The President of the OI Club for 2023 is Sir Neil Garnham.

Neil was at the School from 1970 to 1977 and in Felaw House.  He was an enthusiastic, if unexceptional, rugby player, playing in the first XV for the last couple of years of his school life. He also played tennis and squash for the school and was a keen debater in the school debating team.

Neil did seventh term Oxbridge and went up to Peterhouse, Cambridge to read law.  He graduated in 1981 and took the bar finals exams in 1982; he was called to the bar by Middle Temple the same year and began pupillage at 1 Temple Gardens, in London.  Neil moved chambers in 1996 joining 1 Crown Office Row, a set that specialised in clinical negligence and public law work.  He took silk in 2001, and practised as a QC for 14 years before being appointed a High Court judge, and knighted, in 2015. In his last years at the bar Neil was involved in a series of public inquiries, including the Paddington Grove Rail Inquiry, the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, the Leveson Inquiry into the press, and the Litvinenko Inquiry.

On the bench, Neil is just coming to the end of a four year term as Presiding Judge of the western circuit, the supervising judge for courts from Winchester to Truro, Exeter to Swindon. In London, he sits on civil and public law cases and in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.

Neil married a former High School girl, Gill (nee Shaw).  They have two sons, Freddie, now a primary school teacher in Oxfordshire, and Charlie, currently a student at Oxford Brookes.  Having spent 20 years living in London, Sussex and Essex, Neil and Gill returned to Suffolk in 2008.