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, London, England, between King Street and the

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. The school has approximately 1,200 pupils, and is highly selective, accepting under 10% of applicants (in 2016); most are admitted through examination and interview to

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at the age of eleven, with some entering into the Sixth Form at 16. The school can be traced to a

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for boys founded by the English

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in 1624. It moved to its present site in 1863 and in the mid-20th century became a

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. It has been independent since the abolition of that system of funding in the 1970s. It remained single-sex until Sixth-Form admissions were opened to girls in 1996; the remainder of the school became coeducational in the first decade of the 21st century. Latymer has been ranked consistently among the leading schools in the country academically. This is on the merit of its position in the national GCSE and A level examination performance tables combined with one of the highest

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and

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acceptance rates of any secondary school or college, and it is one of the top schools for the arts and sport. the Sixth Form of 340 is one of the largest in London and offers forty academic courses as well as extra-curricular activities.

History

Origins

Latymer Upper School was founded in 1624 by

, a wealthy lawyer and

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, who left part of his wealth for the clothing and education of "eight poore boyes" from

. For the next twenty years, local boys were educated in a school erected in

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's churchyard, moving in 1648 to another school built in Hammersmith. Later, in 1657, a parochial

was set up, which served as the Latymer legacy for the following century until it was rebuilt in 1755. A new facility was built on what is now King Street in Hammersmith in 1863, and was replaced in 1890 with a new building between King Street and the

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. This structure persists to the present day as the core of the Upper School. The site also includes Latymer Prep, a preparatory school, which takes pupils aged 7 to 11.

Recent history

In the 1950s, the school was a

, which took large numbers of state school pupils, whose fees were paid by the local authority, solely on the basis of merit. At the same time, it continued to take some fee-paying pupils. The Direct Grant system was abolished from 1975, and the school became fully independent of government funding. The Sixth Form has been

co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

since 1996, and in 2004 the main school started to become co-educational, with the introduction of girls into Year 7. With that year's entry moving into Year 11, the school became fully co-educational by 2008. Each year, the school gathers in the nearby St. Paul's church for "Founder's Day", an annual reflection upon and celebration of Edward Latymer and other beneficiaries of the school. As a member school of the HMC it is a

Student body

Pupils come from a wide area of London. 176 pupils are on means-tested bursaries, 70 of whom are on 100 percent bursaries. A school statement in the ''

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'' said: "We attract a real mix from city investors, media types and academics living in leafy streets through to families on the White City estate, which is surely better than just those from a privileged bubble mixing with each other". ''Tatler'' notes that the school says it is 'fishing in a brighter gene pool', and that 'philanthropy is integral to the spirit of the school and Latymer is one of the leaders in providing means-tested bursaries'. In 2019, Tatler dubbed it "a truly remarkable, unpretentious, highly academic school."

Finances

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for 2020 was £21,000 per year, plus other mandatory and optional fees. Latymer offers a

bursary A bursary is a monetary award made by any educational institution or funding authority to individuals or groups. It is usually awarded to enable a student to attend school, university or college when they might not be able to, otherwise. Some awa ...

programme, with 176 pupils on means-tested bursaries. For families with incomes unable to pay the fees, Latymer Upper is free. The school has a substantial fund from donations ring-fenced to fund bursaries.

Academics

Latymer Upper School is one of the highest academically performing schools in the UK historically and to date. The school's own on-site prep pupils enter the Upper School automatically at the end of Year 6, Tatler Schools Guide commentated that 'competition for Latymer places is hotter than ever: 1,100 applicants sat the exam last spring; 400 were interviewed for 168 places'. The examined subjects are in English and Maths, which are followed by an interview. There were 33 Oxbridge places in 2017, and an increasing number went to US universities such as

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, Columbia, Dartmouth,

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and

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, and other universities.

Activities

There are over 140 clubs and societies at Latymer, including the

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, Literary and Latymer Societies. There are also clubs for

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debating Debate is a process that involves formal discourse on a particular topic, often including a Discussion moderator, moderator and audience. In a debate, arguments are put forward for often opposing viewpoints. Debates have historically occurred ...

