Beaudesert Park School
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Beaudesert Park School is a prep school
in Minchinhampton
, Gloucestershire
for 4-13 year olds. There are about 400 pupils in the prep school and the pre-prep combined. The Headmaster is James Womersley.
Preparatory school (UK)
In English language usage in the former British Empire, the present-day Commonwealth, a preparatory school is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for entry into fee-paying, secondary independent schools, some of which are known as public schools...
in Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton is an ancient market town, located on a hilltop south-south-east of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, in the Cotswolds. The town is twinned with Nkokoto, in Tanzania....
, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
for 4-13 year olds. There are about 400 pupils in the prep school and the pre-prep combined. The Headmaster is James Womersley.
Notable former pupils
- Nick AbendanonNick AbendanonNick Abendanon is an English rugby union player, currently playing for Bath Rugby in the Guinness Premiership. Full-back Abendanon burst onto the scene during the 2006–07 season, scoring 10 tries in 24 first-team appearances for Bath.His form that season earned him a first England cap in South...
, England and Bath rugby player - Gerald AylmerGerald AylmerGerald Edward Aylmer was an English historian of seventeenth-century England.Gerald Aylmer was the only child of Edward Arthur Aylmer, from an Anglo-Irish naval family, and Phoebe Evans. A great-uncle was Lord Desborough...
, an English historian - Derrick Carden, CMG, British diplomat, former Ambassador to the Yemen Arab RepublicYemen Arab RepublicThe Yemen Arab Republic , also known as North Yemen or Yemen , was a country from 1962 to 1990 in the western part of what is now Yemen...
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to Sir John Carden, Bt - Judge Gabriel Hutton, a British judge
- Oliver Guy-WatkinsOliver Guy-WatkinsOliver Guy-Watkins is a British writer and artist.- Background :Guy-Watkins was born and raised in Gloucestershire, England. He attended Beaudesert Park School and St. Edwards School in Cheltenham, before moving onto Gloscat to study English and Drama...
, a British writer and artist. - Dick King-SmithDick King-SmithRonald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.M.Ed. , better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the United States as Babe the Gallant Pig, on which the movie Babe was based...
, a children's author - Jake MeyerJake MeyerJake Meyer is a British climber. He achieved fame by becoming the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest in 2005, aged 21 years 4 months. The record is now held by Rob Gauntlett who was 19 at the time...
, the youngest British person to reach the summit of Mount EverestMount EverestMount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point... - Admiral of the Fleet Sir Julian OswaldJulian OswaldAdmiral of the Fleet Sir John Julian Robertson Oswald GCB was a British naval officer who served as Chief of the Naval Staff and First Sea Lord.-Naval career:...
, GCB, a British naval officer and former First Sea LordFirst Sea LordThe First Sea Lord is the professional head of the Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service; it was formerly known as First Naval Lord. He also holds the title of Chief of Naval Staff, and is known by the abbreviations 1SL/CNS... - Zara PhillipsZara PhillipsZara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, MBE is the second child and only daughter of Princess Anne and her first husband Captain Mark Phillips and is 13th in the line of succession to the throne...
MBE, a British riding champion and daughter of The Princess RoyalAnne, Princess RoyalPrincess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... - Sir Anthony WagnerAnthony WagnerSir Anthony Richard Wagner, KCB, KCVO, FSA was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He served as Garter Principal King of Arms before retiring to the post of Clarenceux King of Arms...
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- Dan Robinson, English Marathon Runner
- Charlie Marlow, rowed the Atlantic
- Tim Vigors, RAF fighter pilot in Battle of Britain and Far East; Squadron Leader at age 20
- Henry Maudslay, RAF Lancaster pilot, killed at age 21 in 617 Squadron's "Dambuster" raid