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Online Resources:
- Robert Bamford (1883-1942): co-founder of Aston Martin
- The Rev. John Barnes Bartlett’s ‘Yarn of the King’s School’, 1890
- Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe & the Bledisloe Cup
- Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867-1936)
- John Noel Patch Bennett (1912-1930)
- Tony Bethell and the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III
- Herbert John Buckmaster (1881-1966), the man who put the ‘Buck’ into Buck’s Fizz
- James Charles Critchell Bullock (1898-1953) (1898-1953) (pdf)
- Capt. J.C. Critchell Bullock’s film of an expedition to the Canadian Sub-Arctic barren lands, 1924-25
- Peter Candler v. Charles Dick & the battle for the Calcutta Cup, 1938
- Clive Carey (1883-1968)
- Arthur William Carr (1893-1963)
- Sir Christopher Chataway (1931-2014)
- Warren Chetham-Strode (1896-1974) and The Guinea Pig
- David Cornwell (1931-2020) (John le Carré)
- Arnaldo Cortesi (1897-1966), 1946 Pulitzer Prize winner
- Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (1904-1972), Poet Laureate
- Squadron Leader Peter Devitt (1911-1997) and the bombing of Sherborne on 30 September 1940
- Major Henry Carey Druce (1921-2007), SAS officer NEW!
- John Durnford (1920-1995): Second World War Poet
- Denis Eagar’s War Hymn, September 1914
- James Evatt & John Whitfield: the School House boys who captured a German airman in 1941
- Lieutenant Jack Grayburn (1918-1944): Sherborne’s A Bridge too Far hero
- 2nd Lieut. C.G.R. Halliday (1897-1917 and the Halliday Cup for Music
- Nathaniel Highmore MRCS (1789-1866)
- Randle Holme’s Brazilian adventure in 1885 (pdf)
- P.S. Jackson-Taylor and Firefly, one of the ‘Little Ships of Dunkirk’
- The Knight brothers, Jane Austen & Sherborne School
- William Bruce Knight (1785-1845) (pdf)
- Sir Godfrey Lagden KCMG (1851-1934)
- William Maximilian Lindley (1891-1972), astronomer
- Dr McEnery and the Sherborne Urban Military Service Tribunals
- Ian Messiter (1920-1999) & Just a Minute
- Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore (1886-1978)
- Christopher Collan Morcom (1911-1930)
- John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
- Peter Roderick Oliver (1907-1945): soldier and mountaineer
- Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861-1952): the Shirburnian War Artist & the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
- Jon Pertwee (1919-1996)
- An interview with Lance Percival, May 2000 (pdf)
- Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FZS (1860-1905)
- The Powys family and Sherborne School
- Judging the English Verse Prize 1939-1949 – Littleton Powys and John Cowper Powys
- William Thomas Putt’s (1725-1797) copy of Lily’s Grammar
- Michell Raper: radio broadcaster & poet
- Peter Clifton Richards, civilian internee at the Santo Tomás Internment Camp, Manila
- Edward Tanner (1855-1927) and the School broad jump competition, 1874
- John Toogood (1742-1824): ardent campaigner against the slave trade
- Alan Turing OBE, PhD, FRS (1912-1954)
- Peter Twiss: first man to fly faster than 1,000 mph
- Torsten Ullman: Sherborne’s Olympian sharpshooter
- John Bowater Vernon: Chelsea Flower Show Silver Cup winner, 1925
- Alec Waugh (1898-1981) & The Loom of Youth
- George Weldon (1908-1963): orchestral conductor
- Alfred North Whitehead OM, FRS, FBA: mathematician, philosopher, and co-author with Bertrand Russell of Principia Mathematica
- George Derek Pepys Whiteley (1906-1988) (pdf)
- Lieutenant J.P. Whitham: casualty of the SS Lisbon Maru
- The Sherborne Register: published lists of former pupils and staff
- Roll of Honour
- Old Shirburnians working in India in 1898
- Old Shirburnians working in Hong Kong in 1935
- The Indian Rebellion 1857-1859
- Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
- First World War (1914-1919)
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- POWs & Internees in World War Two
- Sherborne’s Kindertransport Children
- Lives Lost in Service (1919-1939, 1946 to date)
- Old Shirburnians and the first day of the Battle of the Somme
- The Shirburnians who did not return from Dunkirk
- The Falklands Conflict (1982)
- The First Gulf War (1991)
- Victoria Cross Recipients
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Medical alumni of Sherborne School (pt 1) by Peter Stride (g 59-64)
- Medical alumni of Sherborne School (pt 2) by Peter Stride (g 59-64)
- Sherborne School in 1851
- The 1944 Fleming Report & Sherborne’s ‘bursary boys’
- Shirburnians & the Olympic Games
- Shirburnians who have represented their country in sport
- Shirburnian Record Breakers
- Desert Island Discs castaways
- Shirburnians and the Oscars (pdf)
- Books written by or about Old Shirburnians & members of School Staff held in the Historic Library & Rare Book Collection at Sherborne School