Rotherham Grammar School

Rotherham Grammar School

Motto	Latin: Ne Ingrati Videamur (Lest We Should Appear Ungrateful)
Established	1483 (1483)
Closed	1967 (1967)
Type	County school
Location	Moorgate Road Rotherham South Yorkshire England
Local authority	Rotherham
Gender	Boys
Ages	11–18

Rotherham Grammar School was a boys' grammar school in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

History

The school was founded by Thomas Rotherham in 1483. It occupied a number of buildings in Rotherham before moving into former ministers' training college on Moorgate Road in 1890. In 1967, Rotherham moved to a comprehensive system and the school became a coeducational sixth form college, known as Thomas Rotherham College (TRC). TRC retains the old grammar school's coat of arms in its logo.^[1]

Alumni

• Bishop Robert Sanderson (1587 - 1663), moderator of the 1661 Savoy Conference. Two of the prayers in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer have often been attributed to Sanderson. These are the "general thanksgiving" and the "prayer for all conditions of men".^[2]
• Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin - founded the Austin Motor Company, and Conservative MP from 1918-24 for Birmingham King's Norton
• Sir Donald Bailey - inventor of the Bailey Bridge.
• Prof Robert Auty, Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology from 1965-78 at the University of Oxford, and President frm 1964-7 of the British University Association of Slavists (became the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies in 1989)
• Prof George Bentley, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery from 1982-2002 at the University College London Medical School
• Stanley Crowther, Labour MP from 1976-92 for Rotherham
• Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer from 1998-2010
• Alfred Goldstein CBE, civil engineer, responsible for designing the M23, the Belfast Transportation Plan, Clifton Bridge (A52) in Nottingham, Winthorpe Bridge (A1) at Newark, the Itchen Bridge in Southampton, and the Elizabeth Bridge in Cambridge
• George Charles Gray, organist
• John Harris (novelist)
• Robert Jenkins CBE, President from 1951-3 and 1973-5 of The Welding Institute
• Walter Jenkins, Vice Chancellor from 1953-8 of the University of Dhaka
• Prof Harry Kay CBE, Vice Chancellor from 1973-84 of the University of Exeter, Professor of Psychology from 1960-73 at the University of Sheffield, and President from 1971-2 of the British Psychological Society
• Donald McWhinnie, theatre director
• John Rose (chemist),
• Sgt. Ian McKay, VC, Falklands campaign.(RGS 1964-1969)

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