King's Mead School 1914-68

Introduction

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 by year

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, 29th 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

Press articles

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

Michael Reeves - request for information

 

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