Waugh describes their heavy drinking and wild parties, including an “orgy” where he “unearthed a strap and whipped Tony”. Despite the roistering, Bushell was the college’s middle-weight boxing champion during his first year, and later became stroke of their rowing crew.
After Oxford, Bushell studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and made his theatrical debut at the Adelphi Theatre in 1924 in Diplomacy, starring Gladys Cooper and Sir Gerald Du Maurier. In 1927 he made his debut on the Broadway stage opposite Jeanne Eagels in Her Cardboard Lover, and the following year he married the musical comedy star Zelma O’Neal. In his next Broadway play, Somerset Maugham’s The Sacred Flame, he was seen by the actor George Arliss who insisted that he be cast as the romantic juvenile in Disraeli (1929), Arliss’s first talking picture.Bushell followed this with the role of the cowardly Second Lieutenant Hibbert (the first of many military roles he would play) in James Whale’s screen version of R.C Sherriff’s sardonic anti-war play Journey’s End (1930). He made a dozen more films in Hollywood, including Three Faces East (1930), starring Erich Von Stroheim as a German spy operating as a butler in Bushell’s household, Five Star Final (1931) in which Bushell was one of those victimised by a ruthless tabloid expose, Allan Dwan’s Chances (1931), as an army officer who loves the same girl as his brother (Douglas Fairbanks Jr), Vanity Fair (1932) with Myrna Loy as Becky Sharp, and the silent star Pola Negri’s first talkie, A Woman Commands (1932).He returned to England in 1932 to continue his acting career, his prolific film roles including a naval officer in The Midshipmaid (1932) with Jessie Matthews, the romantic lead in the Karloff horror film The Ghoul (1933), a friend to hero Leslie Howard in an acclaimed version of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), a secret agent who helps British spy Vivien Leigh in Dark Journey (1937), and the conceited star football player who is poisoned during a match in Thorold Dickinson’s enjoyable Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939), which featured the Arsenal football team.Bushell’s own sporting prowess surfaced again in 1939 when, while appearing with the Malvern Festival Players, he was part of their cricket team against the Stratford Festival Players and scored 112 not out. After service in the Second World War commanding a squadron of the Guards Armoured Division, during which he met and married his second wife Anne (his first marriage had been dissolved in 1935), Bushell returned to acting, but also moved to the production side of the business.Forming a close personal and business relationship with Laurence Olivier, he was associate producer on Olivier’s Oscar-winning film of Hamlet (1948), and later functioned as associate director on both Richard III (1965) and The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). This meant overseeing the scenes in which Olivier himself appeared, though according to Colin Clark’s diaries The Prince, The Showgirl And Me (1995), Bushell “couldn’t direct traffic.

but Sir Laurence needs a chum to guard his rear, as it were, and it is a great joy to have Tony around.”The affable and companionable Bushell was always popular with his fellow workers. In 1949 he made his first film as a director, The Angel With A Trumpet, in which he also acted. A remake of a German film Der Engel mit der Posaune, its tale of a Viennese piano- making family through three generations was considered somewhat ponderous, while his next effort The Long Dark Hall (1951), a thriller produced by Bushell and co-directed with Reginald Beck made little impression despite the star team Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. His last feature as a director was The Terror of the Tongs (1961).Three of his more sympathetic roles on screen – a colonel in charge of bomb disposals in Powell and Pressburger’s The Small Back Room (1948), the urbanely devious British Minister who misleadsthe enemy in the same team’s Battle of the River Plate (1956) and a kindly brigadier helping pilot Dirk Bogarde who has secretly married a Japanese girl in Ralph Thomas’s The Wind Cannot Read (1958) – were particularly impressive, and he was perfectly cast as Captain of the Carpathia, endeavouring to reach the sinking Titanic in Roy Baker’s A Night To Remember (1958).He was associate director on The Red Beret (1953), Hell Below Zero (1954) and Bhowani Junction (1956), all this serving as apprenticeship for his entry into television, where besides acting in many plays and series he produced the fondly remembered Sir Francis Drake series (1961-62) – 26 stirring episodes with Terence Morgan and Jean Kent as Drake and Queen Elizabeth – and directed episodes of The Saint. His television acting roles included the commander who inspires four former wartime colleagues to reunite in a fight against injustice in the opening episode of the series The Four Just Men (1959) and the memorably malevolent and pig-headed colonel in the chilling Quatermass And The Pit (1967). one of the best of all television’s sci-fi thrillers (far superior to its film translation). After retirement, Anthony Bushell became a director of the Monte Carlo Golf Club and maintained an active and jovial social life.Anthony Bushell, actor, director and producer: born Westerham, Kent 19 May 1904; twice married, first 1928 Zelma O’Neal (marriage dissolved 1935); died Oxford 2 April 1997..

Lesley Scott-Ordish devoted most of her life to investigating and writing about the bond between humans and animals, in particular dogs. She was the founder of Pro Dogs National Charity and its sister charity Pat Dogs (Pets as Therapy). She did not have a dog of her own during childhood – her first was a cocker spaniel bought just after her marriage to Peter Ordish in 1953. She trained as a journalist and in the early Seventies was dismayed by the extensive press coverage, first in the United States and later in Britain, of health hazards associated with dogs – for example, the risk of blindness from toxocariasis, which in rare cases can be passed from dogs to humans.
In 1976, working at first from her home in Kent, she founded Pro Dogs, in response to what she saw as a growing anti-dog movement in the media and its damaging effect on public perceptions of dogs and their owners. She set out to highlight the beneficial influence dogs can have and to provide an umbrella organisation for responsible dog owners. Over the years, the charity gathered a panel of veterinarian and medical experts to respond to health scares and organised campaigns against restrictive laws on dogs and where they may be exercised, including work towards the abolition of the dog licence, which was eventually scrapped in 1988.From members’ letters and phone calls, Lesley Scott- Ordish discovered the trauma experienced by the elderly if forced to give up a much-loved pet upon going into residential care. This led her to found, in 1983, Pat Dogs, a national home and hospital visiting scheme through which carefully screened dog owners visit the sick and elderly on a regular basis with their dogs.

The therapeutic effects of patting a dog were impressive and with encouragement from the Royal College of Nursing, a network of volunteers with friendly dogs was set up. There are now over 9,500 of these special dogs registered with the charity.Scott-Ordish assisted in the launch of another charity, Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, in 1982 (which trains dogs to alert a deaf owner to a ringing doorbell or boiling kettle, for example) and Canine Partners for Independence in 1991 (providing dogs to help the severely disabled). She became vice- president of both organisations.In 1990 she published Heroic Dogs, to celebrate the first 11 years of the Pro Dogs Gold Medal Awards. These are the annual canine “Oscars”, awarded since 1979 for outstanding achievements in life saving, devotion to duty and pet of the year, intended as an alternative to the Crufts prizes.She spent the latter part of her life promoting the many positive benefits of dog ownership.

She bred English setters for a while, returning more recently to the cocker spaniel. In 1996 she published Cocker Spaniels, an Owners Guide and in 1997 brought out For Love of Dogs, chronicling 20 years of research into how and why animal companionship can affect the health and well-being of humans. She described this booklet as “something of a swansong, and tribute to all the lovely dogs who comfort and uncomplainingly love us”.Lesley Scott Adey, charity administrator: born 25 March 1932; married 1953 Peter Ordish (two sons); died Ashford, Kent 26 March 1997.The main source of fundraising for Pat Dogs is their annual “Walkover Britain” event; 43 organised walks, this year on 5 May For further details, please telephone 01732 872222.. Regina v Governor of Swaledale Prison, ex parte Francois; Queen’s Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Simon Brown, Mr Justice Curtis) 26 March 1997

Consecutive sentences imposed by different courts on different occasions were to be aggregated for the purpose of calculating a prisoner’s non- parole release date under the provisions of section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991.
The Queen’s Bench Divisional Court refused an application for judicial review, challenging the prison authorities’ calculation of the applicant’s non-parole release date.The applicant had been sentenced on 5 August 1993 to consecutive terms of imprisonment totalling nineteen months’ imprisonment. On 7 January 1994, at a different court, he was sentenced to two terms of four years’ imprisonment, concurrent inter se but consecutive to the sentence of 19 months.Section 33(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 provided that it was the duty of the Home Secretary to release on licence a short-term prisoner, sentenced to a term of twelve months or more, as soon as he had served half his sentence, and to release on licence a long-term prisoner as soon as he had served two-thirds of his sentence. Section 33(5) provided that a long-term prisoner was one serving a sentence of four years or more, and a short-term prisoner was one serving a sentence of less than four years.Section 51(2) of the Act provided that for the purposes of any reference to a term of imprisonment, consecutive terms and terms which were wholly or partly concurrent should be treated as a single term.Robin Allen QC and Martin Soorjoo (Breeze Benton & Co) for the applicant; Stephen Richards and Steven Kovats (Treasury Solicitor) for the respondents.Lord Justice Simon Brown said that the critical question was whether the passing of the consecutive four year term in January 1994 operated to increase the time to be served under the original sentence.