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Sunningdale School is a boys' preparatory independent boarding school of around 100 pupils, situated in Sunningdale in Berkshire, close to London, England.




Introduction


Sunningdale School is a small school that seeks to educate its pupils in a range of subjects and disciplines, and to encourage them to take the Common Entrance Examination for entry to senior independent boarding schools.
Founded in 1874 by William Girdlestone, it has 25 acres (10 ha) of gardens and grounds. He was later joined by his son, Theophilus Girdlestone, who helped run the school for the next quarter of a century until an unfortunate period for the family with Girdlestone dying on 22 February 1897 and Theophilus following on 25 June 1899. This led to the school being sold in 1900 to the next headmaster, F. L. Crabtree (1900–33), the pupils numbered 27. Since its foundation, the school has had only seven heads.
The school was the subject of a BBC television documentary, Britain's Youngest Boarders, first broadcast in September 2010.




Background


The school has its own chapel, and a house in Normandy, France to which each boy goes for a week three times during his time at Sunningdale. The school's major sports are football, rugby union and cricket in the Michaelmas, Lent and summer terms respectively. Boys also play tennis, squash, Eton Fives, basketball, field hockey, golf and table tennis against other independent boarding schools. Fives has been played at Sunningdale since at least 1892 and the school has 3 courts on site. They also compete in athletics, cross-country, fencing, judo and air rifle shooting. There is a heated indoor swimming pool which means that the boys can swim all year round. The sports hall includes two full-length cricket nets and an air rifle range. There is also a 7-hole golf course in the grounds. Boys can also ride and do clay pigeon shooting and in their last term they do an outward bound course on Dartmoor. Indoor activities include chess, model railway, cooking, bridge, snooker, Scottish dancing, drama, model making and board games.




Former pupils



Former pupils of Sunningdale School include:

Henry Blofeld, BBC cricket commentator
Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Sir Henry Cecil, horse racing trainer
Guy Clark, Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire
John Crichton, Viscount Crichton, property consultant
Henry Field, US anthropologist who documented Iraq's Marsh Arabs
Francis Fulford, Devon landowner, reality star of The F***ing Fulfords
Bamber Gascoigne, British television presenter and author
Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, the former richest aristocrat in the UK
Carey Harrison, novelist and dramatist
Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol
Bernard Heywood, Church of England bishop
Nick Hurd, Government Minister
Prince Michael of Kent, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and member of the Royal Family
Lord Frederick Windsor, British Royal and financial analyst
William Kinghan, unionist politician, High Sheriff of Down, 1924
Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and BBC radio presenter
Ferdinand Mount, writer and novelist
Ian Ogilvy, actor
Stephen Powys, 6th Baron Lilford
Hugh van Cutsem, landowner, banker, businessman, and horse-breeder
Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse, former Thai prince
Chakriwat Vivacharawongse, former Thai prince




References






External links


Sunningdale School website

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