Cardigan County School is the

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given to the

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in Cardigan which was founded there in the mid seventeenth century (1653). The

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was opened in the Cardigan Free Grammar School on 4 November 1895, and a new

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was opened on 21 September 1898. It seems the

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lost its

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status in 1949 and was succeeded by the Cardigan Secondary School. Records of the school up to 1949 are held in the Ceredigion Archives in

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Notable pupils

* Iris Bower (1915–2005), a Royal Air Force nurse *

John Propert John Propert DL (19 July 1793 – 9 September 1867) was a Welsh physician who made a successful career in Westminster and is chiefly remembered for founding the Medical Benevolent College at Epsom, Surrey, now called Epsom College. He was also ...

(1793–1867), surgeonPROPERT, JOHN (1793–1867), physician, founder of the Medical Benevolent College, Epsom
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References

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