Pangbourne College
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Pangbourne College is a coeducational public school located in the civil parish of Pangbourne, just south-west of the village, at Bowden, in the English county of Berkshire.
The college was founded by Thomas Lane Devitt in 1917 as Pangbourne Nautical College with the function of preparing boys to be officers in the Merchant Navy through the 'Devitt & Moore' shipping, and later in the Royal Navy. In 1969, it shed much of the nautical training in favour of a more traditional academic focus, and became Pangbourne College. Though the college is now more academically oriented, it still holds true to many of the traditions which makes it a unique school today. The college was traditionally male orientated, but it has been fully co-educational since 1996. The Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, Ipswich, share similar characteristics.
The school has won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup four times at the Henley Royal Regatta. The headmaster, Mr. Thomas Garnier, served in the Royal Navy before switching to a career in teaching. He has taught physics and housemastered and became headmaster following the departure of Dr Kenneth Greig in 2005.
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[edit] Harbinger Division
Harbinger Division is the oldest division at Pangbourne College due to it being part of the original mansion that was privately owned before being passed on to being a training school for naval officers. Sitting on top of Pangbourne Hill it is also connected to Devvit Tower.
[edit] Royal Marines CCF
Pangbourne College has an accomplished and well known Royal Marines Detachment sending many notable officers to the Royal Marines. Though small, it is tightly run and students are treated as real recruits. Panbourne College has won the famous Pringle Trophy six times, the most any school has. the current detachment is led by Colours Lightfoot, Colours Eauns and Major Gilks.
[edit] Notable Old Pangbournians
Arguably, the College's most famous Old Pangbournian is Jeffrey Bernard, a British journalist, notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He was immortalised in a play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse.[1]
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