Stonyhurst College Collegium Saxysilvanum
Quant Je Puis (French: "As much as I can")
Location
Clitheroe, Lancashire, England
Information
Headmaster	Mr. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Clitheroe is a town and Civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Andrew Johnson
Type	Independent, Catholic (Jesuit)
School Colour(s)	green and white
Established	1593 (Spanish Netherlands); 1794 (England)
Preparatory School	Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall
Patron Saint	Aloysius Gonzaga SJ
Sister Schools	St Peter’s Kubatana, Zimbabwe; FAITH School, Liverpool
Homepage	www.stonyhurst.ac.uk

Stonyhurst College is an independent, Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition. An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying upon private sources for all of its funding predominantly in the form of school fees The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga ( Italian: Luigi Gonzaga, Portuguese and Spanish: Luís de Gonzaga, March 9, 1568 &ndash The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC is an association of the headmasters or headmistressess of 242 leading day and boarding independent schools in The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near Clitheroe in rural Lancashire, and occupies a Grade I listed building. Stonyhurst is the name of a three hundred acre rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire, England. Clitheroe is a town and Civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural historical or cultural significance ^[1]

The school was founded in 1593 by Father Robert Persons S.J. at St Omer in Flanders, at a time when penal laws prohibited Catholic education in England. Robert Persons (born June 24 1546, Nether Stowey, Somerset, England - died April 15 1610, Rome Saint-Omer ( Sint-Omaars in Dutch) a town and commune of Artois in northern France, Sous-préfecture of the Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. In the most general sense penal is the body of laws that are enforced by the State in its own name and impose penalties for their violation as opposed to civil law that seeks It relocated to Stonyhurst Hall in 1794, having moved already to Bruges in 1762 and Liege in 1773. Bruges (Brugge is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. ^[2] Today the school provides boarding and day education to approximately four hundred and fifty boys and girls aged 13-18, whilst on an adjacent site, St. Mary's Hall, provides education for boys and girls aged 3-13. Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. ^[3]

Under the motto "Quant Je Puis", As Much As I can, the school combines academic development with a range of extra-curricular activities. The spiritual plays an important role in College life, with emphasis on both prayer and service, according to the Jesuit philosophy of creating Men and Women for Others. ^[4]

Its alumni/ae include three Saints,^[5] twelve Beati,^[6] twenty-two martyrs,^[7] seven archbishops, seven Victoria Cross winners and a number of renowned writers, sportsmen, politicians, and European royals. A saint (from the Latin sanctus) is a human being to whom has been attributed (and who has generally demonstrated a high level of Holiness and Sanctity Beatification (from Latin beatus, blessed via Greek μακάριος makarios) is a recognition accorded by the Catholic church See below the section "Separate Commonwealth awards" Note that since ^[8]

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Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall

Contents 1 History 1.1 Stonyhurst Hall 1.2 The College 2 Hodder Place, St Mary's Hall & Hodder House 3 Religious life 3.1 The Jesuit tradition 3.2 Jesuit ethos 3.3 Chapels 3.4 Traditions 4 Charitable status 5 Motto 6 Academic 7 Libraries and collections 7.1 Libraries 7.2 Collections 8 The Observatory 9 The arts 9.1 Music, Drama, Art 9.2 Literary tradition 10 Sport 10.1 Stonyhurst R.U.F.C. 10.2 Stonyhurst Football 10.3 Sporting facilities 10.4 Rhetoric vs. Hodder cricket and rounders 11 Military 11.1 OTC 11.2 CCF 11.2.1 Junior company 11.2.2 Senior company 11.3 Military careers 12 School organisation 12.1 The playroom system 12.2 Lines 13 Notable events in the school year 14 Stonyhurst Association 14.1 Alumni/ae 15 Teachers 16 Headmasters 17 See also 18 References 19 Sources 20 External links

History

Main article: History of Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst Hall

The earliest Deed concerning the "Stanihurst" dates from 1200 A. The history of Stonyhurst College as a school dates back to 1593 when its antecedent the Jesuit College at St Omer, was founded in Flanders to educate English Stonyhurst is the name of a three hundred acre rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire, England. Stonyhurst College is Roman Catholic and has had a significant place in English Catholic history for many centuries (including more chequered moments such as the Popish Stonyhurst College and Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall are both Catholic boarding schools in the Jesuit tradition which aim at the creation of Men and Women for Others This article describes some of the unique features of Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school in Lancashire England The Jesuit origins of Stonyhurst College have enabled it to a amass a large collection of books a number of which concern Recusant history whilst artefacts from all over This article lists notable alumni/ae of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England, and its linear antecedents at St Omers Bruges and Liege Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. The history of Stonyhurst College as a school dates back to 1593 when its antecedent the Jesuit College at St Omer, was founded in Flanders to educate English D. and can now be found in the Arundell Library in the College, whilst the earliest evidence of a building on the site is from 1372 when John de Bayley was licensed to have an oratory there. ^[9] The oldest portion of the extant buildings was completed by Bayley's descendents, the Shireburn family. ^[10] Richard Shireburn began building the Hall, whilst his grandson Nicholas extended it, constructing the ponds, avenue and gardens. Upon his death, the estate passed to his wife and then to their sole heir, Mary, the Duchess of Norfolk. In 1754, it was inherited by her cousin Thomas Weld of Lulworth. Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, situated south of Wool, is 17th century Castle -like stone building that serves as a Museum An old boy of the school when it was at Liege, he donated the buildings, with thirty acres of land, in 1794 to the Society of Jesus. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order ^[11]

