Class Notes:
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Merchant Taylors’ School
Jeremy
William
Buckland
Warren
11thJuly 1982 –
1stAugust 2012
Jeremy was educated at Taylors’
from 1995, when he was just 13,
until 2000, when he went up to
Nottingham University. At both
St Martins, his prep school, and at
Taylors, he participated in the wide
variety of sporting and musical
activities available. He also enjoyed
his involvement in the Duke of
Edinburgh’sAward scheme and still
found some time to work on the
academic subjects he chose. It is
difficult to know the extent to which
an individual’s character is formed by
nurture or by nature, but there seems
little doubt that school environments
affect a person’s development and
what he becomes.
At his funeral, his fiancée – they were
planning their future together before he
became ill – said “What I loved the most
about Jeremy was how relaxed, genuine
and authentic he was – not just withme
but with everybody he knew. Jeremy was
an exceptionally intuitive person, who was
completely honest and true to himself.
He could not engage in hypocritical
relationships. He was instantly likeable
with the power to make you feel good about
yourself and warm about yourself in the
most difficult of times. Various friends have
described him additionally as thoughtful,
caring, loyal and always positive.”
After graduating fromNottingham
University, he took an MSc course in
Business Studies at the University and then
remained in Nottingham for a couple of
years working in internet advertising and
marketing. He then moved to London, to
a job in the same field. He was very adept
at keeping at the cutting edge in the fast
moving and fast growing world of internet
marketing, and at Publicis, where he worked
for two years up to his death, he provided
valued input on the internet elements
John R S Blake
(1956-1961) died in August
2013 aged 70. He lived in
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Denis J. McCulloch
(1932-
1936) died 17/02/2013 aged 94.
IanMiller
(1945-1949) died in
April 2013 aged 80. He lived in
Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
to teams of people working on major
marketing campaigns for leading brands.
Sadly, his career was cut short by the
diagnosis in November 2010 of a primary
brain tumour. The biopsy following its
excision showed it was of a type with a very
poor prognosis.
It was during the 20 month period after
the diagnosis but prior to his death that his
positivity shone through. The treatment
was at times aggressive and debilitating,
but despite this he worked when he could
and lived as normally as possible. He kept
in close contact with his many friends,
minimising the seriousness of his condition
and behaving as if things were relatively
normal. During this time he watched his
lifelong friend TimMorris pass away with
an even more aggressive cancer than
his own. They went through St Martin’s,
Taylors’ and NottinghamUniversity
together, as well as enduring many matches
at Vicarage Road over the years.
Jeremy had the charm and self-assurance
of very many boys of his background,
as well as enormous inner strength and
resilience. He enriched the lives of his
friends, family and colleagues. His time at
Taylors’ undoubtedly contributed to these
qualities, which enabled him cheerfully
and positively, to carry during the last 18
months of his life, the heavy cross that he
had to bear.
TimothyWarren
Charles E. Norland
(1933-1937) died 31/12/2012 aged 93.
He lived in Chichester, West Sussex.
Kenneth E. Munn
(1933-1939) died 20/06/2013 aged 92. He left
Merchant Taylors’ in 1939 and went straight to Pembroke College,
Cambridge to read Natural Sciences. His time there was interrupted
by war service in the Army Operational Group. He returned to
Pembroke after the war and was then a schoolmaster at Haileybury
College from 1947 to 1983 when he and his wife retired to the
Cotswolds. Mr Munn’s son Richard writes: ‘My father hadmany
happymemories of MTS, especially the scouts and the rugby. He
went on to play rugby for the OMTs for many years and recounted
stories of their tours to theWest Country.’
