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day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in

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. It opened on 11 May 1923, initially with 99 schoolboys, and with J. F. Roxburgh as the first headmaster. The school is a member of the 18 member Rugby Group, the

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, and the G30 Schools' Group. Originally for boys only, the school is now coeducational, with some ~550 boys and ~300 girls, with 837 students enrolled in the school as of September 2021. Stowe charges up to £38,853 a year, (£12,951 per term, three terms per academic year for 2022). However the school provides bursaries and other means of financial assistance to admitted students. A typical Scholarship at Stowe is worth 5% of the School Fee. The school has been based since its beginnings at Stowe House, formerly the country seat of the

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. Along with many of the other buildings on the school's estate, the main house is now a

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and is maintained by the Stowe House Preservation Trust.

History

Stowe School opened in 1923. Funding for the school came through the Rev.

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and the Martyrs Memorial Trust. The school's first architect was

Clough Williams-Ellis Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, CBE, MC (28 May 1883 – 9 April 1978) was a Welsh architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales. He became a major figure in the development of Welsh architec ...

The first Headmaster was J. F. Roxburgh. He aimed to focus on the individual child and introduce them to beauty and learning; he wanted a civilised school founded on Christian values.

Today

The school's

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is used as a first class ground by

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. The Stowe Corner of Silverstone Circuit is named after the school. A Southern Railway " Schools Class" steam locomotive, No. 928, which was built in 1934 was named after the school, and is preserved at the

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in East Sussex. In 2016, a ''Daily Telegraph'' investigator posing as a parent of a Russian pupil was told by the then school registrar that while pupils would always be expected to pass the entrance exam, it would help secure a place if a borderline child's parents were able to donate "about £100,000 or something like that."

Boarding houses

There are 13 boarding houses: 8 boys' houses, 4 girls' houses and 1 mixed Sixth Form house. These boarding houses are mostly named after members of the family of

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and Chandos. Each house has a number or letter assigned to it.

Headmasters

* 1923–1949: J. F. Roxburgh * 1949–1958: Eric Reynolds * 1958–1964: Donald Crichton-Miller * 1964–1979: Robert Drayson * 1979–1989: Christopher Turner * 1989–2003: Jeremy Nichols * 2003–present: Anthony Wallersteiner

Notable alumni

Former pupils of Stowe School are known as Old Stoics.

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is currently the President of the Old Stoic Society

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Cricket ground

Cricket pitch and Pavilion, Stowe School - geograph

The first recorded match on the school

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

ground came in 1928 when Stowe School played St Paul's School. Buckinghamshire played their first Minor Counties Championship match there in 1947, when the opponents were Berkshire. Between 1947 and 1982 the ground held five Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which saw Buckinghamshire draw against

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. The ground has also hosted a single

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match which saw Buckinghamshire play Bedfordshire. The ground has also held a single List A match for

in the 2005 totesport League, against

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. and has held fourteen Second XI fixtures for the Northamptonshire Second XI in the

Second XI Championship The Second XI Championship is a season-long cricket competition in England that is competed for by the reserve teams of those county cricket clubs that have first-class status. The competition started in 1959 and has been contested annually ever ...

and Second XI Trophy.Second XI Trophy Matches played on Stowe School Ground
. Cricketarchive.com.

References

External links

Stowe School Website

Old Stoic Society

Stowe House Preservation Trust

cricinfo
The Allied Schools

Department for Education Performance Tables 2011

at CricketArchive

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