Wellington College, Wellington
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Wellington College | |
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Gender | Boys |
School roll | 1,846[1] (February 2024) |
Color(s) | Black and Gold |
Socio-economic decile | 10Z[2] |
Publication | The Wellingtonian |
Website | www |
Wellington College, is a state-run boys
Wellington College is one of the oldest boys' secondary schools in New Zealand. The history and influence of Wellington College have made it notable in the history of New Zealand, with prominent alumni such as Arthur Coningham, Bernard Freyberg and William Pickering. The school is known nationally for both its academic success, as well as a large number of sporting activities.
The school has an enrolment of about 1750 boys.
For 2023, the College was ranked 31st in Crimson's Top 50 New Zealand Schools 2023
History
Wellington College opened in 1867 as Wellington Grammar School in Woodward Street, though
Wellington College's Pavilion, Firth House and the Gifford Observatory were opened on 1 December, 1924. The War Memorial Hall was opened on 2 March, 1928, financially supported by £6000 from the Old Boys' Association.
In the 1960s the Old Boys Gymnasium was built on the eastern boundary of the campus replacing the swimming pool[9] and during the 1970s the Maths, Library and Technology blocks were opened, replacing the last of the War Memorial Hall building and classroom wings that opened in 1928.[10]
In 1980 Firth House was demolished to make way for a new gymnasium which opened in 1982. 1988 saw the opening of the Arts and Music block, and the Brierley Theatre, named after old boy Ron Brierley.[11]
The first dedicated computer rooms in the College opened in 1994 in a new building located behind the school hall.
2001 saw the opening of the Science block, on the western boundary of the campus. In 2008 the Languages block opened, also located on the western boundary.
The campus also has many prefabricated buildings, some functioning as offices or classrooms.
The only "historical" buildings remaining on campus to this day are Firth Hall, the Pavilion and the Gifford Observatory.
In 2016, the College Hall was demolished to make way for a larger Assembly Hall and Performing Arts Centre, which would be able to hold the entire school with its growing population. In preparation for this, the staffroom was moved to Firth Hall, the Uniform Shop opened a new premise next to the Archives, and the Computer Block was opened on the first floor of Tower Block. Construction on the new hall commenced in September 2016 and was opened in 2018 by Jacinda Ardern.[12]
About
Wellington College's enrolment zone mainly covers the central and western suburbs of Wellington (Rongotai College serves the southeastern suburbs, and Onslow College the northern suburbs).
The school also competes in a local athletics competition known as "McEvedy Shield" along with
It is next to Wellington East Girls' College, also in Mount Victoria, and shares with that college the Gifford Observatory. Although Wellington College is situated next to Wellington East Girls' College, its sister college is Wellington Girls' College located in Thorndon.
In 2011, 2012 and 2013, Wellington College earned the highest number of scholarships in the New Zealand scholarship exams.[14]
Board of trustees
The Wellington College Board of Trustees consists of twelve elected and appointed members.[15]
Currently the Board Chair is Cameron Harland,[16] who is also the Chief Executive at NZ On Air
Notable alumni
The Arts
- John Beaglehole – historian
- Colin Beyer – lawyer and business man
- Roy Cowan – potter, illustrator, and printmaker
- Maxwell Fernie – organist, conductor and music teacher
- Alexander Grant – ballet dancer, teacher, and company director
- W. Gray Young – architect
- Jonathan Harlen – author
- Dai Henwood – comedian
- Raybon Kan – writer and comedian
- Bret McKenzie – Academy Award-winning songwriter and member of Flight of the Conchords
- Gordon McLauchlan – writer
- John Mulgan – editor, writer, journalist and Army officer
- Clive Matthew-Wilson – writer
- David Mitchell – poet
- Don Peebles – artist
- Robert J. Pope – songwriter, poet, cricketer
- Jack Shallcrass – author, educator and humanist
- Burton Silver – cartoonist, parodist, and writer
- Charles Treadwell – lawyer, soldier, author and politician
- Karl Urban – actor
- communistactivist
- Kenneth Athol Webster – collector and dealer of manuscripts, fine art and ethnographic artifacts associated with Oceanic peoples.
Broadcasting & journalism
- Edward George Honey – Australian journalist credited by some as the originator of the Two-minute silence tradition
- John Campbell – journalist, radio and television personality
- Graeme Moody – sports broadcaster
- Keith Quinn – TV and radio sports presenter
- Chris Spence – journalist
- Selwyn Toogood – radio and television personality.
