Plymouth College
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Plymouth College (PMC) is an independent school (or public school) situated in Plymouth, Devon, England.
It was founded as a boys' school in 1877 and in 1896 amalgamated with the older Mannamead School, being known for a time as Plymouth and Mannamead College (hence the abbreviation still used for the school). After the Second World War it became a Direct Grant School, but in 1976 reverted to fully independent status. Although it had accepted girls into the sixth form for some years, between 1995 and 2000 it became fully coeducational. There has been an attached preparatory school since the school's foundation. This accepts children aged 3 to 11 and the senior school educates those from 11 to 18. The senior school accepts a small number of boarders, which vary between 66 and 102. As of August 2006 the headmaster is Simon Wormleighton.
On 1 September 2004, Plymouth College amalgamated with St Dunstan's Abbey School, a local girls' independent school. The amalgamated school continues to be known as Plymouth College and to operate on the same site at Ford Park. In September 2005, the prep schools also united to form St Dunstan's Abbey School - The Plymouth College Junior School; this operates from the former site of St Dunstan's at The Millfields.
The school colours are black, green and red. In 2004, the senior school had 608 pupils. The prep school has about 300 pupils.
[edit] Notable OPMs
Former pupils of Plymouth College are known as OPMs (Old Plymothians and Mannameadians). The following are some of the more prominent OPMs:
- William Crossing (1847–1928), antiquary of Dartmoor (Old Mannameadian)
- Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960), writer (Old Mannameadian)
- Sir Leonard Rogers (1868–1962), tropical medicine specialist, Professor of Pathology, Bengal Medical College, 1906–1920, and founder of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (now LEPRA)
- Sir Alexander Maxwell (1880–1963), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1938–1948
- Wilson Harris (1883–1955), journalist and author
- Alexander Macklin (1889–1967), surgeon on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
- Stuart Hibberd (1893–1983), BBC announcer and presenter, 1924–1964
- Major-General Sir Alexander Bishop (1897–1984), army officer and High Commissioner in Cyprus, 1964–1965
- Frank Coles Phillips (1902–1982), geologist
- David Forbes Martyn (1906–1970), radiophysicist
- J. C. Trewin (1908–1990), writer and drama critic
- Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams (1908–1987), co-founder and Managing Director, Power Jets Ltd, 1936–1944, and MP for Exeter, 1951–1966
- Robert Clark (1909–1970), historian and Egyptologist
- Sir David Serpell (born 1911), Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Transport, 1968–1970, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, 1970–?
- Michael Foot (born 1913), Leader of the Labour Party, 1980–1983 (Prep School only)
- Ronald Jasper (1917–1990), Dean of York Minster, 1975–1984, theologian and ecclesiastical historian
- Brigadier Denis Ballantyne (1919–2004), army officer
- John Trevaskis (1923–2002), classicist
- Ian D. W. Wright (born c.1934), inventor of racketball and racketball champion
- Roger Vielvoye (1942–1992), energy journalist
- David King (1947–2004), developer of the CT scanner
- Gerry Hillman (born 1948), landscape painter
- Richard Deacon (born 1949), sculptor and Turner Prize winner
- Paul Seymour (born 1950), Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University, 1996–
- Paul Ackford (born 1958), England rugby player and rugby journalist
- Michael Ball (born 1962), singer and actor
- Milos Stankovic (born c.1963), army officer accused of treason, writer
- Miles Tunnicliff (born 1968), golfer
- Major Jason Ward (1969–2003), joint highest-ranking British casualty of Operation Telic
- Peter Sommer (born c.1970), archaeologist, tour guide, and TV director and producer
- Simon Edwards (born 1972), journalist and author
- Grace Adams-Short (born 1985), contestant on the 7th UK series of Big Brother
