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Sedbergh School is a boarding school in Sedbergh

Sedbergh

Sedbergh is a small town in Cumbria, England. It lies about east of Kendal and about north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town sits just within the Yorkshire Dales National Park...

, Cumbria

Cumbria

Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...

, for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. Nestled in the Howgill Fells

Howgill Fells

The Howgill Fells are hills in Northern England between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, lying roughly in between the vertices of a triangle made by the towns of Sedbergh, Kirkby Stephen and Tebay....

, it is known for sporting sides, such as its Rugby Union

Rugby 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...

1st XV.

Background

The school was founded in 1525 by Roger Lupton

Roger Lupton

Roger Lupton was born in the Parish of Sedbergh in the year 1456. In 1483, he was awarded a Bachelor of Canon Law degree from King's College, Cambridge, and Doctor of Canon law in 1504....

, Provost of Eton College

Eton College

Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

.

In 2001, girls were admitted, yet the traditional school motto Dura Virum Nutrix (A Stern Nurse of Men), is still in use today. Since 2001 the number of girls attending has grown dramatically. The previous headmaster, Christopher Hirst

Christopher Hirst

Christopher Halliwell Hirst is a former English cricketer and educator. Hirst was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Odsal, Bradford, Yorkshire....

, brought in the change to co-educational schooling from single-sex which led to some considerable criticism, especially from old boys, as he publicly stated that he "would resign before allowing Sedbergh to admit girls" .

Despite its long history, The Good Schools Guide notes how “Sedbergh has faced up to the demands of the 21st Century but managed to retain traditional values and ethos. Its increasing numbers indicate parents very much approve. It rightly retains its formidable reputation on the sports field but away from it, provides a happy and caring environment for all its pupils regardless of ability or sports prowess.” The school formerly had a reputation for terribly harsh conditions, with cold showers or baths and early morning runs as a matter of routine, and physical punishments commonplace. This died out in the 1960s and 1970s, however and is no longer a feature of the school.

The school song, 'Winder', is named after the hill which dominates the skyline to the North. It is sung occasionally, mainly at the end of a term.

The school is particularly proud of its cloisters, one of the few officially listed War memorials located in schools. Every known name of an old boy or member of staff who died during the first and second world wars is recorded on its walls.

With the aid of the Robertson Foundation the school has been able to give many scholarships to less well-off pupils, giving educational advantage to all, regardless of means. The school maintains a strong sporting rivalry with Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest Roman Catholic co-educational boarding independent school in the United Kingdom. It opened in 1802, as a boys' school, and is run by the Benedictine monks and lay staff of Ampleforth Abbey...

and (to a lesser extent) with Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near the village of Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire, England, and occupies a Grade I listed building...

History

Sedbergh was founded in 1525 by a Provost of Eton.

The Chantry School

Roger Lupton, is thought to have been born at Cautley in the parish of Sedbergh in 1456 and he provided for a Chantry School in Sedbergh in 1525 while he was Provost of Eton. By 1528, land had been bought, a school built, probably on the site of the present School Library, and the foundation deed had been signed, binding the School to St John's College, Cambridge and giving the College power over the appointment of Headmasters. This link to St John's College probably saved Sedbergh in 1546-48 when most chantries were dissolved and their assets seized by Henry VIII's Commission.

The Grammar School

Sedbergh was re-established and re-endowed as a Grammar School in 1551 and the fortunes of the School in the coming centuries seem to have depended very much on the character and abilities of the Headmasters with pupil numbers fluctuating and reaching as low a total as 8 day boys in the early 19th century.

One particularly successful period was during the Headship of John Harrison Evans (1838–1861) who restored the prestige and achievements of the School and also funded the building of the Market Hall and Reading Room in the town.

A more independent Governing Body was established in 1874 in a successful bid to maintain Sedbergh's independence (amalgamation with Giggleswick had been suggested) and the first meeting took place in The Bull Inn in Sedbergh in December.

The Public School

In the 1870s there was a tremendous amount of development and building work at Sedbergh, under the careful eye of the Headmaster, Frederick Heppenstall. This included the Headmaster's House (now School House), classrooms, a chapel and four other boarding Houses.

Henry George Hart took over as Headmaster in 1880 and his tenure saw a new Chapel built in 1897, the founding of the Old Sedberghian Club in 1897/98, the creation of the prefectorial system, the inaugural Wilson Run and the confirmation of the School motto "Dura Virum Nutrix" (Stern Nurse of Men).

Recent History

In 1989 the number of boys in the School exceeded 500 for the first time in the School's history, during the Headship of Dr R G Baxter. Two years later a new coat of arms was granted to the School and it was visited by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.

In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading private schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.

Today the School has a Junior School at Sedbergh and the School is fully co-educational with one reassigned and one new build house for the girls, standing alongside six of the original seven traditional boys' Houses.
In January 2009 the Junior School moved from Bentham to join the senior school in Sedbergh. The expanding Junior School has accommodation for both day and boarding boys and girls aged 3–13.

