THE WYKEHAM JOURNAL OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE

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THE WYKEHAM
JOU R NA L OF
W I NCH ESTE R
COLL EGE
R A DICA L
TH IN K ING
THE NEW HALL
PA N E L S
W I NCH ESTE R
C O L L E G E AT WA R
A W I NC H E S T E R
J U N I O R F E L L OW
D I G G I N G T H E D I RT
01Welcome to the Wykeham Journal
Dr Dominic Selwood
02Valuing Intellectual Pursuit
Charles Sinclair
06Winchester’s Radical Tradition
Dr Ralph Townsend
08Bursar’s Message
Steven Little
12Vindicating Wykeham’s Extraordinary Vision
Dr Dominic Selwood
16Radical Thinking: Div
Nick MacKinnon
20The New Hall Panels
Suzanne Foster
28Winchester College at War
Viscount Gough
36A Winchester Junior Fellow
Amanda Chain
42Digging the Dirt: St Elizabeth’s College
James Cassir
48A Report from the Chairman
of the Investment Committee
Andrew Joy
50 Summary statement of financial activities
51 Summary balance sheet
52A Report from the Chairman
of the Development Committee
Nicholas Ferguson
56Acknowledgements: Donations and Legacies
Lorna Stoddart & Alex Roe
67 Winchester College Fellows, Officers and Advisers
Cover image: James Fraser (Coll, 2010-)
playing the piano in College dining hall.
Welcome
to the
Wykeham
Journal
I am truly excited to welcome you
to the newly named Wykeham Journal,
an annual publication focused on providing
a rich insight into life at Win Coll.
The School is in robust health, and this has been
an incredible year. I hope that this report captures
something of its energy.
The Warden and the Headmaster set out the inspiring
and impressive priorities they are pursuing. The Bursar
and Chairmen of the Investment and Development
Committees give individual pictures of sound financial
underpinning. All reaffirm and demonstrate the
School’s core commitment to a 621-year tradition
of welcoming deserving boys from all backgrounds.
As Guest Editor, I am privileged to present five stories of
amazing people who embody what Winchester College
means. They are drawn from the men at the School,
OWs, Common Room, Wykeham Patrons, and the
army of experts who contribute in a thousand ways.
It was an immense pleasure meeting each of them,
sharing a little of their worlds.
I have also sneaked in a piece about William of
Wykeham, and even allowed him to surface in some
of the other stories. This was not done from a dusty
sense of duty. I wanted to share my image of Wykeham
as a modern, questioning, radical, energetic man.
This journal rightly bears his name, not because he
created a ravishing campus with sufficient funds to
launch it, but because he asked those who come here
to share his singular outlook: a legacy we value by
calling ourselves Wykehamists not Wintonians.
I very much hope you enjoy the journal,
and the glimpse it gives into the lives of some
of those who have made important contributions
to yet another extraordinary year for Win Coll.
Dr Dominic Selwood (E, 1984-87)
Guest Editor
The Wykeham Journal 2014 1
First of all, the order
book is full. In the
face of competition,
this represents high
praise from discerning
parents who today
have almost unlimited
information available
to them.
Valuing
Intellectual
Pursuit
Charles Sinclair,Warden (B, 1961-66)
2 The Wykeham Journal 2014
Sir David Clementi, my predecessor,
has left the School in fine fettle.
Under his firm leadership, and in
partnership with the Headmaster,
the School has preserved those cultural
qualities that make it unique and,
in many respects, enhanced them.
One of my early tasks as new Warden is to write
in this Wykeham Journal of how I see Winchester
College today.
Sir David Clementi, my predecessor, has left the
School in fine fettle. Under his firm leadership, and
in partnership with the Headmaster, the School has
preserved those cultural qualities that make it unique
and, in many respects, enhanced them: renewed
attention has been paid to the curriculum, particularly
the role of ‘Div’; the quality of education remains
steady, at a very high level; the Bursary programme
has developed quickly; and buildings and facilities
have seen good levels of investment. At the same
time, much has changed: this year sees the end of
fee remission for scholars, and with the abandonment
of A-Levels by the Mathematicians a curriculum
completely set in the Cambridge Pre-U; as well as
David’s retirement as Warden, Jeff Hynam retired
as Bursar, David Fellowes retired as Director of
Win Coll Soc, and Mark Loveday completed
20 years exemplary service to Go Bo, latterly as a
Fellow. We who follow have much to live up to.
also full, subject to the occasional losses for
disciplinary breaches or failure to make the grade
into VI Book. This hurdle is vital in maintaining
VI Book standards and the ethos that standards
matter, and it gives us the chance to bring in suitable
pupils for the Pre-U years, some with bursaries.
The intellectual gap between Collegemen and
Commoners, so evident in my time, is now
significantly reduced.
Second, academic results are good, with strong
Oxbridge results, good entry to London University
in its many guises and to the great teaching hospitals,
enhanced by increasingly successful admissions to
top US colleges. In the major sports, cricket has been
quiet after two glorious years in 2009 and 2010;
2013 saw the soccer players beat Charterhouse for
the first time in 20 years, and much is now expected
of them; rowing has been boosted by George Nash’s
Olympic Bronze medal in 2012 and his place in the
Great Britain VIII that won the 2014 World Rowing
Championship; and the minor sports are many
and thriving.
For those many to whom I am a stranger, I was
a happy pupil in Toye’s in the 1960s, a delighted
parent of two Philites in the 1990s, Chairman of
the Finance Committee of Go Bo from 2010, and,
on David Clementi’s retirement in July, became
Warden; so I look at the School from several angles.
Third, operating finances are in good order, but only
after we take investment income and donations into
account. The £6 million overall cost of re-building
New Hall came from reserves, and a major
re-development of facilities in and around Kingsgate
Park lies ahead for which we will need external help.
First of all, the order book is full. In the face
of competition, this represents high praise from
discerning parents who today have almost unlimited
information available to them. The School itself is
As you will read in our Guest Editor’s review of
New Hall, we are delighted with its comprehensive
refurbishment. It is at last beautiful, with a lovely
finish, retaining the very old with the new.
Please find a way to go to a concert there and see
it for yourselves. You will form your own view of
New Hall, but the music will be wonderful and
is greatly enhanced by the acoustics one might
expect of a modern-day performance hall.
The refurbishment of the Commoner Houses
continues, at about £1.8 million for each:
Freddie’s has a greatly improved use of space and
one very pleased Housemaster. Hopper’s, Phil’s,
Kenny’s and Trant’s to go, one each year, and then
we start back again with Toye’s. Our attitude is
unaltered: accommodation does not need to be
luxurious, but it must not be a bar to effective
study, and it must be safe.
The Warden’s Stables Museum, funded entirely
by donations, will start its build shortly, and we
hope to start on a major re-development of
Wellington House, between Kingsgate and the
Wykeham Arms, right in the heart of the
School domain.
Unsurprisingly, 1914 has been a recurrent theme
this year, with a fine poetry reading in War Cloister
in September, a Commemoration Parade with the
Chief of the General Staff in October and a sombre
but beautiful Remembrance Service in Chapel
and War Cloister.
Amicabilis Concordia, the agreement of mutual
support between Win Coll and its offshoot, Eton,
was celebrated jointly and gloriously by their choirs
in Chapel. Eton has now appointed its seventh OW
Headmaster; they have sent us none. Would that all
our engagements with Eton were so well scored!
However, we cannot be complacent. We have to
compete more than ever for the brightest and the
best. Other fine schools are closer to home for London
families 70 miles away, some are co-ed, some are
effectively 5-day-a-week schools. We are one of the
five remaining boys-only boarding schools and we
are resolute that school activities continue unabated
during the weekend.
We are also wary of the emergence of an ‘excluded
middle’ in the student body, between the pupils
from wealthy families for whom our fees are easily
managed and those from families who need support
from bursaries. Happily, at the moment, there is
no evidence of this happening, perhaps because
the resources of whole families, not just parents,
are being made available.
We would like to see more pupils from OW families.
Only 12% of pupils currently have OW connections.
This says much for the openness of the School, but
we also value the reinforcement of Win Coll’s values
which comes with the engagement over generations
of Wykehamist families in the School. The Bursary
programme is there to help if needed, but is perhaps
not understood widely enough.
That said, the Bursary programme continues to
grow: in 2013/14 we granted 86 bursaries, at a cost
of £1.7 million, with 52 of these covering more than
half the fees. For the 2014/15 year, we have granted
101 bursaries at a cost of £2.1 million, and 62 of
these were for over half the fees. This is progress,
and when proceeds begin to flow from the Barton
Farm Residential Development (which is part of
our Endowment), we will apply the income from
these funds to make more bursaries available.
As many of you will know, Win Coll does not raise
enough income from School fees to cover the cost
of the education we provide. That gap is currently
covered by donations (£3 million a year, give or
take, mostly from Wykehamist families) and the
Endowment’s investment income. We hope that the
Wykehamical Community will continue to drive
the donations, and that an enhanced Endowment
yield will enable us to attract the pupils we want
and to maintain a balanced student body.
Finally, I must thank all members of the Wykehamical
Community for the immense contribution they make.
It’s not just money, although that is welcome enough.
It’s through the gift of time and thought contributed,
for instance, to the OW Guilds, and by those who
serve on Go Bo and advise its committees and work
on the Campaign. As vital is the ambassadorial role
we all play in bringing the right boys to Win Coll:
those who are bright enough to keep up and benefit
from a Win Coll education, valuing intellectual
pursuit as well as academic achievement, and who
are able to make a contribution to the School and,
most importantly, to the lives of their peers.
democratic society? Which will be the best tool to
combine social stability with the means of production
to sustain that stability? Which will promote the
fundamental values and way of life that can hold
society together? Which will provide the right kind of
leadership for a free, diverse, globally-financed society?
W nchester’s
Radical
Tradition
Dr Ralph Townsend, Headmaster
The global community created by modern
technology gives those of us working in education
many challenges and opportunities. To meet those
challenges we need the right elites, but for many years,
elite has been a dirty word in the politics of English
education! It has not been so in other quarters of
course. British governments have been keen to support
elitist sport and elitist entertainment (celebrity), but the
concept of elitism has not been welcome in talk about
education. Sport and entertainment attract crowds
and revenue and their spectacle has wide magnetic
appeal across the social spectrum, but education
(with its intellectual and social complexities) presents
governments with a much more problematical issue.
The critical questions are these. Do we want any kind
of elite at all in our society? And if so, what kind of
elite do we want it to be? The debate about private
education has raged for half a century. Does private
education supply an hereditary elite of class and if so
to what extent can it be tolerated? Should those who
begin life with the financial and social privilege of
their parents automatically succeed to influential and
powerful positions in society? Should the institutions
which they traditionally support, including schools
and universities, enjoy favoured treatment in the
political scheme of things and remain the preserve
of the children of the ruling class? As Britain has for
a long time, notwithstanding its class system, been a
democracy, other questions have been increasingly
brought into the educational debate. Should the high
culture of the traditional curriculum, with its emphasis
on the study of classical literature and language, pure
mathematics and theoretical science, be replaced
by applied subjects that prepare people directly for
the workforce? Should populism reign over elitism?
Should meritocracy trump privileged inheritance?
The answers to these questions will be shaped by a
number of factors giving rise to yet further questions.
Which approach is thought to serve best the political,
social and economic management of an advanced
These far-reaching questions have pressed and
continue to press themselves upon governments as
they search for the answers, and the political response
is never entirely complete or coherent. I would
summarise the current prevailing state of British
education in the following:
galitarianism in the form of non-selective state
E
education as a means to overthrow inherited class
distinction and social division has been centre-stage
for forty years. “Equality of opportunity” has been
the political goal.
opulism has triumphed over academic rigour
P
in educational discourse and political decisions
about the curriculum taught in schools, partly as
an attempt to eradicate class division, partly as an
attempt to make education relevant to the perceived
social and economic needs of modern society, partly
to keep children at school until the age of eighteen.
For all these reasons the rigour of academic courses
has unavoidably been sequentially reduced, while
vocational courses (for which the majority of people
are suited) have been insufficiently developed and
looked down upon as inferior.
Governments have not succeeded in solving the
problems they hoped they would. In recent years a
new materialist elite has emerged with scant regard
for the communitarian values which hold a contented
society together and which were the very origin of the
social vision that motivated attempts to modernise our
education system. The gap is growing between those
who have great wealth and those who have none.
Social unrest seems to be brewing.
I come back to my two questions: do we want any
kind of elite at all in our society? And if so, what
kind of elite do we want it to be? I am an elitist in a
certain sense. A good elite sets high standards. It must
be accountable. A well-led, creative society which
cares for its citizens, aspires to give them reasonable
opportunity, security and stability, requires the
leadership of an elite which is well-trained, adaptable
and humane. That is, a meritocratic elite of talent
which is able to provide the trained competency,
creativity and leadership essential to political
effectiveness, economic growth and social solidarity.
These themes have in recent years come back with
force on to the agenda of political and educational
discussion in Britain as we try to recover from
the financial crisis of 2008. There is an attempt to
rediscover some of the strengths we have lost in our
educational culture over the past generation and
combine them with some of the advances which have
been made in the name of increased equality. One
key plank, promoted by governments of both stripe
since 1997, known as the Academy movement, is
partnership between state schools and independent
schools: in 2008 Winchester entered into a partnership
with a failing state school thirty miles away which
over the past seven years has resulted in a dramatic
improvement in the performance of that school
while bringing to Winchester the benefits of a wider
educational awareness and experience. There are now
many similar partnerships in operation. Independent
schools (which educate only about 7% of British
youth), while increasingly called to account by
governments, have managed to continue to flourish as
a privately-funded educational service. These schools
have in general retained more of the strengths of
the traditional curriculum and methods of teaching
than the state schools, while adopting good modern
practice and recognising opportunities to provide
access to their educational programmes to children
whose parents do not belong to the current economic
elite. One valuable contribution that independent
schools bring to state schools is the testimony that
elitism does not have to be a dirty word — the best
elite is one focused on leadership and service and
not on preserving privilege as an end in itself.
Over the last decade or so independent schools in
the UK have (rightly in my view) been required by
government to justify the tax advantages they enjoy
as registered charities in order to demonstrate their
public benefit. They must explain and be accountable
for the extent to which they provide wider access to
their privileged status. In fact, Winchester’s greatest
public benefit lies at the heart of its Founder’s vision,
enshrined in its statutes of 1382, that is, the provision
of a good education for those who can profit and
contribute by it, regardless of social background.
Our social context is somewhat different from that
of the fourteenth century, of course, but the provision
of an education to pupils who can excel and in turn
contribute to the development of a free and civilised
society remains our principal objective.
For the first time,
we have surpassed
100 pupils receiving
financial support,
with 101 pupils
currently receiving
bursaries totalling
£2,103,000,
the equivalent of
over 60 full fees.
Bursar’s
Message
Steven Little, Bursar & Secretary
to the Governing Body
It is with great pleasure that I make my first report
on the School’s finances. The year to 31 August
2014 was the last overseen by my predecessor,
Jeff Hynam, who took well-earned retirement at the
end of the academic and financial year: we owe him
a huge debt of gratitude. These results are the most
recent in a series stretching back across his ten years
in post, which have seen the finances improved and
strengthened beyond recognition. This has been won
through much hard toil and effort and no less gentle
persuasion and diplomacy on his part. It now falls
to me to carry on his good work.
The accounts for last year, ended 31 August 2014,
are summarised on pages 50 and 51. I would also
strongly recommend the full statutory accounts,
which can be readily downloaded from the websites of
the School and the Charity Commission. The detailed
figures may be only for those with strong stomachs,
but the first twenty pages or so are a good read,
providing a clear and compelling narrative of what
we are about and what we are setting out to achieve
with a breadth and depth beyond the scope of
this publication.
In brief, 2013/2014 was a good year: income was
up a little at £26,279,000 (2013: £25,440,000)
and expenditure down fractionally at £24,411,000
(2013: £24,489,000), giving a surplus for the year
of £3,573,000, which compares favourably with
the previous year’s £2,789,000.
2014
(£’000)
2013
(£’000)
Income
Gross School fees Gross scholarships and bursaries
Other School income including
contributions towards bursaries
School fees and other School income
22,976
(2,069)
22,504
(1,951)
1,360
22,267
1,164
21,717
Other income
Trading and other income
Investment income
Other fundraising income
Total income
532
2,256 1,224 26,279
650
1,943
1,130
25,440
Expenditure
On charitable activities
On generating other income
Total expenditure
(22,453)
(1,958)
(24,411)
(22,701)
(1,788)
(24,489)
1,868
1,705
3,573
951
1,838
2,789
Net operating income
New Endowment
Net income
The year also saw by far the largest capital
expenditure programme in many, many years.
