Cheltenham College
Motto	Labor Omnia Vincit (Latin:"Work Conquers All")
Established	July 1841
Type	Independent, Day & Boarding
Religious affiliation	Anglican
Headmaster	John S Richardson
President	The Revd J C Horan
Location	Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7LD England
LEA	Gloucestershire
Staff	88[1]
Students	600[1]
Gender	Co-educational
Ages	13 to 18
Houses	10
Former students	Old Cheltonians
Website	www.cheltcoll.gloucs.sch.uk

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The first of all the major public schools of the Victorian period, it was opened in July 1841. An Anglican foundation, it is known for its classical, military and strong sporting traditions. The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...

It was included in the 1893 book Great Public Schools, written by E. S. Skirving, S. R. James, Henry Churchill and Maxwell Lyte, which included a chapter on each of what they regarded to be England's ten greatest public schools. The term public school has two contrary meanings: In England, one of a small number of prestigious historic schools open to the public which normally charge fees and are financed by bodies other than the state, commonly as private charitable trusts; here the word public is used much as in...

Work and service

More than 600 Old Cheltonians (former pupils) were killed in the service of their country in World War I, and more than 400 in World War II. Cheltenham's military past is recognised by the fact that it is one of only two schools (the other being Eton) to have its own military colours (last presented in 2000 by The Princess Royal). An Old Cheltonian (O.C.) is a former pupil of Cheltenham College, a public school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Cheltenham College chapel and library (Big Modern)

Figures regarding those Old Cheltonians killed in the wars are recorded in the cloisters of the College chapel completed in the 1890s, which to a degree resembles King's College Chapel in Cambridge and is one of the finest chapels of any English public school. Most pupils are boarders, though there are also many day pupils. The school is now co-educational and maintains a strong academic reputation, with the majority of pupils going to The Russell Group Universities with a handful of the brightest pupils going on to Oxford and Cambridge universities. http://www. ... http://www. ... Cloister of Saint Trophimus, in Arles, France A Cloister is part of cathedrals and abbeys architecture. ... A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ... Kings College Chapel (partially obscured by the Gibbs Building), seen from The Backs Fan vaulting diagram Kings College Chapel is the chapel to Kings College of the University of Cambridge, and is one of the finest examples of late English Gothic or Perpendicular -style. ... This article is about the city in England. ... 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. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the most prestigious universities in the world. ...

Cheltenham has approximately 580 pupils (150 being day pupils) between the ages of 13 and 18 at a cost of about £26,000 a year, making it amongst the most expensive schools in the country.

There is also a prep school, Cheltenham College Junior School, most of whose pupils go on to the senior school. A preparatory school, or prep school, in current English usage, is a independent school designed to prepare a student for fee-paying, secondary independent school. ...

Sport

Cheltenham has a strong sporting tradition, competing with larger single gender schools at the highest level. The first inter-school Rugby Football match was played between Rugby School and Cheltenham College, Cheltenham beating Rugby; and the "Cheltenham Rules" were adopted by the Rugby Football Union in 1887. In more recent years the school has enjoyed partiucular success at Raquets where, at times, they have dominated the Queen's Club Public Schools Competition; at Polo where they were National Schools Champions in 1997, 1998, 2004, & 2005 and Arena Champions in 2004, 2005 & 2006, and again at Rugby where they have reached the final of The National Schools 7's Festival four times in the last ten years, winning the competition in 1998, 2003 and 2004. The National Schools Sevens is a rugby union sevens tournament held in association with Rosslyn Park F.C. has evolved into the worlds largest rugby tournament with some 7,000 boys aged 13 - 19 competing annually. ...

Houses

There are ten houses. Three of which are day houses; Southwood for the boys and Queens or Westal for the girls. Ashmead, Chandos and Westal (a boarding and day house) are the girls boarding houses whilst the boys reside in either; Boyne House, Christowe, Hazelwell, Leconfield or Newick House. In Skirving's Book, Great Public Schools, he talks of the individuality of each house and how a pupil's first thought would be for their House before the College.

Former pupils (Old Cheltonian Hall of Fame)

Distinguished alumni are many, and include: An Old Cheltonian (O.C.) is a former pupil of Cheltenham College, a public school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. ...

