Epsom College

Epsom College
Motto "Deo Non Fortuna"
(Latin for "Not through luck but by the help of God")[1]
Established 1855
Type Independent day and boarding school
Public School
Religion Church of England[2]
Headmaster James A Piggot
Founder Dr John Propert[3]
Location College Road
Epsom
Surrey
KT17 4JQ
England
DfE number 936/6030
DfE URN 125332 Tables
Students 725 (2012)[4]
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–18
Houses 12
Colours

Blue and White[5]

         
Publication The Epsomian
Former pupils Old Epsomians
Patron HM The Queen
Alumni OEs Connected
Website www.epsomcollege.org.uk
The Tower and main entrance as seen from across Main Lawn

Epsom College is a co-educational public school, on the slopes of Epsom Downs in Surrey, in Southern England, for pupils aged 13 to 18. Founded in 1853 as a boys' school to provide support for poor members of the medical profession such as pensioners and orphans ("Foundationers"), Epsom's long-standing association with medicine was estimated in 1980 as having helped almost a third of its 10,000 alumni enter that profession.[6] The college caters for both boarding and day pupils. The headmaster is a member of the Headmasters' Conference. The college's patron is HM The Queen.

Foundation

The school was founded in 1853 by Dr. John Propert as The Royal Medical Benevolent College, the aims of which were to provide accommodation for pensioned medical doctors or their widows in the first instance, and to provide a "liberal education" to 100 sons of "duly qualified medical men" for £25 each year.[7]

The Grade II listed Tower and main building,[8] demonstrating the architectural theme of a large number of the buildings on campus.

The establishment of the College was the culmination of a campaign begun in 1844 by the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, the forerunner of the British Medical Association.[9] The scheme saw the medical profession was "in regard to charitable institutions for the aged and infirm, the widow and the orphan, the worst provided of all professions and callings" and took as its aim the alleviating of poverty and debt.[10] Discussions were chaired by Sir John Forbes, Physician to Prince Albert and the Royal Household, and followed similar plans establishing schools for the Clergy and the Royal Navy in desiring to raise money to found "schools for the sons of medical men", providing an education which would otherwise be "beyond the means of many parents".[11]

By 1851, the Medical Benevolent Society had limited itself to the foundation of a single Benevolent College, and met in Treasurer John Propert's house in New Cavendish Street, Marylebone.[12] The new campaign's fund-raising activities included dinners, which were attended by numerous doctors and Members of Parliament, and concerts, for example at one such event, on 4 July 1855, composer Hector Berlioz conducted the UK premier of his symphonic suite Harold in Italy.[13][14]

The foundation stone was laid on 6 July 1853, and almost two years later, on 25 June 1855, the College was formally opened by Prince Albert and his son, the future King Edward VII in front of an unexpectedly large crowd of around 6,000.[15] In March 1855, Queen Victoria had consented to become patron, which relationship with British monarchs has continued ever since; King Edward VII after the death of his mother, King George V, King Edward VIII in 1936,[16] King George VI from 1937,[17] and then the current Queen until the present.

The Grade II Listed College Chapel[18][19]

Its long-standing association with medicine was estimated in 1980 as having helped almost a third of its 10,000 alumni enter that profession.[6]

Development and charity

It was founded in 1855 to provide support for poor members of the medical profession. Funding for such a bold undertaking proved inadequate to the task, resulting in a reduced number of buildings and therefore insufficient space to support 100 pensioners and 100 boys. In the 1860s, partially as a result of this, the school was opened up to children of non-medical parents. In subsequent decades, pensioners were supported off-site, until there were none on campus by the end of the 19th century. These moves mark the transition towards the College becoming a public school in the modern sense.

Number of Pupils by year. An overview of the development of the College.

The college continued its charitable activities, alongside its strictly educational role, throughout the 20th century. It was only in 2000 that the Royal Medical Foundation was formed as a separate entity, funding the support of four Foundationers at the College, 27 outside it; and paying 20 pensions and supporting one doctor at a medical home.[20]

In the 1920s the junior school side of the college was run down and thereafter it catered only for 13- to 18-year-olds. In 1976, girls were first allowed into the sixth-form. Twenty years later, the school became fully co-educational.

Its campus is on the outskirts of Epsom, near Epsom Downs on the North Downs, near the racecourse, home to the annual Epsom Derby. Its buildings date from 1853 and are mostly influenced by the Gothic revival architecture, described by Prince Albert as the "pointed style of the 14th Century".[21] In 1974, the main building and the College Chapel attained Grade II listed status.[8][18]

Epsom College in Malaysia

In 2009 it was announced that the College is to open a new school in Bandar Enstek, just south of Kuala Lumpur[22] scheduled to open in 2013. The new school will eventually cater for some 900 pupils aged 11 to 18, who will follow a British curriculum and another 150 pupils in a preparatory wing. The co-educational school will be built on a 50-acre (200,000 m2) site as part of a development which will include a university, colleges and a medical hub.

