Batley Grammar School

Batley Grammar School is a co-educational public school located at Carlinghow Hill in Upper Batley, West Yorkshire, UK. The school was founded in 1612 by the Rev. William Lee, an annual founders day service is held in his memory at Batley Parish Church, this is as he requested upon his will, although it is not held on the same date as originally requested.

The school was originally a Boys' school but went co-educational in 1996 under headmaster William Duggan.

Batley Grammar School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

A Junior and infants school, named Priestley House (after Joseph Priestley, an old Batelian, see below) is set in the grounds.

Notable Old Batelians

Former pupils of the school are referred to as .

*Benjamin Ingham (1712–1772), Methodist and Moravian evangelist and preacher
*William Margetson Heald (1767–1837), writer and churchman
*Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian, natural philosopher, and discoverer of oxygen
*Thomas Wormald (1802–1873), surgeon
*Sir Titus Salt (1803–1876), textile manufacturer and politician
*Sir Mark Oldroyd (1843–1927), woollen manufacturer, politician and philanthropist [Tony Hannan, Being Eddie Waring The Life and Times of a Sporting Icon, 2008, page 24, MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY (EDINBURGH) LTD, ISBN 978-1-84596-300-2]
*Theodore Cooke Taylor (1850–1952), woollen manufacturer and politician
*Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959), Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1906–1914, Wheatstone Professor of Physics, King's College London, 1914–1924, and Yarrow Research Professor, Royal Society, 1924–1959, Nobel Prize in Physics (1928)
*Sir Herbert Holdsworth, 1890-1949, Liberal and later Liberal National MP
*Samuel Sugden (1892–1950), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Birkbeck College, London, 1932–1937, and Professor of Chemistry, University College London, 1937–1950
*Horace Waller (died 1917), World War I Victoria Cross winner
*Eric Seddon (1906–1951), lecturer in Physics, University of Sheffield, and Director of Research, United Glass Bottles, Woolwich
*Cecil Grayson (1920–1998), Serena Professor of Italian, University of Oxford, 1958–1988
*Godfrey Lienhardt (1921–1993), anthropologist
*Andrew Milner, Professor of Cultural Studies, Monash University
*Richard Reed, co-founder of innocent Drinks
*Richard Pearson, former English county cricketer
*Ismail Dawood, former English county cricketer
*Lukas Wooller, keyboardist with the band Maxïmo Park

External links

* [http://www.batleygrammar.co.uk/ Official website of Batley Grammar School]

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