- Bryan Waddle – cricket commentator & radio presenter
Business
- Ron Brierley – businessman
- George Burnes – businessman and first-class cricketer
- Stewart Duff – businessman, civic advocate and politician
- Alan Gibbs – businessman
- Saul Goldsmith – importer and merchant
- Michael Hirschfeld – businessman, and was President of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1995 to 1999.
- Arthur Myers – businessman and politician
- Steve Outtrim – businessman
- Frank Renouf – businessman
- Stephen Town – chief executive
Public service
- Henry Avery – New Zealand's Quartermaster General during World War Two and former All Black[17]
- Grafton Francis Bothamley – Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Public Service Commission
- Alfred Brandon (mayor) – Mayor of Wellington
- Alfred Brandon (RAF officer) – lawyer and military aviator who served in the First World War
- Edmund Percy Bunny – Mayor of Lower Hutt
- John Gibbs Churchill – trade unionist and local politician
- Arthur Coningham – World War II commander and World War I Air Ace. Portrayed in the film Patton
- Ken Douglas – trade union leader and politician
- World Wars.
- Bernard Freyberg – Governor-General, World War I VC Winner and World War II commander
- Les Gandar – politician of the National Party.
- William Gaudin – politician
- Thomas Gault – Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
- William Gentry – World War II commander[18]
- Thomas Goddard – jurist
- Lord Grey of Naunton – last Governor of Northern Ireland[19]
- Horowhenuaand a lawyer
- Ministry of Works
- Michael Hardie Boys – former Governor-General of New Zealand
- Thomas Hislop – Mayor of Wellington from 1931 to 1945
- State Services Commissioner
- Thomas Jordan – was the mayor of Masterton from 1925 to 1944, and was a teacher and then lawyer.
- John Larkindale – former New Zealand public servant and diplomat
- Ngātata Love – academic and Treaty negotiator
- John Levy MacDuff – lawyer and magistrate
- Aussie Malcolm – former National Party politician
- veterinary surgeonand politician
- Rex Mason – politician
- Colin McLeod – civil engineer, who served as the Commissioner of Works between 1973 and 1981.
- Frank Moore – political activist
- Norman Harold Moss – Mayor of Stratford, New Zealand from 1947 to 1957.
- Michael Myers – judge
- Humphrey O'Leary – Chief Justice of New Zealand, from 1946 to 1953.
- Matthew Oram – lawyer, politician, Speaker of Parliament
- Graham Beresford Parkinson – World War II commander
- Paul Reeves – former Governor-General of New Zealand
- Chairman of the State Services Commission
- Eric Roussell – Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Rino Tirikatene – Labour Party politician and a former MP
- Alastair Scott – politician
- Tom Seddon – politician of the Liberal Party, and a lawyer in Greymouth
- Charles Skerrett – fifth Chief Justice of New Zealand, from 1926 to 1929
- Ron Smith – public servant, communist and peace activist
- Duncan Stout – medic, soldier and author
- William Ball Sutch – New Zealand public servant, put on trial for espionage
- Geoff Thompson – former New Zealand politician of the National Party.
- Ray Wallace – Mayor of Lower Hutt from 2010 to 2019 [20]
- Thomas Wilford – politician
- Hugh Williams – former president of the New Zealand Electoral Commission and a retired judge of the High Court of New Zealand. From 2016 to 2022 he was Chief Justice of the Cook Islands.
- Bill Young – politician representing the National Party
Science
- George Leslie Adkin – farmer, geologist, ethnologist, photographer, and environmentalist.
- cardiothoracic surgeon
- David Beaglehole – New Zealand physicist
- MIT
- Ian Foster – computer scientist
- Murray Hill – seed technologist
- Diamond Jenness – anthropologist in Canada
- William Pickering – former Head of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (space scientist)
- Philip Robertson – chemist, university professor and writer
- John Salmon – photographer, entomologist, academic, conservationist, and author.
