Cardigan County School is the name 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.

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of the school up to 1949 are held in the Ceredigion Archives in Aberystwyth.

Notable pupils

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

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

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