Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

There was a Cambridge rowing Blue in the 50's.I think he also became President. Name began with D I have recalled the name. I think the OB who rowed in the Boat-race and became President of CUBC was Dingle. Any further info? Yes, Rodney Dingle rowed in the 1952 Boat Race. He's commemorated here - b...

"Christ's Hospital works as a co-ed school really beautifully, and I believe in co-ed with the zeal of a convert."

CH's former deputy head talks to the Spectator:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/tal ... e-the-sea/

I remember 3 of the 4 staff in LHA when I started and I remember those that joined in the following 2 years. But I can't for the life of me remember who had the flat at the back of the house when I started. The four staff were Dickie Dawe, Chris Nicholson, Pete Webb and P G Williams. The flat was o...

I see David Norgrove (Thornton B 1959-67), former chair of the Pensions Regulator and current chair of PensionsFirst, the Family Justice Board and the Low Pay Commission, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours. Congratulations to him.

Francis (“Fred”) Haselhust (no “r”) died at CH before retirement, while he was still teaching and senior housemaster of Th A in the early 1950s. If he was then aged 64, say, it seems unlikely he could have been at CH in 1925. Not sure I quite follow you here, Martin. If Haselhust was aged about 64 ...

One possible candidate (three syllables, begins with H) might be Jack Hood-Phillips , who taught at CH for one term (Lent 1925) as a postgraduate student-in-training and set up the CH Scout troop, which suggests a particular involvement with junior boys. Fifty years later he was an Almoner. Another ...

Well, the coroner has now "totally rejected" the German verdict of suicide:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rmany.html

Jerry's suicide was "a set-up", says expert witness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32800508

I see Stephen White (Middleton A 1968-75, Governor) is Liberal Democrat candidate for Bishop Auckland, while John Perry (Lamb A 1961-69) is UKIP candidate for Havant. Do we know of any others?

This lament over the plight of today's authors focuses on the admired novelist Rupert Thomson (PeB 66-73):

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/m ... uthor-life

time please wrote:...a headmaster who could have starred in " Silence of the Lambs".

True. DHN seemed to take a savage delight in ripping children to shreds. He did it to me and I haven't recovered.

Another tragic day for Christ's Hospital... http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10491380.Christ_s_Hospital_pays_tribute_to_teacher_and_former_pupil_who_fell_to_their_deaths_in_Anglesey/ More information here: http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10488892.Tributes_pour_in_after_father_of_three_teacher_from_Chri...

Sad to see this Telegraph obituary of D. J. A. Shears (Maine B 35-44):

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