82 Saturday June 11 2022 | the times
Register
DON’T worry about anything, but pray
about everything. With thankful hearts
offer up your prayers and requests to God.
Then because you belong to Christ Jesus,
God will bless you with peace than no one
can completely understand. And this peace
will control the way you think and feel.
Philippians 4.6-7 (CEV)
Births
CAMPBELL on 8th June 2022 to Mrs
Samantha Campbell (née Yates) and Capt
Andrew Campbell, a son, Edward David.
EDWARDS on 6th May 2022 to Lara and
Charlie, a daughter, Seraphina Blaise
Medawar, sister to Oscar Atticus Medawar.
JUDD on 13th May 2022 to Sarah and
Edward, a son, George David Fraser
(Geordie), brother to Allegra, Honor and
Louis.
MARKS on 3rd June 2022 to Anna
Baddeley and Thomas Marks, a daughter,
Ida Natasha Baddeley, sister to Alfred.
Forthcoming Marriages
MR M. J. VANGERVEN
AND MISS R. T. E. BEALE
The engagement is announced
between Marc, elder son of Mr Luc
and Mrs June Vangerven of St
Julian’s, Malta, and Achel, Belgium,
and Rose, younger daughter of Mr
Nicholas and Mrs Christine Beale of
Fulham, London.MR O. A. FERRARI
AND MISS C. R. D. LEACH
The engagement is announced between
Oliver, son of Anthony and Erica Ferrari of
Sutton Poyntz, Dorset, and Camilla,
daughter of Peter and Antonia Leach of
Dartmouth Park, NW5.
MR T. S. NEWBIGGING
AND MISS F. A. MCANSH
The engagement is announced between
Thomas, son of Mr Alastair and Mrs
Caroline Newbigging of Easingwold,
Yorkshire, and Finty, daughter of Dr
Gordon and Mrs Antonia McAnsh of
Swanton Abbott, Norfolk.
MR J. C. FAWCETT-ELLIS
AND MRS C. D. ORAM
The engagement is announced between
John Fawcett-Ellis of Haslemere and Cecilia
Oram (née Hughes) of London SW14.
MR C. R. H. WOOD
AND MISS C. E. M. SPARROW
The engagement is announced between
Christopher, only son of Mr and Mrs Ian
Wood of East Molesey, Surrey, and
Catriona, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs
Edward Sparrow also of East Molesey.
Marriages
MR H. J. NEALE
AND MISS Z. E. COOKE
The marriage took place on 26th May 2022,
at Wadhurst Castle, East Sussex, between
Harry John Neale, eldest son of Paul John
Neale and Dinah Rachel Saska Robertshaw,
and Zoe Elizabeth Cooke, eldest daughter
of David Edward Cooke.
Deaths
BURLINGHAM David Henry, aged 92.
Ceased to breathe in and out on May 27th
- Beloved husband, father, grandfather
and great-grandfather. Funeral service will
be held at St John the Baptist, Fladbury, on
Thursday June 23rd 2022, at 3pm.
Donations in memory of David are invited
for Avon Navigation Trust and the
Alzheimer’s Society. These may be sent to
E. Hill & Son Funeral Directors, Pershore
WR10 1HZ.
FROST Francis Aylmer died on 1st June
- Loving husband to Lies, father to
Adam and Simon. Private family funeral.
GOODRICH Margaret (née Riley) passed
away peacefully on 2nd June 2022, aged
- Beloved wife to her late husband, David,
mother to Helen, Kathryn, Alison and John
and grandmother to Grace, Joe, Lola and
Esme. Funeral service will take place at St
John the Baptist church, Windlesham, at
2pm on 29th June. No flowers please.
Donations, if desired, to Home Farm Trust:
http://www.hft.org.uk
HALL Philippa Louise (née Pratt) died
peacefully on 31st May 2022, aged 58, at
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, after a
short illness. Beloved wife of Nicholas and
adored, proud and loving mother of Harry
and Alice. Private funeral. Family flowers
only but donations if desired to Pancreatic
Cancer UK may be sent direct to the
charity. Memorial service to be announced.
