Batley Grammar School

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Batley Grammar School is a co-educational public school located at Carlinghow Hill in Upper Batley, West Yorkshire, UK. The school was founded in 1612 by the Rev. William Lee, an annual founders day service is held in his memory at Batley Parish Church, this is as he requested upon his will, although it is not held on the same date as originally requested.

Batley Grammar School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

A Junior and infants school, named Priestley House (after Joseph Priestley, an old Batelian, see below) is set in the grounds.

[edit] Notable Old Batelians

Old boys (as the school has only recently started to admit girls) of the school are referred to Old Batelians.

Benjamin Ingham (1712–1772), Methodist and Moravian evangelist and preacher
William Heald (1767–1837),
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian, natural philosopher, and discoverer of oxygen
Thomas Wormald (1802–1873), surgeon
Sir Titus Salt (1803–1876), textile manufacturer and politician
Sir Mark Oldroyd (1843–1927), woollen manufacturer and politician
Theodore Cooke Taylor (1850–1952), woollen manufacturer and politician
Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959), Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1906–1914, Wheatstone Professor of Physics, King's College London, 1914–1924, and Yarrow Research Professor, Royal Society, 1924–1959
Samuel Sugden (1892–1950), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Birkbeck College, London, 1932–1937, and Professor of Chemistry, University College London, 1937–1950
Horace Waller (died 1917), World War I Victoria Cross winner
Cecil Grayson (1920–1998), Serena Professor of Italian, University of Oxford, 1958–1988
Godfrey Lienhardt (1921–1993), anthropologist
Richard Reed, co-founder of innocent Drinks