Old Packwoodians News

News from 2011-12

DEATHS

John Bampfield (1932-2011)

John Bampfield, with his wife Sheila and their two younger sons, Andrew and James, arrived at Packwood in 1968 - their eldest son Richard having joined the school as a boarder in the previous year. John had just retired from his army career as a Major in the Royal Artillery, and he and his family moved into Packwood House, overlooking the playing fields.

At first, John was appointed as a teacher of Geography and Junior Maths and also as a games coach, having himself played a number of sports to a good standard. He coached the first XI cricket, the Under 11 rugby, some football and a good deal of squash - the latter in two splendid courts given to the school by a grateful parent. He also involved himself in a multitude of school activities and ran a very popular stamp club for many years.

Little by little, John spent less time in the classroom and more time working on the grounds and helping with the administration of the growing school. He continued to coach, referee and umpire many teams; but he also spent countless hours cutting wickets, marking boundaries, and helping to keep the grounds looking magnificent. He would often be up early in the morning to prepare pitches, and in summer one of his first jobs would be to rescue hedgehogs entangled in the tennis netting! When the school purchased the farm and extended the playing fields and buildings, John was amongst those who worked incredibly hard to achieve a huge step forward in the size and facilities of the school.

There are many anecdotes about John's time at Packwood, including the time, well into his fifties, when he broke his collarbone while playing in goal for the staff football team against the first XI; and the time when he was taking rugger on the bottom field and the ball was kicked into the fast-flowing River Perry. Undaunted, John stripped to his underwear and plunged into the river, just in time to prevent the loss of a valuable rugger ball!

John was well-known and well-liked by the parents. He would always be about at the beginning and end of term, meeting and greeting parents and their children. He organised the collection of newspapers for recycling, which raised a considerable amount of money for the school; and when he became the school's first Bursar, one of his favourite activities was organising an annual outing for the domestic staff.

John was always a reliable and hardworking member of staff, and was greatly missed when he retired as Bursar in 1992; but he remained in regular touch with the school and was, for many years, the secretary of the Barker Memorial and Pease-Watkin Bursary Trusts.

News from 2010-11

ENGAGEMENTS
Mark Pilling (1986) to Rowena Dreyer

Harriet Erskine (1993) to Steve Taylor

Sarah Fanning (1994) to Mike Campin

MARRIAGES
Emily Erskine (1991) to Jonny Baker

Argie Taylor (1994) to Harriet

Georgiana Woolley (1984) to Marc Paul Seigneur

DEATHS
James Atkinson (1956)

NEWS

1956

Richard Matson was involved in the fund raising journey of the horse drawn ambulance from Land's End to John O'Groats in aid of Help for Heroes.

1958

David Brooke has now retired after a long and distinguished Headmastership at Medbury School, Christchurch, New Zealand. Fortunately his house survived the earthquake, although it was badly shaken, but life there is not easy and they are constantly suffering aftershocks.

1961
John R Kenyon is still the head Librarian at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. He was awarded a PhD by Cardiff University in the summer of 2010, through the School of History & Archaeology, as a result of his publications over the last ten years. His latest book, The Medieval Castles of Wales, was published by the University of Wales Press in October 2010. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

His wife, Chris, is about to retire from Cadw, the historic environment service of the Welsh Assembly Government. Their eldest daughter, Pippa, works for an arts organization in Manchester, while Jo teaches in the Junior School at Howell’s in Llandaff, Cardiff, a school that forms part of the Girls’ Day School Trust.
1964
Andrew Wallace Hadrill has been elected to a British Academy Fellowship, an acknowledgement of academic distinction.
1975

Anthony Barnett declined an offer from his firm to run their China office and is now working on his own.

Christopher Currell has set up and manages his own successful surveying business in London, but recently he attended a John Osborne Foundation Course on short story writing in Clun and was good enough to go and visit Edward and Margaret Pease-Watkin. He still trains regularly and sprints in the Over 40 100 metre races to a high standard.
Tim Roe and his family met up by chance with John O'Connor (1976) and family at Mwagusi safari camp, Ruaha, Tanzania during their summer holiday - a great meeting place for OPs!

1977

Nicholas Barnett has regained his Flying Instructor's rating.

David Bickerton has been appointed Managing Director for the UK and Middle East at Clifford Chance, but still managed to cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats last summer.

1978

William Lees-Jones has taken up the reins of public office and is now High Sheriff of Cheshire in Nomination.

1980

Ben Mowll has been very busy getting the Painting Exhibition ready at home in Sandbanks. He has been elected as an Associate Member of the Royal Society.

1981

Tullis Matson was recently awarded the presitigious Marsh Christian Award. The awards support areas such as conservation and volunteering. Tullis, who runs AI Stallion Services, was recognised for services within the fields of genetic biodiversity and conservation biology.

