Shrewsbury School The Boathouse c.1912.

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  The Boathouse, Shrewsbury [at Shrewsbury School]
• Publisher:  'Princess Series' RM & S Shrewsbury
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Shrewsbury School is a public school located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is one of the Clarendon Schools, the original nine great English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, and is now a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Shrewsbury School was originally a boarding school for boys aged between 13 and 18. Day pupils are now accepted. The enrolment is around 740 boys with the first girls arrived in the Sixth Form in September 2008. According to the Good Schools Guide, it is quoted as a "Very well-known school even outside the country. Top sport, Music and second to none even with the academic education." Shrewsbury School has some notable alumni, including naturalist Charles Darwin, poet Sir Philip Sidney, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, philosopher J.L. Austin, Monty Python contributor Michael Palin, creators of Private Eye magazine Richard Ingrams and William Rushton and the DJ John Peel.

Shrewsbury School was founded in 1552 by Adam Jones and King Edward VI, and in 1571 was augmented by Queen Elizabeth I. The original buildings are located on Castle Hill. The school moved from these in 1882. In 1983, after some restoration work, the buildings became the town's public library. ^[1]

In 1868 the school was named one of the nine ‘great’ schools of England (along with Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Merchant Taylors', Rugby, St Paul's, Westminster and Winchester) in the Public Schools Act. Headmasters include Sir Thomas Ashton, Samuel Butler, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Cyril Argentin Alington, H. H. Hardy, Lord Wolfenden and Sir Eric Anderson. Sir Thomas Ashton, the first headmaster, gave the school a classical and humanistic tone that has been retained, though sciences and other studies are now also in the curriculum.

In 1882, Headmaster Henry Whitehead Moss moved the school from its original town centre location to a new site across the River Severn, in Kingsland (a site which had, amongst other things, housed the Shrewsbury workhouse and a foundling hospital). The original buildings are now used as the Shrewsbury Town Library.

Since the turn of the millennium, the school's site has seen investment. An award-winning music school was opened by Prince Charles in 2001. The Main School Building saw an internal renovation over several years, modernising all classrooms. A new boarding house has been completed, as has a new world-class indoor cricket centre and a new swimming pool, and several of the school's buildings will undergo redevelopment in anticipation of the school's first female pupils.

In 2003 Shrewsbury International School, Bangkok was opened in Bangkok, Thailand, in a location on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. The headmaster of the school is Stephen Holroyd, who taught English at Shrewsbury School and was formerly the housemaster of Severn Hill (see 'Houses') and then the Second Master of the school, following Stuart Morris who is the Headmaster for the first two years.

In 2005 Shrewsbury School was one of fifty of the country's leading private schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.^[2] Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.^[3]

The school accepts only boys. However, in November 2005, the governors of the school decided to allow girls to enter the sixth form; initially aiming to admit 60 girls, then increasing to 100.

The school has a newspaper known as the 'Public Nose' (a deliberate variation of the 'Private Eye' magazine). Other notable publications include the 'The Salopian', a satirical magazine. ^[4]

The school is renowned for its sporting success. In recent years the school has excelled across a whole range of sports. Rowing has been particuarily successful with the schools 1st VIII winning Henley Royal regatta in 2007 and winning schools head of the river for the past three years.[1]