Durban High School

Durban High School is an all boys public school in Durban, South Africa.

History

DHS opened its doors in 1866 in two rooms and with seven pupils in Smith Street. From there it moved to a disused granary in Cato Square in 1880, just after the Zulu War, and then to the Old Hospital on the foreshore. In 1895, it moved up onto the healthier Berea to its present site, where it flourished. The ten acres (four ha) plot was granted to the School by the Durban Town Council. The first enrolled student was a boy called Eben Coakes and he was also the first Head-boy. There is also a related primary school: Durban Preparatory High School (D.P.H.S.). The school has approximately 1000 enrolled students, all boys, and includes a small boarding establishment and over 75 teachers. The headmaster is David Magner (since 2004), the sixth 'old boy' to lead the school. It is the oldest standing school in Durban and one of the oldest in South Africa.

Houses

There are six houses:

• Swales – Old Gold
• Grice – Turquoise
• Langley – Red
• Campbell – Green
• Payn – Oxford Blue
• Blackmore (the boarders' house) – White

Blackmore

Blackmore House is a home for over 120 boys. The boys' needs are catered for by food provision and dormitories with a maximum of 28 boys. The boys can go home most weekends and return on Monday mornings.

Sports

• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Canoeing
• Chess
• Climbing
• Cricket
• Cross Country
• Cycling
• Fishing
• Golf
• Hockey
• Indoor Hockey
• Inter-House Sports
• Rugby union
• Rugby 7s
• Soccer
• Softball
• Sport Climbing
• Squash
• Surfing
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Touch Rugby
• Waterpolo
• Hardball

Notable alumni

Politics

• Alec Erwin MP, SA Minister of Trade and Industry
• Dr Ernest George Jansen MP, Governor- General of the Union of South Africa (1950-1959).
• Sir Albert Robinson.MP and High Commissioner for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Sir Gavyn Arthur, Lord Mayor of London,2002.
• Senator Charles Clarkson OBE.
• Leif Egeland MP, Rhodes Scholar. Ambassador to Sweden and the Hague.SA High Commissioner in London.
• Denis Shepstone. Administrator of Natal Province.
• John Lloyd. Former Labour Party Leader, Exeter City Council UK. Barrister and anti- apartheid campaigner.
• Roger Hulley MP.
• Miles Cadman MP.
• Townley Williams MP.
• Graham Mackeurtan MP. King's Counsel and Historian.First in the Final Law Examinations of The Inner Temple, London.
• Dr Vernon Shearer, Mayor of Durban.
• Radclyffe Cadman, MP. Leader of the New Republic Party. Administrator of Natal.

Law

• Justice A E Carlisle.
• Justice Leo Caney.
• Justice O N Holmes.
• Justice Ramon Nigel Leon.
• Justice B D Burne.

Academics

• Sir Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982. Scientific Advisor to the British Government.President of The Royal Society.
• Dr Trevor Wadley, invented the Tellurometer in 1957, the Wadley Loop and an Ionosonde.
• Dr Phillip V. Tobias, Professor of Palaeoanthropology at Wits. Nominated three times for a Nobel Prize.
• Dr Alan Gelb, Rhodes Scholar. Director of The World Bank, Washington DC.
• Dr Dudley Goodhead OBE.Professor and Director of Medical Research Council Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, UK.
• Nils Eckhoff. Senior Surgeon at Guy's Hospital and consulting surgeon of Harvard University.Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.
• Dr David Papineau.Professor of the Philosophy of Science, King's College London.
• Dr Percy Deift. Professor of Mathematics at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.Awarded The George Polya Prize, 1998.
• Dr Peter Disler. Professor of Medicine at Melbourne and Monash Universities, Australia.
• Dr Peter de Villiers, Rhodes Scholar. Professor of Psychology, Smith College USA.Won the Decathlon at the British AAA in 1969 while at Oxford University.
• Dr Garth Allardyce. Played centre half for Kaizer Chiefs while at Wits Medical School.
• Dr Jacques Joubert. Professor of Neurology at UNISA and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia.
• Dr Charles Alfred Keogh, Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Thomas John L'Anson Bromwich. Professor of Mathematics,Galway University, Ireland.Senior Wrangler, Cambridge, 1895.
• Dr EV Axelson. Professor of History, University of Cape Town.
• Dr David Levy. Professor Electrical and Information Engineering, Sydney University.
• Professor Bruce Sparks. Head of Family Medicine, Wits Medical School, JHB.
• Dr Chris Leeman,Professor of English, Moorpark College, California, USA.
• Dr Alistair McEwan Lamont. Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria.
• J M 'Skonk' Nicholson, renowned schools rugby coach.

