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, in 1874.'St Edmund's School, Hindhead', in ''The Public and Preparatory Schools year book'', vol. 78 (London: A. & C. Black, 1968), p. 812: "ST EDMUND'S SCHOOL, HINDHEAD Tel. : 408 Hindhead. Station, Haslemere, S.R. Head Master.— Peter C. Weeks, MA, Dip. Ed. (Caius College, Cambridge). Number of Boarders. — 130. 25 day boys are taken for the first two years. Fees £160 a term... founded in 1874...."

History

The school moved to Hindhead, Surrey, in 1900, into a large country house named Blen Cathra, previously a home of

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, with grounds of some . The school's original buildings in Hunstanton was purchased in 1901 by Howard Cambridge Barber and became the home of

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. As the school developed through the 20th century it established itself as a traditional English Preparatory school, preparing its pupils for senior, public school education, regularly sending pupils to the likes of Eton College, Cranleigh, Charterhouse and Canford. In 1968 the school had 130 boarders, and 25 day boys "taken for the first two years". In 1979 The St Edmund's School Charitable Trust was formed to help take the school forward, with Richard Saunders, an old boy, becoming its first Chairman of Governors. For most of its existence St Edmund's was for boys only, however, with the first girls being admitted in 2008, the school is now co-educational. In 2014 the ISI report listed it as having 249 pupils. 173 boys and 76 girls. The school's transition into a modern-day public school has seen it dropping traditional Saturday school for Optional Saturday Morning Activities. It operates a flexi-boarding system. A programme of refurbishments and building projects included a new teaching block (the W. H. Auden Centre), opened by Sir

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CBE in October 2014.

Notable former pupils

:''And see People educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead'' *

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(1915-2004) - MD, RAMC, MBE, FRCP,

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POW camp survivor *

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Harry Blamires, ''A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English'' (1983), p. 130: "Isherwood, Christopher... Novelist, born in Cheshire, and educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey, where in his last year he made friends with W. H. Auden (qv), his junior by two-and-a-half years..." - Novelist *

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KVCO MBE - Major General of the Household Division and GCO of the London District * Harold Edward Musson - Buddhist monk and author *

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- English mountaineer and author. He was a member of the 1953 British Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest *

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- Academy award winning film director *

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- Art historian *

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- Architect and theorist * Michael Ward - Expedition doctor of the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953

Headmasters

*1874 to 1899 Rev. J. Morgan-Brown MA (Oxf) *1899 to 1929 Cyril Morgan Brown, *1929 to 1933 Ivor Sant *1933 to 1952 Ivo Bulley *1952 to 1978 Peter Weeks MA (Cantab) *1978 to 1991 Tony Pull (Oxf) *1991 to 1995 Andrew Sangster *1995 to 2000 Andrew Fowler-Watt *2000 to present A. J. Walliker, MA (Cantab)

Notes

External links

Official St. Edmund's School website
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