Eastbourne College

Infobox UK school
name = Eastbourne College


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latitude = 50.7627
longitude = 0.2811
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motto = "Ex Oriente Salus"
("Haven to the East, another name for a haven being a bourne... therefore a 19th century play on words.... Eastbourne")
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established = 1867
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type = Public school
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head_label = Headmaster
head = Simon P Davies MA
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chair_label = Chairman of the College Council
chair = Admiral Sir Ian Forbes KCB CBE
founder = Seventh Duke of Devonshire and other prominent Eastbourne citizens
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street = Old Wish Road
city = Eastbourne
county = East Sussex
country = England
postcode = BN21 4JY
LEA = East Sussex County Council
ofsted = SC050547
staff = 236
enrollment = 542
gender = Co-educational
lower_age = 13
upper_age = 18
houses = Day Houses: Blackwater; Craig; Powell; Reeves; Watt
Boarding Houses: Wargrave; Pennell; Gonville; Nugent; School
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free_label_1 = Former pupils
free_1 = Old Eastbournians
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website = http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/
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Eastbourne College is a British co-educational independent day/boarding school for children aged 13-18, situated on the south coast of England. The College's current headmaster is Simon Davies. The College was founded by the Duke of Devonshire and other prominent Eastbourne citizens in 1867 and has been growing ever since. While the College began as an all-boys' school it has in the last 20 years become co-educational.

The College is located in the Lower Meads area of Eastbourne, in a mainly residential area. Most of the school buildings are on a central campus area but many others are scattered in the immediate vicinity, such as the Beresford hockey and the links rugby pitches

In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading private schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by "The Times", which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article588559.ece Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees - Times Online ] ] 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. [ [http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06 The Office of Fair Trading: OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement ] ]

Motto

Ex Oriente Salus(Out of the east comes hope)

Chapel

The Chapel is within the 'central' tradition of the Church of England. The College has a rich choral tradition with an outstanding choir and the relatively small size of the Chapel buildings means that all services have an intimate feel to them. The College has a full time Chaplain who seeks to provide pastoral and spiritual care to the whole College community 24 hours a day. As the Chaplain and his family live in a central position on the College campus, he is always available. Pupils are always welcome to visit him about anything that is bothering them, whether it is a serious personal matter or a minor difficulty. Sometimes people drop in just for a chat and a cup of tea.

Every Thursday evening there is an informal communion service followed by pizza in the Chaplain's flat at which all are welcome. There is a student-led College Christian Union which is attended by students of various Christian traditions and anyone else who wants to go along. There is also a Bible study group (The Connection) led by two members of staff which meets weekly throughout the year. At the beginning and end of each term there is a whole school service in All Saints' Church, immediately adjacent to the school.

The Chapel is kept open each day during term time as a place of peace, where pupils and staff can, if they wish, have some quiet time away from the busyness of daily College life. Sunday services often reflect the College's outstanding choral tradition and in addition there are occasional services which are led by one of the ten houses or the Christian Union.

Every year a confirmation service is held in the Chapel. The Chaplain prepares candidates for confirmation in the months preceding this service and this includes an awayday at Ashburnham Christian Centre.

chool shop

The School Shop provides for all of the daily needs of the staff and pupils at Eastbourne College and sells everything from uniforms to stationery to toiletries.

Sports

As at many other independent schools, sports are taken very seriously at Eastbourne College and throughout the years it has produced many successful teams. Sports are played at the many facilities around the college (including College Field which has been used for training by teams such as South Africa upon arrival in the UK and some internationals) and at various locations around the town acquired by the college. Mark Lock plays rugby for Leeds Tykes having previously won the Premiership with Wasps, Hugo Southwell for Scotland. Will Green played for Wasps when he won the premiership along with Mark Lock before moving onto Ireland.

At the College, each term consists of one main sport.

However there are also alternative sports, such as football, cross country, swimming, golf, tennis, squash, rowing, sailing & rugby fives.

Combined Cadet Force

The school has a CCF combined cadet force contingent which all of year ten and many of the upper years are involved with, being a member of either The Royal Airforce, The Army, or The Navy

Eastbourne College Houses

;Day Houses:
*Blackwater (Girls)
*Craig (Boys)
*Powell (Boys)
*Reeves (Boys)
*Watt (Girls)

;Boarding Houses:
*Pennell (Boys)
*Gonville (Boys)
*Wargrave (Boys)
*Nugent (Girls)
*School (Girls)

Many of these houses were donated to the school in wills; for example, Powell was given to the college by Stanley Powell.

