Hampton School
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Hampton School is an independent
boys' day school
in Hampton, London
, England
.
.
Although Hampton School was founded in 1557 there was provision in the will that the school would only continue as long as the vicar, churchwardens and parishioners carried out his requests. If not, then the properties would revert to his heirs. It seems that the school (in its first incarnation) did not survive beyond 1568, or possibly earlier, and the properties reverted to the heirs.
Subsequently, however, the school was re-opened in 1612. This was as a result of a Commission that was established to enquire into the fate of Tudor charities that had disappeared for various reasons in different parts of the country. The "learned counsell on bothe sides" reached a deadlock at the Commissioners. However in the spirit of compromise and through the generosity of the then legal owner of the properties, Nicholas Pigeon, the school was re-endowed. The school has continued in various forms and in various buildings ever since.
The early school was on the site of St Mary's Church. It moved to a purpose-built campus on Upper Sunbury Road in 1880 before moving to the present site on Hanworth Road in 1939.
The School converted from voluntary aided
status to become a fee-paying independent school
in 1975 in the light of changes to the administration of secondary education in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
and remains independent to the present day. It is located next to The Lady Eleanor Holles School
for girls, with which it shares several classes, clubs, facilities and a coach service.
Founders' Day is celebrated by the school each year. The occasion is marked by a procession of boys walking from the school down to St. Mary's Church by the Thames, towards the end of the academic year.
The site of 29 acres (117,358.9 m²) includes playing fields including four rugby pitches, seven football pitches, six cricket squares, three astroturf and three acrylic tennis courts, athletics facilities, a climbing wall and the Old Hamptonians’ Pavilion.
http://www.hamptonschool.org.uk/school/pguide/buildings.shtml
and the Shooting Star Trust
), nationally (Jeans for Genes Day and Breakthrough Breast Cancer
), and internationally (Opportunity International
, the African Medical and Research Foundation
, Pahamune House and Kiira College). In 2004/5, over £22,000 was raised by Form Charity.
An Inter-Form Form Charity Competition is run in the first three year groups with Form Charity Cups presented in the last assembly of the academic year. A range of Whole-school events are organised each year. These include an annual Staff Stars in their Eyes
, a Staff Cabaret, and a Staff versus Student University Challenge
, sponsored cricket matches and mufti days, and an Amarillo video featuring staff. Individual form activities include sponsored silences and fitness programmes, the design and sale of Teacher Top Trumps
Cards, cake and sweet sales, and auctions. An annual Second Year Sponsored Character Day is also organised by a member of the English Department to mark World Book Day. A member of staff swam the English Channel
in aid of the local Shooting Star Children's Hospice
.
Working with Climate Care
, one of the leading companies in the field, the school has taken steps to offset all the emissions of carbon
and other greenhouse gases produced by the daily running of the school site, by the flights and bus journeys involved in all School trips, and by the coaches which bring over half of Hampton pupils to school each day.
Climate Care is offsetting
all of these through a portfolio of projects including the provision of renewable energy and energy efficiency schemes in Southern Africa and India, and forest restoration in Uganda.http://www.climatecare.org/projects/technologies
The climate-neutrality scheme was formally launched by Vince Cable MP, the Liberal Democrat
economic spokesman.
In developing the climate neutral scheme, the school has also undertaken student-led "waste audits" designed to reduce greenhouse gases like methane and carbon, and is currently working with environmental architects to create a state-of-the-art "sustainable laboratory" within its Biology Department. Other projects, developed alongside Climate Care, involve building energy efficiency schemes in Southern Africa
and India
. The school has also added solar panels and a wind turbine.
