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Sedbergh School

Sedbergh School is a public school (English private boarding and day school) in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, North West England. It comprises a junior school for pupils aged 4 to 13 and the main school for 13 to 18 year olds. It was established in 1525.

Sedbergh School
Location
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LA10 5HG

England
Coordinates54°19′19″N 2°31′54″W / 54.32182°N 2.53153°W / 54.32182; -2.53153
Information
TypePublic school
Private day and boarding
MottoDura Virum Nutrix
(Latin: "A Stern Nurse of Men")
Religious affiliation(s)Church of England
Established1525; 498 years ago (1525)
FounderRoger Lupton[1]
Department for Education URN112451 Tables
HeadmasterDaniel Harrison
GenderMixed
Age4 to 18
Enrolment530 pupils~
Colour(s)Brown  
Former pupilsOld Sedberghians
Websitehttps://www.sedberghschool.org/

History edit

 
The school's playing field

Roger Lupton was born at Cautley in the parish of Sedbergh, Yorkshire, in 1456 and he provided for a Chantry School in Sedbergh in 1525 while he was Provost of Eton.[2] By 1528, land had been bought, a school built, probably on the site of the present school library, and the foundation deed had been signed. Lupton's subsequent donations to the school's Sedbergh scholars of numerous scholarships and fellowships to St John's College, Cambridge succeeded in binding the school to St John's, and gave the Cambridge college power over the appointment of Sedbergh's Headmasters. Lupton's statutes state that if any of the last four of the St John's College scholarships are left vacant for a year, unless for a reason approved by the provost and fellows of King's College Cambridge, the lands are to revert to Lupton's next of kin. Lupton added that he was certain that St John's would not be found negligent in so pious a work.[3] It was this link to St John's that probably saved Sedbergh in 1546–48 when most chantries were dissolved and their assets seized by Henry VIII's Commission.

Sedbergh was re-established and re-endowed as a grammar school in 1551 and the fortunes of the school in the coming centuries seem to have depended very much on the character and abilities of the headmasters with pupil numbers fluctuating and reaching as low a total as 8 day boys in the early 19th century.

One particularly successful period was during the Headship of John Harrison Evans (1838–61) who restored the prestige and achievements of the school and also funded the building of the Market Hall and Reading Room in the town. By 1857, the fellowships and scholarships which, since Lupton's time, had formed this link between the Sedbergh scholars and St John's College, ceased to be specially connected with Sedbergh. By 1860, the Lupton scholarships were combined and re-arranged under the name of the Lupton and Hebblethwaite Exhibitions.[4]

A more independent Governing Body was established in 1874 in a successful bid to maintain Sedbergh's independence (amalgamation with Giggleswick had been suggested) and the first meeting took place in the Bull Inn in Sedbergh in December.

In the 1870s there was a tremendous amount of development and building work at Sedbergh, under the careful eye of the headmaster, Frederick Heppenstall. This included the Headmaster's House (now School House), classrooms, a chapel and four other boarding houses.

Henry George Hart took over as headmaster in 1880 and his tenure saw a new chapel built in 1897, the founding of the Old Sedberghian Club in 1897/98, the creation of the prefectorial system, the inaugural Wilson run and the confirmation of the school motto "Dura Virum Nutrix" (Stern Nurse of Men).

In 1989 the number of boys in the school exceeded 500 for the first time, during the headship of Dr R G Baxter. Two years later a new coat of arms was granted to the school and it was visited by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling £3 million into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.[5][6]

The governing body decided to open the school to girls in 1999 and the first girls were admitted in 2001.[7] While the pupils are still predominantly boys, the number of girls attending has increased dramatically since the move into coeducation. The previous headmaster, Christopher Hirst, brought in the change to co-educational schooling from single-sex."

In January 2009 the Junior School moved from Bentham to join the senior school in Sedbergh. The Junior School has accommodation for both day and boarding boys and girls aged 3–13. On 26 February 2013, it was announced that the school would merge with Casterton School.

Despite its long history, The Good Schools Guide notes how “Sedbergh has faced up to the demands of the 21st century but managed to retain traditional values and ethos. Its increasing numbers indicate parents very much approve. It rightly retains its formidable reputation on the sports field but away from it, provides a happy and caring environment for all its pupils regardless of ability or sports prowess.”[2]

Junior School edit

Sedbergh Junior School
Location
 
Information
TypePreparatory day and boarding
Established2002
Department for Education URN121739 Tables
HeadmasterWill Newman
Genderco-educational
Age4 to 13
Number of students200
Houses2
Websitehttp://www.sedberghschool.org/junior

The junior school was opened in 2002. It was previously located on the site of the former Bentham Grammar School after it was closed and Sedbergh took over its premises. In 2009 it moved to a site next to the main school.[8] The school relocated again in September 2013 to the site of the former Casterton School for girls and is now known as Casterton, Sedbergh Preparatory School. Casterton was absorbed into Sedbergh, with senior girls transferring to the main school and junior pupils remaining at the Casterton campus. Boarding is offered to Junior School pupils aged 8 and above.

