Ampleforth College
Motto	Dieu le ward (French: "God the protector")
Established	1802
Type	Private, Catholic.
Headmaster	The Reverend Gabriel Everitt OSB, MA, DPhil
Location	Ampleforth North Yorkshire England
School colours	Red and Black
Website	Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire is the largest private Catholic mixed boarding school in the UK, and it is occasionally referred to as the "Catholic Eton", a sobriquet also attached at different times to Beaumont (no longer open) and Stonyhurst College (both Jesuit schools) and which was Cardinal Newman's aim in founding the Oratory School as an alternative to junior seminaries and monastic schools. It first opened in 1802 and is run by the Benedictine monks of Ampleforth Abbey, the Community of St Laurence (a house within the English Benedictine Congregation), who trace their origins back nearly 1000 years to medieval Westminster. Image File history File links Ampleforth_crest. ... For the film of this title, see Private School (film). ... Ampleforth is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, about 20 miles north of York. ... North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county in that region and also partly in North East England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county in that region and also partly in North East England. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and... Stonyhurst College is an independent, Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... John Henry Newman John Henry Newman (February 21, 1801—August 11, 1890), English cardinal, was born in London, the eldest son of John Newman, banker, of the firm of Ramsbottom, Newman and Co. ... The Oratory School is an all-boys, Catholic, boarding public school in Great Britain. ... Year 1802 (MDCCCII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... For the college, see Benedictine College. ... For other uses, see Monk (disambiguation). ... Saint-Laurent, Saint Lawrence or Saint Laurence can mean many things. ... The English Benedictine Congregation (abbr. ...

Ampleforth Abbey

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The school is situated in a picturesque valley with many sports pitches, forests and lakes. There are three lakes remaining of the original five constructed by the Fairfax Family centuries ago. The middle lake is stocked with trout (mainly brown and rainbow, although the occasional blue back has been seen). For other uses, see Trout (disambiguation). ...

The current headmaster is Father Gabriel Everitt OSB, a convert to Catholicism from the Church of England. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[3] in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communions thirty-eight independent national churches. ...

Education

The school's primary concern is to educate its pupils in the principles of the Benedictine tradition - providing a thorough and broad-based education. It is notable that its academic admissions policy isn't as academically exacting as that exercised by some other English public schools. As a result, the school is typically between 150 - 200 in the annual league tables of public examination results, although it was ranked 6th nationally in the 2004 "value added" table. The school's administration claims that by looking at the top 50% of candidates (those who would probably have been able to get into more selective schools had they wanted to) the school's teaching appears to score just as well as, if not better than, other famous English public schools. For the college, see Benedictine College. ... The term public school has three distinct meanings: In the USA and Canada, elementary or secondary school supported and administered by state and local officials. ...

It maintains a strong scholarship set, with about 5% of pupils gaining the offer of a place at Oxford or Cambridge, although it aims to increase this number to 8% ^[1]; over 90% go on to university.

There is a famous anecdote of Fr Paul Neville, the school's headmaster in the 1940s, boasting of record offers from Oxford to a prospective parent. "And what of those boys who don't go to Oxford?" asked the parent. "Oh, they run the companies that employ the boys who do," replied Fr Paul.

School Life

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The college is colloquially known as "SHAC": the popular explanation for this is that the acronym stands for "Senior House, Ampleforth College". although this is likely to be a backronym. It is believed that it was originally referred to as "the shack" in the early 20th Century because of the parlous state of the old school building at that time; the phrase was coined when the then head monitor welcomed the school "back to the old shack" one September. School monitors play an important role in the smooth running of the school and are known as "shackies" to all in the college. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is constructed after the fact from a previously existing abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Religious Life

As a result of the school's association with the monks, religion is central to the life of the school. All pupils are expected to take religious education at GCSE level and to study some form of Religious Studies in the Lower Sixth year. Mass is attended by all pupils twice a week, once on a weekday in the house, and once on Sunday in the Abbey Church. In addition, each house has prayers each morning and evening. “GCSE” redirects here. ... For other uses of Mass, see Mass (disambiguation). ...

