Tranby School, commonly known in the area as the 'Collegiate' or 'Tranby Croft', is a

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Anlaby Anlaby is a village forming part of the western suburbs of Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Anlaby with Anlaby Common. History Anlaby is recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as " ...

, near

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, in the

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, England. It was founded in 2005 as a result of a merger of two of the area's independent schools and is a member of the

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. The school was known as Hull Collegiate from its establishment in 2005 until September 2021.

History

Following the renaming of the historic

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as the William Gee School for Boys in 1988, the name was acquired and used for a new independent school which opened in 1989. In 1991, Nord Anglia Education PLC, an education and training company, acquired the new school from the administrator for £900,000. By 2003 the school (net asset value of £1,800,000) hosted 450 pupils - boys and girls - from two to 18 years of age, and registered a turnover of £2,400,000, of which £280,000 went to Nord Anglia. The School was purchased from Nord Anglia for £4,180,000 by the United Church Schools Company (affiliated to the Church of England), and merged in September 2005 with Hull High School for Girls (owned by the Company since 1890), a co-educational Independent School (with a girls-only junior and senior school, ages 7–18) of similar size and strength. This merged Hull Collegiate School is situated on the former Hull High School site to the west of

and north east of the

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, the school is based at

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, a Victorian mansion with over of landscaped grounds, a small wood and an

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pitch. The mansion was previously home to shipbuilder Arthur Wilson during the late

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. He hosted the Prince of Wales, later King

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, at a party. The events at the party would later lead to the

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. The Preparatory School, opened in 2004, is housed in a purpose-built facility on the same site; a senior school building was opened in 2005, completing a multimillion-pound investment by parent company

. The school was renamed Tranby in 2021, after the site, Tranby Croft.

Notable alumni and teachers

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(1621–78): English metaphysical poet and patriot, educated at

(his father, the Rev. Andrew Marvell M.A., was a master at the School) *

William Wilberforce William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780 ...

, politician and anti-slavery campaigner (1759-1833) was educated at

for a short time from c.1767. *

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, novelist: taught Modern Languages at Hull High School for Girls from 1915 to 1917 *

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, actress: former student *

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, model and television personality, former

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References

External links

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