Notable Old Eastbournians

*Olav Bjortomt, World Quiz Champion 2003, writes quizzes in "The Times" newspaper
*N R T Brown, Cricketer for Gnomes Cricket Club, Sydney Australia
*Sir Hugh Casson, architect
*Aleister Crowley, occultist and mystic
*Michael Fish, weather forecaster
*Ed Giddins, cricketer
*Will Green, rugby player
*Phil Hammond, doctor and comedian
*Charles Hedley, naturalist
*Bob Holness, presenter and musician
*David Howell, Chess Grandmaster
*Eddie Izzard, comedian
*Mark Lock, rugby player
*Oliver W F Lodge, poet and author
*Ruari McLean, designer
*Ian Mortimer, historian and historical biographer
*Adam Mynott, BBC journalist [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3800000/newsid_3808400/3808451.stm NewsWatch | Profiles | Adam Mynott ] ]
*Michael Praed, actor
*Charles Rivett-Carnac Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police
*David Smith, historian and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge
*Frederick Soddy, chemist and Nobel laureate
*Hugo Southwell, rugby player
*Edward Speleers, actor, played Eragon in the "Inheritance" trilogy, now starring in the ITV soap "Echo Beach"
*Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, politician
*William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby
*John Wells, satirist, co-author of the "Dear Bill" column in Private Eye
*Woodrow Wyatt, politician, journalist and diarist
*Royce Mills, actor
*Sir Christopher Leaver, Lord Mayor of London

Military

*Major-General Hugh Prince
*General David Richards, commander of international forces in Afghanistan
*Roland Beamont,British fighter pilot [ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Beamont#cite_note-0 ] ]

Victoria Cross Holders

Two Old Eastbournians have won the Victoria Cross:Webster F.A.M., (1937), "Our Great Public Schools", (Butler & Tanner: London)]
*Victoria Cross
**Tirah Campaign, India
***Captain Henry Singleton Pennell VC. He was a Lieutenant when he performed the act for which he received the VC.
**First World War
***Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees VC OBE MC AFC RAF. He was a Major when he performed the act for which he received the VC.

Notable staff or former staff

*Roger Knight

chools Class Steam Trains

A new express passenger locomotive was required on the Tonbridge–Hastings line in South East England as there were heavy restrictions regarding the tunnels on the route. In order to improve performance over this stretch of line, a new locamotive had to be designed, a new locomotive that could operate within the loading gauge of the tunnels and operate over sharp curves. For this reason a short wheelbase was needed, with the 4-4-0 arrangement being favoured.

The basic layout of the class was heavily influenced by the existing Lord Nelson 4-6-0 design. The design utilised many of the same parts for standardisation, but the design brief called for a smaller engine than the Lord Nelson for use on the Eastern Section's more restricted routes, namely the Tonbridge–Hastings line.In anticipation of this, Maunsell specifically designed the cab's curved profile to fit the restricted gauge of bridges and tunnels on the Hastings line. The resultant short frame length of the 4-4-0 locomotive also meant very little overhang on the tight curves of this line. In order to maintain the high power rating required of express passenger engines, Maunsell opted for a three-cylinder design. This was a compromise, as a large two-cylinder layout was regarded as being out-of-gauge for the width restrictions of the Tonbridge–Hastings route.The resultant design had a higher tractive effort than the King Arthur Class, though at a cost in high axle-loading, which weighed in at 21 tons. The trackwork on the Hastings line therefore had to be upgraded to accept the new locomotive. The first batch of ten locomotives was released for service from Eastleigh in 1930. 30 more were constructed between then and 1935 as the locomotive's excellent characteristics were recognised and uses for it were found on other parts of the Southern Railway network.

With this class the Southern Railway continued its 1923 policy of naming its express passenger locomotives. Since several public schools were located in the vicinity of Hastings and further afield on the Southern network, the locomotives were named after the schools. This was another marketing success for both railway and schools concerned, continuing in the tradition of the "King Arthur" and "Lord Nelson" classes' relevance to the people of the Southern's Western Section.Where possible the Southern sent the newly constructed locomotive to a railway station near the school it was named after for official naming, where pupils were allowed to view the cab of "their" engine. Extension of the class meant that names from "foreign" schools outside the Southern Railway catchment area were used, including "Rugby" and "Malvern".Eastbourne was one of the schools that gave it's name to one of these trains. the 914 Eastbourne [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Class_V#Remaining_artefacts_of_other_class_members ] ]

The Link to Radley College

The Second World War saw the evacuation of Eastbourne College to Radley, and the plaque with its generous inscription commemorating this move and referring to "sympathy... and easy comradeship" has long been a significant feature of the Radley's Chapel Cloister. The Warden at the time, J C Vaughan Wilkes, was a son of the proprietors of St Cyprian's prep school with which Eastbourne College long had close connections. After the war, the College acquired St Cyprian's playing fields and the Memorial Gates were installed at the entrance.

At the turn of the millennium the Arnold Embellishers, a society of friends of Eastbourne College, decided that there should be a similar memorial in Eastbourne itself, and on Sunday 23rd June 2002, in a short ceremony introduced by Eastbourne's Headmaster, Charles Bush and Angus McPhail unveiled a plaque in their own Cloisters. The inscription reads "In memory of those who made it possible to survive the Second World War by taking us to Radley College and, when peace returned, bringing us safely home, under the leadership of the Headmaster Francis John Nugee MA". Many of the headmasters of Eastbourne College were Radley boys.

In celebration of the occasion the Radley Eastbourne cricket match was revived.

References

ee also

*List of Victoria Crosses by School

External links

* [http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/ School website]