During 2013-14, £6.1 million was spent, including
£4.5m on the refurbishment of New Hall and
£1.2m on Morshead’s. There is much more to follow:
four more boarding houses in the present refurbishment
cycle; the new museum in the Warden’s Stables;
the proposed redevelopment of the Wellington House
site; and exciting plans for the whole of the campus
to the south of Kingsgate Park.
However, this is a complex and varied organisation,
and these bald facts do not tell the full story, and even
the presentation of the results in the statutory accounts,
prescribed as it is by charity accounting rules, does us
no favours by obscuring more than it reveals. The table
on this page and the accompanying charts on pages
10 and 11 seek to illuminate from where the School
gets its income, where the money goes and which
activities generate the surpluses that allow us to
reinvest in the future.
The College thinks about its activities under four
headings which mirror its four principal sources
of income:
The School’s operations;
The Endowment;
Trading; and
Fundraising
86
76
77
13/14
11/12
12/13
51
50
10/11
41
09/10
08/09
43
38
07/08
06/07
1,679,379
1,410,596
1,311,050
13/14
19,528
18,394
17,026
14,168
The main fundraising objective remains bursaries,
and it is most encouraging to see continuing growth
in the number and value of bursaries awarded.
In the academic year 2013/2014, 86 boys (2013: 76)
received means-tested bursaries worth £1,697,000
(2013: £1,410,000), the equivalent of over 50 full fees
and 7.4% of gross fee income. Within this, £17,000
was awarded to allow bursary recipients to participate
fully in the life of the College by providing for the
first time additional support with the cost of
extras and trips.
In addition, scholarships and other awards totalling
£372,000 were given to a further 75 pupils (2013:
82 pupils; £318,000). In total, 161 pupils received
fee awards totalling £2,069,000, representing more
than 9% of gross fee income.
The current year marks the end of scholarships and
music exhibitions which carry an automatic financial
benefit: once the current top year leave, all awards will
be means-tested. It also marks the first time we have
surpassed 100 pupils receiving financial support, with
101 currently receiving bursaries totalling £2,103,000,
the equivalent of over 60 full fees. Thirty-five of
these awards were made to new entrants/recipients.
Five pupils are receiving full bursaries with a further
57 receiving in excess of 50% of the School fee.
The School also supports the Quiristers, who
currently receive 40% remission of fees at Pilgrims’
School at an annual cost to the College of £198,000
(2013: £175,000). This includes bursary support of
£17,000 (2013: £6,000) for three specific pupils as
a result of means testing.
13/14
11/12
12/13
10/11
620,123
422,360
09/10
08/09
708,375
11/12
Fundraising is the fourth income stream and again
played a vital role in funding the School’s activities.
The total received in the year was £2,929,000,
much the same high level as in the previous year:
we continue to be extremely grateful to all donors.
12/13
1
10/11
6 7
4 5
12,159
3
Average value of bursaries
awarded (£)
10,301
2
The Endowment: Income from investments and cash
deposits was 16% higher and produced £2,256,000
(2013: 1,943,000). Dividend income was £200,000
higher than the previous year and rents increased by
the same again, thanks to a number of successful
rent reviews. Less welcome was the continuing
reduction in interest received; the current low
interest rates hit hard.
09/10
Charitable – Education (21,310)
Charitable – Quiristers (198)
3 Charitable – Ancient Buildings and Collections (945)
4 Trading (270)
5 Financing and investment management (783)
6 Fundraising (539)
7 Other Activities (366)
2 08/09
1 367,655
Total expenditure (£’000)
332,975
1
Total value of bursaries
awarded (£’000)
07/08
3
2
Trading: This generated income of £532,000,
and more importantly, after costs, made a significant
contribution of £262,000 to the surplus. While not a
vintage year, Winchester College Enterprises, whose
purpose is to make the most from sports and other
facilities when not in use by the boys, did well in the
face of many difficulties. Enterprises ran a full summer
programme in spite of the closure of College Kitchens
for refurbishment, and overcame restricted access to
the PE Centre, both planned (a knock on effect from
the refurbishment of New Hall) and unplanned
(winter flooding).
06/07
4
9,675
School fees and other school income (net) (22,267)
and other income (532)
3 Investment and interest income (2,256)
4 Fundraising income (2,929)
– New endowment (1,705)
– Non-endowment (1,224)
2 Trading
Other fundraising and development income
which is available for more immediate use increased
by £94,000 to £1,224,000, and included a further
£127,000 towards the construction of the museum.
Number of boys
receiving bursaries
7,744
1 As a result, the School’s operations showed a deficit of
£186,000 for the year, and even this was flattered by
technical accounting adjustments to do with pension
schemes. Without those, the deficit would have been
nearer £750,000. While much has been done and
will continue to be done to control costs and focus
expenditure on academic and pastoral priorities,
it is clear that school fee income alone does not
and will not pay for the core charitable objectives
of education, bursaries, the Quiristers and
Ancient Buildings.
Fundraising falls into two distinct categories.
Donations to endowed funds amounted to
£1,705,000 (2013: 1,838,000), including £1,179,000
for the Bursary Fund, £275,000 towards the future
operation of the new Museum and £134,000 for the
Wykeham Fund. Although new endowment is treated
as income under charity accounting, in practice this
money has to be ring-fenced and invested for the
benefit to be felt over the years to come.
07/08
Income (£’000)
The School: As ever, the core charitable activities in
running the School produced the lion’s share of the
income, some 85% of the total. Gross school fees of
£22,976,000 were levied and other school income,
(which includes entrance and registration fees,
sundry sales and blue bills, commissions and other
income) added another £1,360,000 to turnover.
The £2,069,000 cost of bursaries, scholarships,
and music and other awards was offset against
this, leaving £22,267,000 to fund the rest of our
charitable activities. All this and more was spent on
running the School, including the Quiristers and
Ancient Buildings, equating to some £22,453,000,
or 92% of all expenditure.
06/07
The year also saw
by far the largest
capital expenditure
programme in many,
many years.
Revolutionary. That is the word that most sums
up Winchester for me. Revolutionary, with a
strong undercurrent of radical.
Arriving at Winchester in 1984, fired up on
adolescence, loud guitar music, and the Cold War,
I was amazed to be confronted by gothic evidence
that revolution had not been invented in the
twentieth century.
Winchester College, I quickly realised, was built
on radicalism. William of Wykeham, its Founder,
looked around at fourteenth-century education,
and concluded it was not fit for purpose. Like King
Alfred before him, he resolved to increase the learning
in the land. But instead of giving his money to the
country’s abbeys and cathedrals to enlarge their
schools, he decided to reinvent the system.
He founded an independent grammar school.
Winchester was therefore revolutionary from the
start. And it was part of a bold programme to train
scholars for his new college at Oxford, which was
equally radical in its admission of undergraduates,
its formalized tutorial system, and its quadrangular
architecture, all of which became standard across
Oxford and Cambridge.
Time has vindicated Wykeham’s extraordinary
vision. Not only are both colleges still world-class
powerhouses 620 years on, but they were already
recognized for excellence within 60 years of their
creation when King Henry VI replicated the model
in almost every detail, founding Eton and King’s
College, Cambridge as carbon copies of Winchester
and New College, Oxford, even taking soil from
Chamber Court to lay in Eton’s foundations.
If one thing can be said
to lie at the core of a
Winchester education
it is the encouragement
of a hungry mind.
Anyone lucky enough to be educated at Winchester
will imbibe the mellow beauty of the medieval
buildings along with the Founder’s fire for knowledge.
But what they will take away and own for the
rest of their lives is a restless spirit of questioning.
For me, that is Wykeham’s most enduring legacy:
a personal trait he bequeathed to those fortunate
enough to follow him. For instance, in an age of aggressive league tables
measuring every moment of childhood, Winchester’s
quiet determination not to be distracted by them
shines out. Another spectacular piece of clear thinking
is Winchester’s insistence that all New Men leave
their computers and tablets at home. While most
comparably-priced schools entice parents with screens
and keyboards lovingly inlaid into every piece of
furniture, Winchester wants its fresh-faced New Men
to sit in stunning settings with gifted dons and revel
in the pleasure of searching conversation, a luxury
largely unknown to their generation.
No one should be fooled by the School’s medieval
statues or Latin slang. Winchester is as far from a
dusty, irrelevant institution as it is possible to get.
It may wear its age and traditions with a slightly
scruffy grandeur, but it is undoubtedly doing what
it has always done best: responding to the needs
of the age, and turning out modern men able
to shine at work, at home, and as friends.
Winchester is not really a school at all, and what
it offers is definitely not a traditional education.
It can, and does, get its men into all the best
universities, but in reality it is a workbench,
crafting the most interesting people I know.
If one thing can be said to lie at the core of a
Winchester education it is the encouragement of
a hungry mind. And the secret of its success lies
in making the extraordinary normal. After a few
months, the New Man will feel there is nothing
unusual in being offered a university level education,
a museum of classical antiquities, a workshop filled
with the latest technology, a medieval church to
excavate, sports pitches worthy of a Constable,
a world-class collection of historically important
manuscripts and books, some of the country’s
brightest classmates, and all the other wonders
he will find in a few acres of Hampshire.
When I left Winchester, I was lucky enough to end
up studying for primary and post graduate degrees
at Oxford, the Sorbonne, Poitiers, Wales, and
London. At Oxford, I naturally enough headed for
New College, where the architecture, heraldry, and
Wykehamicity felt reassuringly familiar. Both colleges
are soul-stealingly beautiful, but there are strong
differences. New College feels like a vast gothic abbey,
with restful gardens and contemplative cloisters. It has
an unmistakably monastic atmosphere, with an airy
medieval beauty that calms any mood. Winchester is
more of a bishop’s castle, stone rather than lawns,
the smaller scale giving a more focused and
purposeful atmosphere. The fortification at both is
real, as class war was still rife: the St Scholastica’s Day
riots in Oxford and the Peasants’ Revolt were both
within living memory. Winchester is also different
from New College, not to because it alone produces
Wykehamists: a largely benign operation, but one
that can be performed only on the teenage brain.
It has something to do with Winchester having been
able to sail through the centuries charting its own
course and not as part of a flotilla. But it is also linked
to the very strong sense of tradition that continues to
be valued. Even today, alumni are known by
the Founder’s name.
Winchester wants its
fresh-faced New Men
to sit in stunning
settings with gifted
dons and revel in the
pleasure of searching
conversation, a luxury
largely unknown to
their generation.
As one looks at Wykeham’s two colleges, it is easy to
imagine him as some sort of bookish, dreamy cleric,
born to privilege and the country’s top jobs. In fact he
was a poor nobody with no real education (his famous
motto, Manners Makyth Man, is in English not Latin,
and speaks powerfully to the idea that behaviour,
not privilege, defines a person). He earned his vast
fortune, one of the largest in England, on the wool
market, trading exchequer tallies, and using his
contacts at the papal court to manage the revenues
of alien (e.g., French) priories confiscated during
the Hundred Years War. He was a man of the
world, not a theologian.
Another misconception is that he founded his
colleges as a retirement job. In fact, when the
first stone of Winchester College was being laid,
Wykeham was in the thick of a full-scale political
rebellion and armed insurrection against King
Richard II. As the first courses of Chamber Court
and Chapel rose from the ground, he even found time
to switch sides, convince Richard of his fidelity, and
be appointed Chancellor of England for the second
time (1389-1391). When Winchester finally opened
its gates in 1394, Wykeham (in his 70s) had still not
slowed down, and was heavily involved in the knifeedge statecraft marking the close of Richard’s reign,
and with it the end of 245 years of Plantagenet rule.
Our Founder, then, was an undoubted revolutionary,
in business, politics, and education — although not
in religion, where his views were traditional English.
In this year’s journal, we look at how the radicalism
of his vision continues to thrive in 2015. One piece
is about what happens up to books, in Div, a uniquely
Wykehamist institution. Two pieces are about
spectacular experiences on campus: the community
excavation of a medieval chantry, and the resetting of
the stunning 1680s Chapel panels into a dramatically
reimagined New Hall. Finally, we look at people:
the amazing outgoing Winchester Junior Fellow,
and one of the most extraordinary Wykehamist
generations of all time: those who gave their
lives in the First World War.
It has been enormous fun to meet and chat with all
the people who feature in the following five stories,
and I thank them all for being so generous with their
time. I hope that, together, these small glimpses into
their worlds demonstrate that a radical approach to
education is still at the strong and vibrant heart of
a modern Winchester education.
Times change. But there
are many men at the
School still following
that basic path. And an
integral part of it is Div,
which is a unique feature
of a Wykehamical
education.
DIV
Radical Thinking.
Featuring
Nick MacKinnon (Co Ro, 1986-)
Alasdair MacKinnon (Coll, 2003-08 )
Lachlan MacKinnon (I, 2006-11)
You will sometimes hear it said that
William of Wykeham was not an educator,
but founded his two colleges primarily as
chantries for the eternal repose of his soul.
That is, quite plainly, rot.
If he had wanted a flash chantry, he would have
followed the model of St Elizabeth’s (see the
accompanying story, Digging the Dirt). Anyone who
looks at the School’s original licences, statutes, and
charter will see that he was implementing the country’s
first detailed educational programme for transforming
a nine-year-old boy into a Master of Arts.
Times change. But there are many men at the School
still following that basic path. And an integral part of
it is Div, which is a unique feature of a Wykehamical
education. Every man studies it once a day. It demands
no examinations, merely an essay on Saturday
evenings. In the early years it covers a broad range
- Later, it expands to
of English, History, and Divina.
whatever the Div don imagines will be interesting.
It has, naturally, changed over the years, but there
is no doubt it has been part of the curriculum
in one form or another for a long time. Today it
remains vibrant and, with other schools increasingly
concentrating on league tables and exams to the
exclusion of all else, it seems more radical than ever.
To understand it better, I wanted to talk to a family
who have recent direct experiences of it. Was it,
I wondered, something special for them, or just
another part of a bursting timetable?
Nick MacKinnon is best known to non-Wykehamists
as one of the most prolific setters of The Sunday
Times Brainteasers, and also for his award-winning
poetry. He came to Winchester from Oxford as a
Mathma- don, looking forward to teaching his subject
and getting involved in the School’s sporting life.
However, within a few years, he found himself
taking on a VIth Book Div, and then, eight years
ago, an MP Div as well.
His eldest son, Alasdair, was in College, where he won
- Jun Steeplechase, and played in First Orchestra.
Recita,
He went on to take a double first in Russian and
German at Caius, Cambridge, before starting work as
an archaeologist in Tyre. His youngest son, Lachlan,
was in Hopper’s, where he was a Music Exhibitioner,
played in VIs, the Soccer 2nd XI, and First Orchestra.
After leaving, he went on to take a double first in
Chemistry at New College, Oxford, where he is now
deeply into research looking at cellular biophysics.
If any family knows about Div, it is the MacKinnons.
And I wanted to find out just what they — with their
very different interests and skills — think it offers.
When Nick first took on Div duties and began
immersing himself in English, he discovered an
unknown and deep love of poetry, so much so that
he started writing, and the critics think he does it
rather well. In 2012 he won the Hippocrates and
Keats-Shelley Prizes, and in 2013 he added the
Forward Prize. For him, Div has taken his interests
far beyond the Mathma- he thought he was signing up
for. To give me an idea, he hands over his personal
lesson plan for his MP Div on the history, literature,
poetry, and religion of the Anglo-Saxons. I read it
with amazement, and a mounting realization that most
universities would struggle to offer undergraduates
such an integrated and wide-ranging view of the
period. For Nick, it is has clearly become a passion.
I catch up with Lachlan in the frost-covered cloisters
at New College, where we walk and reflect on Div
from the pupil’s perspective. Thankfully his memories
are far fresher than mine. He still relishes the fact that
in VIth Book with Laurence Wolff the ‘syllabus’ was
widened to include being taught to draw in regular
life drawing sessions, tea-tasting, and even visiting
the opera several times.
