History

Returning the elaborated blow by blow history of UCS is around impossible after numerous of its early records were destroyed when a archives of University College London were bombed in a Second Globe War, & because numerous documents were destroyed or even left to decompose by the schoolmaster world health organization believed, based on data from the legendary H.J.K. Usher, "that tradition began with him".

A School was originally founded inside 1830 by what was then a University of London, and okay, University College London. A University of London got been founded by Jeremy Bentham and others to provide opportunities for higher education to Catholics, Jews, Protestant dissenters &c. - when exclusively members of the established Church could study at Cambridge and Oxford (the simply more ii universities within England at the period). University College obtained that a quality of a school education of its applier was unsatisfying, referable the fact that the dependable English secondary schools were largely of Church of England foundation and, rather Oxbridge, barred to non-members of the Church of England. A guide was so taken to establish its have school on the premiss.

A number 1 schoolmaster was A Reverend Henry Browne. A School opened at 16 Gower Street (from either in which a byname 'Old Gower' derives) in November 1 1830. By February 1831 it had outgrown its quarters, & within 1832 it was brought within the bulwarks of the College, by having a joint headmastership of Thomas Hewitt Key and Henry Malden.

the School was remarkably original - it was never a boarding school, it was one of the 1st schools to teach modern languages (the 1st school inside Engl& to teach German) and sciences, and one of a foremost to abolish corporal punishment. It has too been noted that UCS experienced a gymnasium prior to a school that is typically credited sustaining getting the foremost gymnasium. Originally, there were there are there are no mandatory cases & no rigid form body. Virtually all boys learnt Latin and French, and numbers of learnt German. Mathematics, Chemistry, Greek and English were also taught. There was there is no religious teaching. Under a University College London (Transfer) Act 1905, University College London became part of the federal University of London, & its School was created as a separate corporation.

UCS moved away to fresh purpose built buildings around Frognal within Hampstead in 1907, which were opened by King Edward VII with the Archbishop of Canterbury in attendance on July 27. Kikuchi Dairoku was invited to the first annual prizegiving at Frognal in which he represented victims world health organization experienced received their prizes at Gower Street.

A Sixth Form Centre which besides houses a Theatre was opened per Duke of Kent inside 1974.

Around 1980 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited a School to celebrate its 150th Day of remembrance & to inaugurate the rebuilt hall which experienced been destroyed by fire within 1978.

Inside 1993 The newly Library, Music School, Lecture Theatre, Computer Laboratory, Sports Hall, Geography School, Mathematics School & farther schoolroom were added to the Senior School places. A Junior Branch buildings use at times likewise been wholly refurbished, by using a addition of an attractive Art & Technology Centre.

UCS occurs as member of the Eton Group of 12 leading public schools.

Inside 2005 UCS announced the £12 million development programme. Additionally a school manufactured a combined effort to hunt down Old Gowers, following the eminent Old Gowers listing will increase dramatically presently. A school is likewise presently making efforts to turn into co-co-ed, using a foremost steps existence introduced inside 2008.

Location

A Independent school places (i personally.e. that of the Senior School) is placed around Frognal, in leafy Hampstead - a suburban area of London. A independent school premiss occurs as noted lesson of Edwardian architecture (as pictured at top), additionally to this, a independent school hall is a second splendid & easily-preserved piece of Edwardian architecture. Within a hall is the brilliant Organ, typically utilized for school concerts & more celebration on to the school.

A Junior Branch has its have Library, Science Laboratory, Music, Computer & Drama rooms, when Junior Branch pupils have a Sports Hall & Floating Pool at Frognal for Physical Education.

Field sport including Rugby football, Football, Cricket, Athletics & Hockey require place at UCS's gamesfield inside Ranulf Road in nearby West Hampstead. Lawn tennis & Fives choose place at a school facilites on the Frognal assumption.

A Junior branch & a Phoenix school come placed within ii different campuses in Hampstead.

Arrangement

UCS consists of tierce independent a cappella. "The Phoenix School", co-co-ed for ages Three to 7. This was recently acquired by UCS. "The Junior Branch", boys-exclusively for ages 7 to 11. This is also referred to as "Holly Hill". "The Senior School", boys-exclusively for ages 11-18. This is unremarkably upright known as UCS, these are a largest of a lot able.

Year names

A Senior School (ages 11-18, British secondary school level) itself is divided into three schools by age, which are actually: Lower School, Years 7 & 8. Lycee, Years Niner, 10 & 11. Sixth Form, Moo Sixth & Upper Sixth (Years 12 & 13).

