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The Very Revd. Dom. Leo Chamberlain OSB (born 13 August 1940) is former Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, a monk of Ampleforth Abbey, and a former Headmaster of Ampleforth College. Educated at Ampleforth, Leo Chamberlain subsequently attended Oxford University (University College) between 1958 and 1961, holding the Burn Open Scholarship in History, and following his graduation took a post at Ampleforth teaching history, theology, and politics. Having taken monastic vows he was ordained priest in 1968. Responsible for a number of innovations (including the establishment of the school's golf course between 1963 and 1987), he became the school's youngest ever housemaster in 1972, and was appointed head of history shortly afterwards. Becoming headmaster of Ampleforth in 1992, he oversaw the first admission of girls to what had previously been a single sex college. Having retired from teaching in December 2003, he became master of St Benet's Hall on 1 September 2004. He retired as Master in 2007 and was succeeded by Felix Stephens and became parish priest of St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Easingwold, Yorkshire. ==Childhood and youth== George Chamberlain was born on 13 August 1940 in Kent during the Battle of Britain. His father, Noel, from a Catholic Lancashire family in 1895, had been the second Ampleforth alumnus to hold an open Award at Oxford (he was an Exhibitioner of University College). He had joined the army in 1914, and then became a professional soldier, accepting a captain's commission in the new Army Education Corps in 1920. George's mother, Sally, was born in India. After her own father's early death, she went to the Lawrence school on Mount Abu, and followed her mother into training as a nurse. Her training incomplete, she nursed her mother in her last illness and then returned to England and work as a governess. His parents met in Blackheath after both had come to England. His father’s military career meant that, according to his mother, the family lived in 18 different homes in George's childhood and youth. The war was spent in Edinburgh while Colonel Chamberlain pioneered the work of Army Education for the armies in Italy. After that came a move to Harrogate which, off and on, was to be the main family base ever after. After an interval in Egypt, marred by discovery of ill health, said to be an obscure form of tuberculosis, George went to Gilling Castle, Ampleforth’s prep school, in 1949, but spent most of the next two years in the hands of doctors in England and Switzerland. On the road to recovery, he went back to Ampleforth and entered the Upper School in 1954. An early enthusiasm for rugby was ended when the doctors forbade contact sport, not a route to popularity or distinction in a sports conscious school. Academic progress brought a modest crop of O levels and entry three years running to A level, ending satisfactorily. He had achieved commoner entry to University College in the same year, and matriculated in 1958 at 18 years old. This meant that he was still eligible for the scholarship examination, and that friendly College awarded him the Open Burn scholarship, the top history scholarship at the end of his first term. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leo Chamberlain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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