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| Gladys Lillian
Knight 1911 - 2008 |
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| We are sad to
report that Gladys Lillian Knight passed
away at 7.45 am on Saturday 6 September 2008 at
Castle View Old People's Home in Chipping Norton,
Oxfordshire, aged 96 years. Mrs.Knight joined the
staff as a house parent in Plymouth house in 1957
and became a second mother to a
few hundred junior
boys in the 15 year period
she dedicated herself as a house mother. Gladys' biography
can be found by following this link
(bottom of page). Mrs. Knight's son, Peter, was
one of the boys who was tragically lost with the
sinking of the Rohilla. (See this
article).
Now both will be reunited in the Kingdom of
God. Details
of the funeral will be published as soon as
we have this information. |
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| David
Gooding 1923 - 2008 |
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| A well respected mathematics and
science teacher at Kingham Hill School in the 1940s
and 50s, David progressed to become House Master
of Sheffield House.
Read more about David Gooding's life by clicking here. |
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| Bill
"Willie" Strupp Bradford (1939 - 1945 |
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| Bill "Willie" Strupp
died at his home in Toronto on May 13th 2008
at the age of eighty. Bill arrived at KHS
in 1939, the second of seven refugees to join
us from pre-war Germany.
He was a Bradford
boy who showed academic promise. He left The
Hill in 1944 and, after looking into several
possibilities, settled for life as a pilot
in the RAF.
Read
more. |
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| John
Essame 1926
- 2008 Biography. |
It
is with great sadness that we have to
report the death of Mr. John Guthrie Essame
who passed away in the early hours of this
morning Monday 5 May 2008 at The Horton Hospital, Banbury,
Oxfordshire following a period of illness.
Flora his wife (Nee Flora Crosland
-Taylor dedicated school nursing sister) was
by his side at the end. John joined the teaching
staff in September 1959 and remained until
retiring in August 1982 after some 23
dedicated years teaching. Eulogy
to John Essame. |
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| Ron Gray |
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| Ron Gray, who
lived in Oxfordshire, was a member of Bradford
House 1959 - 1962.
A short peice by Ken Wingfield in the April
edition of the Over
the Hill magazine says a little more about
Ron Gray.
Over
the Hill page 7 |
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| Tom
Smart 1915 - 2008 |
| Tom joined the
hill with his brother in 1924. They had been brought
in to the school by the founder, Baring Young.
He loved the founder and the foundation which became
the school and he spent his life supporting it
in any way he could.
Read more about Tom Smart's life in the January
2008 copy of Over
the Hill. |
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| Ian
Whittern Plymouth & Bradford
(1962-1966) |
| Ian, known to his contemporaries at school, of whom
there are a number on the committee, as 'Midge'
died in February 2007. He attended the majority
of KHA events over the last few years. Ian was
in his 50s and suffered from a weak heart. |
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| Major
Leo Stanton 1966
- 2007 Click
here for full obituary |
| Leo arrived
at Kingham Hill School in 1978 and went into
Plymouth House. In 1979 he moved to Clyde, his
senior house. He went on to become Head Boy and
Head of the CCF in 1984 - his A level year. |
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| Doris
Brownhill 1900 - 2006 |
| Doris was a
former staff member and Housematron of Clyde
when it was the junior house, from 1935 until
September 1937, when she moved down to the old
Plymouth. She left the Hill in 1945. Doris died
last September (2006) aged 106 at a Home in Sale,
Cheshire, reports Geoff Ball, who had been in
contact with her niece Audrey from time to time
and is in frequent contact with Barbara Hargreaves
who worked with Doris in both Clyde and Plymouth. |
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| Music:
Paradisum from
Fauré's Requiem. |
