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5 unusual facts about The Cathedral School


Luca Bellisomo

In Australia, Bellisomo was student at The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James in the Australian town of Townsville, Queensland, and went on to play for the Queensland Academy of Sport, the Queensland U-17 state team, and the North Queensland schoolboys side.

The Cathedral School

Episcopal Collegiate School (formerly named The Cathedral School), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

The Cathedral School, Llandaff

David Bevan, Sang in the choir at Westminster Abbey for the Queen's Coronation (1953) - received Coronation Medal for 'Personal Service to the Sovereign" - Dean's Scholar and Captain of Rugby in 1954)

The Cathedral School, Townsville

One of the founding houses, More House, is named after the lawyer and scholar, Thomas More, who was beheaded in 1535 after he refused to sign an Act of Supremacy declaring King Henry VIII Royal Supremacy to the Church of England.

Thomas Mathews

He was born at Llandaff Court, Llandaff, the son of Colonel Edward Mathews (died 1700), and grandson on his mother's side of Sir Thomas Armstrong (1624–1684) (who was executed in 1684, for his part in the Rye House Plot).


Mundingburra, Queensland

Services in Mundingburra include three schools, Mundingburra State School (prep-year 7), St Josephs (prep-year 7) and The Cathedral School (prep-year 12).


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Benno II of Osnabrück

In 1047 he became teacher at the Benedictine school of Goslar (Hanover) and, shortly after, was made head master of the cathedral school at Hildesheim.

Bradley Garmston

He was educated at The Cathedral school Lichfield and King Edward's School, Birmingham.

Chelmsford Cathedral

The cathedral enjoys close links with The Cathedral School, St Cedd's School, King Edward VI Grammar School and Chelmsford County High School for Girls.

Lanfranc

About 1039 he became the master of the cathedral school at Avranches, where he taught for three years with conspicuous success.

Odo, Earl of Kent

More certain is his development of the cathedral school in Bayeux, and his patronage of a number of younger men who later became prominent prelates.

Rainald of Dassel

A younger son of a rich Saxon count, Reinold I, Count of Dassel, and destined as such to be an ecclesiastic, he was sent to the cathedral school at Hildesheim in 1146, where he started working as subdeacon.

Rajdeep Sardesai

The son of the Indian Test cricketer Dilip Sardesai, he completed his schooling up to ICSE from the Campion School in Bombay, did two years of ISC in the Cathedral School, Mumbai, and completed a bachelor's course in Economics from St. Xavier's College.