FGS - Key Persons
Alan McGowan has his own more comprehensive list of staff names including more Years than are currently included below.
Born in England in 1938, Julian attended Farnborough Grammar School. After his military service with the US Army, he enjoyed a long career as a clinical psychologist in Portland, Oregon where he raised his children and later in Wilmington, DE where he served as Director, Division of Child Mental Health Services and retired in 2001.
He served as Guest Professor at Sichuan Academy of Social Science since 1998 and published more than 15 books in Chinese. In retirement, Julian continued to bless many lives through his teaching, book writing, and relationships in China over the next 15 years. He was granted an honorary citizenship by the City of Chengdu.
Eli Eltringham was my first year Chemistry teacher. I shall never forget him setting light to his jacket sleeve when demonstrating combustion. It involved glass tubing bent through 180° attached via rubber tubing to the gas supply. The flame went UP his sleeve!!!!!
Job Titles:
- Caretaker, a.C.H.S. and F.G.S
Jo Thomas was made Head of Grammar School Department (as we became in the end). He taught me History in 1H. Small and nasty.
Jock Young's career was characterised by dogged resistance to unquestioned authority.
Jock Young, who has died aged 71, was one of the world's pre-eminent criminologists. Over four decades, he shaped the nature and direction of the discipline and was at the forefront of almost every major development in the sociology of crime and deviance.
Jock was the leading light of an intellectual movement inspired by the radical political currents of the 1960s that questioned conventional ways of thinking about crime and its control. Despite subsequent shifts of his perspective, this radical sensibility remained undimmed throughout his career. He was instinctively sceptical of organised coercive power and consistently took the side of those affected by it. In later work, he was a fierce critic of short-sighted "get tough" policies and a vigorous opponent of defeatist claims that "nothing works".
He was born William Young in Vogrie, Midlothian. When he was five, his family moved to Aldershot. His grammar school education in the Hampshire military town was a formative experience, not least because it furnished him with the nickname Jock. The school enforced mandatory attendance in a uniformed cadet force. The regimentation and hours of "square bashing" did not sit well with Jock, who, along with a motley group of conscientious objectors, rebelled. It was the first salvo in a career characterised by dogged resistance to unquestioned authority.
Jock secured a place at University College London to read biochemistry, but a chance encounter with the radical criminologist Steve Box convinced him to switch to sociology instead. In 1962 he enrolled at the London School of Economics, where he became inspired by new developments in US sociology. Just as significant was the countercultural revolution taking place outside the university seminar room; and it was this that inspired Jock to co-found the first National Deviancy Conference (NDC) in 1968. Avowedly anti-institutional and highly critical of orthodox criminology, the NDC instigated a decade-long series of interdisciplinary conferences based around emerging research.
At the NDC in 1968 Jock presented his first conference paper, The Role of Police as Amplifiers of Deviancy, the foundation for his first major work, The Drugtakers (1971), a groundbreaking study of bohemian counterculture in 1960s Notting Hill. This text, together with Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972), authored by his great friend Stan Cohen, introduced the concept of "moral panic", one of the few criminological concepts to be adopted for general use beyond academia. Equally influential was Jock's next work, The New Criminology (1973, co-authored with Paul Walton and Ian Taylor), which infused criminology with an unapologetically critical agenda.
Jock was one of a number of radical LSE graduates who had decamped to Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University), where the social science department was a hotbed of radical and socialist thought. Soon after arriving, he established a single honours degree and set up one of the first master's programmes in criminology in Britain. In the 1980s he headed the Centre for Criminology at Middlesex and in 1987 was appointed professor.
During this period, Jock laid the foundations for a more engaged "realist" criminology that argued for critical criminologists to take crime more seriously. He argued that law and order was indeed a socialist issue, insisting that the victims of crime are predominantly the poor and the marginalised. In the 1980s he conducted research into victims of crime in several London boroughs, and acted in a formal advisory capacity to the Metropolitan Police Authority.
Working closely with members of the Labour party during the Thatcher years, he encouraged a rethink of their approach to crime and policing. However, he was disappointed with the way in which New Labour dealt with crime after it came to power in 1997, pointing out that Tony Blair's stated commitment to "get tough on crime and the causes of crime" tended in practice to concentrate disproportionately on the first half of the equation.
Jock always maintained an endearing humility and was indifferent to the trappings of status. He enjoyed London, particularly his beloved "Stokey" (Stoke Newington). He remained at Middlesex for 35 years before moving first to New York City, where he took up a position at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York in 2002, and later to the University of Kent.
In 2009 he returned once again to New York, this time as distinguished professor of criminal justice and sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His years in America inspired further intellectual development, culminating in the publication of two volumes, The Vertigo of Late Modernity (2007) and The Criminological Imagination (2011), documenting the cultural shifts associated with late modernity.
