Blue Yellow Pages (Last Names beginning with B)
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- BABER, Edward Colborne (CH circa 1860)
Scroll down to his picture, after which he crops up frequently in the text
- BAINE, John 1968–1975 (La B)
Goldstone Ghosts is a book of football poems by Brighton and Hove Albion's in-house bard Attila the Stockbroker (Basil Baine, La B 68-75), who calls it 'the story in verse of our battle to save our club from greedy moneymen and a celebration of our recent renaissance.' It's available for £3.50 including postage and packing from PO Box 668, Portslade, East Sussex BN42 4BG. Cheques should be made payable to John Baine.
February 2001 "Attila the Stockbroker" (Basil Baine, La B 68-75) has been appointed poet-in-residence at Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club.
- BAKER, Jo 1999–2002 (LH A, Gr E)
Social Studies student in Liverpool. Senior Staff, Christian Survivors Ministries
- BALDWIN of BEWDLEY, Earl 1970–1974 (Viscount Corvedale, Horsham Staff)
BALDWIN - Sally (Countess Baldwin of Bewdley), died aged 59 at Sobell House, Oxford, in the early hours of Friday 22nd June, with spirit undimmed after a long and heroic fight against breast cancer. Much loved and sorely missed by Edward [Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, formerly Viscount Corvedale, Horsham Staff 70-74], Ben, James and Mark. Funeral and cremation in Oxford and interment at Wilden will both be private; a celebration concert will take place in the autumn. Donations if desired to the Hon. Treasurer of The Speedwell Trust at 26 Hamilton Road, Oxford OX2 7PZ.
Link to "Cambridge Catalogue" showing the "Baldwin Papers" book outline and purchase
- Band: Nately, London-based rock band
Nately, a London-based rock band involving Niall Barker (Pe B/Pe A 84-91), Will Shallcross (Mid B/Mid A 84-91) and Alex Selby-Boothroyd (Mid B/Mid A 84-91)
- BANYARD, Rev Edmund 1932–1937 (Pe A)
Reaching for the Infinite (National Christian Education Council, £13) is a prayer anthology (based on the Revised Common Lectionary) compiled by the Rev Edmund Banyard (PA 32-37).
- BARBER, Hettie (Hertford Staff 1930s, Horsham Staff 1940s)
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- BARKWAY, Jeremy Henry 1934–1941 (Ma B)
From an email received from Jeremy's widow, Mrs Veronica Barkway July 2006:
He was born in 1924, and yes he would have attended Christ Hospital in the thirties, leaving in the summer of 1941.
He joined the army a year later, he survived landing in France on D day with the 6th Airborne light Tank Squadron at Pegasus Bridge.
After the war he had a long career in retailing.
His retirement was spent in his beloved Lake District in the house he had been brought up in.
I hope this will prove helpful to you, I did not think of e-mailing you at the time of his death. It was nice to see Old Blues remember in such a way. Jeremy talked of his school days often.
- BARNETT, Lawra 1973–1980 (Leslie-Miller, 2's)
This is a recipe from Miss Jukes' cookery class, Hertford, and is one of my daughters favourites!!
Pineapple Pudding
Ingredients:
- 1.5 oz plain flour
- 1.5oz margerine
- 2 tablespoons pineapple juice
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1.5oz sugar
- 8 fluid oz milk
- 2 eggs
- half a small tin pineapple chunks
- 2oz caster sugar
- 3 drops vinegar
Method:
- Melt margerine in a pan and remove from the heat. Add the flour and stir in. Add the milk gradually.
- Bring to the boil stirring all the time and cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and immediately add the pineapple juice. Then add the sugar and lemon juice.
- Separate the eggs and whisk the yolks into the sauce. Cook again slightly.
- Add the pineapple, mix in and pour the mixture into a greased pudding dish.
- Whisk the egg whites until they are very stiff, fold in the caster sugar in four lots. Add 3 drops of vinegar.
- Pile the meringue onto the pudding ensuring it seals the mixture completely around the edges.
- Place on a baking tray near the bottom of the oven and cook until the meringue is set and golden brown in colour. The oven should be gas mark 2 or 250 f.
ENJOY!
- BARR, Louise 1989–1996 (Col B)
Design Editor and Development Editor of the innovative Head First series. I.T. books with a difference: they're fun!
Owner of Frog Box Design - a graphic and web design consultancy specialising in usable and accessible web design.
