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The Tower and main entrance as seen from across Main Lawn
The Grade II listed Tower and main building,[3] demonstrating the architectural theme of a large number of the buildings on campus.
The Grade II Listed College Chapel[4]
'Epsom College' is a co-educational Public School in Epsom, Surrey, England and is a member of the Headmasters' Conference. It caters for both boarding and day pupils.
It was founded in 1855 to provide support for poor members of the medical profession; specifically pensioners and orphans ("Foundationers"). Its long-standing association with medicine was estimated in 1980 as having helped almost a third of its 10,000 alumni enter that profession.[5]
Foundation
The school was founded in 1853 by Dr. John Propert as ''The Royal Medical Benevolent College'', the aims of which were to provide accommodation pensioned medical doctors or their widows in the first instance, and to provide a "liberal education" to 100 sons of "duly qualified medical men" for £25 each year.[6]
The establishment of the College was the culmination of a campaign begun in 1844 by the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, the forerunner of the British Medical Association.[7] The scheme saw the medical profession was
"in regard to charitable institutions for the aged and infirm, the widow and the orphan, the worst provided of all professions and callings"and took as its aim the alieviating of poverty and debt.[8] Discussions were chaired by Sir John Forbes, Physician to Prince Albert and the Royal Household, and followed similar plans establishing schools for the Clergy and the Royal Navy in desiring to raise money to found "schools for the sons of medical men", providing an education which would otherwise be "beyond the means of many parents".[9]
By 1851, the Medical Benevolent Society had limited itself to the foundation of a single Benevolent College, and met in Treasurer John Propert's house in New Cavendish Street, Marylebone.[10] The new campaign's fundraising activities included dinners, which were attended by numerous doctors and Members of Parliament, and concerts, for example on 4 July 1855 one such event included composer Hector Berlioz conducting the UK premier of his symphonic suite Harold in Italy.[10] [7]
The foundation stone was laid on the 6 July 1853, and almost two years later on 25 June 1855 the College was formally opened by Prince Albert and his son, the future King Edward VII in front of an unexpectedly large crowd of around 6,000.[7] Queen Victoria consented in March of that year to become patron, a relationship which has continued with British monarchs ever since; King Edward VII after the death of his mother, King George V, King Edward VIII in 1936,[7] King George VI from 1937,[7] and then the current Queen until the present.
Its long-standing association with medicine was estimated in 1980 as having helped almost a third of its 10,000 alumni enter that profession.
Development & Charity
It was founded in 1855 to provide support for poor members of the medical profession. Funding for such a bold undertaking was to prove inadequate to the task, which resulted in the a reduced number of buildings and therefore reduced space which could not support 100 pensioners and 100 boys. Partially as a result of this in the 1860s the school was opened to children of non-medical parents. In the subsequent decades pensioners were supported off-site, until there were none on campus by the end of the 19th Century. These moves mark the transition towards the College becoming a public school in the modern sense.
Number of Pupils by year. An overview of the development of the College.
There continued to be a charitable side to the College, however, which was intertwined with the strictly educational institution throughout the 20th Century. It was only in 2000 that the Royal Medical Foundation was formed as a separate company, its activities allowing it to support 4 Foundationers at the College, 27 outside it, in addition to paying 20 pensions and supporting one doctor at a medical home.[10]
In the 1920s the junior school-side of the college was run down, the College catering only for 13-18 year olds as a result. In 1976 Girls were first allowed into the sixth-form, and 20 years later co-education was introduced throughout.
