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Pierre de Vomécourt
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Pierre de Crevoisier de Vomécourt, code names Etienne, Lucas, and Sylvain, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
Colditz Castle POW camp in 1945.
Colditz Castle POW camp in 1945.
Beaumont College
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Beaumont College was between 1861 and 1967 a public school in Old Windsor in Berkshire. Founded and run by the Society of Jesus, it offered a Roman Catholic public school education in rural surroundings, while lying, like the neighbouring Eton College, within easy reach of London. It was therefore for many professional Catholics with school-age children a choice preferable to Stonyhurst College, the longer-standing Jesuit public school in North Lancashire. After the college's closure in 1967 the property was used in turn as a training centre, a conference centre and an hôtel; St John's Beaumont, the college's preparatory school for boys aged 3–13, continues, functioning in part as a feeder school for Stonyhurst.
Engraving of Beaumont Lodge, circa 1830 – placed closer to the river Thames than it now is, whether because the river has moved or by artistic licence
Engraving of Beaumont Lodge, circa 1830 – placed closer to the river Thames than it now is, whether because the river has moved or by artistic licence
Medallion of the Holy Ghost, the centrepiece of the rose window at the east end of the Beaumont chapel. The chapel was built in 1870 by Joseph Hansom
Medallion of the Holy Ghost, the centrepiece of the rose window at the east end of the Beaumont chapel. The chapel was built in 1870 by Joseph Hansom and decorated in 1902 by William Romaine-Walker, who described his style as "the grandchild of the Pompeian". It was the inspiration for the chapel in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. This window is a replacement: the original was destroyed by a doodlebug which landed on the school during the war.
Beaumont chapel in 2008, restored as a function space.
Beaumont chapel in 2008, restored as a function space.
11 November 2007: Remembrance Day service at Beaumont's Scott war memorial. The St John's choir are to the left, and a tree planted by Queen Elizabeth
11 November 2007: Remembrance Day service at Beaumont's Scott war memorial. The St John's choir are to the left, and a tree planted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961 is in the middle. Fr Kevin Donovan SJ OB (died 21 August 2008), on the right.