Howell's School Llandaff

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Howell’s School Llandaff is a private school in Llandaff, Wales. The school teaches children from the age of 3-5 years up to 18, and contains a nursery, junior and senior school. Historically a girls’ school, Howell's has, from September 2005, admitted boys into the school’s sixth form, which has been renamed as Howell's Sixth Form College.

In 1537, Thomas Howell, a Welsh merchant trading in Bristol, London and Seville, bequeathed 12,000 gold ducats to the Drapers’ Guild (latterly the Company of Drapers) to provide dowries “every yere for Maydens for ever.” His “Merchant’s Mark” is still used as a logo for the school.

In 1860 the Company of Drapers founded the school, housed in a building designed by Decimus Burton, on the outskirts of the village of Llandaff.

In 1980 the school joined the Girls' Day School Trust (then the Girls’ Public Day School Trust).

[edit] Trivia

Former students have formed a group called the Hywellian Guild.

[edit] Famous alumni

Famous alumni of the school include:

Charlotte Church, singer and advertiser of Walkers Crisps
Jemma Griffiths, otherwise known as ‘Jem’
Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff (first Professor of Nursing in the UK)
Rosamunde Pilcher, writer
Lucy Cohen, HTV News Presenter
Linda Mitchell owner of Mandeville Media and a reporter and presenter for both BBC & ITV (Black Britain)
Stella and Alice ITV's famous comedy duo