Distinguished Old Framlinghamians

He became Editor of the Blue Guides and was a freelance writer of travel books, of which his one on Greece was particularly well received and led to his being elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1975 he became Editor of the London Philatelist and in 1977, President of the Society of Postal Historians and for a while he was Editor of its journal Postscript. He died at the young age of 59 in 1982 and both he and his mother, left all their estate to the Stuart Rossiter Trust, which is a lasting memorial to him. He was also involved in the production of the 1968 Register.

Has written and published a book titled “Somehow They Knew: A True Love-Story”, set in WW2 and mentions a couple of times General Sir Pat Howard-Dobson. In 1994 published a book on the experiences of his father in the Great War, titled “We Who Knew”.

He has written a number of books and his most recent includes reflections on his time at the College. After agricultural college and army service he returned to work for MAFF, OEEC and UNESCO.

After leaving the College, he returned to Singapore, where at the age of 20 he and his brother Lewis Ronald “Ron” Peek (R34-38), were taken prisoner in the fall of Singapore in 1942. They were sent to work on the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway. In 2005 he published a book entitled “One Fourteenth of an Elephant – A memoir of life and death on the Burma-Thailand Railway”. After the war he returned to the Far East where he worked as a harbour master, before moving to Australia in the 1960s.

He was a member of Reuters before the war and joined the South China Sunday Post in Hong Kong in 1945 and was editor for 17 years until 1967. He lost his job when he allegedly failed to exercise proper discretion in printing a headline during the 1967 confrontation. He served with the Hong Kong volunteers during WW2 and was shot and captured by the Japanese and served 3 months as POW in Hong Kong, before being shipped to Japan where he was a POW for 3 years. He died in Christmas 1974.

Wrote about jazz music for longer than anyone else and met all the great names in jazz like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie. Won a Grammy award in 1963.

Journalist and author who was a special correspondent at the Nuremburg trials in 1946. He has written 5 books – see Book Section for details.

Briefly worked at Barclays Bank, Ipswich before marrying Lady Eileen Wellesley, daughter of 4th Duke of Wellington. Had exhibition of his paintings at Alpine Club Gallery in 1925, showing portraits of Lord Oxford and Asquith, Lady Eileen Orde, Lady Cynthia Asquith and others, including a self-portrait. A bronze head of him by Cecil de B Howard was also exhibited. He rose to Captain during WW1 in Royal Army Services Corps.

She was Maria Kellett while at Framlingham, but then married Perry Trevers (G76-81). She is a talented production assistant/script supervisor, who has been freelance for the last five years and who has worked across a variety of shows. Prior to that she s

Was a prolific and highly-regarded water-colourist, printmaker and illustrator. He became a painter in the traditional school of English watercolour as well as an engraver, lithographer and etcher. His most prolific period was between 1907 and 1927.

Born in 1856, he was a professional vocalist; one of the Meister Glee Singers. Sir Henry Wood (of Proms fame) wrote of the Meister Glee Singers in his book “My Life of Music (1938)” that “up to this time (1899) no vocal quartet had achieved anything approaching their success, probably because they rehearsed for a whole year before making an appearance in public •. it was not that their voices were so good, but that their diction and ensemble were perfect.”