Bromsgrove School

Infobox UK school
name = Bromsgrove School


size = 160px
latitude = 52.328611
longitude = -2.063333‎
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motto = DEO REGI VICINO
"(For God, for King,
for Neighbor)"
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established = 1693
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closed =
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type = Public School
Boarding
religion = Anglican Foundation
president =
head_label = Head Master
head = Chris Edwards M.A. Oxon
chair_label = Chairman of the Governors
chair = Matthew Horton
r_head_label = Chaplain
r_head = Revd. Paul Hedworth
founder = Sir Thomas Cookes Bart.
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specialist =
street = Worcester Road
city = Bromsgrove
county = Worcestershire
country = Englandflagicon|England
postcode = B61 7DU
LEA = Worcestershire
ofsted =
staff = c.440
enrollment = c.1,500
gender = Co-educational
lower_age = 2
upper_age = 18
houses = 11 (Senior School)
4 (Preparatory School)
3 (Pre-Preparatory)
colours = Maroon
publication =
free_label_1 = Former pupils
free_1 = [http://www.bromsgrovians.com/ Old Bromsgrovians]
website = http://www.bromsgrove-school.co.uk/
website_name = www.bromsgrove-school.co.uk
free_label_2 = Maps
free_2 = [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=111399239993506295079.0000011233e6f70ebff75&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=52.329727,-2.061567&spn=0.012221,0.036178&t=h&z=15 School Grounds]

History

Bromsgrove School, founded in 1553, is a co-educational independent school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England. It was first recorded in 1476 as a chantry school and was re-established as a Tudor Grammar School between 1548 and 1553. The endowment of Sir Thomas Cookes in 1693 produced the first buildings on the present site and the historic link with Worcester College, Oxford which shares the same coat of arms and motto, based on those of Sir Thomas Cookes of Norgrove.
In 1869 Bromsgrove was one of the fourteen founding schools of the Headmasters' Conference.
During the Second World War the School moved to Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales and its buildings were used by British Government Departments.
In 2002 the school established Bromsgrove International School Thailand (BIST) in Thailand.
In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading private schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by "The Times", which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article588559.ece Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees - Times Online ] ] 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. [ [http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06 The Office of Fair Trading: OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement ] ]
In 2007, the school was granted the Freedom of Llanwrtyd Wells. [ [http://www.bromsgroveadvertiser.co.uk/news/banewsroundup/display.var.1749580.0.unique_honour_for_town_school.php Unique Honour For Town School (from Bromsgrove Advertiser) ] ]

Bromsgrove School has boarding and day students and consists of three schools, Pre-Prep Nursery School (ages 2–7), Preparatory School (ages 7–13) and the Senior School (13–18). The Senior School has 800 pupils, of whom 60% are male and 40% female, 60% boarding and 40% day. As well as British students, there are more than two hundred from other countries, especially Russia, Germany, China and Hong Kong. The school is to some extent a selective school and high A-Level and GCSE grades are achieved, with an A-Level pass rate (grade A*-C) of 96%. [ [http://www.isbi.com/isbi-viewschool/1536-Bromsgrove_School.html Bromsgrove School ] ] . Bromsgrove School is in the top 20 of UK co-ed boarding schools by A-Level results. [ [http://www.best-schools.co.uk/league-tables/co-educational-boarding-schools.aspx Best Schools, The Top 100 Co-Educational Senior Boarding Schools by A Levels ] ] A Rugby match against King Edward's School, Birmingham, that has been played annually for over 150 years, is thought to be the oldest continuous Rugby fixture between two schools in England. [Staff, [http://www.bromsgrove-school.co.uk/senior_school/senior_sports/senior_sports_rugby.htm Senior School Sports Rugby] Bromsgrove School, Retrieved 7 August 2008]

Houses

* Preparatory School - All named after famous industrialists, shown in brackets:
** Boulton (Matthew Boulton)
** Darby (Abraham Darby)
** Telford (Thomas Telford)
** Watt (James Watt)
* Senior School:
** Elmshurst (Boys Boarding)
** Hazeldene (Girls Day)
** Housman Hall (Sixth Form Girls & Boys): Housman Hall was opened in 2005, after the school bought the Ramada Perry Hall Hotel. The building is the former home of A.E. Housman, an old bromsgrovian himself.
** Lupton (Boys Day)
** Lyttelton (Boys Day): named after the schools links with Baron Lyttelton, a local Lord, which is were the Cobham links came from as well.
** Mary Windsor (Girls Boarding): named after Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood,
** Oakley (Girls Boarding & Day)
** School (Senior House)(Boys Boarding & Day)
** Thomas Cookes (Girls Day): named after the founder of the school.
** Walters (Boys Day)
** Wendron Gordon (Boys Boarding)

