Alleyn Club Newsletter 2015

The Dulwich College Yearbook

– 110th Issue & Alleyn Club Newsletter – Number 55 2015

The 133rd Alleyn Club Dinner Friday 30 October 2015 With more than 200 guests filling the Great Hall in each of the past three years, this year’s Annual Dinner promises to be another memorable occasion. We hope you will join Old Alleynians of all ages and interests on 30 October, whether coming with a friend, a large group or as a member of one of the OA clubs and societies. The Alleyn Club & Development Office will be happy to help you to gather a group of your peers.

Further information: Page 43 oa.dulwich.org.uk/eventscalendar alleynclub @ dulwich.org.uk +44 (0)20 8299 8436

Contents ............................................... Alleyn Club News The President 04 From the Secretary’s Desk 05 Secretary of the Alleyn Club 07 2014 AGM Minutes and Accounts 07 Notice of 2015 AGM 10 OA News 11 Clubs & Societies Alleynian Sailing Society 19 Association Football Club 21 Boat Club 22 Chess Club 22 Cricket Club 20 Cross Country Club 22 Football Club 23 Golf Society 24 Lodge 25 Shooting Club 25 Squash Club 26 Hollington Club & DCM Hollington Trust 26 OA Endowment Fund 27 College News 30 College Development Report 33 Roll of Benefactors 36 Events Dates for Your Diary 40 2014 UK Events 44 2014 Overseas Events 56 Overseas Contact Details 59 Obituaries 60 Booking Forms 87 Presidents of the Alleyn Club 93 Staff & Honorary Members 94 and OA Governors

Alleyn Club Committee 2014-15 ............................................... President: I W Warburton MA MSc (57-65) Vice President: P G R Lyon MA (52-60) Secretary: C W Field JP MA ARAM LRAM ARCM (51-59) Hon Asst Secretaries: N R Robinson FCIArb (62-71); T J Walsh BA Hon Treasurer: J D P Kendall MA FCAA (59-67) Committee: A Bhola (95-00) {2019}; J R M Boote (95-00) {2019}; A T Frankford (62-69) {2018}; S J W Martin (83-90) {2018}; T O C Saunders (01-06) {2018}; J F Thornton R H Boultbee (66-75) {OACC}; A N Capon (73-80) {ASS}; G O Curtis (56-64) {OAGS}; J B St L Franklin (90-98) {OAFC} Common RoomRepresentative: J H Rosslyn-Smith BSc (97-04) The Master: Dr J A F Spence BA PhD ( ex officio ) Immediate Past President: Dr C H R Niven OBE Palmes académiques (52-60) Trustees: J D P Kendall (59-67); P G R Lyon (52-60); E C J Walsh (73-81) (67-75) {2016}; A Turnbull (87-92) {2019} Sport Club Representatives:

Christopher Field (51-59) Secretary Laurie Hindley Director of Development Guy Lawrenson Development Manager Contact Us .......................................................................................................... Alleyn Club & Development Office Dulwich College, Dulwich Common, London SE21 7LD +44 (0)20 8299 8436 alleynclub @ dulwich.org.uk www.dulwich.org.uk/OAs-Development Joanne Whaley Development Manager Katie Cullen Alumni Events Officer Alison Cole Development Administrator

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The President: Ivor Warburton MA MSc (57-65) ..........................................................................................................

Ivor Warburton was at the College between 1957 and 1965, during which time he played bassoon in the orchestra, was a member of the Scouts and, in his final year, was School Captain and received an honours cap for playing 1st XV rugby. At Queens’ College, Cambridge, he read Mathematics and then Oriental Studies (Chinese). Graduating in 1968, he joined British Rail London Midland Region as a management trainee. In a career of more than 30 years (including a year doing a degree in Management and Business Studies at Warwick) his jobs included local operations, selling the rail passenger business around the world and senior positions such as Director of Passenger Marketing, principal negotiator with the trades unions and Director of Rail Operations. He went on to serve as General Manager of the London Midland region in 1990, a post held when he had joined 22 years earlier by Sir Robert Lawrence OA. Upon privatisation he served as both a director of Virgin Rail Group and Chairman of the rail passenger franchise trade association, ATOC. Ivor was a Fellow of the Chartered Institutes of Marketing, and Logistics and Transport, and a Liveryman of the Marketors’ Company. After several seasons as a tour manager, leading groups across North America, Europe and North Africa by train, he spent three years living in China as General Manager of a joint venture with part of the Ministry of Railways to develop luxury tourist trains. His current interests include walking, classical music and high speed rail developments in China, together with an insatiable appetite for world travel, particularly to Arctic and Antarctic regions. He became a trustee of the OA Endowment Fund in 2006 and is currently its Chairman. During 2015 Ivor will be travelling throughout the world to meet Old Alleynians and strengthen the bonds between the ‘Dulwich Diaspora’. He will be visiting Vancouver, Denver, Dallas, Toronto and New York in May, and plans to travel around Europe later in the summer. If you live in any of these regions and would like to meet Ivor, please contact Miss Katie Cullen in the Alleyn Club & Development Office: alleynclub @ dulwich.org.uk or +44 (0)20 8299 8436.

It is a great honour to be your President this year. It is exactly 50 years since my last year at the College and it is interesting to see both how much has changed and how much is familiar. Our Club has three lasting objectives: • to provide activities for members and to keep them informed of OA matters • to make grants • to help strengthen links between the Club and the College I hope to be able to contribute in each of these areas: improving communication and contact with Old Alleynians everywhere; ensuring that the sporting and social clubs and societies are robust and receive appropriate support; and to continue to lead OAs in working with the College to assist in its evolution and development. When Alleynians leave the College they do not all live in southeast London! The ‘Dulwich Diaspora’ sees OAs in many corners of the world and I hope to visit many of the established groups in the UK and elsewhere during the coming year. I am preparing my schedule of events, so if you are away from SE21 and have a small group of Alleynians who already meet, or if you would like to arrange a small event for OAs locally in the UK, Europe or further afield, then do let the Alleyn Club & Development Office know. They will assist you; and I, as your President, will make every effort to join you!