Rong Qiao Sedbergh School edit

Opened in 2018, Sedburgh's international school, Rong Qiao Sedbergh School is located in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. It is a partnership between Sedbergh School and the Rong Qiao Group. Offering education for children from the ages of 3 to 18, its ethos draws on both English and Chinese teaching practice. 10% of students are international students, and 90% are Chinese nationals.[9][10]

House system edit

Like most traditional public schools, the house system is incorporated with the boarding programme and most pupils are boarders. Most pupils at Sedbergh live in a boarding house, of which there are nine (six for boys, three for girls) chosen when applying to the school. It is here that he or she both sleeps and takes their daily meals. Day pupils are fully integrated into the programme and participate in activities. Houses compete amongst one another in school competitions such as debating, academic challenge (a University Challenge-style quiz) and 'House Unison' (a traditional singing competition), and in particular in sporting competitions, for example the seriously contested Senior Seniors (Inter-House rugby) and the Wilson Run. Houses are named mostly after illustrious Old Sedberghians or Headmasters.

Each house also has a set of house colours, which adorns the blazers of boys and girls in fifth form and below as well as on various house sports clothing. Pupils who throughout their school career demonstrate great service to their house are awarded their house colours by their Housemaster/ mistress. Sedberghians take immense pride in being awarded house colours which take the form of a scarf and a tie in the colours of their house.

The boarding houses also each have their own house magazine, named after the emblem of the house (for example, the magazine of Hart House is called The Jay), written and edited by the pupils within the house.

Sedbergh Junior School, now Casterton, Sedbergh Preparatory School, located in Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale, also has Cressbrook House for boarding boys and Beale for boarding girls.

Senior houses edit

House Gender Colour Emblem
Evans Boys Yellow Wasp
Hart Boys Green Jay
Powell Boys Pink Chameleon
School Boys Blue Kingfisher
Sedgwick Boys Red Rouge et Noir
Winder Boys Purple Mole
Lupton Girls White/Black Wolf
Robertson Girls Turquoise Butterfly
Carus Girls Red/Blue Eagle

Junior houses edit

  • Cressbrook House (boys)
  • Beale House (girls)
  • Thornfield House (Senior prep school girls)

Extracurricular activities edit

Clubs and societies edit

Sedbergh offers outdoor pursuits as well as academic societies, including 'The Headmaster's Society' which is for Academic Scholars in the Sixth Form and chaired by the Headmaster. It is a forum for debate and discussion of major topical issues based upon papers delivered by the pupils and it also hosts talks given by intellectuals and public figures. The junior academic society is known as the 'Phoenix Society'.

Sedbergh's other academic club is the Dinner Debating Society which meets twice termly for black-tie 'dinner debates' hosted by Housemasters.[citation needed]

Sedbergh's has an Outdoor Pursuits Club. Activities organised in the local area by the club include climbing, gill scrambling and pot-holing as well as mountain biking and fell walking.

Sport edit

Sedbergh has a sporting tradition.[11][12] Many Old Sedberghians have national caps and international tournament experience or have represented the school at county or national level.[2][13][14]

Sedbergh is renowned for producing rugby football players, including the England captains Wavell Wakefield, John Spencer and Will Carling, and the world cup winner Will Greenwood. Sedbergh is represented in the Rugby Union Guinness Premiership at the time of writing by seven players at first or second team level in four different clubs. In November 2010 the school rugby team was named "School Team of the Year" at the Aviva Daily Telegraph School Sport Matters Awards after going the entire previous season undefeated.[15]

The school has hosted Cumberland and Minor Counties cricket matches on several occasions.[16] In 2019, Lancashire County Cricket Club played their County Championship match against Durham at Sedbergh School. They also faced Essex there in 2023.[17]

Anti-Assassins Rugby Club edit

The Anti-Assassins Rugby Club (A-As) was founded in 1950 when Sedbergh Old Boys were invited to pick a Northern team to play against the masters and Old Boys (The Assassins) of Sedbergh School. Now this invitational team plays as SpoonAAs (Spoon Anti-Assassins) as it raises funds for the Wooden Spoon charity.

Traditions edit

As with many English public schools, Sedbergh has developed its own traditions unique to the school.

Wilson Run edit

 
Start line of the Wilson Run

One of the unique school traditions is the Wilson Run, also known as the "Ten Mile" or "The Ten"; it is named after Bernard Wilson (the first housemaster of Sedgwick House). The race distance is just over 10 miles (10 miles 385 yards), about 7 miles of which crosses the surrounding fells with the rest going along roads. Pupils must qualify to take part in the race over an 11-mile training route which covers most of the race route. The race is one of the longest, hardest and most gruelling school runs in the country and has been a tradition for well over 100 years. The run has been cancelled only three times, owing to epidemic (1936), snow (1947) and the foot and mouth epidemic.

School song edit

Winder is the school song for Sedbergh School, named after the fell that dominates the northern skyline of the school. The hill is a gateway to the Howgill Fells and school tradition dictates that pupils must climb it at least once during their time at Sedbergh.

The song is sung at all major school events such as the Wilson Run.

Buildings and features edit

Chapel edit

 
Sedbergh School Chapel

This was built in Perpendicular style in 1895–97, and was designed by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley.[18][19]

Chapel organ edit

The school took delivery of a custom built, four manual organ console in November 2015, which replaced an organ that was acquired from the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall. This two manual instrument had been built by Nigel Church and moved to the school by David Wells in 1994. The instrument can now be found in a church in Lincolnshire.

War cloisters edit

The cloisters at Sedbergh are a monument to old boys and masters of the school killed during the Great War and the Second World War. The cloisters were dedicated in 1924 and then re-dedicated after the Second World War. The cloisters were restored and partially rebuilt in 2005 and on Remembrance Day again re-dedicated after an appeal had raised over £130,000 for the necessary work.

