Old Lawrentian News 2010/11

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
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