Ivor Warburton (57-65)

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From the Secretary’s Desk ..........................................................................................................

Sitting, with pencil poised, wondering how to start this review of the Alleyn Club year, lines from Cole Porter’s 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate flashed through my mind:

Another op’nin’, another show In Philly, Boston or Baltimo’, A chance for stage folks to say hello, Another op’nin’, of another show. So, with sincere apologies to you, Mr Porter: Another op’nin’, the AC show

In Cooden, Sherborne and Toronto, A chance for ‘A-team’ to say hello, Another op’nin’ of the AC show. Just as a new musical will start touring in the provinces before reaching the West End or Broadway, so the Alleyn Club roadshow involving the Master and the President has its fixed points around the UK and overseas before reaching its climax at the Annual Dinner in late October or early November. Incidentally, as the President reminded the committee recently, the Club’s rules state that the only event the committee is required to organise is an Annual Dinner. For all that there are fixed points (including, of course, Founder’s Day and the College Remembrance Ceremony, both occasions when the President lays a wreath at the College War Memorial), no two Alleyn Club years are ever exactly the same. Indeed, it is hoped that Alleyn Club years will become ever more varied as committee plans to engage, Heineken-like, with as many parts of the membership as possible gradually come to fruition. Returning to 2014, it gives me great pleasure to place on record the sincere thanks of Alleyn Club members to those of you who have organised the local and overseas events. These events do not just happen: their success depends on the enthusiasm and meticulous organisational skills of the organisers, together with the splendid backroom support given them by the members of the Alleyn Club & Development Office team, in particular the Development Manager, Guy Lawrenson, and the Alumni Events Officer, Katie Cullen, whose unfailing cheerfulness, courtesy and efficiency make it a pleasure to work with them. As a means of strengthening and sustaining links between the Alleyn Club and the College, the presence at these events of the Master, or one of his deputies, and the President of the Club speaks eloquently. In this latter respect, the Club was especially well served by its President for 2013-14, Dr Colin Niven, who embarked on his round of visits to events large and small, at home and abroad, knowing full well that he was likely to have to undergo major surgery as soon as his presidential year came to an end. It was, therefore,

with great gratitude, warmth and affection that Colin was greeted at the Club committee meeting in January this year, just two months after undergoing successful by-pass surgery. It also gives me pleasure to record that the work begun three years ago by Dr Bruce Smith to bring greater effectiveness to the committee’s deliberations has recently been given added impetus: during autumn 2014 a sub-committee met on three occasions to examine and report to the full committee with recommendations, including timescale, on: 2. Relations between the Club, the College and franchised Dulwich Colleges overseas and sporting clubs using the Old Alleynian or Alleyn Club name (whether closed or open) Details of recommendations made by the sub- committee and actions taken are likely to be made known later in the year. It was, however, abundantly clear from the initial debate on the sub-committee’s recommendations that the full committee wished to make the Alleyn Club relevant to the broadest spectrum of members possible. A section concerning The Life Cycle of an Alleynian, for example, addressed the need for the Club to establish and maintain effective links with OAs as they move from school to university and on to building a career and, most probably, taking on family commitments. Another, dealing with Communications, highlighted the importance of embracing modern means of communication including social media, and further developing the emerging role of OA professional networking groups. Watch this space! 1. Purpose, aims, membership and objectives of the Club

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Looking back over 2014, some of the highlights for me included: • The inaugural networking meeting on Thursday 15 May of OAs in the Arts and Media held, courtesy of Mike Kennard (61-68), at the Concert Artistes, Association in Covent Garden, which was much enlivened by the contribution of the guest speaker, Sir Peter Bazalgette (62-71), Chair of Arts Council England • The successful move of lunch back to the Christison Hall on Founder’s Day which allowed the College caterers to lay on a superb buffet lunch • The 36th OA Reunion on Saturday 20 September when Terry Walsh’s span of 60 years at Dulwich was celebrated by the unveiling of a bust of him which is now on permanent display in the Lower Hall • The Annual Dinner when, for the third year running, the Great Hall was well-nigh packed to capacity thanks to the sterling work of James Thornton and his team of table champions who managed not only to fill the tables but to reduce the average age of attendees yet again An event I much regret not having been able to attend last year was the Annual Dinner of the OA Boat Club. Of all the fixed points in the Old Alleynian/Alleyn Club year, this relative newcomer (OABC celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2015) ticks all the boxes for the future health of OA clubs and societies, including the Alleyn Club itself: its membership is young and active, it retains close links with the College and makes old-stagers from the Alleyn Club like me feel completely at home in their company. Long may it continue thus! In four years the College will celebrate its 400th anniversary; in eight years the Alleyn Club will reach its 150th anniversary. With these important milestones in prospect and as preparations are being made for them, I believe it will be important for the Alleyn Club to be in younger hands than mine – I shall be 75 just after Easter. Therefore, I have indicated to the committee that I intend to stand down as Club Secretary at the end of the year. As a result the committee will seek to appoint an OA to succeed me in time for him to work alongside me during the autumn before taking over on 1 January 2016. A job description and details of how to apply can be found on page 7. It has been a great privilege to have been able to serve the Alleyn Club over the past 14 years and to have had the pleasure of meeting so many fellow OAs of all ages at events large and small in venues as familiar as the OAFC pavilion, as ancient as an Oxbridge college, as friendly as a country hotel or as rarefied as Christies’

boardroom in New York with Picassos worth millions of dollars hanging on the walls. Regardless of the event or venue, I have always known in advance that I could rely on being welcomed warmly and that the same, genuine warmth of welcome would be afforded my wife, Eileen, whenever she has been able to accompany me. Thank you, all, very much.