. Hampton has also actively aided countries such as Peru with charity, by establishing a microfinance bank helping those suffering economic hardship to set up small businesses. Hampton School has been awarded an S.O.S. Kit Aid Certificate by the International Rugby Board for providing sports kit for children in Eastern Europe and South Africa
. Other overseas links include: Konan High School Jazz Band, the Mathieson Music Trust, Calcutta, St Hilda's School
in Buenos Aires
and Children's Art School No.5 Kiev.
at Hampton School is of a high quality and former pupils include Simon Amor
(England Sevens Captain) and Andy Beattie (rugby union) Bath Rugby
and England 'A' player). Recent successes include winning the Middlesex Sevens in 2006, and 2007. The 1st XV reached the Daily Mail Vase Final at Twickenham in 2009 all players were given their honourary MBC's after the game. And the U15s reached the semi-finals of the 2010 Daily Mail
Cup.
ISFA
Cup in 1999 and 2007 and reaching the final in 2005 and 2009. The 1st XI has been coached by former professional player Iain MacLean for over 30 years. In 2004, Carlos Mills began coaching the 1st XI, partnering MacLean. The school also hosts a 'Social League' for boys in 5th form and above. In the 2009/10 season the Hampton 2nd XI reached the 7th round of the English Schools Football Association U18 Cup.
Club is one of the top school
rowing
clubs in the country and each year produces 1st VIIIs that compete at Championship level. The boat
club is based at the Millennium
boathouse which it shares with the Lady Eleanor Holles School
. Rowing at Hampton is open to boy
s in the third year and above and the boat club competes at many races both at home and abroad
. Hampton has produced three treble winning 1st VIIIs in its history and has been strongly represented at the Junior World Rowing Championships
. Martin Cross
, a history
teacher
there, is a gold medalist from the 1984 Olympics and won bronze in 1980. Many Old Hamptonians have gone on to compete at higher levels such as The Boat Race
, the World Rowing Championships
and the Olympic Games
, with Greg Searle
and Jonny Searle
perhaps the most famous of those, winning gold in the coxed pair in Barcelona in 1992.
of rock band Queen
was a pupil at the school. One pipe organ
pupil at the school, Timothy Burke of The Mules
, served as Organ Scholar at Exeter College, Oxford
from 2001-2004. More recently, Lawrence Thain FRCO became Organ Scholar of New College, Oxford
in 2008. Another boy, Tim Lambourn, became Organ Scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge
in 2008: a fourth, Henry Chandler, was elected Organ Scholar of Pembroke College, Oxford
with effect from autumn 2010. A fifth, William Round, becomes Organ Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
in autumn 2011. All five were taught by Julie Ainscough. There is a full Symphony Orchestra, as well as a String Orchestra, a Chamber Orchestra, Wind Band and two Jazz Bands. There are about thirty different music groups playing regularly. Frequent concerts provide performing opportunities for these groups, and for soloists and chamber groups.
In 2008, the school (in association with Lady Eleanor Holles) performed Stephen Sondheim
's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street". The staging was highly elaborate, including props (such as chairs and razors) from original productions at the National Theatre
. In August 2009 the group, as Artfelt Theatre Company, took this production (albeit in shortened, reduced orchestration form) to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Boys from Hampton School have also a long history of being heavily involved in the production of the newspaper of the National Student Drama Festival
(Noises Off). Current alumni on the staff there are John Winterburn (Office Manager), Henry Ellis, Euan Forsyth and Ben Lander.
See also :Category:Old Hamptonians.
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
boys' day school
Day school
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children/teens return to their homes...
in Hampton, London
Hampton, London
Hampton is a suburban area, centred on an old village on the north bank of the River Thames, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in England. Formerly it was in the county of Middlesex, which was formerly also its postal county. The population is about 9,500...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
History
In 1556, Robert Hammond, a wealthy brewer who had acquired property in Hampton, left in his will provision for the maintenance of a 'free scole' and to build a small schoolhouse 'with seates in yt' in the churchyard of Hampton ChurchSt Mary's Parish Church, Hampton
-Location:St Mary's Parish Church is to be found at the junction of two major roads A308 and A311, leading to Twickenham, Kingston upon Thames and Sunbury-on-Thames. Standing tall on Bell Hill it marks the ancient heart of Hampton....
.