Boarding Houses

Most pupils at Sedbergh lives in a boarding house, of which there are eight (six for boys, two for girls) chosen when applying to the school. It is here that he or she both sleeps and takes their daily meals. A strong sense of intrinsic pride in their houses is quickly fostered when anyone joins the school, be it teacher or student, and the strong community spirit established within the house often leads four or even five generations of pupils having been members of the same House. Houses compete amongst one another in school competitions such as debating, academic challenge (a 'university challenge' style quiz) and 'House Unison' (a traditional singing competition), and in particular in sporting competitions, for example the seriously contested Senior Seniors (Inter-House rugby) and the Wilson Run. Each house has an official name, most, illustrious Old Sedberghians or Headmasters.

Each house also has a set of house colours, which adorns the blazers of boys and girls in fifth form and below as well as on on various house sports clothing. Pupils who throughout their school career demonstrate great service to their house are awarded their House colours by their Housemaster/ mistress. Sedberghians take immense pride in being awarded House colours which take the form of a scarf and a tie in the colours of their house.

The boarding houses also each have their own house magazine, named after the emblem of the house (for example, the magazine of Hart House is called The Jay), written and edited by the pupils within the house.

Sedbergh Junior School also has Cressbrook House for boarding boys and Marshall House as the junior girls' house.

The Names of the Houses

Senior:

(Male) Evans House - Colour: Yellow, Emblem: The Wasp

(Male) Hart House - Colour : Green, Emblem: Jay

(Female) Lupton - Colour: White/ Black, Emblem: Wolf

(Male) Powell House - Colour: Pink, Emblem: Chameleon

(Female) Robertson House - Colour: Turquoise, Emblem: Butterfly

(Male) School House - Colour: Blue, Emblem: Kingfisher

(Male)Sedgwick House - Colour: Red, Emblem: Rouge et Noir

(Male) Winder House - Colour: Purple, Emblem: The Mole

Junior:

(Male) Cressbrook House - Colour: nil. Emblem: nil

(Female) Marshall House - Colour: nil. Emblem: nil

Societies

Sedbergh is particularly proud of the range of beyond-the-classroom activities it runs for its pupils. Sedbergh offers a wide range of outdoor pursuits as well as academic societies, most notably 'The Headmaster's Society' which is for Academic Scholars in the Sixth Form and chaired by the Headmaster. It is a forum for debate and discussion of major topical issues based upon papers delivered by the pupils and it also hosts talks given by intellectuals and public figures. In recent years the society has been addressed by the geneticist and sociologist Sir Tom Shakespeare

Tom Shakespeare

Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet , better known as Tom Shakespeare, is a geneticist and sociologist. He has achondroplasia....

, David Starkey

David Starkey

David Starkey, CBE, FSA is a British constitutional historian, and a radio and television presenter.He was born the only child of Quaker parents, and attended Kendal Grammar School before entering Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King...

, Lord Butler of Brockwell

Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell

Frederick Edward Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, is a retired British civil servant, now sitting in the House of Lords as a Life Peer.-Life:Butler was born in Lytham St Annes on on 3 January, 1938...

, Lord Bingham, Stephen O'Brien MP, David Lloyd (BBC foreign correspondent), Allan Little (BBC Special Corresponent), Tim Hames

Tim Hames

Tim Hames is Head of Communications and Public Affairs for the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association . Before joining BVCA, he was a columnist and Chief Leader Writer at The Times. He occasionally writes travel pieces. He also wrote for The Tablet and the Charleston Mercury. Before...

(Times columnist) and Nicholas Thomas Wright, the Bishop of Durham. The junior academic society is known as the 'Phoenix Society'.

Sedbergh's other academic club is the strong and competitive 'Dinner Debating Society' which meets twice termly for black-tie 'dinner debates' hosted by Housemasters. These are formal and exclusive affairs held over a three-course dinner, usually lit by candlelight. They comprise selected speakers drawn from each House; four debates take place on each occasion, which are then judged by three Masters chosen by the chairman. Points are awarded to the winning pair, and there is a grand final at the end of the Summer Term where eminent guests are invited to the dinner and to listen to the debates; the cup is awarded to the pair holding the most points at the end of the year.

Sedbergh's strongest and largest society is its Outdoor Pursuits Club that all pupils are encouraged to join. Activities organised in the local area by the Club include climbing, gill scrambling and pot-holing as well as mountain biking and fell walking. Pupils of all ages participate, learning new skills which are often useful for future involvements in The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award , is a programme of activities that can be undertaken by anyone aged 14 to 24, regardless of personal ability....

, Combined Cadet Force

Combined Cadet Force

The Combined Cadet Force is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the United Kingdom. Its aim is to "provide a disciplined organisation in a school so that pupils may develop powers of leadership by means of training to promote the qualities of responsibility, self reliance,...

and the overseas expeditions all organised from the School. The Club has in recent years run expeditions to Everest, Patagonia

Patagonia

Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...

, Iceland

Iceland

Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, Baffin Island

Baffin Island

Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut is the largest island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world. Its area is and its population is about 11,000...

and Indonesia

Indonesia

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, and in 2009, to Nyasaland.

Sport

Sedbergh has an international reputation for sporting achievement. The school takes great pride in offering a broad range of sporting opportunities to pupils, who frequently continue their sporting activities into adulthood. Many Old Sedberghians have national caps and international tournament experience, some acquired before they have even left school.

