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Prior Park College
Address
Ralph Allen Drive Bath , Somerset , BA2 5AH England
Coordinates	51°21′52″N 2°20′35″W / 51.3644°N 2.3431°W / 51.3644; -2.3431
Information
Type	Public school Independent school Day, full boarding & weekly boarding school
Motto	Latin: Deo Duce Deo Luce (God our Guide, God our Light)
Religious affiliation(s)	Christianity
Established	1830; 195 years ago (1830)
Founder	Congregation of Christian Brothers
Department for Education URN	109347 Tables
Chair	A M H King
Headmaster	Ben Horan
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	624
Houses	Allen Arundell Burton Clifford English Fielding Roche St Mary's Baines Brownlow
Colour(s)	Navy and Cyan
Publication	Prior Knowledge
Alumni	Old Priorites
Website	www.priorparkcollege.com

Prior Park College is a co-educational public school for both boarding and day pupils in Bath, south-west England. Its main building, Prior Park, stands on a hill overlooking the city and is a Grade I listed building. The adjoining 57-acre (23 ha) Prior Park Landscape Garden was donated by Prior Park to the National Trust.

The school's parent body is Prior Park Schools, which also runs the Paragon Junior School (Bath) and Prior Park School Gibraltar.

Prior Park College provides co-educational schooling for students aged 11 to 18. Founded in 1830 to be England's first Catholic university, it was established by the Benedictine, Bishop Baines, as a seminary. The school kept its links with the Catholic diocese – which meant pupils were required to study Religious Education to GCSE level – until 2024. By that time the proportion of students of the Catholic faith had decreased to 18%, and the school is now described as Christian.^[1]

In July 2009, Giles Mercer retired. He had been head teacher since 1996, and with his previous position as head of Stonyhurst College, he became the "longest serving Catholic senior school headmaster in England".^[2] His successor was James Murphy-O'Connor, nephew of former Prior Park pupil Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. Since 2019, Ben Horan has been the headmaster,^[3] after Murphy-O'Connor took up a new position at the Monmouth Schools.^[4]

The school is part of the Prior Park Foundation which includes the Paragon Junior School, also in Bath, and Prior Park School Gibraltar, in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.^[5]

The Palladian hillside mansion housing Prior Park College was designed and built by John Wood, the Elder in 1742. He was commissioned by Ralph Allen: "To see all Bath, and for all Bath to see".^[6] The mansion was designated as Grade I listed in 1950.^[7]

One wing of the mansion includes a chapel of our Lady of the Snows, built in 1863 by Scoles and Son, which is also Grade I listed; there is also a chapel in the original house.^[8] The chapel is unfinished, with the pillars at the back remaining unsculpted as they were in 1863.

Prior Park Landscape Garden was laid out between 1734 and 1744, with the Allens benefiting during the first phase from the advice of their friend Alexander Pope. The Palladian bridge and the lake that it spans were added in 1755; the final phase with the green slopes from the house to the lake is thought to have been planned by Capability Brown in the 1760s.^[9][10] The garden is now owned by the National Trust.

In 1828, Bishop Baines purchased the mansion for £22,000 and used it as a seminary named the Sacred Heart College.^[11] Renovations were made according to designs by H. E. Goodridge in 1834. The seminary was closed in 1856 after a fire in 1836 caused extensive damage and subsequent renovation caused financial insolvency. The estate was later bought by Bishop Clifford who founded a Catholic grammar school.^[12]

The chapel was designed by J. J. Scoles in 1844 but not completed until 1863. It followed 18th-century French models such as Chalgrin's St. Philippe-du-Roule in Paris. Pevsner describes it as "without any doubt the most impressive Chapel interior of its date in the county".^[13]

The grammar school closed in 1904 and the estate was occupied by the army during the First World War and by a series of tenants until 1921; the Christian Brothers founded a boys' boarding school in 1924. Prior Park College continues to occupy the main house. In 1993, 11.3 hectares (28 acres) of the park and pleasure grounds were acquired by the National Trust and have been extensively restored.

