The Royal Hospital School is a co-educational independent boarding school which takes pupils from age 11 to 18 (years 7 to 13). It is located in the village of Holbrook, near Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Image File history File links RHS.gif‎ Logo fair use in Royal Hospital School article. ... An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges, gifts, and perhaps the investment yield of an endowment. ... Holbrook is the name of several towns or cities: Holbrook, New South Wales, Australia Holbrook, Derbyshire, England Holbrook, Kent, England Holbrook, South Yorkshire, England Holbrook, Suffolk, England Holbrook, Arizona, USA Holbrook, Massachusetts, USA Holbrook, Nebraska, USA Holbrook, New York, USA Holbrook, Pennsylvania, USA There are also several people with the... Suffolk (pronounced ) is a large historic and modern non-metropolitan county in East Anglia, England. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... A boarding school is a usually fee-paying school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. ... Holbrook is a rural village situated close to the northern shore of the Stour Estuary. ... Timber framed buildings in St Nicholas Street The Ancient House is decorated with a particularly fine example of pargeting Ipswich (pronounced ) is the county town of Suffolk and a non-metropolitan district in East Anglia, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. ... Suffolk (pronounced ) is a large historic and modern non-metropolitan county in East Anglia, England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...

History

The School has been at Holbrook since 1933. The land on which the school is now situated was bequeathed to the school by Gifford Sherman-Reade, along with the sum of £1 million. Originally the school was located at Greenwich Hospital (London) and was based in what is now the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The Hospital was founded by royal charter in 1694 but the school was not formed until 1712.^[1][2] The school was designed by the Birmingham based arts and crafts architect Herbert Tudor Buckland. Most of the buildings are now Grade II listed with the main range and chapel being Grade II*. Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Greenwich Hospital in London was founded in 1694 as the Royal Naval Hospital for Seamen. ... The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom, and one of the most important in the world. ... Greenwich is a town, now part of the south-eastern urban sprawl of London, England, on the south bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A Royal Charter is a charter given by a monarch to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such. ... Events February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed. ... // Events Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. ... Birmingham (pron. ... Herbert Tudor Buckland (November 20, 1869 - 1951) was a British architect, best known for his seminal Arts and Crafts houses (several of which, including his own at Edgbaston, are Grade I listed), the Elan Valley Reservoirs model village, educational buildings such as the campus of the Royal Hospital School in... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...

Pupils

The school currently houses approximately 680 pupils. The school removed all female pupils at one stage in its early history due to their "demonic influence". However, they were allowed back into the school in the 1990s. The ratio for boys to girls is 3:2 and for all ages students are provided with a positive environment for academic learning and personal development. The school is now in the process of integrating day pupils into the school community. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...

Greenwich Hospital

The school was founded by Royal charter and is maintained by Greenwich Hospital who support a number of pupils with busaries who demonstrate sufficient charitable need. In recent years the number of pupils receiving busaries has been cut dramatically in an effort to expand the school's wider national profile. The school also awards a number of scholarships annually based on achievement in sports, music and academics among other areas.

Houses

Each house, is in the shape of an ‘H’ with a more modern extension where the housemaster or mistress lives built onto the front. Collingwood House was the latest to receive a multi-million pound refurbishment after the Anson House refurbishment was completed.

Most boys and girls join the School at the age of eleven or thirteen and will live on the ‘junior side’ of the house. In years seven to nine they live in bed clusters of four, known as ‘cubies’ and then as they grow older they are accommodated in small double studies and then larger doubles as they move towards the top of the house. In some cases the older pupils do have single rooms, although most enjoy the camaraderie of sharing

The boarding houses are:

Boys

• Anson
• Collingwood
• Drake
• Hawke
• Raleigh
• St Vincent

Girls

• Blake
• Cornwallis
• Hood
• Howe

Upper Sixth

• Nelson

Royal charter

The aim of the royal charter was to provide assistance and education to the orphans of seafarers in the Royal and Merchant Navies. Thus, until relatively recently, entry to the school was limited to the children or grandchildren of seafarers. Now, although it is not exclusively seafarers' children or grandchildren, there is still a subsidy to the school fees of these students. Until the 1950s, boys of the school were also required to join the Royal or Merchant navies and as such the education was very much maritime focused. However, this requirement has not been in force for some time, but the school has retained certain naval traditions such as number 1 dress, divisions and an element of marching. This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ... The British Red Ensign. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

The school has a marching and concert band, a choir, an orchestra, a ceremonial guard and a Community Action Team, composed almost entirely of pupils.

Holbrook Coastguard

The Holbrook Coastguard, founded in 1996, has a fully operational watch station and CRV. The area the team covers stretches from the Dry Dock in Ipswich to Shotley and then from Shotley to the White Bridge at Manningtree, but often operate in the Wrabness area with the neighbouring team.

Holbrook Coastguard is unique since, in term-time, it is run entirely by students. While there is a student-operated coastguard in Scotland and Wales, it is the only one of its kind in England. There is a student in charge elected every year but there are adult team members who are in control during the school holidays. The student team has members aged 14-18. This article is about the country. ... This article is about the country. ...

Notable alumni

• Admiral Arthur Phillip - founder of Sydney, Australia and the Governor of the first European colony on the continent (NSW)
• Admiral Sir Phillip King Enright (1894-1960)
• Admiral Sir Henry Felix Woods, Pasha, (1843-1929) - Admiral in the Turkish Navy
• Rear Admiral Stanley McArdle, GM (1922- 199?)
• Don Topley - (Essex CCC and coach of Zimbabwe)
• Peter Richards (Rugby, England and Gloucester)
• Will Champion - Musician, drummer in the band Coldplay
• Captain Thomas Henry Tizard (1839-1924) - Oceanographer, Hydrographic surveyor and Navigator
• Sir Thomas Godfrey - All round Jolly Good Chap. Invented the wheel.
• John Deane (1800 – 1884) and Charles Deane - inventors of the diving helmet, and discoverers of the wreck of the Mary Rose in 1839, whilst clearing the wreck of the Royal George.
• Professor Bernard de Neumann (1943- ) – Mathematician
• Richard C. White – Poet
• Commander Harry Pursey MP (1891—1980) - Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull East 1945-70
• Captain Oswald Tuckv (1876-1950) – Naval Chaplin and Instructor
• Malcolm Douglas Cooper (1947-2000) - British marksman who won Olympic gold medals at Los Angeles and Seoul and beat or equalled 15 world records
• Henry Davenport Sarratt (1828-1899)- Navigator, Royal Navy, Command of the Royal Yacht. which brought Princess Alexandra from Denmark to marry the Prince of Wales

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References

External links

• Official site
• Aerial photograph
• Holbrook Old Boys Online
• Nelson Leavers Site
• RHSA site