The following books, written by or about Old Shirburnians, are held in the Historic Library & Rare Book Collection at Sherborne School:
Patrick John MacAlister ANDERSON (1915-1979)
(School House 1929-1934)
Patrick Anderson, Dolphin Days: A Writer’s Notebook of Mediterranean Pleasures (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, January 1974.
Patrick Anderson, On This Side Nothing: A Collection of Verse (privately printed by the Caxton & Holmesdale Press, Sevenoaks). No. 49 of a first edition of 100 copies. Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, July 1931.
Patrick Anderson, Over the Alps: Reflections on Travel & Travel Writing, with special reference to the Grand Tours of Boswell, Beckford and Byron (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, January 1974.
Patrick Anderson, The Smile of Apollo: A Literary Companion to Greek Travel (London: Chatto & Windus, 1964). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, January 1974.
Patrick Anderson, Snake Wine. A Singapore Episode (London: Chatto & Windus, 1955)
John Anthony Charles ARDAGH (1928-2008)
(Abbey House 1942-1946)
John Ardagh, France in the 1980s: The Definitive Book (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1984)
John Ardagh, Rural France: The People, Places and Character of the Frenchman’s France (London: Century Publishing, 1983)
Patrick William George BARNES (1915-2008)
(Westcott House 1928-1932)
Patrick Barnes, Tail of the Marathon (1998)
Patrick Barnes, Tail of the Triathlon (1998)
John Barnes BARTLETT (1834-1901)
(Sherborne School 1847-1850)
The Boy’s Own Annual, vol.12, nos.560-610, 5 October 1889-20 September 1890 (London: Boy’s Own Paper Office)
Includes J.B. Bartlett, ‘A Yarn of the King’s School, Sherborne’, pp.455-456 (The Boy’s Own Paper, 19 April 1890, vol. 12, no.588); and A.N. Malan, ‘Uncle Towser: A Story for Boys Young and Old’, pp.6-8,22-24, 40-42, 55-58, 75-77, 86-88, 97-99, 113-115, 131-133,153-154, 169-171, 182-183, 201-203, 217-218, 230, 245-246, 259-260, 275-277, 291-293, 311-314, 325-326, 341-342, 357-359, ‘Beware of the Hydrophagon! A Story of School and Country Life’, pp. 603-605, 619-620, 636-638, 649-650, 664-666, 685-687, 696-699, 714-716, 725-727, 742-744.
Also includes p.79, table of athletics results (mile, quarter mile, 100 yards, hurdles, throwing cricket ball, high jump, long jump) for public Schools for 1889; pp.474-475, School cricket; pp.735-736, A Boy’s Guide to School and School Life.
Anthony BERKELEY (1893-1971)
Pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley COX (1893-1971) (The Green 1907-1911). Also wrote under the pseudonym, Francis Iles.
Anthony Berkeley, Mr Priestley’s Problem (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1948)
Anthony Berkeley, Murder in the Basement (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1947)
Stephen Jarrod BERNARD (b.1975)
(Abbey House 1991-1994)
Stephen Bernard, Paper Cuts: A Memoir (London: Jonathan Cape, 2018)
Andrew BETHELL (b.1947)
(Lyon House 1961-1966)
Andrew Bethell, Dearest Brother. A Memoir of Suicide and Sibling Rivalry (Tricorner Press, 2021)
Andrew Bethell, In Love and War: Finding the Father I Neglected to Know (Tricorner Press, 2025)
Denis Leslie Thomas BETHELL (1934-1981)
Harper House (d) 1947-1952
D.L. Bethell, ‘An Unpublished Letter of St. Stephen Harding’, reprinted from The Downside Review, Autumn 1961.
Nicholas BLAKE (1904-1972)
Pseudonym of Cecil DAY-LEWIS (1904-1972) (Harper House 1917-1923)
Nicholas Blake, The Beast Must Die (London: John Lehmann, 1938). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Case of the Abominable Snowman (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1954). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Deadly Joker (London: Pan Books Ltd., 1972). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Dreadful Hollow (New York: Harper & Row, 1979). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, End of Chapter (London: The Crime Club, 1957). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, Head of a Traveller (London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1986). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, Malice in Wonderland (London: Fontana Books, 1961). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, Minute for Murder (London: Pan Books Ltd., 1953). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Morning after Death (London: The Crime Club, 1966). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, A Penknife in My Heart (London: The Crime Club, 1958). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Private Wound (London: The Crime Club, 1968). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, A Question of Proof (London: Fontana Books, 1963). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Sad Variety (London: Pan Books Ltd., 1964). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Smiler with the Knife (London: Fontana Books, 1965). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, A Tangled Web (London: Fontana Books, 1958). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, There’s Trouble Brewing (London: The Crime Club, 1937). With a typescript note stuck to the front board ‘The interest of this book lies not in its merit as a detective story, which is no more than average, but in the identity of its author and its setting. Nicholas Blake is the nom de plume of C. Day-Lewis (OS) the well-known poet, and the story has certain recognisable references to the town of Sherborne (whether intentional or otherwise).’
Nicholas Blake, There’s Trouble Brewing (London: Pan Books Ltd., 1949). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, Thou Shell of Death (London: Fontana Books, 1962). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Whisper in the Gloom (New York: Harper & Row, 1977). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Widow’s Cruise (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1963). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Nicholas Blake, The Worm of Death (Feltham: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1980). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Eric John BOLTON MC (1897-1923)
(Abbey House 1910-1915)
E.J. Bolton, Some Memories 1916-17 (Privately published, 1939?). Dedicated to F.R. Foreword by R.C.B. An account of his experiences serving as a Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment, 3rd Bn. (Reserve), attached 5th Bn., during which time he was awarded the MC (October 1917) and lost an eye.
Hugh BONNEVILLE (b.1963)
Stage name of Hugh Richard Bonneville WILLIAMS (Harper House 1977-1981)
Hugh Bonneville, Playing Under the Piano. From Downton to Darkest Peru (London: Abacus, 2022)
Thomas Matthew BRADBY (b.1967)
(Abbey House 1980-1985)
Tom Bradby, Blood Money (London: Bantam Press, 2009)
Robert Alexander BRIGGS FRIBA (1858-1916)
(Abbeylands 1872-1875)
R.A. Briggs, Bungalows and Country Residences (London: B.T. Batsford, 2nd ed., 1894)
Percy Warner James BUCKMAN (1865-1948)
(School House 1880-1883)
George C. Williamson and Percy Buckman R.M.S., The Art of the Miniature Painter (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1926)
Herbert John BUCKMASTER (1881-1966)
(Abbeylands 1896-1900)
Herbert Buckmaster, Buck’s Book. Ventures – Adventures and Misadventures (London: Grayson & Grayson, 1933). Signed by the author. No.78 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Previously owned by Dorothy Campbell.
James Charles Critchell BULLOCK (1898-1953)
(Lyon House 1913-1916)
These books relate to J.C. Critchell Bullock’s expedition with John Hornby into the Canadian Barren Lands in 1924-1925:
Malcolm Waldron, Snow Man: John Hornby in the Barren Lands (New York: Kodansha International, 1997). With a new introduction by Lawrence Millman.
George Whally, The Legend of John Hornby (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1977)
Clive Powell-Williams, Cold Burial: A True Story of Endurance and Disaster, (London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2002)
Carsten Iwers (ed.), Letters from The Barren Lands. An Epic Journey of Hardship and Privation: A Captivating First-Hand Account by James Charles Critchell Bullock (Independently published by Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020)
Barnabas James BUTTER (b.1940)
(School House 1953-1957)
Barney Butter, Good God Butter! Adventures in the Middle East and East Africa (Wells: St Andrews Press, 2015)
Alan Hugh CAMPBELL (1919-2007)
(School House 1932-1937)
Alan Campbell, Colleagues and Friends (Salisbury: Michael Russell Publishing Ltd., 1988)
Hugh Francis Gordon CAREY (1923-1984)
(Abbey House 1936-1941)
Hugh Carey, Duet for two voices: An informal biography of Edward Dent compiled from his letters to Clive Carey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
Arthur William CARR (1893-1963)
(School House 1907-1911)
A.W. Carr, Cricket with the Lid Off (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1935). Purchased by Peter Lapping at a sale of old cricket books at the Cheltenham Cricket Festival.
Peter Wynne-Thomas, Arthur Carr: The Rise and Fall of Nottinghamshire’s Bodyline Captain (Chequered Flag Publishing, 2017)
Angus K.B. CATER (b.1952)
(The Green 1965-1970)
‘Sir Godfrey Lagden KCMG (1851-1934), Colonial Administrator: South Africa 1877-1907’, a thesis submitted by Angus K.B. Cater for the degree of Master of Arts in Biography at the University of Buckingham, November 2020.
Benjamin John Lionel CARVER (b.1941)
(Lyon House 1955-1959)
Ben Carver, Captain Charles Fryatt: Courageous Mariner of the First World War (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2016). Signed by the author.
William Rowley CHADWICK (1934-2011)
(Harper House 1948-1951)
W.R. Chadwick, The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938/39 (Leicester: Matador, Troubadour Publishing Ltd., 2010)
Reginald Warren CHETHAM-STRODE (1896-1974)
(Abbey House 1910-1913)
Warren Chetham-Strode, The Guinea-Pig. A Play in Three Acts (London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., n.d.]
Warren Chetham-Strode, Three Plays and a Prologue (A Play for Ronnie, The Guinea-Pig, Background) (London: Heinemann, 1960). Presented to the author and inscribed by him, September 1966.
Victor Vaughan Reynolds Geraint CLINTON-BADDELEY (1900-1970)
(Harper House 1913-1918)
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Plays (Aladdin, The Pride of the Regiment, Jolly Roger) (London: The Westminster Press, 1931). Donated and signed by the author, July 1933.