Although Hampton School was founded in 1557 there was provision in the will that the school would only continue as long as the vicar, churchwardens and parishioners carried out his requests. If not, then the properties would revert to his heirs. It seems that the school (in its first incarnation) did not survive beyond 1568, or possibly earlier, and the properties reverted to the heirs.
Subsequently, however, the school was re-opened in 1612. This was as a result of a Commission that was established to enquire into the fate of Tudor charities that had disappeared for various reasons in different parts of the country. The "learned counsell on bothe sides" reached a deadlock at the Commissioners. However in the spirit of compromise and through the generosity of the then legal owner of the properties, Nicholas Pigeon, the school was re-endowed. The school has continued in various forms and in various buildings ever since.
The early school was on the site of St Mary's Church. It moved to a purpose-built campus on Upper Sunbury Road in 1880 before moving to the present site on Hanworth Road in 1939.
The School converted from voluntary aided
Voluntary aided school
A voluntary aided school is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust owns the school buildings, contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school...
status to become a fee-paying independent school
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
in 1975 in the light of changes to the administration of secondary education in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is a London borough in South West London, UK, which forms part of Outer London. It is unique because it is the only London borough situated both north and south of the River Thames.-Settlement:...
and remains independent to the present day. It is located next to The Lady Eleanor Holles School
Lady Eleanor Holles School
The Lady Eleanor Holles School is an independent school for girls in Hampton, London, England. The school was founded in 1711.-Admissions:...
for girls, with which it shares several classes, clubs, facilities and a coach service.
Founders' Day is celebrated by the school each year. The occasion is marked by a procession of boys walking from the school down to St. Mary's Church by the Thames, towards the end of the academic year.
Campus
The main School buildings includes an assembly hall, sports hall, theatre, classrooms, and specialist facilities for the Sciences, Technology, ICT, Art, Music, Drama and Modern Languages.The site of 29 acres (117,358.9 m²) includes playing fields including four rugby pitches, seven football pitches, six cricket squares, three astroturf and three acrylic tennis courts, athletics facilities, a climbing wall and the Old Hamptonians’ Pavilion.
http://www.hamptonschool.org.uk/school/pguide/buildings.shtml
Charity
Through the Form Charity programme the whole school community helps raise money and awareness for good causes locally (e.g. Princess Alice Hospice, Barnardos, Home-StartHome-Start International
Home-Start International is a worldwide family support organization. Home-Start works with people who have parenting experience to support local parents....
and the Shooting Star Trust
Shooting Star Children's Hospice
The Shooting Star Children's Hospice is a UK-based children's charity.The charity provides care, support and advice for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families...
), nationally (Jeans for Genes Day and Breakthrough Breast Cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
), and internationally (Opportunity International
Opportunity International
Opportunity International is an organization that provides small business loans, savings, insurance and training to more than two million people working their way out of poverty in the developing world...
, the African Medical and Research Foundation
African Medical and Research Foundation
The African Medical and Research Foundation was founded in 1957, by three surgeons as the Flying Doctors Service of East Africa. Three doctors – Sir Michael Wood, Archibald McIndoe and Tom Rees – drew up a groundbreaking plan to provide medical assistance to remote regions of East Africa, where...
, Pahamune House and Kiira College). In 2004/5, over £22,000 was raised by Form Charity.
An Inter-Form Form Charity Competition is run in the first three year groups with Form Charity Cups presented in the last assembly of the academic year. A range of Whole-school events are organised each year. These include an annual Staff Stars in their Eyes
Stars In Their Eyes
Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show that ran on Saturdays nights from 21 July 1990 until 23 December 2006 in which contestants impersonate showbiz stars...
, a Staff Cabaret, and a Staff versus Student University Challenge
University Challenge
University Challenge is a British quiz programme that has aired since 1962. The format is based on the American show College Bowl, which ran on NBC radio from 1953 to 1957, and on NBC television from 1959 to 1970....