The school has an excellent choir, the Schola Cantorum, which sings at High Mass on Sunday and also at a choral Mass on Friday nights during term time. The choir has made various recordings, broadcasts and tours throughout the world. There is also now a girls choir, Schola Puellarum, which was recently noted in both newspaper and magazine. They sing a service every Friday, and they frequently join the boys singing high mass on Sunday. They recently went on a tour to Dublin, and sang in many of the well-known churches there.

Houses

The school is arranged into ten houses, with students living in the separate houses, eating together as a house and playing sport together as a house in inter-house competitions. Each House is named after an English saint: Boarding House is a privately owned house,in which individuals or families on vaccation, holidays, deputition,transfered on temporary duties, on some particular training,short&mediun tenure visitors,working professionals & lodgers,rent one or more rooms sets for one or more nights,sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and...

• St Aidan's (Sixth Form Girls)
• St Bede's (Girls)
• St Cuthbert's (Boys)
• St Dunstan's (Boys)
• St Edward-Wilfrid's (Boys), originally two houses
• St Hugh's (Boys)
• St John's (Boys)
• St Oswald's (Boys)
• St Margaret's (Girls)
• St Thomas' (Boys)

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• Hume House - St Cuthbert's and St Edward-Wilfrid's - Named after Cardinal Basil Hume
• Nevill House - St Dunstan's and St Oswald's
• Bolton House - formerly St Edward's and St Wilfrid's before their merger in 2001

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Sport

Sport is a large part of school life, with pupils participating in a wide variety of sports including rugby, shooting, tennis, cricket and football. As well as many rugby and cricket pitches set in the 2000 acres (8 km²) of the valley, the school runs the St Alban's Centre (SAC), a sports centre with a large hall (also used for school assemblies and official ceremonies), a 25-metre swimming pool, three squash courts, and a fitness suite. SAC is also open to the general public for a fee.

The school has a coloured sporting history, mostly regarding arch rivals Sedbergh School and Stonyhurst College both of whom play Ampleforth in about twenty (boys and girls) sports annually. The highlight of the sporting year however, is the annual rugby matches between Sedbergh and Ampleforth. Sedbergh in recent years proving to be superior, not having lost a 1st XV game against "the old enemy" since 1998.

Ampleforth has produced some top class sportsmen, especially in Rugby, such as Lawrence Dallaglio, Simon and Guy Easterby and Dan McFarland. Lawrence Bruno Nero Dallaglio (born on August 10, 1972 in London) is an English rugby union player, the former captain of the English national team. ... Simon Easterby (born on July 21, 1975, Harrogate, Yorkshire to an English father and an Irish Catholic mother) is a rugby union player for Llanelli Scarlets, whom he captains, and Ireland. ... Guy Easterby (born March 21, 1971) is a rugby union player for Ireland. ...

St Thomas's House

The school also sports a large wall to the south of the Abbey, popularly known as "the Bounds". It is approximately 10 m tall by 15 m wide and constructed from local sandstone. It is speculated that the wall was constructed to play an Amplefordian version of Fives; the exact nature of this game and its equipment was unearthed in a marginal doodle in a book in the monastic library by Dr Galliver, a school history master, in the 1990s. Nowadays it is often used by members of the school to brush up on their tennis skills, and by the cadet corps for drill. Image File history File links St_Thomas's_House. ... Image File history File links St_Thomas's_House. ... Fives is a British sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racket sports. ...

Press coverage

Ampleforth and the Valley from the Air

As one of the leading Catholic schools in the country, its occasional problems make the news - the school has suffered some poor press coverage during recent years including a story on the accusation that several monks and three members of the lay teaching staff molested the children under their care. In 2005 Father Piers Grant-Ferris, admitted 20 incidents of child abuse. This was not an isolated incident. The Yorkshire Post reported in 2005; "PUPILS at a leading Roman Catholic school suffered decades of abuse from at least six paedophiles following a decision by former Abbot Basil Hume not to call in police at the beginning of the scandal." ^[2] Around the same time, it was indicted as having taken part in a cartel of price fixing amongst public schools.^[3] The school has periodically experienced a drugs problem due to its location (and lack of nearby entertainment) and the relative affluence of the children who attend.^{[4][original research?]} Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 664 KB)[edit] Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 664 KB)[edit] Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...

