In 1970, Keble usefully published a Centenary Register with brief self-written biographies for everyone who had attended the college during the first hundred years from its foundation in 1870. Those connected with KES, after the 1930s, are shown below in their year of entry, or 'Matriculation'.
Throughout the Clapton Years, Keble probably ran second only to The Queen's College at Oxford for the number of Old Edwardians it admitted. The Register is very revealing: Bert Towers' arrival at KES in 1946 appears to have triggered something in its success at the college, while Nat Clapton's arrival four years later led to even more.
The record also gives the lie to intermittent suggestions that boys were force-fed at KES and then faded with poor degrees at university. The Register shows that of 34 KES degrees recorded, there were three Firsts, 25 Seconds, four Thirds and two Fourths. About 10% Firsts was normal for Oxford in those days, Fourths were at least as rare but the KES achievement in Second Class degrees was significantly above average; probably only half the degrees awarded by the university generally were Seconds.
1932 | Robert Nigel Towers |
Magdalen College School, History Exhibition, Class II in History 1935, Class
II in Geography 1937. Master at KES from 1946 and Senior Geography master for most of it. |
1932 - 1947 | None | No Old Edwardians are recorded as entering Keble and very few before 1932. |
1947 | Derrick Cantrell | KES, Music Scholar. No degree stated. Cathedral organist |
John Bryan Arnold Burridge | Bristol Grammar School, Class
II in History 1951. Chooses to omit all reference to his time as a History master at KES. | |
1948 | John Dickens | KES, Science Exhibition Class II in Chemistry 1952 |
Peter Douglas Clare Points | Taunton School, Class II English
in 1951, KES Senior English master 1958-63 | |
1949 | Peter Burton Buckroyd | KES, Class III in Law 1952 |
1950 | Peter Hadfield Wreghitt | KES, Class IV in Languages 1953. |
John William Hersee | County Grammar School Lewes, Class I in Maths
1953, Master at KES 1954-60 | |
1951 | Dennis Godfrey Brooke | KES, Class II in Chemistry 1955 |
1952 | William Ferguson | KES, Class II in Chemistry 1956 |
John Saville Hill | KES, Hon Scholarship 1954, Class II in Physics 1955 | |
1953 | John Bernard Brown | KES, Class III in History, 1956 |
Ian James Gautier Marshall | KES, Class IV in English 1956 | |
David Pincombe Clayton Pearce | KES, Class III in English 1956 | |
1954 | John Newell Robinson | KES, Class II in PPE 1957 |
1955 | Alan Raymond Jinkinson | KES, Class II in History 1958 |
David John Heywood Senior | KES, Class II in Languages 1958 | |
John Wrigley |
Manchester Grammar School, Class II in Languages 1958, Languages master at KES from 1964. | |
1956 | David Malcolm Downes | KES, History Exhibition, Class II in History 1959 |
Norman Lewis Glass | KES, History Scholarship. Up for one year only. | |
Peter Thomas Holgate | KES, Class I in Languages 1959 | |
Roger Thompson | KES, Class II in Law 1959 | |
1957 | none from KES | |
1958 | Anthony Ernest Grant | KES, Gomm Scholarship , Class II in PPE 1961 |
Graham Neal Ward | KES, Languages Scholarship, Class II in Languages 1961 | |
1959 | Ronald Edward Bardgett | KES, up for four terms only. |
Michael Butler Hill | KES, Class II in Languages 1962 | |
Philip Howard Palmer | KES, Class II in Law 1962 | |
John Goronwy Robinson | KES, History Scholarship, Class II in History 1962 | |
1960 | Peter William Cave | KES, Geography Scholarship, Class I in Geography 1963 |
John Michael Haslam | KES, Science Scholarship, Class II in Biochemistry 1964 | |
Robert Randall Kershaw | KES, Class II in History 1963 | |
1961 | Anthony Aidan Kelham | KES, Geography Scholarship, Class II in Geography 1964 |
Roland Hedley Smith | KES, Languages Scholarship, Class I in Languages 1965 | |
1962 | John Christopher Howard Meakin | KES, Class II in PPE 1965 |
Paul Roderick Whyman | KES, Languages Scholarship, Class II in Languages 1956 | |
Charles Hadman Cameron Baker | Bromsgrove High School, from Leeds University for a
Dip Ed. RE Master at KES from 1963. School Librarian, scoutmaster, became Chairman of the Sheffield Association of Assistant Masters from 1967. | |
1963 | James Michael Booth | KES, Class III in History 1966 |
Christopher Martin Dolan | KES, Music Scholarship, Class II in Music 1966 | |
John Harold Kirkman | KES, Class II in Geography 1966 | |
1964 | John Kenneth Baker | KES, Class II in Languages 1968 |
Ian James Ford | KES, Class II in Languages 1967 | |
David Gordon Parrish | KES, Class II in Geology 1967 | |
1965 | David Charles Winter | KES, Class II in Geography 1968 |
1969 | Thomas Peter Holt | KES - the closing year of Keble's Centenary Register. |
1970 | David Thomson | Bishop of Huntingdon (2008 - ) |