Sedbergh is renowned for producing brilliant rugby football players, including the England captains Wavell Wakefield

Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal

William Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal , known as Sir Wavell Wakefield between 1944 and 1963, was an English rugby union player for Harlequins and England, President of the Rugby Football Union and Conservative politician.-Background and education:Wakefield was born in Beckenham,...

, John Spencer and Will Carling

Will Carling

William David Charles Carling, OBE is a former Rugby union player for Harlequins, and a former captain of England from 1988 to 1996, winning 72 caps.-Early life:...

, and the world cup winner Will Greenwood

Will Greenwood

William John Heaton "Will" Greenwood, MBE is an English former rugby union footballer of the 1990s and 2000s.-Career:...

. Sedbergh is represented in the Rugby Union Guinness Premiership at the time of writing by seven players at first or second team level in four different clubs.

Sedbergh's sporting reputation and history are taken seriously by pupils. Winning the coveted 'brown blazer' worn by so many famous old boys can be the highlight of a Sedberghian's school career. The brown blazer is the award of first team rugby or cricket colours, and is on occasion awarded to Sedberghians who achieve marked success at another sport. Winning your 'brown' gives a Sedberghian the right to wear a specially made blazer that, as the name suggests, is brown in colour, as well as the standard colours tie, scarf and jumper. 'Brown's' are often awarded at special occasions such as the annual end-of-season first team dinner.

The English cricketer Mandy Mitchell-Innes

Mandy Mitchell-Innes

Norman Stewart Mitchell-Innes, known as Mandy Mitchell-Innes was an English cricketer who played in one Test in May 1935. He became England's oldest surviving Test cricketer on 7 October 2001, on the death of Alf Gover. Following his own death, that distinction passed to Ken Cranston, who...

and the Scottish cricketer Rab Bruce-Lockhart

John Bruce-Lockhart

John Harold Bruce-Lockhart was a Scottish cricketer and schoolmaster from the famous Bruce-Lockhart family. His son Logie played Rugby Union for Scotland, while his brother Robert was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Sandy and great-grandfather of Dugald Bruce Lockhart.-Early life:A...

are both former pupils.

The Wilson Run

One of the unique aspects of the school is the Wilson Run, also known as the "Ten Mile"; it is named after Bernard Wilson (the first housemaster of Sedgwick House). The race distance is just over 10 miles (10 miles 385 yards), about 7 miles of which crosses over the surrounding fells with the rest going along roads. Pupils however must now qualify to take part in the race over an 11 mile training route which covers most of the race route. The race is one of the longest, hardest and most grueling school runs in the country and has been a tradition for well over 100 years. The run has been cancelled only three times, owing to epidemic (1936), snow (1947) and the Foot and Mouth epidemic. The record time by Charles Ernest Pumphrey for the race stood unbroken at 1 hour, 10 mins and 16 seconds for almost a hundred years until it was dramatically broken by Charles "Chuck" Sykes in 1993 with a time of 1 hour, 8 minutes and 4.1 seconds. His record still stands today.

The Wilson Run holds a great mystique for Sedbergh's pupils. Pupils generally run in all types of weather, be it torrential rains and mud baths, or even bright, sunny clear days. The day of the race is a major event in the calendar and is commemorated by a large and often emotional concert on the evening of the race day. A special song, "The Long Run", is dedicated to the race and is traditionally sung only on this occasion.

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Anti-Assassins Rugby Club

The Anti-Assassins

Anti-Assassins

The Anti-Assassins Rugby Union Football team was an invitation team that selected players from the northern counties of England to play friendly charitable matches locally and to go on tour...

Rugby Club (A-As) was founded in 1950 when Sedbergh Old Boys, Stewart Faulds, Geoff and Arthur Kenyon were invited to pick a Northern team to play against the masters and Old Boys (The Assassins) of Sedbergh School. Now this invitational team plays as SpoonAAs (Spoon Anti-Assassins), raising funds for the Wooden Spoon

Wooden Spoon Society

Wooden Spoon is a children's charity founded in 1983, when the England rugby team received the Wooden Spoon in the 5 Nations. Spoon is dedicated to helping children and young people who are disadvantaged physically, mentally or socially by using sport as a method of improving lives while...

charity.

Chapel Organ

The chapel organ was acquired from the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall

Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall

The Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, is a parish church in the Church of England.The church is Grade II* listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport as it is a particularly significant building of more than local interest....

. It was built by Nigel Church and moved to the school by David Wells in 1994.

School song

Winder is the School song for Sedbergh School, named after the fell that dominates the northern skyline of the school. The hill is a gateway to the Howgill Fells

Howgill Fells

and climbing it is something that school tradition dictates every pupil must do.

The song is sung at all major school events such as the Wilson Run.

Verse 1

Oh Eton
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

hath her River and Clifton
Clifton College
Clifton College is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England, founded in 1862. In its early years it was notable for emphasising science in the curriculum, and for being less concerned with social elitism, e.g. by admitting day-boys on equal terms and providing a dedicated...

hath her down,

And Winchester
Winchester College
Winchester College is an independent school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire, the former capital of England. It has existed in its present location for over 600 years and claims the longest unbroken history of any school in England...

her cloisters and immemorial town.

