On 13 July 2005 Bishop Terence Brain of Salford ordained JOHN FLYNN (H93) to the diaconate in Rome. more...

LORD STAFFORD (C72) has been appointed High Sheriff of Staffordshire for 2005. more...

News of the Trooping the Colour 11 June 2005

BEN PENNINGTON (B96), JULIAN ROBERTS (W/W99), SEBASTIAN ROBERTS (J72)

Military news includes...

MICHAEL PEPPER (D98), JOHN PONSONBY (H73), BEN PENNINGTON (B96), RICHARD MAcLURE (J99), CHRISTOPHER GHIKA (E88), MARCUS LUCKYN-MALONE (A90), FERGUS LUCKYN-MALONE (A93), NICHOLAS MILLEN (D76).

Amplefordians posted in Basra, Iraq. [5 February 2005]  more details - Military

RUPERT KING-EVANS (T94) has been in Iraq for most of 2005. He writes [24 November 2005]: “I have managed to score a place on one of their very rare Operational Deployments! I am currently in Al Muthanna Province in Southern Iraq with 5/7 Royal Australian Regiment. Life is routine but can get quite exciting as we get mortared or rocketted on an increasingly frequent basis. Last night I had just sat down for dinner when the alarm sounded and took cover under my table with about 250 other people in the Mess Hall, roaring with laughter with my companions, as everyone’s dinners slowly dripped down onto us and explosions sounded all around! Fortunately these rockets missed the camp and sailed off to detonate beyond. Other than that there is the occasional small arms contact in the surrounding area, but generally this is a very quiet area of Iraq. The camp is a mudpit. As soon as you have walked 10 metres you have two stone of mud on each boot and of course it gets everywhere. I often find myself casting my mind back wistfully to the days of Bosnia and the superb crowd and company commander that I served with there, but one must soldier on.”  He wrote futher [15 January 2006] after returning from Christmas leave in England: "We remain in our dirty little camp in the middle of the desert, and pray it dosen't rain as the camp becomes a mudpit. Things are very quiet here (after I had 2 rockets land 100 m away within 2 hours of returning from leave!) and we are just waiting for the outcome of the December elections to be announced".

RICHARD MACLURE (J99) arrived in Basra in late October 2006.  He writes [9 December 2005]: " I have now been in Iraq for six weeks and am based near Basra. My Regiment is The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys), who although a cavalry regiment are predominantly using Snatch out in Iraq, which are up armoured Land Rovers with a big engine". He has been in England on leave.

JAMES JEFFREY (C97) is intending to run a marathon in Iraq, probably in January 2006. He had intended to run in the New York marathon on 6 November 2005, but he was called by his unit to training. He is supporting a school in Ethiopia. He goes with the Queen's Royal Lancers - A Squadron to Iraq in December 2005. You can help through Face-Faw, by on-line donations

SIR ANTHONY BAMFORD (D63), Chairman of JCB, has committed JCB to the support of the victims of the Tsunami. more...

ALEXANDER EL JUNDI (T96), who has been working in Sierra Leone on war crime trials, has moved to Liberia, working for the Legal and Judicial Department United Nations Mission in Liberia [Monrovia- Liberia]. more...  details

FR JOHN MELLUISH (W68) moved in April 2005 to work for the Mill Hill Missionaries in the Diocese of Rustenburg in the North West Province of South Africa. He left Kenya in July 2004. [Mill Hill Missionaries, P.O. Box 1933 Phokeng 0335, North West Province, South Africa.  Tel: 00 27 (0) 14 5733297  Mob: 00 27 (0) 76 2833 757]. [posted 24 October 2005]  

In January 2005 JOZEF MYCIELSKI (O90) joined Greenhouse Schools Project, a registered charity that provides sports and performing arts coaching programmes for disadvantaged and marginalised young people. more...

JAMES NORTON (O03) writes: "A few friends and myself are setting up a theatre company as a charity venture for AIDS - support and awareness. We are taking two of the shows that we have previewed on the main ADC stage in Cambridge, to the Edinburgh festival, and are currently desperately searching for sponsorship".

James Norton Theatre 2005

MATTHEW PROCTER (W80) has worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the early 1990s, helping with refugees and the victims of the war. more...

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FERDINAND VON HABSBURG-LOTHRINGEN (E87) continues to work for the UN in the Sudan. more...

TIM FARR (T01) who was paralysed in a skying accident in March 2004, writes about this and about two friends who are running the London Marathon on 17 April 2005 to help spinal research. more...

ALEXANDER STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN (O02) ran in the Flora London Marathon 2005 [26.2 miles] on 17 April 2005 to raise money for Afghanaid... more...

