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Shrewsbury School is a public school
Independent school (UK)

An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school financed by private sources, predominantly in the form of school fees and charitable endowments; and so not subject to the conditions of "maintained status" imposed by accepting state financing....
 located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Shropshire

Shropshire , alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated, in print only, Shrops, is a Counties of England in the West Midlands of England....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868
Public Schools Act 1868

The Public Schools Act 1868 was enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to reform and regulate nine leading English boys' schools. These exclusive Independent school are all based around ancient charity schools for a few poor scholars, but then, as today, educated many sons of the English upper and upper middle classes on a fee-payi...
, and is now a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference is an association of the Head teachers of 242 leading day and boarding Independent school schools in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland....
. Shrewsbury School was originally a boarding school
Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers....
 for boys aged between 13 and 18. Day pupils are now accepted. The enrolment is around 690 boys; the first girls arrived in the Sixth Form in September 2008. According to the Good Schools Guide, it is quoted as "Very well-known school even outside country.






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Shrewsbury School is a public school
Independent school (UK)

An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school financed by private sources, predominantly in the form of school fees and charitable endowments; and so not subject to the conditions of "maintained status" imposed by accepting state financing....
 located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Shropshire

Shropshire , alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated, in print only, Shrops, is a Counties of England in the West Midlands of England....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868
Public Schools Act 1868

The Public Schools Act 1868 was enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to reform and regulate nine leading English boys' schools. These exclusive Independent school are all based around ancient charity schools for a few poor scholars, but then, as today, educated many sons of the English upper and upper middle classes on a fee-payi...
, and is now a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference is an association of the Head teachers of 242 leading day and boarding Independent school schools in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland....
. Shrewsbury School was originally a boarding school
Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers....
 for boys aged between 13 and 18. Day pupils are now accepted. The enrolment is around 690 boys; the first girls arrived in the Sixth Form in September 2008. According to the Good Schools Guide, it is quoted as "Very well-known school even outside country. Top sport, Music and second to none even with the academic education." Shrewsbury School has some notable alumni, including naturalist Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
, poet Sir Philip Sidney
Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney became one of the Elizabethan era most prominent figures. Famous in his day in England as a poet, courtier and soldier, he remains known as the author of Astrophel and Stella , The Defence of Poetry , and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ....
, Astronomer Royal
Astronomer Royal

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Household of the Monarch of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834....
 Martin Rees
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Order of Merit, President of the Royal Society is an England Physical cosmology and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995, and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004....
, philosopher J.L. Austin, Monty Python
Monty Python

Monty Python is a group of six comedians who created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969....
 contributor Michael Palin
Michael Palin

Michael Edward Palin, Order of the British Empire is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his Travel documentary....
, creators of Private Eye magazine Richard Ingrams
Richard Ingrams

Richard Ingrams was a co-founder and second editor of the British satire magazine Private Eye , taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963....
 and William Rushton
Willie Rushton

William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton was an England cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine....
 and the DJ John Peel
John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, Order of the British Empire , known professionally as John Peel, was an England disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist....
.

History

Shrewsbury School was founded in 1552 by Adam Jones and King Edward VI
Edward VI of England

Edward VI became List of English monarchs and King of Ireland on 28 January 1547 and was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII of England and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first Protestantism ruler....
, and in 1571 was augmented by Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
. The original buildings are located on Castle Hill. The school moved from these in 1882. In 1983, after some restoration work, the buildings became the town's public library
Shrewsbury Library

Shrewsbury Town Public Library is housed in a historically important building situated on Castle Hill near Shrewsbury Castle. The building was the site of Shrewsbury School until 1882....
.

In 1868 the school was named one of the nine ‘great’ schools of England (along with Charterhouse
Charterhouse School

Charterhouse, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in London Charterhouse, then Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse before Charterhouse School or more simply Charterhouse is a boys' independent school school between Hurtmore and Godalming in Surrey, England....
, Eton
Eton College

Eton College, also known as Eton, is a world-famous British independent school for boys, founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England. It was founded as the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor....
, Harrow
Harrow School

Harrow School, commonly known as "Harrow", is a world-famous boys' independent school in United Kingdom. Harrow has educated boys since 1243 but was officially founded by John Lyon under a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I in 1572....
, Merchant Taylors'
Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

