Ashville College

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Ashville College is an independent day and boarding school for girls and boys aged 4–18 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. It was founded as a Methodist boarding school for boys in 1877, and subsequently merged with Elmfield College 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 (girls, all ages)

[edit] Motto

Esse quam videri ("to be rather than to seem")

[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
• Andy Gray (born 1977), footballer

[edit] Links

• Official school website
• Old Ashvilllian Society