No.128
Ian Dudley Teesdale (A, 44-49):
died 26.2.2019. Father of CJLT (A, 75-
79). Special Entry, BRNC Dartmouth
1949. He first served on HMS Devonshire
(Training Cruiser) 1950. He ran and
played squash for the Royal Navy. He
subsequently served with submarines
during which time as navigating officer
he steered his submarine into Soviet
waters by mistake, nearly causing an
international incident. He then served
with the Fishery Protection Fleet. He
was Assistant Defence Advisor, British
High Commission Kuala Lumpur 1964.
He then served in HMS Maidstone and
HMS Terror, RN Barracks Singapore.
He retired from the Royal Navy as Lt-
Commander 1976. He then trained as a
probation officer and was a member of
the Berkshire Probation Service 1979-96.
In 1985 he organised the Babcary Road
Race including the whole village, which
is still run to this day. He retired to
Campbeltown where he was a passionate
gardener and kept a beautifully detailed
garden diary. He was involved in the
University of the Third Age, the Rotary
and was treasurer of a community
centre. A lifelong runner and walker.
Married Jean Lindsay, who died 2016
after 56 years of marriage. He is survived
by their son and two daughters.
Charles (Chuck) Barnard Loewen
(B, 45-50): died 16.3.2019. Captain of
fencing. University of British Columbia
1950-54, 1 Economics, BA; captain of
fencing; foil champion of the North
East. Harvard Business School, Business
Administration MBA. He first worked
as an investment dealer with SC
Pitfield, Mackay, Ross & Co Ltd, first
in Montreal and then in New York and
Toronto, becoming Vice-President and
Director of Research. In 1970 he set up
Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon & Co
Ltd, the first independent research-based
institutional equity firm in Canada and
the leading institutional brokerage firm
selling Canadian securities in Europe.
He was President 1970-87 and Chairman
1987-92. Finally, he was Chairman,
Loewen & Partners 1992-2005. He
was Governor of Vancouver and
Toronto Stock Exchanges and Director,
Investment Dealers Association
The Trusty Servant
of Canada: throughout his life he
was a major supporter of Canadian
entrepreneurs. In 2012 he was awarded
the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal for his contribution to
the Financial Industry in Canada. He
continued to operate even though he
was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease
in his 70s. Later in life he was President,
the Ticker Club of Canada. He loved
fishing, canoeing, skiing and shooting.
He is survived by Susanna, his wife of
61 years, and their two sons and three
daughters.
John Richard Seymour Besly
(H, 45-49): died 25.09.19. Son of EFWB
(Coll, 1905-10) and father of ATB (H,
76-81). 2 Lt Gren Gds 1950, regular
commission 1952. Served in Egypt 1950-
7; Capt; Staff, London,1958; Strategic
Command 1961; Staff College 1963; Staff
HQ, AFCENT, 1964, Maj; BAOR 1967;
Liaison Officer, St Cyr, 1968; Second in
Command 1 Grenadier Guards 1970;
Commanded 2 nd Battalion in Northern
Ireland 1974. After he left the Army he
worked at British Heart Foundation as
Director of Fundraising, and then at
Conservative Party HQ in Smith Square
until he retired to Aldeburgh in Suffolk
where his mother had lived for many
years. He loved military history and
opera as well as being able to recite vast
chunks of Stanley Holloway, Flanders
and Swan and old music-hall classics.
Married (1) 1958 Dinah Priscilla Gore,
who died 1987; (2) Virginia Walford.
Survived by two sons and three
daughters from first marriage.
Peter Michael Stormonth Darling
(C, 45-50): died 16.09.2019. Son of PSD
(C, 1899-1904); brother of RASD (C,
40-44); half-brother of ASD (C, 29-30).
Lords 1949-50. 2 Lt Black Watch 1950;
Korea 1952 where he commanded a
platoon in the vicious second Battle of
the Hook. New College Oxford 1953,
Law, BA 1956, MA 1970; merchant
banker in Toronto 1957-63, where he
was picked up by Sir Siegmund Warburg;
in 1964 moved to SG Warburg; Vice-
Chairman, SG Warburg Group PLC
1977-87; Chairman, Mercury Asset
Management Group PLC 1985-92;
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Chairman of Howard de Walden
Estates, director of Soditic Limited,
Advent Capital, Deltec and many other
companies; member of the International
Investments Committee of the United
Nations Pension Fund, the Executive
Committee of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies; trustee
of the World Monuments Fund and
The Sackler Trust; founder member of
Win Coll’s Al Gordon Sports Fund;
and supporter of many other charities.
Sir David Scholey, ex- Chairman of
Warburgs, was quoted in the FT saying,
‘He never stopped giving money away
to charity, but very quietly.’ Author of
City Cinderella, The Life and Times of
Mercury Asset Management, 1999 and
Forgotten War–Remembering Korea, 2008.
He was a huge benefactor to Win Coll
and a source of wisdom over many
years. Married (1) 1958, Candis Hitzig,
New York; (2) 1970, Maureen O’Leary,
who died in 2015. Survived by his three
daughters. Obituaries in Daily Telegraph
and Financial Times. See David Rosier’s
appreciation above.
Timothy Boulton (B, 46-51): died
10.3.2019. VIII 1950-51, rowing in a
dead heat with St Paul’s in the Princess
Elizabeth Cup at Henley. National
Service, during which he served in
the Malayan Emergency. Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, 2.2 Law 1956. MA. LLM. He
qualified as a solicitor in 1960, working
first for his family law firm and then for
Herbert Smith, for whom he was the
conferencing expert. He later set up his
own business, which he ran from his
flat in Lennox Gardens and became one
of two Labour councillors in Chelsea
and Kensington. His greatest legacy
was the founding of the World’s End
Neighbourhood Advice Centre in 1982.
He retired in 1996. He was a member of
the Armourers and Brasiers Company;
the Middlesex Lodge; and was church
warden for St Simon Zelotes. His great
loves were Chopin, Morris Minors and
port – he prepared for a race by drinking
half a bottle of port the evening before.
He was unfailingly kind, sensitive, gentle
and generous. Survived by his sister.