Colston's School (formerly known as Colston's Collegiate School) is an independent school in Bristol, England and is a member of the The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

It was founded in 1710 by the philanthropist, Edward Colston as "Colston's Hospital", originally an all-boys boarding school. Day-boys were admitted in 1949 and girls were admitted to the sixth form in 1984. In 1991 it merged with the girls' school "Collegiate School", Winterbourne and was given the name Colston's Collegiate School, but this was reverted to Colston's School, in 2005. The current Headmaster of the Upper School is Peter Fraser.

The school motto Go and do thou likewise, was the motto for the Colston family. It is also one of the mottos for Colston's Girls' School.

Colston made a donation to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital in 1702 and proposed endowing places for a further 50 boys. This came to nothing, probably because of Colston's insistence that the children of Dissenters should be excluded.

Instead, he persuaded the Society of Merchant Venturers to manage a school he established for 50 boys on Saint Augustine's Back, where the Colston Hall now stands. It cost him £11,000 on capital cost and an endowment income of over £1,300. The boys (soon increased to 100) were admitted between the ages of seven and ten years and stayed for seven years. The curriculum covered reading, writing and arithmetic, and the church catechism. On leaving they were to be apprenticed to a trade.

Coordinates: 55°53′57″N 4°14′09″W / 55.899185°N 4.235843°W / 55.899185; -4.235843

Colston is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde. Colston is on the northern edge of Glasgow, surrounded by the areas of Springburn and Milton and the town of Bishopbriggs to the north. The main road through Colston is the A803 (Springburn Road), which then becomes Kirkintilloch Road once past Colston to the north through Bishopbriggs. Colston High School closed in the early 1990s but much of the building remains and has been converted into laboratories which are used by Scottish Water. Most children in the Colston area now attend the re-built Springburn Academy. Stobhill Hospital is the nearest hospital. The nearest shopping centres are Springburn Shopping Centre and Bishopbriggs town centre. However there is a supermarket and several take-away shops within the Colston area. Most of Colston is in Glasgow City (the area to the South of Newbold Avenue and Stobhill Hopsital), with the rest being in East Dunbartonshire and regarded as part of Bishopbriggs.

Alex Scarrow is a British author, whose books include A Thousand Suns,Last Light, Afterlight, October Skies, and the young adult science fiction series TimeRiders.

Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist spending ten years after college in the music business, then he became a graphic artist and then he decided to be a computer games designer.

He worked on game titles such as:

Waterworld, Evolva, The Thing, Spartan, Gates of Troy, Legion Arena, Ultimate Soccer Manager.

He started his writing career initially by writing screenplays, but after difficulty entering the business he turned his strongest screenplay into the successful A Thousand Suns novel. He has since written a number of successful novels such as the October Skies novel several screenplays, and young-adult fiction, which according to his TimeRiders website:

He currently lives in Norwich with his son, Jacob and his wife, Frances.

Alex Scarrow is planning to span the TimeRiders series over 9 books in total:

The series is about an agency which consist of three teenagers who have cheated death, who travel in time to fix history broken by time travel.

Brian Gerald O'Driscoll (born 21 January 1979) is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is the current captain of the Ireland Rugby team and captained Leinster Rugby until the start of 2008 season. He also captained the British and Irish Lions for their 2005 tour of New Zealand. Registered at University College Dublin RFC, he plays at outside centre for the Irish provincial team Leinster. O'Driscoll was chosen as Player of the Tournament in the 2006, 2007 and 2009 RBS Six Nations Championships.

O'Driscoll has 123 Test caps, 117 for Ireland (80 as captain), and 6 for the British and Irish Lions. He has scored 45 tries for Ireland and 1 try for the Lions in 2001, making him the highest try scorer of all time in Irish Rugby. He is 8th-highest try scorer in rugby union history, and the highest scoring centre of all time. O'Driscoll holds the Six Nations record for most tries scored with 25. He has scored the most Heineken Cup tries (30) for an Irishman. He is widely regarded as one of the best centres to have played the game.