Lusimus Issue 26 February 2013

LusimusTHE RADLEY BROADSHEET

www.radley.org.uk Issue 26, February 2013

Weymouth 2012 – page 4Foundation – page 3 Cricket Net Bat – page 5 Charlie Mackesy– page 8 Sport – pages 11 & 12

Did Capability Brown plant this Lime Tree?

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Dr Hugh Cardwell, a don at Radley from 1956 to 1970 and an expert on all the trees at Radley, writing in the Radleian Magazines of 1986 and 1987 suggested that some of the lime trees near the Mansion were planted by Capability Brown. Brown had been commissioned to landscape the grounds at Radley Hall in about 1770.

2. Use the circumference to find the diameter of the tree. Diameter = circumference divided by π = 59.8 ins.

3. Determine the age of the tree by multiplying the diameter by the growth factor (Linden 3.5). Approximate age of tree = 59.8 x 3.5 = 209 years.

Then you are informed that the growth factor changes depending on whether the tree is in a forest, competing with other trees for light and nutrients, or if it is in parkland.

Depending on the age and size of the tree planted by Brown in about 1770, the tree would need to be over 242 years old and would need a growth factor of over 4.0. Perhaps the rules do not apply to very old trees or maybe the information on the internet is incorrect.

In October 2012 two old lime trees near the Mansion had become diseased and had to be felled.

Lancelot (‘Capability’) Brown by Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland, Bt)

In October 2011 the largest remaining lime tree near the Mansion, together with another lime that had been heavily pollarded in recent years, were felled as they had become diseased and rotten. Sadly the extent of the rot made it impossible to take a suitable section of the largest tree in order to count the growth rings to discover its age.

A dip into the digital cauldron of the internet containing its murky brew of good, evil, truth, fantasy and lies, brought the following to the surface. If it is not possible to count rings use the following method to discover the age of a tree:

1. Wrap the tape measure around the tree at about four and a half feet above the ground. This measurement is the tree’s circumference. Write down this measurement – 15 feet 8 ins = 188 ins.

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In 1789, twenty years after Capability Brown had worked at Radley, Joseph Mallord William Turner, aged 14, produced two watercolours of Radley Hall. In his view of Radley Hall from the north-west, two trees are shown to the west of the Mansion. If Turner’s image is superimposed on a recent photograph of the Mansion, Turner’s two trees appear to be very close to the position of the two recently felled lime trees.

Capability Brown’s trees from page 1

Radley Hall from the North-West by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) – Date 1789 – Pen and ink and watercolour on paper

Turner’s watercolour superimposed on a recent photograph of the Mansion. The positions of the recently felled lime trees are shown by the red crosses.

If the shape of the felled large lime tree is placed beside Turner’s watercolour, there appears to be an intriguing similarity in the shape of the branches.

But stop right there. Just as the balance of probability seems to indicate that Turner’s watercolour shows Capability Brown’s lime trees, the Tate suggests that Turner did not paint the watercolour from this

precise viewpoint while at Radley, but produced it later using sketches he had made on his visit.

Turner’s picture of Radley Hall is remarkable for its accuracy and perhaps the trees are too. This needs further investigation, a trip to the Tate to see Turner’s sketchbook and maybe another article in June 2013.

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Foundation Progress Report from Anthony Robinson

2012 has been full of surprises. We have been delighted by the wonderful generosity of ORs, parents and former parents whose support for the Foundation has reached new heights. And before Christmas I spent ten extraordinary days in Hong Kong and Singapore, those two great hubs of bustling commerce and financial flair, and home to more than eighty members of the extended Radley family. I didn’t know what to expect but, again, I was thrilled by the warm reception I received and the eagerness of so many to support the Foundation. The buzz and excitement were captivating and many of the planned gifts are nothing short of sensational. All of us in the Foundation have high hopes for the future.

First mention must go to last summer’s leaving parents who, having funded their sons for five years at Radley, made a magnificent combined farewell gift to the Foundation of £76,000 to provide a 50% bursary for a Foundation boy starting at Radley in September 2013. This was a first of its kind and a ground-breaking development.

