100 Years of the Uppingham Association

from OU Magazine Issue 39 2011-2012

aged 81

[August 1875] Our great day over. The old boys come and gone, and the trustees’ meeting, the most important since the school was a school, also over, and all well. ... It is wonderful; a new world has rolled in. The old boys’ gathering is wonderfully pleasant. Nothing strikes me more than the happy freedom of it. They are all like great merry babies, so utterly unrestrained, and so utterly buoyant and simple in their merriment, without the least fear that anything will ever go wrong. It is the freshest, cheeriest air and sunshine possible with them.

May God’s holy power rest in this work of school.

May He bless all my darlings in this house. May He bless all His warriors in and from this School. Amen.

From G.R. Parkin, Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School: Life, Diary, Letters

A timeline showing significant events at Uppingham over the last 100 years

1911 The Uppingham Association is officially founded on the 3rd June 1911

1957 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh officially opens the new Science Block

1920 The Memorial Hall is built in memory of the 450 OUs killed in WW1

1957 Sir Leslie Abercrombie (Hf 1893), best known for the post-second world war re-planning of London known as the ‘Abercrombie Plan’, dies aged 78 years

1946 C Richard W Nevinson (SH 1903), the official war artist in both wars, dies aged 57

Percy Chapman (H14)

1945 Douglas

Guest becomes Director of Music at Uppingham

1930 Percy Chapman (H 14) captained England in the Second Ashes Test at Lord’s EW Hornung 1903

1921 Ernest Hornung (C 1880), most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London, dies aged 55