Bromsgrove School
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Bromsgrove School is an all-boys secondary school. It was founded in 1553 and is located in the small Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, UK. First known as a chantry school in the Middle Ages, it was re-established as a Tudor Grammar School between 1548 and 1553. The endowment of Sir Thomas Cookes in 1693 produced the first buildings on the present site and also the historic link with Worcester College, Oxford.
At the foundation of the Headmasters' Conference in 1869, Bromsgrove was one of the original 14 schools. During the Second World War the School moved to Wales while the buildings were used by British Government Departments.
In 2002 the school established Bromsgrove International School Thailand (BIST), based in Thailand.
[edit] Notable Old Bromsgrovians
- Robert Bourne (1761–1829), physician and chemist, first Aldrichian Professor of Physic, University of Oxford, 1803–1824
- Robert Eyres Landor (1781–1869), poet, novelist and dramatist
- Francis Orpen Morris (1810–1893), theologian, naturalist and letter writer
- John Collis Browne (1819–1884), physician and inventor of chlorodyne
- Richard Lewis (1821–1905), Bishop of Llandaff, 1883–1905
- George Woodyatt Hastings (1825–1917), social reformer and politician
- Edward Moore (1835–1916), literary scholar and President of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1864–1913
- Field Marshal Sir George White (1835–1912), Commander-in-Chief, India, 1893–1899, Governor of Gibraltar, 1900–1904, and Second Anglo-Afghan War Victoria Cross
- Captain Sir Henry Morland (1837–1891), Indian Marine officer
- Charles Henry Waller (1840–1910), Principal of the London College of Divinity, 1884–1899
- Colonel Sir Owen Lanyon (1842–1887), Administrator of the Transvaal, 1879–1881
- Frederic Boase (1843–1873), biographer
- John Amphlett (1845–1918), historian and diarist
- A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet
- Sir Arthur Vicars (1862–1921), Ulster King of Arms, 1893–1908
- Laurence Housman (1865–1959), writer and artist
- Sir Lionel Whitby (1865–1956), haematologist
- Percy Thompson Dean (c.1878–?), World War I Victoria Cross
- Eustace Jotham (c.1884–1915), World War I Victoria Cross
- Frank Bernard Wearne (c.1894–1917), World War I Victoria Cross
- Ronald Owen Hall (1895–1975), Bishop of Hong Kong, 1932–1966
- Oliver Bryson (1896–1977), holder of George Cross
- Miles Thomas, Baron Thomas (1897–1980), Managing Director of Morris Motor Company, 1940–1947, and Chairman of British Overseas Airways Corporation, 1949–1956
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry (1902–1977), Air Officer Commanding No.2 Bomber Group, 1943–1945, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command, 1949–1953, and Commander, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe, 1953–1956
- Sir Kenneth Maddocks (1907–2001), Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji from 1958 until 1963
- Nigel Gray Leakey (1913–1941), World War II Victoria Cross
- Peter Duncan Scott (1914–1977), pioneer forensic psychiatrist
- Sir Jake Saunders (1917–2002), Chief Manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), 1962–1969, and Executive Chairman, 1969–1972
- Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman (1919–2003), Minister for Industry, 1972–1974, and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, 1974, and Chairman of the National Westminster Bank, 1983–1989
- Rear-Admiral Sir David Haslam, Royal Navy hydrographer
- Ian Carmichael (born 1920), actor
- Sir Michael Drury, Professor of General Practice, University of Birmingham
- Sir Iain Glidewell (born 1925), President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar, former Lord Justice of Appeal
- Christopher Trevor-Roberts (1928–2005), founder of the Trevor-Roberts School in Hampstead
- Ronald Eyre (1929–1992), theatre and television director
- John Taylor (born 1941), politician
- Jonathan James-Moore (1946–2005), head of Light Entertainment, BBC Radio, 1991–1999
- Sir David Arculus (born 1946), Chairman of O2 plc and Deputy President of the Confederation of British Industry
- John Illsley (born 1949), co-founding member of rock band Dire Straits
- Nicholas Evans (born 1950), novelist
- Trevor Eve (born 1951), actor
- Sir Digby Jones (born 1955), former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (2000-2006), now senior advisor to Barclays Capital, Ford, Deloitte and JCB
- Matt Neal (born 1966), winner of 2005 and 2006 British Touring Car Championship
- Soweto Kinch (born 1978), Jazz musician
- Richard Neville (born 1979), boy band singer in 5ive
- Fyfe Dangerfield (born c.1980), lead singer of Guillemots
- Andy Goode (born 1980), England and Leicester Tigers rugby union player