See also: Stonyhurst Estate

The College

The story of the school starts at St Omer in what was then the Spanish Low Countries in 1593, where a college was founded by Father Robert Parsons for English boys, unable to receive a Catholic education in Elizabethan England. Stonyhurst is the name of a three hundred acre rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire, England. Saint-Omer ( Sint-Omaars in Dutch) a town and commune of Artois in northern France, Sous-préfecture of the Robert Parsons may refer to Robert Parsons (composer (c1535–1572 English composer Robert Parsons (Jesuit (1546–1610 English priest Romance and reality The Victorian era and the early twentieth century idealised the Elizabethan era As such it was one of a number of expatriate English schools operating on the European mainland. In 1762, the Jesuits were forced to flee and re-settled at Bruges. In 1773, the school moved again to Liege, before making its final move to Stonyhurst in 1794. Stonyhurst is the name of a three hundred acre rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire, England.

During the nineteenth century, the College flourished as the headquarters of the English Jesuits, a school, and meteorological station. The most significant changes to the buildings were made in the 1880s when the Old Playground Front was demolished and replaced with the West Front. The twentieth century saw a decline in the number of Jesuits, the closure of the seminary at Saint Mary's Hall and the demise of the philosopher gentlemen. Physical development continued, with the completion of a new wing in the 1960s, new science buildings in the 1950s and 1960s, a new swimming pool in the 1980s and the refurbishment of existing areas throughout the 1990s to the present. The school became fully co-educational in 1999. ^[12]

See also: College of St Omer

Hodder Place, St Mary's Hall & Hodder House

Main article: Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall

The original preparatory school to Stonyhurst, Hodder Place, came into the hands of the Jesuits as part of the estate donated by alumnus Thomas Weld. Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. When the Jesuit order was re-established at Stonyhurst in 1803 it was used as a novitiate. Novitiate, alt noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a Novice (or prospective) monastic or member Four years later it became the preparatory school to the College.

St Mary's Hall, on an adjoining site to Stonyhurst, was built as a Jesuit Seminary in 1828 (extended in the 1850s). Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, and John Tolkien, son of J. R. R. Tolkien, trained as priests there. Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June, 1889) was an English Poet, Roman Catholic convert and It ceased to be a seminary in 1926, when the seminarians moved to Heythrop Hall. Heythrop College is a constituent college of the University of London situated in Kensington Square Kensington, London. ^[13] During the War, the English College occupied the Hall. The Venerable English College is a Roman Catholic Seminary in Rome for the training of priests for England. After their return to Rome, St Mary's Hall opened as a middle school in 1946. At the same time, Hodder Place continued to educate those aged eight to eleven, until its closure and conversion into flats in 1970. Hodder Place pupils then moved up to St Mary's Hall to form Hodder Playroom. As successor to Hodder Place, St Mary's Hall has a claim to be the oldest surviving preparatory school in Britain. ^[14]

In 2004, the old gymnasium at St Mary's Hall was converted into new nursery and infant facilities named Hodder House, for those aged three to seven, making it now possible for a pupil to spend fifteen years in education at Stonyhurst. Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College.

Religious life

Main article: Religious life at Stonyhurst College

The school is Roman Catholic and has had a significant place in English Catholic history for many centuries (including more chequered moments such as the Popish Plot and Gunpowder Plot conspiracies). Stonyhurst College is Roman Catholic and has had a significant place in English Catholic history for many centuries (including more chequered moments such as the Popish The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates which gripped England in Anti-Catholic hysteria from 1678 until 1681. The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time was a failed Assassination attempt by a group of provincial English In 1803 the Society of Jesus was re-established in Britain at Stonyhurst and the school became the headquarters of the English Province. Until the 1920s Jesuit priests were trained on site in what is today the preparatory school. The school continues to place Catholicism and Jesuit philosophy at its core.

The Jesuit tradition

In 1803, the Society of Jesus was re-established in the United Kingdom at Stonyhurst. Throughout the nineteenth century the College was the headquarters of the English Province. A decline in the number of Jesuits during the twentieth century has seen the transition from a Jesuit staff to an almost entirely lay make-up, with a small community of Jesuits now living in what was the Old Infirmary. Nevertheless, the Jesuit ethos pervades every aspect of school life. ^[15] The school's patron saint is Aloysius Gonzaga. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga ( Italian: Luigi Gonzaga, Portuguese and Spanish: Luís de Gonzaga, March 9, 1568 &ndash

Jesuit ethos

The Jesuit ethos consists of three principal strands:

• Creating men and women for others
• Ignatian spirituality
• Development of Reasoning Skills

Under the first, pupils are encouraged to play an active role in charity and voluntary work: students run their own charity, "Learning to Care", and organise a holiday week for the care of disabled and disadvantaged children during the summer. Under the second, the school strives to advance the spiritual well-being of its pupils with annual retreats, daily prayer and meditations. Under the third, the school seeks to educate principled individuals of good judgement, who put their faith at the forefront of their actions.

