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OAs and the First World War STANLEY DOUGLAS SELBY SUMNER (1897-1903) was
CARNE ROSS (75-82) writes and appears regularly in the media, commenting on world aairs and alternative systems of organising our aairs, in particular anarchism. ¤e lm Accidental Anarchist , which was broadcast on BBC4 Storyville in July 2017, is loosely based on Carne¥s latest book, ¤e Leaderless Revolution: how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21st century (Simon & Schuster). RODNEY CLARKE (89-96) showcased his debut album Glorious Quest at the launch of the very rst Black British Entertainment awards in October. JAMES (WALTER) SUTCLIFFE (90-95) has been appointed Artistic Director of Northern Ireland Opera. BEN TURNER (91-96) performed in the remarkable play ¤e Kite Runner at Wyndham¥s ¤eatre. Ben is well known as Jay Faldren in the series Casualty . His impressive list of credits includes TV roles such as King Louis in Dr Who and Adrian Quinlan in EastEnders ; and lms including 300: Rise of an Empire , ¤e Fih Estate and Adulthood . ANTOINE GITTENS-JACKSON (01-08), an underground rapper known as Consensus, has performed and delivered workshops at the world famous European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. Antoine has spent two years writing an album that translates complex particle physics into grime and rap. NED BENNETT (95-02) directed An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs- Jenkins at the Orange Tree ¤eatre, which received rave reviews and transferred to the National ¤eatre in the summer of 2018, and Buggy Baby at the Yard ¤eatre in Hackney Wick – a ªharrowing new play by Josh Azouz; a horror-comedy that follows a love triangle between a teenage woman, her baby and her friend.¥ CHRISTOPHER STARK (99-06) returned to Peckham with ¤e Multi- Story Orchestra in the summer as
commemorated at All Saints Church, Banstead, in January 2017, the 100th anniversary of his death during the First World War. A memorial service took place during which a bell was tolled 100 times in memory of Stanley. Stanley served with the 12th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment and was killed in the south of the British sector on the Somme on 20 January 1917. History and politics SUNIL GUPTA (72-78) met with ALAN REID (37-42, former sta) to discuss his involvement in the Partition of India in 1947. Alan was the pilot who ew in Mr Nehru to take over power from Lord Mountbatten on behalf of King George VI (the last Emperor of India). PETER KING (71-76) is to take up a senior role at the Treasury. Peter, who has been at Weil Gotshal & Manges for almost 10 years aer joining from Shearman & Sterling (where he was London Head of Corporate), will leave the US rm to join the Treasury as Legal Director. Peter will join Sir TOM SCHOLAR (79-86) who is the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury. Arts and media Prof DAVID GREER (52-55) was awarded the CB Oldman Prize 2017 by the International Association of Music Libraries for his Manuscript
part of the BBC Proms 2017 series. ¤e programme continued to showcase talented young musicians. TARAN MATHARU (04-09), the New York Times ¥ bestselling children¥s writer and Wattpad sensation, best known for the Summoner series, was appointed online Writer in Residence for the BookTrust from August 2017 to February 2018. During his nal year at Bournemouth University NICK MASON (03-10) featured on Julia Bradbury¥s Britain¥s Best Walks Studland Bay episode in which he was interviewed at Fort Henry in connection with the future of drone surveying in archaeology. His underwater wreck lming featured in the programme too. He and his business partner also did the aerial lming for the Studland Bay, Loch Lomond and Lynmouth episodes, with stills from their lming used in the opening credits. LAURIE DAVIDSON (06-10) appeared as Shane Corcoran in the West End run of ¤e Ferryman , Jez Butterworth¥s play set in rural Derry during the troubles in Ireland. He also featured as Michael Lewis, a keen young journalist honeymooning in Paris in the week of Diana¥s death, in the BBC2 lm Diana and I . MICHAEL XUFU HUANG (06- 13) appears on the Forbes Lists for Under 30s Art & Style (2017). Aer leaving Dulwich in 2013, Michael went on to the University of Pennsylvania to study Liberal Arts and cofounded M WOODS, a modern and contemporary art museum in Beijing. DAVID MASON (51-59) made the Gold Coronet for Prince Charles used at his
Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music. Sadly, David died in November, aged 80.
JOHN FREEMAN (57-64) won Wales Book of the Year for his collection of poems What Possessed Me (Worple Press), which explores childhood memories and lifelong relationships.
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