A Very Good Headmaster
Mr. G. D. Fox, who died on Christmas Eve, had in him that streak of greatness without which (I suspect) it is impossible to be a really successful headmaster of a private school. It was a very unobtrusive streak. Fox was not a commanding, or an ebullient, or an eccentric figure, and if you had met him on a race-course (which was the most likely place for such an encounter) you would never have taken him for what be was. He went to Sunningdale in 1906 and left it, a couple of years ago, with a record and a reputation second to none. Boys, who are apt to be, or to appear, rather contemptuouti: of their private schools when they leave them, retained loyaltP: and affection for Sunningdale. Berhaps it was. basically, because of a certain humility in the man that they found so easy to respect and respond to their headmaster.
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