St Bees School

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St Bees School, Cumbria, situated in a rural location on the edge of the Lake District in the village of St Bees on the Cumbrian coast, is an independent school.

Founded in 1583 by Archbishop Grindal, who was Bishop of London, Archbishop of York and then Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Bees School has approximately 300 students – both boys and girls – aged between 11 and 18 years old. Some students stay at the school as boarders, others are day pupils.

In 2000, to mark the millennium, a time capsule was buried in the South-West corner of the quad.

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[edit] Alumni

Notable alumni (called St.Beghians in more modern times) include:

  • Fletcher Christian (1764-1793), Royal Navy officer, notoriously led the mutiny on HMS Bounty, and founded the settlement of Pitcairn in the Pacific.
  • Robert McCance (1898-1993) Professor of Experimental Medicine, Cambridge University.
  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Augustus Walker (1912-1986) Known as the one-armed air marshal, he lost his right arm in 1942 attempting to rescue crashed Avro Lancaster aircrew.
  • General Sir William Scotter (1922-1981) Senior Nato commander, decorated in Burma during WW2. He reviewed the St Bees CCF, at St Bees, in 1977.
  • Douglas Ferreira (b. 1929), General Manager of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
  • Rowan Atkinson (b. 1955), comedian, writer and actor (Mr Bean)
  • Hugh Paxton (b.1964) Journalist and author, published in 2006 the novel Homunculus.


[edit] Victoria Cross Holders

Three Old St Beghians have won the Victoria Cross:[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b The Whitehaven News, published 24 May 2007
  2. ^ LESLIE. STEPHEN, (1927), Dictionary of National Biography, page 472, (Smith, Elder)
  3. ^ Sir John George Smyth, (1963), The Story of the Victoria Cross, 1856-1963, page 253, (F. Muller)

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