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Barnes School, Devlali, is the largest boarding school in west India. It was established in 1925, on the basis of a 1718 original foundation. It is one of the best known institution for studies and sports. Barnes School has been rated as one of the top school in India.^{[citation needed]}

It is a private co-educational prep school. It is an Anglican school, founded in 1925, under the auspices of the Bombay Education Society. The school is twinned with Christ Church School, in Mumbai. Both Schools follow the ICSE curriculum and use the same shield as a badge or logo, Barnes in blue and Christ Church in green. Barnes recently started with their Junior College which is affiliated from Indian School Certificate/ ISC. Barnes School & Junior College was started in the year 2008 and it is now well appreciated.^[1]

History[link]

In the late 19th century people began to think education for their children should be provided by the Government. Before that there were schools for the rich. For the poor there were very few schools and those were mostly provided by the Church and charitable people. In the early 18th century many schools were established in England. So it was that when the Revd. Richard Cobbe was appointed chaplain to the Hon. East India Company's factory at Bombay, he founded in 1718, in a building not far from the present Cathedral of St. Thomas in Fort, a small free school where twelve poor boys were housed, clothed, fed and educated by just one master. That charity school was the seed from which the mighty tree of Barnes has sprung.

A hundred years passed by. Another East India Company chaplain, the Ven. Archdeacon George Barnes, realised that the charity school could not possibly meet the needs of hundreds of children then without any education. So he appealed for funds and started the Bombay Education Society in 1815, the oldest society in the city interested in the welfare and upbringing of children. The first, small, school was taken over. Numbers grew rapidly until it was apparent that new grounds and school buildings were essential. A large airy site at Byculla was given by the Government. This time girls were also provided for. New school buildings were opened in 1825. One of the copper plates commemorating the opening is now on the wall of Evans Hall, Devlali. The other remains with Christ Church School, Byculla, which with the parish church there stands on part of the land given originally to the B.E.S. Much of the land was later sold to help build Barnes.

The B.E.S. schools, as they were popularly known, were primarily boarding schools for Anglo-Indian boys and girls, mainly belonging to the Anglican Church. However, day-scholars were admitted and they were of all castes and creeds. For another hundred years there seems to have been little change. Then in the early 20th century the B.E.S. amalgamated with the Indo-British Institution, which had been founded about 1837 by the Revd. George Candy. Byculla was by then crowded and unhealthy. Plans, initiated by Sir Reginald Spence and Mr Haig-Brown, to move the boarding part of the schools away from Bombay to the cooler and healthier Deccan Plateau began to take shape. A site of more than 250 acres (1.0 km²) at Deolali was purchased. On 17 November 1923 Sir George Lloyd laid the Foundation stone of Evans Hall. Less than two years later, on 29 January 1925, a special train brought the first boarders to Devlali. With old time ceremony, in the presence of many distinguished guests, Barnes was declared open by Sir Leslie Wilson, Governor of Bombay and patron of the Bombay Education Society.

This short historical sketch explains much of the present Barnes. It is still primarily a place where the poor Anglo-Indian children of the Anglican and Protestant Churches can be given a good upbringing and sound education. It is still a Church school where Christian ideals are practised and imparted. It is a boarding school, the largest in western India.

The memory of founders and benefactors is preserved in the names of the buildings: Barnes, Candy, Spence, Haig-Brown, Lloyd. Other names are remembered. Greaves House is named after Sir John Greaves, a prominent Bombay businessman of the firm of Greaves Cotton, Director of the Bombay Education Society from 1930 and Chairman of its Managing Committee from 1939 to 1949. Royal House commemorates Harry Royal, an old boy of the B.E.S. School from the years around 1900 to 1910, who became an important officer of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and honorary treasurer of the B.E.S. for many years. One name is yet to come - the greatest of them all, the Revd. Thomas Evans, familiarly but not irreverently, Tom Evans or just Tom. After being Headmaster at the old school at Byculla since 1910, he became the first Headmaster of Barnes, without whom it would probably not have survived its early years. His portrait hangs in Evans Hall which was named in memory of him when he retired in 1934.

World War II[link]

The history of Barnes as told by W.R.Coles (Ex-Principal):

