Posts by: Robert McAlpin

Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, VC

Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, VC

On the 23rd April 1918 Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Leyland Harrison, #VC, was killed in action on the Zeebrugge Raid, which as a result, he became the second Old Dovorian to be awarded the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members ...

Dr. Claire Seymour (Staff 02- 04) Obituary

Dr. Claire Seymour (Staff 02- 04) Obituary

David C Butler (Staff:'79-'06) writes to inform us that Dr. Claire Seymour (Staff:'02-'04) died recently. Dr. Seymour read Music at King's College, Cambridge where she was a Prize winner. After two postgraduate degrees in English at the University of Kent she was the first female appointed as Visiting Lecturer in British Studies at the University ...