Lockers Park School

Lockers Park School
Address
Lockers Park Lane Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire , HP1 1TL England
Information
Type	Preparatory and Pre-Preparatory
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England [1]
Established	1874
Founder	Henry Montagu Draper
Local authority	Hertfordshire
Trust	Lockers Park School Trust Ltd
Department for Education URN	117611 Tables
Chair of governors	Chris Lister
Headmaster	Gavin Taylor
Gender	Boys only prep and pre-prep
Age	4to 13 [1]
Enrolment	170 [1]
Website	http://www.lockerspark.co.uk

Lockers Park School is a day and boarding preparatory and pre-preparatory school for boys, situated in 23 acres of countryside in Boxmoor, Hertfordshire. Its headmaster is Gavin Taylor. ^[2]

History

Lockers Park was founded in 1872 by Henry Montagu Draper, ^[3] an old boy of Rugby School. ^[4] It moved to purpose-built buildings and sports fields in 1874 in 23 acres (93,000 m²) of the parkland which surrounds a Georgian country house called Lockers or The Lockers, ^[5] which was once the home of Ebenezer John Collett. The new school was designed by Sidney Scott and has its own chapel which dates from the same era. ^[6]

In the 1940s and 1950s, the veteran England all-round cricketer Frank Woolley (1887–1978) was the school's cricket coach. ^[7]

Former pupils

See also Category: People educated at Lockers Park School

The list of distinguished (or well-known) old boys of Lockers Park includes the following:

• Alastair Aird (1931–2009), Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's private secretary ^[8]
• Ronnie Aird first-class cricketer and President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) ^[8]
• Prince Alemayehu, (1861–1879) son of the emperor of Ethiopia ^[9]
• Timothy Bateson (1926–2009), actor ^[10]
• Prince Maurice of Battenberg, a member of the Hesse aristocracy ^[11]
• Roy Beddington, artist ^[12]
• Anthony Berry British Conservative politician. ^[8]
• Richard Budgett Olympic Gold Medalist ^[8]
• Guy Burgess (1911–1963) MI6 agent and Soviet spy ^[13]
• John Dermot Campbell (1898–1945), Ulster Unionist politician ^[14]
• Kenneth Carlisle Conservative politician and former Lord Commissioner of the Treasury ^[8]
• Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter Anglo-Canadian peer ^[15]
• Paul Channon, Baron Kelvedon (1935–2007), Conservative politician ^[16]
• Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield (1913–1999), Queen Elizabeth II's private secretary, Provost of Eton College. ^[8]
• James Dunbar-Nasmith (1927–2023), architect ^[17]
• William Ehrman British diplomat and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. ^[8]
• Stuart Hampshire philosopher ^[18]
• Basil Henriques (1890–1961), philanthropist ^[19]
• Robert Henriques (1905–1967), writer and broadcaster ^[20]
• Stanley Jackson, cricket captain of England, politician ^[8]
• Edward James (1907–1984), poet ^[21]
• Keith Joseph, Conservative politician ^[22]
• Clive Loehnis, Director of GCHQ ^[23]
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, captain of the Indian cricket team ^[24]
• Saif Ali Khan, Indian film actor and titular Nawab of Pataudi ^[25]
• Robert Laycock, major-general, commando general during the Second World War ^[20]
• Guy Mansfield, 6th Baron Sandhurst, British barrister, hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords. ^[8]
• Edwin Mayfield, British Lions rugby union forward ^[26]
• Nathaniel Micklem, British Liberal Party politician and lawyer ^[27]
• James Lees-Milne, architectural historian ^[21]
• Tom Mitford, brother of the Mitford Sisters ^[21]
• Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India ^[28]
• Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916–2009), banker and horticulturalist ^[29]
• Leopold David de Rothschild (1927–2012), banker, musician and philanthropist ^[30]
• James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of Kruger National Park ^[31]
• Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1909–1945), Conservative politician ^[21]
• Bryan Valentine, cricket captain of Kent ^[8]
• Arthur Waley, orientalist and Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour ^[8]
• Peter Watson (1908–1956), patron of the arts ^[21]
• Hugo Williams, poet, journalist and travel writer ^[32]

Notes

1. "EduBase - Lockers Park School". Department for Education . Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
2. "Lockers Park School - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk.
3. "Lockers Park School" (PDF). Ofsted. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
4. "Rugby School Register May 1874 to May 1904" . Retrieved 30 July 2017.
5. "Lockers". British Listed Buildings. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
6. "Chapel, Lockers School, Lockers Park School, Hemel Hempstead". Hertfordshire Churches. 27 March 2017. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
7. Suresh Menon, The Shorter Wisden India Almanack 2013 (2013, ISBN   9382951016), p. lxii
8. "Distinguished Old Boys Lockers Park".
9. Hall, David (2000). "The Extraordinary Story of Prince Alamayou". Far Headingley, Weetwood and West Park. FHVS. pp. 117–122. ISBN   0-9539312-0-X.
10. Obituary: Timothy Bateson, The Guardian , 8 November 2009
11. "Artist celebrates old boys with exhibition". Hemel Today. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
12. Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN   0953745104), p.111
13. Stewart Purvia, Jeff Hulbert, Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone (Biteback Publishing, 2016, ISBN   1849549133), p.5
14. "Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons". Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
15. Christopher Foster, One Heart, One Way (Foundation House, 1989, ISBN   0921790007), p.40
16. Obituary: Paul Channon, The Guardian , 31 January 2007.
17. Obituary: James Dunbar-Nasmith, The Times , 15 April 2023
18. Stewart Purvia, Jeff Hulbert, Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone (Biteback Publishing, 2016, ISBN   1849549133), p.6
19. "Sir Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques". Sfarad.es. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
20. Richard B Mead, Commando General: The Life of Major General Sir Robert Laycock KCMG CB DSO (Pen and Sword, 2016, ISBN   978-1473854079)
21. Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne: The Life (John Murray, 2009, ISBN   978-0-7195-6034-7), p. 17
22. Denham&Garnett (2001). Keith Joseph. Great Britain: Acumen. ISBN   9781902683034.
23. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1808
24. "Mansur Ali Khan "Tiger" Pataudi: The enigmatic Nawab". CricketCountry.com. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
25. Bhattacharya, Roshmila (21 April 2013). "'I've inherited his legacy of goodwill, but... he is a difficult role model to follow'". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
26. "Mayfield, Edwin (MFLT888E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
27. Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN   0953745104), p.110
28. "Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31480.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
29. Obituary: Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, The Independent , 7 February 2009.
30. Obituary: Leopold David de Rothschild, The Times , 26 May 2012.
31. Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN   0953745104), p.107
32. Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN   0953745104), p.117

Further reading

• Barden, Ruth J.D. (2000). A history of Lockers Park : Lockers Park School, Hemel Hempstead, 1874-1999. [Truro]: R.J.D. Barden. ISBN   0953745104.

External links

• Official site