Cranleigh School

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Cranleigh School

Motto	Ex Cultu Robur (Latin: From Culture comes Strength)
Established	1865
Type	Independent School
Head	Mr Guy de W. Waller, MA MSc FRSA (Chemistry)
Chairman of the Governors	J.A.V. Townsend Esq., MA
Location	Cranleigh Surrey England
Students	600 (approx.)
Gender	Mixed
Ages	13 to 18
Houses	6
School colours	Yellow, Navy, and White
Former pupils	Old Cranleighans
Website	www.cranleigh.org

Cranleigh School is an independent English boarding school in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey. It was founded in 1865 as a boys' school and started to admit girls in the early 1970s. It is now co-educational. The current headmaster is Guy de W. Waller, with former Cubitt Housemaster, Andrew Griffiths, as the Deputy Head.

The school's Trevor Abbott Sports Centre was opened by Sir Richard Branson and the West House was opened by Baroness Greenfield. New building projects include the recently completed extension onto Cubitt House as well as an environmentally friendly Woodland Workshop and a new Academic Centre which is projected to include new high-tech facilities for Science and Modern Languages as well as a lecture theatre.

Cranleigh has facilities for music (including two Steinway Grands and a small recording studio), sport, drama and academic enhancement.

The school accommodates approximately 600 pupils. The boys are divided into four houses - Cubitt, East, Loveday and North. The girls are divided into two houses - South and West.

There is an Old Cranleighans (OC) society host many functions including sports matches against current students and staff.

1 Notable Old Cranleighans
2 Notable masters
3 Southern Railway Schools Class
4 External links

[edit] Notable Old Cranleighans

Derek Bourgeois (composer)
Sir Gordon Brunton (industrialist)
David Calcutt (lawyer)
Harry Calder (cricketer)
Eric Fellner (film producer)
Paul Goodman (politician)
Peter Gordon (radio presenter)
Bernard Gutteridge (poet)
G.H. Hardy (mathematician)
Christopher Herrick (musician)
Colonel Alan Key (England rugby player and soldier)
Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge (soldier)
Patrick Marber (actor, director, screenwriter)
George May, 1st Baron May (civil servant)
Stuart Meaker (Cricketer)
Georgina Moffat (actress)
Julia Ormond (actor)
Andrew Roberts (historian, broadcaster)
Alan Rusbridger (Guardian Editor)
Sewell Stokes (novelist and playwright)
E W Swanton (cricket and rugby correspondent, commentator and author)
David Westcott (GB hockey captain)

[edit] Notable masters

Steve Batchelor (Great Britain Hockey player and Olympic Gold medalist)
Neil Bennett (England Rugby player)
Revd. William Booth (clergyman)
Ian Bradley (author)
Andrew Corran (cricketer)
Vivian Cox (film producer)
Ray Dunnett (mathematician)
David Emms (rugby player, headmaster)
Tom Hardie-Forsyth (a director of the Kurdistan Development Corporation)
Roger Knight (cricketer)
Thomas Layng (chaplain)
Michael Redgrave (actor)

[edit] Southern Railway Schools Class

The thirty seventh steam locomotive (Engine 936) in the Southern Railway's Class V, built in 1934 was named "Cranleigh" after the school. This class of locomotive was known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools.