Wellington College Yearbook 2020-21

WELLINGTON COLLEGE YEARBOOK

2020-21

The Wellington College Yearbook 2021 Editor: Tim Head Editorial team: Chris Potter, Lucy Davies and Simone Field Design & production: Haime & Butler Information is correct at time of print.

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04 The Master’s Speech Day Address 08 Peter Mallinson’s Speech Day Address, Outgoing Chair of Governors 10 Introducing William Jackson, New Chair of Governors 11 School Reports 12 Academic Report 13 Arts Report 16 Sports Report 18 Combined Cadet Force Report 20 Co-curricular Enrichment 21 Global Citizenship 22 The Wellington Family 24 Educational Partnerships 26 Eagle House 28 Wellington College International 2

32 House Reports 51 University Places 2020-21 54 Valete 58 OW Society 60 OW Events 62 Life Beyond Wellington 63 2021 Year Reps 64 Archive News 67 OW Spotlights 73 OW Sports Clubs 84 OW Charitable Trust 85 OW Lodge 86 Hatches & Matches 90 In Memoriam 109 Final Call Over 110 OW Directory

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In March 1919, there was a fire in the main Eastern block of College, starting in what is now the Hardinge and spreading into the Blücher. So much damage was caused that the whole block became uninhabitable, and 140 students were not able to move back in until rebuilding was completed in October. Temporary iron huts were obtained from the War Office and erected immediately outside Waterloo Hall, and this was where the students slept in the intervening months, using the Hall as a common room.

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ast forward a hundred years or so to September 2020 and the area adjacent to Waterloo Hall was once again pressed into service – with a temporary marquee enabling socially distanced dining for the Wellington students returning to physical school for the first time since March. Now, as then, Wellington’s response to a crisis was both ingenious and flexible – it was fascinating to see the way College adapted to life in the midst of a pandemic and the ease with which both students and staff embraced the new normal. House and year group bubbles became the order of the day, and masks were worn without comment in public spaces.

A crenelated timetable, while altering the familiar shape of the day, allowed year groups to experience just about all that Wellington has to offer, while ensuring that no one facility ever became overcrowded. Meals were taken in either Dining Hall or Waterloo Hall (with marquee!) or as a takeaway option in the V&A. The first half of the Michaelmas Term saw a summer sports programme, and if games in the morning as opposed to afternoon took some getting used to, then better by far than no games at all.

The College’s test, trace and bubble system proved robust and reliable and full-school events such as House Drama and Dance saw performances recorded separately and then live-streamed, as were many of the academic extension and enrichment lectures and talks. As ever, Armistice Day was honoured with pride, respect and reflection, and Chapel still remained the important still centre of college life.

However, two steps forward, one step back, perhaps best sums up the academic year 20/21.

Having ended the Michaelmas Term on something of a high with Dance Shows,

Carol Services and Christmas parties, it came as an unexpected disappointment to start January once more in lockdown and trying again to make the best of online learning. However, the experience gained from last year, alongside rapid advances in virtual technology, ensured that the pupils’ progression in the classroom remained on track. More challenging was keeping the co-curricular provision at its enriching best – while also maintaining the strong sense of house and school community that is the true hallmark of Wellington College. That this challenge was so confidently met – and met with ingenuity, flexibility and determination – ensured that far from being a damp squib, the early weeks of 2021 were full of fun and invention.

If the Sports Dept House-based fitness challenge, where pupils within Houses completed at least 2021 kilometres of exercise, kept physical fitness ticking over, then streamed events, online rehearsals, and musical groups flew the cultural flag.

Full-school and House Assemblies, Year Group drop-ins and regular individual tutorials all played their part in maintaining morale boosting connectivity as the darkest months of winter were navigated.

But if Winter comes, Spring is never far behind and March saw not only lighter days but a wonderful reopening of the College. For both pupils and teachers, it was good to be back in the classroom again, among friends once more.

And so to the Summer, and something much more like normal again. No public exams to be sure, but mini-assessments and the prospect of centre-generated grades saw a real academic buzz about the school.

Concerts, plays, and dance shows began, as did proper matches against other schools.

Being at school was suddenly fun once more and as restrictions were lifted we were pleased to welcome visitors again, not to mention the excitement of hosting over

500 potential new Wellingtonians for their various selection days in April and May. Preparations began in earnest for end-ofterm Speech Day and Graduation ceremonies, but just as those prizes were in sight a combination of new variants and an unforeseen local Council diktat saw fixtures cancelled, a premature end to the term for some pupils, Speech Day moving online and a hastily reconceived Graduation Day. And yet, despite that slightly disappointing end, what remained was good humour and an overwhelming gratitude for all that the community had achieved together over the past year, and the final moments which saw our Sixth Form Leavers letting their hair down on Carousel and Dodgems will live long in their memories.

Sometime ago the Wellington pupils voted to adopt the following five values as the basis of their behaviour. Respect, Kindness, Responsibility, Integrity, and Courage. At the start of this school year, the College Prefects asked that a sixth be added – the virtue of Gratitude. As I was reading the various house reports it struck me that these values had played a very real part in the way that the school responded to the strange challenges that the pandemic year had brought. They were, if you like, the spiritual glue that bound the whole community together. Although abstract they could be seen played out in action as Wellingtonians adapted to a new way of doing things, faced up to the many challenges, and refused to dwell on disappointment.

And that attitude, that way of living a life, remains at the very heart of a Wellington education, and has done since its first foundation.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Tim Head Deputy Director of Admissions and Teacher of English 03

The Master’s Speech Day Address Due to a late and unexpected change to COVID regulations, Speech Day had to be delivered virtually on the last day of the Summer Term.

James Dahl, 15th Master of Wellington, reviews the year, pays tribute to the work of pupils, parents and staff, and sets out his vision for the next decade. His speech was delivered in three sections, which were interspersed by short films depicting the rich variety of College life.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the Wellington College Community, a very warm welcome to this year’s Speech Day film.

To lose my first Speech Day as Master last year may be regarded as a misfortune.

To lose my second, well, it’s not so much carelessness as immensely frustrating and I am truly sorry that we have been denied the opportunity to be together as a whole and entire community today. But, as we have aimed to do throughout the past 16 months, when life gives us lemons, we try our best to make lemonade, and I do hope this year’s film, put together in a week, goes some way to marking and celebrating one of the most remarkable years in Wellington College’s 162-year history.

It was Otto von Bismarck who said that “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best”, and I think the same can be very much said of the educational world over the past 12 months, particularly the boarding sector, as Wellington College and schools like us have worked tirelessly and creatively, often within the context of ever-changing regulations to discover what is, indeed, possible and attainable, and to deliver, as successfully as we can, the next best.

And so, I would like to begin this Speech Day message by acknowledging the Herculean efforts, innovation, and indefatigability of the entire staff here at Wellington over the past year. As I have said to many people over the past 12 months, judge not the culture of any organisation by how things are going during the good times, but by how the community responds in times of difficulty and crisis; and how proud I have been of the entire Wellington Community over the past three terms, particularly the manner in which the Teaching and College staff have risen to the challenges of 04

operating and delivering that unique Wellington experience in the most testing of circumstances.

As well as continuing our normal day-today existence as a school, we’ve built and operated a second dining facility, sanitised every classroom and dining-table between every sitting, operated three different timetables concurrently, and reconfigured every classroom and department with more one-way systems and marquees than I ever thought possible. As well as being a school, we’ve become an exam board – setting, marking, standardising and moderating our own GCSE, A-Level and IB assessments, with teachers teaching in person and remotely throughout the year, very often at the same time, and we’ve had no choice but to become a mass testing centre and to design our own track and trace facility. One of my proudest moments was when the local Public Health England team phoned up Mr Walker, our Deputy Head Pastoral, to ask his advice, so impressed were they with the protocols and procedures which he and his team had put in place at the College.

Furthermore, we have supported hundreds of disadvantaged children by providing laptops to those pupils at our partner state schools without access to a device, through our Donation for Education scheme, as well as making five COVID recovery grants to local schools to supplement their work in supporting those children hardest hit by the pandemic. And I am proud that the College will be hosting a summer school in August for local primary school leavers ahead of their transition into secondary education to help bridge the gap which has emerged from the disruption of the past 16 months.

At Wellington, we will never walk away from the responsibilities we have, not just to our own pupils, but to the wider education sector in this shared endeavour to support the young, who have been so adversely affected by the current pandemic.

It has been an astounding team effort and, in line with our honorary sixth College value of gratitude which our Heads of College introduced this year, I would like to thank every member of staff here in Crowthorne, from cleaner to

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classroom teacher, from electrician to ELT member, for the role they have played in keeping the Wellington show on the road so successfully.

It is not just our staff, however, who deserve our thanks. You, our parents, have shown unwavering resilience, understanding and support, not least in recent weeks, as various diktats have pulled the rug from beneath our end-ofyear plans. As well as juggling your own professional and family lives, you have waded through dozens of my letters, adapted to numerous changes, often imposed at short notice, managed isolating offspring, facilitated online learning, dealt with January’s disappointment of a second closure of schools, and, for those of you with children in the Fifth and Upper Sixth Forms, you have been instrumental in supporting your daughters and sons through times of immense uncertainty.

You have also spent the best part of this academic year watching your children’s education from afar or, at best, through Microsoft Teams, rather than here, in person at Crowthorne, something which runs so counter to our philosophy as a school, where our close and collaborative relationship with parents is so important to our way of doing things.

You’ve also given your time and money so generously through various Life Beyond Wellington talks and seminars, and through your ongoing support of our Prince Albert Foundation and hardship funds. Over a quarter of a million pounds was raised in Giving Week alone with an incredible 80% of parents participating.

I am so grateful to you all for your unwavering support and generosity. You’ve been amazing and it is not hyperbole to say that we could not have achieved what we have this year without you.

The final group of people who must be commended and thanked is our College Prefects team, in particular our fantastic Heads and Deputy Heads of College – Rosie, Guy, Harry and Laura. Their values, commitment to the student community, drive and determination to do the right thing during a year in which the world has changed so fundamentally has, to be frank, been breath-takingly inspiring. All leaders

want to leave office with their organisation in a stronger position than they inherited it, and this is most certainly the case for this year’s College Prefects; quite some achievement bearing in mind we operated as an online school for half of their tenure.

To those Wellingtonians in younger years, I urge you to look at and learn from the example set by the Upper Sixth this year – they have been remarkable – and to Rosie and Guy, in particular, thank you for being the best co-pilots I could have wished for during this remarkable year.

Traditionally, a Wellington College Speech Day is a celebration of everything our wonderful pupils have achieved throughout the year, and I do hope that today’s videos and performances serve as a timely reminder that although we have been operating under COVID restrictions this year, Wellingtonians have accomplished some remarkable things over the past three terms. It was a joy to welcome parents back in October to a brilliant festival of musical theatre in memory and aid of the Ruth Strauss Foundation and Charlie Perry, and what talent we saw on show when the Third and Fourth Form staged their own School of Musical Theatre show earlier this term.

The standard of performance at our annual Montgomery Competitions has been as strong as ever, and we’ve been treated to a superb Dance Show, Buckets and Love & Information, our junior and senior plays respectively, not to mention a glorious Shakespeare from the Master’s Garden and a quite simply stunning musical, Sondheim’s ‘Company’, in recent weeks. For our musicians, actors and dancers, it has resembled something close to business as usual; our only regret is, of course, that more parents have been unable to attend in person.

An unforeseen blessing which COVID has given us is the necessity to offer co-curricular activities in year group bubbles which has enabled significantly higher numbers of pupils to get involved.

The year group Chapel Choirs are a perfect example, giving literally hundreds of Wellingtonians the opportunity to

perform publicly, with the Third Form ensemble doubling in size over the course of the past 10 months. When it comes to COVID keepers, this is definitely one of them.

The same is true on the sports field, where our enforced separation of year groups for their games sessions has enabled our professional coaches and very proficient teachers to deliver sports sessions to a much broader range of pupils both in terms of age and ability. We may not have been able to play as many inter-school fixtures as we would have liked, but the quality of sports coaching across the entire school has, as a result, never been stronger and, as another COVID keeper, we intend to adapt our shape of the week next year to ensure that we can maintain this greater consistency and higher quality of sports provision across the board in the years to come.

Academically, Wellingtonians must be given great credit for the way in which they have approached their intellectual lives this year, both inside and outside the classroom. Attendance at and engagement with our extension programme of clubs, societies, lectures and academic competitions has never been higher, and our Fifth and Upper Sixth Forms have worked so incredibly hard in the face of deep uncertainty around their public examinations. In the face of a rapidly changing Oxbridge landscape, we were so proud of the 17 Wellingtonians who were offered places this year, two with choral awards and an organ scholarship, as well as eight Upper Sixth heading off to Ivy League universities in the US, five with prestigious early offers. Many congratulations, too, to our four Sixth Form Debaters who became national champions over the Easter holidays.

However, the greatest pupil achievement of them all this year is surely the incredible efforts of David Lofthouse and his support team in the Picton, in completing the Kingsley’s before half-term, in just under ten hours. David’s achievement, as I have written elsewhere, is a breath-taking and inspirational example of the art of the possible, and has shown us all that we can overcome whatever life throws in our way 05

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if we have the right values, mindset, determination and people around us. In a year, where we have not been able to come together as a community as often as we would like, David has given the Wellington Community the most powerful example of the indomitability of the human spirit and genuine reason to rally round and celebrate. “Never let anyone tell you that you can’t do something” said David after the event. Let’s all take that message with us in the months, terms and years to come.

As we look back and celebrate all that has gone before, we must also say a fond farewell to a number of staff and Governors who have served Wellington so faithfully but who are destined for new adventures. On the Teaching Staff, I must pick out the contributions of three teachers whom among them, have given over 50 years of service to the College.

Aidan Sproat joined Wellington from Westminster School in 2010 to become Head of the Maths Department where he has been an inspirational teacher and leader, and the driving force behind the development of Harkness teaching, not to mention the wonderful job he has done as President of the Common Room. We wish him every success as he becomes Director of Studies at Alleyn’s School in London. Ian Frayne has been an outstanding Contingent Commander of the Wellington CCF, as well as a superb Physics teacher. Ian has done so much to maintain and enhance the College’s reputation as one of the leading cadet units in the country, and we wish him every health and happiness for his retirement. Denise Brown joined the English Department in 1998 and, as well as her excellent teaching and tutoring, has done so much to pioneer and champion diversity and inclusion at the College, as well as leading our Charities work superbly in recent years. Wellington has been left a better, more tolerant and equitable community thanks to Denise’s unwavering commitment to these issues and we wish her every success for her new life in Portugal as IB Coordinator at the International School of Cordoba.

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We also say goodbye and thank you to our Vice President, Mr Peter Mallinson today who steps down after 18 years on Wellington’s Board, the last five of which he has served as Chair of Governors.

Peter’s relationship with the College began in 1973 when he entered the Picton Third Form and during his time as a pupil he excelled not only in the classroom but also on the sports field, particularly with a racket in his hand. Back in the 70s, virtually no Wellingtonians went to America for university, but not one to follow his peers and an early adopter of the pioneering spirit which characterises modern Wellington, Peter was awarded the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before a stellar career with Goldman Sachs. As well as being a Wellington parent himself, Peter has served with distinction on the Board, overseeing significant growth in the College’s endowment, and being a key member of the team of trustees who have helped transform Wellington into the incredibly successful, modern, outwardfacing and progressive school it is today.

I will be forever grateful to Peter for the care, interest, guidance and sage counsel he has offered me over the first two years of my Mastership in the most challenging of circumstances, as well as the significant philanthropic support which he has given the College over a large period of time.

It is fair to say that the modern fabric and facilities of Wellington would not be what they are without Peter’s support.

He leaves behind a wonderful legacy for our next Vice President, William Jackson, and, on behalf of the entire Wellington Community, I wish Peter and his family every health and happiness for the future, and thank him for his truly remarkable service to this great school.

As we come to the end of this year’s Speech Day film, I hope you will forgive me for spending a few moments looking to the future. As most of you will be aware, as well as coping with COVID this year, the

Executive Leadership Team, Governors and I have been spending a significant amount of time and energy thinking about the next 10 years. We listened carefully to the views of the 250 Wellington parents who gave interviews as part of the Mungo Dunnett research project back in February and March, and we have also thought long and hard about the strategic work we should be completing over the next decade to continue its purpose of pioneering education to serve and help shape a better world.

Central to this work is our aim to make Wellington an even more inclusive and balanced coeducational community which represents more accurately the world as it really is. In the short term, September will therefore see the first girls arriving in the Talbot and the numbers of Prince Albert scholars in the College will also increase by 25% as we continue to widen access to a Wellington education for children of potential from backgrounds of disadvantage. To promote the inclusion of all pupils even further, it remains our intention to create a new home for the Raglan at the heart of the College so our day boys are placed as centrally as the Wellesley girls are; and we continue with our plans to open an 18th boarding House – a coeducational Sixth Form community for 15 new Lower Sixth boys and 20 new Lower Sixth girls, which will enable us to hit our target of a 50/50 gender balance within the pupil body by 2025.

Next year, we will complete our review of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the College in partnership with Professor Paul Miller, as well as conducting a long-overdue review of our current uniform regulations.

We also intend to develop significantly our facilities for girls and coeducational sports, particularly around the Selassie courts area – those rather run-down tennis and clay pigeon shooting facilities located between Bigside and the bridge across the railway to Derby fields – to ensure that our facilities for all sports and sporting endeavours are as good as they should be.

In due course, we will also look to expand the V&A considerably to create a central

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space fit for a school community of 1100 pupils, as well as exploring the possibility of creating a specific Sixth Form Centre with both social and academic facilities, so that our 480 A-Level and IB pupils have a space to work, rest and play, as well as to explore their career and higher education options.

– at Oundle School in the Midlands. We are blessed that someone with 10 years of senior leadership experience and a track record of delivering numerous pioneering curriculum changes as well as significant improvement in academic standards and outcomes, is joining the ELT here at the College.

In the short term, September will therefore see the first girls arriving in the Talbot and the numbers of Prince Albert scholars in the College will also increase by 25% as we continue to widen access to a Wellington education for children of potential from backgrounds of disadvantage.

On the academic side College life, January 2022 will see Matt Oakman, our Deputy Head Academic for the past 9 years, move into the role of Senior Master to support me in delivering our various strategic workstreams, as well as taking responsibility for pupil performance in the College, through the Heads of Year. He will also lead a brand-new Higher Education, Careers and International Universities team to ensure that whatever future route a Wellingtonian wishes to explore, the support and guidance they will receive at the College will be second-to-none.

Part of Ben’s remit will be to play a key role in a significant curriculum review which I want us to undertake. The last two years, for so many different reasons, have made us re-evaluate what the purpose of a Wellington education should be, as well as looking again at what and how we teach, particularly in the Third, Fourth and Fifth Forms. We will not be rushing any reform quickly and we look forward to engaging deeply with the wider Community, particularly parents, as we explore different models of what a future Wellington education might include.

Mr Oakman is currently overseeing a review of our Third Form curriculum to ensure that it is as challenging and inspiring as it needs to be, as well as delivering the first stage of a 2-year Tutoring Review in response to the issues raised both in the Mungo Dunnett report and via Murray Lindo’s Parental Committee earlier in the year. This work involves a root-and-branch review of our traditional staffing model, redefining what it means to be a teacher at Wellington to allow those staff with a real passion for tutoring to tutor more, and likewise on the academic and sporting fronts.

As part of this work, I am keen to explore how we can create an Innovation Hub here at College, a multi-disciplinary space for pupils where technology, design, entrepreneurship, science, coding and creativity can come together, offering each and every Wellingtonian hands-on experience and space within the curriculum to experiment creatively with so many of those skills and dispositions required for the future workplace. Aligned with this, I want to create a Centre for Transformative Education, a hub for our teachers to engage with contemporary research in collaboration with other schools, universities and third parties, to inform our own practice, to share with others, and to maintain Wellington’s position within the vanguard of the educational debate. Both facilities would play a huge role in our partnership work with our own family of schools as well as our partner state schools.

Our new Deputy Head Academic in January will be Mr Benjamin Evans who is currently Director of Teaching and Learning at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, one of South Australia’s leading private schools. Prior to emigrating to Australia, Ben was Director of Studies – effectively Deputy Head Academic

As we come out of COVID, I also want to ensure that our provision in teenage wellbeing, pastoral care and mental health is as strong as it can. To this end, we are already advertising for a new position at the College – a Head of Student Emotional and Mental Health – to supplement our existing staff and structures, and my dream is to create a state-of-the-art facility which brings together both physical and mental health provision in a collaborative, innovative and fit-for-purpose manner.

I hope that this gives you some idea of the strategy work which we have been doing and inspires both pupils and parents alike as we look to drive the College forward with the same pioneering spirit of innovation, progression and modernity which has come to define the very essence of a Wellington education. This work will take years, possibly the best part of a decade, and we may not be able to deliver it all…but I am determined that Wellington College emerges from the current crisis with an exciting and forward-facing strategic roadmap to ensure that the sort of organisation we strive to be and the holistic educational provision we offer here in Crowthorne is as pioneering, successful and inspiring over the next decade or so as it has been over the past 15 years.

Until then, I wish every single member of the Wellington Community – pupil, parent, Governor and staff member – a truly wonderful summer. Thank you again for everything you have done to support the work of the College this year, and I do hope to see you all in person very soon.”

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Speech Day 2021 Peter Mallinson My fellow governors join me in congratulating James Dahl, Stephen Crouch, Cress Henderson and the senior leadership team – indeed the whole teaching and non-teaching staff – for their Herculean efforts over this last year in moving back and forth between online and in-classroom teaching, whilst minimising large outbreaks of the virus, and maintaining both the high academic standards to which we have become accustomed, as well as an impressive array of co-curricular activities, many of which were able to take place virtually.

Your Royal Highness, Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen and current Wellingtonians.

Thirteen months ago I joined most of you for our first ever virtual Speech Day – at the time a relative novelty amidst the so-called first lockdown. Wellington TV, together with numerous members of staff and students performing from their homes all over the world, produced an hour and a half of visual celebration of music and dance and sport and academic success.

We little knew then, that we would be forced to adopt a similar methodology in July ‘21, this time with barely two weeks’ notice, although the ever fluctuating nature of the pandemic had our internal COVID task force certainly aware that conditions might have changed at any point.

My heart goes out to all of you for the abrupt cancellation of what for many parents and children is the highlight of the school year, and for the Class of 2020 who were due to have their postponed graduation ceremony this weekend.

Fortunately, this year’s graduates are able to continue with a modified programme today, albeit without their families present.

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Particularly galling, from my point of view is seeing the tens of thousands – of which I admit to being one – attending matches at Wembley, Lords and Twickenham, whilst schools – not just Wellington of course – are not permitted to have our parents and students participate in predominantly outdoor celebrations at the end of what has been such an unusual and disrupted school year.

Sadly, if there was ever a year when the value of independent school education has been exemplified , it is this last one. But we must not forget that hundreds of thousands of children in some segments of the state sector have missed out on major parts of their education this last year given the difficulties of inadequate bandwidth, lack of tech hardware and software, and cramped physical space in less advantaged areas of the country.

Where we can, we have done our best to help with catch-up content, laptops, and financial grants to our state school partners and this summer we are also providing a catch-up Summer School programme for five local schools, in addition to the continuation of our successful Wheeler programme for university aspirants.

This Summer Term, sporting fixtures were briefly allowed to resume, and the arts and drama programmes had a number of live performances, and Wellington’s incredible breadth of talent was fleetingly allowed to express itself with some parents present.

I know all of you students have worked consistently well throughout the year, and continual assessment should arguably give a fairer representation of achievement levels.

I want to take a moment to recognise four of my fellow Governors, who have retired during the last twelve months and who represented an astonishing almost 50 years of service between them.

Rob Perrins, Old Marlburian, but a Wellington parent, was our lead Financial governor for much of his time with us, and used his experience as former CFO and now Chief Executive of the Berkeley Group, to provide invaluable advice on our property assets and on developing the Master Plan for the school, working closely with our Bursar and COO. Edward Chaplin, ex-Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and to Italy, brought his diplomatic expertise and charm to the fore in chairing Wellington College International, which has been an unmitigated success with five schools in China under the leadership of Joy Qiao, one in Thailand, and planned projects in Singapore and India, and today generating substantial recurring income to the school, much of which goes to our bursary and Prince Albert programmes.

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Howard Veary, former partner at Deloitte, chaired our Risk and Audit Committee and for the last nine years, Eagle House and championed major projects there such as the new Sports Hall, a new Pre-Prep and Nursery – recently opened by the Earl and Countess of Wessex – and the Music School Development.

And finally, Peter Frankopan, Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, prolific and best-selling historical author and commentator, who has chaired our Academic Committee for the last five years, and continually challenged both staff and students to demonstrate intellectual curiosity in and out of the classroom.

To these four, all of us owe our deep gratitude.

I am delighted to say that we have recently appointed three new governors, all experienced in their fields, and bringing our governing body to almost 50/50 male and female. We welcome Dr. Christie Marr, an early Apsley OW, and former Head of College, a PhD in Computer Science, and Deputy Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University; James Garvey, parent of three OWs and former partner at Goldman Sachs and Global Head of Capital Markets at Lloyd’s Bank; Lt. General Sir Christopher Tickell, OW and Deputy Chief of the General Staff. All will be great additions to our Board, and we are honoured to have them.

As I wrote to parents a few months back, I am excited to be handing over as Vice-President to William Jackson, a parent of two OWs, Managing Partner of Bridgepoint private equity, and a Director of The Royal Marsden, amongst other positions, who has already initiated, together with James Dahl, a strategy and purpose review, which will guide the College over the next decade.

Wellington has changed enormously over the 18 years I have spent as a Governor.

In 2003, we were under 1000 students in the Group, were 0.9 times subscribed for

every place, and had less than 50 girls in a senior school of 700. Under the inspired leadership of Sir Anthony Seldon, followed

by Julian Thomas, and now the equally inspirational and indefatigable Mr. Dahl, at Wellington College today, we are 3-4 times subscribed for every place – much more than that in the Sixth Form – and are educating almost 1500 students here in Berkshire and coming close to our 50/50 co-educational goal – which will be achieved with the building of a new 6th Form co-ed boarding house, due to break ground early next year, and with the transition of the Talbot to a girls house, starting this September.

Abroad, we are proud to count close to 5,000 Wellingtonians in China and Thailand.

Our Prince Albert Foundation continues to grow, and thanks to the generosity of many of you parents, this September we will have 20 scholars receiving 100% fee awards and a life-changing education.

Our goal is for this number to rise to 40 over the next 5 years.

and been a part of this journey of transformational change.

And yet there is so much ahead for all of you to look forward to.

Words and phrases such as “Zoom”, “Teams”, “you’re on mute”, “anti-vax”, “Delta variant” and “hands, face, space” have become part of the lexicon today, but it is perhaps the more traditional concepts of service, social responsibility, academic and pastoral excellence, physical and mental health, and a global outlook, which define Wellington, and which give me enormous confidence that its students and staff will prosper in the years ahead.

I wish all our leavers every success in life and hope your association with Wellington will be long-lasting and mutually beneficial.

Thank you and have a wonderful summer.

Peter Mallinson

Academic standards have risen dramatically, during this time and today over half the Sixth form choose to take the International Baccalaureate from a standing start less than 15 years ago and our results now place us in the Top 10 IB schools in the world. As befits a truly global school, a record eight students will be heading to Ivy League universities this year, alongside 17 to Oxbridge and the vast majority to other great universities at home and abroad.

I offer my congratulations to all today’s prize winners for stoically adapting to online learning and hopefully achieving terrific results.

As one of four Old Wellingtonian brothers, with two sons as recent graduates, and three nephews and nieces currently in the school, I am, as they say, “invested”. But what a rewarding and enjoyable investment it has been. I feel deeply fortunate to have watched 09

Introducing Wellington College’s new Vice-President and Chairman

William Jackson

A BRIEF PROFILE William Jackson is the Executive Chairman of Bridgepoint Group plc, a FTSE listed private markets company.

William, a graduate of Oxford, has had a 30 year business career focusing on sport, property and healthcare and has served on numerous boards. He is currently President of the Board of Dorna Sports, the international sports management company which runs the MotoGP World Championship. He is also a Non-executive Director of the Berkeley Group Plc, a FTSE 100 property company and a Director of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Europe’s largest comprehensive cancer hospital and one of the world’s top five centres for cancer research.

Let’s start by finding out about your association with Wellington and why you’ve taken on this role.

I’m passionate about education and the power it has to change people’s lives. In recent years I’ve been involved with a range of access to education projects at the university and secondary school level and seen the impact of this in action.

Wellington has the capacity to pioneer in it its field and that’s hugely exciting to be involved with.

I’m also a former parent having had two daughters through the College between 2010 – 2017 both in The Anglesey. This has given me a useful perspective of the student experience as well as being Wellington a parent during a very exciting phase of its history. I’ve been a Governor since 2018 serving as the chair of the E&F Committee. And since my appointment I have been working closely with our outgoing Chair of Governors, Peter Mallinson, which has given me tremendous preparation for the role.

Peter has served Wellington brilliantly over many years and hands over the Chair with the College in excellent shape.

What do you think are the key attributes for being a good ViceChair?

I think this breaks down into two areas; people skills and strategic planning.

The first requires facilitation skills – the Governing Body at Wellington is a 10

collection of seriously bright, knowledgeable, demanding and highly experienced individuals. The job of Chair is to find a way of harnessing all this talent by creating a well-structured forum where every board member has the opportunity to share their insights and observations.

This aspect is made easier by the second essential ingredient; that of having a co-constructed strategic plan. By having a clear 5-10 year strategy in place you provide an essential framework that galvanises and harnesses the talents and expertise of the Governors, which enables them do their job as effectively as possible.

What do you want to see achieved during your time as Vice-Chair?

I want to see the trajectory that the College has been on over the last 15 years not just continue but accelerate – which feels only natural after what we have seen during the global pandemic.

We will have not only provided a clear answer to the question as to what the role of the independent sector is in a post pandemic UK, but will be leading the sector in terms of our partnership work – working collaboratively with our colleagues and students in the State Sector.

Wellington will be able to show clearly how it delivers on its promise to provide an outstanding all-round education for

its students and genuinely equip them for the life ahead.

We will do this by holding ourselves to account over the short, medium and long-term by having clear metrics in place way beyond one exam results and we will track our alumni over a 10–20 year period asking ourselves and them; ‘how did we do?’

What I’ve learnt in my career is that most successful organisations share the following characteristics: they remain restless and curious operating with a constructive anxiety to improve what they do; they don’t shy away from the difficult decisions, they seek feedback from their customers, they say what they mean and do what they say and they have the courage of their convictions; most importantly they have a clear vision and strategy, a north star, that all key stakeholders understand and buy into. Wellington’s is pioneering education to serve and help shape a better world.

Wellington in 2021 has so many of these attributes in place but still has a lot of runway ahead. We are a thought leader providing an inspiring education that goes way beyond just exam results, important as they are. Under James Dahl’s leadership, I’ve no doubt that the next 10 years will be as, or even more exciting than, the last.

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fter a difficult end to the academic year 2019/20 with a pivot to online learning from late March until the end of the Summer Term, the hope was that this academic year would provide greater normality and a return to normal external public examinations. This proved not to be the case, and it has certainly been a year like no other!

In September, the College began the academic year with a special shape of the week in place that included staggered lessons and timetabled sport in order to best enable social distancing.

Unfortunately, we also had to remove all Harkness tables and return to a more traditional seating style in all classrooms in order to minimise potential infections.

Seating plans had to be put in place and logged whilst hybrid teaching commenced with some students unable to return or intermittently required to self-isolate.

One-way systems were all in place and at the end of each lesson, a process of sanitisation had to take place before the next class entered. It felt like a world away from our usual style of teaching but students and staff alike approached it with great vigour and enthusiasm just happy to be back in the classroom after the period of online learning the previous term. It became the new normal very quickly and academic life continued with students showing great determination to continue their progress and ensure that the year was a success.

