| The Godolphin School | |
| Motto | Franc ha leal eto ge Frank and loyal thou art |
| Established | 1726 |
| Headmistress | Jill Horsburgh |
| Founders | Charles and Elizabeth Godolphin |
| Location | Milford Hill Salisbury Wiltshire SP1 2RA England |
| Students | c. 430 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 11 to 18 |
| Houses | Douglas Hamilton Methuen |
| Ofsted number | SC036722 |
| Website | The Godolphin School |
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The Godolphin School is an independent school for 400 girls situated in Salisbury, founded in 1707[1] and established in 1726 by Charles and Elizabeth Godolphin. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local Government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges gifts and Salisbury (ˈsɒlzbri ˈsɔːlzbri ('Solzbry' or ˈzɔːwzbri ('Zawzbry' — moving from RP to local dialect) is a cathedral city in the [2]
The arms and motto of the School are those of the Godolphin family. The motto - ‘Franc ha leal eto ge’ – is old Cornish and means ‘Frank and loyal are ye’. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group For the Cornish-English dialect see West Country dialects and List of Cornish dialect words.
The school has approximately 430 students of whom circa 170 are boarders. [3]
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Notable alumnae
- Antonia Bernath, actress
- Amanda Brookfield, writer[4]
- Mary Cartwright, mathematician[5]
- Jilly Cooper, writer
- Dorothy L. Sayers, writer[6]
- Theodora Turner, nurse
- Minette Walters, writer
- Deborah Meaden, buisness entrepenuer from BBC's Dragons Den
See also
- Godolphin and Latymer School
- The Godolphin Book, compiled by Mary Alice Douglas, published 1928
External links
References
- ^ J. Antonia Bernath (born 1985 is a United States -born British actress Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE ( December 17, 1900 &ndash April 3, 1998) was a leading 20th-century British Mathematician Jilly Cooper, OBE (born February 21, 1937) is an English Author. Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( IPA: usually pronounced /ˈseɪɜrz/ although Sayers herself preferred /ˈsɛːz/ and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this Theodora Turner OBE (b 5 August 1907, Congleton, Cheshire - d Minette Walters (born 26 September 1949) is a best-selling English Crime writer, who has received many awards for her writing and is published Deborah Meaden (born 11 February 1959) is an English multi-millionaire business woman who is best known for her appearances on the BBC2 edition The Godolphin and Latymer School is an independent school for 700 girls aged eleven to eighteen in London. S. Cockburn, H. P. F. King, K. G. T. McDonnell (Editors) (1969). 'Schools: Latymer and Godolphin Schools', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1: Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, The Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes to 1870, Private Education from Sixteenth Century (1969), pp. 305-306. British History Online. Retrieved on 2008-05-13. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
- ^ Salisbury - The Godolphin School, Salisbury. Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire County Council (2004). Retrieved on 2008-05-13. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
- ^ The Godolphin School, Wiltshire. isbi schools. isbi. Retrieved on 2008-05-13. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
- ^ Amanda Brookfield. Biography. Penguin Books. Retrieved on 2008-05-13. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
- ^ Atiyah, Lily (Nov. , 1998). "Obituary: Dame Mary Cartwright 1900-1997". The Mathematical Gazette 82 (495): 494-496. The Mathematical Association.
- ^ Bramlett, Perry C. ; Ronald W. Higdon (1998). Touring C.S. Lewis' Ireland & England. Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc. , 80. ISBN 1573121916.
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