West Downs School, Romsey Road,

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, Hampshire, was an English independent preparatory school, which was established in 1897 and closed in 1988.

History

Founding

The school was founded by Lionel Helbert (1870–1919), with help from his sister Adeline Rose, wife to Vice Admiral Sir James Goodrich, KCVO (1851–1925). Helbert an exhibitioner of both

and Oriel College, Oxford, was for over four years a House of Commons clerk. The Helberts were supported by Hampshire's

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(who had also helped found the predecessor school), and by their kinsman

Lord Rothschild Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertfordshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for Sir Nathan Rothschild, 2nd Baronet, a member of the Rothschild banking family. He was the first Jewish mem ...

. Helbert, who described himself as Principal, was influenced by the Miss Mason system, as seen at her ''House of Education'', Ambleside (akin to the PNEU), and things like the

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, the ideas of Edmond Holmes, and the ''Little Commonwealth'' for young delinquents developed by

Homer Lane Homer Lane (1875–1925) was an American-born educator who believed that the behaviour and character of children improved when they were given more control over their lives. Bertrand Russell called him "one of the best men of his generation". Back ...

on the lines of the

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in America, basically as put by Norman Mac Munn, who taught at West Downs 1914–18, they were interested in the: ''emancipation of the child''.

Architecture

Its buildings had been purpose-built for Winchester Modern School to designs by the architect Thomas Stopher on a good site on the south-western edge of the cathedral city of Winchester, nearly opposite (the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, architect William Butterfield) west of a Victorian county gaol, HMP Winchester (''category B''), and next to Edwin Hillier's nursery, established there in 1874.

Administration

On Helbert's death there was an hiatus under Dorset landowner William Brymer, and Lady Goodrich then passed the school to Kenneth Tindall, a

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housemaster. During the

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the school was evacuated first to

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and then more significantly to Blair Castle. At the end of the war it returned to Winchester. In 1953 the school was bought by

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, who was headmaster until 1988.

Move to co-education

For most of its history West Downs was a boarding school for boys aged between eight and thirteen, but in 1970 it admitted its first girl, and from 1975 to 1988 it was co-educational (though curiously the school's founding intake in 1897 of four comprised two girls). orrection: by Geoffrey Bass, grandson of Kenneth Tindall:- KBT's granddaughter Diana Bass also attended the school in 1949 when it was still an all male establishment

Closing and repurposing

West Downs was a rigorous and enlightened place which prepared its pupils admirably for a variety of schools (including

and

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) and also for life in general. It lasted ninety-one years and about three headmasters, closing in 1988. The school's site has lived on as ''The West Downs Conference and Performing Arts Centre'', which was opened by

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in May 2001, and then from 2005 as part of the

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; and from 2009 as the university's own Winchester Business School.

Helbert family

Lionel Helbert Helbert was sixth or seventh child of Captain Frederic John Helbert Helbert (1829–), 5th Madras Light Cavalry and military correspondent to the ''Times'' during the 1877 Turco-Russian war, the fifth son of John Helbert Israel (by Adelaide (Adeline) Cohen), second son of Israel Israel. In 1848 the grandfather John Helbert (1785–1861), with his nephew John Wagg (1793–1878), had formed broking firm ''Helbert, Wagg & Co.'' (bought by

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1962). They were the Rothschild's principal broker. Meanwhile, Helbert's mother was Sarah Magdalene 'Lena' (1837–1874) daughter of Richard Lane (1794–1870) (

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and descendant of Jane Lane) by Sarah Pink Tracey (of

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). One of Helbert's Lane uncles was a Major-general in the Bengal Army and another, a shipping agent with Lane, Hickey & Company (bust by 1865), was English Secretary to the Japanese Legation in London and a Knight Commander of the Orders of the '' Rising Sun of Japan'', '' Christ of Portugal'', and '' Isabella the Catholic of Spain''. His aunt Adeline (1825–1892) was wife to Baron de Weissweiller of Madrid. Another was married to a Duke de Laurito (d.1907). His Cohen great-aunts, who were also his cousins, had married Nathan Mayer Rothschild and

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. A great-uncle Samuel Helbert Israel Ellis was a surgeon at the

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c.1802 and treasurer of the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, London. Samuel's son was Sir

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, HEICS (1823–1887). Meanwhile, Helbert's brother Charles Helbert Helbert (d.1903) married Evelyn Mary Kennedy, granddaughter of

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and Viscount Dungarvan and great-granddaughter of

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. (source: ''Records of the Franklin Family and Collaterals'', compiled by Arthur Ellis Franklin, private circulation, George Routledge & sons, London, 1915.)