The school also has a separate memorial for Old Sedberghians awarded the Victoria Cross, of which there are four. Brigadier Jock Campbell who won the Military Cross in the First World War and the Victoria Cross at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in the Second and was a member of Evans House. Three of the Old Sedberghian winners of the Victoria Cross were Old Sedgwickians, RJT Digby-Jones at Wagon Hill in 1900 in the Boer War, George Ward Gunn at Sidi Rezegh in 1941 and Kenneth Campbell over Brest Harbour, also in 1941.

Four Battle of Britain pilots attended the school. Pilot Officer Desmond Kay DFC & Bar, Pilot Officer Noel Benson were killed during the war, but Flt Lt Kenneth Stoddart AE, and Flying Officer Alec Worthington survived.

Headmasters edit

  • 1525-1543 Henry Blomeyr
  • 1544-1570 Robert Hebblethwaite
  • 1585-1623 John Mayer (O.S.)
  • 1623-1646 Gilbert Nelson
  • 1646-1648 Richard Garthwayte (O.S.) (a.i.)
  • 1648-1656 Richard Jackson
  • 1657-1662 James Buchanan
  • 1662-1674 Edward Fell (O.S.)
  • 1674-1706 Posthumus Wharton
  • 1706-1709 Thomas Dwyer
  • 1709-1741 Dr. Samuel Saunders
  • 1742-1746 William Broxholme
  • 1746-1782 Wynne Batemen (O.S.)
  • 1782-1799 Christopher Hull (O.S.)
  • 1799-1819 William Stevens
  • 1819-1838 Henry Wilkinson
  • 1838 Hartley Coleridge (a.i.)
  • 1838-1861 Rev. John Harrison Evans
  • 1861-1874 Henry George Day
  • 1875-1879 Rev. Frederick H. Heppenstall
  • 1880-1900 Henry George Hart
  • 1900-1907 Charles Lowry
  • 1907-1912 Frederic Blagden Malim
  • 1912-1926 William Nassau Weech
  • 1927-1936 G. B. Smith
  • 1937-1954 John Harold Bruce-Lockhart (O.S.)
  • 1954-1975 Gervase Michael Cobham Thornely
  • 1975-1982 Peter J. Attenborough
  • 1982-1995 Roger George Baxter
  • 1995-2010 Christopher Halliwell Hirst
  • 2010-2018 Andrew P. Fleck
  • 2018- Daniel J. Harrison

Notable Old Sedberghians edit

Military edit

Politics and law edit

Business edit

The arts, literature and humanities edit

A former teacher at the school was Henry Watson Fowler, the writer of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

Science and exploration edit

Sport edit

James Walkinshaw, Scotland Touch World Cup 2019 & Euro 2023

Religion edit

References edit

  1. ^ The School[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b c d History of the school 2012-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Arthur Francis, Leach (18 April 2013). Early Yorkshire Schools. Cambridge University Press 18 avr. 2013 - Originally published by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1903, page 296. ISBN 9781108058599. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  4. ^ William, Thomas. "Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent : peeps at the past history and present condition of some picturesque Yorkshire dales". Leeds: Richard Jackson 1910 - Page 127. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  5. ^ . Office of Fair Trading. 21 December 2006. Archived from the original on 10 June 2008.
  6. ^ "School to answer unfair trading allegations". Westmorland Gazette. 25 November 2005.
  7. ^ "School welcomes girls". Westmorland Gazette. 7 September 2001.
  8. ^ . North West Evening Mail. 19 January 2009. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014.
  9. ^ "Sedbergh School Vacancies". Sedbergh School. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  10. ^ Rong Qiao Sedbergh School. "About the school". Rong Qiao Sedbergh School. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Music and academic focus for Sedbergh School". Westmorland Gazette. 18 October 2010. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012.
  12. ^ . Westmorland Gazette. 13 January 2006. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014.
  13. ^ "School Sport - English fell title for South Lakes pupils". Westmorland Gazette. 14 October 2010.
  14. ^ "Rugby - Sedbergh Trio in England U18 squad". Westmorland Gazette. 7 February 2007.
  15. ^ "School sport: Sedbergh school wins Team of the Year accolade". Westmorland Gazette. 15 November 2010. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012.
  16. ^ . North West Evening Mail. 13 February 2004. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015.
  17. ^ "MATCH PREVIEW: Lancashire v Essex, Metro Bank One Day Cup". Lancashire County Cricket Club. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  18. ^ Historic England. "Chapel at Sedbergh School (1384171)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  19. ^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, pp. 146–147, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  20. ^ BINGHAM OF CORNHILL’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 29 Nov 2008
  21. ^ "Obituary: Count Andrew McMillan, Baron of Cleghorn".
  22. ^ ‘ARDEN, John’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 29 Nov 2008
  23. ^ . North West Evening Mail. 27 February 2009. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015.
  24. ^ ‘AGAR, Wilfred Eade’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 29 Nov 2008
  25. ^ [S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2504. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
  26. ^ "RUGBY: Another England star from Sedbergh". Westmorland Gazette. 6 November 2002.
  27. ^ "Player profile: Jamie Harrison". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
  28. ^ "England go for Sedbergh double act". Westmorland Gazette. 8 November 2002.

