Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

After Webb was given the boot, it came to my ears that he'd been dismissed for exactly what he had indeed been dismissed for: fondling boys in the dormitory at night. And yet I had left the school years before he was booted out. So how can it be that I, an Old Blue, got to hear about the real reaso...

It seems surprising to me that the vast majority of the Grecians East house have no buttons The explanation is that in the CH context the meaning of the word Grecian has changed. By the time I was there in the Seventies, it meant simply "member of the Upper Sixth". The aristocrats in their spectacu...

Sad to see our former Clerk has passed away while still in his fifties:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html

Just dispatched it, but it doesn’t seem to be in my sent messages or in my outbox, so I’m mystified. Let me know if it hasn’t reached you and I’ll try again.

Hello Montagu -

I'm writing you a detailed private message, but it may take a little while.

Some tributes here:

https://www.facebook.com/OldBedfordians ... =1&theater

http://bromhamhouse.blogspot.co.uk/2014 ... -news.html

He really only taught the violin (maybe piano on the side), and was not much in evidence otherwise. He was much more in evidence in the mid-to-late Seventies, when he was the original administrator of the CH Arts Centre. His wife was Olive Peto's deputy as School Librarian, and they had (at least?)...

An MBE "for services to music and for charitable services" has been awarded to Alan Wilkinson of King's Lynn, Honorary Music Director and Co-Founder of Music In Country Churches (see website below). This must surely be the former CH music master of the same name (Horsham Staff 1957-80) who used to r...

Puzzled by the seeming disappearance of the thread about the late Jack Page (Horsham Staff 1947-79) . In the hope that it wasn't somehow caused by my action yesterday in adding his impressive Telegraph obituary, here's the obit again: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10839100/John-Page-obi...

Congratulations to the restaurateur Jeremy King (Peele A 64-72) on his OBE for services to the hospitality industry and voluntary services to the arts.

Forensic psychiatrist Tim McInerny (ThB 74-83) featured in the Lee Rigby murder trial today: Earlier the court heard how a psychiatrist who assessed Mr Adebolajo concluded that he does not have a mental disorder. The expert who assessed Mr Adebolajo said he was polite and co-operative and had mental...

Specifically, Alex Lanipekun (Lamb A 1992-99) in Big Bad World:

http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/news/040 ... elevision/

Major-General F H R "Buster" Howes (Coleridge A 1971-?78) of the Royal Marines has been appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

CH pays tribute (includes some details of his schooldays):

http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/loc ... -1-5001002

Interesting interview with him here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 63108.html