Wrekin College
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| Mottoes | Aut vincere aut mori |
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| Established | 1880 |
| Type | Public School with boarding |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headmaster | Mr Richard Pleming MA (Cantab) |
| Chaplain | Revd. Michael Horton MA (Cantab) |
| Founder | Sir John Bayley |
| Location | Sutherland Road Wellington Shropshire TF1 3BH England |
| Local authority | Telford & Wrekin |
| Students | c. 450 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Bayley, Clarkson, Lancaster, Roslyn, Tudor, York. Former houses: Hanover, Norman, Eastfield, Saxon. Windsor, |
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| Website | wrekincollege.ac.uk |
Wrekin College is a co-educational independent school located in Wellington, Shropshire, England. It was founded by Sir John Bayley in 1880 and was known as ‘The School in the Garden’ owing to its extensive gardens and playing fields. Part of the Allied Schools, it is also a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
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[edit] History
The school was founded in 1880 as Wellington College by Sir John Bayley. In 1915 less than 100 acres (0.40 km2) of the Lilleshall Hall estate were purchased from the Duke of Sutherland, who retained the Hall and 50 acres (200,000 m2). In 1920, it was sold to the Revd Percy Warrington, a Church of England clergyman and renamed Wrekin College. The influential Anglican Clergyman E. J. H. Nash was chaplain from 1929-1932.[1] The Rev. Canon Guy Pentreath was a notable headmaster from 1943 to 1952. Girls were introduced to the sixth form by headmaster Geoffrey Hadden in 1975. It became fully co-educational in 1983. There are currently 420 pupils of which 30% are boarders and 40% are girls. The school now admits pupils from the age of eleven.
In 2006, the trust was merged with that of the Old Hall Preparatory School (founded 1845), which moved from its original site in the Old Hall on Limekiln Lane to the site of Wrekin College.
[edit] Old Wrekinians
- Harry Andrews (1911–1989), British stage and film actor
- William R. P. George (1912–2006), Welsh poet
- Sir Peter Gadsden (1929–2006), former Lord Mayor of London (1979), businessman
- Brian Epstein (1934–1967), music entrepreneur and manager of The Beatles
- Sir John Roch (1934- ), former Lord Justice of Appeal
- Malcolm Bruce (1944- ), LibDem MP
- Field Marshal Rt Hon the Lord Inge KG, GCB, PC, DL (c. 1948 - ), former Chief of Defence Staff
- Sir Ian Blair (1953 - ), Metropolitan Police Commissioner (2005–2008)
- Bob Warman (1948 - ), television presenter
- James Faulkner (1948 - ), Voice/television actor
- Jean-Paul Duminy (1984- ), South African International cricketer
- Rory Kleinveldt (1983- ), South African International cricketer
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[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Manwaring, Randle (2002). From Controversy to Co-Existence: Evangelicals in the Church of England 1914-1980. Cambridge: CUP. pp. 57.
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