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St Vincent’s Society –
North Cornwall Tasting
Philip Blanchard (A 1977 – 1982)
The Annual North Cornwall tasting took
place at the Mote Restaurant in Port Isaac
on 18 August 2009. The Chairman of the St
Vincent’s Society was joined by the Treasurer
of the Martyrs, Simon Smith (C 1977 – 1982),
and Paul Bishop (G 1978 – 1983), proprietor
of the Mote Restaurant, along with their
wives and local dignitaries. A range of local
Cornish wines were tasted. Perhaps aided by
global warming, Cornish wines are growing
rapidly in quality and reputation. The whites
went extremely well with the lobster!
Martyrs Golf AutumnMeeting.
Walton Heath GC
Thursday 15 October 2009 –
David Wethey (E 1957 – 1962)
A beautiful autumn day at Walton attracted
just less than 20 Martyrs. We suffered
the usual last-minute attrition (mostly
for unimpeachable reasons), and I must
be just one of hundreds of golf society
organisers who finds it hard going these days.
Nonetheless those that came had a great time
– and some good golf was played.
The morning singles for the Latham
Bowl (happily restored to life) was won
by debutant Jonny Lawes (K 1984 – 1989)
with the excellent score of 41 points off 10.
Rodney Haig (A 1959 – 1964) accumulated 33
scratch points to win the scratch – and is now
the proud possessor of the Wethey Salver.
Patrick Webb (G 1957 – 1962) won the hotly
contested A Division with 39 points from
Charles Cooper (G 1961 – 1966) 38, and Chris
Stevenson (A 1952 – 1957) the B Division with
37, from Mike Estcourt (F 1956 – 1961) (35).
The foursomes scoring was also outstanding.
Webb and Cooper narrowly edged father-
daughter combo Rodney and Boo Haig (M
2003 – 2005) with 39 points to 38.
For those readers who play golf, but have
not signed up for a Martyrs Meeting, just
imagine playing two championship courses
in perfect condition, tucking away a bacon
roll, a slap up lunch, the biggest tea in Surrey,
and most importantly meeting civilised OSE
of several generations. Ask Jonny Lawes -
this youthful 38-year-old had never been
before, but will definitely be back! All you
have to do is contact me and I’ll send you the
programme of events and a warm invitation
to attend all or any of them.
Martyrs Rugby –
Dubai December 2009
James Cherry (F 1998 – 2003)
In December a group of rugby players
calling ourselves the ‘Hollywood Sevens’
(an invitational rugby side run by myself
and Will with a strong Teddies bias) returned
from Dubai where we had been playing in
a rugby sevens tournament. I’m pleased
to report that we won the tournament
(International Social), convincingly in
front of 50,000 people on the main pitch.
To quote a sports writer at the event, “The
Hollywood Sevens beat Wyvern Quins in
the final of the International Social. They are
mostly schoolmates from the UK and really
impressed me with their Sevens nous and gas.
They are loving their time on the big boys’
pitch, that’s for sure.”
The Teddies boys were not only the
backbone but also without a doubt the stars
of our team, scoring 5 of the 6 tries in the
final. We were all seriously pleased and I
think this is yet another good example of the
fine pedigree of young man that the School
continues to produce!
The Hollywood Sevens will be back out in
Dubai this year to defend the title! We already
have some silverware from this season.
The report from the Menorca rugby sevens
will be appearing in the next magazine.
St Edward’s Martyrs
If any other OSE are keen to play sevens
rugby there are lots of tournaments this
summer and we’d love to have them.
Please get in touch with James Cherry
at or call
07723300495.
St Vincent’s, Cornwall
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James Kerr in action in Dubai
Martyrs Rugby, Dubai: Back row: Gabs Lowe (A 2002 – 2007), Alex O’Rourke, Tom Evans, Tristan Corpe (B
2002 – 2007), Sam Wowke, Sam Bellhouse (F 2002 – 2007), Alex Borthwick (F 1997 – 2002); Front row: Will
Myers (F 1998 – 2003), Mark Owens, James Cherry (F 1998 – 2003), Will Hayes, and James Kerr (F 1998 – 2003).