Epsom College

Epsom College is a co-educational independent school on Epsom Downs, Surrey, England, for pupils aged 11 to 18. It was founded in 1853 as a boys' school to provide support for poor members of the medical profession such as pensioners and orphans ("Foundationers"). The college caters takes day pupils throughout with some boarding in 5 of the 13 houses in the senior (14 to 18) part of the school. The headmaster is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

Epsom College
Address
College Road

Epsom
,
Surrey
,
KT17 4JQ

England
Information
TypePublic school
Independent day and boarding school
Motto"Deo Non Fortuna"
(Latin for "Not through luck but by God")[1]
Religious affiliation(s)Church of England[2]
Established1855
FounderDr John Propert[3]
Department for Education URN125332 Tables
HeadmasterJames Piggot
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment956(2019/20)[4]
Houses13
Colour(s)Blue and White          
PublicationThe Epsomian
Former pupilsOld Epsomians
PatronElizabeth II
AlumniOEs Connected
Websitehttp://www.epsomcollege.org.uk
The Tower and main entrance as seen from across Main Lawn

Foundation

The school was founded in 1853 by 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.[5]

The Grade II listed Tower and main building,[6] 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.[7] 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.[8] 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".[9]

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.[10] 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.[11][12]

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.[13] 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,[14] King George VI from 1937,[15] and then the current Queen until the present.

The Grade II Listed College Chapel[16][17]

In 1980, it was estimated by a history of the College that a third of its 10,000 alumni had entered the profession.[18] The college's patron is Queen Elizabeth II.

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.[19]

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".[20] In 1974, the main building and the College Chapel attained Grade II listed status.[6][16]

Epsom College in Malaysia

In 2009 it was announced that the College was to open a new school in Bandar Enstek, just south of Kuala Lumpur[21] scheduled to open in 2013.

OFT Inquiry
Main article: Independent school fee fixing scandal

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.[22] 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.[23] However, 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".[24]

Houses
House NameCompositionColoursNamed afterMottoFoundedHousemaster/Mistress
Carr (C) Day Boys         Dr. William CarrPro Christo et Patria Dulce Periculum1883[25]Laurence Matthews
Crawfurd (Cr) Boarding/Day Girls         Sir Raymond Crawfurd,[26][27][28][29] Member and former Chairman of CouncilDurum Patientia Frango[30]1935 as a Day Boys House[31]Leah Skipper
Fayrer (Fa) Day Boys         Sir Joseph FayrerQuo Aequior eo Melior1897 as a Junior Boys House[32]Stu Head
Forest (F) Boarding Boys         An early College BenefactorSemper Forestia1883[25]Jim Stephens
Granville (G) Boarding Boys         Earl GranvilleFrangas non flectes1883 as 'Gilchrist'. Renamed 1884.[25]Andy Day
Hart Smith Closed 1965         [33]Former Headmaster Rev. T.N. Hart-Smith-Pearse1931 for Foundationers aged under 13n/a
Holman (H) Boarding Boys         Treasurer Sir Constantine Holman[34]1897 as a Junior Boys House[32]Chris Filbey
Propert (P) Day Boys         Founder John PropertDyfalad1883 as Boarding Boys House[25]Andy Wilson
Raven (Rv) Day Girls         Dame Kathleen Raven, Member of CouncilFaith in Adversity1999[35]Sarah Williams
Robinson (Rn) Day Boys         [33]Henry Robinson, Chairman of CouncilVirtute non Verbis1968[36]Paul Gillespie
Rosebery (R) Day Girls         The Earl of Rosebery1926[37] as a day boys house became girls in 2008Katie Lenham
White House (Wh) Day and 6th form Boarding Girls         Original Building Name1976Faith Smith
Wilson (W) Boarding Girls         Sir Erasmus WilsonExpecta Cuncta Superna1871, as an independent Boarding Boys House,[38] named 1883[25] & incorporated into the College 1914.[39]Becca Wilson
Murrell House (M) Day Girls         Lynsey Buhagiar


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 occasionally worn by the girls; and at the neck of school pullovers. They are also used in house rugby and athletics tops.

