" THE RUGBY HEADMASTERSHIP "
Snt,—With reference to the letter in The Spectator of January 30th purporting to be signed by a Mr. A. Lattie, it will perhaps suffice to place this in its correct perspective if I state that there has never been at Silcoates a headmaster either of this name or of the name of Waverley Frobisher. The ninety years preceding the appointment of the present headmaster, Mr. Frank A. Spencer, in 1943, were covered by the headmasterships of Dr. James Bewglass (1854-76), the Reverend W. H. Field (1876-97), Mr. J. A. Yonge (1897-1918), and Mr. Sydney H. Moore (1918-43). Any distress caused to those associated with these eminent headmasters by the mendacious and mischievous letter referred to will be most deeply regretted by all Silcoatians. Sir Arthur fforde is already aware how greatly my Board of Governors deprecates the unseemly reference to him in that letter.—Yours faithfully, Hon. Clerk to the Governors, Silcoates School. [We much regret that a letter now known to be spurious was published in all good faith.—En., The Spectator.]
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