Bloxham School

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Bloxham School is an independent co-educational day and boarding school located in the village of Bloxham, three miles from the town of Banbury in England. It was founded in 1860 by the Reverend Philip Reginald Egerton and has since become a member of the Woodard Corporation. The Reverend Frederick Scobell Boissier, father of Harrow headmaster Arthur Boissier, taught there from 1878 to 1898 and was headmaster from 1886. The current headmaster is Mark Allbrook, who took over from David Exham in 2002.

The school is relatively small with about 420 pupils. There are substantial grounds however, with both the Dewey Sports Centre and swimming pool available for public use. Recent building developments include the Raymond Technology Centre, the expansion of the Lower School building and the Vallance library which was opened by Colin Dexter in April 2006. Forthcoming developments include new squash courts and extensions to the Music and Art Schools.

There are six Houses within the school: Crake, Egerton, Raymond, Seymour, Wilberforce and Wilson, with Raymond and Wilberforce being the two girls' Houses. There is also a junior boarding house, Park Close, for the Year 7 and 8 weekly boarders.

The motto of Bloxham School is "justorum semita lux splendens" — "the path of the just is a shining light".

[edit] Notable Old Bloxhamists

• Joseph Vernon Whitaker (1845–1895), Editor, The Bookseller
• George Elgood (1851–1943), painter
• Stephen Reynolds (1881–1919), writer
• Victor White (1902–1960), theologian and psychotherapist
• Gerald Howarth (born 1947), politician
• John Seargent (born 1944), journalist
• Tom Sharpe, (born 1928), novelist
• Will Bratt (born 1988), Formula Renault racing driver[1]

[edit] External links

• Bloxham School website