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2 unusual facts about Royal Grammar School, Guildford


Harriet Owen

She now teaches religious education at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Surrey, and is married to Andrew Suenson-Taylor.

Moviemistakes.com

Sandys initially became interested in movie errors after noting mistakes in Jurassic Park and True Lies while attending the Royal Grammar School.


Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey

McIntosh was educated at Haberdasher Aske's Hampstead School, the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, Jesus College, Oxford and Ohio State University.

Assessment and Qualifications Alliance

The organisation has several regional offices, the two largest being in Guildford and Manchester.

Bernard Sendall

Sendall grew up in the town of Worcester where he attended the Royal Grammar School.

Bernarr Rainbow

In September 1944 he became Organist of the Parish Church of All Saints, High Wycombe and, a few months later, the Senior Music Master at Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.

Berrylands railway station

Normally only Hampton Court Branch trains serve it, but in service disruptions Guildford via Cobham trains make special stops at Berrylands and also New Malden.

Bracknell Bees

Together, the pair set about rebuilding the Bees from the bottom up, bringing back former Bees, Martin Máša, Matt Foord, Shaun Thompson, Carl Graham, Tom Annetts and Brad Watchorn, and adding some players used to competing at the top end of the table, including Guildford captain, Rob Lamey and Slough pair, Michael Bowman and Andy Munroe.

Centre for Kentish Studies

Besides holding the usual local authority archives and ecclesiastical parish registers, the numerous other major collections include political and estate papers of the Earls of Guildford, the Stanhope of Chevening papers, and papers of the Talbot and Stuart-Wortley families.

Charles Laurence

In the early 1950s, after a spell at Guildford Repertoire (1953), he appeared in numerous stage plays and comedies in repertoire at the Oxford Playhouse and the Bristol Old Vic.

Charles Samuel Brockman

Born in 1845 at Guildford, Western Australia, Charles was the son of Robert James Brockman, one of the earliest pioneers in Western Australia, arriving in 1830.

Charles Thorp

He was born in Gateshead, Durham, the son of Robert Thorp, Archdeacon of Northumberland and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Durham School.

Chiltern Hills Academy

The Academy, is sponsored by the Diocese of Oxford, Buckinghamshire County Council, Amersham and Wycombe College, Buckinghamshire New University, Pinewood Studios, and the George Abbot Specialist Visual Arts College in Guildford, Surrey

Christopher Matthew

He contributed scripts to the ITV series, The Good Guys with Nigel Havers and Keith Barron, and a stage play, Summoned by Betjeman, starring Robert Daws, was performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, the Royal Theatre, Northampton, and Clwyd Theatr Cymru.

Christopher Snowden

Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden FRS FREng FIET FIEEE FCGI (born 5 March 1956 in Kingston upon Hull) is the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

D. G. E. Hall

In early 1919, Hall obtained a position as senior history master at Royal Grammar School, Worcester.

David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

Two years later, in 1966, he was elected MP for the safe seat of Guildford in Surrey, for the Conservative Party, a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 general election, on 6 June 1997 he was made a life peer as Baron Howell of Guildford, of Penton Mewsey, in the County of Hampshire.

David Miles Huber

Huber received his degree in music technology from Indiana University (I.M.P.), and was the first American to be admitted into the Tonmeister program at the University of Surrey in Guildford, Surrey, England.

Denzil Onslow

Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), British Member of Parliament for Guildford, 1874–1885

Disability Challengers

Initially sessions for the children were held at a local leisure centre in Guildford, Surrey, but the need for services quickly grew and in 1984 the charity opened their first custom designed Playcentre on Stoke Park, Guildford.

Dunsfold Aerodrome

It received support from Age Concern Waverley, Guildford Labour Party, Farnham Labour Party, Cranleigh Labour Party and the former Lib Dem MP for Guildford, Sue Doughty.

Elizabeth Diana Percy, Duchess of Northumberland

Her funeral took place at the Old Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Albury Park, Guildford, Surrey, on 1 October 2012.

Forrestfield, Western Australia

Kenworth DAF also relocated from Guildford to a new $10 million complex on Abernethy Road in 2005.

George Nugent

George Nugent, Baron Nugent of Guildford (1907–1994), British life peer and Member of Parliament for Guildford

Guildford Black Friary

Guildford Black Friary was a medieval monastic house in Surrey, England.

Guildford pub bombings

During the trial of the "Balcombe Street Four" in February 1977, the four IRA members instructed their lawyers to "draw attention to the fact that four totally innocent people were serving massive sentences" for three bombings in Woolwich and Guildford.