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were deployed with societies and clubs meeting both online and in the real world to ensure that no time was lost and a greater emphasis on the positive impact of responsive teaching resonated in the classroom. Reading clubs in houses began to proliferate thanks to the excellent work of the Library and numerous successes in external Essay Competitions and Olympiads came through on a regular basis. At a time when gaining entry to Oxford and Cambridge has become increasingly difficult, we were thrilled to find out in January that 17 students had received offers. In addition and as the Lent Term progressed, this was further enhanced by a number of Ivy League successes coupled with offers at other prestigious US and Canadian Universities.

Unfortunately, the Lent Term brought another period of lockdown and eight weeks of remote learning. The College utilised all of the learning experiences from the previous summer in order to try and give the students the best possible provision, Microsoft Teams now enabled more functions for break-out rooms and greater numbers visible on the screen all of which was beneficial but in no way a replacement for the real experience of being inside a classroom. It was a tough time for all and it was with great joy that we were able to welcome students back for the last two weeks of term to ensure that their learning was in a strong place before the Easter break.

The Summer Term is normally dominated by public examinations and better weather; neither of these held true

this year. With all exams cancelled, the College had to operate as an exam board with the setting of mini-assessments, the creation of marking schemes, the marking of all papers, a process of internal moderation of all scripts and the final submission of grades. It was indeed a challenge for all students and staff but everyone rose to the occasion and the students were simply magnificent in their determination to approach these miniassessments as an opportunity to further improve their grades. As I write this today, the IB results have already come in and the students performed with great credit to average an incredible 41.1 points. 13 students scored the maximum 45 points and 73% of students scored 40 points or more. A Level and GCSE results both come out in the week commencing Monday 9th August and I am sure that even more academic success will be celebrated at this point.

Whilst it has been the most challenging year since I have been in this post, it has also been the most rewarding. To see the students approach their studies with such vigour and resilience in the midst of so many difficulties and uncertainties has marked them out as true Wellingtonians where all six of the College values has come to the fore. Well done to them and thanks to all the teaching and non-teaching staff who have made this year such a success.

Matt Oakman Deputy Head (Academic) July 2021

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he Arts at Wellington continue to thrive, despite COVID doing its best to disrupt plans throughout the year, with inevitable isolations, lockdowns and the inconvenience of Year Group bubbles.

However, the show must go on and so it has been a year of collaboration like no other, and one in which all areas have developed through individual year group and House-based activities. Dance produced some beautiful, innovative, and expressive performances, joining forces with Drama for the affectionately named “House Drance”, as well as rounding-off the year with a bang with the wonderful musical Company. The spectacular December Dance Show streamed a fun-filled journey through Charlie’s Chocolate Adventure. The Third and Fourth Form produced fun, expressive, highly articulate and meaningful pieces in the Summer Term’s Choreographic Challenge.

In Drama, (along with music) the first event was a student-led evening of Musical Theatre raising money for Autistica and the Ruth Strauss Foundation. It was wonderful to see live performances in front of an audience again. In November, a talented Sixth Form ensemble cast performed Love and Information by Caryl Churchill to a streamed audience. As we went into our second lockdown in January, a cast drawn from Third Form to Upper Sixth gave us some light relief with Whose Line Is It Welly Way? Rehearsals for Sondheim’s Company moved online, as did rehearsals for the Fourth Form production of Buckets. When school reopened, we were delighted to return to ‘in person’ rehearsals and rediscover the magic of a rehearsal room, where stories come alive and skills are refined. More than anything, we were pleased to reconnect as a creative community. The moving and powerful production of Adam Barnard’s Buckets was allowed a small audience at the start of May and parents of cast members celebrated the success and talents of the Third and Fourth Form in The School of Musical Theatre later in the month. Mr Dahl opened his gardens to a live (and streamed) audience of Shakespeare in the Master’s Garden, where we witnessed some truly outstanding pieces that showcased the fantastic work that goes on in the LAMDA school. The year finished with a real bang.

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realised, with phenomenal singing and mature performances from the Fifth and Sixth Form cast: it was exciting to see the Annenberg come alive again.

With music the opportunities seemed to far outshine the challenges, with numerous year group activities and a total of six choirs. Recitals and Monday concerts all happened in the first half of the Michaelmas Term but by the second half we further developed the possibilities of streamed events and gradually got used to performing to camera. With Matilda’s A Celebration of Romantic Song and remote masterclasses becoming the norm (flautist Ian Clark and baritone Roderick Williams for example), even our carol services were re-recorded and filmed. Our Gala Concert for example featured a number of venues around the school where we could move the camera from one performance to another. Despite not having a House Singing Competition, we did manage a successful House Ensemble Event. The Spring Concert and Minibus Concert both

happened on-line but it was wonderful to highlight the work of the year group ensembles and showcase the variety of talent in the school. The Montgomery Competitions were live events streamed to parents and the standard and confidence in our students was outstanding, from the seniors, won by Catherine to the singers, won by Matilda to the Junior competition won by Yi-Ann. In the Summer Term we were able to have some live masterclasses, with the Ossian ensemble (for composition) and Remus Azoitei (for violin) and despite the late cancellation of Speech Day due to another COVID restriction, we were at least able to finish the year with the excitement of musical and dramatic Year Group Assembly performances.

In Art, we marked the start of the new year with a range of workshops, projects and enrichment for all ages with visiting artists and designers. We welcomed Scottish Street artist Fraser Gray and Theatrical costume designer

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Emily Staar to inspire our students, sharing their experiences and influencing many of the students’ work, particularly seen in examination material.

Despite the obstacles lockdown brought to our students, we have been astonished and thrilled by the ambitious flair for creativity which continued to flourish under the strangest of circumstances. Canvases, paints, textiles and so much more were posted, or hand delivered, to our exam groups, allowing teaching and the development of coursework to continue. Looms were made from cardboard packaging with students establishing makeshift studios in bedrooms and at dining room tables.

The outcomes remained as aspiring and driven as ever and we look forward to celebrating the work in our exhibition calendar next year. Our enrichment programme continued with Third Form workshops in Fine Art, Textiles and Photography, as well as virtual life drawing and portrait masterclasses. The launch of our student-produced Zine garnered

enthusiastic engagement, bridging Art History with contemporary creative practices. Indeed, in Art History, the Arts Fest in the Michaelmas Term kick-started with an inspiring talk from the renowned Art Historian, Andrew Graham Dixon.

The popular Kenneth Clark society saw the L6th and U6th student leaders put on an interesting array of talks, including a collaboration with the Economics Society about the future of cryptocurrency and digital art. In the Summer Term, we welcomed Nick Ross, the director of Art History Abroad who delivered a fascinating talk about the power dynamics at play behind great works of art.

Congratulations to all of our leavers in the Arts and particularly to those that go on to study our subjects, whether in drama school, at conservatoire or Oxbridge as well as courses at many universities up and down the country.

Thank you also to all staff who have inspired and enthused about their subjects and coped with the ever-changing plans this year.

The Wellington College Arts Fund Established in 2019, the Wellington College Arts Fund (WCAF) aims to raise money from ticket sales of College performances. The fund is available for Arts Education projects involving students of school age, and particularly for school-based projects.

The Arts Fund has just had its most successful year to date, bringing the total number of awards granted to fifteen, and having awarded £10,000 to projects which are helping to cultivate the arts in our local community. This term, we were able to award grants towards the purchase of digital cameras for a primary school; the construction of an outdoor stage for a junior school; the purchase of a samba kit; and the purchase of a drama studio sound system to name but a few.

Simon Williamson Director of Arts & Music July 2021

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Despite the obstacles lockdown brought to our students, we have been astonished and thrilled by the ambitious flair for creativity which continued to flourish under the strangest of circumstances.

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t would be an understatement to say that the 2020/21 academic year was a disrupted one on the sports front, but there were still many successful moments and initiatives to reflect on.

The Michaelmas Term started with a hybrid of Winter and Summer sports offered, the first time this has ever been the case and only made possible due to the stunning efforts of the College Grounds Staff. Unfortunately, due to COVID restrictions nearly all interschool fixtures were lost, excluding a handful of Cricket, Football and Golf matches, but the College was still hugely privileged and lucky to be able to continue offering what was largely a full training and internal sports programme, albeit with significant changes seen in terms of year group bubbles, capacity limits for in indoor activities and the ever present need for scrupulous attention to hygiene.

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The Michaelmas Term restrictions on interschool competitive fixtures, this provided the opportunity to create an internal competition, ‘The Wellington Premier League.’ This allowed the provision of competitive internal fixtures in Football, Hockey and Rugby and appeared to be a well-received concept.

The second National Lockdown in December 2021 also provided a chance for the College to collaborate with the Health & Fitness Centre to provide all year groups with increased access to the gym and pool, and for the first time in the College’s history, we were able to offer Group Exercise Classes on a regular basis, such as Spinning, Pilates and Yoga, all of which contributed to the pupils being able to maintain an active lifestyle, albeit with reduced competitive sport.

After finishing the Michaelmas Term on something of a sporting high, the Lent Term began with the

disappointment of being back in the virtual world. Nevertheless, we saw activities offered such as online fitness classes, home based workouts and sports specific webinars and podcasts offered. The virtual sporting highlight of the term likely came from ‘The 2021 Challenge’, a remote House-based fitness challenge where the aim was for pupils within Houses to complete at least 2021 kilometres of exercise, such as running or cycling – but with the ultimate aim of completing the greatest distance possible. There were some fantastic efforts from across the College community, but in the end the winning House was the Wellesley covering nearly 6,000 kilometres.

Thankfully, the Lent Term was not forced to finish with a virtual sporting offering, as we were able to return for the final few weeks of term, which provided an opportunity to return to some physical sport. This saw the chance to run two

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major Interhouse competitions in the shape of House Football and Netball and it was fantastic to see so many pupils return back to playing sport properly.

Once the Summer Term arrived, it would not be out of place to say that it was uniquely something of a one-off: we not only saw inter-school fixtures return with the usual summer sports of Athletics, Cricket and Tennis, all for both boys and girls, but we also saw some Friday night Rugby fixtures, and it we were delighted to have the Third Form girls take to the Hockey pitch and Netball court for the first time for Wellington, even if it was a couple of terms late.

Unfortunately, COVID had one last surprise for us: local area COVID restrictions saw inter-school sport restricted in the closing weeks of the term, but this did then provide the chance instead to see a House Water Polo competition and a Lower Sixth Boys

vs Girls Hockey fixture, which will arguably have been one of the most entertaining and hotly contested fixtures of the summer.

Despite all the disruptions to the year, an Interhouse competition was still completed, and we congratulate the Hopetoun in the Senior Girls, the Combermere in the Junior Girls, and the Beresford in both the Senior and Junior Boys.

As ever – but in such a challenging year even more so – we congratulate and thank everyone for their commitment to the Sports Programme, be they pupils, staff, or parents. It should not be overlooked that there have been a number of pupils who have still been able to excel in their sporting fields and we wish these pupils in particular the best of luck moving forwards, whether that be in Olympic sports such as Gymnastics; moving to US Universities in Hockey; stepping up to

professional contracts in Rugby, Cricket and Polo; and all those achieving National success or trialling nationally in Athletics, Equestrian disciplines, Golf, Netball, Skiing, Target Shooting, Triathlon and Water Polo.

Finally, we once again end the academic year, as was the case in the summer of 2020, looking forward to what we hope will be a more stable sporting landscape from September 2021, not only in terms of interschool fixtures but also in terms of indoor sporting capacities and seeing spectators return in full to the wonderful sports arena that is Wellington.

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perating CCF two days a week with the Fourth Form cadets having their own session on Tuesdays significantly changed the flavour of our CCF offered to cadets this year. The model came with both challenges and opportunities.

Operating in year group bubbles the Fifth Form, Lower Sixth, and Upper Sixth, without their normal instructional duties, were treated to an effective bespoke training programme on Wednesday afternoons brilliantly prepared by section officers. A gripping competitive element was introduced to a really concentrated training programme that included training in built up areas and multiple field craft exercises, along with work on orders and estimation which we were able to introduce to the programme for the first time.

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“taster” event was a highlight of the Wednesday afternoon programme and Drumhead Remembrance Services held for all year groups “in the field” were even more poignant than usual. Training truly became “combined” with members of all four sections regularly working together in a variety of activities with planners never quite knowing what was around the next corner.

On Tuesdays the Fourth Form followed programmes “inspired” by individual cadet syllabuses under the supervision of adult volunteers without the support of senior cadets. Cadet activities included radio procedure and communications, ship recognition, navigation, orienteering, glider construction, low and high ropes, first aid and flight simulator work. The opportunity for senior cadets to instruct their juniors is an essential component of CCF with adults unfortunately this year having to step

increasingly into that role.

A cadet instructional techniques course did however form part of the Wednesday offer for senior cadets. The CCF adult team worked miracles on both days given the team was never available in its entirety with an academic programme also running on CCF afternoons. One has to feel some sympathy for our team of senior cadets who would usually work with the Fourth Form and as a result develop themselves in their roles. The Fourth Form also missed the opportunity of being instructed by their peers and sadly our equestrian offering this year was indeed a casualty of external COVID protocols.

The Drum Corps also had its challenges in its first year without Mr Ray Smith. It did however manage to rehearse online and outcomes were impressive if not displayed as fully on the wider stage.

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A system of virtual training was put in place encouraging cadets to undertake a range of activities online, ranging from learning to tie knots and develop observation skills to completing virtual problem solving exercises.

The Dukes’ Trophy had its second virtual outing with the RM and RAF sections sharing the honours – origami tanks went down well! The House Drill Competition inspired Fourth Formers.

Even without senior cadets to lead the standard of drill in the year group soared and with only a week to practice outcomes were impressive and The Picton victorious. Swan Lake saw socially distanced paddle boarding, kayaking, raft building and armoury field and the surrounding area saw all the elements of camp craft such as basha building and cookery in the field – including toasted marshmallows!

Our cadets worked their way through an ever increasing offering of command and leadership tasks getting wet and muddy.

The emphasis on keeping cadets outdoors in the fresh air meant that cadets in all sections were exposed to more expansive and wide-ranging training activities often covering syllabus content that would normally be delivered indoors.

The imagination of adult volunteers in reworking the ordinary into the extraordinary was unbelievable. Necessity certainly became the mother of invention and we were jolly lucky with the weather!

Blank firing contact/ambush drills, air-rifle, laser quest and static target paintball serials all added variety to training and at the time of writing a two-day exercise is planned for Fourth Formers to mark the end of the year. This will replace the traditional camp and will include many of the aforementioned activities that the

fourth year have yet to experience and some extra ones such as an acquaint with historical weapons, archery and arrow tag.

The year to end for the fourth year with a CCF barbecue following an on-site overnight fieldcraft exercise for interested cadets.

Cadet shooting was also possible with 20 cadets attending a successful Easter Camp with several up for selection to The Athelings and cadet team to the Channel Islands. Wellington cadets also made the finals in the British Schools’ Senior and Junior smallbore championships and represented England Schools. At this time there are 15 entries for the forthcoming prestigious Imperial meeting.

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hen we look back at this enrichment year in the future, we’ll see it as a year of innovation and problem solving.

We started in September with a scaleddown, socially distanced version of the College Carnival, with only the new pupils to the College able to attend, and with only the COVID-friendly activities exhibited their activities. Despite this, and the first wet Carnival in years, there was a palpable buzz of excitement on Armoury Field as the Third Form in particular found out which clubs were still going to run – and how – despite the challenging circumstances.

That positive energy carried through into the Wednesday afternoon enrichment programme, with pupils from three different year groups throwing themselves into a range of activities such as Real Tennis, Mountain Biking, Chess and Model United Nations (MUN). When we found ourselves away from College in January, due to the Lent Term lockdown, staff and pupils successfully amended their activities and adapted them to the online environment.

One particular triumph was the adaptation of the dissection activity, replaced by a “Science in the Kitchen” project, with pupils being guided through simple experiments to conduct at home. Others were able very quickly to take their activities online, with, for example about 40 pupils joining Chess tournaments through the internet, and the “What else is in the news?!”looking hard for topics beyond COVID and Trump to discuss over Teams.

Perhaps the strongest positives to have come from this year have been when pupils have embraced things to do when their usual things to do were gone. The Master led the way, starting up an online Cryptic Crosswords group that saw a good group of older pupils engaging in word play and taking great satisfaction from working out the challenging clues. Other online successes saw groups looking at Bullet Journaling, Photoshop skills and even Bread-making, using the time at home to share skills and passions that are difficult to do in College.

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activities can bring us together, and that a shared interest or passion not only helps our learning, but also brings joy through friendship and light relief. The Third Form took part in a competition led by the Co-curricular committee, with points awarded for participating in various activities after lessons, and a select group of pupils took a breather from their academic studies by learning to juggle with astounding success! At the calmer end of the scale, origami has been the method of calming escape for another group, creating boats, bunnies and other intricate models from paper, under the expert guidance of the Mandarin Department.

Looking forward, we very much hope that some of the enrichment and recreational clubs from recent years will be back in play from September. We have undoubtedly learnt a great deal this year though, and will be looking to use our online experience to help us link up with other Wellington schools in the group.

Academic Extension Engagement in academic extension has been fantastic this year across all year groups with everything from Fireside talks, one-off events, regular clubs & societies and external essay competitions. Fireside talks continued virtually with attendance at record levels. Particular highlights

included Professor David Olusoga’s “Black and British: a Forgotten History” which considered the importance of understanding our shared history which 240 students joined.

Debates and book clubs have proved particularly popular. Guy Zilberman and Allegra Nayar defeated the teachers in the Factfulness debate, which considered whether the world is getting better or not, and a group of Lower Sixth students convinced the audience we need to stop targeting GDP in order to address climate change. The Junior Extension book clubs discussed a huge range of topics including Psychology, Philosophy, Sports Science, Race & Culture and the Environment.

Academic departments organised many outside speakers, a particular highlight was the mathematician and poet Harry Baker.

Every week students and staff organised 30-40 different academic clubs, such as the Environmental Society, InvestSoc, and the LGBT society. This year, we hosted the inaugural inter-school Academic symposium , an inter-disciplinary discussion of ‘Exploration’, with students from St Crispin’s, Edgebarrow, Bradfield, and Wellington College all presenting.

Our Lower Sixth students have been particularly keen to extend themselves by entering external essay competitions, with 28 Wellingtonians shortlisted for the New College of Humanities essay competition across a range of categories. It was equally wonderful to see 24 Third Form pupils entering the John Locke Junior Essay Competition.

The Co-curricular and Academic Extension Enrichment programmes have responded to the challenges of the COVID world with a combination of flexibility and innovation. Instead of mourning what could no longer be done (cross year group activities, visiting speakers, etc.) staff and students have instead concentrated on what was possible, using ingenuity and technology to continue to provide diverse and challenging co-curricular opportunities.

Iain Sutcliffe Deputy Co-Curricular July 2021

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his most unusual of years saw the GC Interhouse competition Heroes launch in the Michaelmas Term as the new programme was shared with everyone in the school.

Houses submitted their nominations for well-known individuals in one aspect of life, who use their influence for positive change elsewhere. The Hopetoun took first place with their informative presentation of Elton John. Other nominees included Michael J Fox, Adam Goodes, Marcus Rashford, Emma Watson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Siyamthamnda Kolisi.

The Third Form programme continued with the Bronze Arts Award and a revised COVID-friendly enrichment offering.

Community Action pivoted to a course covering respectful relationships and a second on the basics of advocacy, in place of the usual visits with community partners.

Lockdown did not affect The Blücher Ed Club, a virtual programme of remote tutoring and friendship with pupils in Kenya, which ran as usual. The partnerships with local schools offering education to individuals with complex learning needs, Carwarden House Community School and Kennel Lane School, also switched to a remote version.

The 12 Days of Christmas from The Stanley/Orange/Carwarden team was a particular highlight!

Despite the lockdown there have been many successes to celebrate this year. We have seen the first joint Academic/Global

Citizenship project, “Hidden Figures”, the culmination of which was a showcase, a year and a day after the murder of George Floyd and the focus on Black Lives Matter.

Academic scholars and Global Citizenship pupils celebrated the lives of individuals from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds whose contributions to the advancement of humanity have been suppressed and marginalised. Charles Drew, a pioneer in the field of blood banks and storage was advocated for by Elia (O), Katie (A), and Alicia (W), who won the pupil vote, with the Social Justice Race & Identity group’s “Charlie and Mayas Big Adventure” taking the Jury Special Award, focussing on the disparity of treatment between Chidera Eggerue and Florence Given.

“Hidden Figures week” also saw podcasts on DukeBox from pupils discussing their post-colonial perspectives course; an omnibus of Hidden Figures submissions; and Deputy Head of College, Ned Chapman discussed how things may change from his unique perspective as lead pupil on the Hidden Figures project and as co-chair of the DEI pupil committee.

Sustainability strands have come together across the Wednesday afternoon programme for Fifth Form and Lower Sixth pupils: the Eco Society and Sustainability Committee led the recycling clothes initiative (two collection “bins” are on campus, recognisable by the Sustainability and Eco Society logos on them), supporting four different projects: ReRun; Bag to School; Upcycling of donated clothes with a social enterprise; and second-hand uniform.

The Outdoor & Adventure team would usually welcome pupils from local state primary schools for our pupils to lead sessions on the low ropes course, and paddle boarding on Swan Lake. Instead, our pupils undertook a number of rescue challenges in the Summer Term, from hauling a lorry using pupil power alone, to a “Mountain rescue” in the woods, putting together skills developed as part of the course and problem solving to a successful “rescue”!

The Charity Digital Marketing group were very much in the virtual world presenting new social media and a new website to

support the work of Berkshire Women’s Aid, a local charity providing support, advocacy, and domestic abuse services.

BWA were also one of the recipients of the Social Justice Period Poverty groups donations of period products. The other recipient was Crowthorne Foodbank, serving those in need locally.

Publications from BaCoN, Economics and Psychology groups tackled subjects as diverse as “Science at Home” and “Sleep and Dreaming”. These online publications are always informative, and we urge you to take a look, via the main Wellington College website – publications area. More will follow in the next academic year.

The nine different strands of the GC programme (Adventure & Outdoor, Arts Award, Community Action, Connected Curriculum, Enrichment, Social Justice, Sustainability, WCPCI, and Welly Leaders) all adapted to both lockdown and then the move back to sessions in person, to provide pupils an interesting offering, helping to develop skills for both college and future careers. It was therefore very pleasing when the annual GC review saw pupils give an overall positive rating for their enjoyment of the GC programme, as well as clearly rating the benefits gained from their participation. Thank you to all pupils and staff for your enthusiasm and commitment, exploring both the existing and new options of this strange year.

We very much look forward to working with the GC pupils on a wide range of interesting projects again in the coming academic year – this time hopefully with less interruption from COVID-19!

Rebecca Park Head of Global Citizenship, CAS Coordinator July 2021

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Educational Partnerships 2020-21 Iain Henderson Deputy Head of Partnerships

In a year when it would have been too easy to hide behind the excuse-for-everything that is COVID-19, it is heartening to be able to report that Wellington’s partnership work expanded significantly, at a time when there was significantly more need, and equally, significantly greater moral imperative for such a privileged institution to be increasingly proactive in facilitating meaningful collaborative work.

Thanks to the support of so many within and outside the Wellington Community we were able to support a number of programmes some of which are outlined here.

Through our scheme “Donation for Education” scheme, we provided a laptop computer for online learning to all students at all 26 partner schools who needed one.

This was achieved mainly through devices donated by Wellington families, being donated then professionally wiped, repurposed and distributed. Thank you to everyone who donated it really did make a difference.

We made the decision that the entire online Festival of Education was free to all, and available even after the event. Over 17,000 attendees enjoyed the event live, and many more in the following weeks.

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Our first cohort of Wheeler Programme students completed their Year 13 (final year).

Some are off to university or further study, some to apprenticeships, and some to employment. We are so proud of all the Wheeler students and we wish this first pioneering cohort all the best going forward – in the knowledge that we are always here to support when needed – particularly through Welly Connect.

Our Independent State School Partnership (ISSP) refined and grew its student-facing programme in especially difficult circumstances, with access to online resources and events restricted for many families early on. Like many of us, we also saw that several of our events became even more successful online.

The Wellington College Teaching School Partnership has also grown, with four new schools joining during the year. The depth

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of professional collaboration demonstrated now is remarkable. Wellington provided a platform to share a wide range of resources and online support across the partnership, and has provided a range of Professional Learning and Development courses and individual coaching for free.

We have committed to continuing this as an independent operation after the government-backed Teaching School scheme ceases in September 2021.

We have provided financial support and professional learning to Into University, eventually aiming to eventually set up a local project in Reading. We have also provided mentoring and tutoring to a virtual school for children in care, in Wandsworth.

In addition, we have enabled the Forest Learning Alliance (a thriving Primary Teaching School in Sandhurst with 26 active partners) to continue as an independent operation from September as well as supporting the work of Langley Grammar School as the Hub for Berkshire.

During the summer break we were able to organise and host a summer catch-up school for almost 600 incoming Year 7 students at five of our most local secondary schools.

Wellington has become an Educational Grants Provider, with an initial fund of £500,000 per year. The first awards went to local schools for Covid catch-up.

The funding is only made possible thanks to the income we receive from our overseas educational partnerships.

Wellington has supported the establishment and development of a new national body for partnership between state and independent schools, the Schools Partnership Alliance.

While the College was closed, we provided free accommodation to critical workers at Frimley Park Hospital who needed to isolate from their families during the pandemic.

During the year we merged the Wellington College Academy Trust into the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Trust, while maintaining our support for the WCAT schools.

I’d like to end with our grateful thanks to the dozens of staff and students who helped to make such a difference to so many young people, parents and teachers.

Wellington’s relevance in modern society must remain essential: we hope that it does.

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EAGLE HOUSE It has certainly been a year like no other!

We started with tight restrictions on how we could operate – year group bubbles, one-way systems, enhanced hygiene, no matches, few trips and limited opportunities to enjoy the arts.

Then January saw seven weeks of online learning with most children off-site followed by three weeks back in school with additional precautions in place.

The Summer Term saw a slight move back to normality with greater access for parents to enjoy matches and small concerts and an easing of restrictions, but we were forced to put back stricter measures for the final three weeks of term, impacting on many of our end of year events for a second year! Nevertheless, the things that have made the biggest impression over the last twelve months are resilience, flexibility and a determination to make the best of everything!

Perhaps the most significant event of the year has been The Pre-Prep and Music School building development that opened in early 2021 and was officially opened in June

by Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and

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Countess of Wessex. At the heart of the development is a superb playground and outdoor learning area that every classroom from Nursery to Year 2 opens out on, giving the children easy access to outdoor space.

The bright learning areas are spacious and full of thoughtful details to enable the very best experiences for both teachers and pupils. The Music School has a suite of practice rooms, large teaching spaces and a small performance hall that opens out onto a newly created outdoor area where small outdoor events can be held. It is a stunning addition to the school.

In September we introduced a fully inclusive 3-13 curriculum. This forward-thinking learning journey draws children across Eagle House into a progressive and challenging programme of all-round education of which we are truly proud. Pupils’ ability to learn through explicit teaching of effective learning habits and skills is encouraged and we relish inquisitive, engaged, resilient and organised learners, fully preparing them for future challenges. Curiosity and reflection allow pupils to go above and beyond the ‘typical’ school day and continuous monitoring of the key learning skills shows where, and

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more crucially, how, boys and girls can develop in these vital areas. There is no doubt that this learning journey will continue to develop, and we look forward to what the future brings.

The Pre-Prep and Music School building was officially opened in June by Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex.

At the heart of the development is a superb playground and outdoor learning area that every classroom from Nursery to Year 2 opens out on, giving the children easy access to outdoor space.

It has been a challenging year for sport.

We have continued to keep children active and managed to achieve an incredible amount, at times working around some limiting restrictions. There has been progress made across all sports and participation levels are at their highest to date. The emphasis this year has been on team spirit and developing important values such as sportsmanship and fair play with the children. Despite the lack of fixtures and competitions there have been notable successes for gymnastics, golf, hockey, cricket, football and netball. The daily online fitness workouts, Eagles Get Active, run by the Sports Department, proved a massive hit during lockdown!

The activities programme, such an important part of Eagle House, continues to flourish.

Restrictions meant changes but there were still over 30 clubs and activities for the children to choose from. The enthusiasm for clubs is tangible and whether it be frisbee golf, fencing, laser tag or countless other offerings, the provision continues to grow.

The Skills for Life programme in the Pre-Prep goes from strength to strength with a brilliant mix of cookery, road safety, STEM, sewing, healthy living, Save the Planet and Forest School. Our Golden Eagle residential weeks in June were able to take place and each year group enjoyed time away from school, taking part in adventures that help promote confidence, resilience and leadership; the raison d’être of the Golden Eagle Programme.

Music and drama have continued to offer vibrant opportunities for all. There have been lunchtime concert programmes, and several ‘virtual choir’ films, which were very moving to experience during our time of separation.

The Year 8 music scholars had the task of producing their audition videos at home and undertook their scholarship exams virtually, which was no mean feat! We are very proud to say that a total of nine pupils were successful in gaining awards, having filmed their pieces, and completed online music theory tests and interviews. An impressive 48 pupils took their music exams in June, and the Greenish Senior Musicians Competition and the Gardner Senior Singing Competition took place, both with small socially distanced audiences. Year 8 actors were lucky to perform on stage at the Festival of Musical Theatre, hosted by Wellington College in October. A small cast performed a new play, Merry Wanderers, written for the 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and performed in front of an internal audience. High School Musical by our Year 8 leavers was a massive hit and ended this most strange school year behind closed doors once again. ‘We’re All in this Together’ seemed a fitting slogan for the past twelve months!

Our boarding community has stayed strong over the year and for a time in early 2021, was scattered far and wide across the globe.

We exchanged postcards regularly and packets of microwave popcorn and sweets made their way from Sandhurst as little reminders that while we might not be together, we were missing each other! More recently things have felt a little more normal, with weekend trips allowed and more flexi boarding permitted. The boarding house continues to be a popular option for many of our pupils.

2020 was our 200th year and many of the celebratory events were cancelled but we were able to end the academic year with a whole school party that involved funfair rides, inflatables and games that everyone could enjoy. Everyone had a blast!

We have big plans for next year and can’t wait to get going again. Fingers crossed!

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As another challenging year for education drew to a close, we asked the Masters of our Wellington College International schools to look back at the highlights of the year.

Julian Jeffrey, Master of Tianjin, the oldest school in the international Wellington family, told us: The most prominent feature of the year has – happily – not been dealing with the consequences of the pandemic’s baleful impact, but rather a series of celebrations of the achievements of our pupils. In many ways an unparalleled year, with record public examination results for a fourth consecutive year and university offers from Oxford, Cambridge, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial, UCL and many other world-leading institutions.

Our younger pupils have also thrived, making consistent and rapid progress. Language acquisition in particular has made great strides following recent developments in our English support model, with superb results.

This year has been about reconnecting with our Wellington community too. Servicelearning and charity projects, such as the innovative Eric Liddell project, have found ways to support young people in Hongqiao and across Tianjin. We have also been able to host events again, including the Festival of Education, Graduation, and the Summer 28

Fair. All provided wonderful moments of togetherness and gave a glimpse of how our school is flourishing despite the challenges of the COVID era.

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Shanghai has a new Master, Brendon Fulton, whom we warmly welcome to the Wellington Family. Brendon wrote: WCI Shanghai had a busy year, welcoming parents back for the many and varied academic, sporting, and performing arts events. The Early Years children thrived back in the school environment, and a transition afternoon with parents was very well received as we work closer together as a whole school. There were also some wonderful performances including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chicago, and Chinese New Year and Lent concerts, with each demonstrating our exceptionally talented pupils and dedicated staff.

The Senior School hosted ‘IB Lecture Day’, where industry leaders and IB Wellington Scholars presented to their peers on a variety of topics. Another stand-out day was year 9’s immersive learning event, offering the pupils the opportunity to understand global political issues from different perspectives.

Speech Day rounded up an excellent year, as did the announcement of our new dual language programme for Early Years and Lower Prep. Exciting times ahead!

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Chris Nicholls has been Master of WCI Bangkok since its inception. Bangkok has had a rather stop-start COVID experience, but the College has gone from strength to strength nevertheless.

Chris wrote: In 2019/20, we had no Olympic-level Swimming programme. In 2020/21, we did.

