Harrow County School for Boys

Entry Year 1936

(partial list - including names taken from a list of members of Form V who passed the General School Examination that was printed in The Gaytonian in July 1941.)

Aumonier, W M W  (In the A Forms.  In a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Anderson, D A P  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Bage, D  (David Bage went to Byron Court primary school.  He went to Luton Grammar when his family moved to Luton in 1940, and so he did not take his General School Examination at Harrow County.  He remembers that he sat next to the door and had the job of organizing the 'door cards'.  Member of Kenton House's First Place 4x200 yards under 15 relay team, Sports Day, July 8th, 1939.)
Bagshawe, K D - VC  (Winner of the Sports Challenge Cup, 1941.  Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe, CBE.[1989] is Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology, Charing Cross Hospital, University of London.)
Bailey, K H P - VC 
Barton, P - VD 
Blades, J  (Jack)
Botting, R D J - VA 
Brace, J R G  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Bradley, D M  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces.  Ollie Dennis Bradley became headmaster of a large primary school in Stston, Leics.; he retired in 1983.)
Brown, P - VC 
Brown, R G - VB 
Burgess, F W  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces. In 1950 he was a Lieutenant, R.N.)
Campey, G W J - VC  (David Bage remembers that Geoffrey Campey lived in North Wembley and went to Byron Court primary school)
Carter, B J - VD (School Vice-Captain 1942-43)
Chiswell, C D - VC 
Clifford, P H - VD 
Cole, R A  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Collinson, D R - VB  (His article, "Leafy June" was printed in The Gaytonian, June 1939, when he was in IVB.)
Cook, B C - VA 
Coombs, H E  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Cox, C A  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Cox, E M E - VB 
Crowcroft, A - VC (Andrew Crowcroft was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1973. He was senior registrar at Guy's hospital (1960-61), a consultant at Great Ormond Street hospital for children (1966-75) and senior psychiatrist at the hospital for sick children in Toronto (1975-78). He died on March 12th, 2002)
Crowcroft, P E - VC 
Dew, E A - VC 
Dickens, E P - VD (Scholarship, Modern Languages, Clare, Cambridge, 1942-43)
Dietz, P J  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Dobb, V  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces.  Click to read Victor Dobb's reminiscences of Harrow County
Dooley, P  (Peter Dooley was killed in the Second World War)
Dowling, W E - VD 
Dunkley, A - VD  Click to read Albert Dunkley's reminiscences of Harrow County
Edwards, D G L  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Ellerby, J  (In the A Forms.  In a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Eustace, A P (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Exton, E J N - VD 
Eyre, D H - VA  (David Eyre lived in Pinner)
Francis, G R - VD   (listed by Mr. Parkinson as starting in 1935)
Foster, A J  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Fox, F  (Francois Fox was in the A Forms.  He still (2007) lives in Kenton).
Fuller, E D - VB   (listed by Mr. Parkinson as starting in 1935)
Furby, G C - VC 
Garland, K T - VB  (according to David Bage known as 'Katie')
Giles, A L  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Gillespie, R J - VB (Ron Gillespie went to medical school) 
Gilloch, P G - VD 
Gordon, G - VA 
Grave, K J  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Hayward, D E P - VA 
Hall, R A - VC 
Hill, R W - VA (Scholarship in Natural Sciences, Merton, Oxford, 1942-43, B.A. (First Class) 1948, M.A. 1950, Ph.D. 1952.  He became a Fellow and Tutor in Physics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.  He was Chief Guest, Speech Day, 1962)
Holliday, R J S - V(Flt-Lt. Raymond Holiday joined the Fleet Air Arm in 1942.  After demobilisation at the end of the war he joined the RAF.  He was killed in a plane crash in Germany in 1962.)
Holmes, H G - VC (1935-43.  Welldon House.  School Captain, 1942-43.  In the Forces, November 1943.)
Hopkins, E K  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Hughes, J - VC 
Hunkin, G G - VB 
James, H W  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
King, I F - VB 
Knowles, W C  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Lee, R J - VB 
Lelyveld, A A - VC   (remembered as a good cricketer)
Lester, M - VB  (listed as starting in 1935 in Mr. Parkinson's list)
Little, P R - VD 
Lipton, A - VA 
Livermore, L - VC 
Maclean, I S - VD  (listed in Gaytonian in December 1948 as having started in 1935)
Macpherson, W L M - VB 
Males, R M - VA  (Mike Males emigrated to Rhodesia - Zimbabwe.  In 1983 he was Senior Production Officer in the Surveyor General's Department.)
Middleton, J W - VA 
Millgate, B A  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Moffitt, W E - VA (Bill Moffitt was in the Scouts.  Brother of Bob and Peter.  David Bage remembers that his father was good at conjuring tricks.  State Scholarship, Natural Sciences, New, Oxford, 1942-43. D.Phil. Oxon, 1949. In 1949 Dr. Moffitt was engaged on research for the British Rubber Producers' Research Association.  He became at only 31 Assoc. Prof. of Chemistry at Harvard  & a Presidential Adviser; tragically he died in 1958.)
Moss, B C - VB 
Mullens, H W - VC 
Munt, G W - VB 
Neubroch, N - VA 
Nidd, R N - VB 
Oates, G G - VA 
Owen, R C - VC 
Palmer, R A - VC 
Patterson, K G - VB  (Guy?)  (His article, "Sir Roger in A.R.P." was printed in The Gaytonian, March 1940.)
Pick, R D H - VD 
Porter, A - VB 
Rackham, K P - VD (Ken Rackham stayed on at School and briefly joined the teaching staff during the war, when there was a shortage of teachers.  An Accountant, he worked for Arthur Young, McClelland & Co.)
Reber, J E - VD 
Redford, H S
Roberts, D I - VA 
Roby, A G - VB   (according to David Bage known as 'George')
Salmon, G S P  (Gerald S. P. Salmon, 1936-40, was the younger son of two sons of an Old Gaytonian.  He gained the Agricultural Diploma of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, in 1948.)
Samuels, D E J - VB 
Sherwin, R A M - VD 
Shipway, P S  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Simonds, F T - VB  (His poem, "My Shop" was printed in The Gaytonian, June 1939, when he was in IVB.)
Smythe, R J G
Sutton, J F H - VC 
Swift, J D - VB 
Tautz, J H  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Taylor, D A - VD 
Taylor, B J  (Brian John Taylor was in the A Forms)
Taylor, J B - VA  (Jack Brian Taylor.  Elder brother of Geoff Taylor.  Went on the School trip to Switzerland, August 1939)
Taylor, P J O - VA (Peter John Osborne Taylor)
Tomlinson, D H - VB  (His article, "Spring Comes to the Hill" was printed in The Gaytonian, July 1940.)
Topping, I J - VD 
Tracey, D W  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Wallworth, P T - VB (Peter Wallworth was killed in the Second World War)
Watson, R J - VC 
Warson, W S  (from a list compiled by Mr. Parkinson of those serving in the armed forces)
Webb, C J - VD 
West, N H - VD 
Williams, D  (David Williams, known as 'Tiny' because he was tall, moved to Luton and attended Luton Grammar.)
 

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