Lockers_Park_School

Lockers Park School

Lockers Park School

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]

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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]

Notes

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    "Rugby School Register May 1874 to May 1904". Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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    "Lockers". British Listed Buildings. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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    "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.
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    Suresh Menon, The Shorter Wisden India Almanack 2013 (2013, ISBN 9382951016), p. lxii
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    "Distinguished Old Boys Lockers Park".
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    Hall, David (2000). "The Extraordinary Story of Prince Alamayou". Far Headingley, Weetwood and West Park. FHVS. pp. 117–122. ISBN 0-9539312-0-X.
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    Obituary: Timothy Bateson, The Guardian, 8 November 2009
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    "Artist celebrates old boys with exhibition". Hemel Today. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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    Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN 0953745104), p.111
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    Purvis, Stewart; Hulbert, Jeff (2016). Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone. Biteback. ISBN 978-1849549134. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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    "Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons". Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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    Obituary: Paul Channon, The Guardian, 31 January 2007.
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    Obituary: James Dunbar-Nasmith, The Times, 15 April 2023
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    "Sir Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques". Sfarad.es. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
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    Richard B Mead, Commando General: The Life of Major General Sir Robert Laycock KCMG CB DSO (Pen and Sword, 2016, ISBN 978-1473854079)
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    Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne: The Life (John Murray, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7195-6034-7), p. 17
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    Denham&Garnett (2001). Keith Joseph. Great Britain: Acumen. ISBN 9781902683034.
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    "Mansur Ali Khan "Tiger" Pataudi: The enigmatic Nawab". CricketCountry.com. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
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    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.
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    Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN 0953745104), p.110
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    "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.)
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    Obituary: Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, The Independent, 7 February 2009.
  26. [26]
    Obituary: Leopold David de Rothschild, The Times, 26 May 2012.
  27. [27]
    Ruth Barden, A History of Lockers Park School (Sacombe Press, 2000, ISBN 0953745104), p.107
  28. [28]
    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.
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