Haileybury Society Officers

Jane’s Haileybury story goes back 50 years to when her father Robert Etherington was appointed as RMO on Dr Turtle’s retirement in 1974. Two years later Jane joined the LVI in Lawrence and is proud to be both an Old Lawrentian and a founder member of Alban’s the first girls house, which opened in the Old San building in 1977.

After Haileybury Jane worked for prestigious fashion house Windsmoor in London’s West End for 5 years, marrying OH Doug Everard (BF 73) in 1982 and giving up work a year later to start a family. Their first son was born with complex health and intellectual disabilities which has dominated their home life and made work opportunities outside the home quite difficult for Jane but she set up a design company in 1989 and worked in partnership with a close friend for 15 years creating bespoke designs for local councils & places of interest in the north west.

Jane became involved with the Haileybury Society in the late 1990s and joined the General Committee in 2000, becoming a trustee in 2001, at which time her son Tom (BF 01) joined the LVI. After 6 years as a trustee Jane had a short break and returned to the committee in 2009, becoming President elect in 2011 and President from 2012-14, also taking on the Society Secretary role during that time. Jane is committed to the Society and its ethos of support for all Haileyburians, especially as her own circle of OH friends has been such amazing important source of strength to her over the years.

Jane has managed her adult son’s care team since 2006; this arrangement enables him to live in his own home fully supported by a dedicated and committed team who work closely with the family. She also works with Doug in his energy sector management consultancy business. Family life is busier than ever with a 5 year old granddaughter and there is little time for hobbies beyond the Society and family other then walks with a Labrador, theatre trips, upcycling projects and shopping!

Colin was born in Casablanca, Morocco to English parents.  He has one older brother, Graham and three younger brothers, John, Christopher and Philip and one younger sister, Francis.  He Married Diana on 9^th June 1973, with the couple celebrating their Golden Wedding anniversary in 2023. They have no children but 11 nephews and nieces and 15 great-nephews and great-nieces to look after!  They bought their house in Bidborough, near Tonbridge, Kent, at auction in 1977, and have lived there for 46 years!!

Following a French education in Morocco, Colin became a boarder at the Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Junior School in Windsor in 1955. This was followed by five years at Haileybury and I.S.C., Senior School, Hertford Heath in Kipling House; having obtained nine ‘O’ levels and 3 ‘A’ levels, he went to Kingston College of Advanced Technology in 1965, achieving a 2.2 Economics London University external degree.

In November 1969 Colin took up articles with Bullimore Wright and Co., Chartered Accountants in the city and qualified as an A.C.A. in May 1972.   He has been a F.C.A. for 50 years.   However, on qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. he went to work in business in November 1972 with a Fruit and Vegetable company in the London Fruit Exchange in the old Spitalfields Market starting as Company Secretary but progressing to Financial Director. 

In February 1985 Colin worked as Finance Director for various companies based in the U.K. owned by a French International Freight Forwarding company, SCAC International S.A.   Subsequently in August 1995, he joined, as Finance Director of Richard Hochfeld Limited, a Fresh Fruit and Vegetable company based in Paddock Wood, Kent until his 65^th birthday when he took retirement, though continuing to work part time for them as a finance adviser until the present time.

Colin’s interests are watching rugby – he started playing for the ‘B’ team of the Old Haileyburian RFC in September 1965 when at University in Kingston and continued playing mostly for the first XV until he reached 30. He still goes to Twickenham regularly to watch international matches, premiership finals and the HSBC Sevens, all of which he still enjoys.  He has played tennis all his life and still plays regularly. He enjoys going to Wimbledon to see, as he puts it, how the game should be played! He also plays Badminton to keep himself fit – as well as walking his two English border collies.

Colin is also a keen gardener, mostly productive in growing vegetables but also with a love of sweet peas, roses, daffodils and dahlias.

Colin has been very involved with the Haileybury Society for many years, firstly on the General Committee, then as Trustee, then as Treasurer and currently as Chairman of Trustees. He retains fond memories of Haileybury with many OHRFC friends as well as his best friend who was seven and a half when they were first at the Junior School together!

Alison was born and raised in the Midlands. She had a mixed education, and a variety of jobs, married her husband of 40 years and had 2 children.

She came into teaching in her mid-30s and found her forte. She trained and established her career in local state schools before joining Haileybury in 2002 where both her children were educated.

