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Port Dover Lift Bridge operator for 25
and married Basil Preese during the
years, and his retirement on Prospect
late ‘70s. Although she never attended
Street. Ken’s life was celebrated on
Framlingham herself, the ties she had
Saturday March 5, 2022. His family
to the College through her father,
expressed their gratitude to his team of
brother and her son were those of a
carers for their compassion and kindness
true matriarch. She became friends
which allowed Ken to ful昀椀l his wish to
with members of sta昀昀, and she played
remain at home. They also thanked the
host to boys from the school on many an
many others who had supported him,
occasion, particularly to overseas students
particularly over the four previous years.
when they were unable to return home
during Exeats and on other short breaks
PATRICIA JANE PREECE (nee Hyde) - (or
and would otherwise have been stuck at
Jane as she preferred to be called), was
the College. They included Brian’s friend,
not an Old Framlinghamian, but she had
Raymond Wang, who started her o昀昀 on
enough connections with the College
learning Cantonese cuisine.
to merit inclusion in this section. Her
younger brother, Geo昀昀rey Llewellyn Hyde
Jane died around 10 am, on Friday
attended the College in the 1950s, and her
February 24, 2023, with her children
father, Air Commodore NC Hyde, was on
present, at Ipswich Hospital.
the Board of Governors.
WILLIAM FREDERICK GORDON SHAW
Jane was born in 1937, to RAF parents
(K67-72), son of Colonel George William
serving in Cairo, Egypt. She grew up at
Shaw, passed peacefully away on 26
Bred昀椀eld House, where she lived with
April 2023, aged 69. William (Bill) was a
her mother during the war, following
former Crown servant (1972 to 1984) and
her father’s unfortunate capture during
Local Authority O昀케cer (1985 to 2010). He
a bombing run over Germany. Upon
played rugby for Esher/Fylde and Sidcup
leaving 昀椀nishing school, along with other
and was Hon. Secretary of Sidcup Rugby
debutantes, she was presented to HRH
Club, 1985 to 1987.
Queen Elizabeth II at a Buckingham
Palace Garden party for their ‘coming out’
His wife, Suzanne, has some photos of
in the late ‘50s, and then married a young
him in cricket and rugby teams where,
o昀케cer under her father’s command, with
helpfully, he had also noted the names of
whom she had three children. Her son,
his teammates. He was in Kerrison House,
Brian Johnson, the eldest, attended the
and the photos are dated 1969 and 1970.
College between 1975 and 1978.
Bill was born in Devizes, Wiltshire in 1953
to parents, George and Sybil Shaw.
Following the break-up of her 昀椀rst
Sybil was a trained physiotherapist and
marriage in the late ‘60s, Jane turned
George was an o昀케cer in the army. This
her attentions to being a single mother
meant that he was posted at various
and raising her three children. She met
locations around the world and Bill
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