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{{Short description|Public school in Lincolnshire, England}}
'''Stamford School''' is an English [[public school (England)|public school]] in the market town of [[Stamford, Lincolnshire|Stamford]], [[Lincolnshire]]. It was founded in [[1532]] by a local man, [[William Radcliffe]], with the encouragement of [[Lady Margaret Beaufort]], mother of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]], though there is evidence to suggest that a school existed from the beginning of the fourteenth century. As a [[Roman Catholic]] [[chantry]] school, it fell foul of the [[Protestant]] reformers and was only saved from destruction under the Chantries Act of [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] by the personal intervention of Sir [[William Cecil]] (later Lord Burghley) who worked in the service of Edward Seymour, [[Duke of Somerset]] and who secured a specific [[Act of Parliament]] ensuring its survival. Apart from the chantries of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] universities, only those of [[Eton College|Eton]], [[Winchester College|Winchester]], Berkhamsted, St Albans and Stamford schools survived.
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| motto = Christ Me Spede
| established = {{start date and age|1532}}
| closed =
| type = [[Public school (United Kingdom)|Public school]]<br>[[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Private]] day and boarding
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| president =
| head_label = Headmaster
| head = Mark Steed (Until August 2025)
Chris Seal (From August 2025)
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| founder = William Radcliffe
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| address = St Paul's Street
| city = [[Stamford, Lincolnshire|Stamford]]
| county = [[Lincolnshire]]
| country = England
| postcode = PE9 2BQ
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| lower_age = 11
| upper_age = 18
| gender = All Genders
| houses = Day – Beale/Ancaster, Anderson/Brazenose, Exeter/Cavell, Radcliffe/Eliot. Boarding - Browne, Byard, Park, St Paul's, Welland, Wothorpe.
| colours = Navy, maroon
{{color box|Navy}} {{color box|Maroon}}
| publication = The Stamfordian
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[[File:Stamford School - illuminated at night.jpg|thumb|right|Front of Stamford School House]]
Teaching is believed to have begun in the magnificent Corpus Christi chapel of Stamford's twelfth century church of St Mary, but by 1566 was taking place in the remaining portion of the demolished St Paul's Church, originally built no later than 1152. This building continued in use as a school room until the early 20th century when it was reclaimed and extended and, in 1930, returned to use as a chapel. Some thirty years later a musicologically interesting nineteenth century Gray and Davidson pipe organ was installed although, regrettably, this was removed in the 1990s and replaced with an electronic substitute. Over the centuries, the school has built or absorbed 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings, besides the site of a further demolished medieval church (Holy Trinity/St Stephen's) and remains of the hall of [[Brasenose College]] built by the sessionists from the [[University of Oxford]] in the 14th century.
'''Stamford School''' is a co-educational [[independent school (UK)|independent school]] in [[Stamford, Lincolnshire]] in the English [[Public School (United Kingdom)|public school]] tradition. Founded in 1532, it has been a member of the [[Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference]] since 1920. With the former [[Stamford High School, Lincolnshire|Stamford High School]] and the coeducational Stamford Junior School, it is part of the Stamford Endowed Schools (SES). From September 2023, Stamford became co-educational.
The right of appointment of the school's Master, a position hotly contested in past centuries on account of the post's disproportionately large salary, was shared between the Mayor of Stamford and the Master of [[St John's College, Cambridge]]. This arrangement continues to be reflected in the fact that both Stamford Town Council and St John's College have nominees on the school's governing body.


==History==
[[Image:IMG_0576tfs2.jpg|thumb|380px|right|Front of Stamford School House]]Stamford School has a sister school, [[Stamford High School, Lincolnshire|Stamford High School]], which was founded in 1877. In recent years, the two have been united under the leadership of a single Principal as the Stamford Endowed Schools. This organisation now comprises Stamford Junior School, a co-educational establishment for pupils aged between 2 and 11 years, Stamford School for boys aged 11-18, and Stamford High School catering for girls of the same age group. Sixth Form teaching is carried out jointly between Stamford School and Stamford High School.
{{More citations needed|section|date=September 2021}}
The school was founded in 1532<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ses.lincs.sch.uk/page/?pid=313 |title=Stamford Endowed Schools {{!}} Independent Day and Boarding School – History of the School |website=www.ses.lincs.sch.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220140702/http://www.ses.lincs.sch.uk/page/?pid=313 |archive-date=2016-12-20}}</ref> by a local merchant and [[alderman]], William Radcliffe, who had been encouraged when younger by [[Lady Margaret Beaufort]], (died 1509) mother of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]], though there is evidence to suggest that a school existed from the beginning of the fourteenth century. Founded as a [[chantry]] school, it fell foul of the Protestant reformers and was only saved from destruction under the [[Chantry#Abolition of Chantries Acts.2C 1545 and 1547|Chantries Act]] of [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] by the personal intervention of Sir [[William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley|William Cecil]] (later Lord Burghley) who worked in the service of [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset]] and who secured a specific [[Act of Parliament]] in 1548 ensuring its survival. Apart from the chantries of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, only those of [[Eton College]], [[Winchester College]], [[Berkhamsted School|Berkhamsted]], [[St Albans School (Hertfordshire)|St Albans]] and Stamford schools survived.


