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Theodore Mallinson’s extraordinary life was celebrated in great style this March, with a memorial service and reception attended by more than 500 people.

With an age-range of early 20s to late 80s, the visitors proved that the Highgate School community is a vibrant and vigorous one. Theodore Mallinson, who died in October, was involved with the school almost every day of term time since the Second World War to the second Gulf war.

During the evacuation of the school to Westward Ho! in 1939, he led the collected pupils in a PE lesson on the beach there and was a regular organiser of outward-bound events, as well as being a legendary modern languages teacher.A favourite anecdote was his insistence on taking a group of boys from Highgate to Stonehenge… by bike.

Head Master Adam Pettitt commented, ‘Theodore’s memorial service was a moving and fitting tribute to a great and much-loved friend and servant of Highgate School’.

Pictured above: Head Master Adam Pettitt with Theodore Mallinson.

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