Lockers Park School
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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.[1]
History
Lockers Park was founded in 1872 by Henry Montagu Draper,[2] an old boy of Rugby School.[3] It moved to purpose-built buildings and sports fields in 1874 in Script error: No such module "convert". of the parkland which surrounds a Georgian country house called Lockers or The Lockers,[4] 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.[5]
In the 1940s and 1950s, the veteran England all-round cricketer Frank Woolley (1887–1978) was the school's cricket coach.[6]
Former pupils
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 [7]
- Ronnie Aird first-class cricketer and President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) [7]
- Prince Alemayehu, (1861–1879) son of the emperor of Ethiopia[8]
- Timothy Bateson (1926–2009), actor[9]
- Prince Maurice of Battenberg, a member of the Hesse aristocracy[10]
- Roy Beddington, artist[11]
- Anthony Berry British Conservative politician.[7]
- Richard Budgett Olympic Gold Medalist[7]
- Guy Burgess (1911–1963) MI6 agent and Soviet spy[12]
- John Dermot Campbell (1898–1945), Ulster Unionist politician[13]
- Kenneth Carlisle Conservative politician and former Lord Commissioner of the Treasury[7]
- Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter Anglo-Canadian peer[14]
- Paul Channon, Baron Kelvedon (1935–2007), Conservative politician[15]
- Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield (1913–1999), Queen Elizabeth II's private secretary, provost Of Eton College.[7]
- James Dunbar-Nasmith (1927–2023), architect[16]
- William Ehrman British diplomat and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.[7]
- Stuart Hampshire philosopher [17]
- Basil Henriques (1890–1961), philanthropist[18]
- Robert Henriques (1905–1967), writer and broadcaster[19]
- Stanley Jackson, cricket captain of England, politician[7]
- Edward James (1907–1984), poet[20]
- Keith Joseph, Conservative politician[21]
- Clive Loehnis, Director of GCHQ[22]
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, captain of the Indian cricket team[23]
- Saif Ali Khan, Indian film actor and titular Nawab of Pataudi[24]
- Robert Laycock, major-general, commando general during the Second World War[19]
- Guy Mansfield, 6th Baron Sandhurst, British barrister, hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords.[7]
- Edwin Mayfield, British Lions rugby union forward[25]
- Nathaniel Micklem, British Liberal Party politician and lawyer[26]
- James Lees-Milne, architectural historian[20]
- Tom Mitford, brother of the Mitford Sisters[20]
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India[27]
- Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916–2009), banker and horticulturalist[28]
- Leopold David de Rothschild (1927–2012), banker, musician and philanthropist[29]
- James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of Kruger National Park[30]
- Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1909–1945), Conservative politician[20]
- Bryan Valentine, cricket captain of Kent[7]
- Arthur Waley, orientalist and Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour[7]
- Peter Watson (1908–1956), patron of the arts[20]
- Hugo Williams, poet, journalist and travel writer[31]
Notes
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- ↑ Obituary: Timothy Bateson, The Guardian, 8 November 2009
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- ↑ Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, Template:ISBN), p.111
- ↑ Stewart Purvia, Jeff Hulbert, Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone (Biteback Publishing, 2016, Template:ISBN), p.5
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- ↑ Obituary: Paul Channon, The Guardian, 31 January 2007.
- ↑ Obituary: James Dunbar-Nasmith, The Times, 15 April 2023
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- ↑ a b Richard B Mead, Commando General: The Life of Major General Sir Robert Laycock KCMG CB DSO (Pen and Sword, 2016, Template:ISBN)
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- ↑ Obituary: Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, The Independent, 7 February 2009.
- ↑ Obituary: Leopold David de Rothschild, The Times, 26 May 2012.
- ↑ Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, Template:ISBN), p.107
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