Old Packwoodians News

News from 2009-10

ENGAGEMENTS
Daniel Kennedy (1999) to Lorraine
BIRTHS
To Julian Gallimore (1981) and Suzanne, a son, Noah
DEATHS
Rear-Admiral Sam Salt (1953), who commanded a war ship during the Falklands conflict
Roland Arthur Harding (1964)
John Davenport Siddelely Ainscow (1944)

NEWS

1948
Lionel Jebb and his wife are moving into a house near Tetchill.
1960
Andrew Killick is still fully engaged at Yarm School where targets and risk assessments seem to be the buzz words. However the Classics Department continues to flourish.
1964
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill has recently been made Master of Sidney Sussex College while remaining as Chairman of much of the Classical work in Rome.
1972
John Roe is taking a break from being Department Head of Mathematics at Penn University this year which will give him more opportunities for research and writing.
Tom Rylands is still working for M E Waterhouse and captained the England Rifle Team at the South African Championships last year. He has three children, Christopher who has graduated from Birmingham University with a degree in Chemical Engineering, Louise who is studying medicine at Bristol University, and Peter who took his GCSEs last summer. He recently competed at Bisley against Toby Lehmann who was shooting for Sedbergh with his two sons, Peter and Matthew.
1974
Richard Jebb has become a member of the OP Committee. He is running his computing firm from Ellesmere and his son, Felix is now in his second year at Packwood.
Sophie Jebb has taken on more work at Clare College, Cambridge.
Mark Rylands has been appointed Bishop of Shrewsbury and has recently returned to the school to take an assembly.
1975
Anthony Barnett has been promoted to Associate Director of his architectural partnership and his design team has had several exciting projects. A new flight training academy for Flybe and more visits to China loom.
Penelope Davies was recently in touch with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. She is a Professor of Art (Ancient) History in Austin, Texas. She spent a year in Rome writing her latest book.
1977
Nicholas Barnett has recently formed a construction company and managed to obtain a Development Agency grant. He has also begun flying again and should soon regain his instructor rating.
David Bickerton has been elected Managing Partner of Clifford Chance for London, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. His two older boys are at Rugby and loving it. His daughter is at St John’s College School Cambridge and intends to go to Rugby also.
1980
Peter Brown is concentrating on his baths and bathware business.
Andrew Jebb has moved to Liverpool and is handling many interesting cases.
Ben Mowll had four paintings accepted in London Mall Gallery this year and has been elected an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
James Skelton is now Financial Director of B&Q UK.
1981
Julian Gallimore and Suzanne now have a son, Noah. Julian is playing cricket whenever he can at Knockin Cricket Club.
1982
Guy Anstiss is now with Balfour Beatty Management and has completed building the new rail interchange station and neighbouring Haggerston Station in London. At present he is engaged in widening and strengthening Blackfriars railway bridge.
Mark Anstiss is now Chief Inspector of Operations for Hong Kong Island.
Charles Grubb is living in North Somerset with his three children. Susan still lives in London, working in the wine business, and doing very well. She also has three children.
Joshua Mowll has recently become engaged. He has also been busy putting the finishing touches to his latest book, The Great Space Race, which will be published next August.
1984
Nicholas Brown had a very difficult time in the recession but is working extremely hard to turn things round.
Adam Fletcher is working on developing some land near Swindon.
Justin Fletcher has branched into a cleaning business to cope with the recession.
Ben Kerfoot is very happy with his boat business
1985
Robin Bennett has finished converting “The Barns” at Old Marsh Farm into offices. His excellent team of Polish workers left after 4 years, a sad departure for all.
1986
Roos Allsop is now a Commander and senior Doctor of the SBS. He has served in Afghanistan three times this year. His two daughters Megan and Lucy miss him greatly.
James Morris is now living in Shrewsbury and working hard to keep business brisk during the recession.

