School Archivist Dr Paul Murray writes: 'The Old Boys Union Formed’ was the headline in the school magazine that reported a meeting held in the Diocesan College Hall (today, the Founders dining hall), on 14 April 1896.  About twenty Old Boys were present. From the College was Canon Brooke.  Mr. Adv. Searle was voted to the chair.  He said that ‘small beginnings have large endings’.  He foresaw that the Union would be a great success.  This was not the first attempt at a Union.  Ten years before, a number of Old Boys had got together to form an Old Boys’ Union.  After a few months it folded.  However, now there was a new attempt that would last till today.  At the meeting of 14 April, the father of the long-serving OD Secretary Frank Reid, Mr J. A. Reid, moved that a Union should be formed and that a committee should be formed at once.  Mr Reid’s motion was then put and carried.  Thus was born the OD Union as we know it today.  On 14 April it will be 125 years old.  A full article commemorating this very significant, milestone event for the OD Union will appear on Wednesday 14 April 2021 precisely 125 years after it was formed.  Hand in glove with the name, the OD Union, is that of Advocate Frank Reid the Honorary Secretary who served in that position for 47 years uninterrupted.  The photograph above is of Frank, who was at Bishops from 1895 to 1904, the year he went up to Oxford, having been the first of two Pre-Will Rhodes Scholars elected