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Charles "Skipper" Cotterill Lynam (15 June 1858 – 27 October 1938) was an English headmaster, yachtsman, and writer.


Biography

He was the eldest (in surviving to adulthood) of fourteen children of the architect
Charles Lynam Charles Lynam (9 February 1829 – 21 February 1921) was an English architect, designing many public buildings and churches in the Stoke-on-Trent area. He was also a church historian, archaeologist, and preservationist. Biography Lynam was born ...
and his wife Lucy Emma. Charles Cotterill Lynam was educated at
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on the
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. After graduation, he worked for a short time in his father's office and then in 1879 won a scholarship to
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. There he played for the Oxford varsity
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team and the
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team and graduated in 1882. During his university days, he cruised and sailed on the inland waters of the
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. In 1882, Lynam was appointed assistant master at the Oxford Preparatory School (now called the
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). He became headmaster in 1886 and in 1895 moved the school from
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to
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into buildings designed by his father. In 1885, Charles C. Lynam married Catherine Alice Hall (1865–1957). They had one son, William, and one daughter, Ruth. C. C. Lynam became famous for managing the school according to principles of liberal humanism, "actively encouraging originality in boys and affording them every opportunity to discover and develop their own interest and genius. He was also a strong supporter of co-education, and his daughter was the first girl to enter the school." Charles C. Lynam enjoyed sailing and cruising and often invited friends and Dragon School's staff members to accompany him in yachting. He disliked being addressed as "Sir" and preferred to be called "Skipper". C. C. "Skipper" Lynam promoted subsidized tuition for talented students unable to pay the full tuition and served as the Dragon School's headmaster from 1886 to 1920, when he retired. The Dragon School was co-educational from the 1890s onwards, gained a considerable reputation for its freedoms, and was sometimes referred to as Lynam's preparatory school. In retirement, he was a keen sailor and world traveller. At age eighty, after recently returning from a voyage to
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, he embarked on a voyage from England to
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aboard M. V. ''Alcinous'' (
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). On the outward voyage, he died of
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and, according to his wishes, was buried at sea on 27 October 1938.
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, a fellow passenger, wrote a note of sympathy to Skipper Lynam's brother Alfred Edmund "Hum" Lynam (but did not mention that a
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and a carpenter's error nearly created an embarrassing situation). Frank Sidgwick (1879–1939), scholar, publisher, writer of light verse, and old boy of the Dragon School, wrote ''
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'' obituary for Mr C. C. Lynam.


Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lynam, Charles Cotterill 1858 births 1938 deaths People from Stoke-on-Trent People educated at King William's College Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford Heads of schools in England People associated with the Dragon School English male sailors (sport) English non-fiction writers