Eastbourne College

Name	Eastbourne College
Size	120px
Latitude	50.7627
Longitude	0.2811
Motto	Ex Oriente Salus meaning "The haven[the bourne]from the East".
Established	1867
Type	Independent school
Head label	Headmaster
Head	Simon P Davies MA
Chair label	Chairman of the College Council
Chair	Admiral Sir Ian Forbes KCB CBE
Founder	Seventh Duke of Devonshire and other prominent Eastbourne citizens
Founder pl	PLURAL
Street	Old Wish Road
City	Eastbourne
County	East Sussex
Country	England
Postcode	BN21 4JY
Lea	East Sussex County Council
Ofsted	SC050547
Staff	236
Enrollment	630
Gender	Co-educational
Lower age	13
Upper age	18
Houses	Day Houses: Blackwater; Craig; Powell; Reeves; WattBoarding Houses: Wargrave; Pennell; Gonville; Nugent; School
Free label 1	Former pupils
Website	http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/
Website name	www.eastbourne-college.co.uk

Eastbourne College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils aged 13–18, situated on the south coast of England, included in the Tatler list of top public schools. The College's current headmaster is Simon Davies. The College was founded by the Duke of Devonshire and other prominent Eastbourne citizens in 1867 and has been growing ever since. While the College began as an all-boys' school it has in the last 40 years become co-educational.

The College is located in the Lower Meads area of Eastbourne, in a mainly residential area. Most of the school buildings are on a central campus area but many others are scattered in the immediate vicinity, such as the Beresford hockey and the links rugby pitches.

The motto, Ex Oriente Salus, is a play on "Eastbourne", meaning "The haven[the bourne]from the East".Salus also means health.

In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading private schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times, which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.

Eastbourne College Houses

;Day Houses:

Blackwater (Girls)

Craig (Boys)

Powell (Boys)

Reeves (Boys)

Watt (Girls)

;Boarding Houses:

Pennell (Premier Boys Boarding)

Gonville (Boys)

Wargrave (Boys)

Nugent (Girls)

School (Girls)

Many of these houses were donated to the school in wills; for example, Powell was given to the college by Stanley Powell.

Sports

Sports are played at the many facilities around the college (including College Field which has been used for training by teams such as South Africa upon arrival in the UK and some internationals) and at various locations around the town acquired by the college. Former pupils who have achieved sporting success include rugby players Hugo Southwell (Scotland and Stade Français) and Mark Lock (Leeds Tykes) and cricket player Ed Giddins.

Each term at the college has a single primary sport:

There are also alternative sports, including football, cross country, swimming, golf, tennis, squash, rowing, sailing and rugby fives.

Notable Old Eastbournians

Nick Atkinson, lead singer of the band Rooster (band)

Olav Bjortomt, World Quiz Champion 2003, writes quizzes in The Times newspaper

Sir Hugh Casson, architect

Aleister Crowley, occultist and mystic

Michael Fish, weather forecaster

Ed Giddins, cricketer

Charles Hedley, naturalist

Bob Holness, presenter and musician

David Howell, chess Grandmaster

Eddie Izzard, comedian

Nasser Judeh, Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, and husband of Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan

Timothy Landon, Brigadier; millionaire

Mark Lock, rugby player

Oliver W F Lodge, poet and author

Ruari McLean, designer

'Dan' Minchin, pioneering RAF pilot, perished attempting transatlantic flight to Ottawa.