Major General PETER GRANT PETERKIN CB OBE (J65) was appointed Sergeant at Arms in Ordinary to Her Majesty, and as such serves The Speaker of the House of Commons as well as the entire House. more...

Ampleforth candidates in the General Election on 5 May 2005 and in local government elections on the same day include:

MICHAEL ANCRAM (W62) was re-elected as Conservative MP for Devizes. He was appointed as Defence spokesman, when Mr Howard announced his Shadow Cabinet on 10 May 2005. more...

JOHN MARSHALL (D55) was re-elected as a Liberal Democrat councillor for the central area of Harrogate, on the North Yorkshire County Council. He represents a two member ward with an electorate of about 12,000 persons.

JOHN BURNETT (B63) Liberal Democrat - Torridge and West Devon, retired as an MP on 11 March 2005. more...

MELFORT CAMPBELL OBE (C75) has been appointed Chairman of CBI Scotland.  Melfort was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration by the Robert Gordon University on 9 December 2005. Melfort Campbell's original venture, Water Weights, was established in 1985 and is now part of IMES Ltd which employs over 240 staff and has an annual turnover of £14 million with partnerships in 17 different countries including India, China, USA, Holland and Australia. Melfort has been an active member of the Scottish business community. He was recently appointed to the Tax Reform Commission and he has served on a variety of CBI committees and on the Board of Directors of Scottish Enterprise Grampian. In recognition of his services to industry in Scotland he was awarded the OBE in 2005 and became the Chairman of CBI Scotland in recognition of his effectiveness as a representative of successful Scottish industry. He has been a Governor of RGU since 2003. Melfort is Chief Executive of Imes Group Ltd

KEVIN KEARNEY (D58) was one of the two new Sheriffs of the City of London appointed on 26 September 2005, to hold office for one year

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NICHOLAS KNOWLES (D93) works at the media company Emap; he has been there for the last 5 years. He has worked across men's and music magazines, but has recently become the marketing manager for the UK's biggest film magazine, Empire. [posted 13 November 2005]

CHARLES IRVEN (C92) is IT Network Manager for Brentwood School in Essex, one of the largest independent schools in the country, though predominately day-pupils  After graduated from Exeter University in 1996 with an MEng in Civil Engineering, he worked for four years in various Civil Engineering roles, but in 2000 decided on a career change and moved to Brentwood School. [posted 8 August 2005]

MARK PRICHARD (D97) is Job Site Manager at a building site in London. [posted 1 October 2005]

TOM VERDON (O82) is Investment manager at Dexia Private Bank Jersey with primary focus on business development in the Middle East. He writes [23 August 2005] "My main areas of activity are the selling of structured products and the arrangement of private equity transactions in a wide variety of sectors, but primarily hotels and construction. In this capacity I was invited to accompany the Jersey Financial Services Delegation on their official tour of the Middle East in March 2005" [posted 26 August 2005].

ALEXIS BILLER (A97) is a Software Engineer with IBM UK Ltd at Hursley Park in Hampshire [Project Role: Design and Implement EU Grid Provenance] [posted 9 October 2005] more...

TJ SHERBROOKE (E97) works in TV.  He wrote [26 October 2005] " I have just returned from a month in the USA having been filming a new TV show with former Arsenal footie star Ian Wright.It was a sort of road trip entitled ‘Wright Across America’ from Florida across the Deep South to California all aboard Harley –Davidson motorbikes. I am now Producing another new show called ‘Ultimate Guinness World Records’ and am in fact recording the studio links this weekend!  We’ve got some interesting special guests including the man with the longest tongue, the fastest talker in the world and the woman with most amount of body piercings" [posted 27 October 2005].

JAMES CARTY (H95) is walking on a pilgrimage from London to Jerusalem, a journey of 3,500 miles through eight countries: Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, the Lebanon and Israel. He set out on 2 May 2005, after attending early morning Mass in Westminster Cathedral and then Lauds in Westminster Abbey. MICHAEL HIRST (A96) wrote a two-page article On foot to Jerusalem in The Tablet [11 June 2005]. Describing him as “quintessentially English in his university rugby shirt and floppy sun hat” Michael Hirst wrote of his journey, visiting Cluny at “the spiritual heart of Europe”, Mount Athos and the Muslim city of Konya. James Carty is supporting four charities. After a break for the Winter, James Carty is continuing his journey in Spring 2006. www.walkingtojerusalem.org