External links edit

  Media related to Sedbergh School at Wikimedia Commons

  • School Website
  • Old Sedberghian Club
  • Profile on the ISC website
  • ISI Inspection Reports - Junior School and Senior School
  • - Daily Telegraph Website

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Sedbergh School news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Sedbergh School is a public school English private boarding and day school in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria North West England It comprises a junior school for pupils aged 4 to 13 and the main school for 13 to 18 year olds It was established in 1525 Sedbergh SchoolLocationSedbergh Cumbria LA10 5HGEnglandCoordinates54 19 19 N 2 31 54 W 54 32182 N 2 53153 W 54 32182 2 53153InformationTypePublic schoolPrivate day and boardingMottoDura Virum Nutrix Latin A Stern Nurse of Men Religious affiliation s Church of EnglandEstablished1525 498 years ago 1525 FounderRoger Lupton 1 Department for Education URN112451 TablesHeadmasterDaniel HarrisonGenderMixedAge4 to 18Enrolment530 pupils Colour s Brown Former pupilsOld SedberghiansWebsitehttps www sedberghschool org Contents 1 History 2 Junior School 3 Rong Qiao Sedbergh School 4 House system 4 1 Senior houses 4 2 Junior houses 5 Extracurricular activities 5 1 Clubs and societies 5 2 Sport 5 2 1 Anti Assassins Rugby Club 6 Traditions 6 1 Wilson Run 6 2 School song 7 Buildings and features 7 1 Chapel 7 2 Chapel organ 7 3 War cloisters 8 Headmasters 9 Notable Old Sedberghians 9 1 Military 9 2 Politics and law 9 3 Business 9 4 The arts literature and humanities 9 5 Science and exploration 9 6 Sport 9 7 Religion 10 References 11 External linksHistory edit nbsp The school s playing fieldRoger Lupton was born at Cautley in the parish of Sedbergh Yorkshire in 1456 and he provided for a Chantry School in Sedbergh in 1525 while he was Provost of Eton 2 By 1528 land had been bought a school built probably on the site of the present school library and the foundation deed had been signed Lupton s subsequent donations to the school s Sedbergh scholars of numerous scholarships and fellowships to St John s College Cambridge succeeded in binding the school to St John s and gave the Cambridge college power over the appointment of Sedbergh s Headmasters Lupton s statutes state that if any of the last four of the St John s College scholarships are left vacant for a year unless for a reason approved by the provost and fellows of King s College Cambridge the lands are to revert to Lupton s next of kin Lupton added that he was certain that St John s would not be found negligent in so pious a work 3 It was this link to St John s that probably saved Sedbergh in 1546 48 when most chantries were dissolved and their assets seized by Henry VIII s Commission Sedbergh was re established and re endowed as a grammar school in 1551 and the fortunes of the school in the coming centuries seem to have depended very much on the character and abilities of the headmasters with pupil numbers fluctuating and reaching as low a total as 8 day boys in the early 19th century One particularly successful period was during the Headship of John Harrison Evans 1838 61 who restored the prestige and achievements of the school and also funded the building of the Market Hall and Reading Room in the town By 1857 the fellowships and scholarships which since Lupton s time had formed this link between the Sedbergh scholars and St John s College ceased to be specially connected with Sedbergh By 1860 the Lupton scholarships were combined and re arranged under the name of the Lupton and Hebblethwaite Exhibitions 4 A more independent Governing Body was established in 1874 in a successful bid to maintain Sedbergh s independence amalgamation with Giggleswick had been suggested and the first meeting took place in the Bull Inn in Sedbergh in December In the 1870s there was a tremendous amount of development and building work at Sedbergh under the careful eye of the headmaster Frederick Heppenstall This included the Headmaster s House now School House classrooms a chapel and four other boarding houses Henry George Hart took over as headmaster in 1880 and his tenure saw a new chapel built in 1897 the founding of the Old Sedberghian Club in 1897 98 the creation of the prefectorial system the inaugural Wilson run and the confirmation of the school motto Dura Virum Nutrix Stern Nurse of Men In 1989 the number of boys in the school exceeded 500 for the first time during the headship of Dr R G Baxter Two years later a new coat of arms was granted to the school and it was visited by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country s leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of 10 000 and all agreed to make ex gratia payments totalling 3 million into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared 5 6 The governing body decided to open the school to girls in 1999 and the first girls were admitted in 2001 7 While the pupils are still predominantly boys the number of girls attending has increased dramatically since the move into coeducation The previous headmaster Christopher Hirst brought in the change to co educational schooling from single sex In January 2009 the Junior School moved from Bentham to join the senior school in Sedbergh The Junior School has accommodation for both day and boarding boys and girls aged 3 13 On 26 February 2013 it was announced that the school would merge with Casterton School Despite its long history The Good Schools Guide notes how Sedbergh has faced up to the demands of the 21st century but managed to retain traditional values and ethos Its increasing numbers indicate parents very much approve It rightly retains its formidable reputation on the sports field but away from it provides a happy and caring environment for all its pupils regardless of ability or sports prowess 2 nbsp Sedbergh School from the fells nbsp Assembly in Powell Hall nbsp Sedbergh from Winder nbsp Sedbergh School LibraryJunior School editSedbergh Junior SchoolLocation nbsp InformationTypePreparatory day and boardingEstablished2002Department for Education URN121739 TablesHeadmasterWill NewmanGenderco educationalAge4 to 13Number of students200Houses2Websitehttp