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Group of Hospitals from 1966. Clinical
Teacher, Southampton University.
FRCP (London) 1976. Member of
Halford Hewitt Cup team 1970-73
and 1980. He was a great physician
whose patients admired and respected
him. He was the doctor’s doctor to
whom the other doctors would go. His
team were part of a close and caring
medical community. He was survived
for a month by Rosemary, his wife
of 56 years, who was an energetic
code-breaking veteran of Bletchley
Park. (Obituary The Times). They
were survived by their son and two
daughters.
Peter Jeffrey Wordie (K, 45-50):
died 16.4.2018. Brother of JSW (K,
37-42), GTW (K, 40-45) and father
of RPW (K, 74-78). Co Prae. National
Service with A&SH, with whom he
served in Hong Kong and Edinburgh.
St John’s College Cambridge 1952, 2(1)
History 1955. Whilst at Cambridge
he sparred with Tam Dalyell in the
Union and he learnt the fascination
of real tennis. He later served in the
TA with 8th Bn A&SH 1952-69.
TD. He became involved in shipping,
commencing with a traineeship with
J&J Denholm, Glasgow and later he
sailed on the tramp ship Wellpark
trading the Pacific. He later moved to
London with the shipbroking company
Clarksons, where he had management
of the Clarkson fleet – the three-ship
Monarch Steamship Company, an
alliance with Harrison’s Clyde leading
to the creation of Stirling Shipping and
Western Ferries. For his contribution
to the shipping industry in Scotland
he was appointed CBE 1986. For 17
years he was a Member of the Court of
Stirling University and was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate. For 20 years he
was a Trustee of the Burrell Collection.
He was Chairman, Buildings of Scotland
Trust. He was co-author 1989 The Royal
Game. Falkland Palace Real Tennis
T he T rusty S ervant
Club. He took pride in his father’s
polar achievements, especially his epic
fortitude with the 1914 Shackleton
expedition. He is survived by Alice, his
wife of 59 years, and their two sons and
three daughters.
Simon Ridley (Coll, 46-51):
died 15.7.2018. Brother of NAR (K,
51-55) and GMR (K, 59-64). Duncan
Reading Prize and English Speech.
He was Editor of The Wykehamist.
He played Hamlet with force in the
College play. Choral Scholar, Magdalen
College, Oxford, 2 English Lang and
Lit 1954. MA 1958 and BD 1961.
Lincoln Theological College. Deacon
1957 and Priest 1958. He was Curate,
St John’s Wood 1957-1960. He was
then Domestic Chaplain to Geoffrey
Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury 1960.
He became Vicar of North Wooton,
Somerset 1961-66, during which time
he tutored would-be ordinands at
Wells Theological College. He then
went to Hong Kong as Vicar of Christ
Church 1966-70, during which time
he oversaw the development of Hong
Kong’s first school for disabled children.
He then returned to the UK to become
the Rector of Basingstoke 1970-72.
He resigned in 1972 and worked as a
civil servant in the Department of the
Environment and as Secretary, Ancient
Monuments Board for England. He then
became Regional Secretary (Sussex
and Kent) for the Country Landowners
Association 1985-97. In 1996 he
returned to the Church and assisted
at Wittersham and local parishes for
20 years. In one of his own sermons at
the funeral of a friend he said, ‘I do not
think that I really approve of addresses
at funerals and you may well agree –
better to let the great solemn words of
the Scripture and the Book of Common
Prayer speak for themselves.’ His garden
was his pride and joy. Married (1)
1959 Katherine Coldstream (marriage
dissolved) and (2) 1975 Ginny de
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Bosdari, who survives him with two
daughters of his first marriage.
Edmund Travis Gartside
(B, 47-52): died 14.7.2018. Father
of MTG (I, 74-79). National Service
with the Lancashire Fusiliers 1952-53.
Trinity College, Cambridge, 2 Law
and Economics 1957. MA 1960. He
later served in the TA with 5th Bn XX
Lancashire Fusiliers 1954-68, retiring
as a Major with the TD in 1968. He
dedicated his working life to cotton
spinning with Shiloh Plc at Royton
from 1957. He became Chairman and
Managing Director 1968-2005. At
its peak the Group operated 14 mills
with a million spindles. During his
time the Group faced growing global
competition, the advance of man-made
fibres and dealings with 20 successive
Industry Ministers who portrayed
total indifference to the fate of one of
Britain’s most important industries.
Eventually Shiloh was reduced to
three mills but remained profitable by
developing specialist product lines. In
1997 he bucked the trend by buying two
mills from the Courtauld Group, thereby
saving 350 jobs. He told an interviewer
that ‘This country was built on making
things and I am doing everything in
my power to keep that tradition alive.’
He was the first Chairman, Textile
Industry Support Campaign 1971-75.
He was Chairman, Greater Manchester
Institute of Directors 1978-84. General
Commissioner of Taxes, Rochdale
Division 1966-2008; a member of the
Court, Manchester University 1979-
94; and a Governor, Manchester
Grammar School 1984-98. He was
Deputy Lieutenant, Greater Manchester
1990-2008 and High Sherriff, Greater
Manchester 1995-96. He was President
of Rochdale & District Fusiliers
Association for over 35 years and he
played a key role in funding the Fusilier
Museum in Bury. In 2016 he was made
an Honorary Freeman of the Borough