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Cheltenham College
Cheltenhamcollege.jpg
Motto Latin: Labor Omnia Vincit
("Work Conquers All")
Established July 1841
Type Independent, Day & Boarding
Religion Anglican
Headmaster John S Richardson
President The Revd J C Horan
Location Bath Road
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL53 7LD
England England
LEA Gloucestershire
Staff 88[1]
Students 600[1]
Gender Co-educational
Ages 13 to 18
Houses 10
Former students Old Cheltonians
Website www.cheltcoll.gloucs.sch.uk

Cheltenham College is a co-educational independent school, located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

The first of all the major public schools of the Victorian period, it was opened in July 1841. An Anglican foundation, it is known for its classical, military and sporting traditions.

The 1893 book Great Public Schools by E. S. Skirving, S. R. James, Henry Churchill, and Maxwell Lyte, which had a chapter on each of what they regarded to be England's ten greatest public schools, included Cheltenham College.

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Work and service

675 Old Cheltonians (former pupils) were killed in the service of their country in World War I, and 363 in World War II. Cheltenham's military past is recognised by the fact that it is one of only two schools (the other being Eton) to have its own military colours (last presented in 2000 by The Princess Royal).

Cheltenham College chapel and library (Big Modern)

The names of those Old Cheltonians killed in the first world war are recorded in the College chapel, completed in 1896, which to a degree resembles King's College Chapel in Cambridge and is one of the finest chapels of any English public school. Those killed in the second world war are displayed on the memorial in the College's dining hall.

Cheltenham has approximately 600 pupils (150 being day pupils) between the ages of 13 and 18.[2] The fees are about £28,000 a year, making it amongst the most expensive schools in the country.[3] The school is now co-educational and maintains a strong academic reputation, with the majority of pupils going to The Russell Group Universities with a handful going on to Oxford and Cambridge universities. Both GCSE and A Level results are among the highest in Gloucestershire;[4][5]

There is also a prep school, Cheltenham College Junior School, most of whose pupils go on to the senior school.

Cheltenham also runs an annual exchange program with the Wynberg Boys' High School in Cape Town, South Africa; a prestigious all-boys boarding school which co-incidently was established in the same year as Cheltenham, 1841.

On 14 October 2009 ten pupils were expelled for using cannabis.[6]

Sport

Cheltenham has a strong sporting tradition, competing with larger single gender schools at the highest level. The first inter-school rugby football match was played between Rugby School and Cheltenham College, Cheltenham beating Rugby; and the "Cheltenham Rules" were adopted by the Rugby Football Union in 1887. The school has had particular success at raquets where, at times, they have dominated the Queen's Club Public Schools Competition; at polo where they were National Schools Champions in 1997, 1998, 2004, & 2005 and Arena Champions in 2004, 2005 & 2006, and again at rugby where they have reached the final of The National Schools 7's Festival four times in the last ten years, winning the competition in 1998, 2003 and 2004. Cheltenham's rugby XV was undefeated in the 2008 season.[7]

Houses

There are ten houses, three of which are day houses; Southwood for the boys and Queens or Westal for the girls. Ashmead, Chandos and Westal (a boarding and day house) are the girls' boarding houses whilst the boys reside in either Boyne House, Christowe, Hazelwell, Leconfield or Newick House.

Notable former pupils (Old Cheltonians)

See also Category:Old Cheltonians

Victoria Crosses won by Old Cheltonians

Fourteen Victoria Crosses have been won by Old Cheltonians,[10] with only Eton College (37), Harrow School (19), Haileybury College (17), and Wellington College (15), having higher totals.[11]

The list of names, with age and rank at the time of the deed which merited the award of the Victoria Cross, is as follows:

Display of Victoria Crosses

Seven of the College VCs are on public display: Bogle, Boyle, Melvill, Moor, Neame, Reynolds, Ryder. The other seven VCs are at locations unknown, presumed in private hands: Booth, Boyes, Channer, Forbes-Robertson, Grant, Hart, McDonell.

The VC won by Midshipman Boyes was sold by the College in 1998 to raise scholarship funds.[13] A replica of his VC is on permanent display in Cheltenham College library (Big Modern) with photographs of all 14 Victoria Cross winners and a world map showing where they were won. Below the Victoria Cross display a selection of other medals won by Old Cheltonians is displayed intermittently.

George Cross recipient

The Times of 10 November 1943, p.4, states:

“On August 21, 1943, near Phillipeville, Major Kempster was carrying out grenade throwing practice with two others in the same pit. A grenade which was thrown by Major Kempster rolled back into the pit. Major Kempster attempted to scoop the grenade out of the pit but failed to do so. By this time detonation was due. Without hesitation Major Kempster threw himself on the grenade just before it exploded and received fatal injuries. By his self-sacrifice, Major Kempster undoubtedly saved the lives of the two other occupants of the pit. Major Kempster’s act meant certain death, and he must have known this at the time. His was a supreme act of gallantry.”