[[File:Stamford Brazenose Knocker.jpg|thumb|left|upright|A 1961 copy of the original Brazenose knocker is mounted on a gate]]
Stamford School has four senior (Y10-Y13) [[House system|houses]]. These are called Brazenose (sic), Radcliffe, Ancaster and Exeter. There are also two [[boarding houses]] called Byard, for boys aged 11 to 14, and [[Browne House, Stamford|Browne]], which houses boys aged 14 to 18. The four junior (Y7-Y9) [[House system|houses]] are Cecil (feeder house to Exeter), Willoughby (feeder house to Ancaster), St. Paul’s (feeder house to Radcliffe) and St Peter’s (feeder house to Brazenose).
[[File:Brazenose House from Stamford School - geograph.org.uk - 601606.jpg|thumb|right|Brazenose House]]
Teaching is believed to have begun in the Corpus Christi chapel of Stamford's twelfth-century [[St Mary's Church, Stamford|St Mary's Church]], but by 1566 was taking place in the remaining portion of the redundant [[St Paul's Church, Stamford|St Paul's Church]], originally built no later than 1152. This building continued in use as a school room until the early twentieth century when it was restored and extended and, in 1930, returned to use as a chapel. In 1961, a nineteenth-century [[Gray and Davison]] [[pipe organ]] was installed<ref>{{NPOR|id=R01446|desc=Lincolnshire Stamford, Stamford School, St. Paul's Street|access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref> although this was removed in the 1990s and replaced with an electronic substitute. Over its history the school has built or absorbed seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings, besides the site of a further demolished medieval church (Holy Trinity/St Stephen's) and remains of [[Stamford University (England)|Brazenose College]] built by the secessionists from the University of Oxford in the fourteenth century. [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] bought Brazenose House in 1890 to recover the original medieval brass Brazenose knocker.<ref>{{cite web|last1= Sheehan|first1= Nicholas|title=The Brazenose Site in Stamford|url=http://www.stamfordlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/publications/brazenose-site-stamford-0|website=Stamford Local History Society|access-date=14 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Madan|first1=F|title=The Brazen Nose|url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/downloads/archives/Brazen_Nose_explained_F._Madan_1890_B1234.pdf|website=Brasenose College|access-date=14 April 2017}}</ref>


The right of appointment of the school's [[principal (education)|master]], a position hotly contested in past centuries on account of the post's disproportionately large salary, was shared between the Mayor of Stamford and the Master of [[St John's College, Cambridge]]. Both Stamford Town Council and St John's College still have nominees on the school's governing body. Stamford School had a sister school, [[Stamford High School, Lincolnshire|Stamford High School]] which was founded in 1877. It closed in 2023 as part of the co-educational merger with Stamford School.<ref name=":0" /> The funds for the foundation of the High School and the further [[financial endowment]] of the existing boys' school were appropriated from the endowment of [[Browne's Hospital, Stamford|Browne's Hospital]] by Act of Parliament in 1871. This trust had been established for the relief of poverty by [[William Browne (Mayor of the Calais Staple)|William Browne]] (died 1489), another wealthy wool merchant and alderman of the town, and his gift is commemorated in the name of a school house.
The house names, which date back over half a century, reflect various aspects of the school's history. Brazenose and Radcliffe traditionally housed town boys, while Ancaster and Exeter accommodated boys who lived north and south respectively of the [[River Welland]]. While this used to be the case however, it is no longer so. Since September 2005 the houses have been selected randomly or, as some suspect, deliberately to ensure an even distribution of sportsmen, musicians and academics.


From 1975, [[Lincolnshire County Council]] purchased places at Stamford School and Stamford High School on the basis that Stamford had no LEA grammar school (unlike the county's other towns). This local form of the [[Assisted Places Scheme]] provided funding to send children to the two schools that were formerly [[Direct grant grammar school|direct-grant grammars]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3309410/Last-stronghold-of-assisted-pupils-faces-legal-threat.html "Last stronghold of assisted pupils faces legal threat"] by Julie Henry, ''The Daily Telegraph'' 23 March 2003</ref> The national Assisted Places Scheme was ended by the Labour government in 1997 but the Stamford arrangements remained in place as an increasingly protracted transitional arrangement. In 2006, Lincolnshire County Council agreed to taper down from 50 the number of county scholarships to the Stamford Endowed Schools so that there would be no new scholarships from 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stamford Endowed Schools Scholarship Tapering – Interim (8th Year) Review; 6 March 2015 |url=https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s9505/Stamford%20Scholarship%20Tapering.pdf |website=Lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk |publisher=Lincolnshire County Council |access-date=17 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Private pupils' subsidy to finish |url= https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/5149770.stm |access-date=17 March 2019 |work=BBC News |date=5 July 2006}}</ref>
Additional boarding houses within the Stamford Endowed Schools are St. Michaels (Junior school boys and girls), Welland (Girls from the age of 14 to 17 ), and Park (Girls sixth form accommodation, 17-18).


