Brian Roberts (TC 1945) 

29 July 1927 – 7 August 2022  

Brian Roberts was born on a soldier settler farm in Hopetoun. He joined Trinity College aged 17 and said the experience had a big impact on him, given his rural upbringing (even though he was ‘one of the poor students’ who started College life in the Wooden Wing).  

Brian studied science at Melbourne University and worked in the paint industry after graduating. He then moved to England to work in the textile industry, and later returned to Australia where he became the general manager of Preservene Soap and ran a small business selling industrial adhesives.  

Brian married June in the Trinity College Chapel in 1956 and the couple went on to have four children. His granddaughter Georgina Ridley followed in his footsteps to Trinity.  

Alan Cuthbertson (Fellow)

23 October 1929 – 2 November 2021 

Born in Glen Iris, Alan Cuthbertson became a prefect at Scotch College in 1947.  

He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and trained in surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in the US after doing postgraduate work in the United Kingdom.  

He and his wife, Janet, had four children, one of whom, Andrew, joined Trinity in 1980.  

Alan and Janet developed Murrindindi Vineyards in Victoria’s High Country, having planted vines on their cattle property in 1978.  

Alan was a respected physician, particularly noted for his excellent surgical technique, and long-serving Trinity College tutor in surgery. 

The Hon. Robert (Clive) Tadgell AO KC (TC 1956, Fellow) 

15 March 1934 – 14 July 2022 

Clive Tadgell grew up in Melbourne and attended Brighton Grammar and Wesley College. Clive studied law at the University of Melbourne, signed the Victorian Bar roll in 1960, and went on to be appointed a justice of the Victorian Supreme Court in 1980. At Trinity College, Clive was known as an excellent debater and won the President’s Medal for Oratory.  

Clive was committed to the Christian faith and was a supporter of the Trinity College Theological School. He served as Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne and President of the Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia. 

Clive and his wife, Christina, had two children, one of whom, Malcolm, was student president of the Trinity College Theological School in 2022.  

Brian Loton AC (TC 1950, Fellow) 

17 May 1929 – 29 March 2022 

Brian Loton was born and raised in Western Australia. After leaving Hale School, he spent two years on his family’s property in the Swan Valley, then studied metallurgical engineering at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1953.

He joined BHP as a cadet in Newcastle and stayed with the company for his entire career. He rose to the position of CEO in 1984 and became chairman in 1992.   

As a student at Trinity College, Brian was on the TCAC, and later became the president of the Fleur-de-Lys, holding the position from 1985–87.  

Brian and his wife, Jill, had four children. His daughter Carolyn, son Warwick and grandchildren Lachlan and Jackie Kirwan attended Trinity.   

Angus Trumble (TC 1983, Fellow) 

6 October 1964 – 8 October 2022 

Angus Trumble was born in Melbourne and attended Melbourne Grammar. He studied fine arts and history at the University of Melbourne, then moved to Italy, where he interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.  

 He returned to Melbourne to serve as aide to the Governor of Victoria from 1987–91, then took up positions including curator at the Art Gallery of South Australia, senior curator at the Yale Centre of British Art (US), and director of the National Portrait Gallery. He was also a Fulbright scholar and an Honorary Research Fellow with the National Museum of Australia. 

Angus was on Trinity’s Art Committee and was made a Fellow in 2022.