Oswestry School is a co-educational
independent schoolAn 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...
, located in the town of
OswestryOswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads....
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. Founded in 1407 by David Holbache and his wife Guinevere Holbache, it is the second oldest non-denominational school in England.
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Oswestry School is a co-educational
independent schoolAn 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...
, located in the town of
OswestryOswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads....
,
ShropshireShropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
,
EnglandEngland 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...
. Founded in 1407 by David Holbache and his wife Guinevere Holbache, it is the second oldest non-denominational school in England.
The senior school is located on Upper Brook Street while the junior school is based at Bellan House on Church Street. Bellan House Preparatory School was a completely separate institution until its amalgamation in the 1970s. The original school building, dating from 1407, is also on Church Street and is currently used as the town's visitor and information centre.
Notable Old Oswestrians
Former students of Oswestry School are referred to as Old Oswestrians.
Some notable pupils and staff of the school include:
- Thomas Bray
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- Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
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- John Freeman Milward Dovaston
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- Peter Edwards
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- Major Charles Ingram
- Alexander Jones
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international footballer, who was killed in a shooting accident on board a train.
- Edward Lhuyd
Edward Lhuyd was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary. He is also known by the Latinized form of his name, Eduardus Luidius....
- Philip Llewellin
Phil Llewellin was a British journalist and writer. Born in Oswestry, Shropshire, he was educated at Oswestry School and Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire....
- Charles Moses
Sir Charles Moses CBE headed the Australian Broadcasting Commission from 1935 until 1965....
- Goronwy Owen (poet)
Goronwy Owen was one of the 18th century's greatest Welsh poets. He mastered the traditional bardic metres and, although forced by circumstances to be an exile, played an important role in the literary and antiquarian movement in Wales often described as the Welsh Eighteenth Century Renaissance...
- John Godfrey Parry-Thomas
- Thomas Mainwaring Penson
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- Ivor Roberts-Jones
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- William Archibald Spooner
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- Hamilton Verschoyle
A “judicious but not brilliant preacher”, The Rt Rev Hamilton Verschoyle was a 19th century Irish Anglican Bishop of Dutch ancestry. He was educated at Oswestry School and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1829. His first post was that of Curate at Newtownforbes after which he was the...
- Jo Walton
Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award...
- William Worthington
William Worthington was an Anglican priest and theological writer.-Life:Worthington was born in 1703 and educated at Oswestry School before moving to Jesus College, Oxford. He matriculated in 1722 and obtained his BA degree in 1726...
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