IAN Shuttleworth GSM

"Ian Shuttleworth, who has died of cancer aged 71, enriched many lives with his courage, good humour and determination, despite being confined to a wheelchair for 46 years, and brought the pleasure of sailing to disabled people.
Shuttleworth learnt to sail on the Solent as an 11-year-old, and when he was introduced in 1978 to the newly founded Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST), which aimed to facilitate sailing for the disabled, he threw his support into the organisation. He also lent his body and his wheelchair for the testing of new equipment for the sail training ships Lord Nelson and Tenacious.
As importantly, as a fund-raiser for the JST over the next 35 years, Shuttleworth generated millions of pounds . He never rattled a bucket, but thought of lucrative fund-raising ideas, and he never accepted expenses for his ceaseless efforts . Instead he was rewarded by being made a trustee and later vice-chairman of the trust.
In 2010 Shuttleworth completed a sky-dive, raising thousands of pounds for the JST. “I am sure you will be thinking,” he wrote , “how can someone be stupid enough to jump out of an aeroplane especially if it is still in flying condition? Well, I was a naval helicopter pilot some years ago and was not issued with a parachute, so it was more than a little interesting. I have now done the jump from around 13,000 ft, but please keep your donations coming .”
Ian Ashton Shuttleworth was born at Bournemouth on March 11 1944 into a military family: his father was a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy and later Deputy Lieutenant and then High Sheriff of Derbyshire, and all five of his brothers became officers in the Army, the Royal Navy or the Royal Marines. He was educated with his twin, Richard, at Seacourt school in Southsea, Desmoor prep in Surrey, and at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, and they both won scholarships to the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, in 1962.
At school the cry “You, Shuttleworths!” was often heard and it seemed that the twins were in trouble more often than others. At Dartmouth, where in uniform they looked even more alike, they sometimes swapped places, generally so that one or other could accept a social engagement, and they were only caught once. Staff officers saw the funny side, but the twins were jointly punished for the impersonation.
They were not separated until the Navy appointed Richard to a ship in the Middle East, and Ian to the destroyer Daring in the Far East, where he was awarded the GSM for services during Konfrontasi (the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation). Nevertheless, they took the same course, as lieutenants, to become helicopter pilots and were awarded their wings on the same day in July 1969."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11726718/Ian-Shuttleworth-charity-fund-raiser-obituary.html