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.”
Category: The Staff
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.
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.
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.
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.
F C (Freddy) Lay
Brian Beames (1945-50) writes:
Time to ask what work is for
Ian Lamb writes: The rest of this newsletter is devoted to the full text of an article written by “Jock” Sutton. I am indebted to Alan Trinder (1944-51) for forwarding it to me. (Ed. Jock was editor of the School Magazine for many years, as were other teachers of English before him.)
Arthur Wilson Cave 1888-1900
From the unfinished School History by Geoffrey Hart Chapter 2: The First 12 Years of Mr A W Cave’s headmastership Résumés of the first two chapters of the History of the School, written by Geoffrey Hart, were published in Newsletters 4 and 6 just before he died. These two chapters cover the first years of… Continue reading Arthur Wilson Cave 1888-1900
F W ‘Jock’ Sutton
David Manners and his wife have visited Jock Sutton and his wife Muriel in their nursing home in Oxford. David writes: