King Edward's School, Birmingham
Motto	Domine Salvum Fac Regem (God save the King)
Established	1552
Type	Public School
Chief Master	John Allen Claughton
Founder	King Edward VI
Location	Edgbaston, Birmingham West Midlands  England
Staff	70 (approx.)
Students	800 (approx.)
Gender	Boys
Ages	11 to 18
Houses	8
School colours
Former pupils	Old Edwardians
Affiliation	Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Website	www.kes.bham.sch.uk
Coordinates: 52°27′03″N 1°55′25″W / 52.4507, -1.9237

King Edward's School (KES) (grid reference SP052836) is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI in 1552. It is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham and is widely regarded as one of the most academically successful schools in the country according to various league tables. It was ranked 10th for A-Level results^[1] and 40th for GCSE results^[2] out of all schools in England in 2004. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2326x1174, 496 KB) Summary King Edwards School, Birmingham, England. ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school that relies for all or most of its funding on non-governmental sources. ... Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) became King of England, King of France (in practice only the town and surrounding district of Calais) and Ireland on 28 January 1547, and crowned on 20 February, at just nine years of age. ... Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Edgbaston is an area and ward in the city of Birmingham in England. ... Birmingham (pron. ... The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of around 2,600,000 people. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... 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. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Secondary school is a term used to describe an institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. ... Birmingham (pron. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) became King of England, King of France (in practice only the town and surrounding district of Calais) and Ireland on 28 January 1547, and crowned on 20 February, at just nine years of age. ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... The Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham is a charitable institution that operates two independent schools and several voluntary aided selective state schools in Birmingham, England. ... The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in the United Kingdom, usually taken by students during the optional final two years of secondary school (Years 12 & 13, commonly called the Sixth Form), or at a separate sixth form college or further education college... GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

It is a boys' school, although it occupies the same site as, and is twinned with, King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS), also one of the most academically successful schools in the UK. Whilst lessons and sports are taught separately, dramatic arts and music are often shared. King Edward VI High School King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) (grid reference SP051836) is an independent secondary school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. ...

History

The School on New Street 1731-1834

The Foundation was created on 2 January 1552 by Royal Charter of King Edward VI together with £20 per annum returned by The Crown for educational purposes. Five years earlier in 1547 the Act of Suppression, part of the wider Dissolution of the Monasteries, provided for the confiscation of all assets of religious guilds except an amount of land with an annual income of £21 (two thirds of the original lands) if the guild supported a school. The Guild of the Holy Cross in Birmingham had no school, but persuaded the Earl of Northumberland (also the lord of the manor of Birmingham) to release the land for the creation of a school. The charter of the free Grammer Schole of king Edward VI was issued on 2 January 1552, and the school came into being in the former guild building on New Street. By the 1680s there were neer 200 boys in the school and a Petty School (a feeder school) had been established by the foundation. ^[3] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 598 pixelsFull resolution (2440 × 1824 pixel, file size: 687 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 598 pixelsFull resolution (2440 × 1824 pixel, file size: 687 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... A Royal Charter is a charter given by a monarch to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such. ... 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. ... Throughout the Commonwealth Realms The Crown is an abstract concept which represents the legal authority for the existence of any government. ... Year 1547 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... dissolution see Dissolution. ... The title of Earl of Northumberland was created several times in the Peerages of England and Great Britain. ... is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events April - War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ... A guild is an association of craftspeople in a particular trade. ... New Street is a street in central Birmingham. ... Feeder school is a name applied to schools, colleges, universities, or other educational institutions that provide a significant number of graduates who intend to continue their studies at specific schools, or even in specific fields. ...

The affairs of the school in the early part of the 18th Century were dominated by a quarrel between a governor and the headmaster, but this not withstanding, a new Georgian inspired building was built on the New Street site between 1731 and 1734. In the latter part of the 18th Century four separate elementary schools and a girls school were setup by the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI. The school remained relatively stagnant after this until a new headmaster was appointed in 1834. He erected a new building, still on the same site, in the Gothic Style of architecture which was designed by Charles Barry (who subesquently designed the Palace of Westminster). From within this new landmark building came several changes to the structure of the school. Sports became an important feature in the school through games afternoons and the dominance of Classics was removed by the introduction of Mathematics and science lessons.^[4] The Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham is a charitable institution that operates two independent schools and several voluntary aided selective state schools in Birmingham, England. ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin San Sebastian Church in Manila, Philippines made entirely of steel. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, Barrys most famous building. ... “Houses of Parliament” redirects here. ... Bust of Homer. ...

