Abingdon News No. 57

Charles Octavius Wright taught art and mathematics at Abingdon from 1904 until 1931. The school archives have a copy of the maths text book he and fellow maths master, William Arthur Rudd, wrote in 1916: ‘Model Drawing Geometrical and Perspective: with Architectural Examples’, Wright providing the drawings of the over 300 complex architectural examples. He was a talented artist and the archives also possess several of his atmospheric drawings of the School. The Abingdon Foundation, Park Road, Abingdon, Oxford OX14 1DE 01235 521563 • Edited by Jane Warne – [email protected] 01235 849123 • Design – www.petergreenland.com Abingdon Out of the Past @ abingdonschool @ a bingdonschool Drawn from the Past @abingdon_school linkedin.com/school/abingdonschool Answers to Lower School Puzzle on page 5: Puzzle 1 = 87 (look at it upside down to see why!) Puzzle 5 = top secret Puzzle 10 = back to square one Among Wright’s pupils was another talented artist, Ivan Williams OA 1922, who also left behind some of his sketches of the interior of the school. Wright’s and Williams’ drawings together provide an attractive glimpse of Abingdon School as it was in the early days of the 20th Century. 1913 Common Room: Arthur Rudd, Headmaster Thomas Layng and Octavius Wright are second, fourth and seventh from the left. School House, from the north west, CO Wright 1913 School House from the south west, CO Wright 1913 School Dining Hall, CO Wright 1926 Common Room, Ivan Williams, 1922 Big School Entrance, Ivan Willliams 1922