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Clarinet Choir and sang with the London Concert Choir . In 1976 he reclaimed his crown as the Jordans Village Fete Fastest Lawn Mower . Married 1957 Elizabeth Denham ( separated ). He is survived by his two sons and two daughters .
Richard Francis Hanbury Park ( B , 46- 51 ): died 8.4.2016 . Brother of CJHP ( 42-47 ). Boxing 1951 . National Service , 1st Royal Dragoons ( now Blues and Royals ) 1951-53 . Trinity College , Cambridge 1953 2:2 Law 1956 . MA LLB 1957 . He then embarked on a successful career as a solicitor . He was President , Notaries Society 1987-89 and chairman , Social Security Tribunals for several years . He was Treasurer of his PCC for ten years . He built a ‘ Mirror ’ dinghy for one daughter and spent days driving to Pony Club camps for the other daughter . He was an avid gardener who achieved a beautiful garden – much admired . He is survived by Patricia , his wife of 56 years , and their two daughters .
Hon Alexander James Younger ( F , 46- 51 ): died 21.7.2016 . Son of EGY ( F , 20-25 ), brother of GKHY ( F , 45-49 , Warden 97-03 ) and REGY ( F , 53-58 ) and father of REAY ( F , 79-84 ). 3rd generation of Wykehamists , father to son . Worcester College , Oxford 1953-56 , 3 Modern History . National Service with A & S Highlanders 1951-53 and with the Black Watch in Korea 1952-53 . He then embarked on a career in printing , first with Sir Joseph Causton & Sons 1956-68 . He then moved to become Managing Director , Robert Maclehose & Co , the Glasgow University printers 1968-77 before finally becoming Director Simpson Labu Co Ltd from 1980 . He supported his daughter through Pony Club , becoming the local Branch District Commissioner and he was instrumental in setting up the Riding for the Disabled Centre in Scotland . His great success with DIY was to build a hi-fi cabinet – a masterpiece of craftsmanship . He played the piano well and enjoyed the opera . His lifetime passions were shooting and golf . He had a strong sense of what things were worth and of the merits of hard work . He is survived by Annabelle , his wife of 57 years , and their son and three daughters .
Anthony ( Tony ) Owen Langlois Hodgson ( I , 48-53 ): died 11.7.2016 . Exhibitioner . Tancred Studentship and Exhibition , Christ ’ s College , Cambridge , 2 English Literature and Theology . National Service , Royal Navy , where he eschewed officer rank and served as an Acting Leading Coder on HMS Crane in the Far East . World Council of Churches Scholarship to Greece to study pastoral life of the Greek Orthodox Church 1959- 60 . Ordained 1962 . He then served in the Norwich Diocese and thereafter at Christ Church , Lancaster Gate , London . He worked for Christian Aid 1970-74 and was the founder Warden of Little Gidding Community 1973-76 before becoming Vicar of the Giddings 1977-81 . He was Warden of Dovedale House Youth Training Centre 1981-89 . He was founder of Rural Theological Association and Christian Rural Concern and with his wife the Anglican Expression of Marriage Encounter . He with his wife became pioneers of small lay communities that proliferated to the extent that 135 were listed in the National Association of Christian Communities and Networks in 2000 . Chairman , Life Style Movement 2010-15 and Warden of the Ferrar House , Little Gidding Community 2005-08 . He coxed his College boat whilst at Cambridge and returned to rowing in retirement . During a weekend campaigning with his daughter in Genoa during a G8 Summit they were featured in a Times article challenging the stereotypes of the anarchist protestor that the media were mainly portraying . His ministry was one of hospitality and pastoral concern . It was not what he achieved but how he was with people . To mark his 80th birthday he walked 80 miles along the Nene Way , raising £ 17,500 for Freedom from Torture . When asked to define his church tradition he would say that he was OPEC
– Orthodox , Pentecostal , Evangelical and Catholic . He is survived by Judith , his wife of 54 years , and their two daughters .
Charles Maurice Churchill Dewar ( F , 49- 54 ): died 10.7.2016 . Son of MPDD ( K , 20-24 ). Lords 1953 , VI 1953 , Soccer XI 1953-54 ( Captain ). RMAS 1954-55 . Commissioned into The Buffs , with whom he served in BAOR , Aden , Kenya and the Far East . On the staff in BAOR and with 2 Queen ’ s Regiment in Belfast 1970 and BAOR . Retired as Major 1974 . Admitted as a solicitor 1977 with Charles Russell & Co , Lincoln ’ s Inn 1978-82 , and with Thomson Snell & Passmore from 1982 . He was first and foremost a soldier : forthright and tenacious and regarded as a demon of an adjutant – impatient with cant and pretension . He was a sportsman , being Tennis Champion HQ BAOR 1969 . He retained his interest in sport both as a player and as a spectator . He maintained his connection with his regiment , organising the Dragons Club dinners for former Buffs officers until he died .
Peter Russell Gordon-Smith ( K , 51-56 ): died in his favourite pub on 17.1.2016 . VIII . Dartmouth 1956 , 3rd generation father to son in the Royal Navy . Having trained as a navigator , he initially served in Singapore and the Far East in HMS Caprice , HMS Russell and HMS Parapet and later served in the Persian Gulf . He left the Royal Navy in 1976 as Lieutenant- Commander . He took up farming in the South Downs , making a lasting and successful business . Diagnosed with Parkinson ’ s in 1998 , he retired from farming and returned to Emsworth , where he enjoyed classic-car driving , model-train building and a special wine cellar . Married 1963 Marion Else , who died in 2010 . He is survived by their son and daughter .
Nicholas Adam Tatton-Brown ( E , 52- 56 ): died 7.3.2016 suddenly in his garden just a couple of months short of his golden wedding anniversary . Father of DNT-B ( K , 82-87 ) and SWT-B ( F , 85-89 ). Burne Cup . National Service with The Black
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