THE PETERITE Vol. LVI
MAY, 1964
No. 366
OBITUARY A. N. P. BUTLAND, 1942-1964 After spending two years in St. Olave's Anthony Butland entered Temple in 1954 but became a boarder in The Manor when his parents moved to London in the following year. He was obviously a boy of great academic promise and in 1959 he won an Open Scholarship in Chemistry at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, only two months after his seventeenth birthday. Before going up to the University he spent a year with the Shell Company as an apprentice and was awarded a Bronze Medal for being placed first in Great Britain in the City and Guilds Examination in Petroleum and Petroleum Products, 1960. As he 'had now decided to read Engineering he had to take another Scholarship Level examination in Mathematics; this he passed and went up to Cambridge in 1960. The C.C.F. at School had fired his interest in the Army and he spent a great deal of his time with the University O.T.C. and the Regular Army. In March, 1963, he was accepted for a permanent Regular Army Commission in the Intelligence Corps. However, before he could take this up he was struck by the illness from which he died on 4th April, 1964, at the age of 22. During all the months he was ill he never lost hope and never once grumbled or asked 'Why me?". Rutland was that rather rare phenomenon at a Public School, a very intelligent boy who never attempted to disguise his scorn and dislike of all athletic pursuits and yet always commanded the respect of those younger than himself and enjoyed the sincere friendship of his more sporting contemporaries. I well remember one of the toughest Seniors in The Manor telling me that no one could ever make him have a cold bath in the morning—except possibly Butland! His clear, incisive brain made him an excellent organiser, a talent which was perhaps most in evidence in the C.C.F., which, again unlike most, he openly enjoyed. But he was no cold, efficient intellectual; he possessed a keen sense of humour and a most vivid and likable personality. He contributed much in the short time he was with us and will always be remembered with affection by those who knew him. We offer our deepest sympathy to his family. A.E.R.D.
J. B. DOYLE It was with great sadness that we heard of the tragic deaths of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Doyle in the Innsbruck air disaster. John Doyle was not only a parent of two boys at present in the School, to whom we extend our deepest sympathy, but he was also a very loyal and distinguished Old Peterite. Those who knew him while he was at School will remember him for his charm and unfailing enthusiasm in all phases of school life. He
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