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Eastbourne College

{{short description|Public school in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}

{{Infobox school

| name = Eastbourne College

| logo = Eastbourne college crest.jpg

| logo_size = 120px

| image = Eastbourne College - geograph.org.uk - 5514878.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = An entrance to Eastbourne College

| coordinates = {{coord|50.7627|0.2811|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100 |format=dec|display=inline,title}}

| motto = Ex oriente salus
("The haven [the bourne] from the East")

| established = 1867

| closed =

| type = Public school
Private day and boarding

| religious_affiliation = Church of England

| president = Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire

| head_label = Headmaster

| head = Tom Lawson

| chair_label = Chairman of the College Council

| chair = Philip Broadley{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/Board-of-Governors|title=Structure of the School}}

| founders = William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire and other prominent Eastbourne citizens

| specialist =

| address = Old Wish Road

| city = Eastbourne

| county = East Sussex

| country = England

| postcode = BN21 4JY

| local_authority = East Sussex County Council

| ofsted = SC050547

| urn = 114650

| dfeno = 845/6014

| staff = 236~

| enrolment = 630~

| gender = Co-educational

| lower_age = 13

| upper_age = 18

| houses = 5 day, 5 boarding

| colours = Maroon {{color box|#800000}}
White {{color box|#FFFFFF}}
Crimson {{color box|#DC143C}}

| publication = The Eastbournian
The Old Eastbournian

| alumni = Old Eastbournians

| free_label_2 =

| free_2 =

| free_label_3 =

| free_3 =

| website = {{url|eastbourne-college.co.uk}}

| mascot = Stag

| chaplain = Daniel Merceron

| latin_name =

| song =

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Eastbourne College is a co-educational fee-charging school in the English public school tradition, for boarding and day pupils aged 13–18, in the town of Eastbourne in East Sussex on the south coast of England. The College's headmaster is Tom Lawson.

Overview

The college was founded by William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, and other prominent Eastbourne citizens in 1867.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

The college is in the Lower Meads area of Eastbourne, a mainly residential area. Most of the school buildings are on a central campus area but many others are scattered in the immediate vicinity, such as the Beresford hockey and the links rugby pitches.

The motto, Ex Oriente Salus, is a play on "Eastbourne", meaning "The haven [the bourne] from the East". Salus also means health or salvation, the latter making an allusion to Christ, who came, from the English point of view, from the east.

History

Charles Hayman, an Eastbourne medical practitioner and member of the town's first council, together with other prominent local citizens, decided an independent school should be established and the support of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, was sought. He was supportive of the venture and provided {{convert|12|acre|ha}} of land for purchase at a modest price. This link with the Cavendish family is evidenced by the stag in the arms of the school.

From 1867 to 1869 it occupied Ellesmere Villa, now called Spencer Court; the location is now marked by a blue plaque. Architect Henry Currey was assigned by the duke to design a new school building, and College House, now School House, was built in 1870. The school chapel was constructed that same year.

During the 1880s, the school went through an impoverished period. Through the intervention of George Wallis, first mayor of Eastbourne and the work of new headmaster Charles Crowden, formerly of Cranbrook School, the school was saved from financial disaster.{{Cite web |url=http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/ECS/Archives/Pages/Timeline.aspx |title=College Timeline |access-date=29 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217093216/http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/ECS/Archives/Pages/Timeline.aspx |archive-date=17 February 2012 |url-status = dead}}

The college admitted its first girls in 1969 when the sixth form became coeducational, becoming one of the first HMC schools to admit girls. The college is now fully coeducational.

In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading private schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times, which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents.{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article588559.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310233300/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article588559.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=10 March 2007 | location=London | work=The Times | title=Independent schools face huge fines over cartel to fix fees | first=Tony | last=Halpin | date=2005-11-10}} Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.{{cite news|title=OFT names further trustees as part of the independent schools settlement|url=http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06|publisher=Office of Fair Trading|date=21 December 2006|access-date=25 July 2008|archive-date=10 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610055129/http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2006/182-06|url-status=dead}}

File:Eastbourne College's new uniform.jpg

File:Wargravehousefrontview.jpg

Boarding and day houses

;Boarding houses

  • Gonville (Boys)
  • Nugent (Girls)
  • Pennell (Boys)
  • School (Girls)
  • Wargrave (Boys)

;Day houses

  • Blackwater (Girls)
  • Craig (Boys)
  • Powell (Boys)
  • Reeves (Boys)
  • Watt (Girls)

;former houses

  • Arnold (mixed)(flexi boarding)

Many of these houses were donated to the school in wills and named after their benefactors; for example, Powell was given to the college by Stanley Powell.

File:Eastbourne College (2008).jpg

Extracurricular activities

=Combined Cadet Force=

The school's CCF corps was founded in 1896.