In 2019/20, we had no professional-level Golf programme. In 2020/21, we did.

2019/20: no theatre. 2020/21: an incredible theatre venue. 2019/20: no Scholarship students. 2020/21: we awarded places on our Governors’ Scholarship programmes to some phenomenally talented young people.

Wellington College Bangkok was great in 2019/20. But this year it was so much greater, in so many ways. We placed first in international competitions for Art and for History. We more than held our own against the Harrows, Shrewsburys and Brightons on the sports field (when we were permitted to play).

And remote Learning? We ate that for breakfast. Each morning the recipe was just a little better than the day before. When you’re Wellington, you never stop striving.

And We Are Wellington!

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Hangzhou opened the same year as Bangkok (2018), and from September 2021 will relocate to beautiful new purpose-built premises. Master, Kathryn Richardson, told us: 2020/21 has been an exciting year. The progress of our pupils has been truly remarkable, and there have been achievements and many special memories created across the curriculum.

Our pupils have performed exceptionally well in debating competitions, the Spelling Bee worldwide competition, ASDAN maths awards and many other events. Performing Arts has been a highlight, with successful Christmas and Chinese New Year performances, our first school musical, and the formation of our school orchestra and choir. We also had a very memorable Christmas Fair, Summer Carnival, and an excellent International Day. Our Sports Department has excelled too, taking part in more competitions than ever before and winning many events. The year concluded with our first sports awards evening attended by pupils, parents, staff and a renowned sports guest.

This year the school has also made strides to become community focused, forging closer connections with our parents and developing opportunities for us to connect further with the local community. We look forward to even greater things in the coming year!

and growing reputation within their own cities and beyond, WCC are proud to announce that in August 2022, they will be opening Huili School Nantong, the newest, largest and most ambitious and exciting project yet from Wellington College China.

WCI back in Crowthorne could not be prouder of our family of schools either.

Each school in the family has shown incredible resilience and determination to succeed to even greater heights this year, from university admissions to language acquisition in Early Years. Despite being grounded in the UK due to COVID, WCI has still been working closely with our partners and schools to support them, and to build an ever stronger, richer network for all to thrive. We look forward to an ever brighter future together.

And an equally important part of that family are the Huili Schools; Shanghai and Hangzhou.

Huili Schools (part of the Wellington College China group of schools) offer a sectorleading bilingual education following the Chinese National Curriculum, followed by iGCSE and A level/IBDP. Huili shares the values, ethos and unrelenting drive for excellence of Wellington. The quality of education is evident as Huili students have been successful in a range of competitions from AI to debating. Most recently Huili Shanghai students won the Shanghai schools debating competition (in Mandarin). This was a super achievement considering the pupils were Y9s competing against 6th form students across the city.

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Given the specific challenge of pandemic life, the HMs were asked to write about their House bearing these three questions in mind.

– What were you hoping that your house might achieve this year?

– What were you most proud of – including individual and collective success stories?

– What was the most unexpected moment – and biggest challenge?

Despite the inevitable similarities of each report, what stands out is not only the unique nature of each house, but also the importance that each house places on the College values of Kindness, Respect, Responsibility, Integrity, Gratitude and Courage – and the part those values have played in helping this current generation of Wellingtonians navigate their way through these difficult times.

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ANGLESEY challenge of almost daily COVID paperwork, as well as providing an efficient ‘meals on wheels’ service for the various year groups.

There have also been some unexpected upsides to this year though: the daily Advent raffle leading to the socially distanced Christmas party, Miss Barrett’s lockdown challenge, my virtual cuppas with each year group during our term of remote learning, online parent-quiz nights, and the return of Maniacs have been particular highlights.

I can’t say that we will be particularly sorry to see the back of this academic year; however, we are sorry to see our leavers depart, and we all wish them the very best of luck on the next part of their own adventure.

The Anglesey HM had so many plans for this year – more house socials, more parent socials, and of course this was the year that we were definitely going to win the House Ssinging competition!!

Unfortunately, the pandemic put paid to most of these ideas; however, the year has not been without its highlights. In September we welcomed 23 new girls into the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Lower Sixth Forms. They have all been brilliant additions to the House and it has been fabulous to see every single one of them embrace Wellington life.

We were all absolutely thrilled when we found out that our very own Tash Murrin (L6) had been selected to be the Cadet RSM 2021/22 for the Wellington College CCF Contingent. This is a huge honour, and she faced some seriously tough competition to secure the position. Tash is a superb ambassador for the Anglesey, and the school, and we know that she will 34

be utterly outstanding in this role.

Scarlett Creasey (L6) was selected to play for the Surrey Storm U19 netball team and was invited to attend trials for England; Sophie Skoczylas (4) was awarded a Coldwell Exhibition, and Yi-Ann Yeung (4) won the Junior Montgomery competition, with Gabriella King (4) taking the runner up spot.

I could not be more proud of the way that the Anglesey have coped with the demands of the last year. They have embraced the concept of social distancing (mostly!), and they wore their masks with good grace (apart from the Anglesey ones the HM purchased for them), and they kept smiling throughout (at least they told me they were smiling beneath their masks).

I think that the Third Form deserve a particular mention, as they spent the Michaelmas Term on a constant carousel of high temperatures and isolations, followed by long waits for test results.

Meanwhile the Anglesey staff faced the

Rachel Loaring Housemistress July 2021

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APSLEY My deepest hope for September 2020 was for the girls to enjoy uninterrupted and stress-free schooling in the classroom, reconnect and build their friendships and find a safe haven from the tumultuous times this pandemic has whipped up.

Compassion for each other was going to be important during life in times of a pandemic, and I knew the girls had this quality in abundance. We had restrictions, bubbles, hand-sanitising, and face coverings. No matter how cumbersome, the girls made it work: we had no positive cases in the House, and not a single year group had to isolate. From my perspective, this was all because of compassion: Apsley girls cultivate compassion organically anyway, and despite the extraordinary times, they were unselfish in their giving and support of each other; there was a spontaneous connection with the arrival of the new girls in the Third and Lower Sixth, and the connection between the girls already here grew more profound and more meaningful.

During stressful times, the girls’ kindness and warm-heartedness became a source of happiness and support for each other, especially when the second lockdown came and was more demanding than the first. And because of this compassion for each other, all sense of fear and suspicion dissipated because they knew each other so well and supported each other through the challenging and stressful times of uncertainty, social distancing and testing.

The girls were calm and untroubled and could make proper use of their mind’s ability to think clearly, to study and work together, and have fun together.

The tutors, Matron, housekeeper, and I are immensely proud of the girls for creating this climate of kindness, and for how they all responded to the challenging times. And where there was kindness, every other girl reacted positively to this; yes, there were countless individual success stories in drama, dance, music, sport, and academia, but the biggest, heartening, warmest, and

most potent success was the collective success of a safe, happy, healthy, forwardthinking House, underpinned by unfailing backing and understanding from parents whose support was humbling as much as it was, and is, enabling.

Nevertheless, a boarding house is not a boarding house unless there is an unexpected challenge for all. By this, I do not mean an ant infestation, not enough Pinot Grigio to go around during the Sixth Form socials, Wagamama deliveries not being weekly occurrences and having to use a lanyard to gain entry into the House.

Instead, everyone at some stage faced a genuine challenge: public exams not going ahead and the colossal readjustment required after years of preparing; not seeing loved ones who live abroad; well-earned holidays cut short; omnipresent testing, cancelled driving lessons and tests; the inability to gather in large groups and celebrate a birthday; and the occasional slight melancholy which befell on most, borne of the social restrictions – all of these were and are just some of the challenges.

Yet the Apsley spirit was unyielding, girls adjusted and adapted fluidly because they are strong, kind and compassionate people who, in years to come, will look back and see the magnificent people they became and the surpassing feats they achieved despite it all.

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BENSON The Benson may have had plans for the year 20/21, but then life intervened. What has become clear is that a house is defined by its relationships and its character and not by its circumstances. This year we have learned to live with outdoor call overs and indoor masks; the boys have had ‘exams cancelled’, only to do ‘assessments’ for their grades; bedrooms have echoed to ‘you’re on mute’ and ‘turn the camera on’.

The year has seen a new House Master, AHM Tanya Bateson on her maternity leave (Leo Raphael was born at Easter and is looking cute in his Benson onesie), and other absences.

But throughout all this, the boys have worked hard and laughed a lot and supported each other. When at school, we’ve managed to hold the Christmas curry and sketches, and in the Summer Term we have made the most of the garden with BBQs, football and parents’ drinks. During the Lent Term lockdown, the international spread of the House was reflected in the different ways the boys found of racking up kilometres – both the normal (running, cycling, rowing) and the

unusual (skipping on a roof in Bangkok, ski-touring in Chamonix, skating on a moat).

As I took over in the House, I told the boys that my hope was to continue the culture of the House which doesn’t try to mould any ‘one type’ of Benson boy. I hope that all will find their passions, give their all, and find the joy that comes, with whole-hearted commitment. This breadth of talent, interest and commitment is manifest in the achievements of the year.

Charlie Edwards wrote and directed us to victory in the ‘House Drance’ competition (Drama + Dance) with a compelling short film with exceptional production values.

Seb Batchelor, Francis Frankopan, Benedict King and Josh Hogan won the ‘House Music’ competition with a performance and video of their cover of ‘One Day Like This’ by Elbow. The House has won sport competitions among all year groups in Rugby, Football and Cricket and established a name as a sporting force.

The Upper Sixth have been excellent leaders, remaining positive in the face of

many challenges, with HoH Jake Graham setting a fine example. It would take too long to list all the colours achieved for Sport, Arts, Academics, Leadership, and Global Citizenship, or to mention all those who represented the College in first teams.

Perhaps their greatest achievement is still to come, as this is a year of outstanding academic talent and tenacity, and I fully expect them to achieve top A Level/IB results. Particular congratulations go to Tom Munns for being offered a place at Oxford (Pembroke) to read Economics & Management, an exceptional achievement.

The Lower Sixth are already continuing this culture of celebrating and cultivating a diverse array of talents. Charlie Crosby continues to receive international shooting team call-ups; Josh Hogan, as well as appearing regularly on the Wellington stage and microphone, has been filming for ‘Cobra’ on Sky One; Alan Xu has reached the national level of the Maths Olympiad; Benedict King has been composing for a new ‘Sue Ryder’ (charity) promotional film.

The junior years show the same breadth of interest and depth of talent, and it has been wonderful to see the new Third Form throwing themselves into Wellington life and winning the ‘extra-curricular engagement’ competition.

But often the biggest triumphs go relatively unseen, and many individuals have overcome fears, achieved personal goals, engrained positive habits and shown kindness to others. St Paul once wrote that ‘suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope’, and I hope that this will be true for the boys this year.

Simon Allcock Housemaster July 2021

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With all the disruption and uncertainty caused by the pandemic, the hopes and aspirations for the Beresford had to change somewhat over the course of the year.

Given that our aim is usually to welcome the new intake by integrating them with the other year groups and to encourage all forms of inter-year group activity and social opportunity, it felt strange to have to enforce the direct opposite. The main target became trying to retain the House spirit that the Beresford is known for, without the traditional methods of active leadership and role modelling by the older boys, and without the ‘blue riband’ events that showcase House solidarity, such as House Singing, Dance, and Drama. We also hoped to be able to give the Upper Sixth a memorable final year which would allow them to benefit from the developmental opportunities associated with being student leaders, as well as simply enjoying each other’s company after such a long lay-off.

Given these challenges and the fact that many, quite rightly, viewed life as having become a little ‘beige’, I was immensely proud of the approach taken by the boys.

I did not hear one moan or gripe about lost opportunities or, ‘if only things were different’. To a man they focused on the positives and sought to make the most of an unfortunate situation. The passion and spirit on display in Interhouse sporting events were as inspiring as always, and it was also wonderful to be able to celebrate success and endeavour across a broad spectrum of disciplines: music, singing, drama, leadership, global citizenship, charitable pursuits, sports, and academia.

Many of the boys have made great strides this year, despite the constraints, and all will have learned from the experience in one way or another.

opportunities arose. We wish them well for the next phase of their journey, and thank them for being true Beresfordians, and for leaving the House in fine fettle.

With the departure of HM, AHM and Matron this Summer, I know that Mr Bilclough and his new team are inheriting a fantastic group of boys who are looking forward to next year with hope and optimism.

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The Spirit of Beresford awards continued with a number of boys achieving Bronze and Silver awards; many by using the changes enforced by lockdowns to focus on new pursuits and to reflect on their experiences. As I’d hoped from such a quality year group, the Upper Sixth led by example, applying themselves with rigour to their academic studies while committing wholeheartedly to sporting and other co-curricular commitments when the 37

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BLÜCHER meals cooked, as well as a lot of fun. Such was the success that this term the boys took it on themselves to produce a commemorative cookbook (led by Will Pope), whose proceeds will go to our charity. Alongside this I am very grateful to Costi Miller who gave talks to each year on positive mental health and relationships.

Similarly, Marcus Nye and Freddie Evans overcame the challenge of limited sport and gym time by creating Blücher Fitness, which was so popular that even students from other houses started attending.

Marcus also drove the 2021 challenge, and Joseph Pym received colours for his sterling effort. Our charity Skype sessions were unaffected, and Alfie Munro even turned COVID to our advantage with his house-masks charity initiative. Alongside the collective endeavours, there have been some stellar individual achievements – Jasper Smith-Gordon won a scholarship to Berkeley University; and Arthur Grigg won the National debating competition. Equally, I am proud of those who aimed high this year but didn’t quite make it – Stan Munro and Max Hollingdale narrowly missing out on Oxford, and Danny Wessely unlucky yet again in the Montgomery final.

Ad astra per aspera.

We came into this year feeling hugely positive about what the boys had achieved over the last few years. There have been successes across the whole gamut of house competitions and through the Blücher service projects and entrepreneurial initiatives every boy has had a chance to get involved and serve.

The key area where Stan Munro (HOH) and the boys wanted to get even better was cross-year relationships, so COVID, and its accompanying bubbling policies posed a serious challenge to say the least.

The challenge was exacerbated by the architecture of the House – with 28 students on the top corridor, any COVID symptom (whether real or an ironic mimicry) led to numerous lockdowns, and in some cases more than six weeks of isolation in one term.

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centred around Rodel, our Housekeeper, the stove, and some dedicated prefects – particularly Will Petschek and Ollie Knight.

Between them they launched Food for Thought, and we enjoyed a huge variety of speakers including boys, staff, and virtual visitors. Talks have included ‘Existentialism and nihilism’ (Max Hollingdale); ‘Heroin Addiction’; ‘Fraud in the US elections’ (David Petschek); Culture Clash: The Philippines and Pakistan to Wellington (Rodel and Mr Sayed); ‘Life at Tiger Kloof’; ‘Turning Pro in Thailand’ (Mr Edmunds); ‘Translating the Bible into Nadëb’; ‘400m from the top of Everest’ (Mr Reesby); and ‘The Blücher in the 90s’ (Mr Dewes). Every year group has cooked.

During the first lockdown, Rodel launched House cooking sessions, where he taught different dishes. With mental health and isolation at the front of our mind in the Lent lockdown, we decided to go further, and gave the boys the challenge to teach their year group. As a result, we had 23 cooking sessions, with an estimated 200+

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COMBERMERE It was with trepidation that I faced the Combermere girls on the first day of the Michaelmas Term in September 2021. It was to be a school year like no other, and I was unsure of how the House would react to the long list of restrictions and rules which were to affect every area of their school life. Our new Third Form and Lower Sixth were on my mind as well, and it felt so odd that we were not able to invite their parents into the house on their first day.

I braced myself for this new reality and hoped that things would steadily get easier as Christmas approached.

With the House neatly separated into year group bubbles, I decided that this was the ideal opportunity to reinforce the importance of loyalty, friendship, and support within the year groups. The house tables at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, along with spending more time in-house as the weather grew darker and colder, fostered a quiet, knowing closeness which I

sincerely hope will remain long after restrictions lift. I also did not want the renowned Combermere enthusiasm and energy to diminish and give way to a mask-wearing, social-distancing fatigue; thankfully this certainly was not evident in the slightest – quite the contrary even! The Third Form did not seem fazed one bit, and were only slightly subdued when hit with some tough periods of self-isolation early on. They have thrown themselves into everything Wellington has to offer, and still had energy left at the end of the day to shriek and laugh as they got ready for bed.

The Fifth Form and Upper Sixth deserve a special mention – they dealt with another full lockdown at a pivotal time in their exam preparation and still managed to hold their nerve, work their socks off and keep their eyes on the end goal. I know I am lucky to have such an admirable work ethic in the House but remarkably the uncertain and ever-changing situation made them double down their efforts.

I am so proud of the Combermere girls for how they have navigated this year.

None of us were expecting the cancellation of public exams and closure of College for the second time. However, it gave the girls a chance to think creatively and make the most of the situation in front of them. Some special moments include: the Lower Sixth efforts to keep the House in touch during lockdown by organising House baking competitions; the Fourth Form House Drill video; the collective enthusiasm and support for David Lofthouse completing the Kingsleys; House socials and the ‘unclosed’ closed weekend. The girls also set up and organised a pen pal arrangement with the residents of St Brendan’s Care Home, collected Christmas shoeboxes for Care4Calais, and showed huge support for the Period Poverty campaign – all of which we will continue to support next year. It certainly has been a year like no other, but one in which the girls have shown resilience, kindness and importantly, a fantastic sense of humour and plenty of resourcefulness.

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The Hardinge is about developing a friendly and homely house that is based on trust and respect, where everyone can learn and develop at their own pace. In a boarding school, privacy is not always easy to find, but mutual respect and empathy makes this more possible. Each and every one is responsible for being considerate and tolerant, for raising to challenges and for persevering come what may.

The Hardinge students are expected to learn to develop independent thinking, decision making and problem solving – particularly when it comes to studies, school life involvement, friendship and well-being. The challenge of boarding is to learn to integrate into a community whilst remaining true to your own values and flourishing personally in the House and the wider school environment. The Hardinge is placed at the heart of the College, and it is no coincidence therefore and a source of pride, that Hardinge students are a core part of the wider Wellington life.

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The House is a hub of international minds, working together in an inclusive environment. From Hong Kong to Italy, Kenya to Shropshire, many cultures from around the globe share this privilege of Wellington College. As a new wave of Sixth Formers arrives each September, this year was not much different, albeit much more challenging under the COVID restrictions. A slightly daunting year that did not deter any of them! This success is not down to individual endeavour but rather the House as a collective. This mature dynamic creates an atmosphere that promotes not only intellectual discourse and curiosity, but also courage, responsibility and independence.

It is with such qualities that the Hardinge girls approached the unpredicted challenge of the discriminatory and misogynistic attitudes to girls and young women exposed and brought into the spotlight by the “Everyone’s Invited” website and the murder of Sarah Everard. In response to

this, and in recognizing the maturity and worldliness of the young women in the Hardinge, I want to challenge them to lead the debate and promote positive change around these topics within the College and beyond.

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As we started this year in September, our incredible prefects were keen to ensure the Hill reconnected after 2020’s virtual Summer Term and maintain the wonderful and unique Hill culture. As a group they highlighted the importance of respect, family, courage, and honesty as their key values and were committed to ensuring these shone through at all times! These values have ensured that the House has remained a warm and welcoming place to live for all members. The boys continue to foster strong relationships, and while this year has been uniquely challenging, the Hill and the boys continue to go from strength to strength. All members of the Hill have benefitted from having an outstanding house and tutor team, who continue to challenge them to achieve the best possible outcomes, while ensuring their behaviour reflects what is expected within the House and the College.

The Upper Sixth require a special mention: their leadership, good humour and energy has ensured the Hill has come through a turbulent year successfully and with all of our boys feeling settled and supported.

We have been incredibly proud of how the boys have reacted to the changes to their living environment and the respect they have shown the house staff; there was an increased level of appreciation having returned to the Hill following a term of online learning. As always, we continued to compete strongly in the House sport competitions, and went into the Christmas break as the top ranked House across junior and seniors for house sport.

Notable performances were in House Football, Swimming and Rugby, with all teams placing in the top 3. Our Upper Sixth students successfully defended their title in Monday Night Football, with a fantastic win in extra time against the

Stanley. These House events play a huge part of life in the Hill, and the boys throw everything into all competitions.

As the year comes to an end, and we reflect on the successes the boys have achieved, we feel incredibly proud of the way they have conducted themselves during difficult and challenging situations and the kindness and respect they show to one another is a key reason why the Hill is such a great House to live in. There is a connectedness between the year groups, which we look forward to strengthening further in September.

The Hill boys have been superb ambassadors for their house and the College this year. Well done boys.

Phil Mann Housemaster July 2021

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HOPETOUN Supper Club’ in which our Matron taught them to cook dinner for their families via Microsoft Teams. The first week featured salmon fillets with roasted new potatoes, green beans and sugar snap peas – plus two small fires and one melted phone.

Catherine Abela masterminded our house ensemble, virtually of course, and with technical wizardry blended the remote contributions to create a rendition of Britney Spears’ ‘Oops I did it Again’. Our House ‘Drance’ film was a triumph thanks to Allegra and Honor and, as lockdown ended, Eliza and Iona organised a ‘Spring Soirée’. Again, online – bring your own drinks and nibbles – this was our House entertainment evening gone virtual, through which we raised £3,100 for our House charity Allegra’s Ambition.

On Monday 31 August 2020, we threw open the doors of the Hopetoun and welcomed back the girls after five months of absence. We’d been looking forward to seeing them but hadn’t anticipated quite how great it would feel to have the building pulsing to 100-decibel shrieks again. As one of the Upper Sixth said to me on that first afternoon as she waited for the rest of her year group to arrive, ‘I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited to see people in the whole of my life.’ What were we hoping for? The same as everyone else – an easing of the pandemic and a return to normal life. We lasted two days before one of the Fifth Formers started to cough. Fully masked, we stood at an anxious distance and passed her the thermometer. Temperature was normal.

It turned out she’d just sprayed her room with Febreze to mask a nasty smell and it had irritated her throat.

We’ve been immensely proud of the Hopetoun girls’ spirit and resilience in difficult times. Yes, Hopetounians have celebrated significant personal achievements this year – in particular we congratulate Catherine Abela on winning the Montgomery Recital Competition; Elodie Sinclair for her selection to represent GB at triathlon; Giulia Lombardo, who was selected for a second time for the Italian national golf team; Chung Sze Kwok, who 42

won both Wellington’s inaugural humanities essay competition and the University of Oxford’s French Flash Fiction competition; and of course Rosie Wrigglesworth in her role as Head of College. Beyond individual achievements though, we look back with terrific pride on the way the House came together and found ways to stay cheerful despite the ever-changing landscape the virus threw at us.

We were governed by bubbles and social distancing, yet the girls came up with great idea after great idea to keep the house united. Take the ‘Bake-off’ style gingerbread-house competition the Third Form dreamt up before Christmas. The Third Form’s own house fell down at the moment of judging but, with two House tutors standing in for Prue and Paul, the Upper Sixth won with their ‘Scandinavianinspired’ bake, with snowy windows and a path of sweets. We hadn’t had so much noise in the atrium for, well, it must have been eight and a half months. Then in January, we faced a second season of school closures, and again the girls excelled. Margaux set up a OneNote to share film, book, shopping and work-out ideas. The Lower Sixth set up a Fridayafternoon slot in lieu of the prefects’ assembly – there was Poppy’s pub quiz, DIY with Giulia, and yoga and meditation with Elodie. Lots of the girls joined ‘Dawn’s

Talking of fundraising, we have Murray Lindo to blame for his idea that the HMs should get involved in Welly Giving Week in November. We were to make three pledges to parents, which we’d make good on should sufficient numbers donate. Our top prize was an offer to swim across Swan Lake in December (no wetsuits allowed).

We thought we were safe. 50% of parents would have to contribute before we’d need to go anywhere near the icy pond, and we didn’t think Murray stood a chance. In the end, we achieved a highly suspect 150% participation (did they cheat and donate twice?) – and yes, we swam!

Sam Gutteridge Housemistress July 2021

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LYNEDOCH This year more than ever, we welcomed the pupils back in September with little idea of how the coming weeks would pan out. Was it a touch too optimistic to hope that we could make it through to half term as a House and as a School without any further disruptions? The boys however took to the new regime like the proverbial ducks to water and the new academic year got underway in a flurry of excitement, peppered with a few cautious nerves. With sporting fixtures on the back burner, pupils were given the opportunity to broaden their sporting horizons for the first time. As house-based entertainment was the order of the day, the common room became the social hub, replacing the usual outings to Turf and the V&A. In its own way though, this made the year groups stronger than ever as COVID regulations dictated their social calendars.

The restrictions however carved out great opportunities for some, with academic study taking a front seat. Work, and talking about work, became the new (and extremely refreshing) social norm in-house and steadily the academic bar for the House was raised. The fantastic Upper Sixth led by example and Dhaneal and Richard were rewarded with offers from Cambridge after Christmas. Chess boards, both physical and digital, were popping up all around the House, with Richie organising (and winning) the first Lynedoch House chess tournament.

The Summer Term gave us glimpses of Lynedoch and Wellington at its best: Sunshine, Maniacs, Sports fixtures, the Kingsley’s and the Pink Pav Dash. Sadly, it also reminded us that we were not out of the woods yet, as the restrictions tightened

once again, preventing the Fifth Form from returning for their last two weeks after their extended half term holiday. It would be an understatement to say that this year has been like no other. It has however been as successful as it has unique, as rewarding as it has been challenging.

I have been in awe of the boys this year.

It would have been all too easy to complain about what they were missing out on. Instead, they have focused on what they were able to do and to use these opportunities to make the very best of what is on offer. Their resilience has been admirable, and I have new-found confidence that whatever future challenges this magnificent group of boys face, they will rise to the occasion, and face any challenges head on and never once back down. Ever.

Mike Cawdron Housemaster July 2021

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MURRAY

It would be tempting to say that at the start of the year my hopes for the Murray were astronomically aspirational: win every House competition, convince the Works Department that we should have a full refurbishment, complete with gold leaf, and ensure every boy achieved top grades in every subject in every report. Perhaps my goals for the House might have been as lofty as that, though after last Summer Term spent online interacting with the House via Microsoft Teams, I think my biggest hope was simply that the Murray would all be together physically in September 2020: happy, healthy, and not self-isolating. Beyond that, I simply wanted very much for the House to resume where it left off, as a diverse, welcoming and often humble community of 72 boys.

Despite those fairly prosaic aspirations, the reality is that the House has had an extremely successful year, both as a unit and in terms of individual successess.

Though there have been some triumphs and podium finishes in House competitions, such as Interhouse Water Polo and House Drill, as well as individual highlights such as Ishan Kapur receiving the Diana Award (a prestigious international award), I think what I have been most proud of as Housemaster is the

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remarkable resilience that the boys have shown this year, and the support that they have afforded each other. With young men in the House whose families are in countries all across the world, with the current limitations on international travel, this year more than ever the Murray has necessarily become a home away from home. Not just in the bricks and mortar sense, but also through the selfless manner in which the boys have looked out for each other and been sensitive to each other’s needs, worries and tribulations over the last twelve months (and always maintaining a delightful sense of levity and laughter throughout). This is what, in my opinion, makes the Murray such a wonderful place to live and work.

In short, the biggest challenge of 2021 has been… 2021, as the House tutors moved from being teachers to becoming lateral flow testers, public health enforcers, and meals on wheels delivery men and women to self-isolating pupils. This seems like an opportune moment to thank them, then, as well as Brenda our fantastic Matron and Kelly our equally brilliant Housekeeper, for all they have done for the Murray this year.

In terms of the biggest surprise – perhaps simply because it is fresh in my mind – but after their end-of-term curry, the normally

fairly boisterous Lower Sixth putting on the Mamma Mia soundtrack and dancing gracefully round the kitchen was certainly not an expected sight! Though that may seem like a slightly trite example, the tutors and I who were there all commented that it was exactly the sort of curveball and utterly bizarre moment that reminds us all why working in a boarding House – and in particularly in the Murray – is one of the most varied and rewarding jobs in education. Roll on 2022…

Oliver Peat Housemaster July 2021

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ORANGE Where to begin? The achievements of this year have been considerable and historic.

Despite (because of?) the syncopations enforced on the rhythm of the school year by the pandemic, the Orange has learned to dance to a new beat – and successfully so.

We kept a lockdown house spirit flaring with life, through regular online meetings, whether it was with Jana and her kitchen drop-ins, tutors stirring the pot, whole House sessions led by the HM in his orange T-shirt , or the girl-edited weekly Slice of Orange. They all helped during those long weeks of isolation. It also meant that when we were able to regather for the duration of Michaelmas and the final three weeks of the Lent Term – as well as all of the Summer Term – the energy has been palpable, despite the unfamiliarity of signage, timings, and a host of proscriptions on which parts of the House you can visit and when. The unintended benefits have been striking: the kitchen is now self-regulating and the days of swipes are, possibly, never going to return. Year groups have been more tightly bundled, and realised with real tangibility the importance of belonging within a house. For the Third Form, it has helped in reducing Wellington to a much more manageable scale in its initial stages – although they are going to be thrilled when they return next term to what we hope will be a fully liberated College.

Although House competitions have been scaled back dramatically, there have been so many individual and collective successes.

From a strong showing in Swimming, through to a fine Music Ensemble performance, the Orange continues to treat competitions as exercises in collective endeavour more than neurotic point scoring. When the GWA reopened, Orange girls were everywhere to be seen – on stage and appearing on our screens for showcases like the Montgomery final and a whole host of master classes. The Upper Sixth led the House as much through manner as by direction with Woozie Pearson-Miles serenely steering the ship through still and rough waters at all times. Some brilliant academic achievements saw Mafalda Groos gaining entry to Brown University and Madeleine Power winning a place at Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Art History.

The challenges, although many, have been offset by the unexpected moments of adolescent wonder – usually unplanned – that make the Orange such a fantastic place to learn and live. Year group supper nights, which have seen a whole range of experimental cookery, have been a particular highlight, along with a new-found fondness for movie evenings, and the Lower Sixth delivering a range of superb lectures

to younger girls on everything from Marine Biology via high-street fashion to the virtues of crash courses in Journalism. We even managed a madcap Christmas party complete with the usual array of fancy dress costumes and utterly bizarre dance routines. Tying it all together has been the endless goodwill, kindness, and humour of the girls. We were fortunate to go into this pandemic with such a resolute and energetic house spirit and this has certainly seen us through in such good shape.

Tribute must, therefore, be paid to all the previous years of girls who have helped lay this foundation. There is some catching up to do with photos from years gone by and some spaces to fill on Honours Boards, but the future is now looking much healthier and, despite the diversions of the past year, all the stronger.

Tom Wayman Housemaster July 2021

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PICTON

As a ‘newbie’ HM, I had hoped to build on the stable foundations which has made the Picton an incredibly kind, supportive, and joyful place to be. In many ways the immense complexity of the academic year, with new ways of queuing, calling over and eating all made the house focus and objectives for the year that bit more distilled and obvious. The main plan was to get through it unscathed – with more positive memories than negative – and hopefully feeling like our wonderful House had been a joyful and happy sanctuary. I hope the smiles on the boys faces across the year and the brilliant times that were spent together (when we could) are testament to the fact we have achieved that.

The ‘spirit of the Kingsley’s and what David Lofthouse, the CPT team and the whole of the House achieved on that balmy day in May will live long in the annals of Wellington and House history. The 5km cross country route was conquered in under 10 hours, and over £100k was raised for the House charity. The collective effort, the will, and the determination of everyone, especially David, to complete this gargantuan challenge was spine tingling for all those who got to see it up close and personal. Who will ever forget the

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quieting of the crowd as David walked unaided across the finish line to be greeted by the most rapturous and euphoric applause? That feeling of pride will stay with all those boys for a long time ahead.

As David said at the end “Never let anyone tell you that you can’t do something”.

Some much-desired silverware was also won with the Fourth Form coming first in House Drill and the Third Form winning House football and tennis. A whole host of new societies including Academic, Star Wars and Marvel have piqued interest and discussion and the supper clubs, Big Green Egg and Pizzas have kept stomachs full and morale high.

