King's Mead

King's Mead School 1914-68

A history of the school

Roll Call 1912-1967

The School Chapel

Photographs of King's Mead

Miscellania
mementos
& other memorabilia

Roll of Honour

King's Mead memorial garden (2004)

Old boys and staff contacted/traced - 215 still with us as at 28/12/21

Listed alphabetically

E-mail contacts

A Reunion dinner was held in London 21st June 2002: Photos

A small group of contemporaries from 1957-1961 met again in 2005:- Photos

A Reunion Dinner with over 50 in attendance was held in Henley on 25th April 2014: Photos

A Reunion Dinner with over 50 in attendance was held in London on 20th April 2018 (no photos, sadly!)

A school report from the 1930s
A school report from the 1960s

School Prospectus

Advice to parents -circa 1959

Advice to parents - revised 1966

School Clothes List 1959

Letter from Jane Barrett to mothers of new boys

Books about life
at King's Mead

The School Hymn
The School Graces

Schools to which King's Mead boys subsequently went

King’s Mead Terminal Letters
Winter	Easter	Summer
		1944 (Bideford)
	1945	1945
1945	1946	1946
1946	1947

		1957
		1959
1959		1960
1960		1961
1961		1962
1962		1963
1963		1964
1964		1965
1965		1966
1966		1967
1967		1968

KM at SH&B 1969		KM at SH&B 1972

School Lists & Calendars
(1934 and assorted 1960-68)

School Play 1960

Patrol Play c 1961

Peter Barrett, Headmaster of King's Mead 1951-1968,
died peacefully on the 17th August 2002 with his wife, Jane, and son, Robin, at his side.
(Order of Service of Thanksgiving, 5th Sept 2002 and an account of the service by Peter Bowles with photographs)

Wendy Cardell (Mrs Phillips, Matron c 1962-1968) died in Seaford on 16th March 2013 at the age of 90

Boy Scouts at King's Mead
(winners of the Connaught Trophy
in 1929 and 1934)

Amateur drama at KM

Published obituaries of
King's Mead Old Boys and masters

Broderick Chinnery-Haldane (1912-1996)
Lord Westbury (David Bethell) (1922-2001)
Peter Beck (1909-2002)
John (Tim) Rathbone (1933-2002)
Viscount Allendale (Wenty Beaumont) (1922-2002)
Col IWV Gore-Langton (1914-2003)
The Earl of Limerick (Viscount Wentworth)(1930-2003)
Marcus Anwyl-Davies QC (1923-2004)
John de Courcy, Lord Kingsale (1941-2005)
Henry Osmaston (1922-2006)
Brigadier Anthony Heywood (1919 - 2006)
Mark Birley (1930 - 2007)
Geoffrey Paton-Pollitt (1931- 2007)
Frith Banbury (1912-2008)
FA Brofos (1927 - 2008)
Lord Feversham (Peter Duncombe) (1945-2009)
Lt-Col David Rose (1912- 2010)
Desmond Fitzgerald, 29^th Knight of Glin (1937- 2011
Lord Fisher (1921- 2012)
Christopher Lennox Boyd (1941 -2012)
John Heyworth (1925- 2012)
John Cornell (1932 - 2013)
Steven Mackenzie (1918- 2013)

John Leigh (1948-2015) (school photo)

Nigel Williams (to KM 1961, died 2017

Duke of Beaufort (David Somerset) (1928 - 2017)

Desmond Sowerby (1946-2017)

Francis Ackerman (1951-2018)

Hon ED Howard (Lord Strathcona), (1923-2018)

Sir Digby Mackworth, (1945-2018)

Miles Osmaston (to KM 1934, died 2019)

Denise Rawlins (wife of Assistant Headmaster, Mike Rawlins), died March 2020

Sir John Guinness (to KM 1943, died July 2020)

Lord Ashburton (John Baring) (to KM 1938, died Oct 2020)

Guy van der Gucht (to KM 1961, died Jan 2021)

Veronica Cross.(Matron, later Mrs Veronica Anstruther), died June 2021

Green Cup Winners
Leslie Cup Winners

Answers to the
King's Mead
Prize Quiz (2001)

Michael Reeves - request for information

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