www sedberghschool org juniorThe junior school was opened in 2002 It was previously located on the site of the former Bentham Grammar School after it was closed and Sedbergh took over its premises In 2009 it moved to a site next to the main school 8 The school relocated again in September 2013 to the site of the former Casterton School for girls and is now known as Casterton Sedbergh Preparatory School Casterton was absorbed into Sedbergh with senior girls transferring to the main school and junior pupils remaining at the Casterton campus Boarding is offered to Junior School pupils aged 8 and above Rong Qiao Sedbergh School editOpened in 2018 Sedburgh s international school Rong Qiao Sedbergh School is located in Fuzhou Fujian Province China It is a partnership between Sedbergh School and the Rong Qiao Group Offering education for children from the ages of 3 to 18 its ethos draws on both English and Chinese teaching practice 10 of students are international students and 90 are Chinese nationals 9 10 House system editLike most traditional public schools the house system is incorporated with the boarding programme and most pupils are boarders Most pupils at Sedbergh live in a boarding house of which there are nine six for boys three for girls chosen when applying to the school It is here that he or she both sleeps and takes their daily meals Day pupils are fully integrated into the programme and participate in activities Houses compete amongst one another in school competitions such as debating academic challenge a University Challenge style quiz and House Unison a traditional singing competition and in particular in sporting competitions for example the seriously contested Senior Seniors Inter House rugby and the Wilson Run Houses are named mostly after illustrious Old Sedberghians or Headmasters Each house also has a set of house colours which adorns the blazers of boys and girls in fifth form and below as well as on various house sports clothing Pupils who throughout their school career demonstrate great service to their house are awarded their house colours by their Housemaster mistress Sedberghians take immense pride in being awarded house colours which take the form of a scarf and a tie in the colours of their house The boarding houses also each have their own house magazine named after the emblem of the house for example the magazine of Hart House is called The Jay written and edited by the pupils within the house Sedbergh Junior School now Casterton Sedbergh Preparatory School located in Casterton near Kirkby Lonsdale also has Cressbrook House for boarding boys and Beale for boarding girls Senior houses edit House Gender Colour EmblemEvans Boys Yellow WaspHart Boys Green JayPowell Boys Pink ChameleonSchool Boys Blue KingfisherSedgwick Boys Red Rouge et NoirWinder Boys Purple MoleLupton Girls White Black WolfRobertson Girls Turquoise ButterflyCarus Girls Red Blue EagleJunior houses edit Cressbrook House boys Beale House girls Thornfield House Senior prep school girls Extracurricular activities editClubs and societies edit Sedbergh offers outdoor pursuits as well as academic societies including The Headmaster s Society which is for Academic Scholars in the Sixth Form and chaired by the Headmaster It is a forum for debate and discussion of major topical issues based upon papers delivered by the pupils and it also hosts talks given by intellectuals and public figures The junior academic society is known as the Phoenix Society Sedbergh s other academic club is the Dinner Debating Society which meets twice termly for black tie dinner debates hosted by Housemasters citation needed Sedbergh s has an Outdoor Pursuits Club Activities organised in the local area by the club include climbing gill scrambling and pot holing as well as mountain biking and fell walking Sport edit Sedbergh has a sporting tradition 11 12 Many Old Sedberghians have national caps and international tournament experience or have represented the school at county or national level 2 13 14 Sedbergh is renowned for producing rugby football players including the England captains Wavell Wakefield John Spencer and Will Carling and the world cup winner Will Greenwood Sedbergh is represented in the Rugby Union Guinness Premiership at the time of writing by seven players at first or second team level in four different clubs In November 2010 the school rugby team was named School Team of the Year at the Aviva Daily Telegraph School Sport Matters Awards after going the entire previous season undefeated 15 The school has hosted Cumberland and Minor Counties cricket matches on several occasions 16 In 2019 Lancashire County Cricket Club played their County Championship match against Durham at Sedbergh School They also faced Essex there in 2023 17 nbsp Sedbergh School Cricket Club vs MCC nbsp Sedbergh School rugby ball taken into space by the crew of Discovery for the STS 56 missionAnti Assassins Rugby Club edit The Anti Assassins Rugby Club A As was founded in 1950 when Sedbergh Old Boys were invited to pick a Northern team to play against the masters and Old Boys The Assassins of Sedbergh School Now this invitational team plays as SpoonAAs Spoon Anti Assassins as it raises funds for the Wooden Spoon charity Traditions editAs with many English public schools Sedbergh has developed its own traditions unique to the school Wilson Run edit nbsp Start line of the Wilson RunOne of the unique school traditions is the Wilson Run also known as the Ten Mile or The Ten it is named after Bernard Wilson the first housemaster of Sedgwick House The race distance is just over 10 miles 10 miles 385 yards about 7 miles of which crosses the surrounding fells with the rest going along roads Pupils must qualify to take part in the race over an 11 mile training route which covers most of the race route The race is one of the longest hardest and most gruelling school runs in the country and has been a tradition for well over 100 years The run has been cancelled only three times owing to epidemic 1936 snow 1947 and the foot and mouth epidemic School song edit Winder is the school song for Sedbergh School named after the fell that dominates the northern skyline of the school The hill is a gateway to the Howgill