Duty prevailed over rights. After graduating, he worked for three years at Lyons Israel Ellis the pre-eminent training ground at the time in London for high-flying young architects and then for a short time for Middlesex county council, before setting up his own practice, which he combined with teaching in the UK (at the AA and Cambridge University) and the US (Cornell University). Annabel Pauline Jekyll Freyberg was born on August 16 1961, at a time when her father, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, was on service abroad and her mother was living at Windsor Castle, where her father-in-law was then serving as Deputy Constable. He retired in 1987 after a distinguished career in which he made major contributions to the practice, teaching and administration of medicine in the region. It is very sad to record the recent death of Pat Cotton, who was Dame of C1 and C3 for over twenty years between 1977 and 1997. To secure a council loan for the co-op, the houses had to meet local authority requirements; but the efficiency of Browns planning meant that he was able to deliver four bedrooms and two bathrooms within the space and cost limits that had been prescribed for a three-bedroom, one-bathroom unit. My mothers diary reveals they were talking until 3.30 am with Count Trauttsmandorf in Alpbach. Pat had many interests, Campanology was a favourite and she was also a great supporter of House events and athletic pursuits. Rackets - Marlborough College This feat he did not achieve, as some have believed, bare-foot; indeed his ankles were so swollen by the time he reached the Arizona mountains that he was forced to resort to wearing miners boots stuffed with bandages, at first managing to average only 1.5 mph.In fact Bruce should never have come to Marlborough at all. Between 1987 and 1990 he served as Assistant Chaplain at St Pauls Nicosia and as Diocesan Secretary of the Middle East Anglican Diocese. I had the same beaks and the same door less loos. Riverford later became a beacon for the organic dairy, meat and vegetable movement, selling direct to customers, as his children developed various sustainable businesses on the farm. Her uncle, Sir John Jackson, a great engineer, had been building army camps and a railway across Salisbury Plain and soon, when the new School of Artillery opened at Larkhill, they moved to Netheravon. Perhaps my books should be read as cautionary tales.Peter Hopkirk, author, was born on December 15, 1930. At . They were married for 66 years and shared faithful membership of successive local churches. Marlburian Club | Marlborough College Alumni The family migrated south and morphed into barristers and respected solicitors with their own firms with the assistance of a bit of local freemasonry His uncle was Alfred Leete, who was the Great War artist responsible for your country needs you. However, the local villagers were not pleased and there was a rumpus. Venue: MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE. His last military appointment was as a Brigadier back in St Christopher House as Director of Weapons A, working on the then new light gun as well as on new 155mm guns, FH 70 and SP 70 and on the M110 as well as on smaller calibre weapons including SA 80. He was a Deanery Treasurer and was secretary of a local charity. He would be eyeing up the deep midwicket boundary from the first ball that he received. They met at the home of the Finzi family, where Jeremy was a frequent guest, and were married in 1966. But this did not prevent him from playing a very active part in many activities in the town. He spent several years in hospital, followed by a long period of rehabilitation, during which, despite his limited dexterity, he gradually learned the skills not only to become a successful journalist and author, but also to drive, erratically, a specially adapted car. And the rest, as they say, is history. The former lord justice of appeal, Sir Henry Brooke, who has died following cardiac surgery aged 81, was a tireless campaigner for improving access to justice and transformed his retirement into an opportunity to speak out on legal causes.After stepping down from the bench in 2006 following a distinguished career, he achieved prominence as a passionate advocate for much-needed reform of the justice system: he served as vice-chair of the Labour party-supported Bach Commission on Access to Justice (2016-17), drafting significant sections of the resulting report that called for a legally enforceable right to justice and legal aid.Brookes post-judicial renown owed much to his enthusiastic adoption of digital technology. He was on a plane from Beirut hi-jacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1974. Captain Asbury was Secretary of the International Military Staff at NATO, Bursar of Marlborough College (1976-84) and a Governor of Wellington College (1984-91). Menu. In all his coaching Bruce led by example. Christopher Frenchs father (Father French) was a clergyman in the east end of London and on enlistment day he staggered through the bombed out ruins to join him. John, who was my uncle, communed with the sea as well as the land. Neither Jeremy nor I were considered to have officer qualities and Jeremy found a niche in the Forces Radio. He is survived by his wife Jacqueline and son James. A drop in the numbers of horses and owners forced him to bow out in 2012, with his business in voluntary liquidation. He bicycled to Devizes to work so that my mother could have the car, rode with the Olympic team in Porlock, hunted with the Avon Vale and took the dogs rabbiting on the aerodrome. When he retired he moved to Waikanae on the Kapiti Close where