Rendcomb College

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Rendcomb College
Mottoes	Quo Lux Ducit
Established	1920
Headteachers	Martin Watson (Junior School) & Roland Martin (Senior School)
Founder	Noel Wills
Location	Cirencester Gloucestershire England
Ages	3–18
Houses	Old Rec, Godman, Stable, Lawn, Park and College Day House
Website	www.rendcombcollege.org.uk

Rendcomb College

Rendcomb College is a co-educational boarding and day school for 3 to 18-year-olds, located in the village of Rendcomb five miles north of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England.

Notable former pupils

Kojo Annan, son of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; while at Rendcomb, he was a successful rugby player^[1]
Richard Dunwoody, retired National Hunt racing jockey
David Mabberley, Keeper of the Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ex-Director of the Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington, DC, president of the IAPT, ex-Dean of Wadham College, Oxford
John Middleton Murry, Jr., writer who used the names Colin Murry and Richard Cowper^[2]
Angus Primrose, yacht designer
David Tyler, businessman, Chairman of Sainsbury's
David Vaisey, historian and archivist, formerly Bodley's Librarian at the University of Oxford, 1986–96, now Librarian Emeritus^[3]
Nicolas Walter, anarchist and atheist writer, speaker and activist
Nicholas Wapshott, journalist and writer, expert on Keynes and Hayek
Jazz Barkes, Scotland Lacrosse

References

↑ MacAskill, Ewen, "English public schoolboy turned businessman who 'disappointed' his father", The Guardian, March 30, 2005
↑ Priest, Christopher "John Middleton Murry: Science-fiction writer who emerged from the shadow of his famous father" (obituary), The Guardian, May 3, 2002
↑ "David George Vaisey". Oxford University Library Services. Retrieved 24 December 2009.

External links

Rendcomb College homepage
The Old Rendcombian Web Site - Alumni web site

v t e Schools in Gloucestershire (including South Gloucestershire)

Primary	The British School Coaley School

Secondary	Archway School All Saints' Academy Beaufort School Balcarras School Bradley Stoke Community School Brimsham Green School Bristol Technology & Engineering Academy The Castle School Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre Chipping Campden School Chosen Hill School Cirencester Deer Park School Cirencester Kingshill School Cleeve School Cotswold School Dene Magna School Downend School Farmor's School Gloucester Academy The Grange Community School Hanham High School John Cabot Academy Katharine Lady Berkeley's School King's Oak Academy Mangotsfield School Marlwood School Millbrook Academy Newent Community School Rednock School The Ridings' Yate Academy The Riding's Winterbourne Academy Severn Vale School Sir Bernard Lovell School Sir William Romney's School St Peter's High School Tewkesbury School Wyedean School

Grammar	The Crypt School High School for Girls Marling School Pate's Grammar School Ribston Hall High School Sir Thomas Rich's School Stroud High School

Sixth form colleges	Cirencester College Downfield Sixth Form Gloucestershire College

Independent (senior)	Cheltenham College Cheltenham Ladies' College St Edward's School

Independent (all ages)	Dean Close School The King's School, Gloucester Rendcomb College Westonbirt School Wycliffe College

Defunct	Cirencester Grammar School Rose Hill School Tewkesbury Academy

Coordinates: 51°47′15″N 1°58′35″W / 51.78750°N 1.97639°W / 51.78750; -1.97639

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