Some alumni

:About 2,100 pupils passed through West Downs, including the following:

''Helbert era''

::(1897–1922): *Sir Robert Abercromby, 9th Bt.; *

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; *

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, activist and member of the

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. Executed 19 December 1945, aged 33; *

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, and his brother hon. James, MBE; * Lord Ashley, father of

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; *

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, CH (newspaper proprietor & editor of

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); *

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(peer); *3rd

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; *Simon, Denzil, Giles (cricketer), Aubrey, & Esmond Baring, grandsons of 4th

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; * Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey (Governor of South Australia); *Sir Randle Baker-Wilbraham, 7th Bt; *Colonel H. C. C. Batten, DSO (despatches five times); *8th

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(politician) & his brother Hugh Patrick Lygon (one of the inspirations for

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's ''Sebastian Flyte''); * Sir Alexander Maitland Sharp Bethune, 10th & last Baronet; *Lt. Colonel Patrick J. S. Boyle, grandson of 7th

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, killed Anzio 1944; * Sir Frederick ''Boy'' Browning (Lieutenant-General and husband of

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); *Major-Gen. M. J. H. Bruce, CBE (Dir. Mechanical Maintenance,

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1940–1942, & Dir. Fighting Vehicle Inspection, Min. of Supply 1942–1944); *Brigadier James Bruxner-Randall (African Theatre of World War I, in French West Africa to the north of the Northern Nigeria Frontier, operations by the Sokoto and Katsena Columns were ''under the command of Captain J. G. Bruxner-Randall and Lt. Colonel R. G. Coles, respectively, between midnight 4/5 January 1917 and midnight 15/16 May 1917'') & at 81 granted a divorce; *

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(Lieutenant-General); *William Simon Campion, of

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, Sussex; *7th & 8th

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; *Hon. Sir Gerald Chichester, KCVO, & his brother Richard (killed 1915, Serbia), sons of 3rd Lord Templemore; *Richard Hugh Cholmondeley, editor ''The Heber Letters, 1783–1832'', London, 1950; *Peter Colefax, son of

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and Arthur Colefax; *Lt. General Sir

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, KBE, CB, DSO; & his brother Sir Edward Foyle Collingwood FRS, DL, CBE; *Lt. Commander Trevenen Penrose Coode, of

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, helped sink the Bismarck; *Major Henry Augustus (recte ''Dom. Joseph'') Coombe Tennant, son of

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by the Earl of Balfour (as alleged by

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); *Lt. Col. Sir John Crompton-Inglefield, of Parwich, high sheriff, 1938, son of an

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, & grandson of

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; *Sir Michael Culme-Seymour 5th Bt
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& 5th

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); *Lt. Col. Christopher Dawnay, MVO (of

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Bros., Dalgety, & Guardian Assurance); *Air Commodore Desmond H. de Burgh, AFC (killed 1943), 1st cousin twice removed of Chris de Burgh (their ancestors came from Oldtown, County Kildare); *M. A. Denton-Thompson, consul-general,

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, 1944–1945; *3rd Lord De Ramsey; *Michael d'Oyly Carte (killed in a car accident, Switzerland 1932). Son of

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; *Vice Admiral Sir Edmund Malcolm Evans-Lombe, KCB, commanded , 1942–1943; *4th Lord Farrer; *12th

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, & his brother hon. Andrew Shirley, keeper of Fine Art (

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), biographer of Constable, & author ''The Lion and the Lily'', 1956; * Sir Francis Festing (Field Marshal); *Sir Fordham Flower, brewer and ' ''extraordinary maverick chairman of Stratford'' ' (as described by Sir Peter Hall); * Sir Edward Ford (courtier); * Richard Fort, MP; *Ivor Geikie-Cobb (MD, MRCS, LRCP, FRSL, physician & author); *2nd Lord Glenconner (father of

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), & his brothers Lt. the Hon. Edward "Bim" Tennant (killed in action, World War I war poet), see monumental inscription to him in Salisbury Cathedral designed by

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, & Stephen Tennant, nephews of

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; *

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, & grandson of 3rd

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(thus 1st cousin of 5th & 6th earls, see below); *Admiral Sir