All inquiries to Austin’s Buntingford, 01763
274111.
LAMONT John McDougall died
peacefully on 8th June 2022, aged 78, after
a long illness. Sadly missed and lovingly
remembered by his wife Joanna, sons Tom
and Matt, his three adored grandchildren
and all his family and friends. Funeral
details when available from his family.
MALLETT Alison Shirley passed away
peacefully on 24th May 2022, aged 94, at
her home in Lurley. A much-loved mother
and grandmother. For further details
please visit
http://www.alisonmallett.muchloved.com
MARYCHURCH Lady June Daphne,
beloved wife of the late Sir Peter
Marychurch KCMG, passed away peacefully
on 1st June 2022 in Painswick, and will be
missed by her family and many friends. A
short cremation service will be held at
Cheltenham Crematorium on 29th June at
11am. Donations, if desired, to Help
Musicians UK and Macmillan Cancer
Support, can be made c/o A Slade and Son,
Ridgeway House, 35 Dyer Street,
Cirencester GL7 2PP.
NAUGHTON Maureen (Mary) Katherine
CBE. On 26th May passed away suddenly in
hospital. Former chief nurse of Harrogate,
Sheffield and Leeds. Funeral service in St
Joseph’s RC Church, Wetherby, on
Thursday 16th June at 12.30pm, followed by
private family cremation. Inquiries to John
P Tempest Funeral Service, Leeds, 0113 239
2700.
RAWLINS Peter Jonathan died on 28th
May 2022, aged 71, at home surrounded by
his family. A beloved husband, father,
grandfather, brother, uncle and friend. A
funeral service will be held at Keble
College, Oxford, on Tuesday 21st June at
2pm. No flowers, please, but donations if
desired to the Peter Rawlins Bursary at
Keble College https://
anniversary.keble.ox.ac.uk/make-a-
donationROGERSON
Philip Graham passed away on 19th
May 2022, aged 77. He was the
beloved husband of Susan, loving
father of Penny, Simon and Hannah,
and grandfather of Ellen, Jack, Emma,
Jemima, Sienna and Harry. He will be
sadly missed by all.SMYTH Ormond Kenneth on 26th May
2022, aged 92. Beloved husband, father
and grandfather. Funeral at Great Glen
Crematorium, Leicester, Thursday 28th
July, 1.45pm. All who knew him would be
most welcome. All further inquiries to A. J.
Adkinson & Son, 0116 271 2340.
STEVENS Anthony Kear (Tony),
unexpectedly but peacefully on Sunday
29th May 2022, aged 87. Beloved husband
of 62 years to Tessa. Adored Daddy to
Jane, Nicky, Gill, Antonia and Greg.
Precious Poppa to Laura, Max, Tom, Alex,
Emily, Oliver, Jamie, India, Ella, Gia, Maia,
Jakob and Aoife. Father-in-law to Rory,
Storm, Greg and Emma. Dear friend and
role model to so many. Passionate
Leicester City fan. Requiem Mass 12.30pm,
27th June 2022 at St Mary’s RC Church,
Brewood, Staffordshire ST19 9BG. Please
no black, no flowers. Donations to Aid To
the Church in Need, http://www.acnuk.org. All
inquiries to Robert Nicholls Funeral
Directors, 01785 253683.WHEELER-ROBINSON Nicholas,
30/09/1936-03/06/2022. Passed away
peacefully at his care home in Oxfordshire
after a short illness. Beloved father to
Charlie, Olivia and Caleb, husband to
Rachel. Educationalist, teacher, headmaster
of secondary comprehensive schools.
Organiser of amateur music events and
keen poet, historian and Eric Gill enthusiast.
Kind and generous above all else, he will be
greatly missed by all who knew him.