The most unexpected moment, beyond COVID, was perhaps how wonderful our virtual entertainment evening ended up being. Even with Zoom fatigue very present, the virtual wine tasting run by Mr. Peat, the parent break-out rooms, the boys’ ‘one shot’ music video of ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’, and the Teams call catching up with Old Pictonians were stellar events at a time in early 2021 when we all needed a boost. Full credit to Oskar (U6) for organising it all, a fantastic achievement.

The biggest challenge for a house where the lobby area is the beating heart and hub of all conversation and interaction has

been sticking to maximum occupancies and trying to ensure year groups are not mingling too much! How wonderful to think that come September we will have inter-year socials and interactions back on the agenda as we ‘rediscover the heart of the Picton’.

Jack Murray Housemaster July 2021

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RAGLAN At the start of the academic year, I think we all knew that things were not going to be straightforward, but I don’t believe anyone could have guessed what a roller-coaster ride it would eventually turn out to be. My deepest hope was for the boys to be able to return to a school environment that would still allow them to flourish as far as possible in all areas of college life, build on existing friendships, and cultivate new ones whilst welcoming a talented and diverse new group of Third Form students. This was always going to come with its challenges, but to the boys’ credit they took mask wearing, bubbling, hand sanitising, year group isolations and every other COVID regulation in their stride. Everyone was just happy to be back in physical school, to have some sense of House community again (even if it was limited to year group bubbles), and to make the most of face-to-face teaching.

The tutors, Matron, house staff, and I are incredibly proud of the way the boys adjusted to the challenges the pandemic presented. The boys were always supportive of change and after the previous term’s online education, all seemed to have a new-found love for physical school which was incredibly

humbling to see, and reinforced why Wellington is such a special environment.

Being the largest House in College and living under COVID regulations was no walk in the park, and the empathy, kindness, and compassion that the boys demonstrated to each other on a daily basis made all involved in the House extremely proud.

It would be wrong for me not to mention the impact that the pandemic has had in particular on this year’s leavers. It has robbed the boys of numerous opportunities to create memories outside of the classroom, on sporting fields and at various social events, which is a great shame. As a year group, they have set the bar extremely high in all aspects of College life and now leave having given so much to the Raglan and wider Wellington community.

Academically, they have been nothing short of outstanding, with three boys receiving offers to study at Oxford and numerous others going on to top universities around the country. Guy has been an outstanding Head of College, and the first day boy to have been granted that responsibility. The boys are a very tight-knit group of young men that show compassion and empathy to those around them, and have been a

constant joy to look after in house, and will sorely be missed as they move on to the next chapter of their lives.

In time we will look back on the pandemic which without doubt will change so much of our future, but I firmly believe it has made every current pupil of the Raglan so much more appreciative of the fantastic school they attend.

Gareth Carr Housemaster July 2021

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STANLEY as well as Frank Pugh’s superb effort in the Mental Health competition this year.

Outside the usual house competitions and socials, it has been superb seeing the boys give up their time to Service and Charity.

The Carwarden link continued in COVID times, albeit virtually, and the Fifth Form put together, alongside the Orange, a rather amusing 12 Days of Christmas Video. Public benefit will be an area the Stanley will continue to develop next year.

A big shout out to Cosmo Smith and Sam Hind for their monumental charity cycle ride from England to Switzerland raising over £6,000 for Autistica. The Third and Fourth Form Stanley Curriculum sessions have continued to thrive under Mr Craig’s leadership and intellect. It has included a range of topical issues in society and after three years, it is now safely embedded into the Stanley culture.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Stanley Upper Sixth 2021 for everything they have done for the House and the College over the last five years.

They have been an outstanding year group and their collective leadership has enabled the Stanley to flourish in the most unique and challenging of years. Their courage and camaraderie has been remarkable, but more importantly, their supportive, kind and approachable manner has given all the boys great confidence. They have added the word Pride to our House motto this year, and it has been wonderful to see everyone embracing it. Baxter Westby has been a brilliant Head of House, very well supported by our deputies, Angus Leech and Cosmo Smith, and all the Upper Sixth boys have left an incredible legacy for others to follow.

There has been much to celebrate this year, both individually and collectively. The Senior boys won House Football and reached the final of the MNF competition.

The Fourth and Fifth Form reached the finals of their House Rugby competitions, both losing narrowly. Max Ivey and Louis Hine won the Junior Tennis competition, and a big highlight was the whole House effort in winning the Kingsley’s. Special individual sporting mentions must go to: William Alexander for his continued athletic successes and qualifying for the 48

National English Schools Association Finals; Ned and Louis Hine for playing the highest level of International Polo they can possibly play, and winning the Prince of Wales Competition; Mark Dickin for being awarded Golfer of the Year at the Thames Valley Junior Golf League; and Will Hobson and Soli Arbuthnot-Whittaker for representing Harlequins and London Irish Academy, respectively. Other notable House achievements included 5th place in the Ensemble competition with three Third Formers, Harry Miners, Reuben Kirby and Miles Bell putting together a fantastic rendition of Wonderwall. Reaching the House Drance (virtual drama and dance combined) finals, and it was phenomenal to see such a team effort and especially Luca Judge’s awesome dancing, under the impressive direction of Baxter Westby. Maniacs was great fun and it was excellent to see so many boys being awarded their mini-mars bar for their commitment. We have enjoyed a lot of House socials and the in-house Kabir’s Christmas Curry was great fun! However, in my seven years of house mastering, I have never seen so much pizza consumed, and in the recent summer months, the boys have enjoyed Mr Craig’s culinary BBQ skills. All these socials are so important to allow the boys to relax and enjoy each other’s company. We have also had several table tennis, cage footy and golf tournaments,

To finish, I must pay tribute to the whole Stanley community, parents, boys, and staff for all their unwavering support and kindness. The Stanley is a special place and that is because of the 63 boys that live in it. The boys have been magnificent, and I thank them for everything they have achieved this year, in spite of the challenges they have had to face in the ever-changing landscape of our society. I feel very privileged to be serving this community, and I am incredibly grateful to the boys, staff, and parents for their loyalty. The Stanley team, alongside the Lower Sixth and parent reps, look forward to maintaining and driving a caring, happy, and fulfilling environment in which all the boys can flourish and develop into respectful, kind, and gracious individuals, inspired to contribute to our community and beyond.

Charlie Sutton Housemaster July 2021

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TALBOT What a year! However, amongst all the uncertainty the Talbot has still managed to thrive. It shows great resilience from the boys and staff alike to weather the storm and all that was thrown at us. This year, the House hoped to build on last year’s fine performances in the Interhouse competitions once again and to give Mr White a decent send off after 10 years as HM. Despite much of the social side of things being curtailed due to bubbling and social distancing, but the boys still managed to enjoy all that was on offer along with more than a few burgers and sausages on the Piazza del Talbot!

The year kicked off with House Drance (Drama and Dance combined) and House Art, where sustainability took a major focus and the boys got stuck in. It is great to see the boys really engage with the outside world so much and have such strong views on sustainability and climate change. Our resident thespian Freddie led the charge in House Drance, producing a brilliant production, but the boys were denied a place in the Final due to a rules technicality!

Swimming was next on the agenda, a competition the Talbot has done very well in the last few years. The boys put together some strong teams and managed to reach the podium once again, finishing third. With

much of College Sport cancelled, the Wellington rugby calendar was restricted to interhouse touch-rugby. This, however, proved to be a much better format than full-on contact and involved many more non-rugby players, producing a fantastic competition. The Lower Sixth ended up as unlucky finalists but the Fifth Form were brilliant and claimed top spot – a great way to end a difficult term.

Lent Term was back online again which presented its own problems but the boys knuckled down and it actually suited some pupils academically without the distraction of everyday Wellington life. The physical side of school was led by “The 2021 Challenge”. Run, row, cycle, walk, swim and clock up the Kms. Charlie G not only led the House, but also led the school, amassing a ridiculous number of kilometeres each day, winning the overall competition, an amazing feat. The rest of the House decided to cook rather than exercise. Rahul and Teo led the cook-a-long extravaganzas, chivvied along by our own unflappable Matron, Pat. Thankfully the boys returned to school for the last three weeks of the Lent term and the whole of the Summer. Exams took most of the focus with mocks, mini assessments and final assessments but the boys still

managed to fill their time with the “normal” Wellington activities. Cricket, Tennis, and the rearranged Kingsleys, which is and always has been, a brilliant event. This year saw an elite group race, followed by House bubbles against the clock. In the Seniors, the big T gained 3rd, 4th, and 5th places with Samm, Josh, and Freddie leading the way.

In the Juniors, Quentin came 2nd. However, not to take the gloss of any of those excellent efforts, the elite race was absorbing. Charlie and Ollie W led the pack, both intermediate runners, and it was neck and neck as they ran up towards North Front. In the end Charlie came 1st and Ollie 2nd, leading the whole school!!

Finally, the last day of term and the last competition dawned, Lower Sixth Water Polo! Having won the inaugural competition back in 2019, we went into the pool unbeaten for 2 years. The boys were brilliant and teamwork won the day.

The icing on the cake was when they said ‘This one is for you Sir… last day, last house comp, last win… unbeaten now for 3 years!’

To conclude, I would like to thank all 66 boys in the House this year. They have been excellent Talbotians and have shown the true character of Wellingtonians even when the going has been tough. For me it has been an amazing ride over the last 10 years, and I would like to take my hat off to all of them.

Go well Gentlemen, and thank you.

Jonathan White Housemaster July 2021

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WELLESLEY This has been a year like no othe,r and I could not be prouder to call myself Housemistress of the Wellesley. This year our aim was to maintain the inter-year relationships, even when we were having to work remotely. Our prefect team have worked extremely hard to achieve this, organising bi-weekly Teams meetings with their year groups, holding weekly Teams House meetings, and ensuring they were available whenever the girls in the House needed them. They have been a prefect team like no other, adapting to the often unexpected challenges as they came, and leading with positivity and enthusiasm.

We have had many successes this year but there are a few stand-out moments that cannot go unmentioned. This year we had the first Interhouse virtual challenge, the Wellington 2021km challenge. The Wellesley girls made a mammoth effort for this with much of the House taking part.

It was neck and neck for many weeks between the Wellesley and the Hill, but the girls all came together completing 5681 kms and winning overall. Most notably every week Amelia Hutton’s efforts were in the top 10 of the school. As we approached the end of the year it was a shame not to have the usual Speech Day ceremony as we would have seen so many Wellesley girls receiving Speech Day

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Prizes, this, combined with the girls’ fantastic efforts in their academics this year led to us winning the Toye Challenge Trophy, a prestigious trophy awarded for GCSE and A level results. Finally, it is an extremely proud moment for the House that Aleena Islam has been awarded The Duke of Wellington’s Prize: this is extremely well deserved, for Aleena has had a fantastic five years at Wellington, setting a perfect example to the Wellesley girls as to what can be achieved if you take on all that Wellington has to offer.

The biggest challenge this year has been for our Third Form: they have joined the school unable to socialise as we all would have wanted due to COVID, but this has not stopped them from trying their best and giving their all this year. They have taken everything in their stride, always giving their best efforts. An example of this is their prize for their efforts in the Co-Curricular challenge. As we finish the year many of the girls have received scholarships, which is fantastic to see and very well deserved.

I really am looking forward to building on all these successes with our new prefects next year – and let’s hope that when we return in September it is a more normal year!

Kate Larkin Housemistress July 2021

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FRANCIS FRANKOPAN DURHAM OSCAR FUENTES REBATO MANCHESTER AMY GADHIA OXFORD JAKE GRAHAM EDINBURGH CHRISTOPHER GUCKIAN BATH ETHAN GUNNING OXFORD HARRY HAMILTON ST ANDREWS

ELISA JIMENEZ EDINBURGH OSKAR JOHNSON EXETER ELVIE JOHNSTON MANCHESTER LUKE JONES BATH BWALYA KAPAPA CAMBRIDGE BLAKE KEIJSERS NEWCASTLE JASPER KELLY SWANSEA

ALFIE HARDING EXETER

MARIIA-TEREZA KHRANOVSKA KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

HARRY HARE DURHAM

SIENNA KINRADE BRISTOL

GEORGIA HARFORD EDINBURGH

IVAN KOMAROV UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)

CHARLOTTE HARPER EXETER OLIVER HARPER IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON JOHN HATTON DURHAM

EDWARD LANGFORD BATH JAIMIE LAU IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

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SCOTT MURRAY EXETER

THOMAS ROBERTS EXETER

TEODOR TIRYAKI IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

MATILDA LAWRY EDINBURGH

TARI MUTU KENT

RAPHAELLA ROBESON ST ANDREWS

RICCARDO TOSERONI YORK

GEORGIA LEA LEEDS

DHANEAL NAGRA CAMBRIDGE

IONA ROSS SKINNER EDINBURGH

ROSLYN TRAINOR EXETER

ANGUS LEECH DURHAM

ALEXANDER NASH EDINBURGH

SIENNA TURNBULL BRISTOL

SASKIA LEEFIELD EDINBURGH

LOUIS NEILSON EDINBURGH

KARL SAMONIG UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)

NANCY LINDO EXETER

LAURA NICOLI BRISTOL

FINLAY LOCK CARDIFF

MATILDA NOBLE YORK

RUNSHEN LU IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

ELLIOTT OATES EXETER

RORY MACDONALD DURHAM

CHARLIE O’CONNOR DURHAM

MATTIAS SEUREN UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)

EWEN MACDONALD BANOS BATH

MIA O’DONNELL EDINBURGH

ARIEL SHIMONI ROYAL HOLLOWAY

IONA MACIVER UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)

CAITLYN O’LEARY CARDIFF

OLIVIA SIMMONS BATH

ALBERTO ORNAGHI LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

SASKIA SINFIELD NEWCASTLE

ELLA MACKAY NEWCASTLE BENEDICT MANGAT EXETER WILLIAM MARTIN ST ANDREWS JOSEPH MASIH BRISTOL MAXIM MAVLYUTOV KING’S COLLEGE LONDON TAUHEED MAZLOOM UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)

ANNABEL PARKIN MANCHESTER INDIA PARSONS EDINBURGH NIAM PATEL ST ANDREWS ISOBELLA PEARSON-MILES BATH HUGO PENNANT DURHAM

OLIVIA MCCAUSLAND NOTTINGHAM

EMMA PEREI EXETER

HANNAH MCCLELLAND DURHAM

HARRY PETRIE LOUGHBOROUGH

TESS MCINTYRE EDINBURGH

WILLIAM PETSCHEK EDINBURGH

FRANCESCA MELLOR DURHAM

KOEN PHILIPPA-GRADILLAS ST ANDREWS

ISABELLA MIDDLETON BRISTOL

MADELEINE POWER CAMBRIDGE

AYA MINOWA EDINBURGH

THOMAS PROCTOR EDINBURGH

MAX MOFFAT EXETER

JARRYD RAMKISSOON EXETER

KATHERINE MORGAN EDINBURGH

IMOGEN REED IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

ELISYAZAVIERA MUHAMAD FAIZUL UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)

SHAUN REES WARWICK

TOM MUNNS OXFORD STAN MUNRO EDINBURGH

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ABIGAIL REES BRISTOL ARCHIE RENWICK EDINBURGH JULIET RICKETTS EXETER

JASRAJ SAMRA UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON) JEEVAN SANDHER LOUGHBOROUGH JAVIER SEED BATH

MAXIMILIAN SMALL MANCHESTER JOSEPH SMITH DURHAM COSMO SMITH EDINBURGH ARABELLA SPRAGGS EDINBURGH ALEXANDER STANNARD BRISTOL OLIVER STOOLE LIVERPOOL CAITLIN STRACHAN EXETER PHOEBE SUNLEY MANCHESTER SEREN SUTER KINGSTON HIU CHING TAM CAMBRIDGE CHRISTINA TANNER BRISTOL HARRY TAYLOR DURHAM IRIS TAYLOR YORK SARA TAYLOR DURHAM ALEXANDER TEAGUE EDINBURGH LILY TELFER-SMOLLETT NEWCASTLE HUGO TIMMIS EXETER

ANASTASIA TUTUS WARWICK ELIZA TYLER EDINBURGH NAYANTARA VAIKUNTHANATHAN CARDIFF ALEXANDER VALENTINE BATH SADE WALLACE DURHAM BENJAMIN WAYMAN EXETER DANIEL WESSELY DURHAM BAXTER WESTBY YORK ALISTAIR WHITTICK KING’S COLLEGE LONDON COLE WHITTINGHAM EDINBURGH MARCUS WIDTH BRISTOL HANNAH WILLIAMS BATH HARRY WILLIAMS MANCHESTER JACK WOODS LEEDS HENRY WOOLHOUSE EXETER HONOR WOOLLETT EXETER ROSANNA WRIGGLESWORTH OXFORD MIA WU OXFORD QINGMEI YANG UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON) CHARLIE YELDHAM DURHAM BELIS YORUK BRISTOL GUY ZILBERMAN OXFORD MORITZ ZU BENTHEIMTECKLENBURG IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

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INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY PLACES JOSEPH AL-HASSO BROWN UNIVERSITY

GIOIA NASH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

FEDERICO ANDERSON GEORGIA TECH

AMBERLEY NUTTALL GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

JUSTIN CHAN CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

NOAH SHAWKI CORNELL UNIVERSITY

AUDREY DENNIS MCGILL UNIVERSITY

JASPER SMITH GORDON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

ANTONIA GATHY WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DARIA GELLER BROWN UNIVERSITY SAMUEL GREEN NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MAFALDA GROOS BROWN UNIVERSITY EMILY GUCKIAN HARVARD UNIVERSITY ELLA HAMMOND BAVEYSTOCK UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO MATILDE IASI UCLA SEAN KOHLI UCLA STELLA LINDFORS DARTMOUTH COLLEGE GUILIO MAZZOLA ITALY (BOCCONI)

DHRUV SODHI UC SAN DIEGO COLETTE STAADECKER YALE UNIVERSITY MONET STUCKEY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY VLADIMIR SURNIN NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MARGHERITA TAMAGNINI UC BERKELEY ROOS VAN DRUTEN HOLLAND (UTRECHT) ISABELLA WORTHINGTON DAVIDSON COLLEGE RULAN ZHANG UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALICIA ZWICK UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

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DENISE (COOK) BROWN October 1997

It is only every once in a while, that a real iconoclast joins the Wellington College Common Room, but Denise can justly claim to be a true mould-breaker. She first joined the English Department in October 1997 on a six-week PGCE placement, making such a success of it that she was appointed to teach full time from the start of the new academic year in 1998. From the very beginning her teaching was characterised by a fierce determination to challenge complacent readings and to explore new texts and perspectives. Her classroom was full of passion and fire but was also a place of the highest academic standards and expectations. Woe betide the student who was less than fully prepared! Over the years Denise has been a leading proponent of broadening the English curriculum to include more diverse voices among our set texts, and as one of Wellington’s original IB teachers was responsible for writing the first English A1 programme for Wellington’s authorisation as an IB school in 2008.

However, Denise’s influence on Wellington has spread far beyond the classroom. As Wellington’s first single mother – her two boys Felix and Benedict, were just seven and four when she joined and are now proud OWs – it was perhaps inevitable that she was Head of the WCA (the parents association) between 2008 and 2015 and grew that by designing, establishing, and

publishing the programme of lectures, trips and events for parents that now runs out of the Community Office. Despite an inauspicious start (a fire in the Channel Tunnel on the day of departure forced the last-minute cancellation of the first ever parent trip to Paris) Denise organised and ran parent trips to Rome, St Petersburg, Berlin, Marrakesh, Ypres, Normandy and, of course, the Battlefields of Waterloo, finally managing a rerun of Paris Giverny in 2014. Denise more than most is responsible for creating such good and close relationships between the parent body and the school. She has also served for many years on the Common Room committee and was President of the Common Room for three years between 2015 and 2018.

Her success in these roles has done much to bring a real sense of inclusivity to the school and to make it a place where parents, pupils, and staff feel valued, involved, and very much a part of things.

Perhaps even more importantly, she pioneered the cause of Equity and Inclusion at Wellington, making ‘Welly Diversity’ a visible presence in College from 2012, before taking over the WCPCI in 2017 and developing it into a mainstay of the Global Citizenship programme, devising the weekly Wednesday afternoon ‘Peacebuilders’ course, and leading regular service-learning trips to Rwanda and the Calais refugee camps. Alongside this, as Head of Charities for the last ten years, Denise re-shaped the House/College charities programme to

focus on educational and social justice charities at home and abroad, incorporating events such as World AIDS Day into the College calendar and heading up fundraising events with parents and pupils, leveraging Wellington’s ability to raise significant sums for diverse good causes. One notable event she masterminded was the150th anniversary ball in aid of Hope and Homes for Children, while more recently she organised a gala event that saw the 2018 WCPCI guest lecturer Johnson Beharry VC speak movingly in aid of the JBVC foundation.

During her time at Wellington Denise has tutored in the Apsley when it was the only girls’ house at Wellington, the old Hardinge (when it was a boys’ house), was Assistant Housemistress in the Apsley, and then returned to the Hardinge seeing it transform from a boys’ house to a co-ed house and then to its current manifestation as a girls’ house. She has also been an enthusiastic coach of (variously) girls’ squash, athletics, swimming, boys’ football (her JC 3s were a mighty outfit) and now girls’ football, rounders, and rowing. She has also directed several plays: a third form production of Macbeth in 1998, full school productions of Arcadia and Twelfth Night in 2000 and 2001, respectively, and then a combined pupil and Common Room production of The History Boys in 2010. All productions were full of Denise’s trademark qualities of wit, intelligence, and forensic attention to detail.

It is no exaggeration to say that Denise’s time at Wellington has seen the school change from an essentially old-fashioned boys’ boarding school to the dynamic, inclusive and innovative co-ed place it is now is. That she has not only embraced every change with enthusiasm but has also been instrumental in facilitating and insisting on so much of that change will arguably be her most important legacy – but for all those she has taught she will simply remain as a quite outstanding and inspirational guide and mentor who will be remembered with gratitude and affection.

We thank her for all she has done and wish her well as she moves to her new post as IB Coordinator at The British School of Córdoba, where she will take them forward through their IB authorisation, a role to which she is quite clearly brilliantly suited.

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IAN FRAYNE

September 2002 Over the years the word legend has become overused but if ever there was a Wellington teacher more deserving of the soubriquet than Ian Frayne I have yet to meet them. Since being appointed to teach Physics in 2002 Ian has added significant value to the whole variety of college life.

First and foremost, he is (and here I have collected evidence from a whole variety of pupils – the best and the brightest to be sure, but also those more challenged by the rudimentary forces that govern the universe) a quite outstanding teacher: knowledgeable, interested, interesting, but also with a fine grasp of how to get his students to apply that knowledge. He stretches when stretch is needed, but is also kindly and understanding when more simple explanations are required. Over the years Ian has led the Physics Department and has also spent time as Head of Science.

He is a fine leader: organised, conscientious but also inspirational, and it is testimony to him that the patience and encouragement he shows the pupils also extend to his colleagues. Quite simply he knows how to teach – and he is always willing to pass on that knowledge to those who are just starting out in their careers.

It was no surprise therefore to see him chosen to lead on the Wellington Academy Project, a role he fulfilled with boundless energy and clarity of vision, qualities he also brought to the ISSP and Teaching School initiatives. Ian gives willingly of his wisdom and experience, and if he is ever frustrated by those who bring woolly thinking or unrealistic ambition to the table, he is kind enough not to show it, but confident enough to make sure that the right way forward is chosen.

However, outstanding though his contributions to the academic side of life have been, it is his Co-curricular roles for which he will be remembered most fondly.

The list is exhaustive. Over the years Ian has variously been Master i/c Sailing; Master i/c Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race; a leading light in the Round Square organisation; Field Gun Officer (and who can forget those memorable days when two College crews ran at the Military Tournament, Earls Court) and Contingent

Commander CCF. One of his former pupils, who went on to join the Army, and is now back teaching at Wellington (and due to take over as Contingent Commander) has this to say of Ian’s military career: ‘Ian’s journey to Head of CCF and Field Gun was not the result of careful planning. Ian volunteered to help with Wellington’s sailing programme, which naturally spilled over into the Royal Navy Section. Being a man of the sea, Ian decided he liked the authority and power that came with the uniform and wasted no time in becoming Royal Navy Section Head and, not long after, Contingent Commander. Ian simultaneously found himself pursuing a similar route with Field Gun, starting off as a modest helper before finding himself firmly in charge of The Guns. Ian now found himself in charge of a genuine militia.

remembered as a true servant to Wellington’s CCF and Field Gun: both are in a better place thanks to him.’

Never has the old adage, ‘Serve to Lead’, been more apt: Ian has dedicated himself to Wellington, which like the CCF and Field Gun, is in a better place thanks to him. He has had a magnificent career, a career characterised throughout by modesty and kindness. He is loyal, genuine, and hardworking, and as I suggested at the start, a true Wellington legend. We wish him all the best as he heads off to the sea and the hills.

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AIDAN SPROAT September 2010

Aidan was appointed to Wellington as Head of Maths in 2010 and it is no exaggeration to suggest that no Head of Department has had a more significant effect on the teaching of their subject than he has. A quite brilliant mathematician, and the author of four OUP published maths books, Aidan set out to reconfigure the way the subject was taught at Wellington.

A fervent disciple of the Harkness process, Aidan believes that the best way to ensure true mathematical understanding is to allow pupils the opportunity to prepare for lessons by working through examples and methodologies, releasing lesson time for a dynamic exploration of problems and principles.

Aidan ensured that all courses were immaculately resourced, asking only that those pupils (and teachers) took enough time to familiarise themselves with the topic under discussion. Maths in Aidan’s regime took on a dynamic aspect, and the writing was literally on the wall for mere rote learning as pupils were encouraged to work examples and share solutions on the four large whiteboards that were a feature of each classroom. Aidan’s lessons were literally buzzing with energy and excitement, the newly planted Maths Quad a symbolic representation of getting maths out of the textbook and into the lived environment.

If Aidan has revolutionised maths teaching, he has also had a huge impact on the co– curricular life of the school. A logistical genius, it was Aidan who stage managed the 2012 Royal Albert Hall celebration, a gala performance that retold the College’s history to an audience of thousands; it was Aidan who organised the prizes, seating, and running order of the Big Top Speech Day extravaganzas, and it was Aidan who facilitated the smooth running of the Master’s call over. Aidan has also been a gracious and inclusive President of the Common Room for the last three years, taking over from Denise Brown and continuing her work to make the Wellington Common Room a place where all feel equally cared for and looked after.

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Aidan’s is a face that many Wellington parents will recognise, either from his hosting of the House Singing Competition, which he has done for several years, or from his stewardship of the Theatre Bar for many, many productions in the CLT and GWA. Aidan has also run The Magic of Maths, a course for parents that ran successfully for several years, delivered many lectures to both internal and external audiences and has been a kind and committed tutor in the Orange and the Benson. Aidan has given many years of valuable service to the Shooting Club, and has co-run the Noble Rot, the College wine tasting society. In 2018 Aidan, in response to a question from the Head of English about reading, conceived, collated, and

edited Synthesis, a wonderful and eclectic anthology of stories, poems, articles, sketches and speeches. The closing words in his foreword best sum up this remarkable man and his approach to learning: ‘Read.

Consider. Discuss. Think. As you do, bring together diverse ideas and stimuli; compare, contrast and reflect.’

We thank him for all he has done and wish him the very best of happiness as he moves to Alleyn’s School as Assistant Head (Director of Studies).

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KEITH REESBY

TEACHERS LEAVING WITH LESS THEN 10 YEARS:

September 2014

Keith Reesby joined Wellington in September 2014 primarily to teach Psychology to IB students, but also teaches History and is a key figure in the delivery of the Wellbeing programme. As Head of Psychology Keith has overseen a real growth in student numbers and a corresponding increase in students who have gone on to study the subject beyond Wellington. However, it is arguably Keith’s contribution to the Co-curricular life of the College for which he will be chiefly remembered.

Before Wellington Keith was a Major in the Army Air Corps, where he piloted helicopters, so it came as no surprise to see him take over the leadership of the CCF’s Royal Marines detachment, running their arduous survival courses and taking teams down to the Commando Training Centre for the annual ‘Pringle’ Trophy. His experience and professionalism brought both authenticity and rigour to the detachment, and a resilience address he delivered at a whole school assembly where he recounted the time he was shot and wounded while serving in the Afghan skies was genuinely awe-inspiring.

There is not necessarily any truth to the rumour that it was these experiences that made him an ideal candidate to take over as Housemaster of the Beresford in 2017, but he certainly brought a unique perspective to his leadership of the House, which has flourished under his guidance. He set up the ‘Spirit of Beresford’ award scheme to encourage and incentivise not only active engagement in a variety of disciplines, but also reflection and self-analysis in order to maximise character development and growth. His patient, calm, selfless approach was much appreciated, but his example and experience allowed him always to push the boys to do something out of their comfort zone. One memorable moment stands out, for which he was immediately awarded legendary status: one Christmas he ran down and tackled the House Christmas tree back from a rival house group intent on stealing it, showing his loyalty and

Heather Andrews Chemistry Teacher joined in September 2018 Jordan Ayling Maths Teacher joined in September 2020 Sarah Donarski English Teacher joined in 2015 Ryan Glass Maths Teacher joined in September 2020

dedication to the boys: he would literally always go the extra yards for them, and they in turn gave loyally back.

Keith is a fine sportsman, coaching A teams in Rugby and Hockey, and has also been involved with swimming, real tennis, mountain biking and tennis. His passion for supporting character development led him naturally to his next role, where he will be running Quest-Africa in Zimbabwe, a company that runs inspirational, developmental Gap Year courses designed to encourage young men and women to become the very best version of themselves. If his time at Wellington is any guide, he will certainly do just that, and we wish him the best of luck for the future and thank him for all he has done here at Wellington College.

James Inglis DET HOD joined in September 2017 Nic Light Biology Teacher joined in September 2014 Jim Russell Drama Teacher joined in 2018 Dane Tice Physics Teacher joined in 2015 Lays Valim Computer Science, HOD joined in 2019 Jess Van Driesen Maths Teacher joined in 2016 Robyn Kirwan Spanish Teacher Joined August 2020 LEAVING IN DECEMBER Charlotte Barrett Chemistry Teacher joined in September 2016 Jo Brayton Drama HOD joined in September 2017

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OW SOCIETY an introduction

Welcome to the 2020/2021 Yearbook. As we move forward from the uncertainties and complications of the last 18 months, perhaps at times with diffident steps, I hope that you and your families are keeping safe and well. Last year, I suggested that it was unlikely that anyone would be left untouched by the pandemic. Twelve months on, regrettably, that has become a truism.

Many have suffered, and continue to suffer, enormously: countless loved ones lost, and many enduring long term physical debilities. The tendrils impact far beyond the physical: the many deprivations – whether social, financial educational, or others – have had, and will have, a huge impact on the wellbeing of a very significant proportion of our communities, many perhaps without even recognising it. Our societal norms are being permanently redrawn. And yet, globally, we are the comparatively lucky ones.

And what is clearest is the justifiable concern for the younger generations: those in education, particularly secondary and tertiary, those embarking on, or are early in, their working lives, those without work.

Mark Milliken-Smith (Bd 81) Governor and Chairman of the OW Executive committee

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Which is why I celebrate the positivity, selflessness and optimism which those very generations embody. The House Reports in this volume repeatedly demonstrate both natural leadership and inclusivity from the prefect groups, and, in every school setting, a “get on and do” resilience, with a simple understanding of mutual support. The necessity for student “bubbles” has highlighted the personal and collective importance of Houses, of year

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We have been inspired by, among many others, OW entrepreneurs supporting young people from less socially mobile backgrounds to identify and fulfil their potential, and by OWs leading all-women philanthropic groups at university.

groups, of classes, and of the special importance of all school community events. Those who follow College’s social media will have in May seen the power of the Wellington Community spirit in support of Pictonian David Lofthouse’s courageous and truly brilliant Kingsley walk in support of the Cerebral Palsy Trust.

