< The following obituary appeared in the Woking News and Mail on 20th December 1935>

 

BYFLEET

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NEW HEAD FOR WEST BYFLEET

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Appointment of Mr. C.V. Jenkins, J.P.

 

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            Residents of West Byfleet will learn with considerable interest that Mr. Cyril Vincent Jenkins, J.P. of Godstone, has been appointed head teacher of the West Byfleet Council School in succession to Mr. W.E. Head who left Byfleet some time ago to take up an appointment at Pollards’ Hill Streatham.

 

            Mr. Jenkins, who takes up his new duties shortly, is exceedingly well known in Surrey educational circles, and has gained considerable experience in various parts of Surrey.

 

            Educated at Rutlish School and Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, Mr. Jenkins served first as assistant master at Ewell School and at Singlegate School, Merton.    His teaching was interrupted by the Great War; in which he served with the Middlesex Yeomanry from the outbreak of hostilities, and was wounded in Gallipoli.

 

            Mr. Jenkins was appointed headmaster of Godstone C. of E. School in 1918, and has held this position ever since.   He is an accomplished musician, holding the Licentiate diploma of the Trinity College of Music, and has been for some time the organist and choirmaster at Godstone Parish Church.  He has also served as musical director of a number of choral and operatic societies.

 

16 YEARS PARISH COUNCIL CHAIRMAN

 

            Mr. Jenkins is also a Justice of the Peace of the County of Surrey, and will thus be the second head teacher magistrate in the Woking district, as Mr. A.E. Cooper, of Kingfield Central School, has just received a similar honour.  He has also been actively identified with the Surrey County Teachers’ Association, of which he has been president for the year 1934-5.   At Godstone Mr. Jenkins had interested himself keenly in local affairs.  He was elected a member of the Godstone Parish Council when he went to Godstone in 1918.   He became chairman of the Parish Council the following year, and has presided over the deliberations of the Council continuously ever since to the present time.

 

 

 

 

< The following obituary appeared in the Woking News and Mail on 16th August 1973>

 

Mr. Cyril Vincent Jenkins

 

 

One of the best-known residents of West Byfleet, Mr. Cyril Vincent Jenkins, who was headmaster of West Byfleet County Secondary School for many years died last week, aged 81.    He was Divisional Educational Officer for Central Surrey from 1945 to 1958, when he retired.

 

            Mr. Jenkins of Trehane, Oak End Way, Woodham, died at St. Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey, on 1st August.  The funeral took place at Woking Crematorium, St. John’s on Friday last week.

 

            He was educated at Rutlish School and Goldsmiths’ College, University of London before serving as an assistant teacher at Ewell School and Singlecate School, Merton.

 

            His teaching career was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War when he joined the Middlesex Yeomanry.    He was later injured in action at Gallipoli.

 

            After the war he was appointed headmaster of Godstone Church of England School; a position that he held until 1935.

 

 

COUNCIL CHAIRMAN

 

 

            When he moved to Godstone in 1918 he took a keen interest in local affairs and was a member of the parish council.   A year later he became chairman.

 

            In December 1935 he moved to the Byfleet area when he was appointed headmaster at West Byfleet Secondary School.

 

            He was by this time well known and respected in Surrey educational circles and in the year 1934-35 he was elected to be president of the Surrey County Teachers’ Association.

 

            He was appointed a Justice of the Peace on the Woking bench of magistrates.  Later he became chairman of the Long Grove Hospital Management Committee, Epsom.

 

            In January 1964, Mr. Jenkins, appeared in the New Years Honours List and in March 1965 he went to Buckingham Palace to receive an O.B.E. from the Queen.

 

            Mr. Jenkins leaves his wife Muriel and daughter Aldyth.