It includes many details of his time there and in particular describes the influence a physics teacher, Henry Gervis, and a mathematics teacher, Ben Davis, had on him. Interestingly Ben Davis was the only teacher then at Sherborne who had a PhD. The article features many photos of Turing I've not seen before and gives an excellent account of his school days. You can download a pdf scan (14Mb) of the article from The Universal Machine's website: http://www.theuniversalmachine.com/Vivat(Turing).pdf
Turing (front row far left), aged 13, at Westcott House Sherborne, 1926 |
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