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, husband to Dame Rosamund, & his brother

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; *6th

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; *Sir Richard Keane, 6th Bt., of

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, born in 1909 (still alive, March 2010). *7th Lord Kensington and his brothers hons. Hugh (father of 8th Lord K.), David & Michael Edwardes (adjutant of the Tower Hamlet Rifles c1942); *3rd Lord Kinross; *

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(politician); *Lt. Col. Harold Boscawen Leveson-Gower, 1st cousin of Lord Sherfield, & descended from youngest son of 1st

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who married daughter of

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; *Robert Linzee, CB, son-in-law of 1st

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; * Malcolm, 1st Lord McCorquodale (politician); *Henry Wyndham Stanley Monck, 6th

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; *

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& grandson of 1st Lord St Oswald; *

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, 6th Bt, Ancoats. (Politician, MP for Harrow 1918–24, Smethwick 1926–31, Chancellor of the Dutch of Lancaster 1929–30, know principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists); *2nd (

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& his brother hon. Charles Strutt; *Sir

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2nd & last Bt.; *Major Francis Howe Richards, DSO (despatches & wounded four times World War I); *7th

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; * Lord Duncan-Sandys, CH (politician); *

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Earls of Verulam Earl of Verulam is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for James Grimston, 4th Viscount Grimston. He was made Viscount Grimston (in the peerage of the United Kingdom) at the same time. Verulam had previously ...

; *Sanders Watney, of Watney Combe Reid, in 1934 he said: ''I am not convinced that there would be any demand in this country for beer in cans. I cannot conceive the idea of a can ever replacing the half pint, pint or quart bottle. The canning habit is certainly growing, but I do not think it will spread to drinks.''; *Col. John Francis Williams Wynne, CBE, DSO, JP, of Peniarth,

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; *14th

Earl of Winchilsea Earl of Winchilsea is a title in the Peerage of England held by the Finch-Hatton family. It has been united with the title of Earl of Nottingham under a single holder since 1729. The Finch family is believed to be descended from Henry FitzHerb ...

and his brother Denys Finch Hatton, depicted by Robert Redford in the film ''

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'' (1985); *Sir John Garmondsway Wrightson, 3rd Bt (of

Head Wrightson Head Wrightson was a big heavy industrial firm based at Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. It specialised in the manufacture of large industrial products such as fractional distillation columns, which sometimes needed special transpo ...

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''Tindall era''

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in ''

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(politician); *Peter Brownell Cornwallis, RAFVR, killed 1945 on SOE Operation Crupper 37, Norway, son of Sir

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; *Charles Cottrell-Dormer, of

Rousham Rousham is a village and civil parish beside the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire. The village is about west of Bicester and about north of Kidlington. The parish is bounded by the River Cherwell in the east, the A4260 main road between Oxford a ...

; *Simon Courtauld; *Jurat the Hon. John Coutanche, of Jersey, son of Lord Coutanche; *4th & 5th Lords Crawshaw & their brother Hon. John Brooks; *Captain Oliver Dawnay, CVO, (courtier & father of head of United Agents); *Lt. Col. Charles Dawnay, son of Admiral Sir Peter D., & grandson of 9th Duke of Queensbury; *Richard Ulick Paget de Burgh, son of Air Commodore D.H. de Burgh, AFC; *Jeremy Delmar-Morgan, racing-driver & owner

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; *Charles Drace-Francis, sometime UK High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea & described in Lord Ashcroft's ''Dirty politics Dirty times: My fight with Wapping and New Labour'', MAA Publishing, 2005; *Sir Claude du Cros, 3rd Bt., grandson of Sir Arthur du Cros; *

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; *9th

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(& 26th

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, brother-in-law (from 1974) of

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1999–2002. Of

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& DACS. Son of

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; *7th

; * Peter Howell, photo, (actor); *

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, (editor of Private Eye) & Leonard Ingrams; *

Wayland Young Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet (2 August 1923 – 7 May 2009) was a British writer and politician, notably concerned with planning and conservation. As a Labour minister, he was responsible for setting up the Department of the Environmen ...