=Sport=

Sport is played at the many facilities around the college (including College Field which has been used for training by teams such as South Africa upon arrival in the UK and some internationals) and at various locations around the town acquired by the college. Former pupils who have achieved sporting success include rugby players Hugo Southwell (Scotland and London Wasps) and Mark Lock (Leeds Tykes) and cricket player Ed Giddins.

Each term at the college has a single primary sport:

class="wikitable"
Term

! Boys

! Girls

Michaelmas

| Rugby union

| Hockey

Lent

| Hockey

| Netball

Summer

| Cricket

| Tennis

There are also alternative sports, including football, cross country, swimming, golf, tennis, squash, rowing, sailing, Rugby fives, fives, and rounders. The school owns a boat house nearby the campus.{{Cite web |last=StudyLink |first=Britannia |date=2021-08-20 |title=Eastbourne College Guide: Reviews, Rankings And More |url=https://britannia-study.com.my/uk-boarding-school/eastbourne-college |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=Britannia StudyLink Malaysia: UK Study Expert |language=en-GB}}{{cite web |title= Eastbourne College BC |url= http://www.britishrowing.org/clubs/eastbourne-college-bc |publisher= British Rowing}}

Birley Centre

On 17 October 2011, Gus Christie, chairman of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, opened the Birley Centre.{{cite news |title= Birley Centre cements college links with town |url= http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/local-news/birley-centre-cements-college-links-with-town-1-3159132 |newspaper= Eastbourne Herald |date=17 October 2011}} It was named after Michael Birley, former Headmaster of Eastbourne College (1956-1970), and now has facilities such as a recording studio and a state of the art theatre space.

In popular culture

The Southern Railway made great use of steam locomotive names for publicity, and the carrying of pupils to boarding schools at the beginning and end of school terms was a significant traffic flow.{{cite web

| title = Maunsell V 'Schools' class 4-4-0

| publisher = Southern E-Group

| date = 19 June 2008

| url = http://www.semgonline.com/steam/v_class1.html

| access-date = 24 June 2009}}

Locomotives of the 'V' or "Schools" Class, introduced in 1930, were hence named after prominent English public schools. The fifteenth locomotive, no. 914, was named Eastbourne after the college. Built at Eastleigh in October 1932, no. 914 remained in service until withdrawn by British Railways in July 1961.{{cite web

| title = Maunsell V 'Schools' class 4-4-0 - Data

| publisher = Southern E-Group

| date = 10 February 2008

| url = http://www.semgonline.com/steam/v_classdat.html

| access-date = 24 June 2009}}

Headmasters

  • 1867: Rev. J. R. Wood
  • Rev. Thompson Podmore
  • 1887–1888: Rev. G. R. Green
  • 1888–1895: Rev. Dr Charles Crowden
  • 1895–1900: M. A. Bayfield[http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/musichistoryupdated-2021-01-31-web.pdf "A History of Music at Eastbourne College from its Foundation in 1867 until 2012 and the Opening of the Birley Centre"], 31 January 2021
  • 1900–1906: Harry Thomson
  • 1906–1924: Rev. F. F. S. Williams
  • 1924–1929: E. C. Arnold
  • 1929–1938: Gordon V. Carey
  • 1938–1956: F. J. Nugee
  • 1956–1970: Michael Birley
  • 1970–1973: John Kendall-Carpenter
  • 1972–1973: Donald Perrens, acting headmaster
  • 1973–1981: Simon Langdale
  • 1981–1993: Christopher Saunders
  • 1993–2005: Charlie Bush
  • 2005–2016: Simon Davies

Notable alumni

=Former pupils=

{{See also|Category:People educated at Eastbourne College}}

Former pupils are known as "Old Eastbournians" and are members of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120531195221/http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/ECS/OEA/Pages/default.aspx Old Eastbournian Association].

=Military=

==Victoria Cross holders==

Two Old Eastbournians have won the Victoria Cross:Webster F.A.M., (1937), Our Great Public Schools, (Butler & Tanner: London)

==Military Cross holders==

=Notable staff=

Notes

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616133641/http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/ECS/Archives/Pages/default.aspx College Archives]
  • Allom, Vincent Mulcaster; Eastbourne College (1967). Ex Oriente Salus - A Centenary History of Eastbourne College. {{ISBN|978-0950355900}}.

References

{{Reflist}}

Bibliography

  • {{cite web|title=Schools Guide 2012 - Eastbourne College|url=http://www.tatler.com/guides/schools-guide/2012/public/eastbourne-college|publisher=Tatler}}

External links

  • [http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/ School website]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120531195719/http://www.eastbourne-college.co.uk/ECS/ECS/Pages/default.aspx Eastbourne College Society]
  • [http://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/schools/102438/eastbourne-college Profile] on the Good Schools Guide
  • ISI Inspection [http://www.isi.net/schools/6420/ Reports]
  • Ofsted Social Care Inspection [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/CARE/SC050547 Reports]

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Category:1867 establishments in England

Category:Schools in Eastbourne

Category:Educational institutions established in 1867

Category:Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

Category:Private schools in East Sussex

Category:Boarding schools in East Sussex