And the achievements of the A level and GCSE level students, both last year and this, reflect extraordinarily on their character, resilience and endeavour which reflect not just upon them, but upon the extraordinary adaptability, commitment and sheer hard work of an outstanding Common Room. To have to turn, repeatedly and almost on a sixpence, between online and live learning requires almost double the work. The planning and preparation for every eventuality has enabled as seamless an education as could have been provided, and my congratulations don’t do justice to the strategic planning of the leadership teams and of the dedication of each member of staff.

And that is but a part, behind the scenes are the truly remarkable College staff.

From technology to catering, from in-house to the Works Department, and many others, all have worked tirelessly to

ensure that the school has been prepared at every opportunity for the vagaries thrown at it.

Those same forward looking and inclusive qualities are exemplified in manifold ways across the OW and its wider community.

Embracing technology, Life Beyond Wellington has united OWs in their support for their communities. We have been inspired by, among many others, OW entrepreneurs supporting young people from less socially mobile backgrounds to identify and fulfil their potential, and by OWs leading all-women philanthropic groups at university.

During College’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Festival, OWs spoke candidly, insightfully, and movingly about their struggles with mental health and about their coping strategies, parents held workshops on personal resilience, and OWs discussed the interface of wellbeing and a fulfilling career.

The Common Room Chats from the 1960s to the 1990s brought teaching staff and OWs together for happy reminiscences. Tales from the Archives went back further still for many others.

The incredible generosity across the Wellington Community during Welly

Giving Week supporting the Prince Albert Foundation, a central plank of the College Community’s commitment to widening opportunity, was uplifting.

The whole College Community has used the opportunity provided by COVID to reflect upon, discuss and address where it falls short on issues of equality, diversity and inclusion. Current students and young OWs have rightly taken a strong lead.

Indeed, several such OWs, with lived experience in this space, have formed an ED&I group to confidentially listen to issues which may arise in the university and working environments. The Board of Governors now rightly possesses a Committee specifically dedicated to Social Responsibility and Community.

I am hugely grateful to all those who give up their time and so much more to help all those within our wider Community.

And as Autumn approaches, with a sense of cautious optimism in the air, I have no doubt that all of you will continue to take this spirit, enthusiasm and strength into your own communities, however big or small or wherever they may be. Let that be perhaps but one positive legacy which this last 18 months leaves behind.

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Events Sadly, we have been unable to host our normal programme of OW events this past year. However, over the last few months it has been wonderful to know that OWs in Australia have been able to meet up for their annual OW get togethers in Western Australia and Canberra; details of both events are below.

WATERLOO DAY

Western Australia 18 June 2021 10 OWs and partners got together for their annual Western Australia Waterloo Day Celebrations. Robert and Kate Gould very kindly hosted the drinks reception at their new home.

Many thanks to Adrian Momber for sharing this with us, we hope you all had a fantastic time!

From left to right: Stuart Hawley (Hl 95), Ben Bowtell (Hn 05), Adrian Momber (Pn 71), Joff Ward (S 64), Charlie Maughan (M 04), Stephen Graham (O 76), Humphrey Hale (Hg 81), Mark Shipway (S 04), Antony Raymond (Hl 98) and Robert Gould (Bn 62)

OW LUNCH

Canberra Australia 3 July 2021 The annual Canberra and Region lunch was attended by seven OWs and their partners spanning 37 years of attendance at Wellington from 1942 to 1979. The event was held at the Royal Canberra Golf Club with beef bourguignon pot pie on the menu, followed by Belgian waffles to respectively recall Napoleon Bonaparte and Waterloo. Stories shared reflected the diversity of life and careers of all.

Standing from left: Rob (Hg 84), and Sharron Orr, Carol and Vernon Keighley (C 70), Jean and David Waghorn (O 60), Barbara Todd, Ed Bristow (C 72), Mike Todd (Hl 75), Hilary and Charles Keighley (C 74), Sue Bristow. Seated: John (Hl 45) and Joanna Daly.

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Even though we haven’t been able to meet in person for some time now, we have run a number of successful OW virtual events, and it has been incredible how many of you have tuned in to listen.

Links to all virtual talks are available on our website:

wellycom.net/news

Last summer we started the ‘Evening with Potts’ three part series, hosted

by Chris Potter (C 65) and Mark Milliken-Smith (Bd 81). Chris talked us through his life from his childhood at Wellington to his current role with the Wellington Community and OW Society.

Thanks to Mark and Chris for creating such an engaging and fascinating series.

Toward the end of last year we then launched our ‘Teaching through the Decades’ series, which was hosted by Chris Potter and Wellington’s Archivist, Caroline Jones. The brilliant duo spoke to members of the Common Room from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and looked back at Wellington’s fascinating history, previous Masters, changing trends and music culture, teaching styles, girls first coming to Wellington and much more!

Thank you to our amazing panellists and to all of you who tuned in and shared your own personal memories and stories from your time at Wellington.

Caroline has also hosted a number of brilliant Heritage talks and we have had record numbers of OWs tuned in! Thank you for your continued support, we look forward to seeing you all in person soon.

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Life Beyond Wellington Providing a lifetime of careers advice and guidance for students and OWs A major aspect of the work of the Community Office is to support students while they are at College, as well as for the years after, particularly with the transition from university to the world of work.

We have been providing face-to-face networking and careers advice for many years, but in recent times we have pulled this work together under the banner of Life Beyond Wellington (LBW).

This programme is more relevant than ever, as it’s a programme that aims to equip students with skills and understanding about the ‘real’ world so they can shape what they do at College with an eye on their life beyond their time at Wellington.

For students and young OWs the many different networking sessions and webinars are insightful and inspirational as they begin to make their transition from College to university and into the working world and beyond.

Since the launch of the programme we have been overwhelmed by the incredible support from our OW community. At the time of writing, we have hosted over 50 LBW virtual sessions, which have consisted of live webinars, networking events, and shorter pre-recorded talks. They have covered a huge range of topics such as Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Politics, University advice and so much more!

33 OWs have hosted live or pre-recorded sessions so far and we are so grateful.

The programme wouldn’t be what it is today without all of your incredible support and enthusiasm – thank you!

You can watch back all of our talks by visiting our LBW Library at: https://www.wellycom.net/lbw/

Recent talks included:

Dr Christopher Tuite (HI 68)

Lillie Parker (HN 10)

Aleena Khan (Ap 14)

A Career in Environmental Conservation

Paediatrics at University Hospital Southampton NHS FT

Visualiser and Architectural Assistant at Conran and Partners

Chris, a lifetime conservationist with a PhD from Bristol in zoology/ecology talks about his career where after working for 30 years in the USA as an accountant he worked for some of the biggest and best conservation organisations.

Lillie talks us through her medical career to date and answers questions from Wellington’s very own Medic Society.

Aleena talks about embarking on in her career into the architectural field and touching upon the key skills that are needed in the industry and the wide breadth of roles available!

If you would like to find out more about the programme or are interested in hosting an online talk please email us at community@wellingtoncollege.org.uk

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2021 Year Reps We are delighted to introduce the OW Year Reps for the leavers of 2021. Our Year Reps play a vital role in helping us spread the word about exciting projects we are working on.

Unfortunately, we were unable to hold our usual OW Year Rep Ceremony this summer. We want to say a huge thank you to you all, your help and support has been much appreciated! We wish you all the luck for the future and we hope to see you soon.

Teddie Bateman (M 21) Monty Cross (L 21) Audrey Dennis (A 21) Jake Graham (Bn 21) John Hatton (Bd 21) Stella Lindfors (Ap 21) Olivia McCausland (C 21) Francesca Mellor (Hg 21) Stan Munro (Bl 21) Laura Nicoli (C 21) Isobella Pearson Miles (O 21) Harry Petrie (T 21) Alex Stannard (Pn 21) Harry Taylor (T 21) Annie Tutus (W 21) Eliza Tyler (Hn 21) Baxter Westby (S 21) Marcus Width (R 21) Rosie Wrigglesworth (Hn 21) Charlie Yeldham (Hl 21) Guy Zilberman (R 21)

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Buying treats at Grubbies, 1950s

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D EC A DES PROJ EC T What was everyday life like for Wellingtonians in the past?

What did they think of their living conditions and the food they ate?

How did they react to school rules, fagging, and daily Chapel?

Which teachers made a lasting impression on them? What were the highlights of the school year?

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o-one can answer these questions better than the students themselves, and so in the spring of 2020 we launched the Wellington Decades Project. By inviting Old Wellingtonians to respond to a questionnaire and send in their memories, we want to build up a rich historical resource, allowing historians of the future an in-depth picture of the Wellington ‘student experience’ during the second half of the 20th century.

So far, we have concentrated on those who left College up to and including 1961. Around 550 OWs – all of those for whom we have contact details – have been invited to participate, and more than 150 have responded. College Archivist Caroline Jones is now compiling their recollections, which provide a remarkable insight into College life in the 1940s and 1950s – entirely fascinating, often amusing and sometimes eye-opening.

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Top: Fag’s tea, 1944 Bottom: Divinity class, 1955

Major ‘Mac’ Mackenzie, accompanied to the Chemistry lab by his faithful dog which would lick up any spilt chemicals Leaving Chapel, 1951

Most OWs of this era considered conditions at College to have been at least adequate, although many remembered being cold in winter, and some mentioned obligatory cold baths! Many recalled that the privacy afforded by their individual cubicles or ‘tishes’ was quite unusual in schools at the time, and much appreciated. In an era dominated by rationing, most thought that the school had done well to feed them on the limited resources available. Responses were very evenly split between those who remembered being ‘always’ or ‘often’ hungry, and those who said they never were! We received many accounts of how the Dining Hall fare was supplemented by snacks cooked up on the ‘brew rings’ in the dormitories – bacon, eggs, beans, porridge, and on one occasion, squirrel! Grubbies was a favourite too, for treats such as biscuits, ice cream (pink or white), and milkshakes, but most remembered that consumption had been limited by the extent of their pocket money.

Fagging was very much a part of life at 1950s Wellington.

Overwhelmingly, students accepted it as such, and very few felt that it had been abused. All remembered taking the ‘fag exam’ to learn useful facts about the College in their first term. Few candidates failed, but one who did was compelled to climb onto the bar between the ‘tishes’ on the first floor and sing a song’ as penance! Corporal punishment was also routine and accepted by most, although several OWs recalled particular instances when they had felt their punishment was unfair.

Many of our respondents felt that Wellington in the post-war years was not a particularly academic place, but a few teachers stood out, inspiring intellectual curiosity or a passion for their subject. More were memorable for their idiosyncrasies, including Major ‘Mac’ Mackenzie, accompanied to the Chemistry lab by

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The Dining Hall, 1957

his faithful dog which would lick up any spilt chemicals; Anthony Crawley with his archaic ‘Oxford English’ diction; and the chaplain, Dudley Dinnis, who would spend most lessons producing elaborate and beautiful coloured chalk drawings on the blackboard. We also received descriptions of the ingenious methods devised by the boys to disconcert or distract their teachers, thus relieving the monotony of the lessons.

The Second World War obviously had a big impact on life at Wellington and we have received some wonderful accounts of the war years from our oldest OWs. Their successors, by contrast, mostly felt that they had not been particularly aware of the events of the outside world. One exception to this was the funeral of King George VI, as members of the Corps were invited to line the route for his coffin as it processed to Windsor Castle. Many OWs vividly remember preparing for this by learning to ‘reverse arms,’ a tricky manoeuvre especially for smaller boys whose rifle was as big as they were.

Once the reminiscences have been compiled and edited, they will form the core of a new Wellington College Heritage website, to be launched in the Autumn. We do hope that many OWs will enjoy browsing the site and stimulating memories of their own. For those who are not online, we will be finding other ways of sharing the results of our project.

Physics class in Lecture Theatre, 1955

Life in the Hill corridor, by Bryan de Grineau, 1952

In 2022 we will be contacting those who were students here in the 1960s, a decade famed for revolutions in society and popular culture, and we look forward to reading how (if at all!) those changes were felt at Wellington.

Interior of Woodwork Shop, 1940s

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What our OWs wish they could have told themselves as teenagers sitting outside Grubbies!

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Daisy Crowfoot (Ap 14) What do you enjoy most about your job?

Social justice, accessibility, inclusion, and equity are all things I am passionate about both inside and outside of work, so I feel very lucky to have a job that focuses on these issues. ‘D&I’ is an ever-evolving field and I love that I am always listening to and learning from different lived experiences.

I also really enjoy how collaborative my role is and that I get to work with some brilliant colleagues across the organisation. I am still quite new to the role, having joined in March this year, and am learning so much about the incredibly broad and impactful work that the Energy Saving Trust does to address the climate emergency. It’s great to work in such a mission-led organisation with passionate, knowledgeable and supportive colleagues.

Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

I am Daisy, my pronouns are she/they, and I currently work as the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Lead at Energy Saving Trust. My previous role was working in the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion team at Queen Mary University of London, and before that, I was at Welcome Trust.

Outside of work, I am still working to smash the patriarchy but also tend to my many baby houseplants. I love being outdoors/hiking, reading, watching an eclectic mix of TV, cats (!) and occasionally cooking, but mainly eating, yummy vegan food.

What motivated you to apply for your current role?

I have always wanted to work in the environmental sector, and care deeply about the climate crisis. So when I saw this opportunity at the Energy Saving Trust, I was excited. The role of D&I 68

Lead is also new at the Energy Saving Trust, which means I have the opportunity to ‘start from scratch’, create an organisational D&I strategy and work with colleagues across the organisation to implement it, which I am really enjoying.

Can you see a positive change in the workplace in relation to diversity and inclusion?

Yes, I think there’s been some much-needed change recently with more employers taking equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace seriously. However, what is important is that efforts to ‘do’ D&I work are not tokenistic and are properly prioritised, resourced and championed by senior leaders. The aim of roles like mine is to effectively embed principles of inclusion, accessibility, and equity across everything that an organisation does, both internally and externally, so that D&I is no longer an ‘add on’, but a core part of an organisations culture.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?

The most reassuring work-related advice I have been given is that everyone, even those in incredibly senior positions, are making some of it up as they go along.

I find it helpful to remember that no one knows all the answers all of the time, and that’s ok.

Do you have a fond memory from your time at Wellington that you would like to share or perhaps a particular teacher that really stood out?

Mr Morris and Dr Joanna Seldon were both amazing teachers. Dr Seldon was so thoughtful, introducing me to some beautiful words and the queerness of poetry. Mr Morris was a really fun but also kind and supportive teacher. I learnt a lot from him and feel he helped me to be more confident using my voice and taking up space.

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Kai Horstmann (Hg 00) Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

I was born and raised in Zimbabwe but educated in England. I started playing professional rugby for Harlequins in 2001 before moving to Worcester Warriors in 2005 and Exeter Chiefs in 2012. I enjoyed silverware successes in the European Cup, LV Cup, Anglo Welsh Cup, and The Premiership. After retiring in 2018, I joined the commercial team at Exeter Chiefs to learn the ‘dark arts’ of elite sport, before making the move into the world of property with Burrington Estates in 2020. I currently head up the commercial sales for Burrington Estates with the development of Winslade Park just outside Exeter at the forefront.

What inspired you to want to want to play Rugby professionally?

The 1995 World Cup in South Africa was a pivotal moment. Being a Zimbabwean, I was brought up in awe of the Springboks.

Rugby and sport is like a religion in Southern Africa. The troubles South Africa were going through in the early 90’s were enormous. The recently elected president of South Africa Nelson Mandela presenting the Webb Ellis trophy to Francois Pienaar was monumental and a huge factor in inspiring me to want to play pro rugby.

As well as being a professional Rugby player, you have also been involved in multiple business ventures. Can you tell us more about these?

I opened a Wine retailer in Cheltenham called Tivoli Wines which I sold a few years ago after six years. I am really pleased to see it’s still going very well and very proud of what we created. The interest in wine stems from my mother buying a farm in the heartland of the wine route in South Africa, Stellenbosch.

It’s a huge wine country and it’s very hard not to be absorbed by it. The world of wine is vast and there will always be a market for independents... always support them! A hugely enjoyable industry.

I have also set up a company called Team-i which focuses on the transferable skills in elite sport and helping businesses implement them. Having spent a number of years researching elite sports teams

to understand how they achieved their success, Team-i delivers programmes that show how a business can improve their performance by integrating proven strategies and techniques.

What has been your career highlight so far?

Winning the Aviva Premiership in 2017 was a great moment. I was lucky enough to win the Hong Kong 7s with England when I was young and that too was absolutely amazing, helped largely by the enormous ex-pat community who filled the stadium.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years’ time?

I try not to look too far ahead but my aim is very much to be running my own ship.

I see Devon as a long-term home but there is definitely a hunger to experience other countries and cultures. I will always hold Zimbabwe very close to my heart, so who knows!

Do you have a fond memory from your time at Wellington that you would like to share or perhaps a particular teacher that really stood out?

I have so many fantastic memories... most not for print! I forged friends for life. Sometimes months/years can pass before we meet up again and we simply pick up where we left off. There is a special bond. Sport was a huge part of my time at Wellington, so I have very fond memories of Bigside glory, close fought hockey matches and beating Eton 1st XI in cricket for the first time in 25 years. Speech Day memories were always hugely enjoyable. Whatever your passion, Wellington College would create the platform for you to try and excel at it. I feel incredibly fortunate to have gone to Wellington and will always have the fondest of memories.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?

Director of Rugby at Exeter Chiefs Rob Baxter is a hugely inspiring figure, and he has many ways and methods to challenge an individual/team. He is a big one for never looking for excuses but rather to look for opportunities in every moment of the day. How can you be better today than you were yesterday?

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Alison Scott (Ap 92) Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

I’m currently a Head of Division in the Prudential Policy Directorate at the Bank of England. I joined the FSA back in 2004, and moved to the Bank of England when they created the Prudential Regulation Authority in 2013. All in all, I’ve worked in banking regulation for 17 years. In my current role I have a broad set of responsibilities from medium term strategy for prudential banking regulation to how the Prudential Regulation Authority meets it secondary competition objective as well as co-chairing our staff disability network.

Given my current role and responsibilities, it may surprise you to read that I am not an economist. I left Wellington (Ap) in 1992 to read Chemical Engineering at Clare College, Cambridge and stayed on to do a PhD. My PhD was sponsored by Unilever and looked at the manufacturing process for washing powder. While I enjoyed my time at Cambridge (I was a choral scholar at Clare), I knew I was not a hard hat, boiler suit wearing kind of person.

Working in finance was a bit of an accident if truth be told. When I was finishing up my PhD I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to do so applied to a number of management consulting companies. When making my final decision, I chose to go and work for Oliver Wyman & Company. It was then 250 professionals globally, focused on financial services. Of all the companies I interviewed with, they were the people I liked the most and if you are going to spend that much time working with people, it is an important consideration.

And I think of my background as a real advantage. I don’t think about problems the same way as economists – I’m much more practical in the way I think. And that diversity of thought has helped me be successful in my career.

I would now describe myself as a poacher turned gamekeeper. I really like the public sector feel of working for the Bank of England, that sense of making a difference.

I get to work with really smart people and the problems are varied and challenging.

No two days are the same.

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Outside work, I have a wide set of interests. I’m the mum of two girls – my oldest started at Wellington last September. I make costumes for my youngest daughter’s dance school and sew hospital gowns for sick children through a charity called Pyjama Fairies and I’ve recently become a trustee of the Old Wellingtonian Society Charitable Trusts.

How have you found working in a mainly male dominated industry?

When I was at Wellington there were only 50 girls in the school, with 25 each in the ixth form and Lower Sixth. I was the only girl in my maths set, one of two in chemistry and one of three in physics.

So I would say I now work in a much less male dominated environment than my days at school! It did, however, prepare me well to hold my own.

What has been your career highlight so far?

For those who follow the activities of the Bank of England, one of the things the Bank has been known for in recent years is its annual concurrent stress test. I was part of the original team that designed, implemented and ran the stress tests.

Delivering such a high profile financial stability tool was a privilege and real highlight for me.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?

I once heard Martha Lane Fox speak – she asked the audience to ask themselves if what they do matters. That has really stayed with me and helped ground me – I really do feel that the work I do makes a difference.

What advice would you give to young OWs? Make sure you are passionate about the work you do. You’ll spend the largest part of your life working, so make it worthwhile. Be happy to get up in the morning and go to work knowing you make a difference. Don’t limit yourself to what you know – skills are eminently transferrable.

Do you have a fond memory from your time at Wellington that you would like to share or perhaps a particular teacher that really stood out?

A couple of things stand out for me – perhaps more a reflection on the current times. The first is the two choir tours I went on while I was at Wellington – to Czechoslovakia (as it was then) and to Italy (Florence and Siena). They were fantastic trips and I’m only sorry that the current Wellington students aren’t getting the same opportunities.

My very last day at Wellington I had one exam to go. I think about six of us sat the exam up in the maths block and, while we were toiling away, the school year finished.

When we finally emerged, everyone had gone home! So, a somewhat surreal ending to my time at Wellington.

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Richard Wollocombe (C 86) event was a shock to me and I felt a huge sense of satisfaction to know that I could share the very rare perspective with so many other people and hopefully move audiences to realise the impact our species is having on the planet.

What are you working on at the minute?

I am working on an independent production to make a feature film on Galápagos. We are in the fundraising stages of production, and it will largely be a non-profit film to raise awareness of the ocean and emotionally connect people with it.

Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

I spent most of my early childhood living in various countries in South America and was an overseas border at Wellington while my parents lived in Colombia. While I was in university I went on a family holiday to Galápagos and it had such an impact on me that after finishing my degree I decided to become a scuba diving instructor and headed to Galápagos where I spent five years as a National Park guide. My arrival there coincided with the first commercial live-aboard dive boat and so I spent the first years pioneer dive guiding which is a euphemism for the blind leading the blind! It was an exciting time and as Galápagos gained a reputation as a world class diving destination, I had the fortune to guide numerous photographers and film makers who helped me on my path to a career in wildlife filmmaking.

What inspired you to become a wildlife cinematographer?

Undoubtedly my years guiding in Galápagos were extremely inspirational.

I saw first-hand the positive impact Galápagos had on the people. I felt that sharing my experiences in Galápagos and other places in the world with a wider audience was a good way to draw attention to the wonder of nature but also the fragility of it. But on another level and while I was still at Wellington, my parent’s house in Colombia was burgled and they lost many of their cherished possessions. But the one loss they could never reconcile was the theft

of most of my father’s cine 8 film archive of the family life. It made me realise that of all the things we most cherish, it is the memories in whatever form they physically manifest, that are priceless. So what inspired me in part to become a wildlife cinematographer was the desire not only to share the inspiring beauty and wonder of the natural world with a wide audience but to preserve the memory of it knowing that so much of what is alive today may be gone tomorrow.

What has been your career highlight so far?

It was gratifying to see how much attention the snake vs marine iguana sequence received that my colleagues and I filmed for Planet Earth II. It was wonderful to see the sequence go viral and to know that the series gained huge popularity among young people. But there have been many highlights that were more important to me. For instance, it was otherworldly to film industrial scale purse seine fishing from inside the net. It was extremely intense to witness the vast school of wild tuna fish encircled and gradually trapped into a seething mass of panic stricken fish. Filming the fishes’ perspective, the fishing boat felt more like an extraordinarily sophisticated animal with a gigantic mouth, controlled by a brain that was connected to a system of ocean sensors and satellite communications technology that could know where and when the fish were at certain times and locations. How could nature compete with this new ‘species’? Just witnessing this

What advice would you give young OWs interested in wildlife cinematography?

I found it very useful to learn stills photography before I touched a film camera or video camera. There is also no replacement for filming as much as you can.

I made my first films by deconstructing other films and picking them apart, and this taught me a lot about filming also.

Photography or cinematography is a skill that you never stop developing. As a wildlife cinematographer, it is helpful to spend as much time in nature as possible, sharpening your observation skills and connecting to the natural world. We have atrophied our sensibilities to nature and being able to do justice to the natural world is as much about understanding and feeling your subject as it is about knowing how to film it.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?

My parents said; ‘Always get back in the saddle when you fall off your horse’. I’ve done plenty of falling and so this advice has been quite useful!

Do you have a fond memory from your time at Wellington that you would like to share or perhaps a particular teacher that really stood out?

I really enjoyed my time at Wellington.

The boarding school life and culture provided a great foundation for later in life. I learnt to become independent very early and it gave me the confidence to choose a path in life that I may have had second thoughts about had I not had the confidence to pursue my dream.

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Angela Woolnough (Ap 77) solicitor and focused purely on the tribunal work which continues to this day. In 2015 I was appointed an assistant coroner, hearing inquests in the East Midlands. Challenging but rewarding work in another jurisdiction.

Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

I joined the Sixth Form at Wellington College in 1975 when the school first opened its doors to girls – 7 girls and 770 boys. This was a ground-breaking experiment for Wellington which had been a boys’ school for 120 years.

I remember feeling petrified and overwhelmed during the first term.

After that we soon settled into A level studies and made new friends. My favourite time was during the long hot summer of 1976 – secret pub jaunts, illicit parties and group swimming/picnics all led to frequent rule breaking! My favourite teachers were Mr Ramage and Mr Ridley who both taught me English Literature.

They were brilliant academics, incredibly inspiring and left a lasting impact on me.

So now I am 61 – a solicitor, tribunal judge and assistant coroner. I live in Worcestershire and have three grown up sons.

Why did you choose a career in law?

I had absolutely no idea who I was or what I wanted to do in life at age 18.

I chose a law degree because it seemed to embody three things which strongly appealed to me – forging relationships with colleagues and clients, problem solving, and working within a structured legal framework. It was only later, as a practising solicitor, that I also realised how important it was to be able to read, research, analyse, draft and advise on lengthy complex documents and also to be able to work under pressure.

My career in law was not all plain sailing.

With an average law degree from a middle ranked university, I went on to law college in Guildford and then failed the legal practice course. I re-took the exams, passed and then met the next hurdle – finding a training contract.

After hundreds of applications to firms in London and a few unsuccessful interviews, I finally struck lucky and in 1983 was accepted by Hempsons Solicitors in Covent Garden, who specialised in medico-legal work. I worked my socks off, qualified and became a salaried partner in 1987.

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I know how hard it is for prospective solicitors to find a training contract these days even with gold standard qualifications and relevant work experience. The best advice I can give you now is not to give up, promote as many networking contacts as you can and develop other interests or hobbies which make you stand out from the crowd.

My career changed in the late 1990s.

By then I had three small children and my priorities changed. I left practice and became a magistrate and law lecturer as both fitted into school term time. After a divorce in 2011 I decided to go back into practice as a solicitor. Hurdle number 3. Age 51 – not easy.

I joined a criminal practice in Worcester – and worked unpaid initially whilst I sat the criminal litigation accreditation exams.

It was difficult juggling work, study, raising three sons, renovating a Georgian house and attending night call outs to Worcester police station to represent clients for interviews under caution!

Then in 2013, I applied to become a tribunal judge in the social entitlement chamber (social security benefits) – and after a long rigorous process I was appointed. More training followed before I began to sit in courts all over the Midlands with other tribunal members hearing appeals. I gave up practice as a

What advice would I give to you if you are considering a career in law?

You can see from my own career experience that life often requires a degree of flexibility with the ability to adapt to new circumstances. The benefit of law is that it offers a variety of paths which you can follow as your future life changes. I never had any career goal of becoming a tribunal judge/coroner but somehow all those years spent working in medico-legal work, teaching and criminal law led naturally into roles which require this experience. And I now really enjoy the judicial work. I believe that the two key skills which you will need for a career in law are the abilities to communicate effectively – both orally and in writing. Perhaps I have Messrs Ramage and Ridley to thank for that!

Before you decide on a career in law you will undoubtedly research it thoroughly beforehand and ideally get some work experience in a firm or in chambers.

Wellington College has an excellent OW law careers opportunity group. They hold various events over the year and OW lawyers are on hand to offer advice and guidance. I hope you enjoy your career in law as much as I have – Good Luck!

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RYS Haven with OWSA member’s yachts. Photo Jo Assael

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OWFC had a strong year before the league season was ended due to COVID.

It will come as no surprise that there is very little to report on OWRFC’s most recent rugby season.

The OWs were known for playing attacking, free-flowing football, piling forward with the confidence that our goalkeeper Nick Jupp (Bd 09) had no intention of ruining his streak of clean sheets.

Notable wins included a 3-2 win against Dulwich and a 3-1 win against Sutton, with top scorer Toby Hanington (Bl 09) scoring a marvellous free-kick against Dulwich.

Although the conclusion of the season was cut short following the outbreak of COVID-19, we had a very successful cup run in the run up to summer, reaching the semi-finals. This, combined with our league position and the positive new debutants in our team, suggests that we are set for a strong year when the season restarts in September.

Rob Alderson (S 08) has been running the team for two years now, with long-standing member Ed Mallaburn (A 00) remaining as the clubs treasurer and running the OW Vets team. OWFC have managed to keep a strong core of Old Wellingtonians, tying together more than 15 years of the school’s former students.

A strong mention also to Fergus Gilmour (Hl 1998), who is retiring to join the vets team this year. He has been a great serving member of OWFC and his engine in midfield will he missed.

Player of the Year: Dan Murray (S 08) Top Goal scorer: Toby Hanington (Bl 04) Most improved: Nick Jupp (S 2004)

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That said, despite the obvious limitations which were imposed upon us, the club did manage to rally around and get some invaluable and highly enjoyable mid-week touch sessions going.

In fact, Wednesday touch at Spencer Park has now become a regular occurrence and, COVID restrictions permitting, has gone ahead every week for almost a year now.

The addition of a state-of-the-art floodlight system was a wise investment for the club as we managed to play through some of the bleaker months of the year and it’s been a pleasure having some new faces turn up and join us. We now look forward to the return of the XV aside format which should be kicking back off in September and, as ever, if you find yourself reading this and interested in joining the club, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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OW CRICKET Left to right Back row: Oliver Leach (Bn 03), Almaher Shelley (Pn 03), George Tysoe (L 03), Adrian Jarvis (C 02), Christopher Parrish (T 13), Henry McCreery (Hl 15), Adam Dewes (Hl 15), WiIl Sinfield (S 19) Front Row: Peter Young (Bd 04), Hugo Shephard (Bn 03), James Coyne (O 03)

In what has been an important year for cricket in the UK, with the introduction of The Hundred, the return of crowds at live games, and an international and domestic schedule busier than ever before, it has been good to see participation in the sport across the country back on the rise...and the Old Wellingtonians have enjoyed doing their bit.

COVID restrictions delayed the start of the season until the end of May. Nonetheless, we managed to get in six excellent quality games of cricket, winning four of them.

There were 50 individual players involved, of whom 37 were under 25 years old - there is a fantastic array of enormously talented cricketers who have recently left College, which is very encouraging for the club’s future. In the Cricketer Cup we had a new skipper this year in Adam Dewes (Hl 15),

with another 2015 leaver – Elliott George (Hl 15) – installed as Team Manager. To both of whom we wish every success. The Club is hugely grateful to Will Leith (S 11) Captain, and JJ Dewes (Hl 13), Vice-Captain, who have led our Cricketer Cup campaigns over recent years – their hard work both on and off the pitch, and commitment to the Club, has been invaluable, and we look forward to many more seasons playing alongside them.

On Sunday 13th June, a new look side of OW cricketers travelled to St Edward’s Oxford to play the Martyrs in the first round of the Cricketer Cup. It was a scorcher of a day – a rarity in this pretty dismal summer of weather – and the stage was set for an absolute corker.

The OWs lost the toss and were condemned to a long and arid session in the field. Gabe Henry (Bd 15), on Cricketer Cup debut, struck early into the Martyrs innings and bowled a fantastic seven over opening spell from the Woodstock Road End. Not

bowling with any great pace, he managed to tie down the Martyrs top order with a mix of deception and craft. Figures of 7-0-26-1 did not do his spell justice. We hope he will operate in perpetuity for the OWs in the Cricketer Cup side. The spinners then came on and bowled decently; however the Martyrs milked well and deposited the bad ball when it came. They were also assisted by some mediocre moments in the field. We had to work extremely hard for our second wicket, which eventually came with the score at 142-2, when Dewes J had their best player trapped in front for 66. We then had our best period of the game, and at 198-7 we were confident of restricting the opposition to a gettable total. Alas, we weren’t quite able to turn the screw and the Martyrs bludgeoned their way to 243 from their allocation. This was by no means a disaster, but 220+ batting first wins many more Cricketer Cup games than it loses so we were well aware of the task in hand. Wickets were shared evenly among the Dewes brothers (5) and Leo Methley (BD 16)(3).

