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The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School is a
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secondary school and sixth form in
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, London, England, with approximately 1,030 students.


History

After the 1903 death of the third
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, Herbert, Cardinal Vaughan, an appeal was made to raise funds to found a boys' school to be named as a memorial to him; some £20,000 was subscribed. The school was founded in 1914; the founders included Viscount Fitzalan, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Ripon. The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School opened its doors in the Victorian building now known as Addison Hall, as a private school, to twenty-nine boys on 21 September 1914, appointing Canon Driscoll as the first headmaster. In the 1920s, the school expanded and it was decided to seek recognition by the Board of Education for the grant as an independent day school. The first Higher Certificates with Distinction were achieved in 1926, the first classical scholarship (at
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), and the first
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of Vaughan boys to the priesthood. A piece of land, some in North Wembley, was purchased for playing fields. In 1937, this plot was exchanged for the present site at Twickenham, adjacent to the international Rugby Football Union ground. Enrolment had grown to 220 by 1928, and neared 300 by 1938. The school was evacuated to
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, Windsor, during the course of the
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. It moved back in the summer of 1945. Thirty-nine old boys who were killed in the War are named in the School's Roll of Honour, including the first
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of the war in the
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, Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland. School fees were abolished after the war, as The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School transitioned from a public school to a state-funded grammar school under the
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. However, there were concerns about the low standards of new admissions, whose primary education had suffered during the evacuation; in 1948, Cardinal Griffin referred to this as a "time of crisis" for the school, though it was alleviated through a series of programmes to inspire the students' interest. In the early and mid-1950s, the curriculum shifted from the Classics to include Advanced A-Level subjects. A new building was opened in 1964 to accommodate the growing enrolment. In the 1970s, the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) and board of governors considered various reorganization proposals in the amalgamation of schools. The school began to take pupils of all abilities in 1977 and became an all-ability school. Girls were first admitted to the sixth form in 1977. The school became a voluntary-aided public school and drew pupils chiefly, but not exclusively, from Inner London. The school saw expansions in 2000, 2005 and 2014. The school was granted specialist status for mathematics, computing and science. While nominally a state comprehensive, it has resisted attempts by local governmental and religious authority figures to widen the accessibility criteria for potential pupils. In 2009, the school was referred to the admissions watchdog amid claims that its admissions policy was 'elitist' and 'penalised the less devout'. Consequently, the school was forced to modify its admissions criteria. The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School was the highest-ranking Catholic comprehensive school in a table of A-Level results published on 15 August 2024 by The Times, compiled using data submitted by the 190 UK schools listed. The school has also been ranked by The Times as one of the "happiest secondary schools" based on data collected by Ofsted, with a 98% happiness rating.


Uniform

Pupils in Years 7–11 dress in the black Vaughan suit with the Vaughan Lower School Tie, a tie that bears the school colours. In sixth form, pupils are required to wear the grey Vaughan suit and sixth form tie, bearing an extra white stripe, and/or any sporting ties. Girls who join the school at this time are required to wear the Vaughan maroon blazer and grey skirt. At various times of the year, including the Vaughan Speech Night, teachers are required to wear full academic dress.


Headmasters


Canon Driscoll (1914–1928)

Hired at a salary of £200 per year, Canon Driscoll was appointed as the first headmaster. He confessed to having spent the summer months worrying about how many boys would face him on opening day. Two classes were held in the top rooms. Driscoll took one and Father W. Horgan the other. Under Driscoll's guidance, the school found its feet during the
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. Academic standards were high leading to the School and Higher Certificates of the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board. Enrolment grew and enabled Driscoll to build a young and energetic teaching staff. In the autumn of 1927 Canon Driscoll's health began to fail and he died 29 December, at the age of 57.


Monsignor Canon Vance (1928–1948)

Dr Vance was known as a scholar and writer when he succeeded Driscoll as headmaster. He ran a tight ship: strict punctuality was expected, students were not permitted to write left-handed without a medical certificate documenting a necessary deviation, and teachers were instructed on a prescribed manner of blackboard writing. He took an intense pride in all things English, instilling a sense of patriotism in the student body. While the school was evacuated to Windsor for the course of the Second World War, Vance was concerned about the standards of behaviour of the boys under wartime conditions. It was made clear to the boys: that making light of discomfort was manly; that writing cheery and interesting letters home would ease the troubles of their families; and that it was a point of honour to never complain. He later took on a Churchillian tone, to instil the qualities of the English tradition and that of resistance, courage and devoutness. Following the war, the Vaughan School transitioned from a public school to a state-funded grammar school. In 1947, Vance expressed concerns about the low standards of new admissions, whose primary education had suffered terribly during the evacuation. He resigned as headmaster in 1948.


