Sedbergh School
Dura Virum Nutrix (Latin: "A Stern Nurse of Men")
Location
Sedbergh, Cumbria,  England
Information
Headmaster	Christopher Hirst
Type	Public (originally a Chantry School)
School Colour(s)	Brown
Established	1525
Homepage	School Website

A view of the school's cricket ground.

Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in Sedbergh, Cumbria for boys and girls, between the ages of 13 and 18 inclusive. Nestled in the Howgill Fells, it is renowned for strong sporting sides, especially its Rugby Union 1st XV. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 100 × 139 pixelsFull resolution (100 × 139 pixel, file size: 4 KB, MIME type: image/gif)As used on the official Sedbergh School website This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Sedbergh (pronounced Sedber or even, by the locals, Sebber) is a small town in the county of Cumbria, traditionally part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. ... Cumbria (IPA: ), is a shire county in the extreme North West of England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The term public school has three distinct meanings: In the USA and Canada, elementary or secondary school supported and administered by state and local officials. ... 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. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Sedbergh (pronounced Sedber or even, by the locals, Sebber) is a small town in the county of Cumbria, traditionally part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. ... Cumbria (IPA: ), is a shire county in the extreme North West of England. ... The Howgill Fells are a small group of hills in the north-west of the Yorkshire Dales national park in northern England, bounded approximately by a triangle drawn between Sedbergh, Kirkby Stephen and Tebay. ... For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ...

Background

The school was founded in 1525 by Roger Lupton, Provost of Eton College. An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and...

Until 2001, when girls were admitted, the schools original single-sex status led to the school motto Dura Virum Nutrix (A Stern Nurse of Men)). Since then the number of girls attending has grown dramatically.

The school is structured into a system of eight 'houses': Hart, Evans, Winder, School, Sedgwick and Powell (boys' houses), Lupton and Robertson (girls' houses). The students eat and sleep in their boarding houses and house pride is encouraged.

The school song, Winder, is named after the hill which dominates the skyline to the North. It is rarely sung, mainly at the end of a term, but is an important tradition nonetheless. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The school is particularly proud of its cloisters, one of the few officially listed War memorials located in schools. Every known name of an old boy that died during the first and second world wars is recorded on its walls. There have been two World Wars, now more commonly known as World War I or First World War (from 1914 to 1918), and World War II or Second World War (from 1939 to 1945). ...

With the aid of the Robertson Foundation the school has been able to give many scholarships to less well-off pupils. The school maintains a strong sporting rivalry with Ampleforth College and (to a lesser extent) with Stonyhurst College. Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire is the largest private Catholic mixed boarding school in the UK, and it is occasionally referred to as the Catholic Eton, a sobriquet also attached at different times to Beaumont (no longer open) and Stonyhurst College (both Jesuit schools) and which was Cardinal Newmans... Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic English Jesuit independent boarding school near Clitheroe, Lancashire, England. ...

The Wilson Run

One of the unique aspects of the school is the Wilson Run, also known as the "Ten Mile". The race distance is just over 10 miles (10 miles 385 yards), about 7 miles of which crosses over the surrounding fells with the rest going along roads. Pupils however must now qualify to take part in the race over an 11 mile training route which covers most of the race route. The race is the longest, hardest and most gruelling school run in the country and has been a tradition for well over 100 years. The run has been cancelled only three times, owing to epidemic (1936), snow (1947) and the Foot and Mouth epidemic. The record time for the race stood unbroken at 1 hour, 10 mins and 16 seconds for almost a hundred years until it was dramatically broken by Charles "Chuck" Sykes in 1993 with a time of 1 hour, 8 minutes and 4.1 seconds. His record still stands today (Although it is agreed Simon Barnby may have broken it in 2007 if the race course had remained unchanged). Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease, is a highly contagious but non-fatal viral disease of cattle and pigs. ...

