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Sudbury Grammar School

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Established
  
1491

Type
  
Grammar school

Ages
  
11–18

Founded
  
1491

Closed
  
1972

Gender
  
Boys

Headquarters
  
Sudbury, United Kingdom

Local authority
  
West Suffolk

Sudbury Grammar School

Location
  
School Street Sudbury Suffolk

Sudbury Grammar School was a boys' grammar school in Sudbury. The school was founded in 1491. In 1972, the school was amalgamated with other local schools to form Sudbury Upper School.

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History

It was a boys' grammar school. The analogous school for girls was Sudbury High School, which later became a bi-lateral school. Another nearby former grammar school was Woodbridge Grammar School. There was flexible transfer from the Sudbury Secondary Modern School, a boys' school - upwards and downwards.

In December 1966, seven sixth form boys made a formal protest about the admission of Prince Charles to Trinity College, Cambridge, whom they claimed had entered by a backdoor entry method.

Former teachers

  • Captain Robert Stewart Smylie, headmaster c.1911-1914; commissioned into the Royal Scots Fusiliers, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme on 14 July 1916 while serving as company commander to C Company, 1st Battalion.
  • Claude Abbott, Professor of English Language and Literature from 1932-54 at Durham University

    • Former pupils

  • Thomas Gainsborough, painter, two years below Robert Andrews, who he painted in his famous Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750)
  • Michael Goodman, Child Support Commissioner from 1993-8, Social Security Commissioner from 1979-98, and Professor of Law from 1971-6 at Durham University
  • Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister from 1904-8 of the Cape Colony, and the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's famous 1895 poem If—
  • John Eric Loverseed, military pilot and politician
  • Prof Keith Morton, Professor of Numerical Analysis from 1983-97 at the University of Oxford, Professor of Applied Maths from 1972-83 at the University of Reading, and Winner in 2002 of the IMA Gold Medal
  • Venerable Roy Southwell, Archdeacon of Northolt, 1970 - 1980
  • Wickham Steed, Editor from February 1919 - November 1922 of The Times newspaper
  • Sir Roger Walters CBE, architect, commissioned the Thames Barrier
  • Andy 'Dog' Johnson, artist and illustrator

    • Emeritus Professor of Probation Studies Paul Senior, Sheffield Hallam University, at the Grammar School 1964-1970

    References

    Sudbury Grammar School Wikipedia
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