Those were the days of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. Storm clouds of war were gathering thick and fast. In India the struggle for independence grew fiercer year by year. At first it seemed the war would pass by Devlali but it was not long before changes came. Overnight, part of our school compound was requisitioned and all the land to the west where we used to have our cross-country runs, around Surprise Hill [a hill to the west of Barnes] was put out of bounds to form part of the new School of Artillery with its ranges stretching to Square Top [further west] and beyond. From a small peacetime garrison of two or three hundred, Devlali and the surrounding area eventually became an enormous Transit Camp holding at its maximum 70,000 men. They came from Australia and New Zealand only to be quickly on their way again to the deserts of North Africa. Regiments came from England to go always further east to Burma or Malaya. Amongst these men and elsewhere Barnes was well represented as more and more old students joined the armed forces - mainly the Army, though also the Air Force and the Navy. Old girls became nurses or joined as 'WACs' (Women's Auxiliary Corps). Younger men on the staff went off to enlist. Gradually it became more and more difficult to find teachers. Retired men and, in some cases, misfits had to be engaged. At times classes had to be combined since no teachers at all were available. While the roll of old students in the Forces grew there came from time to time the sad news of casualties, prisoners of war and deaths on active service. The Military Hospital expanded fivefold to deal with the mounting toll of wounded men sent back from the fighting areas. At the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1942 war came close to India with the capture of Burma by the Japanese. Of the civilians from Rangoon and other Burmese towns who managed to escape by air or ship or by trekking over the mountains, some came to Barnes - children and adults. Three teachers and some matrons joined us in this way. At one time it seemed there was nothing to stop the Japanese coming into Assam, Bengal or even further. For a period they had command of the sea. It was considered possible that planes from an aircraft carrier might bomb Bombay and Devlali. So at Barnes we set to dig trenches, erect blast walls, learn First Aid and undergo training in A. R. P. (Air Raid Precaution). At any hour of the day or night the Headmaster could be seen, and heard, cycling around the compound, blowing on a whistle. At the first shrill blast everything had to be stopped, even a meal, and off all had to troop to their Air Raid Stations. Thank goodness, this phase did not last long. Every effort was made to entertain the troops. We had some wonderful cricket matches against teams including top club players from Australia, and football games with teams including one or two professionals from the English Leagues. Individual soldiers were invited to our homes. That for many was what they appreciated most - a little touch of home. Just to sit quietly and relax, have a cup of tea and a chat, mostly about their families. Professional artistes from the stage and screen, organised by a special Government agency, ENSA, were sent around the big troop centres. In Devlali, at first all the entertainments were held in Evans Hall. We took in most of the Chapel and all the balconies. Even then so great was the crush that even Colonels did not mind sitting on the floor. Variety shows, orchestras, plays of every kind, Barnes saw in those days. What is now the School of Artillery Children's School, near the Cathay Cinema, was built as the Lumley Canteen. One night a week till the canteen finally closed down at the end of 1947 a team of the staff of Barnes used to run it, first preparing food, and then serving it. By the end of it all we could cut bread, prepare sandwiches, pour tea with the best. In a two-hour period one night we served 968 cups of tea - which works out at eight cups a minute. Feeding the boarders during the war was not easy. We used to get our milk from the Military Farm but at just a week's notice we had to make our own arrangements. Potatoes which in pre-war times came from Italy or East Africa were often nonexistent. If it was not wheat, it was rice, or sugar or something else which could not be had for love or money. Luckily it never happened that there was a shortage of everything at the same time. Our class-work suffered inevitably from lack of proper staff and also from the booming of guns practising on the ranges throughout the day and night. These handicaps were experienced in England with the Air raids. The Cambridge School Certificate examining body let up a little on their normal standards. Our children had to write their answers in pencil with carbon copies so that if the ship carrying one set of answers was sunk, there was the second set which might get through in safety. One year the question papers did not arrive in time. Unluckily for the candidates who hoped to be excused from taking the examination, fresh single papers were flown over and the printing was done in India. Destruction and death touched Barnes. The disastrous dock fire and explosion in Bombay brought orphans to the school. Their fathers had been killed while on duty with the Fire Brigade. In 1944 tragedy struck the School itself. Three boys were killed by the explosion of a mortar shell which had been found just outside the boundary and which they were investigating at the rear of Candy Block. Despite distractions and disasters life went on.

—^[2]

Past Principals[link]

• Rev. T. Evans (1925 - 1934)
• Mr. W. Coles (1934 - 1968)
• Mr. J. Davis (1968 - 1985)
• Mr. A.A Baker (1986 - 2000)
• Mr. A. Temple (2001 - 2006)
• Dr. L.C.Coutinho (2006 - 2009)
• Mr. B. Martin (2009 - 2011)
• Mr. J. Luke (2011–present)

Sports and Extra-Curricular Activities[link]

A variety of sports are played, some of which are dying sports hardly played in any other school. Football, Cross-country running, Athletics, Gymnastics, Swimming, Hockey, Tennis, Boxing, Badminton, Table tennis, Basketball and Volleyball are some of them. Extra-curricular activities include debating, SUPW, Singing and elocution competitions. Barnes has won the "All Maharashtra Anglo-Indian Schools Football Tournament" 11 out of the 18 times, including a yet unbroken record of 7 times in a row.^{[citation needed]} These sports are encouraged by the facts that Barnes has a campus of 265 acres (1.07 km²), has 7 playing fields and a expanse of plains and forests surrounding it on almost all sides. Barnes now are one of the schools where students get proper knowledge about sports along with proper studies.

School Coat of Arms[link]

The following description of the school arms has been received from the College of Arms, London:

It is a combination of the arms of Archdeacon Barnes, our Founder, on the left side, and that of his wife, who belonged to the Carnac family, on the right. On the left side is a blue shield with the faces of three white leopards and on the right, four quarters alternately white and blue with crossed swords, three five-pointed stars and a crescent. The swords are in their natural steel colour with the points upward. The stars are blue over the white quarters and white over the blue. Similarly the crescent is white and blue. The bird is a white falcon with golden beak and legs. It is standing on a green mount with six alternate twists of white and blue underneath. The motto, in Latin, Accepto robore surgam can be translated, "I shall arise with the strength I have received." This has a threefold significance. In our school days and after, we rise to even greater heights, fortified with the strength of body, mind and spirit which we have gained while in school.

School Houses[link]

Boys[link]

The Boys houses are named after the school founders / benefactors.

• Spence (Yellows)- named after Sir Reginald Spence
• Royal (Reds) - named after Harry Royal
• Candy (Greens) - named after the Revd. George Candy
• Greaves (Blues) - named after Sir John Greaves

Girls[link]

The Girls houses are named after prominent women of historical significance.

• Florence Nightingale - Yellows
• Edith Cavell - Reds
• Joan of Arc - Greens
• Helen Keller - Blues

Notable alumni[link]

• Vinod Khanna ^{[3][citation needed]}
• Arshad Warsi^[4]
• Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis ^[5]
• Cyrus Todiwala^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

1. ^ Barnes School website
2. ^ barnes in retrospect- by W.R.Coles^{[verification needed]}
3. ^ web.archive.org biography about Vinod Khanna^{[dead link]}
4. ^ www.arshadwarsi.net
5. ^ www.barnesschool.net about Anil Tipnis

External links[link]

• Anil Tipnis at Barnes after being promoted to Chief of Air Staff
• Official Website
• Unofficial website - maintained by an ex student
• The History of Barnes, told by Mr W R Coles - maintained by David C King, an ex-student

Harrison Barnes
Barnes playing in the Carrier Classic game in November 2011
College	North Carolina
Conference	ACC
Sport	Basketball
Position	Small Forward
Jersey #	40
Class	Sophomore
Height	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Nationality	American
Born	(1992-05-30) May 30, 1992 (age 20) Ames, Iowa
High school	Ames

Harrison Bryce-Jordan Barnes^[1] (born May 30, 1992) is an American college basketball player. He is a sophomore at North Carolina and was one of the top rated basketball players in the recruiting class of 2010. Barnes is sometimes known by the nickname "Black Falcon."^[2]

High school career[link]

Barnes (right) with Kyrie Irving while playing for the United States.

