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:Grammar schools were intended to teach a highly academic curriculum, teaching students to deal with abstract concepts.


Aireborough Grammar School

When the Butler Education Act 1944 came into force in 1945, the school became a county maintained secondary grammar school, and only admitted pupils who had passed the Eleven plus exam.

Barbara Lukermann

Born in Gomersal, England, on Feb. 19, 1930, Lukermann was inspired to go into geography studies by a grammar school teacher.

Chelmsford County High School for Girls

Chelmsford County High School for Girls, or "CCHS", is a selective grammar school for girls aged 11–18 located in Chelmsford, Essex, England.

Fareham College

Fareham College was formed in 1984 as a merger between an earlier technical college (Fareham Technical College) on the same site and the sixth-form college at the historic Price's School, a boys' grammar school on Park Lane, (before the latter's site was sold to developers) in 1984, and became the sole state provider of tertiary education in Fareham.

Frank Close

Close was a pupil at King's School, Peterborough (then a grammar school), where he was taught Latin by John Dexter, brother of author Colin Dexter.

Freeston Academy

The academy was founded in 1592 by John Freeston of Altofts and built as a local grammar school, which was later moved to its current location in the 1950s, where only a chimney remains in the original location.

Gregor Strniša

He was accused together with his parents, who were involved in helping Slovene political emigrants across the border to the West, of "organizing an underground anti-Communist opposition and of revealing state secrets" by the Titoist regime and was in 1949 sentenced to four years in prison, but was released after two years on probation while a high school student at the Classical Grammar School of Ljubljana.

Havelock Ellis

He spent a year there and then obtained a position as a master at a grammar school in Grafton.

Iain Luke

Iain Luke was educated at Stobswell Boys' Junior Secondary School and the Harris Academy (then a grammar school) in Dundee.

Medicine Head

Fiddler and Hope-Evans met when they both attended Wednesfield Grammar School, Wolverhampton, and then Stafford Art School.

Michael Laughton

He attended King Edward VI Five Ways, a grammar school in Birmingham, moving to Canada, then went to the Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in Toronto.

Mike Ingham

He grew up in Duffield and Quarndon (home to Brian Clough), and attended The Herbert Strutt School (became the comprehensive Belper School in 1973) in Belper, then a grammar school.

Portadown College

Portadown College (often shortened to the College) is an academic selective grammar school in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, founded in 1924.

Praepostor

Praepostor (sometimes spelt Praepositor) is now used chiefly at English independent schools, such as Aldenham, Rugby, Giggleswick and Eton at other schools such as the former Derby School which began as grammar schools for the teaching of Latin grammar.

Prendergast Hilly Fields College

Prendergast Grammar School was founded as a fee-paying grammar school in Rushey Green, Catford in 1890 under the will of the late Dr. Joseph Prendergast, DD (Cantab), 1791–1875, Headmaster of Colfe's School 1831-1857.

Richard Aaron

He was educated at Ystalyfera Grammar School, followed by a spell at the University of Wales starting in 1918, where he studied history and philosophy.

Richard Burden

He attended the Wallasey Technical Grammar School; Bramhall Comprehensive School; St John's College of Further Education, Manchester; the University of York, where he obtained a degree in Politics and was the president of the Students' Union in 1976; and then to the University of Warwick where he received a Master's Degree in Industrial Relations.

Richard Mather

He studied at Winwick grammar school, of which he was appointed a master in his fifteenth year, and left it in 1612 to become master of a newly established school at Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

The King's School, Ottery St Mary

It was established as a choir school by the bishop John Grandisson in 1335, but was replaced by a grammar school by Henry VIII in 1545.

The Phoenix Collegiate

It was only a grammar school at this site for five years, becoming a comprehensive school in September 1969 when West Bromwich borough council (which merged with Warley five years later to form Sandwell) abolished grammar and secondary modern schools in the area.

Tomitaro Makino

Despite having dropped out of grammar school, he would eventually attain a Doctor of Science degree, and his birthday is remembered as Botany Day in Japan.

Wilmington Grammar School for Girls

Wilmington Grammar School for Girls, WGSG (Previously known as the Grammar School for Girls Wilmington) is a grammar school with academy status in Wilmington, Kent, England.

Wilmington, Kent

There are three secondary schools within the parish: Wilmington Grammar School for Boys (WGSB), whose students wear blue blazers, white shirts, grey trousers and different ties for each house within the school (these colours are red, green, white, black and purple); Wilmington Grammar School for Girls (WGSG), where the uniforms are maroon; and the mixed-sex Wilmington Academy (formerly Wilmington Hall), whose pupils wear black blazers.


