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Llandovery College (Welsh: Coleg Llanymddyfri) is an independent school in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It was founded and endowed by Thomas Phillips in 1847 to provide a classical and liberal education in which the Welsh language; the study of Welsh literature and history were also to be cultivated.
Llandovery College first opened with a handful of boys on St David's Day 1848. 120 years later, the school welcomed girls for the first time and today it is completely co-educational. The college provides an all-round education for boys and girls aged 4–18 - the younger pupils catered for by its on-campus prep school.[1]
the college offers three means-tested scholarships for academically-able Welsh children entering at Year 7, as well as further academic, music, sports, drama and rugby scholarships and bursaries.
Although the school has a strong rugby tradition, it also offers a wide range of other sports in its 45-acre (180,000 m2) grounds, including hockey, basketball, swimming, tennis, fencing, archery, cricket, cross country, golf. In 2007, 17 students gained international honours.[citation needed]
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Links with rugby union
Llandovery College has connections with the early adoption of rugby into Wales. Although St David's, Lampeter is accepted as the first establishment to play rugby, Llandovery was one of their first opponents, were present at the formation of the Welsh Rugby Union in Neath in 1881 and provided two players to the very first international game Wales played. The second captain of the Welsh national team, Charles Lewis, represented Llandovery College and was the first Wales captain to lead a team in the Home Nations Championship.
Alumni
Alumni are known as Old Llandoverians.
Notable Old Llandoverians
- Llywarch Reynolds , Welsh solicitor and Celtic scholar
- Alfred George Edwards , Archbishop of Wales
- W. Llewelyn Williams , Liberal Party politician
- Ernest Jones , Welsh neurologist, psychoanalyst and official biographer of Sigmund Freud
- Gwilym Owen Williams , Bishop of Bangor
- Dill Jones , jazz pianist
- Huw Ceredig , actor who played Reg Harries in the soap opera Pobol y Cwm
- Deian Hopkin , historian
- Rod Richards , Conservative Party politician
- Rhydian Roberts , X-Factor contestant
OLs who have become Welsh rugby internationals
- Charles Lewis, the second Wales international rugby union captain 1882-83
- Arthur Rees,
- Ewan Davies
- Cliff Jones , Wales captain
- Vivian Jenkins , British Lion
- Rees Stephens , Wales captain, British Lion
- Kingsley Daniel Jones , British Lion
- Thomas Geoffrey "Geoff" Evans , British Lion
- Peter Rogers ,
- Gwyn Jones, Wales captain
- Craig Quinnell
- Alun Wyn Jones
- Andy Powell
- George North
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References
Categories:- Educational institutions established in 1847
- Independent schools in Wales
- Schools in Carmarthenshire
- Old Llandoverians
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