37th OA Reunion Saturday 3 October

For a variety of reasons, the Reunion will have a different format this year. Those who follow international rugby will know that the 2015 World Cup is being hosted by this country during the autumn. What many may not know is that the College’s fine new 1st XV pitch will be used as a training venue for international sides from abroad. As a result, the College 1st XV will be playing at home on just four occasions during the Michaelmas Term including Saturday 3 October when they will be pitted against Brighton College. The undoubted success of last year’s Reunion, when a number of ladies were invited to join OAs to mark the 60th anniversary of Terry Walsh’s arrival at Dulwich in September 1954, has led to the decision by the College to open this year’s event to OAs and their partners. However, because the official calendar of events for the Michaelmas Term will be particularly full, it has been decided to hold the Reunion immediately following an earlier function to which recent benefactors are to be invited. A modest charge of £10 per head will be made towards the costs of College hospitality for the afternoon. In order to support those involved in organising an expanding range of Alleyn Club activities we are working with the College to change the way in which we gather and share OA contact details. This is with the aim of making it easier for individual OAs and the sports clubs to make contact with the rest of the OA community, while providing peace of mind for those who wish their contact details to remain private to the College and Club. With this in mind, please take the time to complete the update form that accompanies the Yearbook . OA Database and Data Protection

Chris Field (51-59)

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Secretary of the Alleyn Club ..........................................................................................................

The Secretary of the Alleyn Club, Chris Field (51-59), has announced his intention to retire on 31 December 2015. The Club Committee invites applications from any Old Alleynian interested in succeeding him. The Secretary is the sole paid executive officer of the Club, responsible for its operation and smooth running. He is greatly assisted by the staff in the Alleyn Club & Development Office at the College, where he has a desk with full computer access. Familiarity with electronic communication systems is essential and the ability to work from home, as and when required, would be an advantage. The Secretary receives an annual honorarium and is reimbursed for out-of- pocket expenses.

A full job description and application form can be found on the College website at www.dulwich.org.uk/alleynclubsecretary. Applications Applicants should complete the application form, giving the names of two referees, and send it to alleynclub @ dulwich.org.uk no later than Friday 29 May 2015 . It is hoped that an appointment will be made before Founder’s Day (Saturday 27 June) and that the successful candidate will be available to work alongside the Secretary during the Michaelmas Term in preparation for the AGM and Annual Dinner on Friday 30 October and the College Remembrance Ceremony and Past Presidents’ Lunch on Wednesday 11 November.

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Alleyn Club ..........................................................................................................

Held on Friday 31 October 2014 at 6.30pm in the Board Room, Dulwich College

meeting, was proposed by T J Birse, seconded by R H Boultbee and carried unanimously. The Minutes were duly signed as a correct record. 2. The Accounts for 2013 were issued to all present. The Hon Treasurer drew attention to two items of expenditure (i) on the summary income and expenditure account, Support for the Development Office at £12,500 represented a full-year contribution towards the post of Alumni Relations Officer, the corresponding figure for 2012 having been £7,308 which represented seven months of support; (ii) on the balance sheet, the sum of £40,000 represented a donation from the capital account to the College for the Laboratory (new Science Block) Appeal which had attracted matched funding from an anonymous donor. Turning to the schedule of investments, he highlighted the most satisfactory year-end valuation of £1,013,787, that a very pleasing annual rate of return of 4.9% gross (4.4% net) had been achieved, and that the trustees had been well advised to divest the Club of its sizeable holding in Tesco early in the new year. J R Walters asked the Treasurer whether he was concerned that, by investing in relatively high- yielding stocks, the Club’s investments were open to high risk. Replying on the behalf of his fellow Trustees, P G R Lyon said that the Club had invested

Present

Dr C H R Niven OBE Palmes académiques (52-60) President (in the chair)

I W Warburton MA MSc (57-65) Vice President J D P Kendall MA FCCA (59-67) Hon Treasurer

C W Field JP MA ARAM LRAM ARCM (51-59) Secretary

and 55 members

Apologies

Sir Robert Clarke, D A Emms OBE

1. Approval of the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 1 November 2013, which had been printed in the Yearbook and were available at the

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in stocks with high dividend yield to reap the benefit of their yields and that it was a style that had worked well in recent years, though the growth in yields was beginning to slow down generally. The President thanked the Hon Treasurer for his meticulous work on behalf of the Club. Adoption of the accounts was proposed by the Ven P R Turner CB DL and seconded by T J Birse. 3. The President proposed, and there was unanimous agreement, that following grants for 2015, having been published in the Yearbook, should be approved en bloc : • £1,000 to the College for Alleyn Club Prizes • £1,000 to the Master’s Fund for sponsorships (through the OA Endowment Fund) • £500 to the OA Clubhouse Fund • £50 to each of the Old Alleynian Sporting Clubs if required by these Clubs Other grants • £2,000 to Alleynian Sailing Society to cover charter fee for boys’ sail training week 4. The President proposed that the election of Officers and Committee should be taken en bloc P G R Lyon MA (52-60) Hon Asst Secretaries N R Robinson FCIArb (62-71) and T J Walsh BA Hon Treasurer J D P Kendall MA FCAA (59-67) Auditor F W Berringer & Co Committee: Ordinary Members DA Bhola (90-95) {2019}, J R M Boote (95-00) {2019}, A T Frankford (62-69) {2018}, J B StL Franklin LLB (90-98) {2018}, S J Martin (83-90) {2018}, T O C Saunders (2001-06) {2018}, J F Thornton (67-75) {2016}, A Turnbull (87-92) {2019} Four representatives of Old Alleynian Sporting and Social Clubs R H Boultbee (66-75) OACC, J B StL Franklin LLB (90-98) OAFC, A N Capon ACII (73-80) Alleynian Sailing Society, G O Curtis (56-64) OAGS President I W Warburton MA MSc (57-65) Vice President

The Master is a member of the Committee ex officio as is the immediate Past President. Trustees J D P Kendall (59-67), P G R Lyon (52-60), E C J Walsh (73-81)

The nominations were proposed by I F Hay Davison CBE, seconded by J R Williams and approved unanimously.