, sponsored cricket matches and mufti days, and an Amarillo video featuring staff. Individual form activities include sponsored silences and fitness programmes, the design and sale of Teacher Top Trumps
Top Trumps
Top Trumps is a card game. Each card contains a list of numerical data, and the aim of the game is to compare these values in order to try to trump and win an opponent's card...
Cards, cake and sweet sales, and auctions. An annual Second Year Sponsored Character Day is also organised by a member of the English Department to mark World Book Day. A member of staff swam the English Channel
English Channel
The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...
in aid of the local Shooting Star Children's Hospice
Shooting Star Children's Hospice
The Shooting Star Children's Hospice is a UK-based children's charity.The charity provides care, support and advice for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families...
.
Carbon offsets - climate neutral school
Hampton School is the first school in the world to move towards Climate Neutrality.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/26/nschool26.xmlWorking with Climate Care
Climate Care
Climate Care is a UK-based carbon offset company founded by eco-entrepreneur Mike Mason in 1997. The idea came following a Masters in Environmental Change and Management at the Oxford University Environmental Change Institute, where he explored the potential of carbon funding for protecting...
, one of the leading companies in the field, the school has taken steps to offset all the emissions of carbon
Carbon
Carbon is the chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalent—making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds...
and other greenhouse gases produced by the daily running of the school site, by the flights and bus journeys involved in all School trips, and by the coaches which bring over half of Hampton pupils to school each day.
Climate Care is offsetting
Carbon offset
A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere....
all of these through a portfolio of projects including the provision of renewable energy and energy efficiency schemes in Southern Africa and India, and forest restoration in Uganda.http://www.climatecare.org/projects/technologies
The climate-neutrality scheme was formally launched by Vince Cable MP, the Liberal Democrat
Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...
economic spokesman.
In developing the climate neutral scheme, the school has also undertaken student-led "waste audits" designed to reduce greenhouse gases like methane and carbon, and is currently working with environmental architects to create a state-of-the-art "sustainable laboratory" within its Biology Department. Other projects, developed alongside Climate Care, involve building energy efficiency schemes in Southern Africa
Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. Within the region are numerous territories, including the Republic of South Africa ; nowadays, the simpler term South Africa is generally reserved for the country in English.-UN...
and India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The school has also added solar panels and a wind turbine.
International aid
Hampton finances a link with Kiira College, a secondary school in UgandaUganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
. Hampton has also actively aided countries such as Peru with charity, by establishing a microfinance bank helping those suffering economic hardship to set up small businesses. Hampton School has been awarded an S.O.S. Kit Aid Certificate by the International Rugby Board for providing sports kit for children in Eastern Europe and South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. Other overseas links include: Konan High School Jazz Band, the Mathieson Music Trust, Calcutta, St Hilda's School
St Hilda's School
St Hilda's School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Southport, a central suburb of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia....
in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
and Children's Art School No.5 Kiev.
Rugby union
Rugby unionRugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
at Hampton School is of a high quality and former pupils include Simon Amor
Simon Amor
Simon Daniel Edward Amor is an English rugby union footballer who plays at scrum-half or fly-half for London Scottish and is a former captain of the England Sevens squad...
(England Sevens Captain) and Andy Beattie (rugby union) Bath Rugby
Bath Rugby
Bath Rugby is an English professional rugby union club that is based in the city of Bath. They play in the Aviva Premiership league...
and England 'A' player). Recent successes include winning the Middlesex Sevens in 2006, and 2007. The 1st XV reached the Daily Mail Vase Final at Twickenham in 2009 all players were given their honourary MBC's after the game. And the U15s reached the semi-finals of the 2010 Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
Cup.
Football
Football is a very popular sport at Hampton, with a number of competitive teams in each year group. The school regularly takes part in national competitions, winning the BoodlesBoodles
Boodles or Boodle's may refer to:* Boodle's club, St. James's Street, London* Boodles British Gin* The Boodles Challenge, an annual tennis tournament in England...
