From the School Magazine Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171
Professor A E Jolliffe, after whom Jolliffe House was named, was a distinguished mathematician, having been an Open Scholar at Balliol.
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From The School Magazine Vol XXXVIII. i, December 1945 No 126
December 1945
We regret to report the death in an aircraft crash near Rochefort in France of Wing Commander Jack Halliday on his return home to be demobbed after service in India.
Continue reading “Jack Halliday (1923-33)”A H G Kerry (1896-1908)
From the School Magazine Vol XXXVIII. i, December 1945 No 126
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.
Continue reading “A H G Kerry (1896-1908)”The Lawrence Exhibition of Jesus College
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:
Lawrence: leading aircraftman
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.
Lawrence of Arabia as Ross
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:
Continue reading “Lawrence of Arabia as Ross”Sir H S Souttar (at School around 1890)
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.”
COSA Reunion
Old Boys visiting the School some time in the 2000s
J.E.Badham Esq MA
Response by the Headmaster on the occasion of the inauguration of the plaque in memory of Lawrence of Arabia by Winston Churchill, 3 October 1936
“Mr President, Madam Mayor, Mr. Pro Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Winston Churchill, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Continue reading “J.E.Badham Esq MA”Notable Old Boys
This list is, as far as we know, the most complete one in existence.
John Gibbons and Peter Williams are currently incomplete records however. If you have any details on these two – or someone is not on this list that you feel should be – please contact the Administrator.
Note that the mention House Patrons indicates an Old Boy after whom a School House has been named
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