Bootham School

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Bootham School is a private Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19 and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016.[1] It is one of seven Quaker schools in England.

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Rear view of the school

The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823–1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828–c.Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster. It is based in 51 Bootham, a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone, but has expanded into several neighbouring buildings.

The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52).

Academics

Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.[2]

Notable alumni

Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, the mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of fractals"), the physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson, the historian A. J. P. Taylor, the actor-manager Brian Rix, the applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize winner Philip Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer Stuart Rose[3] and Jon Ingle, better known as drag artist Lady Bunny.[4]

See also

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References

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Further reading

  • Bootham School Register. Compiled under the direction of a committee of O.Y.S.A., 1914, with revised eds. 1935, 1971, 2010.
  • J. S. Rowntree, Friends' Boys' School, York a Sketch of its History 1829–1878 (1879)
  • F. E. Pollard Bootham School 1823–1923 (JM Dent and Sons, 1926)
  • S. K. Brown Bootham School York 1823–1973 (author, 1973)

External links

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