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competitive. In the end, the Haines family of the Yellow Table won out, taking home their very own Dean Close Monopoly sets, whilst Margaret and Jackie, our lovely kitchen staff, were victorious in the raffle.
NEW Director of Rugby
Thanks go to all those who hosted tables, bought tickets and threw themselves in to the competitive atmosphere, raising £1,000 for the Appeal and enjoying a hilarious and characteristically eccentric Dean Close evening! If you would like your own Dean Close Monopoly board (£30 + P&P) please contact the school shop on 01242 258016.
This Spring, to mark the arrival of our beautiful Dean Close Monopoly boards, (The Squirrels, The Sports Hall, The Brook etc. replacing Park Lane and co. in our very own version of the game), the Uganda Appeal Group hosted a Monopoly Dinner, to raise funds for our link school, Nyakatakura Memorial Secondary School, in Ibanda, Uganda.
Andrew Stanley was appointed as Director of Rugby from September 2014 arriving from Gloucester Rugby where he was the forwards coach. Prior to Gloucester Andrew had been Director of Rugby at Hartbury College for three years, and he had coached for seven years at Worcester Warriors as the Regional Academy Manager, which included a spell as interim Head Coach.
“Thanks go to all those who hosted tables, bought tickets and threw themselves in to the competitive atmosphere, raising £1,000 for the Appeal”
Guests were invited to join a table colour coded to match the property ‘set’ they owned, and then rolled giant dice between courses, to move their team’s giant playing piece around our giant board.
Andrew has a degree from the University of the West of England and he is one of the very few RFU Level 5 coaches. ‘Stan’ has played nearly 200 first team games for Gloucester RFC.
Players enjoyed a delicious meal of ‘Tuckwell Tapas’, ‘Bacon Theatre Chicken’ and ‘Commemoration Mess’, and were keen to dig deep into their pockets to purchase houses and hotels for their properties, which sent the rents soaring, as the game became increasingly
We shall always go a little further: It may be beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow. Across that angry or that glimmering sea. James Elroy Flecker, Poet, OD
The Spencer Mellish Shooting Trophy was won for the School for the first time by Michael Bowles who beat 88 others.
1958 ~ Although the Hatherley run had been established c.1900 as 2 miles 1232 yards, it underwent a number of breaks and revisions over the years. In 1958 it was revived and the distance altered to 6.75 miles.
1886 ~ All 43 boys in the School played rugby. According to records, the School at one point sent a challenge for a match to Cheltenham College, something of a nerve since the College had been established for nearly 40 years with a large number of pupils. A reply came ‘Eton we know and Harrow we know, but who are ye?’
1905 ~ Boxing began in the Lent term and continued intermittently until finally banned in the late 1950s. Also shooting, tennis and fives were introduced.
1892 ~ Big Field, as far as thecentral pathway, was bought for £4,250 ‘the terrain better suited at that time to snipe-shooters than other kinds of sportsmen’
1906 ~ F.J. & W.G. Lidderdale represented the School beating 40 others including Harrow
1913 ~ Of the 11 players which made up the 1st Hockey XI of 1913, by the end of the Great War five would be killed in action: B Wreford, J Warren, N Herapath, JYV Willington and E Gonner MC, after whom the Gonner prize is named, and three were awarded the Military Cross; RMV Willington, FO Hoare & E Gonner.
2006 ~ In December the Kenyon Pavilion burnt down. 2007 ~ Boys qualified for 1999 ~ Tamara Fateh, at 13, was included in the 1st XI and was an U16 England international. In 2000 she was awarded full colours being the first U15 girl to win them. On a rugby tour to Canada, the XV reached the finals of the Ontario HSBC Sevens.
2006 ~ The School achieved the remarkable feat of the U18, U16
1987 ~ Richard Cooke (400m), Victoria Winch (100m) and Jason Piney (400m in different age group) all won their events at the finals of the National Preparatory Schools’ Athletics Championships.
and U14 teams all being girls’ county hockey champions.
2005 ~ Richard Jacob OD offered a financial incentive to anyone who could beat his 50m freestyle School record of 26.2 seconds. Richard Hildick-Smith met the challenge with a time of 25.2 seconds.
the National Indoor Hockey Finals for the first time, being coached by Gary Tredgett, a former England indoors international.
