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Emeritus Professor EWAN ANDERSON (49-56) has been
Urology at Beijing University Hospital and a Governor of Dulwich College. BRIAN DAVIES (42-49) donated money to allow the Dulwich College Astronomy Society to purchase a new telescope that allowed them to watch Mercury’s transit across the face of the sun. The telescope, fitted with digital cameras, captured some amazing images of this event, which last happened in 2006.
awarded Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by Oxford University for research and publications in the field of Geopolitics. PETER THOMPSON (57-65) was appointed Hunterian Professor of Surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is Consultant Urological Surgeon at Kings College Hospital, Honorary Professor of Arts and Media NIGEL HINTON ’s (53-60) Beaver Towers was given its world premiere performance by the Junior School in the Edward Alleyn Theatre in June. Described by the audience as ‘scary, atmospheric and beautifully acted’, they put on a spectacular end-of-year show, telling a story of good versus evil. SIMON BRETT (57-64), author and radio producer, was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to literature. GRAEME JENKINS (68-77), who made his first conducting appearance with the Dallas Opera in 1992, conducted Lohengrin , an opera about a medieval German romance, in Vienna. He followed this later in the year by conducting Peter Grimes at the Vienna State Opera. Professor ALEC RYRIE (82-89) returned to the College to give the sixth GE Moore Lecture ‘Belief, Doubt
RODNEY CLARK (89-96) and his group Vox Fortura were one of the 45 acts to get through to the live semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent 2016. Rodney was a soloist at the Foundation Schools Royal Festival Hall concert, where he joined Alleyn’s School, Dulwich College and James Allen’s Girls’ School for a special performance of Verdi’s Requiem . CHIWETEL EJIOFOR (90-95), BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee for Twelve Years A Slave , was awarded the CBE for his services to drama in the Queen’s birthday honours 2016. His recent work has included the title role in a recent adaptation of Everyman at The Olivier Theatre in London and staring alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the Marvel film adaptation of Doctor Strange .
And Atheism In The Age Of Alleyn, Marlowe And Shakespeare’. This proved one of the most popular in the series so far with well over 200 guests, including students from JAGS, Alleyn’s, Sydenham Girls School, The Charter School as well as from the College.
SUMIT RAI (93-98) visited the boys studying Design and
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