5. Endorsement of Trustees of the OA Endowment Fund

The President recommended the endorsement of M R A Graham, P Petyt, I W Warburton and T Woudhuysen as trustees of OAEF in succession with immediate effect and of J H Rosslyn-Smith w.e.f. 1 January 2015 in succession to T Llewelyn whose allotted term of office expires on 31 December 2014. The recommendations were accepted unanimously. (i) The Secretary reported that the Cricketer Cup honours boards were now mounted at the east end of the Pavilion Salle above the 1st XI and 1st XV honours boards. (ii) The immediate Past President, Brigadier E J W Walker OBE DL, announced that he had secured a site in St George’s Church, Ypres, for a plaque to be displayed commemorating the OAs and members of staff who had lost their lives in World War I. Brigadier Walker’s generosity met with overwhelming approbation. (iii) The President extended his good wishes to the Vice President for his forthcoming year of office. (iv) T J Walsh thanked the President for the time and dedication which he had given during his year as President. He had been a wonderful President. 6. Any other business

The meeting ended at 6.50pm.

C W Field, Secretary

Common Room Representative J H Rosslyn-Smith BSc (97-04)

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Alleyn Club Accounts Year Ended 31 December 2013 ..........................................................................................................

Income

2013 (£)

2012 (£)

Subscriptions and donations received

1,220

1,188

Surplus of sale of CDs

165

Gross interest on bank deposits

Gross dividends received before deduction of income tax

45,298

39,632

6,953

7,185

Untaxed interest

52,281 (8,028)

46,841 (6,727)

Less: income tax and corporation tax

44,253 12,083

40,114 11,333

Life Membership Fund (notional amount of ‘income content’ in the Fund at 31 December 2013)

57,556 52,800 Note: No separate Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses has been presented as all such gains and losses have been dealt with in the income account and the expenditure account. Expenditure Cost of supplying The Yearbook 21,461 17,417 Gross cost of dinners etc 13,658 13,934 Less: receipts (13,093) (12,207)

565

1,727 1,095 1,500 5,750

Postage, stationery, general expenditure

2,164 1,500 5,750 3,000

Audit fee

Secretary’s honorarium

President’s expenses

650

12,500 46,940

7,308

Support for Development Office

35,447

Donations and grants Expedition grants – Master’s Fund Dulwich College – School Prizes

1,000 1,000

Grant to OAFC Cricketer Cup

500 255

500 220

Alleynian Sailing Society

1,550

1,400

OA Shooting Club OA Golfing Society

50 50

4,405

4,220 2,967

Write down of stock of CDs

Total expenditure

51,345

42,634 10,166

6,211

Balance being surplus/(deficit) of income over expenditure transferred to capital account

57,556

52,800

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Notice of Alleyn Club Annual General Meeting ..........................................................................................................

Friday 30 October 2015 at 6.30pm in the Board Room, Dulwich College Agenda

Auditor F W Berringer & Co Committee: Ordinary Members

A Bhola (90-95) {2019}, J R M Boote (95-00) {2019}, J J Bubb Humfryes (99-07) {2020}, G O Curtis (56-64) {2018}, A T Frankford (62-69) {2018}, S J Martin (83-90) {2018}, J F Thornton (67-75) FCA MBA {2016}, A Turnbull (87-92) {2019} 4 representatives of Old Alleynian Sporting and Social Clubs A R Langley (98-03) Alleynian Sailing Society {2020}, T O C Saunders (2001-06) (OABC) 2018}, J B St L Franklin LLB (90-98) OAFC {2018}, W L Lewis (54-65) OAGS {2020} Common Room Representative J H Rosslyn-Smith BSc (97-04) The Master and the immediate Past President are members of the Committee ex officio Trustees J D P Kendall (59-67), P G R Lyon (52-60), E C J Walsh (73-81) 5. Endorsement of Trustees of the Old Alleynian Endowment Trust: M R A Graham, P Petyt, I W Warburton and J H Rosslyn-Smith 6. Any Other Business To note the appointment of a new Secretary of the Alleyn Club wef 1 January 2016

1. Approve the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 31 October 2014

2. Approve the Accounts for 2014

3. Approve Grants for 2016: • £1,000 to the College for Alleyn Club Prizes • £1,000 to the Master’s Fund for sponsorships • £500 to the OA Clubhouse Fund • £50 to each of the Old Alleynian Sporting Clubs if required by these Clubs • £1,000 to the Old Alleynian Boat Club • £2,000 to the Alleynian Sailing Society to cover part of the cost of chartering vessels for boys’ sail training week • Other grants 4. Election of Officers:

President P G R Lyon MA (52-60) Vice President

Sir Colin Rimer (54-62) Hon Asst Secretaries N R Robinson FCIArb (62-71) and T J Walsh BA Hon Treasurer J D P Kendall MA FCAA (59-67)

C W Field (51-59) Secretary

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OA News ..........................................................................................................

This section of the Yearbook contains a roundup of news received from Old Alleynians over the past 12 months. The College website publishes OA news stories throughout the year. If you would like to share your news with the OA community then please contact us via alleynclub @ dulwich.org.uk.

