Durban High School

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Durban High School (D.H.S.)
Location
Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Information
Type All-Boys Public School(state)
Motto Deo Fretus (In God We Trust)
Established 1866
Locale Urban (125 st.Thomas Road,Durban)
Head Master Erasmus
Grades 8 - 12
Number of students 1000
Houses Swales, Grice, Langley, Campbell and Payn
School color(s) Oxford blue and old gold!
Newspaper The Herald
Boarding houses Blackmore
Website http://www.durbanhighschool.co.za

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

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 Mr Leon Erasmus. It is the oldest standing school in Durban and one of the oldest in South Africa.


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Houses

There are six houses:

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

Blackmore House is a home for over 140 boys. The boys' needs are catered for by food provision and dormitories with a maximum of 6 boys per dorm. The boys can go home most weekends and return on Monday mornings.

Sports

A wide range of sports and activities are offered including climbing, golf, fishing, surfing, chess, football, basketball, and hardball as well as the more traditional athletics, cricket, hockey, and rugby which have been played at the school for over a hundred years.

Notable people

Staff

   Robert Russell,Scottish born educator and first Head Master(1866–1875).
   Lt.Col A.C. Martin, Military Cross. Head Master 1943-1952(German prisoner of war during the first two years of his appointment).
   Izak Van Heerden. School, Natal, Springbok and Argentina rugby coach.POW in Germany with another DHS teacher, Bill Payne.Taught at DHS for 39 years. Izak died at the school in 1973.
   George Armstrong, first 'old boy' Head Master of the school 1952-1959.
   'Skonk' Nicholson,renowned schools rugby coach.Coached seven Springboks including Joel Stransky and Butch James, both world cup winning fly-halves. DHS First XV rugby, First XI cricket and Head Prefect. Natal School's Rugby.
   L.C.W. Theobald, Latin Master and school and SA School's cricket coach.Master-in-charge of cricket 1949-1967.Coached eight SA cricketers including Barry Richards, Lee Irvine, Hugh Tayfield and Trevor Goddard. First XI cricket.
   Bill Payn, Springbok rugby.Taught at the school from 1915-1953. Bill fought in both World Wars and was awarded the Military Medal in 1941, aged 47,while in action in the Western Desert.Prisoner of war in Germany with fellow DHS teacher Izak Van Heerden.Ran the 90 km Comrades Marathon in rugby boots.Provincial cricket, baseball, athletics and boxing.
   G F Chater. Sqn Ldr RAF 3 Squadron during Battle of Britain. Distinguished Flying Cross.
   Rev. J. Richardson, SA tennis.
   T.H. Blackmore, Senior Master(1903–1934).
   D.C.'Des' Thompson, Head Master (1971-1983).
   Tony Human, Senior Boarder Master and Science teacher(1965–2014).The school's longest serving teacher.
   Pierre-Louise-Joseph d'Hotman de Villiers, Comte de St.Pol, French Master at the school for 28 years.
   Norman Lucas-inspirational teacher who taught science at the school for 41 years(1947-1988).
   Tom Howard, Vice-principal. Born in Wiltshire UK, he joined the staff in 1931 and taught for 40 years.
   A S Langley, Head Master 1910-1931. Introduced rugby to the school and founded the preparatory school(D.P.H.S.) which has produced 68 international sportsmen..

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. SA Minister of the Interior, 1943-1948.
   Leif Egeland MP, Rhodes Scholar. Ambassador to Sweden and the Hague.SA High Commissioner in London 1948-1950. Dux 1918.
   Denis Shepstone. Administrator of Natal Province, Chancellor of the University of Natal.
   John Lloyd. Former Labour Party Leader, Exeter City Council UK. Barrister and anti- apartheid campaigner.
   Roger Hulley MP.
   Townley Williams MP.
   Miles Cadman,MP.
   Graham Mackeurtan MP. King's Counsel and Historian.First in the Final Law Examinations of The Inner Temple, London.
   Dr Vernon Shearer, MP and Mayor of Durban.
   Radclyffe Cadman, MP. MA(Cantab) LL.B, Leader of the New Republic Party. Administrator of Natal.Served on a Royal Navy submarine in WW2.
   Rupert Ellis-Brown, Mayor of Durban. Represented SA Sailing in 1924,(Paris) and 1928,(Amsterdam) Olympic Games.

