Kimberley Boys' High School is a high school

High school

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 located on the corner of Dalham Road and Memorial Road, Kimberley, Northern Cape

Kimberley, Northern Cape

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, South Africa

South Africa

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. It was founded in 1887 and has close affiliation with Kimberley Girls' High School

Kimberley Girls' High School

Kimberley Girls' High School is a high school located on Elsmere Road in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. It is over a hundred years old and has close affiliation with Kimberley Boys' High School and Kimberley Junior School.-History:...

 and Kimberley Junior School.

History

Kimberley Boys' High School was established in 1887. The Boys' High and Girls' High Schools, jointly known as the Kimberley Undenominational Schools, occupied separate wings of a building in Lanyon Terrace in Kimberley until 1913 when they moved to their present sites.

Headmasters

The following list of headmasters is derived mainly from Leslie Moult's K.H.Story: a history of Kimberley Boys' High School, published at the centenary in 1987.

• W.A. Norrie, 1887–1892
• L.C. Wilkes, 1893–1898
• H.C. Notcutt, 1899–1903
• A.H.J. Bourne, 1904–1917
• O.J.S. Satchell, 1918–1926
• S.D. Stoops, 1928–1941
• L.M. Dugmore, 1942–1957
• Alan Barker, 1958
• Herbert Pringle Gordon, 1959–1967
• R.C.H. "Bob" Hart, 1968–1973
• Alan S. Powell, 1974–1983
• T.J. Webster, from 1984
• Hennie van der Mescht, afterwards Professor of English at Rhodes University
• John Lobban
• S Harward
• Dudley W Daniels 2003 -

War

Many of the boys of this school volunteered to serve in the armed forces in World War I

World War I

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, World War II

World War II

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 and the Korean War

Korean War

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, some serving with distinction. A Memorial Library was built in honour of those who lost their lives. Conscripted

Conscription

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 school-leavers in the second half of the twentieth century acquitted themselves equally well in the South African Defence Force

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Hostels

The junior section of the school, which hived off as Kimberley Boys' Junior School in 1970, subsequently simply Kimberley Junior School, was served by a hostel known as Dugmore House. Leslie Moult who was hostel superintendent was also first headmaster of Kimberley Boys' Junior School.

The senior hostel was Francis Oats House.

Boys attending Boys' High were also housed at Bishop's Hostel, an institution owned by the Anglican Church until 1981 when it was transferred to Boys' High.

Boys' High School Players

D.H. Sanders established a tradition of high quality theatrical productions running from 1930 to 1955.

Later generations - musicals

Musical theatre flourished from the 1970s under Johan Swart and later Aiden Smith.

The baton was taken up subsequently by Anne Solomon.

Prominent alumni

• Benjamin Bennett
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   (1904-1985), well-known South African crime writer.
• Rudolph Carl Bigalke
  Rudolph Carl Bigalke
  Rudolph Carl Bigalke, was a zoologist, a director of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, subsequently heading the Department of nature conservation at the University of Stellenbosch and serving for several terms as Dean of the Faculty of Forestry at that university. He was born in...
  
  , zoologist and one-time director of the McGregor Museum
  McGregor Museum
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• Frederick Dobbin
  Uncle Dobbin
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  , South African international rugby union player
• William Benbow Humphreys (1889-1965), politician, founder of and principal benefactor behind Kimberley's William Humphreys Art Gallery, and recipient of the Freedom of the City of Kimberley.
• Dr Donald Ross (Matric 1939), pioneer of British cardiac surgery. See Ross procedure
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• Professor Velva Schrire (Matric 1933), Head of the Groote Schuur Hospital
  Groote Schuur Hospital
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   Cardiac Clinic at the time that Dr Chris Barnard
  Chris Barnard
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   performed the world's first human heart transplant operation.