Memories: Schoolmaster at Eton explains caning

 

Here are a couple of rather eccentric clips. Norman Routledge describes his days as a schoolmaster at Eton, the world-famous English public (elite) school.

He made a series of 139 short interviews which he uploaded to YouTube.

In this first one he describes caning at Eton and the headmaster Tony Trench, who is better known as Anthony Chenevix-Trench who had a fearsome reputation as a flogger.

In the second clip he more generally describes the “mechanism” for ordering a boy to be punished.

Routledge (1928 – 2013) was in his time a well-known mathematician and was a personal friend of Alan Turing.

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