tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post455964538614346489..comments2024-01-25T09:28:56.610+00:00Comments on Confessions of a skeptic: The original "independent review" at Ealing Abbey and St. Benedict's SchoolJonathan Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00527063732905729010noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-33172192322258830032010-11-20T09:51:12.301+00:002010-11-20T09:51:12.301+00:00Oh, please!! Come off it!! Your spoiliing the stor...Oh, please!! Come off it!! Your spoiliing the story line!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-7051270512314392632010-11-19T20:25:32.880+00:002010-11-19T20:25:32.880+00:00Father Anthony left the priesthood and got married...Father Anthony left the priesthood and got married was no mysterious disappearance involved there. Basil Nickerson got married to the school secretary Mrs Cummins and had a child with her somewhere around 25 -30 years ago. I don't know when he left the school he was still there when I left in 1982.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-50483448691163135082010-11-04T14:21:29.080+00:002010-11-04T14:21:29.080+00:00He looks to have colour in his cheeks - but then m...He looks to have colour in his cheeks - but then maybe that's the work of a good embalmer!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-54349973412879773652010-11-04T13:56:58.641+00:002010-11-04T13:56:58.641+00:0012:54, probably depends whether he was alive or de...12:54, probably depends whether he was alive or dead when they stuffed him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-881304547418080642010-11-04T12:54:33.109+00:002010-11-04T12:54:33.109+00:00Is that an appropriate use of charitable funds?Is that an appropriate use of charitable funds?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-12499284737813899602010-11-04T12:26:17.118+00:002010-11-04T12:26:17.118+00:0020:46, Alive or dead?
I'm not really sure.
T...20:46, Alive or dead?<br /><br />I'm not really sure.<br /><br />There is, however, a picture of him on the Old Priorans website dated June 2010.<br /><br />http://www.theopa.org/pdf/newsletter_2010a.pdf<br /><br />He is certainly standing on his hind legs, but perhaps the School simply paid a taxidermist to have him stuffed and mounted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-30755619171711401352010-11-03T20:46:08.763+00:002010-11-03T20:46:08.763+00:00Is Nickerson still alive?Is Nickerson still alive?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-10517703829929742592010-11-03T14:09:11.954+00:002010-11-03T14:09:11.954+00:0023:24 I think that you should add Basil Nickerson ...23:24 I think that you should add Basil Nickerson to your list. He was deputy headmaster while Pearce and Maestri were abusing pupils. I find it inconceivable that he was totally unaware of what was going on.<br /><br />I feel sure that he could provide some very enlightening answers to Lord Carlile's questions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-26154606545080240092010-11-03T14:00:23.472+00:002010-11-03T14:00:23.472+00:00Excellent suggestions, though unlikely to yield an...Excellent suggestions, though unlikely to yield any information. Dom Antony Gee was one of those mysterious disappearances in the mid 80's, like Mr Maestri (though I'm not remotely suggesting the reasons were the same). He was quickly replaced by the alcoholic thug Gregory Chillman for a few terms, at a time when the school was really going into a tailspin, what with pupils committing suicide, teachers having breakdowns, and results plummeting. He left very little impression on me, except as a curiously detached figure - perhaps that was his way of coping - apart from those times when he was able to address assemblies during open days, when he would grow quite passionate in his requests to parents to vote Conservative as the only way of saving the school.<br /><br />As for Colonel Robot Baker he was an Establishment toady and one of those poseurs like Mr Maestri who chose to wear a graduate gown so that he could pretend he was living in the 1950's/ 1850's. Life clearly held no prize sweeter for him than to live in Ealing, teach at an independent school, smarm up to priests and regularly play soldiers with children. I therefore doubt Carlile could get anything out of him, particularly as Baker certainly regards priests as being incapable of acting illegally and probably has only the vaguest notions of what sexuality is, never mind child abuse. <br /><br />When I think of the trust my late father placed in these people - and a simpler, saintlier Catholic layman never lived - it makes my blood boil. If there is a Hell, it is waiting for Pearce and anyone who abetted him, because their sins of omission are as great as any sin of commission. They had decades to deliberate and chose not to act.<br /><br />Repent, Shipperlee, before it is too late. A single moment stands between you and extinction. You taught at the school in the 1980's; give YOUR evidence to Carlile before a Higher Court calls you to bear witness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-15921601817531409222010-11-02T23:24:35.933+00:002010-11-02T23:24:35.933+00:00There are two former teachers who have not yet bee...There are two former teachers who have not yet been mentioned on this blog who certainly need to be called to give evidence to Lord Carlile.<br /><br />The former Monk and Headmaster of St B's - Antony Gee who was Headmaster during the 1970's until 1985. <br /><br />Mr (Lt. Col. Ret'd) Richard Baker who served with Captain The Rev'd David Pearce OSB in the CCF. As Mr Baker is involved in the OP's he should be available.Other teachers...noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-39412647973853992672010-11-02T22:22:48.043+00:002010-11-02T22:22:48.043+00:00Without contacting former teachers, Carlile is wor...Without contacting former teachers, Carlile is worthless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-16039783867823654122010-11-02T14:12:35.624+00:002010-11-02T14:12:35.624+00:00I have little doubt that the trustees will withhol...I have little doubt that the trustees will withhold information from Lord Carlile, after all it worked with the poor devil who was commissioned to carry out the previous review.<br /><br />Why wouldn't it work again?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-20164150595779241862010-11-02T10:25:56.315+00:002010-11-02T10:25:56.315+00:00An interesting idea 23:18.
On the basis of the Sc...An interesting idea 23:18.<br /><br />On the basis of the School's previous behaviour I very much doubt it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-36344323261308624342010-11-01T23:18:59.256+00:002010-11-01T23:18:59.256+00:00Is the school contacting former teachers and invit...Is the school contacting former teachers and inviting them to contribute to Lord Carlile's report?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-22672263519010947152010-11-01T15:03:53.367+00:002010-11-01T15:03:53.367+00:00Carlile requested that my meeting with him be priv...Carlile requested that my meeting with him be private, and that I do not blog about it except to say that the meeting happened. So I cannot say what I told him, not what he told me in response. I've already described this in <a href="http://scepticalthoughts.blogspot.com/2010/10/meeting-with-lord-carlile.html" rel="nofollow">Meeting with Lord Carlile</a>Jonathan Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00527063732905729010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-21180497867921207932010-11-01T14:31:40.860+00:002010-11-01T14:31:40.860+00:00I am sure you have told Lord Carlile all he needed...I am sure you have told Lord Carlile all he needed to know. If you didn't, why not? What did you discuss with him? the weather and the test match?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com