The new school has been made possible through the joint funding and support of Kuala Lumpur Education City (KLEC) and the college's network of high-profile Old Epsomians living and working in Malaysia, and will offer opportunities for exchanges of both pupils and teaching staff between the two schools.

OFT Inquiry

In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times newspaper, although the schools made clear that they had not realised that the change to the law (which had happened only a few months earlier) about the sharing of information had subsequently made it an offence.[23] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.[24] However, Mrs Jean Scott, the then-head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other, and that they were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted). She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying, "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer. They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed".[25]

Houses

House Name Composition Colours Named after Motto Founded Housemaster/Mistress
Carr (C) Boarding/Day Boys           Dr. William Carr Pro Christo et Patria Dulce Periculum 1883[26] Lawrence Matthews
Crawfurd (Cr) Boarding/Day Girls           Sir Raymond Crawfurd,[27][28][29][30] Member and former Chairman of Council Durum Patientia Frango[31] 1935 as a Day Boys House[32] Helen Hynd
Fayrer (Fa) Boarding Boys           Sir Joseph Fayrer Quo Aequior eo Melior 1897 as a Junior Boys House[33] Stuart Head
Forest (F) Boarding Boys           An early College Benefactor Semper Forestia 1883[26] Jim Stephens
Granville (G) Boarding Boys           Earl Granville Frangas non flectes 1883 as 'Gilchrist'. Renamed 1884.[26] Rob Young
Hart Smith Closed 1965          [34] Former Headmaster Rev. T.N. Hart-Smith-Pearse 1931 for Foundationers aged under 13 n/a
Holman (H) Boarding Boys           Treasurer Sir Constantine Holman[35] 1897 as a Junior Boys House[33] Tristan Stone
Propert (P) Day Boys           Founder John Propert Dyfalad 1883 as Boarding Boys House[26] Andy Wilson
Raven (Rv) Day Girls           Dame Kathleen Raven, Member of Council Faith in Adversity 1999[36] Rebecca Stone
Robinson (Rn) Day Boys          [34] Henry Robinson, Chairman of Council Virtute non Verbis 1968[37] Paul Gillespie
Rosebery (R) Day Girls           The Earl of Rosebery 1926[38] as a day boys house became girls in 2008 Roxanna Harrop
White House (Wh) Boarding 6th form Girls           Original Building Name 1976 Faith Smith
Wilson (W) Boarding Girls           Sir Erasmus Wilson Expecta Cuncta Superna 1871, as an independent Boarding Boys House,[39] named 1883[26] & incorporated into the College 1914.[40] Kirsty Tod

House colours are seen in the stripes in the ties worn by the majority of boys (those not wearing colours or prefects' ties); on a rectangular brooch worn by the girls; and at the neck of school pullovers. They are also used in house rugby and athletics tops.

Sport

Hockey

Hockey, previously a minor (optional) sport, became a major sport after the opening of the (then) new pitches behind the maths block. While the pitches were completed for September 1966, the autumn term was devoted to stone picking parties, and the hockey season started in January 1967. Hockey had been played previously on the Chudleigh rugby and cricket pitches. Now modern Hockey for girls (in Michelmas Term) and boys (in Lent Term) is played on recently installed 'Astro' Pitches, one of the Colleges recent upgrades. They are situated by the esteemed Chapel Building (Chapel Astro) and Fayrer House (Crosby Astro).

The 1st XI cricket pitch and colts rugby pitches as seen from the Wilson Steps. The 'Chuds' can just be seen in the left background

Rugby

Rugby, for the male pupils of Epsom College Rugby is the main, prominent sport of the Michelmas (winter) Term. Rugby (Opters) commences in the Lent Term for the few pupils who wish to continue the sport throughout the school year. In 2001, the Epsom College U15 team won their age group in Daily Mail Cup, beating The John Fisher School by 17-12 at Twickenham in the Final.[41] In 2006, the U16 Epsom sevens team won the 2006 Sevens National Championship at Rosslyn Park by beating Millfield 29-19.[42] In 2005 Epsom College U15 Team lost to Bedford 10-5 in the Semi final of the Daily Mail competition.[43]

Rifle shooting

The college has one of the best rifle teams in the country.[44] They have won the Ashburton Shield, the premiere event at the annual Schools' Rifle Championships more often than any other school, recording a record-breaking 15th Ashburton win in 2011 (the 150th year of the competition).[45][46]

Swimming

Swimming is more of a minor sport at Epsom College, as it is often chosen as an alternative to the more popular team sports, such as Rugby. In the 5th form, choice is given to all pupils not included in 1st teams. Practice and occasional galas take place in the College's 25-metre swimming pool. Training is supervised by teachers at the school and external coaches.

