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Philip Fletcher, Reggie Alexander & Oliver Wigmore - Jan 1960
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Photogallery
(Photo supplied by Peter Hays)
L-R:
Philip Fletcher, Reggie Alexander and Oliver Wigmore - photos taken in January 1960
R S (Reggie) Alexander was then Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Prince of Wales School. He was in the original intake
into the school and appears in the 1930 hockey team photo. A distinguished Old Cambrian who became the first local born Mayor
of Nairobi, a member of Legco and of the International Olympic Committee until his death in 1990. A founder of the
Old Cambrians club, he negotiated with the Nairobi Council in 1945 for the lease of the site on the Ngong Road where the
Old Cambrians Sports Club was established. He became the first captain of the Old Cambrians Cricket XI which played its
first matches at the School Oval until the pitch on the Ngong Road was completed in 1946.
Philip Fletcher has just retired as Headmaster at the end of 1959, and Oliver Wigmore had just taken over as Headmaster of
the school earlier that month.
Note from Peter Hays:
R S (Reggie) Alexander was my father-in-law - my wife, Moyra's, father. Despite mixing with the high and mighty around the
world during his full life he always remained proud of the fact that he had been in the first intake at the School.
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