he became Director of the Kapiti Chamber Choir and of the 100-member Kapiti Chorale. His Honour Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC (B3 1966-70) died on 22nd July 2018. Excited to discover what country he was going to be able to explore he asked where they were and was told that it was Falmouth. Obituary by C.E Barclay, Director, Blackett observatory and Vice President A Royal Astronomical Society. He had taken up boxing at some stage in his childhood and carried it on, representing Oxford and thus gaining what is known as a Boxing Blue. Christmas at the Old Church with Michael Allen Harrison 2021 Old Marlburian Golfing Society - Home - WildApricot Current parents please take note! He was Director of a theatre company called Forkbeard Fantasy that was started by 2 University friends, Chris and Tim Britton. But by the middle of the month they were still 900 miles from Rio and the ship was becalmed. Of the 416 deaths involving COVID-19 in Week 7, 63.7% (265 deaths) had this recorded as the underlying cause of death, which was a lower . Robert Stinson (B3 1944-49) died in early April 2013. He did eventually got as far as the Middle East.Quite what turned Geoffreys head towards a life in the practice of the law I dont know, though Martin thinks his interest may have started with his reading of the Enid Blyton books, The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters and the Mystery of the Invisible Thief, books that Martin says Geoffrey continued to re-read well into his 20s. He wrote the papers that got approval for Swingfire, FACE, the 175mm M107 and for Rapier. In 2007, he joined the Centre for European Reform, the pro-European thinktank.Although a passionate supporter of Britains membership of the EU, Philip was often at odds with the orthodoxies of pro-Europeans. He attended Club Day 6th October, where he met up with old friends from his house and years including Tim Halton and Gale Coles and was also able to see his grandchildren, Catherine (NC) and James (B1) Barrows, who are attending Marlborough. Thank you. Ant was a distance walker of ambition and achievement; having completed the South Downs Way, he learned that my wife and I were proposing a long walk across northern Spain. Despite having very different political views from some of his friends, there was never an acrimonious discussion. He trained as a parachutist and, in the early 1950s, served in Egypt with 33 Airborne Field Regiment. There was a time when his parents were driving through Wiltshire when they saw a smart young boy on the side of the road hitch-hiking. His was not another country as far as I was concerned. He added you know what; winning is much more fun. The family lived in Bath from 1953-1956, and Wimbledon for sixteen years. He and his wife, Stella (ne Portas), whopre-deceased him (7 September 2005),moved to Salisburyfrom Doncaster in1981, the year of his retirement. He was a recipient of the prestigious Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the UK, the IAAF awarded him with the Veteran Pin in 1989, with the IAAF Silver Order of Merit in 2001, and he was appointed as an IAAF Honorary Life Vice President in 2003. He was also in the Officers Training Corps before serving as a sergeant in the Home Guard. Geoffrey had slipped away from Marlborough School to go to Newbury races and was having to hitch hike back as the bookies had got the better of him that day. Douglas Neil Cross (LI 1945-49) died on the 18th September 2012. VISIT THE MARLBURIAN CLUB WEBSITE After the Red Army captured Berlin, Mitchells division took 70,000 prisoners between May 2 and 4. After commanding the 23rd Light AA Battery and R Searchlight Battery in Egypt, in 1943 he became second-in-command of the 1st Heavy AA Regiment, based in India. Geoffreys admiration of Indian cricketers went so far as him buying what was said to be the great Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskars cricket sweater at a Charity Dinner auction we attended. His hobbies included bridge and readingparticularly theology. Since his early years Roger was an avid follower of the capital markets and invested wisely and well in the shares of a number of different companies. Janet joined the North Wiltshire Orchestra in 1968 and was still playing with us until the summer of 2015. Guys focus on evidence-based medicine and quality of care meant that he was involved with medical audit from the late 1980s. Only a handful of his cases attracted publicity, with perhaps the most prominent being an appeal in 2003 by one of the men convicted of conspiring to steal diamonds worth 200 million from the Millennium Dome. Unsurprisingly, he made a favourable impression with his knowledge, judgement and easy charm and got the job. His service was recognised with a CB in 1979 the usual award for civil servants in my grade who have served for several years without disgracing themselves.Awarded an honorary doctorate of Laws by Dundee University in 1983, he retired from the Civil Service the following year but continued to use his experience in a number of fields. He objected to planning a route and wasnt a natural maintenance hand. He was educated in the US (at Bronxville high school, New York, 1939-45) and the UK (Marlborough college, 1945-48) and won a place at Oxford University to read English; but while doing his military service he decided to switch to architecture and applied to the Architectural Association, where he studied from 1950 until 1956. He much enjoyed his life in Philadelphia and was a much respected figure there. I dont suppose Jeremy ever presented these ditties but he may have had some more respectable Third Programme output.