Notable students

*William Sheffield D.D. (1778) Fellow (1758), Provost of Worcester College, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum (1772–1795)
*Robert Bourne M.D. (1761–1829), physician and chemist, first Aldrichian Professor of Physic, University of Oxford, 1803–1824
*Revd Robert Eyres Landor (1781–1869), poet, novelist and dramatist, Chaplain to the Prince Regent
*Francis Orpen Morris (1810–1893), theologian, naturalist and letter writer
*John Rose Holden (1810–1860) soldier, settler, politician and banker, member of Senate (1835) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
*George Woodyatt Hastings M.P. (1825–1917), M.P. for East Worcestershire, Chairman Quarter Sessions and the bench, a social reformer and politician, he assisted in the foundation of Girton College, Cambridge
*John White (1839–1912), C.B. Assistant Principal Secretary of Education (1900–1905)
*Colonel Sir Owen Lanyon (1842–1887), K.C.M.G. C.B. (1842–1887), Administrator of the Transvaal, 1879–1881
*A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet
*Sir Arthur Vicars K.C.V.O. F.S.A. (1862–1921), Ulster King of Arms, 1893–1908, Knight Attendant on Order of St Patrick, (1893–1907) he was assassinated by the IRA in 1925
*Laurence Housman (1865–1959), writer and artist
*Engr-Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Skelton, K.C.B. C.B.E. D.S.O. (1872–1956), Naval architect, designed HMS Discovery, went to the Antarctic with Scott
*Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward, K.C.V.O. F.R.C.S.(1884–1953), personal physician to HM The King, George VI England Rugby International
*Oliver Bryson (1896–1977) G.C.
*Miles Thomas, Baron Thomas D.F.C. (1897–1980), Managing Director of Morris Motor Company, 1940–1947, and Chairman of British Overseas Airways Corporation, 1949–1956
*Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry G.C.B. K.C.B. D.S.O. D.F.C. (1902–1977), Air Officer Commanding No.2 Bomber Group, 1943–1945, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command, 1949–1953, and Commander, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe, 1953–1956
*Sir Kenneth Maddocks K.C.V.O. K.C.M.G. (1907–2001), Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji from 1958 until 1963.
*Colonel Sir Eric St Johnston, C.B.E. K.St.J. Q.P.M., (1911–1986) HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary
*Richard Wattis (1912–1975), Actor
*Phil Drabble O.B.E. Philip Percy Cooper Drabble (1914–2007), Author, Countryman, Naturalist and Presenter of every programme and series of "One Man and His Dog" (1976–1993), Midlander of the Year in 1992, wrote for "The Field" for over forty years
*Sir Peter Stallard (1915–1995), Secretary to the Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria (1958–1961), Governor of the Isle of Man.
*Sir Jake Saunders C.B.E. D.S.O. M.C. (1917–2002), Chief Manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), 1962–1969, and Executive Chairman, 1969–1972
*Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman M.C. T.D. (1919–2003), Minister for Industry, 1972–1974, and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, 1974, and Chairman of the National Westminster Bank, 1983–1989
*Ian Carmichael O.B.E. (born 1920), Actor
*Sir Iain Glidewell P.C. Q.C. (born 1925), President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar, former Lord Justice of Appeal
*Keith Kyle (1925–2007), writer, broadcaster and historian
*Professor Sir Michael Drury O.B.E. (born1925), Professor of General Practice, University of Birmingham (1980–1991) Chairman of Age Concern England 1995
*Christopher Trevor-Roberts L.V.O. (1928–2005), founder of the Trevor-Roberts School in Hampstead
*Hugh Rees (1928–2003), Conservative M.P. and Assistant Government Whip 1962, and Director of Abbey National 1976–1991, member Welsh Development Agency, Council Member of the National Museum of Wales and of the Council of the University of Wales
*Ronald Eyre (1929–1992), theatre and television director
*Robert Layton (born 1930), Vice-President Ford Europe, General Commissioner of Economic Development for Berlin
*Commodore Sir Robert Hastie K.C.V.O., C.B.E. (born 1933), Formerly Lord-Lieutenant of West Glamorgan
*Peter Collins (1931–1958) Gentleman racer, winner of three F1 Grand Prixs in 1950's, killed whilst racing at the Nurburging, Germany
*Charles Brian Handy C.B.E. (born 1932), Professor Charles Handy, Author of Management Books and Broadcaster
*Michael Heseltine P.C. (born 1933), Deputy Prime Minister. (Bromsgrove Prep School only)
*Alan Brazier (born 1940) Founder and Inventor of VAX vacuum cleaners formerly Chairman of VAX UK Ltd.
*Joseph Herbert Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge, Medical Director of the Brain Repair unit at Addenbrookes Hospital, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
*John Taylor (born 1941), Conservative politician (former M.P. and M.E.P.) Governor of Birmingham University (1977–81), Vice-President Association of Metropolitan Authorities (1979–86)
*Sir Kyffin Simpson C.B.E., Barbados businessman
*Jonathan James-Moore (1946–2005), head of Light Entertainment, BBC Radio, 1991–1999
*Sir David Arculus (born 1946), Chairman of O2 plc (2004–2006), and Severn Trent plc (1998–2004), IPC Group (1998–2001), Director Barclays plc and former Deputy President of the Confederation of British Industry
*Stewart Towe C.B.E., Managing Director of Hadley Industries, Chairman of the Black Country Consortium
*John Illsley (born 1949), co-founding member of rock band Dire Straits
*Nicholas Evans (born 1950), Novelist
*Trevor Eve (born 1951), Actor
*Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham (born 1955), Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry, 2000–2006, and Minister of State, Department for Business and Enterprise, 2007–
*His Excellency Quinton Quayle (born 1955), HM Ambassador to Thailand appointed 2007 (Bromsgrove Prep school only)
*Nick Miles (born 1960), actor
*Matt Neal (born 1966), winner of 2005 and 2006 British Touring Car Championship
*Soweto Kinch (born 1978), Jazz musician Alto Saxophonist
*Louise Hopkins (born 1978), England Ladies Ist XI Hockey player
*Richard Neville (born 1979), boy band singer in 5ive
*Fyfe Dangerfield (born c.1980), lead singer of Guillemots
*Andy Goode (born 1980), England and Leicester Tigers rugby union player
*Ben Foden (born 1985), England Sevens, England A, and Sale Sharks rugby union player