Fells and school tradition dictates that pupils must climb it at least once during their time at Sedbergh The song is sung at all major school events such as the Wilson Run Buildings and features editChapel edit nbsp Sedbergh School ChapelMain article Sedbergh School Chapel This was built in Perpendicular style in 1895 97 and was designed by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley 18 19 Chapel organ edit The school took delivery of a custom built four manual organ console in November 2015 which replaced an organ that was acquired from the Church of St Mary Magdalene Hucknall This two manual instrument had been built by Nigel Church and moved to the school by David Wells in 1994 The instrument can now be found in a church in Lincolnshire War cloisters edit The cloisters at Sedbergh are a monument to old boys and masters of the school killed during the Great War and the Second World War The cloisters were dedicated in 1924 and then re dedicated after the Second World War The cloisters were restored and partially rebuilt in 2005 and on Remembrance Day again re dedicated after an appeal had raised over 130 000 for the necessary work The school also has a separate memorial for Old Sedberghians awarded the Victoria Cross of which there are four Brigadier Jock Campbell who won the Military Cross in the First World War and the Victoria Cross at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in the Second and was a member of Evans House Three of the Old Sedberghian winners of the Victoria Cross were Old Sedgwickians RJT Digby Jones at Wagon Hill in 1900 in the Boer War George Ward Gunn at Sidi Rezegh in 1941 and Kenneth Campbell over Brest Harbour also in 1941 Four Battle of Britain pilots attended the school Pilot Officer Desmond Kay DFC amp Bar Pilot Officer Noel Benson were killed during the war but Flt Lt Kenneth Stoddart AE and Flying Officer Alec Worthington survived nbsp Sedbergh School Cloisters nbsp Replica George and Victoria Crosses won by Sedberghians nbsp Main School from the top of the cloisters nbsp Sedbergh School CloistersHeadmasters edit1525 1543 Henry Blomeyr 1544 1570 Robert Hebblethwaite 1585 1623 John Mayer O S 1623 1646 Gilbert Nelson 1646 1648 Richard Garthwayte O S a i 1648 1656 Richard Jackson 1657 1662 James Buchanan 1662 1674 Edward Fell O S 1674 1706 Posthumus Wharton 1706 1709 Thomas Dwyer 1709 1741 Dr Samuel Saunders 1742 1746 William Broxholme 1746 1782 Wynne Batemen O S 1782 1799 Christopher Hull O S 1799 1819 William Stevens 1819 1838 Henry Wilkinson 1838 Hartley Coleridge a i 1838 1861 Rev John Harrison Evans 1861 1874 Henry George Day 1875 1879 Rev Frederick H Heppenstall 1880 1900 Henry George Hart 1900 1907 Charles Lowry 1907 1912 Frederic Blagden Malim 1912 1926 William Nassau Weech 1927 1936 G B Smith 1937 1954 John Harold Bruce Lockhart O S 1954 1975 Gervase Michael Cobham Thornely 1975 1982 Peter J Attenborough 1982 1995 Roger George Baxter 1995 2010 Christopher Halliwell Hirst 2010 2018 Andrew P Fleck 2018 Daniel J HarrisonNotable Old Sedberghians editMain category People educated at Sedbergh School This article s list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia s verifiability policy Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations May 2018 Military edit Major General Henry Templer Alexander CB CBE DSO Army Commander Lt Colonel John William Balfour Paul DSO Scottish Officer of Arms Major General Jock Campbell VC DSO and Bar MC a commander of the 7th Armoured Division and recipient of the Victoria Cross Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell VC Royal Air Force pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross General Sir Robert Archibald Cassels GCB GCSI DSO Indian Army officer Colonel Freddie Spencer Chapman DSO and Bar ED naturalist mountaineer explorer war hero Group Captain Walter Myers Churchill DSO DFC Royal Air Force Second World War Air Commodore Duncan le Geyt Pitcher CMG CBE DSO RAF Army and Royal Air Force Lieutenant Robert James Thomas Digby Jones VC Royal Engineers Officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross Lieutenant General Sir Andrew Richard Gregory KBE CB British Army officer Second Lieutenant George Ward Gunn VC MC Royal Horse Artillery Officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross Major David F O Russell MC FRSE 20th century businessman philanthropist and noted war hero Major General Jonathan David Shaw CB CBE British Army officer and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Sir Jock Slater GCB LVO DL First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff General Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea GCB KCMG DSO British Army officer Wing Commander Sir Kenneth Stoddart KCVO KStJ AE JP LLD Battle of Britain pilot Major General Michael Walsh CB DSO British Army Officer and Chief ScoutPolitics and law edit William George Ainslie ironmaster and MP for North Lonsdale 1885 1892 Glencairn Balfour Paul CMG British Ambassador to Iraq Jordan and Tunisia Thomas Bingham Baron Bingham of Cornhill Senior Law Lord former Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice 20 Brendan Bracken 1st Viscount Bracken Politician businessman and associate of Winston Churchill Sandy Bruce Lockhart Baron Bruce Lockhart OBE Chairman of the Local Government Association Bill Carritt Communist revolutionary Carritt family member college lecturer humanitarian aid organiser campaigner for the Scottsboro Boys Noel Carritt Communist revolutionary Carritt family member International Brigadier head of biology at Dr Challoner s Grammar School Michael Carritt Communist revolutionary Carritt family member anti colonial spy expert on Indian politics philosophy lecturer at Oxford University Sir Alan Chambre English judge Sir Hugh Cortazzi Author diplomat and prominent Japanologist Sir Maurice Dorman Governor General of Sierra Leone and Colonial Governor of Malta Richard Bostock Dorman CBE Diplomat and High Commissioner Professor Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward Scottish lawyer and academic and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities Edward John Eyre Explorer and Governor of Jamaica Sir Russell Fairgrieve politician Sir Michael Bowen Hanley KCB Head