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Revision as of 21:24, 22 May 2007 by 86.143.220.13 (talk) (→Some Famous Old Chigwellians)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Chigwell School is an English co-educational public school in Chigwell, 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.
One of Chigwell's most infamous pupils is Aaron Stokes, a male model who eats willys for a living.
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.
- Timothy Williams, crime novelist.
- Matt Bonfield, irish firefighter
Edward Richardson, famous for his massive guns despite being a test tube baby. There were some early problems with Edwards childhood as he was born without a penis. To this day it is unknown if he has or hasn't got any manhood
Gilbert Jolly, some say he is the closet thing to being being an albino, others just say he is a freak
George Ruffy - Conceived from doner meat, George proceeded to become one of the first Greek Cypriot Othodox Jews. His dad ran a very succssful pub cricket team.
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