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Sir John Lawes School (also known as SJL for short) is a mixed state secondary school with academy status in Harpenden, United Kingdom.The school has close links to two other local secondary schools, Roundwood Park School and St George's School, and to the neighbouring Manland Primary School, and is active in the community and abroad.
He in turn left the manor to John Bennet Lawes, the son of his sister. [2] In 1843, Sir John Bennet Lawes, the son of the earlier John Bennet Lawes, founded the Rothamsted Experimental Station, an agricultural research station, on the grounds of the manor. In 1931, his descendants decided to sell the estate, and after a successful public appeal ...
The park was formerly part of the Manor of Rothamsted, later Rothamsted estate, owned by Sir John Lawes. He initiated agricultural experiments in 1843, which led to the founding of the nearby Rothamsted Experimental Station. He also created the formal entrance from Leyton Road to what is now the Park and planted the avenue of Lime trees.
The town council relocated from Harpenden Hall to the new town hall in August 1996. [10] [11] Works of art in the town hall include a painting by Frank O. Salisbury entitled "Lady in Red". The painting was intended to depict the actress in the role of Katherina in William Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew. [12]
Harpenden has four secondary schools: St George's School, a co-educational Christian day and boarding school and specialist Technology, and Language College. Sir John Lawes School, a specialist media Arts College, Science College and teacher training college. Roundwood Park School, a specialist mathematics and computing college and languagecollege.
John Bennet Lawes was born at Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, on 28 December 1814, [2] the only son of John Bennet Lawes, [3] owner of the Rothamsted estate and lord of the manor of Rothamsted. [citation needed] His father died when he was eight years old, so he was brought up mostly by his mother Marianne. [2]
Charles Bennet Lawes was born at Teignmouth, Devon, the only son of Sir John Lawes of Rothamsted Manor, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. [1] At Cambridge he won the Colquhoun Sculls in 1862 and won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1863. [2]
St George's School, Harpenden; Sir John Lawes School; Southdown Road Skew Bridge; St Nicholas Church, Harpenden This page was last edited on 26 March 2019, at 20:53 ...