News from the Archive

War. The College owns three of these seven medals, all three awarded in the First World War. Over the last year these medals have been the focus of attention on various occasions. In April 2014 three members of the Lafone family visited the College. Terry Walsh (Senior Fellow; Past President) and Calista Lucy (Keeper of the Archive) showed them Alexander Lafone’s (1881-89) VC medal and the War Memorial. They also toured the Old Library, which commemorates Old Alleynians who fell in the Boer War, including Capt W B Lafone (1869-75), a cousin who served in the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment. He was killed in action on 6 January 1900 at Ladysmith. On Tuesday 20 May 2014 Sergeant Johnson Gideon Beharry VC gave an inspirational talk in the Great Hall to members of the CCF. Before the talk Sgt Beharry visited the Archive to view the three Victoria Crosses owned by the College and shared that he had only held his own VC on two occasions. He was particularly interested in the stories on Cecil Sewell (1907-10) and Pip Gardner (28-32) as their stories most closely match his own. On Armistice Day all three Victoria Crosses were on view in the Lower Hall and Lt Gen Sir Peter Duffell KCB CBE MC (49-56) agreed to record a ‘podcast’ about them. The College is recording various people talking about objects and events which are important in its history. This is part of the build up to the celebration of the 400th anniversary in 2019. In December Andrew Gray, a great-great-nephew of Lt Richard Jones (1909-14) contacted the College to ask if he could lay a wreath on our War Memorial on behalf of his family. The College rose to the occasion at very short notice. The CCF turned out and provided a guard of honour. Robin Smith (Head of Brass) organised some trumpeters to play the Last Post and Ivor Warburton (57-65), President of the Alleyn Club and Terry Walsh attended. Afterwards Mr Gray viewed Lt Jones’s VC.

The Archive continues to flourish and is used as a resource not only by the public but within the College as appropriate in the curriculum. During Lent Term 2015 the exhibition in the Wodehouse Library is showcasing the Year 9 History project. This programme has been running since 2009 and is a very successful collaboration between the History department and the Library and Archive. Each boy studies an Old Alleynian who fought and died in the First World War. It introduces the pupils to basic skills of research including using different sources, reading original documents – often hand written – and cross-checking information for accuracy. The project has revealed some mistakes on the War Memorial that have now been corrected. The Summer Term exhibition will be on magazines, other than The Alleynian, produced at the College. If you were involved with any of these – Groll, Troll, The Orchardian, Black and Blue, Illuminati, The Locusts, Muse, PER, Semantron , etc then please contact the Archive via archive @ dulwich.org.uk. The exhibition will be open throughout the Summer Term, including Founder’s Day (Saturday 27 June). The exhibition in Michaelmas Term 2015 will take a look at Modern Foreign Languages at Dulwich College: the teachers, the methods and where the learning of languages has taken Old Alleynians in later life, including Bletchley Park in the Second World War and the diplomatic service. We would like to hear from you if you have benefited from learning languages at the College. The exhibition will be open throughout Michaelmas Term, to coincide with the OA Reunion on Saturday 3 October and the European Day of Languages on 26 September 2015. Dulwich College and the Victoria Cross Seven Old Alleynians have been awarded the highest medal for gallantry, the Victoria Cross: five during the First World War and two in the Second World

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firm King & Wood Mallesons. William will take up his three year post as EMEA Managing Partner on 1 May 2015. With more than 3,000 lawyers, KWMSJB is one of the world’s largest law firms. Oliver Brettle (78-87), Partner at international law firm White & Case LLP, hosted a gathering of the OAs in the Law professional interest group at his firm’s offices in April 2014. Peter Susman QC (53-61) was guest speaker and a copy of the guest list can be found on page 45. Stephen Browett (69-77), Co-chairman of Crystal Palace Football Club and Chairman of Farr Vintners, hosted eight OAs at Selhurst Park on Saturday 13 December 2014 for pre-match drinks. The group was also able to meet Steve Coppell, formerly of Manchester United and England and, on four separate occasions, Crystal Palace manager; and Jim Cannon, who played for the Club a record 663 times. The match itself, against Stoke City, ended in a 1-1 draw. Philip Bull (64-73), a consultant rheumatologist who trained at St Thomas’ Hospital medical school, retired from the NHS in the summer of 2014 having worked at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, since 1990. Philip is married to Julia and they have three children. Philip remains in contact with a number of school friends, with whom he has made music for many years in a cover band called Private Practice. Philip would be pleased to hear from other old friends by email: dr.pwbull @ btinternet.com. Pat Brown (45-53) reports that half a dozen members of Modern 6A (1952) meet two to three times a year at the City Universities Club in Cornhill. If any other members would like to join them please contact Pat via: pat.brown73 @ hotmail.co.uk. Jack Carter (01-08) and Mark Gleeson (01-08) were part of a four man crew that competed in the 2015 New Ocean Wave Great Pacific Race to raise money and awareness for ‘NOMAN is an Island’, a charity dedicated to the eradication of all forms of cancer related to human papillomavirus (HPV). Their crew finished third, completing the row from Monterey, California, to Waikiki, Hawaii, in 48 days, one hour and 28 minutes. (From left): back row – John Walters (54-62; Past President), James Thornton (67-75), Ed Walsh (73-81) and Damian Thornton (76-80); front row – Bob Butterfield (58-67), David Trace (54-63), Rod Peters (57-62), Stephen Browett (69-77) and Peter Gillman (53-61) in the home dugout at Crystal Palace FC

Books about Old Alleynians The P G Wodehouse Miscellany by N T P Murphy (foreword by Stephen Fry) (The History Press, £9.99) Shackleton: by Endurance we Conquer by Michael Smith (Oneworld Publications, £20)

Ernest Shackleton: Antarctic Explorer by Evelyn and Julian Dowdeswell and Angela Seddon (Raintree, £12.99) Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill (Flying Eye Books, £14.99)

Mertz & I… the Antarctic diary of Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis edited by Allan Mornement and Beau Riffenburgh (Erskine Press, £35)

