Tim McCarthy died in July at the age of 85.


Tim McCarthy was a Cadet Captain during the World War 11 era at the NCP and occasionally attended the four-year reunions of 1943 CCs organised by Trevor Turner. He left the NCP in 1943 and served in the Royal Navy in during the war.

After the war Tim left the Navy when he married, and joined Spillers. By the end of the 1970s he was based in Sussex and had become a senior manager. In this capacity he managed one of the largest mills in the country at Spillers Millenium Mill in the Docklands area of London. He was hugely respected by his workforce and seemed "almost happier talking with and working with his mill workers than his director peers" according to an Address given at his funeral by his son-in-law and good friend Graham McNeillie.

Tim retired in 1988. His last 15 months were tough as his health worsened and he lost his wife and younger daughter to cancer within a couple of months of each other. His final days were spent with his elder daughter Amelia and her husband at their home near Witney in Oxfordshire.