Fitzmaurice Grammar School
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The original building of Fitzmaurice Grammar School, currently in residential use as Fitzmaurice Place
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Established | 1897 |
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Closed | 1980 |
Type | Grammar school |
Founder | Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice |
Location | Junction Road Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire |
Local authority | Wiltshire |
Gender | Coeducational |
Ages | 11–18 |
Fitzmaurice Grammar School was a Grammar School in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire UK.[1] The school opened as the County School in 1897[2] with financial support from Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice. It was renamed Fitzmaurice Grammar School in 1936 after the death of Lord Fitzmaurice. The grammar school was closed in 1980 and merged with Trinity Secondary modern school[3] to form the comprehensive school called St Laurence School.
Grammar School Alumni
Alumni of the Grammar school include:
- Geoffrey Copland CBE[4] Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Westminster from 1996-2007
- Charlotte Long, actress
Grammar School Staff
When the school was closed in 1980, staff included Alistair Thomson, Doug Anderson, John Blake, Liz Buchanan, John Blowers, Noreen Brady, Joan Davis, Bob Hawkes, Sally Burden, Virginia Evans, Margaret Gadd, Stuart Ferguson, Harry Haddon, Margaret Hore. Tony Hull, Peter Knight, Marilyn Maundrell, Margaret Osbourne, Lynne Powell, Sid Johnson, Gerald Reid (Headmaster), Ken Revill, Diane Satterthwaite, Geoff Swift, Meg Tottle-Smith, Joan Van Ryssen, John Warburton, Enid Wicheard and Tim Wilbur.[1]
Fitzmaurice Primary School
A primary school, known since 1985 as the Fitzmaurice Primary School,[5] uses some of the former classrooms of the grammar school.
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