Commemorative panel at Exeter School

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Commemorative panel at Exeter School

Image: © David Smith Taken: 18 May 2013

The panel was designed for the 350th anniversary of the school in 1983. It shows several famous old boys of the school, including David Collins, first governor of Tasmania, and Sir Harry Veitch, plantsman and leading member of the Royal Horticultural Society. In the centre of the panel are the school's founders from 1633. To the right is "The Blue Boy" (George Wall). The background includes references to Exeter and Devon. From the left: Nicholas Horton, stonemason; Bishop Henry T Vodden; Major Henry Rew; Commander Henry Pennell above General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley; George Woodbridge above Major Dair Farrar-Hockley; to the right of the Blue Boy: Sir Charles Collingwood; Dr Dacre Balsdon above Frederick Jane; three mobile eye clinics in India funded by the school; David Collins; General John Graves Simcoe both above Sir Harry Veitch (with plant); Harry Westlake; Sir John Daw

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