He makes two broader observations. His Pre-Us
were in Physics, Chemistry and German, and his
A-Level Maths and Further Maths, but he very much
appreciates having been taught, through the discipline
of the weekly Div task, how to write essays and
present arguments, a skill that his Science A-Levels
did not prioritise but which he finds immensely
useful. He is also very grateful that it has given him
an uncommonly broad base of things to discuss with
people from other disciplines. How many other
A-Level Science students, I wonder, also fitted into
their sixth form timetable discussions on War and
Peace, Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,
Sculptors, and Architects and Zamyatin’s We?
Alasdair gives me his thoughts long-distance
from the Lebanon. He is working on a UNESCO
project to restore parts of Tyre, where he specializes
in research, surveying, cartography, photography,
and structural engineering. His A-Levels were
Maths, Further Maths, French, Russian, German,
and Latin, and he also worked as Assistant Curator
in Treasury. So with all those interests, what,
I wonder, did he make of Div?
Div is therefore,
in many ways,
a modern re-flowering
of the breadth of
a medieval liberal
arts education.
For him Div is about the unpredictable. It flourishes
best when it is unstructured and personal. As an
editor of The Wykehamist, he also reaped wider
benefits, receiving the output of the quirkier Div
tasks, like the two-column newspaper article to be
read simultaneously across or down, or three by three
by three poem: three lines, three words per line,
three letters per word. He is also grateful to Div for
introducing him to ‘the banking industry from the
Medici to Wall Street’, which saved him from the
ignominy of a City career. Ultimately, he muses,
Div thrives as an uncategorisable exercise in eclectic
learning, and a good Div hour is a pleasant surprise
that can lift an otherwise uneventful day.
The MacKinnons’ joint and several fusion of
humanities and science is something the earliest
Wykehamists would have recognised as a
fundamentally medieval approach to education.
In 1394, Winchester was a ‘grammar school’,
licensed by the king and the pope, with a curriculum
focused squarely on the seven liberal arts. That meant
taking boys aged nine to 12 and starting them off
on proficiency in Latin, or ‘grammar’. As William
of Wykeham put it, ‘Grammar is without doubt the
foundation, gateway, and mainspring of all the liberal
arts, and without it arts of this kind cannot be known’.
(Greek was not generally taught in Western Europe
until after the Reformation, when it became
important for Protestant bible study). Once the boys
had made a good start at Latin, a grammar school
education added the other two elements of the trivium
(where we get the word ‘trivial’): rhetoric and logic.
Wykeham additionally insisted on proficiency in
plainsong and the writings of Donatus, a highlyprized Roman grammarian.
When a man left Winchester at 18, he was therefore
armed and ready for university’s quadrivium, in which
he learned the more scientific subjects of arithmetic,
geometry, astronomy, and music. Once complete,
he finally had all seven liberal arts under his belt,
and was a Master of Arts, able to teach any or all
of the individual subjects, or embark on higher
doctoral study in theology, law, or medicine.
Div is therefore, in many ways, a modern re-flowering
of the breadth of a medieval liberal arts education.
In an age of remorseless curriculum changes and
examination imperatives, Div stands as a Wykehamical
biting of the thumb to the classroom fads of the day.
Div seems always to have been part of the Winchester
ethos. For instance, Christopher Johnson (Headmaster,
1561-71) taught the men classical Latin, but in
addition he found time to explore with them his
own Latin prose and verse; moral discussions of
war and avarice; the relative sizes of land-based and
water-based animals; anatomy, the digestive system,
and the causes of blushing; acoustics; the latest theories
about comets; why the sea is salty; and various ideas
about the origin of the world.
Sitting in the latest incarnation of Co Ro in
Old Bethesda, Nick walks me through the current
approach. In JP the focus is on the wonders of the
classical world. In MP it is time to get medieval.
And in Vth and VIth Book it moves deftly into
the early modern and modern periods.
The way it integrates across the disciplines is inspiring.
For instance, Nick’s MP Div on the Anglo-Saxons is
immersed in walking the Anglo-Saxon archaeology
of Winchester, reading about the city’s defences in
the Burghal Hidage, working through the Christianity
of Bede, and learning to appreciate the poetry of
the Battle of Maldon in the original Anglo-Saxon.
In one year, they have covered a vast sweep of the
early medieval world, appreciating it physically,
spiritually, and in its poetry.
But is it still necessary, I ask myself, as I leave
Nick in Old Bethesda? Do teenagers today really
need this broad exploration of the arts? However,
I know the answer already. The MacKinnons have
ably demonstrated it. A rounded education offers
one the chance to know about, and be interested in,
things one would not instinctively study. It fosters
a broadness of curiosity and inquisitiveness in the
sense Einstein meant when he observed that
education is what remains after everything
learned in school is long forgotten.
For generations Div has offered Wykehamists
that opportunity, and it is one we should treasure
as a daring, luxurious, and quintessentially
radical pillar of a Winchester education.
The archives
had triumphed,
proving they are
not just boxes of
dusty vellum and
paper, but a living
and functioning
part of the
College’s life.
The
New
Hall
Panels
Featuring Suzanne Foster,
College Archivist
I am sitting in a spectacular Elizabethan room just off
Outer Court. It is the study of Warden John Harmar,
a brilliant man who wrote much of the immortal,
poetic text of the 1611 King James Bible in this room.
He is still here today, looking down genially from a
portrait beside the immense carved fireplace, a sober
figure in black, strongly reminiscent of his mystical
contemporary, Dr John Dee.
Opposite me is Suzanne Foster, the immensely
knowledgeable archivist here since 1999.
Suzanne has one of the best jobs in the country
as far as I can see, because her domain is an archive
of national importance that would make any city,
cathedral, or university envious. And it is here, in this
spectacular room, that Suzanne worked on piecing
together a long-unsolved mystery of one of the
College’s greatest treasures: the wondrous panelling
of Warden John Nicholas (1679-1712).
Over the centuries, Chapel has had many looks.
At its consecration on 17 July 1395 it was full-on
medieval Catholic, complete with painted statuary
and a rood loft. By the mid-1500s the religious laws
had changed, and Chapel wore the more restrained
liveries of the Reformation. But perhaps the biggest
overhaul came after another hundred years, once
normal life had started returning following the austere
puritanism of Cromwell’s Commonwealth. Then, in
the late 1600s, Warden Nicholas decided to give the
whole College a facelift.
It is here, in this spectacular room,
that Suzanne worked on piecing
together a long-unsolved mystery
of one of the College’s greatest treasures:
the wondrous panelling of Warden
John Nicholas (1679-1712).
Part of the celebratory makeover included putting
up School, and the jury is still out on whether
Sir Christopher Wren, working just up the hill
on Charles II’s palace by the castle, was involved,
although his men certainly were. But more
importantly here, from 1680-83, Warden Nicholas
filled Chapel with the sound of hammering and
planing as he fitted some of the most spectacular
wooden panelling this country has ever produced.
Generations of experts have attributed it to Grinling
Gibbons, although Suzanne Foster shows me old
records which disclose payments to Housman the
joiner and Pierce the sculptor, both of whom had
previously worked with Wren. In any event, with
or without the involvement of Gibbons or Wren,
the luxurious woodwork was installed, and from
1729 the central panel behind the high altar housed
the radiant Annunciation of François Lemoyne,
‘discovered’ at Winchester in 2011 to the delight
the art world.
Moving forward another two centuries to the late
1800s, there was no room in Chapel for the sheer
number of men sprouting from the new boarding
houses. In 1874, Headmaster Ridding (1867-84)
finally took action, ripping out the stalls and wooden
panelling (brasses, and a lot else that is now lost), and
stuffing Chapel with rows of seating. One architectural
benefit, though, was the uncovering of the wonderful
fifteenth-century stone reredos on the east wall.
The old panelling was piled up in Cloister, then sold
for £60 to the Rev. Huyshe Yeatman, the future bishop
of Worcester, who wanted it for his private chapel.
in his laundry near Warminster, before offloading it
for £2,100 onto Messrs Hubbard and Moore, London
architects. After lending it out to surround the ice rink
at Cheltenham Winter Garden in 1902, the architects
finally managed to sell the lot for £31,500 to George
Cooper, although they cannily kept back the central
carved ‘cartouche’ of William of Wykeham’s heraldic
arms, presumably hoping to get a premium for it
from someone with Wykehamical connections,
Moving sure-footedly among the files of spidery
handwriting and faded type-written carbon copies,
finding the relevant materials with ease, Suzanne
shows me correspondence from the 1950s revealing
that the Warden, Sir George Gater, had decided it
was time to bring the panelling home, so was deep
in discussion with the Coopers, who had installed it
all at their family seat at Hursley Hall. The Warden
was a determined man, and with the help of the
Headmaster, Walter Oakeshott, and a generous
grant of £6,800 from the Pilgrim Trust, Chapel’s
exquisite 1680s woodwork finally returned to
Winchester in 1956.
At around this time the Headmaster wanted a space
large enough to accommodate the entire school,
and the answer was New Hall, which opened in
1961. Happily, it was also the ideal place to put the
magnificent but colossal panels. However, 1960s
buildings are cursed with rapid obsolescence, and by
2012 New Hall was tired and the panelling looked
dull and lacklustre. A major refurbishment was needed.
When droves of parents entered New Hall for JP
parents’ evening in November 2014, they were the
first to see the new-look New Hall. It would be an
exaggeration to say everyone was staring wide-eyed
at the panelling and ignoring their sons’ astral
academic progress, but there is no doubt the
woodwork stole the show. It certainly looked
unrecognisable from the drab space I remembered
in the mid-1980s.
This is where Suzanne Foster and the College’s
amazing archives come into play. She tells me the story
as we go through the records, tracing the journey of
these extraordinary carvings.
Back in Warden Harmar’s study, I learn from Suzanne
the amazing story of how she worked together with
the archivist at New College, Oxford, swapping
nuggets of information from the depths of their
respective archives to piece together the panelling’s
extraordinary history, and also how the long-lost
cartouche of Wykeham’s arms finally also found
its way to New Hall.
Yeatman, sadly, discovered his chapel was too small,
so kept the panelling in a barn in Wiltshire, before
selling it for £500 to Lord Heytesbury, who kept it
It turns out the London architects’ rapacity was
successfully putting off all buyers, so they lent the
cartouche to Bethnal Green’s Geffrye Museum.
The archives are,
in fact, proof, as is
so often the case,
that our ancestors
were not idiots.
However, once they brought the price down to a
less eye-watering level, the philanthropist Raymond
Ffennel purchased the cartouche in 1927 as a gift for
New College, Oxford, where the Warden and Fellows
hung it in the College Hall and thought no more
about it. It was only when New Hall was coming
together to house Warden Nicholas’s ancient panelling
that the penny finally dropped, and, in the true spirit
of the Amicabilis Concordia, New College presented
the long-lost cartouche to Winchester.
Throughout this tale, the archives had triumphed,
proving they are not just boxes of dusty vellum
and paper, but a living and functioning part of the
College’s life, its black box recorder, vital to its affairs.
The archives are, in fact, proof, as is so often the
case, that our ancestors were not idiots. The ancient
written records are still kept in Wykeham’s original
iron-bound wooden chests in a thick-walled and
unheated medieval tower. As a result, their condition
is astounding, with none of the brittle, wrinkled
pages or obliterated writing typical of so many
medieval manuscripts.
Among the treasures are priceless royal documents,
from Charles II and I, Henry VI, Richard I,
William Rufus, Cnut, Edmund, all the way back
to AD 924. There is even a Bursar’s account roll
from 1415 containing news brought to College of
the English victory at Agincourt, said to be the first
written mention of the battle in England. Nearby are
the Civil War expenses incurred by Roundhead troops
under Old Wykehamist (and Founder’s kin) Colonel
Nathaniel Fiennes, who protected the School’s chapel,
statues, and archives, as well as William of Wykeham’s
effigy and chantry in the cathedral, keeping them all
safe from the hammers, pickaxes, and bonfires of his
more fanatical fellow Puritans. Perhaps most famously,
there is a collection of Anglo-Saxon royal charters;
Michael Wood even sat in the Muniments’ Tower
poring over them for his recent 2013 BBC television
series on the Anglo-Saxons.
So, the exquisite panelling is whole again, and now
spectacularly displayed in New Hall, along with
two wondrous medieval heraldic tapestries which
the records show were celebration pieces woven for
the christening of Arthur, Prince of Wales (born and
christened in Winchester in 1486), son of Henry VII
and older brother of Henry VIII. Following recent
conservation and rebacking arranged by Suzanne,
they now add a flamboyant dash of colour to the
drama of the hall.
Back in Warden Harmar’s exquisite Elizabethan
study, I ask Suzanne what is keeping her busy at
the moment. Enquiries from all over the world,
she answers, something different every day:
scholars interested in Wykeham’s papers, litigants
researching land ownership, and requests for
information on nearly six-and-a-half centuries of
individual teachers and pupils. Right now, she is
deep into the records of Winchester’s contribution
to World Wars One and Two.
When at the School, I had no idea the archives even
existed. Now, Suzanne puts on exhibitions, talks to
the men about the priceless documents, ancient royal
seals, and conservation, and assists the dons in making
the extraordinary resource available to enhance
their teaching. She came to the College from the
Hampshire Record Office as the first trained archivist
the College had ever permanently retained. It was the
right thing to do. The College archives hold much
that is of interest far beyond the School’s high walls,
and its treasures need to be more widely known and
available to those interested in this utterly unique
private collection. They have been gathered across
an unbroken period of almost 650 years in a historydrenched leading royal and episcopal city, in which
the College has long played a prominent role.
The archive is, truly, a national treasure.
The accolade of
‘the bravest family
in Britain’ has
been given to the
Goughs, with their
unrivalled three
Victoria Crosses.
Wnchester
College
at War
Featuring Viscount Gough (G, 1955-59)
On one occasion,
a forced crash landing
into a shell hole earned
the terse entry in his
log book, ‘damned
uncomfortable’.
If the modern media is to be allowed its stereotypes,
the hot bullets and sweet, spicy gas of World War I
were aimed only at young, working men doing
their duty. According to this distorted history, those
educated at public schools enjoyed servants, croquet,
fine dining, and nothing more aggressive than a
map-table in a commandeered château somewhere
well out of harm’s way.
If this were even remotely true, it would be impossible
for the accolade of ‘the bravest family in Britain’ to
have been given to the Goughs, with their unrivalled
three Victoria Crosses, all for front line action in the
thick of heavy fighting (two in the Indian Mutiny
and one in British Somaliland).
‘What sometimes gets forgotten
in the numbing death figures of
the First War … is that boys from
public schools were twice as likely
to be killed as others.’
Above: The War Cloister was the vision of Headmaster
Montague Rendall and was originally designed as a memorial
to the 500 Wykehamists killed during the First World War.
It began with Field Marshal Lord Gough (Viscount
Gough, of Goojerat in the Punjaub and the city
of Limerick, Baron Gough of the Maharajpore of
the Sutlej and ChinKangFoo), who is reputed to
have commanded more men than his slightly older
contemporary, the Duke of Wellington, for whom
he was pallbearer. Ever since, generations of the
Gough family have continued to serve their country
in a resonant reminder that media stereotypes about
soldering can be dangerously misleading.
The current Lord Gough (G, 1955-59) followed
this family tradition with a commission in the Irish
Guards, before entering finance, farming, and the
charitable sector. Throughout this time, he has always
remained highly aware of the wartime sacrifices
of Wykehamists. His great uncle, the 5th Earl of
Longford (G, 1878-81) was the eighth most senior
Old Wykehamist to die in the war, at Gallipoli,
and Longford’s father, the 4th Earl of Longford
(Commoners, 1831-35), fought with the
Northumberland Fusiliers and is commemorated
close by Earl Wavell in Old Cloister.
“My father was an Old Etonian ‘Old Contemptible’”,
Lord Gough explains. “He was wounded in the
First War, mentioned in the earliest dispatches, then
again a second time, and awarded one of the first
Military Crosses. He also served in the Second War,
and always wanted me to go to Winchester College.”
“What sometimes gets forgotten in the numbing
death figures of the First War,” Lord Gough continues,
“is that boys from public schools were twice as likely
to be killed as others.” And so, when looking around
War Cloister, the largest private war memorial in
Europe, it is sobering to remember that the 513 names
commemorated are not the war-dead of a small town,
which they might well be from the sheer number, but
the dead of one school. Even more sad is the mortality
rate: 2,488 men from Winchester College served in
the First War, meaning one in five never came home
(compared with the national average of one in 11).
