Malvern College
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Great Malvern , | |
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| Type | Independent school |
| Motto | Sapiens qui prospicit (Wise is he who looks ahead) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | C of E |
| Established | 1865 |
| Chairman | Lord Ian Maclaurin |
| Incoming Headmaster | Antony Clark (Cantab) |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 3 to 18 |
| Houses | 10 |
| Colour(s) | Green & White |
| Former Pupils | Old Malvernians |
| Website | http://www.malvern-college.co.uk |
Malvern College is a coeducational English public school, founded in 1865. It is located in Malvern, Worcestershire. It is not to be confused with Malvern Girls' College, which is a separate school.
History
The school opened in January 1865 to two dozen boys and half a dozen masters. Initially, there were two Houses but expansion was rapid and by 1877 there were six Houses and 290 boys.
Further expansion of pupil numbers and buildings continued after the Great War, but during the Second World War the College suffered more than any other comparable independent school, being twice ejected and shrinking to half its former size. Required to make way for the Admiralty between October 1939 and July 1940, it found a temporary home at Blenheim Palace. The College underwent a further period of exile from May 1942 to July 1946. Ordered out at one week's notice, the school was housed with Harrow School. The College's premises were then occupied by the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), and the modern QinetiQ and DSTL are still sited on former College land.
Until 1992, it was an all boys' school, taking boys from 13 to 18 years old. In 1992, it merged with Ellerslie Girls’ School and Hillstone prep school to become coeducational with pupils from 3 to 18 years old.[1] In September 2008, it will merge with The Downs prep school on The Downs' existing site in Colwall.[2]
Present-day
The Heads of department are:
- Mr. Allen- History
- Mrs. Atkins- Geography
- Mr. Cramp- Maths
- Mr. Frayn- Politics
- Mr. Godsland- Modern Languages
- Mr. Hall- Biology
- Mr. Holroyd- Economic
- Mr. Hookham- Spanish
- Dr. Jackson- Chemistry
- Father Law- Religious Studies & TOK
- Mr. Murtagh- Master of Cricket
- Mr. Oliver- English & Debating
- Mr. Roberts- Rackets Master
- Mr. Sloan- Director of Music
- Mr. Smith- Technology
- Mr. Thurlow- Classics
- Mr. Willatt- Physics
Malvern College is one of the only schools in the country to offer Debating as a subject to year 9 pupils. The other being Dulwich College.
Malvern enjoys a friendly rivalry with Shrewsbury School.
Houses
Malvern is considered a bit of an oddity, in that the names of houses are numbers (1-9) with the exception of School House. There are six boys and four girls houses. Nine are situated on the school's campus while House 7, uniquely lies further out close to the school's '9 acre' field.
- No.1- Red and white (boys)
- No.2- Blue and white (boys)
- No.3- Light Blue (girls)
- No.4- Maroon (girls)
- No.5- Black and white (boys)
- No.6- Yellow (girls)
- No.7- Black and purple (boys)
- No.8- Pink (girls)
- No.9- Black and green (boys)
- School House (SH)- Black, Blue and Purple (boys)
Planning permission has been granted for the building of an additional two houses and house number seven is soon to be sold.
Innovations
The school has played a significant role in the development of educational projects. In 1963 it was the first independent school to have a language laboratory, it pioneered Nuffield Physics in the 1960s, Science in Society in the 1970s, and the Diploma of Achievement in the 1990s.
Also at the beginning of the 1990s, Malvern College became one of the first schools in Britain to offer the choice between the International Baccalaureate and A-Levels in the Sixth Form.
Each summer the staff and some older pupils run a summer school, Young Malvern, which incorporates many sports, activities and learning experiences.
Notable alumni
- James Jesus Angleton, spymaster
- Michael Arlen, author, playwright
- Francis William Aston, Physicist, 1922 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Humphry Berkeley, politician, humourist
- Benedict Carpenter, sculptor
- Aleister Crowley, occultist
- Tim Culley, contestant on Big Brother
- Denholm Elliott, actor
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, journalist
- Prince Christian of Hanover, and Prince Ernst August of Hanover
- Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia
- C. S. Lewis, novelist, scholar, Christian apologist
- Reginald Erskine Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football
- "Fostershire", the Foster brothers who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club.
- J.F.C. Fuller, soldier, military historian, strategist, occultist
- Sidney Goodsir Smith, poet, artist
- Christmas Humphries, lawyer, Buddhist author
- Rory Laing, failed applicant on The Apprentice
- Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth, businessman
- James Meade, economist, 1977 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- Jeremy Paxman, journalist, broadcaster, author
- Sir Ghillean Prance, Botanist
- Najib Tun Razak, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- James Rousseau, model
- Dominic Sandbrook, historian and author
- Oliver Selfridge, computer scientist
- George Simpson-Hayward, England cricketer
- Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, politician
- Roger Tolchard, England cricketer
- Bernard Weatherill, politician, Speaker of the British House of Commons
- John Wheeler-Bennett, historian
Southern Railway School's Class
The School lent its name to the thirtieth steam locomotive (Engine 929) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This Class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. 'Malvern', as it was called, was built in 1934.The locomotive bearing the School's name was withdrawn in the early 1960s.