Weymouth College (public school)

Weymouth College was a public school in Weymouth, Dorset, England, from 1863 to 1940.^[1] It closed during the Second World War because of the risks from its proximity to naval bases at Weymouth and Portsmouth, and the boys and some staff moved to Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire.^[2] A new house was formed at Wellingborough to accommodate the 33 pupils who moved, and Weymouth House still exists; since 1989 it has been the girls' house of the school.^[3]

Weymouth College aimed "to provide for the sons of gentlemen a classical, mathematical and general education of the highest class".^[4]

The building was designed by George Rackstraw Crickmay in 1864. Pevsner described the building as "The High Victorian style in a very debased form", and the chapel, 1894-96 as "really no better". In 1972 the building was in use as a College of Education.^[5] It is now a residential conversion. Some of the chapel furnishings are in St Aldhelm's Church, Radipole, Weymouth.

Former pupils

Notable former pupils include:^[2]

Henry Sturmey (1857–1930), co-inventor of Sturmey-Archer bicycle hub
J. Meade Falkner (1858–1932), author of Moonfleet
James Sherren (1872—1945), surgeon
C. F. G. Masterman (1873–1927), Liberal politician and propagandist
John Hindley, 1st Viscount Hyndley (1883–1963, business man
Robert Wilmot Howard (1887–1960), clergyman and academic
Stuart Hibberd (1893–1983), BBC Radio presenter
George Stainforth (1899–1942), flying speed record breaker
Percy James Brazier (1903–1989), bishop
Louis Leakey (1903–1972), archaeologist and naturalist
Francis Warman (1904–1991), Archdeacon of Aston
Hugh Gough (1905–1997), Archbishop of Sydney
C. F. D. Moule (1908–2007), theologian
Admiral Sir Ronald Brockman (1909–1999), Royal Navy officer
John Phillips (1910–1985), Bishop of Portsmouth
Barney McCall (1913–1991), soldier and cricketer
Robert Dove Leakey (1914–2013), inventor
Andrew Wood Wilkinson (1914–1995), paediatrician
Major-General Rea Leakey (1915–1999), soldier
John Paul (1916–2004), colonial administrator
Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (1917–1995), author
Admiral Nigel Malim (1919–2006), Royal Navy officer^[6]

Notes

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^ ^a ^b "Old Weymouthians". The parish of Radipole and Melcombe Regis. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
^ "Weymouth Profile". Wellingborough School. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
^ Patons list of schools and tutors. 1929. p. 497.
^ Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1972). Dorset. Pevsner architectural guides: The buildings of England. Yale UP. p. 452. ISBN 9780300095982. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
^ Rear Admiral Nigel Malim CB LVO DL at marketrasenmail.co.uk, accessed 3 July 2013

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[old-2] "Old Weymouthians". The parish of Radipole and Melcombe Regis. Retrieved 23 April 2013.

[3] "Weymouth Profile". Wellingborough School. Retrieved 26 April 2013.

[4] Patons list of schools and tutors. 1929. p. 497.

[5] Newman, John; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1972). Dorset. Pevsner architectural guides: The buildings of England. Yale UP. p. 452. ISBN 9780300095982. Retrieved 23 April 2013.

[6] Rear Admiral Nigel Malim CB LVO DL at marketrasenmail.co.uk, accessed 3 July 2013

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