With the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914, life at the
School changed radically. Within a week, 470 officers
and men from the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry were
billeted in the grounds, and they were soon joined by
families of Belgian refugees. At the time, public schools
taught that privilege brought responsibility, and it was
evidently a lesson well learned. That first year, 95 of
Winchester’s 112 leavers enlisted in the Army.
Before long, men and dons came back to tell of their
war experiences. A former Housedon of Trant’s
memorably shared his experiences of the Somme,
and in March 1918 one man returned in an aircraft,
performed a few acrobatic stunts, then landed
on New Field.
The School was not shielded from the economic
realities of war, and the men had to find time to help
on nearby farms. Food shortage soon set in, and the
School shop ceased selling bread, meat, and sugar.
One don tried an imaginative rabbit breeding
programme, but it was not a success. From the spring
of 1915 rock bottom was reached when College
Hall stopped serving beer.
Not all Wykehamists joined the Army. For instance,
Arthur Shuldham Redfern (E, 1909-14) was a popular
man at School, keen on Mathma- and conducting the
Freddie’s House Choir. He left to read medicine at
Trinity, Cambridge, but after only one term ended
up on a four-month intensive training course with the
Royal Flying Corps. After 24 hours and 55 minutes
solo flying time he was ready, and well ahead of those
who had only completed the regulation 15 hours.
In no time he was flying reconnaissance and
photography missions over France, including the
Somme. On one occasion, a forced crash landing into
a shell hole earned the terse entry in his log book,
‘damned uncomfortable’. After a squadron change,
he went on to rack up hundreds of hours in low-level
strafing missions. Average life expectancy for his
fellow pilots was 17.5 hours, and the missions clearly
took their toll on his health as he was eventually
transferred back to England as a trainer. After the
war he entered on a distinguished career in the
Foreign Office, was knighted by King George VI,
and died aged 89.
Not all were so lucky, of course, and the casualties
began to mount. “The death toll was especially high
among those who left public school between 1908
and 1915,” Lord Gough reminds me, “They were
the junior officers and flyers who often assumed
the most dangerous roles.”
Ever since the Headmaster, Montague Rendall,
put up War Cloister in 1922-4, generations of
Wykehamists have walked past the names of the
513 fallen several times a day. However, this is the
information age, and the details of their sacrifice
can now reach a wider audience.
Enter Rachel Wragg, the College’s Museum
Development Manager, who conceived of a public
website with the photograph and biography of each
name in War Cloister. Thanks to the generous support
of Lord Gough, the website became a reality in 2014.
“The names in War Cloister are a great tribute to the
men,” Lord Gough explained. “Had my father lived
to see me at Winchester College, he would have found
the same magic in War Cloister as do I, and now the
website allows the individual stories to be told as
never before”.
Anyone can now mine a host of fascinating details
from its comprehensive search functions. For example,
on 23 August 1914 (less than three weeks after war
was declared), four Wykehamists lost their lives in
action: Cecil Smith (D, 1897-1903), John Wilkinson
(F, 1901-05), Herbert Holt (B, 1902-07), and Joseph
Mead (G, 1905-10). This amazing website now means
that researching the Winchester war dead and finding
connections such as these has never been easier.
Perhaps just as pleasingly, it has also brought fresh
flows of information to the School.
For instance, when Michael Smith (D, 1955-60)
found himself at St Symphorien cemetery in August
2014 to visit the graves of his uncle and other fallen
Wykehamists, it was straightforward for him to get
in touch with Suzanne Foster, the College Archivist,
and share a treasure-chest of fascinating personal
letters from witnesses and officers. One, especially
touching, is from his uncle’s bugler, a man named
Goss, who wrote to Smith’s mother in September
1914 to reassure her that, ‘Lieut. Smith was a good
officer and a gentlemen who always had the good
will of the men under his charge … he was too
brave, and exposed himself perhaps too much …
his last words were, “Carry on. Goss”.’
As I walk away, one name catches my eye: Megiddo,
the place which has given its name to the last epochal
battle of Armageddon. How many Wykehamists
of the First World War generation once sat sleepily
in Chapel, half-listening to the biblical prophecy of
the end times, to its account of thunder, lightning,
earthquakes, and the fall of the cities of nations a
continent away at Megiddo? How many had any
inclination that is where they would breathe their
last, before their boyhood was over, surrounded by
the thunder, lightning, and earthquakes of modern
mechanized warfare?
As I walk around a leaf-blown War Cloister just before
Remembrance Day, the most shocking aspect to me
now is the sheer oblivion into which most of the
battles have fallen: Ctesiphon, Rumani, Archangel,
Heligoland Bight, Tsing-Tau, Baluchistan. Who can
honestly point to these places on a map? Or, more
tragically, explain why Wykehamists died there?
Winchester at War website:
winchestercollegeatwar.com
Thanks to Rachel Wragg, Suzanne Foster,
and Lord Gough, the answer is now available online.
Opposite page, top left: At the outbreak of the First War,
men of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry were billeted at Winchester.
In this picture they can be seen taking a brief break from their activities.
Opposite page, top right: Montague J Rendall, Headmaster at
Winchester College, taken in 1924.
Above: Men of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry enjoying tea
on the grass at Winchester College.
A W nchester
Jun or Fellow
Featuring Amanda Chain
It is a cold November day when Amanda and I meet
in a café in Mayfair. After three years at Winchester,
she has headed for London, where she is doing
graduate work in archaeology. “Winchester showed
me how you never stop learning,” she explained.
“I realized there were still things I wanted to study.”
The first thing I wanted to know was how a 22-yearold graduate from the University of Pennsylvania,
not to mention a champion national rower,
wound up in Winchester.
It all goes back to Albert Gordon, she explained:
an American who stumbled across Winchester College,
fell in love with it, sent his sons there, and set up
the Winchester Fellowship to fund a succession of
American graduates to spend a year at Winchester.
‘Even as a teacher
you are always having
to push yourself to
learn new things.’
However, there is a catch. Gordon was mentally
nimble and physically agile: the oldest man ever to
run the Boston marathon. So the Gordon Junior
Fellow must not only be an academic star, he or
she must also be a prominent athlete. Perhaps it was
Gordon’s little joke, Amanda hints, to introduce
Wykehamists to the idea of sporting competition.
The story started for Amanda when Dan Gordon
(E, 1968-69) approached her on the campus of the
University of Pennsylvania and asked her if she
would be interested in spending a year in Winchester.
You do not have to spend long with Amanda to
realize that of course she was interested. Even though
she knew nothing of Winchester and had no more
than a misty memory of a single trip to London long
ago, this sounded like a challenge, and you do not get
to be a national rowing champion without a sense
of adventure.
So, in September 2011, she landed in Kingsgate
Street and set her mind to working out what
Winchester College — and the average Wykehamist
— was all about. She had given up on trying to do
research. “I quickly realized that Google cannot really
prepare you for Winchester. You just have to dive
in head first.”
Initially she was amazed at the range of opportunities
on offer. She smiles with the memory of discovering that
Ill Man Soc was for illuminated manuscript enthusiasts.
She found Common Room welcoming and highly
sociable, and quickly realized she would have to brush
up on her Wilde, Dickens, and George Elliott if she
wanted to join in the endless literary banter.
Naturally, as she had anticipated, the men made
fun of her accent. “But,” she grins, “they quickly
learned that Americans do understand sarcasm.”
Her Fellowship required her to coach rowing,
which she set about with gusto, relishing the
opportunity to share her knowledge and experiences.
An early highlight was training a crew of JP novices
who promptly thrashed Eton, at Eton, stealing it in
the last 100 metres through sheer determination.
Her enthusiasm is infectious, and she was aware of a
growing sense of Wykehamists expecting excellence
from themselves athletically. (She admits to still not
knowing all the rules of Winkies but, let’s be honest,
she is in good company there).
She was also encouraged to get involved in teaching:
she is quite clearly an immensely determined person,
and wanted to do more. So, she became a JP and
Vth Book Div don as well.
Having previously worked at the Penn Museum,
and as she is contemplating a future career in museums,
her iPhone became a key teaching resource, as it is
loaded to the hilt with photographs of exhibits from
antiquity. What about Vth Book? I ask. Isn’t that 1789
and onwards? “The thing that makes Div so much
fun, she answers, “is that even as a teacher you are
always having to push yourself to learn new things.”
She is clearly a keen fan of Div. “It’s learning with
no grading: learning just for learning”.
By a happy coincidence, one of her professors from
the University of Pennsylvania was passing nearby,
so she twisted his arm into coming to talk to about
100 men. He left amazed, she said, comparing the
14 year olds to university level students.
She also quickly became involved in helping those
interested in applying to US universities. When, she
arrived, the group was 10. When she left, it was 37.
So now she is at UCL, studying Cultural Heritage,
focusing on Management. “When I finished my
undergraduate degree I thought I was done,”
she explained, “but my experiences at Winchester
made me want to learn more.”
And what an amazing experience it must have
been, for her and the School. With the unfailing
support of Sam Hart, Head of Sport (Co Ro, 2008-)
and Dan Pounds, Head of Rowing (Co Ro, 2003-),
she became ever more involved in school life: up
to books, on the river, and up to House. She freely
admits she had to tear herself away or risk never
leaving. “But Winchester is now in my blood,”
she says. She still goes back to cheer on the rowers.
In fact, she had been back only the previous week.
‘I quickly realized
that Google cannot
really prepare you for
Winchester. You just
have to dive in
head first.’
Had the experience changed her, I wondered?
Yes, she admitted. Definitely. It had made her more
patient and more organized. She quickly learned that
if it can go wrong, it will, and that handling it and
staying a hundred percent in control is paramount.
What, I simply have to ask her, was her overriding
opinion of a Winchester education? She paused,
and gave a typically thoughtful answer. “It is the
perfect place for people who want to learn.”
Winchester has always benefitted from dons bringing
experiences from far and wide, and there is no
doubt that Amanda’s blend of academic and sporting
achievements — together with a strongly American
belief in striving for excellence — offered the men
she taught an inspiring perspective in all-round
high attainment.
As we wrap up, I cannot but conclude that
William of Wykeham and Benjamin Franklin,
radical educator and founder of the University of
Pennsylvania, would likely have got along rather
well. Both were men of affairs and politicians who
wanted new modes of education to prepare the
next generation for the demands of the age.
“Am I one of you, yet?” she asks, hopefully, as we
stand up to go. “I really did try hard.” I imagine that
the questions she asked of her rowers and divs were
a lot tougher than this one. Yes, Amanda, — yes,
you are, and you always will be. You have
undoubtedly left your mark.
I imagine that Albert Gordon, if he was looking
down during her time at Winchester, could not
have been happier.
Top left: The Winchester Junior Fellowship encourages American
graduates to spend a year at Winchester. The Winchester Junior Fellow
must also be a prominent athlete.
Above: A portrait of Albert Gordon in his 80s, year unknown.
Looking south towards
St Catherine’s Hill,
one would have been
face-to-face with the
immense chapel and
buildings of the mighty
College of St Elizabeth.
Beyond it was the
Carmelite Friary,
and then the Hospital
of St Cross.
Digging
the Dirt:
St Elizabeth’s
College
Featuring James Cassir (I, 2007-12)
In 2011 a group of Wykehamists dug up a
human body beside New Hall. The police were
called, and excitement mounted. As the search of
the area widened, four more skeletons were
eventually discovered.
I meet up with the exuberant James Cassir (I, 2007-12)
to tell me all about it. Happily, it seems a bone expert
from Winchester University was able to confirm that
none of the men or staff were suspects, as the remains
had been in the ground since around AD 1300.
In fact, James explains, the bones were not
unexpected, as he and a large group of people had
been excavating the site for a while, and stumbling
across human remains was always a possibility.
The project really began back in 2010, when the
indefatigable History don, Dr Peter Cramer (Co Ro,
1993-), applied the defibrillators to the ancient but
moribund Arch Soc, and started recruiting men to
join. James was studying History, History of Art,
and Jacobean English for his Pre-U exams, and was
keen to get to know more about the physical world
of the past. So he signed up.
Dr Cramer suggested that Arch Soc’s first dig should
be the medieval College of St Elizabeth, which lay
undisturbed within the School grounds. So James
went to work in his spare time, mining everything
there is to know about St Elizabeth’s. He is, in every
sense, a doer with an insatiable curiosity about all
aspects of the past, and not just what comes from
books. For instance, I have seen some amazing
photographs of possibly the only extant replica of
England’s medieval Exchequer Board, which James
built in Mill, and exhibited in Mob Lib. He is that
kind of historian. Passionate.
To piece together the history of St Elizabeth’s,
James spent many happy hours in the College
Archives, and also at the Hampshire Record Office,
eventually obtaining leave to conduct additional
research on St Elizabeth’s as part of his timetabled
Community Service. By the time the dig started in
summer 2012, James knew more about what they
were all looking for than anyone else.
As I stand on the site, I try to picture what this part
of “the soke” of Winchester looked like in the early
1300s. The old temple of Apollo was long gone, and
William of Wykeham had not been born, so Dumer’s
Mead and Otterbourne Mead (site of Winchester
College) were grassland.
A hundred metres to the north, across what is now
College Street, were the imposing gates of Wolvesey
Castle, the fortified palace of the all-powerful bishops
of Winchester, scene in 1141 of one of the most
dramatic battles of Stephen and Matilda’s ‘Great
Anarchy’, when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle laments
that, ‘Christ slep and his halechen’ (Christ and his
angels slept).
This was a famous part of town.
Looking south towards St Catherine’s Hill, one would
have been face-to-face with the immense chapel
and buildings of the mighty College of St Elizabeth.
Beyond it was the Carmelite friary, and then the
Hospital of St Cross.
For expertise in the technical aspects of archaeological
digging, Dr Cramer called Dick Selwood, longstanding Chairman of the Winchester Archaeological
Rescue Group (WARG). The phone call left Dick
genuinely excited. St Elizabeth’s was a major landmark
in medieval Winchester, and four digs of the site in
1922, 1964, 1972, and 1985 had not left substantial
or accessible records, and posed many more questions
than they answered.
The arrangements were made, and in July 2011
Dr Cramer, the men of Arch Soc, and the veteran
diggers of WARG all descended on Bursar’s Field to
set up a site HQ and areas for drawing, recording,
and washing artefacts. WARG brought all the
equipment, and the Headmaster generously funded the
operation. Men from the School and the volunteers
of WARG were pretty evenly numbered. Whatever
minor uncertainties there may have been between
Wykehamists and WARG quickly evaporated as the
business of disciplined archaeology and serious banter
began. (WARG tell me that they were surprised to see
one Wykehamist appearing in riding boots, hat, suit,
and pocket square one day. The Wykehamists tell me
that WARG were happy to have teenagers help with
the hard digging). All in all, quite evidently, both
teams seem to have got a lot out of it and thoroughly
enjoyed working together.
WARG proved to be excellent teachers, showing how
trenches should be dug and finds recorded and drawn.
At the same time, WARG were delighted by the
participation of the Wykehamists, and James quickly
became the key man, delivering history briefings as
and when needed.
Opposite: 1950’s plan showing location of
The Chapel of St Elizabeth’s College.
TOG
PHO
By the end of the two weeks, they had uncovered the
building’s corners, a grave, and the massive buttresses,
which confirmed the structure’s immense height.
It turns out the chapel was large: 100 x 40 feet,
with 14 supporting buttresses. To give a comparison,
it was bigger than Chapel, and around the same
length as New Hall.
It had been such a successful collaboration that it was
repeated again the following year, again with financial
assistance from the Headmaster. Although James had
left the School to read history at UCL, he returned in
the summer to participate, even giving the inaugural
briefing before the team went on to excavate the
west doorway and further zones around the centre,
where more graves were found.
James’s research revealed that St Elizabeth’s was an
early chantry college, founded in 1301 by John of
Pontissara, Bishop of Winchester. It housed seven
chaplains, seven clerks, and an ensemble of choristers
to sing a truly punishing daily round of dawn-till-dusk
offices and Masses for the souls of those in purgatory.
(Actually, if you look at Winchester College’s statutes,
Chapel was similarly busy praying for the living
and dead, with an army of tonsured clerics daily
celebrating the full cycle of Prime, Terce, Sext,
Nones, Vespers, Compline, and a minimum of
seven Masses). Chapels were permanently busy
places back then, with important work to do.
