Scope and Content
Old Bedfordians’ Year Book. 34th Edition. Printed by F R Hockliffe, 88 High Street Bedford. Includes photograph of W E Smith; list of Officers of the Club; list of District Vice Presidents; rules; Club Colours; Old Bedfordian Lodge; list of new members with addresses; minutes of the AGM 1930; statement of accounts1930 ; Minutes of the AGM 1931; statement of accounts 1931; Past Presidents; Old Bedfordian fixtures; School fixtures; annual dinners; ‘at home’s; photographs of Rev. T C Fry, Rev Charles Frederick Farrar, A L Turner, R W Rice, N G Mumford, G H P Fowler, T J P York, W E Suter, new outdoor swimming pool, the opening of the Phillpotts Memorial Gates, and five Old Bedfordian Bishops at the Lambeth Conference – R Dyke Acland, B Lasbrey, W J Carey, J A F Gregg and W F Surtees; list of District Vice Presidents; reports of District Vice Presidents on Argentine, Athens, Australia, Burma, Cape Colony, Ceylon, Chile, East Africa, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaya, New Zealand, Rhodesia, Shanghai, China, Sudan, Transvaal, British Colombia and the west of England; notes about O.B’s; marriages; births; In Memoriam with obituaries for James Surtees Phillpotts, Air Vice Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, Dudley Frederick Cary Elwes, Rev Charles Frederick Farrar, Horace Vivian Wellesley Fields-Clarke, rev Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick, Rev Thomas Charles Fry, Sir Henry Hessey Johnston Gompertz, Sidney Joseph Green, Lawrence Read Colburne Green, Harold Leupold Holme, William Wellesley Humbley, Francis Hope Grant Hutchinson, Basil Andrew Jarvis, Walter Budworth Jessopp, Matthew Johnston, Rowland Frederick Augustus Orr, A H B Piers, Hugh Winfield Roll, William Edward Smith, Henry Layton Staffurth, Arthur Bernard Salmer Steinmetz, Percival Louis Sydney, Aubrey Vere Symonds, Richard Reynell Taylor and Frederick William Henry Walshe, Dorothea Dymock, Charlotte Joanna Sanderson, E J A Kerans, Thomas Armstrong White, Harry Alfred Harding; retirement of A L Turner, Noel George Mumford and R W Rice; Head Boys Wilfred Ernest Suter and Gerald Herbert Percival Fowler; speech day 1930 & 1931; cricket XI’s and football XV’s; appointment of T J P York; school struck by lightning 3 Sep 1931.