Very interesting Obituary for Lord Donoughmore, published in The Times on Friday 9th May 2025 which details his life and achievements.
The Earl of Donoughmore, doctor and businessman, was born on August 8, 1927. He died on April 25, 2025, aged 97.
When he retired he moved to Bampton with his wife, Sheila, to be near Oxford’s John Radcliffe infirmary, because of her illness
He operated a home dialysis machine until she could receive a kidney transplant. He succeeded to his father’s titles in 1981 and sat in the House of Lords under the UK peerage Viscount Hutchinson, contributing to health debates but losing his seat after the House of Lords Act 1999 restricted the number of hereditary peers.
He became vice-president of St Luke’s Hospital, Oxford, and chaired Bampton parish council and other local charities. He raised funds to create the three-acre Bampton recreation ground and build its pavilion, saving the local church by finding over £400,000 to replace the roof.
Viscount Suirdale, Hely Hutchinson
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Who’s who in the film…

Film 1
Opening frame Arthur Hill's shop the at The Deanery
1.17 Garlands ?
1.22 John Tanner, Olive Peacock, Dorothy Tanner (Buckingham)
1.40 Gerald Clutterbuck and ?
1.44 Miss Morton (Miss Pollard's companion) and friends
1.51 Daphne Jackson and David Rose & Mr & Mrs Clutterbuck & Phillip (Miss Pollard's gardener)
1.58 Mr Clutterbuck
2.18 David John and Rosemary John
2.38 Morris Dancers: Billy Wells with cake. Harry Hampton - fool. Mr Clarke - fiddle. Francis & Roy Shergold
3.36 Harry Hampton -fool
4.02 Shirley Scoble (left)
4.13 Albert Tanner
4.21 David John, Miss Taunt (tall woman)
4.24 Miss Stephens
4.34 Doris Green (Cleaver) Mrs Green at bedroom window, before the road was built up in Broad St.
4.38 Doris Green (Cleaver)
5.05 Revd. & Mrs Kellway (Vicarage - Cobb House)
5.18 Policeman - could be P.C. Hatten
5.20 Outside St. Johns in Broad Street
5.40 David John
5.41 Jim Townsend, David Robey
5.42 David Rose
5.51 ?, Bing Woodley, Michael Boden, Carol Boden, Gene Harper? Outside Eeles’ shop (now Co-op)
6.50 Mrs Wheeler, Ann Wheeler, Bessie Green, Mrs Ted Green (Warren Green's mum)
6.24 Lady with bicycle - Mrs Temple
6.31 Mrs Temple
6.39 Harry Pocock
6.50 Man up ladder?
6.52 Woman?
7.03 Man on left with moustache: Captain Dodd (lived at Windmill House)
7.11 Louie Weston (sister of Edie Quick) Jenny Quick, Kenny Quick, Christine Weston
7.26 Horace Morse
7.34 Horace Morse
7.39 Sylvia Barney, baby - Keith Barney, Sylvia's aunty.
7.40 Mrs Easton (Broad Street)
7.42 Mr and Mrs Harry Pocock, Edwin and Ruth.

Film 2
0.16 Lou Woodley, Ann Woodley, Nell (Aston Road)
0.33 Mr & Mrs Temple (Gate Cottage, Weald Manor)
0.43 Adrian Barney & ?
0.51 Sylvia and Hector Barney. Adrian?
1.01 George Bishop
1.09 John Henley & Billy Hudson (Frank's dad)
1.13 Mr. John?
1.15 Frances Henley and Lloyd Hughes-Owens & Roy
1.20 Margaret Henley
1.25 Roy Henley
1.31 Frank Collet
1.34 Peter Holtom
1.36 Tommy Tanner
1.38 (background right) Jack Rose, Mrs Rose & Pat
1.41 June Long
1.43 Rhoda Preston & Pat
1.44 Mrs Clutterbuck, Mr Gerring (Celia's Woodley's grandad)
1.46 Susan Hunt, Tina Mansfield, Jean Addison, Mary Robinson
1.48 Sally Addison, Ellen Curtis, George Bishop, Mrs. Holtom
1.50 Mrs. Ewins
1.52 Donny Phillips - (American Service child). Ernestine Stroud (Roy Stroud’s wife) Roy Stroud (Church Organist)
2.04 Roger Curtis
2.06 Ernie Hunt (Rocky)
2.08 Tom Bird, Ernie Hunt
2.10 Mrs Hunt, Susan Hunt
2.15 Patricia Preston
2.21 Shirley Daniels, Harold Hunt, Sally Addison, Tina Mansfield, Celia John
2.22 Emmie Papworth, Tommy Papworth, Johnny Hounslow, Colin Rouse
2.25 Emmie Papworth, Tommy Papworth, June Long, Ann Wheeler, Ruth Smith, Colin Rouse? Alec and Bessie Townsend?
2.26 Jim Townsend
2.29 Sammy Gough
2.35 Alan Govier (married to Frank Piercy's sister), Dickie Daniels, Kenny Long, Robert Radband, Raymond Green
2.39 Frank Daniels, ? Knight, Tommy Gerring
2.47 Kenny Curtis, June Long, Ruth Smith
2.49 April Humphries, Marina Waite, June Long
2.50 David Daniels
2.52 Anne Robey and David Robey (father was the milkman, lived at The Dairy, Broad St.) David Rose
2.55 Ellen Curtis, Ivy Becket, Mr & Mrs Snook and Richard Snook

