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- History Recent history
- Houses Boys' boarding houses Girls' boarding houses Day houses
- Notable Old Cranbrookians
- See also
- References
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}}Cranbrook School (formerly Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School) is a co-educational state funded boarding and day grammar school[1] in the market town of Cranbrook, Kent, England. Selection is made of pupils at age thirteen and 11. The current Headmaster is John Weeds.[2] HistoryRecent historyIn 2003 alumnus Piers Sellers, a NASA astronaut, took a copy of the school charter into space with him. A photo is exhibited in the school cafeteria. In 2005 Sellers opened the school's observatory, which is named after him. This observatory houses the 22.5 inch Alan Young telescope operated by the Cranbrook and District Science and Astronomy Society (CADSAS). In May 2010 Sellers took into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle an original watercolour portrait of Cranbrook School painted by Brenda Barratt. The painting was later returned to Cranbrook School with the official NASA verification that it has travelled into space.[3] HousesThe school has six day houses and six boarding houses: four for boys and two for girls, each working in conjunction with the main school to provide pastoral care and academic support. Boys' boarding houses- Cornwallis
- Crowden
- Rammell
- School Lodge (only for Year Nine boys)
Girls' boarding housesDay houses- Allan Boys (North of Cranbrook)
- Allan Girls
- Horsley Boys (South of Cranbrook)
- Horsley Girls
- Webster Boys (Cranbrook and outlying area)
- Webster Girls
Notable Old Cranbrookians{{see also|Category:People educated at Cranbrook School, Kent}}- General Sir John Akehurst KCB CBE, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe from 1987–90, and President from 1991-9 of the United Kingdom Reserve Forces Association
- Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford
- Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough CB CBE, Station Commander of RAF Biggin Hill from 1954–56
- Emma Biggs, mosaic artist
- Hugo Burnham, drummer for the English rock group Gang of Four and Associate Professor at the New England Institute of Art
- Canon John Collins, radical clergyman and political campaigner
- Michael Croucher TV film producer[4]
- Barry Davies, sports commentator
- Phil Edmonds, cricketer
- Dr Henry Ford (professor) Professor of Arabic and Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford
- Karin Giannone, Journalist and news presenter at BBC News
- Harry Hill (Dr. Matthew Hall), comedian
- Sir Victor Horsley, pioneering neurosurgeon
- Wing Commander Sir Norman Hulbert, Conservative MP from 1935–50 for Stockport from 1935–50, and for Stockport North from 1950–64
- Arthur Surridge Hunt, papyrologist
- Prof Richard L. Hunter, Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge since 2001
- Hammond Innes, novelist
- Wing Commander Hugh Kennard, World War II pilot and later civilian aviator
- Air Vice-Marshal Richard Kyle CB MBE (son of Wallace Kyle)
- Kevin Lygo, television executive and Director of Television and Content since 2007 of Channel 4
- Richard Middleton, poet and short-story writer
- Brian Moore, football commentator
- Sir David Muirhead CMG CVO, Ambassador to Belgium from 1974-8, to Portugal from 1970-4, and to Peru from 1967–70
- Tony Nicklinson, Right-to-die campaigner with Locked-In Syndrome
- Stuart Organ, Actor
- Colonel Mike Osborn DSO OBE MC, British military officer and former commander of the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment
- Richard Pilbrow, theatre producer
- Dr Vijay Rangarajan, PhD, British Ambassador to Brazil since 2017
- Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Roberts CB CBE, Station Commander of RAF Kinloss from 1977–79
- The Rootes brothers, car manufacturers
- Piers Sellers, astronaut
- Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton, FRS, distinguished earth scientist, Professor of Quaternary Palaeoclimatology from 1991-2004 at the University of Cambridge
- Edwin Shirley, Rock and Roll tour organiser
- Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project
- Andrew Soper, UK Ambassador to Venezuela since 2017[5]
- Henri Tebbitt (1854 - 1927) an English-Australian painter
- Air Vice-Marshal Sir John Weston CB OBE, Station Commander of RAF Halton from 1952-3
- Peter West, television presenter
- Sir Charles Wheeler CMG, BBC journalist
- Jacqueline Winspear, Author
- Wallace Duffield Wright, VC recipient
- Louise Dean, Novelist
- Ruaridh McConnochie, Silver Medal winning member of the Great Britain national rugby sevens team at the 2016 Olympics
- Jon Cleary, Grammy award-winning musician[6]
See also- Cranbrook Schools, a private school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, named after the town of Cranbrook, Kent. It has an exchange program with Cranbrook School, Kent.
- Cranbrook School, Sydney, an independent, day and boarding school for boys in Sydney, New South Wales, originated in 'Cranbrook House', the family home of the Tooth brewing family of Cranbrook, Kent, and Sydney
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Overview|website=Cranbrook School|url=http://www.cranbrookschool.co.uk/about-us/overview/|accessdate=10 November 2018}}
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.cranbrookschool.co.uk/about-us/headmasters-welcome/ | title=Headmaster’s Welcome| website=Cranbrook School | accessdate=10 November 2018}}
3. ^BBC News report, 25 January 2010
4. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1521007/Michael-Croucher.html Michael Croucher]
5. ^{{Cite web |url=http://ukinmozambique.fco.gov.uk/en/our-offices-in-mozambique/our-ambassador/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=30 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720135413/http://ukinmozambique.fco.gov.uk/en/our-offices-in-mozambique/our-ambassador/ |archive-date=20 July 2009 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/article/464216/cranbrook-crescent-city-and-beyond|title=From Cranbrook to the Crescent City and beyond|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=2018-05-16|language=en}}
- [https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B014MIJRJA/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B014MIJRJA&linkId=67a5f70a4614d6d12123a7dcc9aaaca9 Duncan H. Robinson, Cranbrook School - A Brief history, 1972]
- Nigel Nicolson, Cranbrook School - An Illustrated History 1518-1974, 1974
External links- School website
- [https://archive.is/20120908060837/http://www.edubase.gov.uk/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=118888&myListCount=0 EduBase]
News items- [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3356725/Town-vs-gown.html Telegraph July 2008]
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