Ashville College

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Ashville College is an independent day and boarding school for girls and boys aged 4–18 years. Founded in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, as a Methodist boarding school for boys in 1877, it subsequently merged with Elmfield College, Heworth and New College in the 1930s. It now thrives as the oldest private school in Harrogate.

Contents 1 Houses 2 Boarding houses 3 Motto 4 Notable former pupils 5 Links

[edit] Houses

Riverdale, Ellis, Duckworth, Windermere

[edit] Boarding houses

Lancaster (junior boys), Briggs (senior boys), Mallinson(senior boys), Norfolk (all ages - girls)

[edit] Motto

Esse quam videri

[edit] Notable former pupils

• Henry Iles (1871–1951), brass band promoter and entertainment entrepreneur
• Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale (1873–1957), steelmaker and industrialist
• Tony Richardson (1928–1991), theatre and film director

[edit] Links

• Official school website
• Old Ashvilllian Society