Its campus is situated on the outskirts of Epsom, near to Epsom Downs on the North Downs, the racecourse of which is most famous for holding the Epsom Derby every year. The architecture principally consists of buildings built since 1853 mainly in a style influenced by the Gothic revival of the era and by what Prince Albert described as the "pointed style of the 14th Century"[17]
Houses
| House Name | Composition | Colours | Named after | Motto | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carr (C) | Boarding/Day Boys | Green and Black | Dr. William Carr | 1883[18] | |
| Crawfurd (Cr) | Boarding/Day Girls | Purple and White | Raymond Crawfurd, Member of Council | Durum Patientia Frango | 1935 as a Day Boys House[10] |
| Fayrer (Fa) | Boarding Boys | Blue and White | Sir Joseph Fayrer | 1897 as a Junior Boys House[20] | |
| Forest (F) | Boarding Boys | Yellow and Black | An early College Benefactor | 1883 | |
| Granville (G) | Boarding Boys | Red and Black | Earl of Granville | 1883 as 'Gilchrist'. Renamed 1884. | |
| Hart Smith | Closed 1965[21] | Green and White[22] | Former Headmaster Rev. T.N. Hart-Smith-Pearse | 1931 for Foundationers aged under 13 | |
| Holman (H) | Boarding Boys | Red, White and Black | Treasurer Sir Constantine Holman | 1897 as a Junior Boys House | |
| Propert (P) | Day Boys | Blue and Black | Founder John Propert | 1883 as Boarding Boys House | |
| Raven (Rv) | Day Girls | Purple and Blue | Dame Kathleen Raven, Member of Council | 1999[10] | |
| Robinson (Rn) | Day Boys | Green and White22 | Henry Robinson, Chairman of Council | 1968 | |
| Rosebery (R) | Day Boys (Day Girls from 2008) | Purple and Black | The Earl of Rosebery | 1926[10] | |
| Wilson (W) | Boarding Girls | White and Black | Sir Erasmus Wilson | 1871, as an independent Boarding Boys House,[10] named 1883 & incorporated into the College 1914.[10] | |
| White (Wh) | Boarding 6th form Girls | Original Building Name | 1976 |
House colours are seen in the stripes in the ties worn by the majority of boys (those not wearing colours or prefect's ties) or on a rectangular brooch worn by the girls. They are also used in house games tops.
Sport
Cricket
Hockey
Hockey, previously a minor (optional) sport, became a major sport after the opening of the new pitches behind the maths block. While the pitches were completed for September 1966, the autumn term was devoted to stone picking parties, and the hockey season started in January 1967. Hockey had been played previously on the Chudleigh rugby and cricket pitches.
Rugby
In 2001, the Epsom College U15 team won their age group in Daily Mail Cup, beating The John Fisher School by 17-12 at Twickenham in the Final.[27] In 2006, the U16 Epsom sevens team won the 2006 Sevens National Championship at Rosslyn Park by beating Millfield 29-19.[28]
Rifle shooting
The college has arguably one of the best rifle teams in the country,[29] having won the prestigious Ashburton Shield at the annual Bisley Rifle Championships ten times since 1990.[30]
Eccentricities
The Athletics Term
Until the winter of 1965, Epsom College was probably unique in holding athletics in the coldest months of the year, between January and April. This meant that the long jump pit was often frozen. The track surrounded the First XV pitch, and was either frozen or waterlogged.
The Fives Courts
Near Chapel Pitch, there are the remnants of several open air fives courts, one of which is said to be a doubles court. In the late 1960s these were functional courts, albeit of odd design.
==Principal Feeder Prep Schools==
★ Aberdour School
★ Chinthurst School
★ Danes Hill (http://www.daneshill.co.uk)
★ Downsend School
★ Homefield School
★ Kingswood House School
★ Shrewsbury House School
Headmasters
''Unless otherwise noted, information taken from .''
★ (1855 - 1870) Doctor Robinson Thornton, M.A. (Oxon), D.D.
★ (1870 - 1855) The Rev. William de Lancy West, M.A. (Oxon), D.D.
★ (1885 - 1889) The Rev. William Cecil Wood, M.A. (Cantab)
★ (1889 - 1914) The Rev. Thomas Northcote Hart-Smith, M.A. (Oxon)
★ (1914 - 1922) The Rev. Canon Walter John Barton, M.A. (Oxon)
★ (1922 - 1939) The Rev. Canon Arnold Cecil Powell, M.A. (Cantab)
★ (1939 - 1962) Henry William Fernyhough Franklin, M.A. (Oxon)
★ (1962 - 1970) Archibald Duncan Dougal MacCullum, T.D., M.A., F.R.S.A.