Further good news arrived when the family charitable trust of another 2012 leaver gifted a whole Foundation Award, £180,000, to finance a talented boy through two years at prep school and five years at Radley. We were uplifted by this superb gift from the Borrows Charitable Trust, which emphasises the importance to us of Family Charitable Trusts, and we are immensely grateful to them. Similarly, we are indebted to The Garfield Weston Foundation for their most generous donation.

A few weeks later we were overjoyed when an Old Radleian in his 40s finalised arrangements for a bequest of 10% of his estate, anticipated to be £800,000, to create a means-tested bursary ‘in perpetuity’ in his family name for boys with an interest in music and the arts. Legacies will be vital in building up an endowment to sustain our current bursary programme and we are indebted to the donor for setting such a fine example.

All these magnificent gifts, when combined with the many other donations we receive and the income from our Capital Funds, will be instrumental in further developing our means-tested Silk Awards and Foundation Awards. Our ultimate ambition, set by Council, is to increase the number of boys we support from the present 27 to 69 – 10% of all Radleians.

£1.243m raised or pledged in 2012 – surge in support for Bursaries – five Service families enquire about AFF Bursary Awards – Phase One of Rowing Centre draws closer

THE CURRENT FUNDS WITHIN THE RADLEY FOUNDATION

Entry Bursaries and Scholarships:SiLk FuND

A capital fund to widen entry and fund talented boys whose families could not

otherwise afford the fees

RiChARD MORgAN AWARDAn ‘immediate use’ fund to widen entry and fund talented boys whose families could not

otherwise afford the fees

ARMeD FORCeS FuNDFunding the education of sons and daughters of Forces Personnel killed or wounded while

serving their country

SChOLARShiP & BuRSARieS FuNDAn opportunity to name your own scholarship or

foundation award after a loved one

Helping current parents:hugO RuTLAND MeMORiAL FuNDHelp for current Radley parents facing

unforeseen crisis and financial difficulty

Helping current boys:MALCOLM ROBiNSON MeMORiAL FuND

Providing awards for Radleians in the Sixth Form to travel to William and Mary College in

the USA to study American History during the school holidays

Cultural:OLD gyM ReDeveLOPMeNT FuND

A major redevelopment in the heart of the College to provide a new History Department,

Art Gallery and informal social space for the boys

Sport:ROWiNg CeNTRe FuND

A rowing tank and training facilities on the main campus

CRiCkeT NeTS FuNDThe addition of all-weather surfaces in the

main cricket nets

Spiritual:ChAPeL FuND

Improving the beauty of the building, the quality and sound of the organ and the comfort

of the worshippers

General:eNDOWMeNT FuND

A long-term home for legacies and capital gifts

TRuSTeeS DiSCReTiONThe Foundation Trustees decide how to make

the best possible use of your gift in line with the priorities prevailing at the time

Five Service families, involving twelve children, have enquired about AFF Bursaries and one of these (with two boys and one girl) has already become a firm application. Four of the five families are from the ranks. It is early days but we have the funds available to offer a further three or four AFF Bursaries – one from the income of the main fund, another from a whole-education gift of £180,000 pledged after The Silver Ball and several others from anonymous sources. The first two Awards will be named, of course, after Rupert Thorneloe and Dougie Dalzell, the two ORs killed in Afghanistan, whom we remember fondly every day but especially on Remembrance Sunday in Chapel.

Good progress has also been made with the Rowing Centre: we are more confident about obtaining planning permission and John Gearing, Director of Rowing, has chosen a Russian design of rowing tank that closely simulates rowing on a river. If everything goes according to plan, there is a real possibility that the tank, Phase One of the Rowing Centre, will be built on the main campus near the Shooting Range and CCF during the autumn of 2013. Phase Two, a connecting building to house ergos, circuits, club room, honours boards etc, will follow later.

