Patrick Melville
08 January 2025Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I am a mental health expert and run mental health programmes through my company, Melville Mental Solutions. This question brings back a lot of thoughts and emotions: I was one of the first boarders in the new Hopetoun House in 1992 when […]
Esther Ujah
06 January 2025Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? Even though I graduated from Wellington College a mere five years ago, it already feels like a lifetime has passed. The nostalgia of common room chats and late-night walks up and down the kilometre all came flooding back as I put pen […]
Doug Rowe
03 January 2025Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I have had quite a varied career path since leaving Wellington. However, a common theme has been my passion for health, fitness and the benefits these bring to people. In recent years, I founded a healthy snack bar company with my brother […]
Anna Rowe
02 January 2025Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? Hi, I’m Anna, I am middle-aged and happy to say I’m loving it. Why? Because I’m lucky enough to be doing exactly what I believe I am meant to be doing with my life – helping people achieve health and happiness within […]
Greta Keenan
01 March 2024Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I’m endlessly curious about science and technology and its potential to improve people’s lives and solve global problems like climate change. Right now, I work on topics like artificial intelligence, drones, driverless cars and biotechnology, helping governments and businesses around the world […]
Freddie Coughlin
25 January 2024Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I’m a recent Old Wellingtonian (Head of College, 2022). Since leaving, I took a gap year whereupon I gained experience in different avenues of Politics and International Relations ahead of starting my studies in International Relations at St Andrew’s in September 2023. […]
Olivia Walter
12 January 2024Can you please tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? We moved up from London to West Yorkshire and the Pennines 15 years ago, with an 18-month-old daughter. Our son was born 18 months after that. Ever since childhood holidays in Scotland and being at Edinburgh University, I had always wanted to […]
Hilary Forrester
01 February 2023Tell us about yourself – just a few sentences to introduce yourself. I’m originally from Hampshire but have lived in London since I graduated, most recently on a houseboat on the Thames. However, last year, I swapped the view of the water for desert, as I’m now based in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, working for […]
Arani Mylvaganam
01 February 2023Tell us about yourself I left Wellington in 2000 and went on to study Economics at York. After a few years working in corporate event management in London, I went on to do some further study and ended up in Oxfordshire (via Malawi) where I have remained. I’m now Research Manager at a fundraising consultancy, […]
Soraya Betterton
01 February 2023Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I was born and educated in England to an English father and Spanish mother. Today I live in California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, with my husband, son, and golden retriever. I was one of the first few sixth form girls at Wellington in […]
Chris and Will Donnelly
25 January 2023Can you tell us about yourself? Hey! We’re Chris and Will Donnelly, two brothers from London, and amongst a family of children that attended Wellington College (and Beresford House) from 2001 through to 2012. In July 2021, we launched Lottie (lottie.org), a free service that helps families and retirees find the UK’s best care homes […]
James Frost
07 December 2022Tell us about yourself – just a few sentences to introduce yourself. I am a relatively recent Old Wellington (Head of Murray, 2018) and have just completed my tertiary education at the University of Exeter, reading a BSc in Economics. I am one of 4 brothers to have attended Wellington and the Murray, with my […]
Edmund Wilson
05 July 2022Tell us about yourself Having had a thoroughly enjoyable time at Wellington (S 1985 – 89), I went straight into the Army (after a mini-gap year spent partly working and partly sailing in the Caribbean). I served for 21 great years in the Army as an Irish Guards officer, with operational tours in Northern Ireland, […]
Max Hope
27 May 2022Tell us about yourself Somehow, I have ended up running with my business partner, Phillips Law, an award winning law firm, building it from strength to strength. I read law at King’s College London, practiced in the City at Linklaters, CMS and Clyde & Co, and in between found time to serve in the Army […]
Kate Stovold
20 May 2022Tell us about yourself I am a Partner at a boutique law practice in London. I specialise in the resolution of private family law matters, with a focus on financial claims arising on divorce or separation. My practice encompasses a variety of cases, including those with an international element, or involving complex business structures and […]
Matilda Edwards
26 April 2022Tell us about yourself I was in the Combermere from 2009 – 2015 where I was very happy. I have some of my fondest memories from school and still miss it today (I know, very sad of me!). After school, I took a Gap Year to Australia and New Zealand and having spent six months […]
Edward Reis
01 March 2022Can you tell us a little about yourself? I was in the Stanley 1989-94, following in my father’s footsteps (S 1951-5). Studied History (BA) at Southampton, then an MA in Art Market Appraisal at Kingston. I am currently an independent antique silver dealer and valuer. Married with three children, my middle son will be starting […]
Richard Wollocombe
12 November 2021Tell us about yourself I spent most of my early childhood living in various countries in South America and was an overseas border at Wellington while my parents lived in Colombia. While I was in University I went on a family holiday to Galápagos and it had such an impact on me that after finishing […]
Angie Woolnough
12 November 2021I joined the sixth form at Wellington College in 1975 when the school first opened its doors to girls – 7 girls and 770 boys. This was a ground-breaking experiment for Wellington which had been a boys’ school for 120 years. I remember feeling petrified and overwhelmed during the first term. After that we soon […]
Daisy Crowfoot
12 November 2021Tell us about yourself I am Daisy, my pronouns are she/they and I currently work as the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Lead at Energy Saving Trust. My previous role was working in the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion team at Queen Mary University of London and before that, I was at Welcome Trust. Outside of work, […]
Kai Horstmann
11 November 2021Tell us about yourself.. I was Born and raised in Zimbabwe but educated in England. I started playing professional rugby for Harlequins in 2001 before moving to Worcester Warriors in 2005 and Exeter Chiefs in 2012. I enjoyed silverware successes in European Cup, LV Cup, Anglo Welsh Cup and The Premiership. After retiring in 2018, […]
Tim Warrillow
05 July 2021What started your entrepreneurial career? My first attempt at a money making venture was an ‘after hours’ pizza delivery business whilst at Wellington, it involved persuading the local pizza delivery company to deliver pizzas in the cover of darkness. Much to their surprise the instruction was that they had to approach the main gate quietly […]
Julian Bourne and Matt Pritchard
22 June 2021To you, what does it mean to be an entrepreneur? It’s a funny one… we don’t necessarily identify as ‘entrepreneurs’ ourselves. In the early days, the only difference between being an entrepreneur and unemployed is your mindset and imagination. However, here’s a couple things that may (or may not) indicate that you’ve reached official ‘entrepreneur’ […]
Jag Bhara
16 June 2021To you, what does it mean to be an entrepreneur? I like to say ‘Entrepreneur’ is french for unemployed. Im hilarious like that. However, being an entrepreneur is a multidimensional privilege. It is a privilege to spend your day grafting on a passion (whether you know it or not there is something about any enterprise […]
Adrian Lukis
01 June 2021The first play I was in was The Mummers Play, in which I had the second lead (!), the Turkish Knight. This was at my prep school, aged nine, when my family returned from Australia. The lead, quite rightly, was St George! This was the moment I fell in love with all the thrill of […]