LAW


   Justice A E Carlisle.
   Justice Leo Caney.
   Justice Neville (G N) Holmes, Judge of the Appellate Division.
   Justice Ramon Nigel Leon.
   Justice B D Burne
   Justice David Friedman, Dux 1952
   Justice Brian Law
   Justice Alan Magid
   Justice Jonathan Heher, Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, formerly the Appellate Division
   Justice Malcolm Wallis, Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal and honorary Professor of Law in the University of KwaZulu-Natal


Academics


   Sir Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982. Scientific Advisor to the British Government.President of The Royal Society, Governor at the Scripps Research Institute, USA. Dux 1941
   Dr Trevor Wadley, invented the Tellurometer in 1957, the Wadley Loop and an Ionosonde. Awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal in 1970.
   Dr Phillip V Tobias, Professor of Palaeoanthropology at Wits. Nominated three times for a Nobel Prize. Dux 1942.
   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. School Dux 1956.
   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. Dux 1963.
   Dr Dennis Schauffer, Professor Emeritus, Drama Studies, University KwaZulu Natal.Associate Professor Visual Arts and Design, Vaal Univ. of Technology.
   Dr Percy Deift. Professor of Mathematics at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.Awarded The George Polya Prize, 1998. Dux 1962
   Dr Peter Disler, Professor of Medicine at Melbourne and Monash Universities, Australia. Dux 1964.
   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.PhD at Harvard. Head Prefect.
   Dr Garth Allardice. Orthopaedic surgeon, Northwick Park Hospital UK. Played centre half for Kaizer Chiefs FC, at the time the best football team in the country, while at Wits Medical School. Natal School's rugby, athletics and football.
   Dr Jacques Joubert, Professor of Neurology at UNISA, the largest university in Africa, and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia.
   Dr Charles Alfred Keogh, Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
   Thomas John L'Anson Bromwich. Professor of Mathematics,Queen's College,Galway,Ireland.Senior Wrangler, Cambridge, 1895. Fellow of the Royal Society.
   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. Elected World Organisation of Family Doctors (Wonca) President in 2004.
   Dr Clive Leeman,Professor of English, Moorpark College, California, USA.
   Dr Alistair McEwan Lamont. Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria.
   Alan Crump, Professor of Fine Arts, Wits University.
   Dr Ian Robertson, US author and sociologist. Former NUSAS President.
   Dr David Bourne.Switched from a career in nuclear physics to become a Chief Research Officer in the Infections Disease Epidemiology Unit at UCT.
   Dr Jeffrey Greenstein, neurologist. Head of Multiple Sclerosis Research Institute, Philadelphia USA. Professor of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
   Professor David Brokensha, Universities of Ghana and California. International anthropologist and author. German prisoner of war (1942-1945).
   Professor David Henderson-Smart, Sydney University. Awarded Order of Australia in 2006. Director of Neonatal Intensive Care at King George V Hospital, Sydney.
   Dr Mike Kirkwood poet, author, anti-apartheid campaigner and editor of Bolt, Ravan Press and Staffrider. First XV rugby.

Business


   Bronek-Masojada, Rhodes Scholar. CEO Hiscox Insurance,London. Past President of Insurance Institute of London and Director of Lloyd's of London.
   Dr Jonathan 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. First XV rugby.
   Graeme Robertson. Direct marketing advertising guru in the UK. The Graeme Robertson Trust was established in 1991 in his honour. First XV rugby.
   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. The company is the largest producer of Articulated Dump Trucks in the world.
   Vernon Crookes,CEO of Crookes Brothers, one of Kwa-Zulu Natal's oldest companies.
   Dr Graham Bell. Ph.D La Trobe University, Melbourne. Director, Centre for ChemoSensory Research at the University of New South Wales. Founder and CEO of E-Nose Pty Ltd(Biotechnology), Sydney Australia.