The mansion has been victim of fire twice. The 1836 event left visible damage to some stonework.^[14] A 1991 fire gutted the interior, except for parts of the basement;^[15] rebuilding took four years and cost about £6 million. Unusually, the blaze started on the top floor, and spread downwards. The school operated in the stables and former servants' quarters during the renovation.^[16]

Prior Park leases The Monument Field from the National Trust. The field is named after a triangular Gothic building with a round tower erected by Bishop Warburton, demolished in 1953;^[17] it had a circular staircase and contained a tablet inscribed in Latin in honour of Ralph Allen.^[18]

Since 2000, improvements include an indoor swimming pool,^[19] an Information and communications technology centre, and classroom extensions including the Mackintosh Dance Studio and Theatre (2006), the Design Centre (September 2016)^[20] and the Bury Sports Centre (April 2015).^[21] All sports facilities are located on site.

In 1946 the Congregation of Christian Brothers opened a preparatory school linked to Prior Park College, at Calcutt Street, Cricklade, Wiltshire. The school's main building was the late-19th century Manor House, with extensive grounds.^[22] At first a boarding school for boys, the school admitted day boys in the 1970s. After the Brothers left Bath and Cricklade in 1980, the school was sold and came under lay management but kept its name, Prior Park Preparatory School. Later, girls were admitted, and the school catered for ages 3 to 13, with boarding available from age 7.^[23][24] In January 2015 there were 205 pupils.^[25]

Since September 2017, the school is no longer a member of the Prior Park Schools Educational Trust, although it retains strong links with the college. Its name changed to Cricklade Manor Prep and it is one of the Wishford Schools group of preparatory schools.^[26]

• Stephen Bowman, member of Brit Award winning band Blake^[27]
• Leonard Calderbank, Catholic priest
• Damian Cronin, Bath and Scotland rugby player^[28]
• Billy Drake, Battle of Britain fighter pilot
• Adam "Nolly" Getgood, guitarist^[29]
• Charles Kent (1823–1902), poet, biographer and journalist
• Peter Levi, University of Oxford educator^[30]
• Christopher Logue, poet^[31]
• Sir Ken Macdonald Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales, head of the Crown Prosecution Service^[31]
• Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British theatrical producer (formerly partnered with composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber)^[32]
• Gabriel Makhlouf, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland
• Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster^[33]
• Michael Please, BAFTA winning animator^[34]
• John Patrick Savage, Canadian politician
• Hugh Scully, broadcaster^[30]
• John Aloysius Ward, former archbishop of Cardiff^[35]

Media related to Prior Park College at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Profile at the ISC website

Monkton Combe School
Chapel Quad, Monkton Combe School
Location
Monkton Combe, near Bath , Somerset , BA2 7HG England
Coordinates	51°21′25″N 2°19′37″W / 51.3569°N 2.3270°W / 51.3569; -2.3270
Information
Type	Public school Private boarding school
Motto	Latin: Verbum Tuum Veritas (Thy Word is Truth)
Established	1868; 157 years ago (1868)
Founder	The Revd Francis Pocock
Head Master	Christopher Wheeler (Senior School), Catherine Winchcombe (Prep School)
Gender	Coeducational
Age	2 to 18
Enrolment	711 (Senior, Prep and Pre-Prep)
Houses	6 Senior, 5 Prep
Colour(s)	Navy Blue & White
Alumni	Old Monktonians
Website	http://www.monktoncombeschool.com

Monkton Combe School is a public school (fee-charging boarding and day school), located in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset, England.

It is a member of the Rugby Group of major independent boarding schools in the United Kingdom.^[1]

Monkton Combe School was founded in 1868 by the Revd. Francis Pocock, a former curate to the Bishop of Sierra Leone in the 1850s.^[2]

Several of the school's buildings are listed, including the main Senior school block known as The Old Farm,^[3] and the part of the Terrace Block known as The Old Vicarage.^[4]

The school has extensive grounds at both the Preparatory and Senior schools. The Senior cricket pitches (Longmead and Landham) with their thatched pavilion are described as among the most picturesque in England,^[5] regularly featuring in the Wisden Cricket Calendar’s ‘loveliest grounds’ lists.^[6][7]

The school maintains two boathouses, both on the River Avon. The older is situated on the edge of the Senior school grounds, sitting below the Dundas Aqueduct and is used mainly for junior rowing. In 2014 the school opened a new boathouse in the nearby village of Saltford, which benefits from a wider and straighter stretch of river, as well as more spacious land facilities.^[8] Students row as part of the Monkton Combe School Boat Club, with the racing name Monkton Bluefriars.

