Lewis Morris

Celebrating 160 years of The Shirburnian

The first issue of The Shirburnian was published 160 years ago in March 1859. It was devised as ‘an outlet for its [the School’s] wit, and also an easy means of printing all its News, both as regards those of us who are here and those who have left’, and today remains the School’s main publication setting out the … Read more

Sherborne School’s Welsh Connection

When Hugo Daniel Harper (1821-1895) was appointed headmaster of Sherborne School in 1850 he brought with him 30 pupils from his former school, Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan, including Lewis Morris who went on to became a famous poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. Harper, a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, had been … Read more