1982

Mark Anstiss has been promoted to Superintendent and has returned to the Marine Branch of the Hong Kong Police as commander of the Small Boat Division.

Guy Anstiss is still working on the widening of Blackfriars Bridge - not without incident when a crane driver dropped several tons of ironwork into the river.

Richard Hopkinson-Woolley is now a partner in Berwin Leighton Paisner and is heavily involved with commercial property.

Joshua Mowll married Sonja in London at the Chapel Royal in St James' Palace, a truly memorable occasion with the Chapel Royal Choir and all the trimmings. They now live in Amsterdam where Joshua continues to write and work for the Mail on Sunday's colour magazine.

1985

Robin Bennett is now married and he has completed the conversion of the barns at Marsh Farm into offices. He gained an award for the Best Small Commercial Development in Flintshire.

1986

Stephen Brown has written a new play with support from the National Theatre. He also translates books etc from German into English.
David Makinson has been working in the Cabinet Office and now has a second daughter.

Fiona Stewart (nee McDonald), an oncology consultant, was asked to speak on her work in Barcelona. This is the first time the Royal Marsden Hospital has had anyone so junior asked to speak at an international meeting.

1988

Nigel Hibbert is married with two young sons, happily settled on the Wirral. In May 2011 he left Deutsche Bank (previously Tilney) after 13 years to join Cheviot Asset Management as a partner to establish a Liverpool office for them with his team.

Philip Makinson has had a great year working in New York, Cairo, Mexico and Slough.

1989

Richard Edwards is a Media Consultant (auditing) in London.

Nicholas Heard works for the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Foundation for the protection of endangered species.

Kirsty McDonald is married to Simon and recently gave birth to a second daughter, Alexia.

1990

Kate Edwards is a professional advocate representing people with severe learning difficulties and also working with asylum seekers.

1991

Miriam Heard is in Chile working on a four-part television project about Chile 200 years ago, based on Maria Graham (played by Miriam) and her diaries.

Gareth Lee is still with KPMG living in Los Angeles with his wife Jaqui and is involved with a 10 billion dollar project.

1992

Emma Fanning is still working for Save the Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo and will be there for two more years.

1993

Andrew Rowley is often responsible for the main Saturday afternoon sports show on BBC TV.

1994

Sara Fanning has recently returned from South Africa.

1995

Simon Rowley is to marry in August and will live in London where he works in commercial property and his wife will be starting a year's degree course at Roehampton.

1999

Andrew Erskine has started working for S J Berwin in London and is sharing a flat in Clapham with Charlie Reston.

2000

Sam Davies graduated as a doctor from Cardiff University in June 2010. He is currently working at the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.

Felix Paterson came out as top history student of his year at Trinity Dublin.

2003

Luke Gerrard spent a long time travelling in Australia and doing a ski season. He has finally settled down and finished his first year at Nottingham University studying Business Management and Finance. He's spending the summer setting up an ice cream tricycle business with William Matthews.

Celine Goodwin is studying International Business and French at Loughborough University. She is currently on a placement year working for Amadeus, a global distribution company, on the Cote d'Azur in Nice. She is still enjoying hockey and has joined a local club. However, the French style is a lot more relaxed so there is more wine and cheese consumption than training! Sadly this Mediterranean lifestyle will be coming to an end in September when she will be leaving the sun and sea to her return for her final year at university.

Adam Kidson is just about to finish his second year at Newcastle University where he is studying Psychology. After graduation he will have a place to start Royal Marines officer training in September 2012.

Alastair Lloyd is about to start a placement job in London as a marketing assistant for a company called RateMyPlacement. They are in the final of a Barclays competition to be one of the best new companies to work for in London, with a chance to win £50,000. Then he will go back to Manchester to finish his degree in Advertising and Brand Management and to enjoy wakeboarding (he started a club at university) and football.

William Kerr has just finished his second year at Manchester University doing a Masters in Pharmacy.

Antonia Lock is graduating from Newcastle with a BA(Hons) in Classical Studies and will be interning for three months this summer with Nicole Farhi's marketing department with the hope of starting a career in fashion marketing.

William Matthews finished his second year at Cardiff UWIC studying Tourism and Events Management and is working over the summer with a boat company in North Wales. He is also setting up an ice cream business on a tricycle with Luke Gerrard.

Olivia Okell has finished a great Erasmus year in the south of France and is going back to Edinburgh University in September to finish her French degree.

2004

Anna Matthews completed her first year at Cardiff University and then did a ski season in Verbier. She is now moving on to her second year of Optometry in September.

2005

Jo Allan spent a gap year travelling in Canada and working in Zimbabwe and is now going to Oxford to study English.

