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OBITUARIES Olivier Paul Estadieu on 18th July, 2006 Olivier Estadieu entered FitzAlan House in January 1978, after schooling at the French Lycée and St Philip’s School, Wetherby Place, in London. His brother, Marc, followed him a year later. Olivier left the O.S. in July 1982. He then travelled widely. After leaving school, he suffered a great deal from ill-health. Anthony David Rae Critien on 6th January, 2007 Tony Critien, who joined Faber House in 1956, was one of the founding members of FitAlan House, when it was set up under Kit Lash in September 1957. His brothers, Michael (O.S. 1959-62) and Peter (O.S. 1962-65), followed him to the School. His sons, Godfrey (O.S. 1995-2000) and Alex (O.S. 1996- 2001), also came to the O.S. He went into the Army as a potential officer and gained a place at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the Queen’s Dragoon Guards in which he rose to the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. He served in Aden, Germany and Northern Ireland. He attended the Army Staff College and the Joint Service Staff College. He was also an instructor at the Zimbabwean Staff College and served with the Directorate of Military Operations. His final appointment before retirement in 1993 was at Fort Halstead, where he helped in the planning of the First Gulf War. On retirement he qualified as an accountant and became Finance Director of the South London Deanery, responsible for the training of GPs and consultants. Charley Falcon Sam Boyle on 7th January, 2007 Régis Marie Maurice Alexandre Missonier
Régis Missonnier came to the O.S. for the Summer Term of 1972 from the
school of St Jean de Passy in Paris. George André Robertson on 22nd February, 2007 George Robertson was born in the French Basque country. He was educated at Ampleforth, where he excelled at cricket and was Captain of the 1st XI in his final year. He went up to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read French and Spanish. At Cambridge he played for the University’s cricket side and there he became one of the select group of bowlers to take a wicket with their first ball in first-class cricket. He embarked on a career as a preparatory school master, firstly at Ladycross, Seaford, where he met and married his wife, Joan. Then he taught at St Edmund’s, Hindhead, and at All Hallows, Somerset. In 1967 he was appointed Head Master of St Martin’s School, Nawton, North Yorkshire. He became Head Master of the Oratory Preparatory School in September 1977. He retired on health grounds in January 1981. His last stint as a Head Master was at an English school in the Algarve, Portugal He joined the staff of the O.S. to teach French in 1986 and ill-health again forced retirement on him in 1991. His lasting legacy to the O.S. was to foster the sport of golf. He was instrumental in encouraging the authorities to lay out the golf course in the grounds at Woodcote. He had a life-long love of golf and had pent several years as a golf club secretary, most notably at an R.A.F. base in Germany. Richard Lumsden Bellasis on 1st March 2007 Richard Bellasis was the great grandson of Serjeant Edward Bellasis, a prominent member of the group of convert Catholic laymen, who approached John Henry Newman in 1858, to found a lay school for their sons. Richard Bellasis’s great-uncle, Richard Garnett Bellasis, was one of the first boys to join the School, when it first opened in May 1859. Richard Lumsden Bellasis was born in Rhodesia in 1915. His preparatory schooling was in Cape Town and he came to the O.S. at Caversham Park in April 1929, ahead of Father Edward Pereira’s final two terms as Head Master. He soon showed promise at rugby and cricket and played in the 1st XV for two years. He was also in the Lord’s XIs in 1933 and 1934. He left the O.S. in July 1934. He returned to Southern Africa, where he worked as an accountant and later, in Rhodesia, in gold mining. He became a self-employed race-horse trainer. His generation at Caversham is notable for the enduring friendships that they made while in the School. One of those friends, Count Jan Lewenhaupt (O.S. 1929-34), invited Richard to join him in his sports world activities in California. Ambrose Barry (O.S. 1929-33) was already settled there and they were soon to be joined by Rowland Egerton (O.S. 1930-34) and John Sykes (O.S. 1928-34), to create an Old Oratorian enclave on the West Coast of the United States. Richard continued his race-horse training in California. 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 Ian McLean, Old Oratorian Records
Secretary, at the O.S.
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