Much remains to be done. The financial climate continues to be difficult but, in spite of this, 301 gifts and pledges with a total value of £1,243,314 were received by the Foundation during 2012 – a fine testament to the high regard in which the College is held. Every gift, large or small, is much valued and, on behalf of the Foundation, I would like to thank again each and every one of our supporters.

The Foundation has now raised £11.3 million since it was founded in 2000. We will need to build this up to at least £50m to provide the College with the endowment it lacks and the funding it needs for scholarships and bursaries. I have every confidence that, with a home team combining the wisdom, knowledge, skill and irrepressible enthusiasm of Hamish Aird, Jock Mullard, Emma Lyon and Jan Glover, we will make swift and significant progress towards this target.

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After the collective media driven depression that descended over the country in the couple of months leading up to the Olympics, with potential disasters ranging from terrorism, ticketing fiascos, transport gridlock and then, at the start of the games, Britain’s inability to win a gold medal, how wonderful it was to witness the triumph that the games were in the end. The opening ceremony set the tone with a degree of British eccentricity blended with spectacle and humour. Then the weather was as good as we could have expected. When the medals started to come, there seemed to be a never-ending stream of them. Almost every day we were told of those who were medal hopes in their events, some of whom we had never heard of, and invariably they delivered the goods! I do not remember being as proud of my fellow countrymen as I was during those two weeks, and we had another festival of sport in the Paralympics with which we were equally mesmerised, not only by the performances but also by the stories behind them.

It was the first time that the Chiropractic profession has been involved in the medical team for a summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, and I was honoured and very proud to have been selected to be part of the team looking after the sailors down in Weymouth and Portland. In all there were 38 Chiropractors recruited across

free big screens on the beach at Weymouth made it very accessible.

Listening to the reports from the other Polyclinics, in Stratford at the main Olympic park and from Eton Dorney with the rowers and canoeists, the experiences were very similar. Chiropractors at these games were not primary contact practitioners. It was necessary for us to examine the patients in conjunction with a Physio and then discuss the interventions that we thought appropriate; if they agreed, then we could go ahead. Those on the first shifts had to establish a relationship with the Physios that allowed that mechanism to work properly, and by the time the rest of us took over the system was well established and worked well. Many of the athletes were asking for manipulation, so that was pretty straight forward, but there were several situations where it was clear that we would add value to the treatment, but manipulation was not perhaps the first option. The great bonus for us was that in order to perform to the best of our abilities we needed to establish a good working relationship with

the other clinicians, especially the Physios and Osteopaths, and as that trust developed so we were able to have a greater degree of influence and responsibility. It was a good discipline to have to explain the rationale for an intervention to another musculoskeletal expert, and the fact that we had to seek their approval was never a barrier in my experience. As trust and confidence in what we could do built, so did the demand, and by the end of my ten days I felt as if we were very much on the same footing. It is clear that we bring something extra to the party, and so long as there is no conflict between the various disciplines then I see no reason why the Chiropractic profession should not become a permanent feature at future games. The management of elite athletes is different from day to day practice, and the environment at an Olympic Games is unique. It was a great privilege to be a part of these Games, and I believe that this represents another rung on the ladder of credibility for the profession. Let’s hope that this can be capitalised upon in Rio in 2016.

Peter Dixon DC, August 2012

both games and working in the three polyclinics in London, Eton and Weymouth. Sailing has been a passion of mine for most of my life and it was a fantastic opportunity to be part of the Olympic regatta, even if only on the sidelines. The whole set-up was very intimate. The Olympic village was very close to the dinghy park from where the boats were launched and the Polyclinic was between the two, so we were very much in the middle of things. The clinical team comprised Sports Doctors, Physiotherapists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Dentists, Nurses and Sports Massage Therapists. A ‘team’ of up to three of us saw patients, and we would all examine them and then discuss our findings and the most appropriate course of action. This meant that we were all able to present how we would manage the case to our colleagues, and usually a combination of treatments was employed. The key was to get the individual back on the water as fast as possible and in the best possible condition. It was a very different clinical environment from that in private practice, and the need for immediate results put us all under a bit of pressure. In most cases the joint approach worked extremely well, and has reinforced my view that a more integrated approach is the way forward. For the majority of the regatta the winds were strong and this inevitably took its toll. Lower back and shoulder injuries seemed to predominate

