management Limited in January 2017.

RB Packard MD FRCS FRCOphth (The Head Master's 1960²) was the honoured guest of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery at their annual meeting in April, which took place in Washington DC. He gave an address at the opening ceremony. ASCRS is the largest society in the USA dealing with surgery of the front of the eye.

DMC Walker (Newlands 1961¹) is Director of the Queen's University School of Policy Studies.

Following three decades as a clinical consultant, Dr Walker was appointed dean of the medical school and became involved in advising government on health policy issues, chairing commissions on SARS and the aging population.

RNP Hadow (The Park 1975³) led a pioneering voyage of exploration, Arctic Mission, into the Central Arctic Ocean in summer 2017. it involved sailing two 50’ sea-ice specialist yachts carrying marine scientists, film-makers and photographers into the north Pole’s international waters. in becoming the first vessels to do so without the use of icebreakers, the expedition demonstrated the extent of recent summer sea-ice loss, and consequently the accessibility of these previously frozen waters to commercial shipping, fishing, tourism and mineral extraction.

Arctic Mission expeditions will operate each year until 2032 to gather scientific information that will inform international policy-makers about the optimum conservation approach and engage the public in understanding more about the environmental and human threats to wildlife.

Pen is now director of the 90˚north Unit, a not-for-profit advocacy organisation working with the United nations to secure the world's largest marine reserve around the north Pole in order to protect its threatened floating ice-reef ecosystem and associated wildlife. 90northunit.com He is also the OH Adventurers president and is encouraging active adventurers, eccentric pioneers or armchair explorers to contact Hon. Treasurer John Macpherson, john@ljmacpherson.co.uk or visit the OH Adventurers page on ohconnect.org.uk to sign up.

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JAV Townsend DL (The Park 1961³) retired as Chairman of Governors of Cranleigh School in December 2016 after 11 years in the post. He was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey in February 2017.

MGC Toller (Druries 1964²) is helping the new national Horseracing Museum in newmarket as part-time Finance Director.

Lt Col JRD Kaye JP DL (The Grove 1964³) has been appointed Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant of Her Majesty's Bodyguard of The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.

TPF Robarts (The Grove 19661) is founder and CEO of Code Encryption Ltd and Seven Day Doctor and has started a new blog, crisismappers.net HR Dundas (The Head Master’s 1966³) has been practising as an international Arbitrator, Mediator and Expert Determiner since 1998. He is one of only two living people who have been both President of the Chartered institute of Arbitrators (2007) and Master of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators (2011-12). He is also Hon. vP of the Scottish Arbitration Centre, and Chairman, Advisory Board, Chinese-European Arbitration Centre (Hamburg).

MJ Farr (Elmfield 1966³) continues his translation, from the original French, of all 24 books making up Hergé's Adventures of Tintin for the new digital edition. in the past year he has also opened new Tintin exhibitions in Hong kong and Odense, Denmark.

The Lord Rotherwick (Druries 1967³) built a vans Aircraft – Rv-8 and won an award from the Light Aircraft Association for Best kit Built in 2015.

The Revd Dr Nicholas Cranfield FSA (Elmfield 1969²) was installed as an honorary canon in Southwark Cathedral on 1 October 2017 and elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2007. Last year, he was voted back on to the executive board of the UnESCO organisation AiCA Uk, the British Section of the international Association of Art Critics.

1970s Prince Nicholas Obolensky (Druries 1970¹) formed a new Uk company, working internationally, based on his book Complex Adaptive Leadership – Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty.

CJL Paul (West Acre 1970³) and his wife Lori have completed the renovation of their 15th century home, set within the ancient stone walls that surround the pretty historic medieval town of Spoleto in Umbria. They have now opened their doors to visitors at their boutique guest house and they are looking forward to welcoming OHs with their families and friends at Palazzo Sant’Angelo under the warm italian sun. palazzosantangelospoleto@gmail.com

Clockwise from top left: SP Pollock, HR Dundas, RB Packard, CJL Paul, JMC Plane

RG Drax MP (Elmfield 1971²) was re-elected as the MP for South Dorset in the 2017 General Election.

MR Merer (West Acre 1971³) was approached by the Bruton Trust to conceive and design a development that would explore progressive ideas to respond to the national need for new housing. The project started with extensive research, meticulously recording the fabric and ecology of the place, so that the finished development of 68 houses would have its own identity. Work started on site in February this year. Mark has also been invited by the GAA Foundation to exhibit at the European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora, at this year’s venice Biennale.

Dr EPR Currie (Bradbys 1972³) has joined the pharmaceutical partnership TranScrip Partners LLP. He remains based in Basel, Switzerland.

CAM Florman (Newlands 1972³) completed his term as a Trustee for the BBC Trust and his time as Trustee for England. He has set up a new advisory firm, Time Partners, specialising in the private equity industry. He co-founded B (Corps) Uk where he is Hon. President. He has also stepped down as Chairman of the Centre for Social Justice after a term of six years where, amongst other things, he worked on the Uk’s Modern Slavery Bill. He has three daughters, now all in their 20s.

ADW Fothergill (Moretons 1973²) was honoured with the BBC Trustees Award at the 2017 Grierson British Documentary Awards for his work in natural history film-making.

JCP Herbert (West Acre 1973²) retired from airline flying in 2017 and is now working part time as a flying instructor. He has a vans Rv-8 aircraft which he built from a kit and hopes to fly it the Scilly isles this summer on an OH Aviation Club trip.

The Revd CJA Johnston (The Head Master's 1973³) has been ordained in the Church of England and is now the Assistant Curate for St Matthew's Church, Westminster.

MZ Lewczynski (The Grove 1973³) has written and released his debut single at the age of 57.

Called Football is Sex, it is performed by Drug Free Collective. it is an unusual mixture of hip-hop, a pop chorus and retro electric guitar solos.

SP Pollock (Elmfield 1974¹) has been made Director of Ceremonies of The Priory of England and The islands of The Most venerable Order of The Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

Professor JMC Plane PhD (The Knoll 1975¹) is currently Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Leeds. in April 2017, he was awarded the vilhelm Bjerknes medal for distinguished work in the atmospheric sciences

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Clockwise from left: REC Power, MG Gallagher, RC Patrick, GM Fox, DCH Webb

by the European Geosciences Union at its annual meeting in vienna. in December, he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union for exceptional contributions to space science.

PJG Aldous MP (The Knoll 1975¹) was re-elected as the MP for Waveney in the 2017 General Election.

CW Pinckney (The Head Master's 1976³) established two new ventures in 2017. The Woodcock Trust was formed to promote the conservation of this little bird and promote how we may plant and manage special undisturbed habitat to help numbers recover – thewoodcocktrust.co.uk. He is also co-founder and CEO of Pinckneys Gin, a company specialising in creating gin in a sustainable and conscientious manner. Pinckneys Gin supports The Woodcock Trust by donating 50p from every 70cl bottle of two of its gins. pinckneysgin.co.uk RC Patrick (The Park 1976³) has revived his great-great grandfather's Scotch whisky business. James Eadie was a successful brewer and Scotch whisky blender who left school in 1841, aged 14. Tasting one of the last remaining bottles from the 1940s and having discovered Eadie's whisky ledgers, Rupert decided to bring the brand back to life in 2017. He used the same whiskies in the blend as his ancestor did 150 years ago. jameseadie.co.uk Major WJ Tower MBE (Elmfield 1977³) was awarded an MBE in HM The Queen's Birthday Honours list 2017.

EW Bagnall (West Acre 1978¹) was elected a Fellow of the Royal institution of Chartered

Surveyors. He has taken part in all five RideLondon 100 events and has raised substantial donations for various charities.

GT Opperman MP (The Grove 1978³) was re-elected as the MP for Hexham in the 2017 General Election and was chosen as Pensions Minister.

CTG Williams MA, ADIP (Rendalls 1979³) is chairman and co-owner of the Aspace Children's Furniture brand. The Aspace team received the Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award 2018. aspace.co.uk

1980s GM Fox (The Knoll 1981¹) recently released a new feature documentary Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's in cinemas throughout the Uk before its BBC transmission. it adds to his many films about great artists for which he has won BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards. He recently exhibited his own moving paintings alongside works by JMW Turner in a major exhibition, Legacies: Turner and contemporary artists, at Walsall new Art Gallery. His three-screen work entitled Staffa, performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, featured at the Edinburgh international Festival in 2017.

He now has three young daughters and was recently appointed a Governor of the British Film institute and won the inyathelo Award for international Philanthropy for improving living conditions in khayelitsha in Cape Town.

MG Gallagher (The Head Master's 1981³) completed a round-the-world record flight.

Matthew and fellow pilot Peter Wilson are the first people to fly an equatorial antipodal circumnavigation in a Robinson R66 helicopter.

The journey started from and ended at Booker Airfield in Wycombe. Over 122 days, they landed in 42 countries or states, five continents and on an iceberg. The antipodes were located

in Palembang, indonesia, and neiva, Columbia.

The trip was in aid of the charities Save the Children and Motivation and to help raise awareness for a better planet through sustainable development.

The Hon Andrew Butler QC (The Knoll 1981³) was appointed to the Queen's Counsel in 2018.

PO Rarden MBE (The Head Master's 1981³) was commissioned into General Service Corps from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on Professionally Qualified Officer (Reserve) Course PQO 172 on 10 June 2017. He also continues to serve as a T/Special Chief inspector with the City of London Police.

CR Larizadeh QC (The Knoll 1981³) has been appointed as vice Chair of the Family Law Bar Association. He will be responsible for family law reforms and initiatives across England and Wales for the next two years.

He has also been appointed to the Qualifying Sessions Committee of the Honourable Society of the inner Temple in charge of the education programme of the inn.

AC Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 1982³) is owner of the The king's Head inn in the Cotswolds, which has been named Pub of the year in The Good Pub Guide 2018.

PSM Bolton (The Head Master’s 1984¹) launched his second business, Exhibition Collections, supplying bespoke gifts to museums and galleries. 2017 also saw him celebrate 20 years of training in Japanese martial arts with his first grading in Shindo Muso Ryu Jojutsu.

GF Chandler (The Park 1985²) lives in Hastings and works as a volunteer at the local Community Centre and is a keen chess player and saxophone player.

BJW Samuelson (Newlands 1985²) has added to his list of dubious accomplishments by leading the team that used an unsuspecting Porsche SUv to break a world record by pulling

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Clockwise from top left: MA and PA Mosimann, QSJG Baker, SP Barabas, AG Barabas, TEL Heelis, BJW Samuelson

an advisor/investor in T.R. ventures Limited, an LED lighting specialist.

SP Barabas (Newlands 1986³) runs several veterinary and medical companies involved in new and innovative technologies.

a 285 tonne Airbus A380. He has also hired two music industry tour buses, complete with chrome poles to assist with their passengers' dancing, as part of a manufacturer project to retrace a Le Mans race distance on the map of Europe in under three days.

AHM Wade MRICS (The Head Master's 1985³) set up Sharow Capital in 2014 with prep school friend Guy Speir. They are a boutique property investment manager in Central Europe. Angus has three children, one of whom has recently secured a place in The Head Master’s for 2019. in his spare time, he likes shooting and fishing with his OH friends. He has also taken up hunting after 25 years out of the saddle.

NA Wilson (Bradbys 1985³) became Manager of Dealer network Development & Strategy at Porsche Cars Great Britain Limited in november 2017.

REC Power (The Head Master's 1986¹) has opened his largest venture to date. Sophie's Soho is a cocktail bar and steakhouse within two minutes of Piccadilly Circus. The new restaurant has a live fire pit where whole joints of beef are cooked and, in the basement, there is a speakeasy bar named after famous boxing impresario Jack Solomons. sophiessteakhouse.com JHP Barabas (The Head Master’s 1986³) retired from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and is now dividing his time between running Cape Town kite Club, a kitesurfing lodge in South Africa, doing ad hoc legal consulting and acting as

SM Guillebaud MBE (Newlands 1986³) and his wife Elizabeth were awarded MBEs in HM The Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2017 for services to development in Burundi.

CW Tan (The Knoll 1986³) has been appointed Co-Head of Asia Pacific Private Equity at Aberdeen Standard investments.

AC Doobay (Rendalls 1987³) has set up Boutique Law LLP dealing with criminal and regulatory matters focusing on business crime and extradition. Anand has been involved in high-profile and politically sensitive investigations and prosecutions in over 50 countries.

A de Cadenet (Druries 1987³) presented an exhibition, Money in the Eyes, in May and June 2017 at the FAB gallery in Santa Monica, USA. The exhibition calls attention to society's obsession with material wealth and explores the relationship between wealth and the spiritual dimension in art.

PA Mosimann (Bradbys 1988³) and MA Mosimann (Bradbys 1990³) were official caterers at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. They were based in South korea for four months to set up and cater for three national Olympic Committees: America, Canada and Switzerland; four of the the Olympic Partner Programme sponsors; and for the iOC Presidential Dinner with 17 heads of state for the opening of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. They catered for around for 5,000 guests a day over the course of 18 days.

They also had the honour of catering for the international Paralympic Committee during the Paralympic Games.

QJSG Baker (Moretons 1989³) qualified to represent the Great Britain team in the Standard Distance iTU Triathlon World Championships (40-44 age-group) in Rotterdam in September 2017.

TEL Heelis (Rendalls 1989³) is the founder of Eventopedia Media and has won contracts with hotels like Hyatt, intercontinental and Hilton in the Uk and the US. AW Eliott Lockhart (The Park 1989³) set up a company, Outdoor Cleghorn, and ran their first holiday camps for primary-aged children in 2017. Girls and boys, covered in mud and water, chased each other through the woods, built dens and dams, splashed in streams and then toasted marshmallows and drank hot chocolate before heading home, often returning for more the next day. On the back of this, Alex was invited to deliver a talk at TEDxBasel on the subject of play. He achieved all of this on top of his day job as a primary school teacher in the west of Edinburgh.

AG Barabas (Newlands 1989³) was recently elected to the overseas council of the British Society of Surgery for the Hand (BSSH). This is a charitable division of the society whose aim is to develop the subspecialty of hand surgery throughout the developing world. Anthony’s first mission was to Sudan in December 2017. During this mission the team ran educational courses and practicals in hand surgery, and Anthony was asked to be the external examiner for the Sudanese plastic surgery finals exam, in which Sudan's first female plastic surgeon qualified. in May, he will be leading a mission to Myanmar.

HJW Tregoning (The Grove 1989³) is the Managing Partner of Tregoning Property, which specialises in investments, rentals and sales of property in the UAE.

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Opposite, clockwise from top left: HEL Power and A Khan, CES Allen, HI Pesch, OPE Curry, JRL Cottingham, EGJ Boost and FRH Brunt.

This page, from left: DD Namdar, MM Stewart

1990s BTC Cumberbatch CBE (The Park 1990³) starred in the BBC drama and adaptation of ian McEwan's Whitbread Prize-winning novel The Child in Time, and stars in the Marvel Studios movie Avengers: Infinity War. MM Singer (Moretons 1990³) was a catalyst for the partnership between Parsons School of Design, where he is vice chairman, and Care and Wear in creating a new kimonoinspired hospital gown.

GR Schaad-Jackson (The Park 1991³) has a family business with his sister victoria, Sissi Fabulous Food. sissi.cc.

MM Stewart (The Head Master's 1991³) is a film producer based in Los Angeles and last year produced Escape Plan 2 and Escape Plan 3 with Sylvester Stallone; Aftermath with Arnold Schwarzenegger; Gotti with John Travolta; Inconceivable with nicolas Cage; and Acts of Violence with Bruce Willis.

HJ de C Prideaux (Bradbys 1992³) runs his own interior design business. He is also Chairman of Squash at The Hurlingham Club and squash fixtures secretary for the Jesters Club.

JCM Coller (The Knoll 1993³) has been made Director of Development at award-winning television production company Twofour. He is married with two young children.

HRS Montgomery (Newlands 1996³) has been appointed Head of Culture at the Daily Telegraph.

AM Chopra (Newlands 1997³) has been named Head of Private Capital at investec Bank plc. Arjun's team focuses on providing entrepreneurial capital solutions for profitable owner-managed businesses and high net worth clients.

JRL Cottingham (The Head Master's 1997³) won last year’s Tour Auto, which is an historic five-day intense rally across France. He and a friend completed the rally in an original Ford GT40. They won 12 out of 15 special stages and not only won the historic section (pre1966 cars) of the rally but the overall Rally too, beating all the later cars in the class of cars up to 1973.

S Datta (Bradbys 1997³) performed at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, alongside Talvin Singh OBE and members of the City of London Sinfonia in May 2017.

EGJ Boost (Bradbys 1998³) and his wife Jemima founded luxury men's swimwear brand L'Étale. letale.co.uk.

FRH Brunt (The Head Master’s 1999³) was on the Organising Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and is now working for the Uk Government Department for international Development (DFiD).

DHL Webb (Bradbys 1994³) heads up Orbis Expeditions, a bespoke expedition company specialising in tailor-made expeditions to Africa for schools, universities, charities and corporate groups. orbis-expeditions.com

Dr OL Duke (Newlands 1999³) presented DIY Diagnosis: Are we becoming a nation of cyberchondriacs? on iTv in January 2018.

LCR Smith FRCVS (West Acre 1995³) has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship of the Royal College of veterinary Surgeons (RCvS). Lewis’ Diploma of Fellowship has been awarded for the production of a thesis titled ‘The Use of intrasynovial Corticosteroids in Equine Thoroughbred Race Horses: Analysis of safety, efficacy and racing performance’. One of the chapters of the thesis has recently been accepted for publication in Equine Veterinary Journal. This study is the largest to date examining fractures in racehorses following intrasynovial medication.

S-DR Liddle (Moretons 1999³) is Regional Director for the Middle East at the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, one of the Prince of Wales's charities, working to spur post-conflict reconstruction and development through cultural heritage and artisan work. His work is primarily focused in Afghanistan and Jordan.

He is also a member of the Liberal Democrats' executive committee for the Borough of Lambeth.

AJ Ibing (The Knoll 1999³) has started a beekeeping business.

2000s DDH Namdar (The Knoll 2000³) who is Group Cigar Sommelier of the Birley group and Director of Marks Club, London, was crowned the 2018 World Habanosommelier Champion.

HI Pesch (The Head Master's 2001³) and his family have launched their property business, Living Apulia, in southern italy. They offer Apulia's most selective properties for rent, sale and development. They are working hard to expand the business and openly send an invitation for OHs to visit them. livingapulia.com A Khan (Moretons 2001³) passed out of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as a Second Lieutenant into the British Army.

CES Allen (The Head Master's 2001³) graduated with a first in Mechanical Engineering from Loughborough University in 2011 and moved into the automotive sector, working in test and development roles for Aston Martin. Following a six-month sabbatical to travel across various countries in the southern hemisphere, he has returned to Aston Martin as Lead Engineer for the DB4 GT Heritage Continuation Project.

SMD Fane (The Knoll 2002³), the automotive youTuber, is featured in the new look Formula 1 Tv adverts for this 2018 season.

SA Northeast (The Head Master's 2003³) signed for Hampshire in February 2018, having scored more than 8,000 first-class runs for kent since making his debut in 2007.

OPE Curry (Rendalls 2004³) took part in the 2017-18 Clipper Race, raising over £5,000 for the charity Operation Smile. The Clipper Race is a round-the-world sailing race involving 12 boats and comprising eight legs. He sailed as part of the Sanya Serenity Coast crew from Punta del Este in Uruguay to Cape Town and then onto Perth in Australia. He was at sea for over six weeks, crossing the South Atlantic and then the notorious Southern Ocean.

ARN Ross (The Knoll 2005³) was invited to present his research at the Fifth international Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (iMEBESS) convened by the University of Oxford in Florence in May 2018.

He presented his findings on how Twitter

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can be used to manipulate news and consumers’ perceptions of public opinion on political issues.

BSL Taylor (Druries 2005³) WJ Dearman (Druries 2005³) JZL Pan (Druries 2005³) and ATL Taylor (The Head Master's 2007³) competed in the Coeur Blanc Challenge to raise money for St Thomas' Hospital. The challenege requires the team of skiers to complete a full journey on every ski lift in the Meribel valley in a single day.

That is 52 ski lifts (one every nine minutes) and requires non-stop fast skiing for approximately eight hours – the only ‘relief’ being the ski lift rides. The team chooses their own route but in order to accomplish this challenge they will have to ski a descent of over 15,000 metres – just short of two Mount Everests!

BH Williams (The Head Master’s 2006³) worked as the assistant cameraman on the film The Silent Child, which won an Oscar in the Short Live Action Film category. The film had a very small crew of just 13 and a cast of seven. it was produced on a small budget which was crowd funded and made for under £10,000. Most of the crew did the work for no money, including Bryn.

HEL Power (The Park 2007³) passed out of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and has joined the Royal Welsh Regiment.

AHP Olesen (Rendalls 2008³) started a company, Babylon, in his last year at the

University of virginia in America and it has been going incredibly well. The company is quickly becoming an industry leader in automated hydroponic farming. The technology has the potential to revolutionise vertical farming. They have just raised $500,000 and are on track to do a Series A of $5m+ in 12 months. babylonmicrofarms.com MA Fosh (Bradbys 2008³) joined Radio Tyneside in 2016 and won Best newcomer of the year at the Hospital Broadcasting Association national Radio Awards in March.

HAL Glover (Rendalls 2009³) won a bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast as part of Team England Men Rugby Sevens, defeating South Africa 21-14 after overturning a 14-point deficit to achieve a superb second-half comeback.

EP McBarnet (Bradbys 2009³) served as President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in the Michaelmas Term 2017, along with N Koshikov (West Acre 2009³), who was President of the Oxford Union in the Hilary Term 2017. Old Harrovians of the 2009³ intake have thus held the presidencies of both of Oxford's major political societies.

S Lee (The Park 2009³) has published his recent research from the Professor Fernando Bresme group at imperial College London in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Royal Society of Chemistry).

2010s ES McGovern (The Knoll 2010³) and JW Lane (The Park 2010³) and their production company indigo Theatre Productions have been executive producers on an exciting new short film, Elle, which has been selected to feature as part of the Short Film Catalogue at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

Z Ali (West Acre 2011³) released his first official single on iTunes and every other major music platform. it is a tropical house track called Come back!

NAD Sheaf (West Acre 2012³) took part in the Great Mongol Rally 2017 as part of a team of five. The rally covers 10,000 miles across the mountains, desert and steppe of Europe and Asia each summer and teams may only enter with a tiny 1000cc car that has been bought from a scrapyard. nick is believed to be the youngest participant in the 2017 rally.

TR Thacker (Rendalls 2015³) will be taking a play he has directed, Pomona (Alistair McDowall's surreal psychological thriller), to the Edinburgh Fringe in summer 2018.

Below, clockwise from top left: NAD Sheaf, BSL Taylor, WJ Dearman, JZL Pan and BSL Taylor, and BH Williams

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OH Books As so many of you are writing books, we have introduced a section dedicated to new releases by Old Harrovians.

There is something for everyone, from books for children to travel writing, and biographies to explosive thrillers.

CJF Arnander (Moretons 1946³) has co-written Betrayed Ally – China in the Great War with noted Chinese scholar Dr Frances Wood. it is an accessible and authoritative account of China's role in the Great War and an assessment of its national and international significance.

MS Stone (Moretons 1957²) has written a book series, The Dog Prime Minister, which follows the tales of Terrence the terrier.

Julian Fellowes’ review described it as ‘interesting, funny and curiously topical’.

PM Jago (Moretons 1960²) published his fourth political biography Robin Butler: At the Heart of Power from Heath to Blair (Biteback Publishing). it is about fellow OH, FER (Robin) Butler (Druries 1951³) and his distinguished career in the Civil Service.

