Obituaries

impressive debut against Singapore Police on the School's 1986 tour to the Far East).
However, Jamie's sporting love was golf, and having been junior captain at Moor Park,
Jamie soon progressed to being Hertfordshire Junior Captain. He also led the School
through to the finals of the Schools Golf Foundation Tournament for the first time in 1985. He
also took an active role in many other aspects of school life. In addition to being a talented
artist Jamie was House Captain of Meadows, a School Prefect, C.S.M. of the Army C.C.F.
Section and co-editor of the school magazine, Skylark.
Somehow in the middle of all this Jamie found the time to gain straight 'A's in the sciences
and to gain a scholarship to Cambridge University. Most important of all to Jamie however,
were the great friendships he forged in seven happy years at Haberdashers' - a point
emphasised by the large number of contemporaries present at Jamie's funeral.
Jamie went up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1986 and immediately took the new
challenges of student life into his stride - making friends with everyone he met and having
sufficient energy and enthusiasm to combine a hectic social life with successful academic
and sporting careers. Again golf was the focus of Jamie's efforts. He won his first blue as a
freshman in 1987, and went on to win a total of three blues - the second and third as
Secretary and Captain of the Society. Cambridge beat Oxford in each of those three years,
and Jamie himself won all six of his individual games. His crowning glory was undoubtedly to
lead Cambridge to a surprise 11 1/2 - 3 1/2 win in the 100th Varsity Match at Rye in 1989 -
with the whole team dressed in Jamie's favourite tartan Plus-Twos!
Despite the pressures of playing golf three days a week, Jamie was a keen student and
graduated with a First in Natural Sciences in 1989. On top of all this Jamie was also
President, and an extremely active member of the Kittens, the prestigious College Sporting
Club.
After a brief period as a graduate trainee with Proctor and Gamble, Jamie decided to
broaden his horizons and spent a happy summer in France working in Cognac, before being
selected for an Operation Raleigh expedition to participate in conservation and community
projects in Zimbabwe. The trip was to change Jamie's life - he not only discovered a way of
life that was to provide the perfect outlet for his talents, but he was also to meet his future
wife, Mary on the expedition!
On his return to England, Jamie however first spent 18 successful months in management
consultancy before he realised that he wanted to work for something he believed in, and in
which his tireless energy would do some good. Consequently, Jamie approached Operation
Raleigh and, despite having been diagnosed with cancer, was appointed commercial
manager in 1992. He was soon promoted to Commercial Director with responsibility for
securing funds and expedition recruits from large commercial companies such as British Rail
and Guinness.