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Sandy Lodge, Northwood, Middlesex, HA6 2HT Telephone: +44 (0)1923 820644 Email: alumni@mtsn.org.uk www.mtsn.org.uk Editor: Jon Rippier editor@mtsn.org.uk Contributing editors: Nick Latham, Emma Bindloss, Jonny Taylor Photography: Patricia Rayner, Sonal Galaiya, Emma Bindloss Designed & produced by: 3Sixty Creative www.3sixty-creative.com Front cover photo: HRH Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother visits Merchant Taylors’ in 1962

Sixth Formers receiving their Arkwright Engineering Scholarships at the IET London

Dear reader

T his edition is marked by the death of Queen Elizabeth II. We publish tributes from OMTs and an article on the support Merchant Taylors’ has received over the last century from the House of Windsor. As illustrated by our front cover, this link has been a strong one with HRH Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother visiting Sandy Lodge twice, in 1962 and 1975. On the second occasion the Queen Mother opened the Music Block and most recently HRH The Duke of Gloucester opened the Design Centre in 2015. We can now look forward to another new building with ground having been broken for the Julian Hill Cricket Centre – please see the Development section for more details. Once finished it will be the best-equipped such centre in the country – indeed it has already featured in The Cricketer magazine – and will allow both MTS boys and the wider community a state-of-the-art training base. On a personal note, as I hand over the editorship of Concordia, I would like to say what a privilege it has been editing the magazine since its inception in 2008. I would like to thank all OMT contributors for their insightful articles and generosity of spirit as well as my colleagues for their invaluable support. Jon Rippier Editor

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