Guy Pentreath

Arthur Godolphin Guy Carleton Pentreath (30 March 1902 – 30 October 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 ...'

Life Guy Pentreath was born in Hamilton, Bermuda on 30 March 1902. He was the son of the Rev. Arthur Godolphin Pentreath, Army Chaplain's dept, The family returned to England in Pentreath's youth, and he was educated at Ashampstead Church of England School before Haileybury College. He then went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge where he graduated with a First with distinction in Classical Archaeology; On 21 December 1927, he followed through on his declaration and married Roedean and Girton College, Cambridge-educated Margaret Lesley Cadman, daughter of Edwin Cadman, a razor manufacturer of Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Yorkshire. They had two sons and a daughter in a marriage spanning fifty three years. He died at East Brabourne, Ashford, Kent on 30 October 1985. Two of these broadcasts were subsequently published by the Australian Dept. of Information: What Price Victory? a broadcast talk by Rev. A. G. G. C. Pentreath. Lee-Pratt Press, 1940. England in War Time: a broadcast address before the Rotary Club, Adelaide, on 10th July, 1940, by Guy Pentreath. Dept. of Information, Melbourne: T. Rider, Govt. Printer, 1940. He was a member of Common Cause, a wartime think tank envisaging the shape of a post-war society. Other members included Professors K. S. Isles and G. V. Portus, Dr. A. R. Callaghan, Sidney Crawford, Charles Duguid and John W. Wainwright.

Headmasterships 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.

In 1952 he moved to Cheltenham College where he introduced the same ethos that had proved so successful at his earlier schools.

Retirement Pentreath left Cheltenham College due to the ill-health of his wife, Lesley, and was appointed Canon of Rochester Cathedral in 1959.