The Wilson Run holds a great mystique for Sedbergh's pupils. Pupils generally run in all types of weather, be it torrential rains and mud baths, or even bright, sunny clear days. The day of the race is a major event in the calendar and is commemorated by a large and often emotional concert on the evening of the race day. A special song, "The Long Run", is dedicated to the race and is traditionally sung only on this occasion.

Anti-Assassins Rugby Club

The Anti-Assassins Rugby Club (A-As) was founded in 1950 when Sedbergh Old Boys’, Stewart Faulds, Geoff and Arthur Kenyon were invited to pick a Northern team to play against the masters and Old Boys (The Assassins) of Sedbergh School. Today, 2007, this invitational team plays as SpoonAAs, raising funds for the Wooden Spoon charity. Wooden Spoon logo The Wooden Spoon Society is a major rugby union charity in the United Kingdom named after the Wooden Spoon award given by the Six (previously Five) nations championship. ...

Notable Old Sedberghians

• Colonel Freddie Spencer Chapman DSO , naturalist, mountaineer, explorer, war hero
• John Arden, dramatist
• Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, Senior Law Lord, former Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice
• Sir Christopher Bland, Chairman of B.T. Group, businessman and former Chairman of the BBC
• John Charles Campbell, VC, a commander of the 7th Armoured Division
• Kenneth Campbell VC
• Robert Swan, OBE, Polar explorer, the first man in history to walk to both the North and South Poles
• Logie Bruce Lockhart, rugby union: Scotland, headmaster of Gresham's School
• Will Carling, OBE, rugby union: England Captain
• Will Greenwood, MBE, rugby union: England
• James Simpson-Daniel rugby union: England
• Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal rugby union: England
• Adam Sedgwick, Founder of modern geology.
• Samuel Beckett, Hen.
• Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, Politician, businessman and associate of Winston Churchill.
• Tim Stewart Disabled rights campaigner
• John Dawson, Surgeon and mathematician.
• Sir Jock Slater, GCB, LVO, DL, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff.
• Sir Giles Shaw, Politician.
• Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead, Politician.
• Simon Beaufoy, Screenwriter, (The Full Monty).
• Adam Rickitt, Actor, singer, model and aspiring Conservative M.P.
• David Waddington, Baron Waddington, British Home Secretary, Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the House of Lords, Governor of Bermuda.
• Edward John Eyre, Explorer and Governor of Jamaica.
• Thomas Russell Fairgrieve, politician
• James Wilby, Actor
• William George Clark, English classical and Shakespearean scholar.
• Stephen O'Brien, Conservative Party Member of Parliament.
• John Hammersley, British mathematician.
• Edward Max Nicholson, Founder of the World Wildlife Fund.
• Tom Wright (theologian), Bishop of Durham and a leading British New Testament scholar.
• Frank Duxbury, Founder of Sedbergh School, Québec, Canada [1].
• Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell, Northern Ireland politician and member of the House of Lords.
• Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart,OBE, Chairman of The Local Government Association
• Freddie Tait, golfer
• Sir Robert Rhodes James, politician and author
• F. A. Ridley, historian and Marxist
• Mandy Mitchell-Innes, England cricketer
• Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones, awarded the Victoria Cross
• George Ward Gunn, awarded the Victoria Cross
• Henry Lowther Clarke, first Archbishop of Melbourne
• H. Montgomery Hyde, author and politician
• Colin Blakely, British character actor
• Henry Colin Gray Matthew, historian and the first editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• John Cranke, mathematician and mentor
• JB Blanc, Hollywood film actor
• George Birkbeck, doctor, academic, philanthropist and early pioneer in adult education.
• William John Woodhouse, classical scholar and author
• Hugh l'Anson Fausset, literary critic, biographer, poet and religious writer.
• Robert Willan, the father of modern dermatology
• John Haygarth, physician who discovered the benefits of segregating/quarantining sick patients.
• Mark Umbers, Actor - theatre and film
• Anthony Askew, Physician and book collector
• Francis Llewellyn Griffith, Eminent British Egyptologist

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External links

• Sedbergh School Website
• Old Sedberghian Club