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11 unusual facts about Harrow School


Baron Julius von Szilassy

After studies in Switzerland and at Harrow, he entered the Austro-Hungarian foreign service and served subsequently in a number of diplomatic missions abroad.

George Sowley Holroyd

He was placed at Harrow School in 1770, but his father lost money and he was unable to go to university.

Monro of Fyrish

Educated at Stanmore School under Samuel Parr, at Harrow and then Oriel College, Oxford where he graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1787.

Montgomery-Cuninghame baronets

Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet (1834–1897)was educated at Harrow School and fought in the Crimean War with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, where he won the Victoria Cross.

OTEX Ozone Laundry System

OTEX has also been introduced to the education sector, and is in use at Harrow School, Cheam School and Haileybury.

Richard Ronald John Copeland

Following the family tradition, he was educated at Harrow School; in 1915 he married Ida Fenzi, granddaughter of Sir Douglas Strutt Galton and great-granddaughter of Emanuele Fenzi.

Robert Clutterbuck

He was born at Watford on 28 June 1772, and at an early age was sent to Harrow School.

Rutherford and Son

He sent John to Harrow School to have him educated as a gentleman, but to his disgust John turned his back on the business and went to London, where he married a working class girl, Mary.

Shuckburgh baronets

Shuckburgh was the son of Sir Gerald Francis Stewkley Shuckburgh, 11th Baronet, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford.

The British Encyclopedia

The work was prepared under the general editorship of J. M. Parrish, M.A. (Oxon.), John R. Crossland, F.R.G.S., and Angelo S. Rappoport, Ph.D., B. es L., and contains an Introduction by Cyril Norwood, then Headmaster of Harrow School.

William Jacobson

In 1836 he was offered a mastership at Harrow School by Charles Longley, the head-master, afterwards archbishop of York; but Longley was that year made bishop of Ripon, nothing came of it.


Edward Chandos Leigh

Leigh started playing cricket as a boy at Stoneleigh Abbey after his father Lord Leigh, Lord Byron's schoolmate at Harrow, established a cricket ground at his country estate at Stoneleigh Abbey in 1839 for his eldest son William Henry Leigh who was attending Harrow.

Edwin Kempson

He was successively an assistant master at Clifton College, a Housemaster at Harrow and finally Principal of King William's College, Isle of Man.

Ellis Whately

In the Eton v Harrow match of 1900 at Lord's, he took three Harrow wickets in the first innings and five in the second, including a hat-trick.

Government College Umuahia

These three institutions, Government College Umuahia (GCU), Government College, Ibadan and Government College Zaria (Barewa College), were designed to follow the traditions of British "public schools" such as Eton, Harrow and Winchester.

I Zingari

Spencer Ponsonby (later Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane) and Richard Penruddocke Long, who were dining at the Blenheim Hotel in London's Bond Street after a match against Harrow School.

Jagaddipendra Narayan

He was educated at St Cyprian's School Eastbourne, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and also at the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun.

John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley

Norton was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Thomas Norton, 4th Baron Grantley and his wife, Maria, née Federigo, and a grandson of Caroline Norton, the writer, and was educated at Harrow School and the University of Dresden.

Mahidol Adulyadej

He was sent to London in 1905, and after spending a year and a half in Harrow School, he moved to Germany to join the Royal Prussian Military Preparatory College at Potsdam according to the wish of his father, then continued his military education at the Imperial Military Academy at Gross Lichterfelde in Berlin.

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 112

Currently it is housed in the Vaughan Library at the Harrow School in Harrow on the Hill.

Ramesh Sethi

He was employed as the cricket professional at Ellesmere College, Shropshire, between 1976 and 1988; and then moved to the same position at Harrow School, London.

Rugby Group

Five of the Rugby Group schools, Charterhouse School, Harrow School, Winchester College, Rugby School and Shrewsbury School are members of the original nine 'Clarendon' public schools defined under the Public Schools Act 1868, with the other Clarendon schools (Eton College, St Paul's School, Merchant Taylor's School and Westminster School) having other affiliations.

Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet

He was educated at Harrow, and succeeded his father Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet as baronet in 1860 and inherited the family estate of Drumboe Castle in County Donegal.

Stoneleigh Cricket Club

The club was formed in 1839 by Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh and the ground was established in front of the West Wing of Stoneleigh Abbey for the benefit of his sons William Henry Leigh and Edward Chandos Leigh so that they might continue to play cricket in the summer on returning home from Harrow School.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Her father was a house-master at Harrow School and was, for many years, associated with the prestigious Harrow History Prize which was renamed the Townsend Warner History Prize in his honour, after his death in 1916.

The Final Test

He played opening batsman for the Harrow Eleven, often in partnership with Victor Rothschild, and in 1929 he represented Harrow at Lord's in the annual match against Eton College.