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Revision as of 22:42, 31 January 2007 by S.Leake90 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Chigwell School is an English 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 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', Lambourne, Penn's 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, now unemployed.
- 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.
- Johnathan Pallant, food critic, philosopher, MP
- Joe Hartley, twenty first century genius, Boxer, Cricketer and english guru
- More on Joe Hartley, Joe Hartley, a renown cricket player, university boxer and english teacher in the british school system. Has taught at Chigwell Schoolfor three years before moving to bigger and better things. Has been of signficant inspiration to many pupils. The 1997 edition of the chigwellian magazine has an image of Joe in his criket carrer, playing against the institution which he went on to become a part of.
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