Headteachers from some of the country’s top private schools wrote in support of Ball including Ian Beer, former head of Harrow. Lancing College and Ellesmere College
Ellesmere College 2011
The buzz and chatter in Big School on Saturday evening
was palpable, the occasion was a very special dinner to celebrate the 80th Birthday of past Headmaster, Mr Ian Beer CBE. Members of the College Common Room and
old boys gathered with great excitement, as many had not been back to the school since the 1960's.
Ian was a very young Headmaster when, in 1961, he became Head at Ellesmere at just 29 years old
http://www.ellesmere.com/news/retired-head-returns-to-celebrate-his-80th-birthday
Ian Beer first met Ball In 1961
Beer was a young headmaster at Ellesmere College when he met Ball. Ball was setting up the Community for the Glorious Ascension pigsty in Stroud.
It was Ian Beer who asked the Bishop of Shrewesbury if Peter Ball could be elected a Governor.
Ball governed several schools since, as well as becoming a Chaplain to the Headmasters' Conference for a period of time.
In 1993, when he wrote this letter of support for Peter Ball, Ian Beer had known Peter Ball for 32 years :
"On several occasions in all the three schools that I led I was faced with having to help (*redacted*) sharing in the monastic life so that he could help them. On each occasion the boy returned to school and resumed normal school life..."
And Beer says, "At Harrow, we hosted a group of the young Christians involved in the Bishop's scheme in Sussex."
Ian David Stafford Beer, (left) was an old chum of Denis Thatcher and Beer read a poem at Denis Thatcher's Funeral
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Margaret Thatcher and Jimmy Savile at Christmas time... one of many spent together
Christmas Eve 1982 Party at Chequers
1982 Dec 24 Fr
Archive (Thatcher MSS)
MT Engagement Diary
1340 To Chequers
1830-2000 Small drinks party
Guest List
Carringtons, Tim Smith, Ian Beer (Headmaster of Harrow), Station Commander of RAF Halton, Jimmy Savile, Mr. Hooker, Davids, Hamiltons, Nicholsons, Alison Ward:
Background on some of the guests:
Lord Peter Carrington
(Considering the time frame and roles in government -"The Carringtons" referred to on the guest list are likely the Peter Carringtons)
Peter Carrington served 4 years as Secretary General of NATO. He served under four prime ministers, McMillan, Home, Heath and Thatcher. He also chaired Bilderberg for several years in the late 1990s.
Carrington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina
As it happens, Jimmy Savile declared that he had been in Margaret Thatcher’s company on Sunday 2nd May 1982:
Whilst walking together,
on receipt of a note her face had turned ashen. Jimmy Savile had looked at her with concern “What is the matter, Margaret”, he said. ” The Belgrano has been sunk”, was her reply.
https://stephentwist.wordpress.com/tag/falklands/
From 1983 to 2002, Carrington was President of the Pilgrims Society.
Also on the guest list - Tim Smith
Tim Smith - Leon Brittan's PPS 1983-1985 He has no memory of the ‘Dickens Dossier’.
Harrow graduate and a Tory Party ex-vice chairman
Parly under-sec NI Office 1994
On 3 July 1997 he was found guilty of taking cash for questions from Al Fayed, along with Neil Hamilton
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Mr. Hooker - likely Michael Ayherst Hooker
'Managing Director of first institutional fund raising consultant in the UK', specialising in 'Christian stewardship
He was with the Elton John AIDS Foundation from the start.
A lifelong friend of the McWhirter twins, Ross and Norris. In 1959, he co-founded Britain's first fund-raising consultancy Hooker, Craigmyle & Co (now Craigmyle) with his friend Justin Shaw who is the son of the late Thomas Shaw, 3rd Baron Craigmyle.
http://mail.spinwatch.org/index.php/Justin_Shaw
Obitituary of Hooker in the Independent:
Michael Hooker was an early pioneer in the art of charity fund- raising.
In an earlier age and time he would have been described as a confirmed bachelor
In recent years, however, his existence was frequently enlivened by a succession of handsome young men friends, including at one time a budding pop singer
Hooker worked briefly as a schoolmaster in Britain and South Africa.
Hooker spent two years with the British Council ( before taking up a post in 1947 as a prep-school master at St John's in Johannesburg)
From 1956 to 1957 he learned about fund-raising while working for the American Wells Organisation in Britain and New Zealand.
Conservative politicians were regular guests at his table, along with churchmen, academics and headmasters - and, as often as not, a rehabilitated young offender to act as waiter.
