Blundell's School is a

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al day and boarding

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in the English public school tradition, located in Tiverton,

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. It was founded in 1604 under the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in England at the time, and moved to its present site on the outskirts of the town in 1882. While the full boarding fees are £38,985 per year, the school offers several scholarships and bursaries, and provides flexi-boarding. The school has 360 boys and 225 girls, including 117 boys and 85 girls in the Sixth Form, and is a member of the

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. The ''

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'' calls Blundell's a "distinguished rural school of ancient lineage".

History

Peter Blundell, one of the wealthiest merchants of Elizabethan England, died in 1601, having made his fortune principally in the cloth industry. His will set aside considerable money and land to establish a school in his home town "to maintain sound learning and true religion". Blundell asked his friend John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England, to carry out his wishes, and appointed a number of local merchants and gentry as his first trustees (known as feoffees). The position of feoffee is no longer hereditary, but a number of notable local families have held the position for a considerable period: the first ancestor of the current chairman of the governors to hold that position was elected more than 250 years ago, and the Heathcoat-Amory family have a long tradition of service on the Governing Body, since Sir John Heathcoat-Amory was appointed in 1865. The Old Blundell's School was built to be much larger and grander than any other in the West Country, with room for 150 scholars and accommodation for a master and an usher. The

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building is now in the care of the

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and the forecourt is usually open to visitors. One ex-Blundell's boy was the writer

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, who in the novel ''

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'' set the stage for a fight between John Ridd and Robin Snell on the Blundell's triangular lawn. Peter Blundell's executors established links with

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, and with

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, and large sums were settled to provide for scholarships for pupils of the school to attend those colleges. The first Sidney Sussex scholar was nominated in 1610 and the first Blundell's Balliol scholar in 1615. The links with these colleges continue today, although without the closed scholarships. In 1645

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used the school for his headquarters during the siege of

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In 1882, the school moved to the present Horsdon site, one mile from the original location. The new buildings were designed by Hayward & Son of Exeter, and built in red Halberton stone, the foundation stone was laid by the William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon, chairman of the governors, in 1880. Reginald Blomfield, the architect and garden designer, was responsible for the additions to the school, which were completed in 1901. The School's war memorial was carved by the school's sculpture teacher, Estcourt J. Clack and is a replica of the Celtic cross in Eyam churchyard, but with the missing part intact. The clock tower contains a statue by

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, a pupil of the School and aspiring sculptor, who joined the RAF as a navigator and was killed in the Second World War. The statue was subsequently re-cast at the commission of Neville Gorton, then Bishop of Coventry, and stands in the ruins of the old

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as a memorial to those who lost their lives in the war. In 1989, Ondaatje Hall was opened, following a donation by OB Christopher Ondaatje for its construction. Among its many facilities is a 150-seat professional theatre, which as well as putting on in-house productions is also used for public performances. Girls were admitted from the age of 13 in 1993, to make the school fully co-educational. To make room for them, the boys' boarding house North Close was changed into a girls' house. In 1997, School House became a junior house for pupils aged 11–13. The prep school St Aubyn's was moved to the Blundell's campus in 2000, taking over the day-boy house Milestones and the Sanatorium, and was renamed Blundell's Prep School. It has about 250 pupils aged from three years to eleven. The headmaster is Andy Southgate. A change to the way the UVI boarders are housed took place when the old Westlake was sold off and a new Westlake built on the site of the

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parade ground. Opened in 2004, the new Westlake houses all boys and girls who are in their final year. The two latest developments to be completed are an extension to the Music School, and the building of the Popham Academic Centre, which houses the new Psychology, Economics and Business Studies departments, as well as the new server for the school intranet and a dedicated IT teaching area.