See also: Charities of Stonyhurst College

Chapels

The school has one main church, St Peter's, and five chapels: The Boys' (College Chapel), Angels, the St Aloysius Chapel and the St Ignatius Chapel, both within the towers of St Peter's Church, and the Sodality. Saint Aloysius Gonzaga ( Italian: Luigi Gonzaga, Portuguese and Spanish: Luís de Gonzaga, March 9, 1568 &ndash Saint Ignatius redirects here for other Saints see Ignatius. Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Íñigo Oñaz López de Loyola The latter is the home of the remains of third century Roman convert Saint Gordianus. Saints Gordianus and Epimachus were Roman Martyrs, who were killed during the reign of Julian the Apostate, 362 commemorated on 10 May. His bones have rested beneath the altar since 1859, having travelled with the Jesuits from the College of St Omer. He was temporarily removed again in 2006 whilst the chapel underwent restoration, but has since been returned. ^{[16] [17]} The Chapel is once again used by the re-established Sodality. In Christian theology, a sodality is a form of the Church universal expressed in specialized task oriented form as opposed to the Church in its local diocesan

Traditions

It is a long-standing practice that pupils write A.M.D.G. in the top left hand corner of any piece of work they do. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam or ad majorem Dei gloriam (when an "i" functions as a consonant It stands for the Latin phrase Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam which means For the Greater Glory of God. At the end of a piece of work they write L. D. S. in the centre of the page. It stands for Laus Deo Semper which means Praise to God Always. These are both traditional Jesuit mottoes.

A distinguishing feature of Stonyhurst is the singing of the Pater Noster, the "Lord's Prayer" in Latin. The Lord's Prayer, also known as the Our Father or Pater noster, is probably the best-known Prayer in Christianity. It is sung at mass, and has been adopted as an anthem by the school's sports teams.

Charitable status

As a registered charity, Stonyhurst is obliged to provide benefits to the wider community. The Charities Act 2006 is a piece of UK Legislation intended to alter the regulatory framework in which charities operate partly by amending the Charities Act As such, the College is home to the local parish Church, which receives worshippers from Hurst Green on a daily basis. Hurst Green is a small village in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire connected in its history to the Jesuit school Stonyhurst College. ^[18] Its sports facilities, including the swimming pool and all-weather pitch are available for public use; the latter will be used for competitors training for the London 2012 Olympic Games. ^[19] Much of the estate has public access; in particular the gardens welcome visitors during the summer months, with refreshments served from the tea house, whilst the College plays host to tours, antiques fairs, food festivals, music concerts, conferences and weddings. ^[20] The school has a relationship with a number of state schools, arranging shared activities with its pupils, in particular those serving special needs children. State school is an expression used in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom to distinguish schools provided by the government from privately Special needs is a term used in clinical diagnostic and functional development to describe individuals who require assistance for disabilities such as medical mental or psychological ^[21] In addition, the school makes available a number of places to pupils offered on scholarship, bursaries or free of charge; almost a third of current pupils receive financial support for their places at the school. ^[22]

See also: Charities of Stonyhurst College

Motto

Quant Je Puis — As Much as I Can The French motto is central to the ethos of the school, which focusses upon the all-round development of the individual. Stonyhurst College and Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall are both Catholic boarding schools in the Jesuit tradition which aim at the creation of Men and Women for Others ^[23] It is inherited from the Shireburn family who once owned the original mansion on the site; the family emblem is emblazoned, in stone, with the motto, above the fireplace in the Top Refectory. ^[24] At the far end of the same room, once the dining room of the Shireburns, the motto can be seen again, carved into the minstrel's gallery: Quant Je Puis. Hugo Sherburn armig. me fieri fecit. Anno Domini 1523. Et sicut fuit sic fiat. ^[25]

Academic

Academic standards are high at Stonyhurst College. The school prides itself on a dedicated and able teaching staff and benefits from small classes, sometimes with as few as three or four pupils. Current headmaster, Andrew Johnson, has made academic improvements central to his ambitions for the school. Each pupil has weekly meetings with a personal tutor who oversees their academic performance. Most leavers go on to attain places at reputable universities, with a small proportion admitted to Oxford and Cambridge (10% in recent years). The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the In some years the school, on a point of principle, has declined to publish its examination results, although this policy has since been revoked. ^[26]

Ten GCSEs are usually taken by each pupil, consisting of five compulsory subjects (Religious Studies, Mathematics, English Language and Literature, and French) plus Information Technology and Personal, Social Education, with five other options from humanities, sciences, or arts subjects. In Poetry (lower sixth), four or five AS-Levels are taken from a choice of 25 subjects, with a weekly Theology class. One of these may be dropped and the remainder, or all, taken on to A-Level. Six A* - C grades are the requirement for Sixth Form entry. ^[27] Each academic department has dedicated teaching rooms around the school, in addition to the general classrooms and playroom study centres.

Libraries and collections

Main article: Libraries and collections of Stonyhurst College

Libraries

Stonyhurst College has four main libraries: the Arundell, the Bay, the Square and the More (dedicated to Saint Thomas More). Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535 from 1935 Saint Thomas More, was an English Lawyer, author and statesman who in his lifetime gained