But ours the mountain fastness, the deep romantic ghylls,

Where Clough and Dee and Rawthey,

Come singing from the hills!

Refrain

For it isn't our ancient lineage, there are others as old as we.

And it isn't our pious founders, though we honour their memory.

'Tis the hills that are stood around us, unchanged since our days began.

It is Cautley, Calf and WINDER, that make the Sedbergh man

War Cloisters

The Cloisters at Sedbergh are an impressive and fitting monument to old boys and masters of the School who gave their live for their country during the Great War and the Second War. The Cloisters were dedicated in 1924 and then re-dedicated after the Second World War. The hostile north Yorkshire weather however, took their toll of the Cloisters, wearing down the slabs of stone with the names on of those who died. The Cloisters were therefore restored and partially rebuilt in 2005 and on Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. This day, or alternative dates, are also recognized as special days for war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth...

again re-dedication after an appeal had raised over £130,000 for the necessary work.

The School also has a separate memorial for Old Sedberghians awarded the Victoria Cross

Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

, of which there are four. Brigadier Jock Campbell

John Charles Campbell

Major-General John Charles "Jock" Campbell VC, DSO & Bar, MC was a Scottish officer in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross.-History:Campbell was born in Thurso...

who won the Military Cross

Military Cross

The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....

in the First World War and the Victoria Cross at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in the Second and was a member of Evans House.
Three of the Old Sedberghian winners of the Victoria Cross were Old Sedgwickians, RJT Digby-Jones

Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones

Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

at Wagon Hill in 1900 in the Boer War

Boer War

The Boer Wars were two wars fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Oranje Vrijstaat and the Republiek van Transvaal ....

, George Ward Gunn

George Ward Gunn

George Ward Gunn VC MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Life:...

at Sidi Rezegh in 1941 and Kenneth Campbell

Kenneth Campbell

Kenneth Campbell VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

over Brest Harbour, also in 1941.

It is also notable that four Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...

pilots attended the school. Plt Off Desmond Kay DFC & Bar, Plt Off Noel Benson were sadly killed during the war, but Flt Lt Kenneth Stoddart AE

Kenneth Stoddart

Wing Commander Sir Kenneth Maxwell Stoddart KCVO, KStJ, AE, JP, LLD was a distinguished Battle of Britain Pilot.Kenneth Stoddart was born in Cressington Park, Liverpool on 26 May 1914. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Clare College, Cambridge...

, and Fg Off Alec Worthington survived.

Headmasters

2010- Andrew P. Fleck
1995-2010 Christopher H. Hirst
Roger George Baxter
1954-1975 Gervase Michael Cobham Thornely
1937-1954 John Harold Bruce-Lockhart
John Bruce-Lockhart
John Harold Bruce-Lockhart was a Scottish cricketer and schoolmaster from the famous Bruce-Lockhart family. His son Logie played Rugby Union for Scotland, while his brother Robert was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Sandy and great-grandfather of Dugald Bruce Lockhart.-Early life:A...
1880-1900 Harry George Hart
1875-1879 Revd Frederick H. Heppenstall
1838-1861 John Harrison Evans
1648-1656 Richard Jackson

Military

Major General Henry Templer Alexander DSO CBE
Henry Templer Alexander
Major General Henry Templer Alexander was a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces.-Education:Major General Alexander attended Sedbergh School, Yorkshire. He then received military training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.-Career:Major General Alexander was commissioned...

, Army Commander
Lt-Colonel John William Balfour Paul, DSO
John William Balfour Paul
Lt-Colonel John William Balfour Paul, DSO , educated at Sedbergh School, was a Scottish officer of arms, the son of James Balfour Paul. He was Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary from 1927 to 1939, and Marchmont Herald from 1939 to 1957.-External links:**...

, Scottish Officer of Arms
John Charles Campbell VC
John Charles Campbell
Major-General John Charles "Jock" Campbell VC, DSO & Bar, MC was a Scottish officer in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross.-History:Campbell was born in Thurso...

, a commander of the 7th Armoured Division and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell VC
Kenneth Campbell
Kenneth Campbell VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

, Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
Colonel Freddie Spencer Chapman DSO
Freddie Spencer Chapman
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Spencer Chapman, DSO & Bar, ED was a British Army officer and World War II veteran, most famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya...

, naturalist, mountaineer, explorer, war hero
Air Commodore Duncan le Geyt Pitcher CMG, CBE, DSO, RAF
Duncan Pitcher
Air Commodore Duncan le Geyt Pitcher CMG, CBE, DSO, RAF was an infantry and cavalry officer in the British Indian Army...

, Army and Royal Air Force
Lieutenant Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones
Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones
Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

, Royal Engineers
Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....

Officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
Second Lieutenant George Ward Gunn VC
George Ward Gunn
George Ward Gunn VC MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Life:...

, Royal Horse Artillery
Royal Horse Artillery
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Officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross
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Admiral Sir Jock Slater GCB LVO DL, First Sea Lord
First Sea Lord
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and Chief of the Naval Staff
Chief of the Naval Staff
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.
Wing Commander Kenneth Stoddart KCVO KStJ AE JP LLD
Kenneth Stoddart
Wing Commander Sir Kenneth Maxwell Stoddart KCVO, KStJ, AE, JP, LLD was a distinguished Battle of Britain Pilot.Kenneth Stoddart was born in Cressington Park, Liverpool on 26 May 1914. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Clare College, Cambridge...

