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Notable OBs
Brighton College has in the past had occasion to produce a famous OB or two, as well as countless celebrated success stories - the great and the good (and the not-so-good!) littering this "Hall of Fame" are the beginnings of a directory that we hope all OB's will help us add to (who's missing here..? Did we get any biographies wrong?). We'd love to hear your nominations - send any biography you might have, with an image or two if you can, to:
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Please note: When submitting nominations for the "Notable OBs" page, please supply an accurate biography, and try to ensure that it is copyright free, or has at least the appropriate permissions. Neither the Association or Brighton College are able to check all stories and images for copyright, and rely on you to help us out!
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A talented interior designer who joined BBC One's Changing Rooms team in 2000.
Oliver Heath is a young and talented designer who joined BBC One's Changing Rooms team in 2000.
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Prof. Lord Robert Skidelsky (C. 1953-58)
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John Hart is one of the most respected members of the London Wasps squad and so it comes as no surprise that he was named as Wasps' captain for the start of the 2007/08 season throughout the World Cup period.
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Marsh started playing cricket at school aged 11 and then progressed to Brighton and Hove CC at the age of 13.
Initially a seam bowler, she made her international debut for England during India's summer tour in 2006.
She took 3-44 in her first Test, opening the bowling alongside Jenny Gunn in the second innings.
Drafted in for the injured Nicola Shaw, the Sussex seam-bowler impressed the selectors with her performances throughout Super 4s and the Liverpool Victoria County Championship.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Freddie Allen, who has died aged 92, won two DSOs in 1945 in the battles of the Ardennes and the Reichswald.
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Daniel Peltz, former British Land director and founder of retail property investor London Freeholds, has won rave reviews for his second novel.
It is unusual for a property stalwart to write one, let alone two, novels. The Sunday Express, awarding a four-star rating, describes Daniel Peltz’s second novel Out of the Blue, published in October, as ‘one of the best war stories you’ll read this year’. Another review refers to it as ‘a highly emotional and beautifully constructed novel’. -
Oscar winning actor renowned for playing mostly villains and charming heels.
Born: July 3, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia Died: 1972
The Sanders family returned to England from Russia during the Russian Revolution with the infant George, who, after studies at Brighton College and Manchester Technical College, went into the textile, then the tobacco business.
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Pioneer of business systems - "The Father of the Office Computer".
Born: 1902
Died: 1985
Simmons, John Richardson Mainwaring (1902-1985), office systems pioneer and company director, was born on 18 March 1902 at 52 Ward Place, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Ceylon, the third child of Sydney Mainwaring Simmons (1870-1955), clerk in holy orders, and his first wife, Beatrice Margaret Reynolds (1869-1907).
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British actor, scriptwriter and playwright. Malleson is probably most familiar as the genteel hangman of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) or as Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).
Born: 25 May 1888
Croydon, Surrey.
Died: 15 March 1969
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Gabrielle left Brighton College in 2003 and went on to train at Identity Drama School. She then went on to win a place at the world renowned Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York. She has since starred in Feature Films 'Shank', 'Men Don't Lie' and soon to be released 'Demons Never Die'. She will also be starring as one of the leads in a new film 'Freshers'.
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Bijani is the Artistic Director of ATC Theatre (Actors Touring Company).
His production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size was greeted with universal acclaim and was variously described by UK critics as “Psychologically subtle and emotionally powerful“ (The Times), “faultless” (The Guardian) and “outstanding” (The Evening Standard).His Olivier-award winning production of Gone Too Far! returned to the Royal Court Theatre in 2008 and ATC co-produced the pan London tour to The Albany and the Hackney Empire.
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Novelist and poet, born in Plymouth, Devon, SW England, UK.
He studied at Oxford, and took up school teaching until he established a reputation as a lyric poet with Dublin Days (1921), The Lowery Road (1923), and other volumes. He also wrote novels, including Dewer Rides (1929), a macabre novel set in Dartmoor, and Deliverance (1955). His collection of short stories, Travellers (1945), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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Actor best known for his many TV appearances, most infamously in the abortive BBC soap Eldorado!
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Roland Kingsford Bernard Curram has appeared in countless movies, the most important of which was probably John Schlesinger's quintessential Sixties film Darling, playing opposite Julie Christie.
