by Bryan Beames (1945-50) Bryan Beames (1945-50) of Fielding, New Zealand 5600, writes: “Thanks for the update on the web. I had hoped to see a reference to Mr. McCready at some stage and also to the student teachers about whom I wrote some time ago. As I said at the time, one of the… Continue reading Mr McCready
Category: Staff Profiles
Reg Allen
More about Mr A R ALLEN From the Oxford School Phoenix Magazine No 7. Mr REG ALLEN (Ed: At last we know his Christian name!) was appointed in 1928 to look after the school laboratories. Even when a new Biology lab was added, he took on the extra load willingly and also found time to… Continue reading Reg Allen
John P Winterton
P JOHN WINTERTON joined the staff in 1963. As a young member of the Mathematics staff, he taught Statistics throughout the Sixth Form, before leaving Oxford School “for the healthier air of Weston-Super-Mare.”
E J ‘Tich’ Wright
Ralph Baer (1941-45) remembers in particular TICH WRIGHT: “with his slow, slightly stately walk and way of speaking, very enthusiastically about the languages he taught.”
Michael Burchnall
MICHAEL BURCHNALL died in May 2007 at the age of 85. Michael went to Durham School, before going up to Merton on a postmastership. He left, however, in 1942 to serve with the Royal Devon Yeomanry. He saw service in Sicily and Italy. In 1945 he returned to his college. After a short spell teaching… Continue reading Michael Burchnall
Charles W ‘Matt’ Busby
CHARLES W BUSBY was music master at the School from 1958 to 1966, and retired when the School amalgamated with Southfield. He had taught under Freddie Lay when the latter was Headmaster at Doncaster Grammar School. He was also organist and choirmaster at St. Giles’ Church in Oxford for several years. Mr Busby retired to… Continue reading Charles W ‘Matt’ Busby
George ‘George’ Wright
COHS in Wartime 40-45 Brian Gumm writes: “It is strange the things that stick in one’s memory after sixty years. Not so much to do with the school curricula but the extra topics such as George Wright’s lectures on poison gases. How many of you remember the effects of phosgene or chlorine? Obviously for me,… Continue reading George ‘George’ Wright
J E Badham Esq MA
KEN CAMPBELL (1942-47) writes from Portsmouth: “The pictures of headmaster Badham shown at the pre-AGM slide show brought back painful memories to schoolboy Kenneth Blackwell. The fourth form had a classroom at the end of the main hall. One day, when it was too wet to go out into the playground, we decided to relieve… Continue reading J E Badham Esq MA
F C (Freddy) Lay
Brian Beames (1945-50) writes: “On one occasion Freddie Lay, having borrowed his wife’s Francis Barnett (I think it was his wife’s, but am not certain why I think that) sat astride it, successfully started same and put it into gear, whereupon the manual gear lever came adrift ! I don’t know what happened after that… Continue reading F C (Freddy) Lay
F C (Freddy) Lay
From the school magazine, April 1963 Past President of the Old Oxford Citizens’ Society Frederick Charles Lay (1908-15) was the first Old Boy of the School to be its Headmaster. On leaving school he saw war service in France with the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He returned in 1919 to Jesus College to take… Continue reading F C (Freddy) Lay