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2 unusual facts about Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe


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.

That'll Teach 'Em

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


Agostino Carlini

He is particularly noted for various church monuments, including a memorial to Lady Sophia Petty at All Saints' Parish Church, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and one commissioned by Joseph Damer in 1775 to commemorate his wife Caroline, which stands in the north transept of Milton Abbey in Dorset.

Air Warfare Centre

It has a training branch nearby as a lodger unit of RAF Cranwell and other branches elsewhere, including at High Wycombe, Brize Norton, Boscombe Down, and Odiham.

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.

Bernard Sendall

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

Bowellism

However, the style originated with Michael Webb's 1957 student project for a Furniture Manufacturers Association building in High Wycombe.

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.

D. G. E. Hall

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

Ffilharmonious Jug Band

The band first played at the old Coach and Horses Public House on the A-40 in East Wycombe (High Wycombe area) England in 1966.

Filmlab Systems International

Filmlab Systems International, creators of the DigiSync, are a motion picture technology company based in High Wycombe.

Frederick Arthur Cobb

In 1926 he became chief engineer of the Indian Broadcasting Company in Calcutta, where he remained for three years before becoming the general manager of a firm in High Wycombe producing radio and television equipment.

Geoffrey Bindman

Bindman attended the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, and then graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, with a law degree in 1956, qualifying as a solicitor three years later.

George Salaman

He was transferred to RAF Bomber Command HQ at High Wycombe and planned the infamous Operation Millennium bombing raid on Cologne.

Giles Scott-Smith

Giles Scott-Smith (High Wycombe 1968) is Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg and Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation since World War II at the University of Leiden.

Harriet Owen

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

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.

High Wycombe, Western Australia

Routes 296 and 299 provide the primary service for High Wycombe, operating to Esplanade Busport in the Perth CBD via Great Eastern Highway, or to Kalamunda bus station in Kalamunda, a regional centre of the Perth Hills.

During the peak commuter period in the peak direction of travel, route 299 is replaced by route 295, operating limited stops along Great Eastern Highway, and route 296 is supplemented by route 298, which additionally serves a greater area of the west of the suburb and travels to Esplanade Busport via Shepperton Road.

London Country North West

London Country North West took over 360 buses and garages at Garston, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe, Amersham and Slough.

Martin A. Smith

Martin A Smith (born 5 May 1962, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK) is an English record producer, musician and composer who first gained attention working with Stuart Ross and The Cure.

Moviemistakes.com

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

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.

In September 1899 Old Novocastrians Rugby Football Club was formed by a group of former pupils of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Paul W. Franks

Prior to this, Franks received his general education at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, and studied classical rabbinic texts at Gateshead Talmudical College.

Peace camp

Women's only peace camps were based at Waddington, Lincs from April 1982- September 82 and Capenhurst October 1982-March 1983 Other, mixed-sex, peace camps sprang up at the military bases of Upper Heyford, Daws Hill in High Wycombe, RAF Molesworth, Lakenheath, Naphill and Faslane.

Philip Serrell

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

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.

There is a single AstroTurf located on the main school site, however the majority of hockey takes place at Guildford Hockey Club, located at Broadwater School in Farncombe or Surrey Sports Park.

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).

South Ruislip station

The GWR/GCR Joint line to High Wycombe carried services from both Paddington and Marylebone.

Steve McFadden

He has also appeared in pantomime in 2010/11 at the High Wycombe Swan theatre in Peter Pan playing Captain Hook.

Thomas Dewar Weldon

He then served as Rhodes travelling fellow in 1930, a civil servant in London from 1939 to 1942, and PA to Arthur Harris in RAF Bomber Command at High Wycombe from 1942 to 1945.

Tom Ingram

Tom Ingram (born August 20, 1993 in High Wycombe) is a British racing driver, currently racing in the Ginetta GT Supercup.

William Munnings Arnold

He was educated at home and then at private schools in Lowestoft and High Wycombe.


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