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President seven times and was made Honorary President in 2007. He was President, Highland Cattle Society three times, being President for the centenary celebrations at Balmoral. He was proud to be Vice President the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland 1999. Later he was Trustee of the Argyllshire Gathering, serving three times as Senior Steward and for countless years as Ball Steward: he was a qualified teacher for the Scottish Country Dancing Association. He did a huge amount for the local community, including the Loch Awe Community Council, the Scottish Landowners Federation and the NFU. Served as a JP for 30 years, with half the time on the JP Advisory Committee, and as DL for Argyll and Bute 1998-2006. A true gentleman and outstanding countryman. Married 1955 Elizabeth Tremlett( died 2005). He is survived by their son and daughter.
Charles Raymond Connell( A, 45-50): died 15.11.2015. Co Prae. National Service, Scots Guards 1951 in Cyprus and Egypt. Clare College, Cambridge 1952-54 Economics. He then joined the family firm, Charles Connell and Co, shipbuilders and owners. He started in the drawing office and progressed to Managing Director in 1961. When he underestimated the amount of steel required for a new ship, resulting in a loss of £ 750,000, his father just commented,‘ Well, you will have to get it back’. But the firm was in crisis and was wound up in 1981. This gave him the opportunity to become an entrepreneur. He purchased the run-down estates at Garrogie and Stronelairg and built them up, winning the Laurent Perrier Conservation Award in 1996. At Colquhalzie he introduced a chickenfarming business and in Argyll he set up a salmon-farming enterprise. In his younger days he once drove straight across a roundabout: his explanation that it was the shortest way home was accepted in those more tolerant days! He was always a countryman at heart: point-to-pointing and hunting were an important part of his life and, last season, he enjoyed 20 days grouse shooting and shot a fine stag.‘ He loved his time at Win Coll and always spoke fondly of it, if not the cold showers and lack of loo doors, then certainly the rest’. Married 1971 Tugela Croxton( died 2009). He is survived by his partner, Pamela Codrington, and his two daughters and a son.
Ruan Peregrine James Galloway McWilliam( K, 45-49): died 1.11.2015. Frazer Scholarship, Balliol College, Oxford 1950, 3 Psych and Physics 1954. He first worked for the Nuffield Foundation 1955- 57 and then for the Medical Research Council from 1957 until he retired in 1972. During this time he designed artificial limbs for victims of thalidomide. It gave him great pleasure to see the smile on their faces when it all came together. On his retirement he was able to concentrate on his great love of abstract painting, selling a good number of prints to large London stores. In partnership with Trevor Avery he worked on a project looking at the connections and legacy of 300 child Holocaust-survivors who came to the Lake District in 1945. The exhibition now has a permanent home in Windermere Library. Married 1956 Jane Malleson, daughter of Captain J Malleson VC RN,( died 1995). He is survived by their son and daughter.
Henry Gerard Mather Leighton( K, 46-50): died 26.8.2015. Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1950, 2 History 1953. President, Oxford University Archaeological Society. AW Peake Prize. MA 1957. ACA 1957. FCA 1967. He then embarked on a career as a chartered accountant, first with Grace, Darbyshire and Todd in Bristol. He subsequently became Deputy Chairman, The West of England Trust Ltd. He became involved with Tyndall Managers Ltd, Gordon Johnson Stephens Ltd, Jordan Publishing Ltd and SG Warburg. He was chairman, Bristol Diocesan Advisory Committee for care of churches, and of Wells Cathedral Fabric Committee. He was a member of the Bristol Cathedral Fabric Committee. He was President, Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society 2004- 05. President, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 2008-09.
Publications: Bristol, A Great City 2010. As a colleague wrote:‘ As members of the School Archaeological Society they were given privileged access to construction and preservation in the cathedral – they watched over the shoulders of the experts as ornaments were cleaned and re-gilded.’ Married 1984 Juliet Buttenshaw, who survives him with their son and daughter.
Francis Paul Bowyer Nichols( C, 46-51): died 21.6.2015. 3rd generation of Wykehamists father to son. National Service, Irish Guards 1951; BAOR and Guard of Honour for HM Queen Mary’ s funeral 1953. Balliol College, Oxford 3 PPE 1956, OU Polo. Yale University 1956, Yale University Cricket, MA Economics 1957. He first worked for the Commonwealth Development Corporation 1957-62. And whilst in Central Africa he developed an infallible technique for distinguishing the sex of Tung trees, which need to be planted alongside each other to reproduce – this was vital as the crushed nuts were used to make varnish. He worked as an economist for the Country Landowners Association 1964-66, then for Charter Consolidated 1966-73, before becoming a farmer in Essex 1973-99. He was the principal writer of LEPRA’ s funding proposal to the Lottery, which donated £ 500,000, and he rode a bike across the Orissa desert to raise funds. At the age of 80 he started a Master’ s degree at SOAS to study Zen meditation. He was a dedicated prison visitor, and taught medication at a YOI in Suffolk, but the course ended abruptly when the participants threw cushions at each other. Married 1966 Maureen Cleave, who survives him with their two daughters and a son. Obituary The Times.
Winfrid Guy Comyn Platt( E, 46-51): died 14.10.2015. Bisley VIII 1950-51. National Service, Royal Fusiliers, with whom he served with distinction in Korea, Mentioned in Despatches. Magdalen College, Oxford, 2 Modern History. He first worked for Shell International Petroleum 1956-66. And then for the British Tourist Board 1972-87. He travelled out to South Africa each year to spend a month or two
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