• Lindsay Anderson (film director, shot the 1968 film If.... chiefly at Cheltenham College);
• Peter Atkinson, Conservative MP for Hexham 1992-present
• Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra
• Sir Alan Haselhurst, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
• Jonah Barrington (squash player, ex-world champion and ex-world number 1)
• Andrew Cecil Bradley, (Shakespeare critic);
• Chris Bryant, Labour MP for Rhondda 2001–;
• Simon Danielli, Scottish international rugby player;
• Nick Abendanon, English international rugby player;
• Tom Beim, English international rugby player;
• Tom Scudamore, Jockey, son of Peter Scudamore
• Jack Nixon Browne, Baron Craigton CBE, PC (3 September 1904 - 28 July 1993) was a Scottish Tory politician;
• Nigel Davenport and son Jack Davenport (Actors)
• Chelsy Davy, Girlfriend of Prince Harry;
• Field Marshal Sir John Dill;
• Prince Duleepsinhji, cricketer;
• Sir Charles Eliot, British ambassador to Japan, 1919–25;
• Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford PC, QC (30 October 1828 – 18 August 1911), was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman
• Sir John Bagot Glubb, Glubb Pasha, Commander of the Arab Legion, 1939–56;
• Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet
• Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins, (Head of S.O.E.);
• H.L.A. Hart, One of the most influential jurisprudential thinkers of the 20th century
• Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling. Conservative cabinet minister;
• William Edward Hartpole Lecky (Irish historian);
• Martin Horwood, Liberal MP for Cheltenham;
• Percy Alexander MacMahon,more information;
• John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn;
• Lt. Colonel Philip Neame, VC, DSO, gold medallist for rifle shooting (1924 Summer Olympics, Paris);
• Rageh Omaar (BBC world affairs correspondent, now with Al Jazeera);
• Endicott Peabody, founder of Groton School, Massachusetts;
• General Sir Hugh Michael Rose, KCB CBE DSO QGM;
• Sir Charles Scott, British ambassador to Imperial Russia, 1898–1904;
• General Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927), (Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police at the time of the Whitechapel Murders);
• Patrick White (Nobel prize-winning novelist)
• Dr.Ts'o Seen Wan, C.B.E., L.L.D., J.P
• Edward Adrian Wilson (polar explorer, died with Robert Falcon Scott in 1912). A painting of Cheltenham by Wilson is in the Town Museum. A photograph of him is there too.
• Mike Lithgow, OBE.(1920-1963) Test Pilot Vickers Supermarine. Absolute flight airspeed record 1953 in a Supermarine Swift F4

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Victoria Crosses won by Old Cheltonians

Fourteen Victoria Crosses have been won by Old Cheltonians^[2], with only Eton College (37), Harrow School (19), Haileybury College (17), and Wellington College (15), having higher totals.^[3] A replica of the Boyes VC is on permanent display in the library (Big Modern) with photographs of all 14 Victoria Cross winners and a world map showing where they were won. Below the Victoria Cross display a selection of other medals won by Old Cheltonians is displayed intermittently. 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... Harrow School is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys. ... Haileybury College is an English public school founded in 1862. ... There are many schools known as Wellington College. ...

The alphabetical list of names, with age and rank at the time of the deed which merited the award of the Victoria Cross, is as follows: For other uses, see Victoria Cross (disambiguation). ...

• BOGLE, Lieutenant Andrew Cathcart (28) Andrew Cathcart Bogle.
• BOOTH, Sergeant Frederick Charles (27) Frederick Charles Booth.
• BOYES Midshipman Duncan Gordon (aged 17, the youngest). Duncan Gordon Boyes^[4].
• BOYLE, Lieut. Commander Edward Courtney (32) Edward Courtney Boyle.
• CHANNER, Captain George Nicolas (32) George Nicolas Channer.
• FORBES-ROBERTSON, Lieutenant Colonel James (34) James Forbes-Robertson.
• GRANT, Lieutenant John Duncan (27) John Duncan Grant.
• HART, Lieutenant Reginald Clare (31) Reginald Clare Hart.
• MELVILL, Lieutenant Teignmouth (37) Teignmouth Melvill.
• McDONELL, Mr. William Fraser (28) William Fraser McDonell.
• MOOR, Second Lieut. George Raymond Dallas (19) George Raymond Dallas Moor.
• NEAME, Lieutenant Philip (26) Philip Neame.
• REYNOLDS, Captain Douglas (32) Douglas Reynolds.
• RYDER, Commander Robert Edward Dudley (34) Robert Edward Dudley Ryder.