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Sherborne Story: A Chronicle Play (Winchester: Warren & Son Ltd., 1950)
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley and Stephen Leacock, Winsome Winnie. A Romantic Drama in Three Acts (London: Gowans & Gray, 1932)
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley and Scobie Mackenzie, The Pride of the Regiment or Cashiered for his Country. An Operetta (London: Boosey & Co. Ltd., 1932)
Kenneth de Burgh CODRINGTON (1899-1986)
(The Green 1913-1917)
K. de B. Codrington, Cricket in the Grass (London: Faber & Faber, 1959). Ex dono A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
Christopher Arthur COLDREY (1928-2018)
(Abbey House 1941-1945)
Christopher & Victoria Coldrey, Breaking and Training Young Horses (Swindon: The Crowood Press, 1990). Signed by the authors, 1991.
Charles Henry COLLINGWOOD (b.1943)
(Westcott House 1957-1960)
Charles Collingwood and Alison Maloney, Brian and Me (Michael O’Mara Books, 2009)
Jonathan Greville Woods CONLIN (b.1975)
(Abbey House 1989-1994)
Jonathan Conlin, Mr Five Per Cent. The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian: The World’s Richest Man (London: Profile Books Ltd., 2019)
Jonathan Colin & Laurent Turcot, Voisines et Rivales par Louis-Sebastien Mercier (London: Pallas Athene, 2018)
Patrick Anthony John CORDINGLEY (b.1944)
(The Green 1958-1963)
Sue Limb & Patrick Cordingley, Captain Oates: Soldier and Explorer (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1982)
Peter Edward Brazil COY (1922-2014)
(The Green 1937-1940)
Peter Coy, Village in Modern Mexico: San Nicolás Tlaminca (2009). Donated to Sherborne School Library by Peter Coy.
Marcus Crossley CUMBERLEGE (1938-2018)
(Harper House 1952-1956)
Marcus Cumberlege, The Best is Yet to Be. 125 Poems (Brugge: Manufaktuur, 1997). Signed by the author. Limited edition of 250 copies.
Claude Michael Bulstrode (pseud. Marcus Cumberlege), Once I had a Secret Love. Poems 1998-1999 (Paper Tiger Press, 2000). Inscribed by the author: ‘This book was written by Marcus Cumberlege (School Poetry Prize 1955 & 1956), using his father’s Christian names and photograph as a pseudonym. In memory of Mike Cumberlege b. London 1905 – d. Sachsenhausen 1945.’
Marcus Cumberlege, Selected Poems 1963-2009 (Brugge: Uitgeverij Van de Wiele, 2011). Introduction by John Weston. Inscribed: ‘For Sherborne School, presented by Sir John Weston on behalf of Marcus Cumberlege (the best poet as a Sherborne boy of his generation) 28/9/13 National Poetry Day.’
Ronald Charles Elliot CUNNINGHAM (1915-2007)
(School House 1929-1933). Stage name ‘The Great Omani’.
The Great Omani (Roy Cunningham), The Crowd Roars: Tales from the Life of a Professional Stuntman (Brighton: Queen Spark Books, 1998)
Cyril Were DAVSON (1881-1969)
(The Green 1895-1897)
Cyril W. Davson, The Physics of the Primary State of Matter and Application through the Primary Technique (London: Elverton Books, 1956). Presented to Sherborne School library by the author, November 1962.
Cecil DAY-LEWIS (1904-1972)
(Harper House 1917-1923). Also wrote under the pseudonym, Nicholas Blake.
Cecil Day-Lewis and Charles Fenby (ed.), Anatomy of Oxford (London: Jonathan Cape, 1938). Inscribed to G.J.B. Watkins, Oxford, 17 April 1942.
Cecil Day-Lewis (ed.), A Book of English Lyrics (London: Chatton & Windus, 1961)
Cecil Day-Lewis, Country Comets (London: Martin Hopkinson & Co. Ltd., 1928)
Duffers Jubilee 1898-1948. Includes ‘H.R.K., Sherborne and the Duffers’ by C. Day-Lewis, pp.23-34.
Cecil Day-Lewis, The Buried Day (London: Chatto & Windus, 1960)
Cecil Day-Lewis, A Hope for Poetry (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1942)
Cecil Day-Lewis, An Italian Visit (London: Jonathan Cape, 1953)
Cecil Day-Lewis, Noah and the Waters (London: Hogarth Press, 1936)
Cecil Day-Lewis, The Otterbury Incident, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1970)
Cecil Day-Lewis, Poems 1943-1947 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1948)
Cecil Day-Lewis, We’re Not Going to Do Nothing (a reply to Mr Aldous Huxley’s pamphlet, ‘What are you going to do about it?’) (London: Left Review, 1936). [The pamphlet was in fact written by Rex Warner as Day-Lewis did not have the time]
Jill Balcon (ed.). C. Day-Lewis: Selected Poems (London: Enitharmon Press, 2004)
Sean Day-Lewis, C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life (London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1982)
Peter Stanford, C. Day-Lewis. A Life (London: Continuum, 2007) Signed by the author Sherborne 4.2.08.
Victor Hugo, Poèmes Choisis 1922-1865 (London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1908). Inscribed ‘C. Day Lewis, May 1921’ and ‘D.E.C. Russell, March 1940’.
Kevin More DESMOND (b.1950)
(Lyon House 1963-1968)
Kevin Desmond, Gustave Trouvé: French Electrical Genius (1839-1902), foreword by John Devitt (Jefferson, McFarland & Co. Inc., 2015)
Harold Giles DIXEY (1893-1974)
(Abbeylands 1907-1910)
Giles Dixey, Cento Poetae (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1949). Inscribed ‘G.O’H from H.G.D. Christmas ‘49’.
Giles Dixey, Clipt Yews (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1948). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D. You were right – one keeps on! Christmas ‘48’.
Giles Dixey, Exigua Musa (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1956). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from G.D., Christmas ’56 – a pendant to our card!’
Giles Dixey, Flashes from the Files of a Section Morse Class in the R.N. Auxiliary (formerly Minewatching) Service (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1965). Inscribed ‘G.O’H with all good wishes from H.G.D., June ‘65’.
Giles Dixey, Fūrin: Collected Verses (Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, Ltd., 1948)
Giles Dixey, He Sent Back “Rats!” (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1969). Inscribed ‘To G.O’H. from the author with love, Aug ‘69’. With covering letter from Giles Dixey to Geoffrey O’Hanlon, 17 August 1969.
Giles Dixey, Hymns without Faith (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1946). Inscribed ‘G.O’H from H.G.D. 1946’.
Giles Dixey, Minims Retrieved (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1966). Inscribed ‘G.O’H from G.D. May ‘66’.
Giles Dixey, More Haikaics (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1964). Inscribed ‘G.O’H from H.G.D., July ‘64’.
Giles Dixey, Retrospect and Other Verses (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1932). Inscribed ‘From H.G.D. with best wishes for Christmas and the New Year, 1932’.
Giles Dixey, The Tale of Eros and Psyche Retold (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1931). Inscribed ‘G.O’H from H.G.D.’
Giles Dixey, This Impertinence (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1967). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from G.D. July ‘67’. With a covering letter from Giles Dixey to Geoffrey O’Hanlon, 18 July 1967.
Giles Dixey, A Passage in Square Rig (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1958). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D. 1958’. With a covering letter from H.G. Dixey to Geoffrey O’Hanlon, 16 May 1958.
Giles Dixey, Proofs of Endeavour (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1963). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from Giles Dixey with all good wishes, Aug ‘63’. With a covering letter from Giles Dixey to Geoffrey O’Hanlon, 17 August 1963.
Giles Dixey, Rejoinders (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1959). Inscribed ‘G.O’H from H.G.D. Oct ‘59’. With a covering letter from Giles Dixey to Geoffrey O’Hanlon, 9 October 1959.
Giles Dixey, Small Events and Other Verses (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1950). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D., Oct ‘50’.
Giles Dixey, Sonnets from the Levant (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1946). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D. 1946’.
Giles Dixey, Sonnets from Libyan Tripoli (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1946). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D. 1946’.
Giles Dixey, Sonnets from the Western Desert (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1946). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D. 1946’.
Giles Dixey, Sonnets in Sand, (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1946). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D. 1946’.
Giles Dixey, Versions and Afterthoughts (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1934). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D., Feb ‘35’.
Giles Dixey, A View of Poetry (Oxford: H.G. Dixey, 1950). Inscribed ‘G.O’H. from H.G.D. May ‘50’.
Stanley John Harper DURNFORD (1920-1995)
(School House 1934-1938)
John Durnford, Branch Line to Burma, with a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma (London: Macdonald, 1958)
John Durnford, A Form of Consolation Poems, 1942-1945 (1984). Presented by the author to Sherborne School Library, May 1984.
John Durnford, Immortal Diamond (Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd., 1975). Signed by the author, 12 June 1975.
Victor Selwyn (ed.), Poems of the Second World War: the Oasis Selection (Everyman’s Classics, 1985), includes two poems by S.J.H. Durnford: ‘Lying Awake at Night’ and ‘Prisoner of War Mail’.
Jonathan Brian EAST (1960-)
(Westcott House 1974-1978)
Jon East, Cheap Street, Sherborne (1979). Summer Vacation Project by Jon East in the First Year of a BA Hons in Town and Country Planning at the University of Newcastle.
Richard Frere EBERLIE (1932-2024)
(School House 1945-1950)
R.F. Eberlie, Growing up in a Doctor’s Family. The Memoirs of Dick Eberlie: Part 1, 1932 to 1956 (Cornwall: Bluemoon Print, 2014). Signed by the author.
R.F. Eberlie, District Officer in Tanganyika. The Memoirs of Dick Eberlie: Part 2, 1956 to 1960 (Cornwall: Bluemoon Print, 2014). Signed by the author.
Dick Eberlie and Christopher Jary, Bullshit Baffles Brains. An Account of the Dorsets in Hong Kong 1952-54 (Cornwall: Bluemoon Print, 2015)
R.F. Eberlie, The Winds and Wounds of Change. The Memoirs of Dick Eberlie: Part 3, 1961 to 1965 (Cornwall: Bluemoon Print, 2016)
R.F. Eberlie, Aden: The Curtain Falls. Memoirs of Dick Eberlie: Part 4, 1965 to 1967 (Cornwall: Bluemoon Print, 2016)
R.F. Eberlie, Liz’s War: An Intelligence Officer in France and the Far East First (Cornwall: Bluemoon Print, 2018). Signed by the author.