She led the RS dept for 10 years and was appointed House Mistress of Hailey in 2012 where she lived and worked for another 10 years, retiring in July 2022.

Alison’s hobbies and interests include nurturing her family and friends, travel, gardening, quilting, genealogy, rambling and dog walking, cooking and hosting social events.

James was appointed 15th Master of Wellington College in September 2019.  Prior to that he was Second Master Elect as well as Deputy Head Pastoral, having served previously as Director of Admissions & Marketing at the College since 2013.?

Having grown up in North-East, James was educated at The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle before moving to board at Haileybury for his Sixth Form.

After Haileybury, Jameas read Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge before starting his teaching career under Anthony Seldon at Brighton College. He became Head of Classics at the age of 23 and then Head of Sixth Form. James left Brighton in 2006 to become a Housemaster for seven years at Repton, before moving to Berkshire with his wife Kat, also a teacher, and his daughter.

James serves as a Governor at three prep schools, is a trustee at AQA, the UK’s largest examination board, and also serves as a trustee for the Old Wellingtonian Charitable Trust. He retains a keen interest in the Arts and enjoys classical music, opera and spending time with his family in his spare time.

Sophie left Haileybury in 2013, to pursue a degree in Structural Engineering following being inspired by her Physics and Mathematics teachers at the school.

Following the attainment of her Masters Degree from Imperial College London,  Sophie went on to become a Structural Engineer in London, where she was subsequently headhunted by McKinsey and Company, where she rose to junior Associate Partner.

In 2023 she was headhunted again, taking her back in to heavy industry, where she is now the Global Head of Strategy at Vesuvius. 

After attending university in Angers, France, for six months to learn French, Nick started a career in insurance in Paris joining an underwriting agency and broker.

Returning to the UK after three years he continued in insurance as a broker at Lloyd’s.

Over his career Nick brokered a great variety of classes; more than half specialised in working with the Swiss market. He was the broker for ICRC for twenty five years.

Calling it a day after over forty years in the market, Nick is now attending courses on the history of art and the history of music while pursuing his passions for military history and aviation. Combining the latter two he acts as a volunteer at IWM Duxford where he enjoys interacting with the very broad variety of people who visit.

Nick is married to Elwira, a native of Gdansk, Poland, who is a legal and medical interpreter. Their son, Alex, is a pilot in the RAF; daughter Jenny is currently studying medicine at Barts.

Doug is the youngest of three brothers in Bartle Frere. He was Captain of Fencing, CP & Head of House. Going up to Cambridge in 1979 he gained a degree in Engineering Sciences and a Fencing half-blue.

Doug spent 11 years with GEC – initially Marconi Defence Systems including a sponsorship for an MBA at Cranfield in 1987, and then going on to spend 3 years with GEC Alstom working on major power station projects in China & UK. From 1991-2002 he worked for Kelda plc including as Managing Director of First Renewables Ltd, running innovative biomass & wind energy projects, moving on to become Chief Executive of NaREC, the UK centre of excellence for renewable energy.

In 2006 he set up his own management consultancy business taking on several global renewables projects and since 2012 has been Chief Operating Officer (and shareholder) of Sustainable Pipeline Systems Ltd which specialises in large scale pipe manufacture in the field.

A trustee of the Society since 2014, he served as President 2019-21. Other charitable interests include serving as a trustee of a social enterprise renewable energy (hydro) scheme, the first in Greater Manchester, one of three in the UK he helped build; he also spent 9 years as a trustee, including as Chair, of a Learning Disability charity in Lancashire (including spearheading a local merger).

Doug has been married to the Society Secretary, Jane Everard, for over 40 years and has two adult sons, one with complex intellectual and health issues and the other, OH Tom (BF 01) who is a senior Social Worker in Manchester and to whose young daughter Doug is a proud grandfather.

Philip has worked at a senior level for Brands, large and small, and marketing agencies on marketing and business development, and has run several go-to market campaigns for start-ups. Brands include Shell, Carlsberg, Fedex, Outer Temple Chambers, Cancer Research, Butlins and Help the Aged.

He has been a Trustee for a Borough-run leisure centre and carried out several fundraising campaigns for charities, large and small. His senior management roles included responsibility for HR, finance, recruitment, fundraising, sales and marketing and operations.

