Durnford

Perhaps the oddest detail of this story is that Durnford's firing was announced last week in a welcome-back letter to parents by te school's co-founder Ronald Steward, whose daughter happens to be married to Durnford.

Prep School Principal Fired By Father-In-Law Simon McCormack 2011

A source close to the school said nothing improper happened between Durnford and the student until the girl turned 18 and graduated last June.

Prep School Principal Fired By Father-In-Law Simon McCormack 2011

Several students said Durnford displayed unusual behavior, like "patting the butts of girls" on the volleyball team.

Prep School Principal Fired By Father-In-Law Simon McCormack 2011

Durnford had been serving as the girls' team volleyball coach.

Prep School Principal Fired By Father-In-Law Simon McCormack 2011

How Flashman came to be within earshot of Pulleine and have a view of Durnford, whose retreat had begun some miles away, one can only guess; no doubt he moved at his customary high speed, and it is likely that in his recollection of his panic-stricken confusion he has unwittingly "telescoped" events and time.

Watershed 2010

Apparently, as underrepresented as female students were on the school's roof, they're overabundant in the hives themselves, where, according to principal Durnford — whose time seems to have been well-spent at beekeeping classes — males have little function besides mating with the queen.

Generating Buzz, and Honey 2010

And there was poor old Flashy, caught behind the companies of the 24th as they poured their volley-firing into the "chest" of the Zulu army, cheering and shouting for the ammunition-carriers, and Durnford 's bald forehead glinting in the sun above his splendid whiskers as he pulled his men back to the donga and blazed away at the left "horn" sweeping in towards them.

Watershed 2010

In fairness to Chelmsford, the failure to laager was Colonel Durnford's; Rider Haggard, who knew Durnford well, advances an interesting theory on his tactics in The Tale of Isandhlwana, but agrees with Kruger that laagering would have saved the day. [p. 276] 2.

Watershed 2010

And there was poor old Flashy, caught behind the companies of the 24th as they poured their volley-firing into the "chest" of the Zulu army, cheering and shouting for the ammunition-carriers, and Durnford 's bald forehead glinting in the sun above his splendid whiskers as he pulled his men back to the donga and blazed away at the left "horn" sweeping in towards them.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

In fairness to Chelmsford, the failure to laager was Colonel Durnford's; Rider Haggard, who knew Durnford well, advances an interesting theory on his tactics in The Tale of Isandhlwana, but agrees with Kruger that laagering would have saved the day. [p. 276] 2.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999