Sherborne School is a public school for boys in the affluent town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset. The school was founded before the time of Alfred the Great who was educated there. The school was refounded in 1550 as King Edward's school, using some of the old buildings of Sherborne Abbey. The school remains one of the top fee-paying schools in Britain. Until 1992 the school also helped run two Grammar Schools, Foster's School for boys and Lord Digby's School for girls.
Famous Alumni
- Hugh Bonneville , actor
- Rt Hon Sir Christopher Chataway, athlete and politician
- Charles Collingwood, actor
- David Cornwell, writer
- Cecil Day-Lewis, poet
- Nigel Dempster , journalist
- Sir Michael Hopkins, architect
- Jeremy Irons, actor
- Chris Martin, musician (Coldplay)
- King Mswati III, king of Swaziland
- Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician
- Lance Percival, actor
- Jon Pertwee, actor
- Sir Alastair Pilkington, director of the Bank of England
- James Purefoy, actor
- Sir David Spedding, head of the SIS
- Alan Turing, mathematician
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Sherborne School