Harrison Barnes was rated as the number 1 player in the class of 2010 by Scout.com^[3] and in the ESPNU 100.^[4] He was rated as the number 2 player by Rivals.com.^[5] In his junior year, Barnes led Ames High School to an Iowa 4A state championship where he had 24 points and 8 rebounds, capping off a 26-0 season.^[6] In his senior year, Barnes led Ames to a 27-0 season and a second straight Iowa 4A state championship becoming Iowa's big-school class's first team to go undefeated in consecutive seasons. In the finals he scored 19 points against Southeast Polk. He averaged 26.1 points, 10.0 rebounds, 3.1 steals and 3.0 assists during his senior year and was selected to the USA Today All-USA First Team.^[7] Barnes capped off his Ames High School career as their all-time leading scorer with 1,787 points.^[8] Barnes played in the 4th annual Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic where he scored 18 points for Skip To My Lou.^[9] On January 20, 2010, it was announced that Barnes was selected to the 2010 Junior National Select Team. The team played at the 2010 Nike Hoop Summit at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon on April 10.^[10] He was also selected to play in the 2010 McDonald's All-American Game where he led the West team to a 107-104 victory. He scored a team high 18 points and was named co-MVP with Jared Sullinger.^[11] He also played in the 2010 Jordan Brand Classic where he was named co-MVP with Kyrie Irving.^[12] On March 10, 2010, Barnes won the Morgan Wootten Player of the Year Award, which goes to the nation's top player.^[13]

AAU[link]

Barnes played for the "Howard Pulley Panthers" on the AAU circuit alongside current Miami Hurricanes offensive lineman Seantrel Henderson, who was one of the nation's top football prospects in the class of 2010.^[14]

SLAM Magazine[link]

Barnes was the 2010 high school diary keeper for SLAM Magazine.

College recruitment[link]

Name	Hometown	High school / college	Height	Weight	Commit date
Harrison Barnes Small Forward	Ames, IA	Ames HS	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)	210 lb (95 kg)	Nov 13, 2009
	Scout:   Rivals:   ESPN grade: 98

Barnes considered offers from Duke, Iowa State, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and UCLA.^[15][16] Barnes unofficially visited Kansas twice, for Late Night in the Phog in October 2008 and a spring game against Tennessee.^[17] Barnes took official visits to North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, UCLA, and Oklahoma, but he did not take an official visit to Iowa State; since he only lives a mile from campus, he chose to unofficially visit instead.^[18] On November 13, 2009, Barnes Skyped coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels, making UNC his future alma mater.^[16]

College career[link]

Barnes had 21 points in his North Carolina debut in an exhibition game in the Bahamas against the Commonwealth Bank Giants. UNC won the game 130-87.^[19] Overall, Barnes averaged 22 points and 6.5 rebounds per game for UNC in the Bahamas.^[20] On November 1, 2010, Barnes was named a preseason All-American by the AP. He is the first freshman to ever receive this honor.^[21] Barnes had 14 points and 4 rebounds in his North Carolina debut vs. Lipscomb.^[22] He recorded his first career double double on December 11, 2010, scoring 19 points and snatching 10 rebounds in a 96-91 victory over Long Beach State University.^[23]

Barnes' previous career high of 26 points came against Boston College on February 1, 2011. He surpassed this mark on March 12, 2011 in an ACC tournament game against Clemson, scoring 40 points while also grabbing 8 rebounds. Additionally, Barnes's 40 point performance set the record for points by a Freshman in an ACC Tournament game.^[24] On April 18, 2011, Barnes announced that he would return to North Carolina for his sophomore season.

Barnes is the ninth UNC Tar Heel to earn ACC Rookie of Year recognition, and the fourth to do so under Coach Roy Williams. During his freshman year at UNC, he became the 14th Tar Heel to earn Freshman All-American honors and also became the 11th freshman to earn first-team All-ACC Tournament honors. Barnes scored the most points, as a freshman, in the ACC tournament since Phil Ford scored 78 points in 1975. He then went on to the NCAA tournament where he scored 84 points, the most points of any UNC freshman in history.

College statistics[link]

Source^[25]

NBA career[link]

On March 29, 2012, Barnes announced that he was entering the 2012 NBA Draft along with Tyler Zeller, Kendall Marshall and John Henson.^[26]

Awards/Honors[link]

High school[link]

• 2010 Morgan Wootten Player of the Year Award winner
• 2010 McDonald's All-American team selection
• 2010 Jordan Brand High School All-American team selection

College[link]

• 2010, 2011 Preseason All-American
• 2011 Second Team All-ACC
• 2011 All-ACC Freshman Team
• 2011 ACC Rookie of the Year^[27]
• 2012 Second Team All-American (NABC)
• 2012 First Team All-ACC

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Harrison Barnes

• North Carolina bio
• NBADraft.net Profile
• Scout.com Profile
• Rivals.com Profile
• DraftHype.com Profile

John Barnes Chance (November 20, 1932 – August 16, 1972) was a composer, born in Beaumont, Texas. Chance studied composition with Clifton Williams at the University of Texas, Austin, and is best known for his concert band works, which include Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Incantation and Dance, and Blue Lake Overture. Many of his works are written for young musicians, particularly those written between 1960 and 1962, when he was composer-in-residence in the Greensboro, North Carolina public school system—specifically at Greensboro Senior High School (now Grimsley Senior High School) under the supervision of Herbert Hazelman—as part of the Ford Foundation Young Composers Project.

