Emanuel School

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Emanuel School is a co-educational independent school in Battersea South-West London, England.

Contents

1 History
2 Present day
3 Notable Old Emanuels
4 Notable Masters
5 External links

History

Emanuel School is one of the three schools administered by the Westminster Schools’ Foundation. It came into being by the will of Anne Sackville, Lady Dacre, dated 1594. In it she wrote:

"I will and devise that myne executors shall cause to be erected and builte a meete and convenient house with rooms of habitation for twentie poor folkes, and twentie other poor children...."

Emanuel School was founded in 1594. At the time, Lady Dacre wrote that one of the main aims of the Foundation was

"for the bringing up of children in virtue and good and laudable arts so that they might better live in time to come by their honest labour”.

With Lady Dacre's benefaction in 1594, Emanuel Hospital, as it was first called, began. The children wore a long brown tunic, rather similar in cut to that still worn by Christ's Hospital. Thanks to the interest of Queen Elizabeth I, cousin to Lady Dacre, a charter was drawn up, buildings were erected on a site in Westminster, and the school and hospice continued their work.

In 1883, the school sought larger, newer buildings for the children, and the boy boarders, as they all were then, moved to the present buildings on the edge of Wandsworth Common. These buildings had been put up as an orphanage after the Crimean War by the Royal Victoria Patriotic Fund, and in a much adapted form still constitute the main teaching block of the school.

Present day

Recent additions include a brand new sports centre complete with climbing walls, dance studios, teaching rooms and a multigym, plus the conversion of the old gymnasium into a brand new dining facility and refectory overlooking the schools own playing fields. Future changes include the multi-million pound refurbishment of the old Victorian building to comprise a brand new library and media resources centre, new ICT facilities, a theatre, exhibitions spaces, drama studios, refurbished classrooms and corridors.

The current Headmaster, Mark Hanley-Browne, is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

Notable Old Emanuels

Michael Aldred - co-presenter of landmark 60's pop show Ready Steady Go!
Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah of Brunei
Naveen Andrews - television and film actor
Michael Aspel - television presenter.
Air Vice-Marshal George Banting [link]
Kenneth C. Barnes - educationalist and teacher at Bedales School, and headmaster and founder of Wennington School.[link]
Simon Barnes - chief sports correspondent for The Times
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee KCB FRS - inventor of the World Wide Web
Dr Clive Bruton - neuropathologist
Colin Chambers - Royal Shakespeare Company literary advisor
Dr Sumit Chanda - Group Leader, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation.
Dr Kevan Clemens - Director of Chelsea Therapeutics International Inc. previously Executive Vice President of Pharmaceutical Business at Hoffmann-La Roche. [link]
Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Crump MBE
Group Captain H.S. Darley DSO [link]
Professor Michael Duff - physicist
Professor Derek Fray - Professor of Materials Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Sir Arthur Galsworthy KCMG, British High Commissioner to New Zealand, and formerly British Ambassador to Ireland.
Sir John Galsworthy KCVO CMG - British Ambassador to Mexico
Sir William Geraghty KCB - Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State (Admin) MOD.
Professor Peter Goddard FRS CBE - mathematical physicist
Steve Gooch - dramatist
Peter Hain MP
Leslie Henson - actor
Douglas Hickox - film director
Major Harold 'Ham' Hutchins
Kevin Jackson - writer, works include Withnail and I [link]
Colonel William Jeffery
George Lyward OBE - educationalist, teacher, (Emanuel School, Glenalmond College, and the Perse School under W. H. D. Rouse) and founder of Finchden Manor progressive community for young people. [link]
Group Captain Albert Mann DFC
Mark MacGregor - former Chief Executive of the Conservative Party.
Richard Marquand - film director
Professor David Marquand, academic and ex-Labour Party MP
Professor Denis Noble FRS CBE - Burdon Sanderson Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Balliol College, Oxford.
Sir John Page OBE [link] [link]
Andi Peters - television presenter and producer
John Bertram Phillips - theologian and clergyman
Vernon Richards - anarchist writer
Geoffrey Robinson MP
Professor Sir Owen Saunders KT FRS - Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Rector of Imperial College, University of London.
N.F. Simpson - dramatist
Commander Chris Stanley - Assistant director, Tactical Defence, Maritime Warfare Centre Ministry of Defence.
Stuart Surridge - cricketer
Matthew Taylor - politician
Brigadier David Warren MC DSO OBE [link]
Sir Ronald Wates KT - Property developer, along with brothers Norman Wates and Allan Wates.[link][link]
Clive Wilmer - poet
Scott Perham and Joe Blumenow of Ekina Limited [link]

Notable Masters

Former staff include:

J. A. Cuddon - Writer, works include A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. [link] [link] [link]
Jeremy Edwards - Headmaster of Westminster Under School.
Tristram Jones-Parry - Formerly Headmaster of Emanuel School and Westminster School.
Howard Roberts - Artist, and gallery proprieter.[link]

External links

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