You are invited to come to a free talk by Andrew Roberts (East 1981) on his new book Napoleon the Great at Cranleigh on Thursday 16th April – Drinks Reception 7.00pm in the Emms Centre, Lecture 7.30pm in Speech Hall […]
Michael Ashley-Brown (1&4 South, 1962-66) writes: Noting that Jolyon Palmer is the reigning GP2 Series motor racing champion I was struck by something a little bit spooky. Back in 1958 the GP2 series was known as Formula Junior and as today, was the feeder class for the Senior Grand Prix class. I have owned a […]
John Tysoe, (1&4 South, 1965-69) writes: Someone was good enough to send me the latest copy of The Old Cranleighan and I read your amusing piece on school slang. It stirred up some memories and if you were planning to repeat the feature at any stage, here are a few other terms which may have escaped […]
Ted (2&3 South, 1986-90) describes his 7x7x7: This January, I completed seven marathons in seven days on seven continents. I often have to say all that twice as people don’t quite believe it the first time. It was pretty nuts, but I’ve been doing this kind of thing for a while – I’ve done the […]
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 […]
Cranleigh is ranked Number 3 in 2014 Sport among Britain’s Independent Schools, up from 43rd in 2013. First and second, as in 2013, were Millfield and Whitgift. The list reflects competitive achievement in 20 different sports and more than 120 different national competitions. Cranleigh won a variety of national titles. Congratulations to the many boys […]
This month sees two notable landmarks: on 16 February the 90th birthday of David Emms (Headmaster, 1960-70), and on 28 February the 100th birthday of Trevor Stephenson (1 North, 1929-31). Trevor will be the second living OC Centenarian, the first being Peter Wightman-Mountain (East, 1928-31) who was 100 on 30 June last year. But both […]
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 […]