Education

Presidents of the National Union of South African Students

   Phillip V. Tobias, 1948.
   Ian Robertson, 1966. Banned by the government after inviting US Senator Robert Kennedy to South Africa.
   Karel Tip, 1975, Advocate. Senior Counsel.
   Charles Nupen, attorney. Chief Technical Adviser of the International Labour Organisation

Military


   Major Edwin Swales VC, DFC. SAAF and RAF. Pathfinder 'Master' Bomber.
   Captain JFO Davis SAAF and 601 Squadron, RAF. DFC and Bar and American Air Medal 1st and 2nd clusters.
   J.J.le Roux. RAF. Squadron Leader 602 Squadron. DFC and 2 Bars. His squadron wounded Field Marshall Erwin Rommel when his car overturned during an aerial attack just after D-Day.
   Major EC Saville RAF and SAAF. DFC and Bar and American DFC.
   Paddy Roberts. Lawyer and WW 2 RAF pilot.Commercial BOAC pilot. Turned to songwriting and singing, writing numerous UK hits and film scores. Won five Ivor Novello Awards.
   Captain W L O Moon SAAF, DFC and Bar.
   Lt.-Col J A C Rademan,SAAF, DSO and DFC.Head of Civil Aviation in South Africa after the war.
   Lt.-Col E M Baker SAAF,DSO, DFC.
   Lt.-Comdr. J E H McBeath Royal Navy, 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, Royal Marines, MM. SA Boxing.
   Sgt Peter Keogh, Royal Irish Regiment. Military Cross, Afghanistan 2010.
   Lt.-Col O S Hampson, Commanding Officer Royal Durban Light Infantry
   Lt. H E Towersey,MC and B.E.M.
   Lt.John Rorich, MC.
   Col Earl Stevenson, U.S. Marine Corps.
   Captain L M Jacobs,Royal Durban Light Infantry, MC.
   Lt.R.E.Morrison,Military Cross and Bar.
   Capt.L.C.Grice MC.
   Sq.Ldr. W S Bowyer, RAF Battle of Britain pilot.
   Major Clive Shenton, Black Watch and Parachute Regiment.Left the British Army and studied law at Edinburgh University. Admitted to the Scottish Bar(1975) and English Bar and became a Queen's Counsel in 1990.Distinguished Service Cross
   Lt. Guy Brokensha, Distinguished Service Cross, Fleet Air Arm (888 Squadron).
   Michael Turner, SAAF and RAF pilot.Became a film and TV actor in Britain after WW2.
   Lt.Col Wilfred Clark, 15 and 31 Squadrons,SAAF.Served in North Africa, Malta, Italy, Poland and Germany during WW II.
   Lt. M O Grunder, SAAF. AFC(American), Korean War. Killed in action September 1951.

Over 250 old boys died, and more than 2000 were injured in both World Wars. I Victoria Cross(VC), 27 Distinguished Flying Crosses (DFC), 22 Military Crosses (MC), 10 Military Medals(MM) and 8 Distinguished Service Orders (DSO) were awarded to old boys in these and subsequent conflicts. In the battle of Delville Wood in 1916,12 old boys were killed, 9 wounded and 3 were taken prisoner.

The arts and media


   Roy Campbell, poet, author and adventurer.
   Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet.Won the Queen Victoria Memorial Prize for English, for best paper in English, in 1903. One of the most significant poets of the 20th century. Poet Laureate of Portugal. Also wrote poetry in French and English.
   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.Won Goldene Europa awards in 1978 and 1987. School First XI cricket,First XV rugby and Natal School's athletics.
   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. Cox to the Cambridge eight for three years.
   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.
   Anthony Heard, Editor. Special adviser to the SA government, Pringle Press Award, Golden Pen Award(World Association of Newspapers)in 1986.
   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.
   Antony Bullimore, Planet Cake a reality television show, Australia.
   Austin Ferraz, editor Sunday Mail, Salisbury, now Harare(Zimbabwe).