2000 ~ For the second year running, Chris and Sam Tasker-Grindley won the boys’ IAPS Tennis Doubles National Tournament.
Martina Calvert reached the semi finals of the IAPS Tennis National Tournament and so played at Wimbledon, the first Junior School player to do so. was hockey captain of Oxford University, of England (45 caps) and of Great Britain (27 caps). He captained the Great Britain Olympic sides at Helsinki (1952 bronze medallists) Melbourne (1956 when E.S. Hoare was team manager) and Rome (1960).
1938 ~ The Decanian wrote: ‘… an embryo 1st XV has forced all who cast aspersions on its abilities to eat their words, and a team of Colts has recently carried off its first victory’. That first season, new rugby coach, J.S. Moore, noted an understandable tendency to kick and dribble the ball and ‘…a marked declination…’ to handle it!
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2012 ~ Equestrian team (Greg Hall, Philli Hall, Ollie Hall and James Norris) won two National titles: the National Schools Cross Country Champions and the National Schools' Two-Day Event.
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2012 ~ The boys’ U16s won the National Hockey Championships.
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2000 ~ The Colts A won the U11 National IAPS Boys’ Hockey Tournament.
2011 ~ The opening of the new pavilion by Tom Graveney OD.
2001 ~ Enyinna Chukwueke won a shot put Gold Medal at the IAPS Athletics Championships. 1964 ~ A hard Redgra
1983 Commemoration Gym Display
hockey pitch was built, the first in any public school in the country. A Hockey Association XI that included six internationals played the School in the official opening match and were defeated 3-2.
2007 ~ A new £3m sports hall was opened with an official opening the following year by Sir Geoff Hurst.
2005 ~ Pete Browne captained the 2005 Rugby XV that included a tour of Italy and was later selected to play for the premier league Newcastle Falcons. This was Richard Akenhead’s last year as XV coach, after 30 years.
2001 ~ Alex Fateh’s fourth century (127) and Alex Hume’s first (103) combined in an opening stand of 250 against King’s Gloucester, a School record. Alex Fateh was selected for an England trial.
1979 ~ The basketball team won the Gloucestershire Schools’ County Cup, repeating this success in 1980.
Colts Cricket 1947
1969 ~ Girls were admitted to the sixth form. The initial sports situation for girls was not good with some swimming, taken by Major Chapman, and a little tennis.
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Country represented
R. P. Crabbe C. G. Couldrey P. Mbanga P. Vincent J. H. L. Wigley (C) E. W. Willett L. Williams T. Harwood B. Andrew E. Lai D. J. L. Evans D. Barron P. Badger (C) M. W. Bawden W. J. Benton-Evans W. E. Bufton L. Brignull S. O. Bufton F. W. Carpenter D. Carpenter A. Carroll B. Davies H. Davies-Thomas S. Ensor R. Evans (VC) T. Fateh C. Fletcher J. G. Fulton L. R. Griffiths H. T. Heard E. S. Hoare (C) H. E. O. Hughes R. I. Ireland (C) W. H. R. Jones A. D. Lewis B. Marsden
Athletics (Olympics) Bowls Cricket Cricket Cricket Curling Diving Dressage (Equestrian) Fencing Fencing Fishing Golf Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey
Great Britain (Athens 1906) England & British Isles Zimbabwe England (U16) St Kitts & Nevis Islands England Not Known England U18 Great Britain (U11) Great Britain (U17) England Malawi England (U22) England (U23) Wales Wales Wales (U18) & UK Lions (U14) Wales England England Wales Wales (U16) Wales England (U16) Wales (U16) England England (U19) Wales Wales Ireland England Wales England & GB England Wales England
A. Milton F. W. Morgan R. J. S. Nelson S. Organ R. C. Padfield W. Pearce T. Pinnegar C. Price (C) N. Price N. Proctor M. G. Stock E. Taylor G. Tredgett F. C. Welles C. Willis C. Dyer R. Hildick-Smith F. Edwards T. Hill D. A. Pringle J. van Gils J. Whitehead B. Hyde A. R. Milne T. Johnson L. Evans N. Marsh P. Chapman S. Terent’ev W. Howell C. Tasker-Grindley P. J. Davies V. J. Davies (C) P. Whitehead T. Birmingham
Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey Lacrosse Modern Pentathlon Netball Orienteering Pentathlon (Olympics) Polo (Equestrian) Polo-Crosse (Equestrian) Rugby Rugby Rugby Rugby Rugby 7s Running Ski-ing Squash Squash Swimming Swimming Three Day Eventing (Equestrian) Water Polo
Wales Wales Wales (U23) Wales England England (U18) England (U18) Wales (U18) England England Wales Wales England Scotland Wales & Canada Wales (U18) Great Britain England Great Britain (U18) Great Britain England (U19) England (U16) England (U19) English Schoolboys England England (U18, U20) England Wales Russia England England (U19) & GB (U17) Wales Wales Great Britain (U18) Great Britain
2007 ~ Emma Lewis completed the London Marathon in 3 hrs 59 mins coming 2nd in the 18-19 years age group.
