Bertrand Hallward

"Bertrand Hallward has been described as one of the great university builders of the twentieth century. This biography follows the course of his long life, beginning with an Edwardian childhood and moving on to the rigours of Haileybury during the 1914-1918 War, followed by undergraduate life at King's College, Cambridge, in the heady days of the early 1920's." "After a brilliant degree in Classics, and election as a Fellow of Peterhouse, Hallward married and raised a family of four daughters. Famous at Cambridge for his gifts as a teacher, his sporting prowess and good looks, he was in 1939…