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Monkton Combe School is a public school (fee-charging boarding and day school), located in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset, England.
It is a member of the Rugby Group of major independent boarding schools in the United Kingdom.
Monkton Combe School was founded in 1868 by the Revd. Francis Pocock, a former curate to the Bishop of Sierra Leone in the 1850s.




Buildings and Grounds


Several of the school's buildings are listed, including the main Senior school block known as The Old Farm, and the part of the Terrace Block known as The Old Vicarage.
The school has extensive grounds at both the Preparatory and Senior schools. The Senior cricket pitches (Longmead and Landham) with their thatched pavilion are described as among of the most picturesque in England, regularly featuring in the Wisden Cricket Calendar’s ‘loveliest grounds’ lists.

The school maintains two boathouses, both on the River Avon. The older is situated on the edge of the Senior school grounds, sitting below the Dundas Aqueduct and is used mainly for junior rowing. In 2014 the school opened a new boathouse in the nearby village of Saltford, which benefits from a wider and straighter stretch of river, as well as more spacious land facilities. Students row as part of the Monkton Combe School Boat Club, with the racing name Monkton Bluefriars.




Houses


At the Senior school there are three boys houses: Farm, Eddystone and School; and three girls houses: Grove Grange, Clarendon and Nutfield. Each house has both day and boarding pupils.
Clarendon house continues the traditions of Clarendon School for Girls, a former independent girls school which merged with Monkton in 1992, at which point the school became coeducational.
The Preparatory school has four day pupil houses: Howard, Easterfield, Kearns and Jameson; in addition to Hatton house, a mixed boarding house.




Achievements & Artefacts






= Olympic Medalists

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The school’s has produced five Olympic rowing medalists. Each represented Great Britain and three won gold medals.
In addition an OM achieved an Olympic Gold Medal representing Great Britain at men's hockey, while another captained the England Netball Team which won Gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.




= HMS Magpie

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The school has ties to the Royal Navy ship HMS Magpie, a Black Swan-class sloop which was commanded by then Lieutenant-Commander, later Admiral of the Fleet the Duke of Edinburgh. The ties were established when the ship took the Junior school’s badge, a magpie (designed by the art mistress, Miss Bulmer), as its ship’s emblem.
The ship's bell was presented to the Junior School upon its decommissioning. The link is maintained with the current HMS Magpie, a survey ship, which continues to use the magpie emblem.




= Marshall Sledge

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OM Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall, who served as surgeon during the 1907 British Antarctic Nimrod Expedition donated a sledge and flag used on the expedition to the school, where it remained on display for many years. Due to its deteriorating condition the school sold it at auction in 2018, replacing it with a replica sculpture, ‘Discovery & Endeavour’.




Head Masters


The following have served as Head Master and/or Principal of the school:

1868–1875 Revd F. Pocock
1875–1895 Revd R.G. Bryan
1895–1900 Revd W.E. Bryan
1900–1900 Revd N. Bennett
1900–1926 Revd J.W. Kearns
1926–1946 Revd E. Hayward
1946–1968 D.R. Wigram
1968–1978 R.J. Knight
1978–1990 R.A.C. Meredith
1990–2005 M.J. Cuthbertson
2005–2015 R. Backhouse
2016–Present C. Wheeler




Notable Masters



Revd. R.W. Ryde, 1866–1909, Classics Master
D. Vaughan-Thomas, 1873-1934, Mathematics & Music Master
A.S. Sellick, 1878–1958, Cricket Master
G.F. Graham Brown, 1891–1942, History Master and former pupil
F. Vallis, 1896–1957, Association Football and Cricket Master
T.M. Watson, 1913–1994, French Master
N.D. Botton, 1954–, History Master
M. Wells, 1979–, Rowing Master




Notable alumni (Old Monktonians)






= 19th Century

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George Somes Layard, 1857–1925, barrister, journalist and man of letters
Harry Martindale Speechly, 1866–1951, Canadian doctor
Montague Waldegrave, 5th Baron Radstock, 1867–1953, peer
Count Vladimir Alekseyevich Bobrinsky, 1868–1927, Tsarist politician from the Second to the Fourth Duma
Count Paul Bobrinsky, 1869–1919, Peter's twin and Russian counter-revolutionary
Count Peter Bobrinsky, 1869–1932, Paul's twin and Russian counter-revolutionary
Harry Colt, 1869–1951, widely regarded as the father of golf course architecture
Ernest Crosbie Trench 1869–1960, British civil engineer
Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet 1869–1958, part-owner of W. D. & H. O. Wills and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
Edwyn Bevan 1870–1943, British philosopher and Hellenistic historian
Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa 1873–1943, British peer, barrister and soldier
Horatio Powys-Keck, 1873–1952, first class cricketer
Alfred Young 1873–1940, mathematician and inventor of the Young diagram and Young tableau
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Annesley West 1878–1918, recipient of the Victoria Cross for sacrificing his life for his men
Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall, 1879–1963, Antarctic explorer in Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition
Frank Lugard Brayne 1882–1952, administrator in the Indian Civil Service
Revd. Richard Howard, 1884–1981, Provost of Coventry Cathedral during its destruction, Archdeacon of Coventry
Revd. William Thompson 1885–1975, Bishop of Iran
Revd. Robert Wilmot Howard, 1887–1960, Master of St Peter’s Hall, Oxford
Hugh Norton 1890–1969, Archdeacon of Sudbury
Revd. Francis Graham Brown 1891–1942, Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Bishop of Jerusalem
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse 1892–1970, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force and of RAF Bomber Command
Dr. Sir Clement Chesterman 1894–1983, medical missionary at Yakusu in the Congo with the Baptist Missionary Society
Harold Gilbee Anderson (1896–1977), medical missionary to China with the Church Mission Society




