Wilfrid Oldaker

[8] His father's parents were Thomas Allies Oldaker, an estate agent originally from Pershore, Worcestershire, and Letitia Capel Pulley, from Hackney.

[4] In 1926, Oldaker wrote from Worksop to the editor of The Gramophone, Compton Mackenzie, praising a music festival he had recently attended in Germany.

[12] In November of the same year he resigned his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Worksop College Officers' Training Corps on the grounds of ill health,[13] and until 1929 was active there instead as a scout leader.

[14] He left the school in 1929 to take up parish work,[14] and in 1930 was acting Curate of St Leon with All Saints, Streatham,[4] but in 1931 was appointed as Chaplain and assistant schoolmaster at Clifton College, where he remained until 1938.

[15] In October 1936, Oldaker gave a talk to the English Association on "Elizabethan Music, with special reference to the Songs in the Dramas".

[17] Oldaker's first book was a study of The Birds of Aristophanes, printed in 1926 by the Cambridge University Press, including scenes from the play, with his introduction, notes, and a vocabulary.

"[22] In June 1938, Oldaker published an article on "Public School Religion", addressing two recent pamphlets, "The Parish Church and the Fifth Form", by Anon., and "Against the Shepherds", by "Colin Clout".

[24] In 1944, the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published his The Background of the Life of Jesus,[25] and in 1953 came a new edition of his Scenes from the Birds of Aristophanes.

The lecture was then devoted in alternate years to the honouring of Sir Thomas Bodley and the encouragement of Hebrew studies, and Oldaker took on both.

One reason for the move was believed in Oxford to be that the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church were giving him little support in his ambitious development plans.

A history by D. E. Edwards comments that Oldaker achieved a lot while there, concentrating on the academic and musical sides of his school, while not neglecting games.