Spain, for which he was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic by Spain in 1989. He hated favouritism by a tutor and, with a firm belief in fair play, he was at the forefront of the campaign to make Merton co-educational in the early 1980s. One of his tutees was the Crown Prince of Japan in the mid-1980s, who later made warm reference to Roger and his incalculable influence in his memoir. “With his white hair and thick spectacles, there was something special about him which made you think of a wizard riding on a broomstick.” Roger never married, but that allowed him to devote more time to teaching and research. He knew how to laugh though, and always had a love of the absurd. When a new undergraduate library was built at Merton in 1997, the history collection was called the Highfield Room. After Roger’s death from a stroke in April, and funeral service in May, a Memorial service was held in Merton College Chapel in October 2017. Richard Charles Hurnall [1970-75] 15.06.1957 – 17.07.2016 Richard Hurnall was the son of another OA, Robert Hurnall, who was a company director. Richard came to Dulwich from Skippers Hill Manor School in Mayfield, East Sussex, and at the College he was in Sidney. He joined the OA Shooting Club (OASC) in 1976, almost straight after leaving school and was active in OA shooting matches for the next 37 years. He often competed on Ashburton Day in the Imperial Meeting at Bisley, winning the Christmas Cup there on no fewer than seven occasions. In 2010, he was elected as the club’s Vice-Captain. Richard did not appear at club shoots as often as he might have wished because his work took him
taught English in the primary, middle and secondary schools at LGB and always won over both colleagues and students with his infectious smile. He was proud of his rigorous training under Albert Rowe, a great pioneer in progressive English teaching. He was punctilious in his lesson preparation, marking, grading and reporting. For his sixtieth birthday, he learned by heart the whole of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy and delivered it to such moving effect that he clearly shares some acting genes with his nephew, Hugh. Michael married Claudine in Paris in 1971 and they produced two sons, Laurent and Olivier, named after Michael’s hero, Sir Laurence Olivier. Both boys were students at Ecolint, but younger son Olivier was killed in the Swissair disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in September 1998. Michael had some time off, but soon returned to teaching to support the rest of his family. He continued teaching at the school for a few more years, was still adored by his students and could still be seen smiling and laughing, something had definitely changed and he retired in 2002. Problems with memory, co- ordination and speech gradually led to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease and Michael lived his final years in an ever increasing decline, supported throughout by his beloved wife, Claudine, and also by Laurent, their older son, and more recently by Maki, Laurent’s wife. But even through the degenerative experience of Parkinson’s, when most mortals would have turned aggressive, hostile, depressed and self-pitying, Michael’s over-riding characteristics remained, his good humour, concern for others and his loving nature.
all over Europe. This extensive travelling helped him to the important achievement of finding a wife, Diana, in Romania. They married in Uckfield, Sussex, and three sons followed, but Richard and Diana still managed to attend the OASC end of season dinner on several occasions. More recently, his health deteriorated as a result of contracting a very rare type of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and he was unable to maintain the prone shooting position, Nevertheless, he continued to take part on Club shooting events by firing from a bench rest, but eventually succumbed to MND in July 2016 at the tender age of only 59. Kit Sturges, Vice-President of the OASC, contributed significantly to this obituary. both came to the College soon after WW2 from the Prep. They were both in Grenville and Michael played rugby for the 2nd XV in his final year and continued to play rugby after leaving Dulwich. Michael embarked on a career teaching English in schools, including Valley Road primary school in Henley- on-Thames, the European School in Brussels and, most notably at La Grande Boissiere (LGB), a private international school based in Geneva, Switzerland, which is the oldest and the largest operating international school in the world, from 1987 to his retirement in 2002. LGB is the oldest and largest of the three campuses in the International School of Geneva, also known as Ecolint. Michael Michael Henry Jackman [1948-54] 26.10.1937 – 01.05.2016 Michael Jackman was the younger of two brothers who were sons of an accountant from Petts Wood. They
Claudine contributed significantly to this obiturary.
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