R.F. Eberlie, Peaks: A Memoir 1922 to 1939 (Cornwall: Bluemoon Print, 2019). Signed by the author.
R.F. Eberlie, Jacob Eberli at home and in the mountains (Cornwall: Bluemoon Print, 2021). Signed by the author.
Zachary EDWARDS (1838-1909)
(School House 1854-1857)
Zachary Edwards, Avilion, and other poems (London: Chapman & Hall, 1907). Inscribed: ‘Rev. F.B. Westcott with compliments from Zachary Edwards 21 June 1907’.
Charles Richard John EGLINGTON (1938-2018)
(Lyon House 1951-1956)
Charles Eglington, Sherborne Pilgrims Cricket 1924-1993 (1994)
C.R.J. Eglington & J.C. Harden, The Sherborne Register 1925-2015 (8th edition) (Sherborne: Shelleys The Printers, 2016)
Richard Charles Hastings EYRE (b.1943)
(Westcott House 1956-1961)
Richard Eyre, National Service: Diary of a Decade at the National Theatre (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2004). Donated by Harry Brewer.
Peter Anthony FANNING (b.1949)
(Abbey House 1962-1967)
Peter Fanning, Not Exactly Friends (London: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., 2022)
Edward Cambridge FFOOKS (1896-1956)
(School House 1910-1912)
E.C. Ffooks, The Family of Ffooks of Sherborne in the County of Dorset (Privately Printed, 1958). Ex dono A.G. Gourlay, 1971.
Hervey Lewis FISHER (1927-2015)
(Harper House 1942-1945)
Hervey Fisher, From a Tramp’s Wallet. A Life of Douglas William Freshfield, DCL MA 1845-1934. Explorer, mountaineer, writer and scholar. One time President of the Royal Geographical Society, Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, President of the Alpine Club (Banham: The Erskine Press, 2001). Donated to Sherborne School Library by the author.
William FORSYTH (1812-1899)
(Attended Sherborne School c.1828)
William Forsyth, Hortensius: or The Advocate. An Historical Essay (London: John Murray, 1849). Inscribed ‘Presented to the King’s School Library by the author, 25 March 1868’.
Michael Grenville GRAY (b.1945)
(School House 1959-1962)
Michael Gray, Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell GCMG. 1836 to 1899. The Forgotten Colonial Governor (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2023). Inscribed ‘To Sherborne School, Michael Gray, School House 1962.’
Richard GWYN (formerly Richard Gwyn HUMPHREYS ) (b.1956)
(Harper House 1969-1974)
Richard Gwyn, The Vagabond’s Breakfast (Alcemi, 2011)
Jeremy Christopher HAIGH (b.1941)
(Harper House 1955-1959)
Jerry Haigh, Wrestling with Rhinos. The Adventures of a Glasgow Vet in Kenya (Canada: ECW Press, 2002). Signed by the author.
Robert HANDS (b.1974)
(Abbey House 1987-1992)
Robert Hands, Rugby Football at Sherborne School, with a foreword by J.A. Tallent (Sherborne: Sherborne School, 1991). Signed by the author and presented by him to M.R.G. Earls-Davis.
Malcolm Tozer (ed.), Pudding, Bullies and Squashes. Early Public School Football Codes (Sunnyrest Books, 2020). Includes a chapter written by Robert Hands about Sherborne School.
Robert Charles HANROTT (b.1939)
(The Green 1952-1957)
Robert Hanrott, The Things I Haven’t Forgotten (Washington DC: 2009)
Peter William HARLEY (1910-1944)
(Abbey House 1923-1927)
Joseph Hood Bowman (OS), Peter William Harley: A Memoir (Privately printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd., 1946). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, October 1946.
Andrew Charles HARVEY (b.1952)
(Abbey House 1965-1969)
Andrew Harvey, A Journey in Ladakh (London: Fontana Paperbacks, 2nd impression, 1985)
Timothy Villiers HEALD (1944-2016)
(Lyon House 1957-1962)
Tim Heald, Brian Johnston: The Authorised Biography (London: Methuen, 1995). Donated by Harry Brewer.
Tim Heald, The Duke: A Portrait of Prince Philip (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991)
Tim Heald, A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
Tim Heald, Networks: Who We Know and How We Use Them (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983)
Tim Heald (ed.), The Newest London Spy (London: Frederick Muller, 1988)
Tim Heald, Old Boys Networks: Who we know and how we use them (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1984)
James Ewart Crawford HENDERSON (b.1966)
(Digby 1979-1984; Director of Music 2005-2022; Executive Director of Music, 2022-).
James Henderson, The Organs of Sherborne School (Sherborne: 2012)
Nathaniel HIGHMORE (1613-1685)
(Attended Sherborne School c.1625; School Governor 1654 & Warden 1662, 1675)
C.R. Highmore, Nathaniel Highmore M.D. 1613-1685 (2015)
Alexander Phelps HODGES MC (1894-1977)
(The Green 1910-1912)
Major Phelps Hodges, Britmis. A Great Adventure of the War, being an account of Allied intervention in Siberia and of an escape across the Gobi to Peking (The Naval & Military Press Ltd., 2011)
Randle Fynes Wilson HOLME (1864-1957)
(School House 1878-1883)
Randle Holme, Some Things I Have Done (Printed for private circulation by Hepburn & Sons, Ltd., London, 1949). Inscribed ‘A.B. Gourlay from Randle Holme. A token of admiration for “A History of Sherborne School”, August 1951’. Ex dono A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
Oliver Deverell HOLT (1909-1997)
(School House 1923-1928; Assistant Master 1946-1948)
Oliver Holt, Nowell Smith and his Sherborne: A Memoir (Oxford: Oxonian Press, 1955). Signed by the author.
Oliver Holt, Pipers Hill: Memories of a Country Childhood (Marston Magna: Marston House, 1992)
Oliver Holt, Sherborne Abbey: a reflection (c.1994)
Oliver Holt, Three Sherborne Memoirs (1987). Includes ‘On First Coming to Sherborne: Some Drawings from Memory’, a talk given to the Sherborne Historical Society in October 1983′; ‘Littleton Powys’, a talk given to the Powys Society in September 1981; ‘Next Steps at Sherborne: More Drawings from Memory’, a talk given to the Sherborne Historical Society in December 1986. Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, 14 March 1991.
F.C. Sillar & R.M. Meyler, The Symbolic Pig: An anthology of Pigs in literature and art (Edinburgh & London, 1961). With original drawings and decorations by Oliver Holt.
Michael John HOPKINS (1935-2023)
(Westcott House 1949-1952)
David Jenkins, Mound Stand Lord’s Cricket Ground. Photographer Dave Bower (London: 1991)
David Jenkins, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre. Photographer Dave Bower (London: 1993)
Charles Edward HUDSON (1892-1959), (The Green 1905-1910).
Miles Matthew Lee HUDSON (1925-2010), (Harper House 1939-1943).
Two Lives 1892-1992. The Memoirs of Charles Edward Hudson, VC, CB, DSO, MC, and Miles Matthew Lee Hudson (York: Wilton 65, 1992)
Miles Hudson, The Extraordinary Life of Charles Hudson VC: Soldier, Poet, Rebel (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2007). Inscribed by the author: ‘To Sherborne School, September 2007, Miles Hudson’.
Hugh Castree HUGHES (1893-1976)
(Abbey House 1907-1909)
H.C. Hughes & W.B. Wildman (eds.), A Guide to the Neighbourhood of Sherborne and Yeovil (Sherborne: Sherborne School Archaeological Society, 1911)
Archibald Anthony de Courcy HUNTER (1929-2021)
(Lyon House 1943-1947)
Archie Hunter, A Life of Sir John Eldon Gorst: Disraeli’s Awkward Disciple (London: Frank Cass, 2001). Signed by the author.
Francis ILES (1893-1971)
Pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley COX (1893-1971), (The Green 1907-1911). Also wrote under the pseudonym, Anthony Berkeley.
Francis Iles, Before the Fact: A Murder Story for Ladies (London: Victor Gollancz, 1978)
Colpoys William JOHNSON (b.1993)
(Harper House 2007-2012)
William Johnson, True Myth (self-published, n.d.)
Stanley Patrick JOHNSON (b.1940)
(Lyon House 1954-1958)
Stanley Johnson, Stanley I Presume (London: Fourth Estate, 2010)
John Caldwell JOHNSTON (later known as John CALDWELL-JOHNSTON) (1881-1943)
(School House 1894-1900)
J.C. Johnston, The Book of the Beloved. A Modern Epic Poem (London: Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1923). Inscribed by J.C. Johnston, 2 February 1925.
J.C. Johnston, The Book of the Beloved. A Modern Epic Poem (London: Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1923). Inscribed ‘To the Masters and Boys of Sherborne School cordially J.C. Johnston, 3 November 1923’. Presented by J.C. Johnston to Sherborne School, November 1923.
James Charles KIERSTEAD (b.1982)
(Abbeylands 1996-2001)
Giovanni Pascoli, Convivial Poems, translated by Elena Borelli and James Ackhurst (New York & Bristol: Italica Press, Inc., 2022)
Charles Augustus KINCAID (1870-1954)
(School House 1882-1887)
C.A. Kincaid, Tales of Old Sind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922). Inscribed ‘F.H. Brown esq. With the writer’s best wishes. C.A. Kincaid 15/6/1922’.
Raymond Francis LANE (1899-1967)
(School House 1915-1917)
Judith Stinton, Dorset Utopia: The Little Commonwealth and Homer Lane (Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2005)
John LE CARRÉ.
Pseudonym of David John Moore CORNWELL (1931-2020), (Westcott House 1945-1948)
John le Carré, A Delicate Truth (London: Penguin Books, 2014). Donated by Harry Brewer.
John le Carré, A Murder of Quality (London: Penguin Books, 1972)
John le Carré, A Murder of Quality: The Novel & The Screenplay (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991)
John Le Carre, The Honourable Schoolboy (Pan Books Ltd., 1978). Donated by Harry Brewer.
