Guy Pentreath
| Guy Pentreath | |
|---|---|
| Born | Arthur Godolphin Guy Carleton Pentreath 30 March 1902 Hamilton, Bermuda |
| Died | 30 October 1985 (aged 83) Ashford, Kent, England, U.K. |
| Occupation | Clergyman, Headmaster, Travel Writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction, Travel |
| Spouse | Margaret Lesley Cadman |
| Children | two sons, one daughter |
Rev. Canon Arthur Godolphin Guy Carleton Pentreath, M.A., Cantab. (Guy Pentreath; 1902-1985) was an Anglican clergyman, and a headmaster of several schools. In his retirement, he was a chaplain and guest lecturer on many Swan Hellenic cruises. He also popularised a version of the poem 'Time's Paces': 'When I was a babe and wept and slept, time crept ...'
Guy Pentreath was born in Hamilton, Bermuda on 30 March 1902. He was the son of the Rev. A. G. Pentreath, Army Chaplain's dept. His mother was Helen Guy Carleton. The family returned to England when Pentreath was aged two. Pentreath was educated at Haileybury College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge where he graduated with a First with distinction in Classical Archaeology. As an undergraduate Pentreath wrote to his father: "I met today, at church, the girl I am going to marry. I will tell you her name when I have discovered it." This was no idle speculation. He married Margaret Lesley Cadman on 21 December 1927 and they had two sons and a daughter in a marriage spanning fifty three years. He died at Ashford, Kent on 30 October 1985.
In the Second World War, Pentreath was disappointed that he was "reserved" as a headmaster and therefore unable to sign up for military service. However, he felt that the war needed interpretation for Australians and he became a regular broadcaster on ABC radio. Two of these broadcasts were subsequently published by the Australian Dept. of Information:
While headmaster of St. Peter's College, Adelaide, Pentreath carried out a considerable new building programme and he developed the curriculum to include art, music and crafts to a degree unusual for the time. When he was appointed at Wrekin College, Shropshire, he inherited a near-Victorian regime. he quickly introduced his own warm and personal style of leadership, and first won over the boys and later the staff. According to Sir Peter Gadsden whom Pentreath appointed Head Boy at Wrekin in 1948: "We began to enjoy new freedoms: we were allowed out into the country on bicycles to discover for ourselves interesting places — Housman's Shropshire, The Ironbridge Gorge and the Welsh borders. A host of new activities developed — films, plays, current affairs, discussion groups, overseas trips."
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