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Preparatory and pre-preparatory school in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England
Lockers Park School is a day and boarding
preparatory and pre-preparatory school for boys, situated in 23 acres of countryside in
Boxmoor ,
Hertfordshire . Its headmaster is Gavin Taylor.
[2]
History
Lockers Park was founded in 1872 by Henry Montagu Draper,
[3] an old boy of
Rugby School .
[4] It moved to purpose-built buildings and sports fields in 1874 in 23 acres (93,000 m2 ) of the parkland which surrounds a Georgian
country house called Lockers or The Lockers,
[5] which was once the home of
Ebenezer John Collett . The new school was designed by Sidney Scott and has its own chapel which dates from the same era.
[6]
In the 1940s and 1950s, the veteran England all-round cricketer
Frank Woolley (1887–1978) was the school's cricket coach.
[7]
Former pupils
See also
Category: People educated at Lockers Park School
The list of distinguished (or well-known) old boys of Lockers Park includes the following:
Alastair Aird (1931–2009),
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 's private secretary
[8]
Prince Alemayehu , (1861–1879) son of the emperor of Ethiopia
[9]
Timothy Bateson (1926–2009), actor
[10]
Prince Maurice of Battenberg , a member of the
Hesse aristocracy
[11]
Roy Beddington , artist
[12]
Anthony Berry British
Conservative politician.
[8]
Guy Burgess , (1911–1963) MI6 agent and Soviet spy
[13]
John Dermot Campbell (1898–1945), Ulster Unionist politician
[14]
Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter Anglo-Canadian peer
[15]
Paul Channon, Baron Kelvedon (1935–2007), Conservative politician
[16]
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield (1913–1999), queen
Elizabeth II 's private secretary, provost Of Eton College.
[8]
James Dunbar-Nasmith (1927–2023), architect
[17]
William Ehrman British diplomat and former chairman of the
Joint Intelligence Committee .
[8]
Stuart Hampshire philosopher
[18]
Basil Henriques (1890–1961), philanthropist
[19]
Robert Henriques (1905–1967), writer and broadcaster
[20]
Stanley Jackson , cricket captain of England, politician
[8]
Edward James (1907–1984), poet
[21]
Keith Joseph , Conservative politician
[22]
Clive Loehnis , Director of GCHQ
[23]
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi , captain of the Indian cricket team
[24]
Saif Ali Khan , Indian film actor and titular Nawab of Pataudi
[25]
Robert Laycock , major-general, commando general during the Second World War
[20]
Guy Mansfield, 6th Baron Sandhurst , British
barrister ,
hereditary peer and
Conservative member of the
House of Lords .
[8]
Edwin Mayfield , British Lions rugby union forward
[26]
Nathaniel Micklem , British Liberal Party politician and lawyer
[27]
James Lees-Milne , architectural historian
[21]
Tom Mitford , brother of the Mitford Sisters
[21]
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma , last
Viceroy of India
[28]
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916–2009), banker and horticulturalist
[29]
Leopold David de Rothschild (1927–2012), banker, musician and philanthropist
[30]
James Stevenson-Hamilton , first warden of
Kruger National Park
[31]
Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1909–1945), Conservative politician
[21]
Bryan Valentine , cricket captain of Kent
[8]
Peter Watson (1908–1956), patron of the arts
[21]
Hugo Williams , poet, journalist and travel writer
[32]
Notes
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a
b
c
"EduBase - Lockers Park School" .
Department for Education . Archived from
the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^
"Lockers Park School - GOV.UK" . get-information-schools.service.gov.uk .
^
"Lockers Park School" (PDF) . Ofsted. Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^
"Rugby School Register May 1874 to May 1904" . Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^
"Lockers" . British Listed Buildings.
Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018 .
^
"Chapel, Lockers School, Lockers Park School, Hemel Hempstead" . Hertfordshire Churches. 27 March 2017.
Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^ Suresh Menon, The Shorter Wisden India Almanack 2013 (2013,
ISBN
9382951016 ), p. lxii
^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
"Distinguished Old Boys Lockers Park" .
^ Hall, David (2000). "The Extraordinary Story of Prince Alamayou". Far Headingley, Weetwood and West Park . FHVS. pp. 117–122.
ISBN
0-9539312-0-X .
^
Obituary: Timothy Bateson ,
The Guardian , 8 November 2009
^
"Artist celebrates old boys with exhibition" . Hemel Today. Archived from
the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^ Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000,
ISBN
0953745104 ), p.111
^ Stewart Purvia, Jeff Hulbert, Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone (Biteback Publishing, 2016,
ISBN
1849549133 ), p.5
^
"Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons" .
Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^ Christopher Foster, One Heart, One Way (Foundation House, 1989,
ISBN
0921790007 ), p.40
^
Obituary: Paul Channon ,
The Guardian , 31 January 2007.
^
Obituary: James Dunbar-Nasmith ,
The Times , 15 April 2023
^ Stewart Purvia, Jeff Hulbert, Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone (Biteback Publishing, 2016,
ISBN
1849549133 ), p.6
^
"Sir Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques" . Sfarad.es. Retrieved 15 December 2023 .
^
a
b Richard B Mead, Commando General: The Life of Major General Sir Robert Laycock KCMG CB DSO (Pen and Sword, 2016,
ISBN
978-1473854079 )
^
a
b
c
d
e Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne: The Life (John Murray, 2009,
ISBN
978-0-7195-6034-7 ), p. 17
^ Denham&Garnett (2001).
Keith Joseph . Great Britain: Acumen.
ISBN
9781902683034 .
^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1808
^
"Mansur Ali Khan "Tiger" Pataudi: The enigmatic Nawab" .
CricketCountry.com . 6 January 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2023 .
^ Bhattacharya, Roshmila (21 April 2013).
" 'I've inherited his legacy of goodwill, but... he is a difficult role model to follow' " . The Telegraph . Archived from
the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016 .
^
"Mayfield, Edwin (MFLT888E)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000,
ISBN
0953745104 ), p.110
^ "Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/31480 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
Obituary: Edmund Leopold de Rothschild ,
The Independent , 7 February 2009.
^
Obituary: Leopold David de Rothschild ,
The Times , 26 May 2012.
^ Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000,
ISBN
0953745104 ), p.107
^ Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000,
ISBN
0953745104 ), p.117
Further reading
Barden, Ruth J.D. (2000). A history of Lockers Park : Lockers Park School, Hemel Hempstead, 1874-1999 . [Truro]: R.J.D. Barden.
ISBN
0953745104 .
External links
Independent (preparatory)