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Ben Curran (M 15) also deserves credit for his 10 overs of off spin that only went for 34 runs. Northamptonshire and David Ripley are missing a trick.

In reply, our innings could not have got off to a worse start with the wickets of Dewes A, Curran and Keast all falling early. We were therefore always playing catch up and could never quite get ahead of the rate. The star of the show was Ben Kingsnorth who played beautifully for his 85. Mike O’Donoghue (Bd 20), also on debut, fought hard and soaked up some pressure but when he was dismissed the game was all but over. Had Kingsnorth been supported properly we may have been in with a chance, but our innings fizzled out and we were bowled out for 190.

All in all, a disappointing day for an OW side not quite at full strength and leaving a lot to be desired in the field. However, there are many positives to take into next year’s campaign and it was a delight to have 4 players making their CC debut. St Edward’s away in the first round was always going to be a tough fixture, and we hope for a more favourable draw next year.

Earlier on in the summer, the OWCC played WCCC, but for the first time in memory without the traditional Speech Day crowd thanks to COVID restrictions.

OWCC beat WCCC by 5 wickets on the Sunday in a game reduced by the weather to 20 overs per side. A strong all round bowling (and catching!) performance from the OWs restricted college to 123 from their 20 overs, the highlight of which was Justin Yeldham (Hl 89)having his son caught behind for 0! After being 0-2 in response, an 80 run partnership between Adam Dewes and Chris Leith (S 14) put the OWs in a strong position before a mini collapse was halted by JJ Dewes and Charlie Cowdrey (Hg 12) who took us to victory with an over to spare. A thoroughly enjoyable day on Turf and we hope to return for the full Speech Day version of the fixture next year.

Next came the Old Amplefordians on 6th June. Our captain, Josh Huckin (Pn 12), won the toss and elected to bowl first, the OWs struggled to break the opening partnership as the Old A’s reached 50 without much trouble. The much needed breakthrough

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came via the McCreery brothers bowling in tandem as Henry (Hl 15) held up one end with pace and Will (Hl 12) took the wickets with some ripping spin. The OWs restricted the Old A’s to 197-6 from their allotted 40 overs. Feeling pretty confident the OWs set out to chase down the target. However it was very quickly 11-3 and an early defeat was looking ominous. But a brilliant partnership, again coming from the McCreery brothers, put us back on top. It was a fantastic batting display with Henry notching up 82 hitting the ball to all corners of the ground, ably supported by his brother who scored an invaluable 30. The wickets then started to tumble again and the runs dried up. It ended up being a nail biting finish with more than a run-a-ball required on a very slow outfield for the last 5 overs. Luckily Chris Parrish (T 13) was there to steer us home, and the OWs won by 3 wickets with two balls to spare.

Mid-June and July were then off limits at Wellington thanks to a COVID surge zone imposed in Crowthorne, which banned any outside visitors to college. So we reconvened at Charterhouse on 1st August.

A drizzly day and with both sides worried about their strength in depth; a 40 over match seemed to be the best format. A young OWs team, led by Adam Dewes, won the toss and bowled first, limiting the opposition to 156 for 7. The highlight of the innings was a quite remarkable catch by Chris Leith at second slip to remove the opposition’s opener. A flashing drive was edged and, Leith, clearly still in conversation with Elliot George (Hl 15) (wicket-keeper), stuck out a paw and hurled himself headlong to his right to effect an astonishing wicket.

JJ Dewes and Jack Reid (S 19) opened the batting in tricky conditions, with rain about and the ball swinging. A mistimed pull shot from Reid saw him depart for 3 in the 6th over. Bowcock came in at three and took the score along to 43, before Dewes had a swing at one that nipped back and bowled him. Newson arrived, but both he and Bowcock were dislodged to leave the OWs teetering at 51 for 4 in the 14th over.

George stepped in and true to form swung, and swung hard, with great aplomb. He was caught at the wicket for a quickfire 28.

When Leith departed for single figures, captain Dewes joined Purton at the crease.

The pair batted in classy fashion (Dewes

30*, Purton 29*) to ensure that, when the rain finally did come, the OWs were ahead of the required DLS score, taking the win by 4 wickets.

The final game of the season was a typically hard fought affair at The Hurlingham. The OWs lost the toss and bowled first, doing well to keep the opposition strangled throughout, who managed 159-9 declared off 56 overs. Angus Boobbyer (Pn 11) led the way, taking 3-25 off 9 overs, and the well trusted Ed Young (Bd 07) kept them thinking from the other end, ending with 2-20 off 11 overs. Chris Parrish was destructive in two spells removing the top order and bowling the finishing overs to collect 4 -43, supported in partnerships by Pete Young (Bd 04) and Henry McCreery.

In reply, the OWs got off to a tricky start, losing a wicket in the second over without troubling the scorers. Will Sabey came in at three and made batting look much easier than anyone else that day, scoring 48 at more than a run a ball before getting out caught in the 13th over. The middle order of Leith, Young E, Boobbyer and Avrilli all got starts only to get out and the game began to look out of our reach, needing 29 runs to win with only a wicket to spare and time running out. Cometh the hour, captain Pete Young scored a very assured and measured 34 from 61 balls to carry the team home. The winning runs coming in the penultimate over with a six to cap a tense finish. Chris Parrish (batting 11) did a cracking job supporting Pete soaking up 35 balls against the spinning ball with men around the bat. He was awarded the man of the match award in the bar after the game after a fine performance. What a win to end the year!

The season ended with a well-attended drinks party at the Northcote pub in Clapham, with a wide variety of age groups present. Roll on next year, for hopefully a better summer of weather, zero COVID restrictions, and a long run in the Cricketer Cup!

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OW TENNIS Unfortunately, COVID once again ruined the season in terms of competitive matches, although we are hoping to arrange a couple of friendly fixtures for the late summer at either the Queens or Hurlingham Clubs.

Having said that, the tennis community have been lucky as we have been able to continue playing throughout much of the last year as an outdoor sport that can be played with small groups.

As such, we have been able to organise some great internal tennis matches at Queens and the Hurlingham Clubs – often followed by dinner and a few drinks of course.

Thanks to the energy and drive of Hamish Richardson (Pn 14), bringing a much needed youthful and modernising look to the Club, our plans are to grow the OWLTC community and become a more consistently active club, both socially and competitively. To do this, we have created a Facebook group, allowing players to organise internal matches more consistently and for us to communicate external matches with ease. If you are interested in playing some lawn tennis, social or competitive, please join the Facebook group – https://www.facebook.com/ groups/OWLTC/ – or email Hamish Richardson if you have any questions.

The Courts of Discipline.

Can you recognise the background in the movie poster? The Lords of Discipline was made at college because the buildings created an awesome setting for discipline and exercise – just like a squash court!

OW Squash has been a victim of COVID for the past year as there have been no matches at all due to the sport being on the Government’s banned list. This means we all have to be our own ‘Lords of Discipline’ and keep fit in different ways. Squash courts have been open only for training, mainly on your own. This meant lots of drills... so a bit like the CCF! Squash will bounce back this year with new matches and exciting venues, including reinstating a few matches at College.

From left to right:

Andrew Grassic (non-OW), Dom Vincent (S 2015), James Kemp (Bd 14), Hamish Richardson (Pn 14)

Please be disciplined and keep a space in the diary – email me and I will book the courts!

OW Tennis Club Captain James Bray (Hg 86) (M) 07900 682784 jbray@fdl.co.uk

Nigel Clarke (L 79) nigelclarke61@hotmail.com

OW Social Tennis Hamish Richardson (Pn 14) (M) 07774 242352 hamishcrichardson@outlook.com

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The 2020 Annual Alumni Race was, out of necessity, a virtual event held over the weekend 12/13 December. Whereas normally the race is run as a mass participation event on a tough course on Wimbledon Common, the virtual version was a truly international one.

As a result of a big influx of new members during lockdown, OWXC managed to raise more entrants for the race than any other school (39 out of the total of 310 runners from 29 different schools) Individually, our first male finisher was Matthew Blagg (S 97) (30th overall), and first female was his sister Natalie Blagg (Ap 00), (21st out of 51 ladies). Interestingly our second placed men and women finishers were Rod Shephard (Bn 2006) and Tammy Jordan (Ap 06), (née Shephard), again brother and sister.

Our closest to winning one of the various trophies was in the V40 men: our top three, Matthew Blagg, Andy McKimmie (A 96) and Peter Davy (O 95) coming 2nd (out of 29 teams). Our only three in the V60, Simon Cox (C 1977), Gary Lloyd (M 63) and Edmund Hayward (A 74) were 3rd out of 17 teams.

Our top three ladies, Natalie Blagg, Tammy Jordan, and Sophie Graham-Nicoll (C 12) came 6th out of the 15 teams.

Any enquiries: Gary Lloyd email: galloyd2000@hotmail.com

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In the overall team trophy, our top four Matthew Blagg, Rod Shepherd, Ian Picton (T 01) and Ed Dymoke (T 03) were 11th out of the 20 schools who were able to raise four or more runners.

Certainly, our turnout was good but the real result for OWXC was the tremendous team

spirit (as expressed via our WhatsApp group) and the enterprise shown by everyone in managing to run over the prescribed 8k distance and elevation over a weekend of filthy weather. The virtual nature of the event meant that our overseas members could also take part; notably Tammy Jordan in New York, Toby Blythen (T 92) in Copenhagen, and Andy McKimmie and Richard Jelf (Bl 01) in Singapore.

During the lockdown summer of 2020, weekly 5k virtual races were run amongst the alumni participating schools. OWXC members and their families took part in great numbers and were easily the most successful team over the entire series of runs.

Sadly, all the other regular events were forced to be cancelled. However, at the time of writing (mid 2021), competitive events are coming back and OWXC members are achieving great things in both road and cross-country races. We are hoping our next combined event will be the Welling10k (at College) in September, and we’re already gearing up for the 2021 Annual Alumni Race on Saturday 11th December (on Wimbledon Common).

Running is, without doubt, becoming increasingly popular, both for females and males, and for all ages. As a club, OWXC welcomes any OW who enjoys running – even better if you’re quick!! To join, go to: www.owxc.co.uk

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OW SAILING ASSOCIATION 2020 was largely a frustrating and difficult year for OW sailors, though happily a Solent Cruiser Rally was slotted into the brief window from lockdown in Summer 2020 thanks to the tenacity of Willie Pennefather (S 68), aided by Jonathan Hudson (O 87) and John Peacock (Hl 62).

Lunch at Royal Yacht Squadron preceded by ‘Cockpit cocktails’, see below, extended into two evenings in Cowes, with a Friday night barbecue at the Royal Ocean Racing Club, hosted by Jervis Kay (T 1967), and lunch on the Sunday on the Beaulieu River-bank.

The annual Arrow Trophy was a victim of COVID, as was the annual dinner and due to the curtailed programme in 2020 only one OWSA prize could be awarded: The Kay Trophy: for an OW who has made a significant contribution to OWSA over several years, was awarded to Polly Amos (Ap 78). Polly was Commodore for three years from 2017 to 2020, particularly championing younger members’ interests, as well as previously performing the role of Hon. Secretary from 2006 to 2009.

OWSA Scholarship: Tom Holliday (Bd 19), Captain of Sailing at College in the 18/19 academic year, was awarded an OWSA scholarship to attend the RYS 2020 race training course. However, due to COVID this was postponed. Happily, it was rearranged for April 2021 when it was attended by the Princess Royal. Tom reported he much enjoyed it and learnt lots.

OWSA is in vibrant form, and other informal events are being mooted.

Any OWs with an interest in sailing, please do contact the Secretary, Chris Allen on 07546 283299 or email: christopherallen64@yahoo.com

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Whilst practical training could not go ahead in 2020, online theory training could, and OWSA sponsored three younger members on RYA Day Skipper Theory; Helena Pratt (Ap 15), Sophie Pipe (Ap 14), and Matteo Fumagalli (Bn 2015). Connell Trainor (R 17) was also sponsored on the RYA Senior Dinghy Instructor course, and Helena Peacock (Ap 99) was sponsored on the RYA Yacht Master Theory course.

The 2021 AGM was held via Zoom, on the 16th of March 21, and attracted 30 members, nearly a third of the total membership, and the largest AGM turnout for many years. All Flag Officers and Committee continued in office.

2021 has, happily, brought a new optimism and a few events have been held, with more planned.

The Belvidere Cup, a match-racing regatta for independent school alumni was held in April by the Royal Thames Yacht Club at the Queen Mary reservoir. The OW team of 4 included two new faces. Tom Holliday and Matteo Fumagalli joined Fred Hayes (T 13), and skipper, Nick Vigors (S 02).

The team, having never sailed together before, performed very well to finish 4th, well-beaten by eventual winners, Abingdon, but enjoying close matches with 2nd placed Uppingham, and 3rd placed Winchester, which bodes well for the future.

The 2021 Solent Cruiser Rally was held at Whitsun, again organised by Willie Pennefather, Jonathan Hudson, and John Peacock. Summery conditions, and demand from members, resulted in a record ten boats attending.

Friday evening ‘Cockpit cocktails’ preceded an excellent dinner in the Pavilion.

A delightful feature of the OWSA is the mixing of generations. At this event the youngest OW left College in 2013, whilst the oldest, who left College 62 years earlier, arrived from Hamble, solo in his RIB. The flotilla departed Cowes following breakfast at the Royal London YC hosted

by Jonathan Hudson, for a short, gentle sail across the Solent and an al fresco pizza lunch on the Beaulieu riverbank at Royal Southampton YC, with thanks to John Peacock. Returning to Cowes, a sunny evening barbecue followed at Island Sailing Club kindly arranged by Helena Peacock (photos by Jo Assael).

Forthcoming fixtures: The Arrow Trophy ‘21: is scheduled for 2/3 October in Cowes.

Returning to Cowes, evening barbecue at Islan Sailing Club

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Behind the firing point at the Public Schools Veterans Match, July 2021.

It was sad this year to bid farewell to the much loved and long-standing College Master-inCharge of shooting, Nigel Ball, who has overseen College to four Ashburton wins during his twelve-year tenure at Wellington.

The effect of producing so many first-rate shooters is beginning to show, with more and more OW’s becoming active in the sport, and many congratulations to Hannah Puglesy (C 10) and Jason Pepera-Hibbert (Bl 16) who have both been selected for the Great Britain Palma Training Squad.

We had a record 23 OWs shooting in the Public Schools Veterans match meaning we entered five teams, more than any school in the country.

The OW Championships was won by Ed Welford (L 03) with a 50.8. Sadly, the Quadrangular Match and Chairman’s Cup were both cancelled due to COVID. For the first time, we entered the London & Middlesex Rifle Club’s Public Schools Veterans Match and were narrowly beaten into second place by the Oratory Cardinals.

Top scorer was Ed Welford with 149.17.

In the College match, we beat an inexperienced Wellington team by a comfortable margin. Jamie Allum (T 12) top scoring with 103 (out of 105).

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Choosing the five teams for the Public Schools Veterans Match created quite a headache! In the end, it was our ‘B’ Team who fared the best, dropping just four points (246 out of 250) and placing us third. Oscar Farrell (R 20) was top scorer with an excellent 50.8, which also put him 7th in the individual Tankard competition. Our D team also finished a very commendable 5th (Chris Tootell (Hn 04) top scoring with a 50.6), which included all the ‘C’ teams as well!

The number of individual successes during the Imperial meeting are too numerous to mention, but some highlights include: Ed Welford and Jemima Hince (C 19) both being Reserves for England in the Mackinnon Match. In the National Match, Jemima Hince, Jason Pepera-Hibbert and current Wellingtonian Sophie Hodge represented England; Oscar Farrell shot for Wales, who unexpectedly won the match; and current Wellingtonian Rory Roche represented Ireland. James Oakland (S 20) shot for Oxford who beat Cambridge in a rare varsity win. Ed Atkins (R 19) helped Southampton win the Universities Short Range match, and Jason P-H coached Exeter to victory in the Universities Long Range match. Ed Welford, Jemima Hince, and Oscar Farrell all reached the Queen’s Final, and Ed Welford, Hannah Pugsley, and Jason P-H reached the St George’s final.

A Wellington Team consisting of Nigel Ball (Master-in-Charge), OWs and College coaches Jason P-H and Jemima Hince, and current Wellingtonian Sophie Hodge won the much-coveted Belgian competition, which is one of the concurrent matches during the Imperial Meeting. An extraordinary achievement considering the strength and number of teams who entered.

We are always very grateful for the financial support of College, especially the under 25s.

The cost of shooting is extensive, and the extra help that College gives ensures that more talented OW shooters can continue in the sport.

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From left to right:

Harry Orpen-Smellie (Bl 11), Hugh Hemsley (Bd 07), Mason Rainier-Kirkwood (S 15), Oscar Farrell (R 20), Ed Atkins (R 19), and Tom Ward (Hl 07).

At the barbecue at the Inns of Court following the PS Veterans Match.

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Nigel Ball, Jemima Hince (C 19), Jason Pepera-Hibbert (Bl 16) and current Wellingtonian Sophie Hodge with the Belgian Trophy. The gentleman on the right, from the London Proof House (Worshipful Company of Gunmakers), presented the trophies.

Chris Vonchek in action during the public Schools Veteran’s Match. Ed Atkins coaching.

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OW Charitable Trust

Charles Baker

Alison Scott

The Old Wellingtonian Society Charitable Trust (“OWSCT”) was set up in 1992 to provide charitable assistance in support of both Wellington College’s educational objects and the Old Wellingtonian Society’s objective of providing a ‘whole-life community’ for the alumni of Wellington College.

The OWSCT also administers the Herbert Old Wellingtonian Trust and J L Bevir Memorial Fund, which have been combined into the OWSCT. The identities of these trusts have been retained for the award of grants, scholarships, and bursaries but the assets have been pooled.

Many Bevir grants in the past have assisted OWs to work, study or conduct research usually, but not always, abroad.

The pandemic has obviously prevented that during much of the last two years.

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Fiona Haywood

We are keen to ensure that those leaving College during these difficult two years should not forget the assistance that can be offered to those with worthwhile, enterprising projects in mind.

The Herbert Trust exists to give mainly temporary help towards the cost of educating children of OWs whether at Wellington or elsewhere. The trust can intervene, for example, where a child’s existing education is threatened by an event such as the incapacitation or death of a parent.

The OWSCT’s other function is to provide OW prizes, and tankards and medallions each year for national recognition in Sport and the Arts.

We are also delighted to welcome two new trustees, Alison Scott (Ap 92) and Fiona Haywood (Ap 86).

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OW Lodge In what has been one of the strangest periods of time in all our lifetimes, the Old Wellingtonian Lodge is pleased to say that it has weathered the storm well. Not being allowed to meet or dine, we have adapted to the new technologies, meeting on Zoom, keeping in contact with WhatsApp and look forward to meeting again.

£3.2m

of Freemasonry grants have supported a range of causes in the past year

The last year has seen OW Masons along with all our brethren around the country focus ever harder on Charity, one of the three pillars of Freemasonry. Where our charity in previous years saw support of college causes, as well the gift of a new air ambulance for London, followed by three extended reach aerial appliances, the focus has been much more local and focused on the COVID Crisis.

Freemasonry has supported a range of causes during the current crisis, at the last count some 607 grants totalling £3.2m from 1st April 2020 alone. These range from £250,000 to provide critical Items for children and young people in their homes in London to causes local to Wellington – from 200 Samsung tablets for a care home in Sandhurst, support for the Wokingham Foodbank, support for a Kent Estuary Youth Project and the Link Visiting Scheme both in Wokingham and Berkshire Women’s Aid in Reading.

Our own James Milne (Pn 80) helped distribute PPE masks manufactured by Freemasons, Jon Rance (O 89) has been an integral member of the IT Security team protecting the UK’s largest COVID

laboratory from malicious attack, whilst others including Mark Holmes (M 01), have found themselves on the front line of the medical response. The rest of us have done what we can, raising money and supporting good causes.

We look forward to meeting again, especially at College having been forced to miss two consecutive May meetings at Wellington, and to welcoming both visitors and new members to our Lodge, whether Masons or not, young or not, interested or merely curious and to being able to enjoy each other’s company again.

Please do see our website owl3404.org for more information, or contact the Secretary, Tom Hawley (T 94) on Secretary@owl3404.org or via the Wellington Community App. Come and join us for dinner next time we are at College!

We look forward to meeting at College again and dining with friends from College, the Wellington Community and friends from the other Public School Lodges.

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Clemency Collet (Ap 07) and Sam Collet welcomed their beautiful daughter Tabitha to the world on 15th February 2021.

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Claudia Lambeth (Ap 08) and fiancé Freddie Scott welcomed beautiful Rafferty Fox Montgomery Scott to the world on 16th December 2020 at 6.40pm weighing 6.4lbs.

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Edward Swift (Hg 06) and Anna Swift welcomed the lovely Wilbur John William, brother to Barnaby Angus Raymond on Saturday 17th July 2021.

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Geraint Watkins (O 97) married Annabelle at the picturesque Puteri Harbour in Iskandar Puteri, Johor.

Sam Cheung (Hg 94) attended the celebrations.

Daniel Veary (Hg 08) married Alicia Whistlecroft on Saturday 3rd July.

The Photo features from left to right: Tayo Ilori (Hg 08), Charles Githinji (M 08), Josh Mason (Hg 08), Howard Veary Governor of Eagle House and Wellington 2008-21, Alicia Whistlecroft, Daniel Veary (Hg 08), Best Man Mike Hall (Hn 06) and James Koch (M 08)

Edwin Fewtrell (S 00) married Danielle Keen O’Boyle on Saturday 29th August 2020 at All Saints Church, Fulham with the reception being held at The Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge. OWs in attendance were best man Thomas Watcyn-Jones (S 00) and sister to the groom Louisa Hunter (Ap 98).

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Michael Cromwell married Louise Bleach on Friday 25th June at Preston Court in Canterbury. OWs in attendance were Tom Simkins, Emily Smyth, Rachael Clarke, Jonathan Graham, Ed Yarnton, Archie Wardlaw, Rory O’Keeffe, George Gray.

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Alistair Leeper (T 06) married Dr. Chantal Heppolette (The Marist 19912004) on the 26th June 2021. The Ceremony was held at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Ascot and the Reception at home in Odiham, Hampshire. There were several OWs in attendance including Joseph Plank (Bn 06), George Reynolds (Hg 06), Simon Temple (P 06), William Sowerby (C 06), Freddie Pritchard-Smith (Hl 06) and Marcus Potter (C 06).

Will Sowerby (C 06) married Cassie Mystkowski on the 17th July 2021 in Le Marche, Italy. There were five OWs present: Will Davies (C 06), Marcus Potter (C 06), Simon Temple (P 06), Emily Plank (Aps 10), and James Sowerby (C 04).

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It was a birthday present of a trial flight and a simple question from the instructor of “Would you like to fly over your house or make this a lesson?” that ignited, rather than kindled, Angus’s interest in flying and it was not long before Angus made his maiden solo flight.

Angus Buchanan (1964-2021) was tragically killed in a flying accident on May 9th 2021 in Kent whilst piloting his vintage Stampe biplane in preparation for the Vintage Aerobatic World Championships later this summer. A very accomplished and skilled aviator and engineer, Angus also built a Sequoia Falco airplane from scratch in his spare time using over 400 drawings and the wood from a single spruce tree. Angus’s demanding precision and attention to detail together with the paucity of spare time that comes with raising a family and full-time work commitments led to this project taking him 24 years, a feat of endurance, or perhaps a labour of love, that has yet to be surpassed by any other Falco owner.

As with most things in his life, Angus’s career was varied, colourful, and always entertaining. From building warships, becoming an honorary Commander of the RNVR, being the CEO of a FTSE 250 company to milking cows for a living, Angus did them all. Most recently was the CEO of ADF Milking, a Sussex- based milking machinery business, helping the founder

to grow it from about 250 UK customers when Angus joined in 2009 to a company that now harvests 4 billion litres of milk a year through its patented clusters in over 30 countries across the globe.

Richard Angus Fownes Buchanan was born on February 20th 1964 in Sydney, Australia, where his father, a Naval officer, was stationed at the time, a brother to Jamie (Hn 75). The family lived variously in Newton Ferrers, Singapore and Faslane before settling in Meonstoke, Hampshire, but wherever they were, mischief and laughter were never far away. Educated at Mount House in Devon and then at Wellington, Angus spent much of his time at Wellington either securing an A grade in Metalwork “A” level under the watchful eye of Phil Shepherd – he regarded the study of Double Maths and Physics as merely necessities to reading engineering at university – or practising the euphonium in preparation for a summer’s busking around Europe. In his final year, with his father working very closely with Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward as one of his two Group Warfare Officers in the South Atlantic 91

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Captain Richard Channer (Hl 40) during the Falklands war, he was a school prefect, head of the Hopetoun and head of the Naval section of the CCF. Before taking up a place at Exeter to read engineering, he headed out to Val d’Isere for a ski season with only enough money for a season pass but the intention of setting up an overnight ski-waxing service for chalet customers, having never waxed a ski in his life. The combination of only the one customer demanding a full refund for the appalling state of his skis after one of Angus’s waxes, washing up for the chalet girls of one chalet in return for a room in the basement of the chalet from which to operate this ski waxing enterprise and charming others in return for the leftover food from their clients’ plates, saw him through the whole season without ever putting his hand back into his pocket.

He did however suffer the ignominy of being pushed out of a moving telecabine half way up La Daille by a friend; although he fell and landed in hysterical laughter, he fell into the path of a passing pisteur, who promptly confiscated his season pass for a week on the grounds of his being mad and a serious danger to other skiers.

Angus walked up the mountain with his skis on his shoulder every morning for the next seven days.

Whilst at Exeter, Angus secured an industry scholarship with GEC and spent much of his summer holidays working as a draftsman in Yarrow Shipyards on the Clyde, which he joined on leaving university, so he moved up to Glasgow. He rose swiftly through the organisation, becoming the youngest ever ship manager in charge of HMS Argyll and appointed Operations Director at the age of 30, overseeing some 5,000 shipbuilders and building Type 42 Frigates for the Royal Navy.

His imagination, vision and engineering skills led him to revolutionise the building of ships in the shipyard by constructing the ship in sections, building each section upside down so that all the utilities that run along the ceiling of each deck of a ship could simply be laid out and fixed by a single person, before turning the section over and joining them together, instead of building the whole ship upwards from its keel. It was estimated that 92

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On a holiday in 1988, a friend of Angus’s told him that they knew of a ballet dancer, Cecilia, known as CB, who had recently moved to Glasgow to join the Scottish National Ballet, at which point Angus immediately declared to everyone he met that he was going back to Glasgow to marry a ballet dancer. When they met at a dinner, CB told Angus that if he managed to get her telephone connected in her flat to BT by Monday morning, her having waited weeks for BT to connect her in spite of calling BT every day from a payphone in a corner shop, she would iron his shirts for evermore. The first thing that Monday morning, CB’s phone rang and when she walked out of her flat to head off to work, all Angus’s shirts were tied together, sleeve to sleeve, hanging all the way down the well of the tenement staircase down to the ground floor. CB and he were married in 1992.

It was a birthday present of a trial flight and a simple question from the instructor of “Would you like to fly over your house or make this a lesson?” that ignited, rather than kindled, Angus’s interest in flying and it was not long before Angus made his maiden solo flight. This got off to a particularly inauspicious start when he misheard the directions of Prestwick air traffic control to take off along the runway at 130°; he promptly took off at 310°, the wrong way up Prestwick’s main runway.

Angus joined James Fisher PLC, then a FTSE 250 listed marine services group, in 1998.

He, his young family and the tailplane of the Falco that had been built up in the spare bedroom of a second floor flat in Glasgow moved down to Kent, close to Headcorn Aerodrome. Angus became CEO of James Fisher plc in February 2002 and in recognition of his standing in the maritime world, Angus was made an Honorary Commander of the RNVR later that year.

In addition to his passions for his family and flying, Angus was a keen sailor and skier.

He is survived by his wife, CB, and two daughters, Hannah, a talented artist who painted this portrait when she was 17, and Eloise, a student at Edinburgh University.

When Emperor Akihito of Japan drove down the Mall to Buckingham Palace, dur­ing his state visit to Britain in May 1998, demonstrators on the route waved anti Japanese posters and turned their backs to him. They were British war veterans who had suffered at the hands of Japanese soldiers during the infamous Burma cam­paign. What they wanted was a wholeheart­ed apology.

Yet one of their number waved aloft a huge Japanese flag and shouted “Banzai!”, the traditional Japanese greeting, wishing the emperor “ten thousand years” of life and prosperity.

Later that day, Captain Dick Channer was interviewed by ITN news outside Westmin­ster Abbey as the emperor attended a ser­vice inside. The reporter asked him why he was waving the Japanese flag. He said he wanted to welcome the emperor, and added that “the Japanese have stood with us during the Cold War. The last battle is to turn the enemy into a friend.”

Prince Charles, who met the emperor over dinner, was reported to have welcomed Channer’s flag-waving initiative, and made enquiries about who the lone figure was.

Channer had fought against the Japanese at the Battle of Imphal in Nagaland, the mountainous state in northeast India.

The battles of lmphal and Kohima in 1944, deci­sive in halting the Japanese advance into the Indian subcontinent, are regarded as being among the Allies’ most crucial military vic­tories in the war. The campaign raged for ten weeks, with the Allies routing the 85,000– strong Japanese army, who lost over 53,000 men, dead and missing, while British and In­dian casualties were 16,500.

Channer, a 22-year-old officer in the Royal Artillery, was in charge of a gun posi­tion of four 25-pound guns shelling the Japa­nese hidden in the jungle on the 5,000-foot high Shaenan Ridge. This was in support of a division of Indian soldiers of the 6th Raj­putana Rifles. Channer positioned his ad­vance gun just 200m from the enemy, pounding them on Lone Tree Hill, a strate­gic hill-top clearing in the jungle. The noise of the shells overhead was “like trains rush­ing

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of a surviving acanthus tree, to present to MRA’s founder, Frank Buchman.

Channer was among those welcoming the Japanese to Caux. They included General Ichiji Sugita who had been a leading figure in the surrender of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942 and was to become head of the postwar Japanese Ground Self Defence Force. The two men became friends.

through Clapham Junction station,” he recalled. The Indian soldiers captured Lone Tree Hill, counting 88 Japanese dead to their 30 losses.

Channer suffered a shrapnel wound to the back of his thigh, due to “friendly fire”, yet stayed in position overnight. He bandaged his leg before it began to seize up. An Indian infantryman, dug in next to him, was shot dead. Realising the danger he was in, Chan­ner eventually radioed for help. He was carried out on a stretcher for four miles and spent two months in hospitals in Assam. His bravery was rewarded with the Military Cross two months later, the citation signed

by Field Marshal Slim.

After the war Channer was offered a per­manent commission in the army. He turned it down in favour of working with a move­ment for postwar reconciliation, in what he regarded as the “ideological war for peace” against totalitarianism.

The international Moral Re-Armament (MRA) movement had opened its centre in the Swiss Alpine village of Caux in 1946.

Here many Japanese as well as German, French, and British visitors met over the following years, in a spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation. Among the Japanese visitors were the postwar mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, victims of the atomic bomb, who brought small crosses with them, made out

Prince Charles, who met the emperor over dinner, was reported to have welcomed Channer’s flag-waving initiative, and made enquiries about who the lone figure was.

Channer subsequently made five visits to Japan. In 1995 he was one of 30 British veter­ans from the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group who visited Japan.

They were wel­comed by their Japanese counterparts, the All Burma Veterans Association of Japan, and paraded jointly at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Yokohama. Channer also met the Japanese defence minister.

Channer had first encountered the Ox­ford Group, MRA’s forerunner, before the war. He now joined its international cam­paigns, which included amateur theatre pro­ductions to spread its message, attended by large crowds. One, entitled The Tiger, was written and performed by Japanese stu­dents. Channer travelled with them to Brazil in 1960 where 90,000 people saw a performance in Manaus.

