Martin Butler – at HMGS from ca 1973, from Beeston (1961-2020.

Garth Norman – full obituary from Church Times can be downloaded thanks to Garry Humphtreys.

See here for the planned house building on the school site.

Information from the Facebook Group, Henry Mellish Memories, spotted by Andrew Turner

An obituary for the Ven. Garth Norman who died on 17 November is now on the OBITS page. Garry Humphreys spotted the announcement in the Church Times. There are photographs of Garth at the closing ceremony of the school on the page, THE END.

NORMAN, Garth. 1950-1958. B.A., Dip.Th., M.A. (Durham), M.Ed. (East Anglia), P.G.C.E. (Cambridge). Ordained 1964. Assistant Curate of Trunch with Swafield (1966-71); Team Rector in the Trunch Team Ministry (1971-83); Rural Dean of Repps (1975-83); Assistant Curate of West Wycombe with Bledlow Ridge, Bradenham and Radnage (1983-87); Principal of the Chiltern Christian Training Course (1983-87); Rochester Diocesan Director of Training (1988-94); Hon. Canon of Rochester Cathedral (1991-2003); Archdeacon of Bromley and Bexley (1994-2003); Southwell & Nottingham Diocesan Chaplain to Retired Clergy (2004-09). b 26 November 1938; d 17 November 2023. Further information: Wikipedia; Church Times 12 January 2024, p 28.

News today from Myfanwy Cupit that Derek had died in January (our children went to the same school until we moved north in 1978). I had added the following to the obits page:

CUPIT, Derek William. 1946-1951. Youth tutor, teacher and senior community education tutor, Sawston Village College, Cambridgeshire. b 1935 Carlton; d January 2023, Cambridgeshire.

Peter Taylor’s Memoir on life at HMGS [1956-63], What Would Calverton Do? can be found at the link HERE

Added to Miscellanea Page

David Hallam and Brian Smithurst have added more names to the faces.

The updated entry on the STAFF page now reads:

UPTON, John.Robert. B.Sc.(London) 1933-1942. Biology. Handicraft. b 18 April 1910, West Ham, Essex; d 1980, Yeovil, Somerset. To Head, Farnham County Secondary School. Author of The Microscope: Its Construction and Its Use in Biology (John Murray 1937).

I came across more information on Upton. I strongly suspect he made the model of a viper’s jaw showing how the fang is erected which in my time was in the biology library (on top of the bookcase). I then found he had written a book on use of the microscope while a member of staff. The only copy I have found is for sale in Australia but the blurb reads: The book was designed to provide the reader with the information necessary to use a microscope in a biological laboratory or classroom. It was intended for teachers with no academic training in biology who found themselves required to teach the subject in their schools.

Garry Hu,mphreys found a note on his death in 2018. Other information on his life was then found. His entry on the STAFF page now reads:

BURTON, Roger. B.A. (Nottingham). 1960-1964. French and Spanish. CCF Lt (Royal Signals). To Kirkby-in-Ashfield Comprehensive School. Educated Alleyne’s Grammar School, Uttoxeter. b 28 January 1933, Staffordshire; d 30 July 2018, Devon. Amateur singer. “Budgie” from the blue jacket, Nottingham B.A. gown and head on one side.

I have added this note to the Miscellanea Page

Graham Arthur Mottershaw [1942-1950] is quoted in book on National Service

Graham Mottershaw wrote from his R.A.F. training unit: ‘the talk consists of filth and blasphemy which surprises even a vulgar person like me; more sensitive and sheltered natures must suffer hell’.

From Richard Vinen’s National Service. Conscription in Britain 1945-1963, 2014, London: Allen Lane, p 152. Mottershead (b 26 May 1932; d 26 February 1996, Shropshire) was living in Arnold at the time of the emergency census in 1939. A first XI cricketer, he was writing to his friend, John Michael Lee (see Obits page). The letter is in Lee’s papers kept in the Nottinghamshire Archive.

EARNSHAW, Frank William. 1949-1954. Former President of Henry Mellish Old Boys Rugby Club. Senior Divisional Officer in the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, Mansfield. b 28 November 1937, Hull. d 12 June 2013.