Merchant Taylors' School is a United Kingdom boys' independent school, day school, originally located in the City of London, and since 1933 located at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire ....
, Rugby
Rugby School

Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, is regarded as one of the UK's leading co-educational boarding school and is one of the oldest public school in England....
, St Paul's, Westminster
Westminster School

The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college....
 and Winchester
Winchester College

Winchester College is a famous boys' independent school, set in the city of Winchester, Hampshire in Hampshire, England, once the ancient capital....
) in the Public Schools Act
Public Schools Act 1868

The Public Schools Act 1868 was enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to reform and regulate nine leading English boys' schools. These exclusive Independent school are all based around ancient charity schools for a few poor scholars, but then, as today, educated many sons of the English upper and upper middle classes on a fee-payi...
. Headmasters include Sir Thomas Ashton, Samuel Butler, Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Benjamin Hall Kennedy

Benjamin Hall Kennedy was an England scholar.He was born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham, the eldest son of Rann Kennedy , of a branch of the Ayrshire family which had settled in Staffordshire....
, Cyril Argentin Alington
Cyril Alington

Cyril Argentine Alington , was an England educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author. He was the headmaster of both Shrewsbury School and Eton College....
, H. H. Hardy, Lord Wolfenden
John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom educationalist probably best remembered for chairing the Wolfenden report recommending the decriminalisation of homosexuality, which was published in 1957....
 and Sir Eric Anderson
William Eric Kinloch Anderson

Sir William "Eric" Kinloch Anderson, Order of the Thistle, Royal Society of Edinburgh , was Provost of Eton of Eton College from September 2000 - 30th January, 2009....
. Sir Thomas Ashton, the first headmaster, gave the school a classical and humanistic tone that has been retained, though sciences and other studies are now also in the curriculum.

In 1882, Headmaster Henry Whitehead Moss
Henry Whitehead Moss

Henry Whitehead Moss was an England scholar.He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he held a scholarship....
 moved the school from its original town centre location to a new site across the River Severn
River Severn

The River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, at . It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales....
, in Kingsland (a site which had, amongst other things, housed the Shrewsbury workhouse and a foundling hospital). The original buildings are now used as the Shrewsbury Town Library. The school accepts only boys. However, in November 2005, the governors of the school decided to allow girls to enter the sixth form; initially aiming to admit 60 girls, then increasing to 100.

In 2003 Shrewsbury International School, Bangkok
Shrewsbury International School, Bangkok

Shrewsbury International School was established in 2003 in association with Shrewsbury School in England. It sits on the banks of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand....
 was opened in Bangkok, Thailand, in a location on the banks of the Chao Phraya River
Chao Phraya River

The Chao Phraya is a major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial river plain marking the mainland of the country. It runs through Bangkok, the capital of Thailand....
. The headmaster of the school is Stephen Holroyd, who taught English at Shrewsbury School and was formerly the housemaster of Severn Hill (see 'Houses') and then the Second Master of the school, following Stuart Morris who is the Headmaster for the first two years.

Since the turn of the millennium, the school's site has seen investment. An award-winning music school was opened by Prince Charles in 2001. The Main School Building saw an internal renovation over several years, modernising all classrooms. A new boarding house has been completed, as has a new world-class indoor cricket centre and a new swimming pool, and several of the school's buildings will undergo redevelopment in anticipation of the school's first female pupils.

The school has a newspaper known as the 'Public Nose' (a deliberate variation of the 'Private Eye' magazine). Other notable publications include the 'The Salopian', a satirical magazine.

The school is renowned for its sporting success, in recent years the school has excelled across a whole range of sports. Rowing has been particuarily successful with the schools 1st VIII winning Henley Royal regatta in 2007 and winning schools head of the river for the past three years.

Fees and scholarships

Boarders pay fees in excess of £27,000 per annum and day boys pay fees of approximately £18,000 per annum. Scholarships are available, but are limited to a maximum value of 50% of fees, regardless of the number of scholarships a pupil is given. Bursaries are available for families who are unable to pay the full fees.

