Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

At least two CH people are on the list: David Green (ThB 64-71) , formerly director, Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office: Companion of the Order of the Bath Craig Oliphant (Horsham Staff 84-89) , formerly head, Eastern Research Group, Foreign & Commonwealth Office: OBE Congratulations to t...

Not all CH Houses are named after famous Old Blues ----- Barnes, for one, is named after an early Benefactor, whose portrait used to hang at the East end of the Dining Hall --- he has now been "Relegated" to the Counting House ! Never heard that one before, Neill. I've always understood i...

There's a long article about the Travers buckle (and the whole Travers bequest) in The Blue for July 1950, pages 196-200. A short follow-up piece appeared in the December edition, page 54.

Can't help with the Sacristan, I'm afraid.

He was in Maine A between 1922 and 1928. His best friend is said to have been Patrick Parsons (same house, same dates) who became the B-movie star Patrick Holt. He wrote a little about his CH days in his autobiography Apple Sauce (published posthumously in 1982) but I'm afraid I don't recall any of ...

Chris Blewett wrote:Then why isnt he on the Forum (or maybe he is??!)

No chance, sadly - he died in 1979.

The people of Southern Sudan have been voting in a referendum on whether to split from the North and become a separate country. According to the press report below, the person running the referendum in the state of Western Equatoria is one "Forojalla Sibrino". I suspect this refers to Sibr...

Only just seen this. Thanks to you both - I'm touched. Highlight of the day was lunch with my old house captain Phil Coad (Middleton B 1968-75) and (most of) his family.

At least two Old Blues are on the list:


Howard Davies (Maine A 1956-63), stage director, CBE for services to Drama

Nicolas Chisholm (Thornton B 1961-68), formerly headteacher, Yehudi Menuhin School, MBE for services to Music


Congratulations to them both.

A horrible episode for Holly Walsh (Leigh Hunt B 1992-99) – I hope she recovers well:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10981589

Can anyone remember when and why the Votum was cast on the scrap heap? The rot started in 1970, when David Newsome became Headmaster. Under his predecessor Clarence Seaman, a small choir (I was in it in 1969) would stand on the Big School stage at a Junior Assembly in Michaelmas Term and teach the ...

jhopgood wrote:I can't remember him although he might well have been there in my time.

No, he was earlier: 1950-51.

What is a Comm. of the O. of S.M. & S.G.? The Order of St Michael and St George is an order of chivalry founded in 1818 "to honour individuals who have rendered important services in relation to Commonwealth or foreign nations" and therefore consists mainly of diplomats, I think. Comp...

Congratulations to Adrian Fulcher (Thornton A 1970-77, Senior Grecian), Counsellor at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, on his appointment as a Companion of the Order of St Michael & St George.

Major-General (as he became) Donald Wilson-Haffenden (Coleridge B 1911-16) was quartermaster-general at Dunkirk, leaving on the last destroyer out.

...delighted to hear that CH produced a Labour MP. Seems that most OB's end up as Tories... Hannoir, may I quote something I wrote in The Old Blue two years ago, in an item about two influential Tory backroom boys, Steve Hilton (Ma A 81-83, La A 83-86) and Stephan Shakespeare (Kukowski, Pe B 68-75)...