Sherborne School

Sherborne School is an English private school for boy located in the cossue city of Sherborne in the North-West of the Dorset in England.

History

The origins of the school go back to VIIIesiècle when the tradition of teaching begins thanks to St Aldhelm. Alfred the large one was in particular one of the first pupils. The school was then related to Abbaye Bénédictine of the city. The very first Master was Thomas Copeland in 1437. After the Dissolution of the orders, Edouard VI refonda the school in 1550 in school of the king Edouard , a free school of grammar for the boys of the surroundings. The current school which knew risks since the Reform, is located on a ground which belonged a time to the monastery, thus the library, the chaelle one, the apartments of the Masters being next to the church of the Abbey are restorations of the buildings of origins. Shelborne School is now a private school of great reputation which attracts the pupils of the whole world.

Famous boarders

Hugh Bonneville, actor
Tom Bradby, journalist of television and author
Rt Hon Sir Christopher Chataway, athlete and politician
Charles Collingwood, actor
David Cornwell, (alias John the Square) writer
Cecil Day-Lewis, poet
Nigel Dempster, journalist
Jimmy Edwards, humorist
Sir Richard Eyre, director with the cinema and the theater, artistic director of the National Theater of 1988 to 1997
Sir Michael Hopkins, architect
Jeremy Will go, actor
Stanley Johnson, politician
Anthony Lane, critical of film
John Mesurier, actor
Chris Martin, musician (Coldplay)
King Mswati III, king of the Swaziland
Keith Muspratt, As of the airs at the time of the First World War
George Miller, lawyer
Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician
Lance Percival, actor
Jon Pertwee, actor
Sir Alastair Pilkington, bank manager of England
James Purefoy, actor
Alan Turing, mathematician
Alec Waugh, novelist
John Weston, diplomat

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