, Battle of Britain Pilot
Major General Michael Walsh CB DSO
Michael J. H. Walsh
Major-General Michael John Hatley Walsh CB DSO was a senior British Army officer and the Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories between 1982 and 1988.-Education:...

, British Army
British Army
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Officer and Chief Scout

Politics & Law

William George Ainslie
William George Ainslie
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, ironmaster and MP for North Lonsdale
North Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)
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1885–1892
Glencairn Balfour Paul CMG
Glencairn Balfour Paul
Glencairn Balfour Paul CMG was the British Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia before becoming an academic at Exeter University....

, British Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia
Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, Senior Law Lord
Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
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, former Master of the Rolls
Master of the Rolls
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and Lord Chief Justice
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
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Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken
Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken
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, Politician, businessman and associate of Winston Churchill.
Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart
Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart
Alexander John Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, OBE , commonly known as Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, was a British Conservative politician and a senior figure in English local government. He was the leader of Kent County Council and then Chairman of the Local Government Association...

, OBE, Chairman of The Local Government Association
Local Government Association
The Local Government Association is a voluntary lobbying organisation acting as the voice of the local government sector in England and Wales, which seeks to be an authoritative and effective advocate on its behalf....
Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Hugh Cortazzi
Sir Arthur Henry Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG is a British diplomat. Best known as Hugh Cortazzi, he is also a distinguished international businessman, academic, author and prominent Japanologist...

, Author, diplomat and prominent Japanologist
Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and a controversial Governor of Jamaica....

, Explorer and Governor of Jamaica.
Sir Russell Fairgrieve
Thomas Russell Fairgrieve
Sir Thomas Russell Fairgrieve CBE was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist politician.He was educated, at St Mary's School, Melrose, Sedbergh School, and the Scottish College of Textiles...

, politician
Sir Michael Bowen Hanley KCB
Michael Hanley
Sir Michael Bowen Hanley KCB was director general of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1972 to 1978.-Career:...

, Head of MI5
Laurence Helsby, Baron Helsby
Laurence Helsby, Baron Helsby
Laurence Norman Helsby, Baron Helsby GCB KBE was a British civil servant.-Life:Laurence Norman Helsby was born on 27 April 1908 and educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, before studying at Keble College, Oxford...

, Head of British Civil Service
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, PC, FRS , known as Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, from 1675 to 1696, was an English politician....

, First Lord of the Treasury
First Lord of the Treasury
The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, and is now always also the Prime Minister...

and Lord Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state...
H. Montgomery Hyde, author and politician
Sir Robert James
Robert Rhodes James
Sir Robert Vidal Rhodes James was a British historian and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born in India and began his education in private schools there, returning to England to attend Sedbergh School and then Worcester College, Oxford.He wrote his first book, a much-acclaimed biography...

, politician and author
James MacColl
James MacColl
James Eugene MacColl was a British Labour politician.He was the younger son of Hugo MacColl, a master marine engineer. At the age of 12 he was orphaned. MacColl was educated at Sedbergh School and Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he became secretary of the University Labour club...

, politician
Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell
Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell
Robert William Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell was an Ulster Unionist MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons....

, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

politician and member of the House of Lords
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
Stephen O'Brien, Conservative Party Member of Parliament
Sir Francis Powell, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis Powell, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis Sharp Powell, 1st Baronet was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1863 and 1910....

, Conservative Party Member of Parliament
Sir Michael Alexander Geddes Sachs
Michael Sachs (judge)
Sir Michael Alexander Geddes Sachs was the second English solicitor after John Wall to be appointed as a High Court judge...

, First English solicitor appointed as a High Court judge
Sir Giles Shaw
Giles Shaw
Sir John Giles Dunkerley Shaw, known as Giles Shaw, was a British Conservative Party politician.Shaw was born in York, the son of an engineer. He was educated at Sedbergh School and St...

, Politician
Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead
Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead
Michael Norman Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1960 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1992....

, Politician
David Waddington, Baron Waddington
David Waddington, Baron Waddington
David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington, GCVO, DL, QC, PC , is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1968 to 1990, and was then made a life peer...

, British Home Secretary, Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

, Governor of Bermuda.

Business

Adam Applegarth
Adam Applegarth
Adam J. Applegarth was the Chief Executive Officer of the Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne based Northern Rock bank, one of the first victims of the so-called subprime mortgage crisis...

, Ex-CEO of Northern Rock
Northern Rock
Northern Rock plc is a British bank, best known for becoming the first bank in 150 years to suffer a bank run after having had to approach the Bank of England for a loan facility, to replace money market funding, during the credit crisis in 2007. Having failed to find a commercial buyer for...

bank
Christian Bjelland, Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

businessman and chairman of the National Gallery of Norway
National Gallery of Norway
The National Gallery of Norway is a gallery in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003 it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.-History:...
Sir Christopher Bland
Christopher Bland
Sir Christopher Buchan Bland is a British businessman and politician. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1996 to 2001, when he took up a position as Chairman of British Telecommunications plc...

