Westminster City School

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Westminster City School
Address
Map
55 Palace Street

Westminster
,
London
,
SW1E 5HJ

England
Coordinates51°29′52″N 0°08′21″W / 51.4978°N 0.1391°W / 51.4978; -0.1391
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoStrength in Unity
Established17th century
Refounded in 1877
Department for Education URN138312 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherPeter Broughton
ChaplainStephen Taylor
GenderBoys, mixed sixth form
Age11 to 18
Enrolment807
Websitehttp://www.wcsch.com

Westminster City School is a state-funded secondary academy for boys, with a mixed sixth form, in Westminster, London. The school educates over 800 students, with links to more than 100 different cultures, in a central London location. The school offers places at Year 7 entry, each year, to boys of Christian faith, other world faiths, and those of no faith. The current headteacher is Peter Broughton, while the current deputy headteachers are Jen Lockyer and Simon Brown.[1]

The school became an academy in 2012. In February 2017, Ofsted rated it "good".[2]

Old school poster
The vestibule 1922
Aerial view of School

History

Foundation

The charters and foundations of several historic charity schools

Caversham. In 1910, the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers transferred the Sutton Valence School in Kent into UWS.[4]
[5] Westminster City School is amalgamation of the former Brown Coat, Green Coat and Black Coat schools. Key dates in its history are:[5]

Pouchot Building opening
The Duke of Kent at the opening of the Pouchot Building

Notable former students

Recent living alumni

Other notable pupils (from Westminster City Grammar School days)

  • John Walter Baxter (4 June 1917 – 21 October 2003) was a British civil engineer.
  • Brebis Bleaney CBE FRS (6 June 1915 – 4 November 2006) was a British physicist, known for contributions to electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR).
  • Martin Broughton (born 1947) is a British businessman.
  • James Dale Cassels
    (22 March 1877 – 7 February 1972) was a British judge, journalist and Conservative politician.
  • Stuart Davies (5 December 1906 – 22 January 1995) was an aeronautical engineer, president from 1971 to 1972 of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), and assistant chief designer for Avro during World War Two, contributing to the Lancaster, and Avro York, becoming chief designer from 1945 to 1955.
  • Peter Galloway (born 1954) is an Anglican priest and historian.
  • Andy Hamilton (born 28 May 1954) is a British comedian, game show panellist, television director, comedy screenwriter, and radio dramatist.
  • Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was an English physical chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1956.[14]
  • Anatole Kaletsky (born 1952) has been an economics journalist for The Economist magazine and the Financial Times and The Times newspapers.
  • Percy Edgar Lambert, (1881 – 31 October 1913) was the first person to drive an automobile a hundred miles in an hour.
  • John Auguste Pouchot (known as Jack) was the youngest man to be decorated with the Distinguished Conduct Medal in battle during the First World War.[15]
  • Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton (15 March 1884 – 14 February 1966), was a British economist, editor and newspaper proprietor.
  • Brian Lightman (15 June 1955), was general secretary from 2010 to 2016 of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL).
  • Roger Livesey (1906 – 1976), British film actor, perhaps best known for the feature film A Matter of Life and Death.
  • Andy Mackay (born 23 July 1946) musician, best known as a founding member of the art-rock group Roxy Music.
  • Edgar Mountain (2 April 1901 – 30 April 1985) competed in over 800m distance at the Olympic Games in both 1920 and 1924.[16][17]
  • Alan Francis Bright Rogers (1907 – 2003)[18] was an Anglican Bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning over half a century.[19]
  • Denis Rooke (2 April 1924 – 2 September 2008) was a British industrialist and engineer.[20]
  • Norman Rosenthal (born 1944) is an independent curator and art historian.[21]
  • Arnold Spencer-Smith (17 March 1883 – 9 March 1916) was a British clergyman and amateur photographer who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17.
  • John Edward Tomlinson
    , Baron Tomlinson (born 1 August 1939) is a British Labour Co-operative politician. He is currently a life peer in the House of Lords.
  • Christopher Warren-Green (born 30 July 1955, Gloucestershire) is a British violinist and conductor.[22]
  • Robin Le Mesurier (1954 – 2022) was a British guitarist. He was the son of comedy actors John Le Mesurier and Hattie Jacques.

References

  1. ^ "Westminster City School : Home". wcsch.com. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Westminster City School Inspection report" (PDF).
  3. ^ "WHERE DID THEY GO TO SCHOOL?" (PDF). 26 May 2004. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  4. ^ Foundation, Westminster City School. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Carrington, R (1983). Westminster City School and its Origins (PDF). Amazon: WESTMINSTER CITY SCHOOL and its origins by R. Carrington Published by kind permission of the Trustees of the United Westminster Schools' Foundation, and the Governors of Westminster City School. pp. 1–113. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  6. ^
    Command papers
    . Vol. C. 2619. London: HMSO. pp. 3–7.
  7. ^ Report from the Select Committee on Mr. Goffin's Certificate; together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. Parliamentary Papers. Vol. HC 1878-9 x (334) 23. H.M. Stationery Office. 1 August 1879. p. iii.
  8. ^ Hughes, Joseph, ed. (September 1881). "Monthly Notes; The Goffin Case". The Practical Teacher. 1 (7). T. Nelson: 348.
  9. ^ R. Carrington: Westminster City School and its Origins. United Westminster Schools Foundation and the Governors of Westminster City School. 1983.
  10. ^ Ronan Thomas, Victoria Street SW1 1940–1945, West End at War, with photograph. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  11. ^ Teacher raped by boy wins damages, BBC News, 22 June 2009
  12. ^ "John Pouchot". Leighton Linslade Town Council. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  13. ^ "Councillor details – Councillor Wes Streeting". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  14. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  15. ^ "John Auguste Pouchot – Fenny Stratford in the Great War". freewebs.com. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  16. ^ Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres
  17. ^ "OWCA | Welcome to the Old Westminster Citizens' Association". owca.org.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  18. ^ "National Portrait Gallery – Person – Alan Francis Bright Rogers". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  19. ^ Who's Who (UK)
  20. ^ "Sir Denis Rooke, OM". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  21. ^ "Rosenthal quits Royal Academy after 31 years of blockbusters". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  22. ^ "My perfect weekend: Christopher Warren-Green". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 May 2014.

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