Headmasters and Principals

The headmaster is John Richardson, formerly head of Culford School.

The full list of past principals and headmasters is contained in Cheltenham College Who's Who 5th edition, 2003, and is as follows:

Principals (1841-1919)

  • Rev. Alfred Phillips, D.D. 1841-44
  • Rev. William Dobson 1845-59
  • Rev. Henry Highton 1859-62
  • Rev. Alfred Barry, D.D. 1862-68
  • Rev. Thomas William Jex-Blake 1868-74
  • Rev. Herbert Kynaston, D.D. 1874-88
  • Rev. Herbert Armitage James, D.D. 1889-95
  • Rev. Robert Stuart de Courcy Laffan 1895-99
  • Rev. Reginald Waterfield, D.D. 1899-1919

Headmasters (1919 - present)

  • Henry Harrison Hardy 1919-32
  • Richard Victor Harley Roseveare 1932-37
  • Arthur Goodhart Pite 1937-38
  • John Bell 1938-40
  • Alan Guy Elliott-Smith 1940-51
  • Rev. Arthur Godolphin Guy Carleton Pentreath 1952-59
  • David Ashcroft 1959-78
  • Richard Martin Morgan 1978-90
  • Peter David Vaughan Wilkes 1990-97
  • Paul Arthur Chamberlain 1997-2004
  • John Stephen Richardson 2004-2009

Headmasters of the Junior School

  • Rev. Thomas Middlemore Middlemore-Whithard 1863-65
  • Rev. Christopher Edward Lefroy Austin 1885-96
  • Francis Joseph Cade OC 1896-1910
  • Charles Thornton OC 1911-23
  • Basil Allcot Bowers OC 1923-33
  • William Donavan Johnston 1933-46
  • Hugh Alan Clutton-Brock 1946-64
  • William Philip Cathcart Davies 1964-86
  • David John Allenby Cassell 1986-91
  • Nigel Iain Archdale 1992-2008
  • Adrian Morris 2008-

References

  1. ^ a b "Facts & figures". Cheltenham College. http://www.cheltcoll.gloucs.sch.uk/cc/news/facts.php. Retrieved 2007-08-24. 
  2. ^ [1]Cheltenham College web site
  3. ^ [2]Cheltenham College web site
  4. ^ [3]The Guardian
  5. ^ [4]The Daily Telegraph
  6. ^ BBC: College expels 10 for using drugs
  7. ^ [5]The Daily Telegraph
  8. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Cheltenham College", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
  9. ^ Hunter, Andrew Alexander, Cheltenham College Register, 1841-1889, p. 83
  10. ^ Michael Croke Morgan, (1968), Cheltenham College: The First Hundred Years, page 219, (published for the Cheltonian Society by Sadler)
  11. ^ Fully referenced cited article on number of VCs, school by school, can be found at List of Victoria Crosses by School
  12. ^ The Life of Duncan Boyes, V.C
  13. ^ [http://www.spink.com/about_spink/victoria_crosses.asp Spink: Boyes, Duncan Gordon; Midshipman, RN. Sale of 21 July 1998, lot 212, sale price £51,750]
  14. ^ George Cross Database Recipient: Andre Gilbert KEMPSTER, GC (Posthumously)
  • Cheltenham College: The First Hundred Years by Michael C. Morgan [Chalfont St. Giles: Richard Sadler, for the Cheltonian Society, 1968]. A formal history, starting with the meeting on 9 November 1840 of Cheltenham residents (presided over by Major-General George Swiney) who decided to set up a 'Proprietary Grammar School' and appointed a committee to achieve this. ISBN unknown/unavailable.
  • Then & Now: An Anniversary Celebration of Cheltenham College 1841-1991 by Tim Pearce, (Cheltonian Society, 1991). The author explains in the Preface that this is "more of a scrap book than a formal history, and like all scrap books it reflects the tastes and interests of its compilers and depends on what in the way of pictures and documents may be available to them". ISBN 0-85967-875-X
  • Cheltenham College Who's Who, 5th edition ed. John Bowes, (Cheltonian Society, 2003) No ISBN on book.
  • Floreat, A collection of photographs of College life from the 1960s and early 1970s compiled by the late M.F. Miller, a Physics master at the school

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Coordinates: 51°53′30″N 2°4′30″W / 51.89167°N 2.075°W / 51.89167; -2.075

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