Batley Grammar School

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Mottoes Forte non Ignave Type Free School Chair David Peel Motto Forte non Ignave Founded 1612		Established 1612 Headteacher Brigid Tullie Phone +44 1924 474980 Founder Rev William Lee

Location Carlinghow HillBatleyWest YorkshireWF17 0ADEngland Address Carlinghow Hill, Batley WF17 0AD, UK Similar Heckmon Grammar School, Batley Girls High School, Westboro High School, Bruntcliffe Academy, Woodkirk Academy

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Batley Grammar School is a co-educational free school located on Carlinghow Hill in Upper Batley, West Yorkshire, England.

The school was founded in 1612 by the Rev. William Lee. An annual founder's day service is held in his memory at Batley Parish Church, as he requested in his will, although it is not held on the date originally specified.

The school (then affectionately known as BGS) selected boys on their performance in the eleven-plus exams, regardless of family background. Following the comprehensivisation of secondary education, the school became independent and entry became restricted to boys whose parents could afford its fees. It was originally a boys' school but introduced girls into the sixth form in 1988 and became co-educational in 1996. More recently, the school has returned to the maintained sector and was one of the first free schools to open in the country.

Batley Grammar School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

A Junior and Infants school, named Priestley House (after Joseph Priestley, an old Batelian, see below) is set in the grounds and is also part of the Free School.

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Notable Old Batelians

Former pupils of the school are referred to as Old Batelians.

Theodore Cooke Taylor (1850–1952), Businessman, Liberal politician, Profit-sharing pioneer

Benjamin Ingham (1712–1772), Methodist and Moravian evangelist and preacher

Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian, natural philosopher, and discoverer of oxygen

Thomas Wormald (1802–1873), surgeon

Sir Titus Salt (1803–1876), textile manufacturer and politician

Sir Mark Oldroyd (1843–1927), woollen manufacturer, politician and philanthropist

Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959), Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1906–1914, Wheatstone Professor of Physics, King's College London, 1914–1924, and Yarrow Research Professor, Royal Society, 1924–1959, Nobel Prize in Physics (1928)

Sir Herbert Holdsworth, 1890–1949, Liberal and later Liberal National MP

Samuel Sugden (1892–1950), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Birkbeck College, London, 1932–1937, and Professor of Chemistry, University College London, 1937–1950

Horace Waller (died 1917), World War I Victoria Cross winner

Cecil Grayson (1920–1998), Serena Professor of Italian, University of Oxford, 1958–1988

Godfrey Lienhardt (1921–1993), anthropologist

Andrew Milner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Monash University

Paul Trepte, Organist of Ely Cathedral

Richard Pearson, former English county cricketer

Richard Reed, co-founder of innocent Drinks

Richard Dawson, former English county cricketer

Ismail Dawood, former English county cricketer

Lukas Wooller, keyboardist with the band Maxïmo Park

Andrew Firth, Michael Brooke and Ben Davies, members of indie-pop band The Dandys

David Peace, Author

Tim Fountain, Writer

David Stiff, professional cricketer

Gemma Atkinson, actress, television personality and model

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Batley grammar school top 7 facts

Notable Old Batelians

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