Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire - M & L series postcard c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire
• Publisher:  M & L Series
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Cheltenham College is a co-educational independent school, located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. One of the public schools of the Victorian period, it was opened in July 1841. An Anglican foundation, it is known for its classical, military and sporting traditions.

The 1893 book Great Public Schools by E. S. Skirving, S. R. James and Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte, which had a chapter on each of what they regarded to be England's ten greatest public schools, included Cheltenham College.

The Cheltenham Proprietary College, as it was originally known, was founded in 1841 by two Cheltenham residents - G.S. Harcourt and J.S. Iredell, with the purpose of educating the sons of gentlemen.

It originally opened in three houses along Bays Hill Terrace in the centre of the town. Within two years it had moved to its present site, with Boyne House as the first College Boarding House and soon became known simply as Cheltenham College. Taking both boarding and day boys, it was originally divided into Classical and Military sides until the mid-twentieth century. It is now an independent fee paying school, governed by Cheltenham College Council. A few girls were admitted in 1969 and then in 1981 when the first girls’ house opened, the Sixth Form became fully co educational. In 1998, girls were admitted to all other years, making the College fully co-educational.

In 1865, a Junior Department was added to the main College buildings. In 1993 it opened its doors to girls and also opened Kingfishers for 3-7 year olds.

675 Old Cheltonians (former pupils) were killed in the service of their country in World War I, and 363 in World War II. Cheltenham's military past is recognised by the fact that it is one of only three schools in England (the others being Eton College, founded in 1440, and the Duke of York's Royal Military School, founded in 1803) to have its own military colours (last presented in 2000 by The Princess Royal). Queen Victoria School in Dunblane, Scotland, also has Colours.

The names of those Old Cheltonians killed in World War I are recorded in the College chapel, completed in 1896, which to a degree resembles King's College Chapel, Cambridge and is one of the chapels of an English public school. Those killed in the World War II are displayed on the memorial in the College's dining hall.

Cheltenham has approximately 600 pupils (150 being day pupils) between the ages of 13 and 18.^[2] The fees are about £30,000 a year, making it amongst the most expensive schools in the country.^[3] The school is now co-educational and maintains a strong academic reputation, with the majority of pupils going to The Russell Group Universities, and around 7% going on to Oxford and Cambridge universities. Both GCSE and A Level results are among the highest in Gloucestershire.^[4][5]

There is also a prep school, Cheltenham College Junior School, most of whose pupils go on to the senior school.

Cheltenham also runs an annual exchange program with the Wynberg Boys' High School in Cape Town, South Africa; an all-boys boarding school which coincidentally was established in the same year as Cheltenham, 1841.

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

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county/ country=gloucestershire

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period=1945 - present

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