St Edmund's School
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| Motto | "Fungar Vice Cotis" |
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| Established | 1749 |
| Type | Independent |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headteacher | Louise Moelwyn-Hughes |
| Location | St Thomas' Hill Canterbury Kent CT2 8HU England |
| Local authority | Kent |
| DfE number | 886/6050 |
| DfE URN | 118998 |
| Students | 500 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Website | www.stedmunds.org.uk |
Coordinates: 51°17′30″N 1°03′35″E / 51.2917°N 1.0597°E
St Edmund’s School is an independent school (ages 3–18) in Canterbury, Kent, England, U.K. with over 500 pupils, including both day pupils and boarders.
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[edit] History
St Edmund's School Canterbury was first established in 1749 as the Clergy Orphan Society in Yorkshire. In 1812 the School moved to St John's Wood at the nursery end of Lord's Cricket Ground. The sister school for girls was on the same site, but later moved to become St Margaret's School, Bushey in Hertfordshire. In 1855, the School came to its present location overlooking the cathedral city of Canterbury.
The school is located at the top of St Thomas' Hill, Canterbury, the site and building being paid for by Doctor Samuel Warneford; the chapel was completed in 1858. The main school building was designed by noted architect Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892), whose grandmother had been born in Canterbury.
In 1972 the choristers of Canterbury Cathedral joined the Junior School as the Choir House. In 1982 girls were admitted to the school. The first female Head of St Edmund’s School, Mrs Louise Moelwyn-Hughes, formerly a Deputy Head at The Perse School, Cambridge, will take up the post in September 2011.
[edit] Headmasters & Headmistresses
- 1762 - 1804: The Revd Daniel Addison
- 1804 - 1805: The Revd Thomas Cripps
- 1805 - 1813: The Revd Evan Jones
- 1813 - 1837: The Revd Thomas Burton
- 1837 - 1841: The Revd George Bewsher
- 1841 - 1867: The Revd Daniel Butler
- 1867 - 1891: The Revd Charles Matheson
- 1891 - 1902: The Revd Arthur W. Upcott
- 1902 - 1908: The Revd Edward J. W. Houghton
- 1908 - 1932: The Revd Walter W. Burnside
- 1932 - 1941: The Revd Henry Balmforth
- 1942 - 1945: The Revd Frederick F. S. Williams
- 1945 - 1959: The Revd William M. Thoseby
- 1959 - 1959: Walter Stephen Jones
- 1960 - 1964: B. Michael Hoban
- 1964 - 1978: Francis R. Rawes MBE
- 1978 - 1994: John V. Tyson
- 1994 - 2005: A. Nicholas Ridley
- 2005 - 2011: Jeremy M. Gladwin
- September 2011 -: Louise Moelwyn-Hughes
[edit] Masters of the Junior School
- 1898 - 1900: E. A. Brackenbury
Cricket Pitch & Main Building
- 1900 - 1903: J. Tyson-Williams
- 1904 - 1906: G. Dale
- 1906 - 1907: E. E. Malden
- 1907 - 1908: H. M. Chamberlain
- 1909 - 1946: C. Powers
- 1947 - 1949: J. F. Lendrum
- 1949 - 1950: J. N. Cox & A. Woolfenden
- 1950 - 1982: J. N. Cox
- 1982 - 1996: D. C. Gahan
- 1996 - .......: R. G. Bacon
[edit] Notable former pupils
- Orlando Bloom, actor
- Sir Edgeworth David, colonial administrator
- Lawrence Durrell, novelist and poet
- Handley Geary VC, soldier
- Michael Goodliffe, actor
- Darren Henley, Managing Director, Classic fm
- Brigadier Bernard Howlett DSO and Bar, soldier and Kent cricketer
- Robin Jackman, England and Surrey cricketer
- Brigadier Robert Jephson-Jones GC, soldier
- Frederick Kempf, concert pianist
- Nigel MacArthur a.k.a Nigel Harris, radio broadcaster and organist
- General Sir Gordon MacMillan, soldier and Hereditary Chief of the Clan MacMillan
- Air Marshal Christopher Nickols CB CBE, RAF officer
- Gordon Rawcliffe, academic
- Roger Royle, priest and broadcaster
- Major-General Mark Strudwick, soldier
- Ian Taylor, England and Olympic hockey player
- D'Arcy Trinkwon, concert organist
- Robin Tyson, member of the King's Singers
- Jason Laslett, former GB Olympic Hockey captain (190 caps)
- Rick Dutton, founding member Norfolk Community Action Group (NCAG), anarchist writer and journalist
