Handsworth Grammar School

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Established 1862 DfE number 330/5402 Local authority Birmingham City Council Founded 1862		Headteacher Mr Simon Bird Phone +44 121 554 2794 Number of students 985
Type Grammar school voluntary aided school Founder Rev. James Merrick Guest M.A. Location Grove Lane Handsworth Birmingham West Midlands B21 9ET England Address Grove Ln, Birmingham B21 9ET, UK Motto 'Haec olim meminisse iuvabit' Profiles Facebook Google+ Twitter

Handsworth grammar school

Handsworth Grammar School is voluntary aided grammar school that admits boys from the age of eleven and eighteen (as well as girls in the sixth form, since September 1997). The school was founded in 1862 and is located in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. it is situated just off the A41, near the junction with the A4040. Handsworth Grammar School is sometimes abbreviated as HGS.

Notable former pupils

Kadeer Ali (born 1983), English cricketer

Ian Bateman (born 1961), British academic and Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of East Anglia

Sir David Cox (born 1924), British statistician

Nigel Fortune (1924-2009), British scholar of music

Denis Howell, Baron Howell (1923-1998), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP), and life peer

Mark Rowley, senior British police officer

Siôn Simon (born 1968), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) from 2001 to 2010, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014

John Tooze (born 1938), scientist

Robert Weir (born 1961), English discus and hammer thrower

Harry B. Whittington (1916-2010), British palaeontologist and academic, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge from 1966 to 1983

Joe Wilson (1861-1952), English footballer

Adil Ray (born 1974), comedian

Corey Blackett-Taylor (born 1997), footballer for Aston Villa F.C.

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