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The editorial in the current edition of PN Review is a much expanded version of this obituary. It can be found here:

https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/155213/page/3

Anyway, when I was in Prep B in the early 50s, One Austin (Austen?) Jones arrived in Prep A and was henceforth known as Austin Jones because the senior housemaster of Prep A was already one MH Jones (although it might have been MB).They were known as Jonah Senior and Jonah Junior. Does this help ...

He was a master at CH Horsham from 1953 or 54 until 1969. When he arrived, there was already a master known as Peter Jones ( Meilor B Jones, Staff 1941-69 ), so to reduce confusion he added his middle name.

The author of this obituary is Michael Schmidt (Thornton B 1965-66) .

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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".

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Very sorry to hear this, David.