Fitzmaurice Grammar School was a

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, England. The school opened as the County School in 1897 with financial support from

Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice, (19 June 184621 June 1935), styled Lord Edmond FitzMaurice from 1863 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1883 to 188 ...

. It was renamed Fitzmaurice Grammar School in 1936 after the death of Lord Fitzmaurice. The grammar school was closed in 1980 and merged with Trinity

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to form the

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called St Laurence School.

Former pupils

Those educated at the Fitzmaurice Grammar school include: *

Geoffrey Copland Geoffrey Malcolm Copland (born 28 June 1942) is a British physicist and former vice-chancellor of the University of Westminster. Education Copland was educated at Fitzmaurice Grammar School in Bradford-on-Avon. He was an undergraduate student ...

, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the

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from 1996 to 2007 * Charlotte Long, actress

Grammar School staff

When the school was closed in 1980, staff included Alistair Thomson, Doug Anderson, John Blake, Liz Buchanan, John Blowers, Noreen Brady, Joan Davis, Bob Hawkes, Sally Burden, Virginia Evans, Margaret Gadd, Stuart Ferguson, Harry Haddon, Margaret Hore. Tony Hull, Peter Knight, Marilyn Maundrell, Margaret Osbourne, Lynne Powell, Sid Johnson, Gerald Reid (Headmaster), Ken Revill, Diane Satterthwaite, Geoff Swift, Meg Tottle-Smith, Joan Van Ryssen, John Warburton, Enid Wicheard and Tim Wilbur.

Fitzmaurice Primary School

A primary school, known since 1985 as the Fitzmaurice Primary School, uses some of the former classrooms of the grammar school.

References

1897 establishments in England 1980 disestablishments in England Bradford-on-Avon Defunct grammar schools in England Defunct schools in Wiltshire Educational institutions disestablished in 1980 Educational institutions established in 1897 * {{Wiltshire-school-stub