IN Waterstone's last week I came across Roses and Rain, Heather Walker's life of the poet James Elroy Flecker.
Judging by the index, it has little to say about his younger sibling Oswald Flecker (Headmaster 1930-55) except that in World War One he was invalided out of the army and then taught classics at his father's school, but there's a striking photo of him aged about nine, looking mature and serious (extraordinary to see him cleanshaven and with a full head of hair).
The index does contain a good deal about the poet's close friendship with the classical scholar Sir John Beazley (Ward XI, ColA 1898-1903) and I hope someone will be able to write up this aspect of the tale for The Old Blue, with Oswald as a sort of garnish.
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