The Marlborough College Community was greatly saddened to hear of the death of Roger Ellis, Master of Marlborough 1972-1986, who has passed away at the age of 93. As well as quadrupling the number of girls in the first half of his 14 years as Master, Ellis laid the groundwork for full co-education. Former college […]
Robin BRODHURST (PR 1965-70) (brother of Tom Brodhurst (LI 1967-71) died on 16 January 2023, aged 70, suddenly but peacefully. He was a prolific schoolmaster, military and naval historian, as well as being a knowledgeable jazz enthusiast and Club cricket player and cricket historian. He had a remarkable zest and enthusiasm for life. This was […]
Charles Peploe (C2 1944-48) was born on 1st September 1930. He was the youngest of three children born to Captain Charles Reid Peploe and his wife Catherine Mary MacFie in The Brookside, Bedhampton, in Hampshire, and he grew up alongside his brother David Claud who was sadly killed in the Second World War, and his […]
John L. Wilkinson (LI 1954-58) passed away on 14th October 2022, after a courageous struggle with complications following a stroke. John was at Marlborough from 1954 to 1958 at Littlefield and went on to read chemistry at Oxford and from thence to a brilliant career with Guinness and later with other beverage groups. His friends and colleagues at […]
Anthony Main (C3 1953-56) died on 6th August 2022 surrounded by his family at the age of 83. After Marlborough, he went on to do National Service in the Royal Navy. He later qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London and worked in the West Midlands for many years. In semi-retirement the family moved to […]
Ian was born in 1923 in Brasted, Kent, and grew up at Thatches, the thatched house built for his parents on nearby Brasted Chart by his maternal grandfather. His younger brother Christopher was born four years later, with Treacher-Collins syndrome, a rare calcium deficiency which required a great deal of medical care, special schools, and […]
Born in Radlett, Hertfordshire, his father was a family doctor of a Yorkshire family and his mother Scottish, born in Cardross. Having found letters written from the trenches in WW1, he published his father’s letters in a small book entitled “From Trench to Sky”, as his father, having been badly wounded in the Somme, joined […]
Robin was born in Putney on 26th April 1931 to Gordon and Rosemary Ferguson and brought up in Reigate. He was educated at Coniston then Hillside, Reigate then boarded at St Peter’s, Seaford from the age of eight. His school was evacuated to North Devon from 1940-1944 and during that time he lived with a […]
A former member of the music department, Jean died on 17th January 2022 aged 82. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Jean was an accomplished and influential musician. She sang with and contributed to many significant and special choirs, such as the Bach Choir in London; and left a personal legacy of choral […]
Colin Cooke-Priest sadly died on 6 April 2020 at age 81. His Memorial Service will be held at 12.00pm on Tuesday 15 March 2022 at Portsmouth Cathedral and afterwards, at The Royal Naval and Royal Albert Yacht Club. You can read his full obituary here.
Grant de Jersey Lee was born in 1921 in Ceylon, then Sri Lanka, on a remote tea estate near Adam’s Peak which was managed by his father. He had younger twin sisters. When he was four he had appendicitis and his father took him for treatment to Colombo about 100 miles away. On returning they […]
John Wilkinson (CR 1967 – 93) died at his home in Le Castéra on Friday evening, 19th November. John was a member of the Modern Languages Department for 25 years, teaching French and German. He ran the Toulouse French Exchange between Marlborough and Le Caousou, and organised language trips abroad as well as the Chapel […]
Irfan Halim (LI 1992 – 94) died on the 14th November following a nine-week battle with coronavirus, which he contracted whilst working on the COVID intensive care unit at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon. There have been some wonderful tributes to him, including those in The Guardian, Times and Independent. He leaves a wife […]
Born in 1930, before the war, Antony Reynell went from Rugby to New College, Oxford, as a Classics scholar. He taught Classics and English Literature at Marlborough (and later Philosophy to the sixth form) from the late 1950s until 1981. He and his wife, Diana, lived on the High Street in the 1960s and 70s, […]
Sir Nicholas Goodison (C3 1947-52) will be remembered for a distinguished career in the City, notably for undertaking the reforms to the London Stock Exchange, known as ‘Big Bang’ and as a passionate supporter of the arts. After securing the future of the stock exchange, Goodison became chair of TSB Group, the sixth largest high […]
Richard Oswald Hobday (B2 1944-48) ‘Dick’ came to the West Indies, having spent his teenage years in England during WW2. An outstanding pioneer and leader of the accounting profession in the Caribbean, he was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago and head of Pannell Kerr Foster for the Caribbean. Dick loved cricket […]
One of the joys of being the Secretary of the Marlburian Club was meeting so many outstanding OMs over the years, one of whom was John Worlidge. He was always an extremely modest man, but proved a natural at school before joining the Royal Engineers for National Service, where he won the award as the […]
Simon Andrew Buxton Ward (B3 1965-70) 11 June 1952 – 20 April 2021 Simon had an idyllic childhood in Windsor Great Park, where his father was Chaplain to HM the Queen and after Prep School at Scaitcliffe, went to MC at the age of thirteen. His were happy days at Marlborough, where cricket and escapes […]
Lt Col Neil Lockhart, son of General Sir Rob Lockhart KCB CIE MC, was born in Edinburgh on 1st June 1925 and died in Gillingham, Dorset on 1st May 2020. He was educated at Cargilfield School, Edinburgh and Marlborough College, where he represented the school at rugby and cricket. On leaving school in 1943, Neil […]
We are very sorry to share the sad news that David Williamson, Bursar of the College from 1994-2009, passed away on Saturday 22nd May after a long period of illness. David was an exceptional individual and colleague who kept in close contact with the College community post his retirement. We offer our sincere condolences to […]
Walter was one of the last surviving OMs to have attended the College during World War II. He had vivid memories of travelling by train from the family home in Taunton to the old Marlborough High Level Station via Savernake and of sharing the College facilities with the City of London School, whose pupils had […]