Cheltenham College
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| Motto | Latin: Labor Omnia Vincit ("Work Conquers All") |
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| Established | July 1841 |
| Type | Independent, Day & Boarding |
| Religion | Anglican |
| Headmaster | Dr Alex Peterken |
| President | The Revd J C Horan |
| Location | Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7LD England |
| Local authority | Gloucestershire |
| Staff | 88[1] |
| Students | 600[1] |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 13–18 |
| Houses | 10 |
| Colours | |
| Former students | Old Cheltonians |
| Publication | The Cheltonians |
| Website | www.cheltenhamcollege.org |
Cheltenham College is a co-educational independent school, located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
One of the public schools of the Victorian period, it was opened in July 1841. An Anglican foundation, it is known for its classical, military and sporting traditions.
The 1893 book Great Public Schools by E. S. Skirving, S. R. James and Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte, which had a chapter on each of what they regarded to be England's ten greatest public schools, included Cheltenham College.
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[edit] Work and service
675 Old Cheltonians (former pupils) were killed in the service of their country in World War I, and 363 in World War II. Cheltenham's military past is recognised by the fact that it is one of only three schools in England (the others being Eton College, founded in 1440, and the Duke of York's Royal Military School, founded in 1803) to have its own military colours (last presented in 2000 by The Princess Royal). Queen Victoria School in Dunblane, Scotland also has Colours.
The names of those Old Cheltonians killed in the first world war are recorded in the College chapel, completed in 1896, which to a degree resembles King's College Chapel in Cambridge and is one of the chapels of an English public school. Those killed in the second world war are displayed on the memorial in the College's dining hall.
Cheltenham has approximately 600 pupils (150 being day pupils) between the ages of 13 and 18.[2] The fees are about £29,000 a year, making it amongst the most expensive schools in the country.[3] The school is now co-educational and maintains a strong academic reputation, with the majority of pupils going to The Russell Group Universities, and around 7% going on to Oxford and Cambridge universities. Both GCSE and A Level results are among the highest in Gloucestershire.[4][5]
There is also a prep school, Cheltenham College Junior School, most of whose pupils go on to the senior school.
Cheltenham also runs an annual exchange program with the Wynberg Boys' High School in Cape Town, South Africa; an all-boys boarding school which coincidentally was established in the same year as Cheltenham, 1841.
[edit] Sport
[edit] Rugby
Cheltenham has a sporting tradition, competing with larger single gender schools. The first inter-school rugby football match was played between Rugby School and Cheltenham College, Cheltenham beating Rugby; and the "Cheltenham Rules" were adopted by the Rugby Football Union in 1887. Cheltenham also reached the final of The National Schools 7s Festival four times in the last ten years, winning the competition in 1998, 2003 and 2004. Cheltenham's rugby XV was undefeated in the 2008 season.[6]
[edit] Rackets
Cheltenham College plays Rackets where, at times, they have dominated the Queen's Club Public Schools Competition; Cheltenham has been National Champions three times from 2003 to 2011. Chris Stout won the Foster Cup (the individual championship for public schools) at Queen's Club in December 2011. The current World Champion (Chris' brother), Jamie Stout, is an Old Cheltonian as well .[7]
[edit] Polo
Cheltenham were National Schools Champions in 1997, 1998, 2004, & 2005 and Arena Champions in 2004, 2005 & 2006. [8]
[edit] Cricket
Cricket is one of the main sport that is played in summer. Cheltenham College enjoys a long standing tradition of cricket. Home of the famous ‘Cheltenham Cricket Festival’. Gloucestershire County Cricket Club played its first game at Cheltenham College 137 years ago, making this one of the longest running cricket festivals in the world. [9]
[edit] Houses
There are ten houses, three of which are day houses; Southwood for the boys and Queens or Westal for the girls. Ashmead, Chandos and Westal (a boarding and day house) are the girls' boarding houses whilst the boys reside in either Boyne House, Christowe, Hazelwell, Leconfield or Newick House. There are plans for building work on a new girls' boarding house to start within the next year.