Calista Lucy Keeper of the Archive archives @ dulwich.org.uk

Marco Alessi (03-12) and his fellow members of Oxford’s renowned acappella group, Out of the Blue , released a cover of Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie in August 2014 in aid of Helen & Douglas House, a hospice in Oxford that provides hospice care for children and young adults. The group’s charitable efforts received press coverage around the world, with Shakira stating her own support for their efforts on Twitter. Chris Baugh (99-06) was victorious in his professional boxing debut in January 2015. Chris, nicknamed ‘The Bull’, took up boxing during his first year of studying at London School of Economics. In March 2014 Sir Peter Bazalgette (62-71), Chair of Arts Council England, and Jeremy Deller (77-84), 2004 Turner Prize winner, took part in Dulwich Picture Gallery’s ART NOW panel discussion, an event organised in celebration of the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s 60th anniversary. Sir Peter spoke at the first meeting of the OAs in Arts and Media professional interest group in May 2014, hosted by Michael Kennard (61-68) at the Concert Artistes’ Association, and assumed the Presidency of the Canon Carver Society in November – see page 34 for details. Amit Bhola (95-00), who joined the Alleyn Club committee in October 2014, married his fiancée, Nisha, in the Old Library on Saturday 14 February 2015. William Boss (81-86) was elected Managing Partner (Europe, Middle East & Africa) of global law firm King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin. William has been a partner within SJ Berwin’s real estate practice for many years and was appointed Joint Head of UK Real Estate in November 2013, when the firm merged with Asian law

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Old Alleynians and current pupils starred in two productions at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Nikolai Gogol’s comedy of errors, The Government Inspector , and the comedy #MyWay . The British Theatre Guide described the productions as ‘deliciously infectious’. The OAs who starred in the two productions were George Chambers (09-14), Angus Doughty (08-13), George John (08-13), Charlie MacVicar (08-13), Alex Maxwell (06-13), Joseph Taylor (09-14), Dan Whitlam (06-13) and SamWilliams (09-14).

Andrew Chetwood (00-05), who works for the Operations Team at EY Consulting, visited the College in June 2014 to talk to 20 Remove students. Andrew answered questions about his experience studying Chemical Engineering, the career options that it opens up and the university choices available to Upper School boys. Artist Christopher Cole (68-73) exhibited a selection of his paintings at Haslemere Museum in Surrey in November 2014. The exhibition was entitled Spectrum of Light and details of Christopher’s work can be found at www.christophercole.co.uk. In August 2014 Louis Collier (03-14) and Will Cook (03-14) represented Team England and won the 26th World Schools Debating Championships, held in Bangkok, Thailand. Three OAs spoke at a reunion dinner for alumni of University College, Durham, held in September 2014: Douglas Denham St Pinnock (64-72) served as President of the Durham Castle Society (the organisation for alumni of University College) in 2013-14. Alex Nelson (73-80) is a trustee of the Society and editor of its newsletter, and Professor Mino Green (41-44) is also a prominent member. Dr Olly Donnelly (85-95), Lecturer in Clinical Oncology at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, returned to the College in February 2015 to address members of the Medical and Dentistry Society. Nick Easter (91-96) returned to the England rugby team for the 2015 Six Nations championship and scored a try against Italy at Twickenham on 14 February. England finished as runners up to Ireland, with Nick playing in three of England’s five games, taking his tally of England caps to 51. Richard (Dick) Edwards (56 -63) completed his term of office as President of The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors in March 2014. He left the south in 1969 for Wigan, where he has been domiciled for most of the time since then. Richard would like to hear from other OAs living in the northwest and can be contacted via edwards.r10 @ sky.com. Award-winning actor Chiwetel Ejiofor OBE (90-95) will play the title role in the National Theatre’s production of Everyman that will open in April and run to 16 July 2015. Chiwetel has been acclaimed for many previous Alex Nelson, Douglas Denham St Pinnock and Professor Mino Green at a Durham Castle Society reunion

The Government Inspector was performed in London and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

In October 2014 English Heritage unveiled a Blue Plaque at the Upper Norwood house that was home to Raymond Chandler (1900-05) during his schooldays. The ceremony was attended by the Master, members of the academic staff and Lower School students. Sir Peter Bazalgette (62-71), a member of English Heritage’s Blue Plaque committee, was on hand to address the assembled audience on Chandler’s life and writing. The Master then spoke about Chandler’s place in the pantheon of Dulwich College writers and Jo Akrill (English) talked about Chandler’s fondness for the blue colour found in the cornflower, the College’s emblem and a motif in his writing. Finally, Tom Williams, author of a recent biography of Chandler, spoke about the place Mount Cyra (110 Auckland Road) played in forming Chandler the writer. The plaque was unveiled by Mr Williams and Sam Warren-Miell (Remove).

The blue plaque celebrating Raymond Chandler’s links with southeast London, unveiled by College pupil Sam Warren-Miell

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stage and screen performances, including the 2008 Olivier Award for Best Actor for his role in the Donmar’s production of Othello , and the 2013 BAFTA for Best Actor for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years A Slave . Tickets for Everyman are on sale now from the National Theatre’s website. OAs Dominic Evans (75-78), Adam Rothwell (97-02) and Christopher West-Sadler (85-92) all teach at Oakham School in Rutland. Dominic teaches Chemistry, Adam teaches History and serves as Oxbridge Mentor, and Christopher teaches French.

The Classical Fourth Form of 1939: 75 Years of Friendship

In September 1939, a few days after the outbreak of WW2, 22 small boys gathered together in Tonbridge, to which the College had been evacuated, to form the Classical Fourth Form of the new school year. On Founder’s Day in 2014 six of those small boys, now nearing their 90th birthdays, met at the College for their Conventus Annualis Septuagesimus Quintus to mark the 75th anniversary of their initial meeting. The 22 boys, aged 13 and 14, were faced with the stresses and uncertainties of evacuation, commencing life in the Senior School and, above all, meeting the unknowns of living away from the familiar surroundings of home and family life. Sharing buildings and facilities with Tonbridge School meant a reversal of the usual school day, with prep being done, football played and other extra-curricular activities indulged in during the mornings, while classes were held in the afternoons and evenings. It was all rather strange at first, as was the experience of being billeted in houses around the town, but those 22 small boys rose to the challenges and took it all in their stride. The evacuation lasted for only one term and by the start of Spring Term in 1940 the form was back in Dulwich. The return meant the disappearance of some faces and the arrival of others so that in all 32 boys passed through the form during the school year. The way of life was, however, very different from that of the pre-war years. There were the air raids which involved sleep deprived nights, disrupted journeys to and from school often over roads covered with broken glass and other debris, sheltering in the basements of the North and South blocks during daylight air raids, weeding the football pitches for shrapnel before a game could start, fire watching and many other war time activities. It was an exciting if dangerous period but the changed way of life soon came to be looked on as normal. (Left to right): Standing – Peter Hart, Dick Pledger, Rupert Sutton and Derek Akers; seated – Alan Gregory, Charles Mansfield and Peter Edgley