TBL Parker (West Acre 1947³) has written his fourth book, A Question of Identity. it is the true story of James (West Acre 1956²) and Tim Parker's extraordinary family, who survived two world wars.

Hugh Goodacre (Bradbys 1960²) has written The Economic Thought of William Petty: Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics. The book explores the idea that much of the theory and methodology used in today’s economics discipline has its roots in the writings of William Petty (1623–1687) and his contemporaries.

MA Carroll (Newlands 1949²) has published Greece: A Literary Guide for Travellers.

The words of literary titans in the West echo through the centuries. Their luminous portraits of Greece, poignant, provocative and always entertaining, enrich our own experiences of the country and shed light on a dramatic and tragic past.

PRW Hargreaves (Newlands 1954³) published A Century of Motoring Memories, describing his own and his grandfather's motoring adventures, including a trip from Peking to Paris.

CAG Becker (Bradbys 1960³) has written Murder At Royal William Yard. This gripping crime thriller is set against the backdrop of Plymouth, the Ocean City, in the winter of 2015.

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The Earl of Portland, TCRN Bentinck (Moretons 1966³) published his autobiography Being David Archer – And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living. With a chapter about Harrow, this is not just for Archers fans but is a funny and moving account of the life of a jobbing actor.

Lt Col AWM Gardiner (Rendalls 1967¹) has written the explosive thriller The Good Muslim under the pen name Alex Anderson.

He wrote the book following a military career with the Royal Green Jackets and 22 SAS before leaving the British army to command a regiment of Omani Special Forces.

AEJ Webster (Bradbys 1969¹) has written Paris in Springtime: An Episode. in describing his own psychotic breakdown, Andrew Webster has pulled off the difficult trick of being entertaining but at the same time profoundly serious.

DC Lazarus (Moretons 1973³) has written Oscar in New York, a book for children aged 5 to 7.

The book describes the adventures of a an aeroplane called Oscar in the Big Apple.

HC Bucknall (West Acre 1979¹) continued his ad hoc series of journeys across Europe, spending the last year travelling over 4,500 miles along the length and breadth of the British isles for his new book A Road For All Seasons, to be published in Spring 2019.

RJ Fairer-Smith (Newlands 1979³) is releasing his new book, Marc Jacobs Unseen, in September 2018. This is his third monograph on fashion designers, following Alexander McQueen Unseen and John Galliano Unseen and features photographs shot for American Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elle.

WJ Mitchell (Rendalls 1984³) has recently combined his work as an art dealer in the family business, John Mitchell Fine Paintings, with his love of mountaineering, to write and publish a book, Loppé – Peintre-alpiniste, about the extraordinary French artist, Gabriel Loppé (1825-1913).

APM McLeod (Moretons 1990³) has written GT – A Fly Fisher's Guide to Giant Trevally, an all-encompassing book that covers everything you might need to know about this species and trying to catch them on a fly rod.

GMP Stagg (The Park 2001³) has written The Crossway, an account of his journey from Canterbury to Jerusalem, following the medieval pilgrim path. He began the journey after suffering mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him, and the story lays bare his struggle to escape the past and walk towards recovery.

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Marriages

HLG Taylor (Druries 1999³) and Miss Camilla Mackintosh: August 2017

JE Kidd (West Acre 1987³) and Rosie, a daughter, Mia: on 4 August 2017

RNP Hadow (The Park 1975³) and Miss venetia Cooper: 6 October 2017

TRL Hardy (The Grove 2000³) and Miss izzy Hexter: August 2017

CJG Bendon (Druries 1989³) and Emma, a daughter, Lula Mary Adrienne: April 2017

BWT Weihman (Rendalls 1985³) and Miss Peggy Stephan: 4 August 2017

JAB Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 2000³) and Miss Emma McDowell: January 2018

AJG Seymour (The Grove 1987³) and Miss Sara Ross: 13 May 2017

CT Pelham (Elmfield 2000³) and Miss Amy MacThomas: January 2018

CHW Elgood (Bradbys 1989³) and Judith, a daughter, iona Zoë Clementine Elgood: on 13 June 2017

JR Michell (Moretons 1991³) and Miss Heather Cowan: 4 August 2017

SE Sangster (The Knoll 2000³) and Miss Madeleine Crewe-Read: December 2017

N Thamavaranukup (Newlands 1994³) and Miss kim Chongsatitwatana: October 2017

NCA Watson (The Head Master's 2000³) and Miss Charlotte Farmer-Day: October 2017

EHW Macfarlane (The Park 1995³) and Miss Alice Cooper: 21 July 2017

CA van Straubenzee (Elmfield 2001³) and Miss Daisy Jenks: December 2017

KA Gray (Moretons 1995³) and Miss Jana Jegorkinova: 8 July 2017

PD Boyle (Druries 2002³) and Miss Elizabeth Payne: Summer 2017

EJH Hasell McCosh (Bradbys 1996³) and Miss Johanna neumann: 3 June 2017

SMK Cater (Rendalls 2002³) and Miss katherine Wilson: June 2017

CMM Carello (The Head Master's 2000³) and Miss Alexandra Edwards: July 2017

HE Forman Hardy (Druries 2002³) and Miss Sarah Fleming: August 2017

AHE Torstenson (The Grove 2000³) and Miss Emma Hurst: 18 november 2017

JR Murray (Newlands 2002³) and Miss Lucy Elizabeth Powell: 16 December 2017

RJE Cadbury (Rendalls 2000³) and Miss Antonia kenning: 2 December 2017

ERG Pratt (Rendalls 2002³) and Miss Constance Mainwaring-Burton: June 2017

CES Allen (The Head Master's 2001³) and Dr Paige Burrows: September 2016

AHC Trower (Elmfield 2002³) and Miss Sasha Roupell: november 2017

CASM Puckler (The Grove 2001³) and Miss Theresa Saetzler: 14 August 2016

DJG Davis (Moretons 2003³) and Miss Claire Whipp: March 2017

JH Kwon (Newlands 2005³) and Miss yujin Lee: 23 December 2017

EA Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 2003³) and Miss Olivia Eadie: October 2017 RML Taylor (The Head Master's 2003³) and Miss Joanna Calver: January 2018

Engagements EJD Tucker (Bradbys 1984³) and Miss vanessa Lindsay: February 2018 MAS Jameson (The Grove 1993³) and Miss Hattie Pattisson: January 2018 JJ Russell (The Park 1994³) and Miss Georgina Lee: July 2017 DR Hinckley (West Acre 1995³) and Miss Lucy Halford: January 2018 AR Field-Johnson (Druries 1998³) and Miss Zoe Stoker: December 2017 AA Foale (Moretons 1998³) and Miss Sarah Clark: December 2017

GR Schaad-Jackson (The Park 1991³) and Laura, a daughter, Sophia Maria: December 2017 CWV Tweddle (Elmfield 1991³) and Ruth, a son, Alfred Henry vartan: on 28 April 2017 CAM Boileau (Rendalls 1992³) and Emily, a son, Walter: on 30 november 2017 CNW Burdett (Newlands 1992³) and Teresa, a son, Charles William Francis: on 23 September 2017 ANL Cox (The Head Master's 1992³) and Joanna, a son, Alexander James Lyon: on 1 April 2017 PG Harrison (Rendalls 1992³) and Sophie, a daughter, Araminta Daisy: on 22 September 2017 JAR Freeman (Newlands 1993³) and Louisa, a son, Archie: on 22 June 2017 JR Hanbury (The Grove 1993³) and Carina, a daughter, Lara Rose Ariana: on 22 February 2018 GJE Crowther (The Knoll 1994³) and Samantha, twin daughters Heidi nicola Margaret and Flora Jessica Mary: on 31 October 2017

RV El-Khazen (The Knoll 2004³) and Miss Charity Haines: July 2017

BIA Maclean (Rendalls 1994³) and Daisy, a son, Geordie Finch: on 5 February 2018

GJ Woodhouse (The Grove 2004³) and Miss Celia McCorquodale: november 2017

Lord Ramsay (Elmfield 1994³) and kaitlin, a son, William Fox: on 25 August 2017

AT Lindsay (The Park 2005³) and Miss Allison Corbat: november 2017

JD Rosemont (West Acre 1994³) and Lucy, a daughter, Polly Catherine: on 6 December 2017

AM Poole (Bradbys 2005³) and Miss Paige McGahey: January 2018

MH Sankey (The Park 1994³) and Helen, a daughter, isabel Joanna: on 7 February 2018

Marquess of Blandford (The Grove 2006³) and Miss Camilla Thorp: December 2017

GJR Scott (The Head Master's 1994³) and Lucy, a daughter, Annabel Clare Doveston Scott: on 19 January 2018

SG Hardy (Druries 2008³) and Miss Sarah Holdsworth: May 2017

FE Conway (The Park 1999³) and Miss Jennifer Thiel: August 2017

Births

HWJ Dickinson (Elmfield 1999³) and Miss Rose Gorst: December 2017

JRM Roberts (Newlands 1977³) and Agnieska, a daughter, Poppy Anastasia kasia: on 21 August 2017

AJ Ibing MA (The Knoll 1999³) and Miss nora Müller: 29 December 2017

RM Tilbrook (Rendalls 1990³) and Claire, a daughter, Emma Alice Claire: on 20 October 2017

HMM Turner (Druries 2003³) and Hon Millie Fitzherbert: January 2018

ECA Brown (The Head Master's 1999³) and Miss Cordelia kerr: november 2017

BJ Figgures-Wilson (Newlands 1999³) and Miss Claire Magorrian: January 2018

BAV Woolley (Elmfield 1989³) and Jael, a daughter, Leonora Alexandra Rose: on 24 May 2017

PSM Bolton (The Head Master's 1984¹) and Amy, a daughter, Aurelia Elizabeth Grace: on 22 June 2017

WJE Lace (The Knoll 1999³) and Miss Myriam karama: January 2018

JW Lewis (The Park 1986³) and Christine, twins, a son, Paul, and daughter, Amelia: on 3 October 2017

FG de D Richardson (Elmfield 1999³) and Miss Harriet McCann: December 2017

CW Tan (The Knoll 1986³) and Leonie, a daughter, Antonia Wenyi: on 4 July 2017

RPM Stanley (Newlands 1999³) and Miss Elisabeth (Lily) Frieda: August 2017

TR de la P Beresford (The Park 19873) and Amber, a son, Bernard Benjamin: on 16 December 2016

JMGS Warman (Newlands 1994³) and Susanna, a son, James Cecil Seager: on 26 December 2017 NCR Andjel (The Head Master's 1995³) and victoria, a son, Freddie: on 25 August 2017 GBD Armitage (Elmfield 1995³) and Michelle, a son, Hugo Benjamin Lex: on 4 February 2018 CE Savory (Moretons 1995³) and Lucy, a daughter, Willow Didie: on 14 December 2017 CVM Hoare (The Grove 1996³) and Rebecca, a son, Oliver Ashton Charles: on 5 April 2017 Dr SA Hurst MBBS (West Acre 1996³) and Laura, a daughter, islay Eve Elizabeth: on 27 June 2017 ES Seligman (Newlands 1996³) and Camilla, a daughter, Martha Ruby Hermione: on 22 May 2017

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Viscount Somerton (Elmfield 1996³) and Lucy, a son, Frederick Charles Edward Agar: on 26 February 2018 RJC Cunningham (Elmfield 1997³) and Sophie, a son, Archie Montague Clumie: on 2 July 2017 BT Dent (Elmfield 1997³) and Sophia, a son, William Patrick: on 11 november 2017 AM Lea-Cox (Druries 1997³) and Emily, a son, Edward Arthur: on 10 January 2018 WR Littlejohns (Druries 1997³) and Joanna, a son, George Leo: on 25 June 2017 A-HA Hleileh (Bradbys 1998¹) and Tara, a son, Ali Dhia Jaffar-Hleileh: on 27 november 2017 JA Barrington-Wells (Druries 1998³) and Lucy, a son, Rafferty James: on 17 March 2017

GRA Haslam (Druries 1998³) and Georgina, a daughter, Annie nell: on 24 January 2018 OPT Hutley (Newlands 1998³) and Melissa, a daughter, Cosima Daisy Manuela: on 1 June 2017 MS Marks (The Head Master's 1998³) and Jennifer, a daughter, Luciana Caroline Romy: on 15 January 2018 Dr OL Duke (Newlands 1999³) and Rachel, a daughter, Aurora Wren: on 11 April 2018 RAE Mann (Moretons 1999³) and Shirin, a daughter, Teleri Ashley: on 21 March 2017 JE Stafford Allen (The Head Master's 1999³) and Lucy, a son, Alfred Willis: on 2 January 2018 RPM Stanley (Newlands 1999³) and Lily, a daughter, Savannah Rose: on 4 March 2018

ARMY Herries (The Grove 2000³) and isobel, a daughter, Clementina Judeth Alexandra: on 5 February 2018 JWN Rundall (Rendalls 2000³) and Helen, a daughter, imogen Mary Angela: on 3 March 2018 Dr GL Foo (The Head Master's 2001¹) and Wen yi, a daughter, Ester The Hon Bertie Cayzer (Druries 2002³) and Allison, a son, Herbert Robin: on 13 October 2017 TC Batting (The Park 2003³) and Sophie, a son, Edward Matthew: on 17 May 2017 AR Long (West Acre 2004³) and Claudia yvette, a son, Alexander Ryoma: on 30 August 2017

Deaths Dr MW Cemlyn-Jones (Druries 1930³) 25 December 2017

RAL Baldwin (The Knoll 1948²) 14 July 2017

RGP Hollond (The Head Master's 1935²) 27 September 2017

EA Mews FRICS FAAV (Moretons 1948²) 29 July 2017

MGG Scott (West Acre 1935³) 27 February 2017

RS Fleming (The Park 1948³) 14 January 2018

FV Ellvers (The Grove 1936²) 9 December 2017

The Rt Hon Sir William Aldous (The Park 1949³) 17 March 2018

Lt Col AB Houstoun OBE MC DL JP (The Knoll 1936²) 16 December 2017

MJH Ford (The Head Master's 1949³) 11 February 2018

Captain R L Seaman (Moretons 1936²) 15 February 2018

DH Golby (The Grove 1951²) 14 April 2017

RSG Scott (West Acre and The Park 1937³) 1 July 2017

JN Upton (The Park 1951²) 1 September 2017

BH Farr (The Park and West Acre 1938¹) 20 May 2017

PS Szechenyi (West Acre 1952³) 1 november 2017

GAB Covell (Newlands, West Acre and Moretons 1938³) 7 May 2017

AT Taylor (Elmfield 1955²) 1 February 2018

Air Vice-Marshal RA Riseley-Prichard (The Knoll 1938³) October 2017

The Earl of Darnley (Druries 1955³) 18 June 2017

Major JFT Wheen (The Knoll 1938³) 26 April 2017

MJ Lintott (The Grove 1956³) 3 February 2018

RTA Cooper (Moretons 1940²) 13 October 2016

HW Prosser (West Acre 1957³) 17 February 2018

RD North (The Grove and Rendalls 1940²) 26 May 2017

PJ Bickmore-Dundas (Elmfield 1958²) 25 June 2017

Lt Col EI Wirgman (Bradbys 1941¹) 15 October 2017

WB Sketchley (Newlands 1959²) 25 January 2018

CG Findlay (Elmfield 1942³) 10 October 2017

CAS Crawley (Druries 1960¹) 1 February 2018

PE Reynard DL (Elmfield 1942³) 5 november 2017

TJU Inglefield (West Acre 1960³) 27 February 2017

EGC Crawley (Elmfield 1943²) 16 november 2017

GT Harrap (The Knoll 1961³) 22 April 2017

The Viscount Long CBE (The Head Master's 1943²) 13 June 2017

SF Thomas (The Head Master's 1965¹) 12 Fenruary 2018

Dr AM Roe (The Head Master's 1944¹) 11 January 2017

AMB Snowball (Elmfield 1966²) 7 December 2017

BH Harley (Druries 1944²) 8 May 2017

J Halliday (The Grove 1966³) 27 May 2017

JE Price (Bradbys and The Head Master's 1944²) 5 november 2017

JTF Butler (Rendalls 1967²) 24 november 2016

HG Lavington Evans (The Grove 1944³) 29 January 2018

Major CC Bucknall (Newlands 1968³) 23 December 2017

AJ Wingate (The Head Master's 1944³) 14 november 2017

JD Findlay (Elmfield 1972¹) 25 February 2018

MD Petch (Elmfield 1945³) 6 October 2017

NDA Lawton (Moretons 1976¹) 14 January 2018

JC McMullen (Bradbys 1946³) 28 March 2018

JC Robertson (Moretons 1977¹) 28 January 2018

JB Roberts (The Knoll 1946³) 7 July 2017

JF Macalpine-Leny (Rendalls 2005³) 3 January 2018

NBC Seligman (The Head Master's 1947²) 5 February 2018 Lord Alanbrooke (The Park 1947³) 10 January 2018

H AR ROW BE AkS

WJ Foster (The Head Master's 1947³) 15 July 2017

DA Fothergill (1959-1991) 30 January 2018

PDR Galway (Druries 1947³) 31 May 2016

JHW Morwood (1966-1996) 9 October 2017

RM Roberts (Newlands 1947³) 20 August 2017

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e creation of an Old Harrovian football club coincided with a certain Charles Alcock (pictured right) leaving Harrow in 1859. Alcock became a leading figure in football in that era; his finest achievement was persuading the Football Association in 1871 to establish a national knock-out competition, the FA Cup, based on the Harrow School House competition. e first final, in 1872, was won by the Wanderers, captained by Alcock and containing three other OHs. Harrow will always therefore have an association with the world’s premier cup competition.

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OHAFC OLD HARROVIAN ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB

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1859 to 1932 Association football was played at Harrow until 1927 when the Head Master, Cyril Norwood, replaced it with rugby. Norwood thought soccer had been ruined by professionalism, thus ‘for school purposes of character building, pride of place will come to be given to Rugby Football’. In 1902, Old Harrovians had been founder members of the Arthur Dunn Cup, a prestigious old boys’ competition dominated in the early years by Carthusians, Reptonians, and Malvernians. By 1932, following the change to rugby, the OHFC no longer had the playing resources to compete with these strong opponents and the club disbanded.

1963 to 2003 e club was re-established in 1963 as the OHAFC and the 1964 Easter tour to Etretat did much to promote the club’s credibility and to provide necessary momentum. Tours have taken place regularly ever since, mainly to continental Europe but also and most notably to Florida in 1981 and Argentina and Brazil in 2003. With the School not having any soccer pitches and so being unable to help, securing a permanent home ground throughout the ‘first’ 40 years following the club’s re-establishment proved extremely difficult and a number of venues featured along the way. In particular, the club has always been grateful to John Lyon School, Hampstead Cricket Club and Riverside Chiswick for their valued support in providing a home during the period up to the 1990s. From 1967, an annual dinner was established, which was a highlight of each season. e dinner continues, albeit on a biennial basis, and is always well supported by members and guests including School dignitaries and Upper Sixth boys.

Left, Head Master, Sir Cyril Norwood (1926-1934); above, OHAFC Club President, Andrew Butler QC (e Knoll 19813); below, OHAFC in Arthurian League action on the Philathletic Ground

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e club entered the Arthurian League in 1965 and re-entered the Arthur Dunn Cup the following year – a test of character, as opponents were all products of soccer-playing schools. A 2nd XI entered the league in 1966 and the club’s prospects were enhanced further when, in 1972, for the first time in 45 years, soccer was played at the School on an official basis for the last two weeks of the Easter term. By 1973, most of the OHAFC ‘founder’ members were running short of puff for league football and a veterans’ side was formed to satisfy their appetite for Sunday morning athletic and social activity. In 1977/78 came the Cinderella story that would give the club fresh momentum and which led to the formation of a 3rd XI. e 1st XI, unbeaten, won the Arthurian League Championship (Premier Division) and thus became the first non-soccer school to achieve this distinction. e 1st XI won the then newly formed Division 1 in 1983, 1985 and 2000, and the 2nd XI topped Division 3 in 1989. In 1983/84 the club enjoyed its best season to date in the Arthur Dunn Cup by reaching the semi-final, but would have to wait another 23 years before its inaugural appearance in the final. By 1984, football was being played at the School extensively throughout the Spring term and the club was benefiting from a regular flow of talented leavers. 1988 saw the introduction of the Jubilee Cup, a five-a-side competition in which boys from the School played alongside their Old Harrovian peers. is event, originally held in the Sports Hall, now takes the form of a five-team 11a-side tournament, the ‘FestiPhil’ on the Philathletic Ground where the club now also plays its home fixtures on Saturdays. e Veterans XI has played its matches at the Bank of England Sports Centre in Roehampton since 1991.

2004 to date e Millennium heralded the start of exciting times for the club and greater success in the Arthurian League and Arthur Dunn Cup. e School authorities had created a pitch on the Phil for exclusive use by the OHAFC, with changing rooms in the Richardson Pavilion. Club members responded by contributing a significant sum towards the construction of the all-weather pitch on East Side. A home ground at the School was a huge tonic and inspired our teams to greater heights of achievement. e 1st XI won the Championship in 2004 and 2010, and the Arthur Dunn Cup in 2007. e 2nd XI won Division 3 in 2008 and the League Cup in 2006 (despite being in Division 5 at the time) and again in 2011. e 3rd XI won Division 5 in 2008 and the club lifted the Derrick Moore Veterans Cup in 2012 and 2016. Off the field of play, successful dinners have been held at Stamford Bridge including the 150th anniversary celebration in 2009. e 160th will be held at the Hurlingham Club on Friday 1 March 2019. e future e club is now well established on the Phil where the facilities are the envy of visiting clubs. Two excellent pitches, with post-match hospitality in the Charles Alcock Pavilion, provide the perfect arena for Saturday football. e annual FestiPhil offers current Harrovians the chance to experience the opportunity that awaits them when they leave Harrow. e club welcomes OHs of all standards. For more information, contact the Hon. Secretary Harry Woolley and visit ohafc.com, which is considered to be one of the finest amateur sport websites. (woolleyhtf@hotmail.com)

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1978

Easter Tour to Etretat

1st XI League Champions

PM Beckwith (Elmfield 1958³), MDA Richardson (Elmfield 1957²), CJGA Jamieson (Druries 1958¹), PM Montague-Evans (e Park 1957³), RC Sheffield (Druries 1957³), DB Buik (Elmfield 1957³), RBH du Boulay (Newlands 1958¹), CR Williams (Elmfield 1957²), A de Grunwald [Tour Manager] (Rendalls 1958²), N Greenway [tour guest], RH Woolley (West Acre 1957³)

GM Stille (e Head Master’s 1971¹), RH Woolley [Captain] (West Acre 1957³), DR Baucher (e Head Master’s 1971³), WR Worthy (e Grove 1968¹), JM ompson (Newlands 1967³), CWB McClure (e Grove 1968¹), CW Hall (e Park 1967¹), MW Hall (e Park 1969¹), NB Hughes (e Grove 1967³), GR Bearman (Moretons 1960²), MJ Keenan (West Acre 1962³), CWA Bott (e Grove 1972³)

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2004

Easter Tour Buenos Aires and Rio

1st XI League Champions

RJ Verdin (Moretons 1976¹), Rob Webster [tour guest], NC Warner (e Head Master’s 1984³), J Wyn-Evans (e Head Master’s 1975¹), WR Worthy (e Grove 1968¹), TM Dalton (Newlands 1992³), DJC Lederman (Newlands 1988³), A Butler [Tour Manager] (e Knoll 1981³), RPR Hoffen (Rendalls 1988³), PM Molloy (e Park 1991³), QJSG Baker (Moretons 1989³), CWV Tweddle (Elmfield 1991³), EGH orn (Druries 1982¹)

PC Bourke (e Grove 1992³), J Wyn-Evans (e Head Master’s 1975¹), TM Dalton (Newlands 1992³), JP Frederick (e Head Master’s 1979³), WR Worthy (e Grove 1968¹), NC Warner (e Head Master’s 1984³), OCN Umenyilora (e Grove 1990³), JH Waugh (e Park 1987³), CWV Tweddle (Elmfield 1991³), DJC Lederman (Newlands 1988³), HMR Hoffen (Rendalls 1988³), QJSG Baker [Capt.] (Moretons 1989³), PM Molloy (e Park 1991³), RPR Hoffen (Rendalls 1990³)

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2011

1st XI Arthur Dunn Cup Winners

2nd XI League Cup Winners

PC Bourke (e Grove 1992³), TM Dalton (Newlands 1992³), EMN Martins (Elmfield 2001³), FRH Brunt (e Head Master’s 1999³), ACM Vargas (Moretons 1995³), RTE Higgs (e Grove 1993³), AC Fraysse (e Knoll 2001³), EN Poulter (Newlands 1995³), CWV Tweddle (Elmfield 1991³), JH Waugh (e Park, 1987³), NC Warner (e Head Master’s, 1984³), DJC Lederman (Newlands 1988³), QJSG Baker [Captain] (Moretons 1989³), PM Molloy (e Park 1991³), RPR Hoffen (Rendalls 1988³), HMR Hoffen (Rendalls 1990³)

JAB Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 2000³), AJBP Pritchard (West Acre 1998³), DCWG Stead (Elmfield 1998³), JH Waugh (e Park 1987³), SRL Maydon (Moretons 1998³), OOA Soyinka (Bradbys 1999³), A Amin (Newlands 2003³), TG Dunbar (e Park 1995³), K Amin (Newlands 2005³), JA Harder (Druries 1996³), AM Chopra [Captain] (Newlands 1997³), HTF Woolley (Moretons 1998³), EHO Arghebant (Newlands 1997³), PD Berry (Rendalls 1993³), JC Bone (Bradbys 2000³)

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OHAFC v e School On 29 February 2004, a friendly match involving players from the School and the OHAFC marked the official opening of the School’s astroturf facility, construction of which was aided by significant donations from members of the club. e then Head Master Barnaby Lenon, Harrow Development Trust Director (now CEO) Douglas Collins and several Harrow beaks were among the players and spectators.