Adam Sisman, John le Carré: The Biography (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015)
John le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (Viking, 2016)
Tim Cornwell (ed.), A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré (Viking, 2022)
Federico Varese (ed.), Tradecraft. Writers on John le Carré (Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2025)
John LE MESURIER (1912-1983)
Stage name of John Elton Le Mesurier HALLILEY (1912-1983), (Lyon House 1926-1930)
Joan Le Mesurier, Dear John (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2001)
John Le Mesurier, A Jobbing Actor (London: Elm Tree Books, 1984).
Graham McCann, Do You Think That’s Wise? The Life of John Le Mesurier (London: Aurum Press, 2012)
Trevor N. Stewart, The Legacy of the Le Mesurier and the Halliley Families to Bedford 1834-1927 (October 2015)
Alan Tindal LENNOX-BOYD, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton (1904-1983)
(Lyon House 1918-1923; School Governor 1962-1975; President of the Old Shirburnian Society 1956)
Philip Murphy, Alan Lennox-Boyd: A Biography (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999)
Lester Vallis LESTER (1860-1944)
(School House 1874-1879)
L.V. Lester, A Memoir of Hugo Daniel Harper, D.D. (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1896)
Jeremy Stephen MAAS (1928-1997)
(School House 1942-1946)
Jeremy Maas, Gambart. Prince of the Victorian Art World (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975). Inscribed ‘Presented to Sherborne School with the compliments of the author. Jeremy Maas, January 1976.’
Jeremy Maas, Holman Hunt and The Light of the World (London: Scolar Press, 1984)
Jeremy Maas, The Prince of Wales’s Wedding. The Story of a Picture (London: Cameron & Tayleur Ltd., 1977). Inscribed ‘with the compliments of the author Jeremy Maas, September 1977.’ Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, September 1977. With a covering letter from Jeremy Maas to Headmaster Robin MacNaghten, 21 September 1977.
Vernon William MACANDREW (1880-1940)
(School House a 1894-1897)
Cecil Hunt, The Gallant Little Campeador (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1941)
Hugh Stewart MACKINTOSH (1899-1976)
(School House 1912-1914)
H.S. Mackintosh, Ballades and other verse (London: R. Hart-Davis, 1953). Inscribed ‘To Percy & (lovely) Mona affectionately from Hugh: Oct 1953 in memory of happy times.’
H.S. Mackintosh, Rhyme and Reason (London: R. Hart-Davis, 1956). Signed by the author. Inscribed ‘To Frank from Hugh, Nov. 1956’.
Louis MACNEICE (1907-1963).
(Sherborne Preparatory School 1917-1921)
Louis MacNeice, Autumn Sequel. A Rhetorical Poem in XXVI Cantos. (London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1954). Presented to the Library of Sherborne Preparatory School by Oliver Holt (1918-1923) in memory of the poet, November 1966. Note: ‘Owen in this poem is MacNeice’s nom de plume for Littleton Powys, sometime Headmaster or the ‘Prep’. Pasted inside the front cover is a newspaper cutting: ‘The Poet Without Jealousy. Tributes to Louis MacNeice’, 18 October 1963.
Louis MacNeice, The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography (London: Faber & Faber, 1996)
Louis MacNeice, Poems, selected by Michael Longley for Faber’s Poet-to-Poet Series (London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 2005)
Edna Longley, Louis MacNeice: A Study (London: Faber & Faber, 1988)
Jon Stallworthy, Louis MacNeice (London: Faber & Faber, 1995)
Edward Neville Brown MACREADY (1836-1907) & Walter Francis Sheil MACREADY (1840-1853), sons of William Charles Macready (1793-1873).
(Attended Sherborne School as Foundationers 1850-1851)
Sir Frederick Pollock (ed.), Macready’s Reminiscences and Selections from His Diaries and Letters (London: Macmillan & Co., 1875). Includes details of the time Macready and his family spent in Sherborne.
William Toynbee (ed.), The Diaries of William Charles Macready 1833-1851. 2 vols. (London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1912). Donated to Sherborne School by Arthur Waugh, OS, 1912.
Arthur Noel MALAN (1846-1933)
(School House 1857-1865)
A.N. Malan, Schooldays at Highfield House (London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d.). A note on the inside cover that ‘This rare book was bought for 6d. in 1955 (about right for its literary merit). The author was in School House 1857-65, and later was a successful prep. Headmaster. His brother was the notorious E.C. Malan (See history of Sherborne School, p.166 seq.).’
John Charles MARSON (1896-1915)
(Harper House 1910-1913)
David Sutcliffe, The Keys of Heaven. The Life of Revd Charles Marson: Socialist Priest and Folk Song Collector (Nottingham: Cockasnook Books, 2010). Signed by the author.
John Robert McCRUM (b.1953)
(Abbey House 1966-1971)
Robert McCrum, The Fabulous Englishman (London: Picador, 1994). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Robert McCrum, In the Secret State (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980). Signed by the author.
Robert McCrum, Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the Endgame (London: Picador, 2017)
Keith Arundel MCDOUGALL (b.1934)
(Harper House 1947-1952)
Keith McDougall, Middle Marsh: A Norfolk Miscellanea (Norfolk: Chalk Hill Fine Art, 1991). Text and illustrations by Keith McDougall. Signed by the author, September 1991.
Keith McDougall, A Special Kind of Light: Norfolk and Scottish Landscapes (Solihull: Roseworld Productions Ltd., 2008). No.359 of a First Edition limited to 450 copies. Signed by the author.
Hugh David MELLER (b.1940)
(School House 1954-1959)
Hugh Meller, The Country Houses of Devon (Crediton: Black Dog Press, 2015) 2 volumes.
Hugh Meller & Brian Parsons, London Cemeteries. An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer (Stroud: The History Press, 5th ed., 2011)
Ian Cassan MESSITER (1920-1999)
(School House 1934-1937)
Ian Messiter, My Life and Other Games (London: Fourth Estate, 1990)
William Innes MOBERLY (1911-1986)
(School House 1924-1929)
Colonel W.I. Moberly, Raj and Post Raj: Low Level Reminiscence of Life in Two Armies (Edinburgh: The Pentland Press, 1985)
Charles Carmichael MONRO (1860-1929)
(School House 1871-1876)
Patrick Crowley, Loyal to Empire: The Life of General Sir Charles Monro, 1860-1929 (Stroud: The History Press, 2016). Signed by the author.
Henry Sanctuary MORE (b.1948)
(School House 1962-1967)
Henry More, Sherborne at War. Including a reappraisal of the 1940 air raid on Sherborne (Sherborne: Sherborne Museum, 2023)
MORGAN brothers: Charles Edward Morgan (1836-1911) (Day boy 1851-1855); John Mabbott Morgan (1838-1888) (Day boy 1851-1858); Frank Arthur Morgan (1844-1907) (Day boy 1854-?)
Rod Cooper & Prys Morgan, A Gower Gentleman. The Diary of Charles Morgan of Cae Forgan, Llanrhidian, 1834-1857 (South Wales Record Society, 2021)
Lewis MORRIS (1833-1907)
(School House 1850-1851)
Lewis Morris, The Works of Lewis Morris (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1894). [Note on inside of cover that Lewis Morris was at Sherborne 1850 to 1851, one of those who accompanied Harper from Cowbridge. This edition of his poems is not the final one, and has not such poems as ‘For a school register’, ‘For a school magazine’, ‘Sherborne – an ode’, all of which deal directly with the School].
Lewis Morris, The Works of Lewis Morris (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 15th ed., 1904)
William MORRIS (1709-1739)
(Sherborne School 1722-1727). Son of Dr Claver Morris (1659-1726/7).
Edmund Hobhouse (ed.), The Diary of a West Country Physician A.D. 1684-1726 (London: Simpkin Marshall, Ltd., 2nd ed., 1935). Based on the writings of Dr Claver Morris. Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971. Annotated by A.B. Gourlay.
MSWATI – Makhosetive Dlamini, King Mswati III of Swaziland (b.1968)
(Sherborne International, 1983-1986)
Z.R. Ginindza, King Mswati III. A Pictorial Biography of the new King of Swaziland (Swaziland: Macmillan, 1988)
Peter MUMFORD (1922-1992)
(Lyon House 1936-1941)
Peter Mumford, Quick-eyed Love, Observing: Recollections and Reflections by Bishop Peter Mumford (c.1992)
John Mason NEALE (1818-1866)
(Sherborne School 1833-1835)
J.M. Neale, Tales Illustrative of the Apostles’ Creed (Oxford: A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1904)
J.M. Neale, Theodora Phranza or The Fall of Constantinople (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1903)
Adrian Roger Dudley NORMAN (b.1938)
(Westcott House 1952-1957)
Adrian R.D. Norman, Computer Insecurity (London: Chapman & Hall, 1983)
James Martin & Adrian R.D. Norman, The Computerised Society: An Appraisal of the impact of Computers on Society over the next Fifteen Years (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970)
Roger John NORMAN (b.1948)
(Harper House 1962-1966)
Roger Norman, Albion’s Dream (London: Faber & Faber, 1990). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, 22 March 1990.
Roger Norman, Shadowborne (Sherborne: The Sundial Press, 2012). Signed by the author.
Simon Harcourt NOWELL-SMITH (1909-1996)
(Westcott House 1922-1928)
Simon Nowell-Smith, The House of Cassell, 1848-1958 (London: Cassell & Co., 1958)
Peter Alan OBORNE (b.1957)
(Harper House 1970-1974)
Peter Oborne, Basil D’Oliveira. Cricket and Conspiracy: the Untold Story (Little Brown, 2004). Donated by Harry Brewer.
Peter Oborne and Tom Roberts, How Trump Thinks: His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language (London: Head of Zeus Ltd., 2017)
Hetman Jack PARHAM (1895-1974)
(School House 1909- 1913)
Jack Parham, The Beginner’s Guide to Flying (Leicester: The Drysdale Press, Ltd., 1947) Illustrated by C. Rupert Moore, ARCA.
H.J. Parham and E.M.G. Belfield, Unarmed into Battle. The Story of the Air Observation Post (Air O.P. Officers’ Association, 1956). With a foreword by Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke.
