Bertrand Leslie Hallward (24 May 1901–17 November 2003) was a British educationalist who served as Headmaster of

Clifton College ''The spirit nourishes within'' , established = 160 years ago , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent boarding and day school , religion = Christian , president = , head_label = Head of College , hea ...

and

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of the

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.''The Guardian'', "Bertrand Hallward: Educationalist who built a university"
21 November 2003. Retrieved 14 November 2022.Derek Winterbottom, "Bertrand Hallward: First Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, 1948-1965. A Biography" (The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 1995)
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20 November 2003. Retrieved 14 November 2022.

Family and education

Hallward was born in

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, Sussex, to Norman Hallward, who worked for the

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, and Eva Gurdon, the daughter of an

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officer. Among his paternal ancestors were several Anglican clergymen, and on his mother's side he was the nephew of Bertrand Evelyn Mellish Gurdon. He was a pupil at Warden House in

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, and at

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, and later an undergraduate at

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. After two terms teaching at

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he returned to

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as a fellow of

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, where he quickly developed an interest in academic administration. In 1926 he married Margaret Tait (1900–1991), the daughter of the Rev.

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, Principal of

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, and granddaughter of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Drury, Master of

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. Bertrand and Margaret had four daughters together.

Academic career

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Clifton College

Having unsuccessfully applied for the headmastership of

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in 1931, Hallward was offered the position of Headmaster of

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in 1939. After a bomb hit the school, he moved the pupils to

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for the remainder of the

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. Returning to Bristol, he set about increasing enrollment and improving the quality of the staff.

University of Nottingham

In 1947, after declining an offer from

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, Hallward applied to become principal of University College,

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, which, when his term began the following year, had received full university status. He immediately began enlarging and developing the campus from 122 to 400 acres and enhancing the quality of teaching. He retired from the

in 1965.

Other interests and later life

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Hallward served as chairman of the

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for 15 years. On retirement, he built an ocean-going yacht, sailing around the

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during the summer months. He celebrated his 100th birthday at Peterhouse in 2001 and died in 2003, at the age of 102. The

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, opened in 1972, at the University of Nottingham was named after him and, after his death, a girls' boarding house at Clifton College was established and named after him (Hallward's House).Biography at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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References

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