Friends of Christ's Hospital

Richard Frederick Jesse Dixon, an Old Blue who attended Christ’s Hospital from 1941-1948, died on November 21, 2024, in McKinney, Texas, USA. Richard was born in Exmouth, Devonshire in the United Kingdom on May 8, 1932. Richard’s father and paternal grandfather were both Captains in the Royal Navy and Richard attended Christ’s Hospital from the age of nine on an …

Friend’s of Christ’s Hospital was given the honour of attending a reception given at the British Ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Mathematical School (RMS) embedded within CH on November 1st 2023. The British Embassy in Washington celebrated this significant milestone in the history of CH, for two reasons. First, …

For the People: A Citizen’s Manifesto to Shaping Our Nation’s Future by Simon Chadwick Is the American Experiment permanently broken? America faces a full-blown political and governmental crisis, with pundits predicting some form of civil war and the potential for our democracy to collapse. The truth is that this crisis has been brewing for some time and that its effects go …

John Laurence (Jack) Doyle, an Old Blue who donated generously to Christ’s Hospital and co-founded Friends of Christ’s Hospital in the USA, has died in Cupertino, California.  Jack was born in Devon, England in 1931 and attended CH from 1940 to 1948, first in Prep B and then in Middleton A. At CH, Jack was good at both sports and academics, enjoyed theater and many outdoor activities, described …