= Early 20th Century

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Michael Head, 1900–1976, composer, singer and musical educator
Dr. W. E. Shewell-Cooper, 1900–1982, organic gardening pioneer
Percival Spear, 1901–1982, historian and civil servant in India
Revd. Charles Claxton, 1903–1992, Bishop of Warrington, Blackburn, Lord Spiritual
Revd. Kenneth Mathews, 1906–1992, Dean of St Albans
R. C. Hutchinson, 1907–1976, novelist
David Howard Adeney, 1911–1994, missionary in China and East Asia
Jim Broomhall, 1911–1994, historian and medical missionary to China with the China Inland Mission
Charles Sergel, 1911–1980, Olympic rower and medical missionary to Uganda
Revd. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, 1912–1991, Dean of Johannesburg and anti-apartheid activist.
Major-General John Frost, 1912–1993, leader of airborne forces during the Battle of Arnhem
Colin Butler, 1913–2016, entomologist who first isolated the pheromone
Martyn Cundy, 1913–2005, reforming mathematical educator and academic
Thorley Walters, 1913–1991, actor
Thomas Watson, 1913–1994, first class cricketer
Professor John Anderson Strong, 1915–2012, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Dr. Ran Laurie, 1915–1998, Olympic rowing champion and physician
J. Desmond Clark, 1916–2002, influential archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
The Right Revd. Maurice Wood, 1916–2007, Principal of Oak Hill Theological College and Bishop of Norwich
Harold Jameson (1918–1940), first-class cricketer
Lt Kevin Walton, 1918–2009, Antarctic explorer
Squadron Leader James MacLachlan, 1919–1943, flying ace
Revd. Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 1920–1990, Bishop of Iran
Revd. Graham Leonard, 1921–2010, Bishop of London
Revd. David Brown, 1922–1982, Bishop of Guildford and missionary
Prince Asrate Kassa, 1922–1974, Viceroy of Eritrea
Pilot Officer Alfred Mellows, 1922–1997, Olympic rower
Arthur Wallis, 1922–1988, itinerant Bible teacher and author
Captain David Eyton-Jones, 1923–2012, SAS officer during Operation Tombola, businessman and chaplain
Michael Lapage, 1923–2018, Olympic rower and missionary
Colonel David Wood, 1923–2009, last surviving officer of the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges
Professor David Marshall Lang, 1924–1991, Professor of Caucasian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Senator Andy Thompson, 1924–2016, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
Major General Sir Philip Ward, 1924–2003, GOC London District and Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex
Revd. Allan Rutter, 1928-, first class cricketer and vicar
Christopher Buxton, 1929–2017, property developer and President of The Abbeyfield Society
Right Revd. John Bone, 1930–2014, Bishop of Reading
Count Michel Didisheim, 1930–2020, Private Secretary and Chief of the Royal Household to Albert, Prince of Liège
Adrian Mitchell, 1932–2008, poet, novelist and playwright
Barclay Palmer, 1932–2020, Olympic athlete
Professor Gerald Blake, 1936-, Professor Emeritus of Geography at Durham University and former Principal of Collingwood College, Durham
John Barnard Bush, 1937–, land-owner and former Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
Michael Mortimore, 1937–2017, geographer and a researcher of issues in the African drylands
Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Stear, 1938–2020, Deputy Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe
Revd. Stephen Sykes, 1939–2014, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and Bishop of Ely
Michael Barton Akehurst, 1940–1989, international lawyer
Peter Webb, 1940-, Olympic rower
Sir Tim Lankester, 1942–, former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Professor Nick Jardine, 1943-, Emeritus Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
Sir Richard Stilgoe, 1943–, songwriter, lyricist and musician
Bernard Cornwell, 1944–, historical novelist
Revd. Ian Cundy, 1945–2009, Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Peterborough
Sir Richard Dearlove 1945-, Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 2004 and former Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Ricky Panter, 1948-, Archdeacon of Liverpool
Nigel Sinclair 1948-, Hollywood producer
Sir Iain Torrance 1949–, Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Sir David Haslam 1949- Former Chair of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and President of BMA and RCGP




= Late 20th Century

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Professor Sir Robert Lechler, 1951–, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Professor of Immunology at King's College London
John Reed, 1951-, former Archdeacon of Taunton
Julian Colbeck, 1952-, musician and businessman
Professor Mike Cowlishaw, 1953–, programmer and scientist
Howard Milner, 1953–2011, tenor
James Hawkins, 1954-, artist and film-maker
Canon Nigel Biggar 1955-, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford
Chris Anderson, 1957–, Journalist and publisher, Owner of TED and curator of TED Talks.
Stephen Warren, 1957–, Professor of Astrophysics at Imperial College London
John Kiddle, 1958-, Archdeacon of Wandsworth
Sir Charles Farr, 1959–2019, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of the Joint Intelligence Organisation
Lieutenant General Tim Evans, 1962-, former Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
Steve Williams, 1976–, Olympic rowing champion
Rowley Douglas, 1977-, Olympic coxswain champion
James Frith, 1977-, former Member of Parliament for Bury North
Stefan Booth, 1979-, actor
Seyi Rhodes, 1979–, television presenter and investigative journalist
Alex Partridge, 1981–, Olympic rower and World Rowing champion
Ama Agbeze, 1982–, former Captain of the England national netball team
Josh Ovens, 1989-, farmer and former player for Bath Rugby
Professor Phil Hockey, 1959–2013, South African ornithologist, director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town.




= 21st Century

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Ben Wells, 2000-, first class cricketer




References






External links


Monkton Combe School website
Bluefriars Boatclub website
Senior School Good Schools Guide Report
Monkton Combe village website

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