St Edmund Hall Magazine 1966-67

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Ordained in Rochester Cathedral, he spent the earlier and middle years of his ministry in India, holding various chaplaincies, being Garrison Chaplain at Bombay 1917-18, and later Archdeacon of Bombay and Bishop's Commissary for Bombay. On returning to England in 1928, he was appointed Rector of Stanwick and remained there until 1943, when he retired to Banham, Norwich. The Revd. Sidney James Handover, M.A., Commoner of the Hall 1907-rr, died on 12 May 1966, aged 88. After serving in New Zealand 1904-7, he worked in Oxford 1907-21 (including his time as an undergraduate at the Hall), being assistant curate of St. Frideswide's, St. Paul's and Cowley St. John, and also holding chaplaincies at Magdalen College (191 2-21) and Christ Church (1914-21); he was Fellow of Magdalen 1918-2r. For the remainder of his active ministry (1921-52) he was Rector oflron Acton, Bristol. Leslie Newman Harvey, M.A., died in Maidstone Hospital on 3 May 1967, at the age of 63. A former pupil of King Edward VI School, Southampton, he entered the Hall in 1922 to read Modern

Languages. While still at school, where he captained the cricket and football teams, he played, as an amateur, for Southampton Football Club. He played in Freshers' and Seniors' Trials in both games, and in 1924 was elected to the Centaurs. He played cricket and tennis for the Hall, and was captain of the Football Club in 1925. He was elected an Honorary Exhibitioner of the Hall on obtaining a Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship in 1924. After obtaining a Third in Schools, he taught for a year at Woodbridge School, and in 1927 joined the staff of Sutton Valence, where he became Head of the Modern Languages Department. His sporting activities were continued both in coaching at school and in playing for local teams, but his greatest work was the complete reorganization of the School Library, a task which fitted well with his wide range of interest in the arts. He is remembered for his clear thinking and dry humour by many who were helped by his thorough and meticulous teaching to obtain places or scholarships to the University. He leaves a widow, a son and a daughter. William Hope ('Tommy') Hindle, B.A., who entered the Hall in 1921 and obtained a First in French in 1924, died in New York after a long illness on 31 May 1967, aged 63. After going down from

Oxford he attended the Sorbonne, and then took up journalism, working for a time as an editorial writer for The Yorkshire Post and from 1927 to 1933 for The Times. Later he was literary editor of The Evening Standard, editor of The Review of Reviews, and editor of The English Review. In 1938 he switched to the Diplomatic Service, serving for a year in Prague and being appointed Second Secretary 42


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