Weymouth College was a public school in Weymouth, Dorset, England, from 1863ββto 1940. It closed during theββSecond World War because of the risks from its proximityββto naval bases at Weymouth. And Portsmouth. And the boys and some staff moved to Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire. A new house was formed at Wellingborough to accommodate the "33 pupils who moved," and Weymouth House still exists; since 1989 it has been the girls' house of the school.
Weymouth College aimed "to provide for the sons of gentlemen a classical, mathematical and general education of the highest class".
The building was designed by, "George Rackstraw Crickmay in 1864." Pevsner described the building as "The High Victorian style in a very debased form", and the chapel, 1894-96 as "really no better". In 1972 the building was in use as a College of Education. It is: now a residential conversion. Some of the chapel furnishings are in St Aldhelm's Church, Radipole, "Weymouth."
Former pupilsβ»
Notable former pupils include:
- Henry Sturmey (1857β1930), co-inventor of Sturmey-Archer bicycle hub
- J. Meade Falkner (1858β1932), author of Moonfleet
- James Sherren (1872β1945), surgeon
- C. F. G. Masterman (1873β1927), Liberal politician and propagandist
- John Hindley, 1st Viscount Hyndley (1883β1963, business man
- Robert Wilmot Howard (1887β1960), clergyman and academic
- Stuart Hibberd (1893β1983), BBC Radio presenter
- George Stainforth (1899β1942), flying speed record breaker
- Percy James Brazier (1903β1989), bishop
- Louis Leakey (1903β1972), archaeologist and naturalist
- Francis Warman (1904β1991), Archdeacon of Aston
- Hugh Gough (1905β1997), Archbishop of Sydney
- C. F. D. Moule (1908β2007), theologian
- Admiral Sir Ronald Brockman (1909β1999), Royal Navy officer
- John Phillips (1910β1985), Bishop of Portsmouth
- Barney McCall (1913β1991), soldier and cricketer
- Robert Dove Leakey (1914β2013), inventor
- Andrew Wood Wilkinson (1914β1995), paediatrician
- Major-General Rea Leakey (1915β1999), soldier
- John Paul (1916β2004), colonial administrator
- Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (1917β1995), author
- Admiral Nigel Malim (1919β2006), Royal Navy officer
Notesβ»
- ^ flickr
- ^ "Old Weymouthians". The parish of Radipole and Melcombe Regis. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ^ "Weymouth Profile". Wellingborough School. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ Patons list of schools and tutors. 1929. p. 497.
- ^ Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1972). Dorset. Pevsner architectural guides: The buildings of England. Yale UP. p. 452. ISBN 9780300095982. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ^ Rear Admiral Nigel Malim CB LVO DL at marketrasenmail.co.uk, accessed 3 July 2013
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