{{Infobox school , name = St. Francis Xavier's College , image = St. Francis Xavier's College Crest.gif , image_size = , coordinates = {{coord, 53.382662, -2.880281, type:edu_region:GB_dim:100, format=dec, display=inline,title , motto = "...life in all its fullness." Jn 10:10 , established = {{start date and age, 1842, 10, 27 , closed = , type =

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, r_head = David Hayes , chair_label = Chair , chair = Lisa Riccio-Jones , founder =

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, address = Woolton Hill Road

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, ofsted = yes , urn = 138463 , staff = 130 , enrolment = 1297 , gender = Boys,

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in the 6th form , lower_age = 11 , upper_age = 18 , houses = Almond, Bryant, Campion, Kemble, Mayne, Lewis, Owen, Rigby , colours = Year 7-11

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and

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with academy status located in

, England. Year 7 to Year 11 are male only, whereas the Sixth Form (years 12 and 13) are

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. The college is under the trusteeship of the

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. Their mission is that of their founder, Jean Marie de la Mennais, "To make Jesus better known and loved". The school is a

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for

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and

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, and was the first school in Liverpool to gain specialist school status in that category.

Origins and history

The college was founded in 1842 in association with

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by the

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which is a

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1842–1843: ''Soho Street''

The college had a

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from 1842 to 1844. It had two pupils. {{cite book , last1= Heery , first1= Pat , last2= Bewley , first2= Bill , title= The History of St. Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool 1842–2001 , url= http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-The+History+of+St.Francis+Xaviers+College+Liverpool+18422001+-9780953578214.html , year= 2002 , isbn= 978-0-9535782-1-4 , page= 30 , chapter= Chapter 2: The College Premises , access-date= 2009-01-25 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110928023910/http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-The+History+of+St.Francis+Xaviers+College+Liverpool+18422001+-9780953578214.html , archive-date= 2011-09-28 , url-status= dead

1843–1845: ''St. Anne Street''

A year later, it had a dozen pupils. Father Francis Lythgoe moved the college to St. Anne Street where it stayed until 1845.

1846–1877: ''Salisbury Street''

In 1844 Father Johnson took over from Father Francis Lythgoe and moved his 24 pupils to the newly opened Presbytery on Salisbury Street. Father Collyns took over the college in 1853. With more than 50 pupils the

Father Collyns decided that a new premises was needed. By 1856 the college had its own building built alongside the Presbytery and in 1877 a new college was built on 6 Salisbury Street. {{cite book , last= Heery , first= Pat , title= The History of St. Francis Xavier's College Liverpool 1842 - 2001 , url= http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-The+History+of+St.Francis+Xaviers+College+Liverpool+18422001+-9780953578214.html , year= 2002 , isbn= 978-0-9535782-1-4 , page= 32 , chapter= Chapter 2: The College Premises , access-date= 2009-01-25 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110928023910/http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-The+History+of+St.Francis+Xaviers+College+Liverpool+18422001+-9780953578214.html , archive-date= 2011-09-28 , url-status= dead

''Second college building''

The newest Salisbury Street building was designed by Henry Clutton, a

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. He used the designs of Father Vaughan as the bases of his designs. The new college was completed in the summer of 1877 and cost £30,000.

Move to Woolton

In 1961 the college was transferred as a

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to its present twenty-six-acre site at High Lee,

. From 1984 to 1990 the Lower School site for Years 7, 8 and 9 was located on Queens Drive (Formerly Cardinal Newman RC) in Wavertree L15. Later, the Lower School was re-sited with the Upper School at High Lee. In 1990, the college opted out of local authority control, becoming a

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. The college was granted Technology College status from April 1996. In September 1999 it became a

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. In 1992, the college became co-educational in the sixth form and in September 2000 the De La Mennais Sixth Form Centre was opened.

School choir

The choir was formed in 1994 and has performed in front of

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. They have toured Europe and the United States, and gained a place in the

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for singing at every

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in England and Wales. The school sang on the reworked version of The Farm's 1990 hit " Alltogethernow",

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ed by

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. The single, which reached number 10 in the

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, was the official song for the England football team at the

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competition. It was performed by the choir on ''

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'' in 2004.

Head Teachers

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Notable alumni

* James Clement Baxter – Liberal politician and former chairman of

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(Percy Beazley) – Irish revolutionary and writer *

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– American film director *

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– musician, singer, and songwriter *

Denis Cosgrove Denis Edmund Cosgrove (3 May 1948, in Liverpool – 21 March 2008, in Los Angeles) was a distinguished British cultural geographer and Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before this, he was Professor of Huma ...

– former professor of geography at the

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* Gabriel George Coury – recipient of the

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* Chris Crookall – actor *

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– former

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– footballer *

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– Roman Catholic cleric and diplomat, titular archbishop of Hodelm * John Gregson – actor *

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– musician *

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– Catholic

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from 1978 to 1992, prison chaplain at

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from 1952 to 1965 *

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– Conservative MP for

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from 1931 to 1935 *

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– recipient of the Victoria Cross *

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– British historian, military officer, scholar of Ukrainian studies * Sammy Lee – former footballer and assistant manager of Liverpool FC * George Lynskey – High Court judge on the former King's Bench *

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– bishop *

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– screenwriter *

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- musician * Mike Newell – footballer *

Laurence O'Keeffe Peter Laurence O'Keeffe (9 July 1931 – 2 May 2003) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution. Career O'Keeffe was educated at St Francis Xavier's College (Liverpool) and University College, Ox ...

– UK ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1988 to 1991, and to

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from 1982 to 1985 *

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– director-general of the

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* Paul Raymond – publisher of pornographic magazines *

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– actor, writer, comedian{{cite web , title=Peter Serafinowicz , publisher=

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– composer of Edwardian musical comediesLamb, Andrew
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– footballer *

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– musical theatre actor

References

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External links

* {{Official website, http://www.sfx.liverpool.sch.uk
St. Francis Xavier's College Ofsted Reports

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