Old Elizabethans' News
03.04.2025
Alumni | Debating & public speaking
Old Elizabethans’ triumphant return to Dinner Debate
It is just two years since Sudhamshu Gummadavelly and Ashwin Sridhar won the Elizabethan Union Dinner Debate as sixth-formers in the School’s 450th anniversary year. Now the young alumni, who...
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25.03.2025
John Paine (OE 1946-1953)
The Association has only recently learned of the passing of John Paine, on June 29th last year, in Lexington, Massachusetts at the age of 89. Joining Queen Elizabeth’s in 1946,...
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04.03.2025
Dr Peter Gugenheim MB BS MRCS LRCP (OE 1949-1956)
The Association is saddened to hear of the recent passing of Doctor Peter Gugenheim. Peter enjoyed an illustrious medical career, retiring as a GP in Edgware. At school he was...
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04.03.2025
Anthony Anderson (OE 1957-1964)
The Association has recently learnt of the passing of Tony Anderson, founder of Navwar, on May 12th 2024 at the age of 78. Tony spent over 55 years building his...
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13.02.2025
Fine vintage: Year 13 continues QE’s sparkling Oxbridge run, winning 49 offers
Queen Elizabeth’s School pupils have secured 49 offers from Oxford and Cambridge this year – a figure only surpassed by last year’s all-time record. This year’s tally, comprising 34 offers...
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27.01.2025
Record year for university mock interviews, as QE helps Elizabethans find their path
A record 90 old boys and other friends of the School this year conducted more than 150 individual university mock interviews for pupils as part of the QE Futures programme....
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20.12.2024
Robert Pate (OE 1953-1956)
The Association was saddened to receive the news recently of the passing of Robert Pate on September 7th this year after a long battle against serious illness. He attended the...
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20.12.2024
Philip Pink (OE 1945-1951)
The Association was saddened to receive the news recently of the passing of Philip Pink on May 28th this year. He attended the School from 1945 to 1951, and was...
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20.11.2024
Ten years on, the 2014 leavers turn out in force for alumni dinner
Attendance at the 2024 Old Elizabethans Annual Reunion Dinner matched the record figure achieved amid 2023’s 450th anniversary celebrations, with some 120 guests heading to Queen’s Road this year. There...
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13.11.2024
Alumni | CCF | English | Service
Tradition and creativity combined as the School honours its fallen
Queen Elizabeth’s School remembered its war dead in traditional fashion with a wreath-laying ceremony, the 11am two-minutes silence, and the participation of the Combined Cadet Force in the High Barnet...
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10.10.2024
“The greatest benefit to humankind”: Old Elizabethan’s “stunning breakthrough” in protein research wins him a Nobel prize
Old Elizabethan Sir Demis Hassabis has been awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry, jointly with a colleague at the AI company he founded and with an American scientist. Demis (OE...
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