("Confirmed bachelor") Hooker was a fount of good advice to parents privately seeking information on the best education for their children and he tirelessly gave of his own time and money to favourite good causes including Aids charities, the NSPCC and the Police Convalescence and Rehabilitation Trust.
When his
friend and fellow old Marlburian Ross McWhirter was murdered by the IRA in 1975 he became one of
the chief founders of a special trust, set up in McWhirter's name
A founding governor since 1991 of Newton Prep, the London preparatory school in Battersea for intellectually gifted children...
he also
remained dedicated to the cause of the Anglican Church. An
appointment, in 1952, to the London Diocesan Board of Education, happily combined the two great driving interests of his life - education and religion.
http://giftedmonthly.homestead.com/files/GM_Aug_02.pdf
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"The Hamiltons" are listed on Thatcher's party guest list
(Again, given the time frame and roles played in government, it is likely to be Archie Hamilton and his wife)
Archie Hamilton
Above
DAVID DAVIS MP and SIR ARCHIE HAMILTON (right) at a dinner attended by the Conservative leader Michael Howard and David Davis and David Cameron held at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, London in 2005
Archibald Gavin Hamilton, Baron Hamilton Of Epsom was a whip for 4 yrs and PPS to Thatcher
John lived in Surrey for many years and was Lord Lieutenant from 1973 until 1986. He served in the Coldstream Guards during the Second World War and was awarded the MC;
He was also a Lord in Waiting to the present Queen.
More recently in the news...2014
Margaret Thatcher was told about alleged sex parties with under-age boys held by one of her closest aides claims her former personal bodyguard.
Margaret Thatcher ‘Told Of Sir Peter Morrison Paedophile Claims’ But Promoted Him Anyway
Former bodyguard John Strevens (left) claims he told Margaret Thatcher and her private secretary Archie Hamilton about rumours surrounding her close aide Peter Morrison (right) before he was promoted to be deputy chairman of the Tory party
Top policeman Strevens passed on information to Lady Thatcher and her private secretary Archie Hamilton at a meeting in Downing Street that one of her senior aides was suspected of holding sex parties for underage boys
Mr Strevens spent years by Mrs Thatcher's side - he worked as Mrs Thatcher’s personal bodyguard, said that he passed on allegations about her confidant Sir Peter Morrison.
He said that Lady Thatcher appointed Sir Peter deputy party chairman of the Conservatives despite learning of the rumours.
Strevens said that he "immediately" passed on the information to Lady Thatcher and her private secretary Archie Hamilton at a meeting in Downing Street.
"She listened to what he said and that was it.
"A senior officer in Chester had told me there were
rumours going around about under-age boys - one aged 15 - attending sex parties at a house there belonging to Peter Morrison," he said.
"After we returned to No10 I asked to go and see her immediately. It was unusual for me to do that, so they would have know it was something serious.
Top Policeman: "I told them exactly what had been said about Peter.
Archie took notes and they thanked me for coming."
"There was no proof but the officer I spoke to was certain and said local press knew a lot more."
Responding to the claims, Hamilton said that he remembered that the officer had been at No10 but could not recall any mention of under-age boys.
"I don't remember him saying they were under-age," he said. "There may have been but the point he was making to her was that there were only men involved.
Tory grandee Lord Tebbit has previously stated that he confronted Sir Peter over the allegations
Former Conservative MP Edwina Currie also described him as a 'noted pederast' with a liking for young boys.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2707333/Thatcher-s-bodyguard-says-warned-underage-sex-rumours-close-aide-amid-claims-senior-ministers-named-dossier.html#ixzz3wYoRcPc6
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On the guest list - Alison Ward, Thatcher's secretary
She is a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire, and is patron or trustee of a number of local and national charities and organisations.
Alison Ward, now Lady Wakeham MBE DL had been involved in arranging a vacation for Thatcher at Peter Morrison's home in Islay...
1979 Mar 14 We
Archive (Thatcher MSS)
No.10: Alison Ward letter to Peter Morrison MP (invitation to holiday with your family on Islay)
[MT’s “need for a proper holiday”] [released 2010]
^ Margaret Thatcher, Leon Brittan and Sir Peter Morrison on holiday in Islay, Aug 1979
^ 1978
Thatcher spent summer holidays in Islay with Peter Morrison and Leon Brittan and
Christmas/New Year holidays with "Jim'll Fix-it", Jimmy Savile
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Alison Ward/Lady Wakeham is married to a "fixer", John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham,
Prince Philip, Lord Wakeham, Paul Turnock
John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, PC, DL (born 22 June 1932) is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician, and former
Chancellor of Brunel University.
