St Edward's, 150 Years

St Edward’s: 150 Years

Chapter 2 / Wardens

YEARS

WARDEN DATE HISTORICAL EVENT

YEARS

WARDEN DATE HISTORICAL EVENT

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1877–93 Simeon ( 1 )

1880 Education becomes compulsory for children under the age of ten 1881 First home in England uses electric light 1886 Benz granted patent for his first automobile

1971–8 H. Christie ( 9 )

1973 Britain joins the European Economic Community 1977 CommodorePET,firstsuccessfullymass-marketedPC,introduced

1971–8

1877–93 1877–93 1877–93 1893–6

1978–88 Phillips ( 10 )

1978/9 Winter of Discontent

1978–88 1978–88 1978–88

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister

1887 Hertz invents radar

1981 Brixton Riots

Hobson ( 2 )

1894 Death Duties introduced

1982 Falklands War 1988–2004 D. Christie ( 11 ) 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the WorldWide Web 1988–2004 1992 Channel Tunnel opens, linking England and France 1988–2004 1994 First women priests are ordained by the Church of England 1988–2004 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris 1988–2004 2001 9/11 in New York 1988–2004 2003 Invasion of Iraq 2004–11 Trotman ( 12 ) 2004 Facebook is launched 2004–11 2009 Barack Obama becomes 44th President of USA 2011– Jones (13) 2012 Olympic Games at Stratford in London

1896–1904 Hudson ( 3 )

1897 Marconi wins patent for radio communication

1896–1904 1896–1904 1896–1904

1901 Queen Victoria dies 1901 Birth of Labour Party

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Entente Cordiale signed between England and France

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1904–13 1904–13 1904–13 1904–13 1913–25 1913–25 1913–25 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1925–54 1954–66 1954–66 1954–66 1966–71 1966–71 1966–71

Sing ( 4 )

1908 Old Age Pension introduced

1908 Olympic Games at the White City in London

1912 Titanic sinks

1912 Royal Flying Corps is established

1913–25 Ferguson ( 5 )

1914 Outbreak of WWI

1918 Limited numbers of women given the vote for the first time

1919 Lady Astor becomes first female MP 1920–1 Oxford and Cambridge grant full status to women undergraduates 1926 First public demonstration of television

1925–54 Kendall ( 6 )

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1927 BBC is created

1928 First ‘talkie’ film shown in UK

1929 Wall Street crash

1935 First Penguin paperbacks go on sale

1936 Jarrow March 1939 Outbreak of WWII

1945 Two atomic bombs dropped 1945 UN comes into existence

Left: Stained glass from the Warden’s House. Below: View of the School before Oakthorpe Road was built.

1948 National Health Service established. Olympic Games at Wembley

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1951 Festival of Britain

1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds her father, George VI

1953 DNA structure discovered

Fisher ( 7 )

1956 John Osborne play Look Back in Anger first staged

1960 The Pill first used widely in the US 1966 England win the football World Cup

1966–71 Bradley ( 8 )

1966 The Beatles release Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

1967 Abortion and homosexuality are legalised

1969 Man lands on the moon

1971 Decimalised curency takes over from £sd

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