Emanuel School

Emanuel School is a co-educational independent school in Battersea South-West London, England.

History

Emanuel School is one of the three schools administered by the Westminster Schools’ Foundation. It came into being by the will of Anne Sackville, Lady Dacre, dated 1594. In it she wrote:

"I will and devise that myne executors shall cause to be erected and builte a meete and convenient house with rooms of habitation for twentie poor folkes, and twentie other poor children...."

Emanuel School was founded in 1594. At the time, Lady Dacre wrote that one of the main aims of the Foundation was

"for the bringing up of children in virtue and good and laudable arts so that they might better live in time to come by their honest labour”.

With Lady Dacre's benefaction in 1594, Emanuel Hospital, as it was first called, began. The children wore a long brown tunic, rather similar in cut to that still worn by Christ's Hospital. Thanks to the interest of Queen Elizabeth I, cousin to Lady Dacre, a charter was drawn up, buildings were erected on a site in Westminster, and the school and hospice continued their work.

In 1883, the school sought larger, newer buildings for the children, and the boy boarders, as they all were then, moved to the present buildings on the edge of Wandsworth Common. These buildings had been put up as an orphanage after the Crimean War by the Royal Victoria Patriotic Fund, and in a much adapted form still constitute the main teaching block of the school.

Present day

Recent additions include a brand new sports centre complete with climbing walls, dance studios, teaching rooms and a multigym, plus the conversion of the old gymnasium into a brand new dining facility and refectory overlooking the schools own playing fields. Future changes include the multi-million pound refurbishment of the old Victorian building to comprise a brand new library and media resources centre, new ICT facilities, a theatre, exhibitions spaces, drama studios, refurbished classrooms and corridors.

The current Headmaster, Mark Hanley-Browne, is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

Notable Old Emanuels

• Michael Aldred - Co-presenter of landmark 60's pop show Ready, Steady, Go!
• Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah of Brunei
• Naveen Andrews - British actor best-known for his roles in The English Patient and as Sayid in the popular 2004 television series Lost.
• Michael Aspel - Presenter of This Is Your Life for over fifteen years and Antiques Roadshow.
• Air Vice-Marshal George Banting [1]
• Kenneth C. Barnes - Educationalist and Teacher at Bedales School, and Headmaster and founder of Wennington School.[2]
• Simon Barnes - Chief Sports Correspondent for The Times
• Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee KCB FRS - Inventor of the World Wide Web, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
• Dr Clive Bruton - Neuropathologist
• Colin Chambers - Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Literary Advsior
• Dr Sumit Chanda - Group Leader, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation.
• Dr Kevan Clemens - Director of Chelsea Therapeutics International Incorporated, previously Executive Vice President of Pharmaceutical Business at Hoffmann-La Roche. [3]
• Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Crump MBE
• Group Captain H.S. Darley DSO [4]
• Professor Michael Duff - Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College, University of London.
• Professor Derek Fray - Professor of Materials Chemistry, University of Cambridge
• Sir Arthur Galsworthy KCMG, British High Commissioner to New Zealand, and formerly British Ambassador to Ireland.
• Sir John Galsworthy KCVO CMG - British Ambassador to Mexico
• Sir William Geraghty KCB - Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State (Admin) MOD.
• Professor Peter Goddard FRS CBE - Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, a chair once held by Albert Einstein; and formerly Professor of Theoretical Physics and Master of St John's College, Cambridge.
• Steve Gooch - Dramatist
• Peter Hain MP - Labour Party MP and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, formerly Leader of the House of Commons, and Lord Privy Seal.
• Leslie Henson - Actor
• Douglas Hickox - Film director, films include Theatre of Blood (1973), Zulu Dawn (1979).
• Major Harold 'Ham' Hutchins
• Kevin Jackson - Writer, works include Withnail and I (BFI 2004). [5]
• Colonel William Jeffery
• George Lyward OBE - Educationalist, Teacher, (Emanuel School, Glenalmond College, and the Perse School under W. H. D. Rouse) and founder of Finchden Manor progressive community for young people. [6]
• Group Captain Albert Mann DFC
• Mark MacGregor - Former Chief Executive of the Conservative Party.
• Richard Marquand - Film Director, films include Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
• Professor David Marquand - Visiting Fellow in the Deprtment of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, former Labour Party MP and Social Democratic Party (SDP) co-founder, and formerly Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.
• Professor Denis Noble FRS CBE - Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Balliol College, Oxford.
• Sir John Page OBE [7] [8]
• Andi Peters- Television presenter and producer
• John Bertram Phillips - Theologian and Clergyman
• Vernon Richards - Anarchist writer, publisher and photographer, and friend of George Orwell. [9]
• Geoffrey Robinson Labour Party MP and former Paymaster General.
• Professor Sir Owen Saunders KT FRS - Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Rector of Imperial College, University of London.
• N.F. Simpson - Dramatist
• Commander Chris Stanley - Assistant Director, Tactical Defence, Maritime Warfare Centre MOD.
• Stuart Surridge - Cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC).
• Matthew Taylor - Head of the No.10 Policy Directorate, and formerly head of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank. [10]
• Brigadier David Warren MC DSO OBE [11]
• Sir Ronald Wates KT - Property Developer, along with brothers Norman Wates and Allan Wates.[12][13]
• Clive Wilmer - Poet
• Scott Perham and Joe Blumenow of Ekina Limited [14]

Notable Masters

Former staff include:

• J. A. Cuddon - Writer, works include A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. [15] [16] [17]
• Jeremy Edwards - Headmaster of Westminster Under School.
• Tristram Jones-Parry - Formerly Headmaster of Emanuel School and Westminster School.
• Howard Roberts - Artist, and gallery proprieter.[18]

External links

• School Website
• Old Emanuels
• Headmaster's and Headmistresses' Conference
• ISC Report 2004
• Independent Schools Guidebook