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The alumni of Bryanston School are known as Old Bryanstonians or OBs. Bryanston School is a co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils in Blandford , north Dorset , England , near the village of Bryanston .
Bryanston was founded in 1928 by a young schoolmaster from Australia named J. G. Jeffreys.He gained financial support for the school during a period of severe economic instability with financial backing from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury; he paid £35,000 for the Bryanston House and its 450 acres (1.8 km 2) of immediate grounds.
Former pupils of Bryanston School, near Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. They are known in some circles as " Old Bryanstonians " . The abbreviation OB is sometimes used to identify this.
In 1928, Jeffreys founded Bryanston School as the "Master", with seven assistants and 23 boys aged between 13 and 16. He chose the school crest (a rising sun) and the school motto Et Nova Et Vetera (Latin for "Both New and Old"). [4] Jeffreys promoted the Dalton Plan, which was at that time still quite new, at Bryanston. [1]
In 1928, Lord Shaftesbury provided a financial grant to help establish Bryanston School a co-educational independent boarding school in Blandford, Dorset, England, near the village of Bryanston. Bryanston School in Dorset. It was founded by J. G. Jeffreys who, with financial backing from the earl, paid £35,000 for Bryanston House and its 450 ...
He was head of school at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, earning rugby blues in 1928. [ 2 ] Crichton-Miller, a wing-forward, played for Gloucester from 1929 to 1931, while teaching at Monmouth High School, then moved on to Bath when he joined Bryanston School .
He then joined the staff of Kingswood School in Bath, becoming Head of English and a Housemaster. He was headmaster at Bryanston School in Dorset for much of his career (1959–1974), succeeding Thorold Coade. [2] [3] He oversaw the arrival of girls at the school in 1972. The Robson Fisher Room at the school is named after him.
Lutyens was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, where he decided to become an artist. He then studied art at the Chelsea School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, and Saint Martin's School of Art in London, where he studied oil painting and sculpture. Subsequently, at the age of 24, he studied in Paris under the cubist painter André Lhote. [3]