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Alastair Roosmale-Cocq: Appreciations & Memories-by Michael Roberts   Source:Thuppahis VALE ONE by Jeremy Ludowyke My name is Jeremy Ludowyke and I’d like to tell you something of Alistair’s life before he came to Australia in 1969. Like Alistair, I was born in Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, of Dutch heritage and ancestry. The first Roosmale Cocq arrived in Ceylon from the Netherlands in 1763 and many were Magistrates or Judges in the first Dutch then British colony. Perhaps this is where Alistair inherited his magisterial bearing. The Roosmale Cocq motto is Am Omni Re Paratus, meaning I am ready for anything. A creed Alistair could be said to have lived his life by. And he would have loved the fact that I have just inveigled a Latin phrase into his eulogy. Alistair was the eldest son of Jamie and Marguerite. His father was a formidable and highly-respected man who rose through ...