Lord Wakeham with Prince Charles and Prince William
As Chief Whip in the most turbulent Thatcher years, he could be seen padding through the corridors of the Commons with a difficult rebel Tory MP for a quiet word over a whisky in the leather chairs and fug of the smoking room.
He is proud of being called the ultimate Whitehall "fixer", and Lady Thatcher made good use of his abilities. Skilled with an iron fist in a velvet glove, he handled all the big problems that beset her Government, from advice on whether Cecil Parkinson should return to office after the scandal of his love child, to the privatisation of the energy industry.
His first wife, Roberta, was killed in the Brighton hotel bombing in October 1984 and he was trapped in rubble for seven hours, suffering serious crush injuries to his legs. The couple had two children. Wakeham married his secretary, Alison Ward MBE in 1985
...
the ultimate accolade as a Whitehall operator came when he was appointed by Tony Blair to chair a review of the House of Lords.
Lord Wakeham and Prince Charles
It was in another role,
as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission from which he stepped down last week, that Lord Wakeham was able to show his prowess as a fixer, defusing the continuing battles between the tabloids and Buckingham Palace, placing a restraining hand on editors here, holding back politicians there from legislation to impose new privacy laws on the press.
Last year, on the PCC's 10th anniversary, an A-list cast – headed by Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles and Prince William – of PCC complainants were invited to a party at London's Somerset House. The event was a real publicity coup; more importantly, it seemed to vindicate Lord Wakeham's strategy for handling the tricky relationship between a hungry press and a publicity
The great fixer, always treading a fine line between Fleet Street, St James's Palace and Downing Street, had tried to protect the rich and the famous from intrusions into their privacy while allowing newspapers to report on their lives. He did not please all the people all the time. Last week Charles Moore, editor of the Daily Telegraph, said it was time for a "new era'' at the PCC, accusing the body of having a "collusive'' relationship with some newspapers. According to The Spectator's media commentator, "the PCC is as frightened of upsetting the Prime Minister as some newspapers are of writing about Lord Wakeham.''
Lord Wakeham, 69, lists yachting among his private pleasures. He has a small cruising yacht, and is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
Director, NM Rothschild & Sons 1995
He was a director of Enron (close ties with George Bush) from 1994 until its bankruptcy in 2001.
As a non-executive director and a member of Enron's auditing committee, paid a reported £80,000 a year
, Lord Wakeham was meant to ensure that the company's accountants were happy with the way that it was reporting to Wall Street.
Alison Ward/Lady Wakeham and Kids Company Camila Batmanghelidjh & James Sainsbury
#earlyintervention @HomeStartHamps Winchester patron Lady Wakeham, @KidsCompanyUK Camila & James Sainsbury
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Letters in Support of Bishop Peter Ball Make Extraordinary Reading.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/fixer-to-the-establishment-john-wakeham-696705.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-hooker-38091.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1455508/Michael-Hooker.html
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/125054
http://fc95d419f4478b3b6e5f-3f71d0fe2b653c4f00f32175760e96e7.r87.cf1.rackcdn.com/BF8A4EE71E764B57B24F5E7AE0236ED9.pdf
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/112191
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wakeham
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-wakeham-the-watchdog-now-has-to-explain-why-he-didnt-bark-659231.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110116055613/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-wakeham-the-watchdog-now-has-to-explain-why-he-didnt-bark-659231.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3294325/Ministers-splurged-46-MILLION-Kids-Company-despite-six-warnings-dire-state-charity-s-finances-13-years.html
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/news-items/ne_241809
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_pilgrimsociety01.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carington,_6th_Baron_Carrington#cite_note-whoswho99-20
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=889394
https://mariamuir.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Bishop-Peter-Ball-charged-with-sex-offences-dating-back-to-19771.png
Revealed: Lady Thatcher's FIVE attempts to secure knighthood for Jimmy Savile while her aides warned about his 'lurid' sex life. He was finally knighted in 1990, Lady Thatcher's final year in office
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2366576/Revealed-Lady-Thatchers-FIVE-attempts-secure-knighthood-Jimmy-Savile.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=je8dAQAAMAAJ&q=Hooker,+Craigmyle+%26+Co&dq=Hooker,+Craigmyle+%26+Co&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZqNyU2JzKAhWGND4KHfhTAAcQ6AEINjAG