Christopher West-Sadler, Adam Rothwell and Dominic Evans all teach at Oakham School

Alec Fiddes (07-12), a student at the University of Bristol, played for Weston-Super-Mare against Doncaster Rovers in the first round of the 2013-14 FA Cup. Alec joined the Seagulls, who play in the Conference South league, for the 2012-13 season. Prior to the move Alex, a midfielder, played for Spanish club Lleida Esportiu and, during his school days, he played for England’s Independent Schools u18 team. The National Gallery announced the appointment of Dr Gabriele Finaldi (82-84) as its new Director, with effect from August 2015. Dr Finaldi completed his A levels at the College before studying at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Since 2002 he has served as Co-Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, responsible for the museum’s collections and research. Dr Finaldi’s appointment marks a return to London and the National Gallery. Between 1992 and 2002 he worked as the Gallery’s Curator of Italian and Spanish Paintings. Actor Nicholas Galitzine (06-13) starred alongside Luke Perry in the 2014 film The Beat Beneath My Feet , which told the story of a teenage boy who befriends a long- forgotten rock star. The film was nominated for awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and British Independent Film Awards. Professor Chris Griffiths (63-73), Professor of Dermatology at the University of Manchester, returned to the College in January 2015 to address members of the Medical and Dentistry Society. James Hanks (00-02) retired from professional rugby in April 2014 following a ten year career with Exeter Chiefs. James joined the PE department at Dulwich College in September.

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Sam Howard (85-92), Master i/c Rugby at the College, guided the 1st XV to victory against Warwick School at Twickenham in March 2014 to secure a third NatWest (formerly Daily Mail RBS) Schools Cup in three years. This was followed by a fourth appearance in the final, with the team narrowly losing to Bromsgrove School on 25 March 2015. Angus Imrie (01-12) joined the cast of BBC Radio 4’s long-running soap The Archers in November 2014, taking over the role of teenage character Josh Archer, son of David and Ruth and a key member of the Ambridge based family. Angus has appeared in several television series and films, including ITV’s Kingdom , starring Stephen Fry. Actor Raza Jaffrey (86-91) has been lauded for his role in the fourth series of hit television drama, Homeland . Raza, whose previous credits include playing MI5 officer Zafar Younis in the BBC’s Spooks and Hari Dhillon in the BBC America series Mistresses , played Lt-Colonel Aasar Khan of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence unit. Among the plaudits Raza received, The Times praised him for creating a ‘thrillingly unknowable character’. After first making contact through the Alleyn Club, artists Ben James (90-97) and Sebastian Kite (97-04) collaborated on a large scale installation for Bell’s Whisky to celebrate the brand’s ongoing partnership with charity, Help for Heroes. The pair created a multi- sensory environment that aimed to communicate the powerful stories of wounded servicemen and women and honour their bravery. Ben and Sebastian used 600 backlit bottles mounted in a steel frame to form a circular structure conveying the unity and solidarity of members of the armed forces, and the unfailing support of their families and loved ones. Details of Ben and Sebastian’s work can be found at www.jotta.com and www.kiteandlaslett.com respectively. Conductor Graeme Jenkins (68-77), who works with the Welsh National Opera, spent September 2014 conducting Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and Wagner’s Der fliegender Hollander at the Vienna State Opera. Ronald Jones (45-55) and his wife, Helena, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 31 December 2013. Ronald met and married Helena while working in Poland between 1962 and 1965. Chris Jordan (06-07) continued to feature prominently in the England cricket team in 2014, playing in the ICC World Twenty20 and the one-day international and Test matches against Sri Lanka and India. Chris is now well-established within the ODI and Test teams and played for England at the recent World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

As the years passed by members of the form made their mark in the school – two became School Captain and others prefects, several played for the 1st XV or the 1st XI and around a dozen went onto Oxbridge (with about half that number winning scholarships or exhibitions). Others played prominent roles in the various minor sports and in the Junior Training Corps, the Air Training Corps and the Sea Cadet Corps (the forerunners of the Combined Cadet Force) and the Scouts. When the time came to leave many of the form went straight into one or other of the armed forces, with one becoming a Bevin Boy and experiencing the life of a coal miner, before completing their education, while others went straight to university or other further education establishments. Many and varied were the careers they followed – medicine, the clergy, banking, teaching, surveying, insurance, the civil service, engineering, retail and others. In 1989 one member of the form organised a 50 years on reunion at the College on Founder’s Day which was attended by 16 members of the form together with wives and two masters who had taught the form in the 1940s. The idea caught on and further reunions took place to mark the 55th and 60th anniversaries while today the form meets each year, still at the College on Founder’s Day. The whole form survived the war but the passing years have taken their toll and 15 out of the 32 are no longer with us. However, six stalwarts – Derek Akers (37-44; Staff 52-69), Peter Edgley (38-45), Alan Gregory (37-44), Peter Hart (39-42), Dr Charles Mansfield (37-44) and Rupert Sutton (38-42) – attended the reunion in 2014 and a further eight – Cyril Bristow (37-41), Charles Clapham, Reverend Michael Griffith (37-42), Dr Dick Pledger (37-42), Donald Simpson (40-43), Tony Spain (40-44), Reverend Lyndon van der Pump (40-42) and Dr John Watson (38-42) – sent their apologies for being unable to get to Dulwich on the day. The friendships formed in 1939 have endured and owe much to the Dulwich ethos absorbed by those small boys in the 1940s. The appetite for the form’s annual reunion remains and those who attended in 2014 are determined to continue to meet on Founder’s Day each year – and long may they do so.

