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Harrow School (/ ˈ h ær oʊ /) [1] is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. [2] The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon , a local landowner and farmer, under a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I .
The Grove (/ ð ə ˈ ɡ r ə ʊ v /), is a boarding house for Harrow School, in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. [1] The Grove was converted into a boarding house in 1820 and is a Grade II listed building. [2] It was constructed on the site of a rectory manor to St Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill which was built around 1094. [3]
The Harrovian is a weekly newspaper published by Harrow School during term time "as an organ of record, and a forum for comment, debate and expression of individual opinion within the school". All articles are published anonymously, except for letters which are signed.
In 1771, Drury turned down the chance to join Samuel Parr's breakaway school at Stanmore. [2] He was ordained deacon in 1773 and priest in 1779. He was re-admitted to Trinity in 1774 as a "ten-year man", graduating B.D. in 1784 and D.D. in 1789. [1] Drury succeeded Benjamin Heath the younger, his brother-in-law, as headmaster of Harrow School ...
William Martin Alastair Land (born 24 September 1971) has been headmaster at Harrow School, since 2019, previously having been headmaster at Repton School.He has taught at Eton College and Winchester College, where he was Master in College, and was deputy headmaster at Harrow School before moving to Repton School.
He has subsequently written a number of well-received [3] works of mystery fiction, published initially under the pseudonym "Colin Howard", drawing on his knowledge of the English public school and the Oxford University college. Death of a Don (1982) was a Mystery Guild selection, and was later re-published in the U.K. in the Black Dagger Crime ...
The school operates under an agreement with the governors of Harrow School in the UK. Two governors from the Harrow School Board of Governors in the UK are members of the Governing Body; they attend its meetings and visit the school in Hong Kong three times a year to ensure quality control and guidance from the Harrow family.
He was educated at Rossall School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree in Literae Humaniores. He was also awarded a doctorate by the University of London . He was a housemaster at St Paul's School and taught classics from 1928 to 1939.