Harrow School
Harrow School (/ˈhæroʊ/)[1] is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England.[2] The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon, a local landowner and farmer, under a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I.
Harrow School
1572 (Royal Charter)
J P Batting
~200 (full-time)
Male
13 to 18
~830 pupils
12
Blue and white
"Forty Years On"
£46,710
Old Harrovians
The Harrow Lion
The Silver Arrow
The school has an enrolment of about 820 boys, all of whom board full-time, in twelve boarding houses.[3] It was one of the seven public schools selected for reform in the Public Schools Act of 1868. Harrow's uniform includes morning suits, straw boater hats, top hats and canes.
Its list of distinguished alumni includes seven former British prime ministers: Aberdeen, Perceval, Goderich, Peel, Palmerston, Baldwin and Churchill, as well as the former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; numerous former and current members of both Houses of the UK Parliament, several members of various royal families, three Nobel Prize winners, twenty Victoria Cross holders, and many prominent figures in the arts and sciences.
Media coverage[edit]
Harrow was featured in a Sky 1 documentary series entitled Harrow: A Very British School in 2013.
In February 2016, the actor Laurence Fox claimed Harrow threatened legal action to prevent him discussing the racism, homophobia and bullying he said he encountered as a pupil at the school.[22][23]
