St Paul's School, London
St Paul's School is a selective independent day school (with limited boarding) for boys aged 13–18,[1] founded in 1509 by John Colet[2] and located on a 43-acre[3][4] site by the Thames in London.[5][6]
This article is about the boys' independent school, now located at Barnes. For the school in the City of London, institutionally associated with St Paul's Cathedral, see St Paul's Cathedral School. For other schools with the same name, see St. Paul's School.St Paul's School
Latin: Fide Et Literis
(By Faith and By Learning)
1509
Johnny Robertson
Sally Anne Huang
c. 110
Boys
13 to 19
c.950
Blurton, Cloete, Field, Gilks, Gill, Harrison, Nilsson, Warner (named after Undermasters)
St Paul's School Boat Club
St Paul's was one of nine English public schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission, which subsequently became known as the Clarendon schools.[7][8] However, the school successfully argued that it was a private school[9] and consequently was omitted from the Public Schools Act 1868,[10] as was Merchant Taylors', the other day school within the scope of Lord Clarendon's terms of reference.[11] Since 1881, St Paul's has had its own preparatory school, St Paul's Juniors (formerly Colet Court), which since 1968 has been located on the same site.[2]
The school is included in The Schools Index as one of the world's 150 best private schools and among top 30 UK senior schools.[12]
Sporting Successes[edit]
Rugby[edit]
In 2007, St Paul's recorded their most notable result in the sport when they reached the final of the U15 Daily Mail Cup, the premier rugby union tournament for British secondary schools. The team was coached by Richard Girvan, Surmaster from 2012 to 2020.[34] St Paul's lost the game played at Twickenham Stadium 20-15 to Lymm High School.[35]
Rowing[edit]
The St Paul's School Boat Club (SPSBC) has won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta seven times. In 2018 the SPSBC 1st VIII achieved unprecedented success, winning the "triple crown" of schoolboy rowing with record breaking wins in the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup and the School's Head of the River, plus victory at the National Schools' Regatta in the Queen Mother's Challenge Cup; they also won the Men's Youth Eights at Head of the Charles in a record time and recorded the fastest time in history by any schoolboy crew over 2k of 5:36.59 at Marlow Regatta. Members of the crew also won the Pairs Head, Sculler's Head & Fours Head and all eligible members of the crew won gold medals at the World Junior Rowing Championships that year.