In recent years, the two schools were united under the leadership of a single principal as the Stamford Endowed Schools. This organisation comprised Stamford Junior School, a co-educational establishment for pupils aged between 2 and 11 years and Stamford School and Stamford High School for students aged 11–18. Sixth form teaching was carried out jointly between Stamford School and Stamford High School.<ref>{{cite web |title=Co-educational School |url=https://stamfordcoed.org/ |website=stamfordcoed.org |access-date=12 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522111155/https://stamfordcoed.org/ |archive-date=May 22, 2023 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref> This was referred to as the [[diamond school]] model.
==Uniform ==
All boys wear black or charcoal-grey trousers and a school blazer, which is navy blue. The school's emblem is a stork sitting on a wool sack displayed over the motto ''+ me spede'' meaning Christ me Spede, derived from the armorial bearings of medieval wool merchant William Browne. It is worn on the breast pocket of the blazer. Most boys wear a maroon crest, although school prefects wear a white one. House prefects, in the lower school, wear a maroon crest with a maroon ribbon attached to the top of the pocket. Blue crests are worn by fifth-form prefects. Badges, awarded for extensive house activity are worn usually on the left lapel. Boys can be seen wearing an array of different school ties. Every boy receives his tie specific to his house upon joining to school, but may be awarded others as a mark of his achievements through the school. These include House Colours, Representative Colours, and Full and Half School Colours. Stamford School Club ties are worn on Saturdays by boys representing the school in the day's fixtures.


In 2012 the Memorial Sports Centre was opened by Lord Sebastian Coe. The facility contains a 25m swimming pool, replacing the outdoor Memorial Swimming Pool which opened in 1956. This was followed by the opening of the multi-million pound Wothorpe Sports Centre in 2022, built opposite Stamford Junior School on Wothorpe Road.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History & Heritage |url=https://stamfordschools.org.uk/about/history-heritage |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Stamford School |language=en}}</ref>
== Songs ==
Stamford School has a number of school songs that are, or were, sung in the chapel or at assemblies in the school hall. Besides the perennial favourite [[And did those feet in ancient time|Jerusalem]], the more formal songs were the Latin 'Carmen Stamfordiense', written by a Victorian Headmaster, Dr D.J.J. Barnard, and the more generic [[Dulce Domum]]. Barnard's 'Carmen' runs:


Stamford Endowed Schools became co-educational from September 2023 and fully co-educational in every year group from 2024. The High School site is now used as the Sixth Form campus, named 'St Martin's'.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Co-educational School |url=https://stamfordcoed.org/ |website=stamfordcoed.org |access-date=12 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522111155/https://stamfordcoed.org/ |archive-date=May 22, 2023 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref>
''Musa vocat; quemque talem<br />''
''Fas audire monitum<br />''
''Et praebere se vocalem<br />''
''Nunc si nunquam iterum:<br />''
''Inter nos qui nunc cantamus<br />''
''Floreat concordia<br />''
''Teque semper efferamus<br />''
''Laudibus, Stamfordia!<br />''


Since 1885 ''The Stamfordian'' has been the school magazine of Stamford School.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stamfordian {{!}} Browse {{!}} Stamford Endowed Schools |url=http://www.stamfordschoolsarchive.co.uk/authenticated/Browse.aspx?SectionID=141&tableName=ta_stamfordian |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=www.stamfordschoolsarchive.co.uk}}</ref> Currently published annually in the Autumn term, it provides for current pupils and parents as well as Old Stamfordians and prospective parents an account of a year in the life of the school.
''Surgat vox totius chori<br />''
''(Procul hinc silentium)<br />''
''Nostro bono fundatori<br />''
''Principi burgensium:<br />''
''Quater summis hic potitus<br />''
''Senior honoribus<br />''
''Scholam nostram, non oblitus,<br />''
''Dedit junioribus.<br />''


==School crest==
''Quod est bonum, quod decorum<br />''
[[File:Stamford School Cricket Pavilion - geograph.org.uk - 4051564.jpg|thumb|The thatched cricket pavilion]]
''Nos colamus strenui,<br />''
The school's crest is a [[stork]] (the ''spede bird'') with wings displayed on a [[wool bale]] over the motto ''+ me spede'', that is ''Christ me spede''. The emblem was adopted from medieval wool merchant, [[William Browne (Mayor of the Calais Staple)|William Browne]], after the school had been re-endowed from Browne's Charity in 1873.<ref>{{cite web |title=The staircase |url=https://www.stamfordcivicsociety.org.uk/staircase.html |website=Stamfordcivicsociety.org.uk |access-date=7 June 2020}}</ref> (The stork is supposed to be a [[rebus]] on his wife, Margaret's maiden name of Stoke). The current form was designed by [[Nelson Dawson]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}
''Nec inculti simus morum,<br />''
''Fortes et ingenui:<br />''
''Timor Dei, regis honos<br />''
''Impleant praecordia;<br />''
''Filios sic alens bonos<br />''
''Floreat Stamfordia!<br />''


==Notable alumni (Old Stamfordians)==
In the early years of the 20th century, however, one of the [[masters]], A.W.S Cowie, who later served as Second Lieutenant in the [[Lincolnshire Regiment]] and was killed at the [[Battle of the Somme (1916)|Battle of the Somme]], composed a more light-hearted song. This piece, sung to the tune of ''[[The Vicar of Bray (song)|The Vicar of Bray]]'' became increasingly popular and was gradually adopted as, in effect, the [[school song]]. It runs:
{{See also|Category:People educated at Stamford School}}
{{More citations needed|section|date=September 2021}}


