Transport for London (TfL) as an accountant.
London along some of TfL’s new traffic-calmed cycle routes and later the cycling super-highways. In 2009, their son Tom was born, and Stephen threw himself once more into life with a young child. Sadly, it was just two years later that Stephen first developed clinical depression. He tried all sorts of drug treatments and therapies, but finally electroconvulsive therapy, which was administered under general anaesthetic, transformed a life that had become little more than an extended stupor. The principled, generous and engaged Stephen re- emerged as if from hibernation. After another four years of vitality and more and more cycling exploits, clinical depression returned and Stephen died of a heart attack at home on 4th Oct 2016 before another course of ECT could be attempted. In the last two years of his life he also suffered from Parkinson’s Disease, a cruel combination of illnesses. Stephen’s brothers, David and Andrew, along with Charles Fellows- Smith of the OA Cricket Club all contributed significantly to this obituary. Dr David Parrott [1942-50] 31.10.1932 – 14.05.2014 David Parrott both the sons of Frederick Parrott, a scientific instrument and case manufacturer, from Sydenham. David came to Dulwich from St Dunstan’s Prep School and was in Marlowe. He became a school prefect and was Secretary of the Gramophone Society. After leaving Dulwich, he went to Guy’s Hospital, London to study medicine and graduated as MRCS was the younger brother to come to the College, after older brother Hugh. They were
and LRCP in 1956, soon becoming a Registrar at the hospital. He then worked for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in Kano, Nigeria from 1959 to 1962, and then returned to England to work at Shrewsbury Hospital briefly, before rejoining FCO and going to St Lucia in the Caribbean. In 1965, he moved with FCO to Thakek in Laos, where he worked in clinics treating casualties of the Vietnam war. When he returned to the UK in 1967, he joined CIBA and worked on drug research in Tokyo, Japan. Another return to the UK, and he moved to Syntex to work on drug research for them. He then moved house to West Tytherly, Hampshire and, in 1973, he became CIBA’s Head of first human trials of drugs, and he travelled monthly to CIBA’s headquarters at Palualti, in California. He finally retired in 1996 when CIBA and Sandoz merged to form Novartis. historian of the village. He was a member of Salisbury Writers Circle and the Poetry Café, and he wrote a book of poems called The Deception of the Thrush which was published in 1958. He is survived by elder brother Hugh, a son and daughter, and by two grandsons. He remained in West Tytherly after retirement and became the unofficial
While in Liverpool, Stephen attended evening classes to learn French and it was here that he met and fell in love with fellow student Yasmin. He and Yasmin both came south when he returned to work in London, they bought a house in Dulwich, got married in 1995 and he re-joined the OA cricket club. He played OA cricket when he could, but they kept moving around with his work, so their elder daughter, Tamsin, was born in Paris in 1999. They had returned to Dulwich by the time Sienna arrived in 2001. At the end of the 2001 season, Stephen retired from playing cricket for the OAs at the age of 42. In 25 years, on and off, of playing cricket for the OAs he played in 337 League and Cup matches and made 8,518 runs, scoring five hundreds and a further 50 half-centuries. In 1988, the OA Cricket Club were promoted to the second division of the Surrey Championship, and it was Steve’s runs, tactical nous as captain and safe hands at slip that did more than any other to keep the OAs in that division for 14 consecutive seasons. nothing better than playing with his daughters in the park and sharing in their growing interests. In his limited spare time, he developed a passion for long-distance cycling. He cycled from London to Paris and several times completed the Fred Whitton Challenge, a 112 miles tour of the Lake District, taking in all the famous passes, in only 12 hours. Joining TfL in 2006 proved an ideal match for his business skills and his growing enthusiasm for cycling, both as a means of transport and a life-style choice, so he enjoyed his cycling commute into Central Stephen was a devoted and loving father and husband, and loved
His brother Hugh contributed significantly to this obituary.
David Francis Pearson [1956-62] 28.02.1944 – 30.08.2015 David Pearson’s family lived in Chislehurst and he
came to Dulwich from Bickley Hall Prep School. At
the College, he was in Sidney, was a patrol leader in the College Scout troop, eventually becoming a Queen’s
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