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Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, [1] is a co-educational, fee-charging, private day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate Pre-Preparatory School (ages 4–8), Highgate junior school (ages 8–11) and the senior school (11+) – which ...
Former pupils of Highgate School, London, England, are known as Cholmeleians or Old Cholmeleians, after the school's founder, Sir Roger Cholmeley.The abbreviation OC is sometimes used at the school and Old Cholmeleians may privately refer to themselves as OCs.
Cholmeley was the illegitimate son of Sir Richard Cholmeley of Yorkshire (c. 1460 – 1521), who served as Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1513 to 1520. Cholmeley's family can be traced back to the 12th-century Robert de Chelmundelegh, second son of William le Belward, who inherited parts of the Barony of Malpas (for which Malpas, Cheshire, is named), including Cholmondeley, Cheshire ...
Hughes attended Highgate School from 1861 to 1863 [1] and then Winchester College between 1863 and 1870, where he excelled academically, becoming a school prefect and in 1869-70 "Prefect of Hall", effectively the head boy. He was also a keen cricketer and represented the school from 1868 to 1870.
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Bernard John Shapero was born in August 1963, [3] and started dealing in books in the late 1970s, while still a pupil at Highgate School. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His father was a collector of armour and gold coins.
Garner was educated at Highgate School (and was later the school's Chairman of Governors from 1976-83). He won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read Modern and Mediaeval Languages. [2] He joined the Civil Service in 1930, working in the Dominions Office. J. H.
He was educated at Highgate School, [2] was awarded a BA from London University in 1889 and published his first novel, Widow Woman, in 1896. Suffering from bad health, he visited Cornwall in 1900 for its better climate, and stayed in Cornwall for seven years. There he lived amongst the group of artists who formed the Newlyn School.