Charles Barry's New Street School

By 1941 though, the old building on New Street had become a fire risk and plans were made by the then headmaster E.T. England to move to a new site in Edgbaston along with the girls school Yet, ironically the temporary buildings erected on the new site in 1936, burnt down. The school was forced to move, if only for a short period, to the University of Birmingham's Great Hall and surrounding buildings for a short period until new temporary buildings could be erected. The move was complicated by the outbreak of the Second World War and the subsequent evacuation of the pupils to Repton School for a short period. By 1940 though, enough of the new buildings designed by Holland W. Hobbiss had been built for the school to begin lessons. In 1945 the schools became Direct Grant schools which meant that the Governors had to relinquish some control over the running of the school.^[5] The schools were finally completed around 1948 although the 1950s saw a period of expansion under the headmaster R.G. Lunt including the construction of a swimming pool and the construction of a Chapel from the remains of the Upper Corridor of the New Street building.^[6] In 1976 the two schools became, once again, independent schools due to the termination of the Direct Grant scheme by the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson.^[7] The school remains independent and is still situated on the Edgbaston site as of 2007.^[8] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 596 pixelsFull resolution (3709 × 2764 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 596 pixelsFull resolution (3709 × 2764 pixel, file size: 2. ... Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Edgbaston is an area and ward in the city of Birmingham in England. ... King Edward VI High School King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) (grid reference SP051836) is an independent secondary school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. ... Website http://www. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Repton School, founded in 1557, is one of the most famous co-educational public schools in the UK, located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, England. ... King Edwards School, Edgbaston Holland W. Hobbiss was an architect in the Birmingham area of England. ... The Tripartite System, known colloquially as the grammar school system, was the structure by which Britains secondary education was organised between the 1944 Butler Education Act and 1976. ... James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...

School buildings

The Chapel

The chapel

The chapel, a Grade II* listed building, was originally the upper corridor of the 1838 Barry New Street school. It was moved to Edgbaston, rebuilt and renovated (1938-1940) by Holland W Hobbis. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2329x1666, 714 KB) Summary The Chapel of King Edwards School, Birmingham, England. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2329x1666, 714 KB) Summary The Chapel of King Edwards School, Birmingham, England. ... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...

The Chapel is used for services every Wednesday morning led by the school chaplain Reverend D. Raynor.

Appearances

The school buildings have been used in several film and television productions. They were used in the 1986 movie Clockwise starring John Cleese, supposedly as the University Of East Anglia. The school featured briefly in the 2006 Ray Winstone Channel 4 TV movie All in the Game. The school has also been used in several episodes of the BBC medical drama Doctors. The school grounds were also used to film a feature on the best British sports car on Top Gear, against a background of young school members playing rugby on a rainy day Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese. ... John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. ...

School structure

Unlike most secondary schools, King Edward's does not use the modern year group names, e.g. Year 11, Year 12, etc.

The table below attempts to clarify the names used for the different classes:

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Extracurricular activities

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The house system

King Edward's has a house system, instigated in 1902 by the Chief Master, Robert Cary Gilson. Initially there were four houses: Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. In 1951 the number of Houses was extended to eight and it was decided that they should have permanent names. Six were named after former Chief Masters and two after assistant masters (Rawdon Levett and C. H. Heath). The Houses compete against one another every year to win the Cock House Trophy. The House System is a traditional feature of British schools, similar to the collegiate system of a university. ...

There are many events that boys take part in and get points for. These points are totalled up at the end of the year, and the House with the most points is declared the Cock House Champion. Each house has a distinctive set of 'colours' which are awarded to students for merit and commitment in representing the house in house matches. Each house also possesses its own 'house tie'. This tie's pattern consists of stripes of the house colour on a black background. Some houses award it for subjective merit, while others use a points system to award the tie. Only boys in the Fourths and above may wear a house tie. The most successful house on record, is Gifford, with 10 Cock house trophy wins in 31 years, their most recent being in 2007.

Sport

The annual rugby match against KES's main rivals Bromsgrove is the highlight of the rugby season and is the longest running annual rugby fixture in the world.^{[citation needed]} In 2002 the school won the English schools U19 water polo competition. , Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England. ...

The House system does much to encourage participation in sport outside the weekly sports lessons. With Autumn and Winter competitions in Rugby, Hockey, Tennis and the like, pupils have the opportunity to participate in team competitions wherever they may otherwise not have the skill to do so on an inter-school basis. In the Summer, House activities such as the school's Athletics competition, Cross Country races and House Swimming allow further sporting pursuit.

