Comments on: We are saddened by the demise of Mr. Ram Advani

By: Peter Stringer

Peter Stringer — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:21:52 +0000

The grieving for the passing of a family member is always a private affair. I wish to offer my condolence with many other OCA(UK) members to Ram Advani’s loved ones.
I remember him very well as the Bursar at Bishop Cotton School, Simla under Can.Sinker and shortly after with Rev, Drake. By chance (when he was 90 or 91) – I very fortunately got to meet Ram and his wife on their visit to their daughter’s home near Basingstoke. With a friend we spent an afternoon and lunched with them. Very enjoyable hours as we exchanged stories of School, Simla & the Punjab before partition. Both our families had close ties in Lahore. He told – with the help of his uncle after leaving BCS he opened a bookshop in Simla and closed due to lack of tourists and English readers. He moved to Lucknow and established his beloved Book Store and his legendary circle of friends. His gentle and soft-spoken manner always a heart warmer, fascinated us with life’s experiences – leaving us with happy memories – bless him.
Peter Stringer Lefroy 1943 – 47

By: John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:14:19 +0000

While saddened at Mr, Advani’s passing he had a long and productive life for which we can be gratefull. As a young boy at BCS he was allways there to be helpfull. My condolence to his faimely.
John McLaughlin Ibbetson 41-48

By: Robert Arthur Myers

Robert Arthur Myers — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:14:25 +0000

I was saddened to read of Ram Advani’s death, but glad it was apparently peaceful. I remember him well from my time at BCS from 1941 to July 1945, when I left early to go to Cambridge. He was always most approachable, charming and friendly if and when you had cause to see him in the Bursar’s Office. I have never forgotten, or ever will, his great kindness in comforting me when accompanying me on my last walk to the station the day I left school, when I was in a state of great distress and very tearful, having just taken a highly emotional leave of my House, Ibbetson, and close friends of many years. He consoled me by saying that however difficult to believe at that moment, it would be the new friends that I made at University, who would be those with whom I would form close lifetime associations. And how true it proved to be. He was a much liked and respected man and I am glad he lived so long, 94, to share his life with all those many who passed through his bookshop. I would be very grateful if this appreciation of mine could be conveyed to his family with my condolences for their loss. Robert Myers, The Old Rectory, Seavington St. Michael, Nr. Ilminster, Somerset, England.

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