Oliver St John Heaton (OW 1949)

The School was informed that Oliver died on 17 March 2013 in Oxford. On leaving MCS he worked for Basil Blackwell, whom he described as a guardian figure in his life. Following his time there, he went on to manage one of the two antiquarian bookshops in Turl Street for some 17 years. He had been a hugely generous supporter of the school during his life, as well as a benevolent landlord to the tenants in his house in North Oxford – preferring the right person to a market-rate rent. On his death, Oliver left a substantial legacy to MCS, for which we are hugely grateful.