of MI5 Baron Haskel of Higher Broughton Labour Party politician Laurence Helsby Baron Helsby Head of British Civil Service H Montgomery Hyde author and politician John Lowther 1st Viscount Lonsdale First Lord of the Treasury and Lord Privy Seal James Lupton Baron Lupton Conservative peer Count Andrew McMillan Baron of Cleghorn philanthropist 21 James MacColl politician Sir Richard McCombe Lord Justice of Appeal Brian McConnell Baron McConnell Northern Ireland politician and member of the House of Lords Stephen O Brien Conservative Party Member of Parliament Sir John Otway Lawyer and Royalist citation needed Charles Peat Politician and Principal Private Secretary to Winston Churchill Sir Francis Powell 1st Baronet Conservative Party Member of Parliament Sir Robert Rhodes James politician and author Robert Rowland Member European Parliament South East England The Brexit Party Sir Michael Alexander Geddes Sachs First English solicitor appointed as a High Court judge Sir Giles Shaw Politician wrote his memoir In the Long Run published by the Memoir Club Michael Shaw Baron Shaw of Northstead Politician Sir Thomas Broun Smith 1915 1988 QC FBA FRSE etc Scots jurist and Professor of Law Joseph Stanley Snowden British Liberal Party politician and barrister John Studholme British pioneer of New Zealand farmer and politician David Waddington Baron Waddington British Home Secretary Lord Privy Seal Leader of the House of Lords Governor of Bermuda Robert Warnock Circuit judge David Wood Circuit judgeBusiness edit Montague Ainslie Forester and businessman Kenny Hirst Sewell Academic Sporting Legend Managing Director of Taylor Maxwell Adam Applegarth Ex CEO of Northern Rock bank Philip Hedley Bowcock CEO of William Hill Plc Christian Bjelland Norwegian businessman and chairman of the National Gallery of Norway Sir Christopher Bland Chairman of B T Group businessman and former Chairman of the BBC John Charlesworth Dodgson Charlesworth Colliery owner and M P Sir Roger Gifford Banker Alderman and Lord Mayor of London Sir Mark Hudson Former Chairman of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster James Lupton Lord Lupton of Lovington Banker Trustee of the British Museum Sir John Hubert Worthington English architectThe arts literature and humanities edit John Arden dramatist 22 Greig Barr Fellow and Rector of Exeter College Oxford Sir John Christopher Malcolm Baynes 7th Bt author Simon Beaufoy Screenwriter and 2009 Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire Wrote The Full Monty 23 Leonard Boden Scottish portrait painter Timothy Birdsall Cartoonist Colin Blakely British character actor JB Blanc British film actor William George Clark English classical and Shakespearean scholar Henry Wilkinson Cookson Master of Peterhouse Cambridge and five times Vice Chancellor of Cambridge William Craven Master of St John s College Cambridge and Vice Chancellor of Cambridge Ernest Crawley English schoolmaster sexologist anthropologist sports journalist and exponent of ball games Hugh I Anson Fausset Literary critic biographer poet and religious writer Arthur Foxton Ferguson English baritone lecturer and German translator Assheton Gorton Production designer and Academy Award nominee Mark Herman film director and screenwriter Tim Kevan English writer and barrister Francis Llewellyn Griffith British Egyptologist Rab Bruce Lockhart Scottish educationist and rugby union player Dugald Bruce Lockhart actor Phillip Mason author Alan Macfarlane Professor Emeritus of Anthropology King s College Cambridge Colin Matthew historian and the first editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Fergus McDonell film editor and director Jim Muir BBC Middle East correspondent Nigel D Oram public servant military officer and anthropologist Barry Pain journalist poet and writer George Edwards Peacock eminent Australian colonial artist Adam Rickitt actor singer model and one time Conservative parliamentary candidate F A Ridley historian and Marxist Simon Slater musician and TV and film actor Richard Smyth English school headmaster and cricketer Sir Archibald Strong Australian scholar and poet Richard Suart Opera singer and actor Mark Umbers actor theatre and film Adrian Gibson musician trumpet theatre shows Jackson 5 Jimmy Osmond various TV and Radio appearances Roger Vignoles piano accompanist James Walker ne Chalton member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and screen actor John Dawson Watson British painter and illustrator James Wilby actor William John Woodhouse classical scholar and author Tyson Yoshi a Hong Kong singerA former teacher at the school was Henry Watson Fowler the writer of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Science and exploration edit Peter Addyman British archaeologist Wilfred Eade Agar Anglo Australian zoologist 24 Anthony Askew Physician and book collector Peter Barwick English physician and author George Birkbeck doctor academic philanthropist and early pioneer in adult education Christopher Chippindale Stonehenge archaeologist John Cranke mathematician and mentor John Dawson surgeon and mathematician G M B Dobson Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Meteorological Society Anthony Fothergill Physician John Fothergill Physician plant collector philanthropist Thomas Garnett English physician and natural philosopher Thomas Gaskin Clergyman and academic now known for contributions to mathematics John Hammersley British mathematician John Haygarth physician who discovered the benefits of segregating quarantining sick patients John Hymers English mathematician Fellow of the Royal Society and founder of Hymers College John Walter Guerrier Lund CBE FRS English psychologist Sir Roderick McQuhae Mackenzie of Scatwell 12th Bt Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 25 Dr Digby McLaren Geologist and palaeontologist Edward Max Nicholson Founder of the World Wildlife Fund George Peacock English mathematician Sir Isaac Pennington Physician James Hogarth Pringle Pioneer in surgical practice Adam Sedgwick Founder of modern geology Edmund Sharpe Architect and engineer George Sherriff OBE Scottish explorer and plant collector Robert Swan OBE Polar explorer the first man in history to walk to both