The 30 April 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the baritone, opera producer, composer and folk song collector, Clive Carey (1883-1968). Francis Clive Savill Carey, known throughout his life as Clive Carey, was born on 30 May 1883 at Sible Hedingham in Essex. He attended King’s College choir school, Cambridge, and in September 1897 … Read more
Charles Hudson (The Green, 1905-1910) was Sherborne’s highest decorated soldier of WW1. His actions as a platoon commander at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 had resulted in him being awarded a Military Cross and a French Croix de Guerre. In 1917, he again distinguished himself at both Messines Ridge and at Passchendaele gaining … Read more
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
The first live televised broadcast of a rugby match took place eighty years ago on 19 March 1938. The match broadcast that day was the final round of what is now known as the Six Nations Championship but which was then played between the four Home Nations. That year, England and Scotland were competing for the … Read more
The Halliday Cup for music was presented to Sherborne School by Ronald James Rivers Halliday (1902-1963) in memory of his brother, Second Lieutenant Charles Graham Rivers Halliday (1897-1917) who was killed in action at Ypres on 13 June 1917. Charles Graham Rivers Halliday was born on 28 June 1897 at Shawford, Hampshire. His parents were … Read more
This article has been submitted by James Kierstead (Abbeylands). James is a former editor of The Shirburnian and winner of the Marson Greek Prize, and is now a Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Not long ago I received an email from my old guitar-teacher (and keen local historian), George Tatham. Attached … Read more
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL, known affectionately as Monty, was born on 17 November 1887. Educated at St. Paul’s School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, he served with distinction in both the First and Second World Wars and, from 1946 to 1948, was chief … Read more
Two of the fifty-five Blues who died in conflict in 1917 have been chosen as ‘Varsity Match Icons’ for the 2017 Varsity Match fixture: John Argentine Campbell who attended Fettes College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and Old Shirburnian, Cecil Douglas Baker: ‘Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv’st Live well – how … Read more
Three generations of the Powys family attended Sherborne School. Not only were John Cowper Powys and his brothers Littleton Charles Powys, Albert Reginald Powys, Llewelyn Powys and William Ernest Powys pupils at the School, but also their uncle, Littleton Albert Powys, and John Cowper Powys’ son, Littleton Alfred Powys. Find out about the Powys family … Read more
When Alan Turing’s school friend Christopher Morcom died aged 18 in February 1930, Alan wrote to his mother saying, ‘I feel sure that I shall meet Morcom again somewhere & that there will be some work for us to do together, as I believed there was for us to do here.’ Two years after Christopher … Read more