ED ADLINGTON (02002), ROBERT FURZE (O2002) and THOMAS MARKS (O2002) walked 500 miles in six weeks with Ed Adlington (O2002) and Robert Furze (O2002) in Summer 2005 from Roncesballes in the Pyrenees near Pamplona to Santiago  de Compostela.  Thomas Marks writes of trekking “across the ruthless plains of the Meseta, the gruelling climbs of Galicia and hard suburbs of Burgos, Leon and Santiago” and of meeting “fascinating people, some of whom have devoted much of their life to the route, most of whom are searching for some sort of life lesson, or challenge”.  Thomas writes of having developed “at leastina and respect for all the benefits of endurance, stam those who achieve such things in life”, and adds  “I have completed the pilgrimage and share some of this rewarding experience in the way of charity toward Face-Faw” Thomas Marks raised £335 for Face-Faw at Ampleforth by sponsorship. [posted 11 October 2005]

RALPH FOLJAMBE O93), DOMINIC ROBERTSON (W92), IAN ROBERTSON (W92) and HUGH VAN CUTSEM (E92) ran in the Marathon des Sables [MdS] in April 2005. more...    more deatils

TOM CADOGAN (W94) was awarded his PhD in November 2005 at SOAS in London (the School of Africa and Oriental Studies). His mother, Catherine is the organist at the Ampleforth parish of Osmotherley.

PETER FANE-SAUNDERS (W96) was a Master of Philosophy degree in July 2005 in Architectural History & Theory by LORD TUGENHAT (E55), Chancellor of the University of Bath. [posted 16 August 2005]

Dr GEOFFREY GREATREX (O86) was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship to spend six months in Munich in 2006 to carry out research during his half-year sabbatical from the University of Ottawa, where he is Chair of the Department of Classics and Religious Studies. In Summer 2005 the Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian was published, to which he contributed a chapter on relations with Sasanian Iran; his 2002 book (in collaboration with Sam Lieu), The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars, AD 363-630, was selected by Choice magazine in 2003 as one of its 'outstanding academic titles' in ancient history. [posted 6 August 2005]

PAUL PRICHARD (D99) has started a three and half year period writing a PhD on Higher Energy and Particle Physics at Liversity University.  In May 2005 he gained a First Class Honours Degree from Liverpool University in Physics, and gained the top marks of all the Physics graduates from Liverpool University. [posted 1 October 2005]

JACK RUTHERFORD (T02) achieved a First in Literae Humaniores (Classics) Mods at Brasenose College, Oxford in May 2005. [posted 4 May 2005)

JONATHAN REID (B71) was awarded First Class Honours at the Metropolitan University in Batchelor of Arts in Business and Information Communication Technology Education. He was one of only six out of about 500 awards at the university to gain a First Class Honour. Jonathan has been working as a Supply Teacher in the area of Hartford in Cheshire, and has been much in demand as such. In addition, he has started a company Lohar Limited, providing real estate services.

JOHN TOWNSEND (O01) was awarded the Lord Denning Scholarship, Major BVC Award, Lincoln's Inn. (posted 23 April 2005)

NEIL RYAN (J01) is planning to join the Royal Army Medical Corps. After a gap year in Ghana working in hospitals and teaching maths (2001-2002), he went in 2002 to Bristol University to read medicine."It has been a great two years in which I have met a wide range of great people from just about everywhere. The course is great fun too" [posted 29 January 2006]

Dr ANDREW MALLIA (D96) is now a doctor. more...

DR AMIT MANDAL (H89), who qualified as a doctor in 1996, and is an cardiac specialist registrar, is about to take up a post at The Royal Brompton in London [posted 8 August 2005]

Dr ANDREW NESBITT (B90) is a GP Partner. more...

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SIMON McGEE (B93) was appointed Political Editor of The Yorkshire Post in about July 2004.  As such he is based at Westminster. Previously he had briefly been the Political Correspondent of The Yorkshire Post, and as such worked mainly from their Leeds office.  Until June 2004 he had been a political correspondent with the Nottingham Evening Post. An interview on 1 November 2005 with LORD NOLAN (C46) by Simon McGee (B93) has been widely credited in Westminster to have "tipped the balance" in the question of the resignation of David Blunkett crisis. The interview was published on the morning of his resignation, 2 November 2005. details

DAVID McDOUGALL (B91) is a Television Journalist. He specialises in documentary films and is currently working on a series about Italy for The Discovery Channel. Previously he was an Associate Producer on the PBS production of Gavin Menzies’ book, “1421 – The Year China Discovered The World?” a BBC series called “Oil: The World Over a Barrel” and the Line Producer of “Afghan Massacre” which won The SONY International Award in 2002.  The award is given to a piece of news footage that has an immediate impact on public perception or political policy.[posted 10 September 2005]

JEREMY McDERMOTT (H95), the BBC correspondent in Bogota in Columbia, has a report broadcast on the BBC programme "From Our Own Correspondent" on 1 February 2003 - published in 2005 in From Our Own Correspondent, a book published to celebrate 50 years of the programme of the same name. more...

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