Nixon’s School: A Precursor

From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LVI, ii March 1964 no 180

From Ian (Spud) Taylor

The Reformation had led to the establishment of grammar schools in many sizeable towns in England but not in Oxford. Wolsey, who had bestowed such liberality on Christ Church, had preferred to build a school in his native Ipswich. Yet, as time went on, it became apparent that neither Magdalen Grammar School, incorporated as it was within the walls and community of the College, nor the choir schools of New College and Christ Church by concentrating on their primary purpose were meeting the needs of many local boys.

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George Wright

From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LIV, iii JULY 1962 no 175

‘ Labuntur anni nec pietas moram ‘ — as for our Headmaster, so for ‘George’ — a name that Mr. George Wright has borne with distinction in our midst since the early ’30s, when he joined the staff and developed the teaching of History as a Sixth Form subject.

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