and, with the pressure of competition, quick results were required and that is where we as a profession came into our own; manipulation restoring normal function to acutely restricted joints in a way that soft tissue work and muscle stretching alone could not. It was very important for us as a profession to demonstrate that we brought something different to the party, but that it was part of an integrated approach. We were responsible for athletes and the teams from any of the competitor nations, and I personally treated sailors from Croatia, Israel, South Africa, Brazil and Spain. I also treated coaches and other team members, several of the course setters who were constantly lifting and dropping anchors and two cameramen who were being tossed about in Ribs while holding heavy cameras on one shoulder. Keeping the support staff going was a very important element in the smooth running of the event. My shifts were from 6.00 am to 2.00 pm so I was able to join my family to watch the afternoon racing, and we were able to keep up with the action on a big screen TV in the Polyclinic in the morning. There were some real moments of drama, not least Ben Ainslie’s triumph over the Dane Hogh-Christensen to win his fourth gold medal and Nick Dempsey’s silver in the windsurfing, and also some very exciting racing well explained and reported. Sailing is not a spectator sport like some, and if you are unfamiliar with it, it is not easy to follow. The BBC coverage allowed everyone who wanted to, to follow the racing and understand what was happening, and the

Ben Ainslie winner of the Gold Medal in the Men’s Finn at Weymouth

London 2012 – Reflections from Weymouth

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George Freeman, (1980) MP, at Prime Minister’s Questions on 29th November, telling the Commons that more than 10,000 men died from prostate cancer in 2011. He said survival rates had increased from 20% to 70%. The Prime Minister praised the Mid Norfolk MP for his work supporting the Movember campaign. David Cameron also drew attention to the MP’s Movember moustache.

guy Merison – Cricket Net Fund Competition Winner

Guy Merison (1973), a wet-bob but winner of the Cricket Net Fund Competition, receives the cricket bat from Andrew Strauss (1990)

george Freeman’s Movember Moustache

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Ready for the start of the Kindrochit Quadrathlon on Loch Tay

The show can now begin (30” x 22”)

Tony Stodart completes the swim

Armed Forces Fund (AFF)

Anthony Stodart (1983) raised £6,843 for the AFF by completing The Three Peaks and The Kindrochit Quadrathlon in successive weeks in July.

www.justgiving.com/Anthony-Stodart

Don’t forget: get your boys down for Radley early – see the website for details of Admissions andFees in AdvanceThe demand for Radley places is very strong and if ORs are thinking of sending their sons to Radley they are urged to enter them at birth or soon after. The provisional list is already full for 2021 although it may still be possible to gain a place through the waiting list, the Warden’s list or by winning a scholarship.

You may think you will not be able to afford the fees but have a look at the Fees in Advance scheme – see www.radley.org.uk and click on the Admissions tab at the top of the page. Means-tested bursaries are available to any boy who gains a scholarship or exhibition. Who knows what the next decade will bring but £100 spent on registering a boy for Radley may be the best £100 you ever spend.

Charlie Morgan, a close friend of Rupert and Sally Thorneloe, ran in the Palma Marathon in October 2012 for the AFF and the Welsh Guards Afghanistan Appeal and has raised a total of £3000 so far.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/CharlieDMorgan

St Mary’s Calne have secured the Merchant Taylors’ Hall for an AFF event on Friday 27th September 2013.

Another Silver Ball in London is being considered for November 2014.

Tom Evetts (2003) is exhibiting at the Osborne Studio Gallery at 2 Motcomb Street (just off Sloane Street), London, SW1X 8JU from 9th to 13th April. www.tomevetts.co.uk

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The Radley Foundation Funds: 2. The hugo Rutland Memorial Fund

The Rutland Family

Events organised for the Hugo Rutland Fund by Claire Rutland and her friends

The 007 Party in November 2007

The 280808 Party in 2008

Andrew Lawson’s Thailand Bike

Ride in 2010

The Huge Night Out at Frankie’s in 2006 and Lord Gillford’s sponsored run.