Education

Presidents of the National Union of South African Students

• Phillip V. Tobias, Professor of Palaeoanthropology.
• Ian Robertson . Banned for inviting Senator Robert Kennedy to SA.
• Karel Tip.Senior Counsel.
• Duncan Innes.

Business

• Bronek Masojada, Rhodes Scholar. CEO Hiscox Insurance,London. Past President of Insurance Institute of London and Director of Lloyd's of London.
• Dr Aaron Beare. International financier and philanthropist.
• Dr Cecil Renaud, international financier and philanthropist.
• Stephen Bradley Saad. Founder and CEO of Aspen Pharmaceuticals, Africa's largest pharmaceutical manufacturer.
• Graeme Robertson. Direct marketing advertising guru in the UK. The Graeme Robertson Trust was established in 1991 in his honour.
• Alan J Hellman. Founder and original CEO of Game Stores, Africa's largest discount retailer.
• Howard Buttery. CEO of Bell Equipment, Africa's largest manufacturer of heavy earth- moving equipment.

Military

• Major Edwin Swales VC, DFC. SAAF and RAF. Pathfinder 'Master' Bomber.
• Lt-Col JFO Davis SAAF. DFC and Bar and AM(American).
• J.J.le Roux. RAF. Squadron Leader 602 Squadron. DFC and 2 Bars.
• Major EC Saville SAAF. DFC and Bar and American DFC.
• Paddy Roberts. Lawyer and WW 2 RAF pilot. Turned to songwriting and singing writing numerous UK hits and film scores. Won five Ivor Novello Awards.
• Captain W L O Moon, DFC and Bar.
• Lt.-Col J A C Rademan, DSO and DFC.
• Lt.-Col E M Baker,DSO, DFC.
• Lt.-Comdr. J E H McBeath RN,DSO, OM.
• Sq.Ldr. 'Paddy' Hopkins, RAF Coastal Command. AFC and DFC.
• Wing-Commander David Haysom RAF, DSO and DFC.
• Major G R O Edwards, DSO and Bar.
• Lt-Col.A Winter Evans, DSO,DCM.
• Lt J F Britz, MM. SA Boxing.
• Sgt Peter Keogh,Royal Irish Regiment. MC -Afghanistan 2010.

Over 250 old boys died in both World Wars. I Victoria Cross(VC), 27 Distinguished Flying Crosses (DFC), 21 Military Crosses (MC) ,10 Military Medals(MM) and 8 Distinguished Service Orders (DSO) were awarded to old boys in these and subsequent conflicts.

The arts and media

• Roy Campbell, poet, author and adventurer.
• Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet.Won the Queen Victoria Memorial Prize for English in 1903.Also wrote in French.
• Marc Raubenheimer, concert pianist.Won the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition in 1982.Killed in the Barajas Airport tragedy in 1983 aged 32.Acclaimed in Austria, Switzerland, Germany,London and New York.
• Noel Langley novelist and playwright. Wrote the film scenario for The Wizard of Oz.
• Howard Carpendale, 'Schlager' singer and songwriter. Had number one hits in all German speaking countries.Received Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 Echo Awards.Sold over 25 million records.
• Jack Cope, author.
• Professor Geoffrey Smithers, Rhodes Scholar. World authority on Middle English. King's College, Oxford and Durham Universities.
• Conrad Arthur Skinner,author. Wrote under the pseudonym Michael Maurice.
• Victor Stiebel. London fashion designer.
• Stephen Mulholland. Editor of Financial Mail(JHB) and CEO of South African Associated Newspapers, now Times Media and the Fairfax Group(Australia).All-American swimming champion(1960) while at Purdue University.
• Tony Heard, editor of the Cape Times and Advisor to the SA Government.Given Golden Pen of Freedom Award by World Association of Newspapers.
• Laurence Gandar.Editor the Rand Daily Mail.Received the World Press Achievement Award by the American Newspaper Proprietors Association in 1966 and named a World Press Freedom Hero in 2010.
• Professor Tim Couzens. Literary and social historian.
• Paul Herman Robinson. Cartoonist for The Natal Mercury newspaper in Durban.

