Lockers Park School

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Lockers Park School
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Lockers Park School
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TypePreparatory and Pre-Preparatory
Religious affiliation(s)Church of England [1]
Established1874
FounderHenry Montagu Draper
Local authority Hertfordshire
TrustLockers Park School Trust Ltd
Department for Education URN 117611 Tables
Chair of GovernorsChris Lister
HeadmasterGavin Taylor
GenderBoys only Prep and Pre-Prep
Age4to 13 [1]
Enrolment170 [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]

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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:

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 3 4 5 "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. Purvis, Stewart; Hulbert, Jeff (2016). Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone. Biteback. ISBN   978-1849549134. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  14. "Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons". Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  15. Obituary: Paul Channon, The Guardian , 31 January 2007.
  16. Obituary: James Dunbar-Nasmith, The Times , 15 April 2023
  17. "Sir Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques". Sfarad.es. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  18. 1 2 Richard B Mead, Commando General: The Life of Major General Sir Robert Laycock KCMG CB DSO (Pen and Sword, 2016, ISBN   978-1473854079)
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne: The Life (John Murray, 2009, ISBN   978-0-7195-6034-7), p. 17
  20. Denham&Garnett (2001). Keith Joseph. Great Britain: Acumen. ISBN   9781902683034.
  21. "Mansur Ali Khan "Tiger" Pataudi: The enigmatic Nawab". CricketCountry.com. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  22. 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.
  23. Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN   0953745104), p.110
  24. "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.)
  25. Obituary: Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, The Independent , 7 February 2009.
  26. Obituary: Leopold David de Rothschild, The Times , 26 May 2012.
  27. Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN   0953745104), p.107
  28. Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN   0953745104), p.117

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