At the Senior school there are three boys houses: Farm, Eddystone and School; and three girls houses: Grange, Clarendon and Nutfield. Each house has both day and boarding pupils.

Clarendon house continues the traditions of Clarendon School for Girls, a former independent girls school which merged with Monkton in 1992, at which point the school became coeducational.^[9]

The Preparatory school has four day pupil houses: Howard, Easterfield, Kearns and Jameson; in addition to Hatton house, a mixed boarding house.

The school has produced five Olympic rowing medalists. Each represented Great Britain and three won gold medals.^[10]

In addition, an OM achieved an Olympic Gold Medal representing Great Britain at men's hockey, while another captained the England Netball Team which won Gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.^[11]

The school has ties to the Royal Navy ship HMS Magpie, a Black Swan-class sloop which was commanded by then Lieutenant-Commander, later Admiral of the Fleet the Duke of Edinburgh. The ties were established when the ship took the Junior school’s badge, a magpie (designed by the art mistress, Miss Bulmer), as its ship’s emblem.

The ship's bell was presented to the Junior School upon its decommissioning. The link is maintained with the current HMS Magpie, a survey ship, which continues to use the magpie emblem.^[12]

OM Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall, who served as surgeon during the 1907 British Antarctic Nimrod Expedition donated a sled and flag used on the expedition to the school, which remained on display for many years. Due to concerns about being able to keep these historic items in appropriate conditions, the school sold them at auction in 2018,^[13] replacing it with a replica sculpture, ‘Discovery & Endeavour’ which is on display in the inner quadrangle.^[14]

The following have served as Head Master and/or Principal of the school:^[15]

• 1868–1875 Revd F. Pocock
• 1875–1895 Revd R.G. Bryan
• 1895–1900 Revd W.E. Bryan
• 1900–1900 Revd N. Bennett
• 1900–1926 Revd J.W. Kearns
• 1926–1946 Revd E. Hayward
• 1946–1968 D.R. Wigram
• 1968–1978 R.J. Knight
• 1978–1990 R.A.C. Meredith
• 1990–2005 M.J. Cuthbertson
• 2005–2015 R. Backhouse
• 2016–Present C. Wheeler

• Revd. R.W. Ryde, 1866–1909, Classics Master
• D. Vaughan-Thomas, 1873-1934, Mathematics & Music Master^[16]
• A.S. Sellick, 1878–1958, Cricket Master
• G.F. Graham Brown, 1891–1942, History Master and former pupil
• F. Vallis, 1896–1957, Association Football and Cricket Master
• T.M. Watson, 1913–1994, French Master
• N.D. Botton, 1954–, History Master
• M. Wells, 1979–, Rowing Master

• George Somes Layard, 1857–1925, barrister, journalist and man of letters
• Harry Martindale Speechly, 1866–1951, Canadian doctor
• Montague Waldegrave, 5th Baron Radstock, 1867–1953, peer
• Count Vladimir Alekseyevich Bobrinsky, 1868–1927, Tsarist politician from the Second to the Fourth Duma
• Count Paul Bobrinsky, 1869–1919, Peter's twin and Russian counter-revolutionary
• Count Peter Bobrinsky, 1869–1932, Paul's twin and Russian counter-revolutionary
• Harry Colt, 1869–1951, widely regarded as the father of golf course architecture
• Ernest Crosbie Trench 1869–1960, British civil engineer
• Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet 1869–1958, part-owner of W. D. & H. O. Wills and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
• Edwyn Bevan 1870–1943, British philosopher and Hellenistic historian
• Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa 1873–1943, British peer, barrister and soldier
• Horatio Powys-Keck, 1873–1952, first class cricketer
• Alfred Young 1873–1940, mathematician and inventor of the Young diagram and Young tableau^[17]
• Lieutenant Colonel Richard Annesley West 1878–1918, recipient of the Victoria Cross for sacrificing his life for his men
• Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall, 1879–1963, Antarctic explorer in Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition
• Frank Lugard Brayne 1882–1952, administrator in the Indian Civil Service
• Revd. Richard Howard, 1884–1981, Provost of Coventry Cathedral during its destruction, Archdeacon of Coventry^[18]
• Revd. William Thompson 1885–1975, Bishop of Iran
• Revd. Robert Wilmot Howard, 1887–1960, Master of St Peter’s Hall, Oxford
• Hugh Norton 1890–1969, Archdeacon of Sudbury
• Revd. Francis Graham Brown 1891–1942, Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Bishop of Jerusalem
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse 1892–1970, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force and of RAF Bomber Command^[19]
• Dr. Sir Clement Chesterman 1894–1983, medical missionary at Yakusu in the Congo with the Baptist Missionary Society
• Harold Gilbee Anderson (1896–1977), medical missionary to China with the Church Mission Society

