1959. Three children, Jane, Sarah and Edward followed in the 1960s, but none of them have become doctors, breaking the Sellick trend. After Richard retired, he and Penny moved to Old Hunstanton on the Norfolk coast, which gave him the opportunity to spend more time on his three main interests: photography, gardening and the study of letter boxes. He died peacefully at home and is survived by Penny and all their three children. Ed Sellick contributed significantly to this obituary.
visiting German families living in temporary accommodation set up in warehouses, which was a very moving experience for him. He then went to Selwyn College, Cambridge, to study Medieval Languages. He started working in computing after graduation, working initially in Sweden, where his first two children were born. He then returned to England and started work for IBM. He remained with them for over 25 years and spent time on overseas assignments in Paris, Moscow and Bahrain, which led to his two sons coming to Dulwich as boarders in 1978. He was the first western businessman back in Moscow after the US trade embargo because the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had ended. He had many colourful experiences working in Russia at the height of the Cold War. Rosell family tradition has it that he was actually a spy while in Moscow, but of course Claes denied this. With his National Service experience, it is surprising that the Russians let him anywhere near Moscow though. Outside of work he had a passionate interest in sailing and used to race regularly on multihull events. On one occasion he won the prestigious Crystal Trophy. He also retained a strong social conscience, probably as a result of his experiences in Berlin, which led to his working in local politics as a councillor. After retirement from work, he remarried, moved from Winchester to Huddersfield before going back south to Salisbury Plain where he enjoyed dog walks in the countryside and the occasional pub lunch. He passed away peacefully with his family at his side in Salisbury District Hospital and is survived by his three children: Martin (OA, 1978-80), Catherine and
Philip (OA, 1978-84), as well as by his first wife, Sheila, and his second wife, Tania. Philip contributed significantly to this obituary.
Dr Richard James Sellick [1943-47] 21.11.1928 – 15.09.2016
Richard Sellick was born in Dulwich as the son of another Richard Sellick, OA, and he came to the College from
the Prep. At the College, he was in Grenville, was a school prefect and a Flight Sergeant in the ATC. After leaving Dulwich he went to Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge to study medicine. On graduating with a BA, he returned to London to continue medical training at St Thomas’s Hospital, emerging as a doctor in 1953. His father Richard was also a doctor but was not allowed to practice because he was absorbed into the family laundry business instead. Richard (junior) carried out National Service from 1956 as Medical Officer on board SS Empire Orwell, which was returning servicemen from the Far East. After medical specialisation to qualify at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1961, he was appointed as an Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich (N&N) Hospital. He was promoted to become a consultant in 1965 and remained there until his retirement in 1989. In the late 1970s he established the East Anglian Regional Audiology Centre at the N&N, the region’s only purpose-built, specialist ENT facility. His work was recognised in 1984 when he was appointed President of the Otolaryngology section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Richard met his future wife, Elisabeth (Penny) Schofield at St Thomas’s Hospital and they were married in
John Neil Sorton [1947-55] 06.05.1936 – 06.12.2015
Neil Sorton was the son of a journalist with the family living in Shortlands, Bromley. He came to the College
from the Prep with a Gilkes bursary and was in Raleigh. While at the College, he won numerous form and Classical prizes and was a school prefect. After leaving Dulwich, he was awarded a Classics scholarship and went to Hertford College, Oxford to study Jurisprudence, graduating in 1958. While in Oxford, he rowed in the Hertford College 1st Eight boat, having a particularly successful year against other colleges in 1957, earning a Bump Supper. Neil’s parents had moved to Canford Cliffs, Poole, in Dorset in 1954 and he lived in Poole for the rest of his life, apart from his final year at Dulwich and three years at Oxford. After graduation from Oxford, he deferred National Service in order to complete his legal studies, by which time it had been announced that National Service was to be abolished. He was articled to Kenneth Allin, of Allin & Watts solicitors, who had branches in Bournemouth and Ferndown, and he qualified as a solicitor in 1962. He
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