- BARR, Philippa 1950–1956 (3's, Governor)
Now Philippa Harpin, national occupational therapy adviser, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
- BARROWS, Kathy 1980–1985 (7's)
Where are they now: 7's until 1985 and at Hertford until 1985. Being sought by Alex Berry (now Alex Schwieso)
- BARTLETT, Chris 1941–1947 (Col A)
From Chris Bartlett (Col A 41-47) we hear that D J Leighton (Mid A 49-58) has written Montague Druitt: Portrait of a Contender (Hydrangea Publishing, £15), the first full-length biography of the Victorian barrister suspected of being Jack the Ripper. The Ripper website www.Casebook.org says it's well written and nicely published, an excellent overview of the known facts of Druitt's life and death. 'Leighton doesn't believe Druitt was the Ripper, but instead opts for a flavour of the Royal Conspiracy theory as his preferred explanation for the crimes.'
- BARTON, Sdn Ldr Arthur Edward Mackenzie, DFC (Max) 1933–1941 (Col B)
Born 31 January 1924, died on 11 May 2001 at his home in Aust, Bristol. His wife, Jean, wrote to say: 'He had a good party at the end of January, and was then in and out of hospital. He came home for the last nine weeks. He didn't get into any great pain and just drifted away while I was there.'
Max started his education at CH in Prep A in 1933, moving to Coleridge B in 1934, where I joined him as a new boy. Our academic abilities being similar, we both opted to specialise in Engineering when we entered the Upper Fourth. In one of his letters to me, in later years, Max wrote: 'The classics masters and house masters had little interest in me, but Teddy Edwards, Kirby and Averill, and various art masters did take an interest in me, communicated to me some of their own knowledge and enthusiasm, and by so doing gave me a sound foundation for my own life. I shall always remember them with affection.'
Due to wartime policy at the end of 1940, when we were in the GE, the school was no longer a centre for University of London Matriculation examinations, so, Max and I, who had studied the Matric. syllabus, sat the examinations elsewhere. Pleased with our success, we returned to school as EM (Engineering and Medical) Deputy Grecians, working for the University of London Inter.B.Sc.. Although our age group had not yet matriculated, the Headmaster informed us that we were not suited to higher education, and that we were to leave on our 17th birthdays, before the end of the school year.
Max served with distinction in the RAF during the war, as navigator and pilot, and continued service with the RAF until 1967, when he retired as a Staff Officer, with the rank of Squadron Leader, in Operational Requirements in Whitehall.
With a recommendation from Dr Barnes Wallis (CH 1900-04), he moved to Bristol, where, he worked on the Concorde for ten years, and then moved into the Guided Weapons Division of British Aerospace as manager, project leader, study manager and inventor. He retired in 1989.
As a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, he was Secretary, and then Chairman, of the Bristol Branch. After serving on the Council of the Society for 12 years, he became Vice President in his last year on the Council.
When he retired, Max gave up his dangerous sport of sailing off shore, which included crossing the Atlantic single handed, and started motor racing. He also pursued his lifelong interests as poet, painter, potter and philosopher. He spent years writing theses on controversial theories in physics, especially his 4 dimensional theory of light transmission.
Max was a gentle man who was loved by all who knew him, and will be greatly missed by his wife, Jean, his daughter and his two sons, as well as his many friends. In Max's words, 'I do not have any ambition to attain great spiritual eminence, or wealth or power, only to try to be true to myself and truthful to others, to achieve the benevolence of loving kindness for its own sake.' - written by Arthur HC Williams Col B 1934-41
- BAWTREE, Adrian 1979–1986 (Pe A, Staff 2000-)
Using your keyboard skills - an innovative look at church organist as career choice
- BAXTER, Edward Felix 1896–1901 (CH)
Subaltern, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment. Posthumous Victoria Cross
- BEAUMONT, Ben (LH B)
Where are they now: Was in Leigh Hunt B with the boys Alex Clift, Nigel Gilbert, Milky, Simon Goodwin, etc. Being traced by Piers Barttelot (1987-1990).
