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N o .126 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 29 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