Before he became a full-time composer, Chance played timpani with the Austin Symphony and later was an arranger for the Fourth and Eighth U.S. Army bands. Chance taught at the University of Kentucky from 1966 until his death in 1972. In August 1972, Chance was airing a tent in his garden when a metal pole contacted an electrified fence used to confine his dogs. Chance was accidentally electrocuted and died at 12:40 p.m. at Central Baptist Hospital from cardiac arrest. He and his wife Linda had two children.

Works[link]

This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

• Symphony No. 1, orchestra (1956)
• Overture to a Fairy Tale, orchestra (1957)
• Credo, trumpet and piano (1959)
• Incantation and Dance, concert band (1960)
• Fiesta! orchestra (1960)
• Satiric Suite, string orchestra (1961)
• Blessed are They that Mourn, from Biblical text, chorus, horn, strings, and percussion (1961)
• The Noiseless, Patient Spider, text from Walt Whitman, female choir and flutes (1961)
• Alleluia, chorus and concert band (1962)
• 3 Songs, text e. e. cummings, soprano, flute, and piano (1962)
• Ballad and March, on American traditional text, chorus and concert band (1962)
• Incantation and Dance wind ensemble (1963)
• Introduction and Capriccio, wind ensemble with piano (1966)
• Variations on a Korean Folk Song, concert band (1967)
• Kyrie and Alleluia, chorus and orchestra (1967)
• Blue Lake Overture, concert band (1971)
• Elegy, concert band (1972)
• Symphony no. 2, wind ensemble (1972)
• Burletta, a chromatic piece
• Overture For A Musical Comedy, concert band (1997) (published after his death)

References[link]

• Raoul F. Camus: "John Barnes Chance", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy. Accessed 27 Mar 05.
• Program Notes, Community Band of Brevard
• Composers of Great Band Works

External links[link]

• .mp3 of Variations on a Korean Folk Song

Jimmy Barnes
Barnes in 2006
Background information
Birth name	James Dixon Swan
Born	(1956-04-28) 28 April 1956 (age 56) Glasgow, Scotland
Genres	Hard rock, blues-rock, soul, rhythm and blues
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, harmonica
Years active	1972–present
Labels	Mushroom Records, Geffen Records
Associated acts	Cold Chisel, Fraternity, Tin Lids, Johnny Diesel, Living Loud, INXS, David Campbell, Tina Turner
Website	Official website

James Dixon Swan (born 28 April 1956), better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at the time. His career as both a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. The combination of 14 Australian Top 40 albums for Cold Chisel and 13 charting solo albums, including nine No. 1s, gives Barnes the highest number of hit albums of any Australian artist.^[1][2]

Jimmy Barnes was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in Adelaide, South Australia as a 4-year old on 7 January 1961 with his parents Jim and Dorothy Swan and siblings John, Dororthy, Linda, Lisa & Alan. They eventually settled in Elizabeth. Shortly afterward, Barnes' parents divorced. His mother Dorothy soon remarried, to a clerk named Reg Barnes. After her daughter Lisa was teased by a schoolmate about being adopted, Dorothy encouraged her children to change their surname to Barnes.^{[citation needed]} All of them did except for the oldest brother John, who would go on to be much better known as Swanee, eventually recording a series of albums under that name from the 1980s. This would later cause confusion about Jimmy Barnes and Swan; many thought them to be half- or stepbrothers.

Barnes was raised a Protestant, and considers himself a Buddhist, although in September 2009 he revealed that he has Jewish ancestry, his maternal grandmother having been Jewish.^[3]

The Cold Chisel years (1973–1983)[link]

Barnes took an apprenticeship in an iron smelter with the South Australian railways in 1973 but the love he and his brother had for music led him to join a band. Swanee was now playing drums with Fraternity, who had just parted ways with singer Bon Scott. Barnes took over the role but his tenure with the band was brief and before long he had joined a harder-edged band called Orange, featuring organist and songwriter Don Walker, guitarist Ian Moss, drummer Steve Prestwich and bass player Les Kaczmarek. Within a short time the group had changed its name to Cold Chisel and began to develop a strong presence on the local music scene. Barnes' relationship with the band was often volatile and he left several times, leaving Moss to handle vocal duties until he returned. After a temporary move to Armidale, New South Wales while Walker completed his engineering studies there, Cold Chisel moved to Melbourne in August 1976 and then three months later shifted base to Sydney. Progress was slow and Barnes announced he was leaving once again in May 1977 to join Swanee in a band called Feather. However, his farewell performance with Cold Chisel went so well he changed his mind and a month later the band was signed by WEA.

By 1980 Cold Chisel was the biggest band in Australia and Barnes had developed a notorious reputation as a hard-drinking wild man who reportedly drank more than two bottles of vodka a day, much of it onstage during performances.

While in Canberra in November 1979 however, he met Jane Mahoney (born Jane Dejakasaya, in Bangkok, Thailand, 1958) the stepdaughter of an Australian diplomat. Barnes began a relationship with her and they started living together but in March 1980 she began to feel overwhelmed by the rock lifestyle and followed her family to Tokyo where her father was posted. Barnes wrote the song "Rising Sun" about this, which would appear on the album East. The pair married in Sydney on 22 May 1981 and Jane soon gave birth to their first child Mahalia, named after Mahalia Jackson, on 12 July 1982.^[4] The couple now have four children (Mahalia Barnes, Eliza-Jane Barnes, Elly-may Barnes and Jackie Barnes who formed the group Tin Lids). Barnes was already the father of a son, David Campbell, who, due to the young age of his parents at the time of his birth, was being raised by his grandmother. While Barnes maintained contact with him, Campbell did not become aware that Barnes was his father and not merely a family friend until the mid-1980s.

