St Piran's is a prep school located on Gringer Hill in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. The school was known as Cordwalles School until 1919 and has been co-educational since the 1990s.
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Gringer Hill , , SL6 7LZ England | |
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| Type | Private preparatory day school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Church of England |
| Established | 1805 |
| Local authority | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Department for Education URN | 110126 Tables |
| Headmaster | Seb Sales |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 3 to 11 |
| Enrolment | ~350 |
| Website | http://www.stpirans.co.uk/ |
History
editThe origin of St Piran's was in 1805 at a small school, the Revd John Potticary's school in Blackheath, at 2–3 Eliot Place.[1] After moving to its present location in 1872, it operated as a boys' boarding school under the name of Cordwalles School until 1919.[2] Up to this time, it was among a group of preparatory schools – which included Stubbington House School and Eastman's Royal Naval Academy – that maintained strong connections with the Royal Navy.[3] In that year, 1919, the school was bought by Major Vernon Seymour Bryant who renamed it St Piran's. It reopened in 1920 with 23 boys, increasing to 65 the following year.[2]
After becoming an educational trust in 1972, the school became co-educational in 1993, and boarding ended the same year.[2] In 2005, St. Piran's celebrated its 200th anniversary with a bicentennial pageant. In 2008 a new geography room and lower school hall were completed.
Headmasters
editTo date[update], the headmasters of the school have been:[2]
- John Potticary 1805–1820
- George Brown Francis Potticary 1820–1850
- Richard Cowley Powles 1850–1865
- Thomas Jackson Nunns 1865–1890
- Charles William Hunt 1890–1902
- Cyril Robert Carter 1902–1910
- Theodore William Keeling 1910–1912
- Mervyn Frank Voules 1912–1919
- Vernon Seymour Bryant 1919–1926
- Arthur Grendon Tippet DSO 1926–1943
- Lowther Grendon Tippet 1943–1972
- Guy Gross and Andrew Perry 1972–1980
- Andrew Perry 1980–1982
- Andrew Blumer 1982–2001
- Jonathan Carroll 2001–2019
- Seb Sales 2019–present
Former pupils
edit- Admiral Sir Claud Barry, KBE CB DSO[4]
- Benjamin Disraeli[5]
- Cecil Malone[6]
- Victor Mollo[7]
- Vice Admiral Sir Peveril William-Powlett, KCB KCMG CBE DSO[8]
- Thomas Field Gibson and his cousin Charles Ronalds[9][10]
- Anthony West (author)[11]
- Patrick Leigh Fermor (expelled) [11]
References
edit- ^ Rhind, N. (1993) Blackheath Village & Environs, 1790–1990, Vol.1 The Village and Blackheath Vale (Bookshop Blackheath, London), p.157.
- ^ a b c d "School history". St Pirans School Maidenhead. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
- ^ Leinster-Mackay, Donald P. (1988). "The nineteenth-century English preparatory school: cradle and crèche of Empire?". In Mangan, J. A. (ed.). 'Benefits Bestowed'?: Education and British Imperialism. Manchester University Press. p. 66. ISBN 9780719025174. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ^ "BARRY, Admiral Sir Claud Barrington". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. November 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ Blake, Robert (1967) [1966]. Disraeli. New York: St Martin's Press. OCLC 400326.
- ^ "MALONE, Lt-Col Cecil L'Estrange". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ "MOLLO, Victor". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ "WILLIAM-POWLETT, Vice-Admiral Sir Peveril (Barton Reibey Wallop)". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. November 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ "Thomas Gibson & Thomas Field Gibson". Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ Ronalds, B.F. (2016). Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph. London: Imperial College Press. ISBN 978-1-78326-917-4.
- ^ a b Cooper, Artemis, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (2012), p.15, ISBN 978-0-7195-5449-0.
External links
edit- School website
- Profile on the ISC website
- Memories of a 1960's pupil