Author:
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919-1979), successively headmaster of Bradfield College, Berkshire, and Fettes College, Edinburgh, alleged child sex abuser and flagellomaniac [Philip Dosse (1925-1980)]]
Publication details:
5 November 1972; on his letterhead as Headmaster, Fettes College, Carrington Road, Edinburgh.
Chenevix-Trench’s entry in the Oxford DNB discusses his achievements, as well as his ‘unhealthy addiction to corporal punishment, a trait later exposed by one of his former pupils, Paul Foot, in the satirical magazine Private Eye’. At least one of his former pupils (Nicholas Fraser) alleges that he was abused by him. The recipient Philip Dosse was the proprietor of Books and Bookmen and other magazines devoted to the arts. 1p, 8vo. Signed ‘Anthony Chenevix Trench [no hyphen] / M.A. J.P.