The singer had never been careful with money and the increasing pressure on him to provide for his young family caused even more tension between him and the rest of Cold Chisel. Despite being hugely successful in Australia, the group had still not been able to crack the market internationally and a disastrous tour of the United States in 1981 pulled them even further apart. While the 1982 album Circus Animals provided Cold Chisel with its second consecutive No. 1 album, Barnes returned from the band's German tour in 1983 virtually broke. He asked for a $10,000 advance from the band's management but was refused, as the terms of the group's contract meant that if one member was given such a sum, the rest of them were entitled to the same amount.^[5] At a meeting in August, it was decided that Cold Chisel should split up. The group had already begun to fragment, with Ray Arnott having replaced Steve Prestwich earlier in the year. Sessions for the final album were spread across different studios as various members refused to work together but at the end of the year The Last Stand farewell tour (with Prestwich back in the band) became the highest-grossing concert series by an Australian band ever. The group's final performance was in Sydney on 12 December 1983, reportedly precisely ten years after its original formation. The resultant film of that show remains the best-selling live concert film of any Australian band.

Barnes had recorded seven albums with Cold Chisel between 1978 and 1983, including two live albums (the second of which, Barking Spiders Live 1983, was released in 1984), and was arguably now Australia's highest-profile rock singer.

Solo career[link]

1980s[link]

Barnes launched his solo career less than a month after Cold Chisel's Last Stand tour came to an end. He assembled a band that included Arnott, former Fraternity bass player Bruce Howe and guitarists Mal Eastick (ex-Stars) and Chris Stockley (ex-The Dingoes) and began touring and writing for a solo album. Signing to Mushroom Records, Barnes released his first solo album Bodyswerve. He was now billing himself as Jimmy Barnes, instead of merely 'Jim Barnes' as he had been credited during his Cold Chisel days. The album was immediately successful, entering the Australian charts at Number One on 8 October. This was the first of a remarkable run of top charting albums for Barnes, as each of his first six solo albums all debuted in the Number One position, a feat that no other Australian musical artist is likely to match. His list of Number One albums now totals eleven, including three Cold Chisel albums. His total of nine No. 1 albums as a solo performer is matched by no other Australian recording artist. The final Cold Chisel studio album 20th Century and the live album Barking Spiders Live were also released in 1984. 20th Century peaked at No. 1 on 23 April.

On 22 December 1984, days after Barnes had begun that year's Barnestorming tour, his second daughter Eliza-Jane was born.

Early in his solo career, Barnes was determined to break into the US market and signed to Geffen Records for release there. His second album For the Working Class Man was tailored in this direction, featuring remixed songs from Bodyswerve plus five new tracks including "Working Class Man" that was written by Journey musician Jonathan Cain and would become Barnes' signature tune. Several US musicians worked on the album including Cain, Charlie Sexton, singer Kim Carnes and British drummer Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. The album was released as a double vinyl set and shifted 250,000 copies in twelve months in Australia. Like its predecessor, For the Working Class Man debuted on the national chart at No. 1 on 16 December 1985. It remained at No. 1 for seven weeks. Titled simply Jimmy Barnes in the US, the album was issued in February to tie in with the release of the Ron Howard film Gung Ho which featured "Working Class Man". Because of this, Gung Ho was released as Working Class Man in Australia.

The Jimmy Barnes band that toured Australia in support of the album featured Howe and Arnott, plus keyboardist Peter Kekell, former Rose Tattoo guitarist Robin Riley and American guitarist Dave Amato. With the release of the album in America, Barnes headed off with a band of Canadian musicians hand-picked by his North American management team and toured with ZZ Top. It was the first time since 1981 that he had toured without his family as part of his entourage as Jane was pregnant. Shortly after their son Jackie (named after Jackie Wilson) was born on 4 February 1986 she and the children joined him in the US for the rest of the tour.

In 1986, Jimmy Barnes recorded two songs with INXS, an Easybeats cover "Good Times" and "Laying Down The Law", which he co-wrote with INXS members Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence. "Good Times" was used as the theme song for the Australian Made series of concerts that toured the country in the summer of 1986–87. Australian Made was the largest touring festival of Australian music talent that had ever been attempted to that point. Barnes and INXS headlined and the rest of the line-up featured Mental as Anything, Divinyls, Models, The Saints, I'm Talking and The Triffids. The shows began in Hobart, Tasmania on 26 December and concluded in Sydney on Australia Day, 26 January 1987. A concert film of this event was made by Richard Lowenstein and released later that year.^[6] "Good Times" peaked at No. 2 on the Australian chart and several months later was featured in the Joel Schumacher film The Lost Boys, allowing it to chart Top 40 in the US.

The "Good Times"/"Laying Down the Law" release was the first in a long line of songs Barnes would record with other well known singers and artists. In 1991 he recorded a version of "When Something is Wrong With My Baby" with John Farnham as a single and centerpiece track for his Soul Deep album. The following year he released a version of "Simply The Best" as a duet with Tina Turner that was used as the theme song for that year's Australian Rugby League advertising campaign. It peaked at #13 in Australia. His 1993 album Flesh and Wood also featured several duets, including songs with Joe Cocker, Archie Roach, Tommy Emmanuel and a version of The Band's "The Weight" with The Badloves.