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2012 FestiPhil On 15 September 2012, players from the School past and present participated in a tournament – ‘FestiPhil’ – to mark the official opening of the Charles Alcock Pavilion on the Philathetic Ground. Head Master Jim Hawkins addressed players and spectators and thanked members of the OHAFC for their collective contribution towards the construction cost of the pavilion.

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2018

Vets Cup Winners

3rd XI Division 5 (South) Winners

TM Dalton (Newlands 1992³), DSR Danos (Bradbys 1990³), NC Warner (e Head Master’s 1984³), RPR Hoffen (Rendalls 1988³), JJA Ingram (e Knoll 1991³), MCJ Baddeley (Elmfield 1974¹), CL Feather (West Acre 1975³), QJSG Baker (Moretons 1989³), DJC Lederman (Newlands 1988³), EGH orn (Druries 1982¹), PM Molloy (e Park 1991³), J Wyn-Evans [Captain] (e Head Master’s 1975¹), PD Berry (Rendalls 1993³), CWV Tweddle (Elmfield 1991³)

CC Ilogu (Druries 20043), CEN Owen-Edmunds (Druries 20083), OZ Gairard (Druries 20123), JE Awdry (Moretons 20123), KJ Barrett (Druries 2007³), CSJ Bick (Druries 20043), EM Callander (Moretons 20063 ), CW Barrett (Druries 20073), TMN Faber (Bradbys 20053), A J Fogarty (West Acre 2003³), H Janmo (Newlands 2004³), NB Kapoor (Bradbys 20043), AC Smith (Bradbys 20043), HJR Bick (Druries 20083)

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Listings BOOKS

Nick Compton (Druries 1999²), who recently retired from playing cricket for England and Middlesex and is now an aspiring photographer celebrating his Testimonial year, chooses his five favourite books.

I grew up with Winnie-the-Pooh because my father used to read e House at Pooh Corner to me and I remember the book always being at my bedside when I was a child. Winnie represented a very simple and happy figure to me and when I was given e Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff it immediately resonated with me. I love its simple yet grounding philosophy, which is even more relevant now that I am an adult.

It is an intriguing yet familiar story with a message promoting simplicity. e recognisable characters engaged me when I was younger, but its universal truisms resonate with me today.

Into in Air, Jon Krakauer’s first-hand account of climbing Mount Everest in an ultimately deadly attempt in 1996, is both thrilling and horrifying. As someone who has often agonised over becoming a top-class athlete, this harrowing tale has stuck with me since I read it as a youngster and it has served as a good, while obviously extreme, reminder never to undervalue patience and normality in the pursuit of fulfilling career perfection, as there can be a price to pay.

I have been incredibly fortunate to have been able to travel to many beautiful places during my career. One place that

had an immense effect on me was India.

Gregory David Roberts’ novel Shantaram transported me back to the warm, colourful and exciting country that so enthralled me. While it is the tale of a criminal on the run and obviously not something I have experience of, the novel made me recognise the human ability to metamorphose, adapt and learn new skills throughout life. As a young sportsman, you never really picture life beyond sport but, as you get older, you become aware of the brevity of a sports career. is book made me less fearful about what the future holds and pushed me to learn new skills and embrace new experiences, which will help me move forward in this next chapter of my life.

My mother is an artist and my father a journalist so I was invariably going to have an appetite for some art form or other. Mine turned out to be photography, a hobby I have been able to develop through travel. Susan Sontag’s seminal work On Photography made me think about the power of photography and how it documents our lives. As someone interested in pursuing photography further, this book has made me very aware of my responsibility behind the lens to the

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ETON V HARROW subject matter and the story.

Andre Agassi’s love-hate relationship with tennis and his pursuit of perfection, described in his autobiography Open, had all sorts of parallels with my own desire to succeed while constantly battling with my form and confidence in cricket. I found his honesty, as well as the insight the book gives into what makes an elite performer in a very singular and individual sport, fascinating. It was also liberating for me to realise that I wasn’t alone in my struggles as a professional sportsman. Sport at its toughest can be mundane and monotonous, repeating simple things over and over again. At its best, you feel emotions and a sense of achievement like no other. ere isn’t much in between.

AT LORD’S Bring your family and friends to watch the School take on the old foe

THE COmPTOn TESTImOnIAL

I have been fortunate enough to have had a long career in a sport I grew up being passionate about – ever since my father first put a bat in my hand. 2018 is my Testimonial year, celebrating a long time in the sport, as well as with my club Middlesex. I’m delighted to have been awarded this Testimonial year and hope to use it as a chance to pay tribute to the people who have supported me along my journey. I would like, in particular, to thank Harrow, where I was fortunate to receive a scholarship through Sir John Beckwith, which gave me the opportunity to follow a long-held ambition to play cricket in England. Incidentally, it would also be my grandfather Denis Compton’s 100th year and I intend to celebrate his centenary through a number of iconic events at Lord’s and at the Emirates. I would love to have OH support at these occasions. e main events are Indian cricket on 18 July, 26 September and 10 October.

For more information please see thecomptontestimonial.com or ohconnect.org.uk

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S O M E TH I N G A RT Y F O R TH E W E E KE N D

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&R R& NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND DU BL I N

Patrick Manley, CEO of Zurich Insurance plc, and Sean Rainbird, Director, National Gallery of Ireland

Of all the 70 Caravaggio paintings I visited, ‘e Taking of Christ’ in Dublin has the most fascinating and beguiling history. I do not think I have ever walked into a major gallery where one painting dominates all the others to the extent this one does. ere is a rare and beguiling Vermeer in the next room, with Rembrandt's only nightscape further on, but every person stops and loiters in front of this imposing canvas. Caravaggio's art has the ability to overshadow all others and perhaps this is his greatest painting.

Dublin is wonderfully full of warmth and everyone I spoke to about Caravaggio knew who he was and spoke animatedly about him. It seemed that the whole city had been to see the painting. e National Gallery of Ireland is truly a part of Dublin life and should be saluted for being so.

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In October 2015, Adrian Ash (e Knoll 1975²) created a rather eccentric world record. He visited every Caravaggio painting, 67 in total, in over 50 locations around the world in under three weeks. e paintings were located as far apart as London, New York, Texas and St Petersburg, and were often moved around for exhibitions or restoration. He ended his endeavour, on time, in Naples, where Caravaggio died in 1610. rough this and other trips, Adrian has visited many of the most important galleries in the world: some easily accessible and others harder to find. Here he lists some of his favourites.

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DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ere is no disguising the Detroit Institute of Arts. It was built in 1929 and is a wonderful example of a beaux arts building.

It is big, containing 100 galleries and over 65,000 works of art. e undoubted highlight of the museum is the Diego Rivera murals in the back entrance hall. e five massive murals, commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1932 and collectively called ‘Detroit Industry, Man and Machine’, are powerfully evocative of the industrial past glories of not only the city but of the museum itself.

During the McCarthy era, these politically charged frescoes only survived because they had a prominent sign in front of them stating they were ‘legitimate art’. It also asserted that the artist’s political opinions and motivations were ‘detestable’.

PINACOTECA DI BRERA MI L AN

e Brera Fine Arts Academy, within which you will the Pinacoteca di Brera, is the type of building you can stroll straight past and not notice but, once you walk through the front gate, it exudes a wonderfully romantic decayed elegance. e deserted colonnaded square, with tufts of grass poking through the cobbled tiles, hints that you are trespassing on an untended private residence. e Palazzo di Brera also houses the Astronomic Observatory, the Botanical Gardens and the Lombard Institute for Science and Letters. e Fine Arts Academy is somewhat dwarfed by those fine institutions, but even so, the Brera has to be one of my favourite undiscovered gems. It is so unassuming and everyone is overpoweringly friendly. It is sadly ironic to love a gallery because it so quiet. e highlight is ‘Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria’, which is a massive canvas of intense, vivid brilliance. Started by Gentile Bellini in 1504, it was finished after his death by his brother Giovanni.

Adrian ‘Andy’ Ash studied Art A level at Harrow, the only boy in the year group to do so. He went on to study Art History and eology at Glasgow University but left to take up a trading career in the City, where he was a founder of Monument Securities, a derivative broking company. He stayed there for 25 years until it was sold. He recently founded e Racing Manager Ltd, a tech platform specialising in racehorse syndication ownership.

Andy lives in London and he is married with two children.

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NEUE GALERIE N EW YOR K

e Neue Galerie, as its name implies, is indeed new. Established in 2001, it sits no more than a pitching wedge away, well in my case two dodgy 3-woods, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is because of this proximity, perhaps, that the intimacy of the gallery is so beguiling. e gallery specialises in art from Germany and Austria in the early 20th century and rarely will you visit a museum where the overall collection embodies a single period and leaves you feeling uncomfortable but uplifted at the same time. e Neue exhibits a range of media: sculpture, drawing, design, photography and painting, but the glue that holds them together is their collective haunting presence.

When you combine Klimt, Kokoschka and Kubin, you get not only three Ks but also a strange, persuasive urge to flee from this painful and lonely demonstration of art.

However, the intensity of it compels you to see more and more. Max Beckmann’s ‘Self-portrait with Horn’ one simply couldn’t live with but are still magnetised by its presence. Egon Schiele must be one of the most depraved but intriguing artists ever. e gallery’s Cafe Sabarsky, named after the founder, is a wonderfully evocative place. You feel transported into the bosom of Austrian art deco artistic life. e Adolf Loos furnishings and lighting by Josef Hoffmann are genuine. It is astonishing for an institution to give the visitor such an all-encompassing experience: the Neue does it with ease and unnerving beauty. © Hulya kolabas for neue Galerie new york

CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO ROM E

On a short holiday to Rome, I visited the church of Santa Maria del Popolo. Inside are three breath-taking paintings

by Caravaggio. I was spellbound. ere is nothing more wondrous than seeing paintings of this magnificence in the setting for which they were painted. At the end of each day, I returned to Santa Maria del Popolo where I found not only three of the greatest canvases in art history but an accompanying spiritualism that no museum or gallery can ever achieve. I also enjoyed saying ‘del Popolo’.

I went to see a number of Caravaggio paintings in Rome during that holiday, wondering how many there were and whether I could see them all. I couldn’t, but it did trigger my quest to see every painting by this great but disturbed genius.

CASA DELLE ESPOSIZIONI, ILLEGIO NO RT H E RN I TA LY

If you do a Google search for ‘Illegio’, it produces ‘old village with an historical water-mill’. However, Illegio also boasts one of the world’s most unusual galleries. A picturesque alpine village, Illegio has only 410 inhabitants and is situated 125 kilometres north of Trieste. Once a year, thousands of visitors descend on this hamlet to visit some of the greatest masterpieces of Italian art. e Casa delle Esposizioni has only a handful of small rooms and from outside is undistinguishable from any other large skiing lodge, but every year it holds a themed exhibition of enormous stature. e pieces are collated by Don Alessio Geretti, a monk who appears astonishingly well connected and certainly very trusted, so the locals in the adjacent taverna related after I had popped open a couple of bottles of Veneto’s finest. It is an astonishing place.

As Don Geretti was quoted as saying when curating the 2017 exhibition ‘What is Love?’, “A picture is a voyage: it moves things and stops you. When you stop, the works of art awaken spiritual intuitions in you and thus you become vulnerable to questionings.”

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PENLEE HOUSE & GALLERY COR N WAL L

If you ever fancy being flabbergasted on a weekday afternoon, go to any provincial auction and watch them trying to sell Victorian furniture. A fine solid chest of drawers will struggle to fetch £50, a set of tables and chairs will struggle to sell at all. e grandeur of Victoriana is a faded glory indeed, so to suggest visiting Penlee House & Gallery in Penzance might appear against trend.

Penlee is a converted Victorian house and now holds the world’s greatest collection of art by the Newlyn School from around the turn of the 20th century.

Newlyn is a small fishing village about a mile from Penzance that I had always wanted to visit. I wanted to feel the strife and poverty that had begotten one of the most inspirational British art movements. As the French were flooding towards Brittany, discovering ‘en plein air’, or outdoor painting, and eyeing the first buds of Impressionism, their British counterparts were doing something similar in the most western part of our island. Newlyn has not changed significantly. It is not picture-postcard-Cornwall perfect and still feels dilapidated and industrial. at is apt; out of these tawdry conditions, the Newlyn artists created something wondrous.

Some of these artists would, decades later, shift north towards St Ives and create the bedrock for Peter Lanyon, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron and Ben Nicholson to be trailblazers in world art during the 1950s. In Newlyn, 50 years earlier, the great names of Stanhope Forbes, Dame Laura Knight and Henry Scott Tuke were the pioneers.

Forbes’ canvas ‘Abby Slip’ is a treasure symptomatic of this collection, but my favourite work is Dod Proctor’s ‘Portrait of Eileen Mayo’. It is strangely encapsulating and resonates of her tour de force ‘Morning’, which was voted the Royal Academy’s Picture of the Year in 1927 and bought for the nation by the Daily Mail in 1927. e Penlee showcases an art movement where women were leaders way ahead of their time.

PALAZZO PITTI F LO RE N CE

I have only been to Florence once and, although one cannot help but be beguiled by its architectural radiance, it is bedevilled by tourists and crowds. e Uffizi Gallery is world famous and holds some of the most celebrated works of art anywhere, but you have to be prepared to share the experience shoulder-

to-shoulder with many others. So why does everyone queue for hours to go the Uffizi, when ten minutes away the Pitti Palace sits empty? e Palazzo Pitti was built in 1458 and 100 years later became the home of the Medici family. In the late 18th century, it was occupied

by Napoleon. ese were the kind of people who didn’t shirk when adorning their homes. As a rule, I tend to advise people to focus on no more than five objects when visiting a museum. Under

this rule, one would spend the rest of one’s life at Palazzo Pitti and still be only half-way through.

It literally has a bit of everything: Renaissance art, Modern art, porcelain, costumes, carriages, silver and furniture are just some of them. e Pitti has the air of being a private residence where extraordinarily rich owners have lost control of a very bad collecting addiction. In reality, that is exactly what it is, and what a place to visit!

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DRAWING PICTURES OF TANKS AND HELICOPTERS occupied most of Freddy Paske’s (West Acre 1999³) early childhood years, so it seems fitting that, in 2016, Freddy left the British Army to become a professional artist.

Having entered Harrow with a major Art scholarship, the Art Schools are technically the only formal training Freddy has received – so they were very formative years. roughout his time at Harrow, Freddy maintained his passion for both the military and art. He left with an Army scholarship and an inordinate amount of cash after selling his A level artwork to a beak.

After three years at the University of Leeds studying Art History, Freddy was well prepared for the steps of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He commissioned into the Light Dragoons, a cavalry regiment, where he was subsequently kept busy on operations in Afghanistan and Bosnia. roughout his time in the Army, he continued to paint, always keeping a sketchbook to hand. It was on his return from Afghanistan that he had his first big break and was offered some space to exhibit in London. Freddy displayed his sketches from Helmand Province and had a sell-out show. us his professional career began.

Over the last three years, Freddy has become known for his wildlife and sporting subjects. In 2017, keen to safeguard the animals that inspire him, he launched a conservation project called The Bigger Picture. For a month, he, along with a photographer and a filmmaker, embedded with an anti-poaching unit in the Zambian bush. Later that year, they put on an exhibition in London to raise awareness and funding for the men and women on the frontline of conservation. e project is due to tour the US this summer and continues to be a great success.

At the moment, Freddy's focus is on all things equine. Having grown up in the saddle, he has a passion and an eye for horses. He is currently the resident artist for the Jockey Club, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment and Tattersall's, the horse auctioneers.

Last year, an exhibition of his work at the Osborne Studio Gallery in Belgravia almost sold out.

Freddy is currently working from his studio in Hampshire and has further projects in the racing and polo world.

To see some of Freddy’s work, visit freddypaske.com

FREDDY PASKE BIG PICTURE

Opposite, Pitch Perfect by Freddy Paske

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EVENT REPORTS AND SOCIETY UPDATES An Evening of Forgotten Songs Old Harrovian Room, Harrow School 8 March 2018 e event at Boodles four years ago had received such an enthusiastic response that a similar evening was held in March in the OH Room. e guests, comprising Old Harrovians, beaks and friends, were joined by the School XII who were spread around the room to give each table a strong lead. Director of Music David Woodcock had already taught the XII the songs and this gave everyone the confidence to sing up – and a very good noise we made.

Most of the songs were by the duo Edward Bowen and John Farmer, the exceptions being Awake!, with music by Farmer’s successor Eaton Faning, and Leavers by Reginald atcher, with words by Head Master Cyril Norwood. e songs were introduced by Dale Vargas (Druries 1952³) and accompanied by David Woodcock. ese songs on the fringe of the collection remain in the School Song Book but are sung rarely: they wax and wane in popularity from generation to generation. But there are some excellent tunes among them, which deserve more exposure. e most popular, and already known to many, were Grandpapa’s Grandpapa, Lyon of Preston and Fairies. Less well known but found to have catchy tunes were Cats and Dogs and Down the Hill. e words of many of the songs are necessarily dated: in particular Euclid, which is all about the geometry taught in the 19th century and

is incomprehensible to all but the most senior. Others need explanation: e Niner refers to cricket on the Phil Ground before the days of boundaries; only those who remember going down to the School farm before breakfast to milk the cows and deliver it to the Houses will understand the context of She was a Shepherdess – although the closest person to a milkmaid that anyone could remember was Tom the cowman, a disappointing substitute. Nor did any of the assembled own up to having won the Gregory Prize, the winner of which was the object of the shepherdess’s desires; this was unquestionably wise as he would almost certainly have been ‘put on’ to sing a verse.

Underneath the Briny Sea is simply incomprehensible. Less successful were Harrow Marches Onward, Larry and Jack and Joe, and someone somewhat ungenerously said that he could see

why they were “forgotten songs”.

Songs ended with Leavers, a beautifully melodic song but, by its nature, only sung at the end of the Summer term by the XII. e Head Master then addressed the guests with a few words on the modern School and the company adjourned to the Shepherd Churchill Room for dinner. e evening was rounded off by Songs, the song written by Bowen when both Farmer and Montagu Butler were leaving Harrow in 1885; Good Night, another lovely melodic song usually sung only by the XII; and Forty Years On. Many of the guests had attended the Royal Albert Hall Songs in November and had appreciated David Woodcock’s skills when conducting a choir of 5,000 singers. On this evening, they were able to see and hear him in action in a more intimate setting. For those privileged to attend it was a very enjoyable experience.

DALE VARGAS

OH new York Dinner Racquet & Tennis Club, New York – 24 October 2017 Seventy-five Old Harrovians including the Chairman of Governors John Batting (e Park 1972²) and guests including Jim Hawkins (Head Master) and his wife Zoe, Douglas Collins (CEO of the Harrow Development Trust) and Perena Shryane (Harrow Association Manager) gathered at the beautiful Racquet & Tennis Club in Park Avenue for a very convivial dinner hosted by members Peter Webster (Moretons 1963²) and Robert Davies (Moretons 1964²). Between the main course and pudding, John Batting and Jim Hawkins gave the gathered crowd updates on the School. After dinner, Songs were ably led by Peter and Robert, with Peter introducing the put-ons. We were very lucky to be joined by Aristo Sham (Moretons 2010³), who played the piano beautifully for Songs. It was a very enjoyable evening with good representation from all the generations, many of whom had travelled some way to be there.

We hope to repeat the experience in the not too distant future. e Harrow Association would like to thank Peter and Robert for enabling us to dine in their club and also everyone who attended.

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Since the beginning of powered flight in 1903, Harrow has produced interesting aviators.

Moore-Brabazon held the first UK pilot’s licence (his car registration was FLY 1) and eventually became wartime Minister of Aircraft Production. As Naval Minister in 1911, Churchill was the first to argue for the development of military aircraft. King Hussein’s qualification was well known. eir spirit still thrives. In December, the Harrow Aviation Club gathered to share the diversity of our members’ experience. John Steel QC (Rendalls 19673), currently Chairman of the Air League and accomplished private pilot, chaired and prompted the informal mealtime discussion.

During coffee, Jeremy Miles (Rendalls 19463) spoke with his characteristic light touch and authority about the family firm. Legendary wartime trainers such as the Miles Magister, Master and Martinet were all from that stable. e company’s development of the M52 for supersonic flight was years ahead of transatlantic competitors before being sacrificed to the USA for political expediency.

In addition, the club welcomed some new members from more recent years on the Hill.

It was a joy to hear how people have become involved in aviation and to have an AAC Apache pilot, young private pilot and treasurer of the Air League joining us showed our expanding membership interests. e club is currently organising its events for 2018, which should involve a fly-in to a new airfield in the UK, and welcomes new OH members to join us. e club is open to all OHs interested in aviation, not necessarily on the flight deck. ose present were: Jeremy Miles (Rendalls 19463), John Pett (West Acre 19583), Rupert ornley-Taylor (Rendalls 19593), Peter Harrison (Newlands 19672), John Steel (Rendalls 19673), Andrew Dent (Moretons 19683), Piers Herbert (West Acre 19732), Charlie Hutchins (e Head Masters 20013), Nick Nacmanson (Rendalls 20013), Iain Ruggles-Brise (West Acre 20023), Oliver Cooke (Rendalls 20073) and Nick Shryane, Bursar.

