Andrew Bayles (B’98) Very happy to report that we had a little girl in September 2014, Darcey Bayles. Still living in Wandsworth and working as legal counsel for Fujitsu in Baker Street, London. Daniel Mourad (B’99) recently made appearance for Singapore 7s International Rugby.
2000s Jack Harrison (G’00) After 3 years with Jardine Matheson (KFC Taiwan) am swapping ‘The Colonel’ for Jamie Oliver - left to join a start up with the franchise for Jamie’s Italian in Greater China. Spending the next few months in HK so look forward to bumping into some Worthians here.
Robert Birchall (R’01) My wife Natalie and I are very happy to announce the birth of our first child Samuel Edward Birchall on 19 March 2015. Christopher Lamb (R'O1) Rome Correspondent for The Tablet, the International Catholic Weekly, covering the Pope, the Vatican and the Catholic Church worldwide. Living in Italy with wife Isabel and children Joseph, 6, and Martha, 3. Anyone from Worth travelling through here feel free to get in touch ctrlamb@gmail.com Owen Lean (C’01) Currently living and performing magic in Paris. Just back from a Canadian tour performing at festivals across the country. James Madsen (B’01) Married to Becky (July 2015), living in London, still playing the occasional rugby. Working in Financial and Corporate Public Relations. Adrian Pring (R’01) Married Annie Dickenson on 12th April 2015 at Worth Abbey. Wedding service was co-celebrated by Fr Aidan and the reception was held on the sunken lawn by the main school and new Gervase. It was glorious! Philip Symonds (B’01) will marry Alice Turtle on the 2nd April 2016. Tom Carew Hunt (StB'02) married Sarah Johnson at St Margaret's, West Hoathly on 2nd May 2015. Giles Turton (F'02) was Best Man. Jim Condie (B’02) Got engaged to Kelly Johnson in September 2015 and planning on a late Summer 2016 wedding. Currently living in London and still see a number of Worthians of similar vintage. James Madsen (B'02) Got married on 4th July 2015 to Rebecca Taylor in Shropshire. Best men were Chris Madsen (B'04) and Tom Podbury (C'02). Amongst his ushers were Otto Blom (R'02), Chris Coxall (R'02), Daniel O'Connell (R'02), Sam Middlehurst (R'02) and Rob Cottrell (R'97). Giles Heather (G’03) Qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in November 2014 and now working in Doha, Qatar, for a global construction consultancy. Tom Symonds (B’03) married Elsa Buckler on the 12th July last year. Fr Christopher gave a brilliant address. Also trained 50th winner and ran the London Marathon in 2 hours 38 minutes, the fastest by a member of the horse racing world! Stephen Gray (F’04) Internal Communications Manager at PRS for Music who license music services on behalf of 110,000 songwriters, composers and publishers, and is the largest employer in the UK music industry. Roger Greaves (StB’04) Married Alice Chilton at St Mary’s Church, Reigate on Saturday 30th May 2015. Christopher Madsen (B’04) My wife (Hannah) and I are expecting a baby boy at the end of November! Had a fantastic summer celebrating the marriage of great Worth mates Alex Podbury (C’04) to Lizzie and Charles Bellm (R’04) to Alice and my brother James Madsen (B’02) to Rebecca. I have been working at Chelsea FC for 5 years now and currently focus on the sales of the players’ image rights. Paul Keenan (R'05) Runs a sports injury business called Sussex Injury Clinics based at the Dolphin Leisure centre in Haywards Heath and the Withdean Sports complex in Brighton. Having worked for a premiership football club, with world champion athletes and lectured at Kent University amongst other things, have most recently been asked to go to
Oliver (Oli) Mulcahy (C'05) Back in Portsmouth (still in the RN) as Guns and Missiles Trials Officer. Had a busy move with the arrival of Theo (11th Feb ‘15) just four days after arriving in the new house - wouldn't recommend it! Now enjoying more shore time to spend with my young family. Michael Burr (F’06) This year has been relatively exciting as got married to Jenna Hallesy on 17th Jan 2015 and then moved out to do a year’s placement in Malaysia as a Finance Manager for Tesco. Had a number of other Worth old boys, including Chris Roberts (R'06) and Laurence Hegarty (StB’06) as groomsmen. Edward Hall-Smith (R'07) Working at Sotheby's in London. Recently scored 1 run for our cricket side, so a big improvement since school. Do get in touch if you have a valuable art collection.