In 2008 Jock was awarded the American Society of Criminology's Sellin-Glueck prize for outstanding international contributions to criminology, and in 2012 was the recipient of the British Society of Criminology's outstanding achievement award. Respected for his scholarly activities, Jock was also known for his charisma, humour and a famously warm and relaxed manner.
He is survived by his second wife, Jayne (Mooney), whom he married in 1997, and their sons, Joseph and Fin; his son Jesse, from an earlier marriage; his stepdaughter, Anny; and his brother, Graham.
Little Dick was treated badly by some pupils probably because he was a small man and not physically imposing. Masters who imposed themselves physically have been widely criticized but Little Dick was not in that camp. I had him for History in my first year at the school and was terrified of ‘Big School' but found Little Dick gentle, kind and a teacher who kept my interest in History alive. Maybe it was because I felt we were kindred spirits… I too was small and not physically imposing. It is possible that as I got older I may have joined in with baiting him, but cannot clearly recall doing so. Kindness and gentleness were in short supply at the school.
Eli, Tosh Sadler, Nuncs, Tom Pascoe (a man I found rather alarming), Killer Keys, Trunky Cotgreave, Jonah; I remember them with affection. The ones who always intrigued me were those for whom no nickname was given. A guy just called Boorman (a cold man) and Foster who taught Art. Why no nickname? Were they that unpopular? Doc. Sewell left under a cloud allegedly. He used to write things on boy's legs, I was told. What a bunch!
"Trunky Cotgreave"? He was Wally in my day but according to Steve the name came from his constant need to stick his nose (trunk) into everything to discover what was going on, whether it concerned him or not. Odd that Foster had no nickname; he was the only master who had a nickname for me. ‘Titch' because he reckoned I was small. I was the youngest in several of my classes so maybe that was a factor, but I'm at least average height if a little short of six feet! Pete Benlow is a fan of Doctor Sewell too!
Mr. Wilson arrived at Farnborough in 1957, having gained an Oxford degree and served in the Royal Navy as in instructor. He taught physics and led the signals section in the cadet force. He was a sportsman, having captained his college in tennis, and was put in charge of the under 14s football team at the school.
His musical interests, though, were called upon more suddenly than he would have anticipated, as on the last day of his first term Beeb Barrett failed to turn up, and the junior choir, poised to sing several items, was leaderless. Colin Wilson knew a couple of the pieces they'd rehearsed (one of which was "The Shepherds' Farewell" from Berlioz's " L'enfance du Christ") so he appeared on the stage and the choir performed. Beeb was never seen again at the school and so Colin became ipso facto the music department for a couple of terms until the arrival of Mr. Lickfold. I remember Prod touring the classrooms to persuade boys to join the choirs, saying "Mr Wilson wants to go for more tuneful music", which I think included sea shanties.
From autumn 1958 onwards the school had "proper" music teachers, as Jerry Lee Lickfold was followed by Dennis Owen and then Peter Mound, but Colin was never far from the action, playing for the weekly hymn practices as well as accompanying the choirs at concerts and festivals, or singing leading roles in his powerful bass voice. He also arranged and took part in singing quartets at Christmas time with other masters, including Reg Smith whom Colin introduced as a "promising newcomer". I remember a spoof Twelve Days of Christmas, complete with "trois poulets francais", which ended with the shooting of a bird.
Mr. C. R. Wilson, physics teacher, died on 7th September, 2015 in Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. He had been suffering from cancer.
Richard Letford was as you say the leading sportsman in the year. Not only a jumper, but javelin thrower and footballer. I think he went on to play for England U-15s. I remember Richard Hadland. He came from Park School in Aldershot. He was in 2b with me but then 3r and I can't remember him after that.
Nuncs was one of my favourite teachers. He also ran a music appreciation group. John Attree was also a favourite. I went on one of his Welsh trips to Towyn. Other masters I remember are W.C. (Boggy) Bishop who ran the football teams, Beefy Bullock, who ignited my interest in Maths, Jonah the Biology teacher. Otis Sims and I were two of only three doing A level Zoology with him. I remember Norman Styles' first day. He was beset by a wasp and lost the class by the silly way he dealt with it. Then there were the two Charlies, Sweet and Upton, who took French.
Among the names I remember are Graham Wickham who captained the cricket team and became school captain in his 3rd year in the 6th. Michael Cleare who is a professor in New York having worked most of his life for Johnson Mathey and invented one of the potent anti-cancer drugs. Richard Springate, the musician who is leader of the orchestra at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Dom Darling who dropped out of University to make his living playing poker. I also remember John Fouracre (as a footballer) and David Brimelow.