Preparatory and pre-preparatory school in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England
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]
- 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]
- Ronnie Aird first-class cricketer and President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) [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]
- Richard Budgett Olympic Gold Medalist[8]
- Guy Burgess (1911–1963) MI6 agent and Soviet spy[13]
- John Dermot Campbell (1898–1945), Ulster Unionist politician[14]
- Kenneth Carlisle Conservative politician and former Lord Commissioner of the Treasury[8]
- 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]
- Arthur Waley, orientalist and Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour[8]
- Peter Watson (1908–1956), patron of the arts[21]
- Hugo Williams, poet, journalist and travel writer[32]