★ (1970 - 1982) Owen John Tressider Rowe, M.A. (Oxon) (previously headmaster of Giggleswick School)
★ (1982 - 1992) Dr John B. Cook, BSc, Ph.D., AKC[10]
★ (1993 - 2000) Anthony (Tony) Beadles, M.A. (OE, Forest)[10]
★ (2000 - ) Stephen Borthwick[10]
Sundry Items of Interest
★ There is a Schools Class steam engine named after the school (also here).
★ Wartime plane crash on Epsom racecourseby an ex Hart Smith pupil
Southern Railway School's Class
The School lent its name to the thirtyeighth steam locomotive (Engine 937) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This Class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. 'Epsom', as it was called, was built in 1934.The locomotive bearing the School's name was withdrawn in the early 1960s.
Notable Alumni
Past pupils are called (OEs)
★ David Alexander (Cr 51-56) (b 17 November 1937, d 13 November 2002), the co-founder and former chairman and managing director of Lion Publishing[34]
★ Roger Bluett (R 39-42), oriental art and antiques dealer, Chairman of the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath[35]
★ Roland Boys Bradford ''(left 1907)'' recipient of the Victoria Cross during First World War
★ Professor Neville Butler, Paediatrician [36]
★ Paul Burke ''(1989-1991)'', Irish International Fly Half, currently with Leicester
★ Warwick Charlton (b 9 March 1918, d 10 December 2002, conceived of, had built, and sailed the Mayflower II, replica of the Mayflower, in 1957 from Plymouth, Devon, to Plymouth, Massachusetts [37]
★ McCormack Charles Farrell Easmon ''(left 1907)'', Doctor, Campaigner for Racial Equality in Sierra Leone, and founder of the Sierra Leone Museum[38]
★ Michael Fallon Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks
★ Stewart Granger ''(left 1923)'', Hollywood Actor
★ Colonel Tony Hewitt (b 13 September 1914, d 30 June 2004), awarded an MC for a daring escape from a Japanese PoW camp after the fall of Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941[39]
★ Ciara Janson, Actress (best known as Nicole Owen from Hollyoaks)
★ Lieutenant-Commander Dicky Kendall, placed a two-ton mine under the German battleship Tirpitz in Operation Source [40]
★ Derek (William) Lambert (b 10 October 1929, d 2001), Thriller writer, also journalist[41]
★ Sir Halford John Mackinder, Geographer
★ Sir Anthony McCowan, (b 12 January 1928, d 3 July 2003), Lord Justice of Appeal from 1989 to 1997[42]
★ Major Alastair McGregor (G 32-36), won the DSO and the MC while serving with the SAS behind enemy lines during the Second World War[43]
★ Jonathan Maitland (Cr 74-79), ITV Television journalist[44]
★ Mark Mardell, Television Journalist, Radio Journalist
★ James MacKeith (b 29 October 1938, d 5 August 2007), Forensic Psychiatrist[45]
★ Gerald Milsom, Entrepreneur and restauranteur[46]
★ Toby Nash, (real names ''Lancelot Lester Nash'', but always known as Toby), (b 4 February 1020, d 6 July 2005), awarded an MC in 1942 while serving with an anti-aircraft battery in Burma.[47]
★ Bob Nixon ''(left 1940)'', Cricket Broadcaster, Rhodesia[48]
★ Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu ''(1947 - 1952 H)'', Leader of Biafra during the war with Nigeria[49]
★ Pareg Patel ''(1989-1994)'', Full bore rifle Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist 2006 [50][51]
★ Nick Paton-Walsh, ''(1990-1995)'' Foreign Correspondent for Channel 4 News,[52] formerly with The Guardian[53]
★ John Piper ''(left 1919)'', Cubist artist
★ Geoffrey Pope, Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment [54]
★ Sir Philip Powell, (b 15 March 1921, d 5 May 2003) half of one of the most important British architectural partnerships - Powell & Moya - with Hidalgo Moya, of the post-war period [55]
★ Richard Ratner, retail industry analyst and partner at Seymour Pierce, the boutique broking house; cousin of Gerald Ratner
★ Major-General Jim Robertson, (b 23 March 1901, d 11 February 2004), (C 24-28), commanded the 1/7th Gurkha Rifles in Burma and the 1/6th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya; a formidable field commander, he was awarded two DSOs and was four times mentioned in dispatches.[56]
★ John Scarlett, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
★ Edward Smyth, orthopaedic surgeon and an intrepid mountaineer, skier and sailor [57]
★ Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, Archaeologist and Photographer
★ Lt-Col Alex Simson, (b 2 February 1918, d 20 July 2004), awarded an MC in 1943 while leading mine-clearing parties in the last phase of the battle for Tunis [58]
★ Joe Strummer, co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead singer of the English punk rock band The Clash, and later The Mescaleros
★ Graham Sutherland ''(left 1918)'' Artist
★ Jeremy Vine, BBC Television journalist and Radio Presenter, brother of Tim
★ Tim Vine, comedian, brother of Jeremy
★ Nicholas Witchell, BBC Television journalist
★ Julian Worricker, BBC Radio journalist
Notable Staff
★ Robert Roseveare, Bletchley Park cryptographer [59]
★ Nigel Starmer-Smith, Taught Geography while for England rugby union team, prior to his TV Rugby commentary role at the BBC
