Acknowledgment In preparing this short account of the School I have been most fortunate in being able to seek and gain the wise advice of Lord Radcliffe, Chairman of our Governing Body, of Sir Ralph Turner, whose unique experience reaches back to the early days of the story, and of Col. Hugh Moyse-Bartlett and Mr John Bracken, who as Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the School always know more than appears on paper. 1 am indebted also to Professor Bernard Lewis, who was a fellow student at the School in the middle 1950s; and to Miss Doreen Wainwright, who has brought into existence the nucleus of an archive on the history of the School, which we trust will be kept alive and up-to-date in the years to come. C.H.P.