- BEAZLEY, Sir John 1898–1903 (11's, Col A)
Belated mention for a publication we missed in 1985. Beazley and Oxford edited by Donna Kurtz (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 10) marked the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir John Beazley (11's, CA 1898-1903), Professor of Classical Archaeology and the man who revolutionised the study of Greek vase painting. It records the verdict of T E Lawrence: 'Beazley is a very wonderful fellow, who has written almost the best poems that ever came out of Oxford- If it hadn't been for that accursed Greek art, he'd have been a very fine poet.' He was a close friend of the poet James Elroy Flecker, brother of H L O Flecker (Headmaster 30-55). Among those thanked for helping to compile the book or mark the centenary are Peter Attenborough (MB 48-57, Almoner), Sir John Forsdyke (CH 1895-1902), Jasper Griffin (PA 48-56) and Roy Salisbury (TB 40-46, Officer 46-86, Clerk 71-86, Governor)
Greek Art by Nigel Spivey (Phaidon, £14.95) refers to Sir John Beazley (11's, CA 1898-1903) and his methods of identifying hundreds of ancient Greek artists, most famously vase-painters, whose names are unknown. He gave them such labels as 'The Elbows-Out Painter' and 'The Painter of the Woolly Satyrs'.
- BELCHER, Ronald Henry 1925–1934 (La B)
Died in Autumn 2002. After leaving CH he obtained BA degrees from both Cambridge (Jesus College) and Oxford (Brasenose); from Cambridge he also acquired a Diploma in Classical Archaeology. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1939 and served in the Punjab until 1948 when he moved to the Commonwealth Relations Office. In the early Fifties he was seconded to the Foreign Office and joined the British Embassy in Washington; otherwise he remained in the CRO until 1965, rising to be Deputy High Commissioner for the UK in South Africa (1956-59), Assistant Under Secretary of State (1960-61) and Deputy High Commissioner in Delhi (1961-65). He was appointed CMG in 1958. From 1965 to 1975 he was Under-Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration, the forerunner of today's Department of International Development. In 1980 he was one of several Old Blues who contributed to the Scolar Press book The District Officer in India, 1930-1947. His interests included music, archaeology and the theatre. He married, in 1948, Hildegarde Hellyer-Jones, who died in 2000. They had one son. Belcher left a legacy to CH.
- BELL, Brigadier General Ron 1943–1951 (Ba B)
The memoirs of the oceanographer Timothy Parsons (BB 42-49) will be published next spring by EcceNova Editions, entitled The Sea's Enthrall. 'A witty, at times philosophical, sometimes even poignant exposition on Life, as seen from the perspective of a man whose scientific training is wonderfully complemented by a curiosity for less empirical matters, such as poetry and religion,' the book includes a section on his CH years, complete with photos. A CH contemporary, Brigadier General Ron Bell (BB 43-51), commends Parsons as 'an independent thinker who likes to challenge conventional views, whatever the subject - a scientist who appears to have discovered there is a poetry to life which illuminates his thinking.'
- BELL, Chris 1972–1979 (?)
Where are they now: From Steve Le Butt on 21st Nov 2005 and so the stag do is probably a distant memory by now!!: I wonder if you can help, I have the dubious honour of organising a stag do for Jon Watson Miller (the second one I might add !) and I am trying to find Chris Bell ( 72-79 ) and Elliott, same year, but can't remember his first name. Do you have any details for either of them?
- BELL, Robert Donald Murray 1926–1935 (Mid A)
Died in November 2001. He went from CH to Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a First in the Natural Sciences Tripos (Physics) in 1938. In the same year he joined the Scottish Office. He served in the Royal Artillery from 1940-45 (1943 saw him at the Military College of Science, Bury). By 1946 he was a Principal in the Scottish Home Department, from 1947-50 he was Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland and between 1959 and his retirement in 1976 he was an Under-Secretary in the Scottish Departments. Later he seems to have moved from Inveresk, just outside Edinburgh, to a house of that name in Spain.
In 1941 he married Karin Anna Smith, whom he outlived. They had a son and a daughter.
- BERRY, Martyn 1948–1957 (Mid B)
The Chemistry of Art with Anthea Peppin and Colin Osborne A resource pack exploring the close relationship between the seemingly diverse worlds of Chemistry and the Arts. Royal Society of Chemistry/National Gallery, £10
AS & A Level Chemistry with Eric Lewis A clearly structured Chemistry text ensuring successful progression from GCSE to AS and A level. Longman, £26.50
Hydrogen Technology & Fuel Cells with Averil Macdonald A 4-volume lesson book set, comprising Science through Hydrogen, Chemistry through Hydrogen, Energy through Hydrogen, Physics through Hydrogen heliocentris Energiesysteme GmbH, price unknown
His Guardian obituary of Gordon Van Praagh, Horsham Staff 1933-63
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- BIRT, The Venerable William Raymond 1921–1929 (Mid A)
Died on 11 March 2002 aged 90. He was Archdeacon of Berkshire 1973-77 and from 1985 had the title Archdeacon Emeritus.
