Deaths

Alan Woollaston (Winterstoke 1945-50)

Alan Keith Woollaston died in July 2010 at the age of 78 and was at Mill Hill from 1945-50. MORE

Rev Henry Starkey & Ted Stanham

Old Millhillians will be sad to learn of the death of two former teachers and long-term servants of the School. MORE

Keith Thomas (Winterstoke 1949-54)

Michael Robert James Thomas 74, died on Tuesday 30^th March 2010. He was born on Monday 16th December 1935 to Robert Leslie Thomas and Dorothy Alice Thomas (nee Saunders). Michael is survived by his wife Joan, his brother Keith, his sister Anne, his daughter Joanne, his son Mark, his grand-daughter Cher-Leigh and his grand-son Dominic. MORE

Peter Parr (Weymouth 1933-39)

Peter Parr died on 21st May 2010 after a short illness just two weeks before his 90th birthday. He was in School House (Weymouth) during the Headmasterships of Maurice Jacks and T.K.Derry. MORE

Denis Compston (Ridgeway 1927-30)

Denis Compston who died at the age of 96 on 23^rd February 2010 was, with his brother Tym, the second generation of the four generations of Compstons who have attended Mill Hill. MORE

Tom Jourdan (Ridgeway 1958-62)

Tom was born on the 20^th August 1944 in the Cresswell Coombe Maternity Hospital in Dumfries Scotland. Soon after Tom was born the family moved to High Wycombe where Tom’s Father joined his father in Law and brother in Law at Parker Knoll. MORE

Rupert Cherry (Collinson 1923-26)

CENTENARIAN JOURNALIST. A sports writer who spent many years covering rugby union for The Daily Telegraph, he was born in London on April 18, 1909, and educated at Mill Hill. MORE

Rodney Borgartz

Rodney Borgartz (Murray '52) MORE

Stephen Ruhemann (Winterstoke 1945-50)

Stephen Ruhemann, Mill Hill School's first Communist Senior Monitor died on 11 February 2009, following a battle with cancer. MORE

David Hudgell (Winterstoke 50 -54)

With the death of David on 22nd October 2009, we sadly lose not only a great Middlesex man but also an immense character, friend and supporter. He will be sadly missed and, really, he is irreplaceable. MORE

John Williams (Burton Bank 45-49)

The Club was saddened by the news that former England,
Barbarians and British & Irish Lions scrum half John Williams passed away
on 5th October 2009 after a long illness. Read a full obituary written by Jim Roberts....
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H E Beven ( Jimmy) 1911 – 2009 MHS 25-29

Jimmy was born at Tangalle in Sri Lanka on 23rd February 1911. His father, Alan Bevan, was a judge in what was then known as Ceylon, where the family lived. At the end of world war 1, at the age of seven, Jimmy left Ceylon and his father brought him to England to go to Lindisfarne prep school. At the age of 13 he went to Mill Hill School where he was one of the first intake into the new Winterstoke House and he was somewhat sad when Winterstoke became Grimsdell ! Jimmy was a good all round sportsman. MORE