- creationist, scientist, and New Zealand Chess Champion
- Fred White – New Zealand-born Australian physicist and ornithologist who was Chairman of CSIRO
Sport
- Leni Apisai – rugby union player
- Ernest Beechey – cricketer
- Charles Benbow – cricketer
- Ernest Bezzant – cricketer
- James Blackwell – rugby union player
- England Rugby
- Nelson Asofa-Solomona – rugby league player for Melbourne Storm
- Trevor Barber – cricketer
- Wally Barclay – cricketer
- Black Caps
- All Whites
- Wellington Firebirds
- Craig Bradshaw – Former Professional Basketballer, and member of New Zealand Tall Blacks
- George Bridgewater – New Zealand rower
- All Whites. Also co-founder of Allbirds
- Ralph Caulton – All Black
- Dane Coles – All Black
- David Collins – cricketer
- Ambrose Curtis – rugby union player
- Victor du Chateau – cricketer
- Ernie Dodd – rugby union player
- Quentin Donald – rugby union player
- All Whites
- Bill Dustin – cricketer
- Los Angeles Galaxy, San Jose Earthquakesand New Zealand All Whites
- Ken Elliott – All black
- All Black, entertainer, businessman
- Wellington Firebirds
- Wilfred Findlay – cricketer, soldier and businessman
- Henry Foley – cricketer
- Perry Freshwater – English rugby union player
- Wes Goosen – Rugby Union player for Hurricanes
- rugby unionplayer
- Frank Glasgow – rugby union player
- Hāmi Grace – cricketer
- Ken Gray – All Black
- Bernard Griffiths – cricketer
- Jack Griffiths (rugby union) – rugby union player
- Charlie Gubb – former rugby league player for New Zealand Warriors
- Everett Hales – cricketer
- Brian Hastings – cricketer
- Kemara Hauiti-Parapara – rugby union player
- TJ Ioane – rugby union player
- Frank Joplin – cricketer
- Joe Latta – rugby union player
- Tiny Leys – rugby union player
- Martin Luckie – cricketer
- Frank Luxford – cricketer
- Brian Marris – cricketer
- Onny Parun – tennis player
- Dion Prewster – Professional Basketballer, and member of New Zealand Tall Blacks.
- Euan Robertson – distance runner
- Lima Sopoaga – All Black
- Peter Taylor – New Zealand rower
- Neemia Tialata – All Black
- Filo Tiatia – All Black
- Ian Uttley – All Black
- Phillip Wilson – Olympic gold medallist rower
Headmasters
Period | Headmaster[21] |
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1867 | Henry Tuckey and William Hamilton |
1869–1874 | Thomas Bowden |
1874–1881 | Kenneth Wilson |
1881–1892 | Joseph Mackay |
1892–1921 | CMG
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1921–1928 | Thomas Cresswell |
1928–1943 | William Armour |
1943–1951 | Edward Hogben |
1951–1963 | Harold Heron |
1963–1979 | Seddon Hill |
1979–1995 | Harvey Rees-Thomas |
1995–2018 | CNZM[22]
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2018–2021 | Gregor Fountain[23] |
2022– | Glen Denham[24] |
Coat of arms
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References
- ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ "'Everyone has a place here': Aroha in education vital, new college principal says". Stuff. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ William Main, Wellington Through a Victorian lens revisited, Steele Roberts Publishers, Wellington, 2011, p. 25, the endpapers and the dustjacket.
- ISBN 1869340329.
- ^ Beasley 1992, p. 92.
- ^ Wellington College. | NZETC
- ^ Beasley 1992, pp. 189–193.
- ^ Beasley 1992, p. 172.
- ^ Beasley 1992, pp. 189–229.
- ^ Beasley 1992, p. 240.
- OCLC 1023414230.
- ^ "History of the McEvedy Shield". Wellington College. Archived from the original on 7 July 2017.
- ^ "Wgtn College's stunning results". Stuff. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Board of Trustees". Wellington College. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ digitaljourney. "Our Board". Wellington College. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- All Blacks. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- ^ Crawford, J. A. B. "Gentry, William George". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "Lord Grey, 89, Queen's Last Governor in Ulster (Published 1999)". New York Times. 23 October 1999. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ^ "Ray Wallace". Hutt City Council. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
- ^ Beasley 1992, p. 264.
- ^ Dooney, Laura (25 July 2017). "Wellington College headmaster Roger Moses to retire next year". Stuff. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ O'Dwyer, Ellen (1 November 2021). "Wellington College principal Gregor Fountain resigns". Stuff. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ O'Dwyer, Ellen (22 February 2022). "Basketball great and celebrated principal appointed as new Wellington College headmaster". Stuff. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. Vol. 69. p. 72.
- OCLC 1023414230.
- OCLC 173344072.
External links
- Official website
- NZQA examination results
- Wellington College and the First World War (from the Ministry of Culture and Heritage)