Ashdown House, East Sussex
Allegations of physical and sexual abuse in the 1970s by multiple former pupils, investigated by law firm Slater & Gordon in 2013, were followed by widespread recollections from former pupils that the regime at the school in the late 20th century had been spartan and unforgiving, with boys or entire classes regularly punished with canings.[5] Abuse at the school is much of the subject of former pupil Alex Renton's book Stiff Upper Lip[6] and his BBC Radio 4 documentary In Dark Corners,[7] and is referred to in the memoirs of Andrew Mitchell.[8][9] In July 2014, Clive Williams, who was headmaster from 1975 to 2003, was interviewed by Sussex Police following allegations of sexual assault and child neglect.[10] In January 2023 David Price, 76, who had taught at the school in the 1980s, was charged with three counts of indecent assault in the 1980s and was due in court in the following month.He was arrested after an 11-page account detailing alleged abuse was submitted to Cape Town police by a former pupil of Western Province preparatory school in the city.