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| Sherborne School | |
| Motto | Dieu et mon droit (God and my right) |
| Established | 1550 |
| Type | Independent school |
| Religion | Anglican |
| Headmaster | Simon Eliot |
| Chairman of the Governors | Professor Richard Hodder-Williams |
| Founder | St Aldhelm |
| Location | Sherborne Dorset DT9 3AP England  |
| Students | 570 (approx.) |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 13 to 18 |
| Houses | 8 |
| Colours | Royal blue & yellow
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| Former pupils | Old Shirburnians |
| Website | www.sherborne.org |
Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
The Good Schools Guide called the school a "Strong, traditional public school in delightful setting," adding that it provides "An invigorating, intellectually sound and multi-faceted environment'. However, it warns that the school is "not always gentle."[1]
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History
Some historians have speculated that a school must have existed in Sherborne since the 3rd century A.D.; however, there is no evidential basis for this. The school's definite origins date back to the eighth century, when a tradition of education in Sherborne was begun by St Aldhelm. According to legend, Alfred the Great was one of the school's early pupils. The school was then linked with the Benedictine Abbey in the town. The earliest Master known about was Thomas Copeland in 1437. After the Dissolution of the monasteries, Edward VI refounded the School in 1550 as King Edward's school, a free grammar school for local boys. The present School, which has gone through various changes of fortune since the Protestant Reformation (and no doubt before), stands on land which once belonged to the Monastery. The Library, Chapel and Headmaster's rooms, which adjoin the Abbey Church, are modifications of its original monastic buildings.
The school stood in for Brookfield School in the 1969 film Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and many of its students served as extras in the production.
In 2005 Sherborne School was one of fifty of the country's leading public schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.[2] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.[3]
Qatar Branch
In March 2009, it was announced that a replica of the school would be built in Doha, Qatar, with the first academic year starting in September 2009 and the development being completed by 2012.[4]
Houses
Sherborne School is composed of 8 houses, where the pupils (invariably referred to as 'boys') live and work when not in lessons. The names of the houses, and their distinctive letter, used in certain circumstances as an abbreviation:
- School House (a) (location: Abbey Road)
- Abbey House (b) (location: Abbey Road)
- The Green (c) (location: Hospital Lane)
- Harper House (d) (location: Hound Street)
- Wallace House (e) (formerly Elmdene, location: South Street) [5]
- Abbeylands (f) (loacation: Abbey Road)
- Lyon House (g) (location: Richmond Road)
- The Digby (m) (formerly the Digby Hotel, location: Digby Road)
Until 1999 there was another house, Westcott (h).
These houses also compete against each other in various sporting, educational and musical competitions.
School song ("Carmen Scirburnesise")
Olim fuit monachorum
Schola nostra sedes;
Puer regius illorum
Fecit nos heredes;
Hoc in posteros amoris
Grande dedit signum;
Sonet ergo Fundatoris
Nomen laude dignum;
Vivat Rex Eduardus Sextus!
Vivat!
Ubi preces iterabant
Senes cucullati,
Tecta stant ut olim stabant,
Mores quam mutati!
Pro silentio senili
Fit ubique iocus;
Ludo semper puerili
Totus fervet locus.
Vivat Rex Eduardus Sextus!
Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!
Sanam mentem, corpus sanum
Nobis alunt rura;
Habilem dat pila manum,
Durat follis crura;
Pisces, ubi sinit aestas,
Aemulamur nando;
Philomelae voces maestas
Vincimus cantando.
Vivat Rex Eduardus Sextus!
Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!
Studiorum vice tali
Roborantur mores;
Musa cultu liberali
Spinis miscet flores.
Semen insecuta seges
Messes reddit certas;
Legibus finita leges
Temperat libertas.
Vivat Rex Eduardus Sextus!
Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!
Ergo dum verenda mole
Cana perstat aedes,
Dum recenti gaudet prole
Monachorum sedes,
Stimulet certamen ludi,
Suadeat laboris,
In sigillo sculptum rudi
Nomen Fundatoris.
Vivat Rex Eduardus Sextus!
Vivat!
The song is of five verses, but the first and the last (referred to as the 'Carmen Saeculare') are the two printed each term in the School's 'Blue Book' diary and are nowadays sung at the end of whole school assemblies at the end of term (known as "lists") where prize-winners will receive prizes and various announcements will be made. A Classical Greek version of the song was composed along with this one, but it is never used.
Alumni[6]
The Arts etc.