Sport

Association Football

Association Football became the major sport for boys in the Lent Term in 2014. Previously the sport was an option and played at Sixth Form level only. Now it is played across all age groups from Under 12 to U18. The College is currently part of the Southern Independent Schools Lent Term League.

Rifle shooting

Epsom College has a long history of excellence at Target Rifle Shooting, both small-bore and full-bore, and over the last 40 years has consistently been the premier rifle shooting school in the UK.[40] The College Rifle team has won the National Championships – the Ashburton Shield – 15 times, holding the record for the highest number of Ashburton wins by a single school.,[40] thus making it as one of the best rifle teams in the country.[41] 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).[42][43]

Rugby Football

Rugby Football major boys sport during the Michaelmas term. Rugby Sevens is played in the Lent Term. 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.[44] In 2006, the U16 Epsom sevens team won the 2006 Sevens National Championship at Rosslyn Park by beating Millfield 29-19.[45] In 2005 Epsom College U15 Team lost to Bedford 10-5 in the Semi final of the Daily Mail competition.[46]

Eccentricities

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.

Headmasters

Sundry items of interest
  • There is a Schools Class steam engine named after the school[53]
  • Wartime plane crash on Epsom racecourse[54] by an ex Hart Smith pupil

Southern Railway Schools Class

The School lent its name to the thirty-eighth 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
  • Derek (William) Lambert (b 10 October 1929, d 2001), Thriller writer, also journalist[89][90]
  • Suzannah Lipscomb,[91] a historian, academic and broadcaster who specialises in the sixteenth century. She has presented programmes across the BBC and on Britain's Channel 4 Television and ITV networks, and on National Geographic Channel, The History Channel (now known as 'History') and on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
  • George Lowe (b 22 October 1989), a professional rugby union footballer for Harlequins in the Guinness Premiership.[92]
  • Philip Gadesden Lucas, (C 1918-1918) (b 1902, d 1981) George Medallist.[93]
  • Sir Anthony McCowan, (b 12 January 1928, d 3 July 2003), Lord Justice of Appeal from 1989 to 1997[94]
  • Alan McGlashan, (P 1010-1916) (20 October 1898 in Bedworth, Nottinghamshire – 6 May 1977 in London) psychiatrist, pilot, author and theatre critic[95]
  • Ross McGowan, (born 23 April 1982), English professional golfer.[96]
  • Major Alastair McGregor (G 1932-1936), won the DSO and the MC while serving with the SAS behind enemy lines during the Second World War[97]
  • James MacKeith, (b 29 October 1938, d 5 August 2007), Forensic Psychiatrist[98]
  • Sir Halford John Mackinder (b 1861, d 1947), Geographer[99]
  • Gyles Mackrell, (P 1898-1905) (b 1888, d 1959), George Medallist.[100]
  • Jonathan Maitland (Cr 1974-1979), ITV Television journalist[101]
  • Mark Mardell, BBC North America Editor; fmr. BBC Europe Editor; Television Journalist, Radio Journalist[79][102]
  • Toby Nash, (real names Lancelot Lester Nash, but always known as Toby), (b 4 February 1920, d 6 July 2005), awarded an MC in 1942 while serving with an anti-aircraft battery in Burma.[103]
  • Julian Nott scientist and balloonist who set more than 100 records, including reaching 55,000 feet[104]
  • Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) (H 1947 - 1952), Son of Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian Army Officer and politician. Ojukwu served as the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966, the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970 and a leading Nigerian politician from 1983 to 2011, when he died, aged 78.[105][106] Leader of Biafra during the war with Nigeria[107]
  • Răzvan Orășanu Europe's Youngest Cabinet Minister (Romania)[108]
  • Parag Patel (1989–1994), Full bore rifle Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist 2006[109][110] and 2010[111]
  • Nick Paton-Walsh, (R 1990-1995) Foreign Correspondent for Channel 4 News,[112] formerly with The Guardian[113]
  • Keith Pilcher (C 1951-1956) (b 20 December 1937, d 21 December 2011) multiple Queen's Prize winner[114]
  • John Piper (left 1919) (13 December 1903 – 1992), Cubist artist[115]
  • Geoffrey Pope (aircraft design) (Cr 1946-1952) (d 25 October 2004), Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment[116]
  • Sir Philip Powell, (b 15 March 1921, d 5 May 2003) half of one of the most important British architectural partnerships - Powell & Moya - with Hidalgo Moya, of the post-war period[117]
  • Richard Ratner, (b 21 September 1949, d 7 October 2007) (HS & G 1961-1968), retail industry analyst and a vice-chairman at Seymour Pierce, the boutique broking house; cousin of Gerald Ratner.[118]
  • Major-General Jim Robertson, (b 23 March 1901, d. 11 February 2004), (C 1924-1928), commanded the 1/7th Gurkha Rifles in Burma and the 1/6th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya; a formidable field commander, he was awarded two DSOs and was four times mentioned in dispatches.[119]

