Chigwell School
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Chigwell School is an English public school in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It was founded by Samuel Harsnett in 1629. There are around 730 pupils, aged between 7 and 18 years.
The school motto is aut viam inveniam aut faciam, a Latin phrase which translates literally as Either I shall find a way or I shall make one, but is usually rendered as Find a way or make a way.
There are five day houses, named Caswalls', Lambourne, Penn's and Swallow's. The boarding houses are Grange Court, Sandon Lodge, and Hainault House.
Some Famous Old Chigwellians
- Ken Campbell, actor.
- Tim Collins, Conservative politician.
- Sir Arthur Grimble, colonial governor.
- Austin Bradford Hill, medical statistician and epidemiologist.
- Sir Ian Holm, actor.
- Michael Marshall Smith, novelist.
- William Penn, founder of the American state of Pennsylvania.
- Ben Shephard, television presenter.
- Horace Smith, nineteenth-century poet.
- Prof. Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher.
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