17th March – Captain Oates Day

At a lecture given by Commander ‘Teddy’ Evans at Sherborne’s Digby Memorial Church Hall on 23 February 1914, Commander Evans suggested that every year on the 17th March the boys of Sherborne School should be given an “Oates Day” holiday in memory of Captain Lawrence Oates who was born on 17 March 1880 and died … Read more

Leap Day, 2024

To celebrate Leap Day, some photograph of boys leaping, jumping and bounding! Posted 29 February 2024 by Sherborne School Archives Visit Sherborne School Archive News for more stories from the archives

New exhibitions with OS connections

Two new exhibitions in Dorchester and Kew have OS connections. A new exhibition at the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester features the work of sculptor Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within – Dorset Museum Elizabeth Frink’s family had strong links to Sherborne School and in particular to Abbey House … Read more

Quainton, Anthony Cecil Eden (d 52)

Ambassador Quainton was a diplomat and educator with a zest for life. He was educated in Canada (St. Michael’s), the United States (Andover ’51, Princeton ’55), and the United Kingdom (Sherborne School and Oxford). He met and married fellow Marshall Scholar, Susan, in 1958. During his career (1959-1996) Ambassador Quainton had seven presidential appointments under … Read more

Frink, Herbert Ralph Cuyler DSO (b 1913-17)

Brigadier Ralph Frink of Cuylers, Little Thurlow, who commanded British Army divisions in the Middle and Far East campaigns of the last war, has died at the age of 74. He died in a hotel at Auxerre, just south of Paris where he was taken ill while travelling with his wife, Mrs Jean Frink to … Read more

Follow the crowd to the OS website!

2023 saw a record breaking 70,430 visits to the OS website  – that’s 21,860 more visits than the previous year! The Top Ten OS webpages visited in 2023 were: Christopher Morcom (1911-1930) – 4,387 views Welcome to the OSS website (homepage) – 3.370 views Alan Turing OBE, PhD, FRS (1912-1954) – 3,210 views Peter Lapping … Read more