Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

sport! wrote: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?

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...

CHAZ wrote: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.

jhopgood wrote:

sport! wrote: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 ?

J.R. wrote:

jhopgood wrote:

sport! wrote: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.

Mid A 15 wrote:
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.

J.R. wrote:

Mid A 15 wrote:
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.

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.

Clarence Milton Edward Seaman, if memory serves !

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

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

Clarence was.

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.

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.

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.

Mid A 15 wrote:

CHAZ wrote: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.