Photo: Chris Allerton

Harrow Aviation Club Boodles, London – 5 December 2017

United Grand Lodge of England VC memorial ceremonial unveiling event Freemasons Hall – 25 April 2017 e Grand Master, HRH e Duke of Kent, together with Lord Dannatt, attended the unveiling of special paving stones commemorating the 64 English Freemasons who won the Victoria Cross during the First World War. e stones are sited in front of the main entrance of Freemasons Hall, which itself is a memorial to over 3,000 Freemasons who fell during that terrible time. e Victoria Cross is the highest award for gallantry that can be conferred on a member of the Armed Forces regardless of rank, whilst the George Cross is the equivalent for civilians. e ceremony was narrated by radio presenter Katie Derham and incorporated the poem A Shropshire Lad by AE Houseman, read by pensioner Ray Pearson, followed by a welcome

by Anthony Wilson, President of the Board of General Purposes, and readings by Simon Dean OBE, grandson of Donald Dean VC, Col Brian Lees LVO OBE, chairman of e Rifles, Light Infantry and KOYLI Regimental Association, and Lt Col Matt Baker, Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, e Rifles. Sebastian Cator (e Park 2012³) read an extract from the diaries of Major Richard A Willis (Home Boarder 1890³) in which he described the carnage resulting from landing his men on W Beach at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. For his part in the action, he was one of the famous ‘six VCs won before breakfast’. e Grand Secretary, Brigadier Willie Shackell CBE, gave an exhortation, which was followed by the Last Post, a minute’s silence and Reveille. e memorial stones were then unveiled and blessed by the Grand Chaplain, Canon Michael Wilson. e music for the ceremony was provided by the Band of the Grenadier Guards and the North London Military Wives Choir.

EDWARD HARFORD (e Park 19613)

OHAFC celebrates Arthurian League Championship triumph 40 years on Carlton Club, London – 26 April 2018 OHAFC players from the 1977/78 season gathered for an evening of celebration and nostalgia. Club President Andrew Butler (e Knoll 1981³) was among the guests as were a number of the Champions’ wives. e OHAFC’s victory in e Arthurian League all those years ago, when soccer was a minor sport at Harrow, certainly surprised the old boy fraternity, not least in the footballing strongholds of Brentwood, Charterhouse and Forest: hardly believable, 40 years on! e Club had to wait 26 years for similar success. e President, along with Fred Woolley (West Acre 1957³), Mike Hall (e Park 1969¹), Guy Stille (e Head Master’s 1971¹) and Charlie Bott (e Grove 1972³), addressed the assembled company and, by the end of the night, every goal and every victory of that remarkable season had been analysed and re-lived with pride.

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A celebration of 150 years of Eton fives at Harrow Harrow School – 16 September 2017 For those with a sense of the history of games at Harrow, Saturday 16 September was a landmark: 150 years of Eton fives at the School.

Walking through the School Yard where the earliest games of rackets and fives were played, down the ‘Hundred Steps’ we passed the Crake-Eiloart court, long unused because of its unsatisfactory position away from the main body of courts but celebrating the extraordinary achievement of EH Crake and RE Eiloart, who beat Eton and Charterhouse at home and away for the three years from 1904-6. e day was an ‘open day' for fives, with former players of all generations dropping in to play or watch. e senior OH present was Keith Hindell (Bradbys 19473), later a half-blue at Oxford. Hugh Siddons (Rendalls 1950³) had travelled from Ottawa and Scott Martin (Newlands 1978³), captain of fives in 1982, from Colorado. Informal games were played in the morning, with some of the participants rediscovering skills and muscles they had not activated for many years. Fives coach Ian Hutchinson, after a quick assessment of facial complexion, colour of hair (if any) and extent of waistline, organised the players into fours, the most vulnerable being assigned to courts near water and the first-aid point.

After lunch at the courts, the boys arrived and afternoon play took

OH Players: As You Like It Speech Room – 27 and 28 April 2018 e OH Players returned to the Hill to perform Shakespeare’s timeless comedy As You Like It. Audiences were transported from the Speech Room to the Forest of Arden to great effect and were charmed by this production, which united familiar faces with the very best emerging talent.

on a more serious hue. e Chairman of the Governors John Batting (e Park 1972²), captain of School fives in 1977 and later captain of Cambridge, playing with Nick Hewens (e Head Master's 1974¹), a Schools Championships finalist in 1977, rolled back the years with some excellent play: shorter in wind maybe, but not noticeably feeble of foot or rheumatic of shoulder. e most impressive performance was that of Hamish Duncan (e Head Master's 1986³) and Nick Shaw (Rendalls 1989³), two former Schools Championships winners, who were more than a match for the School first pair.

After play, several of the players went for a drink with Graham and Teresa Dunbar to meet the still sprightly 91-year old John Leaf (Elmfield 1939³) who had played fives for the School and for Cambridge, and had been Master-in Charge of Harrow fives in the 1950s.

In the evening, the Head Master presided over a convivial dinner in the Shepherd Churchill Room. Graham Dunbar spoke of the fun we have all had playing this great game and the friendships made. Dale Vargas (Druries 1952³) followed with an impeccably researched and highly amusing speech and proposed a toast to Eton fives.

Taken from e Harrovian, September 23, 2017 Vol. CXXX No 3

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1987-1991 1st XV rugby reunion lunch Harrow School – 7 October 2017 In October, the Harrow Association held a reunion for Rugby Lions from 1987-1991. e Giants of Old were treated to a superb lunch in the Shepherd Churchill Room, after which former coach Roger Uttley reminisced about an era of free-spirited and thoroughly enjoyable rugby. Roger did remark on what a ‘well-rounded’ group the cohort of players had become. Damian Hopley (e Head Master’s 1986³) ( for-

merly England and current CEO of the Rugby Players Association) replied on behalf of the Lions, noting that being coached by Roger had been one of the highlights of his career.

All wholeheartedly agreed. After lunch, the Lions watched the School XV comprehensively beat St Paul’s and then repaired to e Castle to marvel at the quality of the rugby being played at Harrow today.

OH Racing Club e OH Racing Club has gone from strength to strength. Established in 2012, we host a biennial dinner attracting over 150 OHs. We have also launched a racing syndicate. With many prominent OHs in the racing community, our dinners have offered the chance for all those with an interest in racing to get together. OH horses have carried the silks of the OH Racing Club at tracks around the country from Ascot and Brighton to Nottingham and Wolverhampton.

Our fillies have had some success: Straw Hat, trained by William Haggas (West Acre 1974¹) became our first winner when she won a nice maiden at Nottingham. e success continued when Send Up trained

by Sir Mark Prescott (West Acre 1961³) won races at Brighton and Chelmsford. For the 2017 flat season, we have a lovely filly by the popular stallion Sea the Stars who will carry the OH silks and be trained by George Scott (Elmfield 2002³) in Newmarket.

Away from the track, the OHRC organises a Newmarket day touring various trainers yards, watching the horses working on the famous gallops and ending with an afternoon of racing at the Newmarket racecourse. In July, we were treated to a wonderful tour of Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley Stud in Newmarket where we were shown a number of the world’s top stallions including Anthony Oppenheimer’s (Rendalls 1951²) homebred Derby winner Golden Horn.

Membership of the OH Racing Syndicate is open to all OHs and we would encourage anyone with an interest in the turf to join us. If you are interested in joining the OH Racing Club, please contact Anthony@airliestud.com or the HA office.

Matthew Gibbens (West Acre 1984³) Anthony Rogers (Elmfield 1984³)

Top to bottom: Andrew Gammon (Bradby’s 19713) meets Derby winning stallion Golden Horn, owned and bred by Anthony Oppenheimer (Rendalls 19513); Send Up wins for the OHRC at Chelmsford on 26 September 2017.

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Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall 21 November 2017 Reflections on a rousing evening Douglas Collins, CEO of the Harrow Development Trust and overall organiser of the occasion (also known as ‘e Promoter’ by the Royal Albert Hall) casts a nostalgic eye over the proceedings.

‘Churchill Songs, performed annually here at the School, is itself a rousing occasion. Transport it to the Royal Albert Hall, as we do now every five years, and it is transformed into a spectacular, tumultuous and highly emotional occasion. As more than 5,500 voices came to life for the first song, Stet Fortuna Domus, I admit that a tear came to my eye and remained for much of the concert. ere was so much to admire, not to mention relief that months of planning had come to fruition so wonderfully. We will all take away our own special moments. For me, they include the School swaying in time to Ducker,

almost dizzyingly to us the spectators; the ranks of Old Harrovians, throughout the Hall, standing throughout Songs in union with the School; the poignancy and forcefulness of the readings; the Orchestra, as large as a full symphony orchestra and able to turn up the volume when requested by our energetic conductor David Woodcock. e speeches by the Chairman of Governors, the Head Master and our persuasive and endearing Guest of Honour, HRH Prince El Hassan, were thoughtful and eloquent. Our Master of Ceremonies Nick Luck (Rendalls 1991³) provided the linkage, the wit and the improvisation to captivate and carry along the evening. en, finally, the standing ovation from and for the whole School at the rousing conclusion of the concert, reinforced by the Head of School’s “ree Cheers for the Jordanian Royals and the Churchill family”.’

Taken from e Harrovian Vol.CXXX No 12, 2 December 2017.

Read the complete report online at harrowschool.org.uk/OH-events

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Below are just a small selection of comments that we received in the Harrow Association and Development Trust office after the concert: “It was a beautifully engineered emotional roller coaster. What other school could ever put on such a wonderful evening of entertainment?” “e Prince was so eloquent and passionate about the need for diversity and an understanding of different cultures in our current world.”

“There are few things of genuine excellence to be found these days, but my party last night experienced one of them! It was a truly wonderful evening – please pass on my and my guests’ gratitude to the performers.”

“I spent a large part of the next day, in various business meetings, thinking about and reliving parts of the evening in my head – it was a truly wonderful evening and personally, an extraordinary experience.”

“Churchill was right about the role of songs and their ability to unite the Harrow family. All the best songs had been selected for last night’s performance, brilliantly accompanied by the excellent School orchestra.”

“Thank you for putting on such a wonderful evening last night at the Royal Albert Hall. It is always such fun and I chuckle at how much we all enjoy it versus thinking back to my five years on the Hill when all you can think is, how do I get out of Songs this time and avoid the double!”

“We thought Nick Luck was a brilliant act. It will be difficult in five years’ time to find someone to drop into his shoes.”

“My Etonian friends all thought it was wonderful and sang along with great enthusiasm. I think they are rather jealous; they only have two songs.”

“These events, like the Royal Albert Hall, or even just a Monday morning Speech Room, are hugely significant in forging a School bond.

And that’s before we start singing!”

“Heartfelt congratulations for an absolutely successful event, with such a remarkably stunning backdrop. It was so emotional all night long! We are so proud to be part of the Harrow family.”

“Woke up this morning feeling for a moment like it had all been an amazing dream! Truly stunning atmosphere.”

“The concert was a faultless exercise in British excellence. A truly remarkable and outstanding night. I imagine the Head Master bursting a vessel with pride. I certainly did!”

Clockwise from top left: Harrow Association President HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (e Park 1960³), Chairman of Governors John Batting (e Park 1972²), Head Master Jim Hawkins, Director of Music David Woodcock, the School XII, Master of Ceremonies Nick Luck (Rendalls 1991³)

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19553-19603 Rendalls reunion lunch Oxford and Cambridge Club – 29 September 2017 For several years, a number of old boys at Rendalls when George McConnell and Tim Warr were the House Masters, have met together for an annual lunch in London. ey gathered again at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, on 29 September, when this photo was taken. By general acclaim it was another thoroughly enjoyable occasion. Andy Anderson commented, “Although it is 60 years and more since we were at the School, and since then we have all gone our own ways, there continues to be a very strong bond of common interest and friendship that we still share, and we love to come together in this way. Stet Fortuna! ” From left to right: Duncan McEuen (1955³), John Cook (1960³), Andrew Anderson (19582), John Appleton (1959³), James Williams (1957³), Julian Swain (1956³), Alex de Grunwald (1958²), Jeffrey Bonas (1957³), Robert Millbourn (1958¹) and Charles Dorin (1959³).

OH Squash Rackets Club Harrow drew Millfield in the first round of the Londonderry Cup (one of the sport’s oldest and most prestigious competitions) in December 2017 and put up a valiant fight to lose narrowly 3-2. Representing the OHs were Alex Titchener-Barrett (Elmfield 1993³), Henry Prideaux (Bradbys 1992³), Doug McKnight (e Park 1995³), Davide Bernardi (Newlands 2010³) and Jerome Wilcox (Moretons 1979¹).

Representing the OHs for Founders Day on 4 February 2018 were Davide Bernardi, Lalit Bose (e Head Master’s 2008³), Andrew James (e Knoll 1975³), Alex Chamberlin (Druries 1986³) and Andy Shovel (West Acre 2000³). It was a clean sweep for the OHs who prevailed 50, but the School’s number two was absent.

I am always keen to hear from OHs wishing to play in friendly and or competitive matches. Please contact Alex Titchener-Barrett at al@dtbsportsandevents.com.

Harrow Association of South Africa Cape Town Dinner Newlands Kelvin Grove Club – Friday 16 February 2018 e Harrow Association of South Africa hosted its 2018 Cape Town annual dinner at the Newlands Kelvin Grove Club. Eight OHs with their partners and three guests participated in an enjoyable evening of good food and wines, fellowship and Songs. e event was co-ordinated by Tim Scarborough (Rendalls 1951³) and included Tim Crawley (Druries 1958³), David Dundas-Reid (Newlands 1952²), Robert Maydon (e Grove 1957³), David White (Elmfield 1957²), William Ingram (e Knoll 1959²) and son, James Ingram (e Knoll 2001³), and Giles Hodgson (e Head Masters 2008³). e selection and singing of Harrow Songs was managed by Tim Crawley, who also sang the Five Hundred Faces solo.

e Byronics e Byronics, the club for LGBT+ OHs, enjoyed their joint summer party with the Eton Dragonflies on what turned out to be election night. OHs of all ages enjoyed the chance to demonstrate that, like most younger siblings, we're the fun ones. Over the last few months, Byronics members have been supporting Harrow in educating boys about LGBT+ issues and leadership in a diverse world. is

year, e Byronics, are joining forces with the LGBT+ alumni clubs from Eton, Radley and Winchester for a summer drinks party at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, on 7 June.

If you or any of your OH friends are interested in finding out more about e Byronics or attending one of our events, please contact Rory Smith at harrowbyronics@gmail.com for further information.

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OH medical Society Tri-partite Dinner e Royal College of Physicians Saturday 7 October 2017

South Africa OH Get-Together Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens – Friday 26 January 2018 Nic Casdagli (e Grove 1953²) and his wife Clarissa, who live in England, rent a house at St Francis Bay every year, and come out on a cruise liner to Cape Town, then drive to St Francis. It has now become virtually a ‘yearly ritual’ that a few ‘local’ OHs meet them for lunch at Kirstenbosch.

On Saturday 7 October the Old Harrovian Medical Society hosted a tripartite dinner with the Old Etonian and Old Wykehamist Medical Societies in the elegant surroundings of the e Royal College of Physicians, courtesy of Professor David London DM FRCP (Newlands 1946²). After a delicious dinner with fine wines ably chosen by Professor London, the gathered masses listened with great interest to the guest speaker, Sir Mark Walport FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci, who enlightened the audience with details of his fascinating and wide-ranging medical career from being a member of the India UK CEO Forum to becoming Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medicine at Imperial College London and Director of the Wellcome Trust, before being appointed Chief Executive Designate of UK Research and Innovation Organisation (UKRI), and everything in between. A great evening in wonderful surroundings was had by all.

Harrow Association Irish Dinner Fort William, County Waterford – 23 September 2017 Fort William, near Lismore in County Waterford, the home of David G EvansBevan (e Park 1975¹) and his family, was the magnificent location of the Harrow Association Irish Dinner. e first such Irish dinner was organised

by Sidney Patterson, former Bursar and House Master of e Grove, some 36 years ago in 1982. As the association’s Irish ‘Hon. Sec.’, I hosted my first gathering 30 years ago. e recent one, generously hosted by David and his daughter Alice, was the 17th on the island of Ireland.

Unusually, the hosts of 11 of these 17 gatherings were amongst the 40 or so of us in the great panelled dining room at Fort William.

Between us, we were able to reminisce on 36 years of more or less biannual get-togethers, perhaps unique in the association for mostly taking place in present or past properties of association members. e main hall at Fort William contained a wonderful grand piano. After dinner, Philip Evans, pianist, vocalist and present House Master of Moretons, put it to magnificent use in a rousing accompaniment to Songs, sung

from our very own green Irish Harrow Association Song Book, which contains a number of Irish songs in addition to well-known favourites.

Douglas Butler (e Head Master’s 1960³) was responsible for establishing the tradition of the Irish Songbook in 1990. He came to the annual gathering with his wife Margaret and played the piano for us at many of the earlier dinners. e small booklet is reprinted for each dinner, though favourites appear not to have changed much over time. Our dinners continue to be about what we all share, and about

seeing old friends and making some new ones each time. Our gatherings are a constant, and very different and changing all at the same time, just as Harrow School itself.

We are delighted that someone from the School always joins us, so that those present are thereby kept in touch with the place. is time, Head Master Jim Hawkins joined us and also proved well able to aim true at the shooting kindly organised before dinner by Jeremy Green (e Grove 1948²) in his nearby Ballyvolane House.

In 1988, there were around 130 Irish Old Harrovians on my list of people to invite.

Today there are 186. e growth comes from the fact that, over the years, we have tried to include and welcome parents (past, present and sometimes even future) who wish to be included, and have also gradually tracked down Old Harrovians scattered across the globe with links to this island and the Isle of Man but who may no longer live in either. So please do not hesitate to get in touch with me (pc@lehrell.com) to make sure we can find you for the next one to be held either in Headfort in County Meath, or might you even host one?

PETER-CARLO LEHRELL (Newlands 1977³)

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OH Players Drinks at Shakespeare’s Globe Ronnie Watkins Room, Shakespeare’s Globe – 14 September 2017 More than 50 Old Harrovian Players, current Harrovians, members of the School’s Drama department and other guests connected to Harrow drama gathered at Shakespeare’s Globe for a drinks reception.

During the evening, we were privileged to hear a talk by Patrick Spottiswoode, Director of Globe Education, on the historic links between the School and the Globe. e event was hosted in the Globe’s Ronnie Watkins Rehearsal Room, named after the legendary Harrow beak. e evening was a huge success and gave the OHs attending the chance to hear about the upcoming work of the OH Players, as well as the School’s Drama department. It is a true testament to the enduring success of the Players, and to drama at the School, that OHs connected to drama and the theatre industry from all generations came out in force. It was particularly nice to welcome both Jeremy Lemmon (e Knoll 1949³) and Tim Bentinck (Moretons 1966³) to the event.

OH Hong Kong Dinner e Hong Kong Club – 11 September 2017 On the evening of 11 September 2017, approximately 40 Old Harrovians, mainly from Hong Kong and around the region, gathered in e Hong Kong Club for dinner and songs. Jim Hawkins (Head Master), Douglas Collins (CEO of the Harrow Development Trust) and Will Landale (e Grove 1978³) also of the HDT, were in attendance. After a few words from the Head Master, Seung Chong (e Knoll 1979³) led the singing, ensuring each person was suitably targeted according to various behaviours and achievements (or lack therof !) whilst at Harrow. anks must go to Arnold Wong (e Park 1973³) who, once again, organised this increasingly popular annual event. is year’s dinner is scheduled for Monday 24 September and any OH who is in Hong Kong on that night should contact the Harrow Association if they wish to attend.

Harrow Wanderers It is an exciting time for the Harrow Wanderers as the club heads towards its 150th anniversary in 2020. e committee is already hard at work to mark this significant milestone in the club’s history.

At the heart of these efforts is a celebration of Harrow Wanderers past and present, with a spotlight on OHs who have graced the first-class game and represented their country. We are keen to gather any photographs and archive material that show the club down the years, so please let us know if you have any gems lurking at the back of your shelves (james@gillions.eclipse.co.uk). e club may be almost 150, but it has never been more energetic. On 19 August, we will host the first old boys T20 tournament at Harrow, with matches against St Edward's Oxford, Cheltenham College and Sherborne School. It is hoped this event will be a catalyst for an expanding London-based competition in future years.

We also have a full list of 50-over fixtures including games against Hurlingham, I Zingari and the Guards XI. Elsewhere, the Northern Tour continues to thrive and this year we will be in Yorkshire from 6 to 8 July, playing the Yorkshire Gents, Hawks and Aysgarth XI, where once again we will be staying thanks to the generous hospitality of Aysgarth School.

Meanwhile, our premier XI will begin their Cricketer Cup campaign on 17 June with an away fixture at Merchant Taylors’ School.

OH Singapore Dinner Violet Oon Satay Bar and Grill, Clarke Quay – 9 February 2018 It was a fairly informal affair and we did not have the chance to sing any songs this time around. We will be arranging something later this year with the full regalia, so will update that when it happens. ose is attendance were: Nick Hadow (e Park 1969¹), David Maxwell (Rendalls 1976²), Andrew Lau (e Knoll 1977³), Jamie Coventry (e Knoll 1979¹), Pascal Demierre (e Head Master’s 1987³), James Richardson (e Knoll 1987³), Kenneth Tan (e Park 1987³), Ed Barrow (Bradby’s 1993³), Rory Barclay (e Knoll 1997³), John Friedman (e Head Master’s 1997³), Andrew Lea-Cox (Druries 1997³), Ravi Nahappan (West Acre 1997³), Henry de Renzy-Martin (e Knoll 1997³), Hui Lim (e Knoll 1997³), Hann Yeoh (West Acre 2004¹), Sahib Maker (West Acre 2005¹).

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Founder’s Day 4 February 2018 It was great to see so many OHs returning to the Hill, once again, for an impressive display of Harrow football, followed by a well-deserved, hearty lunch. ank you to everyone who came along.

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moretons House Dinner e RAC Club - 25 April 2018

members of the OH Property Club v the School clay pigeon shoot 25 May 2017

On 25 April 2018, 146 Old Moretonians gathered in the RAC Club's elegant Mountbatten Room. ree and a half years had passed since the last Triennial, with this year's date chosen to mark the final term of Philip Evans as House Master, after his 12-year term (sometimes known as “sentence” in the Masters’ Room!).

Chairman for the evening was Christopher Mann (Moretons 1956²), who began the evening with a recorded message from his father, at 99 the oldest living Moretonian. Philip Mann entered the House in 1933² and his amusing recollections and good wishes from his home in Switzerland got the evening off to a flying start.

After an excellent dinner and the traditional toast by the Chairman to the School and Moretons, Philip Evans replied on behalf of the guests. After a brief report to assure the old boys that Moretons was still Cock House, he described the privilege it had been to be entrusted with its care, before presenting a bottle of Harrow Champagne to the senior OM present, Godfrey CoryWright (Moretons 1942¹) – a tradition started by Philip at his first House Dinner.

Songs were led by Simon Berry (House Master 1996-2006), with Philip playing the piano. Simon’s predecessor, George Attenborough, was unable to attend through ill-health and ‘George’s boys’ sang a lusty put-on ( fittingly from Giants) to wish him well. Mrs Sue Evans and Robin Martin-Jenkins (House Master Elect) also had chance to showcase their musical talents (A Gentleman’s A-Bowling) – and Robin’s new boy’s solo will be keenly anticipated at the 2021 dinner. A remarkable feature of the evening was the impressive attendance by some 36 young OMs of Philip’s reign – with Ed Hills (20063) worthy of special mention for gathering no fewer than 11 of his year’s (2006) intake.