Stephen Brown’s play Future Me has toured in this country including performances at the Lowry in Manchester. He is working hard to finalise his play about Iraq and recently travelled to Syria to do more research.
Julie Bowdler is always so good at sending in information on her ex-contemporaries. She reports that Natasha Vaughan-Jones (now Hewlett) is teaching and that Sophie Amphlett now lives with her husband and seven year old son in Chicago. Susan Underhill (now Wheeler) is working to market the Bodleian Library’s copyrighted books. Julie herself is now at home with her one year old daughter.
Nigel Crewe-Read returned last August from a second tour in Afghanistan where he commanded an independent Warrior Company which was involved in Panther’s Claw. He appeared on television and radio.
David Makinson is still working in the Home Office.
Fiona McDonald has two lovely daughters, Amber and Isla. She is busy with research into cancer, while her husband is a cancer specialist
1988
Myles Allsop is a Junior Director of UBS in London. He has a daughter of four and a son of two.
Mark Cassel has been under much pressure while resolving his father’s estate.
Emma Hawksley has enjoyed her first year as a qualified nurse and will soon begin the training required to be a Community Nurse.
Philip Makinson works for a small French-owned Computer Consultant Company.
1989
Oliver Dew is on a Business Degree Course at Cranfield. He is married with two children aged eight and four.
1990
James Roper is enjoying his work at Churchill China and doing very well.
1991
Emily Erskine is still with a Private Equity firm in London. They recently moved their office to Regent Street.
Thomas Rowley and his wife, Kate, recently had a daughter, a sister for Patrick. He is enjoying working at Zeno Capital in Manchester.
1992
James Bourne is now a doctor of Clinical Psychology, working for the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Unit in Hackney, East London.
Joshua Bradbury gained his PhD from Bangor to go with his MA. His father wrote expressing his thanks for the start Packwood had given him.
Emma Fanning is in the Eastern Congo working for Save the Children.
1993
Alexander Dew is on a Degree Course at LSE, London.
Harriet Erskine is really enjoying working for The Goldsmith’s Company.
Charlotte Hawksley is married and has a daughter, Melody.
Andrew Rowley’s work at BBC radio is going well. He now commentates on the Premiership teams and co-presents a Rugby show once a week as well as covering everything from boxing to gymnastics.
1994
Sara Fanning is moving to the Barnes/Mortlake area of London.
1995
Simon Rowley is still with GVA Grimley in the City.
1999
Andrew Erskine is in the second year of his Law Conversion in Holborn.
Daniel Kennedy is in the Army in the REME Regiment currently on tour in Afghanistan. He is due back in March and is counting down the days. He recently got engaged to Lorraine. He still plays rugby when he can.

2000

Lucinda Goucher graduated from Bristol with a 2.1 in French and Russian (having spent her third year in St Petersburg). She managed to land a job in Shoreditch with an internet advertising company, and loves it.
2001
Alice Davies is currently teaching at a boarding school in Spain on her year out from Bristol University where she is studying Spanish and Portuguese. She will be back in the summer and has plans to travel round South East Asia for 6 weeks before returning to do her final year.
Rhiannon Evans is studying medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and is planning on moving to UCL for her 4th year.
Holly Kennedy graduated from Newcastle University in 2009 with a BA in Architectural Studies and is now working as a User Experience Software Designer in the jewellery quarter in Birmingham developing her department and recruiting fellow graduates. It is an interesting and challenging job (she did get to go to San Francisco on a training course) and she is hoping that Catrin Evans will participate in some work experience with her during the summer to aid her Graphic Design degree at Leeds University.
2002
Philippa Newton graduated from Cirencester with a 2:1 and now has a job in Stowe where she is completing her RCIS.
2004
Jonty Goucher is now at the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester doing a degree in Commercial Land Agency, and thoroughly enjoying it.

Guy Newton was heading off to do Raleigh International in March and is hoping to go on to university and then to Sandhurst.

2005
Charlotte James has been a prefect this year at Marlborough and Captain of Lacrosse.

2006
James Barlow achieved straight A*s and As in his GCSEs and is now at Shrewsbury. He was in the Whitchurch Under 16 rugby team that won the regional final, along with William Goodwin.

Emma Trevor-Jones has been made Head Girl of Oundle.

Charles Bridge is a Deputy Head Boy of Malvern College.

