Arnold School

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Arnold School is a public school located in Blackpool, Lancashire, England on the Fylde coast, and a member of HMC.

1 Headmasters
2 House System
3 Notable Old Arnoldians
4 External links

[edit] Headmasters

1896 - 1932 F T Pennington
1932 - 1933 H C Cooksey MA
1933 - 1938 F T Pennington
1938 - 1966 F W Holdgate MA
1966 - 1973 O C Wigmore MA
1973 - 1979 A J C Cochrane MA
1979 - 1987 R D W Rhodes BA, JP
1987 - 1993 J A B Kelsall MA
1993 - 2003 W T Gillen MA
2003 - B M Hughes

[edit] House System

After entry into the Arnold education system, each pupil is assigned to a house which will form the basis for his allegiances during sporting events. Houses are headed by House Captains, whose duties include the formation of teams for Sports Days and inter-house academic debates and challenges. The houses are:

Howarths
Listons
Penningtons
School

[edit] Notable Old Arnoldians

Sir Ernest Woodhouse Smith (1884–1960), fuel technologist
John Schofield (1892–1918), World War I Victoria Cross
Sir Harold Grime (1896–1984), Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the West Lancashire Evening Gazette
Sir William Lyons (1901–1985), co-founder of Jaguar
Sir Walter Clegg (1920–1994), politician
Tom Graveney (born 1927), cricketer
Geoffrey Marshall (1929–2003), constitutional expert
Sir Martin Holdgate, environmental scientist and zoologist
Michael Smith (1932–2000), Nobel Laureate for chemistry
Peter Beighton (born 1934), geneticist
Jimmy Armfield (born 1935), footballer
David Wilde (born 1935), pianist and composer
George Eastham (born 1936), footballer
Peter Purves (born 1939), actor and presenter of Blue Peter
Harold Fox, pathologist
Arthur Firth, Editor of the Daily Express
Michael Austin (born 1941), organist
Paul Helm, theologian, historian and philosopher
Bob Hesford, rugby union player
David Ball (born 1959), member of Soft Cell
Chris Lowe (born 1959), member of the Pet Shop Boys
Terence Charleston, harpsichordist and organist
Barrie-Jon Mather (born 1973), rugby league player
Michelle Walton, mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Hayes , Professional Golfer [1]
Jonas Armstrong, actor
Malcolm Phillips, rugby union player and President of the Rugby Football Union
David Stephenson, rugby league player
Jenna-Louise Coleman, actress in Emmerdale