Harrow High School

Harrow High School is a co-educational academy in the London Borough of Harrow and a specialist Sports College. It was previously called Gayton High School and Harrow County School for Boys. The school has a sixth form for post-16 studies part of the Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate. There was an independent school with the same name on a nearby site until the late 1980s.

For other uses, see Harrow (disambiguation).

Harrow High School

51°34′50″N 0°19′39″W / 51.58053°N 0.32752°W / 51.58053; -0.32752

Academy

October 1911 (1911-10)

137177 Tables

Reports

Paul Gamble

Co-educational

11 to 18

824

Old Gaytonians

http://www.hhsweb.org/

Old Gaytonians Association (OGA)[edit]

The Old Gaytonians Association gained its first two members in October 1911 but the association was officially established on 27 September 1912.^[1] It was closed on 30 September 2016.^[2]

It was named after the school publication of the same name, this name was chosen because the school site was on 'Gayton Road'.^[1]

Biblical scholar

Peter Ackroyd

comedy writer and broadcaster

Clive Anderson

,^[5] emeritus professor of medical oncology, Charing Cross Hospital

Kenneth Bagshawe

air officer commanding-in-chief RAF Coastal Command 1953–1956, and outright winner of the Schneider Trophy in the Supermarine S6B, 1931

John Boothman

Conservative MP for Cardiff North 1959–66

Donald Box

director, London School of Economics 1957–1967

Sydney Caine

leader Greater London Council 1977–1981

Horace Cutler

professor of Hebrew and Jewish studies, University of Cambridge

Nicholas de Lange

Archdeacon of Derby 1973-1992

Robert Dell

archaeologist and small finds expert

Geoff Egan

vice-chancellor of University of Northumbria 2001–2008, and chairman of the Engineering Council 2005–2011^[6]

Kel Fidler

flautist

Andrew Findon

,^[7] emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry, University College London

C. Robin Ganellin

musician

Roger Glover

director of music at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court

Carl Jackson

,^[8] formerly HM Procurator General, Treasury Solicitor and head of the Government Legal Service

Paul Jenkins

actor & broadcaster

Robin Leach

former permanent secretary, Department for Work and Pensions

Leigh Lewis

architect

Donald McMorran

archaeologist, and president, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2005–2008

Roger Mercer

former teacher at the school

Beric Morley

former chairman of the Competition Commission; provost, Oriel College, Oxford

Derek Morris

music manager and record producer

Simon Napier-Bell

film director, Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Stephen Norrington

2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; president, Royal Society 2010–2015

Paul Nurse

architectural historian and writer on the blues and other forms of African-American music.

Paul Oliver

writer, and former head of comedy, BBC Television

Geoffrey Perkins

editor of The People 1972–82

Geoffrey Pinnington

journalist and broadcaster, former Conservative politician and Cabinet Minister^[9]

Michael Portillo

owner director, Pearson Engineering Ltd

Alan Reece

commandant, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2003–2006

Andrew Ritchie

comic

Cardew Robinson

British ambassador to the United States 2007–2012

Nigel Sheinwald

director, British Film Institute 1979–1988; president, Magdalen College, Oxford 1988–2005.

Anthony Smith

Formula Three driver

Stephen South

musician, The Cult

Jamie Stewart

editor-in-chief emeritus, UPI

Martin Walker

journalist and former editor of the Sunday Express

Martin Townsend

former deputy general secretary, Communication Workers Union; former governor, BBC; formerly Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Postal Affairs and Employment Relations, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Anthony Young, Baron Young of Norwood Green

May, Trevor. "The History of the Harrow County School for Boys". Harrow: Harrow County School for Boys, 1975 0-9504535-0-1, 199p.

ISBN

"Golden Jubilee Book, 1911–1961". Farnham Common: R. G. Baker & Co., 1961, 124p.

"The Gaytonian: The magazine of the County School, Harrow". 1911–1975.

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