2009 ~The boys’ U18 XI won the National Hockey Championships. Coach Gary Tredgett said: “This is the greatest achievement by any team we have produced in my 17 years here.”
Philip Davies broke every School swimming record except breaststroke, helping the School to beat everyone including Millfield, and won a place in the Welsh team.
1940 ~ In the summer water for the cricket pitches was prohibited so the boys formed a chain of workers from Hatherley Brook and used fire buckets on Wednesday and Thursday evenings to make the wicket roll out for Saturday matches.
2012 ~ Dean Close won its first National title on the golf course, the Independent Schools Golf Association National Plate Final.
England & Exeter Chiefs.
1968 ~
1929 ~ Hockey player Alan Milton (at Dean Close from 1919-29) played for Wales. He recalled that in his day, there were no such people as team coaches. No one ‘taught’ hockey, junior pupils learned by observing seniors when they had the opportunity and tried to copy them.
Blue(s) C Association Football, 1898 C Association Football, 1900 C Athletics (0.5 mile, mile), 1905 C Hockey; Lawn Tennis (both 1910) O Athletics 1920 O Water Polo 1923, 1924, C Hockey, 1924 C Hockey, 1924, 1925, 1926 O Cross-Country 1925, 1926, 1927 O Association Football 1925, 1927 C Hockey, 1926, 1927, 1928 O Water Polo 1926 C Hockey 1928, 1930 O Athletics 1929 C Hockey 1932 C Water Polo 1935 C Hockey 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 O Hockey 1937 O Hockey 1938; 1939 C Hockey 1938 C Hockey 1938, 1939, 1946, 1947 C Athletics 1939 C Hockey 1940 C Hockey 1941 C Hockey 1952 C Rowing c.1954 C Hockey 1957, 1958 C Hockey 1960, 1961, 1962 O Hockey 1964* C Hockey 1968* O Tennis 1970* O Hockey, 1971, 1972 O Cricket, 1992, 1994, 1995 C Hockey 1993 O Rugby 2000 O Hockey 2001 O Cricket 2008 O Swimming 2007, 2008 O Hockey 2013, 2014, 2015
The girls’ swimming relay team came 4th in the individual medleys at the National Schools’ Swimming Competition, and repeated this in 2008. Kate Batty led the girls’ to a Silver medal at the U16 English Schools’ Swimming Association Water Polo Tournament.
1951 ~ Denys Carnill joined Dean Close staff. He
1965 ~ Dean Close beat Rugby School in the first ever inter-school badminton match.
1915 ~ At the end of WW1 sport had, not surprisingly, reached a low ebb at the School, notwithstanding inspirational moments like D.E. Green’s 1915 cricket season when he averaged 51 runs including a top score of 163 at Worcester.
Name A.B. Wilson Harold Saxon Snell Reginald Percy Crabbe Harold Octavius Cooper Lynden Robert Miller District Judge; Advocate General Cyril T. Parfit H. Elliott Blake E. Stanley Hoare William Arthur Meredith Edwards John S. Smith Frank W. Carpenter Norman Charles Parfit Thomas Norman Lamb Norman Cyril Moses Derek Major Hall J.M. Cash Peter Langford Trevorrow B.M.G. Young R.A.E. Cheales Peter Henry Ney Matthews J.D. Wakeling John Leslie Hartopp Wigley Peter Robert Gibson Thomas Wynter Backhouse Lindsay Rhys Griffiths Ian Findlay Charles Stuart Clayre John Herbert Lutley Richard Ian Ireland Richard Charles Padfield Michael William Bawden Peter Nicholas Malleby Sissons Peter George Badger Christopher James Townsend David Charles Padfield Nicholas Marsh William Kinder Jonathan (Jonty) Peter Strachan Richard Anthony Hildick-Smith Wesley Morgan Howell
The U13 VII netball team won the IAPS National Netball Tournament.