Sport

Ticket for Blundell's School Feast by William Hogarth

Rugby

Rugby is the main sport played at Blundell's in the Autumn and Spring terms. The earliest mention of "football" in the Blundellian was in 1861 and the first recorded "rugger" match played by boys at Blundell's was in 1868 against

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, making the school one of the oldest anywhere formally to play the game. The Blundell's crest still hangs in the main room at Twickenham in recognition of this. The first OB to gain International Honours was R. S. Kindersley for England in 1884 and on 1 January 1908 Thomas Kelly captained

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to a 19–0 victory over

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. The strongest years for Blundell's were the two decades after World War 2, when

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gained 26 caps for Wales in 1949–59 (in 1958–59 as captain), Richard Sharp won 14 caps for England 1960-67 (Captain 1963 and 1967) and David Shepherd won five caps for Australia in 1964–66. Both Thomas and Sharp played in two tests for Britain in South Africa. Also of note was Charles Kent, who played for Rosslyn Park and

, having previously won four

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playing for

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, including one as captain in 1974. Blundell's won the Rosslyn Park National Sevens title in 1981 and won the second ever Open Final 28–0 against Dulwich College, in 1940. The Blundell's XVs continue to compete among the public schools of the South West, with Bryanston, Millfield, Cheltenham College and Clifton College among their regular opponents. OBs Dave Lewis Gloucester Rugby,

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and Will Carrick-Smith

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all currently play in the

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The Russell

One annual tradition is the school's cross-country run known as the Russell, named after OB Jack Russell, a vicar and dog-breeder. It was first run in 1887, and 2009 saw the 129th run. The Russell course crosses both public and private land with the permission of local landowners. As such, the route has undergone numerous changes throughout its history. The current senior course is 4.85 miles and includes a notorious’Heartbreak Hill’. Although the junior race and a ‘fun run’ follow shorter routes, all participants encounter the muddiest sections. Parents, staff and OB’s may participate in the ‘Open’ which follows the senior route.

Cricket at the 1900 Olympics

Four Old Blundellians played in the gold medal-winning Great Britain cricket team at the

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, the only time cricket featured in the Olympics. Britain was represented by an unofficial touring club team, the Devon & Somerset Wanderers Cricket Club (formed by William Donne in 1894 and made up of Old Blundellians and members of Castle Cary Cricket Club).

Southern Railway Schools Class

The School lent its name to the thirty-third steam

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( Engine 932) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. ''Blundell's'', as it was called, was built in 1934. The locomotive bearing the school's name was withdrawn from service in January 1961. In 2009 Hornby produced a model of this particular Schools class locomotive. As the product photograph shows, while the name of this locomotive has been variously quoted as ''Blundells'' or ''Blundell's'', the apostrophe does actually appear on the nameplate.

Old Blundellians

The first known society of former pupils, known as Old Blundellians (OBs), was established as early as 1725.

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engraved the letterhead for the invitation to a dinner for former pupils of the School in 1725 and the Ticket for Tiverton School Feast in 1740,
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. Notable former pupils include:

A–D

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, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados * Vernon Bartlett, journalist and politician *

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, drainage inspector and winner of the

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* Dominic Bess, England cricketer *

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, Master of

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, geologist *

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, professor of Anglo-SaxonFrederic Boase, ''Modern English Biography'', vol. 4 (Netherton and Worth, 1906), p. 2,007 * George Bull, theologian and bishop *

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, High Commissioner to the West Indies *

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, food critic * Bampfylde Moore Carew, rogue and imposter * Aelred Carlyle, missionary and monk * Frederick William Cuming, 1900 Olympic gold medal winner as part of the UK cricket team * Charles Cornwallis Chesney, soldier and military writer *

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, soldier and novelist * Ben Collins, Formula 3 racing driver and the infamous Stig *

John Conybeare John Conybeare (31 January 1692 – 13 July 1755) was Bishop of Bristol and one of the most notable theologians of the 18th century. Conybeare was born at Pinhoe, where his father was vicar, and educated at Exeter Free School, Blundell's Schoo ...

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and notable 18th-century theologian * John Davis, Welsh cricketer * Edward Dayman, hymn writer

E–K

John Ebdon John Ebdon (22 December 1923 – 19 March 2005) was a British author, broadcaster, Graecophile and, for 21 years, director of the London Planetarium. He was educated at Blundell's School Blundell's School is a co-educational day and bo ...

