Anthony Chenevix-Trench | |
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| Born | 10 May 1919 |
| Died | 21 June 1979 (aged 60) Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Schoolmaster |
| Known for | Headmaster of Bradfield College, Eton College and Fettes College |
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (10 May 1919 – 21 June 1979) was a British schoolteacher, classics scholar and alleged child sexual abuser.[1] He was born in British India, educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, and served in the Second World War as an artillery officer with British Indian units in Malaya. Captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was forced to work on the Burma Railway.
He taught classics at Shrewsbury, where he became a housemaster, and taught for another year at Christ Church. He was headmaster of Bradfield College, where he raised academic standards and instituted a substantial programme of new building works. Appointed headmaster of Eton College in 1963, he broadened the curriculum immensely and introduced a greater focus on achieving strong examination results, but was asked to leave in 1969 after disagreements with housemasters and an unpopular attitude to caning, which became the subject of a press controversy after his death.
Following a one-year break during which he taught for one term at the prep school Swanbourne House, he was appointed headmaster of Fettes College, where he succeeded in greatly increasing enrolment and in reforming the harsh traditional atmosphere of the school. He died while still headmaster there.
He is the subject of child sexual abuse allegations detailed in numerous articles and an episode of the BBC radio documentary series In Dark Corners by Alex Renton.[2]
- ^ Vicky Allan (9 July 2017). "Portraits of shame: the paedophile paintings which disgrace Scotland's elite private schools". The Herald. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ "Eton to Fettes". BBC. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2022.