However, its a beautiful place and I have fond memories too. Copas dog bit me once, was putting high jump bar up. I just read the above (RB) comment with much interest, not least because I was a pupil there during some of the years described. I was at Nevill Holt from 1962 to 1968. I had every NH record from 100 1500 Long Jump & High Jump and won the County Championships all under his tutelage. After that DP took me off late night dorm inspections, so I left the school more or less in one piece. 
More likely that a new generation looked upon their seven-year-old children, and recoiled in horror at the prospect of subjecting them to such an institution. Out of desperation for our lives, we actually set the events in motion that led to her death, by sabotaging the legs of the chair she always stood on to clean the blackboard. WebNEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL, Nevill Holt - 1188367 | Historic England Home Listing Search the List List Entry NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL The Truth Project was set up for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to share their experiences in a supportive and confidential setting.Its part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) which was set up in 2015 to investigate organisations and institutions that have failed to protect children from sexual abuse. We thought it hilarious when he stood there with a stonker on! When David Serrill Philips took over, the school changed emphatically for the better. That's why they went to the school to confront him with it. I was a pupil at this school from 1964-1969 and remember many of these characters well. I can only say that my (and I believe my friends' at the time, 80s) experience of him was a fine one. He threw a heavy brass school-bell at one of my friends that smashed a glass-fronted bookcase in the library and I was once despatched on an errand by Wraight to see a bemused and red-faced Ernie Cooke (in his little room filled with Dubonnet bottles) with the message 'Go and tell Mr Cooke that he's a little clockwork bastard and I'm going to knock his head off'. He was a real moster. I was taught by Clements & Copas (who killed himself); I remember Copas as a kindly Christan man, and Clements as a short-tempered atheist (who conveniently "found God" after his arrest) who was a b*****d to the kids, though not actually violent. David Ross made his fortune in mobile phones, now hes the man at the centre of society. That so many of us have hidden this is incredible and many more had a good education. So misrepresentation, to use a mild word, seems to have been a hallmark of those running the school.As to Ben C's final question; the answer is 'perhaps'I wrote to the current owner asking just this and received a very courteous reply directing me to his mother who lives on the estate. 
What the lack of protest over airport scanners tel MP repays 755 expense claim for astrology software, House Points: Nick Clegg, Gina Ford and airbrushing, Test drilling resumes in Nottinghamshire oilfield. It is appalling that these things went on. Mr P of bourse denied it all, specially as it involved his precious daughter. 
It was such a different world back then. There seems to be much innuendo in these comments about Mr Copas but nothing substantial. My sympathy goes out to all the kids who were abused, and trust that they have not let a total scumbag ruin their lives completely. Wraight used to tell all the boys to watch out when he was in "dramatics" as he called it, (ie completely out of it) and we were all totally terrified. Old man Phillips was like Captain Blythe, punish and ask questions later. I too remember boys crying as their parents left and crying themselves to sleep on the first days of term.There were some real positives and fond memories. Very sorry to hear what happened to you and others. He was a systematic, violent, sex abuser who inflicted considerable pain on me whilst he violated me. 
I was a pupil at Nevill Holt from 1994-98 when it closed down and I witnessed first hand the horrific ending. Strange times.Very best,Chris. How are you? Being beaten behind the knees which the sharp edge of a ruler. The Cunard shipping family owned the estate from 1876 to 1912 and Nancy Cunard (18961965), writer, publisher and society hostess, was born here. Also today, Nevill Holt announced changes to its summer festival lineup. I was not a musician (thank goodness) Beatles and Stones were new and great! Nevill Holt Opera has announced that due to financial headwinds in the arts sector, it has reconsidered its festival program. Nevill Holt feels like a place that is, after 700 years of ups and downs, finally entering its prime. I was at NH from 71 74. Previous Experience: K. E. Carmel CMI School, Welkin National School, Former BRNS-DAE Research Project Fellow Year of Joining: 2021. I returned when it was empty and for sale . Fights with homemade wooden swords and shields. I was at NH '71-'78. In hindsight though it was thoroughly Dickensian. Mr Wooley always gave me the creeps with his suggestive comments. WebIn 2013, Nicholas founded Nevill Holt Opera and established an award-winning education and associate artists programme. Archaic rules, rather frightening and forbidding architecture, eccentric characters, very male dominated except for some very sweet young female art teachers and (for a brief interlude), a pretty Irish nurse. Took history, balding ginger hair and a temper. I was there 86-90. Turned out he was having an affair with one of the junior nursery staff at some point. For two years I was top of the form in maths at Winchester till I finally had to learn something new - and promptly sank to the bottom. We didn't kill her, I hasten to add, but complications from her subsequent leg injury did eventually see her off.I could write a book about that place. I cannot find any corroboration for this, but being in his late 80s, it is not unlikely. Blimey! WebNevill Holt is located in the county of Leicestershire, East Midlands, five miles south-west of the town of Uppingham, 16 miles south-east of the major city of Leicester, and 76 miles north-west of London. In my day The Great Hall was out of bounds. I worked at Nevill Holt between 1990 & 92. I never suffered at his hand but he had a temper and a half.Deas, Cooke all very good teachers I have them to thank for the success I've enjoyed since leaving. He had couple of black and tan things and if he said "speak" to them they start barking. After all these years, and the vague stories I had heard, it shocks me to read about Griz. Reading this article makes me think you're a very strange person who has very odd thoughts and views! ), there