S to Z
  • Sir John Scarlett, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) (2004–2009).[79] He is currently [2013] a governor.[120]
  • Sergeant Robert George Scott (b 22 April 1857, d 3 October 1918) 99G 1870–1871) VC, DSO, won his Victoria Cross (VC) on 8 April 1879 at Morosi's Mountain, South Africa during the Basuto War.[121]
  • Craig Shephard (P 1998-2003), Grenadier Guards officer awarded a Military Cross for operations in Afghanistan in 2009[122]
  • Kyle Sinckler, professional rugby union player for Harlequins, England and the British and Irish Lions
  • Edward Smyth (surgeon), orthopaedic surgeon and an intrepid mountaineer, skier and sailor[123]
  • Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, Archaeologist and Photographer
  • Lt-Col Alex Simson, (b 2 February 1918, d 20 July 2004), awarded a Military Cross in 1943 while leading mine-clearing parties in the last phase of the battle for Tunis[124]
  • Air Vice-Marshal Graham Stacey (Fayrer 1973-77), appointed Commander British Forces Cyprus 2010[125][126]
  • Rear-Admiral Michael Stacey, took the surrender of a Japanese general at Singapore and later became an oil pollution clearance expert.[127]
  • Graham Sutherland (b 24 August 1903, d 17 February 1980) (G 1918-1919) Artist[79][128]
  • David Urquhart (surgeon), (b 15 January 1920 d 6 April 2008), consultant orthopaedic surgeon. Known affectionately as 'Dru', a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London, from 1957 until 1981. He was undoubtedly one of the established St Thomas' personalities in the post-war era. His skills were in student teaching and administration, having been heavily involved in the hospital re-building programme.[129][130]
  • Jeremy Vine (b 17 May 1965) (H 1976-1982), BBC Television journalist and Radio Presenter, brother of Tim[79][131]
  • Tim Vine (b 1967) (H 1980-1985), record breaking comedian, brother of Jeremy[132]
  • Sir David Warren, (Cr 1965-1970), (b 1952), in 2010 British Ambassador to Japan.[133]
  • Tom Williams, cricketer
  • Sir Graham Wilson, bacteriologist
  • Nicholas Witchell, BBC Television journalist[79]
  • Julian Worricker (R 1976-1980), BBC Radio journalist[134]