===Politics and public service===
''In Father Time's remoter days<br />''
* [[Nick Anstee]], [[Lord Mayor of London]]<ref name="anstee">{{cite web| url = http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/committees/member/displayMemberDetail.aspx?id=55 | title = City of London Member Details | publisher = [[City of London]] |access-date = 11 February 2012}}</ref>
''By strange coincidences,<br />''
* [[Simon Burns]], Conservative MP for West Chelmsford, [[Minister of State]]<ref name="grauniad1">{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/01/conservatives.politics |work= [[The Guardian]] |title= Which Tory went where? |access-date=11 February 2012 |location=London |date=2 June 2007}}</ref>
''Noah built the ark, and someone else<br />''
* [[John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter]], MP for [[Stamford (UK Parliament constituency)|Stamford]], [[Grand Tourist]] and connoisseur
'''Schola Stamfordiensis<br />'''
* [[William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley]], Lord High Treasurer of England and chief advisor to [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Notable Alumni |url=https://stamfordschools.org.uk/old-stamfordians/notable-alumni |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Stamford School |language=en}}</ref>
''And fools be they that do suppose<br />''
* [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe]], newspaper magnate, founder of the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' and ''[[Daily Mirror]]'', owner of ''[[The Times]]''<ref name=":1" />
''This is exaggeration,<br />''
* [[J. F. Horrabin]], Labour MP for Peterborough, journalist and broadcaster
''For nobody our founder knows<br />''
* Sir [[Thomas Wilson (record keeper)|Thomas Wilson]], author, translator, diplomat, Member of Parliament, Keeper of the King's Records
''Or date of our foundation.''

(Chorus)

''For we maintain, as age in wine<br />''
''Improves its excellences<br />''
''Rare virtue fills in every line<br />''
'''Schola Stamfordiensis.'''

''Yet age has brought us no decay<br />''
''And though our School's a small one,<br />''
''We still succeed in learning here<br />''
''That life and duty's all one.<br />
''Some of our sons all men may find<br />''
''High in the lists of Glory -<br />''
''Recording Angel, keep, we pray,<br />''
''Our humbler heroes' story.<br />''

(Chorus)

''Mens sana we develop here<br />''
''By things like Greek and Science;<br />''
''And corpus sanum by our games<br />''
''Of skill and self-reliance:<br />''
''Whilst over Brain and Hand alike<br />''
''Stands Discipline, physician<br />''
''To purify and train the Heart<br />''
''In its correct position.<br />''

(Chorus)

''Then keep it up! While England's schools<br />''
''Uphold their reputation,<br />''
''Old England has no cause to fear<br />''
''A canine destination.<br />''
''Let shivering rogues lament the times<br />''
''And future consequences<br />''
''We shall not fear,'' '''Dum Floreat'''<br />
'''Schola Stamfordiensis!'''<br />

And despite both the identity of the founder and date of the foundation being subsequently established beyond any doubt, the song continues to endure.<br />''

==Distinguished Alumni (Old Stamfordians)==
Stamford School is alma mater to many distinguished alumni, a number of whom have their own Wikipedia entry. They include:

===Politics===

* [[Lord Burghley|William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley]], Lord High Treasurer of England and chief advisor to [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]]

* [[Simon Burns]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for West [[Chelmsford]], [[Parliamentary Under Secretary]]

* John Cecil, 5th [[Earl of Exeter]], MP for Stamford, [[Grand Tour]]ist and connoisseur

* [[J.F. Horrabin]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for Peterborough, radical, journalist and broadcaster

* [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe]], newspaper magnate, founder of the [[Daily Mail]] and [[Daily Mirror]], owner of [[The Times]]

* [[Sir Norman Jude]], Minister of State, South Australia


===Law===
===Law===
* [[Sir Richard Cayley]], [[Queen's Counsel|QC]], [[Chief Justice]] of [[Ceylon]]
* Sir [[Richard Cayley]], [[Chief Justice]] of [[Ceylon]]
* Sir Ronald Long,<ref>[http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sir-ronald-long; Obituary, Law Society Gazette]</ref> President of [[the Law Society]]
* Nicholas Fluck, President of the Law Society<ref name=":1" />


* [[Sir Ronald Long]], President of the [[Law Society]]
===Music===
===Music===
* [[Malcolm Sargent|Sir Malcolm Sargent]], conductor
* [[Malcolm Sargent|Sir Malcolm Sargent]],<ref name="itunes1">{{cite web |url = https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/sir-malcolm-sargent/id298059 | title = Sir Malcolm Sargent | publisher= [[iTunes]] | access-date = 11 February 2012 }}</ref> conductor
* [[Michael Tippett|Sir Michael Tippett]], composer<ref name=":1" />

* [[Michael Tippett|Sir Michael Tippett]], composer
* [[Julian Wastall]], composer<ref name=":1" />

* [[Julian Wastall]], composer

* [[Kieran Wade]], recording artist with ''The Contrast''.

