Obituaries & Tributes

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Jonathan Brownridge on 22^nd October 2012 at the age of just 56. Jon was at the School from 1967 until 1974 before going on to study Physics at Imperial College having been inspired to do so by John Macrae, and their shared passion for physics ensured that they remained firm friends. 

Jon was an enthusiastic member of the OBA and attended many of the Dinners up until 2011. He kept in touch with a group of his contemporaries and many of those were among the almost 200 strong congregation at his funeral which was held on 1^st November 2012.  

E.G. "Geoff" Beynon (4 October 1926 - 21 October 2012)

Sadly we have to record the death on 21^st October of Ernest Geoffrey Beynon at the age of 86. He was at the School from 1937 until 1944, and was one of the Sheppey Bordenians who was evacuated to S. Wales in 1940 for two years. He was accompanied there by his younger brother, George, who has supplied the following information about Geoff's career. Graham Barnes, his contemporary at School, has amalgamated this with an appreciation delivered by the Minister at his funeral service.

H F E Nicholls  1917 - 2012

Borden Grammar School 1946 to 1980

The psalm which was recited at Frank Nicholls’ funeral speaks of the years of our life as ‘three score and ten’, going on to speak of those who manage ‘four score’ as having to endure ‘labour and sorrow’. What then can we say of one who managed not three score and ten, nor yet four score, but four score and fifteen?

Recently we have been informed, sadly, of the death on 9th September 2011 of Dr. Don Prichard, aged 79.  He was a lifelong Member of the Association and played hockey for the Old Bordenians occasionally when he left School in 1949.  Subsequently, he enjoyed a remarkable career - which is evident from the following Obituary written by Graham Allatt, reproduced with his kind permission and that of the Friends of the British Library Newsletter in which it originally appeared. 

 

It is with regret that we have to announce the death of Maurice Eastman, an Old Bordenian,  who died on 18^th December 2012, aged 87,  at Medway Hospital.  His funeral took place at St Paul’s Church, Boxley Road, Maidstone, on Friday 4^th January 2013.