St Edward's Rhubarb Issue 5

32 ST EDWARD’S r h u b a r b

LANGSTON – In 2015, Peter Langston (G, 1947-1951), brother of Derek Langston (G, 1950- 1954). Peter attended South Bank Polytechnic from 1951 from 1953, where he obtained a National Diploma in Bakery. He served in the Royal Army Service Corps from 1953 to 1955, before joining the family’s business, Langston Bakeries, High Wycombe. LANSDOWN – In 2014, Anthony Lansdown (G, 1958- 1963). Anthony studied for his BSc at Oxford Polytechnic from 1964 to 1967, before graduating from Hendon Polytechnic in1973 with a Diploma in Management Studies. He worked at brewer Watney Mann Ltd, London, from 1967 to1979, and as a Technical Sales Manager at Stainer Hops Ltd, Epping, from 1979 to 1982, before becoming Production Director at Edme Ltd, Essex, from 1982. LEACH – In 2015, Edward Leach (A, 1981-1986). Edward attended Bath School of Physiotherapy from 1986 to 1989, before studying at the University of Alberta, Canada. He worked at a private clinic in Calgary from 1992. MACKENZIE – On 2nd December 2014, Donald Mackenzie (E, 1948-1945), brother of John Mackenzie (E, 1949-1953) at the age of 79. The following obituary has kindly been provided by his brother, John; Donald was a keen follower of events At Teddies and revisited the School on many occasions. After military service in the Royal Artillery, he pursued a long career as a quantity surveyor in the construction industry. On retirement, he took an active part in his local community in London where he lived with his wife Alison. Donald was an accomplished cricketer, a regular swimmer and enjoyed, to the full, the challenges of the Lake District. He is very sadly missed by his family and friends.

MADDOCK – On 26th May 2015, Reginald Stuart Maddock (C, 1932-1935),

brother of John Maddock (C, 1929-1933), peacefully at home in Warminster, aged 97. The following obituary has kindly been provided by Reginald’s widow Olivia. Reg was the second of three sons born in Newcastle, Staffs to John Stuart and Marjorie Maddock in 1918. A member of the TA before the war, he served in the Royal Artillery (various LAA and AA Regiments) in Europe during the war, and afterwards in India for a time, achieving the rank of Major. Returning to civilian life, Reg followed a career in the ceramic tile industry based mainly in Manchester and Cheshire. On retirement in 1983 he moved with his wife Olivia to Warminster, Wiltshire, where he lived happily for over 30 years. He is survived by Olivia and children Sarah and Stuart.

V A L E T E O B I T U A R I E S

John Lambourn

of local history and lore. He was a cartoonist from his school days, an amateur painter, sketcher, photographer and filmmaker, family archivist, and regular contributor to the Chronicle . He was a keen car enthusiast in his early years, rallying with Tony Hutton (B, 1944-1947) in the early 1950s, and his precious Jaguar SS100, MG5680, the first of all Jaguar marques, was forcibly sold for £275 in the mid-1950s (the suspension too firm for the pregnant Jean), and re-sold at auction in 2012 for £219,000 (of which he remained blissfully unaware). He was a 16mm Narrow Gauge model railway enthusiast in his middle and later years, building two garden railways (the Westown and Burysgate Railway) and a ‘pointless’ layout in the garden shed at Lovelace Road. John was Squadron Chairman, Local Civilian Committee, 150 (City of Oxford) Squadron ATC (1970- 1982); Founder Member (later Chairman), Oxford & District Training Group (supporting apprenticeships and training for small firms); Committee Member and Honorary Treasurer, Withington NGM Club; and voluntary helper, fundraiser and Life Member, Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary Society.

Chief Buyer for the new Anglo American Pressed Steel Company

then being set up in Cowley. John attended Sunnymeade

House School, Abingdon School (Royces), and St Bede’s School before joining Teddies in 1943. Among his contemporaries were Warden Kendall, his Housemaster the Rev Leslie Styler (‘The Count’), and the young Jack Scarr, and friends Mac Macdonald, Bob Marsh Allen, James Evers, and Tony Hutton. John represented the school in athletics and won commission in the Royal Artillery, he went up to Bart’s but his father took him out of medicine and into industry, a career he would follow from 1951 until his retirement in 1994. In 1953 he married Jean Bathgate (1931-2007) of Linkside Avenue, North Oxford, an actress and alumna of the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art in South Kensington, with whom he had a daughter Sarah (b.1954) and son Nicholas with his childhood home at 419 Banbury Road, and with only brief residences ‘abroad’ in the Malvern Hills and Rhayader in the early 1950s and 1960s, John became something of a keeper the Open Art prize in 1947. After National Service and a (b.1956). A lifelong resident of North Oxford, beginning

Edward Stewart Mainwaring

MAINWARING – On 9th January 2016, Edward Stewart Mainwaring (B, 1955-1959), brother of John Mainwaring (B, 1952-1957) and Michael Mainwaring (B, 1957-1962). The following obituary has been taken from The Guardian ; Ed “Stewpot” Stewart, who has died aged 74, was one of the first presenters on Radio 1 when it launched in 1967 and for 12 years was the host of Junior Choice , the popular children’s request show broadcast on Saturday