Plymouth College is a co-educational independent school in Plymouth, Devon.

History

The school was established in 1877. In 1896 Plymouth College bought Mannamead School (founded in 1854), and was temporarily known as Plymouth and Mannamead College. In 1976, the first girls were admitted to the school's

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. Plymouth College became fully coeducational in 1995. In 2004, the school absorbed

St Dunstan's Abbey St Dunstan's Abbey, Plymouth was an abbey in Plymouth, Devon, England. The ''Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity'' under Priscilla Lydia Sellon with the support of the Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter founded an Anglican convent in New North ...

School, an independent school for girls founded by Lydia Sellon. The Whiteworks Outward Bound centre on Dartmoor has a 20-bed bunkhouse.

Sports

The swimming programme has a partnership with the Plymouth Leander Swimming Club. At the

2012 Olympic Games The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

Rūta Meilutytė Rūta Meilutytė (; born 19 March 1997) is a Lithuanian swimmer. An Olympic gold medalist, she is a world record holder in the short course 50 metre breaststroke and 100 metre breaststroke. She is a former world record holder in the long course ...

won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke for Lithuania.

Former teachers

Henry John Chaytor Henry John Chaytor (1871–1954), British academic, classicist and hispanist, was Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1933 to 1946. Biography After teaching at Merchant Taylors', Crosby, Chaytor was appointed second master at King ...

Notable alumni

* Paul Ackford * Michael Ball * Steve Banyard * Patrick K. Collins * Chris Constantinou *Sir Alfred Woodley Croft * William Crossing * Richard Deacon * Tom Daley * Stephen Davies *Sir

Rolf Dudley-Williams Sir Rolf Dudley Dudley-Williams, 1st Baronet (17 June 1908 – 8 October 1987), born Rolf Dudley Williams, was a British aeronautical engineer and Conservative Party politician. Royal Air Force career Williams was born in Plymouth, son of mast ...

John Fabian John McCreary Fabian (born January 28, 1939) is a former NASA astronaut and Air Force officer who flew two Space Shuttle missions and worked on the development of the Shuttle's robotic arm. He later led the Air Force's space operations. Persona ...

* Michael Foot * Dawn French * Wilson Harris * Stuart Hibberd *

Frank Hoar Harold Frank Hoar, FRIBA (13 September 1909 – 3 October 1976) was a British architect, artist, academic and architectural historian. Hoar first came to public prominence when, at the age of 25, he won a competition to design the first ter ...

* Jade Howard * William James * Ronald Jasper * Alexis Kirke * Jamila Lunkuse * Jake Libby *

Alexander Macklin Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1889 – 21 March 1967) was a British physician who served as one of the two surgeons on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. In 1921–1922, he joined the Shackleton–Row ...

* David Forbes Martyn * Sir Alexander Maxwell *

Cassie Patten Cassandra Lily Patten (born 1 January 1987 at Cardinham, Cornwall, United Kingdom) is a British freestyle swimmer and coach who won the bronze in the 10 km open-water event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Early life Cassie had always loved t ...

* Finn Peters * David Quantick *Sir Leonard Rogers * Paul Seymour * Henry Slade * Milos Stankovic * Walter Stoneman *

Mark Tavener Mark Adrian Tavener (8 July 1954 – 18 October 2007) was an English writer, List of humorists, humorist, and dramatist best known for his BBC radio and television series ''#In the Red franchise, In the Red'' (BBC Radio Four, 1995-1999/BBC Two, 1 ...

* Kavus Torabi * John Trevaskis *

J. C. Trewin John Courtenay Trewin (4 December 1908 – 16 February 1990) was a British journalist, writer and drama critic. Trewin was born in Plymouth, Devon, although both his parents were Cornish. He was educated at Plymouth College and in 1926 join ...

* Miles Tunnicliff * Grace Neutral

References

External links

*
Profile
on the

Independent Schools Council The Independent Schools Council (ISC) is a non-profit lobby group that represents over 1,300 schools in the United Kingdom's independent education sector. The organisation comprises seven independent school associations and promotes the busi ...

website {{authority control Independent schools in Plymouth, Devon Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference International Baccalaureate schools in England Boarding schools in Devon Educational institutions established in 1877 1877 establishments in England