Ian Mortimer, historian and historical biographer

Adam Mynott, BBC journalist

Luke Potashnick, guitarist in the band Rooster (band)

Michael Praed, actor

Charles Rivett-Carnac, Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police

John Ryley, Head of Sky News

David Smith, historian and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge

Frederick Soddy, chemist and Nobel laureate

Hugo Southwell, rugby player

Edward Speleers, actor, played Eragon in the Inheritance trilogy, now starring in the ITV soap Echo Beach

Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, politician

William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby

John Wells, satirist, co-author of the Dear Bill column in Private Eye

Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford, politician, journalist and diarist

Royce Mills, actor

Sir Christopher Leaver, former Lord Mayor of the City of London

Rufus Voorspuy, notable charity fundraiser

Judge Hubert B.D. Woodcock, botanist and jurist

James Yuill, folktronica musician

Stanley Maitland, war pilot and Polish aristocrat

Jay H. McDowell, General Counsel, Senior Counsel, Withers Bergman

Daniel O'Day, Jr., Vice President-Scholarships, Professor of English, Kean University

Military

Major-General Hugh Prince

General Sir David Richards, Chief of the General Staff

Wing Commander Roland Beamont, British fighter pilot

Brigadier General Timothy Landon

Victoria Cross Holders

Two Old Eastbournians have won the Victoria Cross:

Tirah Campaign, India

*Captain Henry Singleton Pennell VC. He was a Lieutenant when he performed the act for which he received the VC.

First World War

*Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees VC OBE MC AFC RAF. He was a Major when he performed the act for which he received the VC.

Notable staff or former staff

Roger Knight

Combined Cadet Force

The school has a CCF Combined Cadet Force contingent which all of year ten and some of the upper years are involved with. The CCF has Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force sections for the pupils to choose from.

Chapel

The Chapel is within the 'central' tradition of the Church of England, and the College has a full time Chaplain.Assembly takes place there on Mondays and Wednesdays.There are Sunday services throughout term time, and at the beginning and end of each term there is a whole school service in All Saints' Church, immediately adjacent to the school. There is a student-led College Christian Union which is attended by students of various Christian traditions. There is also a Bible study group (The Connection) led by two members of staff which meets weekly throughout the year.

Every year a confirmation service is held in the Chapel. The Chaplain prepares candidates for confirmation in the months preceding this service and this includes an awayday at Ashburnham Place.

The Link to Radley College

The Second World War saw the evacuation of Eastbourne College to Radley, and the plaque with its generous inscription commemorating this move and referring to "sympathy... and easy comradeship" has long been a significant feature of the Radley's Chapel Cloister. The Warden at the time, J C Vaughan Wilkes, was a son of the proprietors of St Cyprian's prep school with which Eastbourne College long had close connections. After the war, the College acquired St Cyprian's playing fields and the Memorial Gates were installed at the entrance.

At the turn of the millennium the Arnold Embellishers, a society of friends of Eastbourne College, decided that there should be a similar memorial in Eastbourne itself, and on Sunday 23 June 2002, in a short ceremony introduced by Eastbourne's Headmaster, Charles Bush and Angus McPhail unveiled a plaque in their own Cloisters. The inscription reads "In memory of those who made it possible to survive the Second World War by taking us to Radley College and, when peace returned, bringing us safely home, under the leadership of the Headmaster Francis John Nugee MA". Many of the headmasters of Eastbourne College were Radley boys.

In celebration of the occasion the Radley Eastbourne cricket match was revived.

Recognition

The Southern Railway made great use of steam locomotive names for publicity, and the carrying of pupils to boarding schools at the beginning and end of school terms was a significant traffic flow. Locomotives of the 'V' or "Schools" Class, introduced in 1930, were hence named after prominent English public schools. The fifteenth locomotive, no. 914, was named Eastbourne after the college. Built at Eastleigh in October 1932, no. 914 remained in service until withdrawn by British Railways in July 1961.

Development 2010

In 2010 Eastbourne College got the permission to create a new builing, which will be used for Music and it will be able to free some space for the drama department and other areas of the College. This new builing will be called The Birley Centre, named after Michael Birley (Eastbourne College Headmaster 1956-1970).Click here to see the progress of the Birley Centre

See also

List of Victoria Crosses by School

References

External links

School website

Category:Schools in Eastbourne Category:Educational institutions established in 1867 Category:Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference Eastbourne College Category:Education in Sussex