Fitzmaurice Grammar School

Fitzmaurice Grammar School

The original building of Fitzmaurice Grammar School, currently in residential use as Fitzmaurice Place
Established	1897
Closed	1980
Type	Grammar school
Founder	Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice
Location	Junction Road Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire
Local authority	Wiltshire
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18

The Fitzmaurice Grammar School was a Grammar School in Bradford on Avon, England.^[1] The school opened as the County School in 1897^[2] with financial support from Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice. It was renamed Fitzmaurice Grammar School in 1936 after the death of Lord Fitzmaurice. The grammar school was closed in 1980 and merged with Trinity Secondary modern school ^[3] to form the comprehensive school called St Laurence School.

A primary school, known since 1985 as the Fitzmaurice Primary School,^[4] uses some of the former classrooms of the grammar school.

Notable former pupils

Alumni of the Grammar school include:

• Dr Geoffrey Copland CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 1996-2007 of the University of Westminster, and former Chairman from 1997-2003 of the Coalition of Modern Universities, and of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, and current Chairman since 2007 of ASET
• Charlotte Long, actress

References

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Coordinates: 51°20′36″N 2°15′02″W / 51.3434°N 2.2506°W / 51.3434; -2.2506