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Alfred John Agg

He was educated at the Worcester grammar school, and entered the service of the Great Western Railway Company as a clerk at Reading in 1846, where he remained until 1850, when he emigrated to Australia.

Arthur Beck

Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at Launceston Grammar School before becoming a boot importer.

Augustus Theodore Bartholomew

He grew up in Fowlmere, near Cambridge, and attended the Nonconformist Grammar School in Bishop's Stortford.

Byrchall High School

Through the school, Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School Old Boys F.C. (now known as Ashtonians AFC) entered the Lancashire Amateur Football League in 1951.

Christine McCafferty

She attended Whalley Range Grammar School for Girls (now Whalley Range High School) on Wilbraham Road in Whalley Range, Manchester, then the Footscray High School in Melbourne, Australia.

Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School

Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School was founded in 1806 by John Strachan as the Cornwall Grammar School.

Danuta Siedzikówna

Danuta Siedzikówna grew up with her siblings, Wiesława (1927–2004) and Irena (1931? - 1978), in the forester's lodge near Guszczewina (when were exiled Wacław they moved to Narewka), the girls attended grammar school in Narewka until 1939.

David G. Watts

Originally a school geography teacher at Milford Haven Grammar School, he designed Railway Rivals, his most popular game, to teach the geography of Wales and upon retirement published it under the imprint Rostherne Games.

Dedham, Essex

Osborne Reynolds, (1842-1912), engineer and physicist, who developed the understanding of electricity, magnetism, and fluid flow (part of the equation for determining the change between 'streamline' and 'turbulent' flow is still called a 'Reynold's Number'), was the son of a headmaster of Dedham Grammar School.

Durham School

Durham School, rebuilt in 1661, on the Palace Green, soon became, instead of a local grammar school, a north-country public school of repute and wide influence.

Edmund Marshall

Marshall was educated at Humberstone Foundation School (also known as Clee Grammar School for Boys and became the comprehensive Matthew Humberstone School in September 1973) on Clee Road in Old Clee, Cleethorpes, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took double first class honours in mathematics and was awarded a University Junior Mathematical Prize in 1961.

Elena Ceaușescu

Despite leaving grammar school at the age of 14, Ceaușescu graduated from the University of Bucharest with a PhD in polymer chemistry and top in a class of 100 women with the honor of summa cum laude.

Eran Ben-Shahar

He attended Habonim Grammar School in town and then boarded the local Ort high school (1984).

Francis Foster Barham

After a preliminary training in the grammar school of Penzance, he studied under one of his brothers near Epping Forest, and was then articled for five years (1826–31) to a solicitor at Devonport.

Franz Josef Popp

Popp was born in Vienna in 1886 and in 1901 his family moved to Brno where he completed his university entrance qualification at the local grammar school.

Geoffrey Regan

Regan attended Sudbury Grammar School from 1957 onwards, University of Kent from 1965-1970, receiving his B.A. and M.A., and took his Postgraduate Certificate in Education at University of London in 1972.

George Ashiru

George was educated in Nigeria and Britain and studied in diverse schools like Irwin Academy (UK), Ijebu Ode Grammar School, Nigeria, Federal Government College, Kaduna, Nigeria, University of Lagos and Middlesex University (UK).

Gerard Tracey

An adopted child, he was educated at Handsworth (by the Sisters of Mercy) and later attended St Philip's Grammar School, followed by University College, Oxford, where he studied history.

Gymnázium Jana Keplera

The Gymnázium Jana Keplera (English: Johannes Kepler Gymnasium or Johannes Kepler Grammar School) is a public gymnasium located in Prague 6 district in Prague, Czech Republic.

Hadrian à Saravia

He returned to England as master of a grammar school in Southampton.

Haruna Ilerika

He joined Stationery Stores FC in 1971 after a brief stint with the defunct Metal Construction Football Club (Apapa) after having led the Zumratul-Islamiya Grammar School, Surulere to victory in the 1970 Principals' Cup Football competition for secondary schools in Lagos State.

James Davies Lewin

Born in Womaston, Radnorshire (now Powys), Wales, the son of Samuel Lewin and Mary Furmage, Lewin was educated at the Kingston Grammar School, Wales.

Jim Zulevic

Zulevic, of Scottish and Croatian extraction, grew up in Chicago, where he graduated from St. Thomas More Grammar School, Brother Rice High School and Columbia College Chicago.