1950 ~ The tip was levelled and six tennis courts built opposite the main school entrance as part of a memorial to Edward Ellam, Second Master, who had died in 1941.
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1907 ~ Hockey was introduced as a major sport, alongside football and cricket. It was introduced by C.C. Mountfort former captain of Cambridge University hockey team. He was said to have ‘… strong wrists and a powerful flick…’
1918 ~ Edward Ellam created the first ‘Match Pitch’ for hockey, having painstakingly eliminated the ridge-and-furrows that were evident on the sports field.
celebrated 100 years of hockey with a Headmaster’s International XI vs a mixed School XI, captained by Matt Dring and Natasha Price (England U19). The final score was 11-7 to the internationals.
1998 ~ Under the captaincy of Ben Marsden, the 1st XI hockey team beat Marlborough College (5-2) and their coach, who went on to coach the England XI, commented that Dean Close XI gave ‘… one of the best schoolboy displays..’ he had seen for some years. Ben Marsden was an U21 trialist, soon to be in the team; Ed Taylor, the goalkeeper, was in the U21 and U18 sides for Wales; Chris Price was in the U16 Wales side and James Davies was in the U15 Welsh squad.
1986 ~ The first synthetic grass pitch was built.
Close girl to compete at regional level at both 1500m and long jump, inspiring other girls to take up athletics. She also competed at national level in cross country running.
1988 ~ An 18-hole putting green was briefly created thanks to head groundsman, Neville Page. The School was Gloucestershire Schools’ Golf Champions.
1925 ~ Fortfield House was purchased as a Junior House, and the prospectus quoted ‘… coaching is undertaken by experts in the respective games and is not restricted to or concentrated upon the boys of promise’.
and St Paul’s at the Public Schools’ Gymnastic Competition. The Decanian reported ‘A crowd of congratulatory enthusiasts met the winning pair at the Great Western Station on their return home, and with the aid of a stout rope drew them in triumph to the School. Peace was restored at a late hour…’
1986 ~ Margaret Joyce was the first Dean
1926 ~ E.S. Hoare OD returned to the School as Assistant Master. Senior prefect and Captain of gym, cricket and hockey during his time here, he also captained Cambridge University hockey team winning his Blue in 1924-1926 and England hockey team 1926-1937 winning 35 caps. He was Dean Close’s first international hockey player. Alongside CAP Tuckwell, himself a good hockey player, the two coached hockey for nearly 20 years.
2007 ~ Dean Close
~ Princess Alexandra visited Dean Close and inspected activities including shooting, judo, gymnastics dancing, trampolining and cricket.
1964 ~ A new swimming pool and gym was opened. The pool, 25ft by 36ft, was far bigger than its predecessor and the gym measured a huge 110ft by 56ft in order to accommodate a full size basketball court.
1925 ~ Cross country running was introduced by B.O. Bradnack. It became popular, possibly because of the gifted W.A.M. Edwards who won Oxford Blues for it in 1925, 26 & 27.
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1998 ~ Chris Kenyon retired from Dean Close after 36 years. He took over cricket from Mike Girling in 1964 and continued in charge until 1997. The 1st XI pavilion on Big Field was renamed The Kenyon Pavilion in his honour at his retirement.
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1899 ~ A swimming bath was opened, roughly on the site of the bachelor dining hall today. It was 55ft long by 24ft wide. The pool was boarded over in the winter so it could be used as a gymnasium.
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a result of a ‘Cadet’ boat being presented by the Midland Branch of ODs, with anchorage at Twyning Park.
