Roedean School
| Roedean School | |
| Established | 1885 |
| Type | Independent all-female |
| Headmistress | |
| Location | Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom |
| Website | Roedean School's official website |
Roedean School is an independent girls' school on the outskirts of Brighton, United Kingdom.
History
The school was founded in 1885 by three sisters: Penelope, Millicent, and Dorothy Lawrence. In 1898, the school moved to its present site occupying new buildings designed by the architect John William Simpson.
A sister school, also called Roedean School and co-founded by the youngest Lawrence sister, Theresa, is located in South Africa.
Location
Roedean school is set back in forty acres of grounds off Roedean Way, at the top of a cliff on the Sussex Downs overlooking the sea, approximately in line with Brighton Marina.
Notable Alumnae
Past pupils are known as Old Roedeanians.
- Lynda Chalker
- Rebecca Hall
- Honeysuckle Weeks
- Dame Margaret Cole
- Verity Lambert
- Rhona Mitra, who was expelled
- Phyllis Pearsall
- Jill Balcon
- Sarah Miles
- Cicely Saunders
- Sheila Huftel
- Adèle Geras
- Katharine Whitehorn
- Tamara Abukhadra
- Perdita Weeks
- Tanya Streeter
Fictional Alumnae
- Lucy Saxon [1]
- Cecilia Tallis (Atonement (novel))
References
- ^
Harold Saxon - "Meet Lucy Saxon". BBC (June 2007). Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
External links
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