John Eddowes Bowman the Elder

His education was only that of a grammar school, but he was a bookish boy, and got from his father a taste for botany, and from his friend Joseph Hunter, then a lad at Sheffield, a fondness for genealogy.

John Meurig Thomas

His interest in science was aroused when as a teenager he heard his physics teacher at Gwendraeth Grammar School talk about the life and work of Michael Faraday.

John P. McGarr

McGarr was born in Woodside, Queens, New York and attended Corpus Christi Grammar School.

Josef Kajetán Tyl

After finishing elementary school, Josef Kajetán studied at a grammar school in Prague and in Hradec Králové.

Joseph Augustine Clarke

He was certainly a treasured teacher on Brisbane's School of Art, later a 'Drawing Master' at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, next to his work as a painter and as an illustrator (most notably for the Queenslander, and for 'Bobby' Byrne's weekly the Queensland Figaro).

Joseph Wayas

Wayas was born in Basang, Obudu, Cross River State on 21 May 1941 and attended the Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha.

King Henry VIII School Abergavenny

The school at this time was supposed to be a grammar school taking pupils from all over North Monmouthshire with a curriculum of Latin, English, History, Geography, French, Arithmetic, Algebra, Trigonometry and Chemistry.

Laurence Eaves

Laurence Eaves was born in Pentre, Rhondda, UK in 1948 and was educated at Rhondda County Grammar School, Porth, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took Firsts in Physics and Mathematics Moderations and in Physics Final Honours.

Margaret Wintringham

Margaret Longbottom was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bolton Road School, Silsden where her father was the head teacher, and then Keighley Girls' Grammar School.

Michael Flinn

After the end of the war, Flinn took a history degree at the University of Manchester before spending two years as a grammar school teacher while writing a postgraduate dissertation in his spare time.

Miklós Baranyai

He studied in the Norbert of Xanten Grammar School of the Premonstratensian Order until 1948 when the school was nationalized and the monastic order was disbanded.

New Kent Road

The last building on the north side of New Kent Road is St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School on land given by Lord LLangatock (of the Rolls family) to the ancient Southwark grammar school foundation which was required to provide a girls school to supplement its teaching of boys.

Nigel Howard Croft

Nigel Croft attended Oakwood Comprehensive School, Rotherham from 1967–1972 and subsequently Thomas Rotherham College (formerly Rotherham Grammar School).

Okereke Best

In 2005, he got admitted to Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha where he did his Junior secondary and completed in Federal Government Colllage, Enugu.

Patrick Russill

Educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Dorset 1965-1972, he was organ scholar 1972-1975 at New College, Oxford, where he gained a First Class Honours degree in music.

Poundswick Grammar School

Instead he approved the original plan of the Poundswick Grammar School for 750 children, and a secondary modern school at Oldwood (which the council wanted to combine into a comprehensive on two sites), and two single sex technical schools at West Wythenshawe (which the council wanted to combine into a single comprehensive).

Predrag Koraksić Corax

After the war Corax graduated from grammar school in Zemun and studied architecture in Belgrade.

Richard Towgood

Having taken orders about 1615, he preached in the neighbourhood of Oxford, till he was appointed master of the grammar school in College Green, Bristol.

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins

Perkins was born on 15 November 1866 at Badminton, Gloucestershire and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, St. Albans – his father, Rev Charles Perkins, was the headmaster – and at Merchant Taylors' School before obtaining a scholarship in classics to Jesus College, Oxford in 1885.

Sewell Park College

Dr Tony Chater, Editor from 1974-95 of the Morning Star, taught chemistry at the girls' grammar school from 1959-60

Southend High School for Girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of Southend-on-Sea, England.

T. E. Ellis

T. E. Ellis was born ar Cefnddwysarn near Bala and attended Bala Grammar School, where his fellow pupils included Owen Morgan Edwards.

Tim Marshall

Marshall was educated at Prince Henry's Grammar School, a former state grammar school in the market town of Otley, in Leeds,West Yorkshire.

Uiliami Leilua Vi

He was educated at Tupou College and finishing off at Wesley College and Grammar School, Auckland, New Zealand.

Vladimír Šlechta

Vladimír Šlechta couldn't study a second school in České Budějovice that’s why he studied Secondary Grammar School in Trhové Sviny.

Watcyn Thomas

A teacher by profession, he moved to St Helens to teach at Cowley Grammar School in 1929, and played rugby for Waterloo and Lancashire, captaining Lancashire to the championship in 1934-35.

William Y. Humphreys

Born in Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, Humphreys attended the public schools and Sewanee Grammar School, Sewanee, Tennessee.