Sport

Cricket

All represented South Africa except where noted:

  • Hashim Amla. World Cup 2007 and 2011. His 311 not out in the first test at The Oval in 2012 is the highest by a SA batsman in test cricket. Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2013. Quickest SA batsman to score 20 test centuries and the fastest batsman from all countries to score 4000 runs in ODIs.
  • Lance Klusener, "Zulu", ICC 1999 World Cup Man of the Tournament, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2000. Took 8/64 in India's second innings on debut in Kolkata in 1996.
  • Barry Richards. Broke Don Bradman's record for the number of runs in a season playing for South Australia, 1970/71. In ten first class matches he scored 1538 runs at an average of 109.86. 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. Don Bradman selected Richards as an opening batsman in his World XI. Named 'Leading cricketer in the world', for 1973 by Wisden.
  • Hugh Tayfield. Took 9/113 in England's second innings at The Wanderers in 1957. Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1956. Bowled 137 consecutive balls in the Durban Test in 1957 against England without conceding a run. First XV rugby.*
  • Geoff Griffin. The only South African to take a hat-trick in a test match (Lords 1960). First XV rugby and Natal School's Athletics, Natal U19 rugby, Rhodesia hockey.
  • Trevor Goddard. SA captain and opening bat and Test cricket's most economical bowler (av 1.64/over). Provincial football.
  • Hubert 'Nummy' Deane, SA captain.
  • Richard Snell. World Cup 1992.
  • Lee Irvine Highest First XI batting average at DHS in a season. Scored 1310 runs at an average of 68.95 in 21 innings. School first XV rugby and School Athletics.
  • IJ Siedle.
  • Tyron Henderson, First XV rugby.
  • Jon Kent.
  • Imraan Khan. Not the ex-Pakistan captain. Opened the innings in the third test against Australia in Cape Town in the absence of SA captain Graeme Smith (2009).
  • Jonathan Fellows-Smith. Rugby Blue, Oxford University.
  • Richard Dumbrill
  • Sid Pegler
  • Eric Dalton. SA golf and tennis also.
  • JFW Nicolson, Rhodes Scholar. Holds the record, set with another old boy, I J 'Jack' Siedle, of 424 runs for the first wicket in provincial cricket in SA.
  • JAJ Christy.
  • Colin Wesley.
  • Dennis Dyer.
  • Dennis Gamsy.
  • Nick Compton (represented England). Toured England with the DHS first XI captained by Hashim Amla. Averaged 99.60 for Somerset in county cricket in 2012. Tests for England beginning 2012. Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2013.
Rugby


   Alistair Hargreaves, South Africa - Springboks, Position - Lock.Captain of the SA under 19 team that won the World Cup in 2005. Plays for Saracens in England.
   Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand - All Blacks, Position - Lock.
   B J Botha. South Africa - Springboks, Position - Prop. World Cup Winner, Rugby World Cup 2007.
   Andrew Aitken, South Africa - Springboks, Position - Flank & Eighth man.
   Neville 'Jacko' Tod. South Africa - Springboks(1928), Position - Wing.
   Matthew Alexander. USA - Eagles, Position - Flyhalf. Scored 286 points for the Eagles(1995-1998).
   Graham Downes. USA - Eagles, Position - Prop.
   Antonie Claassen, France, position- flank. Natal and SA School's rugby and Head Prefect.
   Guy Manson-Bishop. Lock/flank. South Africa XV, 1994. Played on the flank for the British Barbarians against the Springboks at Lansdowne Road, Dublin, 1994. Leicester Tigers and Western Province. Natal School's Rugby and First XI cricket.
   Garth Williamson, Natal and Junior Springbok scrumhalf.
   Robbie Savage, Natal centre. Played in the Natal teams that drew 6-6 with the 1960 All Blacks and beat the 1963 Australian team 14-13.
   'Skonk' Nicholson, renowned rugby coach at Maritzburg College.Under his guidance the 'College' First XV were unbeaten at home for 11 years, finally losing in 1961 to his old school. 'Skonk' coached 16 unbeaten College teams. He coached the College first XV from 1948-1982. First XV Rugby, First XI Cricket and Head Prefect.Natal School's Rugby.

