Farewell Arthur Bowden
25th January
Much has been written in the media and online about Arthur Bowden, who died around a fortnight ago after a fine innings of 92. I put a notification to that effect onto LinkedIn, the corporate social media platform, so that the BWS Diaspora would be aware of the sad tidings. There are around 2,000 connections to my profile, and it is usual to have around 1,000 who read my weekly news update. I have just checked back and to date there have been 11,620 hits on my announcement of the demise of 'Titch'. Such is his pulling power, such was the affection that he was held in by generations of Bishop's Boys from the over three decades that he spent at the school. Comments have flooded in from across the entire globe, and so I thought that after a couple of weeks' gestation I would publish some to a different audience.
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