The School is able to carry out so much sport through its extensive sporting facilities which include a Swimming Pool, Astroturf pitches (shared with KEHS), Tennis Courts, numerous Rugby and Cricket pitches (including additional training areas), an Athletics track and Eton Fives courts. There are numerous sports in which pupils are able to participate, including: rugby, cricket, athletics, water polo and Eton Fives. The school also competes in national competitions of a more intellectual nature including chess and debating. Water polo is a team water sport combining some elements of swimming and handball. ... Eton Fives, one code of the British game of Fives, is a hand-ball game, similar to Rugby Fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court. ...

Music

KES/KEHS Christmas Concert

There is a separate building on site housing the Music Department with facilities including a recital/rehearsal auditorium and a computer lab equipped with keyboard input. In addition, the school supports two full orchestras (in association with King Edward's High School for Girls), conducted by Peter Bridle, MBE; the more advanced of which has performed such advanced works as Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World", Borodin's Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. There are also two wind/brass ensembles also in association with KEHS, and the senior members of both schools can join the Choral Society, a choir of 80-100 people which has sung such works as Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, and performed Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in March 2006. KES also has its own Choir, which sings at the Founder's Day prizegiving, the Christmas Carol service held in St. Philip's Cathedral in the centre of Birmingham, and at the Christmas and Summer concerts. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3504x2336, 6031 KB) kehs picture I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3504x2336, 6031 KB) kehs picture I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... New World Symphony redirects here; for the Miami-based orchestra, see New World Symphony Orchestra. ... The Polovetsian Dances are perhaps the best known selections from Alexander Borodins opera Prince Igor. ... Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: , Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov), also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (March 6 (N.S. March 18), 1844 – June 8 (N.S. June 21) 1908) was a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a... Scheherazade (Шехерезада in Cyrillic, Å ekherezada in transliteration), Op. ... Carl Orff Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for Carmina Burana (1937). ... The cover of the score to Carmina Burana showing the Wheel of Fortuna Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936. ... Gabriel Urbain Fauré (May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. ... Cover of the vocal score to the Requiem, published by Oxford University Press Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. ... Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (IPA pronunciation: )[1] (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. ...

The school holds four concerts every year; there are the popular Christmas Concerts, held over two days in mid-December at the Adrian Boult Hall, the Choral and Orchestral concert in mid-March (which features a large choral work by the Choral Society in the first half, and the Symphony Orchestra in the second half, with a solo provided by one of the schools' top musicians) which is also at the Adrian Boult Hall, and the Summer Concert in late April/early May, featuring all the ensembles from the school come together for the Summer Concert held at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Symphony Hall is a concert venue located inside the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, England. ...

Drama

Drama at KES has enjoyed a musical every year since the 1980s. 2006 saw a very successful production of Little Shop of Horrors by the senior part of the school, and Vanity Fair by the junior part of the school. This was a break from the more traditional musicals such as Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls etc. 1982 Cast Album of the original off-Broadway production of ORIGINAL OFF-BROADWAY CAST: Seymour Krelborn - Lee WIlkoff Audrey - Ellen Greene Mr. ... Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ... Les Misérables (pronunciation ), colloquially known as Les Mis, is a musical composed in 1980 by French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg on a libretto by Alain Boublil. ... For The Games song, see Westside Story (song). ... Guys and Dolls Original Broadway Cast recording (1950) Guys And Dolls is a hit 1950 musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser. ...

Combined Cadet Force (CCF)

King Edward's School has had a Combined Cadet Force since 1906 and it is currently a voluntary organisation. The CCF consists of three sections; The RAF, The Royal Navy section and the Army section. The CCF conduct their training on Friday afternoons and expeditions take place throughout the year. The Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the United Kingdom. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

The contingent is part of 143 West Midlands Brigade and the contingent are represented at the Brigade competitions by members of all three sections. In 2006 the contingent won all the matches at the CCF Skill at Arms competition, the Military Skills competition and various first aid titles. The CCF is closely linked with the The Duke of Edinburgh's Award within the school. The British Armys 143rd Infantry Brigade was originally formed in World War I as a part of the Territorial Armys 48th (South Midland) Division, and served with that Division in both world wars. ... The logo of the Duke of Edinburghs Award. ...

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Living History

The Living History department practise the arts of medieval archery and swordfighting among others. The group attracts a small number of dedicated members, from both King Edwards itself and the neighbouring King Edward VI High School for Girls. The group also travel to historical sites to give demonstrations to the public. Among others, the group has given demonstrations at Warwick Castle, Tilbury Fort, and the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth.

