Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Julian,

Just to confirm my email the other day, I'm happy to say that Patrick Duncan has turned out to be very much alive. He's living here in Edinburgh - a friend of mine met him last week at St Peter's Church, Lutton Place.

Rex

Excellent! Many thanks, Eloise.

A little embarrassing to have to ask this, but did anybody make a copy of the press report I linked to above? Seem to have forgotten to do so myself, and the page in question has been taken down. Google no longer has a cached version, and it hasn't been archived at Archive.org. I'd really appreciate...

Following her personal triumph in Pride and Prejudice (see second paragraph here ), Emma Campbell-Jones (CB 86-93) is now appearing in Sharman Macdonald's new play The Girl With Red Hair at the Royal Lyceum Theatre , Edinburgh. The show runs until 12 March and transfers to the Hampstead Theatre from...

Sorry to report that the distinguished metallurgist W B Pearson DFC (TA & CA 1931-40, Senior Grecian) died at his home in Ontario on 23 February aged 83. Detailed announcement here.

I well remember Cherniavsky - I had him for history for a while. He was promoted to Housemaster of BaB - shock of curly hair and somewhat distracted manner. I believe he is now deceased. A nice obituary of Michael Cherniavsky by Michael Craton (MA 43-49) is here: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoipa...

The Rev Charles Patrick Maxwell Duncan doesn't appear in the current (2004-2005) edition of Crockford's Clerical Directory . He was listed in the previous one (2002-2003) but the details provided were long out of date: he was said to be still at CH, which he left in 1992. The mystifying thing is tha...

David, Mr Cherniavsky (?sp) required that every pupil in his classes complete the "Thunderer"crossword by 9 am or else. Since it was very Classics based, he never had an exam failure (including the fact that everyone did S level) in the 13 years up to when I left. (He wrote the crossword!)...

No, alas, but I'd be happy to lend my copy if you'd like - just let me know where to send it.

Happy to say CWN is quite undiminished and still running amok in Bedford, where he was Master of the Middle School at Bedford Modern until 1998. When he retired they brought out a small book, A Tribute to Christopher Nicholson , filled with typical tales. Contributors included David Newsome, Michael...