No . 132
The Trusty Servant
Old Wykehamist News
Ben Woodgates ( B , 00-05 ) composed the score for the 2020 movie Dream Horse , the true story of Dream Alliance , an unlikely racehorse bred by small-town bartender Jan Vokes .
Medical News
Michael Newman ( Coll , 40-44 ) writes : I am just ending a long and interesting career as neurologist and professor of medicine , presently retired and living with my son in Montreal . Now that England is putting Her foot in the face of Europe , there can be no better place for young professionals to start a career than in Canada , even as I did , beginning in 1959 in Manitoba with its frigid winters . Rupert Eckersley ( H , 70-74 ) and Shehan Hettiaratchy ( Coll , 83-87 ) launched the National Hand Trauma Network during the summer of 2021 . Shehan is also the Chair of the Armed Forces Clinical Reference Group , part of the Veterans Trauma Network .
Professor Gus Gazzard ( A , 82-87 ) has been made President Elect of the UK and Eire Glaucoma Society .
Nigel Blackwell ( A , 60-65 ) has established the Richard Blackwell Pharsalia Professorship at the University of Oxford , in memory of his father , Richard Blackwell ( Coll , 31-36 ). The impact of the Professorship will be substantial , assuring major investment in advancing knowledge and expertise in colorectal conditions and related health issues . Richard Blackwell was the instigator of the founding and funding in the 1970s of the Blackwell Room , to express the gratitude of the Blackwell Family members who attended Win Coll .
Publications
Patrick Benham- Croswell ’ s ( F , 77-81 ) recent book , Net Zero , The Challenges , Costs and Consequences of the UK ’ s Zero Emission Ambition , answers the following questions : What will it take for the UK to become a net-zero economy ? Is it even possible ? What will it cost ? 110 pages . Independently published . ISBN : 979-8540329903 .
Andrew Clover ( Coll , 83-88 ) has just completed the series of seven books of Rory Branagan ( Detective ) - a series of funny , illustrated detective stories , whose ideal readers are boys or girls aged six to nine . Rory has a normal life - he has an evil brother and is friends with a sausage dog - but no one tells him anything . In particular they do not say why his dad disappeared when he was three . You have to read to Book 7 ( the most exciting of all ) to discover that Dad had a very good reason for being in hiding . Andrew Clover wishes to clarify that it is totally untrue that he learned about detectiving by sneaking over the rooftops of College , and climbing down drainpipes , once even peeking into the Warden ’ s Lodgings while he was there . That would have been a crime , and the sort of thing detectives fight against . 320 pages . Harper Collins . ISBN : 978-0008266011
Marine scientist and veterinarian , Michael J Moore ( I , 69-74 ), has
produced his first book , We Are All Whalers : The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility . Drawing on over 40 years of fieldwork with humpback , pilot , fin , and , in particular , North Atlantic right whales – a species whose population has declined more than 20 % since 2017 – Moore takes us with him as he performs whale necropsies on animals stranded on beaches , in his independent research alongside whalers using explosive harpoons , and as he tracks injured whales to deliver sedatives . We learn of existing but poorly enforced conservation laws and of perennial ( and often failed ) efforts to balance the push for fisheries ’ profit versus the protection of endangered species caught by accident . All of us are whalers , Moore contends . But we do not have to be . 224 pages . University of Chicago Press . ISBN : 978-0226803043 .
Historian and barrister , Dominic Selwood ( E , 84-87 ), has written Anatomy of a Nation : A History of British Identity in 50 Documents , in which he explores over 950,000 years of British history by examining 50 documents that tell the story of what makes Britain unique . Some of these documents are well-known . Most are not . Each reveals something important about Britain and its people . From Anglo-Saxon poetry , medieval folk music and the first Valentine ’ s Day letter to the origin of computer code , Hitler ’ s kill list of prominent Britons , the Sex Pistols ’
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