The excavations at St Elizabeth’s not only unearthed
details of the ancient building, but also several
important artefacts, including an exquisitely engraved
book clasp, a large medieval key, dressed stonework,
and decorative tiles. (The vast quantities of clay pipes
prove nothing more, the diggers concluded, than that
generations of more recent Wykehemists enjoyed a
quiet smoke in the meadows). Many of these were
seen by over 1,500 visitors who came to see the
digs, including the Mayor (twice) and the Dean
of Winchester.
When Henry VIII put a violent end to the rhythms
of traditional religious life, Winchester College had a
narrow escape. In 1535, the brutal Thomas Cromwell
arrived at the College Street gates. Keenly aware of
Cromwell’s intentions, Warden Edward More
(a priest and former Headmaster), served the King’s
rapacious enforcer a frugal meal before apologetically
presenting him with a tatty, patched-up salt cellar.
An unimpressed Cromwell left in disgust, bent on
richer pickings elsewhere.
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MK
However, as an unambiguously ecclesiastical
organization, St Elizabeth’s was not so lucky.
The priests were all turned out into the night,
except the Provost, Thomas Runcorne,
who wangled himself one of the first prebends at the
newly reformed cathedral, whose historic Benedictine
monks had been chased out. St Elizabeth’s assets were
stripped and shipped off to Cromwell’s treasury in
London, and the buildings were given to his ruthless
apprentice, Thomas Wriothesley, the thug who would
become infamous for personally racking Anne Askew,
pioneer English language poetess.
Wriothesley (future Earl of Southampton) wanted
cash, so sold St Elizabeth’s for £360 to the Warden
and Fellows of Winchester College, along with
the requirement it be pulled down or turned into
a grammar school, which was a standard way of
ensuring it was never again used for religion.
In the event, it was demolished, and much of
its stone was reused for the wall around Meads,
while its decorative floor tiles were redistributed
around Winchester College.
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What Dr Cramer and James started not only spilled
into a second and third year of digging, but the story
continues, as WARG will be back again in 2015,
this time to try to confirm the chapel’s three altars
(to St Elizabeth, SS Stephen and Lawrence, and
SS Edmund and Thomas of Canterbury) as well
as the numerous buildings where the community
would have lived, eaten, and slept.
Former members of Arch Soc would be proud.
From a standing start, Winchester College and
WARG collaborated on uncovering a major piece
of medieval Winchester, and a firm friendship
between the two institutions continues to flourish.
As I stand on the site and watch the river quietly
bubbling by, I assume that former members of
Arch Soc would also be a little envious that they
never knew Winchester College had such an
amazing national monument to dig only a few
hundred metres from its classrooms.
How many schools can boast that?
Opposite page, top left: In 2010 Dr Peter Cramer approached
WARG to help with giving Winchester College men experience
in archaeology. St Elizabeth’s was chosen as a target as it was
both accessible and only a few inches below the ground.
Opposite page, top right: Trench 1, the north-east corner,
displaying intersection of two walls and two buttresses.
Above: Close inspection of floor tiles discovered during
recent excavation work in the grounds of Winchester College.
A Report
from the
Chairman
of the
Investment
Committee
Andrew Joy (C, 1970-74)
On a like-for-like
basis, the rural estate
produced a total
return of 22.9%.
The returns on the College’s Endowment are going
to play a crucial part in enabling bursary provision
to be substantially increased, which, as everyone
knows, is a central aim of the School. The Investment
Committee oversees investment of the Endowment,
with a strategy of growth over the long term without
taking excessive risk. It also recommends how much
of the Endowment should be used year by year.
The principle is intergenerational fairness: not to
extract so much short term that it deprives future
School generations, but, equally, not to build up
capital for its own sake when good use can be
made of it now.
The investments of the College can be thought of in
three parts: the agricultural and residential properties,
the financial investments, and the land at Barton Farm,
Winchester, on which planning permission has been
received. Additional comment is made by the Warden
earlier in the report. The agricultural and residential
properties, excluding Barton Farm, comprised some
77.1% of the Endowment, and enjoyed an excellent
year. On a like-for-like basis, the rural estate produced
a total return of 22.9% and the residential properties
11.4%. In both cases the principal driver of returns was
the revaluation by external valuers, largely driven by
rising rents. In the agricultural holdings specifically,
a significant number of farms had rent reviews.
The strong returns this year are a continuation of the
excellent performance of previous years. This cannot
be expected to continue indefinitely, with returns to
farmers under pressure from lower wheat prices and
land prices already reflecting record low interest rates.
The remaining 22.9% of the Endowment, again
excluding Barton Farm, is chiefly invested with
Ruffer LLP, whose strategy is defensive. That is to say,
they pride themselves on having a far lower propensity
to lose money in any given year than is the norm.
The corollary is that in years of strong performance
in market financial assets, their performance will
tend to lag the markets. So it turned out this year,
with the financial assets portfolio recording a total
return of 1.9% net of costs.
With more than three quarters of the Endowment
in the strongly performing agricultural and residential
portfolios, it was another good year overall, with a
total return of 14.6%, before gains on Barton Farm
are included.
Because receipts from the sale of Barton Farm,
as and when received in coming years, will need to
be reinvested, after reviewing options the Committee
appointed Cambridge Associates to help guide
decisions on future Asset Allocation in relation to
the likely enlarged Endowment, taking account
of the School’s plans, for bursaries in particular.
The Committee has already had two separate
meetings with Cambridge Associates, and will
be in a position to propose a long-term policy
in 2015, well in advance of the first receipts
from Barton Farm.
As Charles Sinclair wrote in last year’s report,
this was Mark Loveday’s final year as Chairman of the
Investment Committee, a post and indeed committee
that he created, and it was a sad moment when he
stepped down at the end of August. Hugh Priestley
also came to the end of his tenure on the Committee,
and we will miss his wise counsel and long experience
in the equity markets. The Committee continues to
benefit from advice from its non-Fellow members,
comprising Andrew Sykes, Rupert Sebag-Montefiore,
Patrick Disney and Roger Gray, and we are extremely
grateful to them, particularly given the increased
workload as we plan ahead for the post Barton
Farm portfolio.
Summary statement of financial activities
for the year ended 31 August 2014
Summary balance sheet
at 31 August 2014
Unrestricted
Funds
(£’000)
Restricted
Funds
(£’000)
Endowed
Funds
(£’000)
20142013
TotalTotal
(£’000)(£’000)
Income from charitable activities
Gross School fees receivable
Scholarships and bursaries
Contributions to bursaries from endowed funds and donations
22,976– –
22,97622,504
(2,069)– –
(2,069)(1,951)
417
–
–
417412
Net School fees receivable
21,324– –
21,32420,965
943
–
–
943752
Income from generated funds
Trading income
478
–
–
478561
Other activities
54
–
–
5489
Investment income
50
1
1,862
1,9131,499
Capital applied to income
2,048
412
(2,460)
––
Bank and other interest
336
7
–
343444
Grants and donations
474
687
1,705
2,8662,754
Other development income
63
–
–
63214
Total incoming resources
20142013
(£’000)(£’000)
FIXED ASSETS
INCOMING RESOURCES
Other income
Tangible fixed assets
Investments
79,228
165,470
69,968
131,852
Net current assets
244,698
5,722
201,820
8,930
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
250,420
210,750
Other liabilities and provisions
NET ASSETS
(7,787)
(7,838)
242,633
202,912
Endowed funds
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
217,759
2,221
22,653
182,181
2,071
18,660
242,633
202,912
Represented by:
25,7701,107 1,10727,98427,278
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Costs of generating funds
Trading costs Financing costs
Investment management
Development costs:
– Fundraising – Other activities
Total costs of generating funds
Charitable activities
EDUCATION AND GRANT MAKING
Teaching
Welfare
Premises repair and maintenance
Support costs of schooling
Grants, awards and prizes– Quiristers
– Contributions to bursaries from
endowed funds and donations
– Other awards
(270)
(152)
–
(539)
(366)
GOVERNANCE
Total resources expended
Net incoming resources Transfers between funds
Revaluation gains and losses
–
–
(631)
–
–
(270)(265)
(152)(141)
(631)(478)
(539)(475)
(366)(429)
(1,327) –(631)
(1,958)(1,788)
(9,395)(70) –
(9,465)(9,054)
(3,686)(8) –
(3,694)(3,897)
(5,281)
(6)
(654)
(5,941)(6,761)
(1,652)
–
–
(1,652)(1,473)
(134)
(64)
–
(198)(175)
–
(417)
–
(417)(412)
(31)
(20,179)
PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS AND CONTENTS(858)
Total charitable expenditure
–
–
–
–
–
(43)
(608)
(87)
–
(654)
–
–
–
These summarised financial statements may not contain sufficient information to gain a complete understanding
of the financial affairs of the charity.
The full Report of the Warden and Fellows, Financial Statements and Auditors’ Report may be obtained from
the Chief Accountant at the College.
Signed on behalf of the Warden and Fellows.
(67)(53)
3,339
217
412
(265)
(178)
48
3,5732,789
––
437
3
35,708
150
35,578
39,72164,608
Opening fund balances
18,660
2,071
182,181
202,912138,304
Closing fund balances
22,653
2,221
217,759
242,633202,912
The auditors have confirmed to the Warden and Fellows that, in their opinion, the summarised financial
statements are consistent with the full financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2014.
(22,431) (695)(1,285)
(24,411)(24,489)
3,993
Net movement in funds for the year
The summarised financial statements on pages 50 and 51 are extracted from the full annual Report and Financial
Statements, which were approved by the Warden and Fellows and signed on their behalf on 6 December 2014
and on which the auditors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP gave an unqualified audit report on 12 December 2014.
(74)(41)
(21,441)(21,813)
(945)(835)
(21,037)(695) (654)
(22,386)(22,648)
(67)
Report by the trustees on the
summarised financial statements
36,14861,819
Charles Sinclair
February 2015
Twelve months ago I was one of a growing number
of Wykeham Patrons, enjoying the Pendlebury
trip to Crete, along with convivial dinners in College
Hall, and with no School responsibilities at all.
Now I find myself the newest Fellow, Chairman of
the Development Committee, and, most recently,
Chairman of the Campaign Committee.
Winchester Wardens move fast.
A Report from the
Chairman of
the Development
Committee
Nicholas Ferguson (C, 1961-66)
Having had previous experience as Chairman of
the Institute of Philanthropy and Chairman of the
Courtauld, I took a passing interest in Winchester’s
fundraising efforts back in 2008 but wasn’t totally
convinced that they knew what they were doing.
Move rapidly to 2014, and I’m delighted to report
Winchester now has a strong Development team and
a fundraising programme that has revolutionised the
way we engage with donors, alumni, parents and
Friends. We have a strategy that includes an annual
fund appeal for items that enhance School life;
a telephone campaign; and appeals that are targeted
at people who have a specific interest, such as sport,
heritage, collections and even fishing. Our overriding
aim, however, will always be to support bursary
provision by increasing the endowment or by
relieving the School’s bursary budget on an annual
basis with restricted gifts. The wonderful result is that
this academic year there are over 100 boys benefiting
from bursaries. Here I must make mention of bursary
funds which have been set up by individuals who
care passionately about the Bursary programme.
Their enlightened and imaginative approach has
meant that we have a fund for boys from Northern
Ireland, a fund for budding golfers, and donors who
relieve the School’s budget by contributing towards,
amongst others, an incredibly talented musician
from Hong Kong. The list goes on.
The wonderful result
is that this academic
year there are over
100 boys benefiting
from bursaries.
I would particularly like to acknowledge the hard
work and commitment of the Hong Kong Friends
and the American Friends of Winchester College.
They are increasing awareness and broadening
relationships at all levels, including offering work
experience, mentoring, co-hosting the Global
Education Forum with the University of Pennsylvania,
developing friendships and representing the School
in the widest possible way, which includes, of course,
raising funds in support of the Wykeham Campaign.
We have a number of
donors who support
Winchester because of their
love of the place or their
appreciation of our values,
in spite of not having
attended the School or
having had boys there.
2013/14 has been another good year for fundraising,
in spite of the lack of an ‘attention-grabbing’
capital expenditure project. The total cash banked
at 31 August 2014 was just over £2.8m, and a further
£1.04m was received in donation pledges and
£957k in legacy pledges. This brings us to some
£21m raised in total for the Wykeham Campaign
since its inception in 2008, generously supported by
the Campaign Committee, ably chaired by Richard
Morse. Whilst this is excellent news, there is more
to do, particularly in support of Quirister endowment
and bursary endowment, and the welcome addition
of Barton Farm income will go some way to ensuring
we can afford our ambition to educate any boy
who would profit from a Winchester education,
irrespective of his parents’ means.
Of particular note was this year’s record-breaking
telephone campaign in support of the Annual Fund
projects, which took place over three weeks of the
summer holidays, and for the first time, current and
past parents were also called. Parents are becoming
increasingly generous, and it is encouraging to note
the close relationships we are developing with so
many who want to become more involved.
I was happy to support the campaign, and one of the
incentives for the callers on offer was a two-week
internship at Sky Arts, for the most successful caller,
William Elger (A, 2009-14). The total raised was
£400k, with a challenge grant of £30k giving extra
encouragement to the callers to secure donations.
The recent leavers really enjoy the experience, and it is
gratifying for them to have the opportunity to engage
with the wider Wykehamical community and receive
(usually!) such an enthusiastic response. I would like to
thank everyone involved for making the experience so
enjoyable and such a success, from the callers to those
on the end of the phone who responded so positively.
We have a number of donors who support Winchester
because of their love of the place or their appreciation
of our values, in spite of not having attended the
School or having had boys there. This is commonly
thanks to connections with OWs, who enthuse and
inspire others to support. This includes lovers of
music, Laura and Jamie Rosenwald, who recognise
the uniqueness and tradition of the Quiristers.
They are generously supporting two Quirister
scholarships through the Orinoco Foundation.
Another area of growth is the Guild movement.
With the addition of two Guilds, for Energy and
Arts, there are now 11 professional groups of OWs.
The Guild movement is rapidly becoming global,
and Patrick Medley (G, 1970-74) has started to gather
a group keen to become part of the movement in
Australia and New Zealand. There are also promising
developments in Singapore. The Hong Kong Guild,
under the leadership of Paul Tao, (I, 1980-85), has
a strong following and the events are always well
attended. Perhaps the inspiring and varied events
programme has something to do with this, and it is
great to see that the Guild movement is encouraging
younger OWs to stay connected. Social media is
helping with this, and the Guilds are all represented
on LinkedIn, which is proving successful in providing
a hub for networking, job opportunities, internships
and work experience.
Of particular note
was this year’s recordbreaking telephone
campaign in support
of the Annual Fund
projects, which took
place over three weeks
of the summer holidays,
and for the first time,
current and past parents
were also called.
At a recent Guild dinner I commented that if you
want the world to be a better place, then do something
about it. No government in the world has the
resources to do all that is needed. Charitable giving
is fundamental to a healthy society and education is
a basic human right. If you give in a thoughtful way
and get involved, you can make a huge difference
and it gives you a great deal of satisfaction. It creates
opportunity and the benefits of a top-class education
really can change the world. I would like to thank all
of you who support Winchester College by donating,
volunteering, networking or by attending events,
or indeed, by leaving the greatest gift of all in your
will, following William of Wykeham’s radical
example all those centuries ago.
Above: The Quiristers singing in Chapel.
As set out elsewhere in the
reports of both the Bursar and
the Chairman of the Development
Committee, the total of £2.8m
raised in 2013-14 was just shy of
the £3m in the previous year,
but still making an impressive total
of £13.9m since the beginning of
the Wykeham Campaign in 2008,
or £21m when legacy notifications
are taken into account. Of note
in this regard is the recent rapid
growth of the Goddard Legacy
Society to 247 members (215),
the result of great enthusiasm
on the part of Robin Fox and
David Fellowes.
The generosity of the Wykeham
Patrons, now 64 in number (48),
continues unabated; and the
School’s financial year was neatly
wrapped up by the most successful
telephone campaign to date,
with 14 young OWs calling nearly
1,000 older OWs, parents and past
parents, raising £400,000 for the
Annual Fund.
Money raised for the Annual Fund,
combined with donations that are
‘unspecified’, supports a variety
of projects at the same time as
helping to safeguard the School’s
endowment. These include the
much needed improvement of the
playing fields, and specifically the
draining and levelling of Gater
Field; the conservation of Chapel
windows; the Artist in Residence;
the New Hall biomass boiler,
which contributes significantly
to the School’s ‘Green Agenda’;
and, of course, bursaries.