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Display of Victoria Crosses

VCs on public display: Bogle, Boyle, Melvill, Moor, Neame, Reynolds, Ryder (7)

VCs location unknown, presumed in private hands: Booth, Boyes, Channer, Forbes-Robertson, Grant, Hart, McDonell (7)

George Cross recipient

• KEMPSTER, Major André Gilbert (né Coccioletti). Royal Armoured Corps; Algeria, 21 August 1943 ^[5]

The Times of November 10, 1943, p. 4, states: André Gilbert Kempster (né Coccioletti)(October 26, 1916 - August 21, 1943) was awarded the George Cross posthumously for an act of gallantry in Algeria during the Second World War described officially as follows: “On August 21, 1943, near Philippeville [Skikda], Major Kempster was carrying out grenade throwing practice with two...

“On August 21, 1943, near Phillipeville, Major Kempster was carrying out grenade throwing practice with two others in the same pit. A grenade which was thrown by Major Kempster rolled back into the pit. Major Kempster attempted to scoop the grenade out of the pit but failed to do so. By this time detonation was due. Without hesitation Major Kempster threw himself on the grenade just before it exploded and received fatal injuries. By his self-sacrifice, Major Kempster undoubtedly saved the lives of the two other occupants of the pit. Major Kempster’s act meant certain death, and he must have known this at the time. His was a supreme act of gallantry.”

Headmasters and Principals

The present headmaster is John Richardson, formerly head of Culford School. Culford School Culford School is a coeducational public school, in Culford, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England. ...

The full list of past principals and headmasters is contained in Cheltenham College Who's Who 5th edition, 2003, and is as follows:

Principals (1841-1919)

• Rev. Alfred Phillips, D.D. 1841-44
• Rev. William Dobson 1845-59
• Rev. Henry Highton 1859-62
• Rev. Alfred Barry, D.D. 1862-68
• Rev. Thomas William Jex-Blake 1868-74
• Rev. Herbert Kynaston, D.D. 1874-88
• Rev. Herbert Armitage James, D.D. 1889-95
• Rev. Robert Stuart de Courcy Laffan 1895-99
• Rev. Reginald Waterfield, D.D. 1899-1919

Dr. Alfred Barry, born 15 January 1826 was the Third Bishop of Sydney, and founded several prominent Anglican schools. ...

Headmasters (1919 - present)

• Henry Harrison Hardy 1919-32
• Richard Victor Harley Roseveare 1932-37
• Arthur Goodhart Pite 1937-38
• John Bell 1938-40
• Alan Guy Elliott-Smith 1940-51
• Rev. Arthur Godolphin Guy Carleton Pentreath 1952-59
• David Ashcroft 1959-78
• Richard Martin Morgan 1978-90
• Peter David Vaughan Wilkes 1990-97
• Paul Arthur Chamberlain 1997-2004
• John Stephen Richardson 2004-

Headmasters of the Junior School

• Rev. Thomas Middlemore Middlemore-Whithard 1863-65
• Rev. Christopher Edward Lefroy Austin 1885-96
• Francis Joseph Cade OC 1896-1910
• Charles Thornton OC 1911-23
• Basil Allcot Bowers OC 1923-33
• William Donavan Johnston 1933-46
• Hugh Alan Clutton-Brock 1946-64
• William Philip Cathcart Davies 1964-86
• David John Allenby Cassell 1986-91
• Nigel Iain Archdale 1992-

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References

• Cheltenham College: The First Hundred Years by Michael C. Morgan [Chalfont St. Giles: Richard Sadler, for the Cheltonian Society, 1968]. A formal history, starting with the meeting on 9 November 1840 of Cheltenham residents (presided over by Major-General George Swiney) who decided to set up a 'Proprietary Grammar School' and appointed a committee to achieve this. ISBN unknown/unavailable.
• Then & Now: An Anniversary Celebration of Cheltenham College 1841-1991 by Tim Pearce, (Cheltonian Society, 1991). The author explains in the Preface that this is "more of a scrap book than a formal history, and like all scrap books it reflects the tastes and interests of its compilers and depends on what in the way of pictures and documents may be available to them". ISBN 0-85967-875-X
• Cheltenham College Who's Who, 5th edition ed. John Bowes, (Cheltonian Society, 2003) No ISBN on book.
• Floreat, A collection of photographs of College life from the 1960s and early 1970s compiled by the late M.F. Miller, a physics master at the school

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See also

• Cheltonian Society
• College Ground, Cheltenham
• List of Victoria Crosses by School

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External links

• Cheltenham College website
• The Cheltonian Association Website The Official Website for Old Cheltonians
• Charles Dallenger Chenery was one of the first assistant masters at the school.
• Independent Schools Inspectorate Report on Cheltenham College
• Public schoolboys starting to show their class in the professional ranks
• OC profiles
• History of Cheltenham College
• To fail them all their days?