A mention in "Music at Clifton - the first fifty years", in The Clifton Magazine, 2009
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Music at Clifton - the first fifty years, in The Clifton Magazine, 2009. In a section about about the great Douglas Fox, a huge influence on Peter Tranchell (and indeed David Willcocks, also a student at Clifton), this article mentions that in 1941 the school's Music Club Concerts, regularly featured...
... Peter Tranchell, who was characterised by a contemporary as "the most erudite and versatile" of the many distinguished scholars Clifton produced at this time (testimony to the quality of teaching at Bude* is the fact that in 1942 Clifton secured more Oxbridge awards than any school in the country) and who went on to be a modern composer of note...
The magazine can be read at https://oc-online.co.uk/uk/cliftoncollege/bulletin/867_1393946220/cm_2009.pdf
* Clifton College temporarily relocated from Bristol to Bude in 1941.