Notes
1. Independent Schools Council
2. Orange was introduced in the 21st Century in marketing materials it not part of the school uniform or sports kit.
3. Images of England
4. Images of England
5. Epsom College the First 125 Years, , Michael A, Salmon, Old Epsomian Club, 1980,
6. Taken from notes of the First General Meeting 25 June 1851, quoted in Epsom College the First 125 Years, , Michael A, Salmon, Old Epsomian Club, 1980,
7. Epsom College the First 125 Years, , Michael A, Salmon, Old Epsomian Club, 1980,
8. British Medical Journal, 1851, Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
9. 1844 prospectus, Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
10. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
11. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
12. Epsom College the First 125 Years, , Michael A, Salmon, Old Epsomian Club, 1980,
13. Epsom College the First 125 Years, , Michael A, Salmon, Old Epsomian Club, 1980,
14. Epsom College the First 125 Years, , Michael A, Salmon, Old Epsomian Club, 1980,
15. Epsom College the First 125 Years, , Michael A, Salmon, Old Epsomian Club, 1980,
16. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
17. Prince Albert, quoted by a contemporary newspaper account, Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
18. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
19. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
20. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
21. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
22. Robinson was created in the building previously occupied (after a short interval as the Sanatorium) by Hart Smith. The Hart Smith colours were passed to Robinson, presumably because of the location.
23. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
24. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
25. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
26. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
27. Daily Mail Cup Results
28. National Schools Sevens Results
29. Sport in Brief: Shooting
30. Old Epsomian Rifle Club
31. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
32. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
33. Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004,
34. Obituaries - David Alexander
35. Obituaries - Roger Bluett
36. Obituaries - Professor Neville Butler
37. Obituaries - Warwick Charlton
38. Sierra Leone Web
39. Obituaries - Tony Hewitt
40. Obitiaries - Lieutenant-Commander Dicky Kendall
41. Obituaries - Derek Lambert
42. Obituaries - Sir Anthony McCowan
43. Obitiaries - Major Alastair McGregor
44. How to Survive Your Mother, , Jonathan, Maitland, Pocket Books, ,
45. Obituaries - James MacKeith
46. Obituaries - Gerald Milsom
47. Obituaries - Toby Nash
48. Obituary - Bob Nixon
49. OE News - News from All Quarters, , Prof H G, Hanbury, The Epsomian, 1967
50. OE Rifle Club
51. BBC list of England squad for the Commonwealth Games 2006
52. Channel 4 News
53. The Guardian retrieved 12th August 2007
54. Obitiaries - Geoffrey Pope
55. Obituaries - Sir Philip Powell
56. Obituaries - Major-General Jim Robertson
57. Obituaries - Edward Smyth
58. Obituaries - Lt-Col Alex Simpson
59. Obituaries - Robert Roseveare
Further Reading & Sources
★ Epsom College the First 125 Years, , Michael A, Salmon, Old Epsomian Club, 1980, 145 pages.
★ Benevolence and Excellence: 150 Years of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, , Alan, Scadding, Epsom College, 2004, 134 pages.
External links
★ Alumni
★ Epsom college web site
★ Old Epsomian Lodge
★ Royal Medical Foundation web site
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