Cothill House
Cothill House is a boarding boys' independent school for preparatory pupils in Cothill, Oxfordshire, which houses around 220 boys from the ages 8–13.
| Cothill House, Cothill | |
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Cothill , , OX13 6JL England | |
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| Type | Independent boarding school Preparatory School |
| Motto | Dum spiro spero ("While I breathe, I hope") |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Church of England |
| Established | 1860 (moved to present location in 1870) |
| Chair | Dr Ralph Townsend |
| Head Master | Duncan Bailey |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age | 8 to 13 |
| Enrolment | 204 |
| Publication | The Cothill Magazine |
| Former pupils | Old Cothillians |
| Website | http://www.cothill.net/ |
General information
The school is junior and full boarding, with around 220 pupils. A range of music scholarships and bursaries are provided in term time. Facilities include a CDT centre, golf course, swimming pool (covered), a theatre, six hard tennis courts, 20 music practice rooms, 2 drum rooms, a squash court, games room, a library, a science lab, a computer room and a teaching block. The headmaster's house is attached to the main school.
The school is operated by the Cothill Educational Trust, a charity registered in England,[1] which also runs the nearby Chandlings School, Kennington (a co-educational preparatory day school serving ages 2–11), the Château de Sauveterre, Ashdown House, Kitebrook House, Mowden Hall in Northumberland, and the campus of the former St Aubyns School, Rottingdean, which it acquired in 2012 and closed in 2013, now awaiting redevelopment. Trustees include Ralph Townsend, head of Winchester College.
Boarding
Cothill House is a full boarding school, meaning all of the 220 pupils there board full-time, and the only times they are allowed home are on organised weekends, exeats, half-terms and end-of-terms. Prince William and his brother Prince Harry were registered to attend Cothill, which was the choice of their father Charles, Prince of Wales,[2] but in the end they both attended a rival establishment, Ludgrove, instead.
Notable Old Cothillians
- Maharaja Gaj Singh of Jodhpore, diplomat and politician[3]
- John Bradbury, 2nd Baron Bradbury[4]
- General Sir Hugh Stockwell, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe[5]
- James Charles Macnab of Macnab, Chief of Clan Macnab[6]
- Rupert Thorneloe, soldier
- Alexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair[7]
- Thomas FitzGerald, Earl of Offaly
- Jeremy Thorpe, British politician, leader of the Liberal Party 1966–76
- Richard Symonds, civil servant.
- Hugh Pym, British journalist and author
- Archie Frederick Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
History
The school was founded in 1860 (in Dry Sandford), before moving to its present location in 1870.
References
- Charity Commission. Cothill Educational Trust, registered charity no. 309639.
- The Ladies' Home Journal, vol. 106 (1989), p. 171
- Dhananajaya Singh, The House of Marwar (Lotus Collection, Roli Books, 1994), p. 204
- George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct, or dormant, vol. 13 (The St Catherine Press Ltd, 1940), p. 408
- 'General Sir Hugh Stockwell' in Patricia Burgess & Trish Burgess, eds., The Annual Obituary 1986 (Chicago & London: St James Press, 1989), p. 677
- 'MACNAB of Macnab, James Charles', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)
- 'Aberdeen and Temair, 7th Marquess of' in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2011