St Edward's, 150 Years

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St. Edward’s: 150 Years

2013 © St Edward’s School and Third Millennium Publishing Limited

First published in 2013 by Third Millennium Publishing Limited, a subsidiary of Third Millennium Information Limited. 2–5 Benjamin Street, London, United Kingdom, EC1M 5QL www.tmiltd.com

ISBN: 978 1 908990 13 6

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Foreword by theWarden

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Introduction by Nicola Hunter, Deputy Academic Director

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Written by Nicola Hunter Edited by Neil Burkey

Chapter 1

Origins and Earliest Days

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Designed by Matthew Wilson Production by Bonnie Murray Reprographics by Studio Fasoli, Verona, Italy Printed by Printer Trento, Italy Picture Credits The vast majority of the images that appear in this book are from the St Edward’s Archive, and are the property of St Edward’s School, Oxford. In the case where material is not the property of the School every effort has been made to trace ownership and obtain permission for reproduction, with details as below. Cover: Cover artwork by Uwe Ackermann , whom St Edward’s thanks especially for his contribution. Paintings: Buchanan, Hugh : The Quad seen through the Lodge Archway , p.77. Carline, Richard (OSE) : An impression of the 1918 Anglo-German front line , p.109. With permission from the artist’s estate, via the Imperial War Museum. Sutcliffe, Nicholas Paul (G, 1991–6) : The Chapel and Quad (cropped), p.76. Photographs: Barazaki, Naveed: Photo on p.144 when Naveed was in the Common Room. Taken by him when he taught at St Edward’s. Birchmore, Charlie : Charlie took photographs of many of the buildings of the School, particularly

Chapter 2

Wardens

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Chapter 3

Houses

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entrances for Chapter 5, and photographs taken on an enormous cherry-picker in the Quad to record the removal of the weather-vane for gilding, p.84. Bodleian Library, Oxford , granted permission for use of Henry Taunt’s photograph of New Inn Hall Street, 1865, p.13 and his photograph of Bursey, Simeon and Punch, p.20. Browning, Hilde , sister of Ted Jefferson (OSE), provided all of the photographs on p.126. Cornwell, Christopher : Christopher is the professional photographer whose work we used most in the book and we have much appreciated his ability to capture great photographs of people interacting and his sense of colour and composition. He describes himself as ‘an advertising and lifestyle photographer working predominantly on location’. www.christophercornwell.com Dunn, Colin : Colin, of www.scriptura.co.uk, based in Oxford, photographed the portraits of the Wardens used in the timeline for Chapter 2. Getty Images provided the photographs of Adrian Warburton, p.124, and James Forrester, p.134. Dover College: The portrait of Stephen Jones, p.22.

Giles, Sally : Sally, the daughter of our Estates Bursar, Richard Hayes, is an enthusiastic amateur photographer who has contributed a beautiful collection of her photographs of this year’s magnificent Gaudy to our Archive, some lovely examples of which have been used in Chapter 8: Celebrations. Hunter, Nicola : Deputy Academic Director; a variety of photographs such as those on p.87. Narula, Henry : Prefect at the School; shirts and ties, pp.44 and 46 and photographs of Field House on p.57. Rowe, Graeme : Graeme does work as a wedding photographer and sells his own images, particularly of the beautiful Wiltshire countryside, through his website www.eyespyphotography.net. He has contributed to the Archive a large number of photographs of our particularly special Gaudy this year, which we are very grateful for, and some have been used for Chapter 8: Celebrations. Perkins, Nicola : DT teacher; diagram p.81. Pyper, Ben : Head of DT; the cope photographs, p.80.

Chapter 4

The Chapel

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Chapter 5

Doorways and Gateways

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Chapter 6

St Edward’s and theWars

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Chapter 7

Sport and Outdoors

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Chapter 8

Celebrations

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List of Subscribers

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Index

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