| Description | The Denzey papers consist of the research notes of Frank John Denzey of Chilton, an active local historian. His books are in the Berkshire Record Office library.
Brief biographical note, by Mair Denzey
Frank John Denzey, born at Pembroke, 23 March 1919, died 4 March 1996.
A native of Pembrokeshire, he attended the Pembroke Grammar School then trained as a teacher at Bangor Normal College, North Wales, 1937-1939. On completion of his teacher's training he was conscripted to the Army in 1939 where he served for seven years, 1939-1946. He served in the United Kingdom, then in India and Burma, in the Indian Army, attached to the Gurkha Regiment.
In 1942 he married Mair, a North Walian whom he met at college.
After the war he was appointed as Assistant Master in a school in Worcestershire. In 1948 he opened a new RAF School in Rutland where he was Headmaster for two years. In 1950 he became the first Headmaster of a new school in the then county of Berkshire - the Chilton County Primary School. The school was built on the site of the Atomic Energy Establishment at Harwell, to cater for the rapidly growing child population in the area. He retired after 27 happy years in this school. Like all good Pembrokians he returned to retire in the area of his birth. His main hobbies were bird-watching, painting local landscapes and holidaying in Greece and the islands and Turkey. His most absorbing hobby and most time consuming was genealogy. His research files on his own family are now housed in the Society of Genealogists in London. He certainly lived life to the full. |