The More Library is the main library for students whilst the 'House Libraries' (the Arundell, the Bay, and the Square) contain many artefacts from the Society of Jesus and English Catholicism. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order The Arundell Library, presented in 1837 by Everard, 11th Baron Arundell of Wardour, is the most significant. The title of Baron Arundell of Wardour was created in the Peerage of England in 1605 It is not only a country-house library from Wardour Castle but also has a notable collection of incunabula, medieval manuscripts and volumes of Jacobite interest. Wardour Castle is located near Tisbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Salisbury. Jacobitism was (and to a limited extent remains the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland Signal among its books associated with historical figures is Queen Mary's Book of Hours which belonged to Mary Tudor and is thought to have been given by Mary Queen of Scots to her chaplain on the scaffold. Mary Tudor may refer to Mary I of England, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon d The M. S. Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines was written in 1354 by Henry, Duke of Lancaster. Henry of Grosmont Duke of Lancaster ( c 1310 &ndash 23 March, 1361) also Earl of Derby and Leicester was a member of the English nobility in the To these were added the archives of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order These included 16th-century manuscript verses by St Robert Southwell, the letters of St Edmund Campion (1540-81) and holographs of the 19th-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. For the diplomat see Robert Southwell (diplomat Saint Robert Southwell (c Saint Edmund Campion SJ ( January 24 1540 &ndash December 1 1581) was an English Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June, 1889) was an English Poet, Roman Catholic convert and The Arundell Library held the seventh century Stonyhurst Gospel of St John, before it was loaned to the British Library. The St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, also known as the Stonyhurst Gospel, is a small 7th-century pocket Gospel book, written in Latin, which belonged The British Library ( BL) is the National library of the United Kingdom. There is also a first folio of Shakespeare.

Collections

Among those collections kept away from public view are the numerous blood-soaked garments from Jesuits martyred in Japan, the ropes used to quarter Saint Edmund Campion, and a thorn said to be from the crown of thorns placed upon Jesus' head at the crucifixion. Saint Edmund Campion SJ ( January 24 1540 &ndash December 1 1581) was an English Jesuit priest In Christianity the Crown of Thorns, one of the instruments of the Passion, was the woven chaplet of thorn branches worn by Jesus before his Crucifixion Crucifixion (from Latin crucifixio, noun of process crucifixio, from perfect passive participle crucifixus, fixed to a cross from

The school has a number of fine paintings, including a portrait of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and another of the Jesuit Henry Garnet. Henry Garnet or Garnett (1555 &ndash May 3, 1606) was an English Jesuit, executed due to his involvement in the Gunpowder In the Stuart Parlour are portraits of a number of Jacobites including James Francis Edward Stuart, and his sons Charles Edward Stuart and Henry Benedict Stuart. Prince James Prince of Wales (James Francis Edward Stuart " The Old Pretender " or " The Old Chevalier " 10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766 was the For the US politician see Charles E Stuart For "Betty Burke" see The 'Forty-Five' below Henry Benedict Cardinal Stuart ( 11 March 1725 &ndash 13 July 1807) was the fourth and final Jacobite heir to publicly claim the thrones There are also several original engravings by Rembrandt and Dürer. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15 1606 &ndash October 4 1669 was a Dutch painter and etcher. Albrecht Dürer (ˈalbʀɛçt ˈdyʀɐ ( May 21, 1471 &ndash April 6, 1528) was a German painter, Printmaker

The Stonyhurst Chronicles of Jean Froissart, captured at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 are currently on loan to the Royal Armouries in Leeds, where they are the centre-piece of a new exhibition. Jean Froissart (c 1337 &ndash c 1405 was one of the most important of the Chroniclers of Medieval France. The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The Royal Armouries houses the British national collection of arms and armour ^[28]

The Observatory

The school has a functioning observatory, built in 1866 and supervised at present by Classics and Astronomy teacher, Fintan O' Reilly. Some students can take GCSE Astronomy, but access is occasionally permissible for others. The original observatory, built as a meteorological station in 1838, is now the tea house in the gardens. It was one of seven important stations in the country when the Meteorological Office came under the auspices of the Royal Society. For the UKMET model see Tropical cyclone forecast model. The Met Office (originally an abbreviation for Meteorological Office, The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a Learned society for science that was founded in 1660 It was maintained by the astronomer priests, Frs Weld, Perry and Sidgreaves whose research included astronomy, geomagnetrometry and seismology. Sir Edward Sabine chose the observatory as one of his main stations when conducting a magnetic survey of Britain in 1858. General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS ( October 14, 1788 &ndash May 26, 1883) was an Irish Astronomer Five years later Fr Sidgreaves began the first series of monthly geometric observations, which continued until May 1919. ^[29] During the course of the twentieth century, the observatory fell out of use and its telescope, parts of which dated to the 1860s, was sold after the Second World War. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including When its private owner came to sell it, the College was able to buy it back and restore it to its original home. ^[30]

The arts

Music, Drama, Art

Music plays a prominent role in school life. All those entering the school in Lower Grammar (year nine) are obliged to learn to play an orchestral instrument. ^[31] There are two choirs, the College Choir, which sings regularly as mass, the other, the Schola Cantorum is comprised of teachers and pupils and sings at concerts and public events, notably the May celebration in the College amphitheatre, which is mirrored on the May Day dawn chorus at Magdalen College, Oxford. Magdalen College redirects here see also Magdalene College Cambridge Magdalen College (ˈmɔːdlɨn "maudlin" is one of the constituent ^[32] Pupils participate in the school orchestra and various bands, whilst the staff band is a notable feature of the Poetry Banquet and Rhetoric Ball.

