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Name:
Nationality: Rank: Regiment: Age: Born : Date of Death: Additional information: Marital status : Occupation : Cemetery : |
Sidgwick Arthur Hugh
British Captain 157th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery 34 2 october 1882 17 september 1917 Son of Arthur and Charlotte Sophia Sidgwick, of 9, Fyfield Rd., Oxford Mendinghem Military Cemetery Plot VII , Row E , Stone 6 |
Schooling :
He entered Winchester College ( 1895-1901) first on the Roll from Oxford Preparatory School.
He won the Queen’s Gold Medal for English Verse, and the Hawkins’ English Literature Prize.
He was Richardson Mathematical Prizeman in 1900 and Goddard Scholar in 1901 – a very rare combination – and played in College VI in his last year.
He went up to Balliol with a Scholarship in 1901 where he obtained distinction in the examination for the Ireland Scholarship and took his degree with First Classes in Mathematical Moderations, Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores.
In 1905 he was elected to a Fellowship at University College and in 1906 won the Chancellor’s Prize for English Essay on “The Influence of Greek Philosophy on English Poetry”.
The same year he was appointed a Junior Examiner under the Board of Education and at the outbreak of war was acting as private secretary to Sir Lewis Selby-Bigge (Coll. 1873-1879), Permanent Secretary of the Board, where he seemed assured of a brilliant career.
He entered Winchester College ( 1895-1901) first on the Roll from Oxford Preparatory School.
He won the Queen’s Gold Medal for English Verse, and the Hawkins’ English Literature Prize.
He was Richardson Mathematical Prizeman in 1900 and Goddard Scholar in 1901 – a very rare combination – and played in College VI in his last year.
He went up to Balliol with a Scholarship in 1901 where he obtained distinction in the examination for the Ireland Scholarship and took his degree with First Classes in Mathematical Moderations, Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores.
In 1905 he was elected to a Fellowship at University College and in 1906 won the Chancellor’s Prize for English Essay on “The Influence of Greek Philosophy on English Poetry”.
The same year he was appointed a Junior Examiner under the Board of Education and at the outbreak of war was acting as private secretary to Sir Lewis Selby-Bigge (Coll. 1873-1879), Permanent Secretary of the Board, where he seemed assured of a brilliant career.
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Military Footsteps :
April 1917 17 september 1917 |
He could not obtain his release till the end of 1915 After a year’s service in the Royal Garrison Artillery, was recalled from France to assist his colleagues at the Board of Education in preparing for the Education Bill of 1917. He returned to his battery Killed in action |
Winchester College
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Balliol College
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