===Literature & the Arts===
* [[Torben Betts]], playwright

* [[Nelson Dawson]], silversmith, jeweller, designer, etcher and painter of the [[Arts and Crafts movement]].

* [[Colin Dexter]], OBE, author of detective novels

* [[Dr Jack Dominian]], psychiatrist, author and broadcaster

* [[Inspector Morse]] the fictional character, is described as an Old Stamfordian


===Literature and the arts===
* [[Michael Asher (explorer)|Michael Asher]], author and explorer<ref name=":1" />
* [[Oliver Bayldon]], production designer and writer<ref name="ROMBayldon">{{cite journal |journal= The Stamfordian |title= News from Old Boys |date= 1958 |volume= Summer Term |issue= 164 |location= Stamford |publisher= [[Stamford School]] |page= 779 |url= http://www.stamfordschoolsarchive.co.uk/Filename.ashx?systemFileName=SJ1958sum.pdf&origFilename=SJ1958sum.pdf |quote= R. O. M. Bayldon has received an award at Leicester Art College for his design of theatrical costumes and sets.}}</ref>
* [[Torben Betts]], playwright<ref name=":1" />
* [[Tom Butcher]], film, television and stage actor<ref name=":1" />
* [[Nelson Dawson]],<ref name="lincs">{{cite web | url = http://www.lincstothepast.com/exhibitions/famous-people/nelson-dawson/ | title = Nelson Dawson | publisher = Lincs to the Past | access-date = 11 February 2012}}</ref> silversmith, jeweller, designer, etcher and painter of the [[Arts and Crafts movement]].
* [[Colin Dexter]], author of the ''[[Inspector Morse]]'' detective novels; Morse is described as an Old Stamfordian<ref name=":1" />
* [[Neil McCarthy (actor)|Neil McCarthy]], film and television actor<ref name=":1" />
* [[Francis Peck]], antiquary
* [[Francis Peck]], antiquary
* [[John Radford (wine)|John Radford]], wine writer and broadcaster
*[[George Robinson (actor)|George Robinson]], television actor<ref>{{cite web |title=‘My Sex Education character Isaac helped me to embrace who I am’ |url=https://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/my-sex-education-character-isaac-helped-me-to-embrace-who-i-9159518/ |website=Stamford Mercury |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en |date=11 March 2021}}</ref>
* [[Ralph Robinson (humanist)|Ralph Robinson]], Renaissance scholar, first translator into English of [[Thomas More]]'s ''[[Utopia (More book)|Utopia]]''
* [[Thomas Seaton]], founder of [[Seatonian Prize]] for Poetry at the University of Cambridge
* [[John Terraine]], military historian<ref name=":1" />
* [[Ben Willbond]], film and television actor<ref name=":1" />
* Peter Baynton, Oscar-winning director of [[The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (film)|''The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse'']]<ref name=":1" />


===Military===
* [[Ralph Robinson]], Renaissance scholar, first translator into English of [[Thomas More]]'s [[Utopia]]
* [[Apparanda Aiyappa]], [[Indian Army]]

* [[Simon Bryant (RAF officer)|Simon Bryant]], Commander-in-Chief, [[RAF Air Command]]<ref name=":1" />
* [[Thomas Seaton]], founder of [[Seatonian Prize]] for Poetry at the [[University of Cambridge]]
* [[John Drewienkiewicz]]<ref name=":1" />

* [[Mike Jackson (British Army officer)|Mike Jackson]],<ref name="abingdon">{{cite web | url = http://www.abingdonspeakers.co.uk/Sir-Mike-Jackson | title = Sir Mike Jackson | publisher = Abingdon Speakers | access-date = 11 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Obituary: General Sir Mike Jackson |url=https://stamfordschools.org.uk/news/obituary-general-sir-mike-jackson |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Stamford School |language=en}}</ref> [[Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the General Staff]].
* [[John Terraine]], military historian

* [[Dr Graham Webster]], historian

===The Armed Forces===
* [[Major-General K.J. Drewienkiewicz]], [[Order of the Bath|CB]], [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]].

* [[Major-General R. E. J. Gerrard-Wright]], [[Order of the Bath|CB]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]]

* [[Major-General A. C. Iyappa]], [[Indian Army]]

* [[Mike Jackson|General Sir Mike Jackson]], [[Order of the Bath|GCB]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]], [[Aide-de-camp|ADC Gen]], [[Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the General Staff]].