Sport

Cricket

All represented South Africa

• Hashim Amla. World Cup 2011.
• Lance Klusener, ICC 1999 World Cup Man of the Tournament, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2000
• Barry Richards. Broke Don Bradman's record for the number of runs in a season playing for South Australia, 1970/71.Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1969. Scored 80 first class centuries. His average of 79.14 in World Series Cricket was 23 higher than the second highest average. Test umpire Dickie Bird rated him the best batsman he ever saw.
• Hugh Tayfield. Took 9/113 in England's second innings at The Wanderers in 1957. Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1956*.
• Geoff Griffin. The only South African to take a hat-trick in a test match (Lords 1960) *.
• Trevor Goddard.SA captain and opening bat and test cricket's most economical bowler (av 1.64/over).*
• Eric Dalton. SA golf and tennis also.
• Horace Chapman.
• Richard Snell. World Cup 1992.
• HG Deane. SA captain.
• Lee Irvine.
• DV Dyer.
• Jon Kent.
• Tyron Henderson.
• Colin 'Tich' Wesley.*
• Mike Rindel.
• Imraan Khan. Not the ex-Pakistan captain.
• Jon Fellows-Smith.*
• Richard Dumbrill.
• IJ Siedle.
• Sid Pegler.
• DP 'Conky' Conyngham.
• JFW Nicholson.
• GH Shepstone.
• VC Robbins.Played for SA against S B Joel's XI, captained by Lord Tennyson (1924/5).They were not test matches.
• JAJ Christy.

Over 100 old boys have played first class provincial or county cricket in SA and the UK. [* All five played in the second test at Lords in 1960.]

Rugby

• Alistair Hargreaves, South Africa - Springboks, Position - Lock.
• Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand - All Blacks, Position - Lock.
• B J Botha. South Africa - Springboks, Position - Prop. World Cup Winner 2007.
• Andrew Aitken, South Africa - Springboks, Position - Flank & Eighth man.
• Neville 'Jacko' Tod. South Africa - Springboks, Position - Wing.
• Matthew Alexander. USA - Eagles, Position - Flyhalf. Scored 286 points for the Eagles.
• Graham Downes. USA - Eagles, Position - Prop.
• Guy Manson-Bishop. Played on the flank for the British Barbarians against the Springboks at Lansdowne Road, Dublin, 1994.

Athletics

• Clarence Oldfield, Silver medal 4x400m relay in 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
• Sydney Atkinson. Gold medal 110m hurdles, 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, silver in the same event in 1924 Olympics.

Surfing, swimming and lifesaving

• Shaun Tomson, 1977 IPS World Champion Surfer.
• Travis Logie. 2002 ISA World Champion Surfer.
• Jason Ribbink, surfer. Captain of the winning SA team at the 2002 ISA World Games.
• David Weare, international surfer.
• Leandro Jorge. Swam for Mocambique in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, 1996.
• Alan Burt. SA Lifesaving.
• Guy Nothard, SA Lifesaving.
• R Coetzee, SA Lifesaving.
• T Dumas, SA Lifesaving.
• B Edwards, SA Lifesaving.
• Lester Kitto,SA Lifesaving.
• M Hardaker.SA Lifesaving.
• J Zwart, SA Lifesaving.
• Michael Bolstridge. Chosen to swim for SA in the Montreal Olympics.
• G May, SA Swimming.
• D Collopy, SA Water-polo and Lifesaving.
• Colin Woodcock,SA Water-polo.

Golf

• Rory Sabbatini. Won the World Cup of Golf in 2003 partnered by Trevor Immelman.

Tennis

• VG Kirby,SA Davis Cup.
• David Adams, SA Davis Cup.
• C J J Robbins, SA Tennis.
• E Getaz, SA Tennis.
• J Hendrie, SA Tennis.
• John Yuill, SA Tennis.

Hockey

• Mike Cullen, SA.
• Grant Smith, SA.
• Geoff Abbott t, SA.
• S de Wet, SA.
• B Pearse, SA.
• P Woods, SA.
• Shaun Davenhill, SA.

  Miscellaneous

• Rory Donnellan, Rhodes Scholar. SA Equestrian.
• David Uniacke, SA Basketball.
• Lt.J F Britz, Military Medal. SA Boxing.
• E J W Browne,SA Rowing.

External links

• DHS official website

References

• Almanac's Top African Schools