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Peter Hart (39-42)

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Russell Kahn (62-71), a member of the College Development Strategy Committee, broadcasts on BBC Radio London under his professional name, Russ Kane. Russ was formerly the ‘Flying Eye’ on Capital Radio with Chris Tarrant between 1984 and 2004. Russ also co-founded Non Stop Music Ltd and manages the UK girl band, Vanquish . In December 2014 architect Asif Khan (88-98) was shortlisted for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition, which is the first open, international architectural competition to be organised by the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation. The city of Helsinki has reserved a prominent waterfront site for a proposed museum. The site is located in the Eteläsatama, or South Harbour area, an urban space of great national

and cultural significance, close to the historic city centre and immediately visible to visitors arriving by sea. Asif is one of six shortlisted finalists and the winner will be announced in June 2015. Details of Asif’s work can be found online at www.asif-khan.com. Michael Lacy (68-74) is working with Shackleton 2015 LIVE!, which in October 2015 will undertake Shackleton’s (intended) crossing of Antarctica via the South Pole on foot. The group has created The Endurance Centenary Club for individuals and businesses to become members and lend their support to the expedition. Details can be found at www.shackleton2015live.com/oldalleynians or obtained from Michael: michaelnlacy @ gmail.com.

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Jintao Liu (00-02) and his wife, Jing, celebrated the birth of their son, Adam Liu Xinyou, on 21 April 2014. Conrad Manning (09-11), who is studying Ship Science at the University of Southampton, is hoping to compete in the 2016 Vendée Globe – the only single-handed, non-stop round-the-world yacht race, regarded by many as the ultimate test of a sailor’s skill and endurance. Conrad’s many sailing accolades include Student Yachting World Cup winner (2014), national student sailing champion (2013) and winner of the 2012 Artemis Offshore Trials. Conrad was a member of the Alleynian Sailing Society crew that won the 2014 Arrow Trophy regatta (representing Dulwich College). Conrad has partnered with Five Degrees West, a leading sports consultancy that specialises in the sailing and maritime industries, and is now in the process of securing the sponsorship that will enable him to be on the start line in November 2016. For more information, or if you know someone who may be interested in supporting Conrad, please visit conradmanningracing.com or contact Conrad via conradk.manning @ gmail.com. Tom Mercey (94-05) was a member of the Northampton Saints team that won the 2014 Aviva Premiership Final at Twickenham and the 2014 Amlin Challenge Cup. Tom also played for England Saxons against Ireland Wolfhounds in January 2014. Tom faced fellow tighthead prop Alex Brown (06-08) in the final of the 2014 LV= Anglo-Welsh Cup, which was won by Exeter Chiefs. Rubel Molla (80-84) now works as a Mathematics tutor, has returned to the College on several occasion over the past 12 months to speak to speak to Upper School students on the mathematics of finance. Professor Arthur Morris OBE (52-59), a retired consultant reconstructive plastic surgeon, wrote to the Club in July 2014 to report that he has been a volunteer surgeon for 20 years in Kumasi, Ghana. Professor Morris has been leading a project to establish a reconstructive plastic surgery and burn unit using the ‘tripartite partnership model’: visiting volunteers establish workload and train local specialists; selected nurses and surgeons were then trained in Dundee, Scotland; and, finally, facilities were set up in Ghana to be of permanent benefit. Equipment that has been provided allows the unit to treat 150 severe burn patients every year, as well as to perform more than 1,500 surgical operations. All this has been done in partnership with the Ghanaian government and with philanthropic support from many organisations throughout the world, including Rotary International. In 1994 there was a lone Ghanaian surgeon with no other specialist staff and no dedicated facilities; in 2014 there were four trained Ghanaian surgeons and four senior specialist Ghanaian nurses, who have set up local teams of specialist nurses. James Mountain (98-06) was a member of the Isis crew that won the 2014 BNY Mellon Boat Race reserve crews race on Sunday 6 April. The Oxford reserve crew led

from the start and completed the 6.8km course more than 30 seconds clear of Goldie. Daniel Norcross (78-87) captained the Nightwatchmen team in the 2014-15 series of the BBC Two quiz show, Only Connect . James Orford (03-14), Organ Scholar at Truro Cathedral in 2014-15, has won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music for September 2015. Robert Parker (50-57) and his wife, Meryl, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on 17 October 2014. They married in South Africa but have lived in London since 1978. Tom Pollock (92-02), author of young adult fantasy novels, published two books in 2014: The Glass Republic revolves around the secrets of a young protagonist’s life and disappearance of her sister; and Our Lady of the Streets tells the story of a hidden London and its ruthless leader. Christopher read Economics at Cambridge and then taught for three years at Sevenoaks School, where he helped launched Business Studies as an A Level, in conjunction with Marlborough and Gordonstoun. Christopher then went into the City and spent more than 30 years in merchant banking with Barings, Charterhouse and Credit Lyonnais Securities, and also had a spell with Cadogan Estates. Professor David Reynolds FBA (61-70), who is Chair of the Faculty of History and Professor of International History at the University of Cambridge, published The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century in September 2014 and presented a BBC Two documentary of the same title. Brigadier Robert Rider (77-83), formerly of the Corps of Royal Engineers, was awarded the CBE in the March 2014 Operational Honours and Awards List for operations in Afghanistan between April and October 2013. Luca Romano (98-03) is currently working on Heroes of the Antarctic , a computer game that aims to teach players about the harsh experiences faced by Shackleton, Scott and Wilson on the Discovery Expedition. The player must manage the trio and make all critical decisions on their behalf as they journey to the South Pole. The game will be released later in summer 2015. Rohit Sagar (88-90) will assume the role of Chief Informaton Officer (UK Audit) at Deloitte on 1 June 2015. Between June and August 2014 Matthew Sellwood (91-00) walked from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for the Free Representation Unit (FRU), a charity dedicated to providing representation in the Christopher Poulton (54-62) wrote to the Club at the end of 2014 to share details of his career.

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