OC OBITUARIES


Suzan Fothergill Bond (née Bayne, Class of 1957) Suzan was born in 1939 and attended Mayfield. Despite her slight disobedient streak, most obviously manifested in her fondness for knitting in the back of the Maths class, she had happy memories of her days at Mayfield. Throughout her life, Su was sustained by her incredibly strong faith, the seeds of which were planted during those early years at Mayfield. She passed away peacefully on 5th September 2016. A loving wife to Erik, devoted mother to Douglas, Hugh, Antonia and Thomas, affectionate sister to Clive and beloved grandmother of nine. Su will be missed by all those who knew and loved her.


Vivien Bostock (née Heslop, Class of 1960) Vivien arrived as a pupil at Mayfield from school in India. The contrast was not one she remembered fondly but whilst hockey in the more temperate climes were not to her taste, her interest and talent in music, as a singer and pianist were fostered and friendships for life were forged. Mayfield alumnae were disproportionately represented as bridesmaids at her marriage to Hugh Bostock in 1964 and as godmothers to her two sons. Vivien qualified as a physiotherapist after Mayfield, a qualification she practised both in Scotland and Ireland. Vivien began married life in North Wales before moving to Ireland for eight years. Six years away in England and Scotland followed before she returned to County Wicklow.


Twenty years working in the geriatric hospital in Rathdrum was complemented by 25 years of creating a remarkable garden at Ballard Park. Opening Ballard in the Irish National Gardens scheme helped raise money for a local church and decades of involvement the with the Alpha course and local churches meant Ballard was often a retreat for clergy seeking rest and respite. Gardening at home and 'gardening' for God in service to clergy and church communities was a shared project with Hugh until his death in 2002 and thereafter projects she continued herself until she was incapacitated by an unsuccessful operation to remove a brain tumour in 2014.


Although unable to speak or move for her final two years, her faith remained unwavering and her charisma continued to win her friends to the end. Her two years in a nursing home was cheered by regular visits from friends and family and in particular from her five grandchildren. She died on 18 June 2016.


Shirley Carrigan (née Beuttell, Class of 1935) Died: 27 September 2016 Shirley was born on 31 December 1919. She and her two siblings were brought up in Kent. She attended Mayfield with her sister, Cicely (1933.) Cicely sadly passed away on 22 July 2011 aged 93. She became great friends with Louise Carrigan (1935 - died in 2006 aged 88) in Mayfield and used to travel to Ireland on school holidays where she met her future husband John, Louise’s brother. They were together for 68 years. After she married in 1941, she went to live in County Tipperary in rural Ireland. She adjusted to her new life and when asked if she found it difficult there she always said ‘No, it was easy because I was with the man I loved’. She joined many charitable organisations and was one of the founders of The Talking Books for the Blind. She loved gardening and taught flower arranging. She travelled extensively throughout the world with John


on law conferences and through her travels met many wonderful people who remained everlasting friends. She was an amazing mother and grandmother, thoughtful and kind to her friends and an adored wife. She is survived by her three children, Richard, Michael and Janet (Killiney, 1966) and her three grandchildren.


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Jane Hutton (née Atkinson, Class of 1968) Our mother, Jane Atkinson, who has died of leukaemia aged 66, was a visionary mental health, housing and social justice campaigner. Whatever she did, whether regenerating derelict housing, starting an anti-street violence charity, rejuvenating a mental health trust, working as a local councillor, sitting on prison boards or studying at Cambridge as a mature student, Jane’s mission was: do more.


Born in Beckenham, south London, to Molly and William Atkinson, a neurosurgeon, she had a convent and state school education, going on to study classics at Bristol University, where she met our father, Will Hutton. They married in 1978. On graduating she joined Notting Hill Housing Trust, where she found her first vocation – safe and affordable inner-city housing. In 1986 she went on to co-found First Premise, an architecture company dedicated to regenerating some of London’s most rundown areas, creating community projects and live/work studios.


Her experiences led her to become a passionate advocate of good mental health, with an emphasis on the role housing can play. Inspired by her time on the board of Pentonville prison in the early 2000s, she successfully applied to read criminology at Cambridge University as a mature student, later becoming a non-executive director of Penrose Housing Association, which supports ex-offenders and people with mental illness.


With this under her belt, along with her work as a Labour councillor for Haringey, she was appointed the chair of the then North East London Mental Health Trust in 2004, and was pivotal in turning it from a failing organisation into the now thriving and solvent North East London NHS Foundation Trust, with a £330m turnover. In tribute, the trust’s next building is due to be named after her.


Inspired partly by one daughter joining the Metropolitan Police, and partly by a fatal stabbing on a bus while passengers looked on helplessly, in 2007 she founded the charity Dfuse , to equip ordinary citizens with the skills to defuse public aggression. Just under 10 years later, it has trained many thousands, working with companies and charities alike.


Jane’s work ethic was matched by her boundless sense of fun and enthusiasm for cycling, skiing and walking her way around the world – with a glass or two of New Zealand Sauvignon along the way.


She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in December 2013. Her funeral, described in the Guardian by Jackie Ashley, was packed to the rafters with friends and family from all aspects of her life.


The Old Cornelian SUMMER 2017


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