Warwick School in 1961

<BODY BGCOLOR="#6699FF"> <P><IMG SRC="warpics/ahb.JPG" WIDTH=249 HEIGHT=409 ALIGN=left hspace=10 vspace=5>A.H.B.Bishop, Headmaster. He was born in 1898, and certainly exemplified the old-fashioned approach to being a Head - not necessarily a bad thing: though formal and perhaps a bit rigid in his attitudes he was approachable and certainly very fair-minded. I did once see him go into a near fury over a slightly persistent question (in one of his regular Q & A sessions at the end of his Religious Knowledge classes) over being allowed to wear duffel-coats instead of the regulation navy raincoats: he actually referred to schools who allowed this as 'going to rack and ruin'.</P> <P>All schoolmasters get into patterns of speech and <A HREF="JAVASCRIPT:void('')" onmouseout="popDown('ht1')" onmouseover="popUp(event,'ht1');window.status='';return true">behaviour</A> which their pupils pick up and imitate. In A.H.B.'s case, if he approved of you, you were a 'chap', but if he didn't, you were a 'fellow' (as in "You fellows shouldn't..." whatever it was).</P> <P>Many of the things I disliked about Warwick - the emphasis on games, a certain academic rigidity, and an inflexibility in dealing with boys (not only me) who didn't quite fit the expected mould - must I suppose be laid at his door, as he did exert a close control over the running of the school: to balance this he was always respected for his fairness and his manners, and indeed for firm leadership even if one did not always agree with him.</P> <P>He retired in 1962 and died in 1969.</P> <P> </P> <DL> <DT><CENTER><FONT SIZE="-1">All photographs © R.F.Wilmut<BR> </FONT><A HREF="../site/index.html"><FONT SIZE="-1">HOME </FONT></A><FONT SIZE="-1">| </FONT><A HREF="wschool.html"><FONT SIZE="-1">WARWICK SCHOOL INTRO</FONT></A></CENTER></DT> </DL> </BODY>