Clayesmore School

Clayesmore School

Motto	Dieu premier donc mes frères
Established	1896
Type	Other Independent School
Religion	Church of England
Head	Joanne Thomson
Founder	Alexander Devine
Location	Iwerne Minster Blandford Forum Dorset DT11 8LL England Coordinates: 50°55′53″N 2°11′47″W / 50.93142°N 2.19644°W / 50.93142; -2.19644
Local authority	Dorset
DfE URN	113912
Students	710
Gender	Coeducational
Houses	Devine Gate Manor King's Wolverton
Website	www.clayesmore.com

Clayesmore School is an independent school for boys and girls of the English public school tradition in the village of Iwerne Minster, Dorset, England. It is a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

The school was founded by Alexander Devine in 1896 in Enfield, Middlesex. After moving to Pangbourne, Berkshire and then to Winchester, Hampshire it finally moved to Iwerne Minster for the summer term of 1933. In 1974, it was joined on the Iwerne site by Clayesmore Preparatory School, originally Charlton Marshall School, which had been founded in 1929 by R.A.L. Everett. In the following year the school became co-educational.

As of 2016 there are 480 pupils in the senior school (ages 13–18) and 240 in the prep school (ages 3–13). The current head is Joanne Thomson. The school is situated on 62-acre (250,000 m²) campus in rural Dorset and the facilities include an astro-turf pitch, theatre, sports centre and extensive range of specialist subject facilities including an art department science block and a new business school.

The school's colours are dark blue, red, and yellow, and also introduced in 2009 the colours of light blue and green.

History

For centuries the land on which Clayesmore now stands was held by Shaftesbury Abbey. After the dissolution it passed to the Bower family. Their family home was built in 1796 roughly on the site of the existing main building. In 1876 the last member of the Bower family, Captain T B Bower, sold the village and estate to George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton. The Baron demolished the existing house, laid out the Iwerne estate afresh and commissioned Alfred Waterhouse to design the present building (now Wolverton House) which was completed in 1878.

In 1904 the 4th Baron Wolverton put the whole 2,612-acre (10.57 km²) estate up for sale. This was bought in 1908 by James Ismay whose father, Thomas Henry Ismay, had founded the White Star Line shipping company. On Ismay's death in January 1930 the estate was put up for sale in a number of separate lots. Clayesmore bought the main manor house and the 60 acres (240,000 m²) in which it stands and the school moved in during 1933.

Heads

Alexander Devine, 1896–1930
Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1931–1935
Evelyn Mansfield King, 1935–1945
D Peter Burke, 1945–1966
Roy McIssac, 1966–1979
Michael Hawkins, 1979–1986
David Beeby, 1986–2000
Martin Cooke, 2000–2016
Joanne Thomson, 2016-present

Houses

The senior school is divided into five boarding houses; three for boys and two for girls. The three boys' houses are:

Devine
Gate
Manor

The two girls' houses are:

King's
Wolverton

Notable former pupils

Former pupils include:

Geoffrey Heneage Drummond, VC
John Brooke-Little CVO, officer of arms and heraldry expert
Evelyn King, politician
Tony Hart, artist and creator of Morph
Mike Scott, television presenter
Anthony Allen, England rugby union player
Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles
John Craxton, painter
Nicole Faraday, actress
Johnny Martyn, singer and guitarist
Stephen Joseph, Pioneer of Theatre in the Round
Augustus Casely-Hayford, Art and cultural historian
John Plamenatz, Political Philosopher
Jeremy Rogers MBE, Designer and builder of racing yachts such as Contessa 26 and Contessa 32
George Devine CBE, Theatre Manager
Nicholas Handy, British Theoretical Chemist
Marcus Cheke, British Diplomat
Eric Fernihough, Former holder of the motorcycle world speed record
Edward Ardizzone, CBE RA Artist, writer and illustrator
Howard Panter, Theatre impresario, Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG)
Hugh Stewart, film editor
Sir Rodney Sweetnam, KCVO CBE F.R.C.S. President of the Royal College of Surgeons 1995–98, Orthopaedic

Surgeon to HM Queen.

 Graham Hayes, MC Commando^[1]

David Walser, Church of England Minister, Archdeacon of Ely

References

↑ Clayesmore School

External links

Schools in Dorset (including Bournemouth and Poole)

Primary	Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy Longfleet CofE Primary School

Middle	Emmanuel CE Middle School St Michael's CE Middle School

Secondary	All Saints CE School Avonbourne School Beaminster School The Bishop of Winchester Academy The Blandford School The Bourne Academy Budmouth College Carter Community Sports College Corfe Hills School Ferndown Upper School Gillingham School Glenmoor Academy The Grange School The Gryphon School Harewood College Highcliffe School Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy LeAF Studio Lytchett Minster School Magna Academy Oak Academy Poole High School The Purbeck School Queen Elizabeth's School St Aldhelm's Academy St Edward's RC & CE School St Peter's RC School Shaftesbury School The Sir John Colfox Academy Sturminster Newton High School The Thomas Hardye School Twynham School Wey Valley School and Sports College Winton Academy The Woodroffe School

Grammar	Bournemouth School Bournemouth School for Girls Parkstone Grammar School Poole Grammar School

Independent (preparatory)	Castle Court School Dumpton School Hanford School Port Regis School Sherborne Preparatory School

Independent	Bournemouth Collegiate School Bryanston School Canford School Clayesmore School Leweston School Milton Abbey School Ringwood Waldorf School St Mary's School, Shaftesbury Sherborne School Sherborne School for Girls Talbot Heath School

Further education colleges	Bournemouth and Poole College Kingston Maurward College Weymouth College

Former	Beaminster Grammar School Cranborne Chase School Durnford School Homefield School The Old Malthouse Swanage Grammar School Uplands School Weymouth College (independent)

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