- Farnham Grammar School
Farnham Grammar School is now called
Farnham College which is located inFarnham , Surrey.The grammar school was created some time before
1585 (the date of a donation being made by a Richard Searle "to the maintenance of the school in Farnham"). The first evidence that the school was built is a record in 1585 of a yeoman inFarnham donating 20shilling s 'to the maintenance of the school of Farnham'. [ [http://www.farnhamians.org/ofa/BriefHist.htm Brief history] ] It is, though, possible that this ancient school dated back as far as 1351 when achantry was created atFarnham Castle , but there is no documentary evidence of this.The school benefited over the years from bequests by different people as well as the generosity of Bishops of Winchester who occupied
Farnham Castle over the centuries.The school was housed in West Street,
Farnham until 1906. It moved then because in the previous year, the town centre assets were sold in order to purchase and build a new school in fields to the south of the town.In 1973, under Government education reforms, the school merged with
Farnham Girls' Grammar School to formFarnham College .Old boys
Jack Coutu (born 1924 in Farnham), the printmaker and sculptor, attended Farnham Grammar School.Jeffrey Tate , the prominent English conductor attended Farmham Grammar School between 1954 and 1961 (Head Boy in his final year).Bill Wallis , the actor and satirist, is an old boy of the school, attending from 1948 to 1955 (Head Boy in his final year).Michael Henry John Kilburn attended Farnham Grammar School. He was a member of the Cadet Corps and the Home Guard in
Farnham . He left school in 1940, aged 18, and immediately joined theRAF VR to train as a pilot. Now Sergeant Kilburn (1380631), he was completing his last two weeks of training at 20 Operational Training Unit (20 OTU) atLossiemouth , when he was tragically killed during a training flight on January 19th 1942. [ [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/scottish_crashsites/1646kilburn.html Scottish crash sites] retrieved 13/5/07]References
External links
* [http://www.farnhamians.org/ofa/index.htm Old Farnhamians]
* [http://www.farnham.ac.uk/ Farnham College]
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