David James PAYNE (b.1931)
(School House 1945-1949)
David Payne, A Garland of Verse (Cirencester: Dianthus Publishing Ltd., 2006). Donated by David Payne.
William Simon PENNY (1806-1888).
(Sherborne School 1820-1823)
Eight Chromo-Lithographic Views of Sherborne. (Sherborne: W.S. Penny, Library, Half-Moon Street, n.d. [c.1852])
Includes the following coloured chromolithographs:
Sherborne Church, 1852. Specially drawn, engraved and published by W.S. Penny.
Digby Buildings & Chapel, King’s School Sherborne (North East View). Respectfully dedicated to the Governors of King’s School by W.S. Penny.
Digby Buildings & Chapel, King’s School Sherborne (South East View). Respectfully dedicated to the Revd. Hugo D. Harper Head Master by W.S. Penny.
Gateway & Lodge to the King’s School Sherborne. Respectfully dedicated to the Governors of King’s School by W.S. Penny.
King Edward the Sixth School and Master’s House, Sherborne. W.S. Penny.
Alms house, Sherborne. Founded in the Reign of Henry 6th 1448 by Bishop Neville. W.S. Penny.
Ruins of Sherborne Castle. W.S. Penny.
Sherborne Castle. The Seat of George Wingfield Digby Esq. W.S. Penny.
Benjamin William Jackson PERKINS (b.1932)
(Westcott House 1945-1950)
Benjamin Perkins, A Secret Landscape. Diary of Lapwing Meadows (Savitri Books Ltd., 1986)
John Devon Roland PERTWEE (1919-1996)
(Abbeylands 1933-1934). Stage name, Jon Pertwee.
Jon Pertwee, Moon Boots and Dinner Suits (Fantom Films, 2013)
Bernard Bale, Jon Pertwee, The Biography (London: Andre Deutsch, 2000)
Michael Henry Roland PERTWEE (1916-1991)
(School House 1930-1934)
Michael Pertwee, Name Dropping: The Autobiography of Michael Pertwee (London: Leslie Frewin, 1974)
Roland and Michael Pertwee, The Paragon. A Play in Two Acts (London: English Theatre Guild Ltd., 1948). Includes a programme for a production of The Paragon by the St Andrew’s Players at Cobham Village Hall on 7-9 April 1960.
John Roland POWELL (1890-1980)
(School House 1904-1906)
J.R. Powell, The Navy in the English Civil War (London: Archon Books, 1962). Presented by the author.
Albert Reginald POWYS (1881-1936)
(The Green 1895-1899)
A.R. Powys, Repair of Ancient Buildings (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1929)
A.R. Powys, From the Ground Up: Collected Papers of A.R. Powys. With an introduction by John Cowper Powys (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1937)
A.R. Powys, The English House (The Powys Society, 1992)
A.R. Powys, The English Parish Church (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1930)
John Cowper POWYS (1872-1963)
(Wildman’s House/Maperty 1886-1891)
John Cowper Powys, After My Fashion (London: Pan Books Ltd., 1980)
John Cowper Powys, All or Nothing (London: Macdonald, 1960)
John Cowper Powys, All or Nothing (London: Village Press, 1973). Presented to Sherborne School Library by M.R. Meadmore, April 1984.
J.C. Powys, The Art of Growing Old (London: Jonathan Cape, 1944)
John Cowper Powys, Autobiography (London: Macdonald, 1967). With an introduction by J.B. Priestley.
John Cowper Powys, The Brazen Head (London: Macdonald, 1969)
John Cowper Powys, In Defence of Sensuality (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1930)
John Cowper Powys, The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1931 (London: Jeffrey Kwintner, 1990)
John Cowper Powys, Dorothy M. Richardson (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Dostoievsky (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946)
John Cowper Powys, Ducdame (London: Village Press, 1974)
J.C. Powys, A Glastonbury Romance (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933)
John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance (London: Macdonald, 1966)
John Cowper Powys, Homer and the Aether (London: Macdonald, 1959). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
J.C. Powys, The Inmates (London: Macdonald, 1952)
John Cowper Powys, The Inmates (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by M.R. Meadmore, April 1984.
John Cowper Powys, In Spite of. A Philosophy for Everyman (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, October 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Jobber Skald. A Novel (London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1935)
John Cowper Powys, Lucifer. A Poem (London: Village Press, 1974). With wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Maiden Castle (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1937)
J.C. Powys, Maiden Castle (London: Macdonald, 1966)
John Cowper Powys, Maiden Castle (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1990). The First Full Authoriative Edition. Introduction by Ian Hughes.
John Cowper Powys, Mandragora Poems (London: Village Press, 1975)
John Cowper Powys, The Meaning of Culture (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Mortal Strife (London: Jonathan Cape, 1942)
John Cowper Powys, Mortal Strife (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Morwyn or The Vengence of God (London: Village Press, 1974)
John Cowper Powys, Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1941)
John Cowper Powys, The Owl, The Duck, and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! (London: Village Press, 1975. Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, October 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Paddock Calls. A Play (London: Greymitre Books Ltd., 1984)
John Cowper Powys, A Philosophy of Solitude (London: Jonathan Cape, 1933)
John Cowper Powys, The Pleasures of Literature (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1946)
John Cowper Powys, Poems 1899 (London: Village Press, 1975). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, October 1977.
John Cowper Powys, A Selection from His Poems (London: Macdonald, 1964). Edited with an introduction by Kenneth Hopkins.
John Cowper Powys, Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages (London, Macdonald, 1951)
John Cowper Powys, Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by M.R. Meadmore, April 1984.
John Cowper Powys, Rabelais (London: The Bodley Head, 1948)
John Cowper Powys, Real Wraiths (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, October 1977.
John Cowper Powys, The Religion of a Sceptic (London: Village Press, 1975). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, October 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Suspended Judgments. Essays on Books and Sensations (London: Village Press, 1975). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Three Fantasies (Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd., 1985)
John Cowper Powys, Two & Two (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Up and Out (London: Macdonald, 1957). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions (London: Macdonald, 1955)
John Cowper Powys, Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Weymouth Sands. A Novel (Cambridge: Rivers Press, 1973). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, October 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929)
John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent (London: Macdonald, 1961). Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
John Cowper Powys. Wolf’s-Bane. Rhymes (London: Village Press, 1975). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
John Cowper Powys, Wood and Stone. A Romance (London: Village Press, 1974)
Robert Blackmore (ed.), The Letters of John Cowper Powys to G.R. Wilson Knight (London: Cecil Woolf, 1983)
Glen Cavaliero (ed.) John Cowper Powys on Thomas Hardy (The Powys Society, 2006)
Malcolm Elwin (ed.), Confessions of Two Brothers. John Cowper Powys & Llewelyn Powys (London: Sinclair Browne, 1982)
Malcolm Elwin (ed.), Letters of John Cowper Powys to His Brother Llewelyn, 1902-1925. Vol. 1 (London: Village Press, 1975)
Malcolm Elwin (ed.), Letters of John Cowper Powys to His Brother Llewelyn, 1925-1939. Vol. 2 (London: Village Press, 1975)
Ronald Hall (ed.), Letters to Henry Miller from John Cowper Powys, (London: Village Press, 1975). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
Anthony Head (ed.), The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Ichiro Hara (London: Cecil Woolf, 1990)
Cedric Hentschel (ed.), The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark (London: Cecil Woolf, 1983)
Jeremy Hooker, Writers of Wales: John Cowper Powys (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1973)
Derek Langridge, John Cowper Powys: A Record of Achievement (London: The Library Association, 1966)
Iorwerth C. Peate (ed.), John Cowper Powys Letters 1937-54 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1974)
C.B. Roberts, Letters from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts (London: Village Press, 1975). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
Paul Roberts (ed.), The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion (London: Cecil Woolf, 1990)
Kevin Taylor (ed.), Wolf Solent. The Six Deleted Chapters, The Powys Journal, Vol. 31, Supplement 2021.
Kevin Taylor (ed.), Wolf Solent. The Six Deleted Chapters, The Powys Journal, Vol. 31, Supplement 2021.
Clifford Tolchard, Letters to Clifford Tolchard from John Cowper Powys, with a memoir by Clifford Tolchard (London: Village Press, 1975). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
Arthur Uphill (ed.), John Cowper Powys Lettters to Nicholas Ross (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
Louis Wilkinson (ed.), Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson (London: Macdonald, 1958)
Louis Wilkinson (ed.), Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1935-1956 (London: Village Press, 1974). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Gerald Pollinger, September 1977.
Herbert Williams, John Cowper Powys (Bridgend: Seren, 1997)
Laurence POWYS, pseudonym of Francis Llewelyn POWYS (1909-1998)
(Sherborne Preparatory School 1919-1923)
Laurence Powys, At the Harlot’s Burial. Poems dedicated to Sylvia Townsend Warner & Charles Prentice (London: E. Lahr, 1930)
Littleton Charles POWYS (1874-1955)
(Wildman’s House/Maperty, then Abbey House, 1886-1893; Headmaster of Sherborne Preparatory School 1905-1923)
Littleton C. Powys, The Joy of It (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1937). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Sam Hey.
Littleton C. Powys, The Joy of It (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1937)
Littleton C. Powys, The Joy of It. With an introduction by Peter Tait. (Sherborne: The Sundial Press, 2010).
Littleton C. Powys, Still the Joy of It (London: MacDonald, 1956). Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971)
Littleton C. Powys, The Letters of Elizabeth Myers (London: Chapman & Hall, 1951)
Littleton C. Powys, The Powys Family. Being a lecture given by him to the Swansea and South Wales Bookman’s Association in May, 1945, with some additions. Inscribed ‘With all best wishes Littleton C Powys, Oct. 18 1952’. Presented to Sherborne School, October 1952.
Llewelyn POWYS (1884-1939)
(The Green 1899-1903; Assistant master Sherborne Preparatory School, 1909)
Llewelyn Powys, Apples be Ripe (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1930)
Llewelyn Powys, A Baker’s Dozen (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1941)
Llewelyn Powys, Black Laughter (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1924)
Llewelyn Powys, Black Laughter (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929)
Llewelyn Powys, Christmas Lore and Legend. Yuletide Essays by Llewelyn Powys (Sherborne: The Sundial Press, 2012)
Llewelyn Powys, The Cradle of God (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929). Ex Libris, A. Cope.