News from 2008-9

ENGAGEMENTS
Joshua Mowll (1982) to Sonya Readman
MARRIAGES
Henry Chance (1982) to Sara Hedberg
Karina Champion (1995) to Chris King
DEATHS
Judge Adrian Cooper (1961)
Mrs Felicity Barnett who taught French in the 70s
Joyce McFerran MBE, widow of George McFerran, Headmaster of Packwood from 1928 – 1956, who died at the age of 97 and who had had considerable success in the world of horseracing.
Joyce McFerran 1913 – 2009
Joyce McFerran (née Wilson) came to Packwood in 1954 to be Headmaster’s Secretary.
Prior to this she had held a most important position as Personal Secretary to Lord Reith, Director of the BBC during some of the most critical war years. Lord Reith, as we heard at her Thanksgiving Service at Tetbury church on 5th May, had also played a vitally important part in the planning of the D-Day invasion of Europe, and for her part in this task Joyce McFerran was awarded an MBE.
She was also presented by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, with one of only three plaques made up of coloured window glass fragments from the bombed House of Commons, which was her proudest possession.
It was soon after her arrival at Packwood Haugh that she became engaged to the Headmaster, George McFerran, who had then been at Packwood for some 33 years. As a result of his marriage he decided to retire at the end of the summer term of 1955 and they left for a beautiful house where they followed the great interest of their lives, rearing and keeping a number of racehorses and attending the local meetings at Bangor, Ludlow and Cheltenham.
After George’s death Joyce continued to live at her house in Tebury leading an interesting and active life and retaining her racehorses right up until her own death earlier this year.
She and George McFerran were above all, supportive of Packwood Haugh to the highest degree and were responsible for arranging the sale of the farm and 156 acres next door at a very reasonable price to the school; land which now accommodates the sports hall, changing rooms, squash courts and all of the Wykey playing fields. They were a wonderfully happy couple to whom the school owes a very great debt.
NEWS
1974
Mark Rylands, has recently been appointed as the new Bishop of Shrewsbury.
1982
Richard Barker now works for Aspinall Casinos in Swansea as a General Manager but this means he spends a lot of his time travelling.
Henry Chance married Sara Hedberg from Sweden in June 2008. They live near Ludlow in Shropshire.
1985
Robin Bennett has nearly completed the massive task of converting the farm buildings into offices. He now has the problem of letting them.
1986
Roos Allsop has gained further promotion in the Navy. He is still living in Devon with his wife and their two children aged 5 and 3.
Julie Bowdler is a prolific letter writer and always has plenty of news of her past Packwood friends.
Nigel Crewe-Read has recently returned from Afghanistan where he was serving at the Headquarters. He will be going out again in June as a Company Commander.
Julian Gallimore is very happy working as a psychiatric nurse.
1987
Mark Cassel has had a difficult time coping with his father’s estate after his sad death two years ago.
1988
Myles Allsop still works in the City and has moved to Kingston-upon-Thames with Anna his wife and their two children aged 3 and 10 months.
1991
Emily Erskine had a wonderful two weeks in Borneo. Climbing Mount Kinabalu was the highlight of the trip.
Bill Gallimore has completed an IT Technical course.
Emma Hawksley has finished her nursing course and may now consider a move to Conwy if their house can be sold. She would like to pursue her career as a Community Nurse or Health Visitor.
1993
Harriet Erskine now works for the Goldsmiths Company as their Charities Manager.
Charlotte Hawksley and her husband are both working as Doctors.
1999
Andrew Erskine graduated from Oxford and is now doing a Law Conversion Course in London. During last year he joined Charles Reston (1999) who was walking the Camino de Compostela in Spain and enjoyed walking some of the route with him.
2003
Harry Skelton has had a lot of success recently as a jockey. He had a high-profile televised win at Ascot followed by one at Wetherby on Boxing Day and was featured in an article in the Racing Times.
2004
Matthew Arrowsmith has been working for the last year and is planning six months in the Alps for a ski season.
Milla Austerberry has just left Cheltenham Ladies’ College and hopes to go on to Durham in October to study French and Russian.
Camilla Barlow did incredibly well in her ‘A’ levels and is spending a gap year doing a cookery course and working at a school in Africa.
Adam Cartwright has completed ‘A’ levels in Maths, Economics, Physics and Chemistry and is going on to study Economics at the University of Exeter. At school he has been involved in theatrical productions which have gone up to the Edinburgh Fringe, played electric guitar in a band and is a former member of the top rowing squad.
Iona Dixey has completed ‘A’ levels in French, Latin, Economics and Spanish. She plans to spend six months of her gap year in South America and may go on to study Spanish and Portuguese at university.
