No. 123
The Trusty Servant
Diplomatic
AW Ellis CMG( K, 80-85) has finished as British Ambassador to Brazil and has reappeared in London as a Director General in the Department for Exiting the EU.
Honours
AJ Beevor( K, 60-64) – KBE, for services in support of Armed Forces Professional Development.
Media
Following his independent review in 2015-16, Sir David Clementi( E, 62- 67; Warden, 08-14) has become the new Chair of the BBC. David was the preferred candidate put forward by culture secretary Karen Bradley and will lead the corporation’ s new unitary board that replaced the BBC Trust on 1 April. Bloomberg Media is in a growth mode, expanding its creative, marketing and custom content offerings. Its latest big move is the hire of ED Lynn( I, 87-92), Ogilvy & Mather’ s North American CCO of content and social. As global CCO, he will lead a team of creatives, editors, copywriters, designers and producers who will make branded campaigns and experiences to fuel Bloomberg Media’ s projects.
In early April, our Sen Man Lord Wigram MC( H, 28-34), now 101 and one of the few surviving godchildren of George V( the others including the Queen and the Duke of Kent), appeared in a Channel 4 documentary on Edward VIII- then Prince of Wales- Spying On The Royals. He remembers this period well because his father was private secretary to the King.‘ It infuriated George,’ he recalls.‘ The Prince was entirely infected by what the King called the worst American habits – drinking cocktails and going to nightclubs. There were rumours that the Prince of Wales was leading a funny sort of life involving lots of women. I remember asking my father what it was all about. And he said,“ Things aren’ t quite right.”’
Medicine
AR Mehta( F, 99-04) has secured a Rowling Scholarship and has moved from Oxford, where he was a Neurology Registrar, to Edinburgh, to undertake a PhD into the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in frontotemporal lobar dementia and motor neurone disease at the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology clinic. TE Mitchell( Coll, 78-83) has been elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He will start a 4 year term of office in July 2017 when he stands down as Chair of the Court of Examiners
Military
JCdeC Scott( E, 69-74) informs: The Nicholson Lecture is delivered annually in memory of Brigadier Claude Nicholson( G, 1912-17) by a serving or retired member of our armed forces. This year’ s lecture, entitled‘ The“ Not the Chilcot” Report- Defence and Security in our Times’, is to be given by Lieutenant General Sir James Bucknall, KCB CBE( A, 72-76), and his selected charity is Combat Stress.
Nicholson was one of the brightest soldiering prospects of his generation and was despatched to command the garrison at Calais in 1940: after an heroic battle against overwhelming odds, the port fell and Nicholson was captured. He died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany in 1943. The lecture will be given at Maperton Church, BA9 8EJ, on Saturday 5 th August at 6pm; tickets £ 12.50 from Yarn Barton, Maperton, Wincanton, BA9 8EJ.
Music
The award-winning Sansara Choir, started four years ago by TF Herring( I, 07-12), BHG Cunningham( K, 07-12) and JD Butterworth( Coll, 07-12), has just released its first CD, featuring music by Oliver Tarney and Malcolm Archer among other wonderful unaccompanied choral works ranging from the Renaissance to the present day. It received an enthusiastic 4-star review in the Guardian: www. theguardian. com / music / 2017 / mar / 05 / cloths-of-heaven-sansara-review-choralsinging Copies can be bought online through Amazon, and at other outlets including Cornflowers Gift Shop. More information at www. sansarachoir. com
Soccer
GWP Herring( I, 09-14) represented Cambridge University Association Football Club against Oxford on 19 th March, thus gaining a full Blue for the second year in a row.
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