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Mr Rider's recommendation that Kirby should get MBE is available on The National Archives website.

Uncle's sister's marriage to Karl Pfeffer can be found on Ancestry website.

(Foolish) Fay

I have just stumbled on this topic, which I have enjoyed. Kit treated me well, but perhaps gingerly and always very properly. I was an avid Kirby-ite and also enjoyed being around the Art School, both perhaps incompatible with being friends with Kit. I seem to remember (a few years ago) walking outs...

It must have been about1957. I remember "Uncle" Kirby, during one his holiday camping trips, taking us to a smallish factory which had been set up and run by an Old Blue to import, process and sell balsa wood and products made from it. All very proper. And earlier to an Old Blue farmer who...

He had a sister who married a German (I think) and spent the war in Germany. He had a nephew born about 1935

Surname Pfeffer maybe

Don

Bullard :: "take logs" was useful advice from Bullard, Maths teacher. MH Jones (Prep): well suited to being a Prep housemaster and general teacher for 9 to 12 year olds. "Uncle" Kirby : certainly a very odd individual, but overall an inspiring schoolteacher and life teacher. The...