, philosophy and photography. The Drama Society holds several productions each year. Two students in Year 10 won the International Debating Competition in Cambridge at their age level. The final consisted of four other London-based schools that included St Paul's and Westminster. The school has links with other schools across Europe with a joint orchestra, as well as other trips (such as work experience), with Godolphin and Latymer School. There are trips abroad throughout the year, such as skiing trips, language exchanges, work experience in Paris, Berlin and

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trips to Italy and Greece, sports tours and expeditions. Latymer Upper also participates in the

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scheme. The school is active in

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work: the annual "Charities' Week" raised £3,000 in 2006. The school branch of

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is involved in fund- and awareness-raising campaigns. A student-led

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group has led to each classroom being equipped with a recycling bin. Latymer contributes to local music, art, drama, dance and sports projects, as well as acting as venue for a Sunday School and

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for the disabled. Sixth Form students are encouraged to help in local primary schools and old people's homes as part of their general studies program, as well as with groups helping the homeless and disabled. In addition, the school offers all students a trip every year in 'Activities Week'. Destinations have included Spain, the

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rower ( 1984 Games and 1988 Games), Henry Fieldman, Olympic bronze medal rower ( 2020 Games) and the Olympic Silver medallist

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was a coach. The Boat Club has gone on to win

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, most recently with the win of the Diamond Jubilee Challenge Cup.

Facilities

Academic facilities

Latymer Performing Arts Centre, Hammersmith, London

* The Main Hall is the primary building around which the rest of the campus is grouped. It is the original Victorian school building, with a main hall in which assemblies are held, and a corridor linking to classes. * The Design block at one end of the main hall houses the Design & Technology labs. * The Modern languages block is a 1960s building housing the modern and classical languages departments. * The Latymer Theatre and Arts Centre, opened in 2000, includes a 300-seat galleried box theatre, music practice rooms, art galleries and studios, plus a cafe and atrium area. * The Latymer Performing Arts Centre, completed in 2009, contains drama studios, rehearsal rooms and a 150-seat recital hall. * The Science and Library building, opened in 2010, includes labs for the three sciences and a library with seating for more than 200 pupils which occupies a floor at the base.

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were responsible for the design and delivery of these four buildings during a ten-year working relationship with the school. * Outbuildings house history and geography lessons, as well as the arts. 150 computers are provided for pupil use, networked and with e-mail and internet access, and ICT is taught in one lesson a week in Years 7 to 9. Pupils are permitted to cycle to school, with storage space provided for their bikes. Meals are self-service in the lunch hall, and there is a café in the "atrium".

Athletic facilities

* The Latymer Upper School

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faces the

and spans four stories. * The Sports Centre was opened in March 2016, which includes a six-lane swimming pool, basketball hoops, badminton markings, cricket nets, a fitness suite, and a rock climbing wall whilst at the same time offering an area for all pupils to take their examinations. * The school's playing fields are about a mile and a half away, on

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, with a £2m sports pavilion and changing rooms completed in 2004. The playing fields are used for training by the England Rugby Team * The Sports pavilion, costing £2m and containing changing rooms was opened in 2004.

Other facilities

* The chapel is housed at the top of the Geography & History building.

Coat of arms

The school for many years used the armorial bearings of the founder, Edward Latymer. This included his motto, ''paulatim ergo certe'' ("Slowly therefore surely"), which doubled as a pun, including the word "latimer" (spelt thus as there is no letter '' y'' in

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). An intermediate coat of arms was taken from one of the quarters of the original coat of arms which combined that of the Latymer Foundation and of the Latymer School. The motto was dropped in 2004 along with the coat of arms, and a new, much simpler, shield (described in the school literature as a "new crest") was adopted. The Coat of Arms was again changed, to its current form, in September 2020. The original arms continue to be used, with a different motto, by the sister school,

