Bradford Grammar School

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Image:Bradford GS.jpg Bradford Grammar School was founded in 1548 and granted its Charter as the Free Grammar School of King Charles II in 1662. It is now an Independent School although it was a Direct Grant School until 1975. It is situated in Frizinghall, close to the Shipley Road (A650). Many pupils use Frizinghall train station for their daily journey.

Pupils are selected by competitive examination and in 2003 there were 876 pupils in the Senior School, including 244 in the Sixth Form, 26 of whom are girls and 187 in the Junior School (Clock House). The school became fully co-educational in September 1999, with girls being admitted at all ages of admission: Over one third of the September 2002 entrants were girls.

Notable Old Bradfordians

• John Sharp (1645–1714), Archbishop of York
• Abraham Sharp (1653–1742), mathematician and scientific instrument maker
• David Hartley (1705–1757), philosopher and physician
• James Scott (1733–1814), writer
• John William Whittaker (1790–1854), clergyman
• George Douglas (1859–1947), dyer
• Hudson Shaw (1859–1944), historian and orator
• Frederick Delius (1862–1934), composer
• C. J. Cutcliffe-Hyne (1865–1944), novelist
• Henry Gibbins (1865–1907), economic historian
• Henry Ward (1865–1911), photographer and author
• William Binnie (1867–1949), civil engineer
• Sir Frank Dyson (1868–1939), Astronomer Royal
• Charles Wilson (1869–1959), physicist
• Lawrence Hammond (1872–1949), historian and journalist
• Sir William Rothenstein (1872–1945), artist
• Albert Rutherston (1881–1953), painter and illustrator
• Sir Henry Clay (1883–1954), economist and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford
• Humbert Wolfe (1885–1930), poet and civil servant
• Charles Fairburn (1887–1945), railway engineer
• John Rawlings Rees (1890–1969), psychiatrist
• Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976), archaeologist and broadcaster
• Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), civil engineer, industrial archaeologist and pacifist
• Harry McEvoy (1902–1984), breakfast cereal manufacturer
• Richard Eurich (1903–1992), painter
• H. L. A. Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher
• Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), historian
• Ronald Illingworth (1909–1990), paediatrician
• William Henry Walsh (1913–1986), philosopher
• Denis Healey, Baron Healey (born 1917), Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sir John Harvey-Jones (born 1924), Chief Executive of ICI and broadcaster (The Troubleshooter)
• David Hockney (born 1937), artist
• Michael Jack (born 1946), politician
• Jonathan Silver (1949–1997), art gallery owner
• Adrian Moorhouse (born 1964), Olympic gold medallist swimmer
• Robert Hardy (born 1980), bassist of Franz Ferdinand
• Charlie Hodgson (born 1980), England rugby union player

External link

• Bradford Grammar School website