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Remembered
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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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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Nick Hanning
IT is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our friend and colleague Nick Hanning. Nick had lived for several years with cancer until his untimely death on New Year’s Eve 2024. Many occupational health professionals will have known Nick through the OH law courses and seminars he lectured on for The At […]
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Christopher Cobb
Christopher Cobb passed away peacefully at home aged 94 after spending Christmas with family. Chris spent his childhood in The Lees as his father was Head of Mathematics at Malvern College for over 30 years. He was one of the last of a generation of college boys ‘evacuated to London’ along with the rest of […]
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Michael Clarke
Michael (7.48-51) entered Malvern College in House No.7, where he met Clyde Neale House (7.48-53d), a lifelong friend. After leaving Malvern he attended Birmingham University. After University, he joined the family business White & Clarke a country-wide stationer headquartered in Birmingham. He would also regularly operate as a special police officer on the streets of […]
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