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Chigwell School is an English public school in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It was founded by Samuel Harsnett in 1629 and the current headmaster is Mr. Montgomery Burns. There are around 730 pupils, aged between 7 and 18 years.

The school motto is aut viam inveniam aut faciam, a Latin phrase which translates literally as Either I shall find a way or I shall make one, but is usually rendered as Find a way or make a way.

There are five day houses, named Caswalls', Lambourne, Penn's, Scroobles and Swallow's. The boarding houses are Grange Court, Sandon Lodge, and Hainault House.

Some Famous Old Chigwellians

• Ken Campbell, actor.
• Tim Collins, Conservative politician.
• Sir Arthur Grimble, colonial governor.
• Austin Bradford Hill, medical statistician and epidemiologist.
• Sir Ian Holm, actor.
• Michael Marshall Smith, novelist.
• William Penn, founder of the American state of Pennsylvania.
• Ben Shephard, television presenter.
• Horace Smith, nineteenth-century poet.
• Prof. Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher.
• Michael Winner, food critic, director and the face of "Esure"
• Bernard Matthews, creator of food processing company "Bernard Matthews"
• Neil Hamilton, former Conservative MP
• Garry Barlow, face of popular music group "Take That"
• Michael Barrymore, television presenter
• Jade Goody, Famous TV star of Big Brother and Anti-Racism campaigner

External links

• Chigwell School website
• Old Chigwellians' website

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