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Andrew Cayley is a barrister and an international criminal lawyer who has prosecuted and defended in some of the largest and most complex international criminal trials of the last twenty years. Currently he is the International Co-Prosecutor of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia having been nominated by the Secretary General of the United Nations on 18 August 2009 and appointed by the King of Cambodia, His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni, to that position on 27 November 2009.
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Nicholas Allan is the author/illustrator of over thirty children’s books.
He wrote his first novel when he was 14, a story about a murder in a school. He sent it to Macmillan who, although they did not accept it, asked to see his next. Nicholas studied painting at the Slade School of Art. During this time he had his first radio play broadcasted by BBC Radio 4. He then completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.Tagged under -
Polar Explorer, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Born: 11th February, 1908
Died: 11th November, 1999
Standing at more than 6ft, strong, austere and possessing thunderous eyebrows, Vivian Fuchs was a natural leader who had no need to coerce people to get his way. An explorer with instinctively big ideas, he was also a patient and painstaking master of detail, which ensured that the first surface crossing of the Antarctic, in 1957-58, was successfully concluded, despite something of a contretemps between Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary along the way.
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Head of England Women's Cricket, Clare is a former England cricket captain. At the age of 30, she was awarded the OBE after leading England to their first Ashes win in 42 years. Clare retired from playing for England in 2006 with over 100 international caps and having led the side for 6 years.
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Born: 16th February 1919, Liverpool, England Died: 2000
Energetic artist who drew a debonair police hero for the Eagle comic, and created Albert RN, the dummy hero of a famed wartime escape.
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(born 6 November, 1982) is a Ukrainian-born British actress. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Gavin Henderson (L.1960-65), Principal of Trinity College of Music and also Chairman of Youth Music, was made a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours, for services to music and to the arts.
Gavin was appointed Principal at Trinity in 1994, and was responsible for the College’s relocation to the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 2001. He will shortly become the Principal and Chief Executive of the Trinity Laban, the new HEI that will be formed by the merger of Trinity College of Music and Laban during the 2004/2005 academic year. Trinity Laban will be the UK’s first conservatoire for music and dance.
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Emma is an Entrepreneur, a Motivational Speaker, a Business Mentor, Author and Business Turnaround Expert. Emma won her right to be in the "entrepreneurial hall of fame" with the success of her own multi-million pound cosmetic company, Diva Cosmetics, which she grew from a start-up to a several million pound turnover in year 4.
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Formerly Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd - the charismatic BBC Radio 1 DJ and television chat show host.
Born: 28th July 1935
Died: 30the August 2009, aged 74
Ottawa, Canada.
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Rose Elinor Dougall (born 13 March 1986, W. 1999-04) is an English singer, songwriter and musician best known for being a member of "The Pipettes".
Rose is the sister of Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong guitarist Thomas Dougall, and released her debut solo single in December 2008. Her second single was released in June 2009. Her debut album, "Without Why" was released in early 2010
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Born Jesse John Gold in 1932 in Stamford Hill, north London, the son of a milliner he moved to Brighton in 1939 with his family.
Educated at Brighton College, he described his time there in his autobiography: “I decided to become a boarder at the school, although it was nearby, because I wanted to feel more part of it. I loved the place, not because of the lessons – academically I was a disaster – but because of the sport. I was, and remain to this day, a sports freak.”
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William Leith is a journalist who has written about subjects as diverse as cosmetic surgery, Palestine, Hollywood directors, and drugs. His first book, The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict, was published by Bloomsbury in August 2005...
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Comedian, author, escort to fridges in Ireland...
doesn't ride skateboards, apparently. Tony Hawks is a TV and radio comedian and bestselling author.
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Dennys Valentine Jack McDonald Hobley - a leading BBC Radio personality from the 1930's - 1960's.
Born: 9th June 1917, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Died: 30th July 1987
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Menhaj Huda (born 1967, Bangladesh) is a British film director and producer of Bangladeshi descent. After completeing a degree in Engineering at Oxford University, he embarked on a career in television.
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Born: 19 August, 1936, in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Died: 6 April, 2010, aged 73.
