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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS Clementine Mary Marchant was born on April 4th, 2010 at the QEQM, Margate, weighing 7lb 1oz. Clementine is seven months in this photo. She is pictured with her proud parents Nick and Clair Marchant. Clair and Nick are expecting their second child in April. If you would like to feature in the Family Announcement section please email your obituary, wedding details or birth announcements, plus any photographs, to kerry@olsociety.co.uk. Alternatively you can write to Kerry Brown,Alumni Secretary, St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 7AE. We will do our best to use as much of the material as possible. Meet Reuben George Mellor, pictured at 20 weeks old. He is the firstborn of Joanna Mellor, nee Baker, (Laing 1998) and Dale Mellor. Reuben was born on September 9th, 2010 weighing 7lb 2oz. FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS Hannah Blatchford (nee Leadbeater) 1975-2010 (Laing 1986-1991). Hannah leaves behind a husband, Matthew, and three-year-old son, Samuel Richard Hands, 1943-2010 (Courtenay 1954-1961) Anthony Housden, 1935-2010 (Lodge 1948-1952) A J Langston, 1950-2005 (Grange 1964-1968) Albert Moth died on October 30th, 2009. (Grange 1952-1957). John Scrutton, 1919-2009 OBITUARIES Richard James Hands, 04.01.1943 - 24.12.2010 (Courtenay: 1954-1961) Richard James Hands was born in South-East London in January 1943 and it was a remarkable stroke of good fortune that brought him to St Lawrence College at the age of 12, to enrol in the since disbanded Courtenay house, DEATH NOTICES (Tower 1930-1937). Stuart Smith (former teacher English and Drama 2001- 2007) passed away on June 13th, 2010 Peter Spicer passed away on July 30th, 2010 (Manor 1945-1947) Dr J.L.G. Thomson died in 2010 (Grange 1935-1940) Laurence White, passed away on April 3rd, 2010 (Tower1996-2000) 30 31
FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS under the watchful eye of Samuel ‘Sozzle’ Speakman. Over the next six years Richard had little difficulty in making friends, with many enduring throughout his life, with all of us remembering his wonderful sense of humour and above all else, his infectious laughter. In his time in Courtenay, he was a member of the junior and senior house teams in Rugby, Hockey and Cricket, whilst enjoying equal success in the CCF, eventually becoming a Sergeant, which came as no surprise to his fellow Corps members. His escapades in the field of dormitory poker where a sight to behold especially the art of fooling Sozzle! On leaving SLC, he won a place to Kings College, Durham to read Economics. Having successfully gained his degree, he joined Arthur Young and duly qualified as a Chartered Accountant. In 1970, Richard married his university sweetheart. With his feet firmly on the commercial ladder, he joined Price Waterhouse in Dusseldorf, where helped by his wife’s fluency in German, he was able to become no mean linguist himself. In 1972, he moved to Vienna where they lived for the next seven years joining Associated Engineering, working eventually in Stuttgart, as well as England for a brief spell. With the arrival of daughter Catherine, he joined ZF a large German multinational industrial company in Stuttgart, with the family eventually moving to England where he become Managing Director of ZF (GB), in Nottingham, transforming a loss making concern into a highly profitable organisation. The advent of Multiple Sclerosis shortened his highly successful business career and in 1993, he retired prematurely due to ill health. His indomitable courage and fortitude over the next 17 years, as he become increasingly disabled, earned him enormous respect and admiration. He was able to enjoy his 40th wedding anniversary in July 2010, in the company of his FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS family and close friends. He died on Christmas Eve 2010 surrounded by wife Usha, daughter Catherine, son- in-law Matthew and his two young grandchildren, Tristan and Emma. David Masters, Courtenay 1961 Anthony Ross Housden 1935 - 2010 (Lodge 1948-1952) A nthony Ross Housden died peacefully on January 6th, 2010 in a nursing home, having suffered from Parkinson’s Disease for some time. After leaving SLC he did his National Service in the Royal Signals and after basic and trade training was posted to Cyprus where he was an ‘Operator Special’ which involved interrupting morse code messages. On retiring to ‘civi’ street, for some years he shot with the OL small bore team at Bisley. His working life started with a job as a salesman in the hat manufacturing industry, which in those days was big business for both ladies and men. He later moved to selling surgical instruments to hospitals and continued to do so until his retirement. Living with his mother until she died, he later met a widow who had the same passion for walking holidays and it was not long before they were married. Many wonderful holidays were taken together all over the world for 20 years. Ruth pre-deceased him on October 1st, 2009 having lost a fight with cancer. Anthony’s father Clive Wilfred Housden was also educated at St Lawrence (Dark Blue House) and left in 1919. Peter Jordan, Courtenay 1952 32 33
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