Lockers Park School is a day and boarding preparatory and pre-preparatory school for boys, situated in 23 acres of countryside in
Boxmoor
Boxmoor is part of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It is within the district of Dacorum and comprises mainly 19th-century housing and meadowland, with transport links from London to the Midlands. At the 2011 Census, the population of Boxmoor wa ...
,
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
. Its headmaster is Gavin Taylor.
History
Lockers Park was founded in 1874 by Henry Montagu Draper, an old boy of
Rugby School
Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up ...
. Its buildings and sports fields stand in of the parkland which surrounds a Georgian
country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peopl ...
called The Lockers, which was once the home of
Ebenezer John Collett
Ebenezer John Collett (22 May 1755 - 31 October 1833) was an English hop merchant who served as Tory MP for the rotten borough of Grampound from 1814 to 1818, then MP for Cashel from 1819 to 1830.
Collett unsuccessfully contested the Great Grim ...
. The new school was designed by Sidney Scott and has its own chapel which dates from the same era.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the veteran England all-round cricketer
Frank Woolley
Frank Edward Woolley (27 May 1887 – 18 October 1978) was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1938 and for the England cricket team. A genuine all-rounder, Woolley was a left-handed batsman ...
(1887–1978) was the school's cricket coach.
[Suresh Menon, ''The Shorter Wisden India Almanack 2013'' (2013, ), p. lxii]
Former pupils
:''See also
: People educated at Lockers Park School''
The list of distinguished (or well-known) old boys of Lockers Park includes the following:
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Prince Alemayehu
''Dejazmatch'' Alemayehu Tewodros, often referred to as HIH Prince Alemayehu or Alamayou of Ethiopia (23 April 1861 – 14 November 1879) was the son of Emperor Tewodros II and Empress Tiruwork Wube of Ethiopia.
Biography
Alemayu's father, Emp ...
, son of the Emperor of Ethiopia
*
Prince Maurice of Battenberg, a member of the
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
aristocracy
*
Guy Burgess
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His defection in 1951 ...
, spy
[
*]John Dermot Campbell
John Ernest Dermot Campbell DL (20 January 1898 – 23 January 1945) was a Northern Irish businessman and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament in both United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Parliaments. He was killed during the Second World War in ...
(1898–1945), Ulster Unionist politician
*Paul Channon, Baron Kelvedon
Henry Paul Guinness Channon, Baron Kelvedon, (9 October 1935 – 27 January 2007) was Conservative MP for Southend West for 38 years, from 1959 until 1997. He served in various ministerial offices, and was a Cabinet minister for 3½ years, as ...
(1935–2007), Conservative politician
*Robert Henriques
Robert David Quixano Henriques (11 December 1905 – 22 January 1967) was a British writer, broadcaster and farmer. He gained modest renown for two award-winning novels and two biographies of Jewish business tycoons, published during the middle pa ...
(1905-1967), writer and broadcasterEdward James
Edward Frank Willis James (16 August 1907 – 2 December 1984) was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.
Early life and marriage
James was born on 16 August 1907, the only son of William James (who had inherite ...
(1907–1984), poet[
*]Sir Keith Joseph
Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, (17 January 1918 – 10 December 1994), known as Sir Keith Joseph, 2nd Baronet, for most of his political life, was a British politician, intellectual and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he ...
, Conservative politician[
* Mansoor Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi, captain of the Indian cricket team][
*]Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan (; born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi; 16 August 1970) is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Part of the Pataudi family, he is the son of actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.
Khan ma ...
, Indian film actor and titular Nawab of Pataudi
*Major-General Sir Robert Laycock, Commando general during the Second World War[
*]James Lees-Milne
(George) James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August 1908 – 28 December 1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensi ...
, architectural historian[Michael Bloch, ''James Lees-Milne: The Life'' (John Murray, 2009, ), p. 17]
*Tom Mitford
Major Thomas David Freeman-Mitford (2 January 1909 – 30 March 1945) was the only son of the 2nd Baron Redesdale and brother of the Mitford Sisters. Tom Mitford was killed in action during the Second World War.
Early life
Mitford was born ...
, brother of the Mitford Sisters
*Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. Mountbatten, who was of German ...
, last Viceroy of India
The Governor-General of India (1773–1950, from 1858 to 1947 the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom and after Indian independence in 19 ...
[
* Peter Watson (1908–1956), patron of the arts][
]
Notes
Further reading
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External links
Official site
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Boarding schools in Hertfordshire
Preparatory schools in Hertfordshire
Schools in Hemel Hempstead
Educational institutions established in 1874
1874 establishments in England