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The Old Tamensians’ Association is for all former staff and students of Lord Williams’s School, Lord Williams’s Grammar School – as it was before 1971 – and Thame Grammar before that. Our role is to help alumni keep in touch, organise events, and provide news on developments and changes taking place at the school.

Membership is free for life.

This web-site is a repository of all things OTA, the School and relevant stories of Thame that are connected to the School. This includes blogs, articles and news. Click on Blog (above) or on the Recent Post links (in blue) on the right for short articles, while longer essays are contained within the drop down menus that run along the top.

You can search the site for specific names and events by using the Search functionality. On this web-site we post longer editorial and feature items of interest; current news of alumni is contained in the monthly newsletter and on our Facebook pages.

Older news from 1900 onwards (including much news of alumni and other stories) can be found in the Histories drop down menu.

The OTA has an extensive on-line photographic archive at Flickr with over 4000 images, and an active presence across social media including Facebook. More information can be found on our Digital page – see navigation tab in the black bar above.

We have  pages dedicated to the history of the school and the OTA, and the roles of Tamensians in the 1st and 2nd World Wars.

If you do not receive regular e-newsletters from us then that likely means you’re not missing from our most up-to-date members list so please contact the OTA via the email address below.

Importantly please send your news and views as well to ota@waitrose.com

A Virtual Founder’s Day 2020

Saturday 7th November. 2020. Starts on-line at 10.00am Virtual Founder’s Day Service: celebrate 460 years of teaching at LWS Programme:* Welcome from the OTA President Bridget Trueman with Headteacher Jon Ryder* Reading and address by the Rev. Derek Witchell* Musical interludes from the Willie Howe scholars.* Roisin Robertson will read her poem ‘in memoriam to …

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Latest OTA Accounts for 2020

Please find a copy of our latest accounts in the image below: The OTA was formed in 1909 so that makes it 111 years old. The first AGM was held at the end of that year, on 8th December, when the treasurer’s account showed a balance of £2 9s and 2d, with 55 members on …

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John Howard Brown

John Howard Brown was one of those long-serving teachers who joined in 1913 and did not leave until 1946. He was well-admired by colleagues and pupils alike. Below, we have summarised his life, with more to be added when we publish Volume 2 of the school’s new history. 1886: Born in Dover, 22 April. Father …

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A New History of the School has been published.

We are pleased to announce that a book has been published that covers the history of the school from 1559 through until 2020. It is available from Amazon worldwide both as a paperback and as a Kindle edition. If you think you know the early history of the school you’ll be surprised by the new …

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