The following categories of scholarship are on offer to new entrants to the first year:
  • 4 Butler Academic Scholarships (up to 50% of fees).
  • 6 Kennedy and Moss Academic Scholarships (up to 25% of fees).
  • 7 Alington Scholarships (at least £2000 p.a.).
  • 8 Music Scholarships (2 up to 50% of fees, 6 up to 20%)
  • 2 Art Scholarships (up to 20% of fees)
  • 2 Sports Scholarships (Up to 20% of fees)
  • 10 House Foundation Awards (up to 50% of fees)
  • 2 All-Rounder Scholarships (up to 20% of fees)
The following scholarships are on offer for Sixth Form entrants:
  • 6 Academic Scholarships (2 up to 50% of fees, 4 up to 20%)
  • 2 Music Scholarships (1 up to 50% of fees, 1 up to 20%)
  • 1 Cassidy Sports Scholarship (up to 100% of fees)


Houses

There are nine boarding houses and two for dayboys, each with its own housemaster or housemistress, tutor team and matron. Each house also has its own colours. The many inter-house competitions play an important role in school life. In football each house competes in four different leagues (two senior, two junior) and three knock-out competitions (two senior, one junior). A single house will hold around 60 boys, although School House and each of the dayboy houses hold slightly more. The houses, and their colours are:

  • Churchill's Hall Dark Blue & Light Blue
  • The Grove Cornflower Blue and White
  • Ingram's Hall Green & White
  • Moser's Hall Deep Red & Black
  • Oldham's Hall Chocolate & Silver -
  • Port Hill (formerly merged with Radbrook as 'Dayboys Hall') Gold & Red
  • Radbrook (formerly merged with Port Hill as 'Dayboys Hall') Violet & White
  • Ridgemount Royal Blue & Old Gold
  • Rigg's Hall Chocolate & Gold
  • School House (formerly split as 'Doctors' and 'Headroom') Black, Magenta & Pure White
  • Severn Hill (formerly known as 'Chances') Maroon & French Grey
  • Mary Sidney Hall (opened in September 2008) Dark Blue & Pink


School Arms

The Arms of the school are those of King Edward VI being The Arms of England (three lions passant) quartered with those of France (fleur-de-lys).

Alumni

Ex-pupils are named Old Salopians.
  • John Austin (1911–1960), philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy
  • Tim Booth
    Tim Booth

    Timothy John Booth is an England singer, dancer, and actor best known as the lead singer from the band James ....
     (1960–) musician
  • Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin

    Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
     (1809–1882), naturalist
  • Michael Heseltine
    Michael Heseltine

    Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom is a British people businessman, Conservative Party politician and patron of the Tory Reform Group....
     (1933–), politician
  • John Hamilton Reynolds
    John Hamilton Reynolds

    John Hamilton Reynolds was an English poet, satirist, critic, and playwright. He was a close friend and correspondent of poet John Keats whose letters to Reynolds constitute a significant body of Keats' poetic thought....
     (1794-1852) poet, satirist, critic, and playwright. Friend of John Keats
    John Keats

    John Keats was an England poetry who became one of the principal poets of the English Romanticism movement during the early nineteenth century....
  • Sir Philip Sidney
    Philip Sidney

    Sir Philip Sidney became one of the Elizabethan era most prominent figures. Famous in his day in England as a poet, courtier and soldier, he remains known as the author of Astrophel and Stella , The Defence of Poetry , and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ....
     (1554–1586), poet, courtier and soldier
  • Michael Palin
    Michael Palin

    Michael Edward Palin, Order of the British Empire is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his Travel documentary....
     (1943–), actor and TV presenter
  • John Peel
    John Peel

    John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, Order of the British Empire , known professionally as John Peel, was an England disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist....
     (1939–2004), DJ and journalist
  • Willie Rushton
    Willie Rushton

    William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton was an England cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine....
     (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, founder of Private Eye
  • Christopher Booker
    Christopher Booker

    Christopher John Penrice Booker is an England journalist and author....
     (1937-), journalist, founder of Private Eye
  • Richard Ingrams
    Richard Ingrams

    Richard Ingrams was a co-founder and second editor of the British satire magazine Private Eye , taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963....
     (1937–), journalist, founder of Private Eye
  • Paul Foot
    Paul Foot

    Paul Mackintosh Foot was a United Kingdom investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party ....
     (1937–2004), journalist
  • Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
    Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

    Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke , known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan era poet, dramatist, and statesman....
     (1554-1628), Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem
    George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys

    George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, Privy Council of England , also known as "The Hanging Judge", became notable during the reign of King James II of England, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor ....
     (1645-1689), Lord High Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, protagonist of the 'Bloody Assizes'(1685)
  • Charles Burney
    Charles Burney