George Edwards is about to start a gap year sailing abroad.
Louenna Edwards has been Captain of Athletics at Millfield.
Hamish Findlay has just finished at Shrewsbury. He plans to enjoy a ski season and then travel to South America during his gap year before going to Oxford Brookes University to study Real Estate Management.
Jonty Goucher has finished at Shrewsbury and is going to the Royal College of Agriculture at Cirencester to study Estate Management. At school he enjoyed playing 1st team hockey and rugby for the 3rds.
Rupert Hancock plans to study Business Management at either Newcastle or Oxford Brookes University after completing ‘A’ levels in Photography, Geography and Business Studies. At school he has played 1st XI football, 1st XV rugby and also enjoyed rowing, cricket and athletics.
Beetle Holloway is taking a gap year and hoping to go to Edinburgh next year.
Chris Jamieson has been Deputy Head of School at Shrewsbury and during his time there has been greatly involved with many theatrical productions as actor, writer and director. He has an offer to read European Social and Political Studies with Russian and Spanish at university.
Mike Harrap has been rowing for Cheltenham College first eight and completed a charity row from Oxford to London in 24 hours. He has done charity work at a Romanian orphanage and similar work in Kenya. He has enjoyed taking part in school shows as a singer and stand-up comedian and is hoping to go on to Durham or Cardiff University to study Biology.
Katie Hewett has just finished at Moreton Hall and started a gap year.
John Jones has finished at Repton and is going to San Diego University on a golf scholarship. He is a scratch golfer.
Miho Kanekawa is returning to Japan after her five years at Moreton Hall to study at Waseda University in the School of Liberal Studies.
Camilla Lea has had a ‘fantastic time’ at Moreton Hall and is about to set off on a gap year during which she plans to travel in Australia and Europe before returning to take up a place at Oxford Brookes University on the Childhood Studies course.
Ben Lee is going to Cambridge University to read Land Economy at Trinity Hall.
Andrew Mackereth has finished at Llanfyllin High School and is going to Edinburgh University to study Chemistry. He is enjoying great success in rugby as part of the Worcester Academy and will play for Chester first team next year.
Anna Matthews is hoping for top grades in her Biology, Art and Psychology ‘A’ levels to enable her to earn a place at Cardiff University to study Optometry.
Bella Munro has completed ‘A’ levels in English, History and Latin and will take a gap year in Europe and Africa before university.
Ollie Oak enjoyed studying Chemistry, Maths and French at Shrewsbury and is going on to Edinburgh University to read Chemistry.
Bertie Radcliffe has been offered a place to read Classics at Christchurch College, Oxford. He has enjoyed leading the Shrewsbury School Model United Nations team and has been a major contributor to the satirical magazine, The Salopians.
Hideo Shima was at Shrewsbury School for a year, and moved to Vancouver, Canada. He was in a rock band in Vancouver and performed some concerts in several schools and universities. He successfully finished High School last year and is now going back to Japan to attend Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan.
Edward Stanford-Davis is hoping to study Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London or Edinburgh University after completing a gap year as a New Zealand sheep farmer.
George Wade-Smith has taken ‘A’ levels in Photography, History of Art and Business Studies before starting a gap year. He was captain of the football 1st XI and a member of the 1st XV rugby team.
2005
Henry Bridge has been made Head Boy of Malvern College.
Freddie Herzog was presented with a ‘Young Citizen Award’ by the High Sheriff of Shropshire for good citizenship. He has also been made Head Boy of Ellesmere College.
David Kell was selected to represent Shrewsbury School in the regional heat of the Senior Team Mathematics challenge and has qualified for the national final to be held in London in February.
Evie Paterson is the reigning U18 Junior Eventing Champion. She also represented Britain in the FEI Junior European Eventing Championships where she was placed 16th. She achieved 11 A* grades in her GCSEs and is now studying five subjects for AS, including Mandarin.
Daniel Rees did extremely well in his GCSEs at Monmouth School and is now taking Latin, French, History and Economics for AS Levels.
2006
Jenny Draper has been selected to play lacrosse for England Centex in their game at Queen Anne’s Caversham against the New Zealand U19 World Cup Side on June 14th 2009.
2007
Sophie Martin was selected to represent Britain in the 2009 European Pony Eventing Championships in Belgium.
Jonathan Rees has gained Grade 5 in piano and Grade 3 in percussion and has settled very well at Monmouth. He was very pleased to be joined by Jonathon Glover. He has joined the senior symphonic winds and played in their 2008 tour to Barcelona.