Since 2012 he has been responsible for marketing and OH recruitment for the Old Haileyburian Rugby Football Club and he is now the club’s Honorary Secretary.

From the moment I was shown Haileybury by my father, Henry Short (BF 43) I knew it was where I wanted to finish my education and Haileybury did not disappoint.  I was the third generation and fifth Short to go to Haileybury and in those days we were chosen not necessarily for our academic prowess, as they wanted girls to fit in at all levels of the school and so for the next two years, I immersed myself in English Literature, French, History, singing and drama, joining the Political Society and instigating the Scottish Dancing Ball. 

Haileybury gave me so much in terms of confidence, an ability to speak to anyone, a love of church music and English Literature the importance of service to others and several life-long friends – all of which I will always be grateful for. Since leaving school it has been my honour to be the first OH girl to serve on the General Committee and I am also a Trustee of the Society.

Over the years, I have worked as a PA to several Managing Directors, run ski chalets, been an exams officer for children with learning difficulties and now run my own business as an independent funeral celebrant. I am married to Robin who is Senior Partner of a Solicitors in East Sussex with offices in London and who specialises in property matters, including several vineyards in the South East.  I have two adult sons; the eldest, Toby, is Operations Manager for Safedrop Ukraine and currently lives in L’viv and travels extensively throughout the country delivering medical, food and clothing aid and has recently set up a blood donation initiative out there.  My younger son, Marcus, is a Success Coach at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio, where he went to university and was a Soccer and Academic Scholar.

I look forward to serving the Haileybury Society as President Elect and, in time, as President and continuing to strengthen ties with the school in the future and meeting as many OHs as possible in order to preserve the important position of the Haileybury Society to both its members and the school.

Andrew was with the Stonehage Fleming Group for twenty-one years, he left in June 2018 in order to pursue other interests, although he still actively acts as a consultant to the Group. He sat on the main Group Board for over fifteen years and he is a UK qualified Chartered Accountant.

Andrew was Head of the Global Family Office business for the Group, where he was responsible for the family office services across ten countries, including heading up the Group’s philanthropic offering.

Throughout his career Andrew acted as a key adviser, or trustee, to a number of ultra-high net worth families, advising them on their family strategy, global wealth and investments. He also set up Stonehage Fleming’s UK trustee company where he acted as a director and trustee.

He is now a mentor to two UK start-ups and to the CEO of a USA company in the family office space. Andrew enjoys playing and following most sports.

In his spare time he is an enthusiastic fly fisher, he is a member of the Piscatorial Society and acts as their auditor. He is a trustee of a UK charitable trust.

Charles was an academic scholar, going on to study at the University of Cambridge, and since graduating he has generally been London-based.

Having served on the General Committee for the Haileybury Society, Charles looks forward to his role as a Trustee in helping to shape The Society’s future .

He currently works in management consulting, supporting clients through strategy to design and execution. Outside of work he continues to play regular sport and has recently gained a Private Pilot Licence.

Ben attended Haileybury between 1992-1997 and was a College Prefect in Thomason House under housemaster Robert Turnbull. As a pupil, Ben was something of an allrounder, with diverse extracurricular interests across Sport, Music and the Arts. Ben played Rugby for the XV, Football for the 1^st XI and represented the school in numerous other sports. He acted in several school theatrical productions and was a member of the school’s Orchestra and String Orchestra throughout his time at Haileybury as a Violinist. He also played the Piano.

After touring South Africa with the Rugby XV in the Summer after his 5^th Form year, Ben returned to Bishops (Diocesan College) in Cape Town as an exchange student whilst in his Lower Sixth Year. Ben remembers this time fondly, playing Rugby for Bishops 1^st XV and sending his A-level essays back to his teachers at Haileybury via Fax (it was 1996). 

Ben went on to study Politics and History at University and has spent the last 20+ years working in the Real Estate Sector. He lives in Harpenden with his wife and their two children.

Scott attended Haileybury from 2001-08 starting in Lower School before graduating to Thomason.

Scott gained an MChem in Chemistry at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in asset management.

He currently works for Columbia Threadneedle as lead portfolio manager for their Global Smaller Companies equity fund.

He has been a member of The Haileybury Society since 2014 and has also served on The Society’s Investment Committee.