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Cheltenham College is a famous 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.
than 600 Old Cheltonians (former pupils) were killed in the service of their country in World War I, and more than 400 in World War II.
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Cheltenham College is a famous 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.
Work and service
More than 600 Old Cheltonians (former pupils) were killed in the service of their country in World War I, and more than 400 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).
The names of those Old Cheltonians killed in the wars are recorded in the cloisters of the College chapel completed in the 1890s, which to a degree resembles King's College Chapel in Cambridge and is one of the finest chapels of any English public school.
Cheltenham has approximately 600 pupils (150 being day pupils) between the ages of 13 and 18. The fees are about £28,000 a year, making it amongst the most expensive schools in the country. 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; however, these results are not accurately reflected in those league tables which do not recognise the IGSE in Mathematics (which is taken by the majority of pupils).
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 school in Cape Town, South Africa; a prestigious all-boys boarding school which co-incidently was established in the same year as Cheltenham, 1841.
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.
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)
- Lindsay Anderson, film director, shot the 1968 film If.... chiefly at Cheltenham College
- Peter Atkinson, Former Journalist and Conservative MP for Hexham 1992-present
- Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra
- Sir Alan Haselhurst, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
- Jonah Barrington, squash player, ex-world champion and ex-world number one
- Andrew Cecil Bradley, Shakespeare critic
- Chris Bryant, Labour MP for Rhondda 2001–
- Simon Danielli, Scottish international rugby player
- Nick Abendanon, English international rugby player
- Tom Beim, English international rugby player
- Tom Scudamore, jockey, son of Peter Scudamore
- Jack Nixon Browne, Baron Craigton CBE, PC (3 September 1904 - 28 July 1993) was a Scottish Tory politician
- Nigel Davenport, actor
- Jack Davenport, actor
- Field Marshal Sir John Dill
- Sir Charles Eliot, British ambassador to Japan, 1919–25
- Henry Jackson (classicist)
- Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford PC, QC (30 October 1828 – 18 August 1911), was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman
- Sir John Bagot Glubb, Glubb Pasha, Commander of the Arab Legion, 1939–56
- Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet
- Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins, (Head of S.O.E.);
- H.L.A. Hart, an influential jurisprudential thinker
- Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, Conservative cabinet minister
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky, (Irish historian)
- Martin Horwood, Liberal MP for Cheltenham
- Percy Alexander MacMahon,
- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
- Lt. Colonel Philip Neame, VC, DSO, gold medallist for rifle shooting (1924 Summer Olympics, Paris)
- Rageh Omaar, BBC world affairs correspondent, now with Al Jazeera
- Endicott Peabody, founder of Groton School, Massachusetts
- William Plenderleath, clergyman and antiquary
- General Sir Hugh Michael Rose, KCB CBE DSO QGM
- Sir Charles Scott, British ambassador to Imperial Russia, 1898–1904;
- General Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927),(Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police at the time of the Whitechapel Murders
- Patrick White, Nobel prize-winning novelist
- Dr.Ts'o Seen Wan, C.B.E., L.L.D., J.P.
- Edward Adrian Wilson, polar explorer, died with Robert Falcon Scott in 1912. A by Wilson is in the Town Museum. A of him is there too.
- Mike Lithgow, OBE.(1920-1963) Test Pilot Vickers Supermarine. Absolute flight airspeed record 1953 in a Supermarine Swift F4
- His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. George Otto Simms (1910-1991), D.D., Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh.
- Hishammuddin Hussein, Current minister of Education, Malaysia
See also :Category:Old Cheltonians
Victoria Crosses won by Old Cheltonians
Fourteen Victoria Crosses have been won by Old Cheltonians, with only Eton College (37), Harrow School (19), Haileybury College (17), and Wellington College (15), having higher totals. A replica of the Boyes VC is on permanent display in the 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.
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:
- Bogle, Lieutenant Andrew Cathcart (28) Andrew Cathcart Bogle.
- Booth, Sergeant Frederick Charles (27) Frederick Charles Booth.
- Boyes Midshipman Duncan Gordon (aged 17, the youngest). Duncan Gordon Boyes.
- Boyle, Lieut. Commander Edward Courtney (32) Edward Courtney Boyle.
- Channer, Captain George Nicolas (32) George Nicolas Channer.
- Forbes-Robertson, Lieutenant Colonel James (34) James Forbes-Robertson.
- Grant, Lieutenant John Duncan (27) John Duncan Grant.
- Hart, Lieutenant Reginald Clare (31) Reginald Clare Hart.
- Melvill, Lieutenant Teignmouth (37) Teignmouth Melvill.
- McDonell, Mr. William Fraser (28) William Fraser McDonell.
- Moor, Second Lieut. George Raymond Dallas (19) George Raymond Dallas Moor.
- Neame, Lieutenant Philip (26) Philip Neame.
- Reynolds, Captain Douglas (32) Douglas Reynolds.
- Ryder, Commander Robert Edward Dudley (34) Robert Edward Dudley Ryder.
Display of Victoria Crosses
VCs on public display: Bogle, Boyle, Melvill, Moor, Neame, Reynolds, Ryder (7)
VCs location unknown, presumed in private hands: Booth, Boyes, Channer, Forbes-Robertson, Grant, Hart, McDonell (7)
George Cross recipient
The Times of November 10, 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-
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 OC1911-23
- 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-
See also
External links
- The official website for Old Cheltonians
- was one of the first assistant masters at the school.
- on Cheltenham College
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