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Charles Read Academy is a

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secondary school located in

Corby Glen Corby Glen is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately south-east of the market town of Grantham and 8 miles (13 km) north west of Bourne. History The Church of England pa ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...

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. It serves the villages between Stamford, Bourne and

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

. The current school was built as a comprehensive in 1963, and in 1999 it was renamed the Charles Read High School to perpetuate the tradition of the former

grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...

founded in 1669 by the bequest of Charles Read (1604–1669), who became a wealthy shipper in Hull. Read also founded Read School at Drax in

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and a grammar school at

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in Notts. Reads Grammar School in Corby Glen closed in 1909. The original grammar school building is now th
Willoughby Memorial Library and Art Gallery
The building was restored in 1965 by the Willoughby Memorial Trust which was founded by

James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster, (8 December 1907 – 29 March 1983) styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1910 to 1951, was a British Conservative politician. Early life Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willo ...

in memory of his son Timothy, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, who died in 1963. Charles Read High School converted to an

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in January 2011. In January 2013 the West Grantham Academies Trust announced the Academy would close by September 2014 but subsequently the

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took responsibility for maintaining the school."Charles Read Academy saved from closure by trust"
''Stamford Mercury'' 11 June 2013

Notable former pupils

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- Serial killer nurse.

References

External links

Charles Read Academy
Academies in Lincolnshire Secondary schools in Lincolnshire {{Lincolnshire-school-stub