Brian Davies attended Chichester High School in the mid-1940s and after reaching sixth form prefect status in the 50s left to join the Royal Navy in 1952. I knew him well as out of school we were both members of the Bognor Regis Athletic Club. He was an excellent quarter miler and became a member of the Club’s Sussex record …
Sir Dudley Gordon Smith
Sir Dudley Gordon Smith (born 14 November 1926) is a British Conservative politician. Smith was educated at Chichester High School and became a journalist. He was elected a councillor on Middlesex County Council in 1958, then the youngest councillor, and became chief whip of the majority party. Smith contested Peckham in 1955. He was MP for Brentford and Chiswick from …
Sir John Edward Herbecq (at School 1933-1940)
Sir John Herbecq was born on 27 May 1922. In 2002 he became the first President of the re-constituted Old Boys Association. He had a distinguished career as a civil servant. He served in HM Treasury from 1950-60, as Private Secretary to the Chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, 1960-62; returning to the Treasury for the period 1962-68. After 1968 …
Sir Jon Shortridge
Sir Jon Shortridge KCB (born 1947) was a British Civil Servant. He served as the Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Office in March 1999 and of the National Assembly for Wales on its creation in May 1999. He became Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Assembly Government on its establishment as a separate institution in May 2007. Established the National Assembly …
Chris Bearman
Chris Bearman attended the Lancastrian School for Boys between about 1959-65 and was the son of Gordon Bearman, the County Librarian and younger brother of two Old Cicestrians, Graham and Bob Bearman ( whose profile appears in another article under Notable Old Boys). I got to know Chris quite well through my visits to his home to see Bob, a …