Old Princethorpians

I left Princethorpe in 1974 after my A-levels, which frankly I did badly in, I went off to do a degree in Communications Arts in Montreal, Canada.

I majored in film production because I aspired to be a film director.

I managed to graduate with a second class honours degree. I also managed to go steady with a French/Italian lady, though unfortunately we grew apart when I returned to HK. Out of sight, out of mind!

I worked in a TV station as a producer for three months and soon realised that it was not the job for me, because I felt people in the media business lived their life in a virtual world, out of touch with reality.

Law College in the UK was my next stop.

I worked like a dog and miracles do happen, as I passed and qualified as a lawyer in the UK, HK and Singapore.

I have now been in practice for nearly thirty years.

Today, I am the General Counsel and General Manager of Bank of China which is the second largest bank in Hong Kong.

I am happily married with two children. My son, Lloyd-Reginald, is at school in Shrewsbury in the UK. He has just completed his GCSEs and got 10 A*s. 

He must have inherited my genes!

Since leaving Princethorpe in 1992 I went up to Newcastle and completed a degree in Chemistry and met my future wife Estelle. After deciding that I couldn’t spend the rest of my life in a lab, I worked as a bar and live music venue manager for quite a while before deciding on a career change.

Estelle and I moved to Hong Kong in 2007 and I re-trained as a financial analyst and work for a boutique wealth management firm in central HK. We have a 5 month old little girl called Ruby and thoroughly enjoy living in south east Asia.  

Perry Lam (Alan) (1991 -1995) is now self employed, working in project management in the architecture/interior design field in Hong Kong and China.

If you would like to get back in touch with Perry, you can find him on Facebook.

I left Princethorpe in 1979 after spending seven great years there (Benet House) and after having followed my three elder brothers (Sean, David and Kevin) through the school, two of which continue to claim they were Head Boys. I went from there to Brighton Polytechnic to do a Diploma in Business Studies. Neither Oxford nor Cambridge appealed!  

I then spent a couple of years in London before moving to Bristol between 1984 and 1990 working for an IT recruitment company. I returned to London in 1990 to get married and then joined Credit Suisse First Boston, a global investment bank  in their HR department in 1993.

I have been with them ever since, although now the whole group in branded as simply Credit Suisse. I moved from London with them in 1999 to Singapore and then onto Hong Kong in 2005, where I am today.

I am currently a Managing Director in the Bank and the Head of HR for the group across all Asia Pacific. We have over 8,500 staff in the region.

I married in 1990 to an Australian called Libby and we have two young sons, aged seven and two, Jack and Finn.

It has been many years since I have been back to Princethorpe so I can only imagine it has changed enormously, but for the better I’m sure. My memories of the school, my friends and all the teachers are wonderful. My time at Princethorpe has served me well since leaving.       

After finishing my A-Levels at Princethorpe in 1998 I went to study Mathematics at Imperial College, London.

Upon graduating in 2001 I stayed in London and worked in the music industry, yes, music... till I moved back to my native Hong Kong around the end of Feb 2008.

I am now working as a freelance musician, mostly giving instrumental lessons at various schools as well as music centres and privately at home.