FIRST may I thank Brendan Gallagher for the excellent series on the great schools. I write as a former pupil of Durham School and a past president of ERFSU (England Schools) who has had the privilege to watch many superb school matches over the past 50 years.
May I draw attention to a couple of omissions from the article on Durham. In the President’s Suite at Twickenham is a portrait of FHR Alderson, an Old Dunelmian who played for England in 1891-3 and had the distinction, with Nigel Melville, of captaining the team in his first international. You also failed to mention Nick Willings...