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Bermuda continues to be home to large numbers of Oundelians, both past and present, with no less than 18 Bermuda- based pupils expected to be at the School for the 2018/19 academic year.
Robin Blackburne (S 51) is a Master of Wine and has been in the wine trade for some 65 years. He is a keen skier and in 2018 spent his 30th ski season in Aspen. He skies on the Blackburne mono-ski that he designed. He is an active tennis player and still plays senior tournaments, frequently with James Keyes (B 81) and wielding the Blackburne Tennis Racquet, which he invented and designed.
The Rt Revd Nicholas Dill (Lx 81) is a well-known figure in Bermuda, being the 12th Bishop of Bermuda. He is married to Fiona and they have six children.
Ian Kawaley (Ldr 73) retired as Bermuda’s Chief Justice early in 2018 and now works as a Judge of the Cayman Islands Grand Court Financial Services Division. On a recent trip to Grand Cayman earlier this year, he ran into Andrew Bolton (St A 81) at a legal cocktail party. Ian continues to be in regular electronic contact with Max Jones (Ldr 73) and Jeffrey Pinsler (Ldr 73), both of whom he met up with in person last year in London and Singapore respectively. Andrew continues to look after law firm Appleby’s litigation practice from his base in the Cayman Islands (though he has yet to have a case heard before Mr. Justice Kawaley, he notes). Andrew reports that he is still enjoying island life and getting out on the water when he can. He is married to Sarah, originally also a lawyer but now pursuing academic studies, and has a daughter studying in Vancouver and a son working in London. He reports that he caught up with Lance Ashworth (G 82) a year or two ago.
William Peckett (St A 85) continues to enjoy his professional life in Bermuda as an orthopaedic surgeon and in his spare time is a keen cyclist and sailor. He is looking forward to having all three of his children attending Oundle for the 2018/19 academic year when Imogen
By Tim Peckett (St A 82)
(K) goes into Upper Sixth, Charlotte (K) goes into Fifth Form and Jamie (St A) starts in the Third Form. William and Richard Hammond (G 87), an anaesthetist, see much of each other, often from opposite ends of the operating table. Richard has two sons currently at Oundle, Rudi (G) and Louis (G). Richard says he and his family just had a visit from Andrew Slingsby (D 87) and his family. He has also recently seen Ben Hughes (St A 87) and Gavin Lane (D 87).
As for your correspondent, I have been General Counsel at Arch Re, a Bermuda-based reinsurance company, since 2004. In my spare time I still compete in waterskiing (in the slalom event), and sing and play guitar with Bermuda rock, reggae and ska band The Go Down Berries. My niece, Anna Mackenzie (D 07), lives in Brixton. Having previously founded Cuckoo Foods with Lucy Wright (D 07), supplying their breakfast pots to Waitrose and Tesco, they sold the brand and Anna is now with management consultancy Baringa Partners. Anna enjoyed the (hot) challenge of running the London Marathon this year to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Her brother, William Mackenzie (St A 12), graduated from Bristol University and is enjoying working at Deloitte in their audit practice. He has one ACA exam left to take before he qualifies as a chartered accountant. In his spare time he is polishing up on his cooking skills with Jamie Oliver’s 5 ingredients cookbook. He lives in Denmark Hill, London, with his sister, Alexa Mackenzie (D 09).
Chelsea Trott (D 08) graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 2012 with a BSc in Environmental Science. She works at Ariel Re, a Bermuda reinsurance company, where she has recently been promoted to the position of assistant underwriter. Chelsea recently got engaged to Cameron Madeiros. They are planning to get married in the latter part of 2019. Rory O’Kelly-Lynch (S 10) also works in the island’s insurance industry, at Shoreline. Outside of work, he is trying hard to recover from shoulder surgery in time for the forthcoming rugby season.
James Crockett (G 91) has been living in Saint Lucia since 2010 and became a citizen there in late 2011. He and his wife, Pepsi Demacque-Crockett, own and operate a heritage sailing company called Jus’ Sail that offers laid- back sailing experiences to tourists aboard a locally-built, traditional, wooden trading sloop named Good Expectation. The Jus’ Sail Foundation is a charity which is dedicated to delivering training and access to employment opportunities within the island’s yachting sector to local unemployed youth. The project has been recognised by being among the finalists in the World Travel and Tourism Council’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards (2016)
Robin Blackburne (S 51) and his brother, David Blackburne (S 53) (also Oundle tennis captain in 1952), canoeing on the River Nene in the summer of 1949 in their Oundle uniforms
NEWS FROM ABROAD
Bermuda and Caribbean
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