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This is a list of Old Whitgiftians (abbreviated OWs), former pupils of Whitgift School, which is a British private boys' day and boarding school in South Croydon in London. Academia, medicine and science
Former pupils of Whitgift School are known in some circles as "Old Whitgiftians". The abbreviation OW is used. Note: those educated at the Trinity School of John Whitgift are known as Old Mid-Whitgiftians, or OMW.
Whitgift School was founded in 1596 by the Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and opened in 1600 [4] as part of the Whitgift Foundation which had the aim of building a hospital and school in Croydon for the "poor, needy and impotent people" from the parishes of Croydon and Lambeth. [5]
The Old Palace of John Whitgift School is a selective independent school for girls in Croydon, London. It was founded in 1889, and is scheduled to close in 2025.
In 1969 the school was to be called the Willows Secondary School. At a Grimsby Education Committee meeting in November 1969, it was voted by 10-6 to call the school the Whitgift School. [5] [6] It was to be built on the Willows Estate at Great Coates, [7] to open in September 1970. It would open as a selective school, along with Wintringham ...
Shallcross went to Whitgift School from 1977 to 1984. [3] Shallcross subsequently studied chemistry at the University of Southampton and, later, completed his doctoral research in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Oxford .
List of people educated at Whitgift School This page was last edited on 5 December 2020, at 22:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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