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, England.

History

In 1482

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founded the College of Jesus in Rotherham, which was both a School and a religious institution. In March 1482 he began to build a brick building to house his college, on the site of his birthplace in Brookgate, and provided an endowment to fund a Provost and three Fellows. The College was expropriated about 1550 by King Edward VI, but was later re-founded as Rotherham Grammar School, taking the foundation by Rotherham as its origin. The school occupied a number of buildings in Rotherham before moving into a former ministers' training college on Moorgate Road in 1890. In 1967, the

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introduced

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in Rotherham, and the school was closed. Its buildings became a coeducational

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, known as

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, which retains the old grammar school's

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in its logo.

Provosts' schoolmasters

source: * Edmund Carter, 1482–1483 * John Bockyng, 1483 (died in office) * John More, from 1501 * Robert Collier, from 1508 * Richard Bradshaw, 1524–1525 * William Drapour, from 1535 * Thomas Snell, from 1548

Masters and Headmasters

source: * William Beck, 1566–1567 * Thomas Woodhouse, from 1568 * Robert Sanderson, from 1583 * Smith, from 1616 * Barrow, from 1620 * Bonner, ????–???? * Charles Hoole Rayte, from 1633 * Graunt, ????-???? * Barton, ???? * Withers, from 1704 * Rev. Christopher Stevenson, from 1725 * Rev. Davis Pennell, from 1746 * John Russell, from 1763 * Tennant, from 1776 * Rev. Richard U. Burton, from 1780 * Rev. Benjamin Birkett, from 1810 * Rev. Joshua Nalson, from 1839 * Edwin A. Fewtrell, from 1841 * R. A. Long-Phillips, from 1863 * Rev. John J. Christie, from 1864 * Rev. George Ohlson, from 1878 * Rev. Thos. Granger Hutt, from 1883 * Rev. Hargreaves Heap, from 1884 * W. A. Barron, from 1919 * Frederick William Field, from 1924 * Gilbert E. Gunner, 1949–August 1966 * Mr Arthur Prust, September 1966–August 1967 (continued as principal of Thomas Rotherham College)

Notable pupils

* Bishop Robert Sanderson (1587–1663), moderator of the 1661 Savoy Conference. Two of the prayers in the Church of England's

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have often been attributed to Sanderson. These are the "general thanksgiving" and the "prayer for all conditions of men".Proctor, History of the Book of Common Prayer, ed 1872, pp 262-7. *

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- founded the Austin Motor Company, and Conservative MP from 1918-24 for Birmingham King's Norton * Sir Donald Bailey - inventor of the

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. * Prof Robert Auty, Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology from 1965-78 at the

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, and President from 1964 to 1967 of the British University Association of Slavists (became the

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in 1989) * Prof George Bentley, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery from 1982-2002 at the

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, bomb-disposal expert *

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, Labour MP from 1976-92 for

* Sir

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from 1998-2010 * Alfred Goldstein CBE, civil engineer, responsible for designing the M23, the Belfast Transportation Plan, Clifton Bridge (A52) in Nottingham, Winthorpe Bridge (A1) at Newark, the

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in Southampton, and the Elizabeth Bridge in

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, organist *

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* Robert Jenkins CBE, President from 1951-3 and 1973-5 of

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* Walter Jenkins, Vice Chancellor from 1953-8 of the

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* Prof Harry Kay CBE, Vice Chancellor from 1973-84 of the

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, Professor of Psychology from 1960-73 at the

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, and President from 1971-2 of the

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, theatre director *

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, * Sgt.

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, VC, Falklands campaign.(RGS 1964-1969) * Prof John Brooks, Professor of Food Microbiology from 2007-2014 at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand * Prof. Alan Hedge, Professor of Human Factors and Ergonomics from 1987-2019 at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

References

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