The son of a clergyman, Raymond Birt did not take orders himself until his mid-forties. He taught at Trent College 1929-31, was a sub-editor on The Daily Sketch 1933-34 and then spent five years at Play Rights Publications as an assistant editor. War service followed: as a Major in the 22nd Dragoons (RAC) he was responsible for wireless communications - vital in all armoured regiments - and was mentioned in despatches. In 1946 he returned to publishing as an editor with Winchester Publications, moving in 1949 to Country Life Books. He was co-author of The Queen Elizabeth, the world's greatest ship (1947) and sole author of The Glories of Winchester Cathedral (1948), The Glories of Ely Cathedral (1949) and XXII Dragoons 1760-1945: The Story of a Regiment (1950).
Trained for the priesthood at Ely Theological College, he spent his entire ministry in the diocese of Oxford. After curacies in Caversham and Newbury he was Vicar of St George's, Wash Common, Newbury, 1963-71; for part of that time he was also priest-in-charge of Enborne with Hamstead Marshall. Serving as Rural Dean of Newbury from 1970 until his appointment as Archdeacon, he moved from St George's in 1971 to spend ten years as Rector of West Woodhay. Circa 1980 he was made an Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. After retiring as Rector he spent another decade as Assistant Rector of the combined parish of West Woodhay with Enborne, Hamstead Marshall, etc. He lived latterly in Kingsclere, south of Newbury. His stated recreation was 'gardens and gardening'.
In 1936 he married Marie Louise Jeaffreson, with whom he had a son and two daughters. She died in 1990 and in 1994 he married Diana Bronwen Warren.
- BLAKEWAY-PHILLIPS, Clare 1969–1975 (4's)
Clare Blakeway-Phillips (4's 69-75) is one of four editors of Accreditation in Primary Care: Towards Clinical Governance (Radcliffe Medical Press, £18.95).
- BLAND, Rob 1961–1967 (Mid A)
Died in Holland of cancer, 30th October 2004
Nick Duffell's The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System (Lone Arrow Press, £20) sets out the case of the 'Boarding School Survivors' movement and is edited by Rob Bland (MdA 61-67) whom the author thanks 'for years of friendly discussion of the problems of being English, for running many of the men's groups with me, and for making this book readable.' Bland is quoted occasionally in the text but with no direct comment on his CH experience except that he enjoyed many things about it, including the food!
- BLOOMFIELD, Peter 1944–1951 (Pe B)
Christ's Hospital in the Year 2000 - The first ever full colour illustrated book about CH, tracking all aspects of life over the academic year 1999-2000. [publisher?], £25
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- BLOWER, Nick 1999–2001 (Pe A, Gr W)
Working in West End theatre. Co-proprietor, Redeggs Web Design
- BLUNDEN, Edmund 1909–1915 (Col A, Senior Grecian)
Not one but two new biographies of that neglected OB Leigh Hunt (CH 1791-99): Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt by Nicholas Roe (Pimlico, £12.99) and The Wit in the Dungeon: The Life of Leigh Hunt by Anthony Holden (Little, Brown, £20). Roe's book chronicles Hunt's glory days as champion of liberty, journalist, editor, advocate, essayist, poet, and associate of Byron, Keats, Shelley, Hazlitt and Charles Lamb (CH 1782-89), ending in 1822 shortly after Shelley's death. Holden tells the whole story, including Hunt's long decline into obscurity (he survived until 1859). The man who, when jailed for two years for libelling the Prince Regent, not only continued to publish successfully but turned his cell into a well known left-wing literary salon (hence Holden's title) lived on and on, quarrelsome, thwarted and impoverished, to become the original of the feckless Harold Skimpole in Dickens's Bleak House. Both biographies have been well received; some critics, ignoring Ann Blainey's Immortal Boy in 1985, claimed no life of Hunt had been written since the one by Edmund Blunden (Col A 09-15, Senior Grecian) in 1930. Hunt's Selected Writings have been published in six volumes by Pickering & Chatto, price £495.
Edmund Blunden (Col A 09-15, Senior Grecian) wasn't the only Old Blue to write a memorable account of the First World War. William Linton Andrews (6's, Pe B 1898-1902) spent most of it as an NCO in the Black Watch, training as an officer only in 1918. He took part in the battles of Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, Loos, the Somme and Third Ypres and survived them all to write Haunting Years: The Commentaries of a War Territorial (1930), now reissued by the Naval and Military Press at £11.95.
