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THE STOWE SCHOOL SET - PART TWO
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What WENT ON here?
WHO was involved?

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#TheGreatAwakening

J.F.Roxburgh (Scottish) the first Headmaster of Stowe School.

Charterhouse - pedo central! Past and present..
standard.co.uk/news/uk/teache… 2017

'On 11 May 1923 the first boys arrived, and Roxburgh met each of them as he arrived. Stowe established high academic standards, with an especially strong reputation for music and art...'

Individual tutoring ...
'Sports also flourished. Roxburgh was always a "teaching head" and made sure to teach every boy at some point in his time at the school, aiming to pass on his own enthusiasm for the best literature...'

'...He also believed that picturesque school grounds would ensure that every student would "know beauty when he sees it all his life." '

'Roxburgh 'finally retired from the school in 1949, after twenty-six years as its head master. The school's old boys' association, the Old Stoics, presented him with him a clock, a car, and a cheque...'

'..which he whimsically interpreted as "a clock to tell him that his time was up, a motor-car to drive away, and journey-money enough to take him to the Antipodes." '

'Appointing a Buckingham firm of auctioneers, he arranged a sale of numerous collectables surplus to his requirement on retirement. These included gifts he had accumulated over the years from grateful parents of boys at Stowe.'

Accident?

'Roxburgh died at his cottage in Great Brickhill on 6 May 1954, accidentally drowned after a fall into the bath. His funeral took place at the school.'

'His estate at death amounted to £44,671, a substantial sum at the time (Approximately £1,066,000 in 2017, when adjusted for inflation).'

There are 13 boarding houses: 8 boys' houses, 4 girls' houses and 1 mixed Sixth Form house.

Notable masters
Theodore Acland, housemaster 1924–30, later headmaster of Norwich School
T.H. White, English Teacher 1932–36, known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.

Harry Gregson-Williams, Composer in Residence 2012–13, Old Stoic and Hollywood composer.

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