ISFA
Independent Schools Football Association
Independent Schools Football Association oversees boys' football among independent schools in the United Kingdom. The ISFA is affiliated to the Football Association.Its chairman is David Elleray, and its CEO is Mark Dickson.-History:...
Cup in 1999 and 2007 and reaching the final in 2005 and 2009. The 1st XI has been coached by former professional player Iain MacLean for over 30 years. In 2004, Carlos Mills began coaching the 1st XI, partnering MacLean. The school also hosts a 'Social League' for boys in 5th form and above. In the 2009/10 season the Hampton 2nd XI reached the 7th round of the English Schools Football Association U18 Cup.
Cricket
Cricket is of a high standard at Hampton and there are several teams at all levels. A school cricket "academy" provides coaching through the winter, headed by cricket coaching specialist Chris Harrison, with the aid of video technology. The 1st XI reached the National Independent Schools Twenty20 competition Finals in 2005 and 2007.Rowing
Hampton School BoatBoat
A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is a...
Club is one of the top school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
rowing
Sport rowing
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
clubs in the country and each year produces 1st VIIIs that compete at Championship level. The boat
Boat
A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is a...
club is based at the Millennium
Millennium
A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and , year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a particular dating system....
boathouse which it shares with the Lady Eleanor Holles School
Lady Eleanor Holles School
The Lady Eleanor Holles School is an independent school for girls in Hampton, London, England. The school was founded in 1711.-Admissions:...
. Rowing at Hampton is open to boy
Boy
A boy is a young male human , as contrasted to its female counterpart, girl, or an adult male, a man.The term "boy" is primarily used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions or both...
s in the third year and above and the boat club competes at many races both at home and abroad
Home and Away
Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
. Hampton has produced three treble winning 1st VIIIs in its history and has been strongly represented at the Junior World Rowing Championships
Junior World Rowing Championships
The World Rowing Junior Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA . A rower or coxswain shall be classified as a Junior until 31st December of the year in which he reaches the age of 18. After that date, he shall be classified as an Under 23 rower...
. Martin Cross
Martin Cross
Martin Patrick Cross is an Olympic gold medal-winning oarsman. He won the gold medal in the coxed four at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with Steve Redgrave, Richard Budgett, Andy Holmes, and Adrian Ellison....
, a history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
teacher
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
there, is a gold medalist from the 1984 Olympics and won bronze in 1980. Many Old Hamptonians have gone on to compete at higher levels such as The Boat Race
The Boat Race
The event generally known as "The Boat Race" is a rowing race in England between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights each spring on the River Thames in London. It takes place generally on the last Saturday of March or the first...
, the World Rowing Championships
World Rowing Championships
The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA . It is a week long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the international rowing calendar.The first event was held in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1962...
and the Olympic Games
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
, with Greg Searle
Greg Searle
Gregory Mark Pascoe Searle MBE is a British Olympic rower educated at Hampton School and London South Bank University....
and Jonny Searle
Jonny Searle
Jonathan William C. Searle MBE is a British rower. Along with his brother Gregory, and coxswain Garry Herbert, Searle won the gold medal in the coxed pair event at the Olympic Games in Barcelona....
perhaps the most famous of those, winning gold in the coxed pair in Barcelona in 1992.
Music
In addition to class music, nearly 400 boys receive instrumental tuition from visiting teachers. Guitarist Brian MayBrian May
Brian Harold May, CBE is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen...
of rock band Queen
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
was a pupil at the school. One pipe organ
Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
pupil at the school, Timothy Burke of The Mules
The Mules
The Mules are a musical group in the electrobilly style operating out of London, England. Its members are Ed Seed , James Lesslie , Tim Burke , Duncan Brown and Jenny Lau ....
