No . 137 The Trusty Servant
DL East Sussex 1992 , vice-chairman East Sussex County Council 1992-2000 . Chairman Princes Trust East Sussex Appeal . President , RBL Heathfield branch 1995-2007 . His interests were ornithology , gardening , shooting , fishing , forestry , farming , poetry and playing the piano . He married ( 1 ) Patricia Hampton in 1960 , marriage dissolved 1976 , and ( 2 ) Victoria Campbell-Johnston in 1976 , who survives him together with 2 sons from the first marriage and 2 stepsons .
Christopher William Taylor-Young ( F , 47-52 ); died 21.11.2023 . Father of NJSTY and SCTY . Trinity College Cambridge , 3 Mech Eng . National Service with King ’ s Dragoon Guards , BAOR . He worked for Hill Samuel and then Charterhouse . Founder and Director , Taylor Young Investment Management Ltd 1986-2004 , to provide highly personalised investment management to individuals . In retirement , he pursued his intellectual curiosity , attending lectures at Cambridge and learning about new technological advances , while focussing on investment ideas . A generous benefactor to Win Coll , taking a particular interest in the teaching of engineering skills . He married Rosemary Forbes in 1958 , who survives him together with 2 sons and daughter .
George Richard Hugh Bredin ( G , 48-53 ); died 10.3.2024 . Art Prize . Oriel College Oxford 1954-7 , Eng Lang and Lit . He was a copywriter and creative director in various advertising agencies : GS Royds , Ogilvy & Mather , J Walter Thompson , Grey Advertising and Dorlands . Managing Director , “ Writers in Business ”. A painter and cartoonist , he was published in Punch and Private Eye : he exhibited at various shows , including Two Oxonians Go South 2008 and Double Vision 2009 and also at the Royal Watercolour Society . He was a member of Artists At Home for many years , opening his home in Chiswick to visitors , and was known best for his beautiful watercolours of local scenes . Publications : The Jeeves Book of Mixed Drinks , 1980 , contributor to Novelists and the Novel ed M . Seymour-Smith , 1980 . He married Mary Gabrielle Drew in 1957 , marriage dissolved , and ( 2 ) Nina Violet Tamara Talbot Rice in 1966 . He is survived by 3 sons and 2 daughters .
James ( Jimmy ) Ewan Drummond Maclaren ( K , 48-53 ); died 16.10.2023 . Co Prae , Head of House , VI 1952 , Hawksley Cup winning pair 1950 . Downing College Cambridge , MB , BChir 1960 . House physician and surgeon , Middlesex Hospital . Short service commission RN , MO 1964- 7 . Registrar , ENT Surgery , Queen Elizabeth Hospital , Edgbaston ; temporary lecturer in Anatomy , Birmingham University Medical School 1967-8 ; surgical registrar , Birmingham Midland Training Scheme 1968-74 ; FRCS Edinburgh 1974 ; consultant surgeon , speciality in head and neck surgery and ENT surgery , Worcester Royal Infirmary and Hereford General Hospital 1974 . Retired 1999 . He was an enthusiastic fisherman , cricketer , golfer and tennis player and enjoyed rough shooting in the Welsh borders . He married Rozanne Coe , who survives him .
Keith Cecil Ross Howman ( E , 49-53 ); died 17.3.2024 . Brother of ACRH , father of CBRH , grandfather of BJRH , ATRH and TFRH . A & S Highlanders 1957-9 . Sales manager , Solastos Ltd 1959 and Airscrew-Weyroc Ltd 1961 ; chairman and managing director Trade Coaters Group 1966 . Chairman World Pheasant Association 1985 , then President . It all began when he started rearing a few pheasants for a small shoot in 1966 . He went on to acquire five species of ornamental pheasant , only to discover that two of them were endangered in the wild . He successfully bred from them , sparking an interest that led to him at one point owning the largest collection of pheasants in the world , with 35 species . He wrote Pheasants of the World : Their Breeding and Management 1993 and The Atlas of Rare Pheasants . OBE 2008 for services to conservation . He spent much of his latter years fishing in far off places and wrote articles for the Piscatorial Society and also for the Flyfishers Journal . He married Jean Walker in 1962 , who survives him together with a son and daughter .
Sir John Ronald Maxwell Macdonald Bt . ( B , 49-54 ); died 23.19.2023 . Son of JMM , brother of DMM . Land management and farming at Pollok House , Glasgow . He was involved in securing and the housing the huge Burrell Collection in Pollok Country Park and set up the Pollok House Arts Society in the 1960s , which held evenings of operas , recitals and jazz . He was also an active campaigner in trying to stop the demolition of the Sir John Maxwell School in Glasgow . An enthusiast for country sports , he was also a keen angler and sailor . He succeeded his mother as 12th Baronet of Pollok 2011 , one of the few baronetcies descendible via females . He married Ruth Laird in 1964 , who survives him together with 2 sons and a daughter . Obituary in The Herald .
Robin Michael Morison Orr ( H , 49-54 ); died 14.2.2024 . Engl Sp and Duberly Prize 1954 . 13 / 18 R Hussars ( QMO ) 1955-6 , 2 Lt , Squash and Athletics ( High Jump ). Clare College Cambridge , 2 ( ii ) Hist 1959 , MA 1963 ; Squash regularly for The Jesters ’ Club from 1961 . Assistant master and house tutor Steyning Grammar School 1959-61 ; assistant master Highfield School 1961-71 , housemaster 1966 . ARCM 1965 , organist and director of music . His first 10 years at Highfield were marked in particular by his contribution to the teaching of English and of music , building up the choir , which he took to sing in several cathedrals , encouraging many boys to take up learning
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