OAs Overseas
BRIAN MCKEEVER PHILLIPS - Meynell 1960
I have retired to Phuket, hailand - living the dream -
playing golf, surfing or snorkelling every day.
SIMON PILLAR - Tuckwell 1978
Simon Pillar and his wife had a baby boy, Jonathan, in May
2012 who joins his siblings Amelia (7), William (5), Lucy
(3) and Freddy (who died in 2011). hey are enjoying their
life in Sydney where Simon is a principal in a private equity
firm which he founded with his partners in 1998. If any
OAs are passing through Sydney, please do get in touch!
NIGEL THOMAS - Woodard 1971
I was one of the first boys to read Spanish at King's in the
early 1970s.
I am currently head of Religious Studies at King's College
in Madrid, as well as being the assistant chaplain at St
George's Anglican Church, Madrid, where I was ordained
priest on 30 June 2012.
PATRICK BUCKLER - Meynell 1950
I have just returned from Tasmania, after a five week stay
looking after a working farm while the farmers were away
on a well deserved holiday. I spend a deal of time doing
volunteer work in the Cancer area; ever since Phyl, my
wife, died some years ago of the illness, I realised how
many people need assistance in this area so I help out
when I can. However I still have time for golf, bushwalking,
theatre etc and now and then I will look after farms while
they holiday. Doubt I will ever come to the UK again but
often fondly remember King's, the school opened so
many doors which led to a successful business life and a
manageable retirement.
SIMON WALKER - Meynell 1987
Emigrated to the USA
in 1999, married to Julie
and currently the Dean of
Students at Fountain Valley
School of Colorado.
GEOFFREY LANGLANDS - Bishop Fox 1936
After leaving King's College Geoffrey Langlands went straight into teaching at a school in Croydon. 76 years later, he is only
just about to retire! Posted to India towards the end of the Second World War, when the partitioning of India and Pakistan
occurred he volunteered to stay on to help train the new Pakistani army. After seven years, the commander-in-chief of the
army suggested that Langlands' educational expertise might be useful to the civilian populace. In 1954 he began teaching at
Aitchison College where he stayed for 25 years, counting a number of princes, governors and many of today's ruling generals
amongst his pupils, and including the cricketer Imran Khan.
From Aitchison, he moved to help found Raznak Cadet College, in the lawless tribal area of North Waziristan which these
days is a haven for Al-Queda and the Taliban. From here he was kidnapped by local tribesmen disputing the result of a
local election in 1988, a situation which was resolved peacefully after the intervention of local elders. It was shortly after
this that Langlands moved to his present post as Headmaster of Langlands School and College in Chitral in the Hindu Kush
mountains. It is Chitral's finest school, with 900 pupils aged between four and eighteen (over a third of them girls) and many
of its brightest pupils are enabled to continue on in education with scholarships and exchange programmes.
After 73 years in teaching, Major Langlands (who was awarded the Companion of Saint Michael and George in the birthday
honours list in 2010 for his long service to education) will finally retire this year to a set of rooms in Aitchison College in
Lahore.