Badminton

Badminton is a fairly recent team sport at Epsom College, acting as a popular choice for foreign pupils who board. Weekly matches take place at the school and as with most other sports, training takes place in the afternoons on Tuesdays and Thursdays in either of the large, well equipped sports halls. It is open to both male and female pupils of all ages.

Eccentricities

The Athletics Term

Until the winter of 1965, Epsom College was unusual in holding athletics in the coldest months of the year, between January and April. This meant that the long jump pit was often frozen. The track surrounded the First XV pitch, and was either frozen or waterlogged.

Air raid shelters

During the Second World War, in preparation for the possibility of attack from the air, several air raid shelters were built, the outlines of which are still visible in aerial photographs and satellite imagery as a row of negative cropmarks in the grass on the Chapel Triangle. In his 1944 book, Sunday After The War, Henry Miller called these "shelters from aerial bombardment".[47]

The fives courts

Near Wilson Pitch,[48] there are the remnants of several open air fives courts, one of which is said to be a doubles court. In the late 1960s these were functional courts, albeit of odd design.

Principal feeder prep schools

Headmasters

Sundry items of interest

Southern Railway Schools Class

The School lent its name to the thirtyeighth steam locomotive (Engine 937) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This Class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. 'Epsom', as it was called, was built in 1934.The locomotive bearing the School's name was withdrawn in the early 1960s.

Notable pupils

Usually this section will reflect past pupils, known as "Old Epsomians" (OEs). Where a current pupil is notable outside the school environment, such a pupil is listed in this section.

