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Old Borlasians
Old Borlasian Club Sports
Bursaries
Five outstanding sportsmen and sportswomen were
awarded bursaries this year:–
Harry Shimmin – Rowing
Jess Hughes – Rowing
Noah Sharples – Hockey
Zoe Tricker – Hockey
Helen O’Riordan – Rowing
Old Borlasian Prize
This year the Old Borlasian Prize has been awarded to two
pupils. Joshua D’Arcy, Head Boy, and Sofia Green, Head
Girl, have both been judged worthy of this honour and
will be presented with their cheques and the Bates Cup on
Speech Day 25
th
June 2013.
Stories to tell – what other
Old Borlasians are doing and
thinking.
Now and then, having been approached about sending in
an article for the Magazine, a would-be contributor will ask
‘Well what shall I write about?’ the answer always given is
anything you like of interest, such as what you are doing,
where you have been, have you met anyone of note or,
even a ghost story! There’s a first time for everything and
this year we actually do have a
Ghost Story!
In the Manor of Tinghurst.
Just before the Black Death (1348 – 49), when the mass
of the population of England was eking out a miserable
existence as villeins and serfs under the control of the
Lords of the Manors, this Manor was the property of the
Bishop of Lincoln as the whole of Buckinghamshire was in
the Diocese of Lincoln. Marlow is and always was about
170 miles south of Lincoln and Fingest, or Tinghurst as it
was then, is about 4 miles from Marlow.
On 28
th
May 1320 Henry Burghursh (otherwise Burgwash),
at the age of 28, became Bishop of Lincoln. He was a busy
man in those days of slow travel for, according to the
Dictionary of National Biography –
He supported Queen Isabella 1326;
was commissioner to obtain Edward II’s abdication 1327;
was Lord Chancellor 1328 – 1330;
was Candidate for the See of Canterbury 1328;
accompanied Edward III to France 1329;
baptised the Prince of Wales 1330;
was imprisoned in the Tower 1330;
was Lord Treasurer 1334 – 1337;
was employed by Edward III in Flanders 1338;
was in the southern counties 1340;
was again in Flanders where he died 1340.
How he ever found the time to do all those things and to
make so many visits to hunt the deer in the forests and live
in the Manor of Tinghurst, as described in the essay in The
Book of Days, is mystifying. He is said to have been buried
at Fingest although he died in Flanders.
The Book of Days, 1864, contains the following essay which
will, I hope, one day inspire an Old Borlasian Historian to
carry out meticulous research into the reigns of the three
Edwards, covering in particular the 48 years of Henry, for I
feel certain there is much to be discovered.