In a Senior School, for each one month has its have unique title, view the table in the image below:

Demes

Students in the midst School & Sixth Form come intended into Demes. This is similar to the school home. Midmost School, apiece season has of these form (class) to both Deme whereas within the Upper School there are deuce forms for both Deme in every month. There are typically inter-Deme tournaments & competitions around sports among more items. In a midst School the distinctive school sports coat carries a colored school logotype on the breast pocket portrayal which deme the pupil belongs to. from either each one Deme will require it title from the previous large member of staff in the school. There are presently 5 Demes:

Baxters, Blue Melanise Hawkins, Yellow Evans, Pink (though for sport their Deme colour is melanise) Flooks, Green Underwoods, Purple

School motto, colours and songs

A school slogan is "Paulatim sed firmiter", about translated when "Gradually but surely". A school song is known as Paulatim.

A school's colours come brownish-red & nigrify. In sports coat which are actually vertical stripes.

There keep around been many songs write of UCS

Entry

There are Foursome independent points of entry for prospective pupils:

At Junior even Branch entry, at ages Vii or Octad, estimated by combination of internal examination & locate. At Lower School entry, at age Eleven, estimated by combination of internal test & locate. At Lycee entry , at age Thirteen, estimated by combination of internal test & locate. At Sixth Form entry, at age Xvi, estimated by subject-specific test & interviews & misdirect upon GCSE results. This is exclusively the point of entry for the handful of boys.

Since a acquistion of a Phoenix School, a pupil transport between the school & the junior branch is in situ at age Heptad for victims "displaying academic potential".

Former pupils (Old Gowers)

Prominant previous pupils include (this is non the difinative names):