• Michael Head, 1900–1976, composer, singer and musical educator
• Dr. W. E. Shewell-Cooper, 1900–1982, organic gardening pioneer
• Percival Spear, 1901–1982, historian and civil servant in India
• Revd. Charles Claxton, 1903–1992, Bishop of Warrington, Blackburn, Lord Spiritual^[20]
• Revd. Kenneth Mathews, 1906–1992, Dean of St Albans
• R. C. Hutchinson, 1907–1976, novelist
• David Howard Adeney, 1911–1994, missionary in China and East Asia^[21]
• Jim Broomhall, 1911–1994, historian and medical missionary to China with the China Inland Mission
• Charles Sergel, 1911–1980, Olympic rower and medical missionary to Uganda
• Revd. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, 1912–1991, Dean of Johannesburg and anti-apartheid activist.
• Major-General John Frost, 1912–1993, leader of airborne forces during the Battle of Arnhem
• Colin Butler, 1913–2016, entomologist who first isolated the pheromone
• Martyn Cundy, 1913–2005, reforming mathematical educator and academic
• Thorley Walters, 1913–1991, actor
• Thomas Watson, 1913–1994, first class cricketer
• Professor John Anderson Strong, 1915–2012, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• Dr. Ran Laurie, 1915–1998, Olympic rowing champion and physician
• J. Desmond Clark, 1916–2002, influential archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley^[22]
• The Right Revd. Maurice Wood, 1916–2007, Principal of Oak Hill Theological College and Bishop of Norwich
• Harold Jameson (1918–1940), first-class cricketer
• Lt Kevin Walton, 1918–2009, Antarctic explorer
• Squadron Leader James MacLachlan, 1919–1943, flying ace
• Revd. Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 1920–1990, Bishop of Iran^{[dubious – discuss]}
• Revd. Graham Leonard, 1921–2010, Bishop of London
• Revd. David Brown, 1922–1982, Bishop of Guildford and missionary
• Prince Asrate Kassa, 1922–1974, Viceroy of Eritrea
• Pilot Officer Alfred Mellows, 1922–1997, Olympic rower
• Arthur Wallis, 1922–1988, itinerant Bible teacher and author
• Captain David Eyton-Jones, 1923–2012, SAS officer during Operation Tombola, businessman and chaplain
• Michael Lapage, 1923–2018, Olympic rower and missionary
• Colonel David Wood, 1923–2009, last surviving officer of the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges
• Professor David Marshall Lang, 1924–1991, Professor of Caucasian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies
• Senator Andy Thompson, 1924–2016, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
• Major General Sir Philip Ward, 1924–2003, GOC London District and Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex
• Revd. Allan Rutter, 1928-, first class cricketer and vicar
• Christopher Buxton, 1929–2017, property developer and President of The Abbeyfield Society
• Right Revd. John Bone, 1930–2014, Bishop of Reading
• Count Michel Didisheim, 1930–2020, Private Secretary and Chief of the Royal Household to Albert, Prince of Liège
• Adrian Mitchell, 1932–2008, poet, novelist and playwright^[23]
• Barclay Palmer, 1932–2020, Olympic athlete
• Professor Gerald Blake, 1936-, Professor Emeritus of Geography at Durham University and former Principal of Collingwood College, Durham
• John Barnard Bush, 1937–, land-owner and former Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
• Michael Mortimore, 1937–2017, geographer and a researcher of issues in the African drylands
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Stear, 1938–2020, Deputy Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe
• Revd. Stephen Sykes, 1939–2014, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and Bishop of Ely
• Michael Barton Akehurst, 1940–1989, international lawyer
• Peter Webb, 1940-, Olympic rower
• Sir Tim Lankester, 1942–, former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• Professor Nick Jardine, 1943-, Emeritus Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge
• Sir Richard Stilgoe, 1943–, songwriter, lyricist and musician
• Bernard Cornwell, 1944–, historical novelist
• Revd. Ian Cundy, 1945–2009, Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Peterborough^[24]
• Sir Richard Dearlove 1945-, Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 2004 and former Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Ricky Panter, 1948-, Archdeacon of Liverpool
• Nigel Sinclair 1948-, Hollywood producer
• Sir Iain Torrance 1949–, Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
• Sir David Haslam 1949- Former Chair of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and President of BMA and RCGP