, Chairman of B.T. Group, businessman and former Chairman of the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Sir (John) Hubert Worthington
Hubert Worthington
-Early life:Worthington was born at Chorley, Alderley Edge, the youngest son of the architect Thomas Worthington. He was educated at Sedbergh School from 1900–1905 and then at the Manchester University school of architecture, before being articled to his half-brother Percy...

, English architect

The Arts, Literature & Humanities

John Arden
John Arden
John Arden is an award-winning English playwright from Barnsley . His works tend to expose social issues of personal concern. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature....

, dramatist
Stephen Beard
Stephen Beard
Stephen David T. Beard is a reality TV participant and actor, playing Archie Carpenter in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.-Living on the Edge:...

, Television actor
Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, he was educated at Malsis School in Cross Hills, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth...

, Screenwriter and 2009 Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British epic romantic drama adventure film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup...

. Wrote The Full Monty
The Full Monty
The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy...

.
Colin Blakely
Colin Blakely
Colin George Blakely was a Northern Irish character actor. He was considered an actor of great range.-Early life:...

, British character actor
JB Blanc
JB Blanc
Jean-Benoît Blanc is an Anglo-French actor.- Biography :He was born in Paris, France to a French father and an English mother...

, Hollywood film actor
William George Clark
William George Clark
William George Clark , English classical and Shakespearean scholar, was born at Barford Hall, Darlington.He was educated at Sedbergh School and Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow after a brilliant university career. In 1857 he was appointed Public Orator...

, English classical and Shakespearean scholar.
Frank Duxbury, Founder of Sedbergh School, Québec
Sedbergh School, Québec
Sedbergh School was a private English language senior school located in Montebello, Quebec, Canada which offers coeducation programs and boarding facilities for Canadian and international students...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

http://www.sedbergh.com.
Hugh I'Anson Fausset
Hugh I'Anson Fausset
Hugh l'Anson Fausset , was an English writer, a literary critic and biographer, and a poet and religious writer.He was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then at as a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge...

, literary critic, biographer, poet and religious writer.
Francis Llewellyn Griffith
Francis Llewellyn Griffith
Francis Llewellyn Griffith was an eminent British Egyptologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.F. Ll. Griffith was born in Brighton on 27 May 1862 where his father, Rev. Dr. John Griffith, was Principal of Brighton College. After schooling at Brighton College , then privately by his...

, Eminent British Egyptologist
Phillip Mason, author of 'The Men Who Ruled India'
Colin Matthew
Colin Matthew
Henry Colin Gray Matthew , an historian, was the first editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and editor of the diaries of William Ewart Gladstone....

, historian and the first editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Barry Pain
Barry Pain
Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer.-Biography:Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta...

, Journalist, poet and writer
Adam Rickitt
Adam Rickitt
Adam Peter Rickitt is an English actor, singer-songwriter and model.-Biography:Rickitt was born in Crewe, Cheshire, the youngest of four brothers. His father is co-owner of an estate agency...

, Actor, singer, model and aspiring Conservative M.P.
F. A. Ridley
F. A. Ridley
Francis Ambrose Ridley, usually known as Frank Ridley was a marxist and secularist of the United Kingdom.- Life :...

, historian and Marxist
Simon Slater
Simon Slater
Simon Slater, born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire is an English actor and composer. He was educated at Sedbergh School.He has been performing, playing and composing since his early teens and continued through university when he attended Goldsmiths College at the University of London.He plays...

, musician and TV and film actor
Archibald Strong
Archibald Strong
Archibald Thomas Strong was an Australian scholar and poet.-Early life:Strong was born at South Yarra, Melbourne, the son of Professor Herbert Strong, professor of classics at the University of Melbourne, and his wife Helen Campbell, née Edmiston.Strong and his family moved to Liverpool, England...

, Australian scholar and poet
Mark Umbers
Mark Umbers
Mark Umbers is an English actor known for his work in theatre, films, and television.Born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, Umbers was brought up in Wetherby. In 1991 he enrolled at Oxford University to study Latin and Greek Literature and Philosophy...

, Actor - theatre and film
Roger Vignoles
Roger Vignoles
Roger Vignoles is a British pianist and accompanist. He regularly performs with the world’s leading singers – including Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Hampson, Gitta-Maria Sjøberg, Sarah Walker, Susan Graham, Felicity Lott, Stephan Genz, Monica Groop, Wolfgang Holzmair,...

, International piano accompanist
James Wilby
James Wilby
James Jonathon Wilby is an English film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Rangoon, Burma to a corporate executive father...

, Actor
William John Woodhouse
William John Woodhouse
William John Woodhouse was a classical scholar and author, professor of Greek at the University of Sydney-Early life:...

, classical scholar and author

A former teacher at the school was Henry Watson Fowler

Henry Watson Fowler

Henry Watson Fowler was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language...

, the writer of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

Science & Exploration

Wilfred Eade Agar
Wilfred Eade Agar
Wilfred Eade Agar was an Anglo-Australian zoologist.Agar was born in Wimbledon, England. He was educated at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he read zoology...

, Anglo-Australian zoologist
Anthony Askew
Anthony Askew
Anthony Askew was an English physician and book collector.-Life and work:Askew was born in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of Dr. Adam Askew, a well-known physician of Newcastle. His early education was at Sedbergh School and The Royal Free Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne, where by all accounts...

