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by Fidésien
Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:27 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: David Newsome
Replies: 15
Views: 14233

Re: David Newsome

Thanks for that guys [as they say on the Private Eye message board]. It sounds as if he wasn't a great success at CH. {i was there in Seaman's time.] But Newsome is well thought of as a historian, in the relatively niche field of 19th century Ecclesiastical History. I have just re-read his book Godl...
by Fidésien
Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:37 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: David Newsome
Replies: 15
Views: 14233

Re: David Newsome

Thanks, Daniel. I doubt if Wellington would have paid him [much] more money. Perhaps there was an issue with the Governors ? And might it have been to do with going co-ed ? And the girls arriving ? I am hoping someone will enlighten us.
by Fidésien
Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:34 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: David Newsome
Replies: 15
Views: 14233

David Newsome

I am sitting in Chantilly reading, for the first time in 50 years, David Newsome's book Godliness and Good Learning , a study in Victorian education. Which he wrote when he was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I understand that he was Headmaster at CH from 1970-1979, following on from George...
by Fidésien
Sat Feb 05, 2022 11:29 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Films at CH, 1956-1960
Replies: 17
Views: 45112

Films at CH, 1956-1960

Watching The Searchers last weekend,[now recognised as one of the best Westerns, and one of the best American films, ever made] I think that I first saw the film in Big School one Saturday evening in the late 1950s. Does anyone else remember that ? I think the film came out in 1956. But my recollect...
by Fidésien
Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:33 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Andrew Porter, RIP
Replies: 3
Views: 1332

Re: Andrew Porter, RIP

The excessive italic is an error. My apologies.
by Fidésien
Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:30 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Andrew Porter, RIP
Replies: 3
Views: 1332

Andrew Porter, RIP

I was sorry to learn from an obituary in The Guardian that Andrew Porter has died. He would have been a close contemporary, in Thornton A, but I didn't really know him at all. At CH he played the violin in the National Youth Orchestra; and he was, very improbably, a Geography Grecian. In fact he may...
by Fidésien
Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:03 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Independent obituary of Mark Cousins (Maine A 1957-66)
Replies: 8
Views: 3245

Re: Independent obituary of Mark Cousins (Maine A 1957-66)

Howard, No. I think you are thinking of my younger brother, Peter Martin. He was at Macaulay for a year or two before CH. [My father taught there, at Macaulay, formerly known as Clapham Parochial, for many years. Did he not often give you a lift to school about a hundred years ago ?]
by Fidésien
Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:20 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Independent obituary of Mark Cousins (Maine A 1957-66)
Replies: 8
Views: 3245

Re: Independent obituary of Mark Cousins (Maine A 1957-66)

I was sorry to see that Mark Cousins has died, aged 73. And I was impressed by the obituaries in The Independent and elsewhere; which portrayed him as an engaging conversationalist and lecturer, a polymath, a public intellectual. He was two years behind me at CH and in a different house; so as was t...
by Fidésien
Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:04 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: I.A.R. Christie, Lamb A 1956-63
Replies: 29
Views: 11404

Re: I.A.R. Christie, Lamb A 1956-63

I’m sorry about the delay in responding to Brian Watling's posting. Yes, David Christie was Ian Christie’s elder brother, also in Lamb A. They were both quite tall with fine, curly-ish fair hair. I don’t know what happened to David, but I vaguely think that he left CH after A levels; and that a few ...
by Fidésien
Wed Mar 11, 2020 12:52 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: I.A.R. Christie, Lamb A 1956-63
Replies: 29
Views: 11404

I.A.R. Christie, Lamb A 1956-63

I was sorry to learn from a recent Old Blue mailing of the death of Ian Christie. Ian, known predictably as 'Aggie' or just 'Ag' during school years, was an exact contemporary in Lamb A, and afterwards at Oxford. He was much more interested in books and architecture, and possibly flower arranging, t...
by Fidésien
Sat Jul 06, 2019 10:40 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP Michael Scuffil
Replies: 10
Views: 3706

Re: RIP Michael Scuffil

I was sorry to learn from an Old Blue mailing of the recent death of Michael Scuffil, and to find it confirmed by various appreciative posts here on the Unofficial Forum. We were not quite contemporaries at CH in the late 1950s into the early 1960s. And I didn't know him well as he was at the the ot...
by Fidésien
Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:44 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
Replies: 81
Views: 30596

Re: Freemasons and questions to answer

I don't know is the answer. But sometime in the very late 1950s/early 1960s Johnny bought a new car, which occasioned some envious comments from elsewhere along the Avenue. And Johnny and Bob Rae went off together on a continental 'motoring holiday'. Along with a third person, a Prep master whose na...
by Fidésien
Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:10 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
Replies: 81
Views: 30596

Re: Freemasons and questions to answer

Forgive my coming belatedly to the conversation, on a very occasional visit to the Forum. I've never been very interested in the Masons; it always seems to me to be a self-help organisation linked to a load of syncretist twaddle. But with 60 years of hindsight I realise that AL Johnstone, 'Johnny', ...
by Fidésien
Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:00 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Cricket coach ?
Replies: 8
Views: 2443

Re: Cricket coach ?

Thanks very much for sorting that out for me. It is confusing that there were two Northants fast bowlers called Clarke(e); both apparently left-arm. I will write to Stephen Chalke when I get round to it in the event of any future reprint of Runs in the Memory . Like Herr Dr Scuffil my involvement wi...
by Fidésien
Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:39 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Cricket coach ?
Replies: 8
Views: 2443

Cricket coach ?

I am just recovering from watching Saturday's rugby [' Scotland were robbed ' … … ' Farrell should have ben red-carded' ] by reading Stephen Chalke's book Runs in the Memory .On pp.57-71 there is an account of Lancashire v. Northamptonshire, August 1953. Opening the bowling for Northants with Frank ...