Anthony Chenevix-Trench (10 May 1919 – 21 June 1979) is best known as the Headmaster of Eton College from 1964–1970. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He fought in the Second World War and attained the rank of Captain in 1939 in the Royal Artillery. At the fall of Singapore in 1942, he was taken prisoner and remained a POW for three and a half years at Changi and working on the Burma Railway.

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  • Anthony Chenevix-Trench (10 May 1919 – 21 June 1979) is best known as the Headmaster of Eton College from 1964–1970. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He fought in the Second World War and attained the rank of Captain in 1939 in the Royal Artillery. At the fall of Singapore in 1942, he was taken prisoner and remained a POW for three and a half years at Changi and working on the Burma Railway. He graduated from Oxford in 1948 and became an assistant master at Shrewsbury, where he was a housemaster between 1952 and 1955. He was Headmaster of Bradfield College between 1955 and 1964 and, whilst there, he held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P. ) for Berkshire in 1960. He was Headmaster of Eton College between 1964 and 1970 and, under his Headship, Eton was reformed with the introduction of sciences in the junior years, the end of corporal punishment administered by senior boys, and a reformed curriculum. In 1970 he was appointed Headmaster of Fettes College, Edinburgh and died, in office, in 1979 shortly before the end of the summer term, when he was to retire.
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  • 1964-1970
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  • Anthony Chenevix-Trench (10 May 1919 – 21 June 1979) is best known as the Headmaster of Eton College from 1964–1970. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He fought in the Second World War and attained the rank of Captain in 1939 in the Royal Artillery. At the fall of Singapore in 1942, he was taken prisoner and remained a POW for three and a half years at Changi and working on the Burma Railway.
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  • Anthony Chenevix-Trench
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