A to D

E to K

L to R

S to Z

Notable staff

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Literally: "By God, not by luck"
  2. ↑ "Epsom College - Epsom - LEA:Surrey - Surrey". The Good Schools Guide. Retrieved 31 January 2013. Religion: Church of England
  3. ↑ Dictionary of Welsh Biography; accessed 02 July 2015
  4. ↑ "Independent Schools Council". Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  5. ↑ Orange was introduced in the 21st Century in marketing materials, though it is not part of the school uniform.
  6. 1 2 Salmon 1980: 64
  7. ↑ Taken from notes of the First General Meeting 25 June 1851, quoted in Salmon 1980: 4
  8. 1 2 "Images of England". Retrieved 2007-08-14. (built in) 1853. Architect "Mr Clifton". Formerly Royal Medical Benevolent College. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Pitched tile roofs. Grouped brick stacks with cornicing. 2 storeys with 3 storey gables at intervals. 1 long range, asymmetrically organised. Mullion and transom windows with pointed lights and hood-moulds which link up as string-courses. Main entrance under 5 storey tower, with crow-stepped crenellations to parapet, 1 octagonal flanking stair tower (also crenellated), and 1 diagonal buttress. 3 storey ashlar porch also with diagonal buttresses breaking back above ground floor, and canted on 2nd floor, pointed archway on ground floor, mullioned windows above. Single storey rooms break forward to north and south of entrance. Range continues to north, breaking forward only slightly at each subsidiary entrance, which has many-chamfered soffit set between elaborately carved buttresses, and gabled attic storeys above. North and south return sections isolated from remainder of range.
  9. ↑ Salmon 1980: 2
  10. ↑ British Medical Journal, 1851, Scadding 2004: 5
  11. ↑ 1844 prospectus, quoted in Scadding 2004: 6
  12. ↑ Scadding 2004: 8-12
  13. ↑ Scadding 2004: 12
  14. ↑ Salmon 1980: 8
  15. ↑ Salmon 1980: 11
  16. ↑ Salmon 1980: 35
  17. ↑ Salmon 1980: 48
  18. 1 2 "Images of England". Retrieved 2007-08-14. (built in) 1895. By Sir Arthur Blomfield ARA & Sons. Red brick. Ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof. No aisles or chancel. 8 bays, separated by buttresses with tumbled brick set backs, each with 1 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery. 5-light "E" and "W" windows also with Perpendicular tracery. Moulded eaves cornice, crenellated parapet. Crocketed finials above buttresses. Gargoyles at corners. 2 bay chapels project to "N" and "S", with parapets following gable line. Porch to "N". Canted chapel projection to "S", surmanted by open wooden lantern with octagonal shingled spire. This chapel was built to replace the existing chapel which was too small.
  19. ↑ "Epsom College Chapel". British Medical Journal. 422 (3348): 422. 28 February 1925. PMC 2226298Freely accessible. PMID 20771943. The nave of Epsom College Chapel, which has been rebuilt on an enlarged scale as a memorial to the 140 Old Epsomians who fell in the war, was consecrated by the Bishop of Winchester on February21st (1925)
  20. ↑ Scadding 2004: 133
  21. ↑ Prince Albert, quoted by a contemporary newspaper account, Scadding 2004: 19
  22. ↑ "Epsom College opens new branch - in Kuala Lumpur". 9 December 2009.
  23. ↑ Times Journalist. "Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees". Times Online. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  24. ↑ The Office of Fair Trading: OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement Archived 10 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  25. ↑ "Private schools send papers to fee-fixing inquiry". The Daily Telegraph. London. 3 January 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  26. 1 2 3 4 5 Scadding 2004: 55
  27. ↑ "SIR RAYMOND CRAWFURD AND EPSOM COLLEGE". The Lancet. 228 (5888): 34. 1936. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)81723-7. ISSN 0140-6736.
  28. ↑ Crawfurd, Raymond (1932). "EPSOM COLLEGE AND MEDICAL WOMEN". The Lancet. 220 (5679): 45. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)17934-1. ISSN 0140-6736.
  29. ↑ Crawfurd, Raymond (1925). "EPSOM COLLEGE : ROYAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION". The Lancet. 206 (5337): 1253–1254. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)16814-5. ISSN 0140-6736.
  30. ↑ Dodds, Sir Charles; Payne, L M (1963). "Sir Raymond Crawfurd". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (supplement). Royal Society of Medicine. 56 (Suppl 1): 19–24. Bibcode:1938Natur.141..677J. doi:10.1038/141677b0. PMC 1896754Freely accessible. PMID 14044492. In 1915 he joined the Council of Epsom College, became its Chairman in 1923 and did service of outstanding worth.
  31. ↑ Literally: "With patience I break the hard (thing)", more pleasingly: "Patience means I can do hard tasks", colloquially (c 1969) "I patiently break even the hardest condom" (an allusion to the brand Durex)
  32. ↑ Scadding 2004: 93
  33. 1 2 Scadding 2004: 167
  34. 1 2 Robinson was created in the building previously occupied (after a short interval as the Sanatorium) by Hart Smith. The Hart Smith colours were passed to Robinson, presumably because of the location.
  35. ↑ "Obituary - Sir Constantine Holman MD". British Medical Journal. The British Medical Journal. 2 (2591): 575–578. 27 August 1910. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2591.575. PMC 2335707Freely accessible. Of all his public work nothing was nearer to Sir Constantine Holman's heart than Epsom College. In 1887 the school had fallen on evil days and reform was urgently called for. He had been a member of the council of the college for some years, when in 1887 he was appointed Treasurer.
  36. 1 2 Scadding 2004: 134
  37. ↑ Scadding 2004: 122
  38. ↑ Scadding 2004: 92
  39. ↑ Scadding 2004: 47
  40. ↑ Scadding 2004: 77
  41. ↑ "Daily Mail Cup Results". Retrieved 2007-08-14.