, Physician and book collector
George Birkbeck
George Birkbeck
George Birkbeck was a British doctor, academic, philanthropist, pioneer in adult education and founder of Birkbeck College.-Biography:...

, doctor, academic, philanthropist and early pioneer in adult education
Christopher Chippindale
Christopher Chippindale
Christopher Chippindale is a British archaeologist. He works at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He is the author of the book Stonehenge Complete, published in 2004.-References:...

, Stonehenge archaeologist
John Cranke
John Cranke
John Cranke was an English scientific thinker and clergyman, particularly notable for starting a scientific genealogy producing some eight Nobel Prize winners in total. Cranke was admitted as a sizar at the age of 21 into Trinity College, University of Cambridge on July 1, 1767, after graduating...

, mathematician and mentor
John Dawson
John Dawson (surgeon)
John Dawson was both a mathematician and surgeon. He was born at Raygill in Garsdale, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where "Dawson's Rock" celebrates the site of his early thinking about conic sections...

, Surgeon and mathematician
G. M. B. Dobson, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Meteorological Society
John Hammersley
John Hammersley
John Michael Hammersley was a British mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory. He was born in Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire, and educated at Sedbergh School. He started reading mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge but was...

, British mathematician
John Haygarth
John Haygarth
John Haygarth was an important 18th-century British physician who discovered new ways to prevent the spread of fever among patients and reduce the mortality rate of smallpox....

, physician who discovered the benefits of segregating/quarantining sick patients
Dr Digby McLaren
Digby McLaren
Digby Johns McLaren, OC, FRSC was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist.Born in Carrickfergus, Ireland and educated at Sedbergh School, he received a Bachelor of Arts in geology from the University of Cambridge. During World War II, he fought in the Middle East and Europe with the Royal...

, Geologist and palaeontologist
Nicholas Henry Martin, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland...
Edward Max Nicholson
Edward Max Nicholson
Edward Max Nicholson was a pioneering environmentalist, ornithologist and internationalist, and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund.-Early life:...

, Founder of the World Wildlife Fund
Sir Isaac Pennington
Isaac Pennington
Sir Isaac Pennington was an English physician, of whom there are two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.Isaac Pennington was educated at Sedbergh School and St John's College, Cambridge. From 1773 to 1817 he was physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.-External links:...

, Physician
Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale...

, Founder of modern geology
Edmund Sharpe
Edmund Sharpe
Edmund Sharpe was an English architect and engineer. He started his career as an architect, initially on his own, then in partnership with Edward Paley, designing mainly churches but also some secular buildings...

, Architect and engineer
Robert Swan OBE
Robert Swan
Robert Charles Swan, OBE, FRGS is the first person to walk to both Poles.He was born on 28 July 1956 in Durham, England and attended Aysgarth School and then Sedbergh School before completing a BA degree in Ancient History at St Chad's College, Durham University. He is currently an advocate for...

, Polar explorer: the first man in history to walk to both the North and South Poles
Roger Cuthbert Wakefield
Roger Cuthbert Wakefield
Roger Cuthbert Wakefield CMG, OBE, FRICS was a prominent English surveyor, former director of the British Sudan Survey department, and an early twentieth century rugby union international who is known as one of the “lost lions” due to his participation on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina...

, Surveyor
Robert Willan
Robert Willan
Robert Willan was an English physician and the founder of dermatology as a medical specialty. He received his MD at Edinburgh in 1780 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1809...

, the father of modern dermatology
Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth
Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth
Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth was an English schoolteacher and amateur naturalist who wrote one of the first field guides to the butterflies of the Indian region...

, Lepidopterist and schoolmaster

Sport

David Barnes
David Barnes
David Barnes may refer to:* Dave Barnes , singer-songwriter from Tennessee, U.S.A.* David Barnes , American artist and Of Montreal collaborator* David Barnes , Australian archer...

, Chairman of the Professional Rugby Players' Association
Mike Biggar, Scotland rugby union captain
Rob Elloway
Rob Elloway
Rob Elloway is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Cornish Pirates in the RFU Championship and the German national rugby union team.-Biography:He plays rugby since 1990...

, German rugby union international
Carl Fearns
Carl Fearns
Carl Fearns is a rugby union player for Bath Rugby in the Aviva Premiership. He plays as a back-row.Fearns made his Sale debut in an EDF Energy Cup match against Cardiff Blues, winning the Man of the Match award....

, rugby union
John Bruce-Lockhart
John Bruce-Lockhart
John Harold Bruce-Lockhart was a Scottish cricketer and schoolmaster from the famous Bruce-Lockhart family. His son Logie played Rugby Union for Scotland, while his brother Robert was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Sandy and great-grandfather of Dugald Bruce Lockhart.-Early life:A...

, Scottish cricketer and schoolmaster
Jordan Clark
Jordan Clark
Jordan Clark is an English cricketer. Clark is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace and who occasionally fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria and was educated at Sedbergh School....

, Cricket
Logie Bruce Lockhart
Logie Bruce Lockhart
Logie Bruce Lockhart MA , is a British writer and journalist, formerly a Scottish international rugby union footballer and headmaster of Gresham's School.-Background:...

