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Remembered
Ralph Blumenau
Ralph joined Malvern College in 1957 as a teacher of History and went on to become Head of the department. An inspirational educator and mentor to generations of pupils, Ralph’s impact was profound and enduring. He retired in 1985 after nearly three decades of devoted service, though his connection to the College continued in his […]
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Thomas Ridgway
Thomas Ridgway (6.86-91), known as ‘Flash’ to his contemporaries, died on 16 April 2025 at home in Paris surrounded by his family following a protracted battle with cancer. Tom arrived at Malvern in 1986 and emerged from the College with a passion for art and architecture, a love of French literature, and a healthy mistrust […]
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James Dorman
James won The Ledbury Run twice (1947 and 1948) and broke the mile record for the school in 1948 in a time of 4 minutes 40.3 seconds, which he held for some time. He was a commercial helicopter pilot involved in oil exploration around Doha and the Gulf in the late fifties. He carried out crop […]
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Richard Farnfield
Captain Richard Farnfield, who has died aged 87, was a Cold War submariner who, in an underwater game of blind man’s bluff, held the record for the longest trail of a Soviet ballistic missile submarine. In September 1978 Farnfield was commanding the hunter-killer nuclear submarine Sovereign when ordered to find a Soviet submarine in the […]
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Daniel Batty
Daniel (Dan) Batty joined Number 2 House at Malvern in 1990 from the Llandaff Cathedral School where he had been for 3 years after his primary education at Pendoylan Church in Wales School in the Vale of Glamorgan. He was born in Reading in 1976 where his parents were lecturers at Reading University and Oxford […]
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