Nottingham High School
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Nottingham High School is a UK independent fee-paying boy's school situated about a mile north of Nottingham city centre. It has around 800 pupils from ages 11 to 18 and there is an adjoining preparatory school catering for younger boys. The school was founded in 1513 by Dame Agnes Mellers, after whom one of the four school houses is named. The other three houses are Maples, Coopers and Whites.
Alumni of the school include
- D. H. Lawrence
- Kenneth Clarke
- Geoff Hoon
- Ed Balls, Treasury advisor
- Edward Davey, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament
- Albert Ball - first RAF winner of the Victoria Cross (was in fact expelled from Nottingham High School and attended Trent College)
- Michael Champion - President of King's College London Students' Union 2004-05.
See also