Wrekin College

Wrekin College is a co-educational independent school located in Wellington, Shropshire, England. Part of the Allied Schools, it is also a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

The school was founded in 1880 as Wellington College by Sir John Bayley. In 1920, it was sold to the Revd Percy Warrington, a Church of England clergyman and renamed Wrekin College. Girls were introduced to the sixth form by headmaster Geoffrey Hadden in 1975. It became fully co-educational in 1983. There are currently 420 pupils of which 30% are boarders and 40% are girls.

Old Wrekinians

• Harry Andrews (1911-1989), British stage and film actor
• William R. P. George (1912-2006), Welsh poet
• Sir Peter Gadsden (1929 – 2006), former Lord Mayor of London (1979), businessman
• Brian Epstein (1934 – 1967), record producer
• Sir John Roch (1934 - ), former Lord Justice of Appeal
• Malcolm Bruce (1944 - ), LibDem MP
• Simon Berry (1987 - ), Famous for his Tosh like ways and lack of dynanism when on the schweff
• Field Marshal Rt Hon the Lord Inge KG, GCB, PC, DL (c. 1948 - ), former Chief of Defence Staff
• Sir Ian Blair (1953 - ), Metropolitan Police Commissioner (2005 - )
• Bob Warman (1948 - ), television presenter
• James Faulkner (1948 - ), Voice/television actor

See also Old Wrekinians

External links

• Official Website
• Bayley's Children: A History of Wrekin College 1880-2005
• The Allied Schools

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