Highgate school
The Highgate School is a non-profit high school voluntary bodies in Highgate , London .
history
In 1565 Sir Roger Cholmeley, Knight of Highgate, received permission from Elizabeth I to found a free grammar school . In addition to his existing land in Highgate, Cholmeley acquired another piece of land directly on Highgate Hill from the Bishop of London . The school building was probably completed on this square in 1571. Initially the school accommodated 40 students from Highgate, Kentish Town , Hornsey and Finchley . The school fee was a groat per year. From this institution today's Highgate School developed, which is still in the same place.
Most of the senior school's buildings were not erected until the 19th century under the then principal, John Bradley Dyne, when the school was expanded into a boarding school for the middle classes. Since then its official name has been Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate . One focus of the activities at the Highgate School has always been the cultivation of sacred (Anglican) choral music.
The visually striking chapel, which dominates the western end of Highgate High Street, was completely restored in 2013. The Junior School was relocated to Bishopswood Road in 1938, where it will give way to a new school from December 2015. After the school had been an all boys' school for more than 400 years, co-education has now been introduced.
Former students
- Robert Atkins (politician)
- Lionel Smith Beale , pathologist
- Stanley Booth-Clibborn , Bishop of Manchester
- Alan Bush , composer and choir director
- Alex Comfort , doctor, pacifist
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith , historian (1889–1976)
- Gerard Hope , musician and humorist
- Alexander King (chemist) , co-founder of the Club of Rome
- Adrian Lyne , film director
- Gerard Manley Hopkins , poet
- Henry Evans Maude , anthropologist
- Nicholas Rowe (poet)
- John Rutter , composer and choir director
- Geoffrey Scott , architectural historian (1884–1929)
- Howard Hayes Scullard , historian
- Clive Sinclair , inventor of the Sinclair ZX81 pocket calculator and home computer
- John Taverner (1944-2013), composer (not to be confused with the Renaissance composer of the same name)
- Graham Waterhouse , composer and cellist
- Nigel Williams , writer
- Tom Hooper , film director
Former teachers
- TS Eliot , poet
- Alan Palmer , historian and writer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John Richardson: The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History . University of California Press, Berkeley 2000, ISBN 0-520-22795-6 , p. 98
- ^ History - Highgate School , Highgate School website, accessed May 5, 2015
- ^ [1] List of known alumni at www.ranker.com, accessed on May 6, 2015
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 18.1 ″ N , 0 ° 8 ′ 57.5 ″ W.