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Lockers Park School is a day and boarding preparatory and pre-preparatory school for boys, situated in 23 acres of countryside in Boxmoor,
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 gov ...
. 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. ...
. 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 peop ...
called The Lockers, which was once the home of Ebenezer John Collett. 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 (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: * Prince Alemayehu, son of the Emperor of Ethiopia *
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aristocracy *
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, spy *
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(1935–2007), Conservative politician *
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, Conservative politician * Mansoor Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi, captain of the Indian cricket team *
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, last
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* Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1909 –1945), Conservative politician * Peter Watson (1908–1956), patron of the arts


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External links


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