The school was the subject of a light-hearted ITV documentary made by director Dan Barraclough shown in 2003 and entitled Ampleforth: My Teacher's A Monk. The aim was to show off the school to a wider audience, although it also highlighted large-scale breaking of the school rules on smoking, and what some regard as the lax rules on alcohol. However he did report that he did not witness a single act of bullying, something that used to form the image of the stereotypical English public school.^[5]

In September 2005, Ampleforth was one of the leading British schools (including Charterhouse, Eton, Gresham's, Harrow, Haileybury, Marlborough, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Stowe, Wellington and Winchester) which were considered by the Office of Fair Trading to be operating a fee-fixing cartel in breach of the Competition Act of 1998. All of the schools were ordered to abandon this practice. Charterhouse (Originally, Suttons Hospital in Charterhouse) is a famous boys English public school, located in Godalming in the county of Surrey. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and... Gresham’s School is an independent coeducational boarding school at Holt in North Norfolk, England, founded in the year 1555, a member of the HMC. // Big School, 1903, architect Sir John Simpson Greshams School was established at Holt by Sir John Gresham in 1555, during the reign of Queen... Harrow School, (originally: The Free Grammar School of John Lyon; generally: Harrow), is an independent school for boys (aged 13-18), and is located in Harrow on the Hill in the London Borough of Harrow. ... Haileybury College is an English public school founded in 1862. ... Marlborough College is a British independent boarding school in the county of Wiltshire. ... A view of Rugby School from The Close, the playing field where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in England and is one of the major co-educational boarding schools in the country. ... Shrewsbury School (formally known as King Edward VI Grammar School, Shrewsbury) is an independent school, located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. ... Stowe School is a famous British independent school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, referred to as a public school. ... There are many schools known as Wellington College. ... For the university in Winchester of a similar name, see University of Winchester. ... The Office of Fair Trading or OFT is a UK statutory body established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforces both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the UKs economic regulator. ...

Daughter Abbeys

In 1955, at the invitation of prominent Roman Catholic laypersons in Saint Louis, Missouri, a group of Benedictines from Ampleforth established the Priory of Saints Mary and Louis and the corresponding Saint Louis Priory School in Saint Louis. The Priory became independent from Ampleforth College in 1973, and was elevated to abbey status, becoming the Saint Louis Abbey in 1989. Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Motto: Official website: http://stlouis. ... The Saint Louis Priory School, a Roman Catholic secondary day school for boys, is located in suburban St. ... This article should belong in one or more categories. ...

