Current/Former Staff who were at CH

[jhopgood]

Robin Case - taught English in late 70s, top man.

Seem to remember that there was a Case at CH in the early '60's. Rarely knew Christian names and can't remember his House (La A or Pe A?)
Could be the same person?

[CHAZ]

Yes Robin Case was an OB and was my House Tutor in LHA in 1978-1980.
He left to become a Housemaster at Shrewesbury but may have retired by now...

[Mid A 15]

Yes Robin Case was an OB and was my House Tutor in LHA in 1978-1980.
He left to become a Housemaster at Shrewesbury but may have retired by now...

Good cricketer. First X1 captain if I remember rightly.

Grandad Plum will confirm as he would have been playing in the first X1 at that time.

[J.R.]

Robin Case - taught English in late 70s, top man.

Seem to remember that there was a Case at CH in the early '60's. Rarely knew Christian names and can't remember his House (La A or Pe A?)
Could be the same person?

Exactly, John.

Why was that ?

[Mid A 15]

Robin Case - taught English in late 70s, top man.

Seem to remember that there was a Case at CH in the early '60's. Rarely knew Christian names and can't remember his House (La A or Pe A?)
Could be the same person?

Exactly, John.

Why was that ?

Same in my time a few years later.

I only really knew the Christian names of people I knew well.

[J.R.]

Same in my time a few years later.

I only really knew the Christian names of people I knew well.

I seem to remember the use of Christian names was frowned upon. Maybe one of C.M.E. Seamans edicts.

[jhopgood]

Same in my time a few years later.

I only really knew the Christian names of people I knew well.

I seem to remember the use of Christian names was frowned upon. Maybe one of C.M.E. Seamans edicts.

I only knew him as Clarence. It was a while before I realised he had a surname.

[michael scuffil]

We knew him as Clarence, his family and friends knew him as George (a reference to Richard III, I think*), and the generation after me knew him as Milt (the M stood for Milton), and this was at the height of the MJQ's popularity (Milt Jackson).

*Act 1 Scene 1
CLARENCE.
His majesty,
Tendering my person's safety, hath appointed
This conduct to convey me to the Tower.

GLOSTER.
Upon what cause?

CLARENCE.
Because my name is George.

[J.R.]

Clarence Milton Edward Seaman, if memory serves !

[kerrensimmonds]

So... to come back to the heading of this thread. Was he an Old Blue?

[jhopgood]

So... to come back to the heading of this thread. Was he an Old Blue?

Clarence was.

[kerrensimmonds]

Wow.... was he a London boy, before Horsham was built? Or are my timelines getting a bit too stretched?! It does seem to me that the regime in London was very much harsher than that in Horsham after circa 1902/3 or thereabouts (the buildings in Hertford were reconstructed in 1904, if you believe what it said on the drainpipes!) - but also that whatever the generation, the regime for the boys was harsher than that for the girls.

[jhopgood]

I don't think Clarence was at Newgate Street, although he did write a book called "Christ's Hospital, the last years in London"

Someone somewhere said that Clarence and Kirby were contemporaries, or have I got that wrong?

The only Old Blue I remember seeing who had been in London was Barnes Wallis.

[Fjgrogan]

I remember Barnes Wallis coming to Hertford and giving a speech on Civil Aviation, complete with a working model of what was then called the Swallow - I think it became Concorde? - I didn't understand a word of it, but was impressed to meet him.

[Misterbee]

Yes Robin Case was an OB and was my House Tutor in LHA in 1978-1980.
He left to become a Housemaster at Shrewesbury but may have retired by now...

Good cricketer. First X1 captain if I remember rightly.

Grandad Plum will confirm as he would have been playing in the first X1 at that time.

I can cofirm Robin Case was in Peele A in the early / mid 60's, He was also pretty good on the rugby field. My abiding memory was of him being injured with a dislocated knee, whilst he was being carried off, his knee relocated with awful cracking sound.