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Stationers' Company's School

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Established
  
1861

Students
  
1100 as comprehensive

Founded
  
1861

Closed
  
1983

Gender
  
Boys


Type
  
Grammar school then Voluntary Controlled Comprehensive from 1967

Location
  
Mayfield Road Hornsey Vale Middlesex N8 9LR England, UK

Motto
  
verbum Domini manet in aeternum

Founder
  
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers

Local authority
  
London Borough of Haringey

The Stationers' Company's School was a former boys' grammar school, then comprehensive in Hornsey.

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History

It started as the Stationers' Company's Foundation School. In 1861 it was established at Bolt Court near Fleet Street. In 1891 it moved to Mayfield Road in Hornsey, north-east from Crouch End.

Grammar school

The speech night was sometimes held at the Stationer's Hall. The analogous girls' was Hornsey High School, which became Hornsey Secondary School for Girls. It was a voluntary aided school, becoming voluntary controlled in 1966. In 1933 the school was extended and a new assembly hall, gymnasium, dining hall and workshops were accommodated in a new brick extension on Mayfield Road.

Comprehensive

Stationers' Company's Grammar School became a comprehensive boys' school in 1967, merging first with Priory Vale School in Hornsey and then with William Forster School in Tottenham before closing in 1983. The building was demolished and the grounds turned into Stationers' Park.

Alumni

  • David Pascoe Aiers British diplomat
  • Anthony Beattie, Chief Executive from 1990-6 of the Natural Resources Institute, Chatham
  • Prof Alexander Boksenberg CBE, Director from 1993-6 of the Royal Observatories, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy from 1978-81 at University College London
  • Colin Chapman CBE, engineer and inventor who founded Lotus Cars
  • Benjamin Dale, composer
  • Meredith Davies CBE, conductor and Organist from 1949-56 of Hereford Cathedral
  • Frank Dickens, cartoonist, drawing Bristow for the Evening Standard
  • Franklin Engelmann, radio broadcaster who hosted Down Your Way from 1955–72
  • John Grant, Labour MP from 1970-4 for Islington East, and from 1974-83 for Islington Central (SDP from 1981)
  • Eric Hosking OBE, ornithologist and photographer
  • Philip Mairet, designer
  • Richard Muir CMG, Ambassador to Kuwait from 1999-2002, and to Oman from 1994-9
  • Stanford Robinson OBE, conductor
  • Barry Took (initially), comedy writer and TV presenter
  • David Triesman, Baron Triesman, Chairman from 2008-10 of The Football Association, General Secretary from 1993-2001 of the Association of University Teachers (AUT), and General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2001-3
  • Major Wilfrid Vernon, aircraft designer and Labour MP from 1945-51 for Dulwich
  • Stephen Platten, Bishop of Wakefield since 2003

    • References

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