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Anthony Wykes (Lx 68), in Warwickshire.
Also back in the South-West is Chris Stephenson (Sn 85), who moved back to Bath with his family in 2016 after many years roaming abroad as an expatriate, the last 10 having been in his home country, Kenya. He has adjusted to the weather and commuting, enjoys Bath Rugby and has reconnected with several OOs, including Shaun Brunton (Ldr 83), Andrew Cox (Sn 85) and Nazir Razak (Sn 85).
Another debutant is Philip Bambury (Sc 61), who moved back to England with Renate in mid-2016, days before the referendum, after nearly 20 years in “the bottom left-hand corner” of Germany. They are now settled and enjoying Dorset, not far from Blandford Forum, his golfing needs being provided for at Rushmore Park. He has frequent contact with his son, Bernie Bambury (N 93), who is also in Dorset with an extensive workshop, where he crafts various pieces, including bespoke dining tables and de-luxe raised vegetable beds. His other son, Peter Bambury (LS 92), moved from Vienna in 2015 to Sweden, where he lives near Stockholm and finds time to enjoy his yacht, play golf and stimulate a love of rugby amongst young Swedes. Both his children are now tri-lingual.
Oliver Simmonds (Lx 03) writes to say he has moved back into the region and is now living just outside Bath. He is starting a new job with BMT, an engineering consultancy where he used to work several years ago. With his wife, Megan, they welcomed Alexander to the world on 26th November 2017.
Making a total of nine new OOs in the South-West, John Allwood (Ldr 70) arrived in Bruton just over a year ago after 35 years in Hertfordshire. He enjoys the local pubs and restaurants, and the quieter Somerset roads, where he ‘exercises’ his 1960 MGA. His son, Jonathan Allwood (Sn 00), and his wife, Victoria, had a daughter Esme last October. John continues to meet several OOs at the annual Bedford v Doncaster rugby match.
Charles Marment (St A 83) still works in the City with Charles Stanley and regularly sees Justin Phillips (St A 83).
After a period of silence, Andrew Waters (B 81) updated us with comprehensive family news, which
The Garsington Deer sculpture created by
Tom Hiscocks (St A 81)
included preparation for his eldest son (Sam)’s wedding in July in Sheffield, where he joined Andrew’s brothers, James Waters (B 83), Richard Waters (B 86) and Mark Waters (B 93). James is preparing for 4-5 years in Zimbabwe, where his wife takes up a post in the German consulate; Richard runs his property research business outside Bath; and Mark has made a career change from recruitment to stockbroking. As a keen cricketer, Andrew reports an enjoyable day returning to Oundle in June to play for the Rovers against the School, where he met a number of senior players, including David Robinson (Sc 73), Tim Elliott (St A 77), David Holliday (N 77) and David Pimblett (S 81). He also enjoyed meeting Guy Beresford (B 81) at last year’s round of The Cricketer Cup in Malvern.
Adrian Phillips (St A 82) runs his own oil and gas company, shuttling between Dubai, Aberdeen and Bristol. His son, John Phillips (St A 17), enjoyed his gap year sailing, after returning from Latin America. Brother Justin keeps the NHS functioning well, with sons Edward Phillips (Sc 13) working in venture
capital in London and Harry Phillips (B 14) at medical school in Manchester. Another Bristol resident is Richard
Feather (G 79), one of our regular contributors, who completed another routine year organising increasingly complex exam schedules for the pupils of Wycliffe College, while also managing their academic data even more discreetly than before, the May deadline for GDPR being unkindly placed for those in exam administration! He continues his administration role for a bible study class in Bristol, with a new satellite group in Chester to add to Altrincham, Liverpool and Aberdeen. However, there has still been time to celebrate family milestones, in some cases with a good fistful of OOs. In October, Richard’s nephew, Finn, married Helena with (amongst many others) the following cheering them on: Philip Feather (G 54), Ed Milton (G 79), Tim Feather (G 89) and David Hutchinson (G 79), respectively grandfather, father, uncle and godfather to the groom. He also found time to make a couple of trips to East Anglia, which included catching up with David and his family, Michael Hutchinson (F 15), Harry Hutchinson (G 15) and Susie Hutchinson (D 17), at a service to celebrate the life of their father/grandfather, Colin Hutchinson.
Peter Page (Lx 62), another revived contributor, reports retiring from 50 years of designing and making jewellery. He enjoyed a lunch with Patrick Lowe (Lx 50), who said he had never been mentioned in The Old Oundelian and took the opportunity to correct this by recalling how he had set up a bar in his Laxton study, a pretty adventurous undertaking for the time, and how he had complained to the Headmaster (G.H. Stainforth) that the outside lavatories at Laxton frequently froze on cold days!
Philip Anley (N 95) is alive and well in Cirencester, but preferred to keep his powder dry this year!
Michael Butler (St A 59) has been off the radar for a while, but writes that he left the Army in 1992, after 32 years of service, as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Queen’s Own Hussars, having served in British Guiana, Hong Kong, Korea, Borneo, Germany, Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands, Canada and the UK. For 10 years he was Regional Director
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