Larmor House

Housemaster - R. T. Meek, B.Sc., P.G.C.E.

LARMOR HOUSE
Motto -  Cuique sunt vires suae

Larmor House was founded in 1926, as one of the original four houses, and is named after the eminent physicist Sir Joseph Larmor.

Joseph Larmor was born on 1857 in Magheragall, Co. Antrim. When his father gave up farming to open a grocery business, the family moved to Belfast and, in due course, Joseph became a pupil of Inst. His education continued at Queen's University and in 1877, having graduated with BA and MA, he went to St John's College, Cambridge to study the Mathematical Tripos. By 1880 he had been awarded the Smith's Prize, elected a Fellow of the College and returned to Ireland as professor of Natural Philosophy at Queen's College, Galway. Having spent five years teaching in Galway he returned to St John's College and, in 1903, became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.

The researches for which he is chiefly remembered came at a time of major revolution in scientific thinking with the passing of classical physics and its replacement by quantum theory and relativity. Larmor's contributions can be seen as a bridge between the old and the new physics and, interestingly, he not only wrote the obituary for Lord Kelvin (of Kelvin House) but also acted as editor for his complete works. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and served as its secretary from 1901 to 1912.

Knighted in 1909, Larmor served as MP for the University of Cambridge from 1911 to 1922, where his main contributions in Parliament were to strongly support education in general and universities in particular. He retired from Cambridge in 1932 and, with his health deteriorating, returned to Ireland to spend his final years in Holywood, Co. Down until his death in 1942.

Walter Page was the first Head of House. Today the metal crest from his school cap forms the centrepiece of the Walter Page Perpetual Shield which is presented annually to the Head of House.

The House motto was adopted in the 1990s. Its literal translation is ‘to each his own strength'. In the modern idiom we interpret this to mean ‘everyone is good at something' as an expression of our ethos of inclusiveness and the value we place on each and every member of the House as an individual

House Achievement.

Over the years Larmor has been a very successful house, winning the inaugural House Championship in 1993 - 94 and again in the millennium year. More recently we have had some near misses and last year were runners-up by the slimmest of margins after an exciting finale. So far this year we have established a healthy lead, having so far won the Corry Cup, volleyball, cross-country, debating and rowing competitions. Currently there are 16 members of Larmor are serving as Prefects with John Colville as one of the Senior Prefects.

Larmor First Form - 2007/2008

Back L to R: Andrew Moore, Christopher Morrow, Gavin Murphy, Niall Nagar, Paddy Neville Forest, Jack Scott, Kyle Walsh, Stuart Watson

Middle L to R: Roy Greer, Ryan Hanson, Michael Keane, Ross Lamont, Joshua Lyness, Michael McCormick, Robert McGibbon, Andrew McGrath, Nicholas Mitchell, Christopher Moffitt 

Front L to R: Joshua Alderdice, Matthew Austin, David Barron, Kenton Bell, Miss McCreadie, James Bingham, Rhys Burns, Ryan Craig, Aaron Davis

The Corry Cup Squad

The Rowers with the Pincent Trophey