ODs, as everyone knows, have a lot to say. If you're an author, that's expected. If you're a lawyer, well, talking forms a large part of "billable hours". So it was interesting and fun for ODs to come together at a drinks reception on Tuesday 5th October to hear how much and what an OD lawyer who became an author had to say. For this, we were at the glorious offices of Stonehage Fleming, one of the UK's (and international) foremost private wealth managers, who do so much to support the UK Branch. Our thanks as always go to Hamish Sinclair (S, 1992) who is a senior partner with Stonehage,
The occasion was to listen to Peter Elliott (W, 1967, right) speak about how he moved from writs to writing which is his true passion.He spoke about how, from his rather glorious home in the Languedoc, he is able to research, develop and eventually write — mainly history — books which, increasingly he publishes himself. History because he loves the connections which emerge from and merge into other stories.
His talk covered the journey from his first forays into authorship to now publishing fairly large scale and meticulously researched books on subjects always close to his heart. He took us through the process of writing and onto the tricky and challenging topic of publishing and printing. All while strictly sticking to his daily country walks to keep him and Maddie (his wife) sane.
His presentation can be seen HERE.
We are immensely grateful to Peter to making the trip across from France and for sharing what he has to say, as it were, so engagingly.
A guest list is reproduced at the end of this post so house and years are given there.
Lastly, apologies for the poor quality of the photos which were taken on a mobile phone!
Please click on them to enlarge
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| Peter Elliott, Garry Southern and David Jordan |
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| Peter and Maddie Elliott and Peter Robinson |
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| Mike Leach, Thomas Withington, Chris Leach and Michael Cockburn |
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| John Parker-Wood and Mikes Maskell with Caelim Parkes and Anton du Plessis in the background |
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| Tim Loughton, Caelim Parkes, Anton du Plessis and Hamish Sinclair |
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Back: Michael Cockburn, Chris and Mike Leach, Anton du Plessis, Caelim Parkes and Hamish Sinclair
Front: Bruce McGregor, Greg Baldwin, Margie Charnock, Menna McGregor, Mark Charnock and Marlene Parker-Wood |
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| John Campbell and Dominic Ward |
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| Miles Maskell and David Jordan |
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| Miles Maskell and Thomas Withington |
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| The Guests |