Victoria Cross holders

Five Old Bromsgrovians have won the Victoria Cross: [Nicholas Lovell , (1996), "V.C.s of Bromsgrove School : : the stories of five Victoria Crosses won by old Bromsgrovians ", (ISBN-10: 0-9521362-3-6 / 0952136236)]
*Victoria Cross
**Second Anglo-Afghan War
***Field Marshal Sir George White V.C., (1835–1912), Commander-in-Chief, India, 1893–1899, Governor of Gibraltar, 1900–1904,
**First World War
***Percy Thompson Dean V.C., (1877–1939)
***Eustace Jotham V.C., (c.1884–1915)
***Frank Bernard Wearne V.C., (c.1894–1917)
**Second World War
***Nigel Gray Leakey V.C., (1913–1941)

References

ee also

*List of Victoria Crosses by School
*List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom

External links

* [http://www.bromsgrove-school.co.uk Bromsgrove School Website]
* [http://www.bromsgrovians.com/ Old Bromsgrovian Club]
* [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111399239993506295079.0000011233e6f70ebff75&ll=52.329779,-2.060409&spn=0.016942,0.047035&z=15 Map of Bromsgrove School]
* [http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/vc.htm The Five Victoria Crosses of Bromsgrove School]
* [http://www.isis.org.uk Schools accredited by the Independent Schools Council]
* [http://www.bromsgrove.ac.th Bromsgrove International School Thailand]
* [http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Databases/BromsgroveSchool Bromsgrove School OB's who died in three wars]
* [http://www.obcpst.blogspot.com Bromsgrove School's Old Bromsgrovian Clay Pigeon Shooting Team]
* [http://www.obec.co.uk Bromsgrove School's Old Bromsgrovian Expedition Club]