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Robert Marsden-Smedley
1975 Leaver
What is your your favourite memory from your your time at at Abberley Hall?
Saturday afternoon campfires – cooking sausages bacon and the like over an an open fire up in the woods somewhere!
What did an Abberley education teach you?
If nothing else (and there was plenty but maybe not not too much Latin or maths!) Abberley taught me the value of friendship What have you been up to since leaving Abberley?
I I I came back to Abberley after I I I left school as a a a a a a gap student which I I I thoroughly enjoyed I followed that by another gap year year in in New York teaching 6 year year olds London beckoned and I spent a a a a a number of years working in in in in in the city for various insurance broking houses concentrating on on aviation and and political risk I am now back in in my home ground living not too far from Abberley and and working for the family knitwear business in in in in Derbyshire I got married in in in in 1996 to Claudia we we have two children Basil and and Louisa both of whom attended and and loved Abberley!
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