Neville Ollerenshaw was born in Hampstead in 1922, and spent his early years in Italy and Switzerland. A former chorister of Winchester Cathedral, he was educated at The Pilgrims' School, Harrow and Cambridge. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Air Force in the Middle East, Italy and Austria and after a post-graduate year at Cambridge began teaching at Lewes County Grammar School for Boys in 1948. After an interlude at a Yorkshire grammar school, he was appointed to his first headship in Somerset at the age of 33, leaving after 10 years to work at an Anglo-American college in Switzerland. He returned to Britain in 1969 to become Headmaster of The Prebendal School, Chichester. Having retired in 1982 from this post, he was suceeded by The Rvd. Canon Godfrey Hall.
Neville is married and has one daughter and seven grandchildren. He devotes much of his time to painting, writing and the study the the history and architecture of castles.
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