Batley Grammar School is a co-educational public school located at Carlinghow Hill in Upper Batley, West Yorkshire, UK. The school was founded in 1612 by the Rev. William Lee, an annual founders day service is held in his memory at Batley Parish Church, this is as he requested upon his will, although it is not held on the same date as originally requested. An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying, for all of its funding, upon private sources, so almost invariably charging school fees. ... Batley is a small town in Kirklees Metropolitan Borough, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. ... Coat of Arms of South Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, that has a population of 2. ... Events January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ...

The school was originally a Boy's school but went co-educational in 1996 under headmaster William Duggan.

Batley Grammar School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC) is an association of the headmasters or headmistressess of 242 leading day and boarding independent boys and coeducational schools in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland. ...

A Junior and infants school, named Priestley House (after Joseph Priestley, an old Batelian, see below) is set in the grounds. Priestley by Ellen Sharples (1794)[1] Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 (Old Style) – 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. ...

Notable Old Batelians

Old boys (as the school has only recently started to admit girls) of the school are referred to Old Batelians.

• Benjamin Ingham (1712–1772), Methodist and Moravian evangelist and preacher
• William Margetson Heald (1767–1837), writer and churchman
• Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian, natural philosopher, and discoverer of oxygen
• Thomas Wormald (1802–1873), surgeon
• Sir Titus Salt (1803–1876), textile manufacturer and politician
• Sir Mark Oldroyd (1843–1927), woollen manufacturer and politician
• Theodore Cooke Taylor (1850–1952), woollen manufacturer and politician
• Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959), Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1906–1914, Wheatstone Professor of Physics, King's College London, 1914–1924, and Yarrow Research Professor, Royal Society, 1924–1959
• Samuel Sugden (1892–1950), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Birkbeck College, London, 1932–1937, and Professor of Chemistry, University College London, 1937–1950
• Horace Waller (died 1917), World War I Victoria Cross winner
• Cecil Grayson (1920–1998), Serena Professor of Italian, University of Oxford, 1958–1988
• Godfrey Lienhardt (1921–1993), anthropologist
• Andrew Milner, Professor of Cultural Studies, Monash University
• Richard Reed, co-founder of innocent Drinks
• Richard Pearson, former English county cricketer
• Ismail Dawood, former English county cricketer

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External links

• Official website of Batley Grammar School