Category: School Magazine

A random selection of articles

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The Old Bastion

This article dates from a school magazine in the 1920s and complements another one which speaks of the city wall

One would think that every Oxford High School boy knew the old bastion which still rears its somewhat stained shattered form on the south side of the school playground; yet, strange to say, we found that, when the fact that we were making enquiries about the bastion became generally known, the most frequent question that we were asked was , “What and where is the Bastion?”

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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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A H G Kerry (1896-1908)

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.

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