The Royal High School Club in London

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, 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

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.

This is just to let you know that I have booked the Presidents’ Room at the RAF Club for our next annual dinner on Friday 13th March 2015.   This avoids a clash with the RHS Club in Edinburgh which is holding its annual dinner on the previous Friday the 6th of March.   I am also […]

The photos from our Annual Dinner can now be viewed on the website use this link http://www.royalhigh.org.uk/annual-dinner-march-2014/ to view them. The website seems to be quite slow, so patience may be needed even if you have a good internet connection.