Drama is equally important, with plays staged throughout the school year, the main performance being at Great Academies, whilst some students take Theatre Studies as an additional AS Level subject. This article describes some of the unique features of Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school in Lancashire England ^[33] The College has a traditional theatre, the Academy Room, and a high-tech theatre built at Saint Mary's Hall as part of the Centenaries Appeal in 1993. Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. The latter plays host to the annual Ribble Valley International Piano Week. Ribble Valley is a local government district with Borough status within the Non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England (although ^[34] A number of former pupils have gone on to achieve success upon the stage, including OSCAR-winning actor and director Charles Laughton and BAFTA-winning director and producer Peter Glenville. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Charles Laughton ( 1 July, 1899 &ndash 15 December, 1962) was an English Academy Award -winning stage and The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for film television television craft video games and forms of animation Peter Glenville ( 28 October 1913 - 3 June 1996) born Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne, was an English film and stage actor

Art is an important part of the curriculum, and is compulsory for those in Lower Grammar (year nine). There is a dedicated art studio in addition to a separate design and technology centre. Student artwork is displayed on the walls of the Lower Gallery, including a portrait of the Queen painted by Isobel Bidwell during the Golden Jubilee year; upon receipt of a copy, the Queen's lady-in-waiting said that "The Queen was delighted to see the painting and know that it is on display in the school". For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary of a monarch's reign A lady-in-waiting (also called waiting maid) is a female personal assistant at a Noble court, attending to a queen, a Princess or other ^[35]

Literary tradition

Stonyhurst has a long-standing literary tradition. The school's setting has provided inspiration for a string of poets and authors including former teacher Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose poems feature details of the local countryside and former pupil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose "Baskerville Hall" was modelled on Stonyhurst Hall, and who named Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty, after a fellow pupil. Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June, 1889) was an English Poet, Roman Catholic convert and Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 ^[36] J.R.R. Tolkien wrote part of the Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the Upper Gallery during his stay at the College where his son taught Classics; his "Middle Earth" is said to resemble the local area, whilst there are specific resonances in names such as "Shire Lane", (the name of a road in Hurst Green) and the "River Shirebourn" (the Shireburns built Stonyhurst). The Lord of the Rings is an epic ^[37] Poet Laureate Alfred Austin, and the poet Oliver St John Gogarty ("Stately plump Buck Mulligan" in James Joyce's Ulysses) were educated at the school, (as were the sons of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh). A Poet Laureate is a Poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events __FORCETOC__ Alfred Austin ( May 30, 1835 &ndash June 2 1913) was an English Poet, who was appointed Poet Laureate Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty ( August 17, 1878 - September 22, 1957) was an Irish Physician and ear surgeon Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh (ˈiːvlɪn ˈwɔː (28 October 1903 &ndash 10 April 1966 was an English Writer, best known for such darkly humorous and

The School runs its own publication company, St Omers Press, which publishes religious literature, and first began when the College was located at St Omer in Flanders. Saint-Omer ( Sint-Omaars in Dutch) a town and commune of Artois in northern France, Sous-préfecture of the Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. ^[38]

Charles Laughton photographed by Carl Van Vechten

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

J.R.R. Tolkien in 1916

Sport

Pupils are required to participate in games on a regular basis. Charles Laughton ( 1 July, 1899 &ndash 15 December, 1962) was an English Academy Award -winning stage and Carl Van Vechten ( June 17, 1880 &ndash December 21, 1964) was an American Writer and Photographer who was a Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June, 1889) was an English Poet, Roman Catholic convert and Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the The school is most noted for rugby union but an array of sporting activities are on offer, and since turning fully co-educational, hockey and rounders have widened the sports programme. ^[39]

Stonyhurst R. U. F. C.

Rugby has played a big part in the life of the school, despite only supplanting football as the school's primary sport in 1921. ^[40] All boys are encouraged to play when they enter Lower Grammar but are not required to play throughout their time at the school. Stonyhurst has a successful rugby season, with games well supported by pupils, staff and parents. Sporting rivalry is particularly prominent against Ampleforth College and Sedbergh School. Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest private Catholic mixed boarding school in the United Kingdom, and it is occasionally referred Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in Sedbergh, Cumbria for boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 18 inclusive The Stonyhurst Sevens - the largest school sevens event in Britain - take place annually, attracting large crowds and numerous teams from all over the country. ^[41]

The school has produced fourteen international rugby players (England (5), Ireland (6), Italy (1), the USA (1) and the Bahamas (1)) as well as players for the Barbarians and the British and Irish Lions. Most recently they include Iain Balshaw and Kyran Bracken, who both played for England when they won the 2003 Rugby World Cup, whilst another member of that team, Will Greenwood, went to Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall, where his mother taught mathematics until 2007. Kyran Paul Patrick Bracken MBE (born 22 November, 1971 in Dublin, Ireland) is a former English Rugby union footballer The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth Rugby union world cup and was won by England. William John Heaton "Will" Greenwood MBE (born 20 October 1972 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is a former English Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. ^[42] Current pupils of the school have won places to represent Spain, the Irish Exiles, and the Welsh Exiles (under 19s). ^[43] A number of old boys have also played at varsity level and have won a blue for Oxford or Cambridge. A University Sporting Blue is an award earned by sportsmen and sportswomen at Cambridge, Oxford, and some other universities for competing at the highest level of ^[44][45]

Stonyhurst has had well known coaches, including former England coaches Dick Greenwood, and Brian Ashton who coached the first XV. Richard Greenwood (born September 11 1940) is a former Rugby union international flanker captain of Waterloo, Lancashire and England as well William Brian Ashton MBE (born 3 September 1946 in Leigh, Lancashire) is a former Rugby union player and the former ^[46]

Stonyhurst Football

Stonyhurst Football, inherited from the College of St Omer (along with Stonyhurst Cricket), was played between the handball walls on the Playground. ^[47] The game was discontinued with the advent of Association Football but was re-established in 1988 when a "Grand Match" was played at Great Academies. Traditionally a "Grand Match" was played on Shrove Tuesday and was the primary Stonyhurst Football match of the season. Shrove Tuesday is the term used in Ireland the United Kingdom Australia and Canada to refer to the day after Shrove Monday (or the more old fashioned Collop Monday The teams were England vs France (although during the Crimean War England vs Russia was played and more recently England vs Ireland was played in the 1980's). The last game took place in 1995. [2]

