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St Edmund's School, Hindhead

St Edmund's School is a coeducational nursery, pre-prep, preparatory and senior school in Hindhead, Surrey, around 10.5 miles south-west from the town of Guildford.

History

The school was founded in Hunstanton, Norfolk, in 1874. The school's original buildings in Hunstanton were purchased in 1901 by Howard Cambridge Barber and became the home of Glebe House School.

The school moved to Hindhead, Surrey, in 1900, into a large country house named Blen Cathra in grounds of some . George Bernard Shaw had lived there for a short time.

In 1968 the school had 130 boarders, and 25 day boys "taken for the first two years". In 1979 The St Edmund's School Charitable Trust was formed to help take the school forward, with Richard Saunders, an old boy, becoming its first Chairman of Governors.

For most of its existence St Edmund's was for boys only, however, with the first girls being admitted in 2008, the school is now co-educational. In 2014 the ISI report listed it as having 249 pupils. 173 boys and 76 girls.

In November 2024, the school merged with St Hilary's School, Godalming.

Notable former pupils

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Headmasters

  • 1874 to 1899 Rev. J. Morgan-Brown MA (Oxf)
  • 1899 to 1929 Cyril Morgan Brown,
  • 1929 to 1933 Ivor Sant
  • 1933 to 1952 Ivo Bulley
  • 1952 to 1978 Peter Weeks MA (Cantab)
  • 1978 to 1991 Tony Pull (Oxf)
  • 1991 to 1995 Andrew Sangster
  • 1995 to 2000 Andrew Fowler-Watt
  • 2000 to present A. J. Walliker, MA (Cantab)

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