Obituaries
Master Gilkes would have been mightily pleased with the outcome of Andrew Stroud. Andrew Izod (56-62) contributed significantly to this obituary.
1st XV in his final year, 1953/54, when the team went unbeaten all season. He was also School Captain and editor of the Alleynian in that final year. In 2003, Ieuan organised a reunion of this victorious rugby team, to celebrate the 50th anniversary, which was held in the school and was attended by the Master. After leaving Dulwich, he went to Lincoln College, Oxford, with an Exhibition to study Natural Sciences where he specialised in chemistry. While at Oxford, he also played rugby for the university. For his National Service, he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and mainly served in the Suez Canal Zone. He started work with BP in 1960 as a research and development chemist. He was a Management Consultant between 1967 and 1972, but then returned to Industrial chemicals as Planning and Development Director for Steetley Chemicals and Ceramics, remaining in this sector in a variety of roles right up until his death in August 2014. He had over 50 years’ experience in the chemical industry, which included a successful management buyout and significant experience of growing businesses through acquisition. He served on the British Chemical Distributors and Traders Association (BCDTA) Council for ten years and was the association’s Chairman between 1995 and 1998. When asked by his youngest grandson in early 2014 when he was going to retire, his sincere response was that he would work until he was 100. Sadly, that ambition was cut short when he suffered a fatal accident in the garden at home, aged only 79. Ieuan is survived by his wife, Margaret, and their two daughters, Helen and Louisa. They have five grandchildren and Ieuan, ever a proud Welshman, was always known to his grandchildren as Taidie (the Welsh name for Grandad). His daughter Louisa contributed significantly to this obituary.
Sunil Talwar (Staff 2008-13) 24.10.1965 – 17.08.2014
Sunil Talwar arrived at Dulwich in September 2008 to teach maths, straight after completing a PGCE course. His earlier career had always involved mathematics, from his PhD at York University in 1992 to more recent work designing
algorithms in binary arithmetic. These algorithms were incorporated into the Playstation 3 computer game system, something which did no harm to his reputation among the College boys. He quickly established himself as a teacher with a real passion for his subject, always expecting boys to think for themselves and go the extra mile with a problem, persevering regardless of how tough the work. The last year of his time at the College was increasingly frenetic, as he commuted back to Switzerland and his family every weekend. It was no great surprise therefore, when he got a job in the country, leaving Dulwich in July 2013 to teach Mathematicss at Surval Montreux. Sunil immediately made a good impression on his new school, inspiring both the highly gifted and apprehensive girls with his passion for the subject. His time teaching in Switzerland was all too brief though; he had been diagnosed as suffering from glandular fever in spring 2014 and had struggled to throw off its symptoms. He was then rushed to hospital with renal failure in August and was also then diagnosed with leukaemia and died in hospital two days later without regaining consciousness. Sunil is survived by his partner Nadine Seveno and their two daughters.
John Frederick Mardon Wall (1952-59) 14.10.1940 – 28.03.2014
John Wall was born in a temporary military hospital in East Retford, near Nottingham, during the Second World War to Frederick and Margaret Wall. His father had a prominent position with The Stanley Gibbons Company of The Strand and the
Ieuan Jenkin Thomas (1946-54) 15.06.1935 – 15.08.2014
Ieuan Jenkin Thomas was born in Liverpool to Clifford and Sylwen, and he was always immensely proud of his Welsh roots. Both of his parents were descended from long lines of coal miners from the village of Pontrhydyfen, near Port Talbot in
family home was in The Chase in Clapham. John came to Dulwich from Wix Lane School, also in Clapham. At the College he was in Sidney and played 3rd XI cricket in all of his last three years at Dulwich. After leaving Dulwich, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study Modern and Medieval Languages with some emphasis on German. After graduating, John had a number of career options, but possibly because he was the son of a publisher, he chose the printing industry. He got a job with the Monotype Corporation, where he was based in Nigeria, but
South Wales. Ieuan came to Dulwich from Heathmont School in Port Talbot, and lived in The Orchard boarding house while at the school because his father, William Clifford Thomas, was the housemaster there. Ieuan was in Drake and played in the 1st XV for all of his last three years at the College, and was captain of the
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