Farnham Grammar School

The grammar school was created at some time before 1585 (the date of a donation being made by a Richard Searle "to the maintenance of the school in Farnham").[https://www.farnham.ac.uk/TheCollege/HistoryOfFarnhamCollege.aspx History of Farnham College] - Farnham College website The first evidence that the school was built is a record in 1585 of a yeoman in Farnham donating 20 shillings 'to the maintenance of the school of Farnham'.{{cite web| url=http://www.farnhamians.org/ofa/BriefHist.htm | title=Brief History of Farnham Grammar School | publisher=Old Farnhamians' Association | access-date=26 September 2018 }} It is, though, possible that this ancient school dated back as far as 1351 when a chantry was created at Farnham Castle, but there is no documentary evidence of this.

The school benefited over the years from bequests by different people as well as the generosity of Bishops of Winchester who occupied Farnham Castle over the centuries.

The school was housed in West Street, Farnham until 1906. It moved then because in the previous year, the town centre assets were sold in order to purchase and build a new school in fields to the south of the town.

In 1973, under Government education reforms, the school merged with Farnham Girls' Grammar School (now South Farnham School) to form Farnham College.

{{alumni|date=November 2024}}

• Patrick Blower (born 1959), Chief Political Cartoonist at The Daily Telegraph
• Jack Coutu (1924–2017), printmaker and sculptor{{cite newspaper The Times |url= https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/jack-coutu-obituary-8tql59nm9 |title= Obituary: Jack Coutu |date= 4 September 2017 |access-date= 16 August 2020 }}
• Maj-Gen Alexander Elmslie CB CBE, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) from 1964-5, and the Royal Corps of Transport from 1964–69{{cite newspaper The Times |title= Major General A.F.J. Elmslie |date= 29 September 2005 |issue= 68505 |page= 60 |url= https://www.thetimes.com/travel/advice/major-general-afj-elmslie-cqc9vws52lj |access-date= 31 March 2023}}
• Cyril Garbett (briefly), successively the Anglican Bishop of Southwark and Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of York from 1942–55{{cite ODNB |last= Grimley |first= Matthew |title= Garbett, Cyril Forster |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/33320 }}
• Jack Gwillim, actor{{cite news |title= Jack Gwillim |date= 29 August 2001 |work= The Telegraph |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1338792/Jack-Gwillim.html |access-date= 31 March 2023}}
• Jeremy Hardy, comedian{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/feb/01/jeremy-hardy-obituary|title=Jeremy Hardy obituary|first=Miles|last=Jupp|author-link=Miles Jupp |date=1 February 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=16 August 2020}}
• Hugh Johns, ITV football commentator{{cite news |last= Keating |first= Frank |date= 19 July 2007 |title= Hugh Johns |work= The Guardian |url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jul/19/guardianobituaries.broadcasting |access-date= 1 April 2023}}
• Charles Judd CBE, Director General of the United Nations Association UK from 1945–64
• James Kendall, Professor Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1928–59, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1949–54{{cite journal |last1= Campbell |first1= N. |last2= Kemball |first2= Charles |year= 1980 |title= James Pickering Kendall, 30 July 1889 - 14 June 1978 |journal= Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume= 26 |pages= 255–273 |doi= 10.1098/rsbm.1980.0007 | doi-access = free}}
• David Lea, Baron Lea of Crondall OBE, trade union official
• Lt-Gen Sir Harold Redman CB CBE, Governor of Gibraltar from 1955-8
• Prof Charles Rees CBE, Hofmann Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College London from 1978–83, and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1992–94{{cite journal |last1= Moody |first1= Christopher J. |year= 1980 |title= Charles Wayne Rees CBE, 15 October 1927 - 21 September 2006 |journal= Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume= 61 |pages= 351–378 |doi= 10.1098/rsbm.2015.0023 | doi-access = free}}
• Sir Eric Rideal MBE (briefly), chemist, Professor of Colloid Science at the University of Cambridge from 1930–46{{Cite journal | last1 = Eley | first1 = Daniel D. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1976.0017 | title = Eric Keightley Rideal. 11 April 1890 - 25 September 1974 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 22 | pages = 381–413| year = 1976 | doi-access = free }}
• George Sturt, author{{cite web |title= George Sturt (1863-1927) |date= 16 March 2023 |publisher= Surrey Heritage |url= https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/marvels/george-sturt |access-date= 1 April 2017}}
• Jeffrey Tate CBE (attended 1954–61), conductor{{cite ODNB |last= Holden |first= Raymond |title= Tate, Sir Jeffrey Philip |doi= 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380364 }}{{cite news |last= Millington |first= Barry |date= 4 June 2017 |title= Sir Jeffrey Tate obituary |work= The Guardian |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/04/sir-jeffrey-tate-obituary |access-date= 1 April 2023 }}
• Bill Wallis (attended 1948–55), actor and satirist (head boy in his final year)
• David Watkin, Professor of History of Architecture from 2001-8 at the University of Cambridge{{cite news |date= 2 September 2018 |title= Professor David Watkin, architectural historian - obituary |work= The Telegraph |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/09/02/professor-david-watkin-architectural-historian-obituary/ |access-date= 1 April 2023}}
• Squadron Leader Sydney Wiltshire,{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1442798/Squadron-Leader-Sidney-Wiltshire-GC.html | title= Squadron Leader Sidney Wiltshire, GC | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph | date=30 September 2003 }} awarded the George Cross

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• [http://www.farnhamians.org/ofa/ Old Farnhamians' Association]
• [http://www.farnham.ac.uk/ Farnham College]

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