Lives in Cricket No 11 - CP Lewis

Gloucester school swaying more to academic and ecclesiastical matters. Indeed, exposure to the latter, with the daily services in the adjoining Cathedral, was probably another factor in Rev Williams’ choice of ‘finishing school’ for C.P., for whom, like many younger sons, a career in the church might have been an option if he was unsuccessful in his Oxford exams. However, Williams need not have worried, and as a result of Fowler’s outstanding teaching, C.P. subsequently won a place at Jesus College, Oxford, with formal and informal Welsh connections dating back to its foundation in 1571, as a Classics Exhibitioner 4 to undertake a four-year degree course, and it was here amongst the dreaming spires that he found his own religion in the expanding field of organised sport. School Days in Llandovery, Swansea and Gloucester 22 A truly classical education. Lewis’ entry - in Latin - in the Cathedral School register. 4 An exhibition was, and still is, a ‘second-tier’ scholarship, usually won through a competitive examination, where the recipient’s tuition and other fees, and perhaps some living expenses, are paid for out of college funds. Exhibitioners are thus expected to show academic prowess.