1989 ~ The swimming teams won all 12 of their matches and the girls’ senior relay team qualified
2003 ~ The U14 girls’ hockey XI won the National Championships.
for the English Schools National Freestyle Team Finals. Headmaster, Christopher Bacon, paid tribute to Marion Venn who retired in 2000 having been coach since 1977. She had improved swimming standards and introduced water polo and lifesaving.
1973 ~ A girls’ 1st XI hockey team entered their first tournament, captained by Jane Rowlands. Jane also captained the first girls’ swimming team. Ann Nicholls captained the first girls’ VI tennis team.
Lloyd Evans Gloucester & England U18, U20.
2005 ~ The girls’ netball 1st VII achieved a milestone when they won the U19 County Championship. 1991 ~ Girls’ U16 National Hockey Champions – the first team of either sex from the School to achieve this accolade.
1977 ~
Major Ben Chapman retired. He had represented GB in the 1936 Olympics as a gymnast and had been responsible for the School’s PE for 17 years
2003 ~ Nick Ball’s 207 not out for the 2nd XI vs King’s Gloucester is said to be the highest score ever by a School batsman in a match.
2008 ~ Chris Gregory was selected by Sir Steve Redgrave for the ‘Sporting Giants’ programme to be in the volleyball stream.
2005 ~ Paul Whitehead won the U18 British Three Day Eventing Championship and represented GB at the U18 European Three Day Event Championships in France. His brother, John, was selected to play for the England U16 Polo-Crosse team.
Pete Browne
2012~ The U16 netball team won the County Championships and went on to come ninth in the National Schools’ Netball Finals. 2013 ~ The girls’ U18 XI won the National Hockey Championships.
Newcastle, Harlequins, London Welsh & England Students.
2004 ~ Pandora Bailey qualified in Show Jumping at the Horse of the Year Show. 1940 ~ The first ‘proper’ rugby season with the XV at home. They beat Monkton Combe by 9 points to 6. Dean Close won 5 matches and lost 3.
Playing hockey on big field players recorded ‘.. we were cheered by the sight of a pilot drifting over Big Field on the end of a parachute, while his plane crashed in the High Street…’
1938
2014 ~ Dean Close had a
Tessa Hill won a Bronze Medal as a member of the English Seniors Girls’ National Team at the World Schools’ Orienteering Championships.
1940 ~ On the night of 11th December, a number of bombs fell across the School and in Cheltenham town itself with one falling in the middle of Big Field, which then became known as ‘Crater Pitch’
1996 ~ Football reappeared for the first time since 1938. Nick Anderson led a School U16 XI to victory over Cheltenham College in 1997.
1974 ~ Water polo first appeared as a ‘boys versus girls’ game as part of a swimming spectacular at Commemoration.
1996 ~ Alex Fateh and Thomas Judge became Gloucestershire Cricket Players of the Year at U11 and U12 respectively.
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was ranked in the top ten squash players in England at U15.
The girls’ relay team won a Silver Medal at the IAPS National Swimming Championships.
Flo Edwards Loughborough Lightning, England U17
record 21 boys playing in the Gloucester Rugby Academy.
2008 ~ Wesley Howell
The Colts A team won the U11 National IAPS Boys’ Hockey Tournament, captained by Liam Brignull.
2003 ~ U15 IV boys’ tennis team emerged as 3rd nationally in their age group in the HSBC competition.
2008 ~Ben Marsden OD was selected for the GB hockey squad for the Beijing Olympics.
2015 ~ The boys’ U13, U14, U16 & U18 hockey teams all qualified for the National Schools’ Finals - a School record.
2015
Timeline Wallpaper: Next time you are passing Dean Close have a look in the Pavilion at the DCS Sporting History Timeline. It a floor to ceiling wallpaper covering pupils sporting achievements through the ages.
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Note: this list may not be complete.
1889 ~ The School switched to football and almost immediately did well. In 1892 they met Cheltenham Town Football Club who they beat 4-3 on the town ground.
1886 ~ Cricket began and J.H. Harvey recalled: ‘…we had a thick spongy turn for our pitch and grass varying from six to 18 inches to field in. Under these circumstances a score of 20 or 30 was thought to be a good one for the whole side...’
1960 ~ A sailing club opened as 1954 ~
1953 ~ M.G. Dash, captain in 1953, played cricket for the Gloucestershire 2nd XI while still at School.
Note: this list may not be complete.
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