Notable Old Amplefordians

• Thomas Burgess (1791–1854), Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, 1851–1854
• John Polidori (1795–1821), physician and writer
• Athansius Allanson (1804–1876), Benedictine monk, and Abbot of Glastonbury, 1874–1876
• Don Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte (1807–1866), Prince Imperial of Mexico
• Leonard Calderbank (1809–1864), Roman Catholic priest
• Francis Salvin (1817–1904), falconer
• Cuthbert Hedley (1837–1915), Roman Catholic Bishop of Newport, 1881–1915
• Joseph Turner (1853–1897), composer and organist
• Herbert Railton (1857–1910), illustrator
• Roderic O'Conor (1860–1940), artist
• Major-General Sir Freddie de Guingand (1900–1979), Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, 1942–1945
• Columba Cary-Elwes (1903–1994), monastery founder, ecumenist and author
• Harman Grisewood (1906–1997), Chief Assistant to the Director-General of the BBC, 1955–1964
• Anthony Ainscough (1906–1986), Prior of Ampleforth Abbey, 1961–1963
• Gabriel Turville-Petre (1908–1978), Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities, University of Oxford, 1953–1975
• Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat (1911–1995), founder of the commandos.
• Colonel Sir David Stirling (1915–1990), founder of the SAS
• Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (born 1916), diplomat+
• Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard (1916–2007), Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 1972-1981
• Sir Hugh Fraser (1918–1984), Secretary of State for Air, 1962–1964
• Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (born 1921), Grand Duke of Luxembourg, 1964–2000
• Auberon Herbert (1922–1974), campaigner for Eastern European causes
• Sir John Johnston (1922–2006), Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office
• Basil Cardinal Hume (1923–1999), Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, 1963–1975, and Archbishop of Westminster, 1975–1999
• Neville Braybrooke (1923–2001), writer and editor
• Vincent Cronin (born 1924), historical writer and biographer
• Patrick Reyntiens (born 1925), stained glass artist
• Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan (1928–2007), Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
• Andrew Bertie (1929-2008), first British Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, 1988-2008;
• David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham (born 1932), Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, 1973–1974
• John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute (1933–1993), Chairman, Historic Buildings Council for Scotland, 1983–1988, and National Museums of Scotland, 1985–1993
• Henry Wansbrough (1934), Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, 1990–2004
• Mark Burns (born 1936–2007), actor
• Hugo Young (1938–2003), journalist
• Andrew Knight (born 1939), journalist, editor, and media magnate
• Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), soldier
• Piers Paul Read (born 1941), writer
• Michael Ancram, 14th Marquess of Lothian (born 1945), Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, 2001–2005
• Sir Anthony Bamford (born 1945), Chairman, J.C.Bamford (Excavators) Ltd.
• Count Simon de Bendern (born 1946) Zoologist and Philanthropist
• Philip Lawrence (1947–1995), headmaster and murder victim
• Red Morris, 4th Baron Killanin (born 1947), film producer
• William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel (born 1947), Lord Chamberlain
• Major-General Peter Grant Peterkin (born c.1947), Sergeant at Arms of the House of Commons
• Peter Savill (born c.1947), Chairman of the British Horseracing Board, 1998–2004
• Captain Robert Nairac (1948–1977), George Cross, intelligence officer murdered by the Irish Republican Army
• John Home Robertson (born 1948), former Labour MP and currently Member of the Scottish Parliament
• Julian Fellowes (born 1949), actor and writer
• Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor
• Raymond Asquith, Viscount Asquith (born 1952), former diplomat and businessman
• Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk (born 1956)
• Major General Sir Sebastian Roberts (born 1954), GOC The Household Division 2003–2007
• Dominic Asquith (born 1957), Ambassador to Iraq, 2006—
• Edward Stourton (born 1957), journalist
• Julian Wadham (born 1958), actor
• Rupert Everett (born 1959), actor
• Joe Simpson (born 1960), mountaineer and autobiographer
• John Micklethwait (born 1962), Editor-in-chief of The Economist
• King Letsie III of Lesotho (born 1963)
• William Dalrymple (born 1965), historian
• Guy Easterby (born 1971), Ireland international rugby scrum-half
• Lawrence Dallaglio (born 1972), England rugby player
• Jonathan Ryland (born 1973), actor
• Tom Waller (born 1974), film producer
• Simon Easterby (born 1975), Ireland rugby player
• David Wilson (born 1927), BBC science correspondent 1967-81
• Thomas Cecil Gray (born 1913–2008) pioneered modern Anaesthetic techniques
• Lex Fenwick (born 1960), CEO of Bloomberg LP
• Benjamin "Benjie" Fraser (born 1961), Senior Vice-President of JP Morgan, published poet

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External links

• Ampleforth official umbrella site
• Ampleforth College official site
• A website for alumni of Ampleforth College

References

1. ^ Ampleforth College - School Development Plan 2006-2007
2. ^ [http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Ampleforth-child-abuse-scandal-hushed.1258869.jp Ampleforth child abuse scandal hushed up by Basil Hume ], The Yorkshire Post, Nov 18th 2005.
3. ^ Top 50 independent schools found guilty of price-fixing to push up fees, The Guardian, Nov 10th 2005.
4. ^ Drugs inquiry opens at top Catholic school, Yorkshire Post, July 8th, 2005.
5. ^ How Television smoked out the secret life of Ampleforth, Yorkshire Post, April 23rd 2003.

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