===Academia & The Church===
* [[Zachary Brooke]], [[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], [[University of Cambridge]]
* [[John Chevalier]], Master of [[St John's College, Cambridge]], and Chancellor of the [[University of Cambridge]]

* [[Charles Ellicott]], theologian, professor of divinity at [[King's College London]] and the [[University of Cambridge]] and [[Bishop of Gloucester]] & Bristol


===Academia and the church===
* [[Martin Aitken]], professor of [[archaeometry]], University of Oxford, [[Fellow]] of [[Linacre College, Oxford]]
* [[Zachary Brooke (theologian)|Zachary Brooke]], [[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], University of Cambridge
* [[Henry Edwards (priest)|Henry Edwards]], Dean of Bangor
* [[Charles John Ellicott]], professor of divinity at [[King's College London]] and the University of Cambridge and [[Bishop of Gloucester]] and [[Bishop of Bristol|Bristol]]
* [[Philip Goodrich]], [[Bishop of Worcester]]
* [[Philip Goodrich]], [[Bishop of Worcester]]
* [[Malcolm Jeeves]], psychologist<ref name=":1" />
* [[Steven V. Ley]], [[BP Professor of Organic Chemistry|Professor of Chemistry]] at the University of Cambridge, [[Fellow]] of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]<ref name=":1" />
* [[Cecil Richard Norgate]],<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3442322/The-Right-Reverend-Richard-Norgate.html The Reverend Richard Norgate; Obituary in The Telegraph]</ref> bishop of [[Masasi]], Tanzania
* [[Ian Roberts (linguist)|Ian Roberts]], professor of [[linguistics]] University of Cambridge, [[Fellow]] of [[Downing College]]
* [[M. Stanley Whittingham]], lithium-ion battery pioneer and 2019 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] laureate<ref name=":1" />


===Commerce and industry===
* [[Edward Miles Hare]], [[Pali]] scholar and translator of Buddhist texts
* [[Oliver Hemsley]], CEO, Numis Securities

* [[P. J. Lamb]], Principal and Canon, St John's College, [[York]]

* [[L. A. K. Staveley]], Fellow of [[New College, Oxford]]

===Industry===
* [[T. B. Baldwin]], [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]

* [[L.G. Dawson]], Chairman, Division of Advanced Engineering (Aeronautics and Aerospace), [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls Royce]]

* [[Dr W. R. Hare]] Chairman, Reckitt & Coleman Ltd.

* [[G. F. Murphy]], Director, Imperial Chemical Industries.

* [[A. J. Turner]], Head of financial policy at C.B.I.

* [[G. F. Whitby]], I.C.I.


===Sport===
===Sport===
[[File:Stamford School Sports Complex - geograph.org.uk - 4051553.jpg|thumb|Sports complex]]
* [[F. H. Gilman]], trainer, owner and breeder of [[Grittar]], 1982 [[Grand National]] winner
* [[Robert Clift]], gold medal-winning hockey player at the [[Field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul Olympics]]<ref name=":1" />
* [[Joey Evison]], Nottinghamshire county cricket<ref>{{Cite web|title=Joey Evison profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/joey-evison-1115852|access-date=2021-04-22|website=ESPNcricinfo|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Simon Hodgkinson]],<ref name="mercury">{{cite news |url= http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/sport/guy_gets_an_england_call_1_484026 |work= Rutland & Stamford Mercury |title = Guy gets an England call |date=8 March 2007 |access-date=11 February 2012}}</ref> England international rugby
* [[Josh Hull (cricketer)|Josh Hull]], cricketer<ref name=":1" />
* [[Mark James (golfer)|Mark James]], golfer, captain European Ryder Cup team<ref name=":1" />
* [[Shan Masood]], Pakistani Test cricketer<ref name=":1" />
* [[Alexander Sims (racing driver)|Alexander Sims]], racing driver in Formula E<ref name=":1" />
* [[M. J. K. Smith]], England international rugby, England international cricket captain<ref name=":1" />
* [[Iwan Thomas]], Olympic athlete<ref name=":1" />


==Notable schoolmasters==
* [[S. D. Hodgkinson]], England Rugby
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* [[Robert Browne (Brownist)|Robert Browne]], clergyman and founder of the [[Brownists]]
* [[Douglases of Grangemuir|Walter Douglas]]
* [[William Dugard]], headmaster of [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood]], [[Cavalier|Royalist]] propagandist, printer of ''[[Basilikon Doron]]''
* [[Anthony Ewbank]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-07-08 |title=Sir Anthony Ewbank |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/sir-anthony-ewbank-mg5dfl8xbnd |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Dean Headley]],<ref name="kentcricket">{{cite web | url = http://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/where-are-they-now-dean-headley | title = Where are they now? Dean Headley | date = 15 December 2010 | publisher = [[Kent Cricket]] | access-date = 11 February 2012 }}</ref> Rugby and Cricket professional
* [[Gerard Hoffnung]], musician, humourist, cartoonist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gerard Hoffnung Biography |url=https://gerardhoffnung.com/biography/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Gerard Hoffnung |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Harold Andrew Mason]]
* [[F. L. Woodward]]
* [[Gizz Butt]], touring guitarist for [[The Prodigy]], taught music at Stamford<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gizz Butt - The Prodigy |url=https://theprodigy.info/members/gizz-butt.html |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=theprodigy.info}}</ref>


==See also==
* [[A. J. Hudson]], England hockey
* [[List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom]]
* [[History of Brasenose College, Oxford]]
* [[St Paul's Church, Stamford]] – The school chapel


==Further reading==
* [[Mark James]], Golf. Captain Europe Ryder Cup team, 1999.
*B. L. Deed, ''The History of Stamford School'', Cambridge University Press, 1954 (1st edition); [http://www.stamfordschoolsarchive.co.uk/Filename.ashx?systemFileName=History+of+Stamford+School.pdf&origFilename=History+of+Stamford+School.pdf 1982 (2nd edition)].


