Hipperholme Grammar School

School in West Yorkshire, England

53°43′43″N 1°48′48″W / 53.728489°N 1.813201°W / 53.728489; -1.813201InformationTypePrivate schoolMottoDoctrina Fortior Armis
(Latin: The pen is mightier than the sword)Religious affiliation(s)Church of EnglandEstablished1648; 376 years ago (1648)FoundersMatthew Broadley, Joseph Lister, Samuel SunderlandDepartment for Education URN107585 TablesChair of GovernorsJames AllisonHead TeacherMr Nick JamesStaff51GenderMixedAge3 to 16Enrolment371HousesSunderland, Lister and BroadleyColour(s)Red and bluePublicationThe BroadleianWebsitehttp://www.hgsf.org.uk/

Hipperholme Grammar School is a private grammar school in Hipperholme (near Halifax), West Yorkshire, England. It educates pupils between the ages of 3 and 16.

Lightcliffe Preparatory School merged with Hipperholme Grammar School in 2003, under the Hipperholme Grammar Schools Foundation, and was subsequently renamed as Hipperholme Grammar Junior School.^[1]

The school has it origins in 1529 within the chantry chapel of the nearby village of Coley. In 1648 (the date the school classes as its founding year) Matthew Broadley, paymaster to Charles I, endowed a large sum of money to build a school on land donated by Samuel Sunderland of Coley Hall; the school opened its doors on its current site in 1661.^{[citation needed]} Two of the current school houses, Broadley and Sunderland, are named after the founders.

In 1783 a new school hall was constructed, designed by Longbottom. Originally an all-boys school, it became private (ISA, AGBIS) in the 1980s and began admitting girls at the same time.^{[citation needed]}

Notable former pupils

Richard Alexander, TV presenter and producer
Sir Gordon Duff, Principal since 2014 of St Hilda's College, Oxford, and Chairman from 2013–14 of the MHRA
George Stanley Faber, theologian
David Halliwell, 1936–2006 Playwright and dramatist, 'Little Malcolm and his Struggle against the Eunuchs'
Lawrence Heyworth, radical MP and merchant^[2]
Neil Hopkinson, classical scholar
John Dyson Hutchinson, Liberal MP from 1877–82
Courtney Kenny, liberal politician
Wilf Lunn, prop maker
Danny McNamara, singer
Richard McNamara, guitarist
Katie Ormerod, snowboarder^[3]
Sir Robert Peel, Victorian era Prime Minister and creator of the Metropolitan police^[4]
Percy Sladen, biologist
Laurence Sterne, Anglo-Irish novelist
Sir Donald Thompson, Conservative MP from 1979–83 for Sowerby and 1983-97 for Calder Valley
Paddy Tipping, Nottinghamshire PCC since 2012, and Labour MP from 1991–2012 for Sherwood

References

^ "Tributes for Jacky, a headteacher for 30 years". www.halifaxcourier.co.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
^ Newbigging, Thomas (1893), History of the Forest of Rossendale (Second ed.), The Rossendale Free Press, pp. 241–242
^ "Brighouse snowboarder Katie Ormerod ranked second at European Open". Huddersfield Examiner. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
^ "Sir Robert Peel". Tamworth. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2014.