Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I agree entirely with Rockfreak. I'm so glad my children never had to undergo the madness of boarding-schools, though I acknowledge that CH is no doubt a much more humane place now than in the 1960s, not least because it has gone co-ed.

I have just re-read Thackeray's novel after almost 50 years and, though I can hardly be the first, I was stuck by the details of the public school which the young Rawdon Crawley is sent to, courtesy of Becky Sharp's notorious "patron", Lord Steyn. It seems to be a mixture of Charterhouse and CH, as ...

Thanks, Andy. Very sad about John Smith, confirming the rumour I heard back then. (I have sent you a private message).

A year or two after I left CH (ca. 1974 or 5) I was shocked to hear that John Smith, whom I had greatly admired as a teacher of Greek and Ancient History, had suddenly died.

Does anyone know more about the circumstances of his death (if this is not a taboo subject) and about his personal history ...