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Earlier he was captain of the Hockey Club, and Broxbourne once remained
undefeated for over 12 months. On a lighter note, he horrified his skipper by turning
up for a Broxbourne 2nd XI Cricket match in full morning dress. A wedding at 11 am
had allowed him to attend the ceremony as well as to obtain access to the champagne.
Demoted from 3 to 5 in the batting order he hit 124 in just over an hour and confessed
later that he remembered little of the innings.
Teetotal into his early twenties, Colin developed a taste for wine, but even in those
early years showed promised by winning a Sunday Times tasting competition. His ability
to taste AND remember was a godsend when the bottom fell out of the Lea Valley
Horticultural market and he was able to turn his hobby into a career.
JOHN ADOLF ARENHOLD (Diocesan College, Rondebosch, and University of Cape
Town) died on 30 September 2017 aged 86. He came to Univ as a Rhodes Scholar and
read Law, just as his father Adv. A.L. Arenhold, a SACS Rhodes Scholar (1920), had
done. His widow Marian has kindly provided this obituary:
Having lost his father to a heart attack at just 9 years of age, John and his younger
brother were brought up by their mother. He excelled at Diocesan College (Bishops): he
was Head of House, and was awarded 1st Team colours for cricket, rugby and shooting.
He represented Western Province at Nuffield Cricket Week in 1950, and was Guard
Commander at the Retreat Ceremony as part of the Bishops Centenary in 1949.
A Jagger Scholarship afforded him the opportunity to study for a BA at UCT.
Subsequently he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford. There he occupied the
same rooms as his father, and was never to be found too far from a sports field. He
captained the Greyhounds Rugby XV and opened the bowling for the University’s cricket
team, being awarded his cricket Blue in 1954. He was also a member of Vincent’s Club,
Authentics, Free Foresters and Greyhounds, and completed his MA in Jurisprudence.
After his few happy years at Oxford, some of his most cherished, John was seconded
to the Shell Corporation to Ceylon, now Sri
Lanka, for three years. There again, he took
up bat and ball and represented Ceylon at both
rugby and cricket, as fly-half and opening bowler
respectively. He was the only South African to
represent Ceylon at sport.
From Ceylon he returned to South Africa and
had a season opening the bowling for Free State
in the Currie Cup before retiring from first class
cricket and moving to Johannesburg. Choosing
not to practice law, he entered the corporate world
where he worked in marketing, serving as Fellow
and President of the Institute of Marketing
Management 1970-2.
In 1979, after 17 years in Johannesburg,
John returned to his beloved family home at
Muizenberg in Cape Town. Living in the Cape
provided him the opportunity to play cricket
for Western Province Cricket Club. He latterly
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