Giggleswick School

Giggleswick School is an independent co-educational boarding school in Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire, England. 1512 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Statistics Population: 2420 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD817639 Administration District: Craven Shire county: North Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North Yorkshire Historic county: West Riding Services Police force: North Yorkshire Police Ambulance: Yorkshire Post office and telephone Post... 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. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Image File history File linksMetadata Giggleswick_School. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Giggleswick_School. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... Giggleswick is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire near to the town of Settle. ... Statistics Population: 2420 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD817639 Administration District: Craven Shire county: North Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: North Yorkshire Historic county: West Riding Services Police force: North Yorkshire Police Ambulance: Yorkshire Post office and telephone Post... 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. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area...

The Early School:

The current Giggleswick school was founded on half an acre of land leased by the Prior and Convent of Durham, to James Carr the Chantry Priest at the local Parish Church of St Alkelda, for the express purpose of enclosing it and building, at his own expense, one 'Gramar Scole'. By 1512 the school consisted of two small, irregular buildings, next to the local parish church. Chantry is a term for the English establishment of a shrine or chapel on private land where monks or priests would say (or chant) prayers on a fixed schedule, usually for someone who had died. ... 1512 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The school was run traditionally by the Chantry Priests until Edward VI dissolved the position. The school was saved, however, by the petition of the kings chaplain, John Nowell, and in 1553 it received its royal charter. This granted land to the school, and endowed it with the title: The Free Grammar School of King Edward the VI of Giggleswick. Some locals of a certain age still refer to Giggleswick as 'The Grammar School'. Edward VI King of England and Ireland Edward VI (12 October 1537–6 July 1553) was King of England and King of Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. ... // Events June 26 - Christs Hospital in London gets a Royal Charter July 6 - Edward VI of England dies July 10 - Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England - for the next nine days July 18 - Lord Mayor of London proclaims Queen Mary as the rightful Queen - Lady Jane Grey... A Royal Charter is a charter given by a monarch to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such. ...

There is some evidence that there was a school on the same site from an earlier date.

Giggleswick was one of only 27 schools listed in the Public Schools Yearbook of 1889, and certainly has claims to be one of the oldest public schools, although claims vary depending on the precise criteria used.

The Victorian Period

The school continued in its original location until 1867, when it moved slightly further out of the village, and up the hill to its present location. At this point, a major expansion of the school and its facilities began. Cunt BAg Twat Fuk suck my penis ring 0778851865!!!!!!Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

New boarding accommodation was added, playing fields were laid out, and new classrooms were built.

The only remaining part of the second school, the Covered Courtyard, was later converted into a shooting range, used by the school's Combined Cadet Force contingent and other Territorial Army units. The Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the United Kingdom. ... The Territorial Army (TA) is a part of the British Army, the land armed forces of the United Kingdom, and composed mostly of part-time soldiers paid at the same rate, while engaged on military activities, as their Regular equivalents. ...

The School Chapel

In 1897, work began on the new school chapel, a gift from local land owner and school governor Walter Morrison. The eminent architect T.G. Jackson designed the building to Morrison's unusual specifications: a Gothic building with a dome, designed to fit into the surrounding landscape as naturally as possible. It was also Morrison's wish that the building should be completely fitted out and furnished inside, to allow for no unsympathetic alteration in the future. Emminent Victorian era architect. ...

The interior of the chapel was filled with an astonishing array of expensive fixtures and fittings. The pews were made of imported cypress wood, the floors were covered in marble, and the organ was made by Henry Willis & Sons, one of the leading organ makers in the country at the time. Reading Town Hall Organ, built by Willis in 1864, extended in 1882 and rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 1999 Henry Willis & Sons is a firm of pipe organ builders in the UK, examples of whose work can also be found in other countries. ...

The dome of the chapel was covered in copper, which developed a covering of a very distinctive green verdegris for many years, only reverting to its original bronze after major building restoration work began in the late 1990s. The interior of the dome was filled with mosaics depicting various angels playing musical instruments, and the four gospel writers at each corner of the base.

The current altar furniture is made of sterling silver and Brazilian rosewood. It was presented to the school in memory of Sir Douglas Glover, an old boy of the school, and later a school governor.