were some even darker characters.Re Copas. I can remember there were a few week-ends where she could not collect me for whatever reason and I went to stay with some other boys. Temper I have never since seen matched but had some self-control. I was also there during those years. Think we overlapped. (24th Jan 2012) I've returned to the page because of the recent publicity about abuse at prep schools and the mentions of Mr Wright. Have read all this with astonishment as I had no idea what had happened at the school. I was too 'immature' to appreciate it then. I was hugely saddened to learn about his death and could not credit the things which were said of him. Nevill Holt was a good school, especially in the years after 1968. Fascinated and horrified by previous posts. I feel for those that suffered at the hands of Clements/ Copas. I should know, I was also a student in the final years of the school.Since the dead cannot defend themselves, I have to wonder about the validity of the claim that he took part in the abuse.You see, the Copas I remember was very much the heart of that school - unlike several of his colleagues who could have done with some anger management classes, however efficient they were in their fields. Much here about Clements who was clearly a frightening paedo shit after my time there, but probably equally as dangerous and psychotic as Eric Wraight who taught French & Geography in the 60's. Then he went to the Geography Library (just a few shelves in the corner) and went off on a terrifying rant about how we didn't treat the books right. I wonder if he remembers me? As a festival theatre, Nevill Holt Opera holds performances for three weeks a year as well as a few individual events. Clearly Clements was not the only bad apple but he seemed - from a reading of these postings - to be the catalyst for the meltdown. He had apparently been shot in the gut on an MTB during the war (probably not true) - and fuelled by morphine and vodka (kept in his tan coloured brief-case - that matched his always shiny tan coloured shoes) to dull the stomach pains, proceeded to creep around taking 'prep'- often sporting bleeding knuckles after punching out classroom door panels, splitting desk-tops and pencil boxes or even karate-chopping the top of the grand piano (played by puffy-fingered music-master, the oily Mr Moorhouse (mentioned by someone earlier) who offered me 10 shillings to come round to his thatched cottage in the grounds for tea. Check out, & 'Like' FB's "Survivors of Nevill Holt"! 
Perhaps he ought not to have done that. NEVILL HOLT. Mr. Serille Phillips was still married to his first wife who had a serious drink problem.I can recall Miss Harbottle but that must have been at the end of my stay there in 1962. My fond memory is of my one friend, Mr BA as Ge would be now, who suffered himself dye to his differences and who used to hang out behind the stables with me too. Mr Ridings was ok and had a very attractive wife .Miss Barge was great and also one of the Matrons .Fortunately there wasn't any abuse that I can recall .Ernie Cooke was a nice man . I was incredibly unhappy at that school. I remember his once humiliating Mr Bellinger in front of the whole school for leaving a bit of baked potato on his plate.On the other hand, I have fond memories of DCSP, who was a good, kind and talented man, but my real hero, apart from his terrible jokes, was Mr Cooke. The present-day gardens are beautiful, just large vegetable patches in the 40s. I remember a friend at the school describing Copas as queer as a coot and I was surprised but thought there must have been some reason for the comment. Miss Harbottle, who during class used to seize a handful of hair and walk around the desk until the child, contorted and screaming, blurted out the right answer. Miss Barge was unforgettable, as were the tea cosies she had us make in our first year. Do you have nothing better to do? Mixed in to the mundane there were plenty of comic moments that still make me laugh and there were a few tragedies along the way too. Interestingly he has airbrushed his NH employment from his cv - he has his own Wikipedia entry, lucky man. Also having to take nets wearing huge pads on my legs while the boys bowled as hard as they could at any totally unprotected areas - lots of bruises. He sexually abused a significant number of pupils. However, the worst of all those to me; the first -year teacher, a female of short, round, stature whom literally rendered me unconscious on one occasion. 28. To all the Griz defenders - If Griz was not 'involved' I'm not sure why, on catching me talking after lights-out, he found it necessary to order me to lean over the side of the cast-iron Bath in his bathroom next to Venetians and tell me to drop my pyjamas so he could beat me with his gym shoe (nicknamed The Jemima) on my bare backside - maybe he thought it'd be more character-building. I was the one that mentioned Mr Moorhouse first. Can't believe he was actually involved in the abuse personally!!! 
A rather appropriate end. I liked him as a person , but found him a bit scary . I clearly remember the day the police came and Mr Copas ran out of breakfast and when they found his body hung in the nearby forest. Her and Clements used to love bed inspection. I was worried by the amount of planned corporal punishment that went on - a miserable little queue every day lining up outside the headmasters study. S reminiscesI am now very old, but I do have memories of NH between 1962-1966I remember EEC, who had a room at the end of a corridor. I am appalled to read these accounts of what happened in the 80s and 90s, and I feel very sorry for those involved.Luckily for me, I missed all that, since I was at NH in the early/mid 60s, when it was, I think, a good school - although the food was revolting, and, as others have said, FSP was a vicious bully. I was greatly influenced by a school trip to Stratford to see Taming of the Shrew, um- the event rather than the play itself. Problem was the school I went onto was doing new maths - Venn diagrams etc. Iwas a pupil at this school from about 70 to 75.It was a bastard of a place. The cloister clock chiming every b..hour throughout the night. After passing my Common Entrance, my parents got permission to take me to France for a week on business, as a reward. Perhaps you should take a moment to think of those people that had a very happy childhood at Nevill Holt and who would rather not have some random man commenting like this. Mr Cooke was an excellent maths teacher and I took Maths to A level. It also states that "corporal punishment is rare and never severe".not true.
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