, Scotland rugby union player
Scotland national rugby union team
The Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011...

and headmaster of Gresham's School
Gresham's School
Gresham’s School is an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt in North Norfolk, England, a member of the HMC.The school was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham as a free grammar school for forty boys, following King Henry VIII's dissolution of the Augustinian priory at Beeston Regis...
Will Carling OBE
Will Carling
William David Charles Carling, OBE is a former Rugby union player for Harlequins, and a former captain of England from 1988 to 1996, winning 72 caps.-Early life:...

, England rugby union captain
Ewan Dowes
Ewan Dowes
Ewan Dowes is a rugby league footballer who plays for Hull. Dowes' usual position is .He attended Sedbergh School.Dowes signed for Hull in 2003 and won the 2005 Challenge Cup and played in the 2006 Super League XI Grand Final....

rugby league
Phil Dowson
Phil Dowson
Phil Dowson is an English rugby union player for Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership.Dowson's position of choice is as a Number 8 and he can also operate as a Flanker....

rugby union
Simon Cross
Simon Cross (rugby union)
Simon Terriss Cross is a Scottish rugby union player. He currently plays in the back row as a flanker for Edinburgh Rugby, who compete in the Magners League and Heineken Cup...

rugby union
Will Greenwood MBE
Will Greenwood
William John Heaton "Will" Greenwood, MBE is an English former rugby union footballer of the 1990s and 2000s.-Career:...

, England rugby union player
Mandy Mitchell-Innes
Mandy Mitchell-Innes
Norman Stewart Mitchell-Innes, known as Mandy Mitchell-Innes was an English cricketer who played in one Test in May 1935. He became England's oldest surviving Test cricketer on 7 October 2001, on the death of Alf Gover. Following his own death, that distinction passed to Ken Cranston, who...

, England cricketer
James Simpson-Daniel
James Simpson-Daniel
James David Simpson-Daniel is an English rugby union footballer who plays wing or centre for Gloucester Rugby....

England rugby union player
John Spencer, England rugby union captain
Freddie Tait
Frederick Guthrie Tait
Frederick Guthrie Tait was a Scottish soldier and amateur golfer.Born in Edinburgh, the third son of eminent physicist and fanatical amateur golfer Peter Guthrie Tait, Frederick was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Sedbergh School. He entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst at the second...

, golfer
Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal
Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal
William Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal , known as Sir Wavell Wakefield between 1944 and 1963, was an English rugby union player for Harlequins and England, President of the Rugby Football Union and Conservative politician.-Background and education:Wakefield was born in Beckenham,...

England rugby union captain

Religion

John Barwick
John Barwick
John Barwick was an English royalist churchman and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral.-Early life:He was born at Witherslack, in Westmorland. John was the third of five sons, and he and his brother Peter Barwick were the ones given an education. After time at local grammar schools John was sent to...

, Royalist churchman and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral
Francis Blackburne
Francis Blackburne
Francis Blackburne PC KS was an Irish judge and eventually became Lord Chancellor of Ireland.-Background:...

, Archdeacon
Archbishop Henry Lowther Clarke
Henry Lowther Clarke
Henry Lowther Clarke was the fourth Anglican bishop and first archbishop of Melbourne, Australia.-Early life:...

, first Archbishop of Melbourne
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Erected initially in 1847 as the Diocese of Melbourne, a suffragan diocese of Archdiocese of Sydney, the diocese was elevated in 1874 as an archdiocese of the...
Venerable John Duckett, Catholic priest and martyr
The Rt Rev Christopher Charles Luxmoore
Christopher Charles Luxmoore
The Rt Rev Christopher Charles Luxmoore was the eighth Bishop of Bermuda. Born on 9 April 1926 and educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1953. His first post was as a curate at St John the Baptist, Newcastle upon Tyne after which he was Priest in Charge of...

, Bishop of Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
The Very Reverend William Stuart MacPherson
William Stuart MacPherson
The Very Reverend William Stuart MacPherson was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century. He was born on 30 September 1901 and educated at Sedbergh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1932 he began his career with a curacy at Richmond, Yorkshire after which he was...

, Anglican Priest
Right Reverend Christopher Mayfield, Bishop of Wolverhampton
Bishop of Wolverhampton
The Bishop of Wolverhampton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands...

and Bishop of Manchester
Bishop of Manchester
The Bishop of Manchester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Manchester in the Province of York.The current bishop is the Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch, the 11th Lord Bishop of Manchester, who signs Nigel Manchester. The bishop's official residence is Bishopscourt, Bury New Road,...
The Rt Rev Reginald Richard Roseveare, CBE
Reginald Richard Roseveare
The Rt Rev Reginald Richard Roseveare, CBE was an Anglican bishop in Africa in the third quarter of the 20th century....

, Anglican bishop
Rev James Maurice Wilson
James Maurice Wilson
Rev. James Maurice Wilson was a British theologian, maths and science teacher, and astronomer.-Early life:...

, Theologian and Astronomer
Right Reverend Tom Wright
Tom Wright (theologian)
Nicholas Thomas Wright is a leading New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. His academic work has usually been published under the name N. T...

, Bishop of Durham and a leading British New Testament
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

scholar.

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