Pocklington School

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Pocklington School
Address
West Green Pocklington , East Riding of Yorkshire , YO42 2NJ England
Coordinates	53°55′45″N 0°46′57″W / 53.929040°N 0.782430°W / 53.929040; -0.782430
Information
Type	Private School Day and Boarding
Motto	Virtute et Veritate
Established	1514; 510 years ago (1514)
Headmaster	Toby Seth
Age	2 to 18
Website	https://www.pocklingtonschool.com/

Pocklington School is a private day and boarding school in Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1514 by John Dolman. The school is situated in 50 acres (20 ha) of land, on the outskirts of the small market town, 12 miles (19 km) from York and 26 miles (42 km) from Hull. It is the 67th oldest school in the United Kingdom and celebrated its 500th birthday in 2014.

Introduction

The most common entry points are at Pre-School and Reception, at Pocklington Prep School and the First Year (Year 7), Third Year (Year 9) or Sixth Form in Pocklington School. Pupils can however be accepted for all school years subject to vacancy. All pupils are interviewed as part of the admissions process. Academic scholarships and exhibitions are offered to candidates for the First Year, Third Year and Sixth Form of Pocklington School. A limited number of Sixth Form Bursaries, worth up to 100% of the day tuition fee, are available to Sixth Form applicants.

The current Headmaster is Mr Toby Seth,^[1] appointed in January 2019.^{[citation needed]}

Pocklington School has a number of traditions, such as the year group naming convention (first year, second year, etc.). Its motto Virtute et Veritate is Latin for With courage and truth.

There are four houses: Dolman (named after the school's founder John Dolman), Gruggen and Hutton (named after former headmasters Rev. Gruggen and Rev. Hutton) and Wilberforce (named after the 18th/19th-century anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce who attended the school).

The school has an

The school sports hall is housed in the train shed of the former Pocklington railway station, designed by George Townsend Andrews.^[3] The school runs outreach programmes engaging other schools, and working in the local community, as well as an app called Chatta to improve communication among preschool children, and has won awards for this work.^[1]

William Wilberforce

Notable former pupils

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• Richard Annand, V.C., attended 1925–32, awarded the Victoria Cross in 1940 during the Battle of France. His final visit to the school was in 2002 to unveil a copy of his citation. This can be seen in the Senior School Reception entrance. The new CCF Centre, opened in 2009, is named after him.
• Scott Boswell, cricketer.
• Prof. Mark Child, FRS, attended 1947–1955, Coulson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford.
• Sir James Cobban, attended 1920–29, educationalist, headmaster of Abingdon School, 1947–70.
• Cecil Cooper, Dean of Carlisle^[6] from 1933 to 1938.
• Martin Crimp, attended 1968–74, playwright.
• Alexandra Dariescu, attended 2002–2003, Piano soloist.^[7]
• Arthur Stuart Duncan-Jones, attended 1890–1897, Dean of Chichester for 25 years, speaker on foreign affairs and on Christian attitudes to war.
• Adrian Edmondson, attended 1969–75, co-writer/actor in Bottom and The Young Ones.
• Kyle Edmund, attended 2002–2006, tennis player.
• O.B.E., attended 1966–71, British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, Dublin.^[8]
• Major General
  , commanded the 6th Armoured Brigade, Director of Military Operations and Director General of Army Training and Recruiting.
• Andrew Farquhar C.B.E., DL, attended 1966–72, Major General, General Officer Commanding 5th Division, awarded the Legion of Merit by the U.S.A. in 2005.
• Dudley Foster, actor
• David H. French, archaeologist
• Sebastian Horsley, artist and writer.^[9]
• John How, attended 1894–1899, Bishop of Glasgow and Primus of the Church of Scotland. In the 1930s, he was Chaplain to George V, Edward VIII and later George VI.
• Ralph Ineson, actor and voice-over artist.
• Roger Kohn, designer and author.
• Richard Leonard, attended 1973–80, former leader of the Scottish Labour Party.^[10]
• Stephen Maxwell, author and politician.
• A. Michael Mennim, architect
• Lord Moran, M.C., attended 1894–99, personal physician to Winston Churchill, author of The Anatomy of Courage and The Struggle for Survival, his personal accounts of looking after Churchill.^[11]
• Oswald Longstaff Prowde, attended 1890–1895, English civil engineer
• FRSE, attended 1924–1930, zoologist and expert on brown trout
• Robin Skelton, attended 1937–1943, poet and literary scholar.^[12]
• Sir Tom Stoppard, O.M., C.B.E., attended 1950–54, playwright. His portrait, presented to the school by Peter Stoppard (1949–1953), hangs in the senior school reception entrance.
• Frank Swindell, Archdeacon of Singapore^[13] 1916–1929.
• The Right Reverend Graham Usher, attended 1981–1989, Bishop of Norwich
• palaeontologist
• Air Marshal
  , director, Joint Warfare Centre, Europe.
• Rob Webber, attended 1994–2004, England international rugby union player (hooker).
• William Wilberforce, attended 1771–1776, politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to stop the slave trade.^[4]
• Sir Dawson Williams
  , CBE, MD, HonLLd, DLitt, DSc, FRCP, attended 1867–1872, consultant physician and longest-serving editor of the British Medical Journal

References

External links

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