Sporting facilities

• all-weather astro-turf sports pitch
• 9 hole golf course
• shooting range
• 2 ponds used for canoeing and fishing
• 25m swimming pool
• 2 squash courts
• 9 tennis courts
• 4 cricket pitches
• 8 rugby pitches
• 2 football pitches
• weight-training gymnasium
• 2 indoor sports halls (one at SMH)
• large estate used for cross-country, orienteering, clay-pigeon shooting and rambling

Rhetoric vs. Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. Hodder cricket and rounders

Towards the end of the Summer Term each year, Rhetoric boys issue a challenge, written in Latin, to the boys in preparatory at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall, inviting them to compete in a cricket match. Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. Preparatory respond in turn, also in Latin. The Rhetoricians take part wearing fancy dress, and are defeated by preparatory every year. ^[48] In 2003, the tradition was adopted by the girls who issued a Latin challenge to preparatory girls inviting them to compete at rounders. The Rhetoric girls are also defeated each year.

Military

OTC

The Stonyhurst Officer Training Corps assembled for the first time on Tuesday 16th October 1900, in the Ambulacrum, overseen by The First Volunteer Battalion, the East Lancashire Regiment who gave instruction in drill and musketry. The East Lancashire Regiment of the British Army was formed in 1881 from the 30th (Cambridgeshire Regiment of Foot and the 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire Regiment The original uniform was scarlet with a white piping and slouch hat, which was changed to khaki before the Great War. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The Corps was granted the honour of representation at the Coronation of 1910 and sent members to the Royal Review at Windsor in 1911. It also appeared on parade annually for the spectacle of the Corpus Christi celebrations until the practice became obsolete after Vatican II. The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was the twentieth century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. ^[49]

CCF

After the Second World War, school OTCs were succeeded by the Combined Cadet Force. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Combined Cadet Force (CCF is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the United Kingdom. Stonyhurst's is run from the College Armoury adjoining the Ambulacrum and Shooting Range, led by a team of officers under a Major assigned to the school. It meets weekly on a Thursday afternoon and comprises the following platoons named after Stonyhurst's seven Victoria Cross winners:

Junior company

• Costello Platoon (Lieutenant Edmund William COSTELLO V.C., Matakand, India 1897)
• Coury Platoon (Second Lieutenant George Gabriel COURY V.C., Guillemont, Somme 1916)
• Liddell Platoon (Captain John Aiden LIDDELL V.C, Ostend, Belgium 1915)
• Kenna Platoon (Captain Paul Aloysius KENNA V.C., Khartoum, Sudan 1898)

Senior company

• Dease Platoon (Lieutenant Maurice James DEASE V.C., Mons, Belgium 1914)
• Jackman Platoon (Captain James Joseph Bernard JACKMAN V.C., Ed Duda,Tobruk,1941)
• Andrews Platoon (Captain Harold Marcus ERVINE-ANDREWS V.C., Dunkirk 1940)
• Support Platoon

Those in Grammar Playroom (year ten) are automatically enrolled in the CCF and are given the option of continuing at the end of the year, following a summer camp which takes place at a local barracks. See below the section "Separate Commonwealth awards" Note that since Brigadier-General Edmund William Costello VC CMG CVO DSO Croix de Guerre ( France ( August 7, Gabriel George Coury VC ( 13 June, 1896 - 1956-02-23) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest John Aidan Liddell, VC, MC ( 3 August, 1888 &ndash 31 August, 1915) was an English pilot and recipient of the Brigadier General Paul Aloysius Kenna VC DSO ( 16 August, 1862 in Everton Liverpool - 30 August, 1915 Maurice James Dease VC ( 28 September 1889 Gaulstown Coole County Westmeath, Ireland &ndash 23 August 1914 James Joseph Bernard Jackman VC (born in Dublin 19 March 1916 - 26 November 1941) was an Irish recipient of Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews VC was born in Keadue County Cavan, Ireland on 29 July, 1911. Training involves a range of activities such as drill (marching and related manoeuvres), shooting, learning how to assemble and clean weapons, tactical planning and team work. The school supplies pupils with uniform, the orderliness of which is rigorously enforced and inspected each week. Each platoon is lead by a Junior Under Officer, his sergeant and corporals who are sixth form students. Under Officer is a position/rank held by senior Officer Cadets at the British Military academies and in the Officers Training Corps; it is also Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries police forces and other uniformed organizations around the world Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and also by some police forces or other uniformed organizations

Military careers

In recent years, a number of pupils have distinguished themselves as members of the CCF and gone on to receive places at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst ( RMAS) commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army officer initial training centre ^[50][51][52] This follows a long tradition of service from Stonyhurst pupils. Many old boys were killed in the two World Wars and are commemorated on the war memorial at the end of the Upper Gallery. The Stonyhurst War Records were published in their honour. A memorial at the top of the main staircase records the names of the six O. S. killed in the Boer War. Two Boer Wars were fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics the Orange Free State and the South African Republic

See also: Stonyhurst military awards

School organisation

Main article: School life at Stonyhurst College

The playroom system

Unlike most English public schools, Stonyhurst is organised horizontally by year groups (known as playrooms) rather than vertically by houses, although the girls are also split into junior and senior houses. This article lists notable alumni/ae of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England, and its linear antecedents at St Omers Bruges and Liege This article describes some of the unique features of Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school in Lancashire England Each playroom has an assigned playroom master, with each cohort moving through the playrooms, having a sequence of playroom masters (rather than a single housemaster).

