Mr C H Crump was the first music and singing master and organist and was engaged to train the choir (pupils) when the chapel opened in 1874. The first music scholarships were made in 1884 to one or two boys who were appointed choral scholars, part of whose fees were paid by the school. The choir still takes the lead at the most significant moments in the Col - leges communal life: Speech Day, carol services, the whole school service, and at moments of crisis such as funerals and memorial services. Before 1900, there was no need for a chaplain as the first five headmasters were Church of England clergymen and could conduct chapel services themselves. The Revd CW Horsburgh became the first College chaplain in that year. Perhaps one of the most ‘colourful’ incumbents was the Rt Revd Bishop Walter Carey who was at the College from 1936–40 and 1945–48. Formerly Bishop of Bloemfontein, he brought his love of rugby to the College; on occasions seen presiding over a rugby scrum practice dressed in full episcopal dress. He was also famous for his sermons and, according to VM Allom’s centenary history of the College, Ex Oriente Salus , ‘never hesitated to say what he thought, sometimes to the embarrassment of his audience, and on one or two occasions of the BBC when the latter were broadcasting his sermons’. At the chapel service on Foundation Day, Saturday 15 June, College Chaplain the Revd Daniel Merceron outlined the history of the chapel in celebration of its opening 150 years previously that week. He remarked on some of the stained-glass windows, mentioned past chaplains and spoke of how the Chapel remains today a place of quiet reflection for the whole College community. The Bishop of Chichester with Ben Enwonwu at the unveiling of his sculpture in 1956
Good Samaritan (1914)
Sir Percivale (1921)
The College choir in the mid-1960s
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