Type Independent school Headmaster Chris Jeffery Phone +44 1904 623261 | Religion Quaker Deputy Head Suzanne Hall Founded 6 January 1823 | |
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Established 6 January 1823 (1823-01-06) Founder Religious Society of Friends Motto Membra sumus corporis magni; (We are members of a greater body) Similar The Mount School, St Peter's School, Fulford School, Archbishop Holgate's School, Huntington School Profiles | ||
Bootham school introduction
Bootham School is an independent Quaker boarding school in the city of York in North Yorkshire, England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19, and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016.
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The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823-1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828-c.1865). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster, in a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone.
The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52).
Bootham school cabaret 2015 final dance
Academics
Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.
Notable alumni
Well known former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of fractals"), historian A.J.P Taylor, the leading child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the famous social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the Nobel peace prize winner of 1959 Philip John Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood and Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer Stuart Rose.