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Chigwell School is an English co-educational public school in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It was founded by Samuel Harsnett in 1629. There are around 730 pupils aged between 7 and 18 years.
The school is situated between Epping Forest and Hainault Forest and ten miles away from London. It is represented on the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) and the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS).
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 four day houses, named Caswalls, Lambournes, Penns, and Swallows. The boarding houses are Grange Court, Sandon Lodge, and Hainault House.
Examination Results 2006
A Levels: 100% pass rate, with 73% of all grades at A or B.
GCSEs: 99% of grades were passed at grades A*-C, 89% at A*-B, and 27% of all grades at A*.
Some Famous Old Chigwellians
- Douglas Ambrose OBE, chemist.
- Eric Bailey OBE, journalist, broadcaster and colonial administrator.
- George Baker OBE CBE, High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea (1974-1977).
- Ken Campbell, actor
- Edward Caswall, classical scholar and writer of hymns, music master at Chigwell.
- Tim Collins, Conservative politician.
- William Cotton, Governor of the Bank of England, who famously set fire to the Headmaster’s garden.
- Frank Goodhart DSO, First World War submarine commander whose submarine bore the Chigwell crest and motto.
- Sir Arthur Grimble, colonial governor.
- Sir Austin Bradford Hill, pioneering medical researcher who discovered the link between smoking and cancer.
- Sir Ian Holm, actor.
- Anthony Hossack (1882-1886) England Cricketer of the 1890s.
- William Penn, Quaker leader and founder of the American state of Pennsylvania.
- Horace Smith, nineteenth-century poet.
- Michael Marshall Smith, novelist.
- Ben Shephard, television presenter.
- Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher and Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
- Nicholas Williams, scholar of the Irish and Cornish languages.
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