Lord Gillford’s Cornbury to Tbilisi Bike Ride in 2007

The Back to Cool Party in 2009

Only girl at Radley 1982–1984 receives an OBeSally Reynolds (née Fielding) received an OBE in honour of her work over the course of 12 years. The charity she co-founded in 1999, Social Firms UK, worked intently on promoting the creation of jobs for severely disadvantaged people in Social Firm businesses, resulting in the creation of more than 1,000 full time equivalent jobs for people who would otherwise have faced significant barriers to accessing the labour market. After a really challenging couple of years, separating from her husband of 19 years in 2009 and then becoming widowed through his suicide in 2011, Sally left Social Firms UK at the end of 2011 to work from home as a freelance consultant so she could provide better support to her two teenage children, Lizzie and Mark. She received the honour in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours list and confesses to it being a total surprise. Sally is contactable on email at [email protected] and is available for consultancy and project work relating to social enterprise, corporate responsibility and inclusive employment. Sally would love to hear from any Old Radleians who need assistance on these matters. Sally with her proud parents Dave and Sue FieldingSally receiving the award

The Radley Foundation is made up of ten Funds, each of which has a specific purpose. Together these ten Funds give the Foundation its character and purpose. This is the second in a series of articles giving a little more detail about one of the Funds.

The Hugo Rutland Memorial Fund was created in 2005 after the tragic death of Hugo in a drowning accident while on holiday with his family. The fund provides financial support for current Radley parents finding themselves in unforeseen financial difficulties. In 2009 we launched a major campaign to maintain the momentum of the HRMF.

Hugo, an Old Radleian himself, loved Radley. His donation to The Radley Foundation was the single largest charitable gift Hugo made in his lifetime.

Claire Rutland, Hugo’s widow writes:“Hugo only ever wanted to give his children the gift of an education. When he died my immediate concern was how I was going to fulfil that dream, given my financial circumstances. Radley did not have such a safety net, and my elder son started in G Social only a few days after the accident.

Enabling a distressed family to fulfil the ambition of a first-class education for their child is a positive achievement born out of tragedy.”

Much of the success of the fund has been due to the energetic and imaginative fund-raising of Claire and her friends. The Foundation is most grateful to her.

The first HRMF Bursary was awarded in September 2007 to a Radleian whose father had suddenly been struck down by severe illness, and a second bursary was awarded in 2009.

“This support has meant a great deal to us. It would have been dreadful to have to remove our son from Radley in the midst of everything else we have had to cope with this past year.”

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The Scottish Dinner, October 2012

Charlie Mackesy (1976) at his delightful ‘Ramshackle Exhibition’ of paintings, sculptures and drawings at Gallery 27 in Cork Street in September 2012 – www.charliemackesy.com

Over 40 members of the Radley community gathered at Fingask Castle, near Perth, for the Radley Scottish Dinner on Friday 26th October. Some heavy snow in the vicinity stopped only one guest reaching Fingask and we were delighted to see current and past parents mingling with ORs of all ages.

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James Burton (1988) conducts Schola Cantorum in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford in October – the programme included the Requiem by Brahms and ‘The Convergence of the Twain’, a poem by Thomas Hardy on the sinking of the Titanic, set to music by the conductor.

More scenes from the Scottish Dinner. Typical of the comments received were ‘A fabulous evening that my family and I thoroughly enjoyed.’ and ‘Lovely location, very friendly company, good food and excellent wine and drinks.’ A runaway spaniel also enjoyed the festivities and added to the colour of the evening.