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Public examination results

Latymer has been ranked consistently in the leading schools in the country academically based on the merit of its position in the national GCSE and A level examination performance tables combined with one of the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rates of any secondary school or college. GCSE & A-Level summaries over five years

Old Latymerians

Politics

* John Beckett (1894-1964), dissident politician *

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, businessman and politician * Peter Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill, Chairman of

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* Alan Hunt, former British High Commissioner to

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*Sir

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(1919-2004), former British Ambassador to Moscow *Sir

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(1921-1998), former Solicitor General *

Joshua Rozenberg Joshua Rufus Rozenberg KC (hon) (born 30 May 1950) is a British solicitor, legal commentator, and journalist. Early life and career He was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and Wadham College, University of Oxford, where he took a ...

, legal affairs correspondent for the ''

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'' *

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MP for

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, former Labour MP for

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(1932-2010), former

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Larry Whitty, Baron Whitty John Lawrence Whitty, Baron Whitty, (born 15 June 1943), known as Larry Whitty, is a British Labour Party politician. Early life Born in 1943, Whitty was educated at Latymer Upper School and graduated from St John's College, Cambridge, with a ...

, former Labour Party General Secretary *

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, former Conservative Party Education Minister

Film and Theatre

* William Hinds (1887–1957), jeweller and one time owner of

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film studios *

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, actress *

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, actress and model *

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, actor *

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, actor-singer, comedian *

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, actor * Ophelia Lovibond, actress *

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, actress *

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, actor *

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, actor *

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, actor

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, actor, comedian, film director, producer, writer *

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, actor * Will Theakston, actor *

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, actress * Rufus Jones, actor *

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, theatre director and academic

Music

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DJ/producer * Ralph Hill, music critic * Ils, electronic music producer and DJ *Jack Lawrence-Brown and Harry McVeigh, White Lies *

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, record producer and classical impresario * Alan Rickman after Seminar (1)

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* Charlie Morgan,

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and composer of theme tune to ''

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'' *

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, drum & bass DJ/producer and Matrix's older brother *

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, singer *John Samuelson aka J. Willgoose, Esq.,

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, singer *

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, jazz musician, expelled from Latymer, father of

Pete Pete or Petes or ''variation'', may refer to: People * Pete (given name) * Pete (nickname) * Pete (surname) Fictional characters * Pete (Disney), a cartoon character in the ''Mickey Mouse'' universe * Pete the Pup (a.k.a. 'Petey'), a character ...

Raphael Wallfisch Raphael Wallfisch (born 15 June 1953 in London) is a British cellist and professor of cello. As a soloist he performs regularly with leading orchestras around the world, as well as together with duo partner John York (piano), or as member of the ...

cellist The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 ...

Sport

rower ( 1984 Games and 1988 Games) * Antony Hooper, cricketer *

Simon Hughes Sir Simon Henry Ward Hughes (born 17 May 1951) is a former British politician. He is now the Chancellor of London South Bank University, an External Adviser to The Open University, and UK Strategic Adviser to Talgo. Hughes was Deputy Leader ...

, cricketer * Hugh Jones, London Marathon winner *

Dan Luger Daniel Darko Luger MBE (born 11 January 1975) is a former English rugby union international who was a member of the squad that won the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Rugby career Club career Dan Luger was born in Chiswick and is the son of a Croat ...

rugby Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: ** Rugby league: 13 players per side *** Masters Rugby League *** Mod league *** Rugby league nines *** Rugby league sevens *** Touch (sport) *** Wheelchair rugby league ** Rugby union: 1 ...

player *

Dominic Waldouck Dominic Waldouck (born 26 September 1987) is an English rugby union coach and former player. His playing position was centre. Early life and education Waldouck grew up in Shepherd's Bush, London. He attended Kew College Primary School. He the ...

, rugby player

Other fields

Bishop of Hereford The Bishop of Hereford is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury. The episcopal see is centred in the Hereford, City of Hereford where the bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is in the Hereford Cathedr ...

, Richard Jackson *

Natalie Abrahami Natalie Abrahami is a British theatre, film and opera director. She was Associate Director and Genesis Fellow at the Young Vic in London 2013-16 and Associate Artist at Hull Truck Theatre. From 2007–12 she was joint Artistic Director of the ...

, theatre director *

Heston Blumenthal Heston Marc Blumenthal (; born 27 May 1966) is a British celebrity chef, TV personality and food writer. Blumenthal is regarded as a pioneer of multi-sensory cooking, food pairing and flavour encapsulation. He came to public attention with un ...

, TV chef and owner of

The Fat Duck The Fat Duck is a fine dining restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, England. It is run by celebrity chef proprietor Heston Blumenthal. Housed in a 16th-century building that had previously been the site of the Bell pub, the Fat Duck opened on 16 Aug ...

Ajahn Brahm Phra Visuddhisamvarathera ( th, พระวิสุทธิสังวรเถร), known as Ajahn Brahmavaṃso, or simply Ajahn Brahm (born Peter Betts on 7 August 1951), is a British-born Theravada Buddhist monk. Currently, Ajahn Brah ...

, Buddhist monk *

Ed Condry Edward Francis Condry (born 25 April 1953) is a retired bishop of the Church of England. He was the suffragan Bishop of Ramsbury in the Diocese of Salisbury, 2012–2018, and Canon Treasurer of Canterbury Cathedral, 2002–2012. Early life an ...

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* Jason Da Costa,

Flight Simulation A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes. It includes replicating the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they rea ...

Bill Emmott William John Emmott (born 6 August 1956) is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of ''The Economist'' newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary feature ...

, former editor of ''

The Economist ''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Econo ...

'' * Sir Andrew Haines – Director of the

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a public research university in Bloomsbury, central London, and a member institution of the University of London that specialises in public health and tropical medicine. The inst ...

* Sir

Harold Spencer Jones Sir Harold Spencer Jones KBE FRS FRSE PRAS (29 March 1890 – 3 November 1960) was an English astronomer. He became renowned as an authority on positional astronomy and served as the tenth Astronomer Royal for 23 years. Although born " ...

Astronomer Royal Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675; the junior is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834. The post ...

1933–55 *

Hilary Jones Hilary Jones may refer to: *Hilary Jones (doctor) (born 1953), British general practitioner and media doctor *Hilary P. Jones (1863–1938), United States Navy officer *Hilary Bevan Jones Hilary Bevan Jones is a British television producer. In ...

GMTV GMTV (an acronym for Good Morning Television), now legally known as ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited, was the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 ...

in-house doctor *

Milton Jones Milton Hywel Jones (born 16 May 1964) is an English comedian. His style of humour is based on one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan and slightly neurotic style. Jones has had various shows on BBC Radio 4 and was a recurring guest pa ...

, comedian *

Giles Milton Giles Milton FRHistS (born 15 January 1966) is a British writer who specialises in narrative history. His books have sold more than one million copies in the UK. and been published in twenty-five languages. He has written twelve works of non-fi ...

, author and journalist * Philip I. Murray, professor of

Ophthalmology Ophthalmology ( ) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a medic ...

at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom * Tim Moore, travel writer *

John D. Ray John David Ray (born 22 December 1945) is a British Egyptologist and academic. He is the current Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge. His principal field of interest covers the Late and Hellenistic periods ...

, Egyptologist *

Jerry Roberts Captain Raymond C. "Jerry" Roberts MBE (18 November 1920 – 25 March 2014) was a British wartime codebreaker and businessman. During the Second World War, Roberts worked at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park f ...

OBE Wartime codebreaker at

Bletchley park Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes ( Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following ...

1920-2014 *

David Shoenberg David Shoenberg, MBE FRS, (4 January 1911 – 10 March 2004) was a British physicist who worked in condensed matter physics. Shoenberg is known for having developed experimental and theoretical principles to study the De Haas–Van Alphen effe ...