, served as Organ Scholar at Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...
from 2001-2004. More recently, Lawrence Thain FRCO became Organ Scholar of New College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...
in 2008. Another boy, Tim Lambourn, became Organ Scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
in 2008: a fourth, Henry Chandler, was elected Organ Scholar of Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square. As of 2009, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of £44.9 million.-History:...
with effect from autumn 2010. A fifth, William Round, becomes Organ Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College, originally Brazen Nose College , is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. As of 2006, it has an estimated financial endowment of £98m...
in autumn 2011. All five were taught by Julie Ainscough. There is a full Symphony Orchestra, as well as a String Orchestra, a Chamber Orchestra, Wind Band and two Jazz Bands. There are about thirty different music groups playing regularly. Frequent concerts provide performing opportunities for these groups, and for soloists and chamber groups.
Drama
Dramatic productions also range widely: a typical year might see a Shakespearean or classical play, many studio presentations including pupils' own work, a musical, and evenings of junior drama, with each Form in an entire year group putting on a play, or a whole year group involved in a major production, an excellent example being the "450th Musical," a work designed to commemorate the schools 450th anniversary, which involved contributions from every year of the school, and was devised entirely by the 5th and 6th Forms. Part of it was shown to Prince Edward when he came to lay the foundation stone for the new 450th Performing Arts Centre, and he was said "to have laughed all the way through." A Hampton School Theatre Company, “In Human Form”, took its own plays The London Thing, which was well reviewed in both the Scotsman and the Times Educational Supplement, to the Edinburgh Festival in August 2000, and returned there in August 2001 with their play Lucky. A newly formed Theatre Company, “About Turn”, took its first production to the Edinburgh Festival in August 2002 and returned in 2004. A new Sixth Form drama The Dating Game, including a number of girls from Lady Eleanor Holles School, was shortlisted for the National Student Drama Festival in Scarborough in 2006 and was taken to the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, to highly positive reviews.In 2008, the school (in association with Lady Eleanor Holles) performed Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street". The staging was highly elaborate, including props (such as chairs and razors) from original productions at the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
. In August 2009 the group, as Artfelt Theatre Company, took this production (albeit in shortened, reduced orchestration form) to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Boys from Hampton School have also a long history of being heavily involved in the production of the newspaper of the National Student Drama Festival
National Student Drama Festival
The National Student Drama Festival was founded in 1956 by the Sunday Times arts columnist - the festival's first artistic director - Kenneth Pearson, the Sunday Times theatre critic Harold Hobson, and NUS president Frank Copplestone. The Sunday Times Editor, H.V...
(Noises Off). Current alumni on the staff there are John Winterburn (Office Manager), Henry Ellis, Euan Forsyth and Ben Lander.
Debating
A range of topics is addressed and boys of all ages are encouraged to participate, either as a main speaker or from the floor. Debates are held with the Lady Eleanor Holles School and teams are entered in national events, notably the Schools’ Mace and the Oxford Union competition.Writing
The School Magazine, The Lion, which is distributed free and is produced by an editorial team of pupils, led by a teacher. It is produced at the School on its own desktop publishing equipment and supplied for printing on disc. This magazine includes boys’ creative and original writing. Boys, on their own initiative, also produce several student magazines, which offer much scope for creativity, and amusing insights into life at Hampton. An arts magazine called The Literary Lions is also issued on a regular basis.Talk!
In September 2000 a lecture series “Talk!” was inaugurated. Since then over one hundred distinguished visiting speakers from the worlds of art, business, the media, politics and science have spoken and answered questions from large audiences.Art
The School offers great encouragement and opportunity for boys to develop an interest in the Arts, with several going on to study Art and Architecture. The Art Club provides facilities for work in a range of media with competitions for those interested. In 2000, new facilities for Art were opened: these consist of four art studios (one for the Sixth Form) including a suite of 15 iMacs; a kiln for production of ceramics; and a gallery for student and external exhibitions. In 2004 a further studio was added.Old Hamptonians
in alphbetical orderSee also :Category:Old Hamptonians.
- Simon AmorSimon AmorSimon Daniel Edward Amor is an English rugby union footballer who plays at scrum-half or fly-half for London Scottish and is a former captain of the England Sevens squad...
(1992–97), Captain, England Sevens, 2003 - Zafar AnsariZafar AnsariZafar Shahaan Ansari is an English cricketer who has played for Cambridge University and Surrey. He is an all-rounder who bowls left arm spin.Ansari went to Hampton School in Richmond, and came through the Surrey academy system, having represented the county before he turned nine and also...
(2005-10), Cricketer, Surrey - Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, CH (1946–48), former Secretary of State for Education
- Andy BeattieAndy Beattie (rugby player)Andy Beattie is an English rugby union footballer. He is a back row forward for Bath.Beattie was educated at The Mall School, an independent school in Twickenham and at the independent Hampton School, in Middlesex, and at Exeter University, where he gained a degree in Sports Science...
, rugbyRugby footballRugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
player - Paul CaseyPaul CaseyPaul Alexander Casey is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. In 2009 he achieved his highest position, third, in the Official World Golf Rankings....
(1989–95), professional golfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
er (currently winner of 10 European Tour Events) - Jim ChandlerJim ChandlerJimmy Lee "Jim" Chandler is a Southern poet and novelist from Tennessee. Chandler's poetry evolved from the post-beat generation through the underground scene. His 276-page poetry collection Smoke & Thunder, was published in 2003...
(1935–42) represented Britain at pistol shooting in the [1948 Olympics] - Keith FaulknerKeith FaulknerKeith Faulkner is an English-born British actor who started his career at Corona Academy in childhood at the age of eleven and moved onto andult career in film and television in the late 1950s and early 1960s before leaving the "business" and moving to Australia, with the Telecommunications...
CBE (1955–62), Chairman, Working Links, Manpower - Walter HayesWalter HayesWalter Hayes CBE was an English journalist, and later public relations executive for Ford.Hayes was key in developing Ford's Formula One program, by signing Jackie Stewart and funding the building of the Cosworth DFV V8 Formula One racing engine; and the creation of the Premier Automotive Group...
, Sunday DispatchSunday DispatchThe Sunday Dispatch was a British newspaper, published between 27 September 1801 and 1961. Until 1928, it was called the Weekly Dispatch.-History:...
editor, senior executive at the Ford Motor Company - Robert HaywardRobert HaywardRobert Antony Hayward OBE is a British former Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Kingswood from 1983 to 1992, when he lost his seat to Labour's Roger Berry...
(1968–75), ENO baritone - Murray HeadMurray HeadMurray Seafield Saint-George Head is a British actor and singer, most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" and "One Night in Bangkok" and his album Say It Ain't So...
(1959–62), musician - Geoff Hunt (1959–66), President, the Royal Society of Marine ArtistsRoyal Society of Marine ArtistsThe Royal Society of Marine Artists is an association of artists in London, England, that promotes contemporary marine art. This includes painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture.-History:...
(since 2003) - Peter LoveseyPeter LoveseyPeter Lovesey is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath...
(1948–55), author - Luke GossLuke GossLuke Damon Goss is an English singer and actor. Since 1994, he has been married to backing singer Shirley Lewis, , and has one stepdaughter, Carli. In January 2007, he and wife Shirley moved permanently to Los Angeles, but still maintain a residence in London...
(1979–86), founding member of Bros. - Matt GossMatt GossMatthew Weston Goss is an English singer and songwriter currently based in Los Angeles. He was the lead singer of 1980s pop group Bros, which also featured his twin brother Luke Goss as drummer and Craig Logan as bass player...
(1979–86), founding member of Bros. - Chris MartinChris Martin (rower)-Early Rowing Career:Martin started rowing at 14 at Hampton School. At the end of his third year of rowing he raced as part of the British team and remained part of the British rowing team at six World Rowing Championships returning with a medal from each....
, Ocean rowing oarsman - Brian MayBrian MayBrian Harold May, CBE is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen...
(1958–65), musician (QueenQueen (band)Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
) - Jim McCartyJim McCartyJim McCarty is an English musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance.-Early life:...