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Calendar of events 2013Cambridge University Dinner

Monday 4 March

Property Dinner at Boodle’sWednesday 6 March

ORGS Golf ClassicThursday 18 April

Livery Dinner at Girdlers’ HallMonday 29 April

Radleian Society AGM & Committee DinnerWednesday 15 May

Pre-1957 Reunion at Radley(for all those who came to Radley up to and

including Lent Term 1957)Sunday 23 June – lunch

London DrinksThursday 6 June

Cricket Drinks at RadleyJune (provisional)

Mariners Drinks at HenleyFriday 5 July

Opening of the new building on the Old Gym siteSaturday 14 September

Shell Parents Drinks at RadleySunday 22 September (provisional)

Combined Armed Forces Fund Eventrun by St Mary’s, Calne

Friday 27 September (provisional)

Radley West Country Dinner, BathOctober/November

Under 30s London DrinksDecember

Radleian Society & Foundation

Radley Choir at St Paul’s Cathedral

Over 200 ORs attended the biennial OR Dinner at The Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall on Wednesday 5th December 2012. Michael Van der Gucht, President of the Radleian Society welcomed the Guest of Honour, Andrew Reekes (above), former Sub Warden, who gave a wonderfully entertaining speech which brought back many happy memories.

The OR Dinner 2012

The full Chapel Choir of over seventy Radleians together with Radley choristers sang Evensong at St Paul’s in January

Andrew Strauss at Radley

It is a Sunday morning in January and snowing outside while Andrew Strauss (1990), the former Captain of England, talks to the Radley ‘Academy’ boys in the Sports Hall before their indoor cricket nets


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Donald Legget – Legget spelt with two gins and one tonic

The magnificent PE-winning team of Harry Mahon, Angus McChesney, Ronan Cantwell (Captain) and Donald Legget

A golden era has ended as Donald Legget’s part in Radley’s coaching team has reached the finish line.

When Donald’s nephew, Edward, was rowing at Radley in the early 1990s, Donald was persuaded to give some advice and this led to him being given a permanent coaching role at Radley in 1995. Initially he coached the J16s with Angus McChesney and then, again with Angus, the 1st VIII in 1996. He also found time to help most of the other age groups.

Donald is one of the best coaches in the country. He has an unequalled coaching ‘eye’ to spot what is wrong together with the expertise to know how to put it right by a change of technique or rigging. Sometimes his coaching language is not for the faint-hearted but his intention is always to get every crew member to row at their best. Donald says what he thinks and from time to time this gets him into trouble – but life with Donald as your coach is entertainment on the edge and guaranteed to retain your full attention.

In 1997 Donald persuaded legendary International and Cambridge coach, Harry Mahon, to join the team. At the time Harry was undergoing chemotherapy at the John Radcliffe in Oxford, The 1st VIII won the Queen Mother’s Cup at the National Schools’ Regatta for the first time since 1981. Success was not limited to the 1st VIII – the Boat Club won four Golds, two silvers and a bronze at National Schools’ in 1997.

1998 saw more medals: four golds, one silver and one bronze in the big boats at National Schools’. But it was the extraordinary performance by the 1st VIII in the final of the Princess Elizabeth at Henley that brought the season to a brilliant close. St Mary’s were unbeaten in the United States and Canada. They had a blistering start and were three quarters of a length ahead at the Quarter Mile, a length and a quarter at the Barrier and a length and a half at Fawley. Radley looked cool but the race looked over. Then Radley started creeping back. A length and a quarter at the Three-Quarter Mile post, a length at the Mile, then half a length at the Mile and an Eighth. The spectators in the enclosures rose to their feet and roared as Radley pushed their rate to over 40, drew level at the ‘Hole in the Wall’ and moved past the Americans to win the Princess Elizabeth by half a length. Hugh Matheson, Olympic silver medallist and rowing correspondent of The Observer remarked: Only schoolboys could have won that race. Anyone with experience would have known that it was impossible.

1999 saw two golds, three silvers and a bronze for Radley at National Schools’ with the 1st VIII taking the bronze and being pipped by three feet at Henley by St Edward’s, the eventual winners.

