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C E Joslin MSc, BSc, FRMS (1947-1969)
Subjects: General Science & Religious Knowledge
Cyril Ernest Joslin was born in Portsmouth on 18 October 1904 the son of Sidney Herbert Joslin, a shipwright (probably). He attended Portsmouth Boys’ Secondary School where he obtained 3rd Class Honours in the Oxford Local Examination in April 1920.
He went on to obtain a BSc and by 1929 was back in Portsmouth as Principle of a Private School there. In the 1930s he became a well-known Portsmouth figure in both educational and church circles. .He joined the Meteorological Office in 1939 and was awarded a MSc (London) degree in 1942. He served as a Flight Lt. RAFVR, acting as a Meteorological officer at RAF Andover, Hampshire until the end of the war..
After two years teaching at Bicester County School, Mr Joslin joined WHSB in 1947. His niche became the teaching of Religious Knowledge and General Science to first year boys, but for many years he championed the use of visual aids (he was given charge of the school 16mm projector), and supported external activities for boys, most notably annual visits by the Stage Lighting Society to the Strand Electric’s Demonstration Theatre in London. He also founded the School’s Christian Union.
Beyond the school Mr Joslin devoted much of his time to the organisational side of Worthing Baptist Church, and no doubt continued to do so after his retirement in 1969. He died in Worthing in July 1990.