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Encyclopedia > Stonyhurst
The front of Stonyhurst College

A Jesuit School in Lancashire.

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Contact Details

Stonyhurst College


Clitheroe


Lancashire


BB7 9PZ


Tel: 01254 827073


Location

A map (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=369000&Y=439000&width=500&height=300&gride=369037&gridn=439067&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=pc&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=BB79PZ&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&zm=0&out.x=6&out.y=10&scale=10000)


Motto

"Quant Je Puis" - "As much as I can"


Values

Coming down from St Ignatius of Loyola. Jesuit Values. Manic Js, etc.


Alumni

Lord Talbot Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Thompson, Chris Morris, Bill Cash, Patrick Baladi, Cardinal Herbert Vaughan (Westminster Cardinal Archbishop Primate c.1890), Sir George Clifford, Jimmy Burns, Charles Laughton, Kyran Bracken, Iain Balshaw, General Walters USAF (Former CIA Director), Charles Clifford


Stonyhurst VCs

A total of seven Stonyhurst Alumni have been awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry.


Stonyhurst Rugby

Stonyhurst has produced a number of first class players:

  • John O'Driscoll
  • Kyran Bracken
  • Iain Balshaw
  • Barry O'Driscoll
  • Nick Drake-Lee

List of Headmasters

  • George Earle
  • Michael Bossy
  • Giles Mercer
  • Adrian Aylward

Bibliography

St Omers to Stonyhurst


Stonyhurst War Record


Tom Muir's new book


External links

  • Official school website (http://www.stonyhurst.ac.uk)
  • Unofficial Bulletin Board for Alumni (http://www.osforums.org.uk)
  • strange-stonyhurst (http://www.positive-evolution.co.uk/strange-stonyhurst.htm)

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Stonyhurst College (1187 words)
Stonyhurst is the lineal descendant of the college founded by Father Robert Persons in 1592, at St. Omer in Artois, for English boys, compelled by the penal laws of Elizabethan times to seek on the continent that religious education which was denied them at home.
At the Stonyhurst training college more advanced courses in these subjects are followed by students of the Society, who are engaged in such additional subjects as pedagogy, biology, anthropology, etc. The "Philosophers", numbering usually about thirty, possess the status of university students.
The rector of Stonyhurst is one of a limited number of headmasters to whom the War Office has granted the power of giving direct nominations to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Solar Observing: Stonyhurst Disks (79 words)
Stonyhurst disks for a diameter of 100 mm
Stonyhurst disks for a diameter of 125 mm
Stonyhurst disks for a diameter of 150 mm
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