The Standard Bearer A Biography of Charles Oxley by David Raynor           CHARLES OXLEY was the founder and principal of two successful schools in Lancashire and another in Scotland. He campaigned tirelessly to maintain moral standards in the life of the nation. He hit national headlines in 1983 when he infiltrated the Paedophile Information Exchange (a paedophile ring), and his testimony at the Old Bailey led to three of its leaders going to prison. Charles Oxley is back in the news (February 2014) because of his involvement in bringing down the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). This has been brought about by criticisms in The Daily Mail of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), with which PIE affiliated, and several of the NCCL’s officers, including the politicians Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt. • He bought a 150-room stately home for £24,500 in 1963 and a modern college building worth £20 million for just over a quarter of a million pounds 20 years later. • He prompted a group of his pupils to monitor a week’s television output and publicised the amounts of blasphemy, swearing and vulgarity it contained. • He led campaigns against the setting up of sex shops in several northern towns. • He stayed in his Liverpool Bible College premises throughout the night to protect the building from the threatened violence of the Toxteth rioters. • In The Standard Bearer, a biography of Charles Oxley, David Raynor tells the fascinating story of this remarkable man. × How did he move from teaching aristocracy at a public school in Egypt to setting up his own school in St Helens at the age of 26? × Why were questions asked in the House of Commons when he set up his third school in Hamilton, Scotland? × How did he find the time to write a newspaper column and dozens of letters every week while bringing up four children and running three schools? × What prompted this biblical scholar and schoolmaster to campaign for capital punishment and against re-marriage of divorcees? × How did he manage to fit in ten visits to India in support of Christian schools, orphanages and missionary work? David Raynor was headmaster of Scarisbrick Hall School for twenty-one years and worked closely with Charles Oxley. After Charles’ death David was given free access to the study and extensive files of this Christian crusader. The Standard Bearer tells the life story of the ‘quiet man with the roar of a lion’, as a newspaper obituary described him. The Standard Bearer recently been reprinted. £7.95+£1.75p&p The Standard Bearer: A Biography of Charles Oxley