Tim Everard (Q 48-52) died suddenly in Malvern on January 5, 2020 aged 85 as reported by his second cousin Dick Everard (61-66). 

At the NCP Tim was in Macquarie division and became Chief of the College in Michaelmas Term 1951. He then gained entry into the Royal Navy through the direct examination route in March 1952 and also won the Devitt & Moore Chief Cadet Captain’s Prize at the NCP in the Summer term 1952. 

After BRNC Dartmouth, Tim joined the RN Submarine Service in 1956 and qualified for submarine command in 1965. After captaining HMS Talent – a T-class submarine commissioned in 1945 – until it was paid off at the end of 1966, he served at HMS Dolphin, the RN submarine base in Portsmouth. He then spent three years with the Royal Australian Navy at its anti-submarine warfare school at the RAN shore base HMAS Watson in Sydney before returning to Dolphin in 1970. Two years later he served in HMS Resolution, one of the RN’s two ballistic missile submarines. In 1974 he was posted to HMS Rooke, a naval shore base in Gibraltar for a year before transferring again to the RAN to command the Oberon-class submarine HMAS Oxley in 1975.

Tim remained in Australia when he retired from the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and worked as a consultant on submarine projects in the Sydney area for a number of years. After that he farmed avocados for a while and bought a house in Noosa, north of Brisbane, in Queensland. He was always a conscientious attender at OP Society events in Australia. In 1960 he married his wife, Terry, and the couple had two children. They moved back to the UK in mid-2019.

His second cousin Dick Everard adds: “I visited him in Noosa in 2016. Despite living on the edge of a golf course, he didn’t play and seemed bored as well as hating the lack of social life. His back had been injured when he was at sea and although he had had an operation on his spine, he struggled to walk and always used a walking stick. Latterly, I suspect that he got homesick. He had come back to the UK on a trip in 2015 and from then on thought about returning.  He and Terry moved into their daughter’s flat in Malvern and were looking to buy a house nearby when he collapsed and died. He was still very lively and had met up with old Naval friends in the area.  He had also been to the Boxing Day meet of a local hunt shortly before he died.”