Copies may be obtained from Miss A. O'B. Owen, 5 Bradmore Road, Oxford, or from the Editors of " The Peterite." The following additional candidates are to be congratulated on obtaining their School Certificates in the Oxford and Cambridge Examination, December, 1937 :Bower, R., Harding, J. T., Hobson, H. A. S., Robson, C. M., Shepherd, G. E., Whitney, E. W. (with Matriculation exemption). This makes a final total of 36 successful candidates in 1937 out of 39 entries.
THE NORMAN T. CROMBIE PRIZE. Mr. Ian Crombie, son of the late Norman T. Crombie, has endowed the School with a fund from which an annual prize will be awarded " to the boy amongst those leaving who, in the opinion of the Headmaster, has had the greatest influence for good in the School." It is unnecessary for us to dwell on the merits of a gift which must surely come to be the most coveted of the prizes available to Peterites, but we commend to the School the following account of the achievements of the O.P. to whose memory this prize is dedicated. Mr. Cromloie held a high place for many years among the advocates practising in police courts and county courts in York and the smaller towns in the surrounding area. Often he was called upon to appear in cases much further afield. Although he was a man of considerable eloquence and a highly skilled pleader, he was none the less a painstaking lawyer who never neglected a minor detail in his case and who was always prepared to devote the greatest number of hours possible to preparation and to research where necessary. It was often said by people in the legal profession that if Mr. Crombie had been called to the Bar instead of remaining a solicitor he would have become one of the most famous advocates in the country. • He undertook much work under the poor persons' rules and took many cases into court on behalf of people who could not afford to pay lawyers' fees.
He was :a Notary Public, of which there were only three
in York. , -.At the York Employment Exchange he served 22
