Bootham School
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Bootham , , YO30 7BU England | |
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| Type | Private school |
| Motto | Membra sumus corporis magni (We are members of a greater body) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) |
| Established | 6 January 1823 |
| Founder | Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) |
| Department for Education URN | 121722 Tables |
| Headmaster | Chris Jeffery[1] |
| Deputy Head | Martyn Beer |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age | 3 to 19 |
| Enrolment | 605 as of January 2016[update] |
| Houses | Firbank Pendle Brigflatts Swarthmore |
| Publication | Bootham Magazine |
| Boarding Houses | Rowntree Fox Evelyn |
| Former Pupils | Bootham Old Scholars Association |
| Website | www |
Bootham School is a private Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19, and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016.[2] It is one of seven Quaker schools in England.
The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823–1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828-c.1865). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster, in a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone.
The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52).
Academics[edit]
Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.[3]
Notable alumni[edit]
Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, the mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of fractals"), the physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson, the historian A. J. P. Taylor, the actor-manager Brian Rix, the applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the leading child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the famous social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize winner Philip Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer Stuart Rose[citation needed] and Jon Ingle, better known as drag artist Lady Bunny.[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Christopher Jeffrey named as new Bootham School headteacher". York Press. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Bootham School". EduBase. Department for Education. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ "The Top 100 Independent Schools at A-level" at independent.co.uk.
- ^ "Lady Bunny on Disco, Drag & Demagogues". 7 June 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
Further reading[edit]
- Bootham School Register. Compiled under the direction of a committee of O.Y.S.A., 1914, with revised eds. 1935, 1971, 2010.
- JS Rowntree, Friends' Boys' School, York a Sketch of its History 1829–1878 (1879)
- FE Pollard Bootham School 1823–1923 (JM Dent and Sons, 1926)
- SK Brown Bootham School York 1823–1973 (author, 1973)
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Coordinates: 53°57′53″N 1°05′13″W / 53.96472°N 1.08694°W
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