{"id":41,"date":"2008-03-10T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T12:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldshebbearian\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-08-31T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:17:52","slug":"c-w-barfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"C W Barfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyril Barfoot, senior maths and physics master at Shebbear from 1943-57, has died at the age of 93.<\/p>\n<p>He came to Shebbear as one of J.B.Morris\u2019s first recruits with a 1st Class mathematics degree from Birmingham University. Many Shebbearians had reason to be grateful for \u201chis beautifully lucid teaching\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a first rate model engineer, photographer, stage electrician and scoutmaster of Troop 3.<\/p>\n<p>He left Shebbear for a similar post at Edgehill when his children, two girls and a boy, began to get older and it was necessary to move to Bideford for their education.<\/p>\n<p>While at Edgehill, he was appointed to the permanent panels of examiners for Oxford University O-levels and London University A-levels.<\/p>\n<p>It kept him \u201cmore than fully occupied\u201d during the months of June, July and December.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few years ago he was a guest of honour at the OSA President\u2019s reception, following Speech Day at Shebbear.<\/p>\n<p>A Quaker funeral service took place in Bideford on February 14, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyril Barfoot, senior maths and physics master at Shebbear from 1943-57, has died at the age of 93. He came to Shebbear as one of J.B.Morris\u2019s first recruits with a 1st Class mathematics degree from Birmingham University. Many Shebbearians had reason to be grateful for \u201chis beautifully lucid teaching\u201d. He was also a first rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}