No . 123
The Trusty Servant
POWs weep . Demobbed as a Major . He was a don at Winchester 1949-53 . During this time he was locked into the Cathedral whilst practising the organ : he put a matchstick under the loudest organ stop and was released by an anxious verger wondering what was causing the din ! In 1954 he was appointed Director of Music , Melbourne Grammar School . He also commanded the Cadet Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel . In 1968 he conducted the MGS Orchestra and Choir in the first televised performance in Australia of Haydn ’ s Nelson Mass . After 20 years he moved to become the first Coordinator of Instrumental Music in Queensland Schools . By the time that he retired there were over 45,000 children actively involved in music in 780 primary schools , with 380 instructors - a musical and administrative achievement of the highest order . He was an examiner for the Australian Music Examination Board in piano and organ . He had two piano pieces published in London whilst a teenager and went on to compose hymns , anthems and a Mass . He was the first to be awarded an honorary FMusA . And in 1995 he was awarded an OAM for services to Music and Music Education in Australia . Married 1945 Pearl Creed , who died after 57 years of marriage . He is survived by their two daughters .
Peter Michell Luttman-Johnson ( C , 33-38 ): died 1.10.2016 aged 96 whilst on holiday in Spain . Son of FML-J ( C , 06-11 ). 4 th generation of Wykehamists , father to son . Co Prae . Trinity College , Oxford , PPE War BA 1945 . He was commissioned into 15 / 19 Hussars . After D-Day he joined 3 GHQ Regiment or the Phantom organisation , with whom he served in France , Belgium and Germany with the US Army . After the war he served with and finally commanded Princess Louise ’ s Kensington Regiment , Royal Signals TA . After training with Durlachers , a stockjobbing firm , he joined Allen Harvey and Ross , a discount house , subsequently becoming a Director . He retired in 1963 . In retirement , he continued with Lloyds ; he owned a mine in the West Country and a farm in West Sussex . He was secretary to the local hunt pointto-point and Governor to three local schools . He was a District Councillor for Petworth and Chichester 1973-91 , High Sheriff West Sussex 1978 and Master of the Clothworkers ’ Company 1985 . He was elected a member of the Garrick Club aged 23 and he died as the longest-serving member . He was a man who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had . Married ( 1 ) 1961 Barbara Sclater-Booth ( died 2000 ). ( 2 ) 2003 Anna Minton-Beddoes who survives him with a son and two daughters of his first marriage and a stepdaughter .
Colin George Champion Rae ( B , 34-39 ): died 11.10.2016 aged 95 . Head of House , Silver Foil . He was appointed TJ to a new boy who failed the exam three times , for which he , Rae , was beaten each time . The new boy ’ s father , as Home Secretary , Northern Ireland , had authorised the hanging of an IRA man . Rae was ordered by his Housemaster , the Jacker , to safeguard the boy and to be with him at all times – this he did in company with a policeman , but both got left behind when the boy went on a toll round Hills . He enlisted in the RA in 1939 ; commissioned in 1940 he joined 120 th Field Regiment in Northern Ireland . In 1943 , he joined the Commando Forces and went with 3 rd Commando to Normandy , and then through Holland to Germany . In the last weeks of the war he was leading the Commando to capture the Essel Bridgehead , when 40 yards from the objective he came under fire , charged down the centre of the road and liquidated the enemy position . For his action he was awarded an immediate Military Cross . On pinning the award , Montgomery asked him : ‘ Captain Rae , how is the Jacker ?’ - the Field Marshal ’ s son David had been tutored by the Jacker . After serving in Austria , he was demobbed in 1946 . He forsook his place at Cambridge and worked first as a stockbroker with Parr & Rae , Liverpool 1947-6 , then as a banker with Edward Bates and Son 1962-77 , for which he single-handedly enabled the family bank to go down with honour , every single debt repaid . He finally worked as an investment manager with Rathbones 1977-98 . A man with enormous energy , he was best described as a family man – he did everything that he could for his wife and family . He is survived by Pamela , his wife of 63 years and their two sons and two daughters . Obituaries in The Times and The Daily Telegraph .
John Prichard Bassett ( C , 35-40 ): died in Canada 15.9.2014 aged 93 . Lords and Soccer XI . Pembroke College , Cambridge , 1 Mechanical Science 1941 . Cambridge University Soccer XI 1940 . Cambridge University Air Squadron 1941 . Commissioned into the RAF 1942 . He flew Spitfires and Mustangs in India and SEAC 1945-46 . Mentioned in Despatches . He met his wife-to-be , who was a VAD in Bombay : he stole an aircraft and flew to Bombay and they were married that evening . In the circumstances his Commanding Officer looked the other way ! After the war , he returned to Pembroke College , 2 History 1947 and 2 English Literature 1948 . He first worked for Revetex Ltd 1948 . He emigrated to Canada in 1956 , where he first worked for Shawnigan Chemicals in Montreal . He had an ambition to make documentary films and aged 46 changed his career and formed Bassett Productions in 1965 . In 1971 , he joined Canada Broadcasting Corporation and collaborated with Dr David Suzuki , the world renowned environmentalist , to produce and direct The Nature of Things , which is still on air in Canada . He actively worked until he was 85 when he made a film about the historic Nisga ’ a Treaty , the only modern treaty
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