On April 26 1915, Harold Haile ‘Tertius’ Last (East 1905) died at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in London from injuries received in Belgium the previous month. He was 22 and was the tenth Old Cranleighan to have died in the nine months of the war to that point […]
World renowned historian and broadcaster, Andrew Roberts (East 1981), returned to Cranleigh last week with a fascinating presentation on Napoleon […]
Sixty years ago this month a failed Kenyan coffee planter and three associates set out from Nairobi in a Morris Traveller to drive across Africa, through the Sahara Desert and Europe to London. The poorly planned expedition was to end in failure and the death of Alan ‘Sweetie’ Cooper (East 1926).
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March 10 marks the centenary of the first large-scale British offensive of World War One, the first day of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. In the four-day battle the British lost 544 officers and 11,108 other ranks. Two of the officers who fell on the first day were Old Cranleighans […]
The School is nearing completion of a seven-year project to refurbish the Chapel and is offering OCs the chance to purchase the oak pews which have been in place for more than a century […]
Charlie Piper (East 2014) won his first senior cap for Harlequins while Sam Arnold (East 2014) who captained the School in 2014, won his first full Under-20’s cap for Ireland […]
Ted Jackson (2&3 South, 1990) completed his amazing goal of running seven marathons in seven days in seven continents in January. […]
Alan Rusbridger is to become the principal of a University of Oxford college after stepping down as editor in chief of the Guardian […]
Plans for a new memorial to all Cranleighans who have fallen in service of their country have been announced with the intention for it to be unveiled in 2016 […]
On January 3, 2015, there will be a an evening of jazz, drinks and canapes in the Emms Centre organised by friends of Torsie Haugli (West 2010) […]