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Haileybury College is an English public school founded in 1862. It is a modern co-educational boarding school welcoming pupils at 11+, 13+ and 16+. A public school, in common English and Welsh usage, is a (usually) prestigious school, for children usually between the ages of 11 or 13 and 18, which charges fees and is not financed by the state. ...
1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
History
The school is located at Hertford Heath, near Hertford, 20 miles from London in rural countryside on a site occupied until 1858 by the East India Company College. Its architect, William Wilkins, later designed the National Gallery in London, which bears some similarities. Location within the British Isles. ...
St Stevens Tower - The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London (see also alternative names) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ...
The East India Company College was from 1805 to 1858 the college of the British East India Company (EIC). ...
William Wilkins (31 August 1778 — 31 August 1839) was an English architect, classicist and archaeologist. ...
The National Gallery from Trafalgar Square The National Gallery is an art gallery in London, located on the north side of Trafalgar Square. ...
The buildings reopened as Haileybury in 1862. The large dome which dominates the skyline was added as part of Arthur Blomfield's Chapel, completed in 1877. The dome was badly damaged by fire when only a year old and had to be extensively repaired. 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Sir Arthur William Blomfield (6 March 1829 _30 October 1899), English architect, son of Bishop C. J. Blomfield, was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. ...
1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
In 1942, Haileybury absorbed the Imperial Service College, which had already absorbed the United Services College. There are impressive memorials to 1,435 alumni who perished in wars. Seventeen former pupils received the Victoria Cross, and three the George Cross. The Imperial Service College was an English public school based in Windsor, which merged in 1942 into Haileybury and Imperial Service College. ...
United Services College was an English public school for the sons of military officers, located at Westward Ho, near Bideford in North Devon. ...
Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (official post-nominal letters VC) is the highest award for valour that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces of any rank in any service and civilians under military command. ...
The George Cross (GC) is the highest Commonwealth decoration awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry not in the face of the enemy and is equal to the Victoria Cross. ...
Currently Today Haileybury is a coeducational school for 11-19 year-olds, with recent girls' boarding houses, and many facilities. The Ayckbourn Theatre is a fully functional modern theatre. The college chapel organ was built by Klais in 1997, with two manuals and thirty stops. There is a modern sports centre and a synthetic running track. Haileybury has a rackets court, built in 1908, which is unusual in having a double gallery. During World War II, it was damaged by the blast from a V-2 Rakete (sic) and was not restored until 1952. The school supports a professional coach. Alan Ayckbourn (born April 12, 1939) is an English playwright. ...
This article is part of the Pipe Organ Refactor Project. ...
1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Roland EXR-3 Keyboard Three-year-old girl playing with a keyboard The musical keyboard, also known as the piano keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which produce notes. ...
Racket can denote: a systematised element of organized crime a sporting implement, otherwise: racquet This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945. ...
The V-2 rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2 or reprisal weapon 2, or A4 a short form of Aggregat 4, the fourth rocket type) was an early ballistic missile used by Germany during the later stages of World War II against mostly British and Belgian targets. ...
1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Groups originating from Haileybury support a number of charities such as The Children's Trust in Tadworth, the Home Farm Trust and the Boys' Club in Stepney once managed by Old Haileyburian Clement Attlee. Attlee was noted for his promotion of fellow Old Haileyburians. Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH (January 3, 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. ...
Haileybury is attached to a junior school, Lambrook Haileybury, at Winkfield Row, near Bracknell, where it moved in 1998 from Windsor. Lambrook Haileybury is a coeducational school in Berkshire for children between the ages of 4-13. ...
Map sources for Bracknell at grid reference SU870693 Bracknell is a town of about 50,000 people (1991) in the Bracknell Forest, in the English county of Berkshire. ...
Windsor (IPA: usually , but also ) is a small town in Berkshire on the south-western outskirts of London, south of the River Thames. ...
Famous alumni Michael Aitkens (born 1947) is a British writer of drama scripts for movies, television, and the traditional stage. ...
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby ( April 23, 1861 - May 14, 1936) was a British soldier most famous for his role during World War I, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918. ...
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH (January 3, 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. ...
Alan Ayckbourn (born April 12, 1939) is an English playwright. ...
Barry Strachan Gardiner (born March 10, 1957) is a British politician, and Labour member of Parliament for Brent North. ...
The Nuremberg judges, left to right: John Parker, Francis Biddle, Alexander Volchkov, Iola Nikitchenko, Geoffrey Lawrence, Norman Birkett Geoffrey Lawrence, 3rd Baron Trevethin and 1st Baron Oaksey (October 2, 1880 - August 28, 1971) was the main British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II, and President of the...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory KCB, DSO and Bar (11 July 1892 - 14 November 1944) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in World War II and the highest-ranking British officer to die in the war. ...
External links - Official site
- The Haileybury Society
- Walk around Haileybury
- Junior school
- Imperial Service College
- Rackets
- Running track
- Haileybury College, Melbourne, Australia
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