See also Hazelwood School, Birmingham (est. 1790)

Hazelwood School is an independent prep school located in Limpsfield

Limpsfield

Limpsfield is a village and parish in the east of the county of Surrey, England near Oxted at the foot of the North Downs. It lies between the A25 to the south and the M25 motorway to the north, near the Clackett Lane service station...

, Surrey

Surrey

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The school's history began in 1890 when the institution was established as a boarding school for boys aged 8–13 by Edward Baily and his wife Ruth.

Baily bought the land from the Titsey Place estate

Titsey Place

Titsey Place is an English country house near Oxted in Surrey, England. It was successively the seat of the Gresham and Leveson-Gower families and is now preserved by a charitable trust for the nation....

 as he loved the views of the Weald and the Ashdown Forest and thought the site healthy and bracing. The first cohort of 38 pupils were accommodated and taught in a purpose-built Victorian building that remains at the centre of the School today.

In 1962 the school was bought by Tim Dowling and merged with his Bickley Hall School in Bromley

Bromley

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, Kent

Kent

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 - resulting in the double motto and double badge so familiar to our pupils. Hazelwood School became a registered charity and was incorporated as a limited company in 1968. Girls were first admitted to the school and a Pre-Prep department established in 1978. Boarding continued at the school until 1999.

Notable Old Hazelwoodians

• Arthur Carr
  Arthur Carr
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  , Former England cricket captain
• Lieutenant Geoffrey St George Shillington Cather VC
• John Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender
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  , Conservative Politician
• Brigadier Percy Howard Hansen VC DSO MC Croix de Guerre
• Alexander Keiller
  Alexander Keiller
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  , British archaeologist and businessman
• Henry Surtees
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  , British motor racing driver
• Jeremy Thorpe
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  , British politician

Notable former members of staff

• Sir Michael Tippett, Composer
• Vernon Scannell
  Vernon Scannell
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  , Poet and Author
• Christopher Fry
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  , Playwright