Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Anyone near that neck of the woods on Saturday evening might care to sample this Choral Extravaganza directed by Peter Allwood (CH Director of Music 1985-2001) and featuring some of his own work:

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/west-sussex-gazette/20241120/282024742804002

As the press report makes ...

She writes that her experience at the school (1986-91) was a punishment and blighted her life. Sad reading.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... y-now.html

…who attended CH Hertford in the Forties and later co-founded Manchester University's faculty in speech pathology and therapy:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... r-obituary

…who as K D P Harris was in Ward 4 at Hertford from 1937 to 1943:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... n-obituary

"One of the legends of forensic science" in Victoria, Australia, Henry Huggins (Peele A 1941-48) died earlier this year.

At the foot of this page is a sound recording in which (starting at 2:24 and ending at 4:11) three of his best-known cases are recalled. (Don't be misled by the photo: it's not ...

The Oxford don, poet and dramatist was in Middleton B from 1947 to 1954. He died in December last year.

https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/francis-warner-1937-2021

This website includes a video of Adrian's "life celebration" and is asking for people's recollections of him:

https://celebrateadrianreith.com/

Well known as a nautical historian, he was in Thornton A between 1941 and 1948.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/ ... d-obituary

The man who brought us the Street Child Football World Cup was in Barnes A & Peele A from 1966 to 1973. An occasional contributor to this forum, he was the son of the Rev Ivor Reith (Peele B 1926-34).

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... h-obituary

A stalwart of the UNHCR, he was in Thornton A from 1966 to 1970 (and presumably in a junior and/or Prep house before that). The writer is his brother John Ashe (same senior house & dates) , the former Archdeacon of Lynn. Their younger brother is Andrew Ashe (Barnes A & Coleridge A, 1970-75) , co ...

Sadly, he died last month after 45 years as Earl Baldwin of Bewdley.

He was a master at CH Horsham from 1970 to 1974.

The Telegraph sums him up as "defender of his grandfather Stanley's political reputation and advocate of complementary medicine".

You may need to be registered with the Telegraph ...

Very sorry to hear this, David.

Thank you for that, not that I knew either of the OBs, but my grandfather, also a cleric, retired to the same place, College of St Barnabas, Lingfield. it was good to learn it is still going, as my grandfather died in the 60s

When I arrived at CH in the late Sixties, the Revd George Kendall ...

…who taught at CH Horsham for the academic year 1974-75, and made quite an impact:

https://sites.google.com/site/rodhamelart/

Only just seen this press report that Norman Dovey (Horsham Staff 1975-1980) died following a cycling accident last August, aged 74.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norman-dov ... te-1582164