The Cloisters at Winchester College,.
james sabben-clare, born 1941
HEADMASTER OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE
The son of Ernest Sabben-Clare, himself a distinguished headmaster of Leeds Grammar School, James won the top scholarship to Winchester, where he became Aulae Prae, Captain of College VI and a member of Soccer X1, as well as winning school prizes for Latin and Greek Prose and Greek Verse. After winning a scholarship to New College, he gained a double first in Mods and Greats and was elected a Visiting Fellow of All Souls. He became a schoolmaster, first at Marlborough and then from the age of 27 at Winchester College. He spent the rest of his career there as head of Classics, Second Master and then Headmaster.
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