Alex Garland, Novelist Arthur Edwin Kennelly, American electrical engineer Dairoku Kikuchi, Japanese mathematician and Minister of Education David Katz, Music Journalist David McCallum, Actor Dick Rubenstein, Major Dirk Bogarde, Actor (Junior School only) G.W. Knox (OG 1856-59), President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales Frank Holl, English painter Frederic George Stephens, 'Nonartistic' member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood & Art critic. Hayashi Tadasu, Japanese Foreign Minister, and Ambassador to the Court of St James. Ingram Bywater (OG 1853-56), Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University Joseph Chamberlain (OG 1850-52), Colonial Secretary, leader of the Imperialist Liberals & father of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Judge Jules, Dance music DJ Julian Lloyd Webber, Cellist Max Minghella (OG 1999-2004), Actor Nicolas Bentley, illustrator Richard Holt Hutton (OG 1835-41), Editor of "The Spectator" Ronald Neame, British screenwriter & director Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (OG 1873-74), Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India Stephen Spender, Poet Thom Gunn, Poet Tom Hood, Humourist Will Self, Writer Walter Sickert A.R.A. (OG 1870-71), Creative person & critic First Viscount Samuel, Herbert Samuel (OG 1884-88), Leader of the Liberal Party, Front yard Secretary & High Commisioner for Palestine His Excellency Viscount Hayashi (OG 1867-68), Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Prof Karl Pearson F.R.S. (OG 1866-73), Founder of Department of Applied Cost figures of University College London which was the 1st cost comparisons department in the globe. He was the major contributor to the development of actual cost. Coeval & close friend of Kikuchi Dairoku. Prof William Edward Ayrton, F.R.S., (OG 1859-64), Physicist Sir Alfred Yarrow, Bart., F.R.S.(OG 1855-58), Ship building industrialist and philanthropist Sir Angus Prevost, Bart., (OG 1847-52), Governor of the Bank of England Sir Chris Bonington (OG 1944-52), Mountaineer Sir Claude Phillips (OG 1856-58), Keeper of the Wallace Collection Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart., G.C.M.G (OG 1835-39), Speaker of Assembly, Future South Wales Sir Francis Seymour Haden, English etcher, writer and surgeon Sir Frank Crisp (OG 1857-59), Eminent Company Lawyer Sir George Faudel-Phillips, Bart. (OG 1853-55), Lord Mayor of London 1896-97 Sir Henry Greenway Howse M.S., F.R.C.S. (OG 1856-58), President of the Royal College of Surgeons Sir Hamo Thornycroft R.A., (OG 1863-68), Creative person & sculptor Sir John Ambrose Fleming, Electrical engineer Sir Josiah Rees, (OG 1835-38), Chief Justice of Bermuda Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G, Two-period Prime Minister of New Zealand Sir Michael Foster K.C.B., F.R.S., M.P. (OG 1849-52), Psychologist, Prof & MP Sir Nathaniel Nathan (OG 1851-58), Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, 1901-1903 Sir Philip Magnus, Bart., (OG 1854-58), English educationist & MP Sir Roger Bannister (OG 1944-46), Runner and Neurologist A Rpm. Canon Ainger, Alfred Ainger (OG 1847-49), Master of the Temple A Rpm. Joseph Estlin Carpenter (OG 1854-60), Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford of Oxford University. A Rt. Hon. Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (OG 1839-43), Artist & President of the Royal Academy A Rt. Hon. Nathaniel Lindley, 1st Baron Lindley, P.C., (OG 1837-45), Master of the Rolls, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary A Rt. Hon. William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby, P.C., Q.C., (OG 1848-49), Speaker of the House of Commons A Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Braddon K.C.M.G., (OG 1843-44), Premier of Tasmania A Rt. Hon. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, P.C., O.M., [ (OG 1853-54), Secretary of State for India A Virtually all Revolutions per minute. Arthur Sweatman (OG 1848-50), Archbishop of Toronto and Primate of 100% Canada A Virtually all Revolutions per minute. E.G. Bagshawe (OG 1836-38), Archbishop of Selucia A Rt. Rpm. Edward Steere (OG 1842-44), Bishop of Central Africa. A Super Revolutions per minute. Dr. Hermann Adler (OG 1852-54), Chief Rabbi of UK Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G, Julius Vogel, (Chairman of Old Boys Dining Society 1877), ii instance Premier of Up to date Zealand Sir Barrow Ellis K.C.S.I,(OG 1883-37), Member of Governor-General's Council & of the Council of India J.G. Greenwood, (OG1835-37) Principle of Owens College, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University (UK) and possibly founded it Sir John Heathcote-Amory, Bart (of Tiverton)(OG 1843-45), Textile Baron, builder of Knightshayes Court The Rt. Hon. Lord Romilly, (OG 1843-50), There seem to be some confusion in internet sources; may have had some thing to do with the 1867 Reform Act A Rt. Hon. Lord Burnham, Baron Burnham (OG 1847-50), Principle proprietor of The Daily Telegraph A Rt. Hon. J.W. Mellor K.C., M.P. (OG 1844-51), Chair of Committees, Home of Commons Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bart. (OG 1847-52), Prof at University College London. There exists to this day a Durning-Lawrence Prof of the History of Art at UCL, & the independent hall at UCS is officially referred to as a Durning-Lawrence Hall. A Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Charles,P.C., (OG 1848-54), Judge of the High Court William Frend De Morgan (OG 1849-55), can or even might not exist as William De Morgan, possibly not because his entry in the register says he was the novelist. Edwin Waterhouse (OG 1855-57), President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and very probably the Waterhouse in PricewaterhouseCoopers, the largest professional services firm in the world A Rt. Hon. Lord Wandsworth Sidney James Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth, (OG 1857-58), Reason for Baronage unknown, however late based a Public School Lord Wandsworth College Sir G.C.T. Bartley (OG 1852-59), M.P. Sir Edward Henry Busk, M.A., LL.B (OG 1852-59), Vice-Chancellor of the University of