, physicist, researcher into supercooling * Eric Simms, natural history broadcaster * Sir Jim Smith, scientist * Professor Lord Stern, ex-Chief Economist of the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

and author of the

Stern Review The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is a 700-page report released for the Government of the United Kingdom on 30 October 2006 by economist Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environm ...

on climate change in October 2006 * Allegra Stratton, journalist *

Deyan Sudjic Deyan Sudjic (born 6 September 1952) is a British writer and broadcaster, specialising in the fields of design and architecture. He was formerly the director of the Design Museum, London.LSE"Advisory board" retrieved 17 May 2013 Life and care ...

, Director,

Design Museum The Design Museum in Kensington, London exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all funds generat ...

, London (2006—) *

Zbigniew Szydlo Andrew Zbigniew Szydlo ( ; born 1949) is a British chemist and chemistry teacher, best known for his talks and lectures on chemistry. Biography Szydlo was born in London, England to Polish parents, and attended Latymer Upper School, and then ...

, historian of chemistry * Ibrahim Taguri, community worker *

David Tress David Tress (born 11 April 1955) is a British artist noted particularly for his deeply personal interpretations of landscapes in and around his home in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales. He combines the techniques of collage and impasto with conven ...

, painter *

Fred Vine Frederick John Vine FRS (born 17 June 1939) is an English marine geologist and geophysicist. He made key contributions to the theory of plate tectonics, helping to show that the seafloor spreads from mid-ocean ridges with a symmetrical pattern ...

, geologist and co-discoverer of

plate tectonics Plate tectonics (from the la, label=Late Latin, tectonicus, from the grc, τεκτονικός, lit=pertaining to building) is the generally accepted scientific theory that considers the Earth's lithosphere to comprise a number of large ...

Adrian Weale Adrian Weale (born 9 February 1964) is a British writer, journalist, illustrator and photographer of Welsh origin. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, University of York, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Joint Services Command and ...

, writer and historian *

Roger Westman Roger Ulick Branch Westman (16 September 1939 - 29 April 2020) was a British architect. Early life and education Westman was born at Jarrow, County Durham in 1939, the eldest son of Kenneth Westman (diplomat), Kenneth Westman, a diplomat stat ...

, architect * John William Baker, chemist and co-discover of

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sometimes used synonymously for

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in general organic chemistry * Gordon Brook-Shepherd, author

Notable former staff

, rowing coach *

Alastair Heathcote Alastair Heathcote (born 18 August 1977 in Athens, Greece) is a British rower and Captain in the British Army. Heathcote is the eldest grandson and eventual heir of Sir Gilbert Simon Heathcote, 9th Baronet. He was educated at Eton College, Newca ...

* Peter Jacobs, piano *

Max Kenworthy Max Kenworthy (born in West Yorkshire, England) has performed recitals throughout the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand and has undertaken recordings, broadcasts and tours in pipe organ, piano and conducting. Max began playing jazz piano ...

, taught music *

Robert King (conductor) Robert King (born 27 June 1960 in Wombourne) is an English conductor, harpsichordist, editor and author. His career has concentrated on period performance of classical music, in particular from the baroque and early modern periods. In 2007, he w ...

, taught musicLatymer Upper School, Directories, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986. *

Shaun Sutton Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton (14 October 1919 in Hammersmith, London – 14 May 2004 in Norfolk) was an English television writer, director, producer and executive, who worked in the medium for nearly forty years from the 1950s to the 1990s. His m ...

* Jean Driant, taught French

References

External links

Latymer Upper's official websiteLatymer Prep School's official websiteOfficial Old Latymerian websiteA summary of Latymer Upper's academic performanceA detailed history of the Latymer schools at British History Online
{{authority control 1624 establishments in England Latymer School Independent co-educational schools in London

Latymer Upper School (Slowly Therefore Surely) , established = , closed = , sister_school = Godolphin and Latymer School , type = Public schoolIndependent day school , head_label = H ...

Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference