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3 unusual facts about Wolmer's Schools


Ardenne High School

The school has won Television Jamaica's Schools Challenge Quiz competition five times, in 1973, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2013 joining Wolmer's Boys School and Munro College with five wins and trailing Kingston College with ten wins.

Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships

The Championships began as a standardized sports day for six of Jamaica’s oldest high schools, Potsdam (now Munro College), St. George’s College, Jamaica College, the Wolmer’s School, New College and Mandeville Middle Grade School.

Patricia Broadfoot

She spent the following year obtaining a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of London, before beginning her career in education by teaching in Wolmer's Boys High School, Jamaica (1971–73).


Earl of Selborne

It was created in 1882 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Roundell Palmer, 1st Baron Selborne, along with the subsidiary title of Viscount Wolmer, of Blackmoor in the County of Southampton.

John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne

The son of Captain William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, in turn son of Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, and the Honourable Grace Ridley, Lord Selborne succeeded to his grandfather's titles in 1971.

King's Garden

See King's Schools for the school in Seattle, United States, Fort Ticonderoga for the garden in New York State, and for the park in Stockholm, Sweden, see Kungsträdgården.

Romel Wallen

Wallen, a Wolmer's Boys' School graduate, also studied in United States, where he graduated from The Hotchkiss School in June 2000.


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