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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.
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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 ...
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 ]
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.
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]
The church is part of the Parish of Harpenden St Nicholas, a Church of England Parish within the Diocese of St Albans. Within the parish are two daughter churches, All Saints on Station Road in the Batford district to the east of Harpenden, and St Mary's on the northern outskirts. These churches have their own District Committees (as St ...
St George's School, Harpenden (also known as St George's) is a non-selective state day and boarding school in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, educating students of both sexes between the ages of eleven and eighteen, with an emphasis on its Christian ethos.