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A.B. Douglas

Known as ‘The Bird’ from his somewhat hawkish appearance, Bruce Douglas served Gresham’s for a total of 42 years. Appointed to teach maths in 1921, he became housemaster of Farfield and second master in 1942. Advising headmasters with candour, authority and loyalty, he considered it his duty to act as their handbrake as well as […]

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84-88 Year Group Reunion (15/09/12)

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89-93 Year Group Reunion (10/11/12)

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Science & Technology

Leslie Baynes (1902 – 1989). Attended Gresham’s from 1912 to 1914 (Old School House). Sir Christopher Cockerell CBE FRS (1910 – 1999). Attended Gresham’s from 1924 to 1928 (Woodlands) Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM KBE PRS (1914 – 1998), a British physiologist and biophysicist, attended Gresham’s from 1927 to 1932 (Howson’s). Professor David Keith-Lucas CBE […]

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Steinway Hire

Contact 01263 714530 [email protected]

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Bursary Fund

The School is committed to widening access, ensuring young people of any background or ability to pay fees can have the opportunity to study and thrive at Gresham’s. The extent to which it can achieve its objective is dependent upon increasing philanthropic support for The Gresham’s Foundation Bursary Fund. Every year, approximately 100 pupils in […]

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Stephen Spender

Stephen SpenderThe Early Life of an OG Poet Stephen Spender was born in the last few months of the reign of Edward VII, the ‘Indian summer’ of Edwardian England. His parents, writer and journalist Harold and the beautiful but ‘delicate’ Violet, moved their family of four out of London in 1913 to a large house […]

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World War 1 Centenary

2014-18 During these four years we will be reflecting as a School community on the meaning and impact of the First World War in order to ensure the sacrifice of our fallen OGs is not forgotten. A number of events have taken place in 2014, including: 2015 2016 2017 2018 We plan to make Centenary […]

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Old School House

History The Story of an Old School House Sir John Gresham’s Grammar School was founded following the suppression of an Augustan Priory in 1539 which had run a School at which he and his brothers were thought to have been educated. Letters patent were drawn up on 27th April 1555, and work on the schoolhouse […]

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Natural History Society Minutes

Minutes of the Natural History Society 1928 Source: Gresham’s School Archives

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