, 2nd Lord Kennet (politician); *Aswin Kongsiri, (Thailand based director & chairman); *H.E. Sawanit Kongsiri, Thai Deputy Foreign Minister, sometime Ambassador to Austria (& Hungary),

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, China, & Australia; *Visnu Kongsiri, leading figure in Thai book world & Major General in

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; *Sir Julian Loyd, KCVO, H.M. the Queen's land agent at Sandringham 1964–91; *Anthony McDermot (1942–2010), journalist, (his obituary in ''The Guardian''); * 6th Lord Methuen, of

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; *Richard Walter Meynell, FCA, grandson of

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(Chancellor of

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) *Lt.-Gen. Sir Anthony Mullens, KCB, Times obit.; *Hon. James Ogilvy, third son of 12th

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; *

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, Lord O'Neill of the Maine, (statesman, fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 1963–69), son of

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& brother of Shane, 3rd Lord O'Neill (see above); *Angus Pelham Burn; *Jeremy Hew Philipps, of Picton, chairman Laurence Philipps Holdings, father of Nicky Philipps, & grandson of 1st Lord Milford; *

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, Lord Ridley of Liddesdale,

Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...

(politician) *William Walter Robert Graham Scarth, killed accidentally 14 August 1948, son of an ''Heritable Bailie'' of Breckness, Skaill House, Stromness, & Hall of Sand, Shetland; *William Reresby Sitwell, of

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, FRGS, commanded HMS Flint Castle 1943–45, married Joan Castle, & his brother S. T. Sitwell, who married ex-wife of 2nd Lord Selsdon; * Christopher, Lord Soames, CH (statesman); *Sir James Spooner, kt., chairman

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, director

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, chairman

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; * Admiral Sir William Stavely (First Sea Lord); *Sir Michael Straker, chairman

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. A café in the Sage Gateshead is named after him; *Sir Charles Tidbury, chairman of

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(elected hereditary peer & courtier); *Major-General Charles Vyvyan, CB, CBE,

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; *Dr. Giles Warrack, Associate Professor, Mathematics Department,

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, Royal Air Force officer and politician; *

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, inventor of the city ''dawn-raid'' & father of

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& son of

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; *Harold Lindsay Cathcart Woolley, RAFV, killed 1942, son of

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;

''Cornes era''

::(1954–1987): *

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(journalist and former

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); *6th

; *Khalid Alireza (at the school from 1960); *Major General Benjamin J. Bathurst CBE Late Welsh Guards, son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Bathurst; *Arthur, Nicholas, Charles & Vere Boscawen, sons of 9th

;
Philip Colfox
grandson of

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, & son of Sir John Colfox, 2nd Bt., of

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, Dorset; *Harry Cory Wright, Photographer; *Guy Dawnay, son of Lt. Col. Christopher Dawnay, MVO, & grandson of Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Bt.; *Charles Desmond Ashburner Stanhope de Burgh & his brother Simon Robert Fitzroy, sons of R.U.P. de Burgh, & third cousins of Chris de Burgh; *Peter de Teissier, photographer; *Finn, Kieran & Erskin Guinness, sons of 2nd

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; *Valentine Guinness, lead singer of

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's band, & husband to

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& his brother Jasper, sons of 3rd

; *6th

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; *Aurora Gunn, wife to Randal McDonnell, Viscount Dunluce, son of 9th Earl of Antrim; *Tom Hammick (painter). Work; *Tony Hanania (Beirut born novelist); *Dorian Haskard, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Head of the Vascular Sciences Section, and director, Centre for Vascular Inflammation & Lead Clinician in Rheumatology, Hammersmith Hospital; *Hon. Philippa Lennox-

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, wife to 4th Lord Spens; *Tom Lubbock (the art critic & illustrator) obit.; *3rd Lord Margadale & his brother Hughie Morrison (racehorse trainer ); *7th

; *

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; *Simon Ould, (celebrated Hackney artist within the

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purlieu) *Hamish Robinson (poet). Poems about wine (2009); * Andrew Selous (politician); *Damian Crosley Talbot Sitwell, son of S. T. Sitwell; *7th

(financier); *7th Lord Huntingfield;

References

*Nowell Smith (ed), ''Memorials of Lionel Helbert, Founder and Head of West Downs Winchester'', London, Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1926. *Mark Hichens, ''West Downs – A Portrait of an English Prep School'', Pentland Press, 1992. *Norman Mac Munn, (1877–1925), ''A Path to Freedom in the School'', G. Bell & Sons, London 1914, & ''The Child's Path to Freedom'', 1921. *''The Times'', 10 November 1919, obituary of ''Mr. Lionel H. Helbert''.

External links

Old West Downs Society
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