Currently, the College has the following playrooms, following the Roman order of learning:

• Lower Grammar Playroom ('LG' 13-14)
• Grammar Playroom (14-15)
• Syntax Playroom (15-16, GCSE Year)
• Poetry Playroom (16-17)
• Rhetoric Playroom (17-18)

See also: Playrooms at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall

Lines

In addition to the horizontal division of the school into playrooms, there is also a vertical grouping which cuts through the year groups: the "lines". Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (commonly known as SMH) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. This system is used mostly for competitive purposes in sport and music. The Lines and colours are as follows:

• Campion (Red) (after St Edmund Campion)
• St Omers (Yellow, though Brown for sporting attire) (after St Omer, the town the school was founded in)
• Shireburn (Green) (after the Shireburn family which built Stonyhurst)
• Weld (Blue) (after Thomas Weld who donated Stonyhurst to the Jesuits)

Notable events in the school year

The Ascensio Scholarum is inherited from the College of St Omer. Saint Edmund Campion SJ ( January 24 1540 &ndash December 1 1581) was an English Jesuit priest Saint-Omer ( Sint-Omaars in Dutch) a town and commune of Artois in northern France, Sous-préfecture of the In its present form, it is the opening address of the headmaster at the beginning of the year to the entire school gathered in the Academy Room. Previously, it was a formal transition for pupils from one playroom to the next at the beginning of the year. It involved a pupil from each year announcing to the playroom of the year below them that the next playroom had been vacated by the senior pupils. The students and their belongings would then move up to their next playroom. This is how it acquired the name, "the ascension of the school".

Great Academies takes place annually at the end of the first half of the Summer Term. Although different in its present form, is a continuation of a tradition begun at St Omers, with the first taking place at Stonyhurst on 6th August 1795. ^[53] Today, it is an occasion when the school is on display - there are exhibitions, musical performances, the school play, sporting events, as well as prize-giving and the headmaster's speech. It culminates with the Rhetoric ball and Rhetoric mass the following morning.

See also: Events in the school year at Stonyhurst

Stonyhurst Association

After less formal arrangements had been made for many years, the Association was formed in 1879. This article describes some of the unique features of Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school in Lancashire England Its primary objective is to foster a strong spirit of union amongst past pupils and friends of Stonyhurst, which has been achieved in a variety of ways reflecting the spirit of succeeding generations. Recently, there has been a strong charitable emphasis, embedded with similar developments at the College. This was formalised in 1985, when the Association was granted charitable status by the Charity Commission. The Charity Commission for England and Wales (Welsh Comisiwn Elusennau Cymru a Lloegr) is the Non-ministerial government department that regulates registered It also supports a number of charities connected to the school including Eagle Aid. About A fund-raising initiative for the poor and disadvantaged started by the Stonyhurst Association in 1987 to support major projects considered

See also: Charities of Stonyhurst College

Alumni/ae

Main article: List of Stonyhurst alumni/ae

Stonyhurst has educated prominent individuals in every area, from statesmen to sportsmen, and actors to archbishops. Stonyhurst College and Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall are both Catholic boarding schools in the Jesuit tradition which aim at the creation of Men and Women for Others This article lists notable alumni/ae of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England, and its linear antecedents at St Omers Bruges and Liege No fewer than seven alumni have been awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry. Their paintings today adorn the walls of the Top Refectory in the school.

Notable alumni/ae include:

• George Herbert Walker, grandfather of the U. George Herbert "Bert" Walker ( June 11, 1875 - June 24, 1953) was a wealthy American banker and businessman S. president George H. W. Bush and great-grandfather of George W. Bush
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving and only Catholic signer of the U. George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Charles Carroll of Carrollton (September 19 1737 &ndash November 14 1832 was a delegate to the Continental Congress and later United States S. Declaration of Independence
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes
• St Thomas Garnet SJ, canonized saint and protomartyr of St Omers, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
• Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish signatory of the Irish Proclamation of Independence who played a leading part in the Easter Rising, for which he was executed
• Sir Frederick Weld, former Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Eduardo Lopez de Romaña, former President of Peru

Alumni currently in the public eye include:

• Iain Balshaw, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
• Kyran Bracken, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
• Bill Cash, Member of Parliament; Shadow Attorney General
• Crispian Hollis, Bishop of Portsmouth
• Paul Johnson, journalist, editor of the New Statesman; awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom^[54]
• Mark Thompson, Current Director General of the BBC

