Elstree School

The school was founded in 1848 in Elstree, Hertfordshire, at Hill House on Elstree Hill,^[1] an 18th-century Grade II* listed building.^[2] Today, the building is a Bupa care centre.^[3]

In 1938 or 1939 at the start of the Second World War (sources differ),^[4] staff and 70 boys moved to Woolhampton House in Berkshire which, at the war's end, became Elstree's permanent home, owned and run by the Sanderson family until 1961 when Elstree School was incorporated. Ian Sanderson remained headmaster until 1969 when Terrence McMullen became headmaster.

Woolhampton House is a 17th-century Grade II* listed building.^[5]

• Sir Alexander Robert Badcock (1844–1907), army officer^[6]
• James Blunt (b. 1974), singer-songwriter^[7]
• Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall (1923–2019), field marshal^{[citation needed]}
• John R. Buckmaster (1915–1983), actor^[8]
• Sandy Wilson (1924–2014), songwriter-lyricist
• Christopher Bonham-Carter (1907–1975), naval officer^{[citation needed]}
• Felix Cassel (1869–1953), lawyer^[9]
• Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller^[10]
• Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton (1845–1940), engineer^[11]
• Sebastian Faulks (b. 1953), novelist^[12]
• Walter George Headlam (1866–1908), classical scholar and poet^[13]
• J. Bruce Ismay (1862–1937), managing director of the White Star Line and survivor of the RMS Titanic^[14]
• Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferté (1887–1965), Royal Air Force Commander^[15]
• Archibald Campbell [Archie] MacLaren (1871–1944), cricketer^[16]
• George Monbiot (b. 1963), environmental activist and writer^[17]
• Richard Tice (b. 1964), politician^{[citation needed]}
• John Whitehead (1860–1899), ornithologist and explorer^[18]
• George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848–1934), Anglican priest^{[citation needed]}

• William Bather (1861–1939), first-class cricketer, was assistant master at the school 1884–1894^[19]
• Danyl Johnson, singer on series 9 of The X-Factor, dance teacher
• Frederic Meyrick-Jones (1867–1950), taught at the school from 1894 to 1896^{[citation needed]}
• Edgar Stogdon (1870–1951), athlete and cricketer, was headmaster from 1900 to 1903^[20]

During the autumn term, soccer is the main sport, along with hockey and tennis. During the Lent term, rugby takes over from soccer, and hockey and cross country running continue. During the summer term, cricket is the main school sport, with swimming, athletics and tennis also popular throughout the term. The school's sports day is the focus of a pupil's summer term.

• Grade II* listed buildings in Berkshire