Month: January 2025

Entrepreneurship Resources

21 January 2025

Interested in a career in entrepreneurship? Check out our full resource guide with free course suggestions, podcast recommendations and useful blogs via the link here: Entrepreneurship Resources

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How to Network like a Pro

21 January 2025

If you’ve been seeking advice about finding a job or making it in a certain industry, you’ve probably been told to ‘network.’ But what does that actually mean? And how on earth do you do it? This guide is here to help you figure out stress-free networking, so you can start building up your professional […]

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Graham Stephenson (C 57)

09 January 2025

Graham went to Eagle House before entering the Combermere in 1953. He was a keen cricketer and played two seasons in the 1st XI winning the Prince Christian Victor Bowling Prize in 1957. He also won a RAF Flying Scholarship and learned to fly in Tiger Moths and Chipmunks at White Waltham before joining BEA […]

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Brigadier Hugh Pye OBE (C 56)

09 January 2025

Brigadier Hugh Pye, who has died aged 86, was a regimental soldier to the core; he had firm opinions and expressed them with great clarity. He also had enormous energy, a fierce determination to do things properly, a great sense of fun and a willingness to take on any challenge.  Hugh William Kellow Pye was […]

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Amelie White (A 23): Volunteering in Arusha, Tanzania  

08 January 2025

Through the support of the Bevir Fund, for the duration of five weeks, I taught and assisted teaching in a local primary school in Arusha, Tanzania. This experience was organised by a company called International Volunteer Headquarters (IVHQ).   My volunteering project took place within Heda Primary School, which provides education for children ages 3–13. The […]

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Captain David Pike (Hn 54)

06 January 2025

David Brian Elwes Pike (often known as Pikey) was born on 16th March 1936, and served with the 13th/18th Royal Hussars in Neumunster and Aden. Like many 13th/18th Officers, he attended Wellington College in Berkshire. During his time at College, he became a Sergeant in the CCF and enjoyed Amateur Dramatics, with his most notable […]

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Georgiana Nason (O 22): Impact of Fast Fashion on The Atacama Desert, Chile

06 January 2025

The Atacama Desert, located in the North of Chile, is one of the driest places on earth and hosts a giant landfill of illegally discarded clothes that are imported via the port of Iquique. According to the most recent UN figures, Chile is the third largest importer of second-hand clothes in the world with over […]

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Michael Nicholas (T 75)

06 January 2025

Michael Nicolas joined the Talbot in 1970 as top scholar. In fact, the scholarship was worth more the following year so he elected to retake it the next year, and won it again. No surprise then that he gained six top grade A Levels and won a postmastership to Merton to read either Maths or […]

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David Kirke (C 63)

03 January 2025

DAVID KIRKE, who has died aged 78, was the guiding spirit and enfant terrible of the Dangerous Sports Club, whose colourful exploits caused global scandal and delight in the 1980s. He was perhaps best known for having invented modern bungee jumping (he always spelt it ‘bungy’) when early on the morning of 1st April 1979 […]

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Patrick Grubb (L 49)

03 January 2025

Former Sotheby’s wine director, Madeira expert and Master of Wine, Patrick Grubb died on 23rd March, leaving behind his wife, Jennie, and two sons, Hugo (Bl 92) and Harry (P 98).  The Institute of Masters of Wine has written the following words about Patrick’s impressive career in wine:   Patrick Grubb passed the MW exam in 1958 aged […]

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Major General Nick Ansell (L 55)

02 January 2025

In 1989, not long before the Gulf War, Major General Nick Ansell, Director of the Royal Armoured Corps (DRAC), was preoccupied with one thing: the problems encountered in the planned upgrade of the Army’s new tank, the Challenger. Nick was not responsible for procurement policy but as professional head of the Royal Armoured Corps, whose […]

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Hugh Aldridge (Hl 60)

02 January 2025

Hugh began life in India where his father was a colonel in the Army in the Signals Regiment, engaged in breaking Japanese codes. In due course Hugh was sent to Wellington College, where he was a scholar. A contemporary writes of him that he was always very popular, extremely clever and a brilliant sportsman. From […]

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