Patron: HM Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire
Mrs Mary Fagan JP was born at Gonalstone Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire on 11 September 1939. Mary Fagan is married to Captain Christopher Fagan, and they have lived for the past 30 years in Hampshire.
During that time Mrs Fagan has been involved in numerous community projects, medical and charitable bodies, both as Chairman and a member of the Managing Boards. She is currently President and patron of over 60 organisations in Hampshire, and maintains a keen interest in all aspect of the life of Hampshire including education, commerce, industry, the armed forces and voluntary organisations.
In 1962 Mrs Fagan was made a Freewoman of the Saddlers Livery Company and was one of the first women to be elected to the Livery.
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Honorary Patron: G.S. Hill, Esq.
Graham Hill was born in 1927 and therefore celebrates his eightieth birthday this year.
From the Dragon School, Oxford he went on to Winchester College as a College man and then to Oxford. Military service as an RAF officer
was followed by call to the Bar and twenty five years of legal practice in Singapore where he was President of the Singapore Law Society.
From that to spending ten years in London as Chairman of a Merchant Bank. During his time in London he indulged, mainly at the Royal
Opera House of which he was a Trustee for some five years, the love of music he acquired from Sydney Watson the then Master of Music at
Winchester.
Having retired for the second time he was recalled to the colours and resumed his legal career as the Italian representative
of a London firm of solicitors for some five years in Rome and Milan. On his third and final retirement he decided to divide his time, as
he now does, between Sardinia, where he has had a house for thirty seven years, and Winchester where he lives within five minutes’ walk of
the College.
He still enjoys taking an interest in the School and particularly in its musical activities, and has recently repaid a little
of his very great debt to the place by presenting a new organ to Chantry.
It was a particular pleasure for him to be asked to become one of the Patrons of RicNic.