Monkton Combe School
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||motto="Verbum Tuum Veritas (Your Word is Truth)"
|established=[[1868]]
|type=Independent
|headmaster=Richard Backhouse (Senior School), Chris Stafford (Prep School) Kathryn Morrell (Pre-prep)
|enrolment= 700 (all three schools)
|location=[[Monkton Combe]], Near [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]
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'''Monkton Combe School''' is an independent [[Christian]] mixed boarding and day school near [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], [[England]].
The Senior school is located in the village of [[Monkton Combe]], while the Prep School, Pre-Prep and Nursery are in [[Combe Down]] on the southern outskirts of Bath.
The Senior School was founded in [[1868]] by the Vicar of Monkton Combe, Reverend Francis Pocock. The Junior School was established with four pupils by a Mrs Howard (the daughter of the Senior School Principal) in a private house in Church Road, Combe Down in [[1888]] and moved into its current purpose-built premises in June [[1907]]. The Pre-prep was added in [[1929]]. In [[1992]], the School became fully co-educational, merging with Clarendon School for Girls, Bedford. In [[2006]] the Junior School was renamed Monkton Prep School.
The official history of the school's first century is ''A Goodly Heritage: A History of Monkton Combe School [[1868]]-[[1967]]'' by A.F. Lace, published in Bath by Sir [[Isaac Pitman]] & Sons, [[1968]].
The Senior School (current pupil numbers are around 350) admits children from age 11 through to 18; the Prep School admits children from age 7 to 13 and the Pre-Prep has classes in Kindergarten (3-4), Reception (4-5) and Years 1 and 2 (5-7). The Nursery provides pre-school care (ages 2-3). The Senior School and Prep School both have a strong boarding tradition; however day pupils comprise some one third of the intake of the Senior School and are in the majority in the Prep School.
In 2008 the Senior School completed re-building, extending and re-furbishing its [[Maths]] and [[Science]] departments.
==Current Senior Staff==
'''Senior School Headmaster:''' Mr Richard Backhouse MA Cantab<br />
'''Prep School Headmaster:''' Mr Chris Stafford BA CertEd<br />
'''Pre-Prep Headmistress:''' Mrs Kathryn Morrell BEd<br />
'''Senior School Deputy Head:''' Mr Tim Dewes MA<br />
'''Prep School Deputy Head:''' Mr Martyn Creeth<br />
'''Head of Nursery:''' Mrs Elaine Hodges<br />
==Distinguished Alumni/ae==
* [[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]] MBE, 2004 Olympic rowing Gold Medallist (Great Britain Coxless Four)
* [[Alex Partridge]], 2005 Rowing World Champion (Great Britain Coxless Four)
* Rowley Douglas MBE, 2000 Olympic rowing Gold Medallist (Great Britain Eight)
* The Very Rev Dr [[Iain Torrance]] TD, President of [[Princeton Theological Seminary]], Queen's Chaplain and former Moderator of the General Assembly of the [[Church of Scotland]].
* [[Richard Stilgoe]], songwriter and lyricist
* [[Bernard Cornwell]], author of the [[Sharpe (TV series)|Sharpe]] novels
* [[Tim Lankester|Sir Timothy Lankester]] KCB MA (former Deputy Secretary of H.M. Treasury and Permanent Secretary, Department for Education, since 2001 President of [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]])
* Sir Michael Stear KCB CBE, former Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe, Air Chief Marshal and President of the Air Force Association
* Sir [[Richard Dearlove]], former Head of MI6 and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
* [[Stefan Booth]], actor
* William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, 1948 Olympic Gold Medal oarsman (Great Britain Coxless Pairs) and father of actor, [[Hugh Laurie]]. Ran Laurie also stroked [[Leander Club]] to a record in the Grand Challenge Cup at [[Henley Royal Regatta]]. In 1936 he stroked the Olympic eight which finished fourth in [[Berlin]].
* Right Reverend [[Ian Cundy]], Bishop of [[Peterborough]] since 1996
* Professor Michael Keighley MS FRCS (retired Barling Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery, [[University of Birmingham]])
* [[John Desmond Clark]] OBE, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, [[University of Berkeley]], USA and pre-eminent African archaeologist, 1916-2002
* George Herbert Jose, 1868-1956, Dean of [[Adelaide]] (Australia)
* J A Wedgwood CBE, 1938-2005, Chairman of Southern Electricity Board from 1977 to 1984
* [[Michael Head]], 1900-1976, composer, musician and broadcaster
* [[Shewell Cooper| Dr. Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper]] MBE 1900 - 1982 British organic gardener and pioneer of no dig gardening.
* Gilbert E Brooke, 1873-1936, poet, physician, ship's surgeon, Fellow of the [[Royal Geographical Society]]
* Professor John Millar Meek CBE, DEng, FREng, FInstP, FIEE, 1913-2005. [[Institution of Electrical Engineers]] Past President
* Professor Peter Richards, surgeon, former Pro-Rector (Medicine), [[Imperial College]]
* [[Alfred Young]], 1873-1940, outstanding mathematician and inventor of Young tableau for use in theory of groups and quantum mechanics
* Anthony James Broomhall, 1911-1994, pioneering missionary and author
* Lieutenant Tom Mildenhall, 1979-2006, rower, scientist, musician and soldier, killed in action in [[Iraq]]
* The Revd Canon R E Adeney OBE, former Rector of Christ Church, [[Jerusalem]] and former Honorary Canon of St George's Cathedral in Jerusalem
* [[Adrian Mitchell]], 1932-, author and Shadow Poet Laureate
== External links ==
*[http://www.monktoncombeschool.com/ Monkton Combe School website]
*[http://www.bluefriars.org.uk/ Bluefriars Boatclub website]
*[http://www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/?DIRECT&DNUM=df6be46 Senior School Good Schools Guide Report]
*[http://www.monktoncombe.com/ Monkton Combe Village Website]
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[[Category:Schools with Combined Cadet Forces]]
[[Category:Members of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference]]
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