Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Sad to say the current edition of the Church Times includes the following announcement:

ROBSON. — On 2 February, the Revd John Phillips Robson: Assistant Chaplain of Christ’s Hospital, Horsham (1962-65); Chaplain (1965-80); Senior Chaplain of Wellington College (1980-89); Chaplain to the Royal ...

According to her entry in Who's Blue 1997, she taught at CH Hertford from 1972 to 1984 (i.e. not 1987 as stated in the obituary).

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

I learnt this evening that the Rev Ian Atkinson (Assistant Chaplain at CH Horsham 1970-1985) died in May 2022.

His book A Life in Sermons was published in November last year:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Sermons-Ian-Atkinson/dp/B0CMKYHR15

As far as I can recall, his death hasn't previously ...

Sad to see this obituary of D L D Gwynn (Peele A 1964-71):

https://www.theguardian.com/music/artic ... n-obituary

Does anyone remember Nick/Nicholas Coker? I believe he left in 1969. I recently watched The Souvenir, a movie by Joanna Hogg, which features an intriguing character heavily inspired by him. A feature film she made in college starring Tilda Swinton was also dedicated to him. From what I have ...

Jeremy King (Peele A 1964-72) continues his comeback:

https://www.theguardian.com/food/articl ... -bayswater

Connacht Rugby is one of Ireland's four professional provincial rugby teams. Pete Wilkins (Middleton B 1990-97) has been, we're told, "widely tipped" to become its head coach next year.

This article outlines his eventful career:

https://extra.ie/2022/12/29/sport/rugby/pete-wilkins-journey-west

…from one of his former pupils at Clifton Hall, just outside Edinburgh.

Ian Atkinson was an Assistant Chaplain at CH Horsham from 1970 to 1985.

https://www.facebook.com/DiscoverFreedo ... 4540557798

Apologies for the short notice, but the second series of BBC1's This Time with Alan Partridge begins tonight at 9.30pm, with Susannah Fielding (Glanville-Hearson, Coleridge B & Grecians West 2001-03) returning to the role of Jennie Gresham, Alan's long-suffering co-host.

She certainly made her mark ...

ColA25 wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:31 pm Sadly the painting was sold...in 2019

Dear me. I'd assumed that, if sold, it would have been removed from the gallery's Facebook.

Apologies for misleading you, folks.

…and the gallery provides a 300-word biography of the painter, who was Head of Art at CH Horsham for nearly twenty years:

https://www.facebook.com/MayMatthewsFin ... 310458717/

The latest manifestation of Steve Hilton (Maine A 81-83, Lamb A 83-86):

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 97105.html

Congratulations to Simon Halden (Maine B & Peele A 1969-75), founder and campaign leader of the Sarah Greene Breakthrough Tribute Fund, who receives an MBE for services to cancer fundraising.

After Webb was given the boot, it came to my ears that he'd been dismissed for exactly what he had indeed been dismissed for: fondling boys in the dormitory at night. And yet I had left the school years before he was booted out. So how can it be that I, an Old Blue, got to hear about the real ...

It seems surprising to me that the vast majority of the Grecians East house have no buttons
The explanation is that in the CH context the meaning of the word Grecian has changed. By the time I was there in the Seventies, it meant simply "member of the Upper Sixth".

The aristocrats in their ...