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'.

All schoolmasters get into patterns of speech and behaviour 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). (He was also a bit prone to waving his right hand, palm forward, in the air when making a point (in the photograph of Assembly on another page he knew I was taking it - he gave permission - and kept his hands firmly down.)

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.

He retired in 1962 and died in 1969.