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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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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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T E Lawrence (1896-1907)

A Speech by Mr Churchill

If you have not landed here from that page, you can read about the circumstances of this speech here

“Mr. President: Although more than year has passed since Lawrence was taken from us, the impression of his personality remains living and vivid upon the minds of his friends, and the sense of his loss is in no way dimmed among his countrymen. All feel the poorer that he has gone from us. In these days dangers and difficulties gather upon Britain and her Empire, and we are also conscious of a lack of outstanding figures with which to overcome them. Here was a man in whom there existed not only an immense capacity for service, but that touch of genius which every one recognises and no one can define. Whether in his great period of adventure and command or in those later years of self-suppression and self-imposed eclipse, he always reigned over those with whom he came in contact. They felt themselves in the presence of an extraordinary being. They felt that his latent reserves of force and willpower were beyond measurement. If he roused himself to action, who should say what crisis he could not surmount or quell? If things were going very badly how glad one would be to see him come round the corner.

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