The next album release Freight Train Heart (1987) again featured contributions from a range of US musicians including Huey Lewis, Journey members Randy Jackson and Neal Schon and former Babys and Rod Stewart drummer Tony Brock, who would later accompany Barnes on tour. The recording process was deeply problematic however, as Barnes fought with producer Jonathan Cain over artistic control and Geffen Records wanted to feature a solo by Robert Cray in the track "Too Much Ain't Enough Love" in place of the one laid down by Schon. In the end, Barnes claimed the masters and returned to Sydney to rework the recording with English producer Mike Stone. Most of the songs were remixed, with parts added by Peter Kekell, Rick Brewster from The Angels, and Johnny Diesel, the 20-year old guitarist and frontman of Perth band Johnny Diesel and the Injectors, who had just begun to make a name for themselves. Jon Farriss from INXS and ex-Angels bassist Chris Bailey also played on the album. Diesel, Kekell, Brock, Bailey and Dave Amato were kept on as Barnes' touring band, which hit the road in November just ahead of the release of the first single, "Too Much Ain't Enough Love" in December 1987. It became Barnes' first No. 1 hit single. The album followed the trend set by the previous two, and debuted in the No. 1 slot on 21 December.

Freight Train Heart found moderate success outside of Australia and as recently as 2003 was named as one of the top 100 rock albums of all time by British magazine Powerplay. His problems with Geffen during the recording process caused him to sever his relations with them and he eventually signed to Atlantic in 1990.

In Australia, Jimmy Barnes' success remained virtually unmatched. The Number One success of his first three albums continued with the live album Barnestorming, recorded during the promotional tour of the same name and peaking at No. 1 for three weeks from 5 December. A version of the Percy Sledge standard "When A Man Loves A Woman" lifted from the album was a No. 3 hit. His next tour brought controversy by being underwritten by Pepsi, which allowed him to expand the production and increase promotion, and at the end of the tour he made a $25,000 donation to the Children's Hospital in Camperdown, Sydney.

In the middle of 1989, Jane Barnes went into Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney with pregnancy complications; Elly-May Barnes was born almost three months prematurely on 3 May. Her father held off all further writing and recording until she was released from a humidicrib several months later.

1990s[link]

Barnes signed to Atlantic for worldwide release in mid-1990 and immediately headed into the studio with producer Don Gehman to record Two Fires. The album featured songwriting contributions from the likes of Desmond Child, Diane Warren and Holly Knight, whose track became the title of his record and vocal contributions from Brian Setzer, and from his wife and children. Collectively known as the Tin Lids (after Glaswegian rhyming-slang for "kids"), the four Barnes children later recorded three albums of their own. Two Fires combined live drums with synthesised drum machines and contained the hits "Lay Down Your Guns", "Make it Last All Night", "When Your Love is Gone" and "Little Darling". It had a slight funk influence and an even more polished sound than his previous albums but this proved no barrier to it becoming his fifth consecutive Australian No. 1 album.

The following year he released Soul Deep, an album of soul covers. Barnes had long fostered a love for soul and black music, naming his children after influential black artists and including songs by Sam Cooke and Percy Sledge on previous albums. He and Gehman had discussed the idea during the sessions for Two Fires and both had apparently decided that it would be "a fun thing to do". Soul Deep went on to become Jimmy Barnes' most successful album ever, spawning the No. 3 single "When Something is Wrong With My Baby", a duet with John Farnham. Re-releases of the album were issued in special gatefold sleeves with embossed gold lettering, collector cards and extra live tracks. It remains one of the best-selling Australian albums of all time.

The 1993 album Heat saw Barnes return to hard rock. Influenced by the then-current grunge trend and the music of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Heat was an attempt to move back to Barnes' raw rock'n'roll roots after the polished sound of Soul Deep and Two Fires. While described as his most interesting album,^[7] it broke his run of Number One releases (it peaked at #2) but did contain the hit "Stone Cold", written by former Cold Chisel bandmate Don Walker. It marked the first time Jimmy Barnes had worked with any member of his old band for almost a decade. The pair teamed up for an acoustic version of the track for an unplugged album Flesh and Wood, which appeared later the same year. Flesh and Wood reached #1 on the Australian album chart. It included a version of The Band's "The Weight", recorded with The Badloves, which became a hit. Also in 1993, Barnes teamed up with Tina Turner for a duet version of The Best in the form of a TV promotion for rugby league's Winfield Cup. The single reached the top ten that year.

Following this, in the mid-1990s, Jimmy Barnes' career suffered a slump. The singer faced financial ruin as his music publishing company Dirty Sheet Music and his wife's children's fashion label both went broke. He was pursued by both the ANZ Bank and the Australian Taxation Office for amounts exceeding $1.3 million. The family sold their property in Bowral, New South Wales and settled for some time in Aix-en-Provence, France, attracting some adverse publicity when he assaulted a television crew from Channel 7.^[8] While there, Barnes did considerable live work throughout Britain and toured with the Rolling Stones. His 1995 album Psyclone reached number 2 in Australia and featured the top ten hit "Change of Heart", but it did not sell as well as previous albums. In 1996 the greatest hits compilation Hits returned Jimmy Barnes to the top of Australian charts, along with the hit single "Lover Lover". It was the beginning of a comeback that was hastened by the reformation of Cold Chisel in 1998.

In March 1999 he performed the 1978 Sylvester hit "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" live onstage at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras' annual party.

Later that year Barnes released the heavy rock single "Love and Hate", followed by its parent album Love and Fear. An autobiographical record combining hard rock with electronic music, Love and Fear was Barnes' first album to miss the Australian top ten.

2000s[link]

The comeback was continued with another string of solo releases, including a second album of soul tunes, Soul Deeper (ARIA #3, 2000), and two live albums, the first an acoustic performance and the second a performance of his soul songs. He appeared live on stage with INXS at some shows throughout Australia between 1999 and 2001, but the reception to this was not encouraging. He also performed at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000.^[9]

In 2004, Barnes recorded an album with Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse, Uriah Heep drummer Lee Kerslake, bass player Bob Daisley and keyboard player Don Airey under the name Living Loud. The self-titled album featured a number of songs originally written and recorded with Ozzy Osbourne by Kerslake, Daisley and Airey.

Double Happiness, released in July 2005, reaffirmed his popularity, debuting at #1 on the ARIAnet Albums Chart, his seventh album to do so. Double Happiness was a complete album of duets, including several with his children, daughters Mahalia and Elly-May, son Jackie and oldest son, entertainer David Campbell. Roachford, Smoky Dawson, Ian Moss and Tim Rogers of You Am I are among others who appear. After its initial success, it was re-released as a double CD/DVD package featuring many of his duets from previous albums, including those with INXS, John Farnham, Joe Cocker and Tina Turner. Double Happiness was followed in 2006 by karaoke DVD version that featured many of his songs minus the vocal track.^[10]

Jimmy Barnes was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame on 23 October 2005 for his solo career efforts, and coupled with Cold Chisel's 1993 induction, Barnes has entered into the Hall of Fame twice.^[11]

In late 2006, Barnes became patron of the Choir of Hard Knocks, a choral group formed by Jonathon Welch and consisting of homeless and disadvantaged people in Melbourne. The formation of the choir was documented by the ABC as a five-part series aired in May 2007. Barnes took an active part in the teaching of the choir despite his health problems and has even busked with them. Barnes or a member of his extended family have regularly performed "Flame Trees" with the Choir at their concerts including those at Melbourne Town Hall on 24 June and the Sydney Opera House 17 July 2007.

He underwent heart surgery in February 2007 and then in May, the boxed CD set 50 was released, featuring remastered versions of all his studio albums and a double CD of rare tracks. The collection was limited to 5000 copies.

On 7 July 2007 Barnes was a presenter at the Australian leg of Live Earth. In August he became a regular presenter on The Know, a pop culture program on the pay TV channel MAX and has also been a presenter of the Planet Rock program on the Austereo network.

In September 2007 he started recording his 13th studio album, Out In The Blue. Produced by Nash Chambers, it was released on 14 November and debuted in the ARIA chart at #3. The songs were written while he recovered from his heart surgery, and displayed a more subdued mood than much of his previous output. "When Two Hearts Collide" was a duet with Kasey Chambers. The album was promoted with a performance at the Sydney Opera House, which was released on CD and DVD.

Barnes with Guy Sebastian, 6 March 2008 State Theatre

He continues to recognise and give support to young bands and artists in Australia. In a January 2007 interview with The Bulletin, Barnes spoke passionately about Australian rock musicians saying: "Australian bands for me will always have the grunt. Grunt is what gives you longevity, strength, the power to believe in yourself. We have great bands here because they play live, they cut their teeth playing to people.".^[12] In March 2008, Barnes appeared as a special guest during soul singer Guy Sebastian's tour.

In September 2008 he undertook a tour of Europe. November saw the release of a duet with son David Campbell, a cover of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" that featured on Campbell's album Good Lovin. In September the following year his fifteenth studio album The Rhythm and the Blues was released, immediately becoming his ninth No. 1 charting solo release, thus giving him more No. 1 albums than any other Australian artist. The same week, after hinting about the possibility during his appearance on Good News Week, it was announced that Cold Chisel would play at the V8 Supercars race in Sydney on 5 December 2009.

2010s[link]

Cold Chisel will perform live at the Deniliquin ute muster in October 2010, slated to be their only performance of the year followed by Jimmy touring with Vanessa Amorosi at A Day At The Green concerts. The band is rumoured to be working on new material for the first time since 1998, with a possible tour in 2011.

Barnes released Rage and Ruin on 27 August 2010, his first album of original material since 2007. He has stated that the ideas for most of the lyrics and song themes came from a journal he kept during a period in his life (late 1990s to early 2000s) when he struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. Two singles have been released from the album: "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" and "God or Money". The album debuted at number 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart on 5 September 2010. Three weeks later, on 27 September, it was revealed that Barnes has two adult daughters he had never previously met.^[13]

On 14 March 2011 he planted a flame tree, made famous in Cold Chisel's 1984 song Flame Trees, at the National Arboretum Canberra.^[14] He then headlined at Celebrate in the Park, playing a 90 minute set which included his solo hits and some Cold Chisel greats. He was joined by daughter Mahalia in a soulful rendition of "When the War Is Over", which he dedicated to the memory of Steve Prestwich.

Discography[link]

Cold Chisel[link]

For complete solo discography see Jimmy Barnes discography

Studio Albums[link]

• Bodyswerve (1984)
• For the Working Class Man (1985)
• Freight Train Heart (1987)
• Two Fires (1990)
• Soul Deep (1991)
• Heat (1993)
• Flesh and Wood (1993)
• Psyclone (1995)
• Love and Fear (1999)
• Soul Deeper (2000)
• Double Happiness (2005)
• Out in the Blue (2007)
• The Rhythm and the Blues (2009)
• Rage And Ruin (2010)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Who's Who of Australian Rock – Chris Spencer, Paul McHenry, Zbig Nowara, 2002. ISBN 1-86503-891-1
• Say it Loud with Alan Whiticker, Published by Gary Allen, Australia, September 2002. – ISBN 1-875169-90-3
• Icons of Australian Music: Jimmy Barnes – Scott Podmore. Published by Hyperactive Inc. 2008 ISBN 978-0-9804495-0-1

External links[link]

• Official Jimmy Barnes website
• Unofficial Jimmy Barnes website dedicated to collecting everything JB related

Coordinates: 52°01′57″N 1°01′08″W / 52.0326°N 1.0190°W / 52.0326; -1.0190

Stowe School is an independent school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. It was founded on 11 May 1923 by J.F. Roxburgh, initially with 99 male pupils. It is a member of the Rugby Group and Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school is also a member of the G20 Schools Group. The headmaster, Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, was recognised as Tatler's Headmaster of the Year in 2007; the school was also shortlisted for the School of the Year award in 2009. The school is currently becoming fully co-educational. As of 2011^[update], there are 550 boys and 220 girls.

The school has been based since its beginnings at Stowe House, formerly the country seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos. Along with many of the other buildings on the school's estate, the main house is now a Grade 1 Listed Building and is maintained by the Stowe House Preservation Trust.

