Bootham School is a private Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of

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in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19 and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England. Bootham School from rear

The school was founded by the

Religious Society of Friends Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers ...

(Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823–1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828–). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster. It is based in 51 Bootham, a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone, but has expanded into several neighbouring buildings. The school's motto ''Membra Sumus Corporis Magni'' means "We are members of a greater body", quoting

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(Epistle 95, 52).

Academics

Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.

Notable alumni

Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, the mathematician

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("father of

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"), the physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson, the historian A. J. P. Taylor, the actor-manager Brian Rix, the applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the 1959

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winner Philip Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter

Benjamin Francis Leftwich Benjamin Francis Leftwich (born 4 September 1989) is an English singer-songwriter from Heworth, York, Heworth, York. His father was Adrian Leftwich. He attended Hempland Primary School and Bootham School in York. Leftwich released his first ...

, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer Stuart Rose and Jon Ingle, better known as drag artist Lady Bunny.

References

External links

Official website
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Academics

Notable alumni

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