Lancing College
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Lancing College is a co-educational English Public School founded in 1848 by the Rev. Nathaniel Woodard. Based in West Sussex. Girls were first admitted in 1971. The school is set on 550 acres (2.2 km²) and dominated by a huge Gothic revival chapel, and follows a high church Anglican tradition. The College of St. Mary and St. Nicholas (as it was originally known) was intended for the sons of upper middle classes, professional men; in time this became Lancing College, moving to its present site in 1857. The new school building was designed by the architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter.
Notable alumni include
- Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ghana
- Greg Barker, Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle
- Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Senior Law Lord (1998-2000)
- Sir Roy Calne Former Professor of Surgery at the University of Cambridge.
- Tom Driberg Communist, Labour MP, and scandal monger
- Christopher Hampton Playwright
- David Hare Playwright
- Trevor Huddleston Archbishop of Tanzania and President of the Anti-Apartheid Association
- Sir Christopher Meyer, Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission and former British Ambassador to the United States (1997-2003)
- Jan Morris Transsexual author
- Henry Nettleship Classics scholar
- Peter Pears Tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten
- Tim Rice Lyricist
- Sir Neil Ritchie, Second World War general who was replaced by Montgomery as head of the Eighth Army
- John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey, former Lord Chancellor
- Tom Sharpe Anti-apartheid satirical novelist, banned from South Africa
- Jamie Theakston TV and radio presenter, subject of tabloid scandal
- Evelyn Waugh Novelist, author of the Sword of Honour trilogy.
External links
- Lancing College (http://www.lancingcollege.co.uk/)
- The Woodard Corporation - Church of England Schools (http://www.woodard.co.uk/)