2000 brought two National Schools’ golds and two bronzes, one of the golds being for the 1st VIII. At the same time Harry coached the GB Eight to Olympic Gold in Sydney. The following year saw five golds for Radley: 1st VIII, 2nd VIII, 16/1, 15/1 and 15/2. But in 2001 the Boat Club was devastated as Harry Mahon lost his fight with cancer. Somehow he had continued to coach Radley crews until a few weeks before he died.

Donald is a key member of the administration of the Harry Mahon Cancer Research Trust. For the last two years Donald has distributed the Henley tickets given for the Radley supporters by Mariners and friends and he has invited the recipients to make a donation to the Trust. About £4000 was donated in 2011 and another £4000 in 2012. The money is used to purchase state of the art machines for the diagnosis of, and research into, cancer at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

2002 and 2003 brought a total of six golds, two silvers and a bronze with the 1st VIII winning a bronze and a silver in the eight and two golds in smaller boats. By 2003 Garry Wiseman’s 2nd VIII, with help from Donald, had won the Elsenham Cup six times in seven years.

There were three golds, two silvers and two bronzes in 2004, the last year of the Donald and Angus team with the 1st VIII who won a silver in the eight, a gold in the coxless pair and a bronze in the coxed four.

The responsibilities of becoming the Tutor of F Social in 2004 meant that Angus McChesney had to give up coaching the 1st VIII in 2005. Over the next years Donald spent less time with the Seniors to help the younger crews.

Donald was a member of the Leander coaching team in the 1960s and 70s, helping to turn their Cadet Scheme for school leavers into the Olympic medal-winning club that it has become. Donald continues as a member of the Cambridge coaching team – this is his forty-sixth year as a Cambridge coach (yes, 46th year – he has coached a Cambridge crew every year since 1968). After the Boat Race he will continue to be much in demand as a coach for club and university crews aiming for Henley.

To thank Donald for the outstanding work he has done on the river at Radley, the Mariners are organising a party and presentation to be held in his honour at Henley on Friday 5th July. Details will be sent to Mariners when all the arrangements have been completed. Meanwhile the vast number of Radley oarsmen who have been helped by Donald should reserve Friday 5th July in their diaries.

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Radley College, Abingdon, OX14 2HR Web: www.radley.org.uk

Anthony Robinson, Development Director Tel: 01235 543151

Email: [email protected]

Administrator & PA to Development Director Rebecca Jack is on Maternity Leave

Emma Lyon, Database Manager Tel: 01235 543172


Jan Glover, Events Manager Tel: 01235 543171


Hamish Aird, Foundation Philosopher Tel: 01235 548574


Jock Mullard, Publications Tel: 01235 543103


Contact Details

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The Serpents took on the OR Students in December with the students winning 31–13.

Fred Bellhouse (1998), James McEwen (1998), Charlie Monbiot (1998), Will Nicholls (1999) and Paddy Sutton (1999) attended a Rackets Day at Radley organised by Mark Hubbard in October. Apart from Rackets the day included the opportunity to play some Real Tennis and ended with a trip to the Bowyer Arms for food and refreshment.

At Cowes in October, the Arrow Trophy (action shown below) was won by Rugby, the Sherborne Salver by Charterhouse and the Winchester Target by Ampleforth. The Radley crew of Julian Facer (1982), Nigel Anderson (1987), Simon Palmer (1987), Richard Cross (1972), Henry Warner (1999), Richard Pull (1996), Ross Culbertson (2003) and Ben Sears (2007) won the Radley Shaker. The racing was run by Billie Bowles and Alexis Dogilewski (1958).

An OR team of Toby Bartholomew (2000), Ed Carter (2000), Alex Crampton-Smith (2003), Michael Evans (2000), Ben Gibson (2000), Tommy Hodgson (1995), George Lines (2002), Tom Maxwell (2000), Will Michell (1999), Harry Nicholls (2001) and Will Pritchard (2003) played a round of the Arthur Dunn Cup at Radley in December against the Old Foresters. Sadly they lost 2–9.

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