St. Andrew's College (Grahamstown, South Africa)

Infobox School2
name = St Andrew's College


motto = "Nec Aspera Terrent"
established = 1855
type = Private, Boarding
grades = 8 - 12
head_name = Headmaster
head = David Wylde (Oxon)
head_name2 = Exam board
head2 = IEB
city = Grahamstown
state = Eastern Cape
country = South Africa
students = 440 boys
school_colors = Blue and white
mascot =
free_label = Fees
free = R 102 700 p.a. (Boarding)
R 45670 p.a. (Day Scholars)
website = [http://www.sacschool.com/ www.sacschool.com]

St. Andrew's College is a private senior school for boys located in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It offers boarding and day options for its pupils.

History

Founded in 1855 by Bishop John Armstrong as an Anglican school to serve the Eastern Province, St. Andrew's was in danger of closing until the tenure of its sixth headmaster, Canon John Espin, began in 1882. Around this time, St. Andrew's sister school, the Diocesan School for Girls (DSG) and a junior school, St. Andrew's Preparatory had been established. University classes were also conducted at the school until four St. Andrew's colleagues became founding professors of Rhodes University in 1904.

Co-instruction with DSG from grade 10(and a few in grade 8 and 9) upwards began in 1974 and a joint music school was built in the 1980s.

During apartheid in South Africa, St. Andrew's began admitting black boys in 1979, a decade before the lifting of racial restrictions on enrolment.

Headmasters

*Rev. F. Bankes (1855 - 1859)
*Rev. F.Y. St. Leger (1859 - 1862)
*Rev. G.E. Cotterill (1863 - 1865)
*Rev. Langford S. Browne (1865 - 1875)
*Rev. G. Gould Ross (1875 - 1881)
*Canon John Espin (1882 - 1902)
*Rev. W. S. Macgowan (1902 - 1908)
*Canon Percy W.H. Kettlewell (1909 - 1933)
*Canon C.B. Armstrong (1934 - 1938)
*Ronald F. Currey (Oxon) (1939 - 1955)
*Freddy Spencer Chapman (1956 - 1962)
*J.L. Cawse (1962 - 1964)
*Canon John Aubrey (1965 - 1971)
*E.B. Norton (1972 - 1980)
*Arthur F.G. Cotton (1981 - 1993)
*Antony R. Clark (Cantab) (1994 - 2002)
*David B. Wylde (Oxon) (2003 - Present)

Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship was instituted in 1903, and St. Andrew's is one of four schools in South Africa that may award a Rhodes Scholarship every year to an ex-pupil (and recently to ex-pupils of the DSG) to study at the University of Oxford.

Similarly, the Douglas Smith Scholarship is awarded to study at the University of Cambridge.

Academics

St. Andrew's writes the Independent Examinations Board exams.

The College today

440 boys attend the College and it has close interaction with its sister school, the Diocesan School for Girls in that all academic classes are shared from Grade 10 onwards. Classes may be held at either of the two schools and are 48 minutes long.

150th jubilee

The 150th jubilee fundraiser in 2005 raised over R45 million.

Notable Old Andreans (year of matriculation)

*Russell Bennett, former Springbok rugby player
*Sir Michael Edwardes (1947), business executive
*Duane Hudson, British spy
*Ryan Kankowski, Springbok rugby player
*Nick Mallett, former Springbok rugby player and coach
*Lewis Gordon Pugh, pioneering swimmer and environmentalist
*Ian Roberts, actor, playwright and singer
*Bevil Rudd, Olympic Gold Medallist - 400m (Antwerp, 1920)
*Sir Basil Schonland (1910), scientist, important in the development of radar
*Peter van der Merwe, South African cricket captain, 1965 - 1966/7.
*James Henry Greathead, engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway.

Military

* Air Vice Marshal John F G Howe CB CBE AFC RAF

Victoria Cross Holders

Two Old Andreans have won the Victoria Cross.
*Victoria Cross
**South African War
***Major Charles Herbert Mullins, VC (1869-1916) [Edmund Burke, (1917), "Annual Register", page 171, (Rivingtons)]
**First World War
***Lieutenant-Colonel John Sherwood-Kelly, VC (1880 to 1931) [Ronald Fairbridge Currey, (1955), "St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, 1855-1955", page 117, (Blackwell)]

References

See also

*List of boarding schools
*List of Victoria Crosses by School

External links

* [http://www.sacschool.com/ St. Andrew's official site]
* [http://www.oldandrean.co.za/ Old Andrean site]