In Memoriam
IN MEMORIAM We regret to announce the deaths of the following members of the BGS family and extend our condolences to everyone that knew and cared for them. John Alfred Eaton Evans 1941-1952 Robin Charles Griffiths 1982-1991 Revd Dr Michael George Hinton 1935-1945 Keith Grant Howard Staff 1964-1976
John Alfred Eaton Evans 1933-2020 BGS dates: 1941-1952 John lived life to the full as a husband, family man, committed Christian and distinguished, “old school”, vocational schoolmaster. He was a talented sportsman, an academic and an accomplished musician with an infectious enthusiasm as well as natural ability for these passions.
his two years of national service as an officer in the Logistics Corps and reading classics at Worcester College Oxford. He played rugby for Bristol RFC and Oxford University, being unlucky to sustain a careerending knee injury before the blues match. He won a half blue for fives. In August 1958 he married his beloved wife Vyvyan and they went on to have three children, Stephen, Hugh and Susie.
He was born in Bristol in July 1933 to Jack and Molly Evans and was younger brother to his sister Joy.
After briefly toying with the idea of becoming a concert pianist, he started his long career in education,
His early childhood was rudely inconvenienced by German air raids with the family living in Bristol throughout the war. He then enjoyed his time at Bristol Grammar School where he was head boy (and later president of the alumni society) before serving
teaching classics at Blundells School in Devon (1958-63) followed by 18 years at Rugby School (1963-81) where he became housemaster of Kilbracken (1973-81). He then served 12 years as headmaster of Brentwood School in Essex (198193). Brentwood flourished under
Harry Raymond Joliffe 1941-1946 Tudor Picton Miles 1936-1946 Brian Nolan 1944-1951 David Charles Prowse 1947-1952 Kenneth David ‘Jack’ Prowting 1950-1957 Christopher Andrew Rice 1950-1957 David Foyle Snook 1944-1950 Dr Trevor Anthony Thomas 1947-1958 Martin John Welch 1951-1958
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