Canon Butcher (1948–1952)

Father Reginald Butcher had served the Vaughan School during its evacuation to Windsor. Under his direction as headmaster, a large programme of activities was established to interest the boys in art, music and literature. He cared for the religious life of the school and creating a union between the artistic and the spiritual. He was especially pleased by the attention given to religious music, to religious art and to the works of the Catholic writers. In 1952, Butcher was transferred, appointed as president of St Edmund's College, Ware. He was later nominated as a Canon of Westminster and a papal monsignor.


Monsignor Kenefeck (1952–1976)

Father Richard Kenefeck served his entire career at the Vaughan School, beginning in 1938, and was its longest-serving headmaster. He was primarily concerned with the expansion of the sixth form. Advanced A-Level subjects were introduced to a curriculum which had largely been devoted to the Classics, with mathematics and sciences added in 1956. Also of concern was organising the school into a new building which was opened in 1964 to accommodate the growing enrollment.


Fr. Anthony Pellegrini (1976–1997)

Anthony Pellegrini, the first headmaster who was not a cleric, was appointed in 1976. He had joined the school as a general subjects teacher immediately after graduating from the
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, and in 1969 was appointed deputy head. Pellegrini saw the school's transition from a selective grammar school to a voluntary-aided school, taking in students with learning difficulties. He also helped to establish a community service unit, which organized student volunteers.


Michael Gormally (1997–2009)

In September 1997, Michael Gormally became headmaster and oversaw continuing expansion of the school. A mezzanine floor in the Main Building was opened to sixth form pupils, new music rooms were opened in 2005, and the school was granted specialist status for mathematics, computing, and science. Mr Gormally fell ill in 2008 and retired formally in 2009.


Charles Eynaud, BSc (2009–2011)

For a two-year period Charles Eynaud was acting headmaster.


Paul Stubbings, MA (from 2011)

In October 2011, the Governors appointed Paul Stubbings as the school's headmaster. Academic standards remained high; ''The Times'' ranked Cardinal Vaughan as the highest attaining school at both A-Level and GCSE in the country in 2013 and 2014.


Buildings

The school is divided into four main buildings, ''Addison Hall'' ( the Old Building), the ''New Building'', the "Centenary Building" and the ''Pellegrini Building''. The later two are adjoined on the main grounds on the west side of Addison Road, with Addison Hall on the east side of the road. Structural work was conducted on Addison Hall when dry rot was discovered in the late 1940s. At this same time, the outer wall of the main hall was found to be in danger of collapse and steel supports were sunk into the wall to make it safe. The school chapel was opened on 19 January 1915, decorated by Thomas Seadon with life-size paintings of Thomas More and John Fisher Oater, the patron saints of the school. The New Building was officially opened in June 1964. A third floor was later added, housing music facilities with a recording studio, a music technology suite, nine practice rooms, a song school for choral singing, two full-sized classrooms and a large rehearsal hall. The school's design technology and information technology facilities make up the majority of the Pellegrini Building. The Centenary Building is an extension completed in 2014, with eight classrooms and two art suites. The school has a sports pavilion and playing fields in
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opposite
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, the UK's main rugby stadium. The pavilion was rebuilt and opened in January 1995.


Sport

The school fields seven Football teams and an equal number of rugby union teams. The school's athletes participate in regional and national competitions. Girls in the sixth form play netball.


Rugby

The school's home grounds are positioned adjacent to
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, the home of the Rugby Football Union (RFU). The rugby season commences in September with trials for all age groups . All rugby teams play Saturday morning fixtures for the duration of the
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. In addition to Saturday morning fixtures, senior teams are involved in midweek and cup fixtures. Vaughan boys compete in many competitions across the country and against other schools, and also in annual House Varsity games . Senior Rugby players also play Saturday morning and midweek fixtures during the Lent term. In addition to Rugby Union the school also enters various
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tournaments which generally take place during the Lent term.


Rowing

The school has the use of
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Boat Club, where boys can learn to row and scull . The school has produced Olympic Rowers.


Football

Football fixtures are played throughout the
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and
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s. Only the 1st and 2nd XI teams play Saturday morning fixtures during the Michaelmas term. The school's football teams are also entered in various local and national cup competitions. Games for these competitions are played midweek.