L to r: DN van Gelder (Druries 1986³), DJ Williams (e Grove 1975³), PA Ferrari (Druries 1974²) and TRM Stoddart-Scott (e Park 1992³)

SIMON BERRY

e OH Property Club Dinner Cavalry & Guards Club – 10 May 2017 e OHPC met on 10 May 2017 at the Cavalry & Guards Club in Mayfair for a club dinner. ere was a strong turnout of over 70 attendees and we were delighted to see lots of new members of the club. We were fortunate enough to have Sir Alan Yarrow (Elmfield 1965¹), the former Mayor of London, as our guest speaker. He was incredibly well received and discussed his role in office, and what it takes to market London to an international audience. In addition, Sir Alan offered his eagerly anticipated opinion on the impact of Brexit on the capital. is gave all the members a better understanding of the current political climate.

West Acre House Dinner Imperial Hotel – 20 September 2017 e Old and Bold of West Acre made their triennial pilgrimage to Russell Square to dine and reminisce together at the Imperial Hotel at a dinner very kindly, and most ably, organised by Richard Walduck (1955²) for the umpteenth time. is year, the assembly of 113 diners included some younger West Acre OHs, and some still in the School’s Sixth Form. It was wonderful, therefore, to see those aged between 17 and 95 sitting down together to an excellent feast and joining in their favourite songs. Giants and Stet Fortuna Domus were sung especially lustily and the chorus to October! was boomed out so loudly that the crockery rattled in sympathy. We were accompanied by Michael Tasker, a West Acre Sixth Former, who had only been told the afternoon before that he would be tasked with the job of trying to keep the assembled throng in time and in tune – an impossible mission which was bravely attempted. Adam Hart (1977¹) chaired the dinner and introduced Dr John Roberts, House Master of a mere ten-days standing who not only provided a Latin grace (“eh, wot did ‘e say?” being heard from some of the less classically minded) but also an amusing review of his first few days in position. Many were still in the bar long after the dinner concluded and I left a few there when my taxi appeared. I am pleased to say that I was able to advise my driver (possibly not very tunefully) that October was the quite the thing, that March was for the dull and sober, and don’t get me started on the suns of May. ADAM HART

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OH Golfing Society (OHGS) 2017 was a good year for the OHGS. e membership increased to just under 400 playing members. e three main events, the Spring Meeting (manager Geoffrey Goddard (West Acre 1972³)) at Sandwich, the Scottish Meeting at the end of June, and the Autumn Meeting (manager omas Olesen (Rendalls 1961¹)) at Brancaster, were all fully subscribed, the latter attracting an exceptional 40 entrants. Particularly memorable was the welcoming supper at the Sailing Club and a formal dinner the following evening at James Amies’ (e Head Master’s 1981³) lovely home nearby (pictured right). e Scottish Meeting, introduced five years ago by lain Ellvers (e Grove 1961²) with one afternoon’s event, has now been enlarged by Archie Pleydell Bouverie (Elmfield 1977³) and Neil Scaife (e Knoll 1977²) to include play at North Berwick on Friday afternoon, Muirfield on Saturday and Luffness on Sunday. e OHGS is committed to encouraging more regional events and a West Midlands

OH Real Tennis and Rackets Association (OHRT & RA) e OHRT & RA has been around for at least 30 years. We organise a number of real tennis matches throughout the winter months against clubs, as well as other old boys teams, and are always delighted to include new and younger players in the matches. If you are interested in starting to play real

event entered the fixtures list at Blackwell under the leadership of member George Barkes (Elmfield 1973¹). ln the Bernard Darwin competition, Harrow narrowly lost to Uppingham in the final, and in the Halford Hewitt competition the team had the misfortune to be drawn against 2014 winners Merchiston in the first round, but it was encouraging to see the participation of more players under 25.

Other notable activities included the probably unique achievement of a hole-in-one by Adrian Gracey (e Head Master’s 1977²) while competing in the Public Schools Midlands meeting; a very successful HA day organised

by Simon Berry at New Zealand GC courtesy of local member John Macpherson (e Grove 1980³); and the completion of two years of the Rix Hill knock-out tournament at Valderrama.

For more details on all these events and others please visit the OHGS website ohgs.org.uk.

tennis, we have links to a number of clubs, who have discounted introductory packages.

We have an annual dinner at the start of each season where we welcome the School 1st rackets pair as well as other guests in what is always a very convivial evening.

Our biggest fixture is our annual tussle against the Old Etonians, whom we play for the Wellesley Trophy (named after the only

boy we believe to have attended both Harrow and Eton). is is usually played at Queen’s Club, but every five years, a tradition that started in 2005 to celebrate the bicentenary of the Harrow v Eton cricket match, we have our fixture at Lord’s. e inaugural match was at Lord’s on 18 June 2005, where we played ten doubles matches including a schoolboy pair and the result was an honourable five-five draw.

CLUB CONTACTS Harrow Aviation Club Harrow Rifles Harrow Wanderers OH Association Football Club OH Cross Country OH Adventurers Club OH Entrepreneurs & Investors Club OH Eton Fives Club OH Fencing Club OH Finance Club OH Lodge OH Golfing Society OH Horse Racing Club OH Law Association OH Lawn Tennis Club OH Medical Society OH Motoring Club OH Players OH Polo Club OH Property Club OH Real Tennis and Rackets Association OH Sailing Association OH Squash Rackets Club OH Technology Club OH Wine Club e Byronics

JB Steel (Rendalls 19673) DHW Dashwood (e Knoll 19742) JR Gillions (Elmfield 19873) HTF Woolley (Moretons 19983) HM Farrar-Bell (Moretons 20023) RM Portal (Elmfield 19812) JBG Taylor (Elmfield 19933) RJ Bryan (Moretons 19923) AE Webb (Druries 19893) A Swarup (Newlands 19903) JDI Skeggs (Elmfield 19973) WA North (e Knoll 19622) AP Rogers (Elmfield 19843) HA Office Alistair Scott (Tennis coach 1988-2000) OL Duke (Newlands 19993) IH Wallace (Bradbys 20003) DJH Draper (Newlands 20043) CPE Betz (Elmfield 19953) TRM Stoddart-Scott (e Park 19923) H Boralessa (Moretons 19833) DE Butler (e Head Master’s 19603) DCA Titchener-Barret (Elmfield 19903) PL Hedley (West Acre 20083) AM Raffety (Rendalls 19953) RJH Smith (e Park 20023)

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Alastair Fothergill’s (Moretons 19732) roots go deep into Harrow clay. His father David was a beak and House Master (1959-1991) and Alastair, as well as being a boy at the School, spent his childhood on the Hill. “It was a lovely, lovely place to grow up”, he says. “We lived in Harrow Park and our house backed on to fields where the golf course is now. I had always had a passion for nature so, for me, it was an extraordinary green oasis.”

His early enthusiasm for the natural world was encouraged while he was at the School. “I feel very privileged to have gone to Harrow, principally because I felt that whatever particular passion you had, there was the opportunity to indulge it and there was a beak who would help. In my case, it was the Biology Master Michael ain (1969-2003). He was totally inspirational to me and to a number of other Harrovians who have taken a route inspired by the natural world.

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“I am often asked if we have run out of ideas, but the variety of the natural world is so extraordinary and beautiful and the stories out there are unbelievably powerful.”

“Michael was a rather unorthodox teacher. He would suddenly decide on a Saturday evening that we were going to Pembrokeshire or somewhere. We would drive for six hours then camp or sleep in a hut. e next morning we would be out looking for peregrines and choughs before driving all the way back again. ese expeditions were the highlight of my time at Harrow. We did a lot of work around the Hill as well and this was the start of the Conservation group, which I believe is now very active. I also kept a kestrel in my room in Moretons for a while.

I was allowed to put falconry down as my eccer option and I trained her using a medieval falconry book. e first time I flew her free was on the Harrow football fields.” ese experiences at Harrow were instrumental in shaping Alastair’s later career. “I am absolutely certain that my love of the natural world, which has been everything for me, was fostered by growing up in Harrow on the Hill and by the inspiration of Michael ain and other teachers at Harrow while I was there. I read Zoology at university as a direct result of Michael’s teaching.”

In 1979, in Alastair’s last summer term at Harrow, Michael ain organised an expedition to the Caucasus Mountains in Iran to look for a bird called the Caucasian black-

cock. “It was very ambitous,” he says; “we were going to drive from Harrow all the way to Iran in a Landrover. We had a crash in Yugoslavia and had to abort the expedition, as we had no other transport. It seemed like a disaster at the time but, actually, it was very fortunate. We were going to stay in one of the Shah’s palaces in Iran – the Shah was an Old Harrovian – but the Iranian revolution took place exactly when we should have been there. Luckily, the British ambassador in Belgrade was also an Old Harrovian so he very kindly welcomed us in and put us on the Orient Express back home.”

Having gained an appetite for adventurous travel, each summer while he was at university, Alastair organised an overseas expedition. His first trip, with Tom OwenEdmunds (Druries 1974²), was to the inland delta of the River Niger in Mali, West Africa. e year after, they went with Matthew Dryden (Bradbys 1972²) to the Okavango swamp in Botswana. During the trip, they made a film which they entered for the BBC’s Mick Burke Award for amateur expedition

Above, Alastair filming in Antartica with Sir David Attenborough for Frozen Planet

filmmakers. is was a turning point for Alastair. “I remember very vividly thinking, right, this is what I want to do. When David Attenborough’s landmark series about evolution, Life on Earth, was first broadcast I was absolutely riveted. It was like the best soap opera ever. After that, and making the film in Botswana, I knew it was what I wanted to do with my life.”

After leaving university in 1983, Alastair immediately found a job at BBC Wildlife magazine. While he was there, he was offered a six-week contract at the BBC’s Natural History Unit. He spent the next 28 years at the unit, where he was involved in a number of children’s natural history programmes, including the BAFTA award-winning e Really Wild Show, as well as programmes such as Wildlife on One, e Natural World and Reefwatch. He worked on several series with Sir David Attenborough including e Trials of Life and Life in the Freezer.

Alastair went on to series produce global hits such as e Blue Planet, Planet Earth, and Frozen Planet. Landmark series such as these take many years to film and produce. Blue Planet took five years to make from start to broadcast. “When you are doing it, it seems a very short amount of time. It can take about a year to really research what you are going to do and many of the events you want to film may only happen at a certain time of year. It always seems like a desperate rush to finish a series. ey are always epic journeys and, in the middle, you are never confident they will deliver, yet every time you have to

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try and raise the bar.” e British audience, in particular, has seen a great deal of natural history and Alastair admits that delivering something that is fresh and mould breaking is difficult.

“I am often asked if we have run out of ideas, but the variety of the natural world is so extraordinary and beautiful and the stories out there are unbelievably powerful.”

Almost the only criticism made of the series Planet Earth was that it showed the planet through rose-tinted spectacles, but Alastair argues that there is a role for filmmakers just to celebrate the beauty of the natural world. “People won’t care about what they’ve never seen,” he says.

He also believes that, besides providing entertainment, natural history programme makers have a responsibility to inform their audience about the challenges the planet is facing: “You have got to entertain and engage people, you have to go for the stories that people remember. At the same time, you really have to try to tell a bigger story.” And the popularity of natural history films means that they can reach enormous audiences. “I think we are unbelievably fortunate as wildlife filmmakers. It is almost the only factual television

that, still today, 10 million people will sit down and watch. It fascinates every age group, every social and every economic group. My series have sold to over 150 countries.” In the end, though, he says, “I’m not a journalist. My skill, if I have any, is leading a team to make great natural history programmes.”

He is very proud of the fact that after e Blue Planet was broadcast the number of people applying to study marine biology at university went up by 50 percent and his programmes are regularly used to teach undergraduates. e next big challenge, he feels, is for filmmakers to explore the planet’s environmental story. “Over the 30 years that I have been making wildlife films, there is no doubt that the state of the planet has markedly declined.

What’s amazing is that humanity didn’t actually damage the planet until the 1970s. After the Second World War, the planet was basically pristine; it was still healthy, for the most part, and 90 percent of the rainforests still existed. Right up until the 1970s, the planet kept on cashing our cheques, but then we entered a period that is known geologically as the Anthropocene, which is the age of man. It is the first time you can see human

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presence in the geology of the planet.”

Alastair left the BBC in 2012 to found his own production company, Silverback Films. e Silverback team have made four feature films for Disneynature, with another three in the pipeline – the next on Adélie penguins in the Antarctic. ey also worked for the BBC on the 2015 series e Hunt and have another two series with the BBC in production.

His latest, and biggest, venture is Netflix’s first natural history series, Our Planet, which is scheduled for broadcast in April 2019. He describes it as a celebration of the different habitats of the planet: “Planet Earth was about the ecology of different habitats, Our Planet is about their value to the planet and which parts we have to preserve if we are going to pass diversity on to future generations.” An important factor for Alastair is that Silverback and Netflix are working with the WWF to create a significant amount of online content that will expand on the conservation challenges raised in the series.

In recognition of the huge contribution he has made to natural history filmmaking, Alastair was recently presented with BBC Trustees Award at the 2017 Grierson British Documentary Awards.

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JAC K YOU NG

P ET ER H ED LE Y

SA M COLLIN S

“i completed a degree in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University and am now working in a firm specialising in parametric design and digital fabrication. i chose Brookes as it is a very artistic course and has no exams in the undergraduate degree, something i desperately wanted to get away from. i was introduced to Grasshopper, a piece of parametric design software, which despite really disliking maths at school, i found i loved working with, spending most of my second year learning how to use it. Working in practice over the summer, i put this to use in designing a parametric façade system for a proposed skyscraper in Dubai’s CBD, allowing iterations to be created in seconds, rather than days. in my third year i built on what i had learnt. i worked on the Apeiron Flow project, building a minimal surface the size of a transit van from paper for the City of Culture.

Learning these skills in fabrication and digital design has led me to work on numerous unusual projects, from working with the v&A to being a specialist postgraduate lecturer at Oxford Brookes and the Be Pro at the Bartlett. My plan now is to continue working and teaching, i’m looking forward to doing my Masters in a year’s time and, eventually, becoming a fully qualified architect.”

“While i was growing up, i often helped my uncle restore his classic Aston Martin and my parents with renovating houses, which generally involved getting covered in paint.

From this background, it was evident that engineering would appeal to me; i guess that i wanted the opportunity to make something tangible. i studied for a Civil Engineering degree at the University of Bath and soon had some spare time to learn to code; as we know, first-year studies are rarely taxing. As part of the degree, i did a placement year at a racetrack design company; they designed anything from go-kart tracks to F1-grade circuits. i persuaded the manager to let me upgrade the Matlab simulation software, which took around three months.

Back at university, i quickly decided that Computer Science would allow me to make a much bigger impact, so i applied to study for an MSc in Computer Science at imperial College. i love the course and have mainly concentrated on machine learning modules, anything from simple analytics to computer vision. i recently accepted a graduate role with iBM and look forward to an exciting future. The industry is rapidly evolving and there are several world-changing technologies close to becoming commercially viable – exciting times to live in!”

“Still being unsure of the path i planned to go down, Economics and Philosophy seemed like an appropriately broad undergraduate degree to keep my options open. it was only during a university placement year that i even considered a career in technology and an opportunity arose to set up a start-up presented itself.

Many of the concepts i picked up during my time at university have been helpful in moving into the workplace but it has been knowledge about the technology sector and technology in general that has been of most use in my work. i gained much of this knowledge through networking and talking to people in the industry.

An understanding of technology has been fundamental in helping me, as a founder of an online business, to operate effectively in a start-up. From communicating with developers to implementing basic code for digital marketing, nothing would be possible without the help and support of others in the industry.”

right Jack young (Newlands 2008³) middle Peter Hedley (West Acre 2008³)

left Sam Collins (Rendalls 2008³)

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Three recent university graduates returned to the School in March to talk to the boys about technology in one of a series of HA Careers Talks.

They discussed their chosen (non-technology-based) degrees and how their time at university will shape their future careers in technology.

They recently got in touch with the Harrow Association office to set up an OH Technology Society and look forward to welcoming new members. The first event will be held on 19 September at the Oriental Club, (contact the HA office to attend).

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Since President Trump’s speech on 6 December 2017 declaring that the US would recognise the city as the capital of Israel, the eyes of the world have been turned on Jerusalem. ree OHs living there reflect on what has led them to where they are today and what life in this extraordinary corner of the world was like in December 2017. ere have always been OHs involved in the Middle East, from King Hussein of Jordan (e Park 19513) and HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (e Park 1960³), to Sir Winston Churchill (e Head Master’s 1888²), the Rothschilds and, most recently, Simon Sebag-Montifiore (e Knoll 1978³) with his excellent book Jerusalem. ere have even been two OH Anglican Bishops of Jerusalem: father and son Rennie (Small Houses and e Foss 18843) and Angus MacInnes (Elmfield 19152). Angus MacInnes was famously shot in the leg while helping his wife travel to a nearby hospital.

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David Longe (Elmfield 1989³), Chaplain to the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem since 2015, writes: If you ask any priest, you will find each has taken a different path towards ordination. In 2009, I was ordained a deacon in the Diocese of Southwark and, the following year, priest. In 2007, I had decided to take the plunge into ordination after several years working as a lawyer. I had started in criminal defence and ended up specialising in representing detained asylum applicants. I loved my work and my training has since been very useful, yet I always asked myself: “What happens to my clients when the legal system fails them?”

(About 90% of detained asylum cases were unsuccessful in 2007.) is question, along with a faith that had been nurtured since I was a child, allowed me, at the age of 29 (having studied Divinity at Edinburgh and trained for the bar in London), to find the pluck to articulate that I felt God was calling me to ordination and to speak to my parish priest.

After two years’ training at Ripon College Cuddesdon (I did a Master’s degree in eology at Oxford), I returned to London to work in an inner-city parish of 24,000 people. e work was varied: I found myself involved in marches against gang violence, working behind the bar in the Vauxhall Tavern, arranging the visits of the Prince of Wales and Prince Andrew to the parish, and visiting as many of the parishioners as I could – both those who went to church and those who would not darken a church door. Earlier, I had visited the Holy Land and, after five years in London, something prompted me to write to the Archbishop in Jerusalem to ask if he needed any help. He did and, after further training with the Church Mission Society, my wife, three children and I found ourselves in Jerusalem.

Working in Jerusalem has been one of the most challenging things I have ever encountered. My principal role is to ‘pray for the mission and ministry of Archbishop’. What does this mean? Yes, it does mean a lot of praying, both quietly and actively. e Archbishop oversees nine medical missions including two hospitals, one in Gaza and one

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in Nablus, 17 schools and 27 parishes. His work in the Diocese of Jerusalem covers five countries – Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Israel. His work as an Archbishop means he has responsibility from Algeria to Iran and from Syria to Somalia.

As we prepare to finish in Jerusalem, we find that the troubles have not eased. We arrived in 2015 in the middle of what was called the Infant Intifada, or the Intifada of Knives, as young children attacked heavily armed Israeli soldiers. Our young children would ask what the noise was at night and we would say that it was fireworks. Life calmed for a while but, following President Trump's speech on Jerusalem, the tension re-surfaced.

Two weeks before Christmas, my wife and I found ourselves driving through a riot in Bethlehem en route to the ordination of three Roman Catholics to become deacons. We turned the corner to find the air filled with tear gas and the road blocked. A young Palestinian with a kefir (checked scarf ) tied across his face, darted down the street, hurled a stone with all his might at the wall separating Bethlehem from Jerusalem, and then crouched behind an upturned bin to see if it would cause a reaction. We edged the car forward in case the stone hit us: its intended target was a barricaded Israeli soldier. ere was little chance the rock would hurt anyone, as it was more a symbol of frustration. Two days earlier, we had heard that a man frustrated by President Trump's speech had driven his digger over 49 cars in the Christian Palestinian village of Beit Jala, mistakenly believing that President Trump's pronouncement on Jerusalem was something that all Christians supported. e small Arab Christian community I serve yearns for peace and is concerned that its presence is becoming less welcome. Recently, I have returned from our hospital in Gaza where the situation is again becoming desperate. I was even taken to one side for questioning –

David Carden (e Knoll 1978³), Head of the Un’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, writes: As Head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Jerusalem (UN-OCHA), I am responsible for ensuring that aid reaches the most vulnerable Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank as quickly and efficiently as possible. is entails ensuring that aid organisations working in different sectors, such as shelter, food aid or health, work together to ensure that there is no duplication and no gaps in the delivery of assistance. It is a challenging but rewarding job. During the course of my UN career I have served in Asia Pacific, where I co-ordinated the international response to Super-typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013; in Sierra Leone during the brutal conflict during the 1990s; and in former Yugoslavia, where I served in Belgrade, Kosovo and Sarajevo at the height of the conflict in the late 1990s. Other postings include Lebanon, Georgia, and Haiti at the start of the 2010 earthquake, as well as UN HQ in New York where two of my three children were born.

While I have always been interested in an international career, I ended up with UN-OCHA almost by chance, as my first job after university was with a City stockbroker. During a one-year posting to Hong Kong in 1992, I happened to visit Cambodia. At this time, the UN had taken over administration of the state through the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and I happened to meet some UNTAC staff. I was fascinated by their work and, after

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further enquiries, I discovered that UNTAC was recruiting. I applied through the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was offered a temporary contract. It was the best decision that I have ever made as, 25 years later, I am still in the UN.

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everyone is paranoid. rough our hospital in Gaza we are trying to bring much-needed cancer treatment. If you live in Gaza and need radiation therapy, you have to travel to a hospital outside the Gaza Strip. is requires a permit from Israel. According to the World Health Organisation, only 37% of Gazans applying for permits for medical reasons were successful in 2015/16.

Yet, while the situation is difficult and often tense, the Christian community also speak passionately of hope for a better future, frequently citing Jesus’s call for all to reach out and love their neighbour, and referring to Jerusalem as the City of the Resurrection or the City of Hope.

It’s been a huge privilege to work for the Archbishop. We will be sad to leave but are excited at new opportunities ahead, as later this year I am licensed to a small benefice of seven parishes in Norfolk.

Left: Jamie Lyon, David Carden and David Longe in the Anglican Cathedral in Jerusalem. A picture of Bishop Rennie MacInness (Small Houses and The Foss 18843), stands on the table between them, and a portrait of Bishop Angus MacInnes (Elmfield 19152) hangs above to the right.

Jamie Lyon (Rendalls 1987³), Foreign and Commonwealth Office, writes: I joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 2004, aged 30. To me, it seemed to be a career that encapsulated much of my working experience up till then. After Harrow and Newcastle University, I served five years in the British Army, was briefly a TV journalist and spent two years working for the demining charity the HALO Trust. All these experiences, indeed any experience, is useful for being a diplomat but the most important quality, in my view, is curiosity about people and cultures other than your own.

Since joining, I have worked predominantly in the Islamic world, with postings to Afghanistan, Jordan, Israel and, most recently, Baghdad, and have had the opportunity to learn Persian and Arabic. At Harrow, I gave up languages after my GCSEs on the advice of my House Master: a decision I later regretted but which instilled a strong desire in me to learn Persian and Arabic when the opportunity arose. Although difficult to learn and challenging to use, they have been an integral part of my working life over the past 14 years wherever I have worked. It is an immense privilege to be paid to learn a language and I would particularly recommend that aspect of the job to anyone considering the FCO as a career.

