CONTENTS
Foreword by theWarden
6
Introduction by Nicola Hunter, Deputy Academic Director
8
Chapter 1
Origins and Earliest Days
10
Chapter 2
Wardens
20
Chapter 3
Houses
42
Chapter 4
The Chapel
76
Chapter 5
Doorways and Gateways
86
Chapter 6
St Edward’s and theWars
108
Chapter 7
Sport and Outdoors
130
Chapter 8
Celebrations
154
List of Subscribers
164
Index
167
St. Edward’s: 150 Years
2013 © St Edward’s School and
Third Millennium Publishing Limited
First published in 2013 by Third Millennium Publishing Limited,
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Written by Nicola Hunter
Edited by Neil Burkey
Designed by Matthew Wilson
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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
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.comDover College:
The portrait of Stephen Jones, p.22.
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.
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.
Perkins, Nicola
: DT teacher; diagram p.81.
Pyper, Ben
: Head of DT; the cope photographs, p.80.
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.