Channer later commented: “In Yokohama Cemetery there is an inscription from Eccle­siastes, ‘Their glory shall not be blotted out.’ These battles are behind us. Forgiveness with vision is the way for the future. Japan’s material advance has astonished the world.

Now maybe we can unite with Japan to help bring about a worldwide advance in the human spirit. We have gone through suffer­ing and pain together. Now together our nations could be healers.’’

He married Christine Nowell, an actress and fellow MRA worker, in Miami in 1952.

Their daughter Alison is an executive PA. They played the part of husband and wife in an industrial drama, The Forgotten Factor, which toured India in 1978. Among those who saw it in Delhi was Morarji Desai, the prime minister.

Richard de Renzy Channer was born on Christmas Day 1921, in Quetta, Baluchistan, close to the border with Afghanistan. His father, George, was an instructor at the mili­tary staff college there. He would be promot­ed to major-general as deputy adjutant gen­eral of the Indian army in 1943.

He was educated at Wellington College and joined the Hampshire Regiment in 1940, before transferring to the Royal Artil­lery six months later. He was sent on officer cadet training to the Army Staff College at Deolali near Bombay and was commis­sioned as a second lieutenant in the Indian army in December 1941. That was just three weeks after Japan had entered the war.

In 2013 Channer returned, with his wife, to Nagaland, where they were received

by General Manoj Naravane of the Indian ar­my. Channer took the salute at the war cem­etery in Kohima and, as a commemoration, made several crosses out of the bamboo that grows wild in the jungle there.

Richard Channer MC, soldier, was born on December 25, 1921. He died of COVID-19 on January 20, 2021 aged 99.

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In May 1942, he was posted with the 23rd Indian Division to Imphal and Kohima, re­maining there for the next two years until being invalided out.

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Christopher Arthur Culley (Hl 50)

Christopher was born in Connemara, west of Galway, in Ireland whilst his father was serving in the 7th Rajput Regiment in India. He did not spend a great deal of time in India and along with his brother Peter (Culley OW), he spent his school days and the war years in the care of his grandparents in Ireland roaming the hills and enjoying the shooting and fishing that abounded in those days.

Christopher talked fondly of his days at Wellington and although he was not an academic, his Chemistry teacher once reported, “if only Christopher would look interested”, Wellington brought great pleasure to him, where he excelled in putting the shot and swimming. He recalled winters skating on the lakes, swimming in the outdoor pools and his illicit bicycle and pipe; though he never let on where he went.

His father’s premature death precipitated leaving school early with a fond farewell from his housemaster; “Christopher, would you mind taking the [Irish] Tricolour down off the flagpole before you go”.

Thus began Christopher’s life abroad and it was not long before he set forth to learn the trade of tea and rubber planting in Ceylon.

His Triumph Twin motorbike, which he famously used to race the length of the island to Trincomalee after a night in the plantation club, brought rather more pleasure than the farming however, and he duly returned to the UK to do his national service. Enlisting, firstly in the Grenadier Guards, he was soon commissioned into the Iniskilling Fusiliers and serving in the Regiment during the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya and it was there that he decided that Africa was his future. After returning to agricultural college at Moulton and marrying Elisabeth Marriott, also with a

father in the Rajputs, he soon embarked for Southern Rhodesia to work as a ranch assistant in Matabeleland. Life there was never dull, whether it was sitting up over kills to dispatch leopards that were killing the calves, or unwrapping pythons keeping warm on the bathroom taps; there he was responsible for looking after large numbers of cattle across swathes of thornveld assisted by a handful of Matabele natives. His next job, however, found him ranching, mostly from the back of a horse, for Lord Delamere in Mashonaland near Salisbury (now Harare) but it was not long before the wildness and beauty of Matabeleland drew him back south.

There, he and Elisabeth brought up their two children, Daniel and Vibeke whilst enduring the troubles under the Ian Smith regime. Living in isolated areas during the guerrilla war was not easy and entailed travelling around fully armed, often with militia bodyguards, around in bullet proof Landrovers, whilst living in constant fear of an ambush or night attack on the homestead. He spent many months on call-up duty during this period in the border regions restricting guerrilla incursions across the border and especially enjoyed his time in the Marine Division patrolling Lake Kariba to prevent guerrilla fighters crossing there.

Finally after ten happy years on Essexvale Ranch in Matabeleland, he was promoted into head office as Ranching Director responsible for ten of Lonrho’s ranches across Zimbabwe totalling a million acres with 50 000 head of cattle. He also became an advisor to Tiny Rowland, Chief Executive of the Lonrho conglomerate on ranching, not only in Zimbabwe, but also in Swaziland and Argentina, before retiring in 1991 aged 59.

The insurrection in Kenya, in which Christopher did his national service, proved to be a valuable lesson in what was to befall the Smith Regime in Rhodesia and Christopher never lost sight of his ambition to return to Connemara in Ireland. There, he spent 29 happy years of retirement with a half a dozen cattle on 40 acres.

Christopher is survived by his wife Elisabeth, and his two children, Vibeke who is farming in Zambia and Daniel who is teaching at Canford School in Dorset, following a career in the Royal Engineers.

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Jeremy Lubbock (T 49)

The first time Jeremy Lubbock met Barbra Streisand, she wouldn’t stop talking. He had been engaged to arrange and orchestrate Send In The Clowns for her 1985 release The Broadway Album and impatient to get to work, Lubbock finally snapped and told her: “Why the f*** don’t you shut up and just sing?” Nobody had ever spoken to Streisand like that before and, out of shock more than anything else, she did as instruct­ed. His sophisticated orchestration of Sondheim’s song resulted in a hit single and he added strings to two more tracks on the album, which topped the charts.

It was the beginning of a long association that culminated in Lubbock receiv­ing a Grammy nomination in 1994 for best instrumental arrangement for Streisand’s version of Luck Be a Lady. In the event the song did not win, but it mattered not for Lubbock had two other Grammy nominations that year, for arranging Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing and Celine Dion’s When I Fall In Love. The latter, recorded for the 1993 movie Sleepless In Seattle, won him the award.

Lubbock was never an easy man and his relationship with Streisand was at times tempestuous. No matter how big the star for whom he was working, he was uncompromising. While other arrangers would flatter and seek to please, Lubbock’s attitude was: “That’s the way I’ve written it and if you don’t like it, you can get someone else.”

Invariably they did like it and seldom turned to anyone else, although on one occasion Streisand grew so exasperated that she sacked him. Two weeks later she begged him to come back.

The list of those who deployed Lub­bock’s arranging skills is testament to his ability to work in almost any style; Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell, Leon­ard Cohen, Dionne Warwick, Neil Dia­mond, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Madonna, Nina Simone, Rod Stewart, and even the rapper Puff Daddy all called on his services and had their recordings enhanced by his arrange­ments.

He was untroubled that working with such stars did not make him a household name but he mused philo­sophically about his role.

When a record becomes a hit, “it’s usually the songwriters, producers, and the per­former who garner the acclaim, while the arranger goes virtually unnoticed,” his website noted. It was less of a complaint and more an attempt to set the record straight about the often overlooked role of the arranger in shaping the sound and creating the mood that “turns a song into something that lodges itself in the ears of the record-buying public”.

Within the music industry, Lubbock was revered as the best in the game. He was nominated 13 times for a Grammy, and, in addition to his work with Strei­sand, he won awards for Chicago’s Eighties hit Hard Habit to Break, and for, arranging Grace, the theme for the gymnastics at the 1984 Olympic Games. There was also an Oscar nomi­nation for best soundtrack with Quincy Jones for the soundtrack to Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film The Color Purple.

Other blockbuster movies to which he contributed included Twister, Miracle on 34th Street, and Rocky IV. His success in America, where he lived for more than 30 years, was all the more remarkable for he did not hide his distaste for Hollywood’s affectations. Notoriously

unsociable, he was perfect­ly capable of not turning up even to his own dinner parties.

After a day in the studio with Streisand or Jackson, he preferred to spend the night at the pi­ano on his classical compositions rather than partying.

He became particularly close to Jack­son for whom he conducted the strings on the 1982 No 1 hit Beat It, from Thrill­er, the biggest selling album of all time. Jackson seemed to regard him as some­thing of a surrogate father and wrote him long, effusive letters thanking him for his guidance. Somewhat surprising­ly in the light of his classical back­ground, Lubbock rated Jackson the best musician with whom he worked.

His personal life was complicated. He was married to Jill (née Nicholls) between 1956 and 1959 and then to She­lagh (née Lang), a South African tennis player. In 1974 he married Philippa Chadwyck-Healey, the daughter of a baronet who was also his cousin. After their divorce in 1987, he married ,mu­sician Melissa Vardey. They divorced in 2008. He is survived by his four children, scattered across three continents.

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Sir William Macpherson of Cluny (Pn 44) marriage, his daughter Holly is a film editor, and son Rowan is a university lecturer.

Jeremy Michael Lubbock was born in 931, the eldest son of Diana (née Craw­ley) and Michael Lubbock, a banker who served as a colonel in the Royal Signals in the Second World War and was later instrumental in setting up UNICEF. His father was also a fine amateur musician and began training his son by ear from the age of three. He developed into a fine pianist playing the classical repertoire until in his mid-teens he dis­covered jazz and the great American songbook of Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin.

He was educated at Wellington and Oxford university, where his studies took second place to playing in a jazz trio. Torn between a career in architec­ture or music, he enrolled at the London Architectural Association. He qualified and undertook a handful of commissions but ultimately the lure of music was too great.

After National Service in the Dur­ham Light Infantry he began his profes­sional career as a pianist and singer with residencies at Les Ambassadeurs Club in London and The Blue Note in Paris and in 1959 he recorded a cover of Perry Como’s Catch a Falling Star, under the direction of the future Beatles pro­ducer George Martin.

The single was not a hit but he spent the next decade playing jazz clubs around the world and spent consider­able time in South Africa and what was then Rhodesia. By the 1970s he was back in Britain working for both the BBC and ITV, utilising his classical background to arrange for big bands and radio orchestras. He was in his late forties by the time he moved to Los An­geles with his third wife in 1977.

Towards the end of his life he spent several lonely years in considerable ill­health in South Africa, until he was per­suaded to return to Britain in 2019 by his younger brother, John, the founder of the orchestra of St John’s Smith Square. To his delight his homecoming was celebrated by a concert of his music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, which his brother conducted.

Jeremy Lubbock, musician, was born on June 4, 1931. He died of emphysema on January 29, 2021, aged 89.

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, who has died aged 94, was the 27th Chief of Clan Macpherson and High Court judge from 1983 to 1996; he was, though, largely unknown to the wider public until he chaired the inquiry in 1997 into “matters arising from the death of Stephen Lawrence”.

On the bench Macpherson had been admired for his toughness and intelligence.

He was seen as approachable, without edge or side, a man of few words, and a noninterventionist, preferring to let counsel get on with it.

Courtesy of The Times But he was not, as one lawyer put it at the time of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, “exactly up to date with racial awareness training’’; nor, as Lord Justice Leggatt noted on the day Macpherson retired (departing the Royal Courts of Justice to the skirl of bagpipes), was he famous for his lenient sentences.

His reputation as a hardline conservative prompted the parents of Stephen Lawrence, through their lawyers Imran Khan and Michael Mansfield QC, to object to his appointment as head of the inquiry.

They claimed that Macpherson was insensitive to race issues, and cited his judgments, including one in which he had ruled that a white mother in Middlesbrough could withdraw her child from a class with a large number of Asian children, even though her motive was racial (the child had come home singing nursery rhymes in Hindi).

On another occasion, Macpherson had proposed that racial discrimination should not be tackled by the law, but by “goodwill and good sense”. He also had one of the worst records for refusing applications for judicial review in immigration cases.

Yet despite the family’s concerns, Macpherson remained in place, alongside the three inquiry members appointed with him: John Sentamu, a Ugandan-born bishop; Thomas Cook, a former West Yorkshire police chief; and Richard Stone, a Jewish general practitioner.

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Together they heard 59 days of evidence, which resulted in 12,000 pages of transcript, and trawled through more than 100,000 pages of statements and reports. During the inquiry, Macpherson appeared genuinely shocked at the catalogue of police incompetence and moved by the Lawrence family’s plight. He eventually published his report in February 1999.

Within its 47 chapters and 335 pages, the central and most contentious finding was that the Metropolitan Police was permeated by institutional racism, albeit unwitting, and that this had infected the investigation into Stephen Lawrence’s murder.

In a statement in the House of Commons, the Home Secretary Jack Straw said Macpherson had “opened our eyes to what it’s like to be black or Asian in Britain today”.

A leading article in The Guardian called the Macpherson report “a volume of shame”, praising it as “thorough and wise – and a devastating indictment of the pernicious and institutionalised racism running through the Met as well as the ‘flawed and indefensible’ police work the inquiry discovered everywhere it looked”.

Others were less convinced, perceiving that Macpherson had bent over backwards to be even-handed and in doing so had ended up being unfair to the police. The Daily Telegraph described the report as “a misguided and unfair document whose recommendations, if enacted, would do serious harm to race relations and the rule of law”.

Other commentators on the Right noted that Macpherson had put the ugliest possible interpretation on everything the police had done in their investigations.

Macpherson’s critics went so far as to argue that he had created the conditions for a white backlash, and hence bore responsibility for the subsequent breakdown in policing and race relations, and for the increase in reported robberies and the reduction in the number of reported drug offences. Writing in the Telegraph, a year after the publication of the report, Tom Utley commented that

Macpherson had “blood on his hands”, because the police did not dare to stop and search for fear of being branded racist.

Macpherson was “surprised, disappointed and momentarily angered” by the personal attacks on him, but said it was “water off a duck’s back”. Many journalists, he countered, lacked his experience of the world, which included 25 years in the Territorial Army and many hours spent with murderers in their cells when he was a practising barrister.

He also suggested that Scotland Yard should “stop whining and complaining’’ about his findings, and said it was time for the Metropolitan Police to “get over it” and “get on with it”.

William Alan Macpherson was born on April 1 1926, the son of Brigadier Alan David Macpherson, DSO, MC, the 26th Chief of Clan Macpherson, and his wife Catharine. He was educated at Wellington, where he was a keen rugby player, and at Trinity College, Oxford. His studies were interrupted by four years in the Scots Guards, where he rose to captain.

He later joined the 21st Special Air Service Regiment of the TA, and parachuted into Denmark, Norway and France on exercise; he commanded the regiment from 1962 to 1965, and served as honorary colonel from 1983 to 1991. After trying unsuccessfully for the Diplomatic Service, Macpherson was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1952.

Practising as a common law barrister, he earned a reputation for brevity in his courtroom submissions.

He took Silk in 1971, became a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1972 and in 1983 he was appointed a Judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, and knighted. He was presiding judge on the Northern Circuit from 1984 to 1988.

In 1989 he awarded “substantial” undisclosed damages to Kate Adie over newspaper allegations that her coverage of the American air-strike against Libya in April 1986 was sympathetic to Colonel Gaddafi.

In another case he awarded Dusty Springfield damages of £75,000 over a

television comedy sketch which portrayed her performing while drunk. In 1991 he awarded £300,000 to the widow of David Penhaligon, the former Liberal MP for Truro, over his death in a car crash. Among more high-profile cases, Macpherson presided in 1993 over the trial at the Old Bailey at which three ex-detectives were acquitted of lying over confession evidence against Patrick Armstrong, one of the Guildford Four.

The next year he presided at the trial of Robert Black, who had kidnapped and murdered three young girls; Macpherson recommended that Black should serve a minimum of 35 years in prison. In retirement Macpherson lived at Newton Castle, his family home overlooking Blairgowrie. He enjoyed fishing, golf and archery; he was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, a ceremonial guard for the Queen in Scotland. He was a past president of London Scottish Rugby Football Club, and of the Highland Society of London.

He became the 27th Chief of the Macpherson Clan in 1969, on the death of his father.

He married, in 1962, Sheila McDonald Brodie, who died in 2003. He had two sons, one of whom predeceased him, and a daughter. His son Jamie becomes the 28th chief of Macpherson.

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, born April 1, 1926, died February 14, 2021.

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Alan Loveless (W 38) Alan Loveless was a man in a hurry, as typified by his 97th year in which he drove perhaps his 15th Saab 17000 miles.

The son of an OW, he joined the Wellesley in 1933 and left in 1938 as Head of House, School prefect, member of upper X and member of the Cricket and Hockey XIs. Wellington was the family school and in due course the three boys in his family of six all passed through College.

The Yearbook of 1938 mentioned, “His bowling was disappointing but as a member of the side he was invaluable-his cheerfulness and pantomimic antics both on and off the field were a constant source of amusement to players and spectators alike”.

Alan was a keen sportsman, at one time playing hockey for Hampshire, and enjoying cricket and golf, which he played into his late 90s, throughout his life. He had many happy memories as a boy of watching his hero Frank Woolley lighting up a county match at Canterbury with exciting stroke play.

This sense of fun was with him throughout

his life. Confined to bed in his closing days, he might recite a rhyme of irregular French nouns to help you remember they ended in x in the plural or come out with a Hindi phrase which stuck with him from India days in WW2 or even sing a favourite song such as The Way You Look Tonight.

After College, he took a Natural Sciences degree at Cambridge before medical training in London and Southampton, and then a call-up to the RAMC in 1944 to serve in India, and later Singapore and Australia.

The war over, Alan became a GP in Ramsgate where he joined his father’s practice and later took it over. He threw himself into his work, taking day and night visiting in his stride and later acted as Magistrate and chair of the Juvenile Court, seeking justice and support for the young on his patch.

If he journeyed for work, he journeyed for God and at Iwerne Minster he met his wife to be, Mary. They married in 1951 and enjoyed many happy years bringing up their large family together in Broadstairs. Alan

became a lay reader in 1964 and was a valued member of the team at Holy Trinity Margate until he and Mary moved away in 2003. Mary sadly died in 2005 leaving Alan at the age of 86 to learn to cook and wash his own clothes for the first time.

Alan retired as a GP aged 70 and then worked as a volunteer chaplain at the Pilgrims’ Hospice in Margate till 80. When 89 he spent 3 months in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, providing pastoral care and support to hospital staff.

By then he had completed literally millions of miles, many of the early ones to Cornwall from Broadstairs on family holidays with beach cricket firmly on the agenda and then later to Switzerland, Greece and Italy as the family matured. He took great pleasure in travelling to discover new places and meet up with old friends.

As the family grew up and made homes of their own, he would regularly travel to visit them, as well as continuing to attend conferences and Wellington reunions, driving until he was 100 years old.

Ultimately his destination was Heaven, a journey which unexpectedly began with his conversion to Christianity at Cambridge all those years ago.

Alan Loveless was a man of unswerving belief and uncompromising faith and will be much missed by all who knew this remarkable man.

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Edmund Haviland (Pn 42) Edmund, (the eldest of three sons of Edmund Arthur Haviland and Vivienne Selwyn Brown) was born in Brightling, Sussex, where his father had been Rector. He started at Wellington College in 1937 and was an enthusiastic member of the Picton. He often recounted tales of his time at Wellington including the early war period.

Particularly entertaining were his stories of walking round the College during the war, with a broom as a “gun”, when they were part of the home guard. He always expressed sadness when telling us of the Master who was killed one night after a bomber had flown over. More recently, and as an active member of the Old Wellingtonians, his proudest moment was presenting a reading at the Wellington College 150th celebration at the Albert Hall.

On leaving Wellington, he followed his father, the Rev. E.A. Haviland to Cambridge, where he read history. His studies were interrupted by the War and after only one year, he was enlisted in the RAF. He completed his training in South Africa, learning first on Tiger Moths, which earned him his nickname of Tiger. He stayed on in South Africa for the rest of the War; as a Flight Instructor he taught many young men to fly. In 1945, after VE Day, he returned to England and was about to be posted to Burma, when fortunately, Japan suddenly surrendered. He was demobbed in 1947, and went up again to Cambridge to finish his degree. After graduation, he went to Wells Theological College, and in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, Arthur Coles Haviland, was ordained into the priesthood.

Interestingly, Edmund’s son Andrew is also a priest, and his eldest daughter Margaret has recently been ordained as a Deacon.

After his ordination in 1951 in Southwark Cathedral, he became curate at St Peter, St Helier, from where he served as Deputy Chaplain to the House of Commons.

He married Gillian Johnstone in 1957, and after Margaret was born, they moved to his new parish of Ockbrook, Derby, where Angela, Jane and Andrew were all born.

His next appointment was to a lengthy ministry in East Peckham in Kent, 1968-1984.

No doubt he was ready for his time in South Africa, where he served as Assistant

to the Bishop of Umtata for a good year.

On his return, there came a big change when he was invited to join the team of chaplains at Brixton Prison. This proved to be a moving, exhausting, and yet exhilarating experience, which left an indelible mark on his life. In 1987, through his daughter Jane, he met and married the artist Lady Jane Stevens. They lived in Thursley, Surrey, where (in his so-called retirement), he was actively involved in the parish and often acted as a locum for the parish priest. He also published a book on St. Luke’s Gospel – St. Luke and The Love of God. His wife, Jane, died in 2019 following which he moved swiftly to The Cathedral Close in Salisbury. He loved and appreciated the majesty and wonder of Salisbury Cathedral and the fellowship of his neighbourhood.

He was delighted to live so close to the Cathedral as well as being a short drive to his daughter, Margaret, and his younger brother John (now aged 90!). He rejoiced in

many visits from family and old friends and spent much time visiting his children including holidays in Suffolk and Spain.

Edmund died suddenly and peacefully on October 17th, 2020, aged 96 and1/2. His funeral was held on 3rd November in Salisbury Cathedral, where he was welcomed the evening before, to allow his children and grandchildren a period of private grief and prayers whilst he rested among candlelight and memorial poppies.

The funeral service, despite being restricted to just 30 guests, was a holy and dignified Communion Service in the wonderful building, enhanced by beautiful flowers and candles arranged by his daughter Angela, a well-established Chicago floral specialist.

All four children contributed with readings and prayers and his old friend Bishop David Wilcox, with whom he was a curate almost 70 years previously, sensitively presented the eulogy.

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Hugh Worthington Wilmer (O 45)

T R Illingworth (T 59)

Richard Illingworth arrived at Wellington in 1954. At school he was an excellent all-round sportsman.

His best sport was rugby, but he also boxed for the school and represented his house at cricket and hockey.

After leaving College in 1959 he went to Mons to gain his commission. He then, like many of his contemporaries from Wellington, joined the 13th/18th Royal Hussars. He joined the Regiment in Malaya and returned with them when they went to Germany in 1961 and converted from armoured cars to tanks. He served in HQ Squadron and was a member of the Regimental Rugby team.

After leaving the army Richard joined the advertising department of the Sunday Times.

He was then offered a job at Rudolf Wolff & Co Ltd, the metals trader. He spent some time working for them in Iran. He left Rudolph Wolff to go to New York where he founded his own small metals trading firm.

Whilst in the USA he enjoyed considerable success playing croquet, and in 1983 he won the national doubles championship.

In 1985 an opportunity arose for him to start a plantation in Costa Rica to produce and export high yielding disease-resistant hybrid coconut seeds. He became an acknowledged expert on the subject and made many speaking appearances at

trade conferences and seminars. He also designed or cooperated with national and state coconut programmes in Honduras, Mexico and El Salvador.

Major Hugh Geoffrey Worthington Wilmer left his post at the age of 93 after a courageous battle; he slipped away surrounded by loved ones.

Richard found out that cricket had come to Costa Rica from Jamaica in the late 19th century and been a popular sport with 46 clubs competing between the wars but had virtually died out after World War 2.

He leaves behind his wife Phillippa of 67 years, his four children, Phillip (Nancy), Fergus (Jennifer), Roderick (Jennifer), and Juliet (Steven) and his beloved grandchildren, Morgan, Angus, Cameron, Rory, Vivian, and Stuart. He was predeceased by his brother Andrew (Lyndal), and his nephew Giles and niece Jessica live in Australia. Hugh had a generous life. Born in London he attended Wellington College and RMA Sandhurst during the war years. He served with the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in Trieste, Aden, and in active duty in Malaysia where he met his future wife, the daughter of his commanding officer. Hugh retired from the British Army to farm in Kenya in 1958 and once that adventure became too dangerous for his growing family he returned to Scotland to begin a career in finance. In 1966, he jumped at the opportunity to emigrate to Canada, and his career flourished in Montreal and Toronto, as did his young family who never looked back. In 1998 he retired to focus on one of his passions, farming in Grafton Ont, “Old soldiers never die they just fade away as gentlemen”.

Together with some other British expatriates, he set about reviving it with domestic games and international matches against teams from Belize, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, El Salvador, Falkland Islands, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Peru and Panama. He founded the Costa Rica Cricket Association, which became an Affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (‘ICC’) in 2000 and an Associate Member in 2018. For his contribution to International Cricket, he received the ICC award of Global Volunteer of the Year in 2005 and the ICC Centenary Gold Medal in 2009.

In Costa Rica he met and married his wife, Victoria. They had a very happy 35 years together and made frequent visits to the UK to see their daughter (also named Victoria), his son Thomas Amrta (from his first marriage), and to meet friends from his time in the Regiment and in the City.

Richard Illingworth 1940-2021

Hugh came from a generation that just got on with it, never complaining and faithful to the end. The family wish to thank the wonderful staff at the Golden Plough Lodge.

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Robert Stafford (Bl 53) Robert ‘Bob’ Stafford passed away peacefully on 23 October 2020, at the age of 85 due to prostate cancer.

He was a member of the London and Middlesex Rifle Association, serving as chairman and secretary for many years.

He also served on the NRA Council.

He was born in London, spent his early years in Sri Lanka, and was educated at Wellington College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.

Owing to a hearing issue he was unable to follow in a family tradition of joining the Royal Engineers. But engineering still grabbed his attention and he sold his motorcycle to travel to Canada where he worked building Canada’s highway system.

He returned with the most comfortable boots he ever owned, a fur hat he handed down to his grandson decades later, and good memories of his adventure.

After studying electrical engineering at Cambridge, he worked as an engineer in England, first for English Electric in the Midlands and later on for an engineering consulting firm, ERA Technology, based in Surrey. His engineering jobs gave him opportunities for travel, and once in Surrey, regular trips to Bisley for shooting competitions were much easier.

Robert had developed a passion and skill for target shooting at Cambridge, joining the Cambridge Shooting Team and later on representing Oxford and Cambridge in Canada in 1957, and Great Britain against Canada in 1958, 1974, 1978 and 1982.

He was Vice Captain against Kenya and Zimbabwe in 1989 and the Captain of the 1993 GB team to South Africa and Zimbabwe in 1993.

He was also a successful individual shooter, reaching the final stage of the Queen’s Prize at Bisley twelve times and winning the silver medal of the Queen’s prize in 1980. He made a number of lifelong ‘shooting’ friends, both at university and on the many international shooting trips he took over the years. His favourite part of these trips was the chance to meet up with his many friends from New Zealand, Australia, Kenya, and South Africa.

It was through one of his shooting friends that he met Felicity, his wife. They were married in September 1960 and had three children: Hugh, Tim and Jenny. All three children have fond memories of weekends and summers roaming Bisley camp, getting ice cream and hunting down Robert at the North London on the veranda or in the gun room.

Though Robert and Felicity divorced in 1981, he remained actively involved with his children, encouraging them in their various activities. Hugh got involved with rifle shooting at his school and was an Atheling to Canada in 1981. Tim became hooked on skateboarding and surfing instead. Robert attended a number of Jenny’s amateur theatrical performances in Bristol.

Robert served as chairman and secretary of the LMRA for many years and the Robert Stafford lounge was named after him for his contribution to the Club.

Robert also served on the NRA Council for a number of years, where he presented a calm voice of reason, according to a fellow member.

After retiring from ERA in the late 1990s, he continued to travel, making trips to Egypt and Alaska. He continued to shoot competitively until around 2007. Eventually he switched from target shooting to golf, reporting it was much more comfortable in the rain playing golf! Retirement gave Robert extra time to spend with his children, wherever they were based. He made many trips to the USA to visit Hugh, Cornwall to visit Tim, or Bristol to visit Jenny. The number of trips only increased once he had grandchildren in England and America.

For many years he remained intrigued by new ideas and adventures – trying out four-wheeling with his grandchildren on one occasion, and having to be persuaded now might not be the time to take up skiing on another. He read voraciously and remained interested in technology, though he was convinced it was designed incorrectly.

Robert was a gentle and intelligent man.

He’ll be much missed by the family and many friends.

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After many years in Surrey, he moved down to Bude, Cornwall, to be closer to Tim and his granddaughter, Seren. Though living in Cornwall made international travel more involved, Robert continued to travel to the USA to see his American grandchildren, Gabby and Will.

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Brigadier Charles Ritchie (Hl 59) The escapade characterised the luck and derring-do of an incident-prone life during which Ritchie survived encounters with sharks, tribesmen, the IRA and even his own men, as well as arrest by the Russians for espionage. It also showed the passion for drama of a frustrated actor who would go on to mobilise his extrovert’s charm to defuse tensions in hostile environments ranging from Libya to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Living according to his motto that “laughter is the best weap­on”, the title of his posthumously pub­lished memoir, he was a fine raconteur in the military mould.

Soon after passing out from San­dhurst Ritchie had two scrapes with death in the mid-1960s while serving with the Royal Scots in the Radfan campaign in South Yemen.

One after­noon he was sitting on a radio battery out in the open while taking an early supper, when he came under sniper fire.

He collapsed to the floor, thinking that he had been hit. After the firing stopped he realised that he had not been wounded but the battery had taken a direct round.

Charles Ritchie’s military career almost ended before it began when he challenged a fellow cadet at Sandhurst to a duel with shotguns. The cause of the Scotsman’s ire was a friend’s legerdemain in depriving him of an attractive woman’s company at a party.

The cadets’ agreement had been for the friend to collect two female guests before picking up Ritchie at his billet and going on to the party together, but when the friend’s date cancelled he told the other girl that Ritchie had become indisposed and took her to the party himself. Having waited, pacing up and down for several hours, dressed and primed for action, Ritchie’s solitary pre-party drinks session turned sour and he went to bed.

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contemptible bastard, I am chal­lenging you to a duel! Firearms, at dawn, with seconds in attendance”. The appointment was postponed until after lunch and it was decided that each party would take alternate shots, start­ing at a distance of 75 yards, advancing one yard after each snot, until blood was drawn. Tweed caps and bowed heads would offer some protection to the eyes. In the event the pair walked, shooting at each other in turn with pellets stinging their bare arms until at about 50 yards his opponent charged, yelling a war cry and shooting from the hip, drawing blood from Ritchie’s arm. The friend claimed victory but Ritchie was not satisfied, ambushing him and firing over his head as they returned to the lines.

A company sergeant-major predicted their ejection from San­dhurst but the duel resulted only in a dressing down and a lasting reputation for being a swashbuckler.

He had another brush with death while clearing an empty house of bugs so that it could be used for shelter for his mortar section. He ordered a young soldier to “flash-burn’’ it – meaning laying a trickle of petrol inside its walls and lighting it – but the subordinate poured a 20-litre jerry can over the floor and dropped a lit match through a window as Ritchie entered to inspect it. The explosion blew him back 30 yards’ into a cattle ring.

Badly burnt and apparently lifeless, he was given the last rites by a padre as he was lifted into a helicopter. A letter of condolence was sent to his parents in Scotland. Medics then realised that an overdose of morphia had sent him into a coma. He was discharged from hospi­tal a few weeks later without any obvi­ous signs of lasting damage.

Charles David Maciver Ritchie, the elder son of Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Ritchie of the Royal Scots, was born into a military family in Inverness in 1941. At Wellington College he wanted to be an actor but his old prep school friend, Tony Hancock, who would

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Charles Stancomb (L 61)

Living according to his motto that “laughter is the best weap­on”, the title of his posthumously pub­lished memoir, he was a fine raconteur in the military mould.

later find fame as a comedian, persuaded him to join the army. In 1962 Ritchie was posted to the 1st Battalion in Libya, where he gallantly survived poisoning from a bunch of grapes which local Italian farmers had sprayed with hydrogen cyanide as a pes­ticide. Not long afterwards he emerged without significant harm from a heli­copter crash on Salisbury Plain and shot a wolf with which he came face-to-face at the entrance to his tent during winter warfare training in Arctic Canada. He also swam unperturbed among venom­ous sea-snakes and salt-water crocodiles off the coast of East Timor and fought off a shark in the waters of Belize.

