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The Old Ratclifan 2013 | Introductionhe Old Ratclifan 2013 | Obituaries
Fred Rushmore
Old Ratcliffian 1968-73
August 5th 1955-January 27th 2013
My brother, Frederick Anthony Rushmore died, aged
fifty-seven, in Kent. He was in born on August 5th 1955
in Croydon, the third of what became a family of seven
children. The family moved to Northamptonshire in 1958,
where Fred spent the rest of his childhood.
Fred went to Grace Dieu in 1965 and then to Ratcliffe in
1968. After taking a gap year in 1973-74 and travelling
extensively (including a tour of Europe with Old Ratcliffian
Mike Calnan (73)), Fred went to Reading University to
study Law. Fred’s career was in the financial world, starting
with stockbrokers Grenfell and Colegrave and then Laing
and Cruickshank, where he was made Director in 1988.
The 1990s recession led to Fred being made redundant
in 1991, but he made good use of his free time, learning had started to become apparent the year before. Fred
German and teaching himself how to get the best out of his met his terminal illness with his characteristic tolerance,
computer. He returned to the financial world the following enthusiasm for life and good humour. After diagnosis, Fred
year and worked in London and Tunbridge Wells until crammed in an amazing amount of travel (mainly to South
2004. Africa and France) and special time with his close family
and friends; he even took up golf. He and Gillian also
Whilst at Ratcliffe, Fred developed his four great passions bought a house in Provence, France, to which they made
in life: photography, playing the guitar, listening to many happy trips.
loud rock music (especially the Rolling Stones and Jimi Fred’s difficulties gradually became more marked until,
Hendrix), and drinking beer! No doubt this will ring a bell in the autumn of 2011, he was no longer able to enjoy
with Fred’s school friends, who will also have seen Fred’s as many of his activities. At times, he became frustrated
great sense of humour, which he kept throughout his life.
when he couldn’t find the right word and make himself
Fred met his wife, Gillian, at university and they married in understood, but his courage, determination and his kind
1980. They lived in Kent and travelled extensively, visiting and gentle nature helped him to cope with his appalling
Kenya, India, Nepal, China and Hong Kong, as well as illness and the havoc that it wrought upon his final years.
countries around the Mediterranean. They did not have any
children, but Fred was a loving uncle to his many nephews Fred died with his wife, brothers and sisters around him on
and nieces. January 27th 2013.
Katey Garety
In 2005, Fred was diagnosed with Pick’s Disease, a rare Sister
neurodegenerative brain condition, although his decline
Julien Porisse
Old Ratcliffian 1942-45
May 20th 1927-August 10th 2013
My father, Julien ‘Jules’ Porisse, died artist was a certain way. He had
peacefully on August 10th 2013 of met Pablo Picasso in Montmartre
heart failure, at the age of eighty-six. in 1966, Maurice Utrillo (the son of
Suzanne Valadon and his rival of the
Many of my generation (from the ‘70s
and ‘80s) will have, most probably, day), and Bernard Buffet, who was a
faced the passing of their parents, and year younger than him and painted
the changes it brings to one’s own like him. My father was an artist - a
reason for existing. painter - and he sold thousands of
paintings over a career that spanned
My father was a larger-than-life some fifty years. He was a great Art
character. He was loud-mouthed teacher and he taught me how to
and spoke his mind, but I know that, paint. My Art teacher at Ratcliffe,
underneath his exterior shell, there John Satterthwaite, was another great
was a timid person. On questions influence on my art in my early years;
about art, he was a dictionary, and they both had a similar trait, ‘no
was very hard to convince that an rubbish’, and you had to have good
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The Old Ratclifan 2013 | Introductionhe Old Ratclifan 2013 | Obituaries
Fred Rushmore
Old Ratcliffian 1968-73
August 5th 1955-January 27th 2013
My brother, Frederick Anthony Rushmore died, aged
fifty-seven, in Kent. He was in born on August 5th 1955
in Croydon, the third of what became a family of seven
children. The family moved to Northamptonshire in 1958,
where Fred spent the rest of his childhood.
Fred went to Grace Dieu in 1965 and then to Ratcliffe in
1968. After taking a gap year in 1973-74 and travelling
extensively (including a tour of Europe with Old Ratcliffian
Mike Calnan (73)), Fred went to Reading University to
study Law. Fred’s career was in the financial world, starting
with stockbrokers Grenfell and Colegrave and then Laing
and Cruickshank, where he was made Director in 1988.
The 1990s recession led to Fred being made redundant
in 1991, but he made good use of his free time, learning had started to become apparent the year before. Fred
German and teaching himself how to get the best out of his met his terminal illness with his characteristic tolerance,
computer. He returned to the financial world the following enthusiasm for life and good humour. After diagnosis, Fred
year and worked in London and Tunbridge Wells until crammed in an amazing amount of travel (mainly to South
2004. Africa and France) and special time with his close family
and friends; he even took up golf. He and Gillian also
Whilst at Ratcliffe, Fred developed his four great passions bought a house in Provence, France, to which they made
in life: photography, playing the guitar, listening to many happy trips.
loud rock music (especially the Rolling Stones and Jimi Fred’s difficulties gradually became more marked until,
Hendrix), and drinking beer! No doubt this will ring a bell in the autumn of 2011, he was no longer able to enjoy
with Fred’s school friends, who will also have seen Fred’s as many of his activities. At times, he became frustrated
great sense of humour, which he kept throughout his life.
when he couldn’t find the right word and make himself
Fred met his wife, Gillian, at university and they married in understood, but his courage, determination and his kind
1980. They lived in Kent and travelled extensively, visiting and gentle nature helped him to cope with his appalling
Kenya, India, Nepal, China and Hong Kong, as well as illness and the havoc that it wrought upon his final years.
countries around the Mediterranean. They did not have any
children, but Fred was a loving uncle to his many nephews Fred died with his wife, brothers and sisters around him on
and nieces. January 27th 2013.
Katey Garety
In 2005, Fred was diagnosed with Pick’s Disease, a rare Sister
neurodegenerative brain condition, although his decline
Julien Porisse
Old Ratcliffian 1942-45
May 20th 1927-August 10th 2013
My father, Julien ‘Jules’ Porisse, died artist was a certain way. He had
peacefully on August 10th 2013 of met Pablo Picasso in Montmartre
heart failure, at the age of eighty-six. in 1966, Maurice Utrillo (the son of
Suzanne Valadon and his rival of the
Many of my generation (from the ‘70s
and ‘80s) will have, most probably, day), and Bernard Buffet, who was a
faced the passing of their parents, and year younger than him and painted
the changes it brings to one’s own like him. My father was an artist - a
reason for existing. painter - and he sold thousands of
paintings over a career that spanned
My father was a larger-than-life some fifty years. He was a great Art
character. He was loud-mouthed teacher and he taught me how to
and spoke his mind, but I know that, paint. My Art teacher at Ratcliffe,
underneath his exterior shell, there John Satterthwaite, was another great
was a timid person. On questions influence on my art in my early years;
about art, he was a dictionary, and they both had a similar trait, ‘no
was very hard to convince that an rubbish’, and you had to have good
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