Category: Old Boys

Lists, Individual profiles of or references to Old Boys

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Memories of Ronnie Barker

by Tony Phelps (c.1946)

Tony Phelps writes:

“I met Ronnie on the (non-professional) stage in Oxford in 1946. That was the year when I returned from war service.

Having acted a bit during the war, I joined a drama group calling themselves the Theatre Players, somewhere in East Oxford. Ronnie Barker was a member, and we acted together in a thriller called “A Murder Has Been Arranged” in early 1946.

We then began rehearsing “The Blue Goose”, with Ronnie as a small-town mayor (a part he fitted perfectly even as a 16-year old) and me as a round-the-world yachtsman. Unfortunately I had to leave the cast as I got a job in London before the play could be produced.

I met him only once more, when we bumped into each other in the Charing Cross Road, by which time he had already started in repertory.

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Tony Howkins

TONY HOWKINS & TONY (ARCH) ARGYLL IN OZ

Arch writes: Tony Howkins lived near to me at Cumnor Hill.

We worked together at the Sir Wm. Dunn School of Pathology under Lord Florey.

We came to Oz on the same sloop in the same cabin to work at the Australian National University. We were both at the ANU Medical school for a number of years until I moved to the Zoology Dept. Tony then came over to work with me there.

We see each other a lot, in same clubs etc, since we both retired. 

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Who did what?

Earlier in this century, Mike Chew tried to construct a list of Old Boys still alive, in association with Malcolm Williams, that could serve as a base for the reconstitution of the school register for 1929-1966. He constructed two lists: a short one with just names and perhaps a job title, and a second which carried quite a bit more detail on Old Boys who were still alive at the time.

We reproduce his work here:

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First Eleven Cricket

Extract from the School Magazine for July 1960:

Captain: P V Strongitharm;

Vice Captain: K Moore;

Hon Sec: R Weaver.

Played 10 Won 2 Drawn 6 Lost 2….

The best piece of batting was Jefferies’ 54 out of a total of 93 in the Past v Present match…..

Moore and Burke have proved an excellent fast opening attack……Burke’s 6-9 against Mr E J Wright’s XI was a superb piece of sustained fast bowling, as was Moore’s 6-16 against Salesian.

(Vol LII iii July 1960 No 169) 

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Lord Salter (1890-99)

March 1961

Lord Salter, after whom Salter House was named, was at the School from 1890-99, and was the first Treasurer of the Old Boys Club between 1903 and 1906.

He was a Scholar of Brazenose College and took a double first. He became an Honorary Fellow of his own college and Fellow of All Souls.

He had a distinguished career in the Civil Service. He was the junior MP for Oxford University from 1937 until university seats were abolished in 1951, after which he became MP for Ormskirk.

He sat in the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1945 and Minister of State for Economic Affairs in 1951, and went to the House of Lords in 1953 as Baron Salter of Kidlington.

His literary works were extensive, and from 1933 to 1950 he held the Chair of Gladstone Professor of Political Theory and Institutions at Oxford University.

(Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171)

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Professor A E Jolliffe (1882-1891)

From the School Magazine, March 1961

Professor A E Jolliffe, after whom Jolliffe House was named, was a distinguished mathematician, having been an Open Scholar at Balliol.

He was an Honorary Fellow of both Jesus and Corpus Christi, and in 1920 he became Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Holloway College, University of London.

He was President of the Old Oxford Citizens’ Society from 1903 to 1913.

(Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171)

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Jack Halliday (1923-33)

December 1945

We regret to report the death in an aircraft crash near Rochefort im France of Wing Commander Jack Halliday on his return home to be demobbed after service in India.

A well-known figure in Oxford sport, he was captain of our School football and cricket teams, and even before leaving school had found his place in the County Cricket eleven, of which team he was elected Captain in 1938.

In 1933 he went up to Merton where he was a Postmaster and Ewelme Exhibitioner and in 1936 he took 2nd class in Maths Mods. In 1935 he was awarded his cricket blue.

Before joining up, he was on the staff of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

(Vol XXXVIII. i, December 1945 No 126)

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