I have just finished an 18-month posting to Baghdad where I was the Political/Military Counsellor in the British Embassy. My role involved advising International Coalition military and the Iraqi security forces on how better to integrate their training and capabilities to counter the threat from Islamic State. It required dredging up some rather faded memories of my own military service, but it reminded me why I joined the FCO: opportunities to work with people across different cultures and organisations is an energising and educative process. I particularly enjoyed working closely with Iraqi officials and trying to master their formidably difficult Arabic dialect – an experience that reminded me somewhat of my Harrow days learning Latin with the late James Morwood (1966-1996).

Many OHs have served in the Middle East: Sir Percy Cox (e Head Master’s 18783), distinguished Arabist and champion of Iraqi

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nationalism in the 1920s, and Sir Jeremy Greenstock (e Grove 19563), UK Special Representative to Iraq during the 2003 invasion were two OH diplomats who made an indelible contribution to Iraq. General Alexander was Commander-in-Chief Middle East during the Second World War, and of course, members of the Hashemite and other prominent Arab families have been educated at Harrow over the course of a century or more. So there is a deep connection between Harrow, the FCO and the Middle East. I would encourage any Harrovian to consider a career in the FCO with the health warning that, as somebody once said, if you do decide to learn Arabic “the first 25 years are the hardest!”

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THE ENTRE

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THE ENTREPRENEURS

JACK SCOTT (Elmfield 2004³)

AL E X I PI TTA LI S (Rendalls 2007³)

TOM BATTI NG (The Park 2003³)

Coming from a farming background, food and drink has been close to Jack’s heart.

After leaving Harrow, Jack studied Sociology at Bristol University. Following this, he joined Cawston Press, a soft drinks company where he was in sales for three years.

Jack launched Dash Water in May 2017 with co-founder Alex Wright. it can now be found in around 800 stores across the Uk including, Whole Foods, Fortnum & Mason, yo!Sushi, Planet Organic, and Zizzi restaurants.

Dash Water is a new breed of British flavoured water, bringing healthy and sustainable hydration to the fore. The first of its kind in the Uk, this new range of sparkling spring waters is uniquely infused with surplus ‘wonky’ fruit saved from British farms.

Born out of a desire to create a distinctively refreshing soft drink, free from sugars and sweeteners and produced with the lowest possible impact on the environment, Jack and Alex set out to prove that flavoured water could be developed naturally and sustainably, from the packaging through to the product itself.

The result is a responsibly crafted, three-can collection of waters, each with a unique dash of flavour – the bountiful produce deemed too ‘imperfect’ for supermarket shelves. infused for eight hours, Dash Water includes nothing more than British spring water, wonky fruit and bubbles, making an appetisingly natural soft-drink alternative.

During various travels in between studying at newcastle University, Alexi and friend James Golby, both sun seekers and beach enthusiasts, felt men’s premium beachwear was lacking in one crucial area, The Beach Bag. After visiting a number of beach clubs and hotel resorts across the world, Alexi and James had had enough of watching countless men lugging their partners’ girly beach bags around, lacking any alternatives. They set about re-imagining the beach bag into a more elegant weekender shape, whilst infusing sand and water repellent materials in keeping with men’s practical nature.

Alexi and James transformed their premium beach bag concept into a lifestyle brand and business, Psamathe Mykonos.

Alexi’s Greek roots were the inspiration behind the name. Psamathe being the goddess of sandy beaches in Greek mythology and Mykonos being home to some of the most vibrant beaches in the world.

Over a year was spent developing their ideas, involving trials of different materials and designs, and it led to their first collection SS18, with online sales beginning in May 2018.

The result is a unique collection of men’s premium beachwear and accessories, with a primary focus on men’s beach bags. Each product is inspired by the Mykonian way of life, also known as ‘the good life’, with colours and patterns that are drawn from the island’s iconic heritage and scenery.

Their plan is to develop Psamathe into a respected and innovative men’s beachwear brand with a queue of product ideas lined up for future collections.

After studying Economics and Management at newcastle University, Tom was working as a strategy consultant in London – never leaving the office and never seeing the light of day. Tom was interested in learning butchery, the art of making bacon and sausages, and becoming the ultimate home chef, but found that he did not have enough time even to research how to develop his skills, nevermind find the time to go to a butchery or cooking class. in 2016, Tom dropped the City life and co-founded Obby with Max kufner. Obby is an education marketplace, connecting London’s finest educators with those hungry to learn.

From pottery to painting, cocktail making to wine tasting, curious customers can book hundreds of curated, hands-on classes and courses quickly and securely via Obby's digital online platform. Obby empowers its teachers with smart class management tools and allows users flexibility to swap classes when schedules cloud over. The platform champions modern-day learning.

Obby currently has the largest curated selection of learning experiences in London and is looking to expand across the Uk and Europe in the coming 12 months. The future of Obby is to become the world's most renowned learning brand, with the aim of allowing anyone anywhere to learn or teach a new skill.

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Following in the footsteps of many OH entrepreneurs before them, including Julian Metcalfe OBE (Elmfield 1973³), founder of Pret à Manger and itsu; Chris Blackwell (e Grove 1951¹), founder of Island Records, and Andrew Ritchie MBE (e Park 1960²), designer of the Brompton portable bike, to name but a few, we take a look at some of today's brightest young OH start-ups.

WIL LIA M B R I G H TM AN (Druries 20043) Having read Economics and Management at Oxford University, William joined Citi in the investment banking division. Two years later, he moved to an equity long/short hedge fund and it was here that he had the idea of starting Optiat.

After receiving a cafetière for Christmas, he started making coffee each morning.

However, in doing so, he realised that the used coffee grounds were being thrown away each time. Upon further research, he found that more than 500,000 tonnes of coffee grounds a year in the Uk alone are sent to landfill. Furthermore, he discovered that these used coffee grounds could be turned into a natural, antioxidant-rich exfoliating body scrub. Optiat, which stands for ‘One Person's Trash is Another's Treasure’, was born.

Optiat can now be found in eight countries across Europe. in the Uk, it is listed in the likes of Whole Foods, Planet Organic, Topshop, Booths and As nature intended as well as on Amazon, Cult Beauty and Pretty Little Thing.

Since successfully crowdfunding earlier in the year, William and his sister Anna have plans to expand into new product categories including soap bars made with brewed chai tea spices, and have just hired the first member of their team. Their ultimate aim is to have an Optiat product in every home. optiat.com Instagram @optiat_co

JAM E S LA NE (The Park 2010³) E DWA RD McGOVE RN (The Knoll 2010³) James and Ed co-founded Indigo Productions at the beginning of 2016, whilst they were studying at UCL and Oxford University respectively. This was a year after leaving Harrow where they had acted regularly in musicals and plays in the Ryan Theatre and Speech Room. Their aim was to bring together a wide range of actors, directors, technicians, designers and other creative people looking to move from university-level artistic projects to a more professional level of production. in the last two years, indigo has produced short films, sketch comedy, drama, spoken word poetry, arts festivals and music events at a variety of venues around the Uk. Whilst their company’s core ethos is to support and produce up-and-coming creative people, it also aims to give back to the community. it has an outreach coordinator at the heart of its operations, successfully raising thousands of pounds for charity at its artistic events.

So far in 2018, they have produced a short film shot in southwest Scotland with a cast and crew of 19, and a three-day women’s arts festival with over 30 different performers that featured in Time Out and the Evening Standard.

Most excitingly, their short film ELLE, filmed in 2017 and featuring Les Miserables’ isabelle Allen, has been selected to be screened at international film festivals including Chicago, Los Angeles, the independent London Film Festival and the Short Film Corner at Cannes, as well as picking up a Special Jury Award in the Oscar-qualifying San Francisco international Film Festival.

ALE XAN DE R O LESE N (Rendalls 2008³) Alexander began learning about hydroponic farming in an open-source software elective at the University of virginia. They challenged the class to build a small, affordable hydroponic system that could be replicated by refugees in developing countries. After successfully designing and implementing this project, the idea of creating automated ‘food machines’ was born.

Alexander founded the company Babylon Micro-Farms while in his last year at university.

The company was accepted into the iLab Accelerator Program at the Darden School of Business, where they were able to develop their products and gain some traction.

Babylon Micro-Farms is now primarily an AgTech company, having created proprietary technology to regulate a hydroponic farm automatically, thus significantly reducing the barriers to entry for this sustainable means of agriculture that grows crops twice as fast and using 95% less water than in conventional agriculture. The company is developing what they call ‘the next generation of kitchen appliances’, which will allow anyone to grow their own fresh organic ingredients with the push of a button. These systems are designed to work with pre-seeded refill pods containing specially formulated ‘smart soil’ that allow them to operate in a similar way to a nespresso coffee machine. The company has recently closed a seed round to develop their line of ioT products, and they are on track to raise Series A funding early next year to put them into production and open up new verticals using their core technology. babylonmicrofarms.com

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CAREERS CONVENTION 2018 Every year, the Harrow Association joins forces with the School to host a careers convention for Fifth and Sixth Form boys.

We are grateful to OHs and parents who give up their Sunday evenings to offer help and advice to the boys about their chosen careers. is year was no exception and the enthusiastic turnout from OHs and parents was much appreciated.

Chartered Surveyor, Michael Sharron (Bradbys 1979¹) was one such OH. Above right, he tells us why he offers his help each year.

HA CAREERS TALKS Each year at regular intervals, OHs working in different fields return to the Hill to talk to the boys about their career experience. This year, a big thank you goes to Sam Fane (The Knoll 2002³) for returning to talk about his experiences as a youTuber, and to Jack young (Newlands 2008¹) and Peter Hedley (West Acre¹) for talking to the boys about starting out in technology.

Michael Sharron (Bradbys 1979¹) I AM A QUALIFIED chartered

surveyor, and member of the RiCS, specialising in the field of commercial property investment throughout the Uk. i have my own property investment agency, which i set up in 2004, having previously been a partner in the investment department of Allsop & Co. i have attended the Careers Convention on a number of occasions as i wish to share my work experiences with the boys, and give them an insight into what a chartered surveyor does. i recall during my time at the School that there was no similar event to allow boys to compare the various professions and careers in the outside world, so the Harrow Careers evening does provide an invaluable tool for the boys to gain some context and understanding of the various career choices.

This year, i attended the evening with Ali Onslow (Elmfield 20103), an undergraduate studying Real Estate at Reading University. This helped the boys relate to their next step, as he was in their shoes only a few years ago. it transpires he recalls speaking to me during his time at the School and the careers evening helped cement his decision to study real estate and to apply to work for one of the large national surveying firms, so evidently the system works! i would thoroughly recommend the event to OHs. it is a convivial evening amongst friends, commencing with a buffet dinner, but most importantly a chance to impart knowledge to eager boys to help them navigate their next step after Harrow.

Would you like to help next year?

We are always keen to hear from OHs willing to share their experience and expertise with current Harrovians at the Careers Convention every January. If you would like to be involved with the 2019 Convention or come and give a careers talk on a weekday evening, please contact Perena Shryane at ha@harrowschool.org.uk.

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In 2017, Harrow celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Peter Beckwith Scholarship Scheme, founded by Peter Beckwith OBE (Elmfield 1958³). To date, the scheme has funded more than 50 scholarships at the School. Each year, it pays for two boys to go from a state primary school to a prep school for two years and then on to Harrow. We spoke to six former Beckwith Scholars at different stages in their career about their experience so far and what the scholarship has meant for them. You can read about another, Will Brightman (Druries 2004³), in our feature about OH Entrepreneurs on pages 56-59.

PAU L M OL LOY (The Park 1991³)

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“Having been fortunate enough to receive a Peter Beckwith Scholarship, I went on to have five fabulous years at Harrow. Armed with many fond memories, friends, sporting achievements and a few qualifications, I went on to complete a Business Studies degree at University of the West of England. Short stints at Unisys and World Duty Free followed before I joined forces with fellow OH Julian Hay (e Head Master’s 1984³) to assist in setting up iMediasport. During my 17 years at iMedia, we have worked with many high-profile international brands at some of the world’s top sporting events.

Outside of the office, I have been a regular for the OH Association Football Club since 1996 and still play for the Vets and occasionally for the 1st XI when my three young children aren't demanding my attention. Highlights include winning the Premier Division title in 2004 and 2010 and the clubs only victory in the Arthur Dunn Cup in 2007. I have also contributed to the club off the field as Club Secretary for nine years and Dinner Secretary for another nine years. A fantastic club and a brilliant way of keeping in touch with the School.”

LU KA G AK I C (Moretons 1998³)

“On leaving Harrow, I enjoyed reading PPE at Oxford. ereafter, an internship at the Office of the High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina was enough to show me that diplomacy was not for me, so I ended up on the Lehman Brothers trading floor as a graduate trainee. Today, I am Head of Private Clients at investment management partnership Ruffer LLP, where I am focused on making positive returns for clients come what may. I still sing when I can, and am a nauseatingly proud husband and father. Luck is a big ingredient in success. If I have had any success, it has been almost entirely thanks to the fact that I was lucky enough to have a state primary school head teacher, Yvonne Lawrence, who didn’t throw the Peter Beckwith Harrow Trust’s letter in the bin. Peter’s exemplary gratitude has manifested in life-changing luck for me, and in giving back to the Trust I hope to provide others with the same fortune and the same example.”

M A R K G R EAV E S (The Park 2004³)

“After Harrow, I spent four fantastic years studying Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. Following a year out, travelling through Nepal and India and studying Mandarin Chinese at a university in Beijing, I decided to pursue a career as a barrister. I became a tenant at Old Square Chambers in October 2017 and now specialize in employment, education and personal injury law. I have a particular interest in representing children with special educational needs, developed through voluntary work as the Director of the School Exclusion Project and as a caseworker for SOS!SEN. With the support of the Beckwith Trust, I had opportunities at Harrow which have shaped my career: I was able to study the great orators during Latin and Greek lessons, take part in debates and perform in plays, all of which helped develop the advocacy skills I now use every day. I will forever be grateful to Peter whose generosity made it possible.”

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TOM XI E (The Head Master’s 2011³)

“I have just finished my first year at Harvard University and will begin to major in Economics next year.

As a sophomore, I have been heavily involved with the Harvard International Review, an internationally sold and published foreign affairs magazine, as a business analyst and coordinaBeckwith Scholars Reunion lunch 2017 tor, and, I hope, as a writer in the coming months. After travelling across Europe this summer, I will begin an internship at Barclays Bank in New York before starting sophomore year. e depth of my gratitude for receiving the Peter Beckwith Scholarship is frankly unfathomable. If not for Peter and his generosity, the paragraph above would be looking pretty blank! I’m certain that every success in the future will be attributable to this scheme and ultimately Peter’s generosity.”

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OGY EN VE RHAG EN (The Knoll 2008³)

“I am in my fourth and final year of an Astrophysics degree at the University of St Andrews and have been working on a dissertation that investigates five of the nearest star-forming regions to the sun. Beyond academics, I have remained a keen athlete and enjoyed four years of 1st XI football for the university men’s team. I recently also joined the university golf team, determined to play a round on the famous St Andrews Old Course before the end of the summer. is summer I will complete an internship with PwC in Edinburgh before returning to the Netherlands for the first time after living in the UK for over ten years, to start a Master’s course at the Rotterdam School of Management.”

L AUREN CE WILLIAMS (Moretons 2003³)

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“After my time at Harrow School came to its end, I subsequently found myself beautifully lost in a year out before continuing my higher education in Manchester and Oxford. Whilst playing Othello in Oxford's North Wall eatre, I was fortunate enough to be plucked by the acting industry's ‘teddy pickers’ to become a signed professional. Financial security and mental stability were thrown out the proverbial window and I have never looked back. Highlights in my career thus far include appearances in BBC and Channel 4 productions (including Simon Blackwell’s BACK alongside two of my heroes, David Mitchell and Robert Webb), performances on stages in London and a tour with a Royal Court production. I am now on the verge of having a documentary, which I helped write and produce, broadcast on Sky. A feature-length premiere in My Dinner with Herve, an HBO feature film featuring Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan is due out soon and I am currently filming another feature film in Galway, due for release in 2019.

I am under no illusions when it comes to the difficulty of the career that I have chosen. One thing that has helped me above all others to get to the stage or screen is self-belief. It never wavers. is is in part due to the stubbornness entrenched in my genetic code (thank you Mum and Dad!) but also stems from the wonderful education I received as a result of the scholarship that was awarded to me by Peter Beckwith in 2001. It remains my greatest achievement and a constant source of self-confidence.”

To celebrate the 25th anniversary, the School, via the Harrow Development Trust, has decided to replenish the fund. e aim is, first, to bring the fund back to £4 million and, second, to ensure Beckwith Scholars at Harrow in perpetuity. If you would like to find out more about this and other Harrow scholarship and bursary schemes, visit harrowschool.org.uk/supportharrow.

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HARROW DEVELOPMENT UPDATE In addition to funding many bursaries and scholarships, the Harrow Development Trust, with the School, has an ongoing programme of capital and renovation projects to improve and preserve the School’s key buildings and heritage.

e Grove and Druries renovation projects e plan is to remodel and extend these beautiful Houses. Campaigns are underway to raise £3 million for each project and contributions are being gratefully received from many Old Grovites and Old Drurieans.

Work has commenced on e Grove and will start in Druries in 2019, subject to planning permission.

Visit harrowschool.org.uk/Current-Campaigns to find out more and offer your support.

Rackets A project is underway to bring the Old Rackets Court, which was constructed in 1865, up to the best modern standards and so maintain Harrow’s proud tradition of the game. We are nearing our fundraising target and ask all OH players and supporters to help us raise the remaining amount, as their predecessors did in 1865 and, again, in 1965 when the second court at Harrow was built.

Visit harrowschool.org.uk/Rackets

Visit the Support Us pages of the School website (harrowschool.org.uk/supportharrow) to find out more about these and other projects, or contact the Harrow Development Trust team on +44 (0)20 8872 8500.

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Captain AB Bagley, MC (Rendalls 19043) Lieutenant AL Bain (e Grove 18963) Lieutenant AS Balfour (Druries 19083) Lieutenant DF Barclay (Churchill Hill 19072) Lieutenant AG Bathurst Norman (e Park 19123) Captain EL Beale (Moretons 19043) Lieutenant JH Beever (e Head Master’s 19112) Lieutenant Colonel DF Bickmore, DSO (Newlands 19052) Lieutenant Colonel PLK Blair-Oliphant DSO (Moretons 18821) Lieutenant JH Blount (Rendalls 19123) Lieutenant Colonel WET Bolitho, DSO (Moretons 18761) Lieutenant ET Bolton (e Grove 18972) Sergeant WS Bolton (e Grove 18983) Lieutenant RH Bonnin (e Head Master’s 19111) Major GD Brown, MC (e Head Master’s 19002) Captain KE Brown, MC (e Head Master’s 19092) Captain WHC Brownlow (Druries 19033) Lieutenant C Bruce (Moretons 19062) Captain WR Bruce-Clarke (High Street 19002) Lieutenant JO Butler (e Head Master’s 19123) Lieutenant LG Byng, MC (High Street 19021) Major EHH Carlile (Newlands 18943) Lieutenant JW Church (e Park 18923) Captain LP Clay (Newlands 18942) Major R Cordy Simpson (Druries 18971) Captain A Craig, MC (Home Boarders 19002) Captain HCB Cottam, MC (e Knoll 19043) Captain RVL Dallas, MC (West Acre 19063) Lieutenant BC Davis (West Acre 19122) Lieutenant GC Davis (e Park 19082) Captain TV Bartley Denniss (West Acre 19053) Private e Rev. LK Digby (e Park 18973) Major HJ Dresser (Church Hill 18983) Lieutenant HGB Drummond, MC (Elmfield 19121) Lieutenant Colonel E Fairclough (Newlands 18983) Captain HB Farquhar (e Grove 18882) Captain AL Fenwick (Moretons 19073) Captain P St G Findlater (Druries 18961) Lieutenant CAG Fitch (High Street 19131) Lieutenant IC Gascoigne (e Head Master’s 19113) Major EN Gilliat, MC (Small Houses 18952) Lieutenant Colonel PM Glasier, DSO (Moretons 19032) Lieutenant RG Gordon (West Acre 19123) Major F Graham, DSO, MC (Rendalls 19073) Major WR Gregory, MC (e Grove 18952) Lieutenant HH Grundtvig, MC (Druries 19102) Lieutenant Colonel GPS Hunt, CMG, DSO (Home Boarders 18913) Lieutenant J Hardy (e Grove 19033) Lieutenant E Hartley (Druries 19082) Lieutenant WH Hartley, MC (Newlands 19102) Lieutenant C Hartree (e Park 18932) Captain FH Hodgson (Rendalls 19103) Captain TE Holland, MC (Druries 19032) Lieutenant FH Holt (Elmfield 19121) Lieutenant EG De L Hopcraft (e Knoll 19003) Private WI Hornby (Druries 18932) Lieutenant Colonel C Huntly Gordon (e Grove 18592) Captain P Hurlbutt, MC (Druries 18921) Lieutenant JS Ingleby (High Street 19133) Captain GCL Insole, MC (West Acre 19021) Lieutenant Viscount Ipswich (Druries 18982) Lieutenant SG Isherwood (Newlands 19103) Flight-Observer WBL Jones (e Head Master’s 19033) Lieutenant GB Joy (Newlands 19053) Brigadier-General Sir WAI Kay, Bart., CMG, DSO (e Knoll 18901)

29 October 1918, aged 27 4 November 1918, aged 36 13 January 1918, aged 23 2 April 1918, aged 23 20 November 1918, aged 19 22 March 1918, aged 26 24 March 1918, aged 20 20 July 1918, aged 27 8 April 1918, aged 50 6 July 1918, aged 19 21 February 1918, aged 56 10 April 1918, aged 34 7 February 1919, aged 34 24 August 1918, aged 21 14 April 1918, aged 31 12 April 1918, aged 22 28 May 1918, aged 28 5 September 1918, aged 26 1 December 1918, aged 32 11 April 1918, aged 19 24 August 1918, aged 30 22 March 1918, aged 37 30 March 1918, aged 39 18 February 1918, aged 37 27 February 1919, aged 35 23 March 1918, aged 31 30 September 1918, aged 27 13 April 1918, aged 25 22 August 1918, aged 19 11 May 1918, aged 23 28 August 1918, aged 26 18 October 1918, aged 34 2 June 1918, aged 33 3 September 1918, aged 20 10 April 1918, aged 33 22 May 1916, aged 42 16 February 1918, aged 24 27 March 1918, aged 36 18 September 1918, aged 19 12 April 1918, aged 19 12 August 1918, aged 35 2 June 1918, aged 28 18 September 1918, aged 19 28 March 1918, aged 24 23 January 1918, aged 36 22 March 1918, aged 21 23 March 1918, aged 40 21 October 1918, aged 28 18 May 1918, aged 23 22 March 1918, aged 21 29 May 1918, aged 38 19 November 1918, aged 22 11 January 1919, aged 29 22 August 1918, aged 20 27 September 1918, aged 31 5 November 1918, aged 40 25 November 1918, aged 53 8 June 1918, aged 40 11 June 1918, aged 19 12 April 1918, aged 30 23 April 1918, aged 33 20 September 1918, aged 20 7 January 1918, aged 27 22 May 1918, aged 23 4 October 1918, aged 42