| House Name | Composition | Colours | Housemaster/Mistress |
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| Ashmead ( A ) | Boarding Girls | Anna Cutts | |
| Boyne House ( BH ) | Boarding Boys | Sebastian Bullock | |
| Chandos ( C ) | Boarding Girls | Holly Mérigot | |
| Christowe ( XT ) | Boarding Boys | Nick Nelson | |
| Hazelwell ( H ) | Boarding Boys | Simon Conner | |
| Leconfield ( L ) | Boarding Boys | Chris Reid | |
| Newick House ( NH ) | Boarding Boys | Fergus Llewellyn | |
| Queen's ( Q ) | Day Girls | Will & Wandrille Bates | |
| Southwood ( S ) | Day Boys | Barry Lambert | |
| Westal ( W ) | Day Girls | Sue Jackson |
[edit] If....
Cheltenham College was used to film the majority of the school scenes in the 1968 British film If...., starring Malcolm McDowell, although an agreement between the school's then Headmaster, David Ashcroft, and the film's director, Lindsay Anderson (who was a former pupil and Senior Prefect), prevented the filmmakers from crediting the school. Additional interior scenes were filmed at Aldenham School in Hertfordshire, which gained sole accreditation in the film's closing credit. Two Surrey independent schools, Charterhouse School and Cranleigh School, had also negotiated to appear, but pulled out of negotiations once the subject matter of the film became clear.
[edit] Notable former pupils (Old Cheltonians)
[edit] Victoria Crosses won by Old Cheltonians
Fourteen Victoria Crosses have been won by Old Cheltonians,[10] with only Eton College (37), Harrow School (19), Haileybury College (17), and Wellington College (15), having higher totals.(Although it should be taken into account that the Duke of York's Royal Military School does not publish lists of recipients of bravery awards in order not to diminish the service of those several thousand former pupils who have fought in battle and not received the VC, but only lesser awards for gallantry).[11]
The list of names, with age and rank at the time of the deed which merited the award of the Victoria Cross, is as follows:
- Lieutnenant Andrew Cathcart Bogle (28).
- Sergeant Frederick Charles Booth (27).
- Midshipman Duncan Gordon Boyes (17).[12]
- Lieut. Commander Edward Courtney Boyle (32).
- Captain George Nicolas Channer (32).
- Lieutenant Colonel James Forbes-Robertson (34).
- Lieutenant John Duncan Grant (27).
- Lieutenant Reginald Clare Hart (31).
- Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill (37).
- Mr. William Fraser McDonell (28).
- Second Lieut. George Raymond Dallas Moor (19).
- Lieutenant Philip Neame (26).
- Captain Douglas Reynolds (32).
- Commander Robert Edward Dudley Ryder (34).
[edit] Display of Victoria Crosses
Seven of the College VCs are on public display: Bogle, Boyle, Melvill, Moor, Neame, Reynolds, Ryder. The other seven VCs are at locations unknown, presumed in private hands: Booth, Boyes, Channer, Forbes-Robertson, Grant, Hart, McDonell.
The VC won by Midshipman Boyes was sold by the College in 1998 to raise scholarship funds.[13] A replica of his VC is on permanent display in Cheltenham College library (Big Modern) with photographs of all 14 Victoria Cross winners and a world map showing where they were won. Below the Victoria Cross display a selection of other medals won by Old Cheltonians is displayed intermittently.
[edit] George Cross recipient
- Kempster, Major André Gilbert (né Coccioletti). Royal Armoured Corps; Algeria, 21 August 1943[14]
[edit] Headmasters and Principals
The headmaster is Dr Alex Peterken.
