I was very sad to learn (on 01/06/26) of the passing of Robert Gradon. We were friends at school (Haileybury) - though not close friends, Robert was Top Scholar of his year when he began at Haileybury in 1970. I had won the same top scholarship in 1969, so we had this experience in common. We also shared a vibrant faith in Jesus as Saviour. I also met him briefly at Cambridge, where he was involved with the Navigators, a Christian group.
I was always impressed by his quiet and sincere Christian faith, and his gentle, loving, Christ-like character.
To those who mourn, may I encourage you with those wonderful words of Jesus in John 11 v 25 (ff): "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die yet shall he live; and he who lives and believes in me shall never die..."
Adrian Hall
02/06/2026