Teachers

A few of Stonyhurst's teachers have achieved renown. This article is about declarations of independence in general Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 Saint Thomas Garnet (c 1575&ndash 23 June 1608) was the Protomartyr (i The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of Christian martyrs who were canonized on 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI to represent the Joseph Mary Plunkett ( 21 November 1887 &ndash 4 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist poet journalist and leader of the 1916 The Proclamation of the Republic, also known as the 1916 Proclamation or Easter Proclamation, was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and Irish The Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916 Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld, GCMG (1823 &ndash 1891 was a New Zealand politician and a governor of various British colonies Eduardo López de Romaña y Alvizuri (19 March 1847 &ndash 26 May 1912 was President of Peru from 1899 to 1903 Iain Robert Balshaw, MBE (born April 14, 1979 in Blackburn, England) is a Rugby union footballer who plays on the Kyran Paul Patrick Bracken MBE (born 22 November, 1971 in Dublin, Ireland) is a former English Rugby union footballer William Nigel Paul Cash, usually known as Bill Cash (born on 10 May 1940 in London) is a Roman Catholic British Conservative Politician A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. In most Common law jurisdictions the Attorney General, or Attorney-General, is the main legal advisor to the government and in some jurisdictions may in addition Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (born 17 November 1936, in Bristol) is the Bishop of Portsmouth The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic Diocese in England Paul Johnson (born Paul Bede Johnson on 2 November 1928 in Manchester, England) is a British Roman Catholic The New Statesman is a British Left-wing political Magazine published weekly in London. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is along with the equivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004 and a former chief executive of The Director-General is chief executive and (from 1944 Editor-in-chief of the BBC. They include the astrophysicist Pietro Angelo Secchi who taught astronomy,^[55] Gerard Manley Hopkins who taught Classics,^[56] and the Roman Catholic Modernist George Tyrrell who taught philosophy. Father Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ (29 June 1818 &ndash 26 February 1878] was an Italian astronomer. Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June, 1889) was an English Poet, Roman Catholic convert and George Tyrrell ( February 6 1861 &ndash July 15 1909) was a Jesuit priest (until his expulsion and a Modernist Catholic scholar ^[57] More recently Brian Ashton taught history and coached rugby,^[58] whilst the novelist Stephen Oliver taught Classics. William Brian Ashton MBE (born 3 September 1946 in Leigh, Lancashire) is a former Rugby union player and the former ^[59] The son of J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael also taught Classics at the College in the 1960s and '70s. ^[60]

Headmasters

Since the College's foundation in Flanders in 1593, there have been seventy-eight headmasters, invariably known as rectors, superiors or directors. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Until the appointment of Giles Mercer in 1985, the head had been a member of the Jesuit order. To date, there have only been three lay heads. ^[61]

St Omers, Bruges, Liege (1593-1794) See: Heads of St Omers, Bruges, Liege Stonyhurst (1794-present) Presidents Marmaduke Stone SJ (1794-1808) Nicholas Sewall SJ (1808-1813) John Weld SJ (1813-1816) Nicholas Sewall SJ (1816-1817) Rector and Headmaster Charles Plowden SJ (1817-1819) Joseph Tristram SJ (1819-1827) Richard Norris SJ (1827-1832) Richard Parker SJ (1832-1836) John Brownbill SJ (1836-1839) Francis Daniel SJ (1839-1841) Andrew Barrow SJ (1841-1845) Richard Norris SJ (1845-1846) Henry Walmesley SJ (1846-1847) Richard Sumner SJ (1847-1848) Francis Clough SJ (1848-1861) Joseph Johnson SJ (1861-1868) Charles Henry SJ (1868-1869) Edward Purbick SJ (1869-1879)

William Eyre SJ (1879-1885) Reginald Colley SJ (1885-1891) Herman Walmesley SJ (1891-1898) Joseph Browne SJ (1898-1906) Pedro Gordon SJ (1906-1907) William Bodkin SJ (1907-1916) Edward O'Connor SJ (1916-1924) Walter Weld SJ (1924-1929) Richard Worsley SJ (1929-1932) Edward O'Connor SJ (1932-1938) Leo Belton SJ (1938-1945) Bernard Swindells SJ (1945-1952) Francis Vavasour SJ (1952-1958) Desmond Boyle SJ (1958-1961) Headmaster Frederick J. Turner SJ (1961-1963) George Earle SJ (1963-1971) Michael Bossy SJ (1971-1985) Giles Mercer (1985-1996) Adrian Aylward (1996-2006) Andrew Johnson (2006 - Present) Headmasters of Hodder Place & St Mary's Hall (1807-present) See: Headmasters of Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall

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See also

College of St Omer Stonyhurst Estate History of Stonyhurst College Religious life at Stonyhurst College Libraries and collections of Stonyhurst College School life at Stonyhurst College Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall Hodder Place List of Stonyhurst Alumni/ae Stonyhurst Gospel Charities of Stonyhurst College

List of Victoria Crosses by School Roman Catholic Church Society of Jesus St Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits St Aloysius Gonzaga, patron saint St Gordianus, interred in the school English Heritage Hurst Green Forest of Bowland

References

Sources

• Chadwick, Hubert, S. J. (1962). St Omers to Stonyhurst, Burns & Oats. No ISBN
• Walsh, R. R. (1989) Stonyhurst War Record
• Muir, T. E. (1992). Stonyhurst College 1593-1993, James & James (Publishers) Ltd. ISBN 0-907383-32-7
• Kirby, Henry L. and Walsh, R. Raymond (1987). The Seven V. C. s of Stonyhurst College, T. H. C. L. Books. ISBN 0-948494-04-2
• The Authorities of Stonyhurst College (1963), A Stonyhurst Handbook for Visitors and Others, Third edition
• Hewitson, A. (Preston, 1878), Stonyhurst College, Present and Past: Its History, Discipline, Treasures and Curiosities, Second edition
• Stonyhurst College website
• Britannica. com
• bbc. co. uk/lancashire

External links

• Stonyhurst College website
• St Mary's Hall website (Stonyhurst Prep School)
• St John's Beaumont website (a significant feeder school to the College)
• Unofficial Bulletin Board for Alumni
• Stonyhurst's entry in the 1912 Catholic Encyclopaedia
• [3]
• Stonyhurst was featured in the film Three Men and a Little Lady

Three Men and a Little Lady is an American Film, the Sequel to the hit film Three Men and a Baby ( 1987)

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