Llewelyn Powys, Damnable Opinions (London: Watts & Co., 1935)
Llewelyn Powys, Dorset Essays (Bristol: Redcliffe Press Ltd., 1983)
Llewelyn Powys, Earth Memories (New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1969)
Llewelyn Powys, Earth Memories (Bristol: Redcliffe Press Ltd., 1983)
Llewelyn Powys, Ebony and Ivory (London: The Richards Press, 1960)
Llewelyn Powys, Glory of Life (London: Village Press, 1975)
Llewelyn Powys, Henry Hudson (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927)
Llewelyn Powys, Love and Death (London: The Bodley Head, 1950)
Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy. A Study of Christianity (London: Watts & Co., 1931)
Llewelyn Powys, Scenes from A Somerset Childhood (Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 1986)
Llewelyn Powys, Skin for Skin and The Verdict of Bridlegoose (London: The Bodley Head, 1948)
Llewelyn Powys, Skin for Skin (London: Village Press, 1975)
Llewelyn Powys, Somerset and Dorset Essays (London: Macdonald, 1957). With a foreword by John Cowper Powys.
Llewelyn Powys, Somerset Essays (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1937)
Llewelyn Powys, Swiss Essays (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1947)
Llewelyn Powys, Thirteen Worthies (New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1966)
Llewelyn Powys, Thirteen Worthies (Bristol: Redcliffe Press Ltd., 1983)
Llewelyn Powys, The Verdict of Bridlegoose (London: Jonathan Cape, 1927) (no.307 of a limited edition of 900)
Llewelyn Powys, The Wordsworths in Dorset (London: Covent Garden Press, 1972) a limited edition of 600 copies.
Malcolm Elwin, The Life of Llewelyn Powys (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946)
Peter Foss (ed.), The Diary of a Sherborne Schoolboy: Llewelyn Powys’s Diary for 1903 (London: Cecil Woolf, 2005)
Peter Foss (ed.), The Diary of a Reluctant Teacher: Llewelyn Powys’s Diary for 1908 (London: Cecil Woolf, 2006)
Kenneth Hopkins (ed.), Llewelyn Powys. A Selection from his Writings (London: Macdonald, 1952)
Louis Wilkinson (ed.), The Letters of Llewelyn Powys (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943)
Theodore Francis POWYS (1875-1953)
(Sherborne Preparatory School 1886-1889)
Theodore. Essays on T.F. Powys. With a story by T.F. Powys, The Useless Woman, and some letters of T.F. Powys to Littleton C. Powys and Elizabeth Myers (Saint Albert’s Press, 1964). Contributors: Neville Braybrooke, Harry Coombes, Kenneth Hopkins, Elizabeth Muntz, Francis Powys, John Cowper Powys, Louis Wilkinson, Joy Wilson.
T.F. Powys, Fables (Faber & Faber Ltd., 2011)
T.F. Powys, Mr Weston’s Good Wine (London: Chatto & Windus, 1928)
H. Coombes, T.F. Powys (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1960)
R.C. Churchill, The Powys Brothers (London: Longmans, Green & Co.. Ltd., 1962). Writers and Their Work series no.150, produced by The British Council and The National Book League.
A.B. Gourlay, The Powys Brothers at Sherborne School (London, Cecil Woolf, 1998)
Richard Perceval Graves, The Brothers Powys (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983)
Kenneth Hopkins, The Powys Brothers. A Biographical Appreciation (Norfolk, Warren House Press, 1972). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author.
Charles Lock, The Powys Family in Dorset (Dorchester: DNHAS, 1991)
Jacqueline Peltier, Two Powys Friends: Glimpses into the lives of Bernard O’Neill and Ralph Shirley (London: Cecil Woolf, 2006)
Gerald Anthony RAWLINS (1922-1944)
(Abbey House 1936-1940)
Anthony Rawlins, This Petty Pace (London: A.H. Stockwell, 1943). Presented by the author to Sherborne School Library, 1943.
Roy Michael Frederick REDGRAVE (1925-2011)
(The Green 1939-1943)
Roy Redgrave, Balkan Blue: Family & Military Memories (Pen & Sword Select, 2003). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Peter Clifton RICHARDS (1909-1992)
(Abbey House 1923-1927)
Peter C. Richards, Spanish Verbs (etc.) abridged and simplified (Manila, 1942-3). Reprint of a booklet produced by P.C. Richards to teach Spanish to pupils of the Manila International School interned at Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila during the Second World War. Presented by the author to Sherborne School Library in 1984.
Peter C. Richards, Where Am I Going? Preliminary Draft Memoires (1982). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, June 1984.
Thomas Englesby ROGERS (1817-1912)
(Sherborne School 1829-1834)
T.E. Rogers, Records of Yarlington: being the history of a country village (London: Elliot Stock, 2nd ed., 1902). Inscribed ‘From the writer, for the Sherborne School Library, June 1902’.
Timothy John Godfrey ROGERS (1927-2006)
(Abbeylands 1940-1945)
T.J.G. Rogers, Rupert Brooke: a reappraisal and selection from his writings, some hitherto unpublished (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971)
Lawrence Richard SAIL (b.1942)
(The Green 1956-1961)
Lawrence Sail, Devotions (London: Secker & Warburg, 1987)
Lawrence Sail, Opposite Views (London: J.M. Dent & Sons., 1974). Presented to the School Library by J.H.P. Gibb.
John Christopher SHAW (b.1934)
(Westcott House 1948-1952)
J.C. Shaw, Thai Ceramics (Thailand: Craftsman Press Ltd., 2009)
David Stuart SHEPPARD (1929-2005)
(Lyon House 1942-1947)
David Sheppard, Bias to the Poor (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983)
David Sheppard, Built as a City: God and the Urban World Today (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974)
David Sheppard, Parson’s Pitch (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964)
David Sheppard, Steps Along Hope Street. My Life in Cricket, the Church and the Inner City (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002)
Andrew Bradstock, David Sheppard: Batting for the Poor (London: SPCK, 2019)
Ronald Draycott SHERBROOKE-WALKER (formerly Ronald Draycott Walker) (1897-1984)
(Abbeylands 1911-1914)
Ronald Sherbrooke-Walker, Khaki and Blue (London: The Saint Catherine Press Ltd., 1952). With covering letter from Ronald Sherbrooke-Walker to The Editors of The Shirburnian enclosing a complimentary copy of his book, 19 May 1952.
Robert Spencer SIMPSON (b.1939)
(Harper House 1953-1958)
Robert Simpson, Videowalls (London: Focal Press, 1991)
Hyla Bristow STALLARD (1901-1973)
(Lyon House 1914-1919)
H.B. Stallard, Eye Surgery (Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd., 1946)
Henry STIBY (1843-1934)
(Foundationer and School House 1854-?)
Robin Ansell, Henry Stiby: his Life and Times (Museum of South Somerset Historical Monograph, no.11. 1997)
Jonathan Peter STOCK (b.1966)
(Abbey House 1979-1984)
Jon Stock, Dead Spy Running (London: Blue Door, 2010). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Edward Robert Denys SWORDER OBE, DSC (1909-1995)
(School House 1923-1927)
E.D.R. Sworder, The Time Has Come. Memoirs of a Seafaring Man by Commander Edward Robert Denys Sworder OBE, DSC, RNVR. With a foreword by John Sworder (Hendred Rowse Publishing, 2002)
Arthur Cecil TEMPERLEY (1877-1940)
(School House 1891-1896)
A.C. Temperley, The Whispering Gallery of Europe (London: Collins, 1938)
Harold William Vazeille TEMPERLEY (1879-1939)
(Abbey House 1893-1898)
Harold Temperley and Lillian M. Penson, Foundations of British Foreign Policy from Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902) or Documents, Old and New (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938)
Harold Temperley, Frederic the Great and Kaiser Joseph (London: Frederick Cass & Co., 1968)
John D. Fair, Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992)
Harold W.V. Temperley, History of Serbia (London: Bell & Sons Ltd., 1917). Inscribed: ‘R.E. Hodgson’. Donated to Sherborne School Library in 1918 by C.H. Hodgson in memory of his son Richard Eveleigh Hodgson (a 1908-1913) (1894-1918).
Antony Rhys THOMAS (b.1940)
(School House 1954-1959)
Antony Thomas, In the Line of Fire: Personal Memories of a Documentary Filmmaker (Unicorn, 2022)
Hugh Swynnerton THOMAS (later Lord THOMAS of SWYNNERTON) (1931-2017)
(Lyon House 1945-1950)
Hugh Thomas, Madrid: A travellers’ companion (New York: Atheneum, 1990)
Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade. The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 (London: Picador, 1997)
Hugh Thomas, An Unfinished History of the World (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979)
Robert Dalzell Dillon THOMAS (1922-1944)
(Day boy and Abbey House 1936-1941)
R.D.D. Thomas, The Notebook of a Lieutenant in the Italian Campaign’ (Privately published, 1946)
Julian Howard Atherden THOMPSON (b.1934)
(School House 1948-1952)
Julian Thompson, The Royal Marines. From Sea Soldiers to A Special Force (London: Pan Books, 2001). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Julian Thompson, The Imperial War Museum Book of Victory in Europe: The North-West European Campaign 1944-1945 (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1995). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Julian Thompson, The Imperial War Museum Book of War Behind Enemy Lines (London: Pan Books, 1999). Donated by H.W.M. Brewer.
Richard Ian (Rico) TICE (b.1966)
(Westcott House 1979-1984)
Rico Tice & Barry Cooper, Christianity Explored (New Malden:, The Good Book Company, 2005). Inscribed by the author: ‘I hope this goes in the Westcott Room. I thank God for my time at Sherborne. Rico.’
Rico Tice & Nate Morgan Locke, A Very Different Christmas (The Good Book Company, 2015).
Rico Tice, Life that last (The Good Book Company, 2022).
