SAVILIANS ON SAVILIANS: DEREK WINTERBOTTOM ON THOMAS HUGHES. CHAIRED BY JEREMY BARLOW.

Derek Winterbottom is a biographer of Thomas Hughes and a historian whose books mainly focus on the Isle of Man and the British public schools. He has been a member of the Savile for many years but not as long as this famous Celtic cross has stood in its place in a Manx churchyard.

Thomas Hughes was almost a founder member of the Savile and was already famous throughout the British Empire as the author of ‘Tom Brown’s School Days’, based on his own experience of Rugby under Dr Arnold and published in 1857. It had an amazing impact on the development of education in Britain and elsewhere, as Derek will explain.