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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 .
Other periodicals published by Harrow School are Goulash (a satire magazine), The Harrow Record (a twice-yearly roundup), Harrow Notes (an illustrated magazine) 10 Miles to London (creative writing by boys at the School). However, the current creative writing weekly, which is published in collaboration with other schools in the Harrow Family is ...
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 Eton v Harrow cricket match is an annual match between public school rivals Eton College and Harrow School. It is one of the longest-running annual sporting fixtures in the world and is the last annual school cricket match still to be played at Lord's .
He was a housemaster at St Paul's School and taught classics from 1928 to 1939. In 1939, he became headmaster of Chigwell School before returning to St Paul's as High Master in 1946. In 1953, he became headmaster of Harrow School and on his death it was said that the prestige of the school had "seldom stood higher" than it had during his 18 ...
Harrow High School is a co-educational academy in the London Borough of Harrow and a specialist Sports College. It was previously called Gayton High School and Harrow County School for Boys . The school has a sixth form for post-16 studies part of the Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate .
In 1905, George Townsend Warner, head of history at Harrow (and father of Sylvia Townsend Warner), took on the running of the competition until his death in 1916. Over many years the prize was repeatedly won by St Cyprian's School whose Headmistress Mrs Vaughan Wilkes was a great believer in history teaching and in the prize itself. [ 1 ]
After this he became a teacher, employed as an assistant master at a succession of "public schools" in England. Still aged only 32, he accepted the headmastership of Bristol Grammar School in 1938. Four years later, in 1942, he became headmaster of Harrow School on the northwestern fringes of London .