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Lieutenant Colonel HH Kennedy (Church Hill 18961) Captain JPF Kennedy (Elmfield 19052) Lieutenant CRW Knight (e Knoll 19123) Captain C Landale (e Knoll 18952) Captain CC Langford (e Grove 19021) Captain EG Lawton (e Knoll 19031) Major PL Leared (Rendalls 18952) Lieutenant Colonel RH Leyland (West Acre 18983) Captain IH Linford, MC (e Park 19053) Lieutenant JR Lowis (Elmfield 19073) Lieutenant CS Lynden-Bell (e Park 19083) Lieutenant WH St J Lyons (Rendalls 19022) Sub-Lieutenant HJR Maitland (Rendalls 19121) Lieutenant EG Manuel (e Knoll 19033) Captain JK Mews (Rendalls 19083) Lieutenant RG Miles, MC (Church Hill 18982) Lieutenant GGD Miller (e Head Master’s 19133) Private RHN Mintorn (Home Boarders 18771) Lieutenant EP Aylett Moore, MC (Druries 19123) Lieutenant F Morris (Newlands 19053) Major H Musgrave, DSO (Church Hill 18902) Lieutenant JG Mylne (Rendalls 19003) Captain AJ North, MC (e Head Master’s 18973) Lieutenant GER Oakes (Rendalls 19073) Lieutenant TF Oliver (Church Hill 19003) Major BC Parr (Elmfield 18982) Major BC Pascoe, MC (e Grove 19102) Lieutenant SG Pollock (Church Hill 19093) Lieutenant MH Ponsonby (Church Hill 19102) Lieutenant W Clarkson Potter, DSC (Druries 19111) Lieutenant Colonel GK Priaulx, DSO (West Acre 18913) Lieutenant BC Ransome (West Acre 18853) Lieutenant WD Raymond (e Knoll 19102) Colonel ER Reid, CB, DSO (e Park 18641) Captain NM Reid (e Knoll 18913) Captain CFP Reynard (Moretons 19031) Captain GP Roch (e Park 18892) Captain WP Roch (e Park 18952) Lieutenant Colonel RH Sanderson (e Park 18903) Cadet TL Sanderson (e Grove 19142) Lieutenant JR Saunders (Newlands 19133) Captain AM Shaw (Moretons 19013) Lieutenant EB Shelley (Small Houses 19101) Lieutenant HS Sherwood (Home Boarders 19132) Captain OW Sichel (Elmfield 19063) Lieutenant DHA Simson (e Knoll 19122) Captain G Skirrow (High Street 19103) Lieutenant JF Snowball (Elmfield 18993) Lieutenant Colonel WR Stewart, DSO, MC (Druries 19013) Lieutenant Colonel H Storr, DSO (Moretons 18892) Lieutenant AH Strutt (e Park 19093) Lieutenant LCS Tatham (e Knoll 19103) Captain CEH Tempest-Hicks, MC (West Acre 19022) Lieutenant HGM Vickers (e Park 19002) Lieutenant JCG Warwick (West Acre 19083) Major WE Watson, DSO (Rendalls 18903) Captain ANH Weekes, MC (Churchill Hill 19031) Captain VEO Welch (Home Boarders 19103) Lieutenant WH Whetstone (e Head Master’s 19112) Major JF Wilkinson, MC (Elmfield 19091) Captain G Williams (e Park 19033) Brigadier-General AA Wolfe Murray, CB (High Street 18803) Major HF Wood (Rendalls 18963) Captain F Woodcock, MC (e Knoll 19113)

29 July 1918, aged 36 24 April 1918, aged 26 21 June 1919, aged 21 21 August 1918, aged 37 9 April 1918, aged 29 12 April 1918, aged 28 7 March 1918, aged 37 24 September 1918, aged 33 23 March 1918, aged 26 4 September 1918, aged 24 21 February 1918, aged 23 1 November 1918, aged 29 17 March 1918, aged 19 8 June 1918, aged 29 24 August 1918, aged 23 11 March 1918, aged 33 15 September 1919, aged 19 28 April 1918, aged 53 4 November 1918, aged 19 27 May 1918, aged 25 3 June 1918, aged 42 2 September 1918, aged 31 27 September 1918, aged 34 19 April 1918, aged 24 26 October 1918, aged 32 3 September 1918, aged 34 27 May 1918, aged 22 19 November 1918, aged 23 27 August 1918, aged 22 10 October 1918, aged 22 24 March 1918, aged 40 30 June 1918, aged 47 26 October 1918, aged 22 14 October 1918, aged 68 12 January 1917, aged 39 16 June 1918, aged 29 21 May 1918, aged 43 11 March 1918, aged 36 17 April 1918, aged 41 9 December 1918, aged 18 4 November 1918, aged 20 10 April 1918, aged 31 12 September 1918, aged 22 29 August 1918, aged 19 25 October 1918, aged 25 18 September 1918, aged 20 27 August 1918, aged 22 29 September 1918, aged 32 8 April 1918, aged 30 15 August 1918, aged 43 27 April 1918, aged 22 10 January 1918, aged 22 9 August 1918, aged 29 30 October 1918, aged 32 27 May 1918, aged 23 31 October 1918, aged 38 29 July 1918, aged 29 30 August 1918, aged 21 28 March 1918, aged 20 29 October 1918, aged 23 15 November 1918, aged 29 7 December 1918, aged 52 12 December 1918, aged 35 31 October 1918, aged 21

ROLL OF HONOUR

1918 In the Great War of 1914-18, 2,917 Harrovians served in the armed forces: 690 were wounded and 644 killed. In the annual issues of Follow Up! from 2015 to 2018, we present the names of those Harrovians who died 100 years earlier as a result of the First World War.

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1914-1918 e Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour in the face of the enemy.

It takes precedence over all other orders, decorations and medals. In the War Memorial building, an exhibition of replica VC medals and excerpts from the award-holders’ entries in the Memorial books are on display in commemoration. Here, we reproduce those of the eight Old Harrovian VCs and one Master and Chaplain at Harrow, awarded for extraordinary bravery during World War One.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL ERNEST WRIGHT ALEXANDER The Park 1884³ ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY

For conspicuous bravery and great ability at Elouges on 24 August 1914, when the flank guard was attacked by a German corps, in handling his battery against overwhelming odds with such conspicuous success that all his guns were saved, notwithstanding that they had to be withdrawn by hand by himself and three other men. is enabled the retirement of the 5th Division to be carried out without serious loss.

Subsequently Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander (then Major) rescued a wounded man under a heavy fire, with the greatest gallantry and devotion to duty.

CAPTAIN GEOFFREY HAROLD WOOLLEY Master & Chaplain at Harrow 1927-39 Vicar of St Mary’s, Harrow 1944-52 9TH BATTALION THE LONDON REGIMENT (QUEEN VICTORIA’S RIFLES)

Although the only officer on ‘Hill 60’ at Ypres Salient during the night of 20-21 April 1915, and with very few men, Woolley successfully resisted all attacks on his trench, and continued throwing bombs and encouraging his men till relieved. He was mentioned in Despatches and features in the book Deeds that rill the Empire. Capt Woolley was the first Territorial Officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BARNARD RHODES-MOORHOUSE The Park 1901³ ROYAL FLYING CORPS

On 26 April 1915 at Kortrijk, Belgium, Rhodes-Moorhouse swept low over the railway junction that he had been ordered to attack. He released his 100lb bomb and was immediately plunged into a heavy barrage of small arms fire from rifles and a machine-gun in the belfry of Kortrijk Church; he was severely wounded by a bullet in his thigh, and his plane was badly hit. Returning to the Allied lines, he again ran into heavy fire from the ground and was wounded twice more. He managed to get his aircraft back, and insisted on making his report before being taken to the Casualty Cleaning Station. He died the next day, 27 April 1915.

For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 22 May 1915 For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 18 February 1915

For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 22 May 1915

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CAPTAIN RICHARD RAYMOND WILLIS

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On 26 April 1915, subsequent to a landing having been effected on the beach at a point on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during which both BrigadierGeneral and Brigade Major had been killed, Lieutenant-Colonel DoughtyWylie and Captain Walford organised and led an attack through and on both sides of the village of Sedd el Bahr on the Old Castle at the top of the hill inland. e enemy’s position was very strongly held and entrenched, and defended with concealed machine-guns and pompoms. It was mainly due to the initiative, skill and great gallantry of these two Officers that the attack was a complete success. Both were killed in the moment of victory.

For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 23 June 1915

On 25 April 1915, three Companies and the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, in effecting a landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula were met by a very deadly fire from hidden machine guns which caused a great number of casualities. e survivors, however, rushed up to and cut the wire entanglements, notwithstanding the terrific fire from the enemy, and, after overcoming supreme difficulties, the cliffs were gained and the position maintained.

Amongst the many very gallant Officers and men engaged in this hazardous undertaking Captain Willis has been selected by his comrades as having performed the most signal act of bravery and devotion to duty.

CAPTAIN THOMAS RIVERSDALE COLYER-FERGUSSON The Head Master’s 1909³ 2ND BATTALION, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT

Owing to the difficulties of the ground and enemy wire, Captain ColyerFergusson found himself with a Sergeant and five men only. He carried out the attack nevertheless, and succeeded in capturing the enemy trench and disposing of the garrison. His party resisted a heavy counter-attack from the left front. During this operation, assisted by his Orderly only, he attacked and captured an enemy machine gun and turned it on the assailants, many of whom were killed and a large number driven into the hands of an adjoining British unit.

Later, assisted only by his Sergeant, he attacked and captured a second enemy machine gun. e conduct of this officer forms an amazing record of dash, gallantry and skill, for which no reward can be too great, having regard to the importance of the position won. is gallant Officer was shortly afterwards killed by a sniper.

For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 24 August 1915

For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 6 September 1917

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LIEUTENANT (ACTING CAPTAIN) WALTER NAPLETON STONE The Head Master’s 1906³ 3RD ATTACHED 17TH (SERVICE) BATTALION, ROYAL FUSILIERS

When in command of a company in an isolated position 1000 yards in front of the main line, and overlooking the enemy’s position, he observed the enemy massing for an attack and afforded invaluable information to battalion headquarters. He was ordered to withdraw his company, leaving a rearguard to cover the withdrawal. Captain Stone took command of the rear-guard sending back vital information whilst fighting the battle. Captain Stone was seen fighting to the last, till being shot through the head.

For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 13 February 1918

CAPTAIN AND BREVET-MAJOR, THE RT. HON. JOHN STANDISH SURTEES PRENDERGAST VEREKER, 6TH VISCOUNT GORT, DSO, MVO, MC Small Houses and The Head Master’s 1900² 1ST BATTALION GRENADIER GUARDS

For skilful leading and devotion to duty during the attack of the Guards Division on 27 September 1918, across the Canal du Nord, near Flesquieres. Under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, he led his battalion with great skill and determination to the “forming-up” ground, where very severe fire was again encountered. Although wounded, he directed a platoon to proceed down a sunken road to make a flanking attack, and, under terrific fire, went across open ground to obtain the assistance of a Tank, which he personally led to the best possible advantage. While fearlessly exposing himself, he was again severely wounded by a shell. Notwithstanding considerable loss of blood, he insisted on getting up and directing the further attack.

By his magnificent example of devotion to duty and utter disregard of personal safety all ranks were inspired to exert themselves to the utmost, and the attack resulted in the capture of over 200 prisoners, two batteries of field guns and numerous machine guns. Lt.-Col. Viscount Gort then proceeded to organise the defence of the captured position until he collapsed; even then he refused to leave the field until he had seen the “success signal” go up on the final objective. e successful advance of the battalion was mainly due to the valour, devotion and leadership of this very gallant officer.

For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 27 November 1918

MAJOR GEORGE DE CARDONNELL ELMSALL FINDLAY DSO, MC Elmfield 1903¹ 409TH (LOWLAND) FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL ENGINEERS

On 4 November 1918 during the forcing of the Sambre-Oise Canal at the lock south of Catillon, France, Major Findlay was with the leading bridging and assaulting parties which came under heavy fire and the advance was stopped.

Nevertheless he collected what men he could and repaired the bridge, under incessant fire. Although wounded he continued with his task and after two unsuccessful efforts managed to place the bridge in position across the lock and was the first man across, remaining at this dangerous post until further work was completed.

For most conspicuous bravery Awarded the Victoria Cross 15 May 1919

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Catering in London is a very small world in “I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT COOKING saved my life,” says 60 STAFF IN THE which Sylvain is well known, so he had no diffiSylvain Chevereau, Head Chef at Harrow. “As a boy, I was CATERING TEAM culty finding temporary work. After a few always getting into trouble and got kicked out of quite a few INCLUDING 17 weeks, he was asked if he would consider a schools. I wasn’t at all academically minded but I had CHEFS ON two-week position as Head Chef at Harrow. At always enjoyed food and cooking. I left school at 13, found first, Sylvain dismissed it out of hand: “I said I a chef to take me on as an apprentice and that was it. From AVERAGE OVER hadn’t worked all those years to become a then on, I kept on the straight and narrow.”

22,000 MEALS cook in a school.” However, a look at the Although Sylvain was born and grew up just outside ARE COOKED website made him change his mind.

Paris, his family came from Mauritius and this influences EACH WEEK 25,000 School’s He came for two weeks, then a month, and the type of food he cooks. “I love Asian food, spicy food, and PACKED MEALS was then offered an interim position for a it has helped me understand how flavours work,” he says.

PREPARED EACH term. Now he has been at Harrow for more His training was, however, typically French. He did his than 18 months: “I like being here. It’s like apprenticeship at a traditional Michelin-starred restaurant YEAR DAILY working at a hotel: we do breakfast, lunch and not far from Paris. “It was a tough, very disciplined environCONSUMPTION dinner; we do weddings, banqueting, VIP funcment,” he says, “but the chef was brilliant and really loved INCLUDES 160 tions and governors’ dinners. ere’s so much food. Being in contact with someone like that either makes LITRES OF MILK diversity: it’s brilliant.” you love what you do even more, or makes you realise it’s 100 LOAVES OF Variety is the thing he loves most about the not for you. I was lucky enough to understand what he was BREAD 200 KILOS job. “When I wake up in the morning I am doing and why he was so hard and so disciplined about the OF POTATOES ON happy to go to work: I don’t care how many standard of food and how it should be cooked. Part of me hours I do. I don’t really have a typical day. I will is still like that.”

A SAUSAGE AND come in at 7am, check breakfast, check lunch, After he had finished his apprenticeship, Sylvain did a MASH DAY 50 and do my paperwork. I like to do a few deliverwide variety of jobs to get experience of different cuisines. “As KILOS OF RICE 900 ies because I get to see different parts of the a young chef, you don’t really want to stay in the same job for TURKEY ESCALOPES School and meet different people. en I might too long: a year or 18 months is about the maximum for the 140 KILOS OF BEEF work on menus, or go and work in the kitchen first ten years. When you start at a Michelin-starred restauAND ON FRIDAYS, and make sure the team is happy. I am a kitchen rant, you learn how to cook one or two dishes and that’s all chef, not an office chef, and I like the banter and you do for a couple of months, but you learn how to cook 900 PORTIONS OF the jokes; I like the feel of the ingredients.” those two dishes to perfection. As you progress in your career, FRESHLY BATTERED In his time at Harrow, Sylvain hopes he has you want to be able to cook a wider range of dishes.”

FISH FAVOURITE made some changes to improve the food the In his search for culinary experience, Sylvain has worked DISHES ARE KATSU boys are offered: “We have given the boys more in some surprising places from takeaway to hotels, from CHICKEN AND choice and we are really concentrating on the contract catering to directors dining. He worked on a North STICKY TOFFEE flavours. We make sure we really fresh ingrediSea oil platform for a few weeks and reckons this was a very ents for every dish.” useful education on how to be organised. “Working on an PUDDING And his work seems to be paying off. “I oil rig was hard but it taught me how to be efficient in a diffiremember the first time I went to the Food Committee we were cult environment.” slaughtered. ey didn’t like anything. But the last few meetings After working in France for five years, Sylvain moved to London have been very positive and the comments we get are great. We and, apart from a short stint in Spain, he has been in the UK ever have also had some fantastic compliments from parents and since. He worked in various restaurants in London before moving other guests at special dinners.” to Jersey for a year and starting to focus on his career. “e fun was He is particularly pleased that the boys are showing such a over” he says, “and I had to start being serious.” keen interest in food. “Most of them are open to trying anything”, He moved back to London and started working for Gordon he says. “In February, we had the first Culinary Society meeting Ramsay. “Gordon was just becoming very famous and we did lots and to see them so interested in food was fantastic. Being here of celebrity dinners. It was hard work – 100 hours most weeks – has really changed my view of education.” but it was a fantastic experience and really helped me focus on Although he is impressed by how much Harrovians know what I wanted to do.” about good food, he believes it is important that young people What he really loves is working in hotels: “Hotels are my passhould be aware of how limited the world’s food resources are sion. I like the life of hotels and how it is like being part of a family.” and how much is wasted. “I have told the boys that if we can cut e Balmoral in Edinburgh was where his career in hotels really down on waste, I can give them better products – I can give them started. After nine months there, he returned to London where steak twice a month.” he worked at some of the city’s best-known hotels, moving up In his quest to help Harrovians understand more about what through the ranks to become head chef. In the process, he disthey eat, he is trying to bring MasterChef to the School and to get covered that what he is best at is large-scale cuisine: “I like fine boys involved in the Food for Life programme. “e boys at dining but I find I am more of a banqueting chef. I do like volume.

Harrow are the world’s future leaders in politics, finance and busiI like the challenge.” ness”, he says. “ey will potentially have a powerful influence on He was contacted by a very large hotel chain, who asked him world matters and so it is important they understand that in the to take charge of the kitchen at their flagship hotel in London. It next 30 years we may not even be able to feed everyone on the was a great opportunity but within six or seven months he planet. e kids are the ones who will make change happen and, realised he was miserable. “I prefer small companies where you if I can influence the boys even a little, it will eventually make a have influence on everything from how you train your chefs to difference. It takes time – it’s a ten-year project – but I would like the sort of food you put on the table.” It was the first time he had to be at the School for a long time.” left a job without another to go to.

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THE TIES THAT BIND We’re sure many of you have in your possession a number of ties from your time at the School. If it seemed like there were a lot then, what about now? Would you believe we have identified no fewer than 86 School ties (not to mention a couple of OH ties) and we’re sure there are more. ank you to Andrew Traill (e Grove 1966¹) for his letter suggesting this might be something of interest to you (see page 4). We know the Shaftesbury Enterprise tie is missing from this collection, if you know of any more, then sign up to ohconnect.org.uk and tell us.

A big thank you to Billings & Edmonds for digging out all these ties and cataloguing them for us – no small feat!

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FORTY YEARSON THE HARROVIAN IN1978 In 2013, researchers at the University of Canberra judged that 1978 was the year in which the world’s quality of life peaked, before going into a decline from which it has yet to recover. It was also the year in which the world’s first baby conceived by IVF was born, Argentina won the World Cup in Argentina, and Grease became the highest grossing film. But, if its pages are anything to by, these events did not have much impact on contributors to e Harrovian, whose pressing concerns in 1978 were the opening of a new Sixth Form Club; what the A level Biology syllabus should ideally cover; and the increasing number of tourists visiting the Hill.

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1978 was, however, also the 150th anniversary of the first issue of e Harrovian. e issue of 13 May lead with the article ‘Our Sesquicentennial’, which describes the e Harrovian in its various incarnations from its first issue in 1828 as ‘a purely literary monthly, containing long discussions of Greek, English and Latin literature, but was not intended to become permanent, and produced only eight issues’. e Harrovian of 1978 is described as dating ‘back to 1888, when it was formed by transformation of Harrow Notes, which was run by and largely directed at Old Harrovians. Its contents have remained similar since then, though they are now more centred on Harrow matters, and have, perhaps, become more sedate.’

Another look back at the Harrow of the past appeared in the 21 October issue with the article ‘Toshing in the Pupes – A Slanging Competition’. is records excerpts from the Harrow Book written by Brigadier Sir Eric Holt-Wilson, CMG, DSO (e Knoll 18873) as a gift for his father and given to the School by his wife. e writer of the article records that: ‘Reading through the book, one becomes aware that the present-day slang of Harrow is a poor reflection of what it used to be. Our ‘toshes’ and ‘eccer’ fade to a shadow compared with some of the treats in this book: it is a shame, one feels, that such an extensive vocabulary has been allowed to die out. Well, the book is now nearing the antiquity of a hundred years, and the lists of Harrovian expressions are no less endearing than they were when first written. I am sure that Mrs Holt-Wilson shares our view that it should once again come to the attention of Harrow. Sit back, therefore, and let this scenario unfold itself in front of you. e scene is familiar to you all – a study at Harrow School. We interrupt two Harrovians who have been silent for a while. At the entrance of a third, however (name of Atkinson), the excitement begins: (Enter Atkinson) 1st Harrovian: What did you get, then?

Atkinson: Oh, what I expected – a con from icker.

2nd Harrovian: Well if you insisted on toshing his straw, it’s only justice.

1st Harrovian: Better than some tique or stinks, though.

Atkinson: I’d only have got stinks if I was a Lag – anyway, I’d rather have a pojam than icker, any day.

(At this point a fourth Harrovian – let us call him Venables – enters) 2nd Harrovian: (to Venables) Did you get your Coat?

Venables: Yeah – next it’s going to be my fez!

2nd Harrovian: Bowen may want you for the ones – he needs some more people for that.

Venables (struck by a thought): You know what? If I get my fez, I’ll be excused from stickups.

Atkinson (evidently bored with this one-sided conversation): Have you got the tolly for tonight?

1st Harrovian: And risk an extra? You must be joking!

Atkinson: Well, it’ll give me the chance to do my fuggy – and all you’re risking is an abber, anyway. If you like, you can use my bumpf for your vol. ex.

Venables: Don’t forget it’s a whole tomorrow.

1st Harrovian: No quop then—time for swipes.

At this statement from the 1st Harrovian, all four roosh from their frousts, exit from the study and engage in fug for twenty seconds.

Atkinson then hurls his dic at Venables, and the four of them, in high spirits despite their problems, attack the plough, resident chaw and jombin with relish (though not, of course, in that order). As you will have deduced, Atkinson is not a good boy (Clue?). If you have no diffi-

culty in comprehending the conversation, then you are obviously and necessarily a reincarnation from long ago. Or, perhaps, you smile at us for thinking you to be simple? If so, you’re invited to tell us; the Editors are offering a small prize for the first set of correct or nearcorrect ‘translations’. e answers appeared in the 18 November issue: ‘Toshing in the Pupes – e Answers’ Con construe icker ucydides toshing throwing water at straw straw hat tique Mathematics or Arithmetic stinks Chemistry Lag last, bottom of the form pojam poem set for an exercise get your Coat be made a member of the Sixth Form Game ones a competition at football between single fellows and organised

by Mr Bowen, played for five mins on a 30 yds ground stickups high collars of any kind as opposed to ‘turn downs’ tolly a candle extra extra School on Tuesdays, when those who are sent copy out Latin Grammar for several hours, an extreme punishment fuggy a history exercise for Pupil room work, to be shown up on Friday nights abber (i) an abstract on history, etc., set as a punishment (ii) an exeat on whole holidays or for medical purposes bumpf paper of any sort vol. ex. a voluntary exercise whole whole holiday swipes supper roosh rush about froust (i) an easy chair of any kind (ii) to stop in bed in the morning; fug football played with a small ball in a yard, house etc dic dictionary chaw a ‘cad’ or anyone as a rule not in the School.

Ed: If anyone knows what quop, plough, pupes and jombin mean, please let us know via ohconnect.org.uk

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THE WAR MEMORIAL BUILDING Harrow in 1914 was a very different place. e School was in the last days of its innocence.

Although it had lost many of its sons in the imperial wars of the 19th century, nothing could have prepared it for the shock of the appalling sacrifice of 644 men in what came to be known as the Great War. Even more were wounded. e total number of serving Harrovians was nearly 3,000.