  42. ↑ "National Schools Sevens Results". Retrieved 2007-08-14.
  43. ↑ "Daily Mail Cup Results". Retrieved 2008-08-04.
  44. ↑ "Sport in Brief: Shooting". London: telegraph.co.uk. 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2007-08-14.
  45. ↑ "Thrilling win for target rifle team at Bisley". This was the 14th time overall and 13th time in the past 21 years that Epsom has won the blue riband event of the school target rifle shooting calendar, beating Charterhouse's record for the highest number of Ashburton wins by a single school.
  46. ↑ "Another Ashburton win for target rifle team". The College Target Rifle VIII saw off strong competition at the National Rifle Association's Schools Meeting at Bisley last week to retain the prestigious Ashburton Shield in the 150th year of the competition. This was the 15th time overall and the 14th time in the past 22 years that Epsom has won the blue riband event of the school target rifle shooting calendar.
  47. ↑ Miller, Henry (January 1944). Sunday After The War. New Directions Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-0-8112-1904-4.
  48. ↑ "Epsom College site" (PDF).
  49. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Salmon 1980: 96-100
  50. ↑ Scadding 2004: 126
  51. ↑ Scadding 2004: 129
  52. ↑ "New Headmaster appointed".
  53. ↑ "SR Class V - Trains". Train.spottingworld.com. 2007-09-14. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  54. ↑ "WW2 People's War - Wartime plane crash on Epsom racecourse". BBC. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  55. ↑ Moore, Charles (2002-12-10). "Obituaries - David Alexander". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-08-28.
  56. ↑ "Alick Bearn, Obituary". 13 July 2009. Alick Bearn's research into cell genetics in the 1950s revealed some of the intricacies of Wilson's disease, an inherited condition that causes a toxic build-up of copper in the body. The gene is carried by one person in 100, but affects only the one in 40,000 who inherits it from both parents. Bearn, who has died of heart failure aged 86, showed why this was the case. His research was one of the first applications of genetics to medicine.
  57. ↑ "Professor Alexander Gordon Bearn FRCP Edin". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Retrieved 13 January 2010. He received many honours - elected president of the American Society of Human Genetics, membership of the American National Academy of Sciences, a Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge and, between 1997-2002 he headed the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the Alfred Benzon Prize in Denmark, the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the David Rockefeller Award.
  58. ↑ "Justice is Working | January 2011" (PDF). Gloucestershire Criminal Justice Board. January 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2011. The Chair of the SSJ Commission is John Bensted, Chief Executive of Gloucestershire Probation Trust.
  59. ↑ Bensted, John (3 September 2010). "Payback scheme really does work - John Bensted, Chief Executive of Gloucestershire Probation Trust". This Is Gloucestershire. Retrieved 22 April 2011. John Bensted is chief executive officer of the Gloucestershire Probation Trust
  60. ↑ "Annual Report 2008/09" (PDF). MAPPA Gloucestershire. 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  61. ↑ "Obituaries - Roger Bluett". London: The Daily Telegraph. 2001-08-23. Retrieved 2007-08-28. ... in 1966 he was invited by the BBC to appear as a panellist on the television programme Going for a Song, on which experts and celebrities were asked to comment on antiques. He was handed a piece of Chinese porcelain, provided by a museum as genuine and valuable, and within moments had identified it as a fake in front of the viewers.
  62. ↑ "Roland Boys Bradford - DLI". DLI Museum. Retrieved 7 November 2012. Born at Witton Park, Durham on 23 February 1892, he was educated at Darlington Grammar School and Epsom College. He was commissioned in the 5th Battalion DLI in 1910 and joined the 2nd Battalion DLI in 1912 as a Second Lieutenant. His career during the Great War was remarkable, rising from Lieutenant in 1914 to Brigadier General in 1917, when at 25 years old he was the youngest General in the British Army. During the War he served with 2 DLI, 7 DLI and commanded the 9th Battalion DLI for over a year. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery at Eaucourt l'Abbaye on 1 October 1916, whilst commanding 9 DLI.
  63. ↑ "J. Brewer Profile on scrum.com". Espnscrum.com. 2008-10-01. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  64. ↑ Epsom College, Epsom College register, 1855-1954, (Old Epsomian Club), 1955
  65. ↑ "Obituaries - Professor Neville Butler". London: The Times. 2007-03-27. Retrieved 2007-08-28. Neville Butler's research into human development over time improved the lives of children and families throughout the UK and around the world. Through his tireless efforts he produced priceless information about the health, development, social wellbeing, education and lifestyles of thousands of British families.
  66. ↑ "Burke brings 16-year career to an end". Leicester Tigers. 9 June 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2010. Burke scored 122 points in 21 appearances for Tigers as he added the 2006/07 Guinness Premiership and EDF Energy Cup titles to his lengthy list of achievements.
  67. 1 2 Adams, Guy (2 February 2008). "Candy and Candy: Sweet dreams - Profiles - People - The Independent". The Independent. Retrieved 7 November 2012. Nick was born in 1973, Christian in 1974, and both went to public school in Epsom.
  68. ↑ "OE Awarded CBE".
  69. ↑ Moore, Charles (2002-12-23). "Obituaries - Warwick Charlton". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-08-28. A man of great imagination, energy, stamina, ingenuity and humour, Warwick Charlton understood that in order to get a plan off the ground it was necessary, on occasion, to sail rather close to the wind. In later life he was proud of his role as town crier in the market town of Ringwood, Hampshire, where he lived.
