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Completed between 15th May 1922, when Viscount Grey of Fallodon laid the foundation stone, and 29th May 1924, when Arthur Duke of Connaught opened the memorial, War Cloister stands as a tribute to the vision of the Headmaster who initiated the idea, Montague Rendall, and of course to the 513 Wykehamists who fell during the Great War. In size it remains the largest private war memorial in the United Kingdom.
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Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford between 2003 and 2015, explores the history of this post, and examines some of the many scholars who have held it, including four Wykehamists.
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The 30 years preceding the Great War were the golden age of the public school”, comments Budge Firth in his history of Winchester College. “There was a wave of high confidence. It all seemed too good to be true; and alas! For us, as for the other great schools, it could not permanently endure.”
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