The distinguished Old Brightonian, David Quayle (C. 1950-55), died on board a cruise ship off the coast of South Africa on 6th April 2010.
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Highly successful films include 1971's "Friends" and "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"
nominated by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (A. 1966-71)
Born: 15 August 1954, Brighton, UK.
An initially successful career (featuring 1968’s "IF", lead in Lewis Gilbert’s highly acclaimed "Friends" and a starring role in "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" - both 1971) that appeared to last no further than 1977 - unless any OBs know better! -
Following much encouragement from the music department during her time at Brighton College, Nina now continues to write music for film and television. In recent years she has scored sci-fi remake A for Andromeda, Wide Sargasso Sea, Bafta-winning drama White Girl, and the hit BBC1 comedy with Ben Miller, The Worst Week of My Life. Nina has just finished working on a new drama for BBC2 called The Night Watch, adapted from Sarah Water's WWII novel. The music is in keeping with Nina's unique style of writing, ranging from dark, dramatic and eerie to the more romantic.
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The baritone Richard Salter, who has died aged 65, only appeared once on the British operatic stage - in 1986, as Chorebus in The Trojans at Opera North. Yet he was famous in Germany, made Bayerischer Kammersänger in 1994, and was the baritone of choice throughout the German-speaking world for contemporary opera. He was the first Lenz in Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz at Hamburg State Opera and starred in Rihm's Die Eroberung von Mexiko, Manfred Trojahn's Enrico, Aribert Reimann's Das Schloss (he was K) and Jörg Widmann's Das Gesicht im Spiegel - the latter two at the Munich Opera Festival. Salter died in Karlsruhe, the day before starting rehearsals for Britten's Death in Venice. He had been cast as Kepler in Philip Glass's new opera about the astronomer, opening next autumn in Linz and at the Brooklyn Academy.
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English ODI and Test cricketer - wicket-keeper, but has also played as a specialist opening batsman. His English county team is Sussex...
Born: February 26, 1982, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
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Dave Clarke (formerly David Carter H. 1982-85) is one of the most respected (and idiosyncratic) techno DJs and producers in the ninties/noughties, Dave Clarke began his music career as a hip-hop DJ in the mid-'80s, shifting to and staying with Techno & Electro.
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Rear Admiral Peter George Valentine Dingemans, CB, DSO, FIMgt was awarded the DSO during the Falklands campaign.
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Distinguished, long-faced character actor, often of rumpled establishment figures.
Born: October 3, 1911, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
Died: May 2, 1995, Oxford
After leaving Brighton College Michael Hordern entered the real world as a schoolteacher...
Engaging in amateur theatricals in off-hours, Hordern turned pro in 1937, making his film debut two years later.
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Dr Paul E H Davis (D. 1974-79), who lives in Hove, Sussex, was educated at Brighton College, the University of Chichester, and the University of Buckingham where he studied for his Masters' degrees, and later for his D.Phil. He has researched nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish literature for nearly two decades beginning with the novels of J S Le Fanu and then moving on both to identify and to examine the sub-genre of Irish agrarian novels. Although he has had several articles published, From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula is his first book. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham working on the Dickens Journals Online project - which is based at the University - and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Born: 1939.
Nigel Kemble-Clarkson (A. 1953-57) is a cheerful raconteur with a great sense of the ridiculous, and a practised eye for the ladies.
His comic teenage experiences in pantomime and early introduction to the allure of the female sex set the stage for the years to come. A spell in the Army, living the colonial life in Nigeria, provided an exotic backdrop to his early enjoyment of wine, women and song. His subsequent career at Lloyds brought opportunities for fast living and luxury travel, including residential interludes in the United States.
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A veritable force in motion picture advertising, video games, television and film, Kaveh has taken the industry by storm. With his intense and cutting edge sound, Kaveh's compositions have thrilled audiences on both the large and small screen in literally hundreds of campaigns for Hollywood's biggest blockbuster films including: Iron Man 2, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia, Alice In Wonderland, The Wolfman, Twilight Eclipse, Robin Hood, Avatar, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, Watchmen, The Dark Knight and countless others. Not stopping at movie trailers, Kaveh has scored numerous commercials for clients including AT&T, Sony, SEGA, NBC, Mattel and Six Flags.