The full list of past principals and headmasters is contained in Cheltenham College Who's Who 5th edition, 2003, and is as follows:
[edit] Principals (1841–1919)
- Rev. Alfred Phillips, D.D. 1867-82
- Rev. Thomas Munday, D.D. 1859-67
- Rev. David Barker, D.D. 1845-59
- Rev. Henry Highton 1859-62
- Rev. Alfred Barry, D.D. 1862-68
- Rev. Thomas William Jex-Blake 1868-74
- Rev. Herbert Kynaston, D.D. 1874-88
- Rev. Herbert Armitage James, D.D. 1889-95
- Rev. Robert Stuart de Courcy Laffan 1895-99
- Rev. Reginald Waterfield, D.D. 1899-1919
[edit] Headmasters (1919 - present)
- Henry Harrison Hardy 1919-32
- Richard Victor Harley Roseveare 1932-37
- Arthur Goodhart Pite 1937-38
- John Bell 1938-40
- Alan Guy Elliott-Smith 1940-51
- Rev. Arthur Godolphin Guy Carleton Pentreath 1952-59
- David Ashcroft 1959-78
- Richard Martin Morgan 1978-90
- Peter David Vaughan Wilkes 1990-97
- Paul Arthur Chamberlain 1997-2004
- John Stephen Richardson 2004-2010
- Dr Alex Peterken 2010-
[edit] Headmasters of the Junior School
- Rev. Thomas Middlemore Middlemore-Whithard 1863-65
- Rev. Christopher Edward Lefroy Austin 1885-96
- Francis Joseph Cade OC 1896-1910
- Charles Thornton OC 1911-23
- Basil Allcot Bowers OC 1923-33
- William Donavan Johnston 1933-46
- Hugh Alan Clutton-Brock 1946-64
- William Philip Cathcart Davies 1964-86
- David John Allenby Cassell 1986-91
- Nigel Iain Archdale 1992-2008
- Adrian Morris 2008-2010
- Scott Bryan 2010
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Facts & figures". Cheltenham College. Archived from the original on 2007-08-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20070822151818/http://www.cheltcoll.gloucs.sch.uk/cc/news/facts.php. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ [1] Cheltenham College web site
- ^ [2] Cheltenham College web site
- ^ [3] The Guardian
- ^ [4] The Daily Telegraph
- ^ [5] The Daily Telegraph
- ^ [6]
- ^ [7]
- ^ [8]
- ^ Michael Croke Morgan, (1968), Cheltenham College: The First Hundred Years, page 219, (published for the Cheltonian Society by Sadler)
- ^ Fully referenced cited article on number of VCs, school by school, can be found at List of Victoria Crosses by School
- ^ The Life of Duncan Boyes, V.C
- ^ Spink: Boyes, Duncan Gordon; Midshipman, RN. Sale of 21 July 1998, lot 212, sale price £51,750
- ^ George Cross Database Recipient: Andre Gilbert KEMPSTER, GC (Posthumously)
- Cheltenham College: The First Hundred Years by Michael C. Morgan [Chalfont St. Giles: Richard Sadler, for the Cheltonian Society, 1968]. A formal history, starting with the meeting on 9 November 1840 of Cheltenham residents (presided over by Major-General George Swiney) who decided to set up a 'Proprietary Grammar School' and appointed a committee to achieve this. ISBN unknown/unavailable.
- Then & Now: An Anniversary Celebration of Cheltenham College 1841-1991 by Tim Pearce, (Cheltonian Society, 1991). The author explains in the Preface that this is "more of a scrap book than a formal history, and like all scrap books it reflects the tastes and interests of its compilers and depends on what in the way of pictures and documents may be available to them". ISBN 0-85967-875-X
- Cheltenham College Who's Who, 5th edition ed. John Bowes, (Cheltonian Society, 2003) No ISBN on book.
- Floreat, A collection of photographs of College life from the 1960s and early 1970s compiled by the late M.F. Miller, a Physics master at the school
[edit] External links
- Cheltenham College website
- The Cheltonian Association Website The official website for Old Cheltonians
- Charles Dallenger Chenery was one of the first assistant masters at the school.
- Independent Schools Inspectorate Report on Cheltenham College
- Public schoolboys starting to show their class in the professional ranks
- OC profiles
- History of Cheltenham College
Coordinates: 51°53′30″N 2°4′30″W / 51.89167°N 2.075°W
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