BISHOP Wordsworth's School commemorated its most famous former master when a cabinet to house books by William Golding and items of Golding memorabilia was unveiled at the school.
The Nobel Prize-winning author's daughter, Judy Carver, removed a blue cloth to reveal a cabinet of English oak created by cabinet designer and maker Kevin Morgan of Lover.
William Golding taught English at Bishop Wordsworth's School in 1940 and from 1946 to 1961 and wrote his most famous novel, Lord of the Flies, during his time there.
The collection was donated to the school by Old Wordsworthian Odile Hellmann, who attended the school from 1917 to 1926, in the days when it was co-educational, and later taught there.
Miss Hellmann, who is now 90, is in frail health and was unable to attend the ceremony, but her solicitor, Paul Chudleigh, who arranged
the bequest, said he would be telling her all about it.
The Old Wordsworthian Association will be adding to the collection and Mrs Carver made her own contribution on Monday with a copy of her father's last book, published posthumously in 1995, The Double Tongue.
"It is to be a working collection, not just one to be looked at from a distance," said John Cox, senior teacher at Bishop Wordsworth's, who organised the memorial.
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