Edgeborough School

Edgeborough School is a coeducational day preparatory school near the town of Farnham, in Surrey, England. It is currently attended by ~360 children between the ages of two and thirteen. The Head is Daniel Cox, former Deputy Head of Lambrook School in Ascot, Berkshire.

Edgeborough became co-educational in 1992 and celebrated its centenary in 2006.^[1] The Head is Daniel Cox,^[2] former Deputy Head of Lambrook School, Ascot.^[3] Its grounds measure ~50 acres, including parts of its. Frensham Place, a former country house^[4][5]

The school offers extracurricular sporting activities including athletics, badminton, basketball, canoeing, a climbing wall, cricket, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, martial arts, netball, rounders, rugby, swimming, table tennis, tennis and volleyball^[6]

Buildings and grounds include a floodlit astroturf pitch, theatre, dance studio, chapel and an open-air swimming pool.^[7] In addition, there are several pitches and two cricket pavilions, an astro cricket strip one of which has a mechanical score board. In the year 2000, the school underwent a building and rebuilding program, replacing its library and building its science labs. The Year-6-to-8 classroom block was renovated and a dance studio was built.

Edgeborough was established in 1906 in Guildford as a small, privately owned boarding school for boys. It moved to its present site in Frensham in 1939. It became a charitable trust in 1966, and co-education was introduced in 1992 when the Pre-Prep and Nursery departments were opened.^[8]

Frensham Place, which now houses the school's weekly boarders, was built about 1880. It is an imposing stone building with shaped gables which the school has not had listed. Two cottages by the walled garden area were designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens.^[9] Frensham Place was the former home of the Woodroffe family, and the house's chapel was the first place of worship for Catholics from Farnham since the Reformation. Local masses were celebrated by the Woodroffe's chaplain Father Gerin, who had come to Farnham in 1888 to escape persecution in France.^[10]

كان المبنى أيضًا منزلًا سابقًا لصاحب الصحف ورجل الأعمال البارز السير سيريل آرثر بيرسون ، مؤسس صحيفة ديلي إكسبريس . توفي بيرسون في المنزل بعد أن ارتطم رأسه بصنبور حوض الاستحمام. ^{[ 11 ]} عُرضت محتويات المنزل، بما في ذلك جميع أثاث بيرسون وصوره، للبيع في عام 1913. ^{[ 12 ]}

كان منزل فرينشام أيضاً مسقط رأس الكونت أنطوان سيلرن ، أحد أبرز جامعي الأعمال الفنية في القرن العشرين. وُلد في المنزل في 17 سبتمبر 1901، وهو ابن النبيل النمساوي الكونت كارل سيلرن وزوجته الأمريكية أنطوانيت ووريشوفير. ^{[ 13 ]}

• كيث دوغلاس ، شاعر ^{[ 14 ]}
• السير جون برتراند جوردون ، الحائز على جائزة نوبل عام 2012. عالم أحياء النمو. ^{[ 15 ]}
• بي إتش ليدل هارت ، ^{[ 16 ]} جندي ومؤرخ عسكري ومنظر لفترة ما بين الحربين العالميتين
• ويلفريد سانت أوبين ماليسون ، الحائز على وسام صليب فيكتوريا في غاليبولي ^{[ 17 ]}
• توبي روبرتس ، متسلق الجبال الحائز على الميدالية الذهبية الأولمبية ^{[ 18 ]}
• موراي سيزونجود ، سياسي ورئيس بلدية سابق لمدينة سينسيناتي بولاية أوهايو ^{[ 19 ]}
• جون ستراشي ، سياسي ^{[ 20 ]}
• بوب تيسدال ، بطل أولمبي في سباق الحواجز

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