Recent books by John Purkis (Mid B c. 1950): A Preface to Wilfred Owen (Longman, £14.99) - in which the names of Edmund Blunden (CA 09-15, Senior Grecian), Keith Douglas (La A, Mid B 31-38) and John Middleton Murry (3's, Ma A 01-08) crop up - and Teach Yourself Greek Civilization (Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99).
Several OBs appear in Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop by Humphrey Carpenter (Sceptre, £7.99). In wartime Oxford Runcie was in the Officers' Training Corps and was taught map-reading by Edmund Blunden (Col A 09-15, Senior Grecian) 'in a very fey kind of way; you couldn't hear what he was saying most of the time.' Back at Oxford after the war he attended Ancient History lectures by Russell Meiggs (Ma B 12-21, Senior Grecian, Horsham Staff 20s), a 'really wonderful man'. As Archbishop of Canterbury he chose as his chief of staff Ross Hook (Ba B, LB 28-36, Almoner c. 80-88) whom the present Bishop of London recalls as 'a large personality who was mis-cast as an administrative assistant.' Hook's wife Ruth did a lot of ghost-writing for Runcie. Mention is made of the book Hostage: the complete story of the Lebanon captives by Con Coughlin (Pe B 66-73).
- Boarding house refurbishment
Refurbishment of the boarding houses and construction of House Parents' houses (3 photos)
- BOLTON, C.J. - MA (Oxon) PhD from Berkeley 1957–1965 (La A)
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- BOLTON, Rohan 1959–1968 (1's, 3's)
Rohan Bolton (1's, 3's 59-68), a former librarian in the House of Commons and in the UK office of the European Parliament, has edited the Federal Trust's Guide to the EU Institutions (?25). 'Here in one volume are all the answers to many basic questions about Europe'.
- BOOTH, Septimus Paul Brooke 1906–1912 (Col A)
Archived version of the above link (live site down 05/05/06)
- BORGARS, Barbara 1963–1970 (5's, 2's)
I'm currently in Barcelona working as an Export Sales Exec. for an offset printing house.
Pleased to quote Old Blues for printing jobs, if only so that they can check that they are getting a good deal !
Email: bborgars@hotmail.com
Cell : +34.646.290.892
Work details:
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Tel: +34.93.260.22.33
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Cell: +34.629.42.40.99
Email: bborgars@graficasviking.com
- BOUCHER, N.A. MA, DPhil (Oxon) 1954–1962 (Ma A)
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- BOURNE, Rachel 1977–1984 (Hertford)
Rachel Bourne (Hertford 77-84) is joint editor with A. L. G. Hayzelden of Agent Technology for Communication Infrastructures (Wiley, £55).
Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London
- BOWEN, Keith DPhil, FRS 1951–1959 (Ba B)
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- BOWEN, Marcus 1976–1982 (Th A)
Real Estate and Facilities Management Consultant with GVA Grimley
- BOWLEY, Sir Arthur 1879–1888 (CH, Governor)
The renowned statistician Sir Arthur Bowley (CH 1879-88, Governor) left detailed notes on his schooldays, which his daughter Agatha used when writing A Memoir of Professor Sir Arthur Bowley (1869-1957) and his Family. Published in 1972, the book has not been noticed by The Blue until now. CH in Bowley's time is described as 'primarily middle class and professional'. He wrote that going to Hertford was 'a terrifying and probably injurious experience for a child of nine years old' and Newgate Street offered 'sufficient teasing and minor unkindnesses to make life rather terrifying to the timid or thin-skinned, and some ignorant cruelty against anyone with natural peculiarities.' But boys 'were allowed a good deal of liberty to be out of the premises and their costume was known and respected throughout the City of London.' An academic high-flyer, he also enjoyed the boating club and wrote warmly of his fellow Grecians and many staff including James Barnard, Master of the RMS. On Speech Day the Grecians, holding white kid gloves, would take up a collection for their imminent expenses at university; this was called 'glove money' and Bowley's share in 1888 was fifteen pounds, ten shillings. He received an extra £10 to re-clothe himself when he handed back his uniform, and subsequently more than £300, mainly in the form of an Exhibition. At Cambridge his 'extremely kind and helpful' tutor was the Rev Richard Appleton (CH 1858-67, Governor, President CH Club 1896-7). A tribute to Bowley by Graham Hutton (TB 16-20) is quoted. And there's a surprise guest star: Sir Arthur refers to a photo in The Times showing 'the school marching over London Bridge, preceded by their band, headed by a majestic Grecian tossing his baton, in 1945, en route to the Mansion House.' The majestic one was surely Paddie Drake (CA, BB, MdB 39-47), the present Old Blue Editor?
