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ANDREW POWER

25TH JUNE 1943 - 25TH MAY 2017
OBITUARIES OLD RATCLIFFIAN 1956 - 1960

Andrew was born in Coventry in 1943 to Barbara and Dr John Hale Power (32). He
came to Ratcliffe as a boarder in 1956, and he always spoke fondly of the School.
However, he much preferred to work on the land, where the brothers taught him
to drive the tractor, th an to be in the classroom!
Andrew spent his working life in the motor trade and ran a small car repair
workshop for 30 years. We were married in 1972 and have two children, Helen
and David, and two grandchildren, Jamie and Sam. Andrew sadly passed away in
hospital on 25th May 2017 from problems with his chest and lungs.
Laura Power
Wife

MICHEL DE DADELSEN

OLD RATCLIFFIAN 1964 - 1967

Michel de Dadelsen was a civil servant and linguist. He was born in
Paris to an Irish actress, Ann Heffernan, and a French avant-garde
poet and author, Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, who was also adviser
to Jean Monnet and his European Coal and Steel Community,
precursor to the European Common Market or EEC.
Michel’s parents split up when he was a child, and he and his
mother settled in London, so that she could pursue her acting
career. He was educated at the Lycée Français in London, Ratcliffe
College in Leicestershire, and at Queen’s University in Belfast.
Michel fi rst worked for the Prices and Incomes Commission as a
number cruncher, and after fi ve years, he moved to the Netherlands
to work for the EEC’s assistance programme for Africa in a similar
role, rising to become Deputy Head of Finance and Personnel. He He was also a volunteer and fundraiser for a number of charities,
left in 1998, remaining in the Netherlands for a year as a freelance was involved with several amateur dramatic societies, including
consultant before returning to the UK. In London, he spent almost the Carlton Theatre Group of Wimbledon, and sang in the Morley
15 years working for Precise Media Monitoring, responsible for College Choir in South East London.
translating French, Dutch and German news stories for clients
until he reached retirement age in 2014. Michel died at the age of 69, after suffering a bleed on the brain.
He is survived by two half-sisters from his father’s earlier marriage,
In his 20s and 30s, Michel had served as a reservist with the
British Army. A gentleman with old-fashioned good manners, Alice and Anne.
after retiring, he worked part-time as a language exam invigilator. Adapted from a Guardian Online article written by Ann Kutek

ANDREW NUTTER

RATCLIFFE BURSAR 2001 - 2006

Not everyone can claim to have fallen at the feet Bridge) was bestowed on him for his work
of actress and singer Olivia Newton-John or inspecting the bridges over the River Thames.
been given the Freedom of the City of London, This included an annual inspection and involved
but Andrew delighted in having both accolades! abseiling down the sides of the bridges to check
The fi rst happened when he was walking on the state of them underneath!
Hampstead Heath in London. Olivia Newton- Andrew was born in Holloway, North London,
John was walking her dog when it got loose moving to Harringay when he was two years
and ran away. Andrew rugby tackled it to catch old. He lived there for many years, becoming a
it and found himself on the fl oor, gazing up at qualifi ed chartered quantity surveyor working
the Australian fi lm star. It was a story he greatly for the City of London, and his eldest son, Toby,
enjoyed telling. The Freedom of the City of now lives there. Andrew went on to work for the
London (which, amongst other things, gave him Girls’ Day School Trust, the UK’s leading network
the right to drive sheep and cattle over London
of independent girls’ schools, in London. After

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