2.56
2.58 Mr & Mrs Ham, John Rouse (lived with the Townsends), Rosemary Hounslow (Ruby's sister)
3.03 Kenny Lomas
3.07 David Daniels
3.09 Mrs Lomas
3.12 Jean Cook, Mrs Ellis, Sally Ellis, Hazel Wheatland
3.13 Mrs Collins, Celia Collins, Mrs Lomas
3.16 June Drinkwater, Hazel Wheatland
3.17 Mrs McKenzie
3.36 Miss Farmer
3.36 Alice Peacock (Puttock)
3.41 Shirley Scoble's mum
4.01 Peggy Roberts
4.05 Colonel and Mrs Powell (lived at Church Gate)
4.10 Miss Hobbs (teacher)
4.12 Carol Boden, Ann Woodley
4.19 Frances Henley and Francis Shergold
4.21 Mavis Clack
4.32 Frances Henley & Lloyd Hughes-Owens
4.32 Malcolm Collet
4.36 Brian Curtis & Roger Curtis
4.38 Peter Ham
4.41 Sheila Wagner, Roger Curtis
4.46 Sammy Gough, Victor Long, Pauline Hooper, Rhoda and Patricia Preston, Bobby Baird, Mrs Baird
4.47 Mrs Ewins
4.49 Kenny Curtis, Janet Elward, Mrs Baird, Rosie Gerring
4.51 Mr Holtom (worked at the Deanery) Frank Collett, Cyril Smith, Mrs Baird Colin Rouse ? (bottom right hand)
4.55 Robert Radband
5.03 Mrs Snook, Mrs Ivy Becket, Mrs Reynolds, Kenny & Roger Curtis, Sheila Hornsby
5.05 Roger Curtis, Beth Keel, Daphne Jackson, Olive Peacock
5.08 Mr Hughes-Owen, Mrs Rose
5.11 Jenny Keel
5.13 Ann Wheeler
5.19 Flo Radband
5.21 Edie Forshew & Rhoda Preston
5.22 Rhoda and Patricia Preston. Michael Brooks and Jim Brooks
5.23 Mrs. Rogers (Iris Humphries' mother) Mary Hampton
5.24 Violet Becket
5.25 Mrs Green, Mrs Clutterbuck
5.28 Mrs Clutterbuck & Phillip, June Drinkwater
5.35 Mrs Pocock, Kath Tanner (Ben Tanner's wife)
5.37 John Henley
5.42 Mr Hughes-Owen & Miss Morton
5.46 Laurel Humphries
5.47 Brian Radband
5.48 Bob Quick
5.55 John Quick
6.37 Mr Clutterbuck
7.00 Ann Robey
7.03 David Robey
7.13 David Rose, Ann Robey and David Robey. (outside the Old Dairy, Broad Street))
7.27 Horace Morse on his cart.

Photograph of Oil Painting painted by Hilda Kent showing Arthur antique shop

Newspaper article about the cancellation of 2023 Shirt Race, which had been one of Oxfordshire’s most popular social events was cancelled in 2023 , The historic Great Shirt Race at Bampton, organised by the Spajers (the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing) - has delighted hundreds of people annually for seven decades. Cancelled because three committee members had resigned. Don Rouse, one of the organisers still in post, was Master of Ceremonies at this race since 1970.
The modern version began in 1953 when village gasman John Quick, farmer Doug Read and fishmonger Paul Bevington dreamed up the idea of a pram race through the streets to celebrate the Queen’s Coronation.

This shop was originally the premises of Mr Money, Boot and Shoemaker in the High Street. After Mr. Money's retirement, Mrs Francis Henley rented the shop for her daughter , Hazel, to run as a boutique. It was later rented by Mona Wilkins whose daughter also ran it as a boutique. It was finally run by Julia Rouse, daughter of Don and Mary, as The Farmhouse Pantry .

These photos show a selection of businesses that are no longer available to the residents: Angela John Antiques, Health Matters, Barclays Bank, John Temple’s Hardware Shop, The Market Square Garage and Showroom where can be seen the clock that originally graced the Town Hall and The Farmhouse Pantry which had previously been a boutique and before that Mr Money ran his shoe maker and repair shop from that premises.

Mrs Bliss, widow of Colonel Bliss, spent her remaing days at Bampton House. Percy Bowerman was her chauffeur and would drive her around the village in her green Morris Minor. When she died, Percy inherited the Morris Minor.

Newspaper report about refurbishment of the Old Grammar School.
Community groups in Bampton had spent years fundraising to upgrade the Building, used as the Cottage Hospital in the hit TV series Downton Abbey. The 17th Century building already housed the village library and archive, plus a small shop, renovation work was to start December 2020. and it was scheduled to open in Spring 2021. West Oxfordshire District Council’s approved a £48,750 grant for Bampton Community Archive (BCA), owned by the Bampton Exhibition Foundation, who themselves made a ‘substantial contribution’ to the project. But the BCA has raised more than £50,000 plus grants, including almost £38,000 in £1 donations through the Bampton Mile appeal. This aim to collect one mile of £1 coins, which laid flat around the Downton Abbey Location Tour would raise £71,527.