- BRADLEY, Paul 1965–1973 (Col A)
Where are they now: At CH around 1964-1974. Being traced by Martin Broadbridge
- BRAVO, Russ 1971–1978 (Th B)
Editor, Christian Herald. Director, Christian Family Network
- BRICKEL, Tim 1987–1995 (Pe B, Pe A)
Update from Tim, 05/03/09
After leaving CH I went to Leeds College of music to study Jazz (BA hons).
I now perform with a number of different artists around the country and more and more often internationally. I have done loads of sessions over the last 10 years for Yorkshire Television….Emmerdale, Heartbeat, The Royal, At home with the Braithwaites, A touch of Frost etc etc. (After seeing the news today, hopefully that won’t be the last).
I teach for 4 days a week in schools 1 on 1 Drum - kit.
I’ve built a studio in the garden where I also teach, record and play.
My main and most exiting project at the moment is with my girlfriend Sarah Mitchell (www.sarahmitchell.biz) who has now been signed to Candid records (Jamie Cullum, Clare Teal, Stacey Kent). About to be release on April 30th at Pizza Express (Dean street) in London, is an album we recorded ourselves at home called ‘You give me something’.
We have just performed at the Dubai Jazz Festival along with Spyro Gyra and Peter Cincotti.
I have recently played with Julian Jackson (Fellow Old Blue) in his function band. What a player he is now! On the bass, drums and piano…gulp. A legend in London I hear. I have also been converting some old Beating retreat/ showband/ jazz trio videos to digital which has been really interesting.
There are plenty of current videos and pictures on Sarah’s website, and I also have a Myspace website which is www.myspace.com/timbrickel1
Some recent photos (click on each for larger version):-
- BRODRIBB, Gerald (Horsham Prep Staff 1941)
Mentioned in "Christ's Hospital: The War Years".
Book, Maurice Tate: A Biography (insert 'brodribb' as a search term)
- BROWNLESS, Basil 1936–1943 (Ma A)
Music teacher & campanologist. His son, Edmund's website has a full obituary obituary as well as pages about books and articles which he wrote.
- BUCKLEY, Shaun 1952–1958 (Col B)
Where are they now FOUND: last heard of in Toronto in the early 60's who is being sought by Michael Liberman (Col B 1951-59)
- BUGGÉ, Christopher 1959–1963 (Ma B)
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- BURLEIGH, Douglas H (Horsham Staff, arrived before 1926, left 1946)
Mention in Old Blue Scientists Reminisce - extensive report on Science Teaching at CH.
- BURNS, James Glencairn 1802–1809 (CH)
Officer in the army of the East India Company. Son of Robbie Burns
- BURT, Sir Cyril 1895–1902 (1's, 14's, Ma B)
Adrian Wooldridge's Measuring the Mind: Education and psychology in England, c. 1860 - c. 1990 (Cambridge University Press, £60) gives a fine account of the storms over the reputation of Sir Cyril Burt (1's, 14's, MB 1895-1902), the pioneering educational psychologist who after his death was accused of faking his findings. Burt's defenders are shown to have a strong case but Wooldridge is frank about his disreputable side and says that on the crucial question (did Burt invent some of the twins he claimed to have studied?) no firm judgment can be made. The matter is explored again in Cyril Burt: Fraud or Framed? edited by N J Mackintosh (OUP, £23.95).
- BUSBRIDGE, Ida 1919–1926 (7's, Head Girl)
Ida Busbridge (7's 19-26, Head Girl) was the first woman mathematics Fellow of an Oxford College (St Hugh's) and is mentioned, with photo, in Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood & Robin Wilson (OUP, £35). During the war, when many skilled mathematicians were swept up into war service, she was one of the two dons who sustained Oxford's mathematical work by carrying heavy loads of lecturing, teaching and examining, and was responsible for the tutorial arrangements for all the women's colleges, not just her own.
- BYERS, Cyril Martin 1918–1922 (La B)
Held the rank of Deputy Principal at the Bank of England, died on 18 November 2004. He played rugby for the bank, was a pianist and choral singer, and contributed to the life of Croydon as Treasurer of its Guild of Social Service and part of the Croydon Writers' Circle. With his wife, who predeceased him, he had a son and a daughter. We presume he was a brother of Maurice Walter Byers (LB 16-20) who died in 1983.