- Sir Richard Eyre CBE, film and theatre director, artistic director of the National Theatre 1988-97
- Sir Michael Hopkins CBE, architect
- Cecil Day-Lewis CBE, poet
- Hugh Bonneville, actor
- Charles Collingwood, actor
- David Cornwell, (a.k.a. John le Carré), writer
- Charlie Cox, actor
- Jeremy Irons, actor
- John Le Mesurier, actor
- Chris Martin, lead singer of rock band Coldplay
- Ian Messiter, creator of Just a Minute
- Anthony Lane, film critic
- Lance Percival, actor
- Jon Pertwee, actor
- James Purefoy, actor
- Alec Waugh, novelist
- Jonathan Powell, Controller of BBC One (1987-1992)
- John Cowper Powys, author, lecturer and philosopher
- Roland Young, actor
Broadcasting
- Simon McCoy, TV journalist and news presenter
Diplomacy, Intelligence and Colonial Administration
- Rt Hon Lord Charles Bathurst GCMG KBE PC, former Governor-General of New Zealand
- Sir Alan Campbell GCMG, diplomat
- Sir David Spedding KCMG CVO OBE, former Head of the SIS
- Sir Hugh Norman-Walker KCMG OBE, colonial administrator
- Sir Donald MacGillivray KCMG MBE, last British High Commissioner in Malaya
- Sir Christopher Curwen KCMG, former Head of the SIS
- Sir John Weston KCMG, diplomat
Military
- Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob GCB GCSI KCMG, WW1 Commander
- Lt Gen Sir Steuart Pringle Bt KCB DSC, former RM Commandant General
- Lt Gen David Leakey CMG CBE, serving Senior Army Officer
- Maj Gen Julian Thompson CB OBE, Falklands War Commander
- Maj Gen Patrick Cordingley DSO, Commander Desert Rats, Gulf War
- Lt Col Timothy Spicer, International Defence Consultant
- Capt Keith Muspratt MC, World War One Flying Ace
Academia
- Sir Colin Lucas, former Master of Balliol and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University until 2001.
- Michael McCrum CBE, former Headmaster of Eton College, former Master of Corpus Christi Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University until 2004.
- John Newsom-Davis CBE FRCP FRS FMedSci, neurologist
- Alan Turing OBE FRS, mathematician
- Alfred North Whitehead OM, mathematician and philosopher
- Rt Hon Lord Hugh Thomas, historian
- Harold Temperley, historian and former Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Politics
- Rt Hon Sir Christopher Chataway, athlete and politician
- Rt Hon Lord Alan Lennox-Boyd CH PC, former Cabinet Minister
- Rt Hon Lord Thomas Buchanan PC, former Under-Sectretary of State for India
- Rt Hon Lord William Cecil KG, 18th Century politician
- Robert Key MP, British South-West MP
- Stanley Johnson, politician and father of Boris Johnson
- Peter Oborne, journalist, author and political commentator
- David French, Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Other Civil Service
- Sir Nathaniel Highmore GBE KCB, Government barrister and civil servant
Other
- Sir Alastair Pilkington, director of the Bank of England
- Rt Rev Lord David Sheppard, bishop and cricketer
- Charles Palmer CIE, engineer and survivor of the siege of Lucknow
- James Adams, cricketer
- John Bain (1854 – 1929), England footballer and 1877 FA Cup Finalist
- Ronald Cunningham, (a.k.a. The Great Omani), escapologist
- Nigel Dempster, journalist
- Nick Greenstock, former England Rugby Union centre
- King Mswati III, king of Swaziland
Victoria Cross holders
Five Old Shirburnians have been awarded the Victoria Cross, to whom a memorial plaque was commissioned, the unveiling of which took place in the School Chapel on 19 September 2004.[7]
- Rear Admiral Henry James Raby VC CB.
VC won in the Crimean War, when he was a Lieutenant in the Naval Brigade. Raby was the first man to actually receive the medal, with Queen Victoria pinning it onto him in the first investiture. - Brigadier General Arthur George Hammond VC, KCB, DSO
VC won in the Second Afghan War, when he was a Captain in the Bengal Staff Corps, Indian Army - Major General Charles Edward Hudson VC, CB, DSO & Bar, Military Cross
VC won in the First World War, when he was a Temporary Lieutenant Colonel in the Sherwood Foresters - Major Edward Bamford VC DSO;
VC won in the First World War, when he was a Captain in the Royal Marine Light Infantry - Captain John Hollington Grayburn VC;
VC granted posthumously and he was gazetted Captain; won in the Second World War, as a Lieutenant in the Parachute Regiment
References
- ^ http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/sherborne-school.html
- ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article588559.ece
- ^ http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06
- ^ "BBC Online: Public school replica for Qatar". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7928144.stm. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
- ^ Wallace House
- ^ Various editions of the Old Shirburnian Register
- ^ Old Shirburnian Editorial Team, (2004), The OS Record, pages 20-21 , (Shelleys The Printers, Sherborne)
See also
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