Respecting the courage and heritage of Goldsmiths’ first Warden- ‘He died a gentleman and soldier.’

At a time when British culture and society is going through a remarkable memorializing process about the ‘Great War’ of 1914-18, I have been impelled to elevate what I would regard the ‘forgotten history’ of Goldsmiths’ first Warden William Loring (1865-1915). He not only laid the college’s key foundations for academic excellence and educational leadership,