Paul David Haynes (78-83) passed away peacefully at home on July 15, 2022 aged 57. He had been diagnosed with glioblastoma (an aggressive type of cancer that can occur in the brain or spinal cord) in 2019 and given 15 months to live. His brother Mark (77-80) writes that Paul “fought valiantly and did not complain during the almost continuous rounds of chemo, steroids and two surgeries. Three years later the disease finally won.”

At the College Paul rose to become a Cadet Captain in Macquarie Division and a member of the Upper VI form. He won the Trinity House Prize in 1983 and rowed for the 2nd VIII. He also played in the College orchestra, and sang in the choir and the Choral Society. At the College he was sponsored by the Fleet Air Arm to learn to fly before he could legally drive a car on the road. He went to BRNC Dartmouth from the College but, in his brother’s words, “the Royal Navy was not meant to be.” In 1984 he left and moved to Gosport and began a career in the moving business. Later he resettled in Aldershot.

These were occasionally challenging times for Paul and at one point he was driving a cement mixer by day and a bread van at night to provide for his young family. Eventually he found his way with Cadogan Tate, a specialist business founded in 1977 that moves, stores and cares for precious works of art and helps transfer expatriates. He ended up as Group Managing Director leading the company’s expansion across the UK and into the USA and Europe. In 2017 the company moved the Obamas out of the White House.

Freemasonry became a dominant part of Paul’s life outside work and his family. He joined his first lodge in 1998 and remained an active member throughout the remainder of his life, at one point helping to form a motorcyclist lodge in Hampshire, so combining two of his passions. One of his regrets, according to the Old Wellingtonian Lodge where he was an honorary member, was that Old Pangbournians did not have a lodge – something he was always seeking to correct.

Paul married soon after leaving Dartmouth and had three children. His met his partner Anne thanks to a common love for motorbikes and the river Thames. He was also a lifelong supporter of Arsenal FC. His son Ben, in a Eulogy given at Paul’s funeral, described him as “a remarkably hardworking and generous man…a person of great integrity and humour.”