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2 unusual facts about Oundle School


E.M.O'R. Dickey

He was art master at Oundle School and then became professor of fine art and director of King Edward VII School of Art, Armstrong College, Durham University from 1926 to 1931.

The Story of a Great Schoolmaster

Sanderson was a personal friend, having met Wells in 1914 when his sons George Philip ('Gip'), born in 1901, and Frank Richard, born in 1903, became pupils at Oundle School, of which Sanderson was headmaster from 1892 to 1922.


David Atcherley

David Atcherley and his brother, first cousins of William Empson, attended Oundle School in Northamptonshire.

Lucy Brown

She went to King's College Prep School in Cambridge and then on to Oundle School in Northamptonshire which she left to attend Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge.

Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor

Lloyd-George was educated at Oundle School, where he was featherweight boxing champion, but left before his 17th birthday to be apprenticed as a civil engineer to Sir Alfred McAlpine, 3rd Baronet.


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