Extra-curricular activities

Pupils founded a music society in 1935. Pupils may, at their families' cost, study musical instruments, including the piano, the organ (of which the school has four, including a Snetzler Chamber Organ on loan from the Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Cathedral), strings, brass, woodwind and percussion. There are also several choirs and orchestras: the Schola Cantorum, the Sixth Form Choir, the School Choir, the School Orchestra, the Concert Band, the Junior String Ensemble, the Senior Strings and the Chamber Orchestra, all of which give regular concerts . The school's Big Band has taken part in national competitions and has toured in France, Spain, Netherlands and the US. It has performed alongside
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and Jason Yarde and had commissions from
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, Frank Griffith, Jeff Jarvis and
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.


Schola Cantorum

The Schola Cantorum is the School's liturgical choir, founded in 1980 and made up of boys aged 11 to 18. The Schola sings at school Masses, and has frequent external engagements. It has performed at many of London's major venues, twice represented Great Britain at the Loreto Festival in Italy, toured internationally, and performed before the Pope. It has performed professionally with the
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, the Bach Choir and the Chorus of the Royal Opera, and been featured on film soundtracks including ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. The choir has also appeared on
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's Sunday Worship,
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, and the religious choral programme ''
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'' on
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. The Schola has recorded a number of CDs, including
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collection ''Praise to the holiest'',
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collection ''Sing in Exultation'', and ''Lauda Sion by Mendelssohn and works by Dupré and others'' . The Schola Cantorum is currently led by Scott Price, who serves as conductor and director of music at the school.


Notable former pupils (Old Vaughanians)

*Arts and entertainment **
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(1918–1985), actor **
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, comedian **
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, English playwright, novelist, screenwriter and painter **
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, Anglo-Irish actor and playwright **
Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi FRSL (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories. Life Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria and was raised in Lewisham, South London from when she was four. Oyeyemi wrote her first novel, '' The Icarus Girl' ...
(b. 1984), novelist **
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, author and illustrator of children's books **
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(b. 1965), songwriter and record producer **
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, member of boy band
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** Dan Stopczynski (b. 1957), aka DJ Dan, shotgun on Good Morning Marlow, MarlowFM *Athletes ** Georgia Hunter Bell (b. 1993), duathlete, bronze medallist at the
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** Martin Cross (b. 1957), rower, gold medalist at the
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(1918–1976), footballer and sports commentator **
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(b. 1975), footballer ** Garry Herbert, rowing cox, gold medalist at the
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(1911–1984), footballer ** Eddie Newton (b. 1971), footballer ** Udo Onwere (b. 1971), footballer ** Paul Parker (b. 1964), footballer *Military figures **
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, British Labour Party politician and trade unionist *Scholars ** P. J. Honey, Vietnamese-language scholar and historian **
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, Cambridge University Catholic Chaplain ** Gerard Lyons, British economist **
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, classical scholar, fellow of King’s College, Cambridge“DR ROBERT BOLGAR” (obituary) in ''
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** A. F. Shore, British Egyptologist and museum curator **
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, journalist, writer and military historian **
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Roll of Honour

''Between 1939-1945, thirty-nine Old Vaughanians gave their lives in the successful struggle against Fascism. "We offer these records with pride."'' Peter Bona . Charles Brasseur . Peter Byrne . Geoffrey Chilton . Reginal Coath . John Collins . Terence Culnane . George Dale . Joseph Daniel . Michael D'Arcy . Sydney Darwood . Robert De Sandoval . Thadde D'Hondt . Rowland Ennor . Desmond Garland . Donald Garland . Joseph Gordon . Vincent Halliday-Sutherland . Francis Head . Paddy Finucane . Arthur Hirons . Louis Howard . Harold Jordan . John Kelly . William Lundon . Phillip McErlain . David Monteith . Michael Morton . John Osborne . Henri Phillipe . Stanley Rowe . Anthony Russell . David Sewell . William Sherratt . Andrew Strange . Kenneth Swadling . Frank Vance . Cecil Wall . John Young . Bernard ODonoghue . '' .Royal Air Force, .Royal Navy, .Fleet Air Arm, .Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, .Royal Artillery, .Royal Army Service Corps, .Royal Fusiliers, .Royal Naval Reserve, .Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, .Inns of Court Regiment, .Royal Ulster Rifles, .Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, .3rd Madras Regiment, .Indian Army., .Royal West Kents, .Royal Armoured Corps, .1st London Irish Rifles, .5th Beds & Herts''


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