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has lived for seven years and has moved back to Harpenden with wife Lou and daughters. Rory Marr was also with them in Menorca, along with his two boys, Freddie and Harry. Rory runs Enlighten Design, lives in a village just outside Newcastle and still plays regular cricket. Last year Andy organised their fifth biannual cricket tour to Menorca along with Dick Campbell, Jamie Polito, Rory, Marcus Frisby, Dan Hiscocks and Jason.
Dick runs a successful financial PR agency and recently married Clare. They live in Dulwich and he enjoys shooting.
Jamie has just joined Hippo Inns and enjoys dishing up sushi delights to be washed down with Spanish beer influenced by his wife, Micka, who is from Valencia. They also live in London with their daughters.
Marcus has just become an antique dealer. He is married to Myleena, who is expecting their third child soon, and they reside in Kent.
Jonty Southan (C 85) is a shipping broker and lives on a farm near Banbury with his wife Cathy, two boys and girl.
Bruce Usher (Sc 87) works for Bloombridge Developments. He has four children and lives near Lymington.
Ned Hopkins (Sc 88) lives near Buckingham with his family and is a cheese wholesaler.
Lord Edward Howard (B 89) is married to Lady Tatiana Howard and they live in the Cotswolds with their children Freddie and Grace. Ed is a banker with a Japanese bank and beat Jason at tennis last year much to Jason’s horror.
Charlie Howard (Sc 90) is married to Polly (K 91) and has children at Oundle. Charlie likes to build big sheds near motorways.
John Chadwick (St A 71) retired as a GP in June after working for 37 years at his practice in Botley. He plans to spend six months sorting out his accumulated ‘stuff’ and then plans to learn Italian so that he can enjoy operas in their native language, as well as tasting more wine. He has greatly enjoyed the OO lunches and dinners, and has been in contact with Malcolm Walters (D 72) and Timothy Tebbs (D 72).
Andrew Kerr (Sc 73) has regular contact with his father, Ian Kerr (S 45),
who now lives full time in Winchester, and he recently celebrated brother Mark Kerr’s (Sc 74) 60th birthday at his new house in Airton, North Yorkshire.
Derek Cole (B 50) regrets missing the Bramston Centenary Celebrations, but at 87 he is fully occupied as sole carer for his disabled wife. The event recalled to his mind Dudley Heesom's account of the Head of House a century ago, Sir Rodger Winn, later Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. The first paragraph about him on Wikipedia (worth reading) seems to Derek to be the exact words that Dudley used in his regular news of former Bramstonians. The repeated phrase “tracking German submarines” makes Derek wonder if Dudley had leaked part of the Enigma story in advance! Derek, of course, knew nothing of that, only discovering in 2010 that his own father had designed the circuitry which could monitor the Enigma signals from deep in the Ukraine.
Brian Trent (Sc 58) was passing through Oundle the other day, had lunch at The Talbot and then walked up to the playing fields. He was staggered at the size of the new Sports Centre. It was still a construction site and at a fairly early stage, but he got an understanding of just how big it will be. He had three daughters who reached an age before Oundle started taking girls. Other than keeping up with a few OOs, he attends the Christmas lunch of the OO Sunshine Club at the RAC. The lunch is organised by Christopher Pocock (Sc 60).
Michael Ballard (D 88) tries to meet up in London before Christmas each year with Vikram Sachdeva (LS 88), Marcus Liberman (LS 88), Chris Williams (Ldr 88) and Dominic Hughes (D 88). They decided that they would try to meet up in Oundle in 2018 to commemorate 30 years since leaving. However, plans didn't quite work out and so only four managed to meet up for lunch at a pub near Oxford in early July 2018. Oxford seemed a fairly central place in the country to satisfy all their journeys.
Arthur Marment’s (D 77) daughter, Angharad Marment (D 10), has taken a career break (well, she has worked for three years!) and is going round the world, as you do, leaving her brother, George Marment (B 12), working at Cushman and Wakefield. George shares a house with Richard Giles (S 12) in Clapham and apparently George is no tidier than he was in Bramston.
Meanwhile, Arthur ran into Ed Dyson (B 05) and his charming wife, Connie, at a recent wedding and found out that the groom was also an OO, Ed Earnshaw (B 05), who was marrying the daughter of the famous equestrian and vet, Millie Stewart- Wood. Tim Gray (S 73) was also in attendance. Needless to say, they had an OO photo with the bride, which is of course what every sensible girl dreams about for her wedding day!
Arthur has enjoyed meeting so many OOs on the tennis courts over the year and managed to ‘ace’ Lance Ashworth (G 82) at the OO Tennis Club gathering in London. He also
NEWS FROM HOME
Michael Ballard (D 88), Marcus Liberman (LS 88), Vikram Sachdeva (LS 88) and Chris Williams (Ldr 88) at their 1988 leavers’ reunion lunch near Oxford in July
THE OLD OUNDELIAN 2017 –2018
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