Giles Henry Rupert TILLOTSON (b.1960), (The Green 1974-1978)
Michael John Stebbing BEADEL (b.1959), (The Green 1972-1977)
Booklet: ‘Timbre, Toccata by Giles Tillotson; Dull Roots and Spring Rain by Michael Beadel’ (n.d., c.1976)
Jonathan Huntriss TOLSON (b.1939)
(School House 1953-1957)
Chip Tolson, Pebbles. Short Stories (Peterborough: Spiderwize, 2016)
Hugh Simon TORRENS (b.1940)
(Abbeylands 1954-1959)
H.S. Torrens, ‘The Sherborne School Museum and the Early Collections and Publications of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club’, off-print from The Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1976, Vol. 98.
Alexander Hamelin TRELAWNY-ROSS (1884-1967)
(School House 1899-1905; Assistant master 1911-1946)
A.H. Trelawny-Ross, Their Prime of Life, A Public School Study (Winchester: The Wykeham Press, 1956)
A.H. Trelawny-Ross, Fifty Years: Being the Main Decisions of the Sherborne Games Committee (1884-1934), together with Some Relevant Memoranda and an Outline of the Development of Games Organization (c.1934)
Alan Mathison TURING (1912-1954)
(Westcott House 1926-1931)
Sara Turing, Alan M. Turing (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Son, 1959). Donated to Sherborne School [by E.S. Turing] January 1960.
Sara Turing, Alan M. Turing (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Son, 1959). Donated to Sherborne School by D.B. Eperson.
Sala [sic] Turing, Alan M. Turing. Japanese edition, n.d. [c.1959]. Donated to Sherborne School by E.S. Turing, 1967.
Sara Turing, Alan M. Turing. Centenary Edition. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Paul Backhouse, ‘Alan Turing. Guildford’s best kept secret’ (2016). Signed by the author.
Jeremy Bernstein, The Analytical Engine. Computers – Past, Present and Future (New York: Random House, 1964). Donated to Sherborne School by E.S. Turing, 1967.
Donald Birkby Eperson, Music and Mathematics (The Book Guild Ltd., Sussex, 2002)
Bonhams, New York, ‘Alan Turing: the hidden wartime manuscript by the father of computing’, 13 April 2015.
Rare Book Auctions, ‘The Alan Turing Papers: The Collection of Norman Routledge (1928-2013)’, with an introduction by Andrew Hodges, 17 June 2025.
F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp (ed.), Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993)
Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma (London: Burnett Books Ltd., 1983)
Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma (London: Vintage Books, 2012)
Andrew Hodges, Turing, A Natural Philosopher (London: Phoenix, 1997)
Simon Lavington, A History of Manchester Computers (British Computer Society, 1998). Donated by Mrs Katherine Barker.
David Leavitt, The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (London: Phoenix, 2006). Signed by the author.
Paul Morris, Time Traveller Danny and the Codebreaker (Seven Acres Publishing, 2012)
Maboth Moseley, Irascible Genius. A Life of Charles Babbage, Inventor. Foreword by B.V. Bowden (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1964). Donated to Sherborne School by E.S. Turing, 1967.
James R. Newman (ed.), The World of Mathematics, 4 volumes (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956). Includes in Vol.4, part XIX, p.2099, A.M. Turing’s ‘Can a Machine Think?’
Paul Strathern, Turing and the Computer (London: Arrow Books, 1997)
Hugh Whitemore, Breaking the Code. A play based on the book Alan Turing, The Enigma by Andrew Hodges (Samuel French Ltd., 1988)
The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing. Transcript of the BBC TV programme Horizon transmitted on BBC2 on 9th March 1992. Horizon TV programme produced by Christopher Sykes.
John Dermot TURING (b.1961)
(Westcott House 1974-1978)
Dermot Turing, Prof: Alan Turing Decoded (The History Press, 2015)
Dermot Turing, Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius (Pitkin Guide, 2017)
Dermot Turing, The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park (Arcturus Publishing Ltd., 2020)
Dermot Turing, Reflections of Alan Turing: A Relative Story (The History Press, 2021)
Lionel Peter Winterton TWISS OBE (1921-2011)
(Abbey House 1935-1940)
Peter Twiss, Faster than the Sun (London: MacDonald, 1963). Donated to the School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
Peter Twiss, Faster than the Sun (London: Grub Street, 2nd ed., 2005)
George Harold VELLACOTT (1919-2008)
(Lyon House 1934-1938)
George Vellacott, Pink Rice (Wells: 1996)
Alexander Raban WAUGH (1898-1981)
(School House 1911-1915). Son of Arthur Waugh and brother of Evelyn Waugh.
Alec Waugh, The Balliols (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1934)
Alec Waugh, The Best Wine Last: an autobiography through the years 1932-1969 (London: W.H. Allen, 1978)
Alec Waugh, Brief Encounter (London: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd., 1975)
Alec Waugh, The Early Years of Alec Waugh (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1962)
Alec Waugh, Eight Short Stories (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1937). Arthur Waugh bookplate. Inscribed: ‘Here is my new book, dear Parents, with my love. Alec 1937.’
Alec Waugh, A Family of Islands (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1964). Inscribed: ‘To The Sherborne School Library from Alec Waugh O.S. (a) 1911-1915. Nov. 1964’.
Alec Waugh, The Fatal Gift (London: W.H. Allen, 1973)
Alec Waugh, Fuel for the Flame (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960). Inscribed: ‘For Joan with love from Alec.’
Alec Waugh, Fuel for the Flame (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1960)
Alec Waugh, Going Their Own Ways (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1938). Arthur Waugh bookplate. Inscribed: ‘For his parents anonymously.’
Alec Waugh, Guy Renton (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952). Inscribed: ‘For his mother with the author’s love. A. March. 7. 1953.’
Alec Waugh, His Second War (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1944). Inscribed: ‘Alec Waugh. Baghdad, July 13 1944’. With two black and white photographs of the Alec Waugh in Spears’ Mission Building.
Alec Waugh, Hot Countries (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930). Inscribed: ‘Presented to the Sherborne Library by its author, Alec Waugh, 1939’.
Alec Waugh, Hot Countries (London: Pan Books Ltd. 1948)
Alec Waugh, In Praise of Wine (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1959). Inscribed: ‘For Joan who has regaled her guests at Edrington with so many of these wines – herself renewed with Dry Martinis. With love from Alec, 1959.’
Alec Waugh, Island in the Sun (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1955). Inscribed: ‘For Joan with Alec’s love, Jan. 3. 1956’, ‘Joan Waugh, Edrington, Silchester, nr Reading, January 11th 1956.’
Alec Waugh, Island in the Sun (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1956)
Alec Waugh, Jill Somerset (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1936). Inscribed: ‘With my love, dear Joan, Alec, 21.10.36.’
Alec Waugh, Jill Somerset (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1936). Arthur Waugh bookplate. Inscribed: ‘For my Parents my 14th novel, Alec. Oct. 29 1936.’
Alec Waugh, The Lipton Story (New York: Doubleday & Co. Ltd., 1950). Inscribed: ‘For Joan with love from Alec, Jan 17 1950.’
Alec Waugh, The Lipton Story (New York: Doubleday & Co. Ltd., 1950). Inscribed: ‘For his mother with the author’s love, Alec. Jan 19 1950.’
Alec Waugh, The Lonely Unicorn (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1922). Alexander Raban Waugh bookplate (designed by Evelyn Waugh). Inscribed: ‘Alec Waugh, May 1922.’ Written on the cover: ‘EDITIO PRINCEPS 12.5.22.’
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Grant Richards Ltd., August 1917 reprint). Presented to Sherborne School Library by J.A.L. Hardcastle (Abbeylands 1913-1915).
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Grant Richards Ltd., August 1917 reprint). Presented to Sherborne School by Sam Hey, Assistant Master 1926-1973.
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Grant Richards Ltd., November 1917 reprint). Inscribed: ‘A.A. Elder from G.E.P.E. 1918’; ‘to Arnold Thorne Waite.’
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Grant Richards Ltd., January 1918 reprint)
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Grant Richards Ltd., October 1918 reprint). Inscribed: ‘Sidney Dark with the very best wishes for 1920 from Alec Waugh, January 1920’; Ex dono A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd. Pocket Library Edition, February 1929). With new Author’s Note by Alec Waugh, October 1928.
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1941)
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Mayflower Books Ltd., n.d. c.1960)
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1972 reprint)
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth (London: Methuen, 1984 reprint)
Alec Waugh, Love in These Days (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1927)
Alec Waugh, Married to a Spy (London: W.H. Allen, 1976)
Alec Waugh, Most Women… (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1931). Arthur Waugh bookplate. Inscribed: ‘Dear Father – here is my new book. I hope that it may lure you down to Villefranche, Billy, May 1931.’
Alec Waugh, The Mule on the Minaret (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1965). Inscribed: ‘Dearest Joan – Here is my new book – with my love. I hope that you will like it. ARW. Oct. 1. 1965.’
Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn and Other Profiles (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1967). Proof copy.
Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn and Other Portraits (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967)
Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn and Other Profiles (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1967). Inscribed: ‘For Joan with very much love, ARW. October. 1967.’
Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn and Other Profiles (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1967). Inscribed: ‘To the Sherborne School Library from Alec Waugh. O.S. (a) 1911-1915’, November 1967.
Alec Waugh, My Place in the Bazaar (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1961). Inscribed: ‘Joan Waugh, Edrington, Silchester, Hampshire. 1961.’
Alec Waugh, Myself When Young: Confessions (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1923)
Alec Waugh, No Quarter (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1932)
Alec Waugh, Nor Many Waters (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928). Pasted inside front cover: typescript letter from Maurice Healy to ‘My dear Corinthian’ [Alec Waugh], 28 July 1935.
Alec Waugh, No Truce with Time (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1941). Inscribed: ‘With all my love Joan dearest, Alec.’
Alec Waugh, No Truce with Time (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1941). Arthur Waugh bookplate. Inscribed: ‘For my Father – a novel that he would not have dared to publish during the [?Ieuslove]-era at no.11, 1941, ARW.’
