Blundell's School

Infobox UK school
name = Blundell's School


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latitude = 50.906499
longitude = -3.466174
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motto = "Pro Patria Populoque"
("For the country and the people")
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established = 1604
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closed =
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type = Public school
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president =
head_label = Head Master
head = Ian Davenport BA
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chair_label = Chairman of the Governors
chair = E.D. Fursdon DL MA (Oxon) FRICS
founder = Peter Blundell
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specialist =
street = Blundells Road
city = Tiverton
county = Devon
country = England
postcode = EX16 4DN
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staff = 66
enrollment = 550 (senior school approx.)
400 (preparatory school approx.)
gender = Co-educational
lower_age = 2½
upper_age = 18
houses = 8
colours = Red & White color box|Red color box|White
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free_label_1 = Former pupils
free_1 = Old Blundellians
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website = http://www.blundells.org/
website_name = www.blundells.org

Blundell's School is a public school located in Tiverton in the county of Devon, England. It was founded by the will of Peter Blundell in 1604, one of the richest men in England at the time, and relocated to its present location on the outskirts of town in 1882.

Annual boarding fees are £23,875 per year, however the school also offers flexi-boarding. The school has 350 boys and 225 girls, including 107 boys and 65 girls in the Sixth Form. The Old Blundell's School is now in the care of the National Trust, and its forecourt is usually open to visitors. One ex-Blundell's boy was the writer R. D. Blackmore — in "Lorna Doone" he used the Blundell's triangular lawn as the stage for a fight between John Ridd and Robin Snell. [http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/romance/LornaDooneaRomanceofExmoor/chap2.html] B

The school has not published the 2008 public examination results.

Old Blundellians

*R. D. Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone
*George Bull, theologian and bishop
*Bampfylde Moore Carew, rogue and imposter
*Charles Cornwallis Chesney, soldier and military writer
*Sir John Jeremie, governor of Sierra Leone
*Francis Fulford, Anglo-Catholic bishop of Montreal
*Thomas Hayter, bishop of Norwich 1749-61, bishop of London 1761-2
*Abraham Hayward, man of letters
*James Amiraux Jeremie, academic and churchman
*Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, industrialist and life peer
*Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury
*Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, English civil servant, governor of Madras
*Vic Marks, Somerset and England, cricketer
*Reverend Jack E. Russell, Victorian Hunting Parson, Dog Breeder
*Richard Sharpe, England Rugby Captain
*Clem Thomas, Welsh Rugby Captain
*Hugh Morris, England Cricketer
*Claire Marshall, Journalist

outhern Railway School's Class

The School lent its name to the thirty third steam locomotive (Engine 932) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This Class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. 'Blundells', as it was called, was built in 1934.The locomotive bearing the School's name was withdrawn in the early 1960s.

External links

* [http://www.blundells.org/ Blundell's School website]
* [http://www.isinspect.org.uk/reports/2001/0126_01.htm 2001 UK:Independent Schools Inspectorate Report]
* [http://www.iscis.uk.net/schools/data.asp?ref=0126 Current Information from UK:Independent Schools Council]