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 in Paris.
   H.Knowles- SA Athletics.
   Peter de Villiers, British Decathlon champion, broke the SA Decathlon record when winning the Decathlon at the AAA in the UK in 1970.

Surfing, swimming and lifesaving

   Shaun Tomson, 1977 IPS World Champion Surfer.
   Travis Logie. 2002 ISA World Champion Surfer.
   Jason Ribbink, surfer. Ranked #2 longboard surfer in the world in 2001. Captain of the winning SA team at the 2002 ISA World Games.
   David Weare, international surfer.
   Byron Jeffers, SA Swimming. Youngest male to medal at Senior Nationals in SA aged 14. Set 43 SA, 3 Africa and 8 British age group records. First team All-American in 200m freestyle relay, 2003/4.
   Leandro Jorge. Swam for Mocambique in the Olympics in Atlanta,1996.
   Alan Burt. SA Lifesaving.School first XV rugby.
   T.Scott, SA Lifesaving.
   C.Murray, SA Lifesaving.
   Guy Nothard, SA Lifesaving.
   R Coetzee, SA Lifesaving.
   T Dumas, SA Lifesaving.
   B Edwards, SA Lifesaving.
   Lester Kitto,SA Lifesaving.School first XV rugby.
   M Hardaker.SA Lifesaving.
   J Zwart, SA Lifesaving.
   Michael Bolstridge, SA Swimming. Chosen to swim at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. The team was banned from participating.
   G May, SA Swimming.
   D Collopy, SA Water-polo and Lifesaving.
   Colin Woodcock,SA Water-polo. Head Prefect and Natal School's rugby.
   Merlin Fredericks, SA Swimming.

Golf

   Rory Sabbatini. Won the World Cup of Golf in 2003 partnered by Trevor Immelman.Finished second in the 2007 Masters Tournament.

Tennis

   Vernon G 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, Professional tennis player.

Hockey

   Mike Cullen, SA.
   Grant Smith, SA.
   Geoff Abbott, SA.
   S de Wet, SA.
   B Pearse, SA.
   P Woods, SA.
   Shaun Davenhill, SA.
   Richard Curtis,SA.
   Grant Robertson, SA.

Other sports

   Rory Donnellan, Rhodes Scholar. SA Equestrian.
   David Uniacke, SA Basketball.
   Lt.J F Britz, Military Medal. SA Boxing.
   Dr Garth Allardice, centre half, Kaizer Chiefs Football Club.
   E J W Browne,SA Rowing.
   Reneshan Naidoo, SA Badminton(2012) while still at school.Kwa-Zulu Natal Sportsman of the Year (2013).
   Mike Sellick-SA Casting.First XV rugby.
   Rupert Ellis-Brown, represented SA in sailing in 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games.
   D Napier-SA Baseball.
   J. Banks-SA Shooting.
   L.A. Evans-SA Yachting.
   L.N. Horsfield- SA Yachting.
   M. Statham, SA Yachting (1995, 1998, 1999)
   Robin Lowe, centre half, Durban United and Addington football clubs. Killed in a motor accident in 1970. SA Footballer of the Year, 1966.
   Johnny Sinclair, Durban United footballer(midfielder).
   Gareth Irvine, Durban United goalkeeper. First XV rugby.
   Eric Dalton-SA Golf, Tennis and Cricket.
   Stephen Mulholland, All-American swimming champion while at Purdue University.

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