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OBITUARIES

Guy Timothy Philip Malloy on 12^th June 1993

Guy Malloy followed his elder brother, Sean, to the O.S. in 1969 and left in 1970. He died from a coronary thrombosis, suffered while sailing with friends at Cowes.

James Jerome Cajetan Dessain on 29^th October 2000

Jerome Dessain was the third of four O.S. brothers His two elder brothers were Father Stephen Dessain (O.S. 1920-25, died 1976), Provost of the Birmingham Oratory from 1956 to 1962 and editor of Newman's Letters and Diaries, and Colonel Paul Dessain, holder of the first Military Cross of the Second World War and Military Attaché in Rome from 1952 to 1955 (O.S. 1921-27, died 1998). Jerome Dessain’s younger brother was Hugh (O.S. 1934-38, died 1990). After the O.S. Jerome Dessain went on to Balliol College, Oxford, and the University of Louvain, before developing a career in photography and publishing. He died on the island of Jersey, where he had lived for a number of years.

Diana Auriol Bull on 6^th November 2000

Old Oratorians, in particular those who knew the O.P.S. in the 1950s, will be saddened to learn of the death, on 6^th November 2000, of Auriol Bull. Auriol was the wife of Cyril Bull, Headmaster of the O.P.S. from 1952 to 1958, who died in 1993.

Michael White (O.P.S. 1946-53, O.S. 1953-58) writes: Auriol Bull will be remembered by pupils at the Oratory Preparatory School during the 1950s for the enthusiasm with which she attacked the domestic and catering side of running a preparatory school like the O.P.S. - few schoolboys in those days could have eaten better or been more cleanly clothed and housed – and also for her knack of making every new visitor to the O.P.S. seem as though his or her arrival there was the most delightful event that could possibly have happened. Much more important than these qualities, however, was her generosity, and that of her husband, in opening up her home and her heart to the inevitable few who were unlucky enough to be orphaned, or just a long way from home, during their time at the O.P.S.

Charles Henry Aloysius Dormer on 25^th November 2000

A second cousin of his namesake Charles, 15^th Lord Dormer (O.S. 1916-22, Governor of the O.S., died 1976), Charles Dormer emigrated to Canada in the 1920s. He worked for Canadian International Paper as an accountant until the 1970s. During the Second World War he served overseas as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army. After retirement he continued working as an accountant, doing income tax returns, until his 94^th year. He was a well-known and much-loved character of Hudson, Quebec Province.

Alexander Amir Karim on 29^th November 2000

Alex Karim was nearing the end of his first term at the O.S. in the First Form, when he was struck down by a brain haemorrhage.

John Dix on 24^th January 2001

John Dix was the younger brother of Lewis Michael Dix (O.S. 1922-28), who died some years ago. He came to the O.S. in September 1927 and left in September 1932, having gained a scholarship to the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.

Robert Feilden Haughton Jackson

Robert Jackson was at the O.S. from 1924 to 1928. He saw service during the Second World War in the Royal Army Service Corps. He ran a plant and flower business in London and, on retirement, settled in Dorset.

Anthony William Butler-Bowdon on 9^th February 2001

The Butler-Bowdons are an old Catholic recusant family, originating in Derbyshire and Lancashire; the Butler-Bowdon cope, now on display in the Victoria & Albert Museum as an outstanding example of English mediaeval needlework, was sold to the V & A in the 1930s, after having been preserved by the family since the Reformation. Anthony Butler-Bowdon joined the O.S. in 1926, following in the steps of his father William (O.S. 1896-97) and grandfather John (O.S. 1869- ). He was a member of the Lord’s XI in both 1931 and 1932, the year he left the School. He qualified as an architect and served as a Captain in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War. In the post-War years he emigrated to South Africa and then Australia, where he settled in Adelaide.

Fuller tributes to some of the above deceased Old Oratorians are published in the O.S. Magazine. Copies may be obtained, free of charge, from Margaret Stubbington, Old Oratorian Records Secretary, at the O.S.