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December 1945
A H G Kerry (1896-1908), after whom Kerry House took his name, has retired from Eton where he has been House Master for many years.
He was captain of the Oxford University Amateur Football Club in 1911-12 and gained an international cap in 1921.
(Vol XXXVIII. i, December 1945 No 126)
PS from Mike Chew: I understand he later took a teaching job at Millfield School in Somerset.
A note by Tony Phelps:
The Lawrence Brothers’ Memorial Fund financed the establishment at Jesus College Oxford of a Scholarship or Exhibition, which was first competed for in 1939. It was created in memory of three of the Lawrence brothers. Namely:
In the Oxford Mail of 22 Dec 1977, this critique was published by Keith Robertson of the book “Solitary in the Ranks” Lawrence as airman and private soldier”, by H Montgomery Hyde and published by Constable.
“Lawrence may have sought solitude when he refused offers of high office and instead listed in the ranks as an airman.
In April 1962 “Ross: a dramatic portrait” by Terence Rattigan was performed at the New Theatre in Oxford. The lead role of Ross (Lawrence of Arabia) was played by Michael Bryant. In the programme there were some biographical notes on T E Lawrence:
1888 Born in Tremadoc, North Wales
Educated at Oxford High School and Jesus College, Oxford
1909 Travelled through Syria and Palestine alone and on foot to gain material for his chosen thesis on Crusader Castles
1910 Gained first-class honours
1910-14 Worked as an archaeologist with the British Museum Expedition to the Hittite site at Carchemish
1913 Helped in secret military survey in Sinai. On the outbreak of war obtained a job in the Map Section of the War Office
Dec 1914 After Turkey entered the war joined the intelligence service in Cairo
Oct 1916 Landed at Jeddah with Ronald Storrs
1919 Accompanied King Faisal to the Peace Conference and made Fellow of All Souls, Oxford
1920 Appointed Political Adviser to the Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill
1922 Enlisted in the RAF as J H Ross
1923 Enlisted in the Tank Corps as T E Shaw
1924 Re-enlisted in the RAF as T E Shaw
1935 Discharged from the RAF on expiry of his term of office
March 1935 Killed in a motor-cycle accident near his cottage in Clouds Hill, Dorset
Read also our post of the story “How Lawrence joined the RAF”, as told by one W E Johns in a national newspaper in April 1951. Johns, the author of the Biggles books, was at the time chief recruiting officer at the London Recruiting Depot, and handled the case from start to finish. Fascinating reading.
Sir Henry Sessions Souttar (1875 -1964) was an eminent surgeon. One of his books, “A Surgeon in Belgium”, dealt with his experiences in the First World War. It was first published in 1915 by Edward Arnold and is still available in a recent reprint (ISBN: 1428054154). Souttar became famous for his “Hole in the Heart” surgery, and later became President of The British Medical Association.
On the Barts & London Hospital website it is written:
“Sir Henry Souttar was another of The London’s most brilliant surgeons. He was the first surgeon in the world to open a chamber of the heart to stretch the organ’s mitral valve, which later became a basis for modern heart surgery. Sir Souttar also met Madame Marie Curie in Paris to discuss the use of radium, and then persuaded the Medical Research Council to give The London the first precious gram of radium which he used to treat breast cancer.”
Old Boys visiting the School some time in the 2000s
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During the life of a previous COSA website, data was collected with the view of reconstituting the school register to complete one from earlier times. This was being compiled by then Association Secretary Malcolm Williams but I’m not sure where the project has got to.
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