She remained in South Africa for the rest of her life and as Helen Joseph she went on to become a leading political activist against the apartheid system of racial segregation.

She was placed under house arrest in 1962 and lived under a banning order for 23 years until she was 80, surviving anonymous gunshots and a bomb wired to her front gate.

[3] In the early years, boarding was offered, and boys slept in dormitories housed in the upstairs verandas, which were enclosed for the purpose.

Because of parents' concerns over the possibility of enemy action, an air raid shelter was constructed at the school (later used as a changing room for the swimming pool`).

By 1945, Haworth’s alcoholism made it impossible for him to remain at his post, and he was forced to sign an irrevocable power of attorney which authorized Tim Sutcliffe to form a trust to continue the two schools.

[1] Mr Sutcliffe, an Oxford-educated history teacher at Hilton College was 27 years of age, and had no previous experience of teaching in a preparatory school.

Tim Sutcliffe was a visionary man of imposing stature who commanded awe and respect in pupils and teachers alike.

Sutcliffe had a passion for Shakespeare, and held the senior classes enthralled with his participatory style of introducing them to gory, action-packed excerpts from Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Macbeth!

Though secular himself, he also taught the Bible, communicating his love of the sonorous language of the King James Version through vivid Old Testament passages that captured his pupils' imagination.

The American poet and artist Peter Sacks, who was educated at Clifton, vividly recalled Sutcliffe's classroom theatrics and his corporal punishments some three decades after his schooling there.

Mr Seymour was also instrumental in allowing "non-white" children to enroll at the school, in defiance of the apartheid laws of the time.

[1] In 1983 a second storey was added to the old bungalow housing the ‘Standard Three’ block, providing Clifton with a library and an adjoining projection room.

In the same year, cricket nets were erected on the top field and a block housing classrooms were converted into a Music Centre.