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Sherborne School is a 13–18 boys public school and boarding school located beside Sherborne Abbey, in the parish of Sherborne, Dorset. The school has been in continuous operation on the same site for over 1,300 years. It was founded in 705 AD by St Aldhelm and, following the dissolution of the monasteries, re-founded in 1550 by King Edward VI ...
William and Winifred had two sons: Thomas Beauchamp Wildman (1888–1965) attended Sherborne School 1902–1907, and afterwards joined the Consular Service, serving as HM Consul–General at Galatz, Deputy Commissioner on European Commission of the Danube, HM Chargé d'Affaires at Bogota, and HM Consul at Santander, Spain; Arthur Henry Wildman ...
James Henderson. Organist (s) Peter Bray. Coat of arms of Sherborne Abbey. Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. It has been a Saxon cathedral (705–1075), a Benedictine abbey church (998–1539), and since 1539, a parish church.
Charlie Cox, actor. Sir Richard Eyre CBE, film and theatre director, artistic director of the National Theatre 1988–97. Phil Harvey, manager and creative director of rock band Coldplay. Sir Michael Hopkins CBE, architect. Jeremy Irons, actor, for example Brideshead Revisited and The Mission. Rupert Maas English painting specialist & gallery ...
The school was re-founded in 1550 as King Edward's grammar school, using some of the old abbey buildings, though it is now known simply as Sherborne School. The school is one of the independent schools in Britain , with alumni such as Alan Turing , Jeremy Irons , Chris Martin , John le Carré , Hugh Bonneville and John Cowper Powys .
R. C. Carpenter (1812–1855) was an English architect whose output consisted mainly of churches in Gothic Revival style. He was born in Clerkenwell, London, and was educated at Charterhouse School. [1] His first commissions were obtained by his father, and these were for domestic properties, including Lonsdale Square in London, and in ...
Sherborne Girls, formally known as Sherborne School for Girls, is an independent day and boarding school for girls, located in Sherborne, North Dorset, England. There were 485 pupils attending in 2019–2020, with more than 90 per cent of them living on campus in the seven boarding houses.
He attended Sherborne School from 1841 to 1842, during which time he was a member of Abbey House. After leaving Sherborne School, he entered the Royal Navy in 1842 as a 1st Class Volunteer in H.M.S. Monarch. He served for 11 months with the Naval Brigade in the Crimea being promoted Commander for his services. VC action