To all our donors we offer our
most sincere thanks.
Opposite: Looking down College Street
from Wellington House.
Honoured Wykeham Benefactors
Donors whose total donations to
Winchester College (including pledges)
are greater than £500,000
Anonymous (3)
Professor & Mrs P Baldwin Past Parents
M D S Donovan
A
1954-59
J G D Ferguson
D
1961-66
M A Loveday
H
1957-62
& Mrs E Loveday
Mr & Mrs J T McAlpine
Past Parents
J R Sanders
F
1956-61
& R A Sanders
K
1984-89
P Stormonth Darling
C
1945-50
Wykeham Benefactors
Donors whose total donations to the
Wykeham Campaign (including pledges)
Anonymous (3)
P G G Dear
A J H du Boulay N E H Ferguson
D F Gordon
Viscount Gough
Dr S H S & Mrs A Ho
D H Hunter
The Hon Sir David Li
R S Morse
& Mrs C Morse
R W d’A Orders
A J M Spokes
C
C
C
E
G
Past Parents
E
Past Parent
K
1974-79
1943-46
1961-66
1968-69
1955-59
E
Coll
1967-72
1978-82
1950-54
1972-76
Honoured Patrons
Donors whose total donations to the
Wykeham Campaign (including pledges)
Lord Aldington
Mr & Mrs T C H Chan
K Chatikavanij
W M Ginsberg
W N M Lawrence
Mr & Mrs T Y Ou
J D F M Thornton
Mr E G I F Truell
Mr & Mrs A West
C B Williams
& Dr C Williams
G
Past Parents
D
I
C
Past Parents
D
Parent
Parents
G
1961-66
1978-82
1981-85
1948-53
1943-48
1951-56
Donors who have given twice or more over a
period of three years since 1 September 2011
(members as at 31 August 2014)
Donors whose total donations
(including pledges) are greater than
£25,000 over a five-year period and
who have joined our Patrons group
Anonymous (3)
G J C Ashton
K
G B Davison
A
P G G Dear
C
M D S Donovan
A
A J H du Boulay
C
W D Eccles
H
D W L Fellowes
I
& Mrs V A Fellowes (Honorary Patrons)
J G D Ferguson
D
N E H Ferguson C
B J Ginsberg
I
W M Ginsberg
I
D F Gordon
E
Viscount Gough
G
M M Humbert
B
D H Hunter
E
DONATIONS RECEIVED
During the financial year ending
31 August 2014
*
Wykeham Patrons
Sir David Clementi
E
Senior Patron (until 31 August 2014)
C J F Sinclair
B
Senior Patron (from 1 September 2014)
N M H Jones
B
1960-65
A N Joy
C
1970-74
Sir John Kemp-Welch E
1949-54
Mr & Mrs T Korossy
Parents
Sir Andrew Large
F
1956-60
J A H Lawden
K
1969-73
W N M Lawrence
C
1948-53
Mr & Mrs M J Le May
Parents
M A Loveday
H
1957-62
& Mrs E Loveday
A C Lovell
B
1967-72
Mr & Mrs J Lupton
Q Past Parents
Mr & Mrs P G C Mallinson Past Parents
Mr & Mrs J T McAlpine
Past Parents
R S Morse
K
1972-76
& Mrs C Morse
G W Morton
Coll
1966-70
J B W Nightingale
D
1973-77
R W d’A Orders
E
1967-72
D R Peppiatt
E
1944-48
H S K Peppiatt
E
1944-48
Ms P Pinismontee Chapman Parent
H M Priestley
E
1955-60
D L Robinson
F
1973-78
A F J Roe
G
1972-75
Mr & Mrs L Rosenwald
J R Sanders
F
1956-61
R A Sanders
K
1984-89
M J S Seymour
K
1961-66
A J M Spokes
Coll
1978-82
P A Stables
Coll
1947-52
P Stormonth Darling
C
1945-50
R Sunak
H
1993-98
R H Sutton
Coll
1966-71
C W Taylor-Young
F
1947-52
J D F M Thornton
D
1943-48
Mr & Mrs T Throsby
Parents
Mr & Mrs A West
Parents
Mr & Mrs G White
Past Parents
C B Williams
G
1951-56
& Dr C Williams
Mr T Wolf
& Mrs M Chin-Wolf
Past Parents
R B Woods
G
1960-64
R E A Younger
F
1979-84
1962-67
1961-66
1977-81
1971-75
1974-79
1954-59
1943-46
1973-77
1963-67
1961-66
1961-66
1982-87
1981-85
1968-69
1955-59
1990-95
1950-54
1933 The late F A K Harrison*Coll
1937The late J D Majendie*I
J I Watson*F
1938H C H du Boulay
C
P M Luttman-Johnson*C
M J P Martin
F
1939 The late M T Barstow*G
1940R P Norton*G
The late C F Popham*A
1941Anonymous (1)
E D Armstrong*H
Sir Hugh Beach*G
H A G Brooke*I
R O C Stable*B
I W Stoddart*E
H S R Watson*F
1942J C P Boyes-Watson*D
P de F Delaforce*B
The late C Hill*I
Professor Sir Bryan Thwaites*C
J F Vernon*H
1943C F Badcock*Coll
E J Feuchtwanger*A
A R Longley*C
J G Paterson
K
1944Sir Christopher Audland*H
R S Gibson*G
Donations
920 1,186
829 1,033
204
266
13/14
12/13
945 1,166
801 1,068
267
221
870 979
Total number of donors
11/12
13/14
12/13
11/12
10/11
09/10
OWs
Non OWs
GA Claimable
Other Income
A F B Crawshaw*C
M L G Dane*I
P G Davey*A
T H Drabble*G
R D K Edwards*B
T M Farmiloe*B
K W Habershon*D
M F Harcourt Williams*H
W N M Lawrence*C
D A C Lipscomb
D
A D McLachlan*Coll
R A Moss*Coll
J A L Myres*A
J W Roskill*D
R C Southwell*D
T J Threlfall*K
J G H Thwaites*F
A D J Turner*F
1954M Bicknell
C
C J W Brooks
C
R N R Cross*F
M Ferguson
G
M H Freeman*I
M V D Haggard
F
M J W Hall*B
D H Hunter*E
B Jensen
Coll
Sir John Kemp-Welch*E
C M Mallett*D
Lord Marchwood*G
C A Park*I
The late R E E Stewart-Smith*Coll
J F Taylor*B
R A Wellesley Smith
D
H White*G
D J Wilson*I
1955R H L Armitage*I
M D Barton*H
The late C A A Black*K
W H R Crawford*K
R N Dobbs*D
N M Fawssett*B
R T Fox*A
S M Gordon Clark*G
S T Grandage*G
J C Harrison*G
P F Hilken*B
P Jay
C
P J Loveday*H
D R McCarthy*I
Sir David Miers*B
A J R Oldfield
Coll
B L Reed*C
J H Silley
D
D C Stewart*C
Sir Richard Storey*H
T C Ulrich*Coll
J Vintcent*D
J J des C Virden*C
The late J G Wyatt*I
1956Anonymous (1)
S P Allison*B
D C D J Baird-Smith*Coll
A M Collett*G
G D Dean*A
P A Dillingham*G
R M Formby*E
P R Gordon-Smith*K
A C Gulland*K
N J Hallings-Pott
C
A E R Manners
G
H R W Murray*D
R Rawlence*Coll
The late J J B Rowe*A
A B Shipp*B
C J W Wheatcroft
B
C B Williams*G
1957Anonymous (1)
R E de C Beamish
E
10/11
2,929
3,200
1,675
2,313
2,968
Total amount donated (£’000)
J R Rigby*C
J N Whitehorn
Coll
1945J A Fergusson*H
J M A Gurney*K
G S Hill*Coll
D Middleton*K
P H S Wettern*G
1946S G Cantacuzino*H
Sir Ralph Dodds*F
A J H du Boulay
C
J L Galpin
E
M H Heycock*H
Sir Patrick Moberly*Coll
Viscount Montgomery*I
J E Norton
C
1947J B H Francis*F
J R Lucas*Coll
R W L Wilding*Coll
R J Woodward*B
1948P H de Rougemont*C
J Denza*Coll
D R Peppiatt*E
D J B Rutherford*D
G F W Swan*H
J D F M Thornton*D
D St J R Wagstaff*Coll
J J H Wilson*A
1949W M Fernie*F
A D B Gavin*I
J G Grindle*I
T R Hines*K
A C R Howman*E
The late M W Leggatt*C
J H V Sutcliffe*C
G H Willett
D
J F Willmer*C
1950R H Bird*Coll
D A Cross*F
L E Ellis*Coll
C F Foster*C
P T Hancock*Coll
R M Lodge*A
N F McCarthy*I
C V Peterson
Coll
P Stormonth Darling*C
1951J B Barton*H
E A Blackmore
K
J H D Briscoe*Coll
P H F Bullard*G
O J Colman*G
R H Hardy*Coll
G B Inglis*B
M Knowles*K
R H Y Mills*G
A Monro
K
F P B Nichols*C
C J P Watney
A
1952J R F Adams*A
I R Anderson*F
A D M Bryceson
I
M S Evans*C
R C Gray*I
M Harvey*I
J E Keville*K
P de N Lucas*Coll
B K Peppiatt
E
R H Petley*D
M B Sayers*Coll
D M Shapiro*Coll
T M B Sissons*Coll
P A Stables*Coll
C W Taylor-Young*F
P H D Toosey
A
C White*G
1953J R Arthur
H
T F M Bebb*A
J T S Bower
G
G R H Bredin*G
A L Coleby*
Coll (& Q)
09/10 109
Donations
OWs
Non OWs
R S Carver*D
T F W Dilke*C
J M Dunn*Coll
J D T Greenall
K
I N M Hardy
C
C S Hebditch*G
J A L Hulbert*D
M S Laing*D
P W Lipscomb
D
P S W K Maclure*I
M E Ponsonby*Coll
D E Scott*H
C H Van der Noot*K
R M L Webb*C
1958A R Beevor*E
A F Best*I
C R Cornell
K
J A C Don*H
R D de V Gaisford*H
The late D M S Hampton*F
C H Howard*C
D M Jackson*A
W Marsden*F
L H McCurrich*A
T J Milligan*E
The Lord Napier of Magdala*G
V A L Powell*A
R C M Pumphrey*C
P C Stevens
D
J D A Wallinger*G
1959G V Blachford*D
Lord De Ramsey
F
C J R Elton*F
M W T W Fiennes*D
Viscount Gough*G
C J W Gutch*A
I B Ivanovic
K
J N Jacobs*Coll
P G Johnston*A
D T Morgan*A
C O Newton*Coll
J F S Parker
A
J M G Roberts*F
J F Stein*C
M Stephens*F
C N Villiers*E
C P W Willcox*K
F E B Witts*B
1960Anonymous (1)
S Bann*Coll
R A Beecham*G
M J V Bell*Coll
Sir David Clarke
C
T R Cookson*I
P A Davis*E
C V Dinwiddy*C
R A S Gray*A
S M de F Harcourt Williams*H
P B Hay*A
Sir Andrew Large*F
D R Markham*K
C W Orange
K
M V Pampanini*G
Sir Hew Pike*I
H M Priestley*E
J M A Ross*I
C E M Snell*A
A J Strong*Coll
J T M Williams*H
J C H Wilson*D
P G K Wilson*H
P J L Wilson*G
1961A F S Baines
G
G G F Barnett*H
R T Best*F
M S Henderson*K
L D Heriot Maitland*K
A W P King*I
J R Knight*G
P N Legh-Jones*B
A P L Minford*Coll
C J T Nangle*H
T J B Newman*B
N O Ramage*H
R H Sykes*Coll
J R A Townsend*I
D A Tym*B
G J Verity*K
1962Anonymous (1)
S W E Barran*K
J D Birney*C
D A S Cranstoun*G
Sir Andrew Longmore*E
M A Loveday*H
L R Maclean*E
M J Mullane*B
B W Nicholson
F
H R Oliver-Bellasis*K
A R Pyke*I
J P Quirk*A
T H Sparrow
Coll
A J Taussig
Coll
S V Toynbee*D
J A C Watherston*B
1963H R Angus*E
G T K Boney*E
N J Bonham-Carter*I
I R F Cameron*B
A W Dawson*Coll
N C H Falls
I
W G T W Fiennes*D
M R M Foster*E
F B Guinness
H
G R C Kingsbury*A
A G Post*A
C G S M Reith
A
D W Rogers*Coll
D C Sykes*G
Sir Roger Vickers*G
1964J L Beynon*B
J P Dancy*Coll
J H Dixon*K
G A Ellis
F
G I T W Fiennes*D
S P Hare
K
M J C Hawkes*C
H M P Lawford
G
N G Leigh
D
S J Parkes*H
1965Anonymous (1)
H C Butters
K
M R Davis
E
C W Daws*Coll
J P A Haldane*B
C I W Hignett*E
N M H Jones*B
N A F Pritchard*Coll
M C S-R Pyper*D
M S Travis
K
T M Verity*K
1966M J P Cullen*Coll
J G D Ferguson*D
N E H Ferguson*C
R D J Harington*D
A J C Harper*A
J G Pringle*I
M J S Seymour*K
C J F Sinclair*B
O C H Soskice*A
C W Tulloch*B
E W Woods
G
1967Sir David Clementi*E
Sir Jonathan Dixon
K
D W L Fellowes*I
J K A Gibbs*I
J M Gibson*B
R B P Jennings*C
S H Large*F
Donations
1,659
2,271
4,177
5,926
3,502
958
6,679
899
1,831
Average donation (£)
4,434
13/14
12/13
OWs
Non OWs
11/12
186
13/14
104
11/12
12/13
10/11
09/10
N K Meek*K
M S Middleditch*I
E F Quinton*F
I D Roxborough*G
S J F B Whitehead
C
C M R Wilson
E
1976D M G Fletcher*I
R A Galloway*E
E L Hoare
D
R W J Howard*G
J H E Laing*F
R M U Lambert*F
R S Morse*K
J M N Neill-Fraser*I
W M Owton*I
A D Scott-Malden*A
G W Tindley
F
M J Wake-Walker*G
1977W R Charlwood*B
J D Cruickshank*D
W D Eccles*H
R H F Fuller*H
A M Grant Duff*G
J G Grundy*H
P D Hale
Coll
M L Moore*D
J B W Nightingale*D
T W Stubbs*E
1978Anonymous (1)
J N Archer*D
J S Cope*B
A R Hammerton*H
R L Hoare
D
J A N Lang
H
C G McAndrew*Coll
A J Romanes*A
N A Udal*H
R P Wordie*K
1979J Atchley
H
S J Chambers*F
P Convey*I
P G G Dear*C
W S de Wied*C
S D Fowler*A
P E H S Gale*
A (& Q)
W N-W Garton-Jones*H
M R Gray*I
D I Hough*H
R J C Johnston*K
R H C F Luttrell
K
W J Marshall*Coll
G C F Newcombe*E
S C Piggott
G
C W Wickham*C
1980T J B Baker*H
S E R Bedford
B
C R M Fell*K
D J Foster*H
J A H Geary*I
P R Hall*K
F B M Hamilton*C
P J R Miles*C
J R Taylor*D
A D Walters*D
1981Anonymous (1)
G J C Ashton*K
J R Bracken*Coll
M D Cornish*I
H W Dunlop*Coll
C G Ellis
G
P M V Grace
K
T Hatch
I
W B Maxwell
B
N R Morse*B
T Ong
G
T E Pendlebury*D
R E Romanes*Coll
B M Shuttleworth
G
K Storey*K
10/11
325
220
316
New donors giving
for the first time
