Victorians, here there and everywhere from “The Victorian, 1979” - Part 2

Victorians, here there and everywhere from “The Victorian, 1979”
Collated by “Dixie” Landick

Back across the ocean to Sierra Leone, where Andrew M. Cox (1963—1968) is Manager of the Buying Office in Kenema for the Diamond Corporation of West Africa Ltd. Andrew joined De Beers in London in 1969 and has been buying for that Company since 1972.

During that time, he has been responsible for diamond buying offices in Liberia, Zaire and Sierra Leone. His hobbies are shooting, sailing and gliding. Andrew recalls . . . “My fondest memory of V.C.J. is of “Barney” Barnes accidentally firing his starting pistol during College House prep. Clive Barton was the Prefect-in-charge. . .”

Webster G. McGrath has written to us from Natal, South Africa. He was at College as a Boarder from 1932 to 1938. Unfortunately, apart from a reference to a bullying incident at College House in which he claims I was the “pathetic victim”, he has sent us no news of himself or of his present occupation and interests. I hope he reads this and supplies us with the necessary information.

Tony's Supplement:

Register: 4186. McGraph, Webster Gordon, b.30.9.20, left 1938, in Natal, East Africa.

Webster Gordon McGrath was born on 30 September 1920 in St. Helier, Jersey. His father was George Payne McGrath, and his mother Mary Maxwell McCulloch.

Victorians, here there and everywhere 

Neil T. Price (1970—1972) is at present at Imperial College, London. He is in his third year and is reading Mechanical Engineering. Neil has been Cricket Captain and Vice-captain of Football and is now playing rugby. He remarks that Andrew Hall (1967—1972) was also Imperial College Cricket Captain only a few years ago.

Kenneth A. Byrne (1944—1948) studied at Bede College, Durham, and then served in the Army for three years. Since then he has been teaching Modern Languages —— French and Spanish. He is, at present, Director of Sixth Form Studies at St. George’s School, Bristol, an inner city comprehensive of 2,000 pupils. Kenneth says that he would welcome contact with any V.C.J. contemporaries, especially D. P. Hayden (1943—1951). ’

Tony's Supplement:

Register: 4727: Byrne, Kenneth Alan, b.18.6.29, left 1948
Born: St John, Jersey

Was here during the Occupation