Alec Waugh, No Truce with Time (London: Guild Books, 1947)
Alec Waugh, On Doing What One Likes (Kensington: The Cayme Press, 1926). Alexander Raban Waugh bookplate [designed by Evelyn Waugh].
A.R. Waugh & H.H. Wyatt-Smith, Photographs of the Teams Who Have Represented Sherborne School at Football & Cricket 1901-1915 (Sherborne: F. Bennett & Co. Ltd., 1915)
Alec Waugh, Pleasure (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1921). Inscribed: ‘J.A.L. Hardcastle 5/8/21’.
Alec Waugh, Portrait of a Celibate (New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1929)
Alec Waugh, The Prisoners of Mainz (London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1919). Inscribed: ‘Constance Waugh, Feb: xix: 1919, AW.’
Alec Waugh, The Prisoners of Mainz (The Naval & Military Press Ltd. Ltd., c.2010)
Alec Waugh, Public School Life (London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1922). Inscribed: ‘For Mother with love from Alec. Sept. 13 1922.’
Alec Waugh, Resentment Poems (London: Grant Richards Ltd., June 1918)
Alec Waugh, “…’Sir’, She Said” (London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1930). Inscribed: [Arthur] ‘Waugh’.
Alec Waugh, “…’Sir’, She Said” (London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1930)
Alec Waugh, A Spy in the Family (London: W.H. Allen, 1970)
Alec Waugh, The Sugar Islands (New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1949). Inscribed: ‘Presented to the School Library by Alec Waugh (O.S.) January 1949’.
Alec Waugh, The Sunlit Caribbean (London: Evans Bros. Ltd., 1948)
Alec Waugh, These Would I Choose. A Personal Anthology ((London: Sampson Low, 1948). Inscribed: ‘To the Sherborne School Library within whose walls so many of these poems were read for the first times. Alec Waugh. Sept. 1949. “That which the fountain gives forth, returneth again to the fountain” ‘
Alec Waugh, Thirteen Such Years (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1932). Arthur Waugh bookplate. Inscribed: ‘Dear Father – This, with my love and your promise that it shall not be leant, Alec, May 12 1932.’
Alec Waugh, Thirteen Such Years (New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1932). Inscribed: ‘For Joan with my love, this account of the years before I knew her, which belong now to such a distant past, Wuddles, 1932.’
Alec Waugh, Tropic Seed (New York:, Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1932). Arthur Waugh bookplate. Inscribed: ‘Here dear Father is an unlikely book from the night-club novelist, but very fittingly from one who thirty years ago ‘shot faces out’, Alec.’
Alec Waugh, Unclouded Summer (New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1948)
Alec Waugh, A Year to Remember: A Reminiscence of 1931 (London: W.H. Allen, 1975)
Alec Waugh, A Year to Remember: A Reminiscence of 1931 (London: W.H. Allen, 1975)
Arthur WAUGH (1866-1943)
(School House 1879-1885). Father of Alexander Raban Waugh and Evelyn Waugh.
Arthur Waugh, Alfred Lord Tennyson. A Study of His Life and Work (London: William Heinemann, 1892)
Arthur Waugh, A Hundred Years of Publishing, being the story of Chapman & Hall, Ltd. (London: Chapman & Hall, 1930)
Later Poems from Punch 1887-1908, with an introduction by Arthur Waugh (London: George G. Harrap & Col, 1909). Presented by the author to Sherborne School Library, November 1909. Signed by the author with a poem. Inscribed: ‘To Sherborne School Library with many grateful memories from Arthur Waugh, November 1909’.
Arthur Waugh, Legends of the Wheel (Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1898). A collection of poems about cycling, including ‘Legends of the Wheel – To C.C.W. – Ripley – Oxford – Winscombe – 1897’, ‘The Bell of the Bike – with all due deference to Mr W.E. Henley’, ‘The Entraining Bicyclist’ and ‘The Great North Road’.
Arthur Waugh, One Man’s Road. Being a Picture of Life in a Passing Generation (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1931)
Arthur Waugh, One Man’s Road. Being a Picture of Life in a Passing Generation (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1935). Inscribed: ‘To W. Horsfall Carter with all best wishes from Arthur Waugh, August xxx: 1937. New generations tread the tracks we made,/Till one man’s road becomes a cavalcade. A.W.’
Arthur Waugh, One Man’s Road. Being a Picture of Life in a Passing Generation (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1931). Presented to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
Arthur Waugh, Reticence in Literature and other Papers (London: J.G. Wilson, 1915). Presented by the author to Sherborne School Library, 1915. Inscribed ‘To Sherborne School Library, where he first learnt something of Literature if not of Reticence, from the Old Guesten Hall’s Grateful Pensioner, Arthur Waugh, Easter: 1915’.
Ian Mackenzie, Forgotten Places, with an introduction by Arthur Waugh (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1919). [Ian Hume Townsend Mackenzie (1898-1918) was a friend of Alec Waugh’s at Sandhurst].
WAUGH family.
Mark Amory (ed.), The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981)
Paula Byrne, Mad World. Evelyn Waugh and the secrets of Brideshead (London: Harper Press, 2009)
Michael Davie (ed.), The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1979)
Philip Eade, Evelyn Waugh. A Life Revisited (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2016)
Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons (London: Headline Book Publishing, 2005)
Philip Lester WAYRE (1921-2014)
(The Green 1935-1938)
Philip Wayre, Wind in the Reeds (London: Collins, 1965)
Philip Wayre, The Private Life of the Otter (B.T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1979)
Philip Wayre, The River People (London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1976)
Philip Wayre, Operation Otter (London: Chatto & WIndus, 1989)
Anthony Robert WHATELY-SMITH (1915-1944)
(School House 1929-1933)
David Whately-Smith, Silent Heroes (2024). Donated to Sherborne School by the author at the Remembrance Day service at Walhampton School on 15 November 2024. Inscribed ‘It is in recognition of the courage and bravery shown by Captain Andy Whately-Smith, former pupil of Sherborne School and Hordle House (now part of Walhampton).
Alfred North WHITEHEAD (1861-1947)
(School House 1875-1880)
A.N. Whitehead, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1962)
A.N. Whitehead, Essays in Science and Philosophy (London: Rider & Company, 1948)
A.N. Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953). Donated to Sherborne School Library, 1953.
A.N. Whitehead, Religion in the Making. Lowell Lectures, 1926 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927). Donated to Sherborne School Library, 1928.
A.N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World. Lowell Lectures, 1925 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928)
A.N. Whitehead, Symbolism. Its Meaning and Effect. Barbour-Page Lectures, University of Virginia, 1927 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1985)
A.N. Whitehead, A Treatise on Universal Algebra, with Applications. Volume 1. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898). Inscribed: ‘John Blanch from his pupil the Author. Feb. 21. 1898.’ Donated to Sherborne School Library from the Library of Edwin Davis, 1933.
Dorothy Emmet, Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism (London: Macmillan, 1966)
A.H. Johnson (ed.), The Wit and Wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1947)
Ivor Leclerc, Whitehead’s Metaphysics. An Introductory Exposition (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1958)
Victor Lowe, Alfred North Whitehead. The Man and His Work. Volume 1: 1861-1910 (John Hopkins University Press, 1985). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, May 1985.
W. Mays, The Philosophy of Whitehead (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1959)
Robert M. Palter, Whitehead’s Philosophy of Science (University of Chicago Press, 1960)
Lucien Price, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, recorded by Lucien Price (London: Max Reinhardt, 1954). Presented to Sherborne School Library, 8 February 1955.
Giles Quintin Sykes WHITTELL (b.1966)
(Wallace House 1979-1984)
Giles Whittell, Extreme Continental. Blowing Hot and Cold through Central Asia (London: Indigo, 1996)
John Finlay Willasey WILSEY (1939-)
(Lyon House 1952-1957).
John Wilsey, H Jones VC. The Life and Death of an Unusual Hero (Arrow Books, 2003)
Edward Archibald Rathmell WILSON (1883-1955)
(School House 1897-1902)
Young England: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys Throughout the English-Speaking World, 23rd annual volume (London: n.d., c.1902). Includes pp.231-232, ‘Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense. A Story of Sherborne School’ by E.E. Bradford and E.A.R. Wilson.
Rathmell Wilson, Jingles in the Jungle (Dawlish: The Channing Press, 1935)
Andrew Richard WINGFIELD DIGBY (b.1950)
(Westcott House 1964-1969)
Andrew Wingfield Digby, A Loud Appeal: Playing by God’s Rules (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) Signed by the author.
William Toby WOOLRYCH (b.1935)
(Abbeylands 1949-1952)
Toby Woolrych, Spain – A New Life. An Andalucian Odyssey (Scotforth Books, 2002). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author.
William George WOOTTEN (b.1971)
(Harper House 1984-1989)
William Wootten, You Have a Visitor (Worple Press, 2016). Signed by the author.
William Wootten, The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015)
Basil Charles WRIGHT (1907-1987)
(Harper House 1921-1926)
Basil Wright, The Long View. An International History of Cinema (Granada Publishing Ltd., 1976)
Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Innocent Eye. The Life of Robert J. Flaherty. Based on research material by Paul Rotha and Basil Wright (London: W.H. Allen, 1963)
Francis St. Quinton WYLD (1884-1974)
(Abbey House 1898-1904)
Padre Wyld, Thirty Years in Assam. Extracts from the Diary of a Chaplain (1957). Inscribed: ‘Francis Wyld, Abbey House 1898-1904, Sherborne School Library, June 1961. Commem!’, ‘F. Wyld, Old Mission, Tespur, Assam.’
David Richard Bill YOUENS (b.1943)
(Abbey House 1956- 1961)
Richard Youens, It’s Always Friday: Autobiography of a Film Insurance Troubleshooter (Cirencester: Mereo Books, 2015)
Roland Keith YOUNG (1887-1953)
(School House 1902-1906)
Roland Young, Not for Children: Pictures and Verse by Roland Young, with an introduction by Ring Lardner (New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1930).
Roland Young, Not for Children: Pictures and Verse by Roland Young, with an introduction by Ring Lardner (New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1945).
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- Books written by our about members of School Staff
- Books about Sherborne School
- Historic Library & Rare Book Collection
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