Roedean School

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History

The school was founded in 1885 by three sisters: Penelope, Millicent, and Dorothy Lawrence. In 1898, the school moved to its present site occupying new buildings designed by the architect John William Simpson. Sir John William Simpson FRIBA (born Brighton, 9 August 1858, died Highgate, Middlesex, 30 March 1933) was an English architect and was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1919 to 1921. ...

A sister school, also called Roedean School and co-founded by the youngest Lawrence sister, Theresa, is located in South Africa. Roedean School is a private boarding school for girls located in Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. ...

Location

Roedean school is set back in forty acres of grounds off Roedean Way, at the top of a cliff on the Sussex Downs overlooking the sea, approximately in line with Brighton Marina. Near Beachy Head The South Downs is one of the two areas of chalk downland in southern England. ... Brighton Marina is a large, artificial marina situated in Brighton, England. ...

Notable Alumni

Past pupils are known as Old Roedeanians.

• Lynda Chalker
• Rebecca Hall
• Honeysuckle Weeks
• Dame Margaret Cole
• Verity Lambert
• Rhona Mitra, who was expelled
• Phyllis Pearsall
• Jill Balcon
• Sarah Miles
• Cicely Saunders
• Sheila Huftel
• Adèle Geras
• Katharine Whitehorn
• Tamara Abukhadra
• Perdita Weeks
• Tanya Streeter

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Fictional Alumni

• Lucy Saxon ^[1]

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References

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External links

• Roedean School official site
• Roedean School (South Africa) official site