Hayley Bishop

After leaving The Becket Comprehensive in 1998, Bishop attended Clarendon College before she went on to do a BA HONS in Acting at the Guildford School of Acting.

Heather Douglas

Additional credits include Associate Choreographer for the new musical Beautiful and Damned (Yvonne Arnaud Theater, Guildford); Assistant Director/Choreographer for Copacabana (2003) Denmark and Holland Chess (2002) in Denmark; Associate choreographer for My One and Only in Chichester and London, Calamity Jane the UK Tour and Shaftsbury Theater, London, Il Trovatore in Rotterdam and JFK The Musical in Dublin.

Henry Buckingham

Sir Henry Buckingham (politician) (1867–1931), British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Guildford 1922–1931

Henry Maxwell Lefroy

He had studied at Guildford Grammar School in Surrey, where he became acquainted with the Stirling family and first developed an interest in the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.

Ida C. Ward

Ida Caroline Ward (4 October 1880, Bradford – 10 October 1949, Guildford) was a British linguist working mainly on African languages who did influential work in the domains of phonology and tonology.

Jaguar Mark 1

The Jaguar Mark I gained a certain notoriety when on 22 January 1959 former motor racing world champion Mike Hawthorn died in an accident involving his own highly-tuned 3.4-litre, VDU 881, on the A31 Hog's Back road near Guildford in Surrey, England.

John Derrick

On Monday, 17 January 1597 (Julian date and thus 1598 by modern reckoning), he bore written testimony as to a parcel of land in the parish of Holy Trinity in Guildford which, originally waste, had been appropriated and enclosed by one John Parvish to serve as a timber yard.

Joseph Nunan

He also built a convent in Perth for the Sisters of Mercy, and a store and house for Walter Padbury near his flour mill in Guildford.

National Cycle Route 22

National Cycle Route 22 (NCR22) runs from Banstead to Brockenhurst in the New Forest via Dorking, Guildford, Farnham, Petersfield, Havant, Portsmouth, Ryde, Yarmouth and Lymington.

Novocastrians Rugby Football Club

Novos were formed in September 1899 as Old Novocastrians Rugby Football Club by a group of former pupils of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Omid Nooshin

Nooshin was born in Guildford, Surrey, in 1974, the son of Hoshyar Nooshin, Emeritus Professor of Space Structures at Surrey University.

On Orbit Mission Control

The On-Orbit Mission Control (OOMC) will be conducted by the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) ground site in Guildford, UK.

Philip Serrell

Serrell attended the Royal Grammar School in Worcester, where he was a schoolmate of the Pakistani cricket captain Imran Khan.

Pilgrims' Way

On modern Ordnance Survey maps, part of the route is shown running east from Farnham, passing to the south of Guildford, north of the village of Gomshall, north of Dorking, Reigate, Merstham, Chaldon, Godstone, Limpsfield and Westerham, through Otford, Kemsing and Wrotham, north of Trottiscliffe, towards Cuxton (where it crossed the River Medway).

Prince Charles of Luxembourg

Born as Prince of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, he married at St. Edward's, in Sutton Park, Guildford, Surrey, on 1 March 1967 Joan Douglas Dillon (born New York City, New York, 31 January 1935), daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and wife Phyllis Chess Ellsworth.

Richard Onslow

Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow (1715–1776), Member of Parliament for Guildford and Lord Lieutenant of Surrey

Robert Menli Lyon

In June 1833, a meeting was called at Guildford in response to continued calls for punitive action against the Aborigines.

Royal Grammar School, Guildford

The oldest book within the library was printed in Venice around 1480, with the oldest English book printed in about 1500 bearing the imprint of Wynkyn de Worde.

Samuel Segal, Baron Segal

He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, Jesus College, Oxford (Exhibitioner; Honorary Fellow, 1966), and Westminster Hospital (Scholar).

Sarah Tullamore

In 2009 the English version of the show premiered at the Mill Studio, Guildford, UK with additional performances in November 2009 at the Playhouse in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

That'll Teach 'Em

The first series of the show was filmed over 4 weeks in June, 2003, at the RGS High Wycombe.

Vintage Motor Cycle Club

The Vintage Motor Cycle Club was founded on 28 April 1946, by 38 enthusiasts at the Lounge Cafe, Hog's Back, near Guildford in Surrey, for owners of motorcycles manufactured before December 1930.

William Loton

It was also involved in a number of agricultural and pastoral developments, with extensive property holdings in the north west and also at Perth, Guildford and Northam.

Yellow Bus Services

The first service, using a Ford Model T bus in brown and yellow livery, ran between the Royal Hotel, Stoughton and the Theatre Royal, Guildford, from January 1921.


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