  70. ↑ "John Deeker". The Daily Telegraph. 21 June 2012. His prowess was built during a long career with Pain's, Britain's biggest firework company... ...When Deeker bought the company in 1980, it was the culmination of a lifelong fascination with fireworks. He already knew almost everything about the business, having worked there for more than 30 years, mostly as its managing director.
  71. ↑ "Outnumbered". BBC. 2007-08-17. Retrieved 2010-01-02. Tyger Drew-Honey, who plays 11-year-old Jake, will also soon be seen as a regular character in Hat Trick's The Armstrong & Miller sketch show on BBC One.
  72. ↑ "Perfect '10". The Sun. London. 2010-01-02. Retrieved 2010-01-02. BBC1's OUTNUMBERED, starring Tyger Drew-Honey as Jake, will be back for a third series after pulling in nearly five million viewers for its Christmas special.
  73. ↑ Beck, Sally (11 December 2011). "My feminist academic mum is my biggest fan, says Made in Chelsea star Caggie". Dail Mail. at 13, she begged to be taken out of her boarding school, Epsom College in Surrey, after only a few weeks. She said: 'I couldn't get through the day without crying. I really didn't like it there. I looked very, very young and I got picked on for looking like a child when all the other girls looked like women.
  74. ↑ "John Inkster Obituary". Daily Telegraph. 2 November 2011. John Inkster, who has died aged 87, was a pioneer in anaesthesia and intensive care techniques that helped to make complex surgery safer for small babies.
  75. ↑ "Sierra Leone Web". Archived from the original on 2007-07-01. Retrieved 2007-08-14.
  76. ↑ "Michael Fallon - Ministers - BIS". Department for Business Innovation and Skills. Retrieved 22 October 2012. Michael Fallon was appointed Minister for Business and Enterprise in September 2012, in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. [...] Born in Scotland and married with two children, Michael was educated at Epsom College and St Andrews University.
  77. ↑ Brown, Kevin (28 March 2010). "A driven man at the controls - FT.com". Financial Times. Retrieved 8 November 2012. Mr Fernandes says his first thought was to start a long-haul low-cost airline flying between Kuala Lumpur and London – mainly because of his memories of being unhappy at Epsom College, the English private school where he was sent at 12. "You've read all of the Tom Brown's Schooldays stories]. . . it was like it really was true. So I called my mum . . . and I asked, "Can I come home for half term?' And she said, 'No, its just too expensive.' And there in my mind was like, 'I must make airlines cheap for people to fly.'"
  78. ↑ "Stewart Granger : Obituary - ThisIsAnnouncements". This Is Announcements. Retrieved 22 October 2012. Jimmy, as he was known to his friends, left Epsom College after turning his back on a career in medicine and instead enrolled at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art, London , to tread the boards.
  79. 1 2 "Colonel Tony Hewitt - Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 22 October 2012. In his first term at Epsom, Hewitt was awarded his house colours for cricket by a school prefect named Stewart, afterwards the film star Stewart Granger.
  80. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Epsom College". Epsom and Ewell History Explorer. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
  81. ↑ "Obituary Notices". Br Med J. 1: 645. 1974. PMC 1633417Freely accessible. PMID 4595179.
  82. ↑ "Munks Roll Details for Sir Charles Felix Harris". Munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
  83. ↑ "Obituary: Alfred Bakewell Howitt". British Medical Journal. 2 (4902): 1488–1491 [1489]. 18 December 1945. PMC 2079909Freely accessible. ... he pursued the work of his profession with ardour and distinction. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a frequent participant at the meetings of the Medical, Clinical, and Therapeutic Sections. He was the author of a thesis, "Graves's Disease," and of several papers in the medical journals
  84. ↑ "Keith Irvine Obituary". Daily Telegraph. 9 June 2011. Keith Irvine was a Scots-born interior designer whose career blossomed in the 1980s as rich Americans demanded the so-called "English country house look".
  85. ↑ "Soap star promises to return to home village - Entertainment - getsurrey". GetSurrey. 31 July 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2012. The actress attended Danes Hill School and regularly goes back there to watch the school plays. She said of her time there: "I loved it, I absolutely loved it." Ciara later went to Epsom College but did not go to university, choosing instead to focus on her acting career. "I don't know what I'd do if I wasn't an actress, probably English or psychology. I've never really given it a thought."
  86. ↑ "Richard Stanley Leigh Jones (1940 - )". New South Wales Government. Retrieved 4 May 2012. Richard Stanley Leigh Jones (1940- ), activist and parliamentarian, was born at Epsom, Surrey in the UK, son of Edward and Marjorie Jones. He was educated at Downsend School and Epsom College before settling in Australia in 1965. He worked in advertising and publishing and from the late 1960s onward was an activist for environmental, human rights and animal welfare causes.
  87. ↑ Moore, Charles (8 April 2006). "Obitiaries - Lieutenant-Commander Dicky Kendall". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2007-08-28. Kendall was locked in a small compartment on board Tirpitz, but refused to speak to his captors, despite threats of summary execution. Then, at 0812, there were two violent explosions, and she heaved upwards several feet, throwing him and his guard to the deck. As the ship listed heavily, Kendall knew that the attack had inflicted serious damage.
