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Remembered
David Marler
David Marler, a distinguished lawyer, author, and lover of music and the outdoors, passed away peacefully on January 2, 2025, in the arms of his beloved wife, Jeanne, in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was 83 years old. Born in Montreal on October 3, 1941, David was the great-grandson of William de Montmollin Marler (1849–1929), grandson […]
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Richard ‘Ken’ Gibson
Ken Gibson was born in 1932 in Shanghai where his father carried on an export business. Like the thousands of British living in China in 1941 when Japan entered the Second World War, he and his family were incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp. Liberated at the end of the war in 1945, he was […]
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John Jenkinson
John Jenkinson, Head of House, Cadet Officer and Senior Chapel Prefect, passed away peacefully at home with his family, just as he’d wished, early on Friday morning (8th November), the day after his 76th birthday. After graduating from UEA he spent a few years with Nestlé in Sydney, Australia before returning to the UK to […]
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Paul Godsland
Paul was appointed as teacher of French by Malvern College in September 1982, coming straight from a year teaching in France as part of his degree in Modern Foreign Languages at the Queen’s College, Oxford. He quickly made his mark and it wasn’t long before his energy and diligence were rewarded when he was made […]
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