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Duncan Watts is a serial entrepreneur, operating mainly in the leisure sector. He recently sold his most recent venture, Rocket Restaurants, and is about to embark on a number of new enterprises. He lives in London with his wife Anna, and his daughter Isabella.
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Dr Ayan Panja is one of the UK's most well respected media doctors.
After Brighton, he took his medical degree at the Imperial College School of Medicine and then went on to train in Buckinghamshire to become a GP. He took over an inner city surgery in North London in 2004 where he was senior partner for 6 years. He is now a partner in his home town of St Albans, at a large town centre practice.
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Sussex's Joe Gatting set out to follow in his father's footsteps in football but instead ended up following his illustrious uncle Mike Gatting's cricketing ways.
The 21-year-old nephew of the former England skipper is in India to represent the Sussex Sharks in the Champions League Twenty20 starting Thursday.
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Author and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2005.
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Old Brightonian Flight Lieutenant Marc Heal (L.1994-98) rescued 29 casualties in the heat of a battle in Afghanistan and was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) by the Queen for his actions.
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Neville (Born: 1937, Calcutta) says he was something of a nomad before he founded one of the UK's top quality restaurant chains, the Groupe Chez Gerard plc which he sold in 2003. Abraham, who has an honours degree in economics, spent 10 years as a management consultant and eight years as a civil servant, during which time his passion for wine prompted him to establish a mail-order wine business the Amis du Vin Group. His various roles have included terms as Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the Board of Trade and Senior Principal responsible for corporate, financial and political planning. He enjoyed spells as the strong right arm to such political luminaries as Tony Crosland, Douglas Jay and Lord Heath. Currently Neville is a Trustee of a number of entrepreneurial businesses and charities, including Liberty Wines, Le Cafe Anglais, Draft House Holdings and Brighton College.
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Former England Students and Durham University player also earned England Sevens honours in the 2004/5 campaign, plays for Newcastle Falcons...
Born: 8th Sep 1982
Flying winger Phillips made his Falcons first team debut against Saracens in the 2004/5 season, scoring a try at Vicarage Road after coming on from the bench.
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Television Producer & Director
Nic was a dayboy at Brighton College Junior School between 1955 and 1960, and at Brighton College, Hamden House, from 1960 until 1966. A student at Brighton College of Art, he then studied Television Production at Ravensbourne College of Art before starting work in 1968 as an assistant director in commercials, then feature films, including The National Health, Billy Two Hats and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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A loyal MP in the Thatcher years, now a tireless champion of good causes, most notably in the area of asylum and immigration...
Keith Best attended Brighton College before attaining both his BA and MA in Jurisprudence from Keble College at Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1971 and practiced common law as a barrister until 1987. He has also served as a lecturer in Law for Central London Polytechnic in 1973 and as a Brighton Borough Councillor from 1979 to 1987. For his service in the Territorial Army from 1967-1987 he was awarded the Territorial Decoration.
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Film & Television Actor
nominated by Chris Mitchell (H. 1957-61)
Born: 1940, Croydon.
A supporting actor, Castle began appearing on screen in 1966. He went on to take supporting and starring roles in a wide variety of movies - most recently Ronald F. Maxwell's 2003 film "God and Generals".
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Peter Gareth Mayle - author of many bestsellers including "A Year in Provence" and "Wicked Willie".
Born: 1939.
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James Duncan Hamilton - Formula One racing driver, winner of the tragic 1953 Le Mans race.
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Tamzin played Georgiana Darcy in Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice whilst still at Brighton College and has more recently played Katherine Howard in Showtime's The Tudors. She was last seen on our screens in January, in a wonderful adaptation of The Tale of Edwin Drood.
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David was born in 1972 and is currently Head of Public Affairs at Royal Mail Group. Educated at Royal Holloway and Brighton College he previously worked in business development for a national consultancy in Central London and as a researcher to two Conservative MPs. He worked for Rt Hon William Hague from 1997 to 1999 in his Private Office.
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Sarah Jane Taylor (born 20 May 1989 in Whitechapel) is an English cricketer.
She is a wicketkeeper-batsman known for her free flowing stroke play, opening the batting in one day matches and batting in the middle order in Tests. She was a member of the England team which retained the Ashes in Australia in 2008. She plays county cricket for Sussex. In the Super 4s she is playing for the Emeralds for 2008.