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  89. ↑ "Professor Wyn Knight-Jones obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 6 March 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012. Perhaps his most significant discovery was that the larvae of species such as oysters, barnacles and tube worms do not spread randomly, like seeds blown about on the wind, but carefully select, by detecting surface chemicals, the sites upon which they settle. He noted that they even attract others to join them – a process for which he coined the term "gregarious settlement".
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  91. ↑ Adrian, Jack (31 July 2001). "Derek Lambert (Obituary)". The Independent. London. Retrieved 9 July 2010. Derek Lambert was born in 1929 and educated at Epsom College, Surrey. His childhood and early teens spent during the Second World War were amusingly, at times movingly, described in his 1965 memoir, The Sheltered Days
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  93. ↑ "George Lowe". Quins. Retrieved 2010-04-19. Lowe was called up to the England U20's squad for the U20 Six Nations, where he was in fine try-scoring form, and continued to represent England U20's throughout the Junior World Championship in summer 2009
  94. ↑ "Honouring Great Courage - how two OEs won the George Medal". The Old Epsomian Magazine: 6. November 2007. Test Pilot Lucas displayed great courage and presence of mind during a test flight and, by his skill and coolness, saved an aircraft from destruction
  95. ↑ Moore, Charles (2003-07-08). "Obituaries - Sir Anthony McCowan". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-08-28. During the 1980s McCowan also presided in a number of highly publicised IRA trials. He was seen as a first-rate jury judge - thoughtful, rarely intervening and always bang on point. He could be testy if counsel made inappropriate submissions, but he saw problems with great simplicity, could work at great speed and was dependable for the heaviest criminal work.
  96. ↑ Hinshaw, Robert (21 May 1997). "OBITUARY : Dr Alan McGlashan". London: The Independent. Retrieved 13 September 2010. McGlashan was the son of a general practitioner of Scottish origin who had a passion for the sea; he was drowned during the Second World War when the Domala, on which he was serving as ship's surgeon - after lying about his age - was bombed. Alan was educated at Epsom College before entering the RFC (later the RAF) at a tender age during the First World War, and flying many perilous missions, including two aerial encounters with the "Red Baron", the German ace Baron von Richthofen. McGlashan was awarded the MC and the Croix de Guerre avec Palmes, and was frequently mentioned in dispatches.
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  98. ↑ Moore, Charles (2 October 2002). "Obitiaries - Major Alastair McGregor". The Daily Telegraph. London. In 1950 McGregor was ordered to raise a squadron comprised mainly of experienced SAS men to fight in Korea. After three months training at the Airborne Forces Depot, he was informed that the squadron would not, after all, be needed there, and he and his comrades instead volunteered to join Major Mike Calvert's Malayan Scouts, where they formed "B" Squadron, the forerunner of the modern 22 SAS.
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  101. ↑ "Honouring Great Courage - how two OEs won the George Medal". The Old Epsomian Magazine: 6. November 2007. Mr Mackrell, while in charge of the elephant transport, heard that a number of refugees were attempting to reach Assam over the Chaukan Pass. In appalling weather he led his elephants by forced marches over a route hitherto considered impracticable. At great personal risk and after several vain attempts he took them across the flooded river, the bed of which consisted of shifting boulders
    He thus rescued 68 sepoys and 33 other persons who were facing starvation. Without medical assistance he fed and doctored them until they were fit to proceed. He fell ill with severe fever but remained behind and was responsible for saving the lives of over 200 persons. Mr Mackrell showed the highest initiative and personal courage, and risked hardships which might easily have proved fatal
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  103. ↑ "Mark Mardell's Euroblog". BBC. 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2009-03-22.
  104. ↑ "Obituaries - Gerald Milsom". London: The Times. 2005-05-07. Retrieved 2007-08-28. In 1952 Gerald Milsom bought Le Talbooth in Dedham on the Essex-Suffolk border and turned it into one of the first British restaurants to gain an international reputation. In the 1960s he went on to create an exemplary country house hotel with his Maison Talbooth
  105. ↑ Moore, Charles (2005-09-26). "Obituaries - Toby Nash". London: "The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-08-28. One evening, a gun detachment was ambushed and Nash's troop commander killed. In the break-out from Pegu, with no time to spare, Nash set off on a motorcycle to look for the missing gun. He found it in a clearing just off the road. Its tyres were punctured and there was no way of moving it. With no time to take precautions, he rammed a round down the spout and fired it; luckily, he was not wounded in the subsequent explosion. Having found the three-ton truck that had been used to tow the gun, he set fire to his motorcycle, loaded 30 wounded men into the lorry and set off to rejoin his troop. As Nash drove, the men on board shot at everything they saw, distracting the Japanese sufficiently to enable them to get through a barrage of small arms fire. The man sitting next to Nash was hit in the head and collapsed against him, nearly sending the lorry off the road before a comrade hauled him off the steering wheel.