, writer * John Eliot, English statesman *

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, Drummer & backing vocals for UK based band The Vamps * Charles Rossiter Forwood, lawyer and

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* Francis Fulford, Anglo-Catholic bishop of Montreal *

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, philosopher *

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, writer of fictional mysteries and thrillers *

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, Commander in Chief Pakistan Army 1948-51 * Charles Harper, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of St. Helena 1925–1932 * C. Brian Haselgrove mathematician best known for disproving the Pólya conjecture in 1958 *

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, bishop of Norwich 1749–61, bishop of London 1761–62 *

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, man of letters * Archibald Hill, Nobel Prize winner *

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, Tractarian vicar of

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* Ella Hunt, actress, dickinson,

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, intruders *

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, academic and churchman *

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, governor of

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* C. E. M. Joad, intellectual, broadcasting personality and fare dodger * Philip Keun,

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Captain and co-leader of the Jade-Amicol French resistance network.

L–R

* Geoffrey Lampe, theologian and winner of the Military Cross * Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, surgeon, primatologist and paleoanthropologist who disproved

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* Robin Lloyd-Jones, Author * Jeremy Lloyds, Test Cricket umpire * George Malcolm, army officer *

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, Puritan clergyman * John Margetson, former British Ambassador to Vietnam, the United Nations, and the Netherlands. *

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, Somerset and England cricketer * Professor John Marrack, DSO, MC, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology in the

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*John Marrack, (10 February 1921 – 7 November 2009) naval officer,

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1962. *

Claire Marshall Claire Victoria Marshall (born 1975) is an English journalist who works for BBC News. After leaving Chew Valley Comprehensive and then Blundell's School, Devon in 1993, she read for a law degree at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating fro ...

, journalist * Michael Mates, former MP (constituency of

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) * Hugh Morris, England cricketer and current Managing Director of the

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, Editor of the ''

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'' * Christopher Ondaatje, author and donor to the Labour Party *

William Pillar Admiral Sir William Thomas Pillar, (24 February 1924 – 18 March 1999) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Chief of Naval Support and a member of the Admiralty. Naval career Educated at Blundell's School and latterly at the Royal Nava ...

, Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Supplies * John de la Pole, 6th Baronet * Ben Rice, novelist * Jack Russell, Victorian hunting parson, dog breeder

S–Z

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, Austrian-British violist and co-founder of the

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* Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset * Richard Sharp, England rugby captain * Richard Shore, cricketer * Frederick Spring, senior army officer * Trevor Spring, army officer * J. C. Squire, poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor * Donald Stokes, industrialist and peer *

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'' *

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, Archbishop of Canterbury *

, Wales Rugby Captain * Georgia "Toff" Toffolo, television and media personality * Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, English civil servant, governor of Madras * Henry Hawkins Tremayne, creator of the

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* John Van der Kiste, author * Walter Walker, controversial soldier and writer * Arthur Graeme West, war poet * John Whiteley, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1949–53 *

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, Great Britain hockey player and Olympic Gold Medallist *

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, author whose work included ''

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Headteachers

Notable former masters

Former masters of Blundell's have included: * Terry Barwell, cricketer *Estcourt J Clack (Jim Clack), woodwork teacher and sculptor of the Diana Fountain in London's Green Park *

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, historian * Neville Gorton, Bishop of Coventry * Malcolm Moss, politician * Grahame Parker, sportsman * C. Northcote Parkinson, naval historian and author of the bestselling book Parkinson's Law * Gilbert Phelps, writer and broadcaster *

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, poet *

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, sculptor *

Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by th ...

, poet and essayist * Mervyn Stockwood, missioner to the School and later Bishop of Southwark * Samuel Wesley (the Younger), poet and churchman

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Blundell's School websiteCurrent Information from UK:Independent Schools Council
* {{authority control 1604 establishments in England Educational institutions established in the 1600s Independent schools in Devon Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference Tiverton, Devon Boarding schools in Devon