Matt Audinwood Seeking Adrian For Reunion
Old Princethorpians are trying to help Matt Audinwood track down his old friend Adrian Ray Chaudhuri, so they can meet up when Matt returns to the UK for a holiday with his family from Cape Town this July.
Matt's mother, Sue, got in touch to see if the College were in contact with Adrian. Sadly we aren't but managed to find an address for Adrian in Kenilworth but we're not sure how current it is.
Matt and Adrian were at Princethorpe around the early 80s when Matt was 15, after his family returned to the UK from Kenya. The family used to live in Kenilworth at the time.
Matt now lives in Cape Town and is married to Amelia, has a daughter Saskia aged 14, and son, Benji age 12.
After qualifying as an architect in Oxford Matt worked for Nightingale Associates in Harwell, Oxfordshire, a very successful architectural company specialising in designing hospitals. Some years later Mike Nightingale asked Matt to open an office in Cape Town, and the family moved there eleven years ago, with Matt as Managing Director.
He built up a very successful business in impressive premises in the centre of the city and later expanded into a further Black Empowerment division. More recently he has been head hunted by a well established South African company known as Ruben Reddy Architects CC, who also have branches in Johanesburgh and Durban, so he now finds himself travelling regularly and widely within South Africa.
Cape Town is a very beautiful city, and they have a lovely home in the City Bowl under the shadow of Table Mountain, and only 10 minutes drive from the beach. They have a very happy life there with many friends, and the schools are excellent. Matt's wife Amelia is an interior designer and artist, who has her own studio from where she also teaches very successfully.
Granny Sue visits annually, and has recently bought a small apartment, with a plan to spend three months of the year catching up with her grandchildren!
If anyone knows of Adrian's whereabouts and can put the two friends back in touch in time for them to meet up in July please email oldprincethorpians@princethorpe.co.uk.
Thanks.