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nobile of Venetian windows catching the open view to the south-east IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US to imagine the impact on Masters and boys of the regular Sunday evening ritual when the names of the between the Chapel and New Schools. Founded in 1846 under the Revd Robert Middlemist, the House had been empty since 1915, when the week’s fallen were read out by the Head Master.

If you study the names of those who, for example, entered the House Master, CG Pope, had taken himself and his boys to e Grove.

School in September 1909, the nature and extent of the casualties are ese houses were demolished to make way for the new building. e Foundation Stone was laid in 1921 by the Archbishop of brought home: Byron: killed by a shell; Cameron: wounded; Chancellor: died of wounds; Corry: killed; Corselis: wounded; Cox: killed in air com- Canterbury Randall Davidson (Small Houses and Moretons 1862³) and bat; Darwin: medically unfit when discharged; Douglas: wounded. And can today be seen in the wall opposite the Chapel. By Speech Day 1923, the Shrine was complete and the names of the fallen could be inspected, so the list goes painfully on.

Go into the Crypt chapel where the names are arranged chrono- inscribed on huge stone panels, from GR Alexander of the Sussex logically, rather than alphabetically, and imagine what it would have Regiment (Moretons 1877³) – killed by a shell whilst attending to a wounded man – to JC Zigomala of the been like at the height of the Somme Irish Guards (Moretons 1912¹) – killed by or as the Battle of Loos was raging, an explosion on HMS Glowworm. when the news of terrible losses Here also was placed the reached the Hill.

Cenotaph, the ‘empty tomb’, where, on Even before the war had ended, it Remembrance Sunday, a wreath is laid was decided to erect a memorial to by the Head of School as members of those who had died; a committee was the Rifle Corps stand guard with arms formed, chaired by the remarkable WF reversed. Above, on a frieze are (later Sir Francis) Fladgate (Small inscribed words from John Arkwright’s Houses 1868¹). An appeal for funds hymn O valiant hearts. In the ceiling raised over £100,000. vaults, three bosses bear the red cross e site of the War Memorial steps of St George, the lion of Harrow and the was at that time occupied by Mrs fleur-de-lys – for the soldiers of Armstrong’s House, a relic from the day Opposite: the War Memorial building today; top: the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Randall Davidson (Small when the boys boarded in premises England from Harrow School who laid Houses and Moretons 18623) laying the foundation stone of run by local residents rather than down their lives in France. It was not the War Memorial building on 6 October 1921; above: King Harrow beaks. Beyond that stood for another three years that the War George V and Queen Mary with their daughter Princess Mary, visiting the School on Speech Day in June 1912.

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Left to right: the ceremonial passage on the ground floor of the War Memorial building; the Cenotaph and the Shrine to the 642 Old Harrovians and two Harrow Masters who died in the First World War. Inset: the cross of Lorraine (or Ypres cross), made of gunmetal, set in the forecourt.

the facilities came to be enjoyed by the School; it had always been the intention that the rooms should be of everyday practical use, with only the Shrine as an actual memorial. Outside the gates of the Shrine on the paved forecourt a cross of Lorraine (also known as an Ypres cross) made from gunmetal is set into a circular stone slab. e architect was Sir Herbert Baker, whose name is associated with many of the great buildings of the Empire: in Pretoria and Delhi, for example. After delays caused by prolonged debate over the design, it was finally completed and opened on Speech Day 1926 when the principal speaker was Stanley Baldwin, the prime minister (Small Houses and e Head Master’s 1881³).

It is interesting to know about the original intention for some of the rooms: the Monitors’ Room appears on the original plans as a ‘Ladies’ Retiring Room’ and the Phil Room was to be a study for the Head Master. e North Room (now the Masters’ Room) was intended as a meeting room for beaks and senior boys. e OH Room is referred to as the ‘Banquet Hall’ in an early postcard.

Poignantly, the Loggia on the ground floor (where the VC banners hang) was meant simply to be an open space; nobody in 1926

could have envisaged its eventual use as a shrine to 340 more Harrovians whose deaths would need to be listed within 20 years. In 1979 was added the name of Harry Shapland (e Grove 1979²), Irish Guards, who had fallen on active service in Kurdistan.

During the Second World War, the War Memorial building came into its own as the School’s Air Raid Precaution (ARP) Warden’s post. From here, nightly watches were kept to ensure early action in the case of incendiary bombs falling on our buildings: Speech Room took a direct hit in October 1940. One landing on Druries was put out within five minutes by the House fire squad! Like many of the Houses, the War Memorial was reinforced with steel beams so it could be used as an air raid shelter, and three-tiered bunks beds were installed in the basement. e building of the War Memorial improved the architectural dignity and impressiveness of the School, not least by providing a grand processional route to Speech Room. Its walls and spaces were enriched by busts and portraits with which the Vaughan Library had become over-burdened. Some years later, Speech Room was relieved of its colourful array of banners emblazoned with the arms of families and regiments which bear tribute to those whose gallantry and valour had earned them the Victoria Cross. Clare Sheridan’s bust of her cousin Winston Churchill was added to a niche on the staircase in 1946 and looks approvingly across at his Commander in

Chief Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean, Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (e Head Master’s 1906¹). e War Memorial at different times of day can buzz with activity: Masters meet there every Break for chat and business; senior boys will gather in the Monitors’, Phil and Guild Rooms; photocopiers and printers hum and churn away in the depths, next to store rooms containing fabulous costumes purchased years ago from the Monte Carlo Opera Company and which have seen sterling service in numerous Shakespearean productions; Scottish dancing practices take place; the strains of Highland Cathedral pour out to the street when bagpipe lessons are being given; nervous candidates for posts at our international schools await interview.

But for all those who hurry through its grand portals and wend their way through its corridors and stairs, there is always the overwhelming reminder that it is a memorial to hundreds of Harrow boys who, too, in their day, scurried about, perhaps late for a lesson, or reporting to the Monitors’ Room for a misdemeanour, maybe stopping to admire the Hegan watercolours which were at one time hung on the main stairs.

Go in on your own on a quiet day and stand and look around you. I think it is impossible not to feel the silent grief of those left to mourn the unspeakable losses which the War Memorial today commemorates.

PETER HUNTER (HARROW MASTER 1985-2018)

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GENERAL HENRY, BARON HORNE OF STIRKOKE GCB, KCMG (THE KNOLL 1874) 1861-1929 “With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause each one of us must fight on to the end”. is exhortation concluded Field Marshal Haig’s Special Order of the Day, 11 April 1918. At that moment, General Horne’s First Army was engaged in the battle of the Lys to deny the Germans the breakthrough in Flanders that would open the road to Dunkirk and Calais, and probable victory for Germany. First Army held its sector of the line. “A good man in a tight corner” was the verdict on Horne of one of his divisional commanders.

Henry Horne (The Knoll 1874), who was commander of the First Army from September 1916 until the end of the First World War, was a native of Caithness and was raised on the family estate at Stirkoke near Wick. He spent two years at Harrow before Royal Military Academy Woolwich and a commission in e Royal Artillery. He served in India, the South African War and Ireland, and was noted as a promising officer and a fine horseman.

In August 1914, Horne arrived in France as Brigadier General RA in Haig’s 1st Corps of the British Expeditionary Force. He showed skill and calm as commander of the corps rearguard during the Retreat from Mons, and won the regard and confidence of Haig, the future Commander in Chief.

Horne’s subsequent rise to full general and command of an army was rapid, and exceptional in that he was a ‘Gunner’ – a member of the Royal Artillery – and had not been to Staff College. In 1915, Horne commanded the 2nd Infantry Division before Lord Kitchener took him to Gallipoli to help plan the evacuation and then sent him to Egypt to organise the defences of the Suez Canal. Horne’s absence from the Western Front ended when he returned to command XV

Corps in spring 1916, before the battle of the Somme.

In September 1916, now Sir Henry Horne and a full general, he took over the First Army. e most notable success of the troops under his command in 1917, which included the tough Canadian Corps, was the celebrated capture of Vimy Ridge. In 1918 came the vital defensive battle of the Lys and then, beginning in August, the ‘Hundred Days’ of advance and victories. First Army captured Mons on 11 November, two hours before the Armistice took effect. Horne wrote: “I am so pleased. I began at Mons and I end the fighting at Mons”.

Horne and his second in command, Major General Ernest Wright Alexander VC (The Park 1884) (see page 69), another Gunner and the first Harrovian to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War, worked together to perfect the ‘creeping barrage’ that contributed to British success in the final stages of the war on the Western Front.

After the end of the war, Horne returned home to a peerage and retired in 1926. Although he spent only two years at Harrow he formed a warm attachment to the School and was delighted when he was appointed a governor in 1924. After his death while out shooting at Stirkoke in 1929, The Harrovian published a tribute which included the following: “ose who were with him in e Knoll speak of him as a boy who was liked and respected by the House; a typical Scotsman silent and reserved”. Indeed, he was to become known as the ‘Silent General’.

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THE ALEX FITCH ROOM The light that is never extinguished WHEN ON SPEECH DAY 1926 Sir Cecil Fitch formally presented to the School the room named after his son, which his wife had created in his memory, almost the first remark he made was “a very special and earnest request”: Lady Fitch’s heart was set on its being called the Alex Fitch Room and not the Fitch Room.

He hoped that people would see a mellow beauty in it and trusted that it would be associated with happiness, for its original purpose was to provide a meeting place for boys and their parents. ere are no soft furnishings because it was intended that the room would always stay the same; nothing would be replaced or renewed. e light above Alex’s portrait was to be kept illuminated at all times.

It gave pleasure to Sir Cecil that Queen Elizabeth I would have known the panels with which the walls are adorned, for they had come from Brooke House in Hackney where she had held court.

On the outside of the door appear the words ‘Pass Friend’ from the

song You? written by Alex’s House Master, George Townsend Warner.

Alex entered Bradbys in 1914³, leaving in summer 1917. After training, he was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was killed in action on 18 September 1918 at Jeancourt in France, aged 19.

Major JW Tompkins, in a letter written to Alex’s parents, describes assisting him on to a stretcher: ‘Poor boy, he was severely hit as the shell exploded within a few yards of him… he was very brave and conscious.

When I reached him he said, “Where am I hit Sir, I cannot feel my legs.”

I had him removed at once to a first aid post.’ Although he was given medical assistance at a dressing stage, Alex died later that day. e room speaks even today of the aching grief of a family trying to come to terms with their loss: a unique son, but just one of millions.

Sir Cecil saw it as “the boy’s room … his spirit pervades it”.

We would like to acknowledge with thanks the permission given by Alex Fitch’s great nephew, RJ Ingham Clark (Bradbys 1973¹) to quote from letters written by Major JW Tompkins to Alex Fitch’s parents.

WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL WEBSITE If you would like to read more about Harrow School and World War I visit the World War I Memorial website harrowschool-ww1.org.uk, a site dedicated to Harrovians who fought and died in the war 100 years ago.

With funding from the Harrow Association, the six volumes of the Harrow Memorials of the Great War, and other archive material is freely accessible to all Old Harrovians.

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Top to bottom: the Town Pump at the junction of High Street and West Street before the pump was replaced by the present polished granite fountain in 1881; the Town Pump today; the Workhouse in West Street built in 1724; inset, 35 West Street today.

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WHEN JOHN McGRAIL , assistant to the Head of Estates and Grounds at Harrow, lifted a manhole cover in the garden at Moretons, he expected to find a drain.

Instead what he found was a well complete with a brick lining and a great deal of water. e Head of Estates knew that there were many manhole covers on the School estate.

It was decided that it was important to establish which of these gave access to drains, which might need maintenance, and which were ancient wells. is was the start of John’s quest. Over the following weeks, he uncovered, literally in many cases, no less than 15 ancient wells on the Hill.

It is hard for us to imagine a time when water was not readily on tap. On the Hill, piped water was not available until 1855. It came from the waterworks on Bessborough Road near the cricket grounds. Before 1855, everyone had to arrange their own water supply. e two most popular solutions were to dig a well, which was very expensive, or to collect water from one’s roof and store it in a large tank. e less well-off had to rely on public wells or pumps.

Some of the wells John found were in the gardens of what were previously private houses but are now School properties. e Grove, e Head Master’s, e Copse, and e Knoll all had wells, some of which have been filled in. ere are wells in the garden of Newlands, and behind Deyne Court and Kennet End. 80 High Street and the rear of 15-17 London Road had the luxury of their own wells. e Hill was once a farming community, and animals as well as people needed water.

A fenced-off well in the woods below Churchill Schools is situated close to the fields where sheep once grazed.

35 West Street is today a very elegant family home but, in the past, it was known as the House of Maintenance, or workhouse.

It could accommodate up to 60 people, paupers who were not allowed out unless it was to go to Church or on other parish business, such as working on the roads or picking oakum. ose who stayed indoors earned their keep by spinning yarn and wool. e well that John discovered in the garden behind the workhouse served them all, every drop needed for drinking and washing themselves and their clothes being hauled up by hand and carried into the house.

Further up the Hill, at the junction of West Street and the High Street, was the town well, which later became the town pump when it was fitted with a Braithwaite pump so that when worked by two fit men

it could deliver 150 gallons every hour. A Mr Paton stated that this could be done without exhaustion for 12 hours, but it should be noted that he was observing and not actually working the pump himself ! is pump became a focal point for the Hill community because those who did not have their own wells came not only to get water but to buy from visiting fishmongers.

In 1813, Mary Shelley, who took lodgings at the top of West Street when her son Percy was in e Grove, was driven to distraction by the noise made by housemaids flirting with the oyster sellers just below her windows. It interfered with her concentration so much that she was forced to stop writing Ladore, her novel about a beautiful widow.

She resumed writing it after she had left the Hill.

At the same time as Mary was trying to write in West Street, Dr George Butler decided to have a well dug in the garden behind e Head Master’s. Its progress was watched with some interest by a Harrovian, who noted on 18 October that the well was 19 feet deep. e next day, he wrote that water was being pumped out of the well. On 20 October, he wrote that the bricklayer fell down the well, after which we hear nothing more of the well or the unfortunate bricklayer. Today beneath the floor of a wing built over what was once part of e Head Master’s garden there is indeed a well.

Fortunately it is filled in.

In 1646, King Charles I, who was fleeing from the Puritan army, paused at the top of Grove Hill to rest and to water his horse at the well which is still there, but now below the pavement. e well at which he stopped today bears his name, and a plaque in the Art School wall above marks the spot.

In 1759, both the town pump and King Charles’s well were mentioned in a report which stated that the sources of water supply in Harrow were very limited and that they and one other pump further down the Hill were the only ones to which the public had access. A contemporary map does show a common well at the top of Sudbury Hill but that would have been considered too far away to serve the village. ere must be many undiscovered wells not only on the Hill but all over the place, so if you have a manhole cover in your garden that you have never thought twice about then do please have a look, only be careful as some of them are very heavy and need more than one person to raise them. And we don’t want you sharing the fate of the bricklayer!

Before 1855, everyone had to arrange their own water supply. e two most popular solutions were to dig a well, which was very expensive, or to collect water from one’s roof and store it in a large tank.

S EC RET HA RRO W

WELLS BEFORE YOUR TIME

BY ANTONY AND ANNE HALL-WILLIAMS

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80 HIGH STREET

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NEWLANDS

4 DEYNE COURT

KING’S HEAD

3 KENNET END

35 WEST STREET

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THE TOWN WELL

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THE COPSE

THE GROVE

THE HEAD MASTER'S

5A HIGH STREET

GROVE WOOD

THE KNOLL

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A BELL FOR YPRES A lasting legacy of commemoration AS PART OF THE WORLD WAR I commemoration project, the Harrow Association, and the Harrow Development Trust, donated the tenor bell for a new ring of eight bells in the St George’s Memorial Church in Ypres in Belgium, in honour of the 642 Old Harrovians and two Masters who died in the Great War. is Anglican Church was built both to serve the British community who settled in Ypres after the Great War and as a place of remembrance for the soldiers killed in the war and for those who served and returned home. Latterly, it has become a place of pilgrimage for the many thousands of visitors to Ypres and the surrounding battlefields and cemeteries. e church was built between 1927 and 1929 to a design by Sir Reginald Blomfield, who also designed the Ypres Memorial (Menin Gate) and the Cross of Sacrifice. All the items in the church, such as chairs, windows, wall plaques and kneelers, remember individual soldiers, regiments, battalions, schools including Harrow School, and many others. It is a place of great poignancy, a place of a thousand stories. e fine tower at St George’s was originally intended to house a peal of English change-ringing bells, although this was never realised. In 2016, however, permission was granted by the church authorities and by the Flanders Heritage Department finally to fulfil this intention by installing a new peal of eight bells with a tenor (the heaviest) of 6cwt (300kg). e new bells are the completion of this lasting legacy of commemoration.

On 11 November 2017, three Harrovians, accompanied by four supporters from the School and St Mary’s parish, visited the church to meet with those involved with the bells project, and to ring the bells before the Service of Commemoration on Remembrance Sunday.

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WELCOME TO THE NEW OHS The following Harrovians become Harrow Association members this summer:

BRADBYS

DRURIES

ELMFIELD

THE GROVE

THE HEAD MASTER'S

THE KNOLL

EJB Agnew OLB Chalmers NL Gardner NW Glaze WO Latham HA Lee-Clarke TTA Maloney WE Mitchell FHH Seymour ST Siu V Vasile JT Wong

TJR Asprey AD Curtis A Guselnikov SR Hamwee GOP Hill G Ivanian FFJ Kawar RR Li H Russell AR Stanley SGT Tallis HRC Toller

OO Anson RG Baker Wilbraham AR Bullen PMM Chau AE Denison-Smith WT Downes MW Ede AC Goswell CEG Hart JED Holmes HJS Maxwell MM Mokhzani NK Shankar

KAA Amaan E JC Cartwright HYL Cheng M Fernรกndez Barreiros AP Ferreira SW Flame FT Haston JP Herron RA Kohli M-LC Kwok A Nakhmanovich A Rahman NRK Shourie S Yoshida

A Armon PJ Gallagher FHC Griffin Pain JE Hill VED Hutley JE Leof CJ Mash WD Miles HY Ng HM Saunders WJ Travis LWG Wilson Y Yang

FOS Dobree FOT Gibson GCT Grassly GY Lim DP Lussier RRW Miller ADA Okuwoga HS Rattan K Sano I Umana CPM Vivian CFMMT Vunipola H Yu G Zenin

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LYON'S

MORETONS

NEWLANDS

THE PARK

RENDALLS

WEST ACRE

JC Bell DC Billings NV Blinoff EJ Chia-Croft QQ Gaba TM Llewellen Palmer CTR Marks MP Robinson AM Rutherford BT Ryland J Shanahan GAJ Thompson AJ Work P Yeh

JM Abaroa OC Acar GC Barry LHF Berry FG Hall II Hanbury AD Hayes DAA Jaja NMFA Kamil ACVA Kenderdine-Davies DEM Larbi AJ Slater MAP Tonkins

GO Adebiyi RA Babaoye JB Bailey OT Brankin-Frisby SA Herwegh Vonk KHJ Ho K StJ Jenkins AJMJ Jurgens AL Kenda RJ O'Connell J Perez Pera ECH Revill HT Scott Lyon Y Wang GO Watson

MW Ayliffe SC Crean ZF Dhanani SA Durrani WJC Fenwick GPT Gray CS Hainsworth KMI Kandour P Kochakarn JJ Kyd EFV Mayall S Moon D Mynbayev AJA Oien HJ Theobald AJ Tremlett

A Aldiyar J Chunilal OS Connell ZC Ellis HG Fry JEJ Glover MBP Goodman KC Krause AD Masri AO Pearse LK Pittalis DL Shailer I Skorobogatko

SMW Ackroyd JKK Bedu-Addo JA Burgess-Adams MGA Chetwynd-Talbot MAH Clark JK Claydon WA Falcon ADC Gill TY Keeble BJ Menell TEL Munday FML Paul OCC Quilter MN Sodi M Tasker GAK Taylor

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UPCOMING EVENTS The Byronics Summer Party with Eton, Radley and Winchester

Newlands House Dinner

THURSDAy 7 JUnE 2018 AT 6.30PM

TUESDAy 16 OCTOBER 2018

St Paul’s Church Covent Garden £21 in advance, £25 on the door. Drinks and canapés will be served.

Please contact Rory Smith at harrowbyronics@gmail.com or visit jun2018byronics.eventbrite.co.uk to register for the event.

7.15pm for 8pm Oriental Club, Stratford House, Stratford Place, London W1C 1ES

OH Lodge 282nd Regular Meeting

SATURDAy 20 OCTOBER 2018

SATURDAy 16 JUnE 2018

OHPC 10 Year Anniversary Drinks Party

Rutherglen House, Highlander Lane, Melbourne 3000.

All OHs in Australia during October are invited to attend.

The cost will be $160 per person and guests are welcome.

Please contact Suzanne Benson at suzannabenson@gmail.com to register for the event.

WEDnESDAy 20 JUnE 2018 AT 6PM

Druries House Dinner

Oriental Club, Stratford House, Stratford Place, London W1C 1ES £35 for OHPC members over 25, £15 for members 25 and under

WEDnESDAy 7 nOvEMBER 2018

OH Australia Dinner

Harrow School Speech Room

Eton v Harrow Cricket Match

7.15pm for 8pm Oriental Club, Stratford House, Stratford Place, London W1C 1ES

LORD’S – SATURDAy 23 JUnE 2018

Harrow Association Golf Day

All OHs and their family and friends are invited to watch the School take on the old foe at Lord’s. Tickets can be brought at the Gates or through the venue. Harrow Wanderers wearing their colours will be granted access to the Allen Stand. visit lords.org to book

THURSDAy 22 nOvEMBER 2018 AT 8.30AM

new Zealand Golf Club Please contact Thomas Olesen at honsec@ohgs.org.uk to register for the event

10 Years On – 2003³-2008³ Leavers Reunion SAV E T H E DAT E WEDnESDAy 4 JULy 2018 2018 AT 6.30PM

The Tommyfield 185 kennington Lane, kennington Cross, London SE11 4EZ All OHs who left the School ten years ago this summer, so in 2008, are welcome to drinks hosted by the Harrow Association.

Harrow Association Christmas Carols MOnDAy 10 DECEMBER 2018 AT 7PM

St Stephen’s Walbrook, 39 Walbrook, London EC4n 8Bn Join us at this breathtaking church in the City, for a unique evening of Christmas carols followed by some festive fare.

OH Technology Club Launch and Networking Evening WEDnESDAy 19 SEPTEMBER 2018 AT 6.30PM

Oriental Club, Stratford House, Stratford Place, London W1C 1ES

Hong Kong Dinner MOnDAy 24 SEPTEMBER 2018 AT 7PM

Hong kong Club Please contact Arnold Wong at arnold4@gmail.com to register for the event.

Harrow Association Songs for OHs – 1990³ to 1995² entrance

SAV E T H E DAT E

Twelfth Night SUnDAy 24 MARCH 2019

A special gala performance performed by a company of current Harrovians at Shakespeare’s Globe.

The production marks 25 years since the School performed The Taming of the Shrew on the Globe’s stage in 1994, with a cast including Benedict Cumberbatch (The Park 1990³) as Petruchio and nick Luck (Rendalls 1991³) as katherina. OHs, families and members of the school community are warmly invited to what promises to be a truly special occasion. Tickets will shortly be available through the Globe Theatre’s box office.

THURSDAy 11 OCTOBER 2018 AT 6.30PM

Speech Room, Harrow School Songs will be followed by a drinks reception in the Shepherd Churchill Room and buffet supper in the Shepherd Churchill Hall

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