Coleraine Academical Institution (CAI and styled locally as Coleraine Inst) was a voluntary grammar school for boys in
Coleraine
Coleraine ( ; from ga, Cúil Rathain , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern I ...
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County Londonderry
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, Northern Ireland.
Coleraine Academical Institution occupied a site on the Castlerock Road, where it was founded in 1860. It was, for many years, a boarding school until the boarding department closed in 1999. It was one of eight Northern Irish schools represented on the
Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
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(HMC). The school had an enrolment of 778 pupils, aged 11–19, as of 2012. The school was generally regarded for its high academic standards and extensive sporting facilities, including playing fields, indoor swimming pool, boathouse, rugby pavilion, sports pavilion and gymnasium. The school has an extensive past pupil organisation, "The Coleraine Old Boys' Association", which has several branches across the world.
Coleraine Inst was nine times winner of the
Ulster Schools Cup
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, the world's second-oldest rugby competition, in which it competed every year since 1876.
As part of a general re-organisation of schools in the Coleraine area over a number of years, Coleraine Academical Institution was merged in September 2015 with
Coleraine High School
Coleraine High School was an all-girls' grammar school located in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The High School, or Gordonville Ladies' Academy as it was originally known, was founded in 1875 in Alexander Terrace, Colerai ...
on Coleraine's Lodge Road and became a fully boys' and girls' grammar school called
Coleraine Grammar School
Coleraine Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland that was established in 2015 following the amalgamation of Coleraine Academical Institution and Coleraine High School. The school i ...
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Headmasters
Over the years the school has had nine headmasters.
* (1860–1870) Alex Waugh Young, CAI's founding principal. Very little is known of him.
* (1870–1915) Thomas Galway Houston served the school for 45 years, enjoying a long retirement in Portstewart until his death in 1939 at the age of 96. Houston served as a member of the
Senate
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in the
Stormont Parliament for
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* (1915–1927) Thomas James Beare – affectionately known as "Tommy John" – had a rather shorter tenure in office, until his premature retirement on health grounds in 1927.
* (1927–1955) William White – commonly known as "The Chief"
* (1955–1979) George Humphreys, by whom the major physical expansion of the school was guided. Previously on the staff at Campbell College, Belfast, it was during his headmastership that Inst became an H.M.C. school.
* (1979–1984) Robert F. J. Rodgers, former headmaster of Bangor Grammar School, was headmaster of Inst until his appointment as principal of Stranmillis Training College, Belfast.
* (1984–2003) R. Stanley Forsythe was appointed following a ten-year period as headmaster of The Royal School, Dungannon and remained in post until retirement.
* (2004–2007) Leonard F. Quigg was the first headmaster in the school's history to have been promoted 'from within the ranks'. Quigg served as an assistant master, head of English, Senior Master, as both junior and senior Vice-Principal before his appointment as headmaster in January 2004. Quigg retired in 2007.
* (2007–2015) David Carruthers is CAI's current headmaster. He was previously the head of mathematics at
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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Notable alumni
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John Bodkin Adams
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Richard Archibald
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, Irish Olympic rower 2004 and 2008. World silver medallist 2005, bronze medallist 2006
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Sir Dawson Bates, 1st Baronet, politician
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Air Marshal Sir
George Beamish
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Victor Beamish
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RAF ace fighter pilot in WWII
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David Burnside
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Ulster Unionist Party
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MLA and former
MP
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Alan Campbell, 2004, 2008 and 2012 (bronze) Olympic rower, 2006 world champion, 2007 Henley diamond scull winner
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Mark Carruthers
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Broadcasting work
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, TV presenter/personality
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Peter Chambers
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, 2011 world champion and 2012 Olympic Silver rower
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Richard Chambers, 2007 World Champion and 2008 and 2012 (silver) Olympic rower
* Major General
Ed Davis, Commandant General
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Governor of Gibraltar
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John Clarke Davison
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Ulster Unionist Party
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Barry Hunter, former
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international footballer
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Chris Hunter, British chemist and academic
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David McClarty, UUP
MLA for Londonderry East
* Brigadier
Mervyn McCord, former Commanding Officer of the
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Graeme McDowell
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Ryder Cup
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golfer and
U.S. Open winner
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James Nesbitt
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, film and TV actor
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Jim Shannon
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MP for Strangford
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MP for
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Edward H. Simpson
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James Stewart
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, lawyer
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Andrew Trimble
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Club career
He attended Coleraine Academical Institution, where he competed in the Ulster Schoo ...
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rugby union
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References
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Old Boys' Association
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1860 establishments in Ireland
2015 disestablishments in Northern Ireland
Educational institutions established in 1860
Educational institutions disestablished in 2015
Grammar schools in County Londonderry
Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Coleraine
Boys' schools in Northern Ireland
Grade B1 listed buildings
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