1970 - 1989
| Nigel C Williams | 1970 |
I am involved in Freemasonry. I was appointed Inspector General for Cambridge and the Isle of Ely in March 2008, in the Ancient and Accepted Rite, Rose Croix; a Christian "side degree". |
| Rod A Cooper | 1970 | After 36 years int he financial services/insurance section I now run a window cleaning business in Northamptonshire, with a growing client base and 2 employees. |
| Avijit Mitra | 1971 | Now Head of Classics and Asst.Chaplain of King's School, Rochester, from January 2009 after being Senior Chaplain at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, for twelve and a half years. Please update your records with new contact details. |
| David E Bartlett | 1971 | Work and family takes up most of my time, but my wife and I own Harley Davidson motorcycles and spend as much time as we can travelling the UK, Europe and the US. My oldest daughter is just starting her Post Graduate year of teacher training to become a PE teacher. My son is lead guitarist for Rattlesnake Remedy. My younger daughter is just in the final year of junior school and loving every minute of it. |
| Jeremy Gray | 1972 | Bampton Classical Opera, of which I am an artistic director and of which Chris Hodges OE is chairman, continues to flourish in its exploration of rare eighteenth-century opera. This summer we celebrated Haydn's 250th with his wonderful 'fishy' farce Le pescatrici, giving performances in three venues, ending up with our regular annual appearance with the London Mozart Players at London's St John's, Smith Square. The company also made its debut appearances with rare Gluck and Mozart at the prestigious Cheltenham Festival and the Wigmore Hall. Plans are now afoot for next year's main production - the Marriage of Figaro - but not by Mozart! We will be giving the modern-times and UK premiere of a version of the familiar story but with music by Marcos de Portugal, composed in 1799. As always there's a great deal of fundraising to do before then, so if you personally or your company would be interested in supporting an outstanding company, please get in touch! www.bamptonopera.org |
| Malcolm SPENCER | 1972 | 2006-9: Taught French & German at Walton High School, Stafford 2006- : Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham April 2009: Visited China and Japan August 2009: Visited Museum of the Stasi in Berlin. September 2009: My article 'Berlin:20 Years After' was runner-up in the Daily Telegraph Fall of the Wall Competition |
| Nick L Jones | 1972 | Left KES 1972 to do Economics Degree in UWIST Cardiff. Then decided to teach Maths and did so for 11 years in Newport Gwent.Then worked for BT as computer programmer/analyst for another 11 years before setting up my own business as a IT consultant. Business dried up in 2002 so tried to return to teaching - was a supply teacher until 2004 when I joined Royal Mail as a postman - still there now. Married Ann in 1979 and have 2 children - Laura aged 21 and Matt aged 18. Favourite hobbied etc: Rambling, mountain walking, swimming, watching cricket, history of cinema, reading profusely and recently taken up Tai Chi. Also crap at karaoke !! |
| Robert Wilkins | 1972 | After KES to Manchester Medical School (1972-77). Lived in Chandos Hall at UMIST for first 3 years. Married Judith (nee Bevens) 7/9/77 , Housejobs at Birch Hill, then anesthesia training at MRI, Withington, (with 1984 in Ann Arbor, at the University of Michigan)and ultimately in 1985, Consultant in Anaesthesia / ICU at Withington. Only claim to fame there was meeting Prince Charles and Princess Diana after the Manchester Airport fire... In 1987, tiring of the NHS, went into pharma industry. Alasdair born in May 1988. In 1991 moved to the USA (Lake Bluff & Lake Forest, IL - Abbott Labs), with arrival of Jonathan in November 91. In 1999 left Abbott for Baxter, begining an alphabetic decline through the industry, and moved to New Jersey. After a short time at Physiometrix - a small medical device company, and unpaid time as CEO of a start-up, I've focused on Consulting, with assignments as Director of Global Marketing at Datascope, again in medical devices, and running medical affairs / business development at GlucoLight (in glucose monitoring) and as CEO of Endovalve, a heart valve company. We became US citizens in 2001. Celebrated our 25th anniversary in 2002. Turned 50 in 2004...still loving skiing.... In the fall of 2006 Alasdair entered the class of 2010 at Harvard....In 2009 still running Endovalve and am a Venture Partner at Battelle Ventures...no longer active at GlucoLight, but still a full plate of consulting. |
| Steve G Johnson | 1972 | Currently Director in the Technology & Manufacturing Group (TMG) at Intel Corporation (based in Santa Clara, California). Married to Linda (whom I met at Nottingham University) with 3 kids Nick, Andy & Hannah, ages 24, 17 & 14 respectively. Live in Saratoga, California. |
| Jim Grant aka Lee Child | 1973 | |
| Simon Inglis | 1973 | After 20 odd years in London as a freelance journalist and writer, specialising in sport and architecture, I have, since 2004, been editor of an English Heritage series of books called Played in Britain. I write, research, take photographs and generally spend my days either deskbound or visiting old swimming pools, billiard halls, bowling greens and such like. All because my art teacher at KES. Bruce Hurn, instilled in me a love of place and history, and an instinct for detail. I recently met up with Bruce, along with Mike Bliss (from the same art set, now a very successful designer) and we both had a chance to thank him. I owe a great deal to the old school. |
| David A Rothery | 1974 | I took a degree in geology at Cambridge (in my first year I was in the Churchill College University Challenge team that made it to the semi-finals), went to the Open University for a PhD (geological mapping in the Oman - on the ground and using satellites) and have been there ever since. I took up riding in my late 30s when the kids were learning, and now I have my own horse and am a keen supporter of my local hunt. I took an astronomy O'level (I think in the year after my main O'level year) along with Clive Robinson and Ian Wilson. The standard text was "Astronomy for O'level" by Patrick Moore, and 35 years later I became a friend of his and have guested on Sky @ Night several times. |
| Martyn Hathaway | 1974 | Not exactly news but I would like to include the following item if possible: I play chess in the Birmingham District Chess League and I wondered if any other OEs who live in the area would be interested in playing in an OE team? It is quite possible that some of you already play for a team and would not want to break that affiliation. However there may be others who would transfer and those who donâ€TMt play in the league at all who are bursting to play over- the -board chess again. Teams are of four players in the lowest division â€" where we would start â€" but thereafter comprise six. Since not every player can play in every game due to other commitments, one or two more than the four or six required is desirable. Vital facts for those not in the know: Games are played against a clock: you have to make your first thirty moves in an hour and a quarter and the following twenty four in an hour but games rarely last more than thirty something moves and are almost always concluded in an evening There are currently six divisions in the league with typically twelve games per season which runs from September to early April. Also, every team can enter a cup competition with a further knock out tournament for first round losers. There is also a tournament for individuals Standards vary from between higher and lower boards, divisions and teams but the process of promotion and relegation and having to play team members in their order of strength tends to get people playing at their correct level. If you are interested, please contact me â€" Martyn Hathaway [1974] either via hathawayfamily@AOL.com or 0121 778 3018. The viability of an OE team would need to be established by â€" say â€" the end of May to enter the league in September 2009 |
| Paul D Cockerham | 1975 | I left KES at the end of the autumn term of 1975 having done A level that summer and then stayed on for the extra term for Oxbridge. I went on to St John's Cambridge to read History of Art and Veterinary Medicine, and since 1985 have been a vet in Falmouth, Cornwall. |
| Paul R Andrews | 1975 | Chartered Civil Engineer working for large construction company in infrastructure works, including municipal waste, water and roads. |
| Peter M Mackay | 1975 | after leaving KES in 1975, I did my three years at the University of Lancaster and eventually found my way to London, where I've been for about 25 years now. I'm currently publisher and editor of a specialist trade magazine covering the international transport of chemicals and other hazardous materials - something that would no doubt surprise my old chemistry masters, if not my english masters! |
| Andrew Hudson | 1976 | [Can't remember if I have already passed this on.] At the end of March, I returned to the Treasury after nearly ten years working elsewhere. I am Managing Director, Public Services and Growth, advising the Chancellor and the Chief Secretary on public spending, public service reform, supply-side growth issues, and financial management. |
| Howard J Whitehouse | 1976 | Since July 1976 Howard Whitehouse has done thirty-three years worth of stuff, most recently building a house at the bottom of a ravine in Nicaragua. It's not his own house. He actually shares an old church manse in New York's Hudson Valley with Lori, his wife of 26 years, four cats and several thousand model soldiers. He earns a modest crust by designing games, building custom models, and writing novels for young people. His most recent book is "The Island of Mad Scientists". |
| Paul J Shurey | 1976 | After a successful career in the Record Industry (A&R) I became the promoter of the world's biggest dance music festivals (Tribal Gathering), winning countless awards including Radio One Event of the Year, NME Event of the Year, Mixmag Event of the Year and regularly appearing on TV programmes such as Newsnight. Since selling the company behind the events I have forged a successful career in TV/Digital Media production including winning a BAFTA in 2007 for Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather and now serving on the BAFTA jury. I've worked for the BBC, Sky and Tiger Aspect Productions where I was Head of Digital Media and Executive Produced countless programmes including Robin Hood, Catherine Tate, Charlie & Lola and Horne & Corden. I'm now CEO of my own Digital Media production company and am currently working on Strictly Come Dancing for the BBC. I'm divorced with one 18 year old daughter who lives with me in London and is already a successful online vintage clothing entrepreneur (and thus no longer requires pocket money!). I have recently developed the Strictly Social web application for this year's Strictly Come Dancing. Play along every Saturday at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing/ |
| Paul M Ruddock | 1976 | Chairman,V & A Museum London. member of the international advising panel of walters Art gallery, Baltimore USA. member of visiting committee of medical Art of metropolitan museum of Art new York. Fellow of Mansfield Collage, Oxford. Trustee of Burlington magazine |
| Preston Fletcher | 1976 | I achieved a long held ambition in 2009 - playing county cricket (no doubt a great surprise to some I played cricket with at KES). My debut for Shropshire over 50's was against Yorkshire, where I opened the bowling. I played two further games against Cheshire and Gloucestershire before the selectors realised their mistake! I'm hoping that enough of my colleagues are injured next season for me to sneak into the squad again in 2010. |
| Stephen Cooper | 1976 | In October I took a party of 40 junior rugby players to Compiegne, site of the 1918 Armistice to inaugurate a new exchange partnership in honour of our War dead from 1914-18. Rosslyn Park in SW London lost 70+ members, by contemporary press report, but we do not have their names.Painstaking research has gradually built up our Roll of Honour, which is now commemorated at www.rugbyremembers.co.uk, and an appeal is open for funds to replace the 'lost' memorial. Battlefield tours were leavened with rugby matches(satisfyingly we beat our hosts)and a spectacular visit as honoured guests to the Stade de France, where the boys paraded in front of 80,000 fans to mark the first game in Europe between the two clubs, Park and Stade Francais 1892. As Chair of Youth rugby, with 800 players in my charge and 130 volunteer coaches, I have had more satisfaction from my second rugby career than from my donkey playing 'career' as 1st XV lock at KES. Some KES notes that arose within this project(by happenstance): 3 Old Edwardians represented Great Britain at rugby in the 1900 Olympics, under the team name Moseley Wanderers; and one of my London prop forwards, in researching his own family history, told of his great-great uncle, one Frank Stockdale. Upon entering (quite possibly for the first time) the school chapel at a recent reunion (also for the first time),some mesmeric attraction drew my eye to one name alone: Captain Frank Stockdale of Tipton, KES and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, KIA 25/9/1918... There will undoubtedly be a learned Latin tag for this revelatory experience, but as a brief classicist only, I shall leave that to the Chief Master. |
| Ian P Collier | 1977 | After leaving KES I went on to study medicine at Birmingham University. Qualified in 1982 and then trained to be a GP and have been working in Walmley since 1987. I am married to another GP and have 2 children, one studying to be an engineer and the other (currently at KEHS) wanting to study medicine as well. |
| Peter Wynne-Willson | 1977 | Remained interested in Theatre, and have specialised in Theatre for Young People. Set up a company called Big Brum Theatre-in-Education Company in 1982, and left in 1992, although Big Brum is still going strong. To date, have written 38 plays, mostly for children. Since 1999 have been Visiting Professor of Theatre for Children at the Korean National University of the Arts. Currently also working as Early Years Development person at Birmignham Rep. |
| Colin Ross | 1978 | Still living in Jerusalem, Israel after 12 years here. Taking a sabbatical from my work in a school for children from families (Jewish and Gentile) of believers in Jesus. Not clear about what I will be doing next. Celebrated 25th anniversary of my marriage to Rosie! |
| Hugh Barton-Smith | 1978 | After 17 years in Paris, 2004 saw me moving to Brussels to join the European Commission for five years. I have now taken up a role at the European Parliament. |
| Mick P Ozimek | 1978 | A couple of years after leaving med school I got itchy feet and ended up in New Zealand where I've been working for the last 20 years or so. Being a GP in the UK had never appealed to me but the pace downunder is a little less frantic and it suits me fine. |
| Neale D Perrins | 1980 | After commuting large distances and living overseas (Holland and the Far East)in the course of a financial career in various large textile, chemical and oil companies now working near to home in the Lake District helping a local entrepreneur with his portfolio of technology companies. |
| Andrew J Willetts | 1981 | Finance Director, Lloydspharmacy |
| David Wolffe | 1981 | North London has been my home for 20 years now, but a Brummie heart still beats within. I'm married to Dawn, who teaches English and Drama at Haberdashers Boys School. Our 3 young sons Sam, Louis and Joseph make sure that we don't get complacent about life. I work at ITV, in the business of making and selling telly programmes, as Finance Director of ITV Global Content. Life is bosting! |
| Peter M Chadwick | 1981 | Worked internationally for Shell for 21 years before emigrating permanently to Australia in 2006. Married to Helen with 2 children Matthew born 1994 and Leona born 1996. Hobbies include Magic the Gathering, tennis, sailing, miniatures wargaming. President of local residents association, assistant coach for Subiaco U15/3 soccer team, and part-time chauffeur for two offspring. |
| Robert W Lawrance | 1981 | Last year I moved from being Durham Diocesan Director of Ordinands and Chaplain of Collingwood College Durham to being Team Rector of the Durham North Team Ministry, six parishes (seven churches!) to the north and west of Durham City. Sarah is now Collection Director at Seven Stories The Centre for Children's Books, a national archive of children's literature and illustration based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Our children Thomas (14) and Emma (12) are enjoying growing up in this beautiful city and region. |
| Mark Cooper | 1983 | After 13 years based in France, I returned to work in the UK this summer. Still working for an automotive components supplier, I am now the global business director for our activity with Ford Motor Company. As if professional travel to the different regions of the world wasn't enough, I still return home to Paris at the weekend - thank goodness for the Eurostar! |
| Stuart Plotnek | 1984 | As an amateur racing driver, and having won the Britcar" Production Saloon Championship in 2006 |
| Jasper Kent | 1986 | |
| Lewis R Hands | 1986 | Started own business in 2008 "handsome IP" handle all forms of intellectual property - patents, trademarks, designs, copywright etc |
| roger rees | 1986 | |
| Warren Cowell | 1986 | Starting a new position with Pfizer, liaising with NICE and academic centres - to develop policy on health technology assessment in the UK. Baby girl named Ruby born in October, a sister for Sam and Millie |
| Carl Robinson | 1987 | I have started a new role with my employer, Oxford University Press, as Publishing Manager for Digital, Schools ELT (English Language Teaching). I started this role in November 2008. The role includes both publishing for digital platforms (online and offline) as well as forming strategy to take Schools ELT publishing forward. It's often challenging, in good and bad ways, but it's not boring! |
| David Warr | 1988 | went on Dragons Den Online, which was aired in October (episode 4 on YouTube). got married in August, to Mathlida Oluoch, who is Kenyan. |
| Harold A Salmon | 1988 | Highlights - taking my son to see Manchester United at Old Trafford. now working as Annual Fund manager for the University of Leeds |
| Indraneel Datta | 1988 | I work as a lawyer in drama production at the BBC. |
| Paul Hodgetts | 1988 | Still working with Mark Checkley (1971) in our business, Quintadena, now 5 years old, providing quotation systems to businesses large and small. Baby #2 is due early in the 2010... |
| Timothy M Walker | 1988 | I've been living in Amsterdam for 7 years now, building a family and setting up a business. My wife, Antonia and I now have 3 beautiful girls, Rebecca 6, Georgina 4 and Lydia 1. I came to the Netherlands to set up the first non UK office for Huxley Associates, a recruitment company. I am now the Country Director for SThree, which is parent group company of Huxley and a few other staffing companies. My ambition to speak dutch as well as daughters is unfortunately looking less and less likely, but we keep trying. |
| Etienne M Moore | 1989 | Appointed as a consultant general surgeon with specialist interests in laparoscopic surgery and colorectal surgery at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals. Recently awarded Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer status. Personal professional website www.sussexsurgery.com |
| Rob Yeung | 1989 | As a psychologist, I appear regularly on TV including BBC Breakfast, BBC News 24, BBC's Working Lunch, Big Brother's Little Brother. |
| Syed Ahmed | 1989 | I have just been appointed as the Chief Medical Officer for Shell UK and Western Europe cluster. Got married in 2006 and had a baby daughter named Samara in October 2009 |
| Thomas Woolgrove | 1989 | Trustee of the HBOS foundation. Married with 3 children |