Notable staff

See also
  • List of Victoria Crosses by School

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 2 July 2015
  4. "Independent Schools Council". Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  5. Taken from notes of the First General Meeting 25 June 1851, quoted in Salmon 1980: 4
  6. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1044737)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 August 2007. (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.
  7. Salmon 1980: 2
  8. British Medical Journal, 1851, Scadding 2004: 5
  9. 1844 prospectus, quoted in Scadding 2004: 6
  10. Scadding 2004: 8-12
  11. Scadding 2004: 12
  12. Salmon 1980: 8
  13. Salmon 1980: 11
  14. Salmon 1980: 35
  15. Salmon 1980: 48
  16. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1044738)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 August 2007. (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.
  17. "Epsom College Chapel". British Medical Journal. 422 (3348): 422. 28 February 1925. PMC 2226298. 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)
  18. Salmon 1980: 64
  19. Scadding 2004: 133
  20. Prince Albert, quoted by a contemporary newspaper account, Scadding 2004: 19
  21. "Epsom College opens new branch - in Kuala Lumpur". 9 December 2009.
  22. Times Journalist. "Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees". Times Online. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  23. "The Office of Fair Trading: OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement". Archived from the original on 10 June 2008.
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  25. Scadding 2004: 55
  26. "SIR RAYMOND CRAWFURD AND EPSOM COLLEGE". The Lancet. 228 (5888): 34. 1936. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)81723-7. ISSN 0140-6736.
  27. Crawfurd, Raymond (1932). "EPSOM COLLEGE AND MEDICAL WOMEN". The Lancet. 220 (5679): 45. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)17934-1. ISSN 0140-6736. PMC 2521294.
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  29. Dodds, Sir Charles; Payne, L M (1963). "Sir Raymond Crawfurd". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 56 (Suppl 1): 19–24. doi:10.1177/00359157630560S106. PMC 1896754. PMID 14044492. In 1915 he joined the Council of Epsom College, became its Chairman in 1923 and did service of outstanding worth.
  30. 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)
  31. Scadding 2004: 93
  32. Scadding 2004: 167
  33. 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.
  34. "Obituary - Sir Constantine Holman MD". British Medical Journal. 2 (2591): 575–578. 27 August 1910. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2591.575. PMC 2335707. 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.
  35. Scadding 2004: 134
  36. Scadding 2004: 122
  37. Scadding 2004: 92
  38. Scadding 2004: 47
  39. Scadding 2004: 77
  40. "Target Rifle Shooting".
  41. "Sport in Brief: Shooting". London: telegraph.co.uk. 15 July 2006. Archived from the original on 27 July 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
  42. "Thrilling win for target rifle team at Bisley". Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2010. 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.
  43. "Another Ashburton win for target rifle team". 14 July 2011. 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.
  44. "Daily Mail Cup Results". Archived from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
  45. "National Schools Sevens Results". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
  46. "Daily Mail Cup Results". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2008.
  47. Miller, Henry (January 1944). Sunday After The War. New Directions Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-0-8112-1904-4.
  48. "Epsom College site" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  49. Salmon 1980: 96-100
  50. Scadding 2004: 126
  51. Scadding 2004: 129
  52. "New Headmaster appointed". 8 June 2011.
  53. "SR Class V - Trains". Train.spottingworld.com. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
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  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. Archived from the original on 17 August 2010. 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.
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  61. "Obituaries - Roger Bluett". London: The Daily Telegraph. 23 August 2001. Retrieved 28 August 2007. ... 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. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. 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.
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  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. 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2010. 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.
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  98. "Obituaries - James MacKeith". The Daily Telegraph. London. 24 August 2007. Retrieved 28 August 2007. one of the great forensic psychiatrists of his generation
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    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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  137. "Obituaries - Robert Roseveare". London: The Times. 7 January 2005. Retrieved 28 August 2007. 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
  138. "Losing perspective inside the commentator's bubble". The Irish Independent. 9 September 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2007. 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.

Further reading and sources
  • Salmon, Michael A (1980). Epsom College the First 125 Years. Old Epsomian Club. 145 pages.
  • Scadding, Alan (17 November 2004). Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College. Epsom College. ISBN 978-0-9549549-0-1. 134 pages.

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