BATCHELOR, |
UK, learning the manufacturing |
for British Petroleum, researching |
Scotch from 1933 to 1935. He was |
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Brian Egerton |
process, and designing tooling for |
possible uses for the residue from |
the cox of a Scotch four. The stroke, |
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(’ 47) |
the Australian plant. Brian worked |
the catalytic cracking of oil in petrol |
Linley Hare( SC 1926-35), became a |
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Brian was |
as chief engineer at McKay for a |
production. |
lifelong friend and said that he knew |
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born at Adelaide, |
further eight years, subsequently |
On 11 September 1954 he |
every freckle on Ken’ s face. |
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South Australia, |
holding senior jobs at Flexdrive, |
married Francoise Ehkirch at |
Ken worked as a draftsman at |
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on 17 March |
Braemar, Brownbuilt and finally |
Eltham, London, England. By 1955 |
the Weather Bureau until enlisting in |
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1929. For the next 10 years the |
Champion Compressors, where he |
they were at Kwinana, Western |
the RAAF in 1943. He was trained |
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family lived in Adelaide, Brisbane, |
spent 13 years, retiring in 2005. |
Australia, where he worked for BP. |
as a navigator before being sent |
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Melbourne and Wellington, New |
During Brian and Gwennyth’ s |
Ian moved to Abadan, Iran, in 1957, |
to England to crew Wellington |
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Zealand, embarking for Australia on |
long and happy marriage they |
but thereafter lived in England’ s |
Bombers. He was about to begin |
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the night World War II broke out, on |
rode their bikes daily, until he |
milder climate. |
bombing missions when he was |
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the blacked-out SS Awatea. |
recently had heart problems. |
Ian’ s worked mostly at BP’ s |
badly injured in a road accident in a |
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From 1940 to 1947 Brian |
Brian also played tennis into his |
research centre in Sunbury-on- |
blackout, and spent most of the rest |
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attended Scotch. He played football |
eighties. Brian’ s children cherish the |
Thames, with overseas trips to BP |
of the war recuperating. |
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and cricket for Monash House |
memory of weekly dinners at their |
refineries, particularly at Martigues, |
On demobilisation Ken retrained |
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and in his final year played in the |
parents’ Caulfield home, frequently |
France. An expert on catalytic |
as an architect, but in 1948 he left |
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Scotch 2nd XI. His younger brothers |
accompanied by their own children. |
cracking, Ian was at the forefront |
to become a missionary with the |
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also attended Scotch: David( SC |
Brian died at home on 26 April 2017. |
of developing yeast extraction from |
China Inland Mission. In Shanghai |
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1940-49), Richard and Michael( SC |
petroleum fractions for feeding |
he met and married Barbara |
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1951-62), as did nephews John( SC |
BENNETT, Ian |
livestock. |
Blagdon Phillips, a Canadian, |
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1985-92) and Warwick( SC 1987- |
Cameron(’ 45) |
In 1985 a stolen car crashed |
on 12 January 1951 during the |
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94), and his grandson, Sebastian |
Ian’ s sister, |
head-on into Ian’ s car in London, |
Communist takeover. Their son Tim |
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( Bas) Owen( SC 2005-10). |
Barbara Harrison, |
leaving him in a coma for three |
attended Scotch( SC 1969-73) and |
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Brian studied engineering at |
wrote: |
weeks, and in hospital for five |
a daughter, Carol, married Philip |
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Melbourne University’ s Mildura |
Ian was born |
months with multiple fractures. He |
Barton( SC 1960-69). |
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campus. After two years’ full-time |
at Canterbury |
recovered enough to return to work |
On returning to Australia in 1951 |
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study, Brian elected to complete |
on 12 October 1927 and attended |
and retired on 18 July 1986 after 32 |
Ken worked again as an architect. |
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his studies part-time. He joined |
Mont Albert Central School until |
years’ service. |
In 1954 he and his family went to |
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GMH, working on the recently |
Year 8. He successfully sat for |
In 1994, Ian and Francoise |
Malaya, where he and Barbara |
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launched Holden car, including |
scholarships to both Scotch College |
moved into a flat at St Germain- |
worked in a Cantonese village |
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sitting alongside test drivers at high |
and Melbourne Grammar School. |
en-Laye, west of Paris. Ian loved |
during the Malayan Emergency. |
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speeds on back roads. On turning |
As a Presbyterian, he chose the |
nothing more than being with his |
Transferred to Hong Kong in |
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21 he acquired his first car, a 1926 |
former. At Scotch from 1942 to |
family. His hobbies and passions |
1958, he assisted in producing |
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Chevrolet, but on a trip to Adelaide |
1945, Ian was a Cadet, and was |
included jazz and classical music, |
Christian literature. Ken returned |
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the brakes failed while descending |
proud to wear the uniform. |
travelling, theatre and concerts, |
to Melbourne in 1969, where he |
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the Mount Lofty Ranges, and he |
He played football with a local |
photography, golf, great food, wine |
worked as an architect for 10 years |
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broke a collarbone in the ensuing |
church team, and built a crystal set |
and coffee, and, later, computing. |
in the Department of Public Works. |
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crash. |
to hear Test cricket from England. |
Ian died at Marly-de-Roi, France, |
In retirement, Ken and Barbara |
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Brian qualified in mechanical |
Ian was a Scout, and a keen cyclist |
on 18 July 2016 after a long illness. |
returned to Hong Kong as |
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engineering at Caulfield Technical |
who did fruit shop deliveries. He |
missionaries for a few years before |
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College in 1952, also receiving an |
spent summer holidays trapping |
BUDGE, |
finally retiring to Melbourne. Ken |
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electrical engineering diploma. On |
rabbits for fur at Kerang, selling |
Kenneth |
was an active, adventurous man |
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26 November 1953 he married |
them in Melbourne. |
Sutherland |
with a keen sense of humour( he |
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Gwennyth Florence Hughes-Jones |
After matriculation, Ian worked |
(’ 36) |
went bungy jumping at age 73). |
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at Scotch, and they had several |
for the CSIRO at Fishermans Bend, |
Ken’ s children |
Barbara died on 11 April 2009. |
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children. |
and studied at Melbourne Technical |
wrote the |
Ken was a man of deep |
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For eight years Brian worked at |
College’ s night school, earning a |
following: |
Christian faith and commitment |
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Industrial Engineering, leaving to join |
diploma of chemical engineering. |
Kenneth Sutherland Budge |
who was much loved by three |
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Ralph McKay, which had entered |
In 1952 Ian went to England, |
was born on 29 March 1919 at |
generations of his family. He died on |
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a joint venture with Dunlop and |
initially working for Bowater, but |
St Helen’ s private hospital, The |
17 April 2017, having been Scotch’ s |
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Olympic to make truck wheels. He |
deciding prospects in the chemical |
Avenue, Windsor, and attended |
14th oldest-known living Old Boy. |
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spent several months with Dunlop |
industry were brighter. He worked |