Alasdair Dougan spent a fantastic gap year travelling in South America and is going to Manchester to study English.

Charlotte James is improving her Arabic and working with children and young people suffering from physical and learning disabilities in Morocco. She returns in mid-August and then starts her degree course at Warwick in the autumn.

2006

Theo Bathurst intends to study Geography at Leeds or Edinburgh.

Charlie Boutflower played in the 1st hockey team at Shrewsbury, completed his Gold Duke of Edinburgh award and is hoping to go either to Glasgow School of Art or to Florence to study Interior Design.

Charles Bridge took the International Baccalaureate at Malvern and is now going to Christ Church Oxford to read History Ancient and Modern.

James Brown has continued his thespian interests at Shrewsbury. He has directed shows at school and taken a musical to the Edinburgh Fringe. He is planning to study Audio Engineering at SAE in Liverpool.

Joshua Charlton-Briggs is currently living in Singapore and will read History of Art at Glasgow University after completing an internship at an art dealers in Singapore.

Charles Dodson-Wells was very much involved with the Shrewsbury School Boat Club and was awarded his 1st VIII colours. He is going to Reading to read Business Studies and Geography.

Henrietta Dyson is planning a gap year divided between skiing in Canada and completing her Human Rights internship in Mongolia. She is also applying to Oxford and Trinity Dublin to read PPE or History.

William Goodwin has been selected for the Midlands Under 18 Rugby squad and been signed for the Newport Gwent Dragons.

Georgie Harfitt has been at Moreton Hall since leaving Packwood, playing a lot of sport including lacrosse, tennis and netball. She is going to Australia to work in a school coaching lacrosse and tennis before going on to Edinburgh University to study Sports Science. In the meantime she is helping Mrs Draper with lacrosse at Packwood.

Jonathan Harrap has been living in Virginia Beach, USA and Washington DC. He completed his A levels at Cheltenham College and is hoping to study Physics with Astrophysics at Bristol. In 2010 he went trekking in Nepal, reaching a maximum altitude of 5400m.

Charles Heard is planning on studying medicine at Sussex.

Stefan Hindmarsh has been offered a place to read medicine at either St Andrews or Aberdeen. He continued to play cricket and tennis at Shrewsbury and during his final year was a Praeposter and Captain of Golf.

William Hutchinson-Smith has finished at Milton Abbey School and hopes to go to Oxford Brookes to read Business Management and Marketing.

Charlie Lewis has just completed his A levels at Shrewsbury. He hopes to read History of Art at either Edinburgh or St Andrew's.

Jess Richards has finished at Moreton Hall and hopes to travel before going to Leeds to study French and International Relations.

Harry Robertson has taken up two new sports, rowing and mountain biking, since leaving Packwood. He coxed the 1st and 2nd VIIIs from 2008-2010 and was the youngest competitor at Henley in 2008. He was also in the winning 3rd VIII at the National Schools' Regatta. At present, Harry is setting up his own mountain biking centre in his area.

Chessie Rowland has completed A levels in Biology, Maths and Chemistry at Moreton and wants to read veterinary medicine at university. She is taking a gap year first and travelling through Africa and South America.

David Stott took Maths A level early and got an A*. He is planning to go to Manchester to do a four-year course in Physics.

Emma Trevor-Jones is Head Girl of Oundle and is applying to university to do medicine.

Jack Trowbridge is hoping to read English and Classics at Bristol. He was captain of the Radley XI football team and a college prefect.

Maddie Wilson has been in the first lacrosse, squash and athletic teams, captain of rounders and also gained a merit in Grade 6 violin during her time at Uppingham. She has been offered a place to read Rural Enterprises and Land Management at Harper Adams next September.

Trini Woolley has been playing a lot of polo and is going to study hospitality at university.

2007

Hettie James has been made joint head of Southfield House at Millfield for autumn term 2011.

2009

Jess Bibby is enjoying sailing at Rugby and has done her bronze Duke of Edinburgh award.

Ella Edwards is enjoying Moreton and has done her bronze Duke of Edinburgh award.

Josie Hall has done her bronze Duke of Edinburgh award at Rugby.

Rada Kathuria made the Under 15 netball squad at Cheltenham Ladies' College and is going to South Africa on a sports tour this summer. She has also done her bronze Duke of Edinburgh award.

Louis Lees-Jones was the top Under 16 cross country runner in the East Midlands School Championships as well as first Under 16 runner, and fifth in the whole school, in the Routh run at Uppingham.

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
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.

Sam Davies graduated as a doctor from Cardiff University in June 2010. He is currently working at the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.
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.

Ed Trevor-Jones ran the London Marathon with his brother, Guy and raised £5000 for the Children's Liver Disease Foundation. He is hoping to go on to Cardiff University to study Medical Engineering.

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.