• Professor Sir Robert Lechler, 1951–, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Professor of Immunology at King's College London
• John Reed, 1951-, former Archdeacon of Taunton
• Julian Colbeck, 1952-, musician and businessman
• Professor Mike Cowlishaw, 1953–, programmer and scientist
• Howard Milner, 1953–2011, tenor
• James Hawkins, 1954-, artist and film-maker
• Canon Nigel Biggar 1955-, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford
• Chris Anderson, 1957–, Journalist and publisher, Owner of TED and curator of TED Talks.
• Stephen Warren, 1957–, Professor of Astrophysics at Imperial College London
• John Kiddle, 1958-, Archdeacon of Wandsworth
• Sir Charles Farr, 1959–2019, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of the Joint Intelligence Organisation
• Lieutenant General Tim Evans, 1962-, former Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
• Steve Williams, 1976–, Olympic rowing champion
• Rowley Douglas, 1977-, Olympic coxswain champion
• James Frith, 1977-, former Member of Parliament for Bury North
• Stefan Booth, 1979-, actor
• Seyi Rhodes, 1979–, television presenter and investigative journalist
• Alex Partridge, 1981–, Olympic rower and World Rowing champion
• Ama Agbeze, 1982–, former Captain of the England national netball team
• Josh Ovens, 1989-, farmer and former player for Bath Rugby
• Professor Phil Hockey, 1959–2013, South African ornithologist, director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town.^[25]

• Ben Wells, 2000-, first class cricketer

• Monkton Combe School website
• Bluefriars Boatclub website
• Senior School Good Schools Guide Report
• Monkton Combe village website

52°07′14″N 2°20′03″W / 52.120586°N 2.334055°W / 52.120586; -2.334055 Clarendon School for Girls was a girls' independent boarding school, which began in 1898 in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It moved three times: first to Kinmel Hall near Abergele in Denbighshire in 1948 and then to Haynes Park in Bedfordshire in 1976 before merging with Monkton Combe School, near Bath, Somerset in 1992.^[1]

Clarendon School was established in a private house in North Malvern, Worcestershire in 1898 by Miss Amy Flint (1869-1941), assisted by her sisters Mary, Annie and Kate. The first pupils were seven boarders aged between six and sixteen. The Misses Flint were the daughters of an Evangelical Christian travelling preacher and embedded their strong Christian values and ethos in the day-to-day operation of their new school.^[2] Miss Amy Flint remained as headmistress of Clarendon School until her retirement in 1930, when the school had grown to contain forty-six pupils and occupy several more houses in the village.

During World War II, numbers grew to such an extent that new, larger premises had to be found. Some 150 girls were living in eleven houses around Malvern, and the school could not operate efficiently. Kinmel Hall, Abergele in Denbighshire was selected to house Clarendon School, with Sir John Laing stepping in to provide support.^[3] The school moved from Malvern to Abergele in twenty Pickfords removal lorries in April 1948 - its fiftieth anniversary year.^[4]

In 1956 the Clarendon School Trust was established, taking the school out of private ownership.^[2] In September 1975 a large fire devastated the central part of Kinmel Hall. Meanwhile, Hawnes House School^[5] at Haynes Park in Bedfordshire had become bankrupt and its fine buildings had become available. So in early 1976, Clarendon School moved to Haynes Park.