    Charles Burney was an England music history and father of author Frances Burney....
     (1726-1814), music historian
  • Benjamin Kennedy
    Benjamin Hall Kennedy

    Benjamin Hall Kennedy was an England scholar.He was born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham, the eldest son of Rann Kennedy , of a branch of the Ayrshire family which had settled in Staffordshire....
     (1804-1880), Regius Professor of Greek, author of Kennedy Latin Primer
  • Samuel Butler
    Samuel Butler (novelist)

    Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian era author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh , his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christianity orthodoxy, substantive studies of history of evolutionary thought, studies of Italia...
     (1835-1902), writer
  • Nevil Shute
    Nevil Shute

    Nevil Shute Norway was both a popular novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels ....
     (1899–1960), writer
  • Richard Todd
    Richard Todd

    Richard Todd is an Ireland-born actor, United Kingdom soldier and film star....
     (1919-), Film and television actor
  • Andrew Irvine
    Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)

    Andrew "Sandy" Comyn Irvine was an England Mountaineering who took part in the third British Expedition to the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, in 1924....
     (1902–1924), mountaineer
  • Lord Lane (1918–2005), Law Lord, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
  • Lord Hutton (1931–), Law Lord, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Chairman of Hutton Inquiry
  • Martin Rees (1942-), Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
    Trinity College, Cambridge

    Trinity College is one of the 31 Colleges of the University of Cambridge of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or University of Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduate students, and over 160 Fellows; however, counting only the student body it has somewhat fewer than Homert...
    , President of Royal Society
  • John Stuttard
    John Stuttard

    Sir John Boothman Stuttard was Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2006/2007.Stuttard was educated at Shrewsbury School and Churchill College, Cambridge, before joining Cooper Brothers in 1967, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1970 and becoming a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales....
     (1945-), Alderman and Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006-07
  • Nick Owen
    Nick Owen

    Nick Owen is an England television presenter, presenting Midlands Today since 1997....
     (1947–), TV presenter
  • Nick Hancock
    Nick Hancock (actor)

    Nick Hancock is an English actor, comedian and television presenter.Probably TV's most well known Stoke City F.C. supporter, he hosted the sports quiz They Think It's All Over for 10 years....
     (1962–), actor and TV presenter
  • Ismail al-Ghulami (1969-), Saudi sheikh, owner of the Jubail
    Jubail

    Jubail , is a city in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. Its full name is Madinat al Jubayl a? ?ina`iyah ....
     oilfields
  • Sir William Wade
    Henry William Rawson Wade

    Sir William Wade Queen's Counsel, British Academy was a United Kingdom academic lawyer, best known for his work on the Real property and administrative law....
     (1918-2004), academic lawyer, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
  • Omar Ali (1986-), Prince
    Prince

    Prince, from the Latin root princeps, is a general term for a monarch, for a member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in some members of Europe's highest nobility....
     of the Sultanate of Brunei
    Brunei

    Brunei Darussalam, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace , is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia....
  • Sandy Singleton
    Sandy Singleton

    Alexander Parkinson Singleton, known as Sandy , was an England all-rounder cricketer: a right-handed opening batsman and Left-arm orthodox spin bowler....
     (1914-1999), cricketer
  • Jonty Heaversedge
    Jonty Heaversedge

    Jonty Heaversedge is a British media doctor. After Shrewsbury School, he studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine School of Medicine and he is now a partner in a GP practice in South East London....
     Media Doctor
  • Sir Colin Hugh Verel McColl
    Colin McColl

    Sir Colin Hugh Verel McColl, KCMG was Head of the United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service from 1989 - 1994.McColl was educated at Shrewsbury School and at The Queen's College, Oxford, of which he would later become an honorary fellow....
     (1932-), Ex-Director of SIS


Victoria Cross Holders

At least two Old Salopians have won the Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration which is, or has been, awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth of Nations countries, and previous British Empire territories....
, both in the First World War, 1914-18.
  • Thomas Tannatt Pryce
    Thomas Tannatt Pryce

    Thomas Tannatt Pryce Victoria Cross Military Cross was a Wales recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations forces....
  • Harold Ackroyd
    Harold Ackroyd

    Harold Ackroyd Victoria Cross, Military Cross was an England recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations forces....


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