London Augustus Pulszky LL.D (OG 1858-60), Professor of Law, University of Buda-Pesth Numa E. Hartog (OG 1857-61), First Jewish Senior Wrangler, prominant figure in the movement to remove jewish disabilites. His grounds to believe prior to a committee of the Home of Lords helped well to locate the passing of the Universities Tests Work 1871 Sir Boverton Redwood, 1st Baronet Boverton (OG 1857-61), Prominant chemist & crude oil good, co-founded a B & R Redwood consulting practice. He too co-founded, & became a 1st President of, a Institution of Petroleum Technologists, nowadays referred to as a Institute of Petroleum, around 1913. He was instrumental inside persuading a Royal Navy to vary from either coal laid-off ships to oil dismissed ones. Gottfried Kinkel (OG 1859-62), Prof of Greek, University of Zurich. Can be the relation of Gottfried Kinkel Admiral Sir Percy M. Scott, Bart., K.C.B. (OG 1865-66), Typically regarded in a Royal Navy when "the father of modern gunnery". Scott was besides subservient around developoing more devices for a fleet like a masthead flashbulb (& even a masthead semaphore) & the shutter "for the emission of signs" to wear a searchlights thus it can be utilized to send morse code. He was Millitary Commandant of Durban whilst marshal law was declared when you took a Boer War. Inside the controversial letter to the Times he foresaw the vulnerability of battlewagon to freshly technology like submarines. He was manufactured Head of a anti-submarine department of a Admiralty months into the number one globe war, he is one of trinity Naval officers world health organization (working independently) come credited by owning the development of depth bomb. [http://www.gwpda.org/naval/pers0001.htm], [http://www.ijnhonline.org/volume1_number1_Apr02/article_johnson_angloamerican_inventors.doc.htm], [http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/admiralty_and_the_submarine_serv.htm] Professor E.A. Sonnenschein, Litt.D. (OG 1867-68), Philologue, Prof of Classics & Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the University of Birmingham Sir D. Brynmor Jones, P.C., Q.C., M.P. (OG 1862-69), writer of parliamentary reports Sir C.A. Russell Q.C., (OG 1862-71), was probably Charles Russell Q.C. world health organization defended at least one of a 3 social candidate in a celebrated pack of Eliza Armstrong (1885): social nominee proved the being of under age harlotry by "buying a girl", it were so prosectued Alexander Hill M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S. (OG 1870-72), Master of Downing College, Cambridge Lt.-General Sir Robert I. Scallon K.C.B., K.C.I.E., D.S.O. (OG 1869-73) Sir Wilfred Collett K.C.M.G. (OG 1870-73), Governor of British Guiana 1914-1918 Justin H. McCarthy M.P. (OG 1871-73), Parliamentarian & creator & even boy of Justin McCarthy Lucas Barrett, English Geologist and naturalist - Potty person confirm this?? The Rt. Rev. J.E. Hine D.D., M.D. (OG 1870-74), Bishop of Zanzibar, Archdeacon of Lincoln Professor F.C. Montague M.A. (OG 1871-74), Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Historian H. Clarence Bourne C.M.G. (OG 1872-75), Compound Secretary of Jamaica Sir William J Collins K.C.V.O, M.D., M.S., F.R.C.S., M.P. (OG 1869-76), Parliamentarian & Chair of L.C.C Sir A.G. Bourne K.C.I.E., F.R.S. (OG 1872-76), Director of the Indian Institute of Science Marion H. Spielmann (OG 1872-66), Historian of "Punch" Maurice Greiffenhagen R.A. (OG 1872-76), Artist Professor S.J. Hickson F.R.S. (OG 1873-76), Victoria University Professor D.S. MacColl (OG 1873-76), Keeper of the Wallace Collection Sir W.S. Meyer G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I. (OG 1873-76), Member of the Governor-General's Council, Number one High Commissioner for India Leonard Huxley LL.D. (OG 1872-77), Editor of "The Cornhill Magazine" Professor W.D. Halliburton M.D., F.R.S. (OG1872-77), Prof of Physiology, King's College London Sir Theodore Morison K.C.S.I, K.C.I personally.E., C.B.E. (OG 1874-77), Member of the Council of India, Main of Armstrong College Sir E.W. Moir Bart. (OG 1875-77), Engineer André Chevrillon (OG 1876-77), member of the French Academy Sir Edward Manville M.Inst.E.E., (OG 1874-78), Chairperson of the Imperial Council of Commerce Robert Anning Bell R.A. (OG 1876-78), Crucial painter & illustrator Percy Flemming M.D., F.R.C.S. (OG 1872-79), Prof of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital Sir A. E. Shipley F.R.S. (OG 1877-79), Master of Christ's College, Cambridge Arthur Berry (OG 1877-79), Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge Sir Walter Raleigh (OG 1877-79), Prof of English Literature, University of Oxford Sir Philip J Hartog K.B.E., C.I.E. (OG 1874-80), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dacca Sir John Rose Bradford Bart., K.C.M.G., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. (OG 1875-80), President of the Royal College of Physicians Sir W. Phené Neal (OG 1876-80), Lord Mayor of London 1930-31 Walter Ashburner D.C.L. (OG 1877-80), Prof of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford H. W. Halton (OG 1877-80), Vice-President Court of Appeal, President Mixed Tribunal, Cairo Sir Joseph Duveen, Baronet, down the road Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank (OG 1877-80), One of the virtually all influential art dealers ever & the philanthropist Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Hill, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O., F.R.C.S., (OG 1871-81), Director-General of the Admiralty Medical Department, Hon. Operating surgeon to H.M. a King Sir Harry Haward (OG 1877-81), Controller of the L.C.C., Electricity Commissioner Maj.-Gen Sir T. Fraser K.C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G. (OG 1876-82) Professor O. K. Willaimson M.A., M.B. (OG 1876-82), University of Witwatersrand Maj.-Gen. Sir E. D. Swinton K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O. (OG 1878-83), Chichele Prof of Military History, University of Oxford

Notable faculty

Previous staff include:

Sir William Smith, Lexicographer & Teacher A Rpm Henry Browne, Headmaster Thomas Hewitt Key, Headmaster Henry Malden, Headmaster