His memoir modestly glossed over the achievements of a distinguished army career.

He was appointed Opera­tions Officer with the British com­manders-in-chief mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany in 1978. Suited to the game of “gentleman spying”, his many cat-and-mouse escapades with the East German Stasi ended when, having spent all night in a ditch to photograph previously unseen Russian military equipment, he was captured by members of the Spetznatz (Russian special forces) while making his escape. He was formally expelled from East Germany and appointed MBE. He was later advanced to CBE. While an instruct­or at the Joint Ser­vices Staff College at Greenwich in 1984 he married Araminta Luard, who with their son, Paul, survives him. Araminta would in time become a veteran of his baric tale-telling.

In the 1980s he commanded 3rd Battalion The Ulster Defence Regi­ment in Northern Ireland and was pro­moted to brigadier in 1988 at a time when his regiment was subject to in­creasing terrorist attacks off duty and claims of misconduct on duty.

at Shape, the NATO command centre in Belgium, and chief of staff to the UN Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia during one of the most bitter periods of the conflict.

Towards the end of his soldiering life he was appointed colonel of the Royal Scots and an aide-de-camp to the Queen. His final military job, military attaché in Paris, coincided with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, arid he broke protocol by draping her coffin with the Royal Standard, not the Union Flag. He went with his heart, he said, not his head.

After his retirement in 1998 he worked briefly for a Canadian soya company, but it was in roles such as a director of the Edinburgh (now Royal) Military Tattoo and as a member of the Countryside Alliance that his enthusi­astic nature shone. His sense of duty and generous spirit won him many admirers throughout his life – even among his enemies. Before his Russian captors had ejected him from East Germany, they held a farewell party out of respect for “the mad Scotsman”.

Brigadier Charles Ritchie, CBE, was born on December 12, 1941. He died after a short Illness on December 16, 2020, aged 79.

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Charles Stancomb, Head of School and CCF and Captain of Cricket, Rugby, Hockey and Athletics. At Speech Day in 1961 he was presented with a medal

by John Profumo – only a few weeks before he met Christine Keeler!

At Peterhouse, Cambridge he studied economics and began to race Formula 3 cars in local events. After graduating he formed racing team ‘Squadra Tartaruga’ with three friends and competed on major European tracks with some success. However the realities of funding the operation forced them all to re-join the mainstream.

Charles first joined the electronic giant Plessy, moved on to start his own import company and then, with Wellington and Cambridge friend Michael Spicer set up Economic Models, a business advisory company. When this company was sold he became a director of SBI, another business advisory consultancy, where he worked until he retired.

He and his family moved from London to his wife Pat’s family farm in Sussex.

Appropriately his eldest daughter Kate also joined the Wellington fold in the newly created Apsley. Upon retirement he was able to indulge in his life-long passion for fishing.

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Johnny Thomas, D.l.

(T 51) and guile he could be relied on to always obtain the best terms for participants. Those same skills were used effectively to diffuse disagreements and arguments, and were used to good effect during his VCC Presidency from 2001 to 2003 – a hectic time for him and Binks.

Whether it was organising Welsh Weekends for the BDC, motorcycle runs for the VMCC, rallies for the VCC, hill climbs with the Napier at Prescott or participating in rallies in France, Holland, the USA and the Irish Republic, Johnny could always be relied upon to be efficient, helpful and cheerful, and as a result made many friends everywhere.

Born in 1935 at home at Bryn Illtyd, Pembrey, Johnny Thomas was educated at Well House prep school in Malvern, then at Wellington where he was in the Talbot (49-52), and finally at Millfield (where he had his first motorcycle).

His first job was at Baglan Steel Works, working under his uncle (who later married his mother after his father’s death). From there, he joined Red Dragon Garage at Pembrey, followed by Day’s Garage in Swansea and then a spell with HP company Lombard Banking .

He had by then acquired his first Bentley (of many), later sold to pay for Hunt Ball tickets to take Binks. He met her at his best man’s brother’s 21st birthday and married her in 1959. Johnny and Binks were both “county” without this affecting the wide circle of friends they made in all walks of life, particularly in old vehicle circles.

Married life started in Capel Issa, Manordeilo, then Aynho, where he bought his first garage. Son Christopher was born in 1963, and then it was back to Capel Issa and the purchase of a Carmarthen garage. About this time he acquired the 1909 Alldays tourer and his 1896 Leon Bollee (the first of many trikes) on which he did his first London to Brighton Run in 1963. He took part in at

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least fifty Brighton Runs in a variety of cars and trikes. Second son Rob arrived in 1966.

Johnny was known, liked and respected by a far wider circle in the old vehicle world.

He was a member and Past-President of the VCC and the Swansea Historic Vehicle Register, and a member of the Bentley Drivers’ Club, the Vintage Motorcycle Club, the Vintage Sports Car Club and the Irish Veteran and Vintage Car Club.

At various times Johnny owned a mouthwatering selection of early vehicles – three or four 3 litre Bentleys, a couple of RollsRoyce Silver Ghosts (one of which served as my wedding car in 1981), three 4½ litre Bentleys and a beloved Speed Six. Alldays were always a favourite and he had five motorcycles dating from 1911 to 1920.

Other bikes included a Brough Superior SS100 sold for £100(!), and examples (several at a time) of Rex, Premier, Triumph, Ariel, Roc, Ner-a-Car (5), Scott, Rudge, BSA, Douglas, AJS and many others, and on one memorable occasion he was able to assemble about twelve pre-1915 bikes eligible for the 50th Pioneer Run, which he lent out to friends in the West South Wales Section of the VMCC. In fact Johnny’s rally organisational skills were unsurpassed, and with a mixture of charm

Having served as High Sheriff of Dyfed in 2005, he was deservedly appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, and on applying to the College of Heralds for a grant of arms, was eventually permitted to incorporate his racing Napier.

The last time Johnny and Binks visited Wellington was for a Vintage car rally in 2013 for which they were joined by a number of OW friends.

Johnny very sadly passed away in December 2020 and is survived by his wife of 61 years, Binks, and two sons Christopher and Robert.

From a tribute given by his great friend Mike Worthington-Williams

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Alan Watson (Hl 51) schooling provided for him, laying the groundwork for his academic success at medical school.

Physician, husband, father, grandfather, friend, world traveller, conversationalist, tennis player, paddler, sailor, lover of singing and Scottish dancing, extrovert, feminist, LGBTQ+ ally, trader of jokes and stories, messy housemate, eccentric Irishman.

He also made lifelong friends, including Colin Lindsay, Kiffer Culley, Michael Hyde and Michael Kilroy. After Wellington College, Alan was accepted by Trinity College Dublin to study medicine and moved back in with his mother, younger brother Alec and a penniless uncle and father figure “Uncle A”.

Summers were spent earning university funds on crews blasting hydroelectric tunnels in Scotland and making more friends.

Alan Watson completed his “vertical take-off” on January 12, 2021 with his wife Cherry by his side, holding his hand. He was blessed to have made his living and serve his community in a vocation he truly loved. An early stay in hospital had cemented a childhood goal to become a doctor. Alan enjoyed everything about medicine: the intellectual challenge of sleuthing out the diagnosis for an obscure skin condition, teaching others, conferring with colleagues and especially interacting with patients from the broadest possible crosssection of society.

Alan brought an incredible work ethic, integrity, compassion, attention to detail, and conscientiousness to his work. He lived by the Biblical edict to give “good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over....” His non-judgemental nature and thoroughness resulted in top-notch care for his patients. Alan often expressed gratitude for his full life. “I’ve had a career I’ve loved, a wonderful wife and a happy marriage, three successful and well-adjusted children. I’ve travelled the world. I’ve done every bloody thing!”

Alan is survived by Cherry, his wife of 58 years, his three children Susan (Ian), John (Jane), and Simon (Val), and seven grandchildren, Alec, Thomas, Hugh, Madeleine, Blythe, Quinn, and Mikaila. Alan was predeceased by his parents Alec and Katherine and brothers James and Alec.

Alan Ferrier Watson was born on November 4th, 1933 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh State in Northern India, the middle son of three boys born to Katherine (née Johnston) and Alec Watson. His father was a captain in the British Army during the time of the Raj and his mother was a well-educated country girl and later an administrator.

Tragedy struck early in Alan’s life when his father died in a sailing accident in India when Alan was only five-years-old. The family, who were back in Ireland, received the news

by telegram. His mother Katherine was pregnant with his younger brother Alec.

Katherine rose to the challenge of being a single parent, with the support of extended family, her army widow’s pension and her own steely resolve. She and her sons moved into a house called “Aylesbury” with her twice-widowed mother-in-law, Maude Kerwin, and her husband’s half-brother, Reg, from Maude’s second marriage. Alan instantly became the man of the family. His older brother James, who likely lived with undiagnosed Asperger}s syndrome, was unable to assume this mantle.

A school master once accused young Alan of lying about the tasks he was entrusted with, incredulous that a child of 6 or 7 would be sent 2 or 3 miles on a bike to cash cheques, mail parcels and make purchases.

Alan attended the Avoca School and Aravon School in Blackrock, Dublin. He often quoted wisdom from one of the Aravon masters, Boss Craig, to his children: “You may BE greedy, but try not to look it!”

At age 13 Alan moved to England to attend the prestigious Wellington College boarding school on a bursary for sons of British officers who had died while on active duty.

He was placed in a dorm where extra support was given to boys who had lost their fathers. Alan took advantage of every educational opportunity this outstanding

At age 23, Alan “fooled the examiners” and became a fully qualified physician. During a subsequent residency in obstetrics, he would often attend home births in Dublin slums, sending an older sibling out to buy a copy of the freshly printed Irish Times to provide what might be the only sterile surface in an impoverished home.

In 1961, looking like a young Sean Connery, Alan set off on a life of adventure sailing around the world as a ship’s doctor, first on the S.S. Orsova with the P&O Orient Line and then the RMMV Stirling Castle with the Union Castle Line. It was on his first voyage with this new company that Alan met his wife of nearly 60 years, Cherry. His own words were, “I fell totally in love with the beautiful ship’s nurse.” This was the beginning of a lifelong crush and partnership, both in medicine and in raising a family.

After their marriage in 1962, Alan and Cherry moved to Australia, where their children Susan, John and Simon were born.

Alan set up a family practice, but found time to enjoy everything this new country had to offer: beaches, sailing, water skiing, BBQs and swimming pools. He indulged his cultural interests in Scottish dancing and joined the chorus of a community production of The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan.

In 1972, Alan and Cherry were on the move again, this time to Canada, settling in Waterloo, Ontario. Shifting politics in Australia, as well as medical school friends had encouraged the move. Alan enjoyed another 18 years of family practice. In 1990, he and Cherry spent a sabbatical year in Cardiff, Wales. Alan earned a Diploma in Dermatology – a lifelong interest. Alan made 10 5

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Tony De-Mesquita (Bn 53) the most of everything Canada had to offer, enjoying skiing during the winters and canoeing, sailing and camping during the summer. For several summers he ran a hobby business, Rainbow Canoe Trips.

This endeavour established a valued friendship with the instructor he hired, “Mad Monsieur” (Michel Lessard). Alan was formally recognised as a “Notable Physician” by his local peers. After his retirement in 2015, he was awarded the status of “Physician Emeritus” by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. Alan’s five-year journey with Alzheimer’s and dementia was a difficult and poignant one both for Alan and his loved ones.

His family wishes to express their gratitude for the love and support of friends and the excellent care that Alan received from Dr. Kathleen Bedrosian and all the staff at the following facilities: St. Joseph’s overnight respite program (Guelph); the Waterloo Recreation Centre Seniors’ Day Program; Emma’s Neighbourhood at Riverside Glen (Guelph); and Dickson House in Columbia Forest LTC (Waterloo). In particular, the family would like to acknowledge the special care he received from Arvin Benito, Gordana, Rose, Sandra and Anna.

Alan was spared from isolation and loneliness during the pandemic through the loving one-on-one support he received from private caregivers Jose Garnica, Kajal Rupani, Simerjit Dhariwal and Natalie Mullings. In an effort to honour Alan’s Irish roots and their own need to grieve, the family had his body brought home for two days. He was laid out on the dining room table and his wife Cherry, children and grandchildren gathered around for a masked, physically-distanced, COVID-compliant wake. Alan’s youngest son, Simon, and grandchildren Quinn and Mikaila, joined in via zoom from Australia.

Alan’s funeral took place at St. John’s Anglican Church, Kitchener on Thursday, January 14th, 2021.

Alan Watson, November 4, 1933 – January 12, 2021

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Tony was born in 1935 at Shiplake on Thames in Berkshire. In 1939 the 2nd World War started and he was sent to Prep School at Allen House at the age of 5, and he was the youngest boy ever to go. The problem was that he spent the first few days crying his heart out.

The matron failed to comfort him, so the 6-year-old headmasters daughter was sent over to play with him which worked like a dream. In 1948 he went to Wellington College, enjoying a very successful school career ending his final year as Head of House, school prefect, winning the Public Schools Rackets Singles at Queens Club and gaining a place at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

On leaving school in 1953 he did his National Service and was commissioned and joined the Duke of Wellington’s regiment. He discovered that if he served three years on a short service commission his salary was substantially increased. He spent a year in Gibraltar with his regiment and then 18 months as ADC to the general in Nigeria in the acting rank of Captain.

On leaving the Army he decided not to take up his place at Cambridge but to accept the offer of joining Lansing Bagnall who made Forklift trucks. His first job was working in Cardiff as a salesman and working his way up the ladder, he finally joined the board as Sales Director. He achieved many successes which included persuading the Royal Household to use LB’ forklift trucks thus being given the prestigious By Royal Appointment logo on their advertising material. Tony was also appointed President of the European Mechanical Handling Industry which involved business trips to Japan.

He took early retirement at 60 which members of the Board could do on full pension. He married Ann in 1963 and they had three children: Simon, Lucinda, and Jon. In retirement they lived near Lyme Regis before moving to Spain. He enjoyed playing golf always very competitively and loved his garden always keeping it neat and tidy.

Tony was a generous host, an avid reader of the conservative newspapers, following the political scene in the UK and also the Stock Market. He lived his life to the full until sadly his health deteriorated.

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David Mordaunt (C 55) After prep school at Amesbury David came to Wellington in 1950 where he excelled at Hockey and Cricket , satisfied the examiners and left in 1955 as a school Prefect and a leading member of one of Wellington’s finest cricket XIs. After National Service with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, in 1957 David went to teach at Summerfields where Headmaster Mr Burton, a very keen cricketer, gave him the Summer Term off to play cricket for Sussex. David’s debut was in the Parks against Oxford Uni, uneventful except for breaking a bowler’s finger with a straight drive and then making 96, mostly in boundaries. After two years with Sussex his next cricket was with Berkshire where he was nicknamed the “French Amateur”.

In the Gillette Cup of 1965, DJM made 60 against Somerset, including 4 sixes off Bill Alley and was awarded the Man of the Match gold medal, the first Minor Counties player to achieve that distinction. His exploits for the OWs were legendary, both in the OW Cricket week and the Cricketer cup, none more so than in the Final of 1980 , batting in the dark when he almost got Wellington home. Other cricket included touring with the MCC in North and South America, with Romany in South Africa and playing for FF and IZ. For David, there was more to life than cricket. The people he played with mattered more than the game. He loved helping, encouraging, guiding people of all ages. This was his purpose, his raison d’etre.

At Wellington he was Housemaster of the Bd for 12 years, in charge of Cricket and Rackets, in charge of CCF camps in the Lake District and Glencoe. He ran the New Forest Marathon. He appeared on the stage for Common Room revues. He was an inspirational Master in charge of Cricket and as a Housemaster he was caring and committed in the turbulent days of the late 60s and early 70s. David was an efficient and popular President of Common Room, a welcoming and gracious host at social events.

David was truly a teacher at heart, and loved inspiring young people, and the leading of youth expeditions, many of them with the British Schools Exploring Society, was for

many years a staple part of his summer holiday. He had a particular yearning for the fastnesses of the Arctic and (to my imperfect knowledge) he led expeditions to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Spitsbergen and, one winter, to east Greenland. As reported by one on such a trip “The success of the expedition was in no small part due to the fine leadership of David Mordaunt. He was not only a skilled organiser, but also an understanding friend for many in times of stress and difficulty, above the pretty disputes that tend to arise on any expedition, and one who won the respect of the boys from the start.” There will be many people, now well into middle-age, who still vividly recall the very real excitement of being on one of David’s expeditions, and who remain immensely grateful for the new horizons he opened for them.

He was remembered at Wellington as a man of great integrity and honesty; a person of strong principle, respected by all.

In 1987, he left to become the warden of an Outward-Bound centre at Applecross in N.W. Scotland; a centre set up for the benefit of the less privileged from inner city areas, soon to be taken over by the National Trust. He loved Scotland. In 1990, he married Cathy and moved to ‘Mondhuie’ in the village of Nethybridge, from where the Cairngorms were easily accessible. This property comprised two chalets as well as the main house. Holiday lets of these, as well

as a B&B business, became a busy way of life.

Sadly the marriage was not to last.

His second partner, June, brought him much happiness, and great contentment. The B&B at Mondhuie flourished with impeccable efficiency and wonderfully warm hospitality.

Annual trips to explore, climb and revel in the beauty of New Zealand became a “sine qua non” of life. Impossibly sadly, and after 10 wonderfully happy years together, June passed away and David decided to move back South and to Repton which was near family. David paid a last visit to Wellington in 2019 with younger brother Gerry and presented to the school the Rackets Cup which his grandfather had won at Queens in 1891. It is proudly displayed.

A last word from David Newsome, former Master: “Those who worked with David at Wellington or who were taught by him will remember a man of great integrity and honesty. He is a person of strong principle and great consistency; respected by all who had dealings with him. He was a friend and confidant of many people drawn from different strata of Wellington life and will be much missed by all. He conducted his life with a dignity and charm that one seldom encounters and we are all much the richer for having had the benefit of his companionship.”

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Capt. MW Bolton (Hn 53)

Mike Bolton was one of a kind.

As David Scholey (A 53 ) writes...

“His infectious enthusiasm and unwavering integrity, in every variety of his school career as Prefect, RSM, chapel warden and Captain of Rackets left an indelible affectionate impression on all whom he touched. His Sandhurst and Sappers career were truly Wellingtonian which extended into his lively and loving family life in the island of Ireland. His memory brings a smile to all our hearts”.

At Wellington he was in the Rackets pair 1950-53 and after Sandhurst joined the RE in 1955 and the Sarawak Rangers in 1959.

So moved by his experience there, he wrote The English Sea Dayak Dictionary from his hospital bed.

Mike was variously Army Singles (56-59) and Doubles (54,57-59) Rackets champion and Combined Services champion (56). He was Irish Real Tennis champion in 03 . He was a prime mover in the process to restore the Dublin Real Tennis Court.

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As charismatic chairman of the Governors of Kings Hospital School in Dublin he exhibited the humour, drive and perception that defined him.

Not larger than life, he WAS life and is still the only man to have jumped from the gallery onto the Wellington Rackets court as his warm-up.

Needing to find a school chaplain he wrote to the incumbent at a school in Canada.

“I was a head-hunter in Borneo and like the Canadian Mounties, I always got my man“.

Though not in the best of health in his later years he continued to play his beloved games into his 80s and scrapped for every point.

A bemused chaplain took time to reply, unsure if this was a job for him. A month later a postcard arrived, signed by Capt.

Bolton, which simply said, “Matthew Chapter 11 verse 3”. He knew the reference.

“Are you the one to come or should we look for another?”

The chaplain duly came over to Ireland, visited the school, accepted the post, and is there to this day.

After the Army, Mike farmed in Co. Wicklow where stories of him are legion.

A man of prodigious energy, Mike was a superb host and raconteur, had time for everyone and once met was never forgotten.

Mike was a wonderful man, and he will be much missed by all who were lucky enough to have known him.

Our thoughts are very much with Pooh (Patricia) and the large loving family of whom he was immensely proud. Two of his daughters, Tanya and Christie, are OWs and Christie is currently chairing the Education Committee of the Wellington governors.

Mike Bolton 1934-2021

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Final Call Over Fletcher PRC

Died 07/11/2020 College 1932-34 (Bl)

Arida EG

Died 13/03/2021 College 1949-51 (C)

Loveless Dr JA

Died 28/06/2021 College 1933-38 (W)

Bertin JM

Died 04/02/2021 College 1949-53 (A)

Hemphill Dr PMR

Died 18/07/2021 College 1934-38 (Hn)

Parsons MDA

Died 19/12/2020 College 1950-54 (M)

Channer Capt RD MC

Died 20/01/2021 College 1935-40 (Hl)

Craven Lt Col RCF

Died 15/04/2021 College 1950-54 (Hl)

Haviland The Rev ES

Died 17/10/2020 College 1937-42 (Pn)

Mordaunt DJ

Died 28/11/2020 College 1950-55 (C)

Hazlehurst Capt. CP DL

Died 14/04/2021 College 1937-42 (S)

Smiley DV

Died 11/01/2021 College 1951-55 (S)

Bond RC

Died 28/11/2020 College 1938-43 (Hg)

Voelcker JG

Died 30/01/2021 College 1951-55 (T)

Douglas MCB

Died 14/10/2020 College 1939-43 (A)

Bartlett Maj RA

Died 07/06/2021 College 1953-58 (Pn)

Fortescue Hitchins TWE

Died 15/12/2020 College 1939-43 (Hg)

Illingworth TR

Died 08/07/2021 College 1954-59 (T)

Ritchie Brig CDM CBE

Died 16/12/2020 College 1955-59 (Hl) Died 13/06/2021 College 1955-59 (Pn)

Macpherson of Cluny Sir William

Died 14/02/2021 College 1939-44 (Pn)

Marsh GIR

Byham Maj CW

Died 27/02/2021 College 1940-49 (S)

Freeth Lt Col D

College 1955-60 (L)

Cook Dr MEM

College 1941-44 (Bd)

Bryant DMA His Hon.

Died 19/04/2021 College 1955-60 (A)

Worthington Wilmer Maj HG

College 1941-45 (O)

Stancomb CD

Died 28/12/2020 College 1955-61 (L)

Buck DTM

College 1942-46 (Hg)

Proctor RCP

Died 09/04/2020 College 1956-60 (C)

Teacher HM

Died 01/12/2020 College 1957-62 (Pn)

Crawley-Boevey Sir Thomas MB Bt Spottiswoode DM

Died 09/03/2021 College 1942-46 (Bn)

Greenway JPSK

Died 21/04/2021 College 1942-46 (L)

Hutton Bury DWB

Died 08/02/2021 College 1958-63 (Pn)

Robertson Lt Col TJW

Died 07/03/2021 College 1959-63 (Hg)

Keane DH

College 1943-47 (M)

College 1957-62 (Bn)

Paton Lt Col JOG

Died 15/03/2021 College 1943-47 (Bl)

Hart CRC

Died 06/01/2021 College 1961-64 (S)

Gibbons RD

Died 31/12/2020 College 1943-48 (C)

Rickell TJ

Died 05/05/2020 College 1964-69 (O)

Way Dr JM

Died 05/01/2021 College 1943-48 (M)

Coles MOB

Died 08/01/2021 College 1966-71 (Pn)

Nalder RH

Died 14/01/2021 College 1943-48 (O)

Petrie AJM

Died 13/01/2021 College 1966-71 (Hl)

Lister RV

Died 06/10/2020 College 1943-48 (A)

Reynolds CJ

Died 24/12/2020 College 1969-73 (Hg)

Duncan Col AS

Died 22/06/2021 College 1943-48 (Hg)

Alden JHJ

Died 20/02/2021 College 1971-76 (Hl)

Fisher Maj FWR

Died 12/01/2021 College 1944-47 (Bn)

Bagwell-Purefoy JP CVO

Died 10/11/2020 College 1973-78 (Hl)

Robinson Maj AC

Died 04/05/2020 College 1944-48 (C)

Mailer-Howat GMB

Died 06/05/2021 College 1974-79 (Hg)

Day HFG

Died 10/01/2021 College 1944-48 (A)

Buchanan RAF

Died 09/05/2021 College 1977-82 (Hn)

Blake Lt Col JDC

Died 09/01/2021 College 1944-49 (Hn)

Drew CD

Lubbock JM

Died 29/01/2021 College 1944-49 (T)

Robarts HJ

Walshe JR

Died 17/06/2021 College 1945-49 (A)

Culley CA

Died 17/09/2020 College 1946-50 (Hl)

Ormrod Capt. JM

Died 25/10/2020 College 1946-50 (S)

Ramsay DB

Died 26/06/2021 College 1946-50 (Hn)

Sender MC

Died 14/01/2021 College 1946-51 (T)

Watson Dr AF

Died 12/01/2021 College 1947-51 (Hl)

Cameron EJF

Died 22/11/2020 College 1947-52 (S)

Swinburn Brig DHA CBE DL

Died 11/06/2021 College 1947-52 (Bl)

Bolton Capt. MW

Died 08/02/2021 College 1947-53 (A)

Nason MC

Died 26/02/2020 College 1948-51 (L)

Mason TB

Died 03/10/2020 College 1948-51 (Bn)

Matlow TJLW

Died 25/11/2021 College 1948-52 (Bd)

Stafford RWH

Died 23/10/2020 College 1948-53 (Bl)

De Mesquita TLD

Died 17/05/2021 College 1948-53 (Bn)

Barclay HP

Died 23/05/2021 College 1948-53 (0)

Smallwood G

Died 15/06/2021 College 1948-53 (C)

Thomas JDA DL

Died 27/12/2021 College 1949-51 (T)

College 1985-90 (M)

Died 27/05/2020 College 2016-18 (Bn)

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Finance Peter Cazalet (Bl 77) peter.cg.cazalet@hotmail.co.uk Simon Hardy (T 83) simon.hardy@jefferies.com David Till (C 82) david.till@oakleycapital.com Edmund Wilson (S 89) Edmund.wilson@sjpp.co.uk

Chairman of the OW Executive Committee Mark Milliken-Smith, QC (Bd 81) milli@haslemere.com

HM Forces Nick Martin (Bl 99) nickjgmartin@me.com

Chairman of OW Charitable Trust Charles Baker (BI 67) charles@bakers-web.co.uk

Information Technology Chris Galley (Bl 83) chris@galleys.org

OW CAREER OPPORTUNITY GROUP LEADERS: Advertising and Marketing Charlie Dundas (Bd 95) charlie.dundas@smg-insight.com Anthony Stileman (T 72) as@anthonystileman.com Aviation Tim Geering (L 93) timgeering@hotmail.com Graham Stephenson (C 57) gstephenson15@gmail.com Civil Service & Government Tim Abraham (Hn 76) tim.abraham@decc.gsi.gov.uk Julian Gallant (T 83) gallantjulian@gmail.com

Insurance Mike Eld (Bn 97) mike.eld@aon.co.uk Law Kate Stovold (Ap 03) kstovold@lmplaw.co.uk Jonathan Tod (S 85) jtod@29br.co.uk Medical Tom MacKinnon (L 12) mackints@gmail.com Mental Health Patrick Melville (Hn 97) paddymelville@hotmail.com Real Estate Nick Cripps (Pn 94) nick.cripps@knightfrank.com

Max Hope (Hg 00) max.hope@rocketmail.com

Public Relations Alistair Kellie (Bn 94) alistair.kellie@newgatecomms.com

Engineering Mark Cullington (O 93) m.cullington@btinternet.com

Shipping Robin Thomas (C 82) robin_thomas@msn.com

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OW REGIONAL AND OVERSEAS REPRESENTATIVES Australia: ACT Vernon Keighley (C 70) vernon@vfkeighley.com.uau +61 0406 745 030 Australia: New South Wales Adam Stitcher (Hg 03) adamstitch@hotmail.com +61 0488 047 736 Australia: Victoria Nick Speller (Hn 87) nspel2012@gmail.com +61 0404 489 943 Australia: Queensland Gerry FitzGerald (Bn 65) gezfitz@bigpond.com +61 0408 457 521 Australia: Western Australia Adrian Momber (Pn 76) amomber@inf.net.au +61 8 9384 3389 Botswana William Stocker (M 87) william@property.co.bw Cairo Jonathan Chalcraft (M 78) mrjchalc@gmail.com Canada Richard Marshall (C 65) jmarshall39@cogeco.ca Channel Islands Chip Scott (T 76) chippyscott@googlemail.com Croatia Jonathan Chalcraft (M 78) mrjchalc@gmail.com Dubai Rod Sampson (Bd 77) rod.sampson@gmail.com Germany Julian Eller (Hn 67) julian.eller1@t-online.de

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Hong Kong Richard Barton (C 86) richard.barton@newgate.asia

Singapore Will Jelf (Hg 96) williamjelf@gmail.com

Cricket Club Secretary Charlie Pickard (Bl 10) pickardc@kbw.com

Ireland James Jackson (Pn 67) jamesjackson34@btinternet.com

Spain Robert Nijeboer (Pn 87) robertnijeboer@yahoo.com

Cross Country Gary Lloyd (M 63) galloyd2000@hotmail.com

Michael De Las Casas (Bl 70) delascas@indigo.ie

Switzerland Darrn Glasper (T 90) darren@gmx.ch +41 (0)78 806 1219

Cycling Club Doug Rowe (Hl 95) dougalrowe@gmail.com

Japan Tim Lemon (C 81) timl@gol.com +81 722 939493 Kenya James Hutchings (T 78) james@dogrock.net +25 4720 603 993 Malaysia Keng Siong Low (Hg 91) lowks@lks.com Monaco Christopher Craven (Hl 91) cc@superyachtsmonaco.com +377 619 99 19 17 New Zealand Bernard Robertson (M 70) bwnr@paradise.net.nz +64 212 831381 Anthony Salmon (Hn 80) ant@bigcommunications.co.nz Oman Matthew Wright (A 87) matthewlewiswright@yahoo.co.uk Republic of South Africa Patrick Holford-Walker (Hn 70) patrickw@oep.co.za Russia Maria Chilikina-Brown (A 14) mashacb1@gmail.com Scotland Will Scarlett (S 87) williamscarlett@hotmail.co.uk Seychelles Edward Paxton (C 92) ewpaxton@gmail.com

Thailand James Fanning (Pn 70) fanning_james@hotmail.com The Netherlands Mark Butterworth (Pn 85) markbutter67@gmail.com 0031 651 451 725 United States: East Coast Charles Hayley-Bell (T 93) charles.hayleybell@gmail.com +1 917 373 7780 United States: West Coast Richard Bowman (Pn 98) richardbowman@mcafee.com +1 415 5199481 OW SOCIETIES, CLUBS AND SPORTS SECRETARIES Chairman of the OW Sports Club Doug Rowe (Hl 95) dougalrowe@gmail.com OW Lodge Tom Hawley (T 94) tph258@gmx.com OW Wine Society Pippa Gardner (Ap 09) pippa@thevintner.com OW Field Gun Association Jim Harwood (Field Gun Instructor) j.harwood@focus21.co.uk Basketball Katherine Cho (Ap 07) Cho.Katherine_A@yahoo.co.uk

Football Club Secretary Rob Alderson (S 13) aldersrc@gmail.com Golfing Society Secretary John Goodeve-Docker (A 64) jgdocker@btinternet.com Hockey Club Secretary Lloyd Watters (S 11) Lloydwatters1@gmail.com Andrew Watters (S 14) andrewwatters12@gmail.com Lawn Tennis Club Secretary James Bray (Hg 86) jbray@fdl.co.uk Real Tennis Club Secretary Malcolm Thorp (Bd 73) mt59@btinternet.com Rugby Club Secretary Andrew Robertson (Pn 04) robbo1986@hotmail.co.uk George Byrd (Bn 08) gbyrd@deloitte.co.uk Sailing Association Secretary Chris Allen (C 80) chrisandkateallen@yahoo.co.uk Shooting Association Secretary Ed Reis (S 94) e.reis@tiscali.co.uk Squash Club Secretary Nigel Clarke (L 79) nigel_clarke@baa.com

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