==References==
* [[M. J. K. Smith]], England Cricket Captain and England Rugby
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==External links==
* [[Iwan Thomas]], athlete
{{Commons category|Stamford School}}
* [http://www.isc.co.uk/schools/england/lincolnshire/stamford/stamford-school Profile] on the [[Independent Schools Council|ISC]] website
* [http://www.ses.lincs.sch.uk/ Stamford Endowed Schools website]
* [http://www.james-ho.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=89/ Photographs of Stamford School]
* [http://www.foundationcard.co.uk/ The Foundation Card]


;The recent issues of the Stamfordian magazine can be downloaded:
==Distinguished former schoolmasters==
*[http://james-ho.com/upload/stamfordian05.pdf Stamfordian 2005] (PDF 15MB)
* [[Robert Browne]], Clergyman and founder of the [[Brownists]]
*[http://james-ho.com/upload/stamfordian06.pdf Stamfordian 2006] (PDF 10MB)
* [[Sir Anthony Bruce Ewbank]], Judge of the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]]
*[http://james-ho.com/upload/stamfordian07.pdf Stamfordian 2007] (PDF 15MB)
* [[William Dugard]], Head Master, Head Master of [[Merchant Taylors]], [[Cavalier|Royalist]] propagandist, printer of [[Basilikon Doron]], treatise on government of [[James I of England|James I]]
* [[Gerard Hoffnung]], musician, humourist, cartoonist
* [[David Maland]], High Master of [[Manchester Grammar School]]
* [[Graham Butt]] aka [[Gizz Butt]], former guitarist with [[The Prodigy]]

==Further reading==
The History of Stamford School by B.L. Deed, OBE TD

== External links ==
* [http://www.ses.lincs.sch.uk/ Stamford Endowed Schools website]
* [http://www.james-ho.com/stamford/ Photographs of Stamford School]


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Latest revision as of 14:07, 23 October 2024

Not to be confused with Stanford University.

Stamford School
Address
Map
St Paul's Street

Stamford
,
Lincolnshire
,
PE9 2BQ

England
Coordinates52°39′19″N 0°28′18″W / 52.65520°N 0.47166°W / 52.65520; -0.47166
Information
TypePublic school
Private day and boarding
MottoChrist Me Spede
Established1532; 492 years ago (1532)
FounderWilliam Radcliffe
HeadmasterMark Steed (Until August 2025) Chris Seal (From August 2025)
GenderAll Genders
Age11 to 18
HousesDay – Beale/Ancaster, Anderson/Brazenose, Exeter/Cavell, Radcliffe/Eliot. Boarding - Browne, Byard, Park, St Paul's, Welland, Wothorpe.
Colour(s)Navy, maroon    
PublicationThe Stamfordian
Former pupilsOld Stamfordians
Websitestamfordschools.org.uk
Front of Stamford School House

Stamford School is a co-educational independent school in Stamford, Lincolnshire in the English public school tradition. Founded in 1532, it has been a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1920. With the former Stamford High School and the coeducational Stamford Junior School, it is part of the Stamford Endowed Schools (SES). From September 2023, Stamford became co-educational.

History

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The school was founded in 1532[1] by a local merchant and alderman, William Radcliffe, who had been encouraged when younger by Lady Margaret Beaufort, (died 1509) mother of Henry VII, though there is evidence to suggest that a school existed from the beginning of the fourteenth century. Founded as a chantry school, it fell foul of the Protestant reformers and was only saved from destruction under the Chantries Act of Edward VI by the personal intervention of Sir William Cecil (later Lord Burghley) who worked in the service of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and who secured a specific Act of Parliament in 1548 ensuring its survival. Apart from the chantries of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, only those of Eton College, Winchester College, Berkhamsted, St Albans and Stamford schools survived.

A 1961 copy of the original Brazenose knocker is mounted on a gate
Brazenose House

Teaching is believed to have begun in the Corpus Christi chapel of Stamford's twelfth-century St Mary's Church, but by 1566 was taking place in the remaining portion of the redundant St Paul's Church, originally built no later than 1152. This building continued in use as a school room until the early twentieth century when it was restored and extended and, in 1930, returned to use as a chapel. In 1961, a nineteenth-century Gray and Davison pipe organ was installed[2] although this was removed in the 1990s and replaced with an electronic substitute. Over its history the school has built or absorbed seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings, besides the site of a further demolished medieval church (Holy Trinity/St Stephen's) and remains of Brazenose College built by the secessionists from the University of Oxford in the fourteenth century. Brasenose College, Oxford bought Brazenose House in 1890 to recover the original medieval brass Brazenose knocker.[3][4]

The right of appointment of the school's master, a position hotly contested in past centuries on account of the post's disproportionately large salary, was shared between the Mayor of Stamford and the Master of St John's College, Cambridge. Both Stamford Town Council and St John's College still have nominees on the school's governing body. Stamford School had a sister school, Stamford High School which was founded in 1877. It closed in 2023 as part of the co-educational merger with Stamford School.[5] The funds for the foundation of the High School and the further financial endowment of the existing boys' school were appropriated from the endowment of Browne's Hospital by Act of Parliament in 1871. This trust had been established for the relief of poverty by William Browne (died 1489), another wealthy wool merchant and alderman of the town, and his gift is commemorated in the name of a school house.