the North and South Poles Roger Cuthbert Wakefield Surveyor Robert Willan the father of modern dermatology Mark Alexander Wynter Blyth Lepidopterist and schoolmaster Professor Ian Young OBE Engineering innovator in medicineSport edit David Barnes Chairman of the Professional Rugby Players Association James Botham Wales rugby union player Harry Brook England cricketer John Bruce Lockhart Scottish cricketer and schoolmaster Logie Bruce Lockhart Scotland rugby union player and headmaster of Gresham s School Will Carling OBE England rugby union captain 2 Jordan Clark Professional cricketer fifth ever to score six sixes in an over Harold Cox cricketer Simon Cross rugby union Arthur Dorward Scotland rugby union captain Ewan Dowes rugby league Phil Dowson England rugby union player Rob Elloway German rugby union international Carl Fearns rugby union Tomas Francis Wales rugby union international Mahika Gaur England cricket international Will Greenwood MBE England rugby union player 26 Jamie Harrison cricketer 27 George Hill England County Cricketer Peter Kininmonth Scotland rugby union captain Mike McCarthy Ireland rugby union international Mandy Mitchell Innes England cricketer James Park Johnson first class cricketer Cameron Redpath Scotland international rugby union player Matt Revis England County Cricketer Bevan Rodd England Rugby Union player James Rogers first class cricketer Chris Sanders first class cricketer Archie Scott Scottish first class cricketer oldest ever living Scottish first class cricketer James Simpson Daniel England rugby union player 28 Robert Skene first class cricketer John Spencer England rugby union captain David Tait rugby union Freddie Tait golfer Wavell Wakefield 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal England rugby union captain Abbie Ward nee Scott England rugby union playerJames Walkinshaw Scotland Touch World Cup 2019 amp Euro 2023 Religion edit Nicholas John Willoughby Barker British Anglican priest John Barwick Royalist churchman and Dean of St Paul s Cathedral Francis Blackburne Archdeacon Henry Lowther Clarke first Archbishop of Melbourne Ingram Cleasby Dean of Chester John Duckett Catholic priest and martyr Sir George Fleming Bishop of Carlisle Walker King Bishop of Rochester Thomas Kipling Early churchman and academic Christopher Charles Luxmoore Bishop of Bermuda William Stuart MacPherson Dean of Lichfield Christopher John Mayfield Bishop of Wolverhampton and Bishop of Manchester Rt Rev Thomas Otway Seventeenth century Anglican bishop in Ireland Richard Parkinson Canon of Manchester Cathedral college principal theologian and antiquarian Michael Peck Dean of Lincoln Reginald Richard Roseveare Anglican bishop James Wilson Theologian and astronomer Tom Wright Bishop of Durham and a leading British New Testament scholar References edit The School permanent dead link a b c d History of the school Archived 2012 06 14 at the Wayback Machine Arthur Francis Leach 18 April 2013 Early Yorkshire Schools Cambridge University Press 18 avr 2013 Originally published by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1903 page 296 ISBN 9781108058599 Retrieved 31 January 2015 William Thomas Sedbergh Garsdale and Dent peeps at the past history and present condition of some picturesque Yorkshire dales Leeds Richard Jackson 1910 Page 127 Retrieved 28 January 2015 OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement Office of Fair Trading 21 December 2006 Archived from the original on 10 June 2008 School to answer unfair trading allegations Westmorland Gazette 25 November 2005 School welcomes girls Westmorland Gazette 7 September 2001 New location Junior on a high North West Evening Mail 19 January 2009 Archived from the original on 6 January 2014 Sedbergh School Vacancies Sedbergh School Retrieved 22 February 2022 Rong Qiao Sedbergh School About the school Rong Qiao Sedbergh School Retrieved 22 February 2022 Music and academic focus for Sedbergh School Westmorland Gazette 18 October 2010 Archived from the original on 18 September 2012 A leader in sporting tradition Westmorland Gazette 13 January 2006 Archived from the original on 29 November 2014 School Sport English fell title for South Lakes pupils Westmorland Gazette 14 October 2010 Rugby Sedbergh Trio in England U18 squad Westmorland Gazette 7 February 2007 School sport Sedbergh school wins Team of the Year accolade Westmorland Gazette 15 November 2010 Archived from the original on 12 September 2012 County net invitation North West Evening Mail 13 February 2004 Archived from the original on 10 June 2015 MATCH PREVIEW Lancashire v Essex Metro Bank One Day Cup Lancashire County Cricket Club Retrieved 1 August 2023 Historic England Chapel at Sedbergh School 1384171 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 11 December 2012 Brandwood Geoff Austin Tim Hughes John Price James 2012 The Architecture of Sharpe Paley and Austin Swindon English Heritage pp 146 147 ISBN 978 1 84802 049 8 BINGHAM OF CORNHILL Who s Who 2008 A amp C Black 2008 online edn Oxford University Press Dec 2007 accessed 29 Nov 2008 Obituary Count Andrew McMillan Baron of Cleghorn ARDEN John Who s Who 2008 A amp C Black 2008 online edn Oxford University Press Dec 2007 accessed 29 Nov 2008 Sedbergh s glittering old boy Slumdog Simon North West Evening Mail 27 February 2009 Archived from the original on 10 June 2015 AGAR Wilfred Eade Who Was Who A amp C Black 1920 2007 online edn Oxford University Press Dec 2007 accessed 29 Nov 2008 S37 BP2003 volume 2 page 2504 See link for full details for this source Hereinafter cited as S37 RUGBY Another England star from Sedbergh Westmorland Gazette 6 November 2002 Player profile Jamie Harrison CricketArchive Retrieved 26 May 2012 England go for Sedbergh double act Westmorland Gazette 8 November 2002 External links edit nbsp Media related to Sedbergh School at Wikimedia Commons School Website Old Sedberghian Club Profile on the ISC website ISI Inspection Reports Junior School and Senior School School League Tables for Cumbria Daily Telegraph Website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sedbergh School amp oldid 1185298334, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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