Lodge School – The Story of My Barbados Family

Cambridge University

Anthony was a Barbados Scholar and was accepted by Cambridge University in England to study Civil Engineering. He attended Churchill College. As boys, we were always rowing small boats, and at Cambridge he took up rowing competitively.

Around this time he met and fell in love with Sarah Warsap. They were soon married.

After graduating with honours, Anthony secured employment with a Civil Engineering partnership in London, England.

He and Sarah soon had two sons. I believe that at this time he was a deacon in the local Church of England. Since birth, he had always been the good son.

School Play

Barbados was once a British colony, and the dominant culture was English. When we were in school we held British passports, and many Barbadians thought of themselves as English. This influenced the educational system, and we would take exams from Oxford and Cambridge on graduation.

In this vein, Lodge was a boys’ school, based on the English public schools. It was described as similar to Harry Potter’s Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

As a little boy, I was very impressed that Anthony always came first in his class. Firstly it was very difficult to get into Lodge. Secondly students were divided into an A stream and a B stream, and Anthony was in the A stream. He became “Head Boy” and was accepted by Cambridge University in England.

Shakespearian plays were the norm at Lodge. Below Anthony is playing Julius Caesar. (On another occasion I recall he played Calpurnia.)
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