From 1975, Lincolnshire County Council purchased places at Stamford School and Stamford High School on the basis that Stamford had no LEA grammar school (unlike the county's other towns). This local form of the Assisted Places Scheme provided funding to send children to the two schools that were formerly direct-grant grammars.[6] The national Assisted Places Scheme was ended by the Labour government in 1997 but the Stamford arrangements remained in place as an increasingly protracted transitional arrangement. In 2006, Lincolnshire County Council agreed to taper down from 50 the number of county scholarships to the Stamford Endowed Schools so that there would be no new scholarships from 2012.[7][8]

In recent years, the two schools were united under the leadership of a single principal as the Stamford Endowed Schools. This organisation comprised Stamford Junior School, a co-educational establishment for pupils aged between 2 and 11 years and Stamford School and Stamford High School for students aged 11–18. Sixth form teaching was carried out jointly between Stamford School and Stamford High School.[9] This was referred to as the diamond school model.

In 2012 the Memorial Sports Centre was opened by Lord Sebastian Coe. The facility contains a 25m swimming pool, replacing the outdoor Memorial Swimming Pool which opened in 1956. This was followed by the opening of the multi-million pound Wothorpe Sports Centre in 2022, built opposite Stamford Junior School on Wothorpe Road.[10]

Stamford Endowed Schools became co-educational from September 2023 and fully co-educational in every year group from 2024. The High School site is now used as the Sixth Form campus, named 'St Martin's'.[5]

Since 1885 The Stamfordian has been the school magazine of Stamford School.[11] Currently published annually in the Autumn term, it provides for current pupils and parents as well as Old Stamfordians and prospective parents an account of a year in the life of the school.

School crest

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The thatched cricket pavilion

The school's crest is a stork (the spede bird) with wings displayed on a wool bale over the motto + me spede, that is Christ me spede. The emblem was adopted from medieval wool merchant, William Browne, after the school had been re-endowed from Browne's Charity in 1873.[12] (The stork is supposed to be a rebus on his wife, Margaret's maiden name of Stoke). The current form was designed by Nelson Dawson.[citation needed]

Notable alumni (Old Stamfordians)

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See also: Category:People educated at Stamford School

Politics and public service

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Law

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Music

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Literature and the arts

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Military

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Academia and the church

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Commerce and industry

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Sport

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Sports complex

Notable schoolmasters

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See also

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Further reading

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  • B. L. Deed, The History of Stamford School, Cambridge University Press, 1954 (1st edition); 1982 (2nd edition).

References

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  1. ^ "Stamford Endowed Schools | Independent Day and Boarding School – History of the School". www.ses.lincs.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Lincolnshire Stamford, Stamford School, St. Paul's Street [R01446]". National Pipe Organ Register. British Institute of Organ Studies. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  3. ^ Sheehan, Nicholas. "The Brazenose Site in Stamford". Stamford Local History Society. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  4. ^ Madan, F. "The Brazen Nose" (PDF). Brasenose College. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Co-educational School". stamfordcoed.org. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Last stronghold of assisted pupils faces legal threat" by Julie Henry, The Daily Telegraph 23 March 2003
  7. ^ "Stamford Endowed Schools Scholarship Tapering – Interim (8th Year) Review; 6 March 2015" (PDF). Lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk. Lincolnshire County Council. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Private pupils' subsidy to finish". BBC News. 5 July 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Co-educational School". stamfordcoed.org. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  10. ^ "History & Heritage". Stamford School. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Stamfordian | Browse | Stamford Endowed Schools". www.stamfordschoolsarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  12. ^ "The staircase". Stamfordcivicsociety.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  13. ^ "City of London Member Details". City of London. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  14. ^ "Which Tory went where?". The Guardian. London. 2 June 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Notable Alumni". Stamford School. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  16. ^ Obituary, Law Society Gazette
  17. ^ "Sir Malcolm Sargent". iTunes. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  18. ^ "News from Old Boys" (PDF). The Stamfordian. Summer Term (164). Stamford: Stamford School: 779. 1958. R. O. M. Bayldon has received an award at Leicester Art College for his design of theatrical costumes and sets.
  19. ^ "Nelson Dawson". Lincs to the Past. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  20. ^ "'My Sex Education character Isaac helped me to embrace who I am'". Stamford Mercury. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  21. ^ "Sir Mike Jackson". Abingdon Speakers. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  22. ^ "Obituary: General Sir Mike Jackson". Stamford School. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  23. ^ The Reverend Richard Norgate; Obituary in The Telegraph
  24. ^ "Joey Evison profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  25. ^ "Guy gets an England call". Rutland & Stamford Mercury. 8 March 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  26. ^ "Sir Anthony Ewbank". www.thetimes.com. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  27. ^ "Where are they now? Dean Headley". Kent Cricket. 15 December 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  28. ^ "Gerard Hoffnung Biography". Gerard Hoffnung. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  29. ^ "Gizz Butt - The Prodigy". theprodigy.info. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
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