Bemrose School

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"Non nobis sed aliis"
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city = Derby
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Bemrose School (founded in 1930), was a grammar school for boys in Derby, England, until 1975, when it became a comprehensive. It closed in 1989. Before 1975, it was also called Bemrose Grammar School.

History

A new school called the Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys was founded in Abbey Street, Derby, and opened on 12 September 1902. In December 1923, a new site for the school was acquired in Uttoxeter Road, Derby, and for some years was used for games. New school buildings designed by the architect Alexander Macpherson were built on the new site in 1928-1930 at a cost of £71,746, and when the school moved into them in 1930 it was renamed Bemrose School, in honour of the services to education of the Bemrose family of Derby, and in particular of Dr Henry Howe Bemrose. [ [http://www.bemrose.org/opening_day.htm Opening Day] at bemrose.org (accessed 22 June 2008): Alderman Henry Howe Bemrose MA ScD JP was Chairman of the school's governing body, the son of Sir Henry Howe Bemrose MP and the father of Sir Max Bemrose MP.] The new school was officially opened on 11 July 1930 by Sir Charles Trevelyan, President of the Board of Education. [ [http://www.bemrose.org/history.htm History] at bemrose.org (accessed 22 June 2008)]

A memorial to the sixty-eight old boys of the former Derby Municipal Secondary School who died in the First World War was moved to the new school's library. [ [http://www.bemrose.org/worldwari.htm The World War I Memorial] at bemrose.org (accessed 22 June 2008)]

The school was divided into seven houses, each with its own colour and motto: Burke ("Nil nisi bene"), Drake ("Semper audacter"), Gainsborough ("Vis unita fortior"), Nelson, Newton ("Consilio et animis"), Sydney ("Animo et fide"), and Wellington ("Pactum serva"). [ [http://www.bemrose.org/index.htm Bemrose home page] at bemrose.org (accessed 22 June 2008)]

The school became a grammar school, until in 1975 it was merged with Rykneld Boys' Secondary Modern School to make a new comprehensive school, when girls were first admitted.

In September 1989, at the same time as Derby School, the school was closed. Bemrose Community School then opened on its site as a new school without a sixth form.

Headmasters

*1930-1940s: Mr W. A. Macfarlane MA (Oxon.) (previously head of the Derby Municipal Secondary School for Boys, 1923-1930) [ [http://www.bemrose.org/BemrosePic/School%20prospectus%201933%20PageFront.jpgBemrose School Staff, 1933] at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008]
*1952-1957: Mr Eric G. Bennett MA (Cantab.) [ [http://www.bemrose.org/BemrosePic/Bennett.jpgBemrose Head leaving] at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008] [ [http://www.bemrose.org/BemrosePic/Library/BennettMain.jpgAppointed headmaster of Bemrose School] at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008]
*1958-1971: Dr Raymond Chapman PhD (Innsbruck) [ [http://www.bemrose.org/BemrosePic/Dr%20ChapmanMod1.jpgCode Breaker's Years of Silence] at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008] [ [http://www.bemrose.org/BemrosePic/Dr%20Chapman.jpgLearning from the master] in "Derby Evening Telegraph" dated 2 May 1995]
*1971-1980s: Mr W. M. Wearne MA [Wells, Martin, [http://www.bemrose.org/paperattitude.htm Attitude of teachers a bright hope] at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008] [ [http://www.bemrose.org/farewell_booklet.htm Farewell Booklet 1982] at bemrose.org, accessed 29 July 2008]

Notable Old Bemrosians

:See also .

*Brian Lux (born 1933), dentist and novelist [ [http://www.academi.org/list-of-writers/i/132507/ Brian Lux] at academi.org (accessed 22 June 2008)]
*Colin Mortlock (born 1936), climber, writer and lecturer [ [http://www.cicerone.co.uk/author/detail.cfm/author/1265/name/mortlock--colin Colin Mortlock] at cicerone.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)]
*James Bolam (born 1938) actor [ [http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/bolamjames/bolamjames.htm James Bolam at museum.tv] , accessed 18 July 2008]
*Ian Blanchard (born 1941), Professor of Medieval Economic History, University of Edinburgh [ [http://www.ianblanchard.com/blanchard/20060215-SM-Blanchard.pdf Special Minute : Professor Ian Stewart William Blanchard BSc (Econ) PhD] at ianblanchard.com (accessed 22 June 2008)]
*Christopher Jensen-Butler (1945-2006), Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews [ [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/crieff/cjb-post.html Christopher Jensen-Butler] at st-andrews.ac.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)]
*Sir Nigel Rudd (born 1947), industrialist [ [http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/channel/Finance/news/661226/mt-profile-sir-nigel-rudd/ Sir Nigel Rudd profile] at managementtoday.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)] [ [http://www.picturesofderby.co.uk/area_stores_road.htm Pictures of Derby] at picturesofderby.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)]
*Joe Andrew (academic) (born 1948), Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University
*Steve Powell, Derby County F.C. midfielder 1971-1985 [ [http://www.therams.co.uk/details.asp?back=true&key=2941%7C0%7C2C77115877143%7CR%7C711%7C152922972004327278131&parentkey=2941%7C0%7C2C77115877143%7Cp%7C711%7C0 Steve Powell] at therams.co.uk (accessed 22 June 2008)]
*Garry Robison (born 1958), Commandant-General of the Royal Marines since 2006

Bibliography

*Grimshaw, Frank, "It Was Different in My Day" (2002)

References

External links

* [http://www.bemrose.org Bemrose.org]