rather less than at a traditional public school. Fathers who were Army and Navy officers or civilian officers working for the Board of Admiralty could plead straitened circumstances, in which event the fees could be reduced to £40 a year, if the merits of the case were accepted. The College closed in 1921, with the last students leaving on 9 April 1921, after the Admiralty had taken the decision to bring the whole of the four-year course to Dartmouth. Almost all Osborne boys progressed to Dartmouth at the beginning of the following term. Osborne inspired the Merchant Navy's Nautical College, Pangbourne, founded in 1917, where boys continued to wear naval uniform and to maintain some other traditions. Captains and Commandants of the College The following served as Captain and Commandant of the College: Notable teaching staffSee also :Category:Instructors of the Royal Naval College, OsborneIn 1907 George Dyson was appointed as the college's director of music, on the recommendation of Sir Hubert Parry. He moved on to Marlborough College in 1911 and was succeeded by Reginald Thatcher. Paul Boissier was another member of the staff and went on to become the headmaster of Harrow School. R. P. Keigwin, a first-class cricketer and languages master, moved on to teach at Clifton College in 1919. The schoolmasters who in 1921 were left without teaching posts when the college closed were offered employment at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. In this way, Charles Godfrey became the head of Mathematics at Greenwich, with the title of Professor, having been headmaster at Osborne, while Michael Lewis and Geoffrey Callender, two other masters from Osborne, also became heads of departments at Greenwich. William Mansfield Poole, the head of modern languages at Osborne, proceeded with his boys to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and continued to teach there. Notable studentsSee also :Category:People educated at the Royal Naval College, OsborneConolly Abel Smith (1899–1985), later Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Michael Conolly Abel Smith GCVO CB William Agnew (1898–1960), later Vice-Admiral Sir William Gladstone Agnew KCVO CB DSO William Andrewes (1899–1974), later Admiral Sir William Gerrard Andrewes KBE CB DSO Edmund Anstice (1899–1979), later Vice Admiral Sir Edmund Anstice KCB George Archer-Shee (1895–1914) was expelled from Osborne in 1908 after being falsely accused of stealing a postal order, inspiring the play The Winslow Boy. He was killed in action in 1914. Harold Harington Balfour (1897–1988), later a First World War flying ace