STOP PRESS! Recent Event at Marlborough:

Old Marlburian vintage car buffs (That’s very definitely NOT the same as “petrolheads” is it ?!) will doubtless be pleased to know that Henry Frederick Stanley MORGAN (1894-95), the Founder and original Managing Director of the Morgan Motor Company, was an Old Marlburian!

The son of a Herefordshire clergyman, he was born on 11^th August 1881 and arrived as a pupil at M.C. in May 1894. He was a member of Upcot House, a small junior boarding house which was situated west of Cotton House and which was closed in 1967.

Sadly, he was only at MC for 4 terms and so did not have time to carve out a glittering academic career here for himself. Perhaps he was already interested in engineering and fancied that he might learn more about that elsewhere ? We shall never know!

Henry Morgan ould no doubt have been amazed had he known that on Wednesday, 8^th April, 2009, some 115 years after he left Marlborough, no less than 22 Morgan cars would parade around the College Court. The occasion was the annual rally of the Morgan Owners` Club which this year started at Marlborough and ended at Morgan`s original factory near Hereford. Among the participating drivers was Anthony Spender (PR 1953-57). The accompanying two photographs hint at the splendour of the occasion.