In 1992 Clarendon School agreed to merge with Monkton Combe School, an independent boys' school based just outside Bath, Somerset which had been founded in 1868. The two schools shared the same aims and Christian ethos and as Monkton Combe School had taken the decision to become fully co-educational that same year the merger was swift. The name of Clarendon School has been retained as the name of one of three girl's boarding houses at Monkton Combe School.^[6]

The following have been Head Mistress of Clarendon:

Name	Years as Head Mistress	Birth/death dates
Miss Amy Flint	1898–1930	1868-1941
Miss Edith G.R. Swain	1930-1965	1897-1984
Miss Sheila Haughton	1965-1978
Miss Jean Howell	1978-1990
Mrs Marjorie Crane	1990-1991
Mrs Molly Dawson	1991–1992

• Patricia St. John, 1919–1993, children's author and missionary, was a house mother at Clarendon School in the 1940s.
• Princess Aida Desta, 1927–2013, granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
• Princess Hirut Desta, 1930–2014, granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
• Princess Seble Desta, 1931–2023, granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
• Princess Sophia Desta, 1934–2021, granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
• Guli Francis-Dehqani, 1966-, Bishop of Chelmsford and member of the House of Lords
• Salome Mulugeta, Ethiopian film-maker
• Jember Teferra, 1943–2021, great-niece of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
• Elizabeth Wilmshurst, 1948-, Distinguished Fellow, International Law, Chatham House

Reunions of "Old Clarendonians", the former staff and pupils of Clarendon School for Girls, are organised by Monkton Combe School. In 2018 the 120th anniversary of the founding of Clarendon House School at Malvern was celebrated with a reunion held at Monkton Combe School which was attended by sixty five former pupils and staff.^[7]

Ralph Allen School
Address
Claverton Down Road Bath , Somerset , BA2 7AD England
Coordinates	51°21′48″N 2°19′46″W / 51.3633°N 2.3295°W / 51.3633; -2.3295
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	Respect, Teamwork, Personal best
Established	1958
Local authority	Bath and North East Somerset
Specialists	Sportsmark (Gold) Artsmark (Silver)
Department for Education URN	138522 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chair of Governors	Christopher David Mason
Headteacher	Nathan Jenkins
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1300 pupils
Houses	Hippogriff Pegasus Dragon Phoenix
Colour(s)
Website	http://www.ralphallenschool.com/

Ralph Allen School in Combe Down, Bath, England, is a co-educational, comprehensive secondary school with academy status. Located on the south-eastern edge of Bath, the school educates 11 to 18-year-olds from Bath and the surrounding area.

The school was built and named in 1957 to commemorate Ralph Allen (1693-1764).^[1][2] It opened in 1958.

In 2004, the school gained specialist Science College status, and has also been recognised by Artsmark Silver, Investors in People, Investors in Student Careers, Schools for Health, Partnership Promotion School and Sportsmark Gold awards.^[3]

The school is part of the Bath Education Trust,^[4] working closely with other local schools, colleges, universities and businesses. It also works closely with the James Dyson Foundation,^[5] and is part of the Active Transport to Schools project.^[6]

• Tobie Donovan, actor^[7]
• Becky Francis, educationalist and academic
• Sarah Gibson, British MP
• Serena Guthrie, netball player^[8]
• Jeremy Guscott, rugby player^[9]
• Chris Lawrence, CG Supervisor on 'Gravity'^[10]
• Jake Sinclair, football player^[11]
• Scott Sinclair, football player^[12]
• Danny Wallace, comic writer^[13]

• Ralph Allen School Website
• Ofsted inspection reports for Ralph Allen School
• Ofsted inspection reports for Ralph Allen School (pre 2012 conversion to Academy)

People educated at Prior Park College.

Former pupils of Monkton Combe School, in England. They are known in some circles as "Old Monktonians".