, (1955–62) founding member of The YardbirdsThe Yardbirds- Current :* Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals * Ben King - lead guitar * David Smale - bass, backing vocals... - Zach Miles (1964–71), Chairman, Vedior
- Paul Samwell-SmithPaul Samwell-SmithPaul Samwell-Smith is best known as a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band, The Yardbirds, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page...
(1955–62) founding member of The YardbirdsThe Yardbirds- Current :* Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals * Ben King - lead guitar * David Smale - bass, backing vocals... - Greg SearleGreg SearleGregory Mark Pascoe Searle MBE is a British Olympic rower educated at Hampton School and London South Bank University....
, OBE (1983–90), Olympic Gold-winning oarsman - Jonny SearleJonny SearleJonathan William C. Searle MBE is a British rower. Along with his brother Gregory, and coxswain Garry Herbert, Searle won the gold medal in the coxed pair event at the Olympic Games in Barcelona....
, OBE (1980–87), Olympic Gold-winning oarsman - Barry SheermanBarry SheermanBarry John Sheerman is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Huddersfield since the 1979 general election.-Early life:...
(1951–57), Labour MP for HuddersfieldHuddersfieldHuddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....
since 1983 and Chairman of the Education Select Committee - Graham SkinnerGraham SkinnerAir Vice-Marshal Graham Skinner CBE is a retired Royal Air Force officer.-RAF career:Educated at Hampton School, the University of Bristol and Loughborough University, Skinner joined the Royal Air Force in 1963...
, Air Vice Marshal (retd) CBE (1956–63) - Professor Michael SterlingMichael SterlingProfessor Michael Sterling FREng began his career as an electrical engineer in 1964 joining AEI as a student apprentice with a scholarship to the University of Sheffield to read electronic and electrical engineering, graduating with a 1st class honours degree and subsequently a PhD in computer...
(1957–64) Vice Chancellor, University of BirminghamUniversity of BirminghamThe University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
; Chairman of the Russell GroupRussell GroupThe Russell Group is a collaboration of twenty UK universities that together receive two-thirds of research grant and contract funding in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1994 to represent their interests to the government, parliament and other similar bodies... - Dr Michael Underwood (ca. 1747-53), surgeonSurgeonIn medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
and writer on surgerySurgerySurgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
, discoverer of infantile paralysis - Air Marshal Sir Peter Wykeham-BarnesPeter WykehamAir Marshal Sir Peter Guy Wykeham KCB, DSO & Bar, OBE, DFC & Bar, AFC, RAF , born Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes was a World War II Royal Air Force fighter pilot and squadron commander.-RAF career:...
, KCB, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar, AFC (1926–28)
Notable teachers past and present
- Martin CrossMartin CrossMartin Patrick Cross is an Olympic gold medal-winning oarsman. He won the gold medal in the coxed four at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with Steve Redgrave, Richard Budgett, Andy Holmes, and Adrian Ellison....
- Olympic rowing gold medallist Rowing at the 1984 Summer OlympicsRowing at the 1984 Summer OlympicsRowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics featured 14 events in total, for both men and women.Due to the Eastern Bloc boycott of these Olympics, some of the strongest rowing nations like East Germany, the USSR or Bulgaria were not present... - Maurice XiberrasMaurice XiberrasMaurice Xiberras is a retired Gibraltarian teacher, trade unionist and politician. He is regarded as being a strong defender of British sovereignty, who believes there is no future for Gibraltar without the continuing close relationship with the United Kingdom....
- First Leader of the Democratic Party of British Gibraltar (DPBG) http://www.panorama.gi/archive/050207/views.htm#Thoughts%20on%20the%20years%20ahead
External links
- School website
- The Lion, The School Magazine
- School Results
- OHDB, The Old Hamptonians' Database - A community website for Old Hamptonians
Sources
- Wild, Edward & Rice, Ken (2005) School by the Thames. Frome: Butler and Tanner Ltd (Ken Rice retired from teaching history at Hampton in 2007)
- Hampton School Book