  106. ↑ "Obituary - Bob Nixon". Wisden Cricinfo. 2003-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-14. I have always been of the opinion that a good commentator must be mindful of being a guest in the listener's home as opposed to an intruder. This was always the case with Bob. A gentle voice that belonged to a gentle man and, as it so happens, a gentleman. He was a dedicated family man who, to my knowledge, never had a bad word to say about anyone. His love for the game of cricket was clear to all who listened to him. The game and many people around the world have lost a true friend.
  107. ↑ Whiteman, Kaye (27 November 2011). "Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2012. Ojukwu, widely known as Emeka, was born in Zungeru, northern Nigeria. His father was the transport millionaire Sir Louis Ojukwu. Schooled at King's college, Lagos, and Epsom college, Surrey, Emeka studied history at Lincoln College, Oxford. Graduating in 1955, he returned to work in the eastern Nigeria administrative service, and two years later joined the army, one of the first Nigerian graduates to do so. It was a surprising decision for one who had been known in Oxford for his playboy lifestyle, but it reflected a serious commitment to Nigeria, and even a certain farsightedness about the role the military might come to play in politics.
  108. ↑ "allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Odumegwu-Ojukwu Is Dead". AllAfrica.com. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2012. Odumegwu-Ojukwu who was imprisoned for assaulting a white British colonial teacher, who was humiliating a black woman, at King's College in Lagos began his educational career in Lagos. At 13, his father sent him overseas to study in Britain, first at Epsom College, in Surrey and later earned a Masters degree in history at Lincoln College, Oxford University and returned to colonial Nigeria in 1956. In 1957 the Ikemba Nnewi joined the Nigerian Army as one of the first and few university graduates. Ojukwu was among the 15 Nigerians officers out of the 250 officers the Nigerian Military Forces had then.
  109. ↑ Hanbury, Prof H G (January 1967). "OE News - News from All Quarters". The Epsomian. XCVII (1): 35. Colonel C O Ojukwu,(47-52, H), Military Governor of Eastern Region, Nigeria was vigorously commended in The Daily Telegraph, by Prof J G Hanbury, QC, for his refusal to go to Lagos for a constitutional conference, at the risk of probable assassination. Prof Hanbury considers that as 'an intensely patriotic Nigerian,' Col Ojukwu 'will spare no effort to hold the federation together,' but if there is no way open except secession 'he will take steps to placate the minority in Rivers and Calabar provinces and may hope to carry the East to new prosperity'
  110. ↑ "24 Year old Ex-Public Schoolboy Becomes Minister" (PDF). Epsom College. 2006. p. 3. Retrieved 2009-01-19. Old Epsomian Razvan Orasanu, the last Eastern European scholar to go through Epsom College as part of the Soros Foundation before the scheme ceased, has been made President for the Valorification of State Assets in Romania at just 24 years of age. He has the massive task of recovering 5 billion Euros worth of debt, privatising several hundred companies and liquidating approximately 500 more.
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  117. ↑ "JOHN EGERTON CHRISTMAS PIPER 1903 – 1992 - Richard Gardner Antiques". Archived from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2012. John Egerton Christmas Piper was born 13th December 1903 in Epsom, Surrey, he was the son of a solicitor, He was educated at Epsom College and trained at the Richmond School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art in London. He turned from abstraction early in his career, concentrating on a more naturalistic but distinctive approach.
  118. ↑ "Obitiaries - Geoffrey Pope". London: The Times. 2004-12-08. Retrieved 2007-08-28. Geoffrey Pope made fundamental contributions to the design of modern aircraft and served as Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. His final decade was devoted to Exeter University.
  119. ↑ Moore, Charles. "Obituaries - Sir Philip Powell". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2007-08-28. Building started on the Queen Elizabeth Conference Hall, opposite Westminster Abbey and next to the neo-classical Methodist Central Hall, in 1975, and was completed - "probably by an oversight", Powell later noted - under Margaret Thatcher. She made no effort to hide her dislike for the modernist scheme when she sat next to Powell at a dinner at the Royal Academy - a meeting he later described as "hair-raising".
  120. ↑ "Obituaries - Richard Ratner". London: Daily Telegraph. 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2007-10-10. A man for the big picture rather than a close student of balance-sheet detail — with a background of hands-on experience in the textile business and a tireless appetite for networking — he was ideally placed to pass comment on a sector driven by larger-than-life entrepreneurial personalities.
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  139. ↑ "Obituaries - Robert Roseveare". London: The Times. 2005-01-07. Retrieved 2007-08-28. The mathematician Robert Arthur Roseveare was recruited, as soon as he finished school, to work as a cryptographer at the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, north of London. He was one of the early codebreakers who, during the Second World War, after a short period of training, joined a team that deciphered messages encoded by German Enigma machines
  140. ↑ "Losing perspective inside the commentator's bubble". The Irish Independent. 2007-09-09. Retrieved 2007-09-10. The venerable Starmers has 25 years of BBC commentary behind him. He played rugby for Oxford University, Harlequins and England. He taught geography at Epsom College. His is a mature vintage, a deep bouquet, an elegant nose. A man of judgement, discernment, eloquence.

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