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As we make the transition from one millennium to another, it's difficult not to look back at the last hundred years or so, and wonder on the changes that have taken place. Someone who definitely deserves to be remembered, and indeed celebrated, is Brighton's very own Edward Carpenter. One of 10 children, Edward was born in 1844, the family home being 45 Brunswick Square (okay it's Hove really). In 1854 he began attending Brighton College. Domestic pursuits included learning the piano and taking long horse-rides out over the Downs. Around this time he "felt a friendly attraction towards my own sex, and this developed after the age of puberty into a passionate sense of love".
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3 times World Speedway Longtrack Champion.
Born: February 8, 1964, Epsom, Surrey
Kelvin was awarded an MBE in the 2003 New Years Honours List. Tatum's wife Debbie, their daughter Emma and his sister Jenny accompanied the thirty nine year old former British Speedway captain for this special occasion.
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Sometimes credited as Thomas Charles Sanders II - he is the brother of actor George Sanders.
Born: September 15th, 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 22nd, 1967 in Culver City, California
He was the Falcon in ten of that series' entries. He starred in three Val Lewton horror classics. He appeared in comedies, musicals, two Tarzan films, and even science fiction films. He was early television's Detective Mark Saber - Tom Conway will probably be remembered as George Sander's (D. 1922) brother.
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An expert on the brains of flies, cockroaches, and crayfish, elected in 2002 to the Fellowship of the Royal Society...
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In June 2009, Sir John was announced as the chair of the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. Since 1999 he has been the chairman of the B&CE (building and civil engineering) Group, which provides ‘on a not-for-profit basis’ pensions, insurance, holiday pay and other benefits to the construction industry. Sir John’s other appointments include staff counsellor to the National Criminal Intelligence Service, chairman of the Police Foundation and member of the National Archives Council. He was appointed CB in 1990, KCB in 1994, GCB in 1998 and became a Privy Counsellor in 2004.
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Wasps & England Rugby Player - one of the brightest talents in the English game.
Born: 17th January 1975
One of the brightest talents in the English game Alex joined Wasps at the start of the '96/97 season and played a major part in bringing to league championship to the club.
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Chloe Coker (nee Blackburn) (F. 1994-99) left Brighton College to study modern languages at Oxford University and then practised law for an American law firm in the city, where she specialised in fraud litigation. However, her life has now taken a very different path, which she recently wrote in to tell us about...
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Chris Terrill is a documentary maker with more than 100 films to his name. Terrill photographs, records and directs all his own films which range from the purely observational to the investigative.
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Lord Alexander of Weedon QC (C.1950-55)
Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company and barrister specialising in commercial, business and financial law... Skilful advocate who led the takeovers and mergers panel and then served for ten challenging years as chairman of NatWest
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Internationaly renowned environmental sculptor with a career spanning 30 years.
Born: 14 November 1945, Esher, Surrey, UK
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Internationally known culinary and television personality & award-winning author.
Born: 22nd January, 1934, London
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Formula One racing driver, winner of the 1988 Jim Clark Trophy... now owner of Brands Hatch race track.
Born: 7th November, 1956, London, Palmer's path to the top of motor racing was hardly typical. With no family experience of motorsport competition, Palmer scavenged £162 for a tatty Austin Healey Sprite when he started as an 18 year old medical student at Guy's in London.Tagged under
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The Development and Alumni Relations Office's primary role is to support the Head Master and Governors in realising the long-term plans of the school, by raising non-fee income, and by building a network of strong relationships among parents, staff, Old Brightonians and other friends and supporters.
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Upcoming events
- 1990s Reunion! 10/03/12
- OB Business Network Drinks (City & Finance) 20/03/12
- OB New York Dinner 2012 24/03/12
- OBRFC v Brighton College staff - April 2012 02/04/12
- East Grinstead Sunshine 7s 2012 29/04/12
- 1980's Reunion! 19/05/12
- Newquay Surf 7s 2012 30/06/12
- Worthing 7s 2012 28/07/12
- Cronk Cunis U21 15s Tournament 2012 27/08/12
- Peter Rumney Memorial Game 2012 01/09/12