Fees

As an independent selective school, tuition fees are payable for students, unlike the other King Edward VI grammar schools in Birmingham. Fees for pupils during the 2006/2007 academic year are £8,160.50 per annum. Scholarships and Bursaries are awarded.

School songs

There are two school songs: Students in Rome, Italy. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition. ...

• King Edward's School Song
  • Written by Alfred Hayes, O.E. (1857-1936), composed by A. Somervell.
  • A rousing, if somewhat clichéd, song, sung mainly at the end of term, usually with high-spirited boys placing particular emphasis on the line "some to failure, SOME TO FAME!".
  • A fourth verse was dropped from the song when the School moved from its City location to Edgbaston.

• The Quatercentenary Song
  • Written in Latin by Roger Dunt (1900-63), composed by Dr. Willis Grant (1907-81).
  • Sung at Founder's Day, the annual commemoration in October of King Edward's birthday, and at the school's Speech Day. It is also sung at various other award ceremonies. An extra verse was written for the visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II on November 3, 1955.

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Notable Old Edwardians

Politics

• Sir Alan Haselhurst MP, Deputy Speaker
• John Hemming MP
• Sir Alfred Hickman MP
• Enoch Powell MP, Conservative and later Ulster Unionist, known for the Rivers of Blood speech
• David Willetts, MP

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Academics

• Hugh Alexander, chess player and codebreaker
• Harry Boot, physicist, co-developer of the cavity magnetron
• Richard Ewen Borcherds, (Mathematician; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal for the proof of the Monstrous moonshine conjecture)
• Henry Cary (Translator of Dante)
• Alfred Hazel Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
• Tony Miles, First British born chess Grandmaster
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown - British social anthropologist
• John D. Y. Peel, Anthropologist, Sociologist, Historian of West Africa
• Sir John Vane, (1982 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)
• Maurice Wilkins, (1962 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)

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Sport

• Vikram Banerjee, First Class Cricket, (Cambridge University, Gloucestershire)
• Anurag Singh, First Class Cricket, Cambridge University Captain (1997 and 1998), Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire
• Alan Smith, England Test Cricket player (England, Warwickshire and Oxford University), first CEO of the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) now known as the ECB.
• Mark Wagh, First Class Cricket - Oxford University Captain (1997), Warwickshire
• Ossie Wheatley, First Class Cricket (Cambridge University, Warwickshire and Glamorgan), Former Test Selecter and Chairman of the TCCB.
• Niels de Vos, Chief executive of UK Athletics and Chairman of Sale Sharks RFC

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Entertainment

• J. R. R. Tolkien, Author
• Jonathan Coe, (novelist - one of his best known works, The Rotters' Club, based on his time at KES, has recently been televised on the BBC)
• John Carey, Lord of the Dance, 5 time World Irish Dance Champion
• Dave Haslam, (Hacienda DJ during the 'Madchester' years)
• Bill Oddie, OBE Television birdwatcher, former Goodie
• Max Carlish, BAFTA Winner, Documentalist
• James Miles, BBC Correspondent in China
• Tim Franks, BBC Middle East Correspondent[1]
• Mark Steyn, theatre and movie critic, current affairs writer)
• Kenneth Tynan, theatre critic
• Ben Hudson, Record Producer, and lead singer of Mr Hudson & The Library

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Other

• Charles Freer Andrews priest, missionary, confidant of Mohandas K Gandhi and supporter of the Indian independence movement
• Ernest William Barnes British Mathematician; Fellow of the Royal Society, Former Bishop of Birmingham
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones
• Herbert Tudor Buckland, Arts and Crafts architect, b.1869, d.1951
• J. A. Chatwin, architect of many churches and buildings in Birmingham
• Sir Colin Figures, former Head of MI6
• David Munrow (early music pioneer)
• Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry first chairman of Ford of Britain
• Ian Plenderleith - Former Deputy Govenor of the South African Federal Reserve, Ex member of Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
• Sir Peter Singer, High Court judge
• William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, World War II Field Marshal, Commander of the successful Burma Campaign against the Japanese
• Brooke Foss Westcott, theologian, Bishop of Durham

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Notes

The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Trott, Tony (2007). Images of England: King Edward's School Birmingham. Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7524-2448-4. 
• Waterhouse, Rachel (1983). King Edward High School Birmingham 1883-1983. 
• Trott, Anthony (1992). No Place for Fop or Idler; The story of King Edward's School, Birmingham. James and James (publishing) Ltd. ISBN 0907383319. 

External links

• King Edward's School, Birmingham
• King Edward's School, Modern Languages Department
• The Foundation of King Edward the Sixth in Birmingham
• Images of England listing - The Chapel