Weymouth College was a
public school in
Weymouth,
Dorset
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, England, from 1863 to 1940. It closed during the
Second World War
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because of the risks from its proximity to naval bases at Weymouth and Portsmouth, and the boys and some staff moved to
Wellingborough School
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in Northamptonshire.
A new house was formed at Wellingborough to accommodate the 33 pupils who moved, and Weymouth House still exists; since 1989 it has been the girls' house of the school.
Weymouth College aimed "to provide for the sons of gentlemen a classical, mathematical and general education of the highest class".
The building was designed by George Rackstraw Crickmay in 1864.
Pevsner described the building as "The High Victorian style in a very debased form", and the chapel, 1894-96 as "really no better". In 1972 the building was in use as a College of Education. It is now a residential conversion. Some of the chapel furnishings are in
St Aldhelm's Church, Radipole, Weymouth.
Former pupils
Notable former pupils include:
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Henry Sturmey
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(1857–1930), co-inventor of
Sturmey-Archer
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bicycle hub
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J. Meade Falkner (1858–1932), author of ''
Moonfleet''
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James Sherren (1872—1945), surgeon
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C. F. G. Masterman (1873–1927), Liberal politician and propagandist
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John Hindley, 1st Viscount Hyndley (1883–1963, business man
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Robert Wilmot Howard (1887–1960), clergyman and academic
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Stuart Hibberd (1893–1983), BBC Radio presenter
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George Stainforth (1899–1942), flying speed record breaker
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Percy James Brazier (1903–1989), bishop
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Louis Leakey
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(1903–1972), archaeologist and naturalist
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Francis Warman (1904–1991),
Archdeacon of Aston
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Hugh Gough (1905–1997),
Archbishop of Sydney
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C. F. D. Moule (1908–2007), theologian
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Admiral Sir Ronald Brockman (1909–1999), Royal Navy officer
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John Phillips (1910–1985),
Bishop of Portsmouth
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Barney McCall (1913–1991), soldier and cricketer
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Robert Dove Leakey (1914–2013), inventor
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Andrew Wood Wilkinson (1914–1995), paediatrician
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Major-General Rea Leakey (1915–1999), soldier
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* Pope John Paul I (1912–1978)
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Given name and surname
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(1916–2004), colonial administrator
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Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (1917–1995), author
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Admiral Nigel Malim (1919–2006), Royal Navy officer
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at marketrasenmail.co.uk, accessed 3 July 2013
*Major Hugh Austin Woollatt MC (1916 - 1944) World War 2 POW Camp Escapee with Airey Neave
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During the Second World War he was the first ...
Notes
Educational institutions established in 1862
Educational institutions disestablished in 1940
Schools in Weymouth, Dorset
Defunct schools in Dorset
1862 establishments in England
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