Charity donations in memory to the
Trussell Trust. Private family funeral.
WILSON Gillian (née Rolls) died
peacefully on 15th February 2022, aged 92.
Sometime state-registered nurse. Beloved
wife of Hal for 59 years, mother of William
and Katharine and grandmother of
Miranda, Charlotte and Malavika. Family
funeral has taken place. Memorial service
at 11am on Friday 1st July at the Chapel of
St John the Baptist, 32 St John’s South, The
Broadway, Winchester, Hampshire SO23
9LN. Donations if wished to https://gillian-
wilson-1929-2022.muchloved.com/In Memoriam - Private
IN LOVING MEMORY OF V. V.
VEEDER QCWe miss our father each and every
day and think of him always. He is in
everything that we do and his legacy
lives on with his grandchildren Grace,
Theodore and Maximus. Due to
unforeseen circumstances we aren’t
able to make his upcoming memorial,
but we will be there in spirit.Truth must come to light,
however uncomfortable
causes one of these little ones
to stumble, it would be better
for them to have a large
millstone hung around their
neck and to be drowned in
the depths of the sea.”
The suffering of “the little
ones” matters to God at a
profound level. According to
Christ, ultimate
accountability is coming, it is
unavoidable, and it is an
outworking of love. The
promised judgment of evil
offers an assurance for all
who suffer.
Yet this framework of
judgment and justice ought
also to be reflected in our
commitments to each other
today within faith
communities.
We must welcome
transparency, accountability
and oversight by external
authorities.
As we consider the
investigation into the SBC in
America, we would be foolish
to think that abuse here in
the UK is a thing of the past.
Some tables must be turned
in our churches and
institutions. The pursuit of
power, the protection of
assets, or the insinuations of
lawyers and insurers that
there is a “greater good” than
bringing the truth, however
uncomfortable, into the light,
be damned.
Those who experienced
danger in a place where they
rightly expected to find safety
are raising their voices. May
they find in Christ one who
prizes “the little ones” and
one who will put down the
mighty from their seats, and
exalt them of low degree.Dr Amy Orr-Ewing is honorary
lecturer at the University of
Aberdeen school of divinity14 million members stateside.
Whistleblowers “made phone
calls, mailed letters, sent
emails, appeared at meetings,
held rallies, and contacted the
press... only to be met, time
and time again, with
resistance, stonewalling, and
even outright hostility”. Yet
SBC authorities “were
singularly focused on
avoiding liability” so that,
“survivors and others who
reported abuse were ignored,
disbelieved... and convicted
molesters continued in
ministry with no notice or
warning to their current
church or congregation”.
How did the Christian faith,
which flourished in the first
and second centuries among
the poor, the marginalised,
women, slaves and outcasts,
produce institutions in our
modern societies which have
become breeding grounds for
sexual abuse?
Professor Jennifer Freyd,
who founded the Centre for
Institutional Courage,
explains the phenomena of
“betrayal blindness” which is
what happens when someone
can’t (or won’t) see the
evidence of betrayal or abuse
that is staring them in the
face, because of what it would
cost them to recognise it and
act upon it.
Victims and whistleblowers
in religious settings may
experience repercussions for
reporting cases of abuse, such
as being smeared as “gossips”
or being tagged as
untrustworthy — even
unstable. Acknowledging this
problem is the beginning of
resisting toxic and damaging
institutional patterns.
I find that there is strange
hope in the gospel words of
Jesus Christ: “If anyoneI
recently slipped into a
pew in one of Britain’s
most beautiful
cathedrals at dusk for
evensong. I was chilled to
the bone in the moment of
the service when the choir
sang the words of Mary’s
Magnificat recorded in Luke’s
gospel: He hath put down the
mighty from their seats, and
exalted them of low degree.
