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Concordia Winter 2022 Obituaries

Michael Harold Goodall (1941-1945) died on 3rd April aged 94 M ichael Harold Goodall was born in London on 27th May 1927. The family subsequently moved to Sale in Cheshire where Michael attended of the Old Merchant Taylors' Rifle Association and he regularly attended Bisley for shoots. This was only a mile or two from his home. Jeremy Gaskell (1957-1959) died on 29th April aged 79 J eremy died in late April from heart failure. Jeremy was a very active and senior Freemason and regularly featured in my OMT Society News Sheet articles. I will particularly miss him on our annual March “raiding party” trips to the Old Crosbeian Lodge at Crosby. It was extremely pleasing to note that Jeremy’s OMT chums were by far and away the largest group of mourners at his funeral – a fine measure of the esteem Jeremy was held in. As a Cadillac fanatic, he would have been proud of the 1960s gleaming white Cadillac Hearse used to transport him on his final journey. A retrospect of his OMT and Masonic life was delivered by Howard Norman-Taylor. Jeremy had been a Freemason for over 40 years and was involved in many different orders and units, rising to the highest levels in all of them. Anecdotal tales of escapades whilst on visits to various Lodges around the country really brought out Jeremy’s real character. Jeremy was an enthusiastic and very generous supporter of all Sir Thomas White masonic social events and his untimely demise just before our Chapter Centenary in June was dreadfully sad. The family retrospectives were given by his brother. In business, Jeremy worked for the original Westminster Bank and was instrumental in implementing branch computer accounting and decimalisation. In the mid 1970s he was appointed to various branch roles and spent a very successful career amongst several branches in Kent. After his retirement he ran an equally successful small business in philately. A respected and full life very well lived and much regretted in death. Peter R Cox (1958-1962)

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After nearly 30 years of commuting from Surrey to London he was lucky enough to be given a chance of a second career at the age of 60 with the newly-established Brooklands Museum as a fundraising manager. The connection to both aspects of its collection was strong. Michael was one of the UK's leading aeronautical historians specialising in pre-World War I aircraft and was also a second cousin of Mortimer Morris-Goodall, who was a famous Brooklands driver in the 1930s ... and the father of Jane Goodall the primatologist. Another great interest with a family connection was researching and collecting playing cards made by the family firm from the 1800s to the 1930s – Charles Goodall & Sons. He was also a member of a City Livery Company – The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards. He served as Master from 1986-1987. Emma Goodall

the prestigious Manchester Grammar School. Due to various circumstances occurring in World War II, including his father's company being literally blown up by a German bomb, they eventually moved back South, settling in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Michael started at Merchant Taylors' School as a day boy in 1941. O n leaving school in 1945 Michael did his National Service with the RAF, serving in Egypt, Austria and Italy. When he left the RAF after the three years were up he joined the Wool Exchange in the City of London where he met his wife-to-be, Shirley, and they married in 1956. He then went to work for the British Sugar Corporation based near the Tower of London and moved house again to Woking in Surrey. As a couple they travelled widely in Britain and Europe. Another of Michael's interests was rifle shooting and he was a member

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