The school is used as a first class cricket ground by Northamptonshire CCC, and is the home ground of the Northants Second XI.

On 4 April 1963 the Beatles performed at Stowe School, for which they were paid £100. They accepted a personal request from schoolboy David Moores, a fellow Liverpudlian.

In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times, which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.^[1] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.^[2] However, Mrs Jean Scott, the head of the Independent Schools Council, said that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other, and that they were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted). She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying, "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer. They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed."^[3]

The Stowe Corner of Silverstone Circuit is named after the school.^[4]

Boarding houses[link]

There are 12 boarding houses: 8 boy houses and 4 girl houses. These boarding houses are mostly named after members of the family of Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Each house has a number or letter assigned to it.

Headmasters[link]

• 2003- Anthony Wallersteiner
• 1989-2003 Jeremy Nichols
• 1979-1989 Christopher Turner
• 1964-1979 Bob Drayson
• 1958-1964 Donald Crichton-Miller
• 1949-1958 Eric Reynolds
• 1923-1949 J.F. Roxburgh (Founder)

Notable Old Stoics[link]

This unreferenced section requires citations to ensure verifiability.

Former pupils of Stowe School are known as Old Stoics and include:

• Michael Alexander
• Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill
• Major Jack Anderson, Victoria Cross recipient
• Lord Annan (author and Provost of King's College, Cambridge)
• 3rd Earl Attlee (House of Lords)
• Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (former television executive and a Labour Party member of the House of Lords)
• Oliver Bertram (Motor racing driver)
• Richard Boston (English journalist and author)
• John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter (British Conservative Party politician)
• Sir Richard Branson (business man)
• Marilyn Okoro (British 400m Athlete)
• Lord Justice Simon Brown (law lord)
• Florence Brudenell-Bruce, actress and model
• Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster OBE
• James Burnell-Nugent, (Admiral in the Royal Navy)
• Henry Cavill (actor)
• Leonard Cheshire VC (airman and founder of the Cheshire Foundation)
• Simon Clegg (Former CEO of the British Olympic Association and current CEO of Ipswich Town Football Club)
• Oliver Colvile, MP
• John C. Corlette, became an architect and later teacher at Gordonstoun; founded Aiglon College, Switzerland, in 1949.
• John Cornford (poet)
• Andrew Croft (explorer and SOE agent)
• Alki David (Director, Actor, Screenwriter, Businessman, Philanthropist and Explorer)
• Chelsy Davy (Former girlfriend of HRH Prince Henry of Wales)
• Simon Digby, oriental scholar
• John David Eaton (Merchant - Canada)
• Martin Edwards (former chairman of Manchester United)
• Thomas Firbank originator of P Company
• Howard Goodall (Musician)
• Michael Grade (TV executive)
• Harry Gregson-Williams (Composer and 1st Music Scholar 1975)
• 2nd Earl Haig
• Edward Hardwicke, (actor)
• Lee Harris (musician and manager of The Blockheads)
• Sir Jack Hayward - (entrepreneur and owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers)
• Sir Nicholas Henderson (British diplomat)
• John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker (British diplomat)
• Roger Hodgson (musician) - founding member and vocalist of Supertramp
• Oscar Humphries (Journalist)
• Marc Koska, OBE (Inventor) (Designed K1 auto-disable syringe and credited with saving in excess of one million lives)
• Laddie Lucas CBE, DSO, DFC, airman, golfer, author and Member of Parliament (MP).
• Nicholas Walter Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate (former Solicitor-General and Attorney-General)
• Gavin Maxwell, author and naturalist
• Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine
• George Melly (jazz singer & art historian)
• Crispian Mills (musician)
• Christopher Robin Milne (son of A.A Milne)
• George Monbiot (left-wing journalist and political activist)
• Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk - herald
• David Niven, (actor)
• Toby O'Brien, journalist and public relations expert
• Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind.
• HSH Prince Rainier III of Monaco
• Miranda Raison (actor)
• James Reeves (poet)
• Graham Riddick (British Conservative Party politician)
• John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover (Grocer)
• David Shepherd (artist)
• Henrik Takkenberg (singer, songwriter)
• Karan Thapar (journalist)
• Michael Ventris (linguist who deciphered Linear B)
• Rollo Weeks (actor)
• Graeme White, (Cricketer, Northamptonshire)
• Sir Nicholas Winton MBE, British humanitarian, nicknamed the British Schindler
• Peregrine Worsthorne (journalist)

Notable masters[link]

• Theodore Acland, housemaster 1924-1930, later headmaster of Norwich School

Cricket ground[link]

Cricket pavilion and pitch

The first recorded match on the school cricket ground came in 1928 when Stowe School played St Paul's School.^[5] Buckinghamshire played their first Minor Counties Championship match there in 1947, when it played Berkshire. Between 1947 to 1982, the ground held five Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which saw Buckinghamshire play Bedfordshire.^[6] In addition, the ground has also hosted a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match which saw Buckinghamshire play Bedfordshire.^[7]

The ground has also held a single List A match for Northamptonshire in the 2005 totesport League, when Northamptonshire played Gloucestershire.^[8] The ground has also held fourteen Second XI fixtures for the Northamptonshire Second XI in the Second XI Championship and Second XI Trophy to date.^[9][10]

See also[link]

• List of schools in the South East of England
• List of independent schools in the United Kingdom
• List of boarding schools

Further reading[link]

• Alasdair MacDonald, Stowe: House and School, London: W. S. Cowell, 1951

References[link]

External links[link]

• Stowe School Website
• Old Stoic Society
• Stowe House Preservation Trust
• Cricket ground record at cricinfo
• The Allied Schools
• Department for Education Performance Tables 2011
• Stowe School Ground at CricketArchive
• Stowe School Ground at Cricinfo