I had spent that day sitting
in the public gallery of a
court supporting someone
who was giving evidence in a
trial concerning childhood
sexual abuse. Mary’s words
expressing hope on behalf of
the poor, the humble, and the
powerless felt especially
meaningful that evening in
the aftermath of the horrific
trauma recounted. Several
weeks later I remembered
those words of Mary again
when I sat in a basement
room in a different city with
another woman giving
testimony to investigators
about the sexual assault she
had endured at the hand of a
religious teacher who
lectured at the Christian
institution where she worked.
This week, the Southern
Baptist Convention (SBC),
America’s largest Protestant
denomination, released an
independent investigation on
its mishandling of decades of
sex-abuse allegations. The
findings are appalling and the
implications staggering, as
the SBC comprises more thanCredo
Amy
Orr-EwingPolitics with no boring bits
Listen to Matt Chorley on
Times Radio, Monday to
Friday at 10amBirths, Marriages and Deaths newsukadvertising.co.uk 6 020 7782 7553
Congratulations
ENGAGEMENT Congratulations to our
son Dr Robin George Andrews and Miss
Stephanie Jane Nicholson of Greenwich,
London. Proposed to under a starry sky in
the Jordanian desert on 11th May 2022.Commemorate the life of a friend or relative in
Readers’ Lives, a service in contracted tributesCall 020 7782 5583 or email
[email protected]Readers’ Lives
Britain’s first nuclear submarine
engineer known to all as Spam
PETER HAMMERSLEY, WHO DIED AGED 91, WAS
FEATURED IN THE TIMES ON MARCH 28, 2020b i
50%
discount for
subscribersWindsor Castle
10th June, 2022
Sir Tony Blair was received by The
Queen today when Her Majesty
conferred upon him the honour of
Knighthood and invested him with the
Insignia of a Knight Companion of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter.
The Baroness Amos was received by
The Queen when Her Majesty invested
her with the Insignia of a Lady
Companion of the Most Noble Order of
the Garter.Clarence House
10th June, 2022
The Prince of Wales, Patron, the Royal
Cornwall Agricultural Association, and
The Duchess of Cornwall today
attended the Royal Cornwall Show at
Wadebridge, marking Seventy Years
since His Royal Highness became Duke
of Cornwall, and were received by Her
Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall
(Colonel Edward Bolitho).St James’s Palace
10th June, 2022
The Earl of Wessex, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees, The Duke of
Edinburgh’s International Award
Foundation, today attended a Meeting
via video link.
St James’s Palace
10th June, 2022
The Princess Royal, Colonel-in-Chief,
The Royal Logistic Corps, this morning
inspected 10 The Queen’s Own Gurkha
Logistic Regiment on public duties at St
James’s Palace.
Her Royal Highness, Colonel-in-
Chief, The Royal Logistic Corps, this
evening attended the 17 Port and
Maritime Regiment Dinner at
McMullen Barracks, Marchwood, to
commemorate the Fortieth Anniversary
of the Falkland Islands Conflict and was
received by Her Majesty’s Lord-
Lieutenant of Hampshire (Mr Nigel
Atkinson).
St James’s Palace
10th June, 2022
The Duke of Kent, President, Royal
National Lifeboat Institution, today
attended a Service of Rededication of
the former lifeboat, SIR WILLIAM
ARNOLD, as an Education Centre and
Museum at St Katharine Docks,
London E1, and was received by
Professor Paul Palmer (Deputy
Lieutenant of Greater London).
Appendix to Court Circular
10th June, 2022
The Queen has been pleased to appoint
the Very Reverend Dr John Chalmers to
be an Extra Chaplain to Her Majesty in
Scotland.Court Circular
Trustee Acts
KITCHEN, Aaron Frederick
(otherwise Ron Kitchen).
Late of 9 Keldgate Close, Beverley
HU17 8JE, who died on 18th February
2022 particulars to Ward Hadaway LLP,
Sandgate House, 102 Quayside,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DX (Ref:
(PC)AF.EYS.KIT035.1) by 12th August
2022.