G P C Macartney*H
A F C Wigram
H
1968A L Anson
Coll
C D Brims*K
B R M Johnson
Coll
A N G Maclean*E
J J D McArthur*I
D A J Morton*F
J N Scott-Malden*Coll
1969N C Adams
D
R V Brims*K
P W U Corbett
B
N R Davidson*Coll
C F Evans*E
A J Mason
H
C O Mason*C
T W Newbolt*A
P M Oates*A
O P Richards*G
F D S Rosier*I
J Roundell*F
C D Taylor*F
J T Watson
K
A K M Young*I
1970A H R M Brown*F
D G G Davies*F
J A Denniss
B
R P J Foster*K
A D Gourlay
K
H R Jacobs*D
P N W P Louth
I
N D R Mallows
H
C N Rowell*K
P G P Stoddart*I
P R Wilks*D
J J Wood*Coll
1971Anonymous (2)
P H Chamberlain*H
H R Cookson*C
C E J Jerram*H
A J Sharples
A
A M H Simon*Coll
R W T Slack*A
1972N T Gourlay
K
J J E Greene
G
S J Hathrell*Coll
M Holland*D
J H Hornby*I
P L Horrocks*A
M R V Johnston*A
A C Lovell*B
H MacDougald*B
M H McCall*Coll
R W d’A Orders*E
G F Stott*G
1973D A J Baldry*K
W S Dawson*C
N J Denton
I
T N Hone*F
J A H Lawden*K
M A J Parker*K
C J H Scott*K
J A Scott
A
1974J R Adams*F
Sir Richard Bates Bt
B
H N Cookes*C
J A Crisp*Coll
R M Gray*D
R M P Hughes
K
A N Joy*C
J C W Kidd
Coll
T J Lawrance-Owen*B
C M Peake*H
D J Scott-Malden
A
1975J G Armstrong*E
S G Batchelor*F
J H Davies*Coll
G B Davison*A
J Holtby*I
09/10
Donations
1982W A Baron*K
D M Blunt
E
P F Brice
A
K Chatikavanij*D
J D C Douglas-Hamilton*K
P R V Maxwell
H
A F Sedcole*F
J R B Sutcliffe
F
A C Viswanathan*F
L J Watts*G
S D E Weeks*Coll
1983A J Ballsdon*F
A C Barklam*A
J J G Case*F
J W Collings*Coll
J W Gardiner*C
E D J Goodchild*F
J R J Harrison-Topham*F
R B M Heyworth*G
N E Mappin
D
A J M Margetson
G
A R Moye*Coll
J M Overland*D
S H W Pilcher*K
N J Sansbury
I
J F Thornycroft
H
A G P Tusa*
G (& Q)
P D F Vernon*F
1984W G Audland*
H (& Q)
A C R Beale*I
P S Bruxner-Randall
A
R C E Burgess*E
T G Davidson
A
M A S Davis*H
J D Dean*A
C E R M Hall*B
R H Lucas
G
W S Mills*K
N J Tiley
Coll
S J H Whitehead*K
J F Wild*B
R E A Younger*F
1985J S G Drew
K
W M Ginsberg*I
H J Goulding*F
S J Gregory*Coll
M P Krone*Coll
J G Milligan*B
N M S Penny*G
G K Peppiatt*K
H T Price*A
J M Priestly*F
1986N J A Denison
F
R J C Edsberg*B
F A C Ilchman*D
A A Jones
H
M A Jones*D
M N McManus
Coll
J R Peppiatt*K
J A Stainton*K
B D Thornycroft*H
H H Q Wilson*H
1987Anonymous (2)
J St J T Anthony*B
P L Baxter*F
J E G L Bracey*E
J P Byrne*H
D R D Cornell*K
A M Gazzard*A
B J Ginsberg*I
A D Hunter*E
J S Jadav*D
H G J King*Coll
N J Kitson*H
C A McIntyre
C
N S Pothalingam*A
D K Selwood*E
L M R Timblick*B
1988A J Baldock*G
C P Barker*F
J D Bidmead
H
R Boyns*A
C P Brealey
H
J E Collett*G
J S Dawkins*D
N Entwistle*H
B R G Faircloth
F
M E Hunter*B
J A G Inglis*B
S P Jebb*G
A R B Large
H
C A F Leach*H
C S Lightbody*Coll
J A Park*Coll
T H Van Every*A
G H L Walsh*D
R J M Weissen*Coll
J R Zawoda-Martin*G
1989G H Baker*H
H A C Bruce-Gardyne*K
R A L Chipperfield*H
Sir Andrew Horsbrugh-Porter*E
J H Hunter*E
J-V Kee*E
J F Kitson
H
S H J Macdonald*G
R P E Maw
K
D J N Parker
H
E A Pyke
I
L P M Schwartz*I
D A D Still*G
N S Venkateswaran*I
1990N R Abbott*D
P A Cleaver*H
O Coldrick
H
R E A Collins*G
A B Donald*I
R Field*Coll
B C A L Fitzwilliams
E
F N Garcia*Coll
E F Godson*D
M Heggadon
H
A V Howell*E
B L Marnham*I
M J Sabben-Clare*I
C C Shepherd
H
A G A Sokol*D
T E L Williams*A
1991Anonymous (1)
A L C Barnard
H
P D Cameron
H
P Cheng*D
A B N Cole
H
A J Cross*H
J A Eustace
H
S M Featherstone
H
J P Hamilton*G
J W Langley
F
J R Le Bouedec*H
C P Macdonald*D
A W Maclay*Coll
H J Macnamara*F
N C Mills*I
P M Rance*Coll
J W Sandford*C
J Y Y Tan*E
D R B Taylor*A
C J Uniacke
H
1992D M Avery-Gee*D
R Y Barrett*K
D J Cotton*Coll
E J Daniels
F
A N Edmondson*Coll
E G K Fenn-Smith*A
J G T W Fiennes*E
P J Goulston*F
N R Hall*B
A T S Haw*C
Donations
Coll A
B
C
D
F
G
H
52,359
130,205
E
77,914
37,169
35,990
57,313
132,478
142,338
252,478
308,910
432,855
Donations by House (£)
I
K
C D Holst
H
J J B Jenkins*K
M R M Julien*E
B M-B Li*E
D A J Lloyd*Coll
N C Lutener*E
D M Maclay*G
G A Ormond*F
D J R Sanders*K
A R Witcomb*B
1993A C M Barnes
I
J E S Barton*G
R I Brasher*B
N G Casey*K
R A J T Chaffey*G
S D Croft-Baker*B
C A de Oliveira*F
M J J Eltringham*F
E R Haines*Coll
E G R King*Coll
N E Kinloch*C
F S Knox*C
A H R Palser
F
A N Skinner*H
H G R Thomas
D
A K Thomson*Coll
J C Willis*D
1994E A Allen
H
B H Clark
C
W H Darwin*D
J C Davies
F
A J M Foulkes*G
W N Harley*Coll
A D O Jay
I
W J B Paton
G
A H Peck
K
F P A Pilbrow*G
S A Shivji*K
V Somaia
E
O R H Twinch*B
I A Van Every*A
D C T Wong
E
N C W Wong*E
1995B R G Board*D
T A L Burns*I
D N M Chapman*A
M S Dunn*K
C A Forsdyke*Coll
J H Large*Coll
J E S Norris-Jones*C
M P Thorneycroft*F
M N Toone*E
E J S Townend*K
N H Walmsley*Coll
1996Anonymous (1)
A J D Brown*H
G C Byford*H
P Dougherty*A
W W Gossage*K
T O V Hanson*H
C F W Hurd*I
R B Keeton*F
A E Maycock
B
G R McPherson*E
J G Midgley*A
T J N Moule*F
A A A Odutola*F
T D Perry*A
M S T J Peters*Coll
R D Smith
F
G H E Winkworth*K
D C Woo*I
1997C E Awdry
I
J P Axcell*C
T M D Beames
I
B Benoit*D
J H Bertram*Coll
A D K Brierley
G
T J G Davies*C
R W Dharamshi*G
R E Hicks*Coll
D R Hobson
D
T R Palser
F
W R F Sinclair*K
G P Warren
G
R J Way
H
1998C E Barlow
I
A R Bradley*K
J A Habgood*D
C M J Hunter
F
E C W Leong
E
C J Moore-Bick*B
A J Morley*B
R B W O’Keeffe*C
L B E Quintavalle*B
A C Roth
D
R Sunak*H
G B van den Driessche*Coll
J H J Wheatcroft*B
K C-W Wong*E
1999S J Abouzahr*D
P J C Boden
H
C Boney
E
A W D Cheyne*I
J S Eynon*H
M J Fabricius*K
J M Killingley*G
P C Mueller*F
M C Parfitt*Coll
C W R Pitt*I
J E S Ramsay*K
G D J Spalton*K
K-H K Yu*B
2000D R E Farrell*E
T P Gadsden
C
H W Greenish*I
H M A Mance
D
E A J Marsh*B
O F G Phillips*G
J S Rodrigues*D
S P F Seggins
K
J G Williams*Coll
2001T E de Freitas
K
G A C Howe
Coll
J A Jeevaratnam*C
M G Moore-Bick*B
J M J Spalton
K
2002 W M C Wigram
H
2003A R M Bird*F
S S M Ho*K
M M T M T Li
E
Q A Moawalla*C
A M Murray-Lyon*K
J R T Shepherd*Coll
A T Trenchard*C
J H W Tulloch
B
C R G Wheeler*E
2004H J Walker*K
T R Williams
Coll
2005J W L Hargreaves
E
C J Kerr*Coll
W Kerr-Muir*I
B D Maybury
Coll (& Q)
2006C J D Elliott-Kelly*I
E H A Goble
F
H G Harris*E
T P Hosking*K
P A Jeevaratnam*C
2007G D Apperly*I
T J M Davenport*E
G C Nash*K
2008 O E Fenn*I
2010 J E Rosenberg
A
2011J A H Adamson
D
O E Wettern*G
2012T F Herring
I (& Q)
W E H Rowley
C
J C H Wong*I
Donations
Quiristers (Q)
Anonymous (1)
G I Grange*
Fellows, parents, past parents,
staff, former members of staff
and other donors
If you
give in a
thoughtful
way and
get involved,
you can
make a huge
difference.
Anonymous (1)
HH Prince Tunku Yacob Abdullah
& HH Princess Datin Ezurin Yacob
Drs R Ajayi
Mr & Mrs F Akhundova*
Dr & Mrs R Andrew*
Mrs C Ash*
Mr A J P Ayres*
Mr & Mrs D R Baldwin*
Mr & Mrs C Banfield*
Mr B Baxendale
Mr & Mrs T Baxendale
Mr & Mrs D Beaves
Mr & Mrs D S Black
Boat Club Collection from J15 Parents
Mr & Mrs J-M Bonnefous*
Mr & Mrs R Boswall
Mr & Mrs D S M Boyle*
Mr & Mrs I Cammack*
Dr & Mrs P Chakrabarti
Dr R Chan &
The Hon Madam Justice C F L Chu
Mr & Mrs T C H Chan*
Mr J Chen & Ms Su Hwei Lee
Mr W Chen & Mrs P Wang*
Mr F Cheng & Ms S Tam
Mrs G Choo
Mr W Chui & Mrs S Chan Chui*
Mr & Mrs G Clapp*
Mr & Mrs J Coombe-Tennant
Mrs C Cornell
Mrs C Corson*
Mr & Mrs C Cunningham
Mr & Mrs J Dagnall*
Mr & Mrs G M Davenport*
Mrs V Davis*
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group PLC*
Mr & Mrs N J Duncan*
Mr K & The Rev R Durward*
Professor A Elliott-Kelly*
Ms C M Farr*
Mrs R S Fellowes*
Fondation de France
Mr & Mrs A S F Frost
Mr & Mrs N K M Fung
Goldman Sachs Gives
Mr & Mrs J Goodman*
Mr P Graves & Miss A Seymour-Williams*
Dr R Guy
Mr W Hanbury-Tennison & Mrs M Choi
Dr & Mrs A Harbott
Mr S B Harrison
Mr & Mrs H A Heinzel
Mrs C Hill*
Mr & Mrs G Hong Choy*
The Hong Kong Friends of Winchester College*
Mrs D Hough
Mr & Mrs J Hussey
Mr & Mrs H Jennings
Mr & Mrs N Jones*
Mr & Mrs I B Kathuria*
Mrs P V Kellie
Mr & Mrs J Kelsey*
Mrs M L Kerr*
Mr J M King*
The Lady Kenya Kitchener*
Commander T E R Kitson RN
Mr K H H Ko & Mrs C M Ko Leung
Mr & Mrs T Korossy*
Mr B Kovner
Mr & Mrs A Kuye
Mr W M A Land*
Mr & Mrs D Lavers
Mr & Mrs P Lawlor
Mrs S Le Fanu
Mr & Mrs J-C Le Goater
Mr & Mrs M J Le May
Mr & Mrs A Lee
Dr & Mrs N W Lee*
Mr & Mrs G A Levinson*
Mrs E Loveday*
Mr W H Lowe*
Mr R MacVicar
Mrs V Manji
Mrs J Massen
Mr S McCann
Mr P Micou & Mrs A Nilsson-Micou
Mrs C Middleditch*
Mrs L Minter
Mrs R Molony
Mr & Mrs R Moore*
Mr & Mrs H Morley*
Dr & Mrs S Mossaheb*
Mrs M Norton*
Mrs D Oliver-Bellasis
Mr & Mrs T Y Ou*
Mrs C J Overstall
Mr & Mrs D Panahy
Parish of St Matthew with St Paul
Mr & Mrs A Peck
Mr & Mrs H Petter
Ms P Pinismontee Chapman*
Lady Portal
Mrs E W Rasmussen*
Mr J S Reaney*
Dr R M Reid*
Miss J Ritchie*
Mr & Mrs H Ritchotte*
Mr & Mrs J Robertson
Mrs S Rowe*
T Rowe Price Global*
Royal Bank of Scotland PLC*
Mr & Mrs A B Ruth
Ms P Saborio de Rocafort
Savills Winchester*
Mr & Mrs E Shirvani*
Mr & Mrs A Shumeyko*
Mr & Mrs C Silcock
Mrs D V Snowden*
Mr A Sollars*
Mr & Mrs T Sosothikul*
Dr K Sparke-Rogstad*
Mr & Mrs S Speeks*
Mrs M Stables*
Dr W K Tam*
Professor & Mrs W D Targett
Mrs A Thomas
Mrs A E W Thomas
Mr & Mrs T Throsby*
Mr & Mrs M Tinker
Mrs H S Tiplady
Professor M Trapp & Dr N Devlin
Mrs L Truell*
Mrs S P Tulloch*
Mr M Tung & Ms S K Chang
Mr & M P Tyler
Mr & Mrs P Uahwatanasakul*
UBS
Mr C F Upton
Mr & Mrs A Vaughan
Mr & Mrs M van den Driessche*
Mr & Mrs A Vitai
Mr & Mrs S Vyvyan
Mr & Mrs S Wattanavekin*
Mr & Mrs A West*
Mr S F Wheatcroft*
Mr & Mrs G White*
Mr & Mrs R C M Wigley*
Mrs P Willcox*
Dr C Williams
The American Friends
of Winchester College
1944 G C Johnson
G
1951
N W Daw*Coll
1953F F R Fisher*A
R C Gridley*C
1958
R A K Smith
B
1959
M D S Donovan*A
1961
R G H Robertson
G
1962
N P Robertshaw
A
1965
H E Shaw*A
1966
G H Clark*I
1967J R Gordon*E
N P M Taverner
F
1969
D F Gordon*E
1970G W Amphlett*Coll
M J D’Eath*A
E J Podell*I
L C Ross*K
1971
L Remmel*C
1972
M B Cronshaw*C
W T Paish
I
1973
T B Lloyd*E
1975
B H E Gessler*C
C T Munger*D
A K W Powell*C
1976J Y Campbell*Coll
J K L Simon*K
1980G E Asher*G
D J Foster*H
D N Herskovits*A
1981A W Hayes*F
A P Watt*B
1982
A J M Spokes*Coll
1986
P J G Brook*A
1992
S G Aldridge*H
1994
I A Van Every*A
1995
S H C Lewis*G
2001S M Duncan*F
B R Perkins*H
2002
M K F Chan*E
The American Friends of Winchester College is
an independent American 501(c)(3) ‘non-profit
organisation’ which exists to support the School.
Winchester College is most grateful for the
continued assistance of the many donors who help
the School through their gifts to AFWC.
