In 2012 Neil Sorton (47-52) completed forty years as a councillor on Poole Borough Council. He is his party’s representative on the Council’s independently controlled standards (ethics) committee and the councillor member on Poole’s Adoption Panel. He is chairman of the Dorset County Pension Fund, responsible for the pensions of 49,000 present and retired local government employees in the county. He is also the honorary secretary to the board of directors of Lighthouse, Poole – the largest arts centre complex in the country outside London. He retired from his solicitor’s private client practice in 2004. In June 2011 the Man Booker Prize-winning author Graham Swift (60-66) published his latest novel, Wish You Were Here . Last Orders won the Man Booker Prize in 1996. In September 2011 Tim Tookey (75-80) announced that he would leave Lloyds Banking Group in February 2012 to become Chief Financial Officer at Friends’ Life. He joined Lloyds in 2006 and became finance director in 2008. In November 2011 he served as Interim Chief Executive when António Horta-Osório took a health-related leave of absence. Wiley. Christopher, who co-authored the book with George Davidson, passed away in 2002. He was a Senior Lecturer in German at Aston University in Birmingham until his retirement in 1995. For many years he was a member of the committee of the Simplified Spelling Society and was also an Associate Editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language . John Walters (54-62) co-authored a critically acclaimed examination of the UK brewing industry following the Monopolies & mergers Commission’s report of 1989, entitled Intervention in the Modern UK Brewing Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Graham Ward CBE (63-70) was appointed an Ambassador of the International Integrated Reporting Committee, an initiative of HRH The Prince of Wales which is an international group of leaders from the corporate, investment, accounting, securities, regulatory, academic and standard-setting sectors, as well as civil society. The IIRC is developing and promoting ‘integrated reporting’, which demonstrates the linkages between an organisation’s strategy, governance and financial performance and the social, environmental and economic context within which it operates. In August 2011 Christopher Upward’s (49-57) The History of English Spelling was published by
Professor Michael Winterbottom FBA (46-52), Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and former Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford, published The Early Lives of St Dunstan (Oxford University Press, December 2011). with Michael Lapidge. The work contains new editions, together with translation and commentary, of the two earliest Lives of St Dunstan, who, as Archbishop of Canterbury between 960 and 988, was one of the principal figures of the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon church. Dr Silas Wollston (84-89) has been appointed Director of Music and Director of Studies in Music at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Anthony Woods (56-63) has published, under his nom de plume, Anthony Paul, a satirical novel about a missing lawyer, entitled John Doe (2011, Grosvenor House Publishing).
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