01
Welcome to the Wykeham Journal
Dr Dominic Selwood
02
Valuing Intellectual Pursuit
Charles Sinclair
06 Winchester’s Radical Tradition
Dr Ralph Townsend
08 Bursar’s Message
Steven Little
12 Vindicating Wykeham’s Extraordinary Vision
Dr Dominic Selwood
16 Radical Thinking: Div
Nick MacKinnon
20
The New Hall Panels
Suzanne Foster
28 Winchester College at War
Viscount Gough
36 Winchester Junior Fellow
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Amanda Chain
42
Digging the Dirt: St Elizabeth’s College
James Cassir
48 Report from the Chairman
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of the Investment Committee
Andrew Joy
50 Summary statement of financial activities
51 Summary balance sheet
52 Report from the Chairman
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of the Development Committee
Nicholas Ferguson
56
Acknowledgements: Donations and Legacies
Lorna Stoddart & Alex Roe
67 Winchester College Fellows, Officers and Advisers
Cover image: James Fraser (Coll, 2010-)
playing the piano in College dining hall.
Welcome
to the
Wykeham
Journal
I am truly excited to welcome you
to the newly named Wykeham Journal,
an annual publication focused on providing
a rich insight into life at Win Coll.
The School is in robust health, and this has been
an incredible year. I hope that this report captures
something of its energy.
The Warden and the Headmaster set out the inspiring
and impressive priorities they are pursuing. The Bursar
and Chairmen of the Investment and Development
Committees give individual pictures of sound financial
underpinning. All reaffirm and demonstrate the
School’s core commitment to a 621-year tradition
of welcoming deserving boys from all backgrounds.
As Guest Editor, I am privileged to present five stories of
amazing people who embody what Winchester College
means. They are drawn from the men at the School,
OWs, Common Room, Wykeham Patrons, and the
army of experts who contribute in a thousand ways.
It was an immense pleasure meeting each of them,
sharing a little of their worlds.
I have also sneaked in a piece about William of
Wykeham, and even allowed him to surface in some
of the other stories. This was not done from a dusty
sense of duty. I wanted to share my image of Wykeham
as a modern, questioning, radical, energetic man.
This journal rightly bears his name, not because he
created a ravishing campus with sufficient funds to
launch it, but because he asked those who come here
to share his singular outlook: a legacy we value by
calling ourselves Wykehamists not Wintonians.
I very much hope you enjoy the journal,
and the glimpse it gives into the lives of some
of those who have made important contributions
to yet another extraordinary year for Win Coll.
Dr Dominic Selwood (E, 1984-87)
Guest Editor
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