Fellows, parents, past parents,
staff, former members of staff
and other supporters of
Chairman
Andrew Watt
B
1976-81
Directors
Gideon Agar
C
1978-82
Meg Bradt
Past Parent
Jonathan de Lande Long
I
1964-69
Michael Donovan
A
1954-59
Daniel Gordon
E
1968-69
Richard Gridley
C
1948-53
Michael Pass, Former Winchester Junior Fellow
Katharine Steinmetz, Former Winchester Junior Fellow
736,801
Donations by
‘Class of’ Decade (£)
Charitable Trusts
College
Anonymous (3)
D J L F Anderson
C F Badcock
S Bann
R H Bird
D C Bonsall
Sir Jeffery Bowman
G B H S Carter
J C R D’Albiac
G S Hill
D P A Hogan-Hern
G P A Howe
B Jensen
D Kingston
M P Krone
A D McLachlan
C J W Minter
Sir Patrick Moberly
M P O Morford
R A Moss
R Rawlence
M B Sayers
P A Stables
C D Stewart-Smith
W R Stewart Smith
R H Sutton
T C Ulrich
D R Woolley
Anonymous (1)
J R F Adams
T F M Bebb
C M Brett
G D Dean
R T Fox
J J Grafftey-Smith
P B Hay
D M Jackson
P G Littlehales
J A L Myres
R G B Parker
V A L Powell
R J Priestley
A J Romanes
J O Udal
A N E Wilson
Legacies pledged (£’000)
Donovan Foundation*
Drumcliff Foundation*
John R & Kiendl Dauphinot Gordon Fund
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Charitable Gift Fund
TowerBrook Foundation*
13/14
12/13
11/12
10/11
09/10
9,132
1,120
1947-52
1949-53
1955-60
1950-56
1950-55
1948-53
1955-60
1953-58
1952-56
1949-53
1961-65
1953-58
1960-65
1973-78
1939-44
1988-90
Moberly’s (B)
2,420
258,428
65,439
107,647
71,962
315
30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s 10s
1969-74
1939-43
1955-60
1945-50
1969-73
1948-53
1998-03
1949-54
1940-45
1994-99
1948-53
1949-54
1943-48
1981-85
1948-53
1946-51
1942-46
1942-48
1948-53
1951-56
1947-52
1947-52
1954-59
1955-60
1966-71
1951-55
1953-57
Chernocke House (A)
409,165
Ralph Townsend, Headmaster
Mary Emerson, Executive Director
Steven Little, Treasurer
Lorna Stoddart, Secretary
Mrs M Bradt*
Mr C P Cheung & Ms K Osada*
Mrs M Higgs*
Mr K T Hoffman*
Mr & Mrs D H Kallman*
Morgan Stanley*
Dr & Mrs B Ross
Mr F E Storer Jr*
Mrs M L Verlander
Mr N Wapshott & Miss L Nicholson*
du Boulay’s (C)
Members of the
Goddard Legacy Society
on 31 August 2014
6,245
Anonymous (1)
Angela Leong Charitable Foundation*
Anglo-American Charitable Foundation Limited*
Anthony Du Boulay Charitable Trust*
Bebb Charitable Trust*
Brian Peppiatt Charitable Trust
Broom House Trust*
Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust Ltd
Cookson Charitable Trust*
David & Julia Hunter Charitable Trust*
E Dennis Armstrong Trust
Eccles Family Trust*
Gough Charitable Trust*
Greendale Charitable Foundation*
John & Diana Kemp-Welch Charitable Trust
Jonathan Smithie’s Charitable Trust*
Kilfinan Trust*
Lisbet Rausing & Peter Baldwin Trust*
Loveday Charitable Trust*
M & M Old School Trust
Minos Trust*
NJT Foundation*
N Jones Charitable Trust
O J Colman Charitable Trust*
Orinoco Foundation*
Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust*
Reverend W N Monteith’s 2004 Charitable Trust*
Samuel Storey Family Charitable Trust*
Seymour Strang Charitable Trust*
Sir Iain Stewart Foundation
The Southdown Trust (in memory of John Wyatt)
Thornton-Smith and Plevins Trust*
Toynbee Family Trust*
3,927
Charitable Trusts
Legacies
4,417
Wykehamist supporters of
Mr & Mrs J Williams
Mr T Wolf & Mrs M Chin-Wolf*
Mrs L Woods*
The Hon Mrs Wright*
2,966
Donations
D N Beevor
J L Beynon
Sir David Davies
P W W Disney
A S G Drew
R D K Edwards
S F Every
Lord Hannay of Chiswick
P F Hilken
N M H Jones
A C Lovell
H MacDougald
Q N J Marshall
M Maynard
C M Moore
A J M Perkins
C J F Sinclair
R N E Smith
J F Taylor
J A C Watherston
R J Woodward
1954-59
1959-64
1953-58
1969-74
1952-57
1948-53
1943-47
1949-54
1950-55
1960-65
1967-72
1968-72
1986-91
1940-45
1958-62
1950-54
1961-66
1960-65
1949-54
1957-62
1943-47
M Bicknell
R M J Burr
C V Dinwiddy
N E H Ferguson J P O Gibb
N J Hallings-Pott
I N M Hardy
A N Joy
W N M Lawrence
A R Longley
P M Luttman-Johnson
J E Norton
J H M Peel
J R Rigby
F J E Salmon
R Seebohm
T Snow
P Stormonth Darling
Professor Sir Bryan Thwaites
J J des C Virden
J F Willmer
A S W Winkworth
1949-54
1946-51
1955-60
1961-66
1949-54
1951-56
1952-57
1970-74
1948-53
1939-43
1933-38
1941-46
1962-67
1939-44
1960-65
1946-51
1943-47
1945-50
1941-42
1950-55
1943-49
1952-56
Fearon’s (D)
R E F Ballantyne
J C P Boyes-Watson
M B Casement
G D Clay
F W Edwards
H R W Murray
J B W Nightingale
J W Roskill
J H Silley
A R W Smithers
R C Southwell
P C Stevens
G A Stobart
M J L Stow
J R Tillard
S V Toynbee
J C Willis
1952-57
1937-42
1946-50
1960-64
1943-48
1951-56
1973-77
1948-53
1950-55
1951-55
1948-53
1953-58
1949-54
1934-39
1937-42
1957-62
1988-93
Morshead’s (E)
Anonymous (2)
H G Ashton
G T K Boney
Sir David Clementi
W J S Date
P A Davis
G H G Doggart
R M Formby
J L Galpin
W N J Howard
Lord Howe of Aberavon
A C R Howman
D H Hunter
Sir John Kemp-Welch Sir Andrew Longmore
T G S Maxwell
B K Peppiatt
D R Peppiatt
C G W Pilkington
H M Priestley
J Remington-Hobbs
R M O Stanley
J J Thring
Sir Michael Turner
C N Villiers
1943-48
1958-63
1962-67
1956-62
1955-60
1938-43
1951-56
1942-46
1945-50
1940-45
1945-49
1950-54
1949-54
1958-62
1947-52
1947-52
1944-48
1934-39
1955-60
1965-70
1944-49
1950-54
1945-49
1954-59
Hawkins’ (F)
Anonymous (1)
J B H Francis
I L M Henry
P L A Jamieson
Sir Andrew Large
M J P Martin
1942-47
1980-85
1951-56
1956-60
1932-38
Legacies
J T F Patrick
R N Philipson-Stow
J R Sanders
C W Taylor-Young
P S Thring
J G H Thwaites
C J C Wyld
1938-42
1950-55
1956-61
1947-52
1947-52
1948-53
1970-74
Sergeant’s (G)
Anonymous (2)
Lord Aldington
M A Bond
J T S Bower
P H F Bullard
A M Collett
T H Drabble
G G Ferguson
M Ferguson
A H Gordon Clark
C S Gordon Clark
Viscount Gough
S T Grandage
J N Hornsby
J D V Phipps
R W G Raybould
J V H Robins
A F J Roe
P N Trustram Eve
Sir Roger Vickers
C G C Vyvyan
P H S Wettern
C White
H White
R B Woods
13/14
182
12/13
171
10/11
11/12
09/10
157
215
248
Number of
GLS Members
1936-41
1939-44
1947-51
1973-77
1942-46
1939-43
1967-71
1957-62
1943-48
1947-52
2002-07
2006-11
1958-63
1963-67
1940-45
1952-57
1945-50
1942-46
1949-54
1969-70
1947-52
1964-69
1950-54
Kingsgate House (K)
Anonymous (3)
M C Clarke
P R Gordon-Smith
J M Haldane of Gleneagles
S J N Heale
Sir Jeremy Morse
H R Oliver-Bellasis
G M Ridley
N A Ridley
G G E Stibbe D R Strangwayes-Booth
C H Van der Noot
H W C Wilson
1958-60
Fellows (non-OWs)
Miss J Ritchie
Mr M St John Parker
Miss E J Boyles
1961-66
1956-61
1948-53
1947-51
1951-56
1948-53
1947-52
1949-54
1948-52
1957-61
1955-59
1950-55
1948-53
1943-48
1954-60
1952-56
1972-75
1943-48
1958-63
1958-62
1941-45
1947-52
1949-54
1960-64
Turner’s (I)
Anonymous (1)
G D Apperly
R A O Apperly
N C H Falls
D W L Fellowes
D Hill
P S W K Maclure
N F McCarthy
Viscount Montgomery C A Park
E J Podell
M Rendall
F D S Rosier
D J Wilson
G I Grange
Staff
Bramston’s (H)
E D Armstrong
Sir Christopher Audland
J B Barton
W D Eccles
M H Heycock
M L Hichens
C E J Jerram
M A Loveday
G F W Swan
J L F Wright
Quiristers (Q)
1954-59
1951-56
1954-60
1966-71
1942-46
1958-62
1959-64
1951-55
1971-76
1951-55
1953-57
1939-44
Former Members of Staff
Mr A J P Ayres
Mr P J Krakenberger
Mr A H Thompson
Mr J L Thorn
Parents
Mrs S Maitland-Jones
Former Parents
Mrs M Bower
Mrs M Chin-Wolf
Commander & Mrs C B Dawe
Mr E R Day
Professor A Elliott-Kelly
Mrs V A Fellowes
Mr C Gadsden
Mrs M Gadsden
Mrs A J Halliday
Mr D Jones
Mr R J Jones
Mrs S Jones
Mr W H Lowe
Mrs C Middleditch
Dr A Olliff-Cooper
Mrs D V Snowden
Mr T Wolf
Other Members
Anonymous (1)
The Hon Mrs Lovell
Mrs M Norton
Mrs D Oliver-Bellasis
Mr R Perry
Mrs M Stables
Mr J M F Turner
Mrs L Turner
Legacies received
During the year to 31 August 2014
we received the legacies from the
estates of the following:
Anonymous (1)
C A A Black (K, 1950-55)
M W Leggatt (C, 1944-49)
C F Popham (A, 1935-40)
Lady Ramsbotham
(Former member of staff and former parent)
J J B Rowe (A, 1951-56)
We remain indebted to them and to their families
for having committed their generous contributions
towards securing the School’s future.
Winchester College Fellows,
Officers and Advisers for the
year ended 31 August 2014
Visitor
Nominations Committee
The Lord Bishop of Winchester
Charles Sinclair, (appointed as Chairman 6 July 2014)
Robert Sutton
Jean Ritchie
Headmaster
Bursar
Governing Body
(The Warden and Fellows)
The Fellows of Winchester College who held
office during the year and subsequently were:
Charles Sinclair, CBE, BA, FCA Warden
(Chairman) (appointed as Warden 6 July 2014)
Sir David Clementi, MA, MBA Warden
(Chairman) (retired 5 July 2014)
Robert Sutton, BA Sub-Warden (Vice-Chairman)
Dr John Nightingale, MA, DPhil
The Rt Hon Sir Andrew Longmore, PC, MA
Michael St John Parker, MA, MSc, FSA
(retired 31 December 2013)
Robert Woods, CBE, MA
Mark Loveday, MA (retired 28 June 2014)
Jean Ritchie, QC, LLM
Professor Sir Curtis Price, KBE, AM, PhD
Professor Christopher Sachrajda, FRS, PhD,
FInstP, CPhys
Dr Peggy Frith, MD, FRCP, FRCOphth
Major General Jonathan Shaw, CB, CBE, MA
Clarissa Farr, MA
Andrew Joy, MA (appointed September 1 2013)
Nicholas Ferguson, CBE, BSc, MBA
(appointed 15 March 2014)
Governing Body
Committee Structure
During the year, the activities of the Governing
Body were carried out through six primary
committees and one sub-committee. The current
membership of these committees is as follows:
Academic and Pastoral Committee
Professor Sir Curtis Price, (Chairman)
Dr John Nightingale
Professor Christopher Sachrajda
Dr Peggy Frith
Clarissa Farr
Headmaster
Bursar
Second Master
Director of Studies
Senior Tutor
Finance Committee
Charles Sinclair, (Chairman)
Robert Sutton
Robert Woods
Mark Loveday
Andrew Joy
Headmaster
Bursar
Chief Accountant
Works Committee
Jean Ritchie, (Chairman)
Robert Sutton
Peggy Frith
Jonathan Shaw
Jon Stanwyck, (Adviser)
Martin Drury, (Adviser)
Headmaster
Bursar
Second Master
Works Bursar
Development Committee
Nicholas Ferguson, (Chairman)
Robert Sutton
Dr John Nightingale
Richard Morse, (Adviser)
Alasdair Maclay, (Adviser)
Headmaster
Bursar
Director of Development
Deputy Director of Development
Director of Winchester College Society
Director of Friends
Domestic Bursar
Audit & Risk Committee
Sir Andrew Longmore, (Chairman)
Robert Sutton
Jonathan Shaw
Robert Woods
Bill Holland (Adviser)
Headmaster
Bursar
Chief Accountant
Investment Committee
(Sub-committee of the Finance Committee)
Andrew Joy, (Chairman)
Robert Sutton
Andrew Sykes (Adviser)
Rupert Sebag-Montefiore (Adviser)
Patrick Disney (Adviser)
Roger Gray (Adviser)
Bursar
Chief Accountant
Estates Bursar
Officers
Dr Ralph Townsend, MA, DPhil Headmaster
Steven Little, MA, FCA Bursar & Secretary to the
Governing Body (appointed 1 September 2014)
Jeffrey Hynam, MPhil, Bed, ACP Bursar & Secretary
to the Governing Body (retired 31 August 2014)
Senior Management Committee
Ralph Townsend, Headmaster
Jeffrey Hynam, Bursar (to 31 August 2014)
Steven Little, Bursar (from 1 September 2014;
Deputy Bursar/Chief Accountant, 31 August 2014)
Robert Wyke, Second Master
Stephen Anderson, Senior Tutor
John Cullerne, Under Master
David Fellowes, Director of Winchester College Society
(to 31st August 2014)
Emma Macey, Designated Safeguarding Lead
Alex Roe, Director of Winchester College Society
(from 1st September 2014)
Andrew Shedden, Registrar
Lorna Stoddart, Director of Development
Liam Taylor, Senior Housemaster
Derek Valentine, Chief Accountant
(from 1 September 2014)
Graham Watson, Acting Designated Safeguarding Lead
(maternity cover from 1 September 2014)
James Webster, Director of Studies
John Wells, Works Bursar
Laurence Wolff, Chairman of Common Room
Principal address
Winchester College, College Street, Winchester,
Hampshire, SO23 9NA
Bankers
National Westminster Bank plc, 105 High Street,
Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9AW
Solicitors
Farrer & Co LLP, 66 Lincoln’s Inn Fields,
London, WC2A 3LH
Dutton Gregory, Trussell House,
23 St Peter’s Street, Winchester, SO23 8BT
D A C Beachcroft LLP, Portwall Place,
Portwal Lane, Bristol, BS99 7UD
Warner & Richardson, 29 Jewry Street, Winchester,
Hampshire, SO23 8RR
Auditor
Crow Clark Whitehill LLP, St Bride’s House,
10 Salisbury Square, London, EC4Y 8EH
Investment advisers
Ruffer LLP, 80 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL
Insurance brokers
Marsh Brokers Limited, Capital House,
1-5 Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath,
West Sussex, RH16 3SY
Winchester College
College Street
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9NA
Tel: +44 (0)1962 621100
Fax: +44 (0)1962 621106
www.winchestercollege.org
Winchester College Society
Development Office
17 College Street
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 9LX
Tel: +44 (0)1962 621217
Email: wincollsoc@wincoll.ac.uk
www.wincollsoc.org
Design
Contagious
www.contagious.co.uk
Photography
Kin Ho
www.kinho.com
Special thanks to
Dr Dominic Selwood
Nick MacKinnon
Alasdair MacKinnon
Lachlan MacKinnon
Suzanne Foster
Viscount Gough
Amanda Chain
James Cassir
Dr Peter Cramer
Rachel Wragg
Dick Selwood
REGISTERED CHARITY NO: 1139000
www.winchestercollege.org

THE WYKEHAM JOURNAL OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE

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