THE MAGB MALTING DIPLOMA EXAMINATION.
THE LIST OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1981
There are 3 classes of pass:
Pass
Pass with Distinction (only awarded from 1992 onwards)
The Walter Hyde Award * (which is a single special award given at the discretion of the examiners to a candidate who has passed the examination with the appropriate very high level of distinction.)
1981
- Anthony J Williams (Bass) WALTER HYDE AWARD *
- Paul Bland (Peach)
- Christopher J Claydon (Pauls)
- Melvin F Dale (Pauls)
- Steven Greenword (Bairds)
- Ivor R Murrell (Peach)
- Andrew Ness (Bass)
- David Sadler (Munton and Fison)
- Barry Walton (Bass)
1982
- W Bruce Oliver (Pauls) WALTER HYDE AWARD *
- Alan D Challis (J Gough)
- C D Crook (National Breweries
- N J Harris (Scottish and Newcastle)
- Roger Hayward (Munton and Fison)
- Andrew J Howard (Crisps)
- Euan M Macpherson (ABM)
- Rodney A Naunton (ABM)
- A J Steedman (Bairds)
1983
- J G Bowden (Munton and Fison)
- A Robinson (Smiths,Tadcaster)
- Ken P Steer Jones (Pauls)
1984
- A P Ashton (Munton and Fison)
- Stuart Bryce (Bairds)
- Brian D Topham (Bairds)
1985
- Alan H Phillips (Pauls) WALTER HYDE AWARD *
- Paul R Gordon (Pauls)
- Roger Woodley (Bairds)
1986
- M Barnes (Ards)
- M A Cassedy (ABM)
- Pete Robson (Simpsons)
- Jeff M Wayte (ABM)
1988
- Brian Higgs (DCL
- Tim Hyland (Pauls)
- Mike C Jappy (DCL)
- George W Sloane Stanley (Simpsons)
1989
- J A Morrell (Simpsons)
- Eric W Walker (UDC)
1990
- Howard P Carter (Milford)
- Martin J Gibson (Pauls)
- George V Irving (Pauls)
- Robert McWilliam (Moray Firth)
1992
- P Finn (Midland Malting Co) Distinction
- Steve J Le Poidevin (Pauls) Distinction
- A Alexander (SAM)
- Neil Chapman (Moray Firth)
- Kenneth Gray (UMGD)
- Douglas W Grieve (Moray Firth)
- A Holding (Munton and Fison)
- Chris J Mulder (SAM)
- Gordon W Tilley (Bass)
1994
- M E Pruden (Moray Firth) WALTER HYDE AWARD *
- David Griffiths (Simpsons) Distinction
- Alan Brown (Moray Firth)
- A G Cant (UDC)
- David Gordon (Moray Firth)
- J P Hendricks (SAM,)
- M M Kinsman (Moray Firth)
- M A Warren (Simpsons)
- Graham Taylor (Pauls)
- Stefan E Vince (Pauls)
- D F Watson (Bairds)
1996
- Freda Beer (Moray Firth Maltings)
- S Blake (United Distillers)
- Alison Currie (United Distillers)
- A Samuel (Hugh Baird and Sons)
- Chris Scott (Crisp Malting Group)
- Keith Todd (UMDG)
1998
- David Griggs (Pauls Malt)
- Valerie Hodgson (Moray Firth)
- Mark Ineson (Muntons)
- N McDonald (Hugh Baird)
2000
- Steven Rowley (Simpsons) Distinction
2002
- Guy Newsam (Muntons) Distinction & WALTER HYDE AWARD*
- P J van Rensburg (Froedtert Malt, USA)
2004
- John Thomson (Diageo Scotland Ltd) Distinction & WALTER HYDE AWARD*
- Mary Jane Smith-Maurice (International Malting Co, United States) Distinction
- Carol Inch (Diageo Scotland Ltd)
- Gary Lawton (Greencore Malting Group)
- Fraser Thomson (Dominion Malting Ltd, Canada)
2006
- Allan Findlay (Greencore Malt Ltd)
- John Bain (Greencore Malt Ltd)
- Tapiwa Pasi (Kwekwe Maltings, Zimbabwe)
- Douglas Wilkie (International Malting Co, Canada)


