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Revision as of 18:57, 25 March 2007 by Nike123~enwiki (talk | contribs) (factual enrichment)(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, boys and girls, aged between 7 and 18 years with good boarding facilities availible.
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.
Chigwell School is situated between Epping Forest and Hainault Forest and ten miles away from London. Chigwell is represented on the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) and the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS).
Chigwell School is a Registered Charity, number 310866, it exists to provide the best, well balanced education to its pupils.
Results
A Levels Results 2006 For the third year running there was a 100% pass rate, with 73% of all grades at A or B. Twenty two of our students achieved at least 3 A grades with a number achieving 4 A grades or better. One student achieved a remarkable 6 A grades. The vast majority of our students had their first-choice university places confirmed.
GSCE Results 2006 These are arguably the best ever results with over 27% of all grades at A* and 89% at A* AB. The overall pass rate at A* ABC grades was 99%. There were some exceptional individual results: Jessica Beagly and Katerina Kaltsas (who left to further her sixth form education at local independent school, Bancrofts) achieved 11 A* each and Christopher Lim, Christopher Smith and Michael Wilson with 9 A* each.
Some Famous Old Chigwellians
William Penn (1653) Quaker leader and founder of the State of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia.
- Ken Campbell, Actor.
- Tim Collins, Conservative politician.
- Sir Arthur Grimble, Colonial governor.
- Sir Ian Holm, Actor.
- Michael Marshall Smith, Novelist.
- Ben Shephard, Television presenter.
- Horace Smith, Nineteenth-century poet.
- Prof. Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher.
Prince George (1713) Son of the Chief of the Yemessee Indians.
William Cotton (1795) Governor of the Bank of England. Celebrated in his School Days for setting fire to the Headmaster’s garden.
Edward Caswell (1825) Classical scholar and writer of hymns, music master at Chigwell.
Anthony Hossack (1882-1886) England Cricketer of the 1890’s.
Cdr Frank Goodhart (1893-1898) WW1 submarine commander whose submarine bore the Chigwell crest and motto. Awarded the DSO and the Legion d’honneur. Personally decorated by the Czar of Russia in the royal train for action in the Baltic. Died in 1917 saving his crew.
Austin Bradford Hill (1908-1916) Knighted for pioneering medical research and attributed with establishing the link between smoking and cancer.
Eric Bailey 0BE (1926-1934) Journalist, broadcaster. Colonial administrator in Nyasaland (Malawi), Ellis and Christmas Islands.
George Baker OBE CBE (1927-1934) High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea (1974-1977) and Freeman of the City of London (1980).
Douglas Ambrose OBE (1929-1936) Chemist working in industry and subsequently at the National Physical Laboratory; author of books on gas chromatography.
Evan “Sparrow” Davis (1930-1935) Policeman. Churchill’s personal bodyguard through the war years.
Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (1941-47), Professor of Philosophy, Bedford College, later Provost of King’s College, Cambridge and White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, Oxford, who was the greatest British philosopher of his era and published his first book, Morality: An Introduction to Ethics, in 1972.
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