The Modern School

In 1934, the school was enlarged again, by the addition of a prep school called Catteral Hall (ages 7–13), over the road from the main school buildings, a new boarding house was created from the Georgian Beck House in the village, and in 1966 another boarding house, called Morrison was opened. A preparatory school, or prep school in the United Kingdom, and previously in the British Empire and so the Commonwealth in current English usage, is an independent school designed to prepare a student for fee-paying, secondary independent school (public school). ...

In the 1970s the school went co-educational, the first public school in the north of England, and for a long time the only public school, to do so. Public school in the United Kingdom is a label applied to certain fee-paying independent schools in England and Wales; in Scotland and Ireland it is heard less often in this sense (and indeed in Scotland the phrase has long been an alternative name for council schools in the state...

In the late 1990s a pre-preparatory school called Mill House (ages 3–7) was opened within the grounds of Catteral Hall, and more recent expansion at the school has seen the creation of a new library, dining hall, sports facilities and science laboratories, as well as the refurbishment of the boarding accommodation.

Giggleswick is one of only 18 schools to possess a Royal Marine cadet force, which became affiliated with HMS Bulwark in the Autumn of 2004.

Boarding Houses

There are four boys' boarding houses:

• Morrison, named after Walter Morrison,
• Nowell, named after John Nowell,
• Paley, named after William Paley,
• Shute, named after Josias Shute.

The houses Nowell, Paley and Shute are all currently located in the main body of the school, while Morrison, the most recently added boarding house, was purposely built slightly further from the main school campus. William Paley William Paley (July 1743 – May 25, 1805) was an English divine, Christian apologist, utilitarian, and philosopher. ...

The two girls' houses are:

• Carr, named after James Carr,
• Style, named after George Style

The 1927 Eclipse

The grounds of Giggleswick School (near the Chapel) were selected as the official observation post for the 1927 eclipse and thus Sir Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal, was blessed with a wonderful view of the flaming corona of the sun through the whole 23 seconds of its total eclipse.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni, who are known as Old Giggleswickians, include:

• General Sir James Birch G.B.E. K.C.M.G., C.B. (1865–1939), Soldier. ADC to The King.
• Anthony Daniels (1946– ), Star Wars actor
• Keith Duckworth O.B.E. (1933–2005), Engineer, joint founder of Cosworth Engineering
• Owen Francis C.B. (1913–2005), Under-Secretary for Fuel & Power, later Chairman London Electricity Board (72-76)
• Sir Douglas Glover T.D.(1908–1982), Conservative M.P.
• Douglas Hacking,O.B.E., P.C., D.L. 1st Lord Hacking (1884–1950), Conservative M.P.
• Sir James Hacking (1871–??), Businessman, Mayor of Bury
• Sir John Hare (1844–1921), Actor & Manager of the Garrick Theatre
• John Saul Howson (1815–1885), Theologian.
• Thomas Kidd (1770–1850), Classical scholar.
• John Langhorne (1836–1911), Educationalist, headmaster of The King's School, Rochester
• Henry Maudsley C.M.G., C.B.E., K.C.M.G. (1835–1918 ) Founder of the Maudsley Hospital
• O.S. Nock (1904–1994), Railway historian.
• William Paley (1743–1805), Theologian.
• Thomas Procter (1753–1794), Painter & Sculptor
• Nigel Roebuck (1946– ) Motor racing journalist
• Lt-Col Harry Schofield V.C. (1865–-?) Soldier.
• Norman Sharpe O.B.E. Businessman & School Benefactor
• Tom Skeffington-Lodge (1905–1994) Former Labour M.P.
• John Sykes (1956–) Conservative M.P. for Scarborough 1992-97
• Sir Matthew Thompson Bt. (1820–1891) Liberal M.P., Mayor of Bradford, Chairman of The Midland Railway etc.
• Richard Whiteley, (1943–2005) Countdown presenter
• Gary Wolstenholme M.B.E. ,Leading amateur golfer

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Notable Former Masters

Russell Harty, a BBC2 chat show host in the 1980s from Blackburn, taught English at the school, notably to Richard Whiteley. Harty and Whiteley entered television at the same time in the late 1960s. Frederic Russell Harty (b. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The 1980s refers to the years of and between 1980 and 1989. ... This article is about Blackburn in Lancashire, England. ... John Richard Whiteley, OBE, DL (28 December 1943 – 26 June 2005) was an English television presenter and journalist. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...

John Langhorne was master there in the nineteenth century when it was known by its full title.

External links

• School website
• Official OG Club website
• Short history
• Organ reference