Dear members and friends of the Royal High School Club in London, We are returning to the historic RAF Club in Piccadilly for our Annual Dinner on Friday 13th March with Dinner served at 7.30 p.m. in the elegant Presidents’ Room. As usual we cordially invite former pupils of the Royal High School, their partners […]
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Bon Marche
Photos from our drinks and buffet at the Bon Marche in Soho can now be viewed on our Flickr album . If you have any photos you would like to add please send them to webmaster Will. We are pleased to announce Frazer Wright has taken over as Club President. Photos of him being presented […]
Eric Brown on Desert Island Disks
Dear members and friends of the Royal High School Club in London, This is just to let you know that on Friday 14 Nov at 9am, BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs will welcome former Royal Navy test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown CBE for its 3000th edition. Eric is a famous former pupil of the […]
Christmas drinks
We will be holding our annual pre-Christmas Drinks Party on Tuesday the 2nd of December from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the French restaurant ‘Bar du Marché’, 19, Berwick Street, Soho, London W1F 0PX. An excellent buffet + wine will be provided and Al Senter will enliven the proceedings with a quiz about the Theatre. […]
Sir Gordon Manzie KCB
We are sorry to report the death of former RHSCL president Sir Gordon Manzie. There will be a memorial service at Water Lane United Reformed Church, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 2JZ, on Saturday, October 25, 2014, at 12 noon. Gordon left the RHS in 1947 (we think). Gordon rose to high office in the civil service […]
Karl Miller – Independent obituary
The obituary of Karl Miller, former dux of the Royal High School. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/professor-karl-miller-editor-who-nurtured-a-vast-stable-of-writers-as-one-of-britains-foremost-literary-figures-across-five-decades-9758944.html A link to the Guardian obituary is in the previous post.
Karl Miller
Karl Miller, former Royal High pupil, who was ‘the greatest literary editor of his time’ died this week. There is a full page obituary in today’s Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/25/karl-miller
Britain’s Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown
You may be interested to hear that former RHS pupil Eric Brown appears on TV tonight in ‘Britain’s Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown’. More details in Radio Times. If you miss it, the program should be available on BBC iPlayer.