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Arthur Ernest Lunn born in Lucknow India on the 9th May 1910 son of Arthur Alexander Lunn an officer in the Royal Horse Artillery on retiring from the British Army joined the Indian Railways and served as a PWI (Permanant Way Inspector). Arthur Ernest Lunn was one of four brothers and one sister. Educated at La Martinere College, Lucknow, India Arthur Lunn obtained his BEd Degree from Lahore University, which is in present day Pakistan. During WWII all the brothers served in different branches of the armed services, Arthur Ernest Lunn and Harold Lunn, joined the Navy Arthur Lunn as a Captain commanded the big guns of a shore battery and Harold Lunn was chief engineer aboard ship. Leslie Lunn joined the RAF as a flight officer and was shot down over Tobruk in North Africa, seriously injured and unable to walk properly he served in the War Graves Commission in Delhi. The eldest brother and sister Grace Lunn served in the army, the latter as a nurse. At the end of WWII all the brothers and sister returned to civilian life and Arthur Ernest Lunn took up post as a teacher of geography and English at Cathedral School in Bombay (Mumbai), where he taught a young man destined to become President Bhutto of Pakistan. In 1947 Mr A E Lunn applied for the post of Principal of the Bishops School, Poona (Pune), which was founded at the instigation of the Rev Fenton of Poona, with the consent of the Bishop of Bombay. The Bishops School was established by the British Army in India for the son's of warrant officers in 1864 in barracks under Cpl Mansfield on the 19th April 1864, with 15 boys mainly the sons of NCOs in the British Army in India. The School moved to its current location in 1868 and since its inception has had fourteen principals, some spent very brief periods at Bishops, while others like Mr H Macnee spent twentyfive years at Bishops. When Mr Arthur Ernest Lunn took over as principal of the Bishops School in 1947, there were just nine staff and a few hundred students. However, the school rolls grew over the next 25 years to over 1,000 students and staff, and the school earned a reputation as one of the best schools in India providing a world class education by a dedicated academic staff team and physical training instructors, who were usually men of distinction recruited from the ranks of ex-army school of physical training instructors. Mr A E Lunn, worked tirelessly rising at 04.00 to go to the market to buy fresh produce every day to supply the school kitchen with the very best quality comestible produce catering to the needs of the 600 plus boarders and seldom retiring to bed before 24.00 every night.