2010s Oli Jacobs (F’10) Recording/Mixing engineer at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios near Bath. I’ve been involved in some very interesting records, with several albums released in the past year (including mixing a #1 album - albeit in the world music charts, not sure if that counts?). There are several albums coming out in the next few months which I’ve been very lucky to have been a part of in some small way which I won’t bore you with here but I normally put on my website. Andrew Pring (R'10) I have just graduated from the University of Bristol with a 2:1 Master of Engineering with Honours in Aeronautical Engineering! I will be looking for stimulating public sector orientated work between September and January to pass the time, after which I will start Army life at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst which I eagerly await! Katharine Farmer (StA’11) Just returned from living in Los Angeles for a year working for Rubicon Theatre Company. During my time in the States I was able to assistant direct two Off-Broadway shows called Lonesome Traveler and Wiesenthal, both nominated for Outer Critics' Circle Awards and Drama Desk Awards. Had my professional directing debut in April 2015 with a play called Last Train To Nibroc by Arlene Hutton, which won an Indy Award for Direction, Have now returned to London and directing the aptly named Pig Farm by Greg Kotis at the St James Theatre in London this autumn - a brooding dark comedy with a cast including Stephen Tompkinson (DCI Banks, Wild at Heart) and Dan Fredenburgh (The Bourne Ultimatum, Love Actually). Jan-Philipp (JP) Hotze (B'11) Having spent the last three years in Rotterdam, I graduated with a BSc in International Business Administration at the Erasmus University. Last year I spent some time in Canada and worked for a land development company as an intern. I will now focus on scoring highly on my GMAT to start my Double Masters in Finance and International Energy in September 2016. Let's see if and how that will work out. If you can help with work experience in the energy industry, I would appreciate it a lot jp.hotze@me.com. Feeling alive. Rory Pickard (StB’11) Jamie (StB’13), my Dad (Simon StB’78) and I have just completed a cycle from Geneva to Nice in order to raise money for the Mathew Elvidge Trust. So far we have raised nearly £5,000 and it's not too late to donate! Theo Rivers (F’11) Have just moved to Australia as have been signed to play for a cricket club in Melbourne for 6 months. If any old boys are out in Melbourne let me know. Kitty Gibson (StA’12) I have just graduated from the Royal Agricultural University and am going to take a year out. I am planning on a trip to Berlin to learn German in November for three weeks. Arthur Russell (C’12) Commissioned as Second Lieutenant into the Scottish and Northern Irish Yeomanry Reserves in September. Still studying Civil Engineering at Heriot Watt University with 2 years remaining. Luke Navin (F’14) Have just released my first album of solo piano music. 7 and a half Visions of Love - 7 original pieces for the piano, composed and performed by myself. Available now on iTunes, Google Play Store, and Spotify.
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Hugo Sanders (R’00) Along with Nick Smyth, James Pymont, Lorenzo Curci (all ‘00) and some other friends completed the Maratona des Dolomites, an endurance cycling event in Italy in July. All wearing Huez* clothing, a company started by Hugo and Lorenzo which has now just completed one year of trading! Would be great to have other Worthians involved next year.
Vancouver, Canada with a patient to support her performance in the Women's Powerlifting Commonwealth Games. Business is going from strength to strength. Have also 1 Alaskan Malamute and 2 Canadian Eskimo dogs which I compete with throughout the winter. Am in the process of organising a 1,000 mile trek across Sweden for Cancer Research UK in conjunction with Bear Grylls and a company called Survival Wisdom (who train foreign special forces).