The Headmasters The headmaster’s chair _______ Arthur Tempest Pollard – HM 1881-1887 This photo of the students features Headmaster A W Pollard _________ Arthur Wilson Cave MA – HM 1887-1925 This photo of the sixth form features Headmaster A W Cave ________________ J E Badham MA – HM 1925-45 Frederick Charles Lay (Freddie) – HM… Continue reading The Staff Gallery
Category: Staff Profiles
Memories of Masters
Writer known: “Mr Badham, Headmaster during my time at School, rarely gets a mention in the Newsletters. He was the only man I ever met who regularly wore spats. He enjoyed quoting, in his slightly old-fashioned accent. “Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh were the only two who ever got… Continue reading Memories of Masters
Quality of the Teaching
Stephen Peters writes: “Further to the remarks of Colin Justin and Nigel Moulden about “Flea” Lee, another of his punishment options was to be beaten with a broken chair leg (wooden). What luxury to be able to choose between the metal pipe, the length of rubber and the chair leg!! It is of little comfort… Continue reading Quality of the Teaching
P K ‘Eddie’ Swire
Philip K Swire retired in July 1977 after 34 years at the City of Oxford School and Oxford School. He was educated at Glossop Grammar School and Wrexham county School before coming up to Jesus College to read Modern Languages. For three years he was in Launceston, Cornwall before moving to Oxford in 1943. It… Continue reading P K ‘Eddie’ Swire
Philip Nash
Philip E Nash died in 1968 from heart trouble, which had caused him to retire early from Denstone College in 1967. An Open Scholar of University College he came from Ambleside in 1938 to replace Mr G E Churchill as Senior Classical Master. He was an inspirational teacher with a special interest in rugger and… Continue reading Philip Nash
H N N Waterman
Laurie Bates, apparently an Old Boy but of whom we have no record, wonders why no mention is made of Mr Waterman, who was a Latin Master at the School. Anyone remember him? Laurie, incidentally, lives in Paignton. Anyone remember him? PS – A few hours after this item was placed on the website, we… Continue reading H N N Waterman
Ben Atkin
B C (Ben) Atkin died in 1966. He retired from the School after a bout of ill health, and lived in Iffley, near the parish church. He was a Scholar of Hertford, and joined the School in 1932 as Senior Mathematics Master but left two years later for Beaumont College. In 1941 he returned gave… Continue reading Ben Atkin
A V Kiley
Mr A V Kiley taught Metalwork for some years at the School until leaving in 1966 was appointed Headmaster of an Infant and Junior School in Rochester in 1970.
COHS in Wartime 1940-45
by Brian Gumm (1940-45) Brian Gumm (1940-45) writes: Looking back over some sixty years or more, my recollection of the COHS in war time was surprise that the process of education proceeded in a more or less orderly fashion with few interruptions due to the war raging across Europe. This I am sure was not… Continue reading COHS in Wartime 1940-45
Harry Jacques
by John Stockford (left 1944) John Stockford of Redwood City, California writes: “Thanks for the Update …all very interesting. I didn’t recognise the refurbished Chemistry lecture lab where I once saw Harry Jacques set fire to himself after dropping some phosphorus on the floor and then scuffing it with his shoe. The flames shot up… Continue reading Harry Jacques