Independent school in Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, England
Sandroyd School
is an
independent
co-educational preparatory school for day and boarding pupils aged 2 to 13 in the south of Wiltshire, England. The school's main building is Rushmore House, a 19th-century country house which is surrounded by the Rushmore Estate, now playing fields, woods and parkland.
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Sandroyd School was originally established by Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley as a small private coaching establishment for boys hoping to enter
Eton College
.
In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2014, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' in all nine inspected categories.
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Location
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The school is in the south of
Berwick St John
parish, near the village of
Tollard Royal
and the county border with Dorset.
History
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Sandroyd School was founded as a school for boys by L. H. Wellesley Wesley at his home, Sandroyd House in
Cobham
, Surrey in 1888.
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He was a great-grandson of
Charles Wesley
.
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The school’s original site is now occupied by
Reed’s School
. From 1898 the school was governed by two men, until then assistant masters at Elstree School: Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859?1938) and William Meysey Hornby (1870?1955), who took over from Wesley that year, as Headmaster and Deputy Headmaster respectively. Wilson retired in 1920 and Hornby took his place, until his own retirement in 1931.
In 1939, in anticipation of the Second World War, the school moved to Rushmore House, home of the
Pitt-Rivers
family. The house lies in the centre of
Cranborne Chase
on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. A link between the two sites is that Sandroyd House was built in 1860 for the pre-Raphaelite painter
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
by the architect
Philip Webb
(1831?1915), the friend of
William Morris
, and it was Webb who remodelled the interior of Rushmore for
General Pitt Rivers
twenty years later.
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In the 1960s the school purchased the freehold of the school site.
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In 1995 the school started to accept day pupils, and in 2004 it became coeducational.
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Nursery and pre-prep school
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Sandroyd School has a pre-prep and nursery school known as the Walled Garden, opened in 2004, for children aged two to seven. This was described as 'excellent' in an ISI inspection report of 2014.
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List of headmasters
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- 1888?1898: L. H. Wellesley Wesley
- 1898?1920: C. P. Wilson
- 1920?1931: W. M. Hornby
- 1931?1955: H. ff. Ozanne
- 1955?1963: K. B. Buckland
- 1963?1981: D. C. Howes
- 1981?1982: T. R. Reynolds (acting)
- 1982?1994: D. J. Cann
- 1994?1995: T. R. Reynolds (acting)
- 1995?2003: M. J. Hatch
- 2003?2016: M. J. S. Harris
- 2016?: A. B. Speers
Old Sandroydians
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- See also
People educated at Sandroyd School
Former pupils, known as Old Sandroydians, include:
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- Anthony Eden
, Prime Minister
- Michael Ramsey
, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Peter II
, King of Yugoslavia
- Faisal II
, King of Iraq
- Peter Carington
, politician
- John Whittingdale
, politician
- Anthony Meyer
, politician
- Ian Gow
, politician
- Tim Sainsbury
, politician and businessman
- John Sainsbury
, businessman
- Alistair McAlpine
, businessman and adviser to Margaret Thatcher
- Randolph Churchill
, politician and son of Winston Churchill
- Antony Armstrong-Jones
, photographer and husband of Princess Margaret
- Terence Rattigan
, playwright
- Wynne Godley
, economist
- Michael Dummett
, philosopher
- Christopher Hawkes
, archaeologist
- Gladwyn Jebb
, diplomat
- Charles Madden
, admiral
- Antony Read
, general
- Ranulph Fiennes
, explorer
- Justin Packshaw
, explorer
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