Deaths

PETER ANTHONY SLATTERY (D44) 21st March 1926 – 10th May 2017 was the eldest son of Rear Admiral Sir Matthew and Lady Mica Slattery.  He was a diligent and hard working boy at Ampleforth, and athletic enough to serve as Master of the Hounds in 1943.  He was a house and then school monitor.  His experience of Ampleforth led him to enter the Dominican seminary at Hawkesyard Priory in Staffordshire to study philosophy and theology and prepare for a life in the priesthood.  He never took his final vows however, but the four years he spent there influenced his life greatly from then on.  He continued to be actively involved in the Catholic Church, for the rest of his life and his faith remained strong.

Peter was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1957, but instead of practicing as a barrister he made a shift into insurance services.  He joined The Northern Assurance Company, moved to Hobbs Savill and Bradford where he became Managing Director, and was then invited to set up the Life Assurance Department at Williams and Glyn’s Bank, which became part of RBS, a bank at which coincidentally his father and grandfather had served as directors.  His final career move was to become General Manager of the Marine and General Mutual Life Assurance Society in Worthing.  He wrote and lectured regularly on pensions.

In retirement he became a lay spiritual director, having trained in this at Worth Abbey in Sussex.  Many people valued his guidance over the years, and he found great fulfillment in this work.  He regularly carried communion from his parish church to the Catholic residents of Walton Heath Manor, the retirement home where he eventually resided.

When not working he was to be found tending his vegetable garden or pursuing his hobby of photography.  In retirement he travelled widely, not least to visit his daughters in France and Ireland.

Peter’s last few years were less